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Make Your Damn Bed
@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.
Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!
Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Episodes
Make Your Damn BedDay 308 || Unionize for the Collective
People have far less power when we act individually. Acting together as group is where real, substantial change is made. Unions are built on this reality. And…
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Day 307 || Pleasure Bait
Our thoughts, feelings, and even experiences are not always rooted in reality. More so, they are rooted in survival. The fact that we can often take a step…
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Day 306 || Synthetic Happiness
If we are truly stuck with a choice, our best hope for happiness is to simply lean in. Our brains have this miraculous power to make us feel happy, as long as…
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Day 305 || Experience Simulator
Watch the Ted Talk here: The Surprising Science of Happiness by Dan Gilbert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1dgn_C0AU So, if we are stuck with things going…
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Day 304 || Cancelling Plans
Be honest and up front with your people. If you feel the need to rain check and can foresee that change happening ahead of time, let them know as soon as you…
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Day 303 || Remembering Names
I have often expressed how important it is to make others feel heard and seen, and that feeling we get when a stranger thinks you’re worthy of remembering your…
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Day 302 || Weaponized Mindfulness
Practicing mindfulness is to make your life better, not to make you a better employee. Ideally, we can get to a place where we can choose our well-being over…
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Day 301 || Bad Sh*t's Accessibility
If you want to get something done and cant stop getting distracted? Make it difficult to access your distractions. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and…
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Day 300 || Simplify + Consolidate
When you slow down consciously - you start to notice how much the world opens up. Oddly enough - when you intentionally choose less, you make room to…
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Day 299 || Habitual Identity
When we associate our decisions with a part of ourselves that we take pride in, we are less likely to question whether we should put in effort or not. It…
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Day 298 || Culturally Speaking
We should be striving to treat individuals as individuals. All humans, regardless of race, age, gender identity, sexuality, religion, preferences, or personal…
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Day 297 || Schadenfreude
In my experience there are two types of thinking when it comes to suffering. There are people who think, “I experienced something terrible and I don’t want…
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Day 296 || Gradual Slow Progress
Unless something drastic happens, real change is hard to notice until consistent effort has been put in and enough time and has passed to show those results…
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Day 295 || Toxicity Attractors
Being open, honest and kind is a valuable asset in a closed off, dark, and often mean world. That said, being an honest, open, kind and vulnerable person can…
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Day 294 || Don't Sweat the Tree Sweater
When we put good out in the world, we get an automatic target on our backs on how we could be doing more, better, or differently, but in my opinion - that…
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Day 293 || Magic Reflector
The reason that things resonate with you - is because of you. You see the magic in the world because you have the capacity for that magic. You are a mirror…
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Day 292 || Gift Giving
Set boundaries with the holidays. Don't burn through your savings trying to impress everyone. Focus on experiences and practicality rather than the top of the…
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Day 291 || Self Deprecation
Trade in your self deprecation for self aggrandizing and watch your confidence grow! Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some…
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Day 290 || Against the Grain
It’s not about fitting in with the crowd - it’s about doing the things that feel the best and create the best outcome as a result. There is nothing to be…
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Day 289 || F*ck Manners
Keeping yourself safe is the priority. And anger and resentment can be important feelings to have to signal if people are taking advantage of us. I encourage…
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Day 288 || Brutally Honest
The truth is brutal, but honesty doesn’t have to be. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON…
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Day 287 || Show Up
Showing up can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and you will have agency over how you choose to show up - but to me, it’s important…
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Day 286 || Processing Time
Getting comfortable growing means getting comfortable being wrong. Your thoughts may feel like the truth, but they're not always rooted in reality. Often, in…
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Day 285 || Giving Thanks + Honoring Truth
It's Thanksgiving in the US and instead of dreading the holiday altogether, I now look forward to the idea of having a specific day dedicated to gratitude and…
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Day 284 || Fight with Love
When people misplace their anger onto you - it's not your responsibility to rectify it. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get…
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Day 283 || Energetic Mirroring
People will typically match your energy. Your energy reflects your perceptions. This is why, if you work improve your perception, the reactions of others and…
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Day 282 || Interpretive Realities
The things that resonate for you reflect your past, your experiences, your interpretations, and even more so, your attitude about all of that shit. This is why…
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Day 281 || Intentional Muscles
When we put our attention and our full conscious minds behind the things we do, we give them more power than when we simply allow them to happen to us. It…
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Day 280 || Show Up + Practice Mindfully
Practice never goes bad. It’s not something that expires when you don’t use it. You can build on that information later. Hone the skill over time when it feels…
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Day 279 || Curating Your Embodiment Playlist
Learning to love yourself means showing up day after day with compassion, curiosity, and reverence for the person you are in this very moment. It means being…
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Day 278 || Energetic Declutter
Decluttering can feel very empowering and lighten some of the energetic ties you naturally create when residing in a space. It’s hard to feel free when you’re…
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Day 277 || Emotional Oil Change
When you do this intentional releasing, I want you to focus on getting the shit out. When you change the oil in your car, you have to drain out the old shit…
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Day 276 || Rinse Off the Funk
Water is insanely cleansing, effective, and a powerful energy resource and it’s not to be underestimated in our own personal healing and wellbeing. There is a…
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Day 275 || Repressed Anger
Aggression is a human emotion. You are allowed to feel aggressive. Anger is a human emotion. You are allowed to feel angry. Sadness, frustration…
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Day 274 || Movement Mindset
If we create positive associations with movement - we will struggle less with guilt and that feeling of obligation. Build positive mindsets around movemetn…
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Day 273 || Stop Planning For Them
The only thing you can plan for is your behaviors, choices, and reactions. Stop writing the story for everyone's reactions to your choices and just lean in…
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Day 272 || Negative Reviews
I found myself focusing on the negative opinions of others. Opinions I had no control over. So when I caught myself and refocused on the positive comments of…
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Day 271 || Control List
I generally say steer clear of obsessing over problems and people. The only thing you should obsess over is your own wellbeing. Feel free to get caught up in a…
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Day 270 || Avoidance Gives Power
When we build a barrier to protect us from feeling hard feelings, they become more challenging to approach in general. So, as a result, we end up completely…
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Day 269 || Positive Noise
Think about when you do get distracted - throughout the day - even if it’s good thoughts or positive distractions, it can easily interrupt our flow. Read…
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Day 268 || Differences Aren't Attacks
Genuinely though - there are perks to many lifestyles you would hate to have - and cons to many lifestyles you would love to have. Focus less on what you’re…
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Day 267 || Language = Mindset
Change your language to improve your mindset. YOU are not fat. You have fat. YOU are not depressed. You have depression. YOU are not insecure. You feel…
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Day 266 || The Smiley Face Sign
We don’t outgrow our desire for feeling seen and validated. We simply get less of that external validation because we have seemingly learned our lessons…
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Day 265 || High Five Yourself
Encouragement, like motivation, is something that needs refreshing daily. It’s not to be dismissed as something that only kids and sports teams benefit from…
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Day 264 || Season 4 Finale
Human connection is so important - this is why we like to meet up with friends for drinks or family for dinners - so don’t skimp out on connecting with…
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Day 263 || All or Nothing
A lot of us live in an all or nothing mentality all of the time. We see things in black and white despite our conscious awareness of the fact that most of the…
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Day 262 || Receiving Mode
If you’re the giving type, it probably means you struggle with receiving. I encourage you to take a step back form your identity as the generous friend for a…
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Day 261 || Gettin' Real
Be realistic with your expectations, be realistic when you set plans, be realistic when you do literally everything in order to save yourself a lifetime of…
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Day 260 || Make it Make Sense
Sometimes, in the moment, we aren’t able see the bigger picture. We don’t understand why we’re met with resistance or bad luck or rejection - and years later…
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Day 259 || Reteaching Joy
Take the leash off for a while. Play. Make messes. Get loud and don’t be afraid to look silly or stupid while doing so. Follow the fun without fear. You are…
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Day 258 || Reparent Yourself
When you embody your own best parent, you become someone who knows what is best for you, wants what is best for you, does what is best for you, and helps you…
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Day 257 || Flow Downstream
When I say float downstream, this is not a mindless or passive task. This is simply being mindful with the way your life is moving, making small choices to…
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Day 256 || Toxicity
If you don’t choose to uproot your own toxicity once in a while you will get sick. You will keep that toxicity inside which means it will eat you alive. Even…
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Day 255 || Ignorance is Judgemental
We’ve all made snap judgments and it takes a long time to unlearn a lifetime of habit - especially one as natural as this - but trust me when I say, your…
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Day 254 || Clarity is Key
Genuine connection only comes from our ability to fully connect with our own desires and needs. We do this by getting clear before trying to communicate with…
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Day 253 || Intellectually Avoidant
You are a person, not a test subject. Life is a journey not some race to enlightenment. You are welcome to just be. Stop using intellectualism to avoid feeling…
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Day 252 || Support Can Be Uncomfortable
My parents made a lot of rules that didn’t feel like support at the time, that I absolutely consider supportive now. Support from my bra is uncomfortable but…
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Day 251 || Odd Person on the Sidewalk
The amount of attention you’re receiving or not receiving is not a reflection of your character. Life is a dance. We are moving all over the place and going…
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Day 250 || Dream Job(s)
If you have an idea for what you would you like to achieve in the future, take steps towards that. But if you aren’t sure - try everything until you figure out…
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Day 249 || Life Motto
Focus in on what your life means to you, allow that meaning to change with you over time, and never allow anyone else’s interpretation of that meaning affect…