Zen(ish) Mommy

Emotional Check In; How are You Feeling?


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It’s easy to forget to check in with yourself, but the good news is that getting started is easier than you may think! Join us today to learn how you can tap into what you are feeling by assessing the sensations in your body. This technique also helps you to drop out of the busyness of your mind and become more mindful in your day-to-day life. You’ll hear how cultivating emotional awareness can help us to catch our moments of overwhelm before they escalate, and how doing so has supported Jessica’s wellbeing. Tune in to hear more today! 


Key Points From This Episode:


  • Today’s topic: checking in with yourself.
  • Step one: starting to feel your body, rubbing your fingers together, and noticing sensations in your body.
  • How noticing things about your body can help you to drop out of the busyness of your mind.
  • Noticing which emotions come in once you have assessed where your body is at.
  • Making a note of where in the body these emotions arise.
  • A reminder that it’s okay to be stressed and to feel overwhelmed. 
  • How emotional check-ins enable us to catch our moments of overwhelm before they escalate.
  • Jessica’s recommendation that we check in with ourselves regularly.
  • Why Jessica likes to start her day by checking in on the body.


Tweetables:


“We start to notice these things about our body and we’re able to drop out of the busyness of our mind. It’s easier said than done, but that’s the point!” — Jessica Gershman [0:01:26]


“It’s okay not to be fine, to be stressed, to be overwhelmed. When we do these little emotional check-ins we’re able to catch these moments of overwhelm before we get to the point where we are screaming at our children and lying in a bathtub with no water.” — Jessica Gershman [0:03:01]


“Zen is a continuum, it’s a process, we can have a little bit of zen in our lives even when so many things are crazy.” —Jessica Gershman [0:03:57]


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