In this week's Giddy Up segment, the host reflects on past episodes and highlights their five Pillars of Wellbeing: God, community, nutrition, weightlifting, and rejuvenation. They discuss their personal journey of integrating each pillar into their life to navigate difficult times. The host also introduces the concept of box breathing for stress relief and delves into the challenge of being a people pleaser. Emphasizing the importance of focusing on God's guidance and not being overly concerned with others' opinions, they share their goal of becoming more self-aware and staying true to themselves. The episode concludes with a preview of upcoming exciting guests.

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Welcome listeners to this week's Giddy Up segment.

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And this is where we blaze new trails

and we take a little look back at

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what we've learned along the way.

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And the last two episodes were a two part

series where I shared with you my five

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Pillars of wellbeing, the five things

that helped me through a really hard time.

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And I went into great detail about

how I really jumped in, feet first

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and just went for it, but that it

doesn't have to be that way that

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you can pick one or pick one little

thing that you want to do right away.

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So these were the five.

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God, community, nutrition.

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weightlifting and rejuvenation.

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And, if you want to hear more, go

back and listen to those podcasts.

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But basically, as far as God, I

grew my relationship with him and

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learned how to totally count on him.

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Because that's what you

need to do when you're going

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through something really hard.

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Community, I let go of the fact that

I thought I was an introvert and I

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went to community and I asked for

help and I went to do fun things.

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As far as nutrition, this is

what I did really in a blast.

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I just did a 16 hour fast.

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So an eight hour eating window, eight

mainly high proteins, stayed away from

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gluten, had not as much dairy as normal,

added vegetables and berries in a

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little bit more than I had in the past.

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Really worked on no sugar and

worked on trying to eat things

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that grow from the ground.

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The physical thing that I started

doing different was really dedicating

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myself to having fun lifting.

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I go to a fun workout class with

these inspiring gals, and enjoy it at

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home, just quietly taking my time and

feeling, every movement that I make.

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The last one that I talked about

is rejuvenation or stress relief.

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And that's something that I'm

going to continue to talk about as

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we move forward, because that is

the one that I have trouble with.

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Talked a little bit about breath work.

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I'm going to give you one new breath

work on this giddy up segment.

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Cause we're blazing new trails

and that is just box breathing.

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And there's something about, you can't

stay, in a zone of being high anxiety.

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If you focus on box breathing, tell me

if I'm wrong, but that's what I've heard.

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So all that is, is very simply breathe

in for four, hold it for four, breathe

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out for four, hold for four again.

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Pretty simple stuff.

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And if you can just remember to maybe do

it once or twice a day, it has helped me.

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So I'm assuming it's going to help you.

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Here's another one.

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This is what I want to talk about

a little bit today, and I don't

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really have a lot of answers.

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I am searching for the answers.

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And so I'm probably going to be

talking about this a lot more,

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but if you listen to me, you know,

That I am a people pleaser and

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I just want everyone to love me.

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And it is so difficult for me.

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if someone doesn't agree with me and

it's made me really good at mediation

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because I can really read people and

try to fit into both people's, mind

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space and help them work together.

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But it can be really hard as a person

to walk into a room and feel like

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you have to figure out what every

person likes and be that, and that's

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not even being true to who you are.

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So it's been such an interesting week.

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Everything that I have been seeing and

hearing about has been popping up about

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Don't worry about what other people think.

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I found it in my Bible study, you

know, keep your eyes focused on God.

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Don't be so worried about

all the things going on.

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Keep them focused on him.

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You know, have your passion be his

passion and then let it go and let it go.

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I think Mel Robbins talked about this

and she's got a new book coming out

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that I am plugging here because it's

called let them I just pre ordered it.

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I think we're going to learn a lot from

that and I think we're going to talk

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about that on this podcast Let them

have negative thoughts about you because

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you know what it's going to happen and

some people just aren't going to like

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me and if I Carry that with me all the

time That hurts my stress so I am so

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proud and just in awe of people who

are able to be strong in who they are

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and move forward and not be concerned.

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It doesn't mean that they're not

kind and caring about other people,

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but they're not over consumed

with, what they think of them.

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And that is what this grandma is

striving for at this point in my life.

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So I think.

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For starters, this is what I'm going

to do because I've learned this before.

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I'm just going to become aware of it.

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So.

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In the upcoming days, I'm going

to be aware of when I'm feeling

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like, Ooh, that person, what

I'm doing is making them happy.

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And I'm going to just look at it

and watch it and become aware.

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And I will let you know as we

Head down this path and, you

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know, saddle up and ride along.

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I will let you know what

I learn along the way.

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And I have some amazing

people coming on the podcast.

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So stay tuned next Tuesday.

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We've got a new one coming

out with a great guest.

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Take good care.