Holiday gratitude using your five senses

If the holidays feel busy or loud, this episode will help you slow down and feel grateful again. Together we use your five senses and a playful turkey doodle to spark gratitude, create calm, and bring joy back into your day.

You will learn how doodling supports memory, creativity, and emotional wellness and how the five senses grounding technique helps you stay present during a chaotic season. This is a simple activity you can do with your children or your grandchildren or enjoy by yourself for a peaceful moment during the holidays.

Keywords
doodling
gratitude
creativity
mindfulness
family
holiday season
sensory experience
joy
learning
memory

Summary
This episode explores doodling, gratitude, and sensory awareness as tools to increase mindfulness and creativity. You will discover how doodling improves memory, how your five senses deepen gratitude, and how creative family activities can bring more joy into the holiday season. We wrap it all into a fun Thanksgiving hand turkey doodle.

Takeaways
Doodling helps retain information more effectively.
It takes significantly fewer repetitions to learn while doodling.
Gratitude can be explored through our five senses.
Grounding techniques can enhance mindfulness and joy.
Family connections are vital during busy times.
Finding joy in small moments is essential.
Creative activities can foster gratitude and connection.
Sensory experiences deepen appreciation.
Doodling encourages creativity and mindfulness.
The Thanksgiving hand turkey is a fun way to express gratitude.

Sound Bites
She enjoyed the smells around her.
Bask in the love of her family.
You can use it to create joy.

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Your vision board isn’t broken — it just needs a strategy.

In this episode, Cindy shares how she went from creating pretty but powerless vision boards to designing 90-day doodle vision boards that actually work.

You’ll learn:
⭐ How to focus on one goal at a time
⭐ How to break big dreams into 90-day chunks
⭐ How to connect new thoughts to your vision
⭐ How to spend 3–5 minutes a day to stay focused and motivated

If you’re ready to stop wishing and start designing, this episode will show you how to make your vision board a tool for transformation — not just decoration.

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This episode is about finding your purpose.
Your real purpose.
The one that already lives in your heart.

Together we slow down and use a doodle to help you see:
• What matters to you
• What lights you up
• Who you are becoming

No pressure.
No perfection.
Just truth.

Grab a pen.
Let yourself remember.

Your life is your masterpiece.

Links
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We learn.
We grow.
We remember who we are.

Your life is your masterpiece.

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## Summary

Cindy Bayles, the Doodle Warrior Coach, guides listeners in transforming self-doubt into confidence, rediscovering purpose, and creating a fulfilling life. She emphasizes the power of belief in shaping behavior and encourages listeners to challenge the labels and stories they tell themselves.

confidence, self-doubt, purpose, belief, labels, stories, transformation, Cindy Bayles, Doodle Warrior, coaching

• Turn self-doubt into unshakable confidence.
• Rediscover your purpose with guidance.
• Create a fulfilling life with belief.
• Challenge the labels you give yourself.
• Belief shapes behavior and outcomes.
• Write down labels that don't serve you.
• Choose the story you tell yourself.
• Invisible ghosts haunt our thoughts.
• Old labels can be scarier than ghosts.
• You are a masterpiece in progress.

Turn self-doubt into confidence. Rediscover your purpose today. Belief shapes behavior. Challenge the labels you wear. Choose your own story. Invisible ghosts haunt us. Old labels are scarier. You are a masterpiece. Write down unhelpful labels. Create a fulfilling life.

• 00:00:03 Introduction to Cindy Bayles
• 00:00:28 Understanding Invisible Ghosts
• 00:00:57 Challenging Old Labels
• 00:02:15 The Power of Belief
• 00:03:03 Choosing Your Story
• 00:05:08 Empowerment and Progress
  

There was a time in my life when I would never have been caught dead doing a podcast or even being on one.
I thought I would sound stupid, look stupid, and say the wrong thing.
When I decided to write my book Doodle Healing, it took me two years — not because I didn’t have ideas, but because my inner critic wouldn’t stop talking.
“You’re not a good writer.”
“You’re not an author.”
“You can’t help anyone.”

Sound familiar?

That’s what today’s episode is all about — learning how to win the war inside your own head with compassion and courage.
You’ll learn how to talk back to your inner critic, how to reframe her words, and how to “change the channel” from your I CU Radio to your I Heart U Radio.

Because the truth is, you don’t silence your inner critic by fighting her.
You win by leading her.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
💜 Why your inner critic isn’t the enemy — she’s just scared.
💜 How to respond with “I hear you… but I’m doing it anyway.”
💜 The power of reframing — turning “I can’t” into “I can’t yet.”
💜 How to shift your mindset from I CU Radio (criticism) to I Heart U Radio (compassion).
💜 A simple weekly reflection to help you retrain your thoughts and build confidence.

Listen if you’ve ever said:
✨ “I’m not good enough.”
✨ “Who would listen to me?”
✨ “I don’t want to be seen.”
✨ “I can’t do it… yet.”

This episode will help you hear that voice differently — and finally step into the woman you were meant to become.

Join the Doodle Practice:
🎨 Come to our Facebook community, Healing Strokes: A Doodle Warrior Community, and join me for this week’s doodle — Change the Channel.
You’ll learn how to visually shift from I CU Radio to I Heart U Radio and start speaking to yourself with kindness.

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Learn More + Free Resources:
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inner critic, self-compassion, personal growth, mindset shift, self-doubt, midlife confidence, creativity, doodle healing, women over 40, courage, resilience, transformation, purpose, healing journey

Episode Tagline:
You don’t silence your inner critic by fighting her — you retrain her with truth, kindness, and courage.

Do you remember coloring outside the lines, making mud pies, and creating just for fun? Somewhere along the way, most of us stopped.

In this episode of Doodle Healing: The Warrior Way, Cindy Bayles explores what happened to our childhood creativity—and how a simple doodle can bring it back to life.

You’ll hear about a fascinating NASA study that tracked 1,600 children’s creativity over time, why imagination fades as we grow up, and how doodling reawakens confidence, calm, and joy.

Then Cindy walks you through creating your very first Doodle You—a simple, no-pressure stick-figure drawing that helps you reconnect with yourself, release perfectionism, and rediscover the creative spirit you thought you lost.

This isn’t about art.
It’s about awareness, healing, and remembering that your life is your masterpiece.

✨ Mentioned in this episode:
• Free Download: Doodle Warrior Vision Board
• Join the community: Healing Strokes: A Doodle Warrior Community

Have you ever felt like hope slipped away?
In this powerful episode, Cindy shares her personal story of losing hope—and how she found it again, one small step at a time.

Through her story and the HOPE Framework, you’ll learn how to:
💜 Hold on when life feels impossible
💜 Take one small step forward, even when you don’t see the way
💜 Find the power of self-encouragement
💜 Fuel your heart with energy and faith

If you’ve ever whispered, “I’m struggling,” this episode will help you change that to, “Hold on. Keep going. Just take another step.”

✨ Hope doesn’t fix everything overnight, but it gives you the strength to keep showing up.

🎨 Download your free Doodle Warrior Vision Board PDF and start creating a future filled with hope and purpose → https://bit.ly/DoodleHealingVisionboard

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📌 Subscribe for more: Encouragement, doodle-inspired healing, and tools to help you design a life you love.

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Welcome to Doodle Healing: The Warrior Way — the podcast for women who are ready to design a life they love using creativity, courage, and a pen.

I’m Cindy Bayles, author of Doodle Healing, and I help women stop feeling stuck and start living with purpose, confidence, and joy. Each week, we combine mindset tools, personal stories, and simple doodle prompts that unlock healing and transformation.

You don’t need to be an artist — you just need to be willing to show up. Because your life is your masterpiece. 🎨

Click here to download the start creating your Doodle Vision Board Today!