Gayleen Hodson On Family Life In Lockdown Waves Of Clarity Podcast

Tracy speaks to Gayleen Hodson, a blogger and parent, on coping with family life in lockdown and strategies to deal with the challenges.
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First loving yourself leads to happiness, healthy, and successful relationships. This week. My guest is Gaylene. Hudson Kayleen is a business woman. She's a copyright and virtual assistant. She also is a mum and a wife. And amongst all this Gaylene has recently had to juggle being a teacher. As you know, homeschooling has happened overnight and we are all trying to master this new job that we've acquired without even having an interview.
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I guess today is Gaylene. Hudson. Just introduce yourself. Okay. So hi, I'm Gaylene Hudson. Um, yeah, I'm a freelance copywriter. Um, I'm also a mother of two little boys, so they're eight and six, um, keeping very busy. Um, I'm also a wife and, um, yeah, that's me in a nutshell. It's my, my roles. Should I say. I've had my own mental health journey in the past.
So, you know, and I think it's really important to carry on working on that. Um, what makes me tick? I mean, COVID has made me take over the last year, it's pushed on so many different boundaries and different levels is unreal. Um, but yeah, what makes me thrive is actually really taking care of yourself and.
Yeah. Knowing how, when is it important to work on yourself, um, and address issues? Well, that really says that you've done a lot of self-awareness work Gaylene, and that you allow you are able to tune into yourself, but, um, You know, you were talking about your roles. You are mother, you are wife, phew, a business woman, and you are now all of a sudden a school teacher.
How does that impacts you and how have you managed in this whole year? That it's been an absolute, um, crazy whirlwind here. How have you managed to keep your mental health intact with all these different roles that have. Had their demands on you? Well, I can say it's not been easy. Um, and it continues every day to be a challenge, but I think that's kind of what you have to, I mean, we think it's been a year, but if we had last year, if we had sat and go, right, this is going to go on for a year and we're going to have to juggle all of this.
We would have crumbled on day one. And so you have to break it down into chunks and literally I take it one day. At a time now, because if you think too far in the future, it can overwhelm you and it can panic you, especially when you've