Episode 13: With Jem - Health Flares, Balancing Connection & Space, Feeling Oversharey

A real-time check in 🤍

No script. No polish. Just where I’m actually at right now with flipping my own scripts.

A few things have been stirring lately and instead of waiting until I’ve figured them out, I thought I’d hit record.

In this one I dive into:
– moving through health flares
– the balance of connection and space
– winter/ hibernation feels
– woah-ing back on the real-time romantic status updates
- ending of season, with one more episode to release, and then a few weeks break

Consider this your latest voice note from the journey… with Jem x

Intro & outro music: Flip the Script VIP by Ashez (used with permission, and gratitude)

Transcript

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Hey guys. It's a Saturday night and I thought that I would come in for a with Jim special um Yeah. A little bit tired this evening, but thought fuck it, now's the time anyway to have a little check-in. Um I've been sick for a couple of weeks, on and off to some degree. Kind of thing. Um my chronic health issues have been been flaring. Uh which has been challenging, I suppose is the word. And yeah, just you know, when you feel like your immune system is just like low and probably like the lack of vitamin D from the fuck all sunlight. Well, yeah, that I'm getting out of Mungston anyway, and school bugs. So yeah, just been navigating all that and trying still to stay, you know, optimistic and grateful and all those things. Um, I actually also thought to myself, I was like, man, this would be the perfect time of year to just go, you know, to like maybe the Gold Coast, like at least it's just bit warmer there, or who knows, like Thailand, Bali, something like that for winter, just chase kind of warmth, and um, yeah, obviously that is the dream. Um, well, it is my dream, that's definitely for sure. Um, but in the meantime, I thought what I could do is go get some vitamin D via the sun lounge. Now, hear me out when I say this because I know I was like, what the fuck? Like, who's gonna do a sunbed? Like, this is not 2012, can't even remember when I used to do those. Um, maybe earlier. Um, that's uh technology has definitely changed since then and it actually these ones have red light therapy, red light, whatever in them, so you get that too. And yeah, I'm just I don't know, just it is what it is. I need some sunlight on my skin, so yeah, it actually did help a little bit, you know, felt a little bit more I don't know, p pick perked up. Um not so much of like a winter gremlin. Um but yeah, I also grounded myself like that's not something that I don't do of much as much of in the winter is ground myself and that is like a very key kind of step in my nervous system kind of stuff that I do is grounding myself at least daily, but yeah, in the winter it drops off and like I feel that um so need to really make a conscious effort to be doing that. Um and something else that I've really been doing lately is um in terms of like nervous system work is telling myself affirmations. So like my affirmation at the moment is I'm safe, I'm loved, I'm healthy. So yeah, just telling myself that anytime I have any kind of negative thought or whatever about how I'm my current situation. So yeah, I don't know if it helps anybody else. Um obviously you do you boo, that's what I'm doing, and it's so far working for me. Um TBC. Um, but definitely all the self-care needs to be ramped up at the moment, I'm feeling. Um, I'm really feeling into kind of hibernation mode and you know that's not the best for someone that likes connection but lives by themselves like mostly. Um so yeah, gonna be interesting on how I navigate that because I am kind of already feeling like you know, the loneliness of winter, I suppose, as a solo parent, um co-parent. Um yeah, so just navigating all that and um yeah, but then also what I've realized about myself over the last wee while is that I need a lot of space like as a yeah, just me as a human, my individual needs, like just to think, to be able to process and like really connect with myself, like what am I feeling, what am I thinking, that kind of stuff, and um that's really important to me, but it's like how do you balance that with still being connected to people, you know, like because I do need people and we all need people, so how do we like get that connection still, especially in winter? I mean it's a lot, yeah, it's a lot, I feel like uh this is not even uh so much a conversation in winter as much, but for me, but yeah. So gonna be interesting uh moving into Z Winter as Z Winter is here. Um I've also learnt since my last kind of last up life update that I did uh when I was driving. You probably w would have noticed that because the sound quality was very shit. Um you know, sharing that you know, I've kind of learned that I need to not share my romantic status updates. Um yeah, just keep that to myself. I mean share as I kinda land on something or um yeah, just like as I kind of have moved through it versus moving through it. Um so that's been just a good learning for me, really, is that how I feel comfortable in sharing is once I've moved through things versus being in it at the time. Um yeah, but still, you know, um TBC, T BA, all the things, um very much going into winter hibernation mode, like I said, but trying to balance that out in some way. Um I'm also going to take a couple of weeks break off the podcast. I yeah, I mean I put out I don't know, by the time this gets out, maybe 13, 14, 15 episodes. So yeah. It's been like such a cool journey um so far, like so many learnings, and I'm so grateful to like all my friends and everyone that like checks in and gives me their feedback or whatever, you know, like just to know that you're listening and like some of it's resonating with you and stuff like that is yeah, really, really great to hear. Um yeah, so love you guys, all of you that are listening. Um yeah, so why I'm taking a break is I've got social club coming up again in a week and I'm really trying to like nail the format for that, um, because I've kinda big dreams um for that, so yeah, just need to focus on that for a couple of weeks as well as like all the other stuff, you know, normal shit that goes on. Um and what else? And I also want to kind of regroup on flipping the script and be like, where do I wanna take this now? Like yeah, who do I want to be talking to? Like, what are the conversations that I want to be having? Um yeah, well let like let me know if you've got any ideas or whatever, like people that interesting people that you might want to hear have a conversation. Um yeah, I'm gonna think on that over the next couple of weeks as well. Um and that's pretty much me, really. Um yeah, we'll check back in again when I feel the need to. Kakita. Hope everyone is looking after themselves. Peace out.