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Self-Care Challenge Day 21: Honoring What Your Body Has Told You This Week
In this week's challenge (rebooting your body), we stayed with the body. The focus was on listening to your body rather than pushing through. By now, you may have noticed how much your body carries: stress, adaptation, fatigue, resilience. Rebooting the body is not about starting over. It’s about restoring relationships, noticing signals, respecting limits, and offering support before depletion takes over. Your Reflection: • What is my body asking for more of right now? • Where am I pushing past my limits without noticing? • What helps me feel even slightly more resourced? • What does “enough” feel like in my body? • What would it mean to work with my body instead of against it? If it feels supportive, you’re welcome to share: • One practice you returned to this week • One body signal you noticed • One small shift that helped • Or simply an emoji that reflects how your body feels today Poll: This week, rebooting my body looked like…
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Self-Care Challenge – Day 20: Reclaim Your Mind: Regulate, Don’t Suppress
Our nervous systems respond constantly to stress and safety. Noticing these patterns can help us support regulation and steadiness. Today’s challenge invites you to notice patterns of activation and calm in your body. Small regulating supports can help your nervous system feel steadier and safer. Pause and notice: • Do I feel activated, shut down, or somewhere in between? • What helps me feel steadier? Choose one regulating support Share: One word for your nervous system today. Poll: My nervous system feels…
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Self-Care Challenge – Day 19: Rest Is Not a Reward
Today we are going back to our rest challenge. Rest is a basic need. Reclaiming rest helps counter the pressure to push through exhaustion and treat tiredness as a failure. Rest is a necessity, not something to earn. If you’re anything like me, you probably need someone to remind you to slow down and rest, because you deserve it. As I’m writing this, I’m realizing that I didn’t slow down today. Not at all. I was so focused on wrapping things up for the weekend, making sure everything was done, even the things that could have waited. I stayed busy enough to forget the “me” in the equation. I skipped lunch. I barely got up all day, glued to my chair, and I was working from home. Somehow, being at home tricks my brain into thinking that rest is built in—that I can just power through. But I was wrong. Now I’m starving. My back is killing me. My muscles are tense. And when I finally stood up to go to the bathroom, my knees clicked (okay, that part might just be me being over 40 😅), but you get the point. So today’s challenge centers 'rest' as dignity and care, especially in systems that reward pushing through exhaustion. Because we need to rest! Pause and notice: • Where am I tired right now? • What stories do I tell myself about rest? Your challenge: Take one intentional rest moment today without earning it. Poll: Rest today felt…
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Self-Care Challenge – Day 18: Rethinking Movement as Connection
The body holds stress and tension. Gentle movement can support release, regulation, and reconnect us to our bodies. Movement can be a language of healing. Pause and notice: • Where does my body feel tight or restless? • What kind of movement feels supportive? Your challenge: Move your body for 2–5 minutes in a way your body chooses. Share: One word for how it felt. Poll: Today, movement felt like…
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Self-Care Challenge – Day 17: Energy Literacy
Energy is not unlimited. Learning to notice how much energy we have, and when it’s gone, helps us make choices that are more sustainable. Today’s challenge focuses on becoming more aware of your energy. Noticing what drains you, what sustains you, and when your energy is running low can help you make more supportive choices. Pause and notice:• How much energy do I actually have today? • Where am I spending energy automatically? Your challenge: Make one decision today based on your energy, not expectations. Share: One word for your energy today. Poll: My energy today feels…
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