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GGratitude Unlocked 6/7: Rest Isn't Lazy. It's How You Stay Dangerous. #SelfCareSaturday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, it's Saturday.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just any Saturday though.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's self-care Saturday here on the sweet spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are with me, and I'm with you.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, some mornings, the best thing you can do is just stop and listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The earth itself is practicing gratitude, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: The way the sun stretches open into the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way trees seem to lift their hands without words.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: The way the ocean keeps its rhythm no matter how many storms pass through.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sound of the birds chirping in the distance.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Selfcare Saturday on the sweet spot.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: As you know, I'm a board certified psychiatrist.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a performance strategist.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Science, soul, success.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, that's who I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am a student of science, soul, and success.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, on Saturday, sometimes you just want to put down the titles, you want to put down all the extra stuff and just take a moment to slow down.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's self-care Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a day for slowing down, for breathing deep, and remembering that rest isn't laziness, it's love in rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Melody Beattie, the author that we've been talking about all week, the one who wrote on gratitude, put it this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude turns chaos into order, confusion into clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now for me, that's the whole spirit of self-care.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about adding more things in, it's about seeing what's already here, making what we have enough.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's about seeing what's already sacred.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the ancient wisdom never fails.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know we love ancient wisdom here on the sweet spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: After all, it's about science, soul, and success, right?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: So here's the soul part.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scripture says it like this in Isaiah 46, verse 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am He.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am He who will sustain you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have made you and I will carry you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deep breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let that land.
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  SPEAKER_00: That verse has always reminded me that God doesn't retire from loving us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sustains us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just in our youth or victory, but in age in weakness, in ordinary days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And gratitude is how we feel that truth of God's promise inside the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am He.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am He who will sustain you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have made you and I will carry you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you whisper thank you for another sunrise, you're acknowledging the Most High God for the hands that are holding on to you, that are carrying you right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you say thank you, you are acknowledging that there is something bigger, a force that's larger, a mystery that's more powerful than you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're saying to your own nervous system, hey, there's still something out there that can carry us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we pause to give thanks, maybe for our children, maybe for our parents, for our brothers, our sisters, our aunts, uncles, cousins, our family members.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we pause to give thanks for any of them, our entire physiology shifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I've been preaching to you all week: that gratitude will lower your heart rate, it'll help drop your blood pressure, it will brighten your nervous system, your eyes will brighten, peace will return to you.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: There are many biological benefits to gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's as if gratitude reminds the body that it is still part of creation's pulse.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: That same practice of gratitude is self-care.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter how old you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a task.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like attending to the garden of your mind and your soul.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take another breath with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Inhale and imagine the wind moving through tall grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exhale and whisper, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you feel that?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your soul exhaling the entire week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take another deep breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Center yourself and listen to these few affirmations to keep this self-care Saturday gentle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am grateful for the breath that steadies me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I honor the limits of my body and the wisdom of rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I give thanks for those who care for me and for the chance to care for them in return.
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  SPEAKER_00: I trust that slowing down is still moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm part of a living creation that still sings even in the quiet moments.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: Today I will love myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I will accept myself just as I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as I am, and that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: These affirmations are a way of slowing down the mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're steeped in gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a soft landing place for your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't always need medications to quiet the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: A few deep breaths, some meditation, some deep relaxation, you would be surprised at how much wellness this would bring to your nervous system, to your biology.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: You see, self-care isn't just about escaping, it's a medicine in and of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's remembering that you are not a machine, you are a living rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same God who paints the sunsets didn't create you to burn out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He created you to bloom, to rest, and to rise again.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Notice in nature how that happens: sunrise and sunset.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because gratitude gives us hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude keeps us connected to nature, to one another, to every generation that went before us and those to come.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is always saying this: you're still here, you still matter, and you're still being carried.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: So wherever you are, my friend, maybe you're with your kids, maybe you're by yourself, maybe you're walking by the waterside, maybe you're driving, I don't know where you are.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're just sitting quietly after a long week, maybe you're getting ready to go to work.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Let this Saturday be your Sabbath moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let gratitude do the healing work that words can't.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet, and this is Self Care Saturday.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: I want to thank you so much for all that you did this week, for all the people you helped, for all the sacrifices you made, for all the times you did not put yourself first.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I give you thanks, and I'm asking you today to please take a few moments just for you.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is the most powerful form of rest you can have to rest in gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay amazing, share this message if you think it will help someone, and I'll see you tomorrow for Slowdown Sunday as we conclude our very first week on unlocking gratitude.