The Power of Oxygen 1st
When my son was little, I was a single mom who was doing it all alone. I was putting everyone else first and my own needs last. To everyone around me, I was successful but little did they know that my success was tied to pushing, stressing, sleepless nights and early morning workouts pushing my body and my limits to the extreme. Until one day I was flying alone and nearly crashed an airplane and I realized that I needed to take care of my own needs first before anyone else. You see, when you’re a pilot, if you have any issues in the plane, you put on your oxygen mask 1st, not your passengers. They need you to land the plane.
This podcast is all about this journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart… and stepping into them with courage while leaning into, asking for and receiving support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live: a life filled to the brim with epic ADVENTURE.
The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 55: What If You Let Yourself?
Have you ever wondered how giving yourself permission to rest could transform your life? Picture this: you're caught in the relentless cycle of hustle, and suddenly, you decide to pause and truly feel. On the Power of Oxygen First podcast, I, Dot Rock, invite you to join me on a journey towards self-care and emotional empowerment. Inspired by Mel Robbins' "let them" philosophy, this episode is an exploration of letting yourself rest and feel, emphasizing the importance of self-compassion and the practice of putting on your metaphorical oxygen mask first. As an Enneagram 3, I share my personal struggles with prioritizing productivity over emotions and reveal how practices like breath work and mindful walks can create the space needed for healing and growth.
This episode nudges you to do less and prioritize your passions, weaving them into daily life. Embrace the art of allowing support into your world and realize the life you are meant to live. I'm here to guide and support you, inviting you to connect with me through my website or on Instagram. Together, we can infuse your life with more purpose and passion, transforming each day into one of authenticity and fulfillment. As we embark on this journey, we learn the power of releasing perfection, stop over-explaining, and simply let ourselves be. Join me in creating a life where self-care isn't just a choice, but a priority.
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Hey guys, this is the Power of Oxygen First podcast, and I'm your host, dot Rock. I am an entrepreneur, a mom, a stepmom and a scaling consultant who is obsessed with the art of hiring, support and that dirty word we call delegation. I'm a recovering perfectionist who pushed my body and my limits to the extreme until one fateful day I learned that, just like pilots, I needed to take care of myself first. This podcast is all about the journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart, stepping into them with courage and leaning into and asking for support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live. Well, hello my beautiful podcast listeners. I hope everyone is doing amazing out there. Out there, I have just recently celebrated my son's birthday and we are just having all kinds of Snowdown fun. Snowdown is this fun event we have in Durango, colorado, once a year, like a snow festival with all kinds of fun activities and dressing up. This year was super amazing.
Speaker 1:So what I want to talk to with you guys about today is I'm sure you have heard this concept of the let them philosophy, the Mel Robbins new book that's out. It's a really great book. I'm really enjoying it and it's about letting people have their big reactions and not making it about ourselves. Now, that's me just summarizing it. That's my big takeaway. But I was out with some girlfriends recently and somebody said something about let them and I'm like, well, what about letting yourself? What about just letting yourself off the hook? What about letting yourself feel and letting yourself rest, like I get it. We're going to let them have their fits. We're going to let people do their thing and not make it about us. And that's a beautiful, powerful thing. But I wanted to boil it down to something even more simple than that, and that is what if you let yourself blank? What if you let yourself have permission to feel all of what's going on for you? What if you gave yourself permission to slowly navigate what you are going through instead of fast forwarding through it? What if you allow yourself to pause and not always be doing? What if you allow yourself to rest truly, deeply, lean into, rest, really, this is the oxygen for mask. First principle this is what this podcast is about the power we give ourselves when we take care of ourselves. First, permission to feel, permission to pause, permission to rest. So what if you just stopped pushing your emotions away and telling yourself to stay strong and move on? And this, too, shall pass? What if you sat with those emotions?
Speaker 1:I know that it has been hard for me to navigate the array of sadness and negative emotions that I have had in the past year, because those emotions are not real comfortable for me anymore and I really like to be productive and efficient and keep moving forward and overriding. I really, you know I'm a true Enneagram 3. We like efficiency and productivity and we will override emotions within us and around us in order to keep achieving, keep getting things done. And it's a real struggle and a real battle for me, and so I'm really leaning deeply into this, like letting myself feel it, letting myself be where I am in this process in the closing of this chapter. That feels really long and really hard right now, but it'll be a speed bump someday and I recognize that. So, but sitting in those sad nights, in those moments where I just so deeply want something different, that is nurturing and putting on my oxygen mask first. Another thing that I'm leaning into with this let yourself is what about letting your mind rest. What about the like? Can we have a like moment where we stop the never ending to to-do list of processing, processing work, processing relationships, processing that guy we have a crush on? Can we just stop and take a mental pause? Instead of constantly doing so, we do like micro pauses.
Speaker 1:I practice breath work and love to do a 20 or 30 minute breath work session that's guided and just let myself breathe. Does my mind stop during that? No, but it's a more productive way for me to focus on breath. Right, like, most of my thoughts are focused on the breath during that time Other things flow in, but those pauses are so powerful. Those pauses are so powerful. No, they're not always like possible in the middle of the day, but 30 seconds to pause and breathe deeply, to do a four second breath in a four second hold and a four second release is something I do practice throughout the day, when I'm in the line at pickup at school, when I get to the gym before I go.
Speaker 1:In those moments they also let my mind that's always going really rest. I also practice some of that on my walks. I stare gently at the sky and I give myself permission to let it go, whatever it is without guilt, without shame, without regret, and I just soak in my surroundings I love not turning on music or any other distraction on one 10 minute walk a day, just hearing the birds day, just hearing the birds, just hearing the cars, just hearing the leaves fall, just hearing nature. It's really grounding for me. So I just wanted to encourage you to think about what it would look like if you gave yourself just a little more space today, a little more permission to feel today, a little more permission to feel, a little more permission to be, a little more permission to rest. It's such a deep act of self-care and whether it's pausing to breathe or walk or simply acknowledging how you feel, what if you let yourself today? What if you let yourself today?
Speaker 1:In the Mel Robbins book about let them, I think you should start some of those concepts with, but also let you. Not everybody has to understand you, not everybody has to understand what your motivations were, but you have to sit there and feel them without judgment. What if you let go of over explaining? What if you let go of proving yourself to yourself? What if you let go of perfection? What if you simply let yourself off the hook today and tomorrow and the next day, released control and felt your feelings without guilt, without feeling the need to edit, undo everything that has happened. What if you let yourself live this life imperfectly, while honoring just where you are today? I promise it won't last forever. I promise, whatever hard you're going through, you might not even remember it in a couple of years, in a couple of months, it'll be replaced with something else. So let yourself take care of yourself, let yourself pause and really deeply, let yourself feel and rest. That's all I have today. I hope you are having a beautiful day and can just let yourself.
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Speaker 1:I hope you enjoy it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to another episode of the Power of Oxygen First podcast. I hope you walk away feeling inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live, and I hope that you start leaning into the art of receiving support. I'm here to support you on that journey. Find me at dotrockconsultingcom or dot underscore rock underscore on Instagram. I'd love it if you'd go, follow me and shoot me a quick DM and let me know what takeaway from this episode hit you the hardest, sending you love and adventures on this beautiful day.
