Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life I'm your host

Cori Musgara and in today's episode we're going to talk about giving ourselves permission to rest and to go.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So there's a famous quote by Parker Palmer.

You may have heard it.

Where he says, self-care is never a selfish act.

It's simply good stewardship of the only gift we have, the gift we were put on earth to offer

others. Anytime we take care of ourselves, we do it not just for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we aim to serve.

So I'm not sure if this is something that you feel like you need to hear right now.

But this is my invitation for you to check in with yourself

and see how you are taking care of yourself and making sure that you're refueling and recharging the energy

reserves that allow you to do all the things in the world that are most important to you and most meaningful.

Bringing our best selves into the world, making change, challenging the status quo, taking care of our family, having difficult conversations.

This stuff requires energy, and part of developing that energy is giving yourself rest. So this could be in the

form of sleep. This could be in the form of turning your phone off and being off of technology.

This could be in the form of having a good conversation with someone or going for giving yourself permission to rest, then I highly

encourage scheduling it into your calendar, not just the time that you sleep in the evening,

but periods throughout the day where you know you're exerting a lot and you're asking a lot of

yourself. Also put into the calendar those times where you can just be, where you

can rejuvenate, where you can replenish, and then can go back into

the rest of your day, more fully charged and more fully yourself.

And there's just something about having it on the calendar and having a time slot for it

that gives us more permission to settle into it, to relax into it, and really surrender. Like, okay, you know, it's here,

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