What We're Learning About Taking Care of Ourselves

Coffee + Crumbs Podcast

Ashlee Gadd

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Toddlers, Friendship, Pregnancy, Grace, Coffee, Adoption, Miscarriage, Parenting, Motherhood, Newborn, Christianity, Crumbs

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Life can be, well, a lot. We all know we need to take care of ourselves, but sometimes we get stuck in toxic rhythms, and need a little help from our friends to turn things around. From practical habits to lessons we’ve learned the hard way—today we’re having an honest conversation about the importance of nurturing our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Reminder: we aren’t experts! We’re simply three friends sharing notes as we go and hoping this episode encourages you as you fill your own cup this week.

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0:00.0	Anishim go in his very poetic and profound way. Look to me and said,
0:04.8	at some point, you're going to have to make your health your main girl and not your side chick.
0:10.0	Yeah. I was like, kind of put it so many ways, but you're right.
0:13.2	Yeah. You're going to make a drop right there.
0:15.6	Yeah.
0:20.5	We believe motherhood is a gift and art, not a science. We believe it takes a village to raise
0:26.9	our kids, and that motherhood is better when we stick together. Most of all, we believe motherhood
0:33.2	is holy work. At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved.
0:40.4	This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast.
0:45.6	Hey friends, welcome to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. Today, we are going to be sharing what we
0:50.5	are learning about taking care of ourselves. We almost call this episode, this is how we do self-care,
0:57.6	but I kind of feel like there's still a lot of confusion and disagreement about what self-care
1:04.1	actually is. I just was looking at a couple of posts last week where people were sort of arguing
1:09.8	about whether or not taking a shower is self-care because some people argue that basic human hygiene
1:16.4	is not self-care. So for clarity sake, we are just going to call this episode what we're learning
1:22.3	about taking care of ourselves to avoid the drama.
1:27.1	Yeah, for sure. There's no one way for people to think about self-care. And the term
1:31.8	carries a different connotation for everyone. From like you said, Ashley, just taking a shower,
1:37.4	all the way to what some people might also label as maybe some pretty self-indulgent habits,
1:43.0	just in the name of self-care. So without parsing the rhetoric too much, we simply want to have a
1:47.9	conversation about how we are being mindful of the state of our own health. And that really includes
1:54.4	physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of it. And I know this is cliche, but it's true.
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