49. How To Slow Down Without Feeling Guilty
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how slowing down could lead to greater productivity and personal fulfillment?
Today, I dive into the transformative power of slowing down and finding stillness without feeling guilty. You don’t want to miss this episode because I unpack the intricate relationship between productivity and trauma responses, exploring how societal and ancestral conditioning shape our need to stay perpetually busy. I also share practical tools for healing the nervous system to help you realign your tasks to focus on what truly matters.
This episode is a heartfelt invitation to create a balanced and abundant life by addressing the root causes of busyness and embracing the value of stillness. I hope this episode serves as a guiding light to those seeking to realign their business strategies with personal well-being, ultimately cultivating abundance in both personal growth and financial success.
“When we are being busy just for the sake of being busy because we’ve associated our identity or our worthiness or our safety with the amount of action we take, with the amount of tasks we do, regardless of whether those things are bringing us results, we are caught on the hamster wheel basically sprinting our entire lives, and it absolutely will lead to burnout.” – Kate Northrup
Resources:
- Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- Erica Chidi Cohen
- Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment
- Cracking the Healer’s Code: A Prescription for Healing Racism and Finding Wholeness
- My Pressure Relief Kit
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to know that if you are in a trauma response around productivity and achievement, |
| 0:06.0 | and if you are using productivity and achievement as a way to keep running because your |
| 0:11.8 | unconscious and your nervous system feel like I have to be sprinting at all times in order to be |
| 0:18.2 | safe, you're not going to be able to look at your calendar, you're not going to be able to look at your schedule, you're not going to be able to look at your calendar. You're not |
| 0:21.9 | going to be able to look at your schedule. You're not going to be able to look at the tasks that |
| 0:24.9 | are on your plate with a logical capacity to decide are these things important or not. |
| 0:33.4 | Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey to help you have an incredible relationship with money, time, and energy. |
| 0:45.7 | And to have abundance on every possible level. Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and insights to help you unlock a life |
| 0:57.1 | of plenty. Let's go fill our cups. Please note that the opinions and perspectives of the guests |
| 1:03.9 | on the Plenty podcast are not necessarily reflective of the opinions and perspectives of Kate |
| 1:09.2 | Northrup or anyone who works within the Kate Northrop brand. |
| 1:13.0 | Today I want to talk about how to slow down and have more stillness in your life without feeling guilty. |
| 1:21.5 | And all of the mechanics of what's happening under the surface, both from an energetic perspective, from a nervous system |
| 1:29.0 | perspective, from a cultural conditioning perspective, and also from a productivity perspective. |
| 1:35.3 | So all of those layers we're going to address today. Number one, let's start with cultural |
| 1:41.8 | conditioning. If you are a woman, if you are a historically |
| 1:46.3 | marginalized person of any kind, know that part of identity work is pulling out the threads |
| 1:54.8 | of where we identify with being productive or being busy or staying in motion as part of our proving of our |
| 2:07.4 | worthiness in a world, in a culture that has conditioned us to believe that our value is dependent on |
| 2:17.4 | how much we do, that has told us that our value is |
| 2:22.1 | dependent on how much we work, on how many hours we've put in, on what results we get. |
| 2:28.7 | So I just want to clear the slate here and say, your value is as a human being is completely unrelated to how much you get done, to your productivity, to the results that you create, to literally anything that you do. |
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