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The Unshakable You 6/7: Go Plant Some Peas in Tobago. Find Your Footing. Remember Your Roots. #SelfCareSaturday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Greetings, greetings, beautiful souls, welcome back to the Sweet Spot.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: It is self-care Saturday here on the Sweet Spot, and I'm Dr Derek Sweet.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: I'm your host.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: I'm a board-certified psychiatrist.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I specialize in high performance and sports psychiatry.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: But listen, much more than that.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I am your partner.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: I have been your partner on this journey.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: We've been taking this journey about finding strength finding strength when life shakes us, about being unshakable.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: And today, in Self-Care Saturday, we're going to let the ground breathe.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: After a week of moving through pressure, after a week of moving through pressure, trusting yourself and finishing strong, today we pause Not because we're tired but because we're wise.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: You see, you can't be unshakable if you've never let yourself be still, let that sink in.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: You can't be unshakable if you've never let yourself be still Unshakable.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: People are never really in a rush.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: You ever notice that they have a sense of control.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: They're not impulsive.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: They move to their own internal rhythm.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: I've been watching unshakable people, their own internal rhythm.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: I've been watching unshakable people, my mom.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: She's one of those unshakable kinds of people and anybody who knows her, they know I'm talking the truth to you right now.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: But in nature that's also true.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Nature doesn't rush.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Nature isn't that shakable.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the ocean doesn't force its waves, the mango tree doesn't bloom out of season, does it?
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: And even the sun has a rising and a setting.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Nature reminds us that real strength moves in rhythm, not in rush.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: And where I come from rush and where I come from Trinidad and Tobago, we know that rhythm.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: We know when to slow the day.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, believe me, trinis, they know how to slow a day, okay.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: And we know that joy, rest and even the dirt under your fingernails all have this sacred meaning.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: As the mighty shadow once said in Basman, I was planning to forget Calypso and go and plant peas in Tobago, and I'm not going to go any further than that.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: But the idea of planning to forget Calypso and go and plant peas in Tobago, you know what that is.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: That wasn't defeat, that was restoration.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: That was a man remembering where peace lives, sometimes planting something real, whether it's peace.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Peace or presence, is the boldest act of self-care there is.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget Aretha Franklin, r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Find out what it means to me.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: And self-care is exactly that.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: It's respect, not just for your body but for your boundaries.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: You have to be able to say no so you can say yes to you, not just for your body but for your boundaries.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: You have to be able to say no so you can say yes to you.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Self-care is indeed respect, not just for your body but for your boundaries, not just for your energy but for your enoughness.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: So you're not behind, you're not falling behind.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: You're moving ahead on your healing when you rest, when you care for you.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: And rest is not a reward, it's your right.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: You are deserving of this rest.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: It is part of your recovery.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Self-care isn't extra, it's essential.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, let the world keep spinning.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: You, you take a moment and you breathe.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Guess who rested on the seventh day after creating the universe?
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, god.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: And if God can rest, not because God was tired, but God understood that rest is part of the system, it's part of the process.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: It's part of any performance process is to recover, and God was modeling that for us.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: But we keep missing that part.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: So today, honor your rhythm.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: Today, you say this out loud.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: Today, I honor your rhythm.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Today, you say this out loud.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: Today, I honor my rhythm.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: Today, I protect my peace.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Today, I water what's growing quietly inside of me.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: What would it mean to step back?
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Not because you're quitting, but because you're cultivating something deeper, actively.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: So what part of you needs sunlight today?
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: Because it hasn't felt that sunlight in weeks?
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: The light of the sun.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: For those of you who are listening, you already know what I'm talking about.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: So that's it, my friends.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: For those of you who are listening, you already know what I'm talking about.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: So that's it, my friends.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Self-care Saturday it's about caring for you.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: It's about taking a moment to care for your mind, your body and your spirit by unplugging.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: As the quote says, everything will work if you unplug it for a minute and then plug it back in.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: It just seems to be in our technological world, right In this world of technology that we live in.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: You just unplug it, you reboot it and it comes back.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Well then, you know what.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: We should take that lesson to heart.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: I'm Dr Derek Sweet.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: And tomorrow tomorrow's a slow down Sunday we're going cosmic.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the sacred stillness that lives between the stars and why being quiet might be the loudest move you could ever make.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Until then, I want you to stay grounded, to stay kind, and if the world gets too loud and it gets too hectic, you to stay grounded, to stay kind, and if the world gets too loud and it gets too hectic, go plant some peas and tobacco.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: This is Dr Derek, sweet Love and blessings, and I'll see you for Slow Down Sunday.
• 6:33
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• 6:37
  Speaker 1: Take care you.