Make Your Damn Bed
@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.
Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!
Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 1581
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
1073 || James Baldwin
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/introduction-james-baldwin
The human responsible for this quote: “It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the in…
1072 || new social studies standards
I grew up in Florida.
My dad was a public schoolteacher, and I went to a variety of public schools throughout certain phases of my life. All within Florida.
Then, once I graduated, I extended my educ…
1071 || alienation + bowling alone
What can we do to fight the isolation crisis?
RESOURCES:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/12/americans-trust-government-00096509
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1070 || feeling alienated?
that's by design. but we can fight it!
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1068 || growth || the artist's way || week 3
Julia Cameron's "Detective Work" questions from week 3:
1. My favorite childhood toy was … 2. My favorite childhood game was … 3. The best movie I ever saw as a kid was … 4. I don’t do it much but I …
1067 || artist's way || week 3 day 2
"There are certain rules of the road useful in dealing with any form of criticism. 1. Receive the criticism all the way through and get it over with. 2. Jot down notes to yourself on what concepts or…
1066 || the artist's way || week 3
Artist’s Way Week 3:
Listen to my take on week one here: https://shows.acast.com/6152264dc28ad2001383af42/episodes/1033-artists-way-week-1
Listen to my take on week two here: https://shows.acast.com/…
1065 || pull back and process
In emotionally focused therapy, or EFT, Your emotions drive your behavior.
The work is focused on understanding and expressing feelings before trying to regulate them.
RESOURCE: https://www.businessin…
1064 || emotional avoidance
Greenberg, the creator of EFT, specified six principles of the approach:
1. Emotional awareness: The first step involves knowing what you're feeling. Naming what you feel can help you reconnect to you…
1063 || self awareness without self consciousness
therapeutic emphasis should always prioritize your lived experience.
life is uncertain, that doesn't mean your life has to feel that way. life has limitations, that doesn't mean you have to feel limit…
1062 || revisiting tools during low power mode
revisiting: closing duties + tidying as I go + keeping space for things
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1061 || revisiting low power mode
today we're revisiting what happens when you're in a "low power mode" and what to do when life sends a curveball.
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1060 || revisiting reprioritization
we're revisiting an episode I've been coming back to regularly, where I share strategies I use to get out of survival mode.
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1059 || we're all just middle managers
If I’ve learned anything from getting older, it’s that we’re all middle managers of our emotions, our energies, our moods, our feelings, and our experiences.
I’ve had a lot of different types of mana…
1058 || the labor movement
https://prismreports.org/2024/01/22/labor-unions-unprecedented-calls-ceasefire-gaza/
"Within the labor movement, hundreds of unions and union locals have responded to a call from Palestinian labor uni…
1057 || ceasefire-now.com
In florida? do this next. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/florida-must-stand-with-the-palestinian-people
“Why Participate?
Influence Policy: Your emails are a powerful…
1056 || burnout + 4 stages of a task
Everything we accomplish can be broken up into four parts:
- Planning
- Preparing
- Doing
- Cleaning
If you aren't directly completing any single segment of this task? Someone ELSE is doing labor on your behalf…
1055 || perspective check || "momfluencer" culture + rage bait
It feels like shit to recognize your privilege for the first time. But once you see it, you can use that privilege to uplift or provoke. Some things are nuanced, and this one DEFINITELY is. I find it…
1054 || the loneliness habit
We create patterns even when they’re unhealthy - so we must reintroduce healthier patterns as a break in the cycle so as not to fall into the trap of whatever pattern we fell into before.
Original ar…