Welcome to About Progress. I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist who

uncovered the truest model to dramatic, belasting personal growth. It's progress made practical.

Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do something to grow in ways that stick.

If you like this podcast, then you will love my new course all about habit formation outside of

perfectionism. So many women have been signing up and taking it and I've been thrilled by their

results. You can go to about progress.com slash sticky habit method to sign up.

When we hit about of depression, anxiety, major overwhelm, or a season of lots of hard

health issues, it feels like the easiest thing in the world to stop doing are the things that we

know would help us feel better, to feel like ourselves. From ensuring we're getting enough sleep

and stable hygiene to even carving out some time to attend a local dance class or watercolor

on the weekend, why is it that we stop supporting ourselves just when we need it the most?

Women are tired and in this point of our post or is it pandemic life,

while things may be mostly back to normal, in many ways we are not.

Today you get to hear one of the best conversations I've ever recorded on self-care.

When I thought of the women, I know personally end in this community and how they're struggling.

Why don't you even thought of myself and what I needed? I knew that we had to ask Mia

to be on the show because she is the woman who gets what it means to be a woman living during

the strange and still hard time. Mia is a trauma-informed self-care coach. She's a speaker and creator

of an amazing community and coaching program called No Longer Last. Her purpose is to help women

acknowledge their worthiness, advocate for what they want and need, and redefine rules and

expectations on how to live life on their own terms. One of the things I respect the most in Mia is

her openness and struggling with severe depression and PTSD. When I said that Mia gets it, I meant it.

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