54: How Self Care Helped Me Face My Struggles with Strength (Jen Riday, part 2)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of a 2-part series, I share a painful event from my past involving a miscarriage and the marriage struggles that intensified as a result. Listen to Part 1 here.
And, for fun, here's my bio: (Every other guest has one, so I want to fit in with the "cool kids.") Jen is a 42-year-old mom of six and Women's Happiness Expert who lives just outside of Madison, Wisconsin with her family. Jen was raised on a farm with the values of hard work and honesty, and today Jen's priorities are spirituality, family, health and helping women find happiness (in that order). In her free time Jen enjoys yoga, meditation, time in nature, and curling up with a great book.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 54. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:12.5 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey there, welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. I'm Jen Ridey. On our last episode, I was chatting with you about my journey to find greater self-care. It all began on a very low point in my life when I suffered a miscarriage on Christmas Day. And while driving to the hospital, which was an hour away from my parents' house, |
| 0:39.5 | my husband and I had this huge fight that hurt me for months afterwards. And that's what led me to |
| 0:46.3 | decide, you know what, I've got to find happiness. I've got to do something different. And so I shared |
| 0:51.8 | the five things that I did to find that happiness. And if you haven't |
| 0:56.4 | heard that yet, you can go back and listen at genride.com forward slash 53. Well, in that episode, |
| 1:03.6 | I challenged you to get the self-care toolkit. And that's available at genriday.com |
| 1:10.2 | forward slash self-care, all one word. |
| 1:13.0 | And in that toolkit, there's something called the Wheel of Happiness, which has eight |
| 1:16.7 | areas you can think about as you want to decide what you should work on to help you |
| 1:22.8 | engage in greater self-care. So those areas are body, mind, emotion, spirit, relationships, |
| 1:30.4 | contribution, being outdoors, and resources. So a lot of you downloaded that toolkit |
| 1:37.5 | and you were thinking about what you can do to help yourself face your struggles with greater |
| 1:43.3 | strength by picking one item, one area you were going to help yourself face your struggles with greater strength by picking one item, |
| 1:46.1 | one area you are going to engage in greater self-care with. So I have three letters that I received |
| 1:51.6 | from some of you. Well, I received more, but I'm going to read three of those. And the first one's |
| 1:57.0 | from Carrie. She wrote, Hi, Jen. I loved your episode this week about self-care, |
| 2:02.1 | and I wanted to share that I struggle with loneliness. I lost my husband to cancer a year ago, |
| 2:06.6 | and I'm struggling to feel happy. Finding your podcast has made all the difference. I don't know why |
| 2:12.1 | I never realized this before, but the idea that I'm in charge of my own happiness helps so |
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