Welcome to Day 23 of the 100 Days of SHIFT Challenge!

The focus of this week is SELF-COMPASSION. We're going to bring clarity to what self-compassion means and can look like for each of you, how it can serve you personally and professionally, how it can actually be a tool for excellence, high-performance, and perseverance, along with self-love and self-care.

Today, we're talking about giving our permission to rest as children of immigrants.

More often than not, we have this dialogue in our heads that tells us we need to keep working harder and harder because our parents have gone through so much to get us to a new country. For some of us, we have that very real dialogue BECAUSE our parents may have directly told us.

At the same time, I've learned that parents parenting under pressure vs parents parenting in complete peace and rest are... so extremely different.

Underneath, what immigrant parents truly want for us to ease, rest, happiness, and fulfillment. To them, our happiness is truly their reward. Vice versa, perhaps some of us not only feel that it is an obligation but joy and gladness to give our parents the world that they so absolutely deserve.

How do we hold both and all of these concepts? It seems so complex. It also seems kind of hard to believe.

Listen in to learn what I've been learning from my parents in spirit, who continue to parent and show up for me.

Message me or tag me in your stories @jiggy_yoon & @shift_thepodcast — I'd love to know how your journey is going!