In this episode, Elizabeth Burton encourages movement towards a healthier body image by increasing awareness of all or nothing, highly critical, and rigid thought patterns. The good news is that we can work to cultivate and build a healthier view of bodies by intentionally shifting our thoughts towards more acceptance and more sustainable thoughts and choices.. This is relevant for adults listening in terms of their own body image and also for any parents listening to consider how they can model a healthy body image for their kids.

Anxiety often provokes developing coping strategies that are avoidant in nature. In this episode Elizabeth encourages challenging avoidance when it is not serving you. As people, we generally grow through facing hard things. When we become less avoidant and face what is anxiety provoking, we may find that the anxiety shift and become less powerful.

In this episode, Elizabeth encourages listeners to acknowledge and name their limits. This moves someone towards self-compassion and sustainability instead of expecting themselves to be rigidly perfect and continuously feeling shame and the loud voice of a noisy inner critic. Naming and embracing limits looks like someone acknowledging what they need, giving themselves permission to rest, recover, and accept "good enough" in accordance with their values.

In this episode, Elizabeth Burton encourages listeners to practice self-awareness of their thoughts and notice when thinking is all or nothing. Typically all or nothing thinking is problematic and an cause challenges both in someone's life and in their relationships. When we can move away from all or nothing thinking, we can make more room to name the both/and, see the complexity, and ground ourselves in a more true narrative.

Elizabeth encourages listeners to intentionally slow down amidst the harried pace and rush of life to claim some time to get quiet and get reflective. This posture of reflection leads to greater attunement in that someone can check in with themselves by noticing what they are feeling, what they are thinking, how they are doing in their body, and what they need. Reflection leads to noticing what's going well in relationships and whether someone is living in alignment with their values or if something needs to change. Being more intentional with reflection helps break cycles of auto-pilot and inspires more intentional doing.

Elizabeth encourages caregivers towards sustainable caregiving by noticing what they need in order to keep pouring out. Elizabeth challenges the idea that taking care of oneself is selfish and empowers caregivers to practice caring for others with attunement to their own needs as well. This involves permission to rest and be rejuvenated and building a support network for the hard work, yet meaningful work of caring for another person.

In this episode, Elizabeth encourages listeners to consider the season that they are in. Just as we do with literal seasons, name the season and consider what you need in order to walk through the season. For example, if in a season of grief, name and validate that for yourself, and then consider what you need to walk through that time.

Elizabeth encourages listeners to practice assertive communication by emphasizing the goodness of assertive communication and the letting go of passive and aggressive communication styles. Assertive communication has so many benefits for self-worth, for strengthening relationships, and for helping mitigate anxiety as it elevates having a voice and being able to speak into your own life. This is relevant for adults as well as older kids, teenagers, and young adults.

In this episode Elizabeth talks about all anxiety. First simply normalizing anxiety as a human emotion and encouraging listeners to notice and name when they are experiencing anxiety. Elizabeth then focuses on the strategy of considering anxiety as having a voice and beginning to pay attention to what anxiety is saying in your life. Sometimes anxiety is telling us to avoid things that are actually good and healthy for us because they are uncomfortable and scary, but by externalizing anxiety's voice, we reduce it's power in our lives.

Elizabeth encourages listeners to consider whether they have margin in their lives. Margin can be thought of as "breathing room" and is an essential part of well-being. Margin allows for rest and recovery and supports playfulness and delight. Elizabeth asks listeners to get reflective on whether they desire more margin in their lives and then work to cultivate it by saying no to extra things in order to cultivate more intentional margin.