Ritual Care with Kelly Newsome Georges

In today’s episode, I’m sharing my response to a mom who sent me a message asking how to tweak her self-care so that it “worked better.”

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Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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Self-Care Sharing is a strategy that I encourage moms to do when they’re feeling stressed or strained about dividing their time between taking care of themselves and others. The short version is that you devote some of your self-care time to activities you love which you can also share with your loved ones. It’s a “feed two birds with the same seeds” philosophy. But what about if you’re an introvert?

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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Today I’m gonna’ share a self-care strategy that you might not think about as “self-caring.” Many moms tell me that, though they’d love to take better care of themselves, they also want to take care of and just spend time with other people. There are husbands to spend time with, parents to talk to, friends to share with, and of course kids to take care of. And the answer to this dilemma is actually really simple...

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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In the last episode, I talked a bit about what it means to celebrate Mother’s Day, because it was last weekend in the US where I’m from. I talked about how I managed to forgive my husband for always forgetting it, and how I got comfortable -- really happy with, actually -- spearheading the celebrating. And then, when it actually was Mother’s Day...

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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This comes up for me in light of Mother’s Day in the USA, which is this weekend on Sunday. I’ll start by saying that my husband almost always forgets Mother’s Day....

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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Let me let you in on a little mom life self-care secret: getting dressed every day is key to taking care of yourself.

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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In today’s self-care check-in, we’re gonna’ shift gears from the big dog of maternal mental health -- which is postpartum depression, or PPD, that we hear a lot about -- and we’re talking about postpartum (or perinatal) anxiety or PPA.

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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Today’s self-care check-in, I’m sharing a piece of simple, brilliant advice I first heard from a Zen Buddhist teacher who I studied with years ago...

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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I call it "The Overwhelm." This is the stress hurricane that knocks us off-balance and barges into all of our homes at some point, knocking over everything in its path. How can we handle life when it hits? Is there any way to prepare? To repair the damage once it’s ruining the day?

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

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JOIN the online mama care community for free at ritualcare.com/community, and FOLLOW Kelly on Instagram at instagram.com/kellynewsomegeorges .

So many of us avoid self-caring until we’re perfect -- until we’ve cleaned the house just so, or finished the whole to-do list -- we wait to take care of ourselves until we’ve “earned it” with our perfect productivity. Let's stop that. Like, now.

EPISODE NOTES:

Ritual Care episodes are quick check-ins with self-care educator and mama coach, Kelly Newsome Georges. We'll use self-care as an essential life skill for early motherhood, using a blend of intuitive healing, bodywork, and brain science, like the Polyvagal Theory.

WANT MORE?

Start for free at ritualcare.com/free .

JOIN the online mama care community for free at ritualcare.com/community, and FOLLOW Kelly on Instagram at instagram.com/kellynewsomegeorges .