27. How To Get Out Of A Funk
Feeling stuck is more common than many of us like to admit. It's that sinking sensation that creeps in, clouding our motivation and leaving us in a state of inertia. Yet, it's not an insurmountable state. With the right tools and mindset, we can navigate through these slumps and emerge with renewed purpose and vigor.
In our latest podcast episode, we delve deep into personal experiences of stuckness and how we've learned to combat it. Self-compassion emerges as a key theme throughout the discussion, as we acknowledge that being gentle with ourselves is the cornerstone of any growth process. We've learned that acknowledging and expressing our emotions through writing can be an incredibly therapeutic act. It helps us gain perspective and begins the process of untangling the web of thoughts that contribute to our stuckness.
Our dialogue also explores the concept of motivation and how it can wane during periods of stress or change. Each person's response to encouragement is unique; while some thrive on tough love, others require a softer, more positive form of reinforcement. We share stories of how these approaches have influenced our personal journeys, emphasizing that understanding your response to different motivational styles is crucial in cultivating a self-efficacy mindset.
Moreover, we confront the issue of isolation, especially prevalent in the era of remote work. Engaging in meaningful conversations and maintaining connections are not just beneficial for mental health, but essential. Feedback plays a vital role in our growth, as does the support we extend to those around us. By fostering an environment where feedback is welcome and support is given freely, we build a community that bolsters resilience and mutual upliftment.
As we conclude the season, we don't leave our listeners empty-handed. We provide actionable steps to rekindle one's spirit, such as aligning actions with values and practicing self-care strategies. Inspired by Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, we emphasize the importance of finding meaning in life's endeavors, even when the path seems obscured.
Before we sign off for a brief hiatus, we express gratitude for the overwhelming support and tease the excitement of our upcoming Mother's Day shirts. It's a token of appreciation for our listeners, who have been our companions on this journey of discovery and empowerment.
So as we bid farewell to Season 2, we leave you with this thought: keep nurturing the resilience within. Whether through embracing self-compassion, seeking connections, or aligning your actions with your values, every step you take is a stride towards a more vibrant and fulfilling life.
Remember, when you find yourself in a funk, it's not a sign of defeat, but an invitation to explore the depths of your resilience. Embrace it, learn from it, and let it guide you to a place of greater self-awareness and potential.
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Jess: 0:03
Hello, friend, and welcome to Sturdy Girl, a podcast focused on strength, not size, where you'll hear conversations around healthy body image, cultivating confidence and being a resilient human in both body and mind. Sturdy Girl is a podcast where we shift the focus away from your appearance and on to living the big, rad life you deserve. And on to living the big, rad life you deserve. Hello, friends and welcome to episode 27 of Sturdy Girl. We are in the last episode of season two. Megan and I are post-work recording for the millionth time and I don't know that, do they, our listeners get our best selves recording after work? There's less of a filter. Yeah, I told Megan before we hit record that my goal for this episode is to see how few times I can say the word kind of, because I noticed myself today with patients explaining things and saying kind of this is kind of blah, blah, blah and then realizing no, it was just blah, blah, blah, there was no kind of about it. So that's the goal and don't edit them out?
Megan: 1:07
I won't. We'll count at the end. That'll be the task for the listeners. Yes, count how?
Jess: 1:11
many times just to kind of. But don't count how many times we say like, because that's not fair, it's just out of control. Okay, so we are going to talk about getting out of a funk and I wanted to like insert music in here of like funky town, because you couldn't pay me to sing. No, but it would be really funny too, but we'd have to buy the rights.
Megan: 1:32
No, I'm not going to come out there and surprise anyone with a good singing voice. It's just not going to happen.
Jess: 1:35
Nope, but let's talk about funks.
Megan: 1:37
Let's talk about being funky, about being funky.
Jess: 1:39
Yes, I guess. Note before we get started, as we dispense advice, we're not therapists. Just your friendly reminder this isn't therapy, we're not giving therapeutic advice. These are things that have worked for both Megan and I in these seasons that we all go through. If you are feeling like you have a lot of these funks pretty consistently for long periods of time negative mood for long periods of time please talk to someone. Please talk to a therapist. We care about you. Therapy is great Agreed Every week? I would suggest yes. This is why we are mostly whole and healthy, fairly sane humans. I know.
Megan: 2:14
Most of the time Should have seen Megan. 10 years ago I did.
Jess: 2:20
But a funk. Everyone knows what a funk is. It's when you're in a rut, when you feel stuck and you're unable to get back into things, into your routine. Maybe certain things that used to bring you joy aren't bringing you joy in this season and you just you don't feel like yourself. That's how I associate a funk is just like I'm not feeling like myself. Yeah, Things aren't flowing the way they normally do, like what's going on?
Megan: 2:42
Yeah, I feel like a lot of times for me.
Jess: 2:49
I can really call it out, because I also feel highly agitated when I'm like in a funk. Yeah, or you notice yourself like, oh wait, why did that actually upset me? Why am I so bothered? I'm not PMS, so, like, what is this? Yeah, that's a whole other story, exactly, but, okay, we have a few tips to help you with a funk. Again, not therapy. These are things that have helped us On top of therapy, on top of therapy. Yes, yeah, five tips, the first one being write it out. So we've talked about journaling.
Jess: 3:20
If you look on any person's Instagram page and you see about how important journaling is and writing out all your thoughts and brain dumping, and it can sound really frustrating because you're just like what the hell Does it work?
Jess: 3:26
I don't know this is more of. For me, personally, it's the first step in acknowledging oh crap, I am 100% in a funk right now. How am I feeling? It's a way for me to kind of check in with myself, kind of number one. It is a way for me to check in with myself to say how am I doing, how am I feeling, what do I need, and whether that's writing it out in my blank online moleskin notebook with my favorite pen, or it's the notes app or it's a voice memo. It's getting it out of my head and into the world and sometimes then you realize, oh, this is what caused it or this is how I'm feeling. I wasn't sure, because those feelings were actually coming out as agitation or frustration or anger or whatever it is. And it helps to also give yourself a little bit of grace too. I guess I should say give myself grace to understand that it's okay to feel your feels and it's also a piece of self-compassion too.
Megan: 4:23
I am one of those people that would love to be able to get into journaling. I can relate to it in a certain way where I don't necessarily brain dump or like journal about my feelings, but sometimes, when I'm feeling a certain way or about how I've interacted with a person, or if I want to say something to them and I don't know how to formulate that, a lot of times I'll actually just write it down in my notes app and then sit on it, formulate that. A lot of times I'll actually just write it down in my notes app and then sit on it and then come back to it and be like do I sound like I'm really angry? Is this mainly just being emotional?
Jess: 4:49
working through it and then like kind of filtering it down until I figure out a response that I want, and then be like okay, this is how I'm approaching the situation but it's giving you perspective and that's that's kind of the point of this of writing it out is it allows you to get it out of your head in whether it's written, typed, spoken, whatever and see it a little bit more objectively and give yourself that position of being a little more self-compassionate. And that's the whole point of this is saying for me, with athletes that I work with, when I talk about journaling prompts, those are usually the ones I say of checking in with yourself how am I doing, how am I feeling, what do I need, what's going on in my world that might be contributing to things and using those. And I usually say don't care about spelling, don't care about grammar, yeah, set a timer for 10 minutes and just let it all out and there's no structure with it. That's that taking a step back, getting it out of your head and sometimes thing I wanted to tell a story, I suppose, about self-compassion. We talk about being kind to yourself in this podcast all the time. We talk about self-talk and how important it is and that self-compassion piece of kindness is one main pillar of self-compassion.
Jess: 5:55
And I was running last weekend and it's my first double-digit run in a while and this training plan because I'm running the Maui Half Marathon in less than two weeks has been less than stellar, and so there was a lot of trepidation going into this run. And so I'm running and start noticing how I'm talking to myself to keep going, and I'm all up in my head like come on, jess, don't be a little bitch, keep going. What are you doing? And noticing, calling myself a bitch, noticing myself saying suck it up, keep going. And recognizing the both and I guess is my point in this. It made me laugh later to realize what I was saying to myself and how that's what kept me going, because I believed that I was capable. And so that self-belief came forward as like, don't be a pansy, don't stop right now, you can keep going. Throw that self-doubt out, you've got this. And so that came in the form of don't be a little bitch.
Megan: 6:52
Which sometimes we just have to talk to ourselves that way.
Jess: 6:55
Yeah, absolutely so. Tip number one, write it out or say mean things to keep yourself going.
Megan: 7:00
I don't know, I wouldn't say that. I say it's a different type of encouragement, tough love.
Jess: 7:05
I mean, I remember when I was doing tennis lessons over a decade ago. It was when we were at PCC and that was how I responded better, when people would be like, oh yeah, good job, keep going, and I'm like, nope, that doesn't motivate me. You gotta tell me to suck it up. Tell me something mean. Can you yell at me a little bit? Yeah, be angrier when you yell at me.
Megan: 7:25
I'm like the opposite. I'm like, please be gentle.
Jess: 7:28
Be gentle, be kind. Isn't that wild how we respond to different things that help keep us going though. Yeah, yeah.
Megan: 7:34
I guess there would be times when I was like, definitely like riding longer distances, where I was just like you're fine, suck it up your legs, like you can realistically just keep going, it's fine.
Jess: 7:43
Yeah, it comes back to believing in yourself and knowing that you're capable of that self-efficacy. Yep, that's my self-efficacy voice. That's what we'll call it, Okay. So next tip is to call a friend. I feel like Carly Rae Jepsen's playing in the background like call me maybe. And the whole point of this is don't isolate yourself. When I find myself getting into funks, I tend to. I wouldn't go so far as to say isolate myself, but I don't reach out to my people as much because I'm like I don't really know what's wrong and I just feel kind of weird and like am I just going to call them and complain? I'm not really sure about this, but the point is make sure that you're spending your time around people, because maybe that will help you to find those little happy moments, Maybe that helps you to come out of the funk when you remember oh, I really like doing this thing with this friend, I feel like that way too.
Megan: 8:32
If you're in kind of, like I say, depressive state very loosely, but like I, one person has kind of struggled with ups and downs and you do, when you start to isolate yourself it just creates like I work from home too, and so when I isolate myself it is isolating myself.
Megan: 8:48
It is myself, my dogs, my husband and like nothing else, which is not good Cause, then you're also putting a lot of strain on your partner. You're putting a lot of strain on yourself, and so I feel like, especially in an era where so many of us work remote, that really important around people is that much more important.
Jess: 9:04
I know that was one thing when the pandemic restrictions lifted. Blake was. He's such an ideas guy and I love that about him, but he was pushing me for a while to write a book about the secret to small talk, because so many people, after being so isolated for years, at that point didn't remember how to carry on a conversation with people. And so he's like you've been working full time and half your job is talking to people. You know how to do this. Teach people how to talk and have a conversation again, and it just shows you that interaction is so important.
Megan: 9:38
When I'm in a funk, I feel like it's also about understanding people's feedback too. From me, I know when I get in those like mindsets I can be really negative and I can be really just kind of shit on everything for better and when you feel shitty about yourself, it's easy to take it out on other people or let that like negativity come out as well.
Megan: 9:58
Oh yeah, a hundred percent and like, like, I feel like there was a pretty good phase where it just kind of I think I was unhappy at my job, which really triggered the beginning of it.
Megan: 10:07
This was a few years ago and there's a lot of stress at work and then I kind of had confrontations happening in my social circle and I would bring that home and just kind of be a bitch, Like you know, if that's the best way I can describe it and inadvertently because you had all these internal things going on, all these other situations.
Megan: 10:23
I didn't realize I was doing it, but I did feel the negativity in myself. But it was also being able to take someone's feedback on me at the time as Brandon and just being like hey, you're treating me this way, you're treating other people this way, Where's that coming from? And kind of taking like. I think that it also takes some self-reflection because you have to be able to look at like, hear that and not immediately get defensive so that goes back to the where we talked about writing it out.
Jess: 10:49
Yeah, that's more just that acknowledgement and that's that awareness around, trying to locate where the funk is coming from.
Megan: 10:57
Yeah, like what's causing the feelings?
Jess: 10:58
or understand. Yeah, be nice to your humans, exactly, and understanding too. Especially the person that you choose to call or spend time with or reach out to when you're in a funk are generally the people that you can call when you're having a bad day, someone that creates a safe space for you. Yeah, exactly. And so I think that part of that honoring of the safe space that our friends and our family create for us is enough to have that self-awareness of oh, I'm being a dick, yeah, that's not meant towards you, I've been talking mean to myself and that's coming out right now and being able to maybe you realize it later. Yeah, like we often do with our partners Sorry, guys, but just having that as well, no, I think that's a really good point.
Megan: 11:38
Sometimes it would come from a place of like envy. I would see other people doing these things and I'd be like, well, I'm mad that I can't do that. And then I'd be like, well, that's probably stupid anyways, and you know what I mean Taking that time to be like good for them. You're actually just jealous. Yeah, I'm actually just being a turd, you know. But again, something else making me unhappy. It's not just I look at something and I'm like meh. There's something underneath it.
Megan: 12:01
There's always something underneath of it. We're delving into therapy things here.
Jess: 12:05
This is good, oh man, okay. So next tip move your body. So we're keeping each of these tips pretty broad and then letting you, as the listener, fill in the blank for what makes the most sense to you. So my thought process in moving your body. There is research to say that moving your body helps your brain to start processing things. Bonus points if that moving your body puts you outside. Being outside in nature also helps our mental health. So in this vein, let's think about the lowest barrier to entry.
Megan: 12:36
And I love that you pointed that out, because that has been my motto for, like the last for the season with your hand. Yeah, even today I posted on my Instagram I was like on my little stupid mile walk that I make myself do every day, even if it's raining, because I just need to get out and be off my phone. Allow myself that one thing that I do every day. Again, it seems like such a low barrier when you're used to working out so hard. It's self-care.
Jess: 13:03
Yeah, it's movement. It's going to help your mental health as well as your physical health.
Megan: 13:07
And I get to hang out with Mabel and she's like the best.
Jess: 13:09
So but the lowest barrier to entry means how do you get one tiny action? What is one bit of action that you can take to move your body? And maybe it's a walk, maybe it's putting on your favorite early 2000s playlist and dancing in your kitchen or your living room. Yeah, it doesn't have to be good dance moves. Find something that, like, speaks to your soul.
Megan: 13:30
That's how I get myself to clean the kitchen. I just put something on that I like and then, before I know it, the entire thing's clean. And then I'm like, wow, the music that you choose.
Jess: 13:38
Is this like you'd be embarrassed to tell the people on podcast what it is oh, I listen to literally everything. Or is this? Okay, I have mixed feelings. So I listen to early 2000s rock, usually when I'm running or lifting, and it's all the stuff that I listened to in high school. That's what I always revert back to for whatever reason. And I realized one of my playlists the other day has Nickelback on it.
Megan: 14:01
I actually I don't know when we decided to hate them, but I mean like a lot of it's controversial. Okay, it totally is A lot of their stuff is like eh, but they got some bangers A hundred percent.
Jess: 14:09
Are we going to lose listeners or gain listeners with this statement right now?
Megan: 14:13
Sometimes I put it on just to make Brandon angry.
Jess: 14:26
Because he probably doesn't approve. He just he's so picky with music. I guess my whole point in asking music wise is because I'm, at this point in life, a firm believer that no musical taste should be closeted on the music you love. And so I'm just here to say I love nickelback for all my runs and workouts, and fallout boy. Okay, for the last 10 years. Spotify has told me I'm in the top 0.5 percent of listeners of Fall Out Boy. So there we are.
Megan: 14:42
There is like a newfound glory album that like, no matter where I'm at, what I'm doing, if one song comes on from it it's like it. You just start thinking about like memories. You're like no, I just gotta listen to the whole thing now.
Jess: 14:53
Whole album In order, because that's how I listened to it when I was on a CD Top to bottom, yeah, but going back to moving your body, find the movement that you enjoy, if we're talking about getting serious with some level of exercise, but this is just movement in general. For Blake and I, even in this season of not having as great of a half marathon training plan, lifting has been not as consistent as I'd like. Our non-negotiable is we take a walk with the dogs every evening and that's our time to move our bodies. It helps my brain every time because there are times when I get super anxious. And getting out for that walk and we have on the weekends we walk the dogs in later mornings and that mile and a half walk is our time to reconnect with each other and chat and have a conversation. But it's also just such a good reset and that's not to say that go for a walk, it's going to fix your funk.
Megan: 15:38
Oh, absolutely not.
Jess: 15:38
This gets things moving.
Megan: 15:40
Yeah, and it sounds silly. But when I first started doing it again as someone who's pretty active, I was like that's a stupid small accomplishment. But then the more that I did it, the more I felt good once I just completed it. Yeah, and then I even put them on my Strava so that at the end of the week I can see that I walked all my miles. For the most part I kind of view gold stars yeah, gold stars. The other day I walked four miles. I love it Okay.
Jess: 16:04
Next tip Take good care of you. So again, super broad, but picking one piece of self-care and focusing on that each week. Give yourself a little bit of homework if you will. Can you dial in your sleep hygiene and aim to get at least seven hours a night? Can you look at that sleep hygiene routine of? Is my room dark? Is my room a certain temperature? When am I turning off my phone or my screen stick before you get into bed? Having that sleep hygiene routine, can you look at adding in foods that nourish your body, lessening the amount of time that you doom scroll? I'm speaking to myself here. Really. I know, pick one thing that makes you happy and then do that. This goes back to that taking tiny action.
Jess: 16:44
I know too that when we get in these times of funks and more negative mindset, it's hard to think about what things make you happy. Sometimes you're like you know, nothing really makes me happy right now. I'm not really sure what activities or things. So maybe thinking happy is too big If we think about glimmers. Going back to our dog walks last weekend, we're walking the dogs and we had everything from sun to wind to rain, to a little bit of hail, to sun with pouring rain. But when the sun came out after it had poured rain, you're like, oh, it's like a little glimmer of sunshine, a little glimmer of happiness. And that's what we're talking about here is I'm not saying, go find everything that makes you happy, it's just more sometimes for me, these funks come during a busy season of, like work stuff going on, personal stuff going on, family stuff going on. Maybe I have a goal that I'm pursuing and I'm being really relentless about the goal and I put my blinders on and all of a sudden I'm like, oh my god, there's more of a world out there. Those are usually the times when I'm just kind of like veered so far over and I'm like when's the last time I did something that made me happy? What do I enjoy? When's the last time I've done something for fun? And that's our point here of looking at those different pieces of self-care.
Jess: 17:54
Another thing to think about as a weekly homework piece is how are you managing stress? But also to try to think of a good preface here, because I want to throw this out there as a self-care piece, and that's looking at mindfulness and looking at breathing. So mindfulness is super broad, but literally the definition is bringing attention to your thoughts, bringing yourself back to the present, and that goes back to us talking about writing it out, acknowledging our feels, those pieces, that's all. Mindfulness is I'm not saying necessarily meditation, which can be super beneficial, but do we have pointed times to check in with ourselves?
Jess: 18:28
But then also along the lines of breathing, which is something I've been really nerding out on recently between exercise performance as well as like working in dentistry. But I'm curious for you listeners if you've ever noticed if you breathe through your mouth or your nose more, because there are actual health benefits that come from more focused nasal breathing versus mouth breathing from a stress management standpoint. So just a curiosity piece and if you've never paid attention, it's something that's pretty cool to pay attention to. Working in the dental field, there, oftentimes with patients that I'm like you breathe more through your mouth than your nose, I can tell. So just just those things. Yeah, that is my thoughts on self-care and just taking good care of you. It's finding activities that maybe help you feel more like yourself.
Megan: 19:16
Every time I have a therapy session, that's like the first question that I get asked and it's the last question I get asked what did you do to take care of yourself? What thoughts are coming up, and then again it always ends with what can we do in the next two weeks?
Jess: 19:28
to take care of yourself.
Megan: 19:30
Sometimes you overlook it and I think it's easy to just kind of brush it off as it's. It doesn't really mean anything, it's fine, but I think it is an important piece to actually focus on.
Jess: 19:39
When it's such low hanging fruit, really easy to do, easy to accomplish, like you're talking about going for walks, those things of self-care, we're like, oh yeah, whatever, they make such a big difference. All those little things add up. They really do, they're worth doing, even down to just like nerding out on breathing stuff. How we breathe is important too and it's like, oh, that's too easy. One last thing about this whole section on self-care and picking one thing a week for your homework here is we titled it Take Good Care of you because I had a guy I dated well over a decade ago and he gave me this sunshine yellow notebook and wrote a little note with it and he said something, probably sweet and kind, but I remember the last part was in all caps and it said, above all else, take good care of you. And at the time I was working full-time, going to school, full time, training for a marathon, rock climbing, probably dating, but well, obviously dating and had so many things going on. I was such a doer that the thought of self-reflection. Now I've journaled in the most basic sense since probably fifth grade. But take good care of me. I'm like I eat well, I exercise, I'm growing my brain by going back to school, I pay all my bills on time, I'm taking care of me, and what he meant was take care of your internal world. And at the time, for me, I was like I don't know what that means, and only my later years, and I don't remember I'd misplaced that notebook and then it was not until I moved in with Blake that I came across it with the note still taped to it and I was like, oh, I know what that means now. It took a few years, yeah, so, anyways, okay.
Jess: 21:13
Last tip reflect on your values. We've talked about values on the podcast numerous times, and the first time that we talked about values on the podcast, megan was like oh my God, this reminds me of corporate America. What's our mission statement? I think that talking about values tends to get dismissed again as another thing. That's like oh, yeah, yeah, whatever. I have values, yeah, okay, but have you thought about them? Could you tell me right now what they are? How many do you have?
Megan: 21:38
Is that too many? Even the first time that you actually had talked about it, it was kind of a hard question for me to answer. So I was like well, what do you mean?
Jess: 21:46
You gave me this list of a hundred different values and I have to pick two, so shameless. Plug for episode nine of the podcast is on core values. There is a core values worksheet download to help you brainstorm. And the cool thing about values is your core values can change. They should change.
Jess: 22:04
Your seasons of life change and so if we can have those values in mind, oftentimes for me, my funks come from deviating too far away from what those values are. Deviating too far away from sounds super broad, but like my purpose and you don't have to have a purpose figured out but that overarching theme of like when's the last time I did something to take care of myself? When's the last time I did something to take care of others? And coming back to that, and it's cheesy, I feel cheesy talking about these things because they can be so easily dismissed. But, like for right now in this season, my core values are play and connection and I mean a couple of weeks ago I was just feeling like I was super funky, right, Just kind of in that, and I was reflecting back and I was journaling before bed and I'm like once last time you played, that's something you really wanted to hone in on. So the next day it was like how can I make things fun?
Jess: 22:57
How can I play and coming back to that, reviling connection and seeing that connection play out with how much Sturdy Girl has grown and connecting with other people on these topics and being able to start a conversation. Connecting with friends, with family we had so much family time last month and focusing on those things. Yeah, those can often help out a lot.
Jess: 23:16
Yeah adding this in here because I did not do my due diligence of research, but I was thinking about Viktor Frankl, who wrote a couple of different books, survived Concentration Camps, and he coined a term called logotherapy, and he talks about having a purpose and our own internal purpose being our internal compass. Essentially and that's basically what this is about is, when we have a sense of self and a sense of purpose, it allows us to move through the world a little bit easier, and so that's kind of the whole point of this. I love it Was that time number three of kind of I'm counting. Wow, they're doing good. Okay, won't even need to edit them out, we're gonna keep them. Audience is counting.
Jess: 24:00
So those are your five tips for getting yourself out of a funk. It's not going to solve it. There's usually no way to solve it beyond the passage of time. Sometimes they solve themselves. But these are ways to say check in with yourself, take care of yourself, don't isolate yourself and remember who the hell you are, because maybe you're not a little bitch, like my runner brain says, but maybe you're a bad bitch and you got to remind yourself of that. So five tips write it out journal, voice, memo, notes, app acknowledging those feels. Call a friend, get coffee with a friend, go for a walk with a friend.
Jess: 24:31
Third, move your body. Think about that lowest barrier to entry. Is it a walk? Is it?
Jess: 24:36
You know, for me, when a long run feels or a run, I should say, any kind of run feels overwhelming. I just get on the treadmill and I tell myself you're going to lace up your shoes, you're going to get on the treadmill and you're going to walk for five minutes and usually by that point I'm like all right, let's go. Or if it's pushing myself a little bit more, it's all right. You're going to run for one mile and you get to that one mile mark and you can keep going. But tiny actions, and maybe your tiniest of going to the gym and working out and exercising, maybe the smallest habit is to start putting on your workout clothes. We talked about this in a previous episode. Maybe your smallest action, your lowest barrier to entry, is stepping into the gym right, working through those things. But moving your body is so, so important for us to start processing the feels. Dance it out. Tell us what your favorite music to listen to is. We want to know.
Megan: 25:25
Spotify playlist coming up. Sturdy Girl Spotify playlist. Oh, I feel like our tastes would be so much different. It would intersect a lot and like it would cross, but it would be fantastic there would be spectrums.
Jess: 25:38
And that we would get just a broad range of listeners we could.
Megan: 25:41
Yeah.
Jess: 25:41
Fourth tip take good care of you. Pick one piece of self-care, one piece of something to take care of you Sleep, hygiene, nourishing your body, lessening the amount you do scroll, stress management, tiny glimmers, focus on those things. How are you breathing? Are you breathing through your mouth or your nose, right?
Megan: 25:59
I won't judge you if you breathe through your mouth.
Jess: 26:01
There is no judgment on this podcast. I'm just kidding.
Megan: 26:04
I have to keep throwing that in because I can't breathe out of my nose Again. I'm very envious of all you wonderful nose breathers.
Jess: 26:11
Wasn't there something in like in Stranger Things about being a mouth breather and that was like an insult is to call someone a mouth breather? Yeah, it's been an insult, it's been a hot second I was trying to remember. Anyways, last tip recap here is reflect on your values. Go back and listen to episode nine if you haven't Use your core values. Download and pick out your core values, remind yourself of those. Lastly, we've talked motivation a few different times throughout this episode. You can't rely on motivation to keep yourself going. Action comes before motivation to start giving yourself that momentum to keep going. So there you go, get out of your funky town.
Megan: 26:48
Well, you make it sound so fun. Funky town no, you want to get out of it.
Jess: 26:53
Have a better kind of funky town that's like dancing and glimmers and happy and gold stars for self-care. Yeah, that's our goal. All right, friends, season two has been so much fun. The launch of our apparel was amazing. We're working on Mother's Day shirts right now. I'm really excited. We just got the first concept back today. So, working on that, we're going to take a little break for a few weeks and then we'll be back. We'll miss you while we're gone.
Jess: 27:19
But in the meantime, your continued reviews and ratings on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify all the things mean the world to us. I've enjoyed reading them. I've gotten a few emails of your screenshots of reviews. Love reading them. You have a little something in the mail coming to you. So there you are. If you haven't left a review, we would love it. We read them all. We love them all. It helps us grow this thing and helps us further the mission of Sturdy Girl to get you focused on moving your attention away from your appearance and on to living your big rad life. That's all we're all about. Happy end of season two, friends. We will talk to you in a few weeks. Bye.