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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 130 || Time + Place
Remember there is a time and a place for everything. Your words and actions will have an impact on others. We need to remain cognizant of the affect we’re…
Make Your Damn BedDay 129 || Sit in your Shit
Find pride in your struggles and celebrate your wins. We’re all fairly talented at self-justifications and jumping through hoops to deny our fault, but the…
Make Your Damn BedDay 128 || Your Dreams or Someone Else's
You’re either working towards making your own dreams come true or you’re working to make someone else’s. We have limited time and energy here to pursue what we…
Make Your Damn BedDay 127 || Raise Your Standards
Just because you’re detached from the outcomes now, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t set yourself up for the best possible one for yourself in the future. Make Your…
Make Your Damn BedDay 126 || Everything is Effortless
Everything can be effortless, even if it ain't easy. The bare minimum is respect and fair compensation. Once you’ve establish the bare minimum, you can decide…
Make Your Damn BedDay 125 || Expectations
The more you let go of your expectations of your reality, the more satisfied you’ll be with the outcomes. Aim in a direction you’re comfortable, work towards…
Make Your Damn BedDay 124 || Do Less, Better
Do less, better. Pare down your to do lists to the essentials and then put your heart into accomplishing those essentials well. As you practice this…
Make Your Damn BedDay 123 || Leave it Better
Leave it better than you found it. This goes for people, places, and things. Whenever we go into any new activity or interaction, we should try to bring our…
Make Your Damn BedDay 122 || Taking it Personally
Try not to take things so personally. The more you detach yourself from the outcomes of things the easier this becomes. Most things aren’t about you anyway. If…
Make Your Damn BedDay 121 || Shoot Your Shot
Nobody should miss an opportunity because they were too afraid to speak up. The way I look at it, is you may as well ask, cuz the worst that can happen is they…
Make Your Damn BedDay 120 || Opening Up
We shouldn’t let our past experiences of being let down impact the people in our lives who aren’t going to let us down. It may take time to earn our trust but…
Make Your Damn BedDay 119 || Read the room
You are a powerful energetic being and you should wield that power wisely. Practice listening more genuinely and not confusing other’s words with your own…
Make Your Damn BedDay 118 || Boundaries > Ultimatums
Boundaries come from a place of self love while ultimatums come from a place of fear. You can’t use the excuse of a boundary to attempt to control another…
Make Your Damn BedDay 117 || Red Flags
So many of us are so willing to make excuses for the people in our lives because we are comfortable or we may be afraid of addressing it for a variety of…
Make Your Damn BedDay 116 || Thinking vs. Emotional Brain
While our thinking brain is often more analytical and more logical by nature, it doesn’t mean the logic it uses is infallible. Anything that happens to you is…
Make Your Damn BedDay 115 || Toxic Positivity
Toxic positivity means we are in a state of denial and when we repress emotions we may miss important cues that can keep us out of the negative cycles that we…
Make Your Damn BedDay 114 || Compliments or Critiques
A good rule of thumb for critiques and compliments is: if a person can’t change it in thirty seconds, it is not appropriate to comment on it. Make Your Damn…
Make Your Damn BedDay 113 || Distrusting Yourself
Self trust is the key to self confidence so one of the worst things you can do to harm another person is by causing them them distrust themselves. When we lie…
Make Your Damn BedDay 112 || Trusting Yourself
Day 112 || Self trust is the key to self confidence. As you begin to trust yourself to do and follow through with things for yourself, you will begin to feel…
Make Your Damn BedDay 111 || You're Your Purpose
We’ve talked about How purpose is overrated but now I wanna try redirecting your continuous search for purpose to instead, start supply it. Instead of chasing…
Make Your Damn BedDay 110 || Positive Bias
Make Your Damn Bed is a real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed* every morning. Each season is 66 days long to incorporate new…
Make Your Damn BedDay 109 || Negative Bias
Don’t stifle yourself through negative thought patterns, instead open yourself up to the very real possibility that our negative thoughts are not only…
Make Your Damn BedDay 108 || Confirmation Bias
We must first take responsibility for our own false beliefs and remember we are not alone on our journeys of unlearning. This is important work and can help us…
Make Your Damn BedDay 107 || Conflict Avoidance
So many people think that avoiding confrontation means not bringing anything up that may inconvenience the people around us but in reality, ignoring it is…
Make Your Damn BedDay 106 || Laid Back
How easy going are you? While it’s incredibly important to stand up for yourself when you’re being slighted, call out true injustices, and follow your…
Make Your Damn BedDay 105 || Shadow Werk
Picking at an old wound will only cause it more trouble. But ignoring it when it’s acting up isn’t healthy either. Focus on the wound when you need to. If you…
Make Your Damn BedDay 104 || Whatcha Gonna Miss?
The strategy I use is finding what I will be nostalgic for later, while I am in the moment. I look around for the things I will remember and miss years down…
Make Your Damn BedDay 103 || Growth Can Happen Anywhere
Sometimes, shifting environments is essential to our growth. Leaving behind a job or a partner that isn’t right for you is not only strong and beautiful, but…
Make Your Damn BedDay 102 || Daily Care Tasks
While it’s incredibly important to sustain a clean house for your mental and physical health - it’s also important to remember that if you don’t keep it clean…
Make Your Damn BedDay 101 || Chaotic Comfort
Allowing yourself to find peace in chaos is not a bad thing, in fact its a very handy tool to have in a chaotic world, but it’s just as important to be able to…
Make Your Damn BedDay 100 || Love
Love - There is far more love in this world than we see on the surface and I think it’d be a hell of a better place for everyone if we weren’t all so afraid of…
Make Your Damn BedDay 99 || Body Neutrality
Body Neutrality is not about falling in love with your physical body, it is about finding peace within it. We are stuck in these meat suits until we die so we…
Make Your Damn BedDay 98 || Respect Them Back, Dammit
We must all work to create a comfortable environment for people to say no to us. We can accomplish this by being respectful and open to people’s differences…
Make Your Damn BedDay 97 || Emotional Nuance
Emotional complexity is a fact of life and accepting that fact means we’re becoming more emotionally intelligent. When we begin new things we may be nervous…
Make Your Damn BedDay 96 || Splitting
Dichotomous thinking is manageable and even though it may seem like the end of the world, it isn’t. As long as you remember - We are not defined by what we…
Make Your Damn BedDay 95 || Emotionally Unavailable
Healthy relationships with open communication means: We shouldn’t have to over-explain ourselves but we also shouldn’t silently suffer. We shouldn’t feel…
Make Your Damn BedDay 94 || Sticking to Your Guns
You are valuable and worthy of respect regardless of how much you bend over backwards to accomplish other people’s goals. Sticking to your guns serves to keep…
Make Your Damn BedDay 93 || Honesty Needs a Safe Space
If you are a hyper critical or hyper sensitive person - people may not feel super comfortable sharing the truth with you. They may try tone down or refrain…
Make Your Damn BedDay 92 || Let's Talk About Sex, Baby.
Sex isn’t meant to be a performance. It is meant to be an enjoyable, pleasurable experience for consenting adults. Slow down and enjoy the experience and don’t…
Make Your Damn BedDay 91 || Personality Chameleon
Day 91 || Stifling your personality to become more palatable only serves to divide you further from meeting your soul mates. You are only making yourself more…
Make Your Damn BedDay 90 || Mind Your Business
Day 90 || Silence is complicity. Staying silent only serves to perpetuate toxic behaviors. If you aim to diffuse and redirect rather than to add to…
Make Your Damn BedDay 89 || Your Soul Mate
Day 89 || Soul mates are the humans that will meet you at each new energetic level as well. The idea that you may miss out your one true soul mate stems from a…
Make Your Damn BedDay 88 || Timeline for Finding "The One"
Day 88 || If you’re looking for a committed monogamous relationship, remind yourself often that it only takes one. One person can potentially change the whole…
Make Your Damn BedDay 87 || Cohabitation
Day 87 - living in a home means there are recurring responsibilities that are unavoidable. If you are not willing to invest time and energy, you should be…
Make Your Damn BedDay 86 || Choose Your Battles Wisely
Pick your battles wisely. While I have often reiterated the importance of calling people out with kindness, there will be Some confrontations that aren’t worth…
Make Your Damn BedDay 85 || Admit Mistakes
Own your mistakes. Nobody is perfect and that includes you. It takes integrity to tell others when you mess up. It takes a brave person to admit they don’t…
Make Your Damn BedDay 84 || Kind > Nice
Niceness has one interest: keeping the peace but peace can not be found if we are not challenging ourselves to think critically about the impact of our…
Make Your Damn BedDay 83 || It Takes a Village
One human being can not and should not be responsible for fulfilling all of your needs. We can’t put all of our emotional responsibility on the back of another…
Make Your Damn BedDay 82 || Self Sufficiency
If we are physically and emotionally capable of doing so, we should be working towards becoming self sufficient in our daily lives. Don’t be afraid to ask for…
Make Your Damn BedDay 81 || What If vs. What Is
Day 81 - Become a realist in your relationships. See people for who they are today, not who you think they could become in the future. Of course, they will…
Make Your Damn BedDay 80 || Diversify Your Friend Group
Day 80 - how diverse is your friend group? We should be hanging out with vast groups of people who think, act, and live differently than ourselves. When we do…
Make Your Damn BedDay 79 || Yucking Someone's Yum
Day 79 - Nobody likes a killjoy. If someone gets a kick out of anything at all - don’t let shame enter the conversation. We should be supporting joy and…
Make Your Damn BedDay 78 || Breakups are a B!tch
By severing a relationship that was not serving your best light - you are allowing space for new relationships to grow and thrive together in search of that…
Make Your Damn BedDay 77 || Our Reactions Hold The Power
Day 77 - Situations and people are powerless without our reactions to them. I have often reiterated how valid all of our feelings are - no matter how dark or…
Make Your Damn BedDay 76 || Nourished Soul vs. Nourished Ego
Day 76 - Does this nourish my soul or does this nourish my ego? It doesn’t mean everything needs to be changed to feed your soul right now - not everything can…
Make Your Damn BedDay 75 || Mixed Signals = A Nope
Take the on again, off again attention as a no instead of a mixed signal. There is nothing more clear than a person only accommodating your expectations when…
Make Your Damn BedDay 74 || Boundaries Can Be Liberating
Day 74 - Boundaries seem like they only serve to set limitations on those around us, but in reality, they are setting guidelines to work within. Which can be…
Make Your Damn BedDay 73 || Small Talk for Big Moves
Day 73 - Small talk is low risk, low commitment, and can push you into stronger relationships in the long run. Taking initiative to start small talk can…
Make Your Damn BedDay 72 || Silence Won't Kill Ya
Day 72 - Most people are not comfortable in silence. We often feel awkward or even an unmentioned pressure to fill the silences in almost a performative way…
Make Your Damn BedDay 71 || People Pleasin'
Day 71 - You must come to terms with the fact that you can’t be responsible for anyone else’s emotions or feelings. You have to learn to stop interfering with…