240: Making Time for Yourself Without the Guilt (with Erica Laffer)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Today, I have a very special guest who I met at last year's Vibrant Happy Women Retreat. Erica Laffer is a registered nurse, mom of two littles, and an amazing human. Through her journey with postpartum depression, burnout, and learning to make time for what fills her soul, Erica became a more vibrant, happy version of herself. She's here today to tell us all about her journey and why we all deserve to make time for ourselves guilt-free.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 240. We're talking about the |
| 0:06.8 | mindset of making time for yourself without the guilt. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast |
| 0:13.9 | is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional, |
| 0:20.4 | physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your |
| 0:23.2 | sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to the |
| 0:29.5 | Vibrant Happy Women podcast. Hey, my friends, welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. I love today's topic. We're going to be talking about |
| 0:39.1 | taking time for yourself, the mindset involved in taking time for yourself. I think most of us |
| 0:46.6 | have had those moments when we have forgotten who we even are. It's like we've put ourselves on the back burner, |
| 0:56.4 | stuffed ourselves in the top shelf of a closet, and we're just walking and breathing and living |
| 1:02.2 | in automated mode, like an automaton, a mummy, a zombie, all the things where we're |
| 1:09.5 | trying to take care of everyone else and we just get emptier |
| 1:12.3 | and emptier and emptier. Have you been there? Now, there are people out there. You might be one of them |
| 1:18.5 | who just love taking care of everyone else. Love helping, love being a mom. They never burn out. But I just don't know any of those people. So if that's you, |
| 1:33.0 | yay. And if that's not you, welcome to my club. I remember, you know, once I had five kids, we moved to a new |
| 1:43.6 | house. And oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Sometimes there are just |
| 1:48.6 | these moments as a mom and a person where your soul is stretched to an entirely new shape, |
| 1:57.4 | an entirely new capacity. And that's a good thing. We want emotional resilience. |
| 2:02.2 | And we learn and grow so much when we're stretched. I get all of that. But it can hurt to |
| 2:08.7 | stretch. It can be uncomfortable. So there come these moments when you've stretched so much |
| 2:14.9 | and so far, and you're not even feeling like yourself, where somewhere |
| 2:20.1 | in your psyche, there's this little voice that says, hey, excuse me, miss, miss, ma'am, did you |
| 2:28.7 | forget about me? And that's our true selves, our higher self, whispering that, hey, you're here for more than just to take care of everyone else. |
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