Ep14 | Caretaking & Minding Our Business: How to Love People Without Taking Over or Losing Ourselves

The difference between caregiving and caretaking is significant: offering care someone needs and has requested, vs stepping in (usually unrequested) to manage other people's feelings, fears, worries, anxieties. Pro tip: we usually caretake others as an unconscious way of dealing with our own fears and anxieties...the feelings we don't care for for ourselves. In today's episode we talk about loving people while loving ourselves, and minding our own business instead of minding everyone else's. More of what we talked about: 00:25 Body Practice 2:41 Using sounding practices to free us in speaking our truth and showing up fully 6:31 Giving ourselves freedom to be ourselves through leaning into discomfort 11:32 Empowering ourselves through creating energy/vibrations that feel good 20:21 The danger of caretaking others - putting everyone else ahead of ourselves 39:54 Meeting shame with compassion so you can have space for others’ feelings 51:16 What babies learn about hiding their expression and how it impacts us over the course of our lives 54:48 Body practice (to bring awareness to our caretaking patterns) **************   Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at http://wholeheartedloving.com.