Fuel For Thought
Join hosts Tracy Elizabeth and Nicole Heller on Fuel For Thought, the empowering podcast designed to help women unleash a healthier lifestyle. With their expert insights and unwavering dedication, Tracy and Nicole delve into the challenges faced by women in achieving optimal health and provide actionable strategies to overcome them. From debunking myths about nutrition to exploring the latest fitness trends, they leave no stone unturned in their quest to fuel your body, mind, and soul.
Each episode of Fuel For Thought offers a wealth of practical advice, inspiring stories, and interviews with leading experts in the health and wellness field. Tracy and Nicole bring their unique perspectives and personal journeys, making every discussion relatable and authentic. Whether you're struggling with emotional eating, searching for sustainable weight loss techniques, or seeking to boost your overall well-being, this podcast serves as your go-to resource for transformation.
Through lively conversations, evidence-based research, and practical tips, Fuel For Thought will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed decisions about your health. Uncover the secrets to maintaining a balanced diet, discover effective workout routines, and learn how to build a positive relationship with food. Fuel For Thought embraces the mantra of relentlessly overcoming obstacles to achieve your desired results.
Tune in to Fuel For Thought and join Tracy Elizabeth and Nicole Heller as they inspire, motivate, and empower women to take charge of their health, harness their inner strength, and unlock their true potential. Subscribe now to embark on a journey towards a healthier, happier you!
Fuel For Thought
PART 2 of Embracing the Ick: Strategies to Boost Well-Being and Navigate Holiday Stress Effectively
Ever wondered how to handle the holiday stress with grace and maintain your mental and physical health? Want to transform your health journey through a powerful mindset shift? Join us, Tracy Elizabeth and Nicole Heller, as we unpack five life-changing strategies to boost your well-being, especially during the bustling holiday season. Our conversation dwells on 'Embracing the Ick', a concept that paves the way for mindfulness and self-awareness.
We kick off our discussion with the importance of location, location, location, a simple technique to understand where you stand emotionally and mentally. We share the potent 90-second strategy that grants you the power to pause, challenge, and choose your reactions to different stimuli. Learn how to harness the calming power of effective breathing strategies and manage your emotions better by visualizing them. Our conversation culminates in practical tips to navigate through the holiday season without compromising your health and happiness. Tune in and let's transform your health journey together!
Follow our journey on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fuel_for_thought_podcast/
Welcome back to Fuel for Soaring Power and Women to Live Healthier Lifestyles. I'm Tracy Elizabeth, I'm Nicole Heller and we are here doing a recap on Embracing the Ick. It's a great episode. I loved it. I loved everything about it.
Speaker 2:All right. So we're going to talk about just five, kind of like a progression, you know, of locating and you know understanding above the line and below the line, but really taking these strategies into the season that we're coming into, the holiday season, you know all the things with the kids, all the things that are going on, or whatever it may be, however it relates to your in your life. But what are these five steps we can take to really being in awareness and leveling up that mindset journey as part of your health journey? What does that look like? So let's start with the first one. So the first one is location, location, location.
Speaker 2:Like I want to drill that down because at any point of the day, you can stop and take a breath. You could set alarms on your phone while you're training your brain to do it. You could set alarms on your watch while you're training your brain to do it. But taking a moment to just locate where you are right now, am I above the line? Am I open, curious, honest, learning? Am I below the line? Am I feeling frustrated? Am I closed? Is my ego in charge here? Am I unwilling to hear what someone else is saying? So, location, location, location. Bringing that awareness in that moment throughout your entire day, but giving yourself the grace. It's okay to be below the line Everybody goes below the line but once we're in the state of awareness we could take the next steps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I love that concept of always trying to put yourself in that place, of identify location, location, location, because that's how you work towards building that awareness piece, instead of then saying was I above, was I below today, like just really thinking about it. But no, this is activating your brain and your mindset to really become aware. Are you really assessing the location?
Speaker 1:of what something happened. So the second strategy I use very often is the 90 second strategy of really just allowing yourself to pause. So part of this is really utilizing a strategy called stop, challenge and choose. And when we have a stimuli so it's a circumstance you identified a location where you are and you're stopping and in between your, your, that stimuli versus that response and reaction time is you're giving yourself time to really challenge yourself. So 90 second strategy of just stopping and pausing is effective, like when you practice, it is effective.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I need to breathe and you may not even be dissecting the situation in my head with the thought process of what should I say, how should I respond versus how should I react, but just 90 seconds to breathe. So finding a breathing strategy that works for you. I do like counting up to four and then breathing out to six. That helps me kind of just poison. I have a very race in mind. So the breathing strategy for me allows me to really just get back into a place of calmness so that I can go right back to that place of state of awareness and reflection.
Speaker 2:When I use the 90 seconds so much that they talk about in the 15 commitments of conscious leadership book, is that a lot of our emotions are stored in our body, and thinking about when I take 90 seconds like, let's say, hypothetically, it's anger I'm feeling.
Speaker 1:Hypothetically.
Speaker 2:Hypothetically I don't ever feel angry, I don't know what everybody's talking about, but thinking about actually closing my eyes and seeing the anger in my mind, in my face, the clenching of my cheeks, feeling it in my heart. My heart is racing, feeling it in my belly. I'm feeling that upsetness, feeling it in the tightness in my thighs and the locking of my knees, and then even my toes are clenched, and then actually getting to that end of that 90 seconds and literally just seeing the anger come out. It's shooting rainbows out of my toes. I'm done with that. I'm done with that emotion, these rainbow, I'm done with it. So actually visualizing that emotion going through your body and being just done with it, giving yourself 90 seconds, because if we stay in a space too long, then we're commiserating with ourselves Absolutely. Next one is you. You're up.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean again, so evaluating if your candor will be received. So we did discuss this in the previous episode and this is really important because this allows you to identify when that person's at in their life and if that conversation is going to be heard, if your feelings are going to be validated, if you are, if there's going to be not even not a full solution, but at least some resolution to the situation or the circumstance that's happening and the feelings that you're having. So really evaluating if that's Worth having that conversation is important. And that state of awareness of asking yourself, if I have this conversation, is it going to serve me, is it going to elicit a response or maybe a change in the other person to become aware? And if not, then yeah.
Speaker 2:So the next strategy is just you're deciding if you're going to speak your truth or if you're not, and you know when you are speaking the truth. You've made that decision that the person is open and above the line and willing to have this conversation with you. Could end up being a Beautiful conversation with resolution on the other side. But if the person is not open, not curious, their ego is standing right there, they are committed to being right Then and you're going to decide to not have that conversation. Seeking that peace within yourself is now becomes your ultimate responsibility. And how do we really do that when that person is part of our life and that's going back to seeking the good.
Speaker 2:It has to be the smallest piece of good that you can hold on to and train your brain to see, while kind of allowing those other things to fade. And that's the ultimate Control is being able to find that peace within yourself by see, simply seeing the good that's in them. So the person that's telling you two plus two is twelve and you want to tell them, if their candor, if their ears are open and they're willing to learn, and you're like but wait a minute, two plus two is four. And they're like you know what, you're right. That's a beautiful conversation. But if that person's like I don't know what you're talking about, it's twelve, you're wrong, I'm right. Then you're like okay, like what good is there? Like you have to look for the good that's there, and obviously it's not their math skills.
Speaker 2:So we moved to other things, okay. So the last one is what we just talked about is really seeing that good and Really activating that part of your brain that is trained to see it and it is so powerful. So all the signs that we have hanging in our house, all the mugs that we have, all the shirts that say see the good, the good gets better, actually living that as a principal in your life is so powerful because you will train your brain To be able to constantly see that good and the others will fade. And that puts you in that beautiful space of peace and that brings us to our challenge that we wanted to give everyone so seeing the good the opposite of that is doing the good right.
Speaker 1:We, in order for us to see the good, we have to also be the person to encourage the good. So we did offer a challenge to everyone. Nicole did have a strategy to put three rubber band hair ties on your wrist and Each day set your alarm, or use the rubber band strategy as your visual prompt to do something three times. That is good to somebody out for somebody else, so that could be paying them a compliment.
Speaker 2:It could be Um, I don't like buying coffee for somebody sometimes because I try to make it uncomfortable for yourself. I think you should try to make it uncomfortable for yourself. Yeah, you know getting through. I don't like to spend my money.
Speaker 2:So you got to spend your money. It's just the way it is. So that's uncomfortable. But thinking about like what can you do? That's kind of pushing you out of your comfort zone. Get uncomfortable. Stop sitting in a place of complacency. Get uncomfortable. Get the only way to get on the other side of it gets to go through it. Yeah, so I just go through it.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I do want to say, though, like paying somebody a compliment, I know for me and for many other people it's like it's that conscious effort to stop in that moment and go up to a stranger and say you're really beautiful, or you, I really love your shirt. Like some people just say, pay a compliment is easy, but I want you to really reflect on if it's easy, how often are you doing that in your day? Because I do find myself saying things in my head and not initiating the conversation, because I don't. I don't want to feel Weird talking to somebody, or I don't want them to think that I'm crazy, or whatever it may be. It makes me uncomfortable to walk up to a stranger, but I told the bank tell it the other day. I was like I saw you the other day and you're very beautiful, but I didn't say anything to you. So I'm telling you today true story. I did tell her that, so hopefully she'll listen.
Speaker 2:I did put my card in there. I like that and I think that Also, you know, going over to the person, paying them a compliment, to the person that is bringing you below the line, yeah, like, go find that person. Yes, that you're strategically trying to bring yourself drifting back up. You know, find that person and help be a light in their life so that you can bring good to that relationship. When you constantly feel like you're strategically being pulled down, is that an indirect like challenge?
Speaker 2:for me it was it was a little bit of a challenge. I think Tracy should fill us in if she takes that challenge, but it is. There's so much power in being good in a situation that is bringing you down. It just brings that's the true empowerment in your mindset health, sure.
Speaker 1:I love it. That's the challenge, so we would love to hear from you on our Instagram, drop a comment, send us our DM, share your story where you are above the line, below the line, the action steps that you're taking if you're taking any.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we'll drop the book, information and everything there and we'll see you guys next time. Thank you so much for joining us. Bye, guys, bye Bye.
