Navigating Life's Turbulence: Getting Back to Basics When Everything Gets Overwhelming

Life is a cyclical journey of growth, discomfort, and returning to basics. When overwhelm strikes, reconnecting with fundamental self-care practices can restore balance and prepare us for the next phase of personal evolution.

• Discomfort often signals upcoming growth and transformation
• Getting back to basics helps rebuild a solid foundation when life feels unsteady
• Small daily practices like morning walks and stretching can significantly boost energy levels
• Trust your intuition when it warns you about upcoming challenges
• Storms aren't meant to break you, but to strengthen and teach you
• Self-care becomes essential during turbulent times
• Remember what's constant: health, family, and basic necessities

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Chapters

• 1:09 Welcome and Channel Updates
• 2:04 Life Has Been Life-ing
• 4:04 Getting Back to Basics
• 8:12 Embracing Uncomfortable Growth
• 13:07 New Face's Knee Drama
• 17:11 Closing Thoughts and Contact Info

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:35

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Gag is Pod. I am your girl, charlie Shante. Thank you for joining me on another episode. As always, if you're listening to this episode, that must mean it's a Friday, but it could be some other day of the week, just depending on where you're listening. But nonetheless, thank you for joining me. Before we get started, please make sure you go ahead and hit that like button, hit that subscribe button on YouTube. If you have not already, please go follow us over on Instagram at the gag is pot, and on whatever platform you're listening to this on, please make sure you hit that notification plus sign in the top right hand corner or it may be on the left hand corner, depending on what platform you're on so that you are notified anytime there is a new episode.

Speaker 1: 1:27

Oh my God, y'all. Life has been life and it's been winning. Just a little bit, just, uh, just a little bit. And uh, I was like, oh my God, oh my God. I haven't been on here for a couple of weeks and you know I said today I ain't finna come back with nothing pre-planned, pre anything. I'm just going to come talk to y'all, have a heart to heart with y'all. And you know, because life has been life and you know, the last month started off as it started off crazy. New Face got injured and you know so he's been out of swim since the last week of January with a dislocated kneecap. So he's been in rehab for the last few weeks trying to get that together and he still has a long way to go and I will say it's been mentally draining on him because he can't do what he loves to do and you know, as a parent, you hate seeing your kids like that. Oh wait, I forgot to tell you. Make sure you grab your drink or your snack, or whatever it is, make sure you tuned in. I forgot to tell you that. So grab your drinks, grab your snacks, whatever. Let's jump right back into where we were. But it's really been life. Y'all. See, I got a new setup because getting ready to have some finally, after the hurricane, getting ready to have some renovations going on, but that's neither here nor there. But life has really been life and I want to talk about what do you do when life starts to life.

Speaker 1: 3:30

Like you know, we know that giving up is not an option, but how do we approach? How do we approach? How do we get through this thing that we call turbulence or rough times or storms or whatever you have For me? I feel like sometimes I start closing in and I and I start shutting out, and it's it's always been a safety mechanism of mine, it's always been a safety net of mine just to start shutting, shutting the world out, shutting people out, because I need to focus.

Speaker 1: 4:13

And as each day goes on, I always have to remember you got to get back to the basics, because you know you start here, you start with a foundation, you start with a basic and you start building and building and building, and then you build, but as you're building along the way, you're taking shortcuts, and we take shortcuts starts to get unsteady, right. So I feel like I've been building and building and building and building and building, and I finally got into that unsteady part, which is not a bad thing. It just means you're going too fast, slow it down, bring it back a little, and so I've had to. So you know, I gotta, I gotta remember I gotta slow down. I always have this rule when I feel like I'm going too fast. You got to get back to the basics, right, and by basics I have to go back to what I know is tried and true Although something may be faster and quicker, it may not have longevity to it. If that makes sense and I know a lot of people out there life is life and for them right now, and it's just, it's just a lot going on and we have to do our best to remain at peace, I would say make sure everything is good and you know, just just maintain. You know, home, work, kids, family, because it all can get. It all can become too much. You know, got spring break coming up here shortly and you know that'll be a good vacation, a good getaway. We're going on a cruise, so that'll be a good getaway. But when it comes to dealing with life, there's no right or wrong way to deal with it. Everybody's going to deal with it in their own way, in their own regards, own way in their own regards.

Speaker 1: 6:25

Me, I just take time, you know, to, like I said, just hone in on the basics. Like, I know I need to get back into reading, I know I need to get back in the gym because I have gained hella weight and but the number one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I'm not going to say, oh well, I'll let this happen. And but the number one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I'm not going to say, oh well, I let this happen. And you know, I could have prevented this or I could have did this. We all go through life, we all go through lessons, we all go through struggles. And what's sitting there, moping about it going to do Like what is being upset and crying and moping and being depressed about it? What's it going to do? Nothing Do I have my moments? Absolutely. But when I have my moments, I have learned not to stay in the moment, Because the longer you stay in the moment, the harder it is for you to get back in the group of things.

Speaker 1: 7:18

I used to go to the gym five, six days a week and now you lucky if I go one I don't even go to the gym anymore, like I just do like little stuff at home. So what I've started doing was I went back to the basics in the mornings before I go to work, to the basics In the mornings. Before I go to work, I walk my dog for a minimum of 20 minutes. My best friend is my accountability partner, so we started off with 20 minutes of walking each day. Now it has progressed to 20 minutes of walking, a minimum of 20 minutes. You can either walk or you can do a workout. I found an app and I started doing 10, 20 minute workouts on there. So after I walked a dog in the morning, I come back to the house and I do a stretch or I do a meditation and then I get ready for my day and I found that by doing that I've started to have way more energy during the day and I'm like OK, tried and true, tried and true. This is what has always worked for me and I should have never swayed away from this.

Speaker 1: 8:33

And I was sitting there talking today. I was like I think I need to start my acupuncture back, because when I started acupuncture I was probably the most healthiest version of myself. I was losing weight, I was good to go clear mind, clear body, clear soul. Clear mind, clear body, clear soul and I think I just need to get back to that just as a body reset and just align. And crazy story Probably a few weeks ago I was telling Nick.

Speaker 1: 9:11

I said Nick. I said I don't know what's going on. But I said, whatever it is, I got to buckle up and hold on tight because I feel like some things are getting ready to get uncomfortable. I said I don't know what, in what aspect, I don't know in what areas, but it's going to get uncomfortable. And I said I don't like feeling like this and some people would say, well, you talked it up and you brought that on yourself. No, I just had that feeling. It was like a warning sign like this is coming. You got to be ready and I think by having that warning, I was a little bit ready, I was a little bit prepared and now I'm in that cycle. I'm uncomfortable, I'm uncomfortable as hell. It's like being in the middle seat of a plane, like it is uncomfortable and I don't know when it's going to be over. But I know that, the uncomfortableness. You know growing pains when you're getting ready to elevate, when you're getting ready to grow. You got to go through the fire a little bit. It's going to be uncomfortable and you just got to hold on and you just got to find your way through it. You know, a storm is meant to help. In my opinion, a storm is sent to help you not hurt you.

Speaker 1: 10:39

You know it's like it's like a pop quiz, like there's no study guide, you can't study for this, there is no open book to it or nothing. You just got to take the test and just answer the questions. It may be one of those things you get one wrong so you have to answer one more question, but after you miss that same question for a certain amount of times, you're going to start seeing questions similar to it. Be like okay, I got this. I remember this. This is how I approach this.

Speaker 1: 11:10

You know I was talking to Nick. I was like you know, I feel like there are some crappy people in the world and crappy people are always winning. But then there is me, I heard, trying to do good, encourage and, you know, be a positive person, and it's like I always get the shit into the stick. It's like I don't understand that. I don't understand why, like you know, some people might be like and it's like I don't understand that. I don't understand why, like you know, some people might be like well, it's your karma, like my karma. For what? For like what I do. But you know, they they say the the good people always get the worst of it, you know, and it's cool, you know, I'm happy, I'm healthy, my kids are happy, my kids are healthy, you know. So I guess, and I have a roof over my head, you know. I have nothing to complain about, so I won't complain.

Speaker 1: 12:03

I'm just going, my seatbelt is on, buckled up, holding on tight, and just just riding, riding this wave, just riding this wave. That's all you can do. I don't know, it is uncomfortable. I know so many out there, y'all, I know, y'all can agree it's uncomfortable, it's too tight, it hurts. I don't like it hurts, I don't like it, I don't like it at all. Just want to pack my bags and run away, but I'm not gonna do that, um, but I just, hmm, this is, this is real life, and you, you know, put up or shut up, you know. So some of the things that you know I've been doing, like I said, I've been focusing a little bit more on self-care. You know, I've been making sure I've been getting enough sleep, I've been trying to increase my water, you know, just little small stuff, see, I got my water right here, you know and just trying to get my mind and my body all the way together so that you know once the okay, okay, okay. So I guess I'll give y'all this. This is going to be a short episode today. I'm going to give y'all a. You can't make this up.

Speaker 1: 13:58

So, like I told y'all, new Face dislocated his knee or whatever, and so you know know, he went a couple days, he tell me, and he was trying to run up the stairs. So we end up going to the emergency room, we end up going to the doctor or whatever. So there's like, oh, he come in next week, we'll put his kneecap back in place. So the same day that he got his kneecap it was valentine's day he got his kneecap put back in on valentine's day and they put a different brace on it. This man thought he was superman. This man went out there to the fair. He was riding on rides, he was walking around with his friends.

Speaker 1: 14:30

The next day you would have thought somebody would have chopped that boy knee. I was trying to chop his knee off at the uh, at the kneecap. I was was like, oh my God, oh my God, like it's hurting and I'm like you got to sit down. But even though he has physical therapy, he's allowed to go back and swim one day a week. But we're going to see how this knee holds up for spring break, you know, because you can't show pain when it comes to your friends. So we're going't see how this knee hold up for spring break. You know, we don't see if it make him or if it break him.

Speaker 1: 15:12

You know I'm going to be chilling, big chilling on spring break, just looking for that rest and relaxation this week. I do not have a song lyric of the week, I just wanted to um to come just with a quick. I ain't going nowhere. I know it's been a couple weeks. I ain't going nowhere. I'm still here, life been lifin a little bit and I know y'all understand because I'm probably sure if life ain't lifing for you, life is lifing for somebody around you. So I just want to come on here and thank y'all. I still see y'all listening to the episode, listening to the old episodes, and I welcome to all my new followers and all my new listeners. I can see that y'all starting at the beginning and y'all seeing a progression and a growth and I greatly, greatly appreciate that. And, as like I said in the beginning, if you have not already, please make sure you go to the YouTube page and subscribe.

Speaker 1: 16:10

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