Luxury of Self Care

By Ahnastasia AlbertHealth & Fitness Mental Health

Luxury of Self Care episodes

May 10, 2021 Self Transformed #091 - Featuring Emily Nichols
"Self Care isn't Selfish". Emily felt as if her and her family were merely surviving and they needed a shift; something needed to change! No more drifting through life. Her brother had recently completed a “Whole 30 Challenge” and Emily decided her and her husband should see it through. After 30 days, they felt on FIRE!! The process helped them not only change their relationship with food, but it changed their daily health conscious choices, even the community they surrounded themselves with. In the end, the challenge truly created their whole knew self care routine!
Emily Nichols is the host of Self Transformed—a podcast redefining self care through simple fitness, nutrition & mindset habits for busy working moms. From her own struggles, Emily finally found the solutions to feeling empowered, confident, & how to live a healthy lifestyle that doesn’t feel hard or like another thing on your to do list.
Emily is now on a mission to redefine self care and equip other women with these sustainable tools to help transform your life from the inside out and start putting yourself first without the guilt.
Emily is also a wife, #boymom, Certified Personal Trainer, Behavior Change Specialist, Whole30 Coach, & Taco Tuesday Enthusiast.
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51 min
May 08, 2021 BONUS Focus on your Breath - #005 Walking Meditation
Y'all we are living, we are breathing and we are HERE!! Let's celebrate that today by taking less than 15 minutes to focus on YOU and YOUR breath in todays guided walking meditation. Newsletter launches today at noon. Make sure you are signed up to receive that.
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14 min
May 06, 2021 National Hangover Day Motivation #090
Y'all we are living, we are breathing and we are HERE!! Let's celebrate that today. It's National hangover day and I'm just Happy to be here on this earth connecting, sharing, evolving and bringing this community together! Tell me how you are thriving in my most recent post. I want to hear what's getting you jazzed about today!
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15 min
May 04, 2021 "Don't Should on Yourself" #089 - Featuring Ryan Steer
"Put your attention on what you're doing, and the rest will follow!"... "Try, Try, Try; Exercise the word 'can't' out of your vocabulary" & "Don't should on yourself!!" Ryan Steer is one of those humans you'll get out all of the essentials because you know when you begin chatting the entire can of worms is about to open, and you're in for a philosophical deep conversation.

Ryan Steer is a New York and Oklahoma-based artist, performer, and educator. Ryan has performed in the Broadway 1st National Tour of Anything Goes, nationally/internationally with A Chorus Line and 42nd St, Off-Broadway and at the Paris in Las Vegas in Sex Tips For A Straight Woman From a Gay Man and at numerous regional theatre's, including Paper Mill Playhouse (Damn Yankees and South Pacific), Ogunquit Playhouse (White Christmas), Westchester Broadway, McCarter Theatre, Arizona Broadway, and more. As a teacher he has taught master classes in character work, tap, and music theatre dance styles for universities, educational programs, and studios. He currently teaches acting and dance at the University of Central Oklahoma.

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1 hr 8 min
April 29, 2021 Behind Every Adventure Lies a Challenge #088
Yet again life throughs us a challenge, but we must remember that all of our greatest life adventures, have prepared us for the current challenge.
You always ask about my fiance, Douglas and yet again we are getting more bad news. Though, I am in the driver seat of my own life and with the bad news, I have planned a trip to visit him, despite the "vaca" aspect of it not to be ideal at the naval base. Me not being able to even share a hotel room with him, I know going is what we both need, more than the access we get to one another or the fancy date night we could have, to see one another will be enough of a gift!
Peter Pan says, "To die will be the greatest adventure of all" which reminds us that life is full of adventures, and in those we live, we learn and we can choose to apply that to life's next challenge.
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16 min
April 27, 2021 Find What Fills Your Soul #087 - Featuring Sandy Coyte
It's not every day you get to interview your boss! Thrilled to welcome Sandy Coyte, Founder of Starbound National Talent Competition to the Podcast. We talk about life work balance, what it means to run a successful business and how to sustain that business. As well as self care must haves on the road. Sandy reminds us that you can have it all, and ways she made that happen in her own life experience!
‘Sandy’ studied both Elementary Education & Dance in College. During college she was a dance teacher for Skip Randall Performing Arts in Caldwell, NJ & she created the dance program at Rogers Dance Studio in Montclair, NJ where she also taught Aerobics. It was while working with Jackie Rogers that she had the opportunity to perform in the Giants vs. Jets halftime show at the Meadownlands Arena. Sandy also competed in many pageant circuits including holding the titles of Miss Nutley & Miss NJ World.
Following her college graduation, Sandy fulfilled a life long dream of opening her own dance studio in Fairfield, NJ. She ran her own Performing Arts School for over 11 years. Many of her former students went on to perform on Broadway in Fosse’, Movin’ Out, Swing, and Radio City Music Hall to name a few.
In 1993, Sandy had a vision to create a Dance Competition which catered to Dance Teachers & their students. That vision was Starbound which is in its 28th season.
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1 hr 22 min
April 22, 2021 This Working Technique is Changing the Game #086
I've adopted a new practice into my remote days and it has changed my life! If you haven’t heard of the Pomodoro technique, you have been missing out big time. This technique boosts my work efficiency and helps me optimize my time better. I am a procrastinator at heart, this helps me keep on task.
The Pomodoro Technique essentially The Pomodoro Technique is created by Francesco Cirillo for a more productive way to work and study. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. This teaches you to work with time, instead of struggling against it. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student. A revolutionary time management system, it is at once deceptively simple to learn and life-changing to use.”
It involves the following six simple steps:
Choose your task.
Set a timer for 25 minutes.
Work on the task until time is up.
When time is up, make a checkmark in your journal
Take a few minute break (I like to take five minutes).
Repeat three more times, then take a longer break (20-30 minutes)
Since I have so many different jobs/activities that I need to be available for at all times this allows me to gear my attention to each one. If I'm on a task, I won't respond to the distraction of another one until my 25 minutes is up.
“Working out can increase your mental clarity for four to 10 hours post-exercise.” If you have been struggling to determine when to squeeze a workout in, you might want to consider doing it in the morning before work, when you're fresh and ready to seas the day. You’ll feel like you can conquer anything after you finish, and you’ll be glad you got it out of the way early. If you can work out later in the day, and can commit to that, do it then and be stimulated for you evening. Or look at it as one last thing you should do and then enjoy the relaxation that follows.
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21 min
April 20, 2021 Just in Time Learning vs. Just in Case Learning #085 - Featuring Jake Haynie
Jake Haynie is an actor who has been working in the musical theatre realm for over ten years. He holds a BFA in musical theatre from Indiana University and has been fortunate enough to work in theaters across the country and Europe. In reaction to COVID-19 putting a halt on the entire entertainment industry, Jake began looking into how he can channel his creativity and curiosity. This began a reflection on his education and how he would have improved it. A series of ponders then sparked the fuse about the education system as a whole. Are American youths really being prepared for the tribulations that lie ahead? Thus, his project American Trails was born, a forum to raise questions about our school system and what we’re going to do fill the voids.
“No one has ever changed the world by constantly listening to it.”
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1 hr 5 min
April 15, 2021 A Spiritual Practice with Yourself #084 = Featuring Mary Page Nance
Let’s pose the question, “what are you avoiding, that’s keeping You from sitting alone with Yourself?” Mary Page is a New York City based Broadway performer, event producer, director/choreographer, educator, crafter and business owner. During COVID, she opened a paper goods business called A Page of Mary, where she sells her handmade goods that sell out in minutes! She produces, directs and choreographs events with Broadway Talent in the private sector and beyond, via her company: Monocle Productions. She also teaches Broadway Master Classes, and one on one privates.
As a performer, Mary Page was in the original casts of Finding Neverland and Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 on Broadway, and toured the country with the First National Company of Bright Star. She most recently worked developing the new musical, Black No More written by Black Thought of The Roots and John Ridley, choreographed by Bill T Jones. Her upcoming projects include developing the new musical, Lempicka, written by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer and directed by Tony Award Winner Rachel Chavkin. You can also look out for her in the Netflix Documentary: Dick Johnson is Dead. "
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1 hr 7 min
April 14, 2021 BONUS Resentment Freeing Meditation #004
A release to that negative energy. Freeing ourselves from resentment. Less than 20 minutes of your day to self care and cleanse yourself of resentment towards a loved one, a colleague, a friend, or even yourself.

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Hey Love, and welcome to The Luxury of Self Care podcast! I'm your host, Ahnastasia. Each week I'm recharging you tips and engaging conversations. Reminding us that finding "luxury" in our lives…