Bedtime Rituals to End Worry Spirals :: Emily Ley [Ep 439]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The quiet space before sleep can be our most vulnerable moments. Whether it’s to-do’s or dredging up memories from the past, our thoughts can feel overwhelming. If we let our mind spiral we’re sacrificing the rest God intends us to enjoy. But my guest this week, Emily Ley has some bedtime rituals that can help us stop the spiraling. Crafted to help herself with the nighttime barrage of thoughts, Emily’s simple routines and reminders can set you on a path to the peace that comes, not from an easy life, but from an abiding trust in God.
Emily is a mom of three, a best-selling author, and the founder of organizational products and tools company, Simplified.
Connect with Emily Ley:
- Website: https://emilyleybooks.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simplified
- Instagram: @simplified
- The Simplified Planner Heather uses
- Raising Them Ready: Practical Ways to Prepare Your Kids for Life on Their Own by Jonathan and Erica Catherman
- How to Be a Person Camp - Emily Ley on Substack
- Near in the Night: 100 Evening Meditations on God’s Peace and Rest by Emily Ley
- Sure as the Sunrise: 100 Morning Meditations on God’s Mercy and Delight by Emily Ley
- Growing Boldy: Dare to Build a Life You Love by Emily Ley
- A Simplified Life: Tactical Tools for Intentional Living by Emily Ley
- Fighting Toxic Thoughts :: Jennie Allen [Ep 272]
- Freedom From Anxiety :: Ashley Willis [Ep 180]
- Getting Brave About Anxiety :: Sissy Goff [Ep 311]
Find links to this week’s sponsors and unique promo codes at dontmomalone.com/sponsors.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Malone Podcast, I'm your host Heather McFadian, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:19.6 | And in this episode number 439, I am so happy to finally bring on the show Emily Lay. |
| 0:27.0 | I think it's so important to have that because to me if I don't interrupt the thoughts in my head when I lay down at night |
| 0:36.2 | with something they keep going and I'll I'll stay awake I did it last night like I will stay awake and awake until I make a decision to say like |
| 0:45.5 | okay remind yourself of what is true this is what is true and this is what is not true. |
| 0:50.8 | Emily is the mom of three she's a best-selling author and not only that she runs a company of |
| 0:56.0 | organizational products and tools called Simplified and I use her planner we talk about that in this |
| 1:01.2 | episode. Today we also talk about worry spirals. |
| 1:05.0 | Anyone familiar? It's that thing where you start to worry and it just keeps compounding and |
| 1:10.4 | you find yourself your thoughts just cycling and getting yourself stuck, a lot of time and energy worrying. |
| 1:17.4 | And I don't know about you, but oftentimes this can happen at the end of the day in that quiet |
| 1:22.0 | space right before you fall asleep and |
| 1:23.7 | it keeps you from sleeping so she's going to share just some really practical |
| 1:28.3 | tips to help you with that and stop the spiraling. |
| 1:33.5 | I also want to share at the end of the episode just something that God's put on my heart recently and something I'm gonna implement and felt compelled to share with you and realize oh that really works with this week's |
| 1:44.6 | episode but I can't wait to share Emily with you so let's get right to it here we go |
| 1:50.9 | Emily finally welcome to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm so excited to be here. I can't even tell you. I like, I don't listen to a lot of |
| 2:01.8 | podcasts, don't tell anybody anybody but I love your podcast genuinely like I think it is so so helpful for so thank you for doing what you do and allowing me to come on |
| 2:12.1 | Well, I mean your your name, I've been seeing it forever, |
| 2:15.6 | including, I told you this, y'all I had a surreal moment today |
| 2:19.2 | when I wrote into my calendar, my paper calendar, thank you very much, I still love a paper calendar thank you very much I still love a paper calendar |
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