341: Women's Retreats: Taking Time for Yourself (with Jen Mernick & Bernadette O'Grady)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by two friends I met at the Vibrant Happy Women retreat, Jen Mernick, and Bernadette O'Grady. Jen and Bernadette both have kids, jobs, and busy lives, but they learned the importance of taking time for themselves when they attended the retreat. They join me this week to share where they are on life's journey, why it was essential for them to have this space to get the clarity they wanted, and the benefits of having space for ourselves to let go of the stress, overwhelm, and confusion of daily life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, my friends. Welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. We're talking in this episode about |
| 0:06.0 | making space for yourself and taking that space without guilt. 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, |
| 0:20.3 | 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 |
| 0:29.4 | Vibrant Happy Women Podcasts. Hey, my friends, welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited to be |
| 0:36.6 | bringing you two friends today that I met at the |
| 0:40.0 | Vibrant Happy Women Retreat, Bernadette O'Grady and Jen Mernick. Both of them are sharing |
| 0:45.8 | why it was essential for their lives to take space, to take a time out from the day to day, |
| 0:52.2 | a space where they could figure out what they think and what |
| 0:54.9 | they feel, what they believe, where they could let go of all the stress and overwhelm and |
| 0:59.9 | confusion of regular life and find clarity. And also to determine what they want to do next, |
| 1:06.8 | what are their next best steps in life? Where are they trying to move toward? You know, so often |
| 1:13.3 | women live in a way where we feel like we're in the deep end of the pool, treading water, |
| 1:18.4 | just trying to keep our head up. And that doesn't feel good because we start to think, |
| 1:24.0 | is this it? Is this never going to end? Is this all there is? And those feelings just feel |
| 1:30.9 | awful to me. They break my heart that anyone would feel that way. When we take space and get out of |
| 1:38.0 | the pool and go somewhere where we can stop doing things for everyone else and handling and solving and |
| 1:46.4 | managing where we can just think a place of solitude, a place of clarity, a place of friendship and |
| 1:53.7 | support. We remember what we want to feel. We remember how good we can feel. We start to expand or infuse our capacity for |
| 2:05.6 | joy. That's why I host the retreat for women to have that clarity, that connection, and to know |
| 2:11.8 | where they want to go next. It's also a great way to have kind of a milestone, another place to kind of assess where you are. |
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