TPP 143b: 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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Hey there, it's Debbie. For the month of February, Playback Friday episodes are focused on self care and self maintenance. If you're feeling worn down, stretched thin, or just in need of some tending right now, these episodes from the podcast archives will offer perspective and practical ways to support yourself through this season. 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 Reber, 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. Thank you so much for joining us today.
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.com slash session 143. Thanks again. And now here is my solo cast on self-care. Okay, so today we're going to 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 in the U.S. Many of us are
What definition of self‑care does Debbie give and why does it matter for parents?
in this polar vortex, which is really cold and has us 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 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'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-frou or self-indulgent or, you know, something that... Oprah would talk about, and that's about living your best life, but it's not necessarily realistic.
And 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 going to 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, 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 want to get rid of the guilt. We want to kind of 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.
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