are you ready for a growth spurt? Well, I've caught one for you today. One to two times a month,

I'll give you a short message that I am calling a growth spurt that will help you narrow in on our

focus of the month in ways that are bite size and super applicable right away. So let's jump on in.

I'm going to start by sharing a little scenario likely all of us have found ourselves in.

You have set some good intentions about ways that you want to better care for yourself,

which is coming up because this last week our episode was all about self-care. So let's say those

intentions are pretty clear for you because you know to better care for yourself,

here's some things that you would like to do in your spare time. Maybe you'd like to read more.

Maybe you want to watch a certain show or documentary. Maybe you want to do something creative

like baking or doing an adult coloring book or even something deep like meditating or journaling.

And while you have those good intentions, let's say it's an a normal day and you have some time

except it doesn't feel like it because instead you're going right to some numbing behavior.

That's what we all find ourselves doing. One of the biggest obstacles we have to self-care is

lack of time. But we actually have the time. We just find ourselves spending it in ways that are not

in alignment with who we want to be and also our values and the ways we actually want to be spending

this precious time that we have to give to ourselves. This happens to all of us. It happens to

meet you and I have a whole episode coming. I don't know exactly when but in the future all about

numbing behavior in general because there's a lot to say there. Numbing behavior itself is not

morally bad. It's not the behavior. It's the lack of intention or choice behind it. And again,

I'm going to share a whole episode on that soon. But I just wanted to share with you in this

growth spurt what I do when I notice that I am numbing instead of intentionally doing something I

want or need to do such as caring for myself in the ways that I have intended to with some simple

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