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"Embracing Self-Gifting for Personal Wellness"

Jan 21, 2024 - 2:22pmSummary: This weekend is a self-gift of relaxation and personal time, feeling grateful for the opportunity to take a break from constant activity. Despite various ambitions, the speaker finds comfort in simple pleasures like making a sweatshirt, chatting with a friend, doing laundry, and writing without pressure. The speaker emphasizes the need for self-care, planning to spend time reading, playing music or video games, and considering meditation to take personal inventory. In this reflection, they express a desire to incorporate self-gifting into daily life, finding the idea to be a positive and fulfilling approach.

Transcript: It's interesting even being able to say this, but just feeling like this weekend as just a gift to myself. I'm just giving myself a gift this weekend by like being able to relax and just, you know, honestly just be with myself and how great it is for me. Like, there's so many things that I want to do and I wish to do, but for some reason they just seem less important and less necessary. And some amazing things that I could do, like even making a channel, making Chandler sweatshirt yesterday. Um, it really does feel truly like a gift to myself to be able to do some of those things and being able to take a slow morning and have an hour and a half conversation with Austin and doing my laundry and sitting down to write for a little bit, but knowing like, I don't need to spend all day writing. I don't need to do that. And yeah, I don't know. Just being grateful for the day and grateful that I can hopefully relax a little bit and it doesn't need to be on all the time. I don't need to be on all the time. I can take a break and it's okay. And that's really what I need for myself. I don't need to go, go, go and do something more right now. I just, I need to be by myself and find some time to read books or play music or, um, I don't know yet. And maybe it's playing video games and just like getting into enjoy and indulge in that for myself. And yeah, I, I, I guess like, you know, all I really want to do is set up this week, maybe meditate for a bit, maybe plan to meditate for a bit, and just see what comes up and see what makes sense and what feels, feels good. And right. And what, what I'm moving towards, like using that as a way to take inventory of self. And I found my Rocky talkies, which I'm really excited about. So yeah, I don't know. Just like taking inventory. Part of me wants to go buy some LaCroix's for sure. So yeah, I don't know. I guess we'll, we'll, we'll see. And I just wanted to talk about like, yeah, giving a gift to myself and wanting to live my life more like that on a daily basis is like, how can I give a gift to myself? So I think it's, it's a very nice frame. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a very nice frame.

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