Self Care Is The NEW Health Care…It’s Time To Care For Your EASE
By Dr. Shannon Gulbranson: Healing Life Coach, Founder of WomenSippingOnLife.com, Speaker, and Author of The 12 Best-Selling Engagements Of Becoming The Great Lover Of Your Life: Date Yourself Well
Have you ever said you didn’t have time to take care of yourself? Do you know what you “should” be doing, but for some reason you’re not doing “it”? Does life feel so overwhelming at times that you don’t even know where to start? Have you ever felt like you’re drowning in your own life?
First, know that YOU’RE NOT ALONE!
Women around the globe feel this way too at times, and there IS a S.O.L.UTION…
My life’s work is to be a part of this S.O.L.UTION, by inspiring and igniting the hope within you so you can acknowledge it and live in freedom…loving YOU, YOUR LIFE + LIFE’S WORK WELL.
This article’s going to lead you back to your heart and soul, so you can uncover and discover sacred TRUTH about you, why your life matters, and become empowered and equipped (and inspired) to care for YOU. (I’ve loaded it with links to podcast episodes and resources that’ll meet you where you are, and help take you to where you desire to go. Please do yourself a favor and take the journey of SIPPING. ON. LIFE.)
Your adventure is calling…are you listening?
In the past two months I’ve created over 70 podcasts episodes that are now being sipped on by women around the world from over 20 countries. Why? Because we as women are NOT caring for ourselves, or our lives well, and I believe we desire to be.
Do you desire MORE hope, health, certainty, abundance, movement, purpose, and LOVE in your life?
It begins with you connecting with your heart + soul. Asking. Receiving. Listening. Then taking massive action. Practical, inspired action that can almost feel effortless when you reconnect with your EASE.
How? By simply beginning to master the art of SIPPING ON LIFE, instead of drowning in it. By learning the secrets to DATING YOURSELF WELL, so you can BECOME THE GREAT LOVER OF YOUR LIFE.
Each week I speak with people proclaiming that they don’t have time to take care of themselves. For whatever reason their schedule’s way too busy, and they cannot (do not) find the time to take care of themselves. If this is your story, then this episode is for you.
My experience in coaching women (and men) — doctors, leaders, entrepreneurs…high achievers — is that no matter what they’re doing it never feels like it’s enough.
What is enough?
That’s right. You are enough. In fact, you’re more than enough. And when you begin to believe this, you’ll discover that you have a lot more time than you think to do.
The ONE thing that matters most to your health — YOU and YOUR LIFE — is the love and care YOU give yourself.
The number one cause of sickness in the world isn’t disease, but it’s DIS-EASE.
Dis-ease is when we get so busy trying to be enough, and to get something that we already have, that we run ourselves away from the very thing we seek. EASE.
Have you lost your EASE, my dear?
It’s time to care for your EASE.
Seriously. If you’re looking for someone else to take care of you, or make time for you, because you’re NOT doing it for yourself, then you’re going to end up needing some serious DIS-EASE care!
It’s time to care for your EASE, my friend.
The way in which you do that is to begin to take care of your S.E.L.F.
You must begin to take care of yourself by saying NO to everybody else, and YES to yourself. FIRST. Why? Because You Can.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you “should,” right?
When it comes to SELF CARE, everyone seems to know what she/he “should” be doing, but many are not.
Perhaps you’re one of them. If so, it’s time to make a plan to do something differently.
In fact, don’t even plan it. Simply DO something different. Today.
With many people I coach, I diagnose her/him as being a “slave to their schedules.”
This is a question I ask almost all my clients, “Do you feel like you’re a slave to your schedule?” They’re always surprised, and relieved, when they hear me acknowledge it.
Then I ask, “Why are YOU doing all that you’re doing?”
Again, go back and listen to EPISODE 047, if you haven’t already done so.
I was there. I know exactly how it feels to say YES to everything and everyone else, before saying yes to myself.
The bottom-line is this…
If you’re not taking care of YOU, how do you think you’re going to be able to handle anything or anyone else?
Self care is YOUR health care.
Going to the doctor isn’t necessarily “health care.” You being the healer in your own life. You being the keeper of your heart and soul. You being the keeper of what matters to you…This is called, TRUE HEALTH CARE!
When you begin to care for yourself, everything will begin to change in your life.
I hear women say this all the time, “I feel selfish when I do this.”
It’s your body. It’s your life. Taking care of it isn’t “selfish,” it’s called being “responsible.” It’s called being a “faithful steward” of the gift you’ve been given…the gift called, YOUR LIFE, my dear.
IT’S CALLED YOUR LIFE.
Your body is the vehicle that takes you around in this journey of life. If it’s breaking down, clunking, and feeling like a pile of junk…it’s time for an upgrade, re-haul, or remodel.
It’s time for you to take a look at your life, and completely do a rehab on your schedule.
If YOU are not a priority in your schedule, you’ll never have a fulfilled life. You’ll have an unfulfilling life.
Why? Because you are the common denominator in every single thing YOU do.
If you are not happy, fulfilled, and caring for YOU, you’ll lose yourself.
First, you’ll start to feel like you’re losing yourself. Second, you’ll actually lose yourself.
Once you lose your health, then your life…you’re done.
S.E.L.F. care is the new health care.
Begin to focus on:
S- Strategy.
Your strategy MUST include movement.
You must begin to move your body. Your SELF. Not in a bunch of motion, commotion or busyness, but the business of caring for your movement.
No “shoulda, woulda, coulda.”
Eating on that which FEEDS you. Eating life-giving food, life-giving thoughts, and what gives you so much energy, that when you eat on it, you’re like…”THIS IS INCREDIBLE!”
If you’re not partaking in what you LOVE each and every day, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice.
L- LOVE your body.
Getting your body in motion, and eating well are loving your body. BUT, I’m also talking about getting in the mindset (and heart set) of truly LOVING YOUR BODY WELL.
Regardless of its imperfections, size, this, that, or the other…it doesn’t matter. LOVE IT.
Love is nurturing care and attention.
F- Fully Engage.
Fully engage with your life, self, with what you LOVE (including your body.)
Fully engage with how you’re feeding your body well, feeding your life, mind, heart, and emotions WELL. Along with the strategy of MOVING.
Fully engage with your LIFE.
If you’ve ever been engaged, you know what it feels like. There’s such a high amount of anticipation for what’s to come. You’re so excited. You feel this endless supply of energy, happiness, and joy. You’re so expectant of great things for the future, and building something with the person you love.
Engage with YOURSELF like this starting today.
How Engaged Are You? Take the Engagement Evaluation and discover your Evaluation Rating (eRATING) here.
Self care is the new health care of ENGAGEMENT.
TODAY’S SACRED S.O.L. STEP:
Write down a STRATEGY that will put YOU – your body, mind, spirit, will, emotions, and YOUR LIFE as your #1 PRIORITY.
Commit to it.
Take a least ONE STEP today, and go for it, my dear. And watch what happens in your life!
I can’t wait to hear from you. I really believe this is going to set you free today. Stop waiting around for a doctor to tell you, or a healthcare provider to tell you that you “should have” done “this”…and looking back with regret.
Please don’t wait for a DIAGNOSIS before you begin to take care of yourself.
Thanks for being here. I’ll look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. If you haven’t yet subscribed in iTunes or Stitcher, please do. And I’d love it if you give a rating and review. It’ll help us reach more women around that globe that are drowning in life. They deserve to be sipping on it, just like you and me.
xo Dr. Shannon. WomenSippingOnLife.com. Inspiring minds that want to grow and hearts that want to know, so you can love you, your life, and your life’s work well. ONE SIP AT A TIME.
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