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Hi, this is Katie, and thank you for joining me on the Creating Your Sanctuary podcast, and this is a podcast about creating those little moments and space that support you.

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And today I wanted to talk about giving yourself credit.

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So, I think it's a little like celebrating yourself, but it's also acknowledging yourself.

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There's a lot that we accomplish every day, even when you feel like you're taking a time out.

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Maybe you're laying on the couch today and just taking a break and not doing much.

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But there's so much that is done in healing and rest.

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And giving your brain a chance to wander, to think about new ideas, to think about things from another perspective, to think about maybe things that have been associated with shame or guilt, and find a resolution there, that, you know, maybe not all the way, but enough to acknowledge, hey, I did my best at that time with the information I had and the

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mental capacity and the physical capacity that I could.

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And that was enough.

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And that's why I actually do say that at the end of all of these podcasts because you are enough and what you're doing is enough.

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And sometimes the little steps of progress are enough. And sometimes you have to do like have like a really busy day and you are getting a lot of stuff done.

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But then there's those little moments where you're like, I don't know quite what I need to do here.

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I need to wait until the next day.

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And when you do, And you actually solve that little problem, that there's this little thing still kind of hanging out and that you just couldn't quite solve.

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But that night of rest or even that day of rest brings a new perspective and you're like, oh, wait.

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Now I got it.

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How many moments of those have you had recently?

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How many things have you ticked off your to-do list?

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How many times have you been super supportive to your friends and family and colleagues?

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How much progress and movement have you been making?

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Can you look back?

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Can you take a moment right now and pause and look back?

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Because sometimes it all feels invisible.

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It all feels like, especially if it's a lot of mental work and you're trying to sort things out.

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I know when I'm being super creative and trying to figure out, okay, what should this website look like?

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What should this, um, client be doing that could really help their next steps?

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What could I be creating on my channel?

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What could I be saying to my podcast here?

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It takes a lot of quiet moments and a lot of walks around town and taking, you know, photographs and doing things in other mediums to come back and go, okay, now I'm inspired even more.

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But a lot of that can be invisible.

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You're just walking around, but there's so much going on in your brain. And you're taking mental leaps that sometimes can't even be captured in a planner.

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So, always remember that your baseline is very different from everyone else's, you know, remove the shoulds, remove the, well, if they can do it, I can do it.

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I actually hate that term, because so many people say it in videos of like, well, if I can do it, you can do it.

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I don't, I do believe, that there is a common ground of a lot of people succeeding in things together as a group that everyone can, like, process through things, but to say that it's easy, like to say that your process is the same with somebody else's process is not true.

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There, you know, just with, you know, how I learned how to do the immigration process here in the Netherlands.

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There are so many people are like, well, you can do it this way or this way and this way.

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And that's so true.

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There's so many different ways.

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And sometimes those ways work better.

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than others because they work better for you and your way of doing things is the best for you.

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Even when you look at things where it took a lot more energy and time, that's information that you can kind of reflect back on of like, oh, maybe I need to allow more time for myself to process paperwork.

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Maybe I need more time for myself to walk from this place to that place.

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Maybe I need more time for myself to consider how to put this project together.

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And so it's never a failure.

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It's actually like compost for the next project or the next thing that you do.

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So remember, there's always something that you can give yourself credit for.

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Even on those hardest days.

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There's always accomplishments that you've done.

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Even if it's just sitting around.

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And just being you, and taking it all in, and doing what makes you happy, and trying to find those little moments of joy. Remember that those things are important.

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So remember, however you're Creating Your Sanctuary and those little moments that you give yourself credit for, it's enough. I'll see you next time.