About this episode
A solo episode with me (Jas), where I go through a list of tried-and-tested items you can implement into your self-care practice.

Show notes:
1. Stretching
2. Meditation
3. Being outside
4. Movement
5. Changing your environment
6. Alone time
7. Connection / quality-time with others
8. Taking a bath
9. Dancing
10. Journalling
11. Prayer

Show links:
Yoga With Adriene: blog | free videos | YouTube
Lucy Horton (my former INFP yoga teacher): website
Creative Self Journal (Jacob Nordby)
The 5-Minute Journal
Morning Pages (Julia Cameron)

from the blog
why I started prioritising my self-care

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Alli’s bio:
Alli Stone lives in the Dallas suburbs with a lively bunch of humans and pets. She’s worked full-time in public education for nineteen years, with the gray hair and swollen heart to prove it. When she’s away from work, she’s busy transcribing her daydreams into stories so she can one day list her published novels in her biography. She consumes books like she does caffeine and blames her favorite authors for keeping her entertained with their books instead of writing her own. She loves rain, mysteries, and would make Cormoran Strike fancy her if he wasn’t so imaginary. 

Personality type:
INFP

What we talk about:
1. Mixed emotions and the value of routine/planning for an INFP during the lockdown
2. Curiosity about people and being a "sociable introvert"
3. Alli's journey to becoming an educator and school librarian
4. Imagination vs reality when it comes to 'work'
5. Saying 'what we do': portfolio careers and identities
6. On being an emotional and physical empath: Alli's supermarket story
7. The challenges that come with being an intuitive person in a relationship with a partner who isn't intuitive
8. The Empath's Survival Guide (by Judith Orloff), and empath studies, pseudoscience and synapses
9. Alli's fiction writing & when/where Alli gets her writing done

Links:
The Empath’s Survival Guide, by Judith Orloff
The Power of Vulnerability, by Brene Brown
Bonnie & Clyde (Wikipedia)
Joker movie (Wikipedia)

Connect with Alli:
Website: https://www.allistonewrites.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/allistonewrites
Instagram: http://instagram.com/allistonewrites
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alloydtx

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Leslie’s bio:
Leslie is a personal and professional development coach and personality type consultant. She coaches creative and ambitious people to tap the potential of their personality type for the purpose of living a meaningful and well-lived life. She's passionate about bringing greater self-awareness and understanding to the world by helping others view themselves through the lens of their personality type (Myers-Briggs® and Enneagram systems).

Personality type:
INFJ

What we talk about:
1. Leslie's work as a coach and using personality typology 
2. How Leslie transitioned to running her coaching business
3. Some of the differences between INFJs and INFPs
4. The challenges experienced by INFJs and INFPs, and for INF women
5. Taking time out for ourselves, and people-pleasing
6. How can we engage in self-care? + what Leslie does
7. How can we find our purpose? + Leslie's 'Vision Clarity Course'
8. One thing vs varied interests; jackhammer vs hummingbird
9. Leslie's previous work as a middle-school teacher
10. Some more INFJ vs INFP perspectives & differences in our cognitive functions
11. On 'trusting the process' + leaning into that
12. Why personality typing is so useful as a framework for understanding ourselves - "Personality type labels don't put you in a box, they show you which box you're already in"
13. Leslie's closing advice for INFs: self-care and defining your markers of success -> "what do you really need + what's important to you"

Links:
Elizabeth Gilbert: hummingbirds vs jackhammers
Leslie’s ‘Vision Clarity Course’

Connect with Leslie:
Website: https://www.lesliemcdaniel.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/theinfjlife
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliemcdaniel/

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Episode 13 is a little different. Here’s the piece that accompanies it.

A written piece: I woke up this morning