move your body, love yourself more

this week, we’re reconnecting with our bodies through movement- but not from a place of pressure or perfection. it’s about honoring your body, noticing what feels good, and remembering that movement can be one of the most loving ways to care for yourself.

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You know when you jump into something probably a little too quickly and you know it because your body is like, Hey, this is a little too fast for me, and you start to feel a little like under the weather, you know what you're doing is good for you, so you just keep continuing with it, still giving your body what it needs. Hydration, lots of tea, which is what I've been doing. Maybe a hot steamy shower. Resting and it kind of just slowly goes away. Well, I have been really getting back into what we are focusing on for week number 10 in the self-love, 100, 100 days of loving yourself more. And my body is kind of like, Hey girl, we're not used to this. What, what, where is this all coming from? All of a sudden? I think I might have sort of kind of cold turkeyed it maybe a little too hard. Week 10 is all about moving your body and I have been doing a lot of moving my body because for the past couple of weeks. I really haven't been in the best head space, to be honest with you. A lot has been going on, A lot of things have happened post-event depression is what we like to call it over here and getting back into the swing of things, even getting back into the self love 100 has been kind of difficult, and we're gonna go through those times and those chapters and that is totally okay. The goal is not necessarily to. Keep up with everything every single day. And I just think of like yelling at yourself. Get up, do what you gotta do. You're a failure. You can't even do it. You're not good enough. Absolutely not. Do not talk to yourself like that. Do not talk to my friend like that. That is not okay, and that is not how we are talking to ourselves in the self-love 100 as we know already. We are kind to our bodies. To our minds and to our hearts, and to our souls, to ourselves, kind, kindness above all. And if we're falling out of routine, get back to it little by little. I hope that week nine was inspiring for you, that you took it easy on yourself, that you took something that maybe you aren't. Getting right or that isn't clicking or that you just need a little bit more of that push because you know that this thing is good for you because you know that this part of your routine just helps you thrive every single day. So I hope whatever that was for you for week nine, that you are feeling so much better about it as we go into week 10. Welcome back to the Self-Love Archives podcast. I am your host, Julia Salvia, also known as your self-love bestie, and I'm really being your bestie this week because we are not talking down to ourselves. And let me say it again. You are not talking down to yourself. You are not being mean to my friend. This week is all about moving your body. I know this can be something that seems so, honestly, PTSD, this could seem so unal aligning so masculine. So just like, yeah, I don't really wanna do that. That's why instead of saying work out every single day, because that's not what this is. We say move your body because I'm not trying to push you to work out. I am trying to push you, and I want you to try to push yourself to move your body. That means whatever it means for you on so many different levels, so many different spectrums, so many different environments, so many different activities that you can do under the scope of move your body. Because when we think about working out, we really only think of like one thing, the gym. Maybe like lifting a weight, going to some workout class that really doesn't tickle your fancy, no moving your body because it's more important that we move our bodies, especially in ways that we love than it is for us to work out in this sort of way that. We've been taught growing up, this is what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to go to this gym. We're supposed to take this workout. We're supposed to take this workout class. We're supposed to do this. We're just supposed to move our bodies in the ways that we deserve, in the ways that we love, in the ways that we enjoy moving our bodies. When it comes to the self loved 100 challenge, 100 days of loving yourself more, I'm really specific about how we use certain terminology in this challenge, in this journey, because this is your journey and there are certain things that don't really matter. When we're just trying to love ourselves more and love our bodies more, and love our, our brains more, and our hearts more, and our soul more like you shouldn't be concerned with working out like most challenges have in them, right? Work out. Work out this amount of time, do this, do that. I just want you to be concerned with how you move your body. Go on a diet, go on some sort of diet, do this, eat that. I just want you to be concerned with how you're fueling and nourishing your body in the ways that you know how to do this. Do that. Go meditate. Go go for a walk. Do that. I'm not concerned with how you spend time by yourself. I just want you to spend time with yourself. You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? So when it comes to week 10 in moving our body. I really want you to take that exactly as it is moving your body. That could mean so many things. I could come up with a list of hundreds of different ways you can move your body, but I'll start with these five dancing, stretching, going on a walk, maybe going on a bike ride, or playing any sort of sport. And if you're like me and you do enjoy working out. But if you don't, and that's not how you find joy in moving your body, don't move. By all means, do not move your body like that. Go on a walk. Go on a run. Go play a little tennis, pick up the basketball that you haven't touched in a while, maybe try out a new type of class that you've been wanting to try. I think I took a class once with the fabric that hangs from the ceiling. I don't know what that's called, but it has like a really cool name to it. I tried that once. It was embarrassingly. Joyful, like it was one of those things that I had so much fun moving my body in that way. And if someone asked me to go do it again, I would 100% do it again. But it wasn't my way of consistently moving my body. And that's what I want you to find for you. I want you to find consistent ways to move your body, but I also want you to try different things because you're not gonna know if you actually enjoy them unless you try them. So here's the thing. We know that moving our body is good for us. We know that when we are moving our bodies, we are actually giving our bodies the ability to function properly just as everything else, rest, nourishment, hydration, that altogether is working to provide our bodies with a long life when we move our body in any way. We are allowing our body to circulate for the blood to circulate throughout our bodies in the ways that it's supposed to. We are not supposed to be sedentary people. We are not supposed to sit all day at a desk or on a couch. We are supposed to move our bodies. There are so many things that moving our bodies can do for our bodies, but also for the longevity of the life that we are living here on this earth. I want you to find joy in movement, however that looks for you, and I want you to find something that you can do on a consistent basis that helps move your body. I'm not talking about spending two hours of movement every single day. I'm talking about starting somewhere and consistently building on that. So if your movement this week looks like stretching for 10 minutes a day. That's amazing. That is wonderful. And then you throw in maybe a wok, maybe one of your friends asked you to go dancing with them. Maybe you did go try out that class where you're hanging from a piece of fabric from the ceiling. I really gotta figure out what the name of that is. Like aerial something. Either way. Maybe you are using this time to actually spend more time with yourself. Finding a local class that you can take that really excites you. That's really different. Trying out the Pilates, place down the street, or yoga on the beach. Find something that you truly, truly enjoy. Find something that you can be consistent with weekly. And the number one thing is. Do not forget to allow your body to rest as well. I know that we can kind of go on one extreme or the other where we are very minimally moving our bodies, or we are really taking our bodies to the max level possible and stressing our physical bodies out so much that we forget, Hey, you need to rest. So make sure that there is some kind of balance in there for you. Like right now I'm feeling a little under the weather. Nothing like contagious or anything like that, just like a little congested and noticing that my body needs maybe a little bit more rest this week when we can be in tune with that according to what we're doing overall. But maybe that. We've moved our body a little too much or worked out our body a little too much this week, it's okay to take a step back. You not working out today or not moving your body today is totally okay 'cause your body still does need rest. But the goal is, as it always is, is to find balance in between the movement and the rest. So for week number 10, I want you to find something that you can be consistent with something that allows movement into your life, whether that's 10 or 20 minutes or maybe 45 minutes a day, I want you to try something new or plan something, a new way to move your body that maybe you haven't tried before. And the third and final thing that I want you to do for week 10 is I want you to make sure that you are balancing your rest. With your movement and that's it. For week number 10 of the Self-Love 100. Please, please, please let me know how you moved your body this week. Come back, tell me what you signed up for, what you are going to try for the very first time. Um, if anyone goes rollerskating or to one of those bungee like trampoline, like mini trampoline workout classes, I need to know, I need to hear about it. Maybe you did boxing. I can, I can throw a couple hands. Let me know what you tried out this week, and I will see you back here for week number 11. Bye.