Healing Through Rest: Creating Balance for Your Nervous System [Solo Episode]

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Lesalfred, #Shessolucky, Entrepreneurship, Balancedles, Business, Self-improvement, Balancedblackgirl, Education

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever struggled to truly feel rested no matter how much sleep or downtime you get? If so, this episode is for you.

There’s a lot of messaging encouraging us to rest and be soft. But what should we do if we’re trying to take it easy, but still don’t feel rested? What even is rest? I’m closing out our Modalities of Healing series with a solo episode about how we can heal through rest, and what our minds and bodies need to feel rested (in addition to adequate sleep).

With so much happening in the world, it can be natural to have a “tired but wired” feeling when we’re constantly on alert. This episode explores what rest is on a physiological level, and shares techniques we can use to start feeling more rested to support our healing.

I also talk about…

Your “fight or flight” and “rest and digest” systems, and how they work together.
Habits and techniques to help you feel more rested.
How to create better mind-body synergy.
Defining what it means to be “soft” for yourself.
The importance of taking breaks when needed.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Balanced Black Girl. My name is Lest. I'm your host. I started
0:12.4	this podcast almost four years ago and the past four years have been a trip. The show
0:20.4	has changed and evolved a lot that I'm grateful to have you here. So over the past six weeks
0:26.8	we've been in our modalities of healing series where we've explored what it means to heal
0:31.8	from the inside out with curiosity and openness and today I'm wrapping up the series and bringing
0:38.3	us home talking about the importance of rest in our healing journey. But before we get into that,
0:44.0	I want to thank everyone who joined us for the solstice journaling challenge last week.
0:48.8	I hope you came out of the challenge feeling refreshed, renewed and re-aligned for the second half
0:54.2	of the year. What my biggest takeaway was from the challenge as I was going through the prompts
0:58.6	myself was realizing that it's never too late to start fresh. It's never too late to pivot,
1:04.4	reframe, reset or start a new and whether that is January 1st, whether that's July 1st,
1:10.6	whatever day of the week it is, whatever month it is, every decision is an opportunity to start
1:16.2	over. Every new day, every new breath, we don't have to wait for the new year, we don't have to
1:20.8	wait for our birthday. It can be so tempting to feel like when we embark down a path that we
1:26.3	have to stay straight and narrow on the path we started on when really life is about the twists
1:32.4	and the turns and the fresh starts. And for many of us, our self-care practices, specifically
1:38.2	journaling, are key for helping us re-center and start fresh each day. With that in mind,
1:45.2	I'm really excited to share the first balanced black girl creation, which is the reset journal.
1:52.5	So the reset journal is a daily guided journal that I created based on my own personal journal
1:58.0	practice. It's currently in beta with a downloadable PDF that you can purchase to print or you can
2:03.8	use it electronically on your iPad if you're one of, you know, you were one of the people got your
2:08.1	lives together with the iPad. I'm trying to be like you, but it's a real soul offering from me
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