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FEEL Reset: A Self-Care Reset for Burned Out Women Seeking Alignment and Empowerment · The FEEL Podcast: Women’s Empowerment, Emotional Wellness and Self-Leadership with Melissa Crook

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  Hello Melissa Crook here at your host here at the Field Podcast.
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  Happy New Year. Welcome to 2026.
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  Along with the new year, we've got some new ways that we are
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  going to be delivering our field podcast to you this year and
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  that starts with today. Every Tuesday you're going to
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  hear from me. I'm going to do a quick 10 to 15
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  minute session with you. It's going to introduce you to
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  the different ways you can engage the feel framework in
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  your life personally. And the idea is to give you some
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  quick hitters as you're driving to work, dropping the kids off,
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  doing your workout on your morning walk, or just sitting
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  quietly with your coffee. And then if you hear something
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  in there that really strikes a chord with you, you can go to
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  embracinglayers.com and fill out our contact.
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  And that link is in our show notes and on our resources page
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  on the website. And you can do a quick 15 to 30
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  minutes free session with me and talk about more of what are the
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  processes to work with me directly on that.
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  And I thought this was a good way to either just give you some
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  ways to start your week. It's a Tuesday morning, your one
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  day in and, and and give you some content in a little
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  different way. See what it's like to to work
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  directly with me or see what it's like just to get those
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  quick hit hints, reminders that you need to help you live out
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  feel, finding empowerment, embracing layers and they each
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  Thursday. We'll continue to bring you 2
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  episodes a week. Each Thursday.
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  It'll be what you've been used to with us.
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  I've got a guest with me and I walk them through the feel
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  framework, the talking points. And so those will be with you
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  every Thursday in the traditional way.
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  You're hearing from me, but you're going to start hearing
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  from just me on Tuesdays with these little quick Nuggets for
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  you that I hope we're going to be really encouraging and
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  supportive for you and the women in your life.
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  To start out today, we're going to be talking about the Feel
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  Reset. And for those, maybe this is
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  your first time with us. Feel is our acronym here,
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  Finding Empowerment, Embracing Layers.
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  And when you hear me talking about the framework and talking
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  points, those are the key questions and talking points
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  that I asked our guests, that I asked women that I'm working
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  with one-on-one that I deliver when I'm doing a keynote or a
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  workshop that I share via our online course.
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  And if these are the key questions that have really
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  helped me as I really hit my own reset in the fall of 2019.
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  And this is really the framework that came out of that journey
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  and that I started sharing via the podcast in 2021 and have now
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  branched out. And I'm sharing it in a variety
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  of ways. Like I said earlier, whether
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  it's speaking in workshops, it has a keynote, whether it is
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  utilizing panels either online or in person to have these
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  conversations. Whether it is working with you
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  one-on-one to be your encourager and help you seek and find
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  what's already inside you to help you do this or whether it's
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  via our online course or book where you can really navigate it
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  through on your own or I really encourage with a group of women.
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  So we're going to break down these different ways you can
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  utilize this. And today, the fuel recess felt
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  like a great place to start. It's the new year.
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  It's the time that we're really thinking about how do I want to
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  live in this new year? How do I want to feel in this
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  new year? And so with the field reset,
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  this is really for women who are feeling disconnected, burned
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  out, or like you've lost yourselves and your roles and
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  responsibilities. We all have so many roles and
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  responsibilities. And so that's where it's really
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  a good time to step back and start asking yourself, going
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  back to my field framework, those key questions, what am I
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  doing for myself care? Is it a deeper level at getting
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  to my soul? Is it not just the physical
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  movement or the the spa or the bath or the nail stem, but am I
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  really feeling my soul with activities that nourish me?
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  Have I thought about how I want to feel the next six months or
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  what I'm doing to contribute to that?
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  Have I thought about how I would describe myself lately?
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  Or do I only describe myself by my titles and roles and
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  responsibilities? I want you to get back to who
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  you are, not what you do, because that is where the
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  stability lies. That is where the foundation
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  lies. Because your roles and
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  responsibilities are going to change as you go through
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  different seasons in life, but who you are and who you believe
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  yourself to be and the way you feel about yourself, that's the
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  foundation that you operate from.
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  And we need to have that stable and in place and be connected
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  with that. So when we navigate these
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  different work titles, expectations, responsibilities,
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  we have a grounded place to operate from.
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  We're not living for others. We're living for ourselves
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  healthily so that we can fill that cup and give well to others
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  from a fully resourced cup based on who we are aligned with, who
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  we are. So what this really helps you do
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  when you do this field reset, we help.
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  I help you reconnect. And when we help because we work
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  together, this is all inside you already.
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  I'm going to help you and guide you reconnect to your layered
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  identity, all the pieces and parts that make up who you are,
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  beyond your titles, beyond your goals, beyond your
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  responsibilities, beyond your To Do List and other people's
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  expectations of you. We're going to help you get in
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  alignment with what what are my expectations?
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  What are my values? What are my why?
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  And based on that, going back to those activities that nourish me
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  and the way I want to feel the next six months and how I would
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  describe myself and my living out of that.
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  And if I'm not, what can I do to get back to that?
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  Where do I need to start saying no in my calendar?
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  Where do I need to so I can create a yeses for myself and
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  the ones I love and the things I value and the people I care
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  about? Those are where those healthy
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  boundaries come in and and boundaries aren't walls.
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  They're actually creating freedom for you and
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  communicating to people what you want out of your life, what you
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  hope for, which you expect, how you want to live, how you want
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  to feel, how you want to show up for others, how you want them to
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  remember you. And so that really also in doing
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  this, I invite you to get back to really listening to your
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  body, paying attention to those cues that she's giving you when
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  you're saying yes or no to things and what she's telling
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  you. And are you paying attention to
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  that? And so we through doing this,
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  when we identify those five nourishing activities and
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  identify those five ways we want to feel over the next six
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  months, we look at our calendars and see what's out of alignment,
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  what's in alignment and start practicing saying yes or no to
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  those things that that don't fit in that we want to fit.
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  This is going to help you create a simple, sustainable self-care
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  blueprint that supports your emotional, mental and physical
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  health. It's amazing when just making
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  those little shifts, look at your calendar and making sure
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  some of those activities that nourish you are incorporated on
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  a regular basis. So for instance, an activity
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  that nourishes me is listening to my favorite music.
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  And so that is something I can incorporate throughout my day.
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  I can turn on my Spotify, can listen to it on my way to a work
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  meeting. I can listen to it sometimes if
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  I have an admin day as I'm working, I can listen to it when
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  I'm on my walk. That's an activity that nourish
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  me is that fills my cup. It doesn't require me to find
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  new time. It just rather than scrolling on
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  my phone or answering work emails, maybe while I'm walking,
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  I'm listening to that music. So that's in a way that you can
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  incorporate that in that doesn't require a lot of structural
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  changes, but you'll be surprised how much that fills your cup and
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  helps you feel like you've taken care of yourself, attended
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  yourself, or paid attention to what you need in some way.
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  So we're going to this again, like I said, it helps you create
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  a simple, sustainable self-care blueprint that again, supports
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  your emotional, mental and physical health.
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  It's going to give you that immediate sense of relief,
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  clarity and renewed energy. And these are things.
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  So when you start feeling, and I'm going to go back to that
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  emotional, mental, physical health space, your body will
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  tell you whether it is a tightness in your chest, whether
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  it's a headache, whether it's a stomach ache, whether it is just
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  an uneasy feeling. You're going to get a sense of
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  when things are out of alignment.
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  And so this is going to be an invitation for you to go back.
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  And can, you know, remind yourself, I need to ask myself
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  again, am I incorporating those activities that nourish me?
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  I need to check in with myself again if those have changed and
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  I need to create some new spaces or new things.
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  I need to go back and ask myself again how I would describe
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  myself. And those are with adjectives
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  like passionate, compassionate, empathetic, stubborn, funny.
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  Those are those are those are examples of how you would
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  describe yourself. Do I need to check in with that?
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  Has something else? I talk about the layers all the
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  time. Has something else presented
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  itself that you didn't realize before or that's been added to
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  this space and place as you go through time and change and
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  learn and grow? We're constantly evolving,
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  growing, learning, learning and staying curious about that.
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  So rather than getting irritated that you're feeling this way, I
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  invite curiosity. Where's that coming from?
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  Where am I out of alignment? Do I need to re examine these
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  activities that nourish me the way I'm filling my cup or not
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  filling my cup? Have I pushed some of these
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  things aside to make room for things that maybe aren't aligned
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  out of, not in alignment with me?
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  And so it's an invitation to come back and be curious, but it
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  gives you that blueprint to help you stay on course.
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  And the idea behind it is that you walk away with a reset plan
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  that makes you feel centered, nourished, and back in alignment
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  with yourself. You'll stop performing for
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  others and start honoring what you actually need.
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  So that is an example of what a reset would look like.
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  So what are you going to do this week for your reset?
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  I invite you to go to our show notes where we've got APDF in
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  here that asks some of these key questions.
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  I've already referred to the activities that nourish you the
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  way you want to feel the next six months.
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  How you would describe yourself and start there and then look at
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  your calendar and where can you start making space to make sure
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  you're living in alignment with this.
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  Where do you need to move some things or is there time that
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  you're already utilizing again answering those emails or making
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  those phone calls on the way to work.
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  Maybe it's instead you incorporate one of these
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  activities that nourish you because it scientifically shows
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  that when we fill our pups, we are able to do.
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  We're more productive, we're more creative, we're more
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  present, we're more connected, and we actually get more done in
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  less time rather than being tired and ragged and burn out
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  and spread too thin. And it actually takes more
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  energy and more time to do, to do these things.
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  So it really is worth it one because you're worth it and two,
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  because it just makes resource sense.
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  We don't ask a car to drive down the road on an empty tank.
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  It won't it will die. So we'll and so the same goes
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  for you. So take the opportunity this
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  week. Look that PDF and if you need
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  more support on this, the fuel reset is available for you to
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  work with me one-on-one as well. If you need some more
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  accountability and some long term help really digging into
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  these questions are really stumping you.
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  Let me help you go to that contact form.
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  Let's get together. The link to the feel Reset
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  one-on-one empowerment program with me is LinkedIn here on our
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  show notes and on our resources page.
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  Check it out and reach out to me and let's get together.
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  But I hope this feel Reset support has given you some
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  things to think about and is encouraging you and maybe
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  utilizing some time during your journaling time, quiet time when
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  you're walking to think about these things and put these into
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  place. Let's get you living in
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  alignment in this new year of 2026.
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  Thanks so much for being with me here today.
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  I'm Melissa Crook, I'm your host here at Field Podcast.
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  I'll be back with you on Thursday with a great guest
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  walking through these talking points.
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  But until then, take good care. Go to that contact form.
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  Let's get together and work on this if you need support.
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  Otherwise, I hope you find this helpful and you have a great
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  rest of your Tuesday and we'll see you here next time on the
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  Field podcast.