by Clare Foale
Hi. I’m Clare Foale. Welcome to the Salty Hair Self Care Conversations. Join me as I chat with thought leaders, wisdom weavers and self care believers as we explore what taking care of yourself looks like. I want to help you to find self-care which feels simple, powerful and which you want to do. I'd love to connect with you on my socials too: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thezimzumconnection/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thezimzumconnection/ Salty Hair Self Care Conversations
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February 6, 2020
Welcome to this week's Salty Hair Self-Care Conversation. This is the first podcast of 2020. In the midst of so much happening, for me, it hasn't felt right to say, 'Happy New Year'. It feels flippant and doesn't reflect what I'm feeling. Yet I wanted to say something to mark the beginning of a new year and a new decade. And I guess that is this: "Thank you for being here. I am deeply grateful to be in this community with you, sharing ideas with you. I send you my blessings. And whatever happens this year and this decade, know that we are not alone." What I talked about: - I acknowledged the original custodians of the land, and gave respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia. I support the Uluru Statement from the heart and hope that this year, massive leaps are taken towards this happening. - I reflected that 3 or 4 years ago, I was challenged to meditate for 10 minutes every morning for 10 days. - At that stage my daughter was a year or so old, and it felt impossible, but I did it - The effect of 10 minutes of silence with myself at the beginning of each day was profound. - It was a pivotal moment in my ideas around self-care - I came to understand the act of self-devotion. I learned the importance of starting the day by putting myself as the top priority - It forms one of the pillars of the self-care I talk about, of starting the day off doing something, even for 2 minutes, for yourself - The act of self-care first thing in the morning is an act so powerful that it says to myself, to my family and to the universe that I matter. That I count - In contrast, I found that, having little children, when I didn't start the day with self-care, by afternoon I'd have done nothing for myself and everything for them, leading to resentment and a feeling of claustrophobia. - Putting Peppa Pig on for my daughter at 6am so that I could have some time for myself had a huge impact on the trajectory of my day - I believe that the two most important questions that we can ask ourselves, particularly at the beginning of the day are 'How am I?' and, 'What do I need?' - At the start of the school holidays I was often choosing sleep over self-devotion, and it didn't feel good. I felt grumpy. Short tempered. - I noticed this and started rising at 5.20am to go to the beach. - It has been beautiful and profound. It has deepened my devotion to self-devotion. - One day at the beach I cried for 20 minutes. It was a great release - Another day I released my frustration and sadness through journaling (20 pages!) - I came to realise I was depending on going to the beach like my happiness depended on it. I didn't want this action to become fear based. I realise there are other ways to devote time to my own well-being - What does self-devotion in the morning look like to you? Share with me via my social media Connect With Clare: Instagram Facebook Membership
January 23, 2020
Welcome to this week's Salty Hair Self-Care Conversation, where I'm chatting with Aycee Brown about Human Design, who does a beautiful job of giving an overview of what Human Design is, and the five different aura types which fall under Human Design. Aycee takes the theory of Human Design and makes it relevant to living our lives. She helps thought leaders and entrepreneurs tap into their magic and unleash their desires by becoming who they truly are, through the power of Human Design. Personally, as I have started learning a little about Human Design, I have found it has helped me understand why I find something's really easy and flowing and other things really hard. It has given me permission to not beat myself up about it. To not say, 'That's good or that's bad', but to have an acceptance of all that. Human Design is a tool designed to help us understand ourselves more. 'I like to really focus on the healing part of Human Design. The healing part of uncovering those inner child wounds through it. And figuring out things like, "Oh, this is why I felt like this or this is why I felt like that."' Self-care is protecting yourself from the things that you have learned to tolerate. Whether it's family, whether it's friends, whether it's certain situations, certain work environments, it's really about putting yourself first'. What we talked about: - Human Design is a combination of astrology, Kabbalah, the I Ching system and metaphysics. - It is like an instruction manual on how to achieve your potential. - Aura types. You can find out what yours is based on your birth date and time. - The five aura types are Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector and Reflector - Using it to understand why certain things may not have worked out or why you felt the way you did. - Human Design helps you make better decisions about moving forward towards your destiny moving forward towards your purpose in life. - Different auras have different ways of making decisions. - When life is challenging, 'there's so much opportunity in certain seasons for people to grow, for people to learn, for people not to repeat the same mistakes again, that we just miss it sometimes because we want to get out of that situation so bad.' - Self-care is putting yourself first, but that may lead to having to make hard decisions. - Different aura types require different forms of self-care - These modalities are a brilliant tool But don't let them define you. Let them be a part of you. Connect With Aycee: Instagram Subscribe to her podcast 'Is My Aura On Straight?' Connect With Clare: Instagram Facebook Membership
January 16, 2020
I am joined this week by Judi Taylor. Spoiler alert! Not only is Judi a wonderful and wise woman but she's also my mum J Judi has, for 40 years, been a social worker by trade as well as a spiritual counsellor and an events organizer. She has been practicing and involved with meditation across many faiths and traditions and now teachers in the Christian tradition. She's involved with running retreats at Dango Island with Paul, her husband, and also running groups in jails with marginalized groups and in interfaith discussions. This conversation explores the idea of rest and what a nourishing and vital part of self-care and life this is. We explore why rest is so important and what rest looks like. It is not only sleep, but also having space to let our mind wonder, whether that's meditation or walking bare foot or reading or napping or painting. What rest looks like for each of us on any day can be different. But that is a really spacious and rejuvenating way of spending time and it creates space for us to be with ourselves. It is something that requires trust. That is a recurring theme in this conversation. 'I am so busy is often the mantra of culture. We amaze each other with our impossibly crowded schedules. Is this how we feel worthwhile? Is there a note of pride in this? If we do not rest, we'd lose our way. We forget who we are, what we are doing and what we are doing it for. Rest before we are tired, before we become ill, surrender to this wonderful gift we have been given, remembering who we are and who we have been created to be, knowing all is well.' What we talked about: - Judi wrote a piece called Sabbath ponderings, which prompted this conversation - Everything is within us, but at speed we don't notice it - In meditation, 'We become the person we were created to be'. - Intentional resting, as Christians do with the Sabbath, allows us to take stock of where we are, what we've got to give thanks for and to realize how blessed we are, how enough we have. That we don't need more. - It helps us get off the treadmill of 'go go go' and moves us towards 'enough-ness' and recognising our blessings. - Rest as a form of activism and rebellion. To stake our claim that this is enough. We are enough. - Connecting with the natural world. - Giving ourselves permission with tender generosity to rest. To stop. To take time to follow our curiosity without trying to 'achieve'. - Juicy thoughts and creativity occur in this space. - Acknowledgement that neither work nor rest are better. - We can't listen at speed. We can't love at speed. - Trust is necessary to be able to rest. We need to feel safe to rest. We need to trust that life will go on without us and trust that it's worthwhile to take this time to rest. - Sometimes it happens that we don't rest until we get sick, and that is a shame. - Let the soul meander and dream - Don't look for large chunks of time, if that is unrealistic. It might be 5 minutes. It can be that you start to notice little spaces of opportunity to rest. - Be aware of your beliefs around your indispensability or needing to achieve. To find out more about the meditation Judi is involved with and the work she does, head to the World Community for Christian Meditation here Connect With Clare: Instagram Facebook Membership
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Hi. I’m Clare Foale.
Welcome to the Salty Hair Self Care Conversations. Join me as I chat with thought leaders, wisdom weavers and self care believers as we explore what taking care of yourself looks like.
I want to help you to find self-care which feels simple, powerful and which you want to do.
I'd love to connect with you on my socials too:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thezimzumconnection/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thezimzumconnection/
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