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Intimate Details with Dr. Tiff
It's Self-Care Sunday: Embracing Growth on TOW Day 5
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What if dedicating just a few minutes each day to mindful self-care could transform your life? On today's episode, we continue our journey through The ONE Within 30-Day Journaling Challenge, marking the fifth day with reflections on the power of intentional self-care. Together, we'll explore how even the simplest daily rituals can become profound acts of self-care, aligned with our deepest values.
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Hello, it is day five of the one within a 30 day journaling challenge. I keep wanting to call it a self-care challenge, you guys know. Welcome to Intimate Details with Dr Tiff. This is Dr Tiff. She's crazy. If you guys have been following me, some of you have been following me for a long time on social and there was a time this is pre-pandemic, so your girl's been doing challenges for a while. I had for a couple of years and every couple of years I do it. It just depends on what I have going on and if I can. But September, september is a love month for me. I love September. It is self-care awareness month September is, and so in September I will do a self-care challenge and it is a 30-day challenge where every day, if you go back back back, back back way back on my Instagram feed, you'll see where I posted every day for 30 days a different self-care activity. I had people sign up for that. It was madness. I loved it. It was so much to like do it, but it was a lot of work. Like, and I am a solopreneur, so it's always. It always is something that I love doing, but I got to find a way to get some help, honey, cause that thing wore me out. I would do the self-care challenge and come up with something for every day, but then I was also doing the videos every day. So doing the videos and then editing and then posting and all of the things. Honey, who has that kind of time? Not me. So I haven't done it in a few years. But here we are. Look at me again doing a challenge, posting something every day. I do have some different systems in place, though, to be able to do this, so it's not as taxing, um, and certainly, as we move forward and do more of this type of stuff, um, I think we can kind of start to automate some things so that it's not too taxing on your girl.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Now we are at day five of the One Within Journaling Challenge. If you have not signed up yet, I don't know what you're doing. I think y'all are waiting on me every day to come up on this podcast and tell you what it is. But see, here's the thing your girl is not committed to showing up on camera every day.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:I'm doing this challenge, okay, I'm doing it with you guys, and I, um, I, I signed up for the emails cause I I did that cause. I wanted to make sure that everything came through as it's supposed to. So if there's a problem, I will know about it, because I'm getting the emails, just like you guys are getting the emails, right, um, so I'm, I'm a part of the challenge. I don't have to come up here and do this. I do this at the goodness of my heart. I'm doing the Lord's work, okay, so I come on here but I'm not.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Listen, you know me. You know me and you know that doing a podcast every single day does not sound like my ministry. Okay, I know why I'm here on this earth it is to serve you guys. I know it is. I know why I'm here on this earth it is to serve you guys. I know it is. I know it is, but not in this way. But I am here just to kind of get you guys going on this challenge and to check in with you. And I'm not even going to say that I don't. I want to tease something, but I'm not going to tease it just yet. But if you're a part of the one within challenge, it means that you are part of the becoming the one community, and that's my community of like-minded women who are all on this journey together, this transformative journey. They are very much open to learning how to you know how to learn how to effortlessly kind of attract the love and life that they deserve and desire while doing this work right here, while focusing on their own growth and transformation. And I am committed to helping you guys do just that.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:And with that let's go to day five of the One Within Journaling Challenge. So day five, day five. Oh, I should have led with this, I'm so sorry. Be self-care Sunday. Happy self-care Sunday. Day five all about self-care and self-care rituals. Today's journal prompt is what self-care practices make you feel most aligned and balanced? List three and describe why they matter to you. Okay, what self-care practices make you feel the most aligned and balanced? And then list three at least three and describe why they matter to you. Now, self-care practices.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:You guys know that I am super big on self-care. I love it. I think it needs to be, and I always talk about it being intentional. Let's have some intentional self-care practices and what that means. When I say that, I really do believe that it's not just about maintenance, right? A lot of times we say that I'm going to get my nails done and that's self-care. Is it? Is it? Is it? Or do you just, you know, need to get your nails done because they look raggedy right? In a way, yes, it is self-care, but are we being intentional about that time? Are we setting aside? Here's what intentionality looks like. Okay, I'm going to think of something. Okay, oh, I have a good one, I have a great one. Okay, lunch, lunch, right.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Lunch is one of those activities or things that we do every day. Supposedly, some of us do some of a skip lunch, which is a whole nother thing. But let's say, you're, you know you routinely, you know you work at a job, you get a lunch hour, you take your hour, you come back. Some of us eat at our desks and continue to work through. Some of us pack something from the night before, or don't? We don't really think about it, we just go out, grab something, come back. Lunch is one of those things where, if you sit down and really think about it, it should be something that nourishes you, that empowers you to be able to muscle through the rest of the day. It should be a time when you're able to decompress from whatever you've been doing and fill yourself back up so that you can do whatever you need to do to get through the rest of the day. Your time for lunch should be intentional, right? Some of us will skip lunch. We don't plan for lunch Me and my ADHD, right.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:A lot of times. I've told you guys a few weeks ago how like I'll think about the thing that I need to do, and then I start to think about all the things that I have to do in order to do the thing and then I'm just like I'm done. I don't even want to do the thing anymore because I know how much it's going to take for me to get there. And lunch is one of those things that I have to be very intentional about making myself eat lunch. Have to. Lunch comes at the same time every day. Lunch is just going to come up on me every day.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:But I have to not only make myself stop and eat lunch, I have to be intentional about having certain things in the house, in the refrigerator, in my desk drawer even snacks and things in my desk drawer right now, because I'm bad. I'm bad about not having something and I will go and it'll be four o'clock and I'm like you know what. I'm hungry, but I have things like chomps, these little beef sticks and things like that in my desk drawer, kind bars in my desk drawer. I've got pistachios in my desk drawer. I've got pistachios in my desk drawer. I mean, I got all kinds of shit in here because I'm so bad about just stopping and doing lunch. I'm not as intentional.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:But part of me putting this in the drawer is me being intentional because I know me. I know that I have to be more intentional about fueling my body so that I can mentally, physically, emotionally, keep doing the work that I know I need to do. That is intentional self-care. Now, ideally I would have gone to the store earlier in the week and put some you know, some turkey breast and some grapes and some cheeses and a lot of grab and go things, because you know I'm not gonna sit down and make something right. But if I have some things that I can just quickly grab and go, put in a bowl and bring up here, then I'm doing a lot better than I would if I just went the whole day, gone off on a long tangent.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:But you see what I mean, right, self-care. How do we take care of ourselves in an intentional way? And what the question is, what self-care practices make you feel most aligned and balanced the self-care practice. So back to my analogy, or my example. The self-care practice that makes me feel most aligned. One of that makes me feel most I'm thinking of an evening self-care practice. Stop thinking like that. I was thinking about my evening glass of wine. That is, oh, that is some self-care, some good stuff. But another one, opposite of that, is my morning cup of coffee.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Let me tell you about my mornings. Okay, my mornings during the week. I get up super early. I'm not a morning person. I hate getting up early. Okay, but my daughter has to get up super early. I'm not a morning person. I hate getting up early. Okay, but my daughter has to get up, go to school. So I get up early because she needs to get up early. So I need to get up early with her. If we do, you know, fix breakfast and you know, get her going, nag her about hurrying it up, staying focused, brushing the teeth.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Did you put lotion on? Go back upstairs and get some lotion. Did you put on deodorant Do you? Why did? Why are your pants so short? Why do you have on mismatched shots? All the things right. I get her out of the door Boop, my husband takes her to school.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:I turn the lights off in the house, turn all the lights off, turn them all off. I have coffee in my hand, I have usually a little muffin or some bacon, and I take my computer and I go upstairs. I get back in the bed, honey, because my brain is really not working. It's not optimal until about 10 am and I know this about myself. Ok, so if I have the luxury, like if I have something else to do, I will get up and go and do whatever I have to do. But on the days when I don't have, like a major appointment or something like that is what I do. Turn all those lights back off in the house. I go back upstairs, I get in the bed and I have a sleep number bed, so I set it at zero gravity. So I'm kind of up, but not flat and not flat Right, and I sit there, I have my coffee and I might just, you know, do some scrolling or finish. I'm just allowing myself to.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Naturally, this is my self-care process and this happens most more of like five mornings out of the week. That is a process for me, that is self-care for me, to like really have my, not just grab and go have coffee or whatever and then just take it while I'm doing something else, but like really allowing myself the time that I need to wake up. Now I understand that is a luxury. That is my process, and you will have your own processes and things that you find to be that you define as self-care. That process, though, makes me feel the most aligned and balanced, and I am able to, actually, when I do get up by then by the time I get up, it's usually about 9, 930. Then I'm able to start my day, then I'm able to get in the shower and, you know, come into my office and start seeing clients, and you know sending emails and responding to things, and you know doing all the things. That's when I'm able to function, but I have to give myself that time in the morning. So what is your self-care practice that makes you feel balanced and aligned? That is the question today.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:I want you to list three things, at least three things and describe why they matter to you. This will be unique to you, and I'd love to hear I would love to hear some of these. I really would. So, if you're open to sharing, go ahead and send me an email. Do you guys know if you guys look at the podcast show notes? Do you guys ever do that? I want you to look at the show notes of the podcast because I do my podcast through. I load it through Buzzsprout for now and it there.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:They just launched a new feature I don't know how new it is, I just started, I just noticed it where you can text the podcast. If you go into the show notes, right up at the top it'll say send us a text. I think it says something like did you enjoy this episode? Send us a text, text me. Text me, text me today and let me know what you think, what your self-care practice is. I just want to know I'm just being nosy Let me know what your sex could be, your self-care practice, and if that's it, fine, you don't need to send me that and you definitely don't need to send me anything inappropriate. But let me know what your self-care ritual is that helps you feel aligned and balanced. I am interested. Send me a text by clicking on that little tab that says send a text in the show notes of this podcast.
Dr. Tiffanie Henry:Okay, I hope you guys have a wonderful self-care Sunday. I hope you feel inspired to participate in self-care Sunday based on the content of our journal challenge today, and it's gonna be day six tomorrow. We are almost at the end of the first week. I cannot believe it. All right, day five is done, we're done. I'll see you tomorrow on day six. Thank you for tuning into Intimate Details with Dr Tiff and for participating in the one within 30 day journal challenge. I'll see y'all tomorrow. Bye.
