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Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Ben... - How to Release Hustle Culture and Create Sustainable Wellness

Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Ben... - How to Release Hustle Culture and Create Sustainable Wellness

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Episode Summary:

Are you weary from constantly striving, juggling endless responsibilities, and living at a pace that leaves you burned out and exhausted? You’re not alone. In this episode of Your Hope-Filled Perspective, I’m joined by Dr. Portia Preston, a public health expert, two-time TEDx speaker, and author of Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go? Her compassionate, shame-free approach to wellness helps us release hustle culture and create sustainable wellness so we can live with greater balance, peace, and joy.

 

Quotables from the episode:

  • This chronic stress is when I lose connection with myself. That's really the best way I know. Where am I in relation to myself and the things that I value most? If I am being irritable in my relationships, something's off. Because these are people that I love.
  • If you had asked me a decade ago about my experience with burnout, I would have pointed directly to my career. And always feeling like it was on me to provide because who else would do it? But it's only been in recent years when I've found that burnout extends to all facets of my life.
  • Surrender isn't about what you can do.
  • The to-do list narrows our perspective. It's asking us to show up as the person who does these things. So immediately we are taken out of connection with our reality and our capacity. And we've been conditioned to say, well, that's the way that it should be. So, if what I have today doesn't measure up to that, then I'm the problem. And I'm not saying the list is bad.
  • There is a saying that says that we are human beings, not human doings.
  • You were born with worth. That it was a part of you. And it's not something that can be taken away from you.
  • God never designed us to go full speed all the time. And recognizing the rhythm of the seasons frees us to honor time of work and time of rest.

Scripture References:

  • Isaiah 30:15 (NLT) “This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: ‘Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength.’”
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NRSV) “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”

 

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