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1955: A Tough-Love Junkie's Guide to Self Care: 3 Steps For Self-Compassion by Kat Medina on Loving Yourself

Nov 7, 2023

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Kat Medina, an entrepreneur and Creative Director of a Silicon Valley startup, shares a tough-love junkie's guide to self-care. She discusses the struggle to show self-compassion and offers three alternative tools for finding the good in difficult times. She emphasizes the importance of self-care, moderation, and self-acceptance.

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Prioritizing urgent and important tasks, connecting with close friends, and doing something outside of your comfort zone can promote self-compassion.

Finding a balance between productivity and self-care is crucial to avoid burnout and prioritize personal well-being.

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A Tough Love Junkies Guide to Self Care

In this podcast episode, Kat Medina shares her insights on self-care, particularly for tough love junkies like herself. She discusses her experience of feeling stuck and unmotivated in January, which was a shock for someone who typically derives self-worth from achievements. To pull herself out of this state, she attempted the concept of self-compassion. Instead of following conventional self-care practices like wearing face masks or watching TV shows, she found new tools for her toolkit. These included creating space by prioritizing urgent and important tasks, connecting with close friends to focus on their lives rather than venting about her own, and doing something outside of her comfort zone to create momentum. She emphasizes the importance of trusting that difficult times will pass and that life is transitory.

Introduction

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A Tough Love Junkie's Guide to Self-Care: Three Steps for Self-Compassion

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The Importance of Self-Care and Self-Compassion

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Kat Medina gives us a tough-love junkie's guide to self-care.

Episode 1955: A Tough-Love Junkie's Guide to Self Care: 3 Steps For Self-Compassion by Kat Medina on Loving Yourself

As a child, Kat Medina wanted to be MacGyver when she grew up. Now, as the founder and Creative Director of a Silicon Valley startup, she's become a well-traveled bookworm who finds creative solutions to entrepreneurial challenges with the resourcefulness of a figurative shoelace, paperclip, and bubblegum. Her forthcoming book, The Joys of Jet Lag, explores the most valuable lessons she's learned during the process and shares the keys to creating a life of adventure through an openhearted approach to living. These insights, when embodied and applied, have the potential to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary and craft unbridled joy and fulfillment, no matter where you are.

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