Design Your Dream Life With Natalie Bacon Natalie Bacon

Self care for moms can seem like an oxymoron with the everyday demands of modern motherhood combined with any additional challenges of the current season.
 
This is why it's so common to want an escape from life to feel rejuvinated. The problem isn't the escape as much as it is what happens when you come back to the same life that created the need for the escape in the first place.
 
In this episode, you'll learn alternative ways to approaching self care as a mom with a full (and seemingly very busy) life so you need fewer escapes and can "fill your own cup" (as the saying goes) from the inside out.
 
You'll discover how rethinking self care during this season of life is imperative to your own happiness and well-being. 
 
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When life throws a curve ball and there's a new challenge you're presented with, how do you handle it? If you're like me and most of my clients, the tendency is to look for someone to blame—blame towards someone else, blame towards the world, or blame towards yourself.

 
While, yes, it's true that people need to be held accountable for their actions, we often take this too far, looking for someone to take responsibility for our feelings. We blame other people and the world for how we feel. When we can separate out other people's actions from our feelings, we become empowered.
 

Sometimes, there's isn't someone to blame at all. It's just the way things go. Getting to a place of acceptance can be very powerful for working through challenges with in-laws, in marriage, and more.
 

In this episode, you'll learn the down side of blame and what to do instead so that you can feel better and work through hard times.
 
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Working mom face unique challenges with time, energy, and resources spent between home life, family life, and work life. In this podcast, I explore how "downshifting" and "upshifting" can be a useful and empowering framework to help you live a life aligned with your values and on your terms.
 

Instead of feeling overwhelmed by work and powerless to make changes, this podcast will help you create more work life balance in a unique and different way that no one is talking about right now.
 

Without making downshifting or upshifting a moral issue, but instead making it a personal decision, you can lead a centered life that has space for both your work life and your home life. Tune in to learn how.
 
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As a former type-A lawyer and financial planner turned grounded, present living wife and mom, there's nothing that's been more powerful in my own personal transformation than applying the tools and practices I teach to my own life.

 
These practices help me navigate daily challenges like stress and overwhelm, as well as some of the hardest moments I've ever experienced, including my dad's death. They also are how I've made career changes, stopped yelling, paid off debt, lost 40 pounds, moved across the country (twice), and continue to live into my future.

 
While there is no perfect way to navigate life, these practices and tools have made my life significantly better, happier, and more fulfilling.

 
In this episode you'll learn 15 specific practices I use to help make my life better as a professionally trained advanced life coach. 

 
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How do you answer the question, "are you happy?" Where do you look to find this answer? Often, we have a default answer that includes some positives and negatives based on the evidence we look for in our lives. But what if there's a better way? A way that you can find more happiness in your life as a woman, wife, and mom. That's what you'll learn how to do in this podcast episode.
 
You'll learn the difference between joy and happiness, along with strategies to help you bring more of both into your everyday life, regardless of the season you're in right now.
 
If you want to become a happier woman, wife, and mom, tune into this episode to learn how.
 
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Often, we can't choose our circumstances. Whether it's a health diagnosis, in-law dynamics, struggles our kids are experiencing, or something else, life often deals a hand that you wouldn't choose for yourself. Sometimes, life is just hard.
 

On default, the human brain wants to look externally to solve these challenges by changing other people or what's happening in the world. It goes into "fix it" mode. The problem with this is that it often leaves you feeling miserable and it doesn't work.
 

We can't control what other people say or do, much like we can't control the weather. We can, however, control who want we to be in any circumstance, even the hardest of them.
 

Training your brain to look inward at "who you want to be" in a challenging circumstances is the most useful way to navigate life's hardest times. In this episode, you'll learn the skills to do just that, so you can show up as the empowered woman you want to be.

 
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