TPP 143: TIlt Founder Debbie Reber Shares Her Best Self-Care Strategies
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why is self‑care essential for parents of differently wired children?
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Rieber and I'm the host of the show, and I'm also the guest this week, as this is one of only a few solo cast episodes I've made over the past several years. I wanted to record this episode to talk to you about self-care. So if you've read my book or you regularly listen to this show, You know that I am a big proponent of self-care. I don't think it's even close to optional for parents raising atypical kids. And I also recognize that it can be a hard thing to make time for and to prioritize. I actually get asked a lot how I do this and what my self-care practice looks like.
And so today I'm going to be sharing with you 12 strategies and ideas for creating a Sustainable, doable self-care practice. These are all things that I rely on and they work. So have a listen and I've also created a printable PDF cheat sheet of these strategies in case you want to print them out and post them somewhere where you'll regularly see them and be reminded of the importance of prioritizing you. You can get that on the show notes page at tiltparenting dot com slash session one hundred forty three. Thanks again and now here is my solo cast on self-care. Okay, so today We're gonna talk about self care. I haven't done an episode just on self-care before. I've mentioned it quite a bit. I have a chapter about it in my book Differently Wired, but
It is the middle of the darkest days of winter and In the US many of us are In this polar vortex, which is really cold and has us uh kind of huddled up inside and it can just be kind of a rough time of year. And many of you know that I'm s kind of on the other end of this international move, and it's been tough. It's been a tough time around here in my house, and for me personally, I I've been struggling. And so self-care is really an important aspect of my mental and emotional well-being. So I wanted to just spend this episode talking about that. I think that self care gets kind of a bad rap because it seems a little, I don't know, frou fru or self indulgent or, you know, something that Oprah would talk about and that's about living your best life, but it not necessarily realistic in when you look at the very busy lives that we're leading.
So I wanted to just kind of talk about it from a more Maybe practical perspective. I get asked a lot how I juggle everything that I'm doing and manage to stay somewhat sane and most of the time. In a good mental space, so I wanted to share my best strategies. So we'll talk about how I define self care, what I think it means and why it's so important. And then I've gone through and really thought about all the things that I either currently do or have done in the past that have been so helpful. And so I'm gonna share those with you because hopefully a few of them will resonate and you can build some more self-care into your life if you are someone who is struggling in this area. And from what I hear from listeners and people who are in the TIL community.
There's a lot of you out there that are not prioritizing your own self care and And I hear from parents who feel guilty about that, feel bad about that. They know that they're not showing up for their family in the way that they could if they were spending more time. um, you know, just kind of tending to their own needs, then I hear from parents who feel guilty for taking the time for themselves. So We wanna get rid of the guilt. We wanna kinda focus on what's important and see what we can do to bring a little bit more peace, perhaps, some more calm, some more physical health. mental health, emotional health into our lives. When we can do that, I think there's no question that the whole family benefits.
So I wanted to just start by just looking at self-care as a concept and sharing with you my definition for it. So I always say this when people ask me about it, I wrote this in my book, self-care does not necessarily mean going to the spa for the weekend.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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Why is self‑care essential for parents of differently wired children?
0:02–4:55
2
How does Debbie define sustainable, doable self‑care?
4:55–25:55
3
What are the two criteria that make an activity true self‑care?
25:55–36:56
4
How can everyday chores be turned into micro self‑care moments?
36:56–43:41
Speakers
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