Simplified Speech #161 – Do you practice self-care?

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Self-care is a term that has been around for a long time. However, it has become more popular recently because people are paying more attention to taking care of their physical and mental health in a fast-paced world. In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Kassy chat about their personal self-care routines and some tips for listeners. If you’ve been feeling stressed out lately, then this is a great episode to check out! Simplified Speech is a Culips series that features easy to understand conversations that help beginner and intermediate English learners improve their listening skills. We have quality study guides and transcripts available for all Culips members. Fun facts It can be very difficult to practice self-care when you’re stressed out. The next time you want to relax and calm down, try this grounding technique that uses all of your senses: Notice and name five things you can see Notice and name four things you can feel Notice and name three things you can hear Notice and name two things you can smell Notice and name one thing you can touch This simple exercise can help you disconnect from your stress and pay more attention to your body and environment. Try it out! You just might feel a little bit calmer afterwards. Expressions included in the study guide To take a toll on To squeeze in To go out on a limb Love-hate relationship To take full advantage of Band-aid Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Opening music from Pixabay.com Image: Lesly Juarez and madison lavern (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Qulips English podcast. Welcome back to Kuleps, you're listening to simplified speech. Our series which features clear, natural and easy to understand English conversations
0:27.2	about fascinating topics.
0:29.8	Today I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie. Hey Cassie, how is it going?
0:35.0	Hey there Andrew and hey everyone, it's great to be here today and I'm excited to get started.
0:40.8	So Andrew, what's our topic for today?
0:43.0	Well, I think we have a fascinating topic for today to match the theme of the simplified speech series where we want to have fascinating topics to talk about. So today our topic is self-care.
0:57.6	Self-care. This is I would say a buzzword these days. It's something that you read a lot about online,
1:05.3	you see people discuss about online as well on different social media communities,
1:11.3	and it's something that I hear my friends and colleagues talk a lot
1:14.8	about as well so I think it's a nice topic for us to discuss. So self-care I think is
1:21.9	pretty easy to understand.
1:24.0	The definition is kind of right in the term itself.
1:28.0	So it simply means just taking care of yourself.
1:32.0	So in this episode, we're going to talk about some of the different forms
1:36.4	of self-care and what we do to practice self-care.
1:41.3	Yes, it's going to be a helpful episode for a lot of people I think. But before we get
1:47.7	started I want to take a moment to let everyone know about our study guides and transcripts for all of our episodes.
1:56.5	They're designed by our team of expert English teachers to help you build your English skills
2:02.1	and reach your English learning goals faster.
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