Wellish

by Sarah Ritondale

Self-Improvement

Season 2

Day 2: Why Did You Stop Loving Yourself?

Did we love ourselves as children and then as life began to pile on we stopped loving ourselves? Or did we have to learn what self love is all along? The only emotion we have known the entire time we were conceived is love. But when we only have known love to show up for us from an outside source compared to cultivating it from within us it's a pretty hefty expectation to have that just happen compared to us having to take action to make that happen. Most of the time when we realize we need to work on ourself love it's because bad sh*t is happening or in other words, there's a lack of love in your life. Including from yourself. All you're left with is society telling you that you should love yourself and you're doing something wrong because you don't. Now, alongside everything else going on in your life, you're beating yourself up for that too. If you are wondering what it would be like to deeply and authentically love yourself this episode is for you.

Day 1: What is Self Love?

To kick off the 28 Days of Self Love I felt it was important to take a step back and actually take the time to understand WHAT self love is. Because self love is such a highly discussed topic we assume we know the true meaning of self love. Especially because at face value it sounds pretty digestable. Self love is loving oneself. But to actually begin to attain true self love you have to understand it at a deeper more specific level. When we fully understand what self love is instead of just focusing on how to do it it makes the how come at lot more natural allowing the self love to be genuine and to stick in your life for the longer term. If you have always wanted to love yourself or you like yourself enough but want to explore the idea of you loving yourself more than you could ever imagine this episode is for you.

Control Your Emotions Instead of Letting Them Control You

On this weeks solo episode Sarah describes metacognition and how understanding how to develop the skill of metacognition will skyrocket your ability to become the best version of yourself. Using science to help explain why emotions happen and what happens in your body that causes us to experience our emotions in the way that we do. Even better, she discusses how to develop the ability to choose a response that will put us in the drivers seat so we don’t feel like a slave to our emotions and start to feel we truly are our Elite selves.

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Sharon Banyas Hefetz: How To Transform Your Mindset

On this weeks episode Sarah and Sharon discuss their experiences of feeling disconnected from their authentic selves and the importance of rediscovering oneself through mindfulness and intentional living. They also discuss the power of positive thinking and the concept of manifesting a desired life. The conversation shifts to handling difficult situations like a high-risk multiple myeloma diagnosis and the importance of self-love, positive thinking, and resilience. They touch upon the societal pressure to please others and the importance of self-compassion. The discussion then moves to the power of thought control and its impact on one's reality. Sarah and Sharon discuss the importance of self-awareness and self-acceptance, the challenge of balancing self-improvement with self-acceptance, and the importance of authenticity. They end the podcast discussing self-reflection, mindset, and personal growth.

4 Signs You Are Subconsciously Comparing Yourself to Others and How To Use That Energy to Level Up Instead

We have over come the battle of just looking at others and feeling jealous wanting to have what they have. I guarantee you will not have even been presented with the 4 things I discuss in this weeks episode as to ways you are still comparing yourself to others. The biggest take away I want the Elite to get from this episode is how to stop living for other people and how to start living for yourself. If you are someone who never feels satisfied with their own life and who they are no matter how hard you try this episode is for you <3

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Sarah Armstrong: Dealing with Divorce

On this episode I sat down with Sarah Armstrong, vice president of global marketing operations at Google, who has mentored women and men her entire career and avid “good divorce” proponent and the author of The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce: What to Think Through When Children Are Involved,” whose personal mission is offering insights and tips to moms – and dads – about how they too can have a “good divorce.” We discuss how to choose happiness despite hardship, the role children play in a role form both the perspective of the parents and the child and determining what your life will look like post relationship. Sarah provides tips on how to cope when you are the one going through the divorce as well as if you effected by a divorce during, but also after the heavy emotions take their toll. If you want to feel validated about any roll you have in seperating from a serious significant other from being the person in the relationship to being a child of divorce to being in a situation where two parents are not together, this episode is for you.

Balance Your Expectations with Reality

On this weeks solo episode we are leaning into the social norm of creating New Year's resolutions. There's nothing wrong with capitalizing on a surge of motivation, so let's set the goals, but let's do so in a way that we can actually get a win instead of feeling like whatever we set the intention to do eventually fades away. I am giving you guys concrete ways to actually feel like you are completing your resolution and becoming the best version of yourself. Including a guided exercise at minute 21:47! Here's to 2024!

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Overcome Holidanxiety

We all handle stress differently, but everyday stress is so much different than holiday stress. We have to make time to connect with so many people, we have money anxiety and are stressing to find the perfect gift, we have to see our family, potentially a significant other's family, and Christmas just donesn't feel they way it used to. Sarah addresses not just holiday anxiety, but the ways we can so quickly sacrifice ourselves for the happiness of others because that's what you're supposed to do at this time of year. If you are a people pleaser that is easily overwhelmed by the chaos the holiday brings, this episode is for you.

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Challenges on the Path to Self Growth

On this week's Q&A episode Sarah is answering the Elite's questions. From friendship issues to how to validate yourself to no longer identifying with your old self Sarah is providing best friend advice to help you with your self improvement progression. If you are feeling stuck on your journey to become the best version of yourself and like you have tried too many self improvement things but have had very little clarity this episode is for you.

I'm not too hard on myself I have high standards! Right?

This list of signs that you are too hard on yourself is a bit more subliminal. Sarah discusses the way she never used to claim the identity of being too hard on herself out of a deeper, and quite honestly, kinder, self awareness that she is hard working and has a strong work ethic. She begins to peel back layers to reveal some things that we may not even realize we are doing that could indicate you are being too hard on yourself. Do you think that could be you?

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