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
Harnessing Daily Rituals: Self-Care Tips, Social Media Detox, and Self-Worth Affirmations
What if five minutes could change your life? Discover the empowering strategies from Jamie Kern Lima's book "Worthy" that can transform your well-being in just 30 days. We explore the significance of dedicating five non-negotiable minutes daily to self-care activities like meditation, reading, or simply sitting quietly. Learn how this consistent routine can be a game-changer for your mental health and emotional stability. We also dive into the importance of nurturing your inner circle, ensuring that you surround yourself with people who uplift and support you. Plus, we offer tips for curating your social media feed to minimize anxiety and negativity, turning it into a tool that enhances your mental wellness.
But that's not all—are you really listening to your body? We'll guide you through practical steps to better understand and respond to your physical and emotional needs. By setting alarms to check in with yourself throughout the day, you can cultivate self-awareness and prevent negative coping mechanisms. Finally, we focus on affirming your self-worth through actionable steps toward personal growth. Join our vibrant community on Instagram for additional inspiration and updates, and consider becoming part of our book club for deeper engagement. Remember, you are worthy and capable of achieving your goals. Let's embark on this journey together.
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Welcome to View for Thought Empowering Women to Live Healthier Lifestyles. I'm Tracy Elizabeth, I'm Nicole Heller and we are back finishing up.
Speaker 2:You Are Worthy with some amazing tactical strategies for you Three of our favorites, three of our favorites Coming off of our new favorite book, worthy, by Jamie Kern Lima. Absolutely loving the book, but we wanted to give you three strategies that we thought would be amazing to implement on the daily. Write them down, take them with you. Implement one, implement two, implement three, whatever just to take with you on the daily to start that process of filling up your internal money. Sucker upper pneumatic, what is it called?
Speaker 1:Definitely check out the last episode and say what Nicole's talking about.
Speaker 2:Yes, you have to hear that last episode. But to fill up your internal worthy bucket, yes, okay.
Speaker 1:So number one is take five minutes a day, and I want to stress that I know that sounds kind of silly, but if you commit to doing this for 30 days, literally commit to taking five minutes a day and making it a non-negotiable. So, with that being said, identifying three things that are important to you to give you an opportunity to actively do those three things five minutes a day. So it could be as simple as just sitting quiet, because you guys know I love sitting quiet in my car with the windows up. It could be meditating, it could be listening to maybe two of your favorite songs. I could be like nicole she likes to maybe just take five minutes out to read something in her book.
Speaker 1:But identify three things that you can do to take five minutes a day, and it's non-negotiable, which means that you can do that five minutes at a specific time during the day, every single day. So consistency is key. If you want to do it at the same time every day, that's perfect. If your life is a little crazy, then another strategy would be in the morning, wake up, set your alarm for the best five minute time during the day that you can actually commit and honor that time for yourself.
Speaker 2:John Maxwell calls it the power of five. There you go. He's amazing, absolutely amazing. Oh my goodness, I'm John. I want to be your friend.
Speaker 1:I mean, he's very smart, Incredible. But when you listen to a lot of sorry, but when even something as this, people are sitting back and saying, oh, I can do five minutes aable. So these top three that we want to give to you, we really want you to make a commitment to do this for 30 days and definitely keep us posted and really take five minutes a day with what's going to work for you and make it work for you 100% Okay.
Speaker 2:So the second one, which is something that I really love, which is something that really hit home for me and we touched upon this in the last podcast was assessing your circle, and one of the things I wanted to read from the book was your inner circle should be a place you can exhale, where you mess up, you get it wrong, you cry it out all, while knowing that love won't be withheld from you if you do so. I think that that's such an important piece because so often we're putting ourselves in places that literally don't feel like you know that comfortable place, but they really feel like a prison, and I think that assessing your circle, really on the daily, you know, are you putting yourself in a lunch date where you really don't feel like you've said yes when you don't want to? Are you saying yes to the dinner when you wanted to say no? Are you saying yes to the meeting that you didn't want to go to or don't have to go to? Are you saying yes to whatever it is?
Speaker 2:Really assessing your circle and the people you're surrounding yourself with or you're surrounding your family with, you know, do you want your family to be with this family right now, this other family, whatever you know, really assessing your circle and assessing your plans and prioritizing that on the daily, every single day, for 30 days, and really seeing how you start feeling, knowing the people that you're around, even the people you're talking to on the phone, sure, like if you're getting ready to pick up the phone. Social media yeah, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. If it is in your feed and you don't want it in your feed, just press the button like snooze. Snooze, like if there's something that you're going through and it's giving you anxiety, just get rid of it. Unfollow, just be done.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh that's a big one, absolutely so.
Speaker 1:Assessing your circle is a big one and again making that non-negotiable and also identifying that opportunity to check in with one person from that circle is definitely helpful. And I know me and Nicole and I joke about this but if I don't hear from her by like noon, something's wrong, right? So like I know that I'm going to check in with her because it stabilizes me just knowing throughout the day that if I'm feeling a certain way whether it's happy or frustrated or sad, like I have this go-to person and it's a beautiful thing to have that reality check some moments of when I know I need it, I know who to go to to get that. So that's important. And if you don't have that person, it takes the next 30 days, as you're assessing your circle, to find that go-to person Clean up your circle.
Speaker 1:Clean up your circle like I know for a fact that in my day, if I'm going through something, there are three specific people that I'm calling. Yeah, like there's no doubt about it, I'm texting, I'm calling, I'm facetiming yeah, clean up your circle, clean up your social. It's giving you those vibes the social, my goodness, yes clean up the social for sure.
Speaker 2:All right, so the third one we have is to set those alarms and listen to your body, which I actually really love.
Speaker 1:So I'm Really just fill up your your internal money sucker.
Speaker 2:So I think that listening to your body is just such an important piece and I think that it's often missed so much, so much. So like you're trusting when we say trust your gut. Like your gut is actually talking to you. Your body is talking to you, your head's talking to you, your heart's talking to you, your sweat is talking to you. Like, why are you touching me? Because it's the truth. Like everything is talking to you. Your heart's talking to you, your sweat is talking to you. Like, why are you touching me? Because it's the truth. Like everything is talking to you.
Speaker 2:And like we don't want to listen, we don't want to slow down enough to listen, yeah. So like, if you're in a situation where you're having a conversation with someone and your heart is racing or you're sweating, like you're probably in a situation where your body is telling you run. Like. Like your body is telling you, like, get out of there or speak your truth or, you know, advocate for yourself. Like your body is telling you something. So like a small strategy, or stop talking. Or like, yeah, just be quiet. So, like we want to challenge you for 30 days.
Speaker 2:Set your alarm, maybe once, twice, even three times, noon and night, to just let the alarm go off and pause for a second. Sometimes the watch you know, your Apple Watch, even has this you know feature to just-. That's why I shut mine off. Yeah, you don't want to listen. Just pause for a second and just assess your body. Give yourself like a head to toe assessment and just listen to your body, listen to your gut and feel your feels like do I feel anxious in this moment? Well, what's around me? Do I feel happy in this moment? What's around me?
Speaker 2:do more of that like go do more of it like do I feel joy, do I feel sadness, do I feel anxious, do I feel tired? Like what do we feel in this moment? And then pair it up and establish a pattern in what you're doing. Yeah, do more or less of what is causing that and give yourself that opportunity through the day to establish that for 30 days. I think that that's a big one.
Speaker 1:It's such a huge proactive strategy because for many of us, we get stuck in our feelings right but when we don't take the opportunity to really reflect on those feelings and what's happening around us, then we're not taking action to not feel that way. So this is a perfect strategy to start working on that and, you know, coming off of really talking about that, you are worthy. These are steps, action, steps to take. It's a skill, like like when Nicole and I talked about in the last episode we just didn't wake up one day and say, oh, I'm worthy, let's, let's go, let's rock this world. Like no, it took a process and took experience. So these are actually three non-negotiable strategies in our life that we do commit to using. But now it's just really automatic. Like these becomes automatic. It definitely is automatic. Like I I do wake up in the morning and know that I have five minutes in a day, and sometimes I do take 10 minutes a day. Like that's non-negotiable for me. And yes, I do sit in the car still and I still assess my circle.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm always assessing my circle. She definitely does.
Speaker 1:I'm still here. I'm still here, I'm always assessing the circle. But and again, like looking at, do I set my alarms anymore for the feelings? I don't, but I'm actually because I practiced it for so long. There are moments that I'm actually like, wow, I listened to my gut or something happened, and I'm like, oh, damn it, I should have listened to my gut because I didn't take that moment to pause in that situation.
Speaker 2:But I'm better at becoming more aware to reflect on it, or taking it one step further for a health journey, thinking about like wow, in this moment I am starting to feel anxious and normally my strategy would be, for coping, to be somewhere in a pantry or somewhere in a drive through. But because I'm already knowing how I'm feeling, I'm going to take this path instead. Absolutely so the practice of listening to your body and getting to know what your body's telling you can start the practice of stop, challenge and choose. So it's a beautiful way to just really start that habit of listening.
Speaker 2:Your body is designed to teach you and help you and help you optimally live. You just have to give it the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we would love for you to join this 30-day challenge. Yeah, I love it. So we would actually post something up on Instagram when we can start this challenge. Yeah, let's do it, and then maybe we can keep like a running list or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Of some of our listeners and I don't know, maybe we can throw something out there for them. Yeah, maybe we'll make If you stay committed to the 30 days. Yeah, I like that challenge. I love a challenge. All right guys, thank you for joining and remember you are worthy, the few for thought today.
Speaker 2:You are worthy. Let's start taking those action steps. I love it. Thank you so much for joining us. Make sure you follow us on instagram. Click the follow and we will see you guys. Make sure. If you want to join our book club, shoot us a dm and we will make sure we get you that information and we will see you guys next time. Bye guys, bye guys.
