Podcast Episode 90: Why We Need to Rethink What Self-Care is with Christine Koh, PhD
What if we told you that we can live better, happier, and simpler lives by making a few adjustments to how we think about self-care? Would you try it?
In this episode, we are talking with Dr.Christine Koh. She’s a music and brain scientist turned multimedia creative! She spent a decade in academia, during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen’s University and joint-appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. Christine was about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures.
We discuss what so many of us view “protective self-care” as and what it really needs to be to actually benefit us in the long run. Christine also shares with us her breakdown of Self-Care into two distinct parts: Protective Care and Restorative Care. And how they relate to boundaries, toxic relationships, taking a “pause”, and really overall -how we care for ourselves.
In this episode of the No Guilt Mom podcast you’ll learn:
- What most people define self-care as versus what we need it to be
- What Protective Care is
- What Restorative Care is
- How maintaining healthy boundaries with others improves our self-care
Resources We Shared In This Episode:
Me and My Friendships: A Friendship Book for Kids by JoAnn Crohn
Edit Your Life Podcast – A podcast + community to help you edit the unnecessary so you have more room for the awesome.
Hello Relationships Podcast– A podcast to help you focus on common issues in relationships to stop small aggravations from becoming big problems so you can learn to grow and communicate better.
Protective Care vs. Restorative Care – free download from Christine Koh
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Jessica Turner- The Mom Creative– The Mom Creative is a respected blog for busy women recommending brands and services that help make life easier.
Download the episode transcripts HERE
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