#513 – The Power and Practice of Prioritizing Self-Care
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Feeling tired, overwhelmed, or just running on empty? In this episode, we’re talking about self-care – what it really means and how it connects to honoring God and living well. Self-care isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. It starts with learning to slow down, recognize burnout, and make space for rest.
Let’s unpack what it looks like to care for your body, mind, and soul in ways that honor God and help you thrive. From simple habits like stretching your body to spiritual disciplines like prayer and digging into Scripture, I’m sharing practical steps to help you refresh and refill.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Recognizing signs of burnout
- Receiving renewal from God
- Practicing rest as worship
Related Resources
- Want to dive deeper into taking care of your soul? Listen to this podcast episode.
- If you find yourself struggling with self-care because you’re carrying too much, this podcast episode will help you let go of worry and cast your cares.
- Check out my brand new reading plan on YouVersion, The Magnificent Grace of God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. My name is Crystal Evans-Hurst, |
| 0:09.5 | and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you |
| 0:15.7 | live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. |
| 0:21.7 | Listen, it's that time of year where you are either basking in the beauty of being off and all that nothingness can bring |
| 0:40.5 | with it. You are in your pajamas. You are in your onesie. You are in your bed watching Netflix, |
| 0:45.9 | watching YouTube on social media, reading a book. Or it is the time of year where you feel like |
| 0:52.7 | the train never stopped, the people never left, |
| 0:56.1 | the cleaning of the kitchen never ceased, the meals never stopped needing to be cooked, |
| 1:00.3 | and you are tapped out. |
| 1:03.1 | Or you could be watching this video in March or July or September because in every season |
| 1:09.3 | of the year, there comes the ebb and the flow of extraness. |
| 1:14.5 | But even in the every day, when there is no special time, many of us feel the extraness. |
| 1:20.4 | And what I wanted to talk to you a little bit about today is what it looks like to prioritize self-care, |
| 1:26.5 | particularly when the seasons of life are more tense, |
| 1:30.4 | more full, more fun, or more stressful. How can you prioritize self-care? What is it? Why do we need it? |
| 1:39.9 | What do you do about it? What's wrong with it? I wanted to walk you through that. It is important for you to prioritize time for yourself in healthy ways, particularly when there's |
| 1:54.0 | extra chaos, extra anxiety, extra stress. |
| 1:57.5 | That can look like so many different things for so many different people. |
| 2:19.6 | And self-care honestly has been defined by different people in different seasons to mean different things. So I want to start out with let's define it. So that way when I'm talking to you about self-care today, we are on the same page about what I mean when I say self-care. Now don't get me wrong wrong, y'all. I believe, I might have just had one today. I believe in a good massage. Do I consider self-care for me to be massage? Sometimes, yes. |
| 2:26.7 | But I'm not even talking about that necessarily. We think about self-care as getting our nails done, |
| 2:33.4 | getting our hair done. Many of us think about self-care is going on nails done, getting our hair done. Many of us think about |
| 2:35.2 | self-care as going on a vacation or, you know, hanging out with friends. And none of those things |
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