Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now. And you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 286 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we have a couple of

listener questions. One question has to do with taking care of ourselves

really.

What does self-care look like?

And what do you do if you feel guilty if you take care of yourself?

And then the other question has to do with confessing our sins.

So we've got a little bit of dismantling to do of maybe some of the things that we were programmed with in our religious cultures.

So let's listen to the first question.

Hi Natalie, I'm going to try to think of how to phrase this question most succinctly, but I have been married for 13 and a half years and we realized we're basically on the path to divorce. I've been separated for almost two

months and my personality is feeling like I needed to like get back to the grind super hard and I feel guilty when I take time to care for myself.

And the ironic part is my personal brand is all about health and wholeness and so in my work I equip other

people with the importance and the value and the pursuit of Shalom to take the time

to do these things but sometimes I find myself just wanting to do yoga, go for a prayer walk,

or listen to worship music, or something like that,

which these are all really good things.

But I guess I'm struggling to find that balance because sometimes I feel guilty like, you know, I feel tired and I want to lay down for a 20-minute nap, which is something I never did.

So I'm trying to navigate the process of evaluating

how much, like because obviously the process,

like once I realized the situation I was in,

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