13: The Voice You Live With

<p>What does it actually feel like to live inside your own mind?</p><p>In this episode, we're talking about the inner chatter that follows us through every ordinary day, the mistakes we replay, the things we haven't finished, and the ways we can be so much harder on ourselves than we would ever be on someone we love.</p><p>But self-kindness doesn't always mean lying on the couch and doing nothing. Sometimes it looks like cleaning the room, making the appointment, putting the laundry away, getting outside, or finally taking care of the little thing that's been taking up space in the back of your mind.</p><p>This is a reminder that mental health also lives in the ordinary moments of our lives. It's how we speak to ourselves, how we care for our bodies and spaces, whether we allow ourselves to rest, and whether our own minds feel like a safe place to be.</p><p>You can't move out of your own mind. So let's start making it a little kinder place to live.</p><p>Timestamps:<br />02:29 How do you talk to yourself when nobody else is listening?<br />03:09 What self-kindness really looks like in everyday life.<br />05:26 Why mental health also exists in the ordinary moments of everyday life.<br />07:14 How quickly we turn one mistake into an identity.<br />08:21 The little ways you can show yourself, "I've got you."<br />10:24 What it means to say, "I live here," inside your own mind and body.<br />11:28 Why the most loving thing you can do for yourself is sometimes the most ordinary.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/melnthemiddle" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Connect with Mel on Instagram</a><br /><a href="https://melissaalvelo.setmore.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Book a Reading</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/exhale.vb" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Exhale Meditation Studio</a></p>