EP 157: Self Care for Extremely Busy Women with Guest, Suzanne Falter

The Bridge to Fulfillment

How often do you think you’re not doing enough, in spite of feeling completely depleted?

If you’re always wanting more time for the things that matter to you, then you might have a self-care deficit.

Our tendency to overproduce in an attempt to prove our worthiness is getting us nowhere.

Today, Blake welcomes writer, podcaster, speaker, and self-care expert Suzanne Falter. After the sudden loss of her daughter, she happened upon a blueprint that changed the course of her life. Through the toughest times, she learned the greatest lessons about aligning with our values and the phenomenal healing power of self-care.

You’ll hear how Suzanne went from a life of busyness and over-producing to the sudden loss of everything around her, from her vibrant daughter to the roof over her head. She shares the lessons she learned through that profound period of growth and how she’s inspiring other women to shift their own perspectives about what’s important. Her 5 keys to self-care will help you lead a fuller life that focuses on better alignment so you can prioritize the things that are truly valuable in your life.

When you take the time to understand your specific needs, only then can you honor them and align your way of living with what’s uniquely important to you.

What You’ll Learn:

• The loss that launched Suzanne onto a new path of self-care (4:30)
• How to shift your focus from work to quality of life (9:07)
• Why alignment is such an important part of self-care (13:17)
• The 5 basics of self-care (15:00)
• Why women are conditioned to over-produce (21:15)

Favorite Quotes:

1. You don't have to struggle, you don't have to suffer, you don't have to overwork. There is a great deal of self-care to the idea that we're living our values and we're working in balance. —Suzanne
2. We are born lined up with a set of desires and a set of needs and a set of things in life that just make us smile and feel great. And we forget to honor them, we forget to listen to them... Because we're so busy doing what we think we should do. —Suzanne
3. Overproduction is this idea that you have to keep doing in order to be valid, in order to be adequate, in order to be enough. And we are enough intrinsically as we are, without doing anything. —Suzanne

Grab your free self-care assessment tool:

www.suzannefalter.com/yourselfcare

Tune into the Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast: https://suzannefalter.com/xbwpodcast/

Join Suzanne’s Facebook group of over 50k women practicing self-care:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfcareforextremelybusywomen/

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