[...We're going to be talking about the key components of the healing journey. And maybe you are already on the healing journey. Perhaps you're just about to begin it, or you're contemplating whether or not you should change the pace of your life, and incorporating more sleep and rest, in general, is super important to your healing.

Now you can start small if you currently live your life. Go, go, go.

Maybe not getting much sleep at all. Not feeling comfortable with naps and relaxing during the day. Sometimes we have these underlying beliefs that it's OK to relax in the evening. It's OK to watch a show in the evening, but that's not OK during the day.

And it's good to get curious about those reasons, the way we think and the beliefs underneath them It might be because of what was modeled to you and how your parental figures and caregivers thought or it could be for totally other reasons, but. practicing a slower pace is important, so you can start anywhere that might mean you eliminate one activity from your weekend, so there's one less thing that you're doing on the weekend or you eliminate something from your week.

Maybe it's gonna look like starting to get 15 minutes more of sleep each night and then once you've been doing that for a couple of weeks adding another 15 minutes so you're getting now 1/2 an hour extra of rest each week. Whatever you do to bring in a small incremental change, be sure to stick with it for a little while before you bring in another change. It's really important to make small incremental changes, not lots of things or big changes all at once I mean, sometimes that'll happen, but it's not a good way to practice and especially if you're just starting on the healing journey you have to start small because you want it to last.

And you want to practice whatever that change is, and I use the word practice because you need to do it on repeat It's a new thing we're doing. So practice it for a while before you then bring in another new change cause you want all of this to stick and last. And I'm guessing a lot of us can relate to that idea of a New Year's resolution, or a list of New Year's resolutions, and jumping into it super strong but then petering off before even the end of January, or at least by springtime.

That's not the goal of this. The goal of this is to incorporate changes and lifestyle patterns that last that that last forever, or at least ebb and flow with the seasons of our life.

I want to jump in with a quick example of what might happen though at certain times or the further along you get on the healing journey. There may be a very large change that you need to make all of a sudden but because I've experienced that.

But what other components that are playing in is that it's been a gradual progression behind the scenes like you've been doing all these other deeper things you've been working it out on a deeper level, so that what seems to be this big change all of a sudden was gradually happening. You were preparing for it in ways you probably didn't even realize.

And I say that because, like, even I didn't realize the way that I was preparing for certain things, that all of a sudden just felt like now is the time. And yes, this is a very big pivot, but now is the time for this. And I can say three years later, like, I'm still practicing whatever change it was a very abrupt pivot. But It was a slow progression underneath the surface and so keep that, keep that in mind another very big key to the healing journey is practicing mindfulness...]

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