Gentle Reminders's Podcast

Today's Gentle Reminders podcast encourages you to think about what it means to be experiencing life, as appreciation and gratitude are aspects of life that are so easy to overlook. Reflecting on a journal prompt from the past few months, Trina takes you through the tidbits of wisdom she's accumulated.

It's 2020 and we all deserve a bit of time off don't we? In this episode, Trina explores a few tidbits about taking vacation and the good it can do for us.

We all have moments where we feel like we’re not doing our best. You may feel like you’re not doing enough, that you’re not achieving enough, or that you’re behind. Trina hears you and feels you. This week we're going over five steps from Psychology Today to help break bad habits. There's even a quick story about the Little Engine That Could. Enjoy!

The gap between our current selves and our personal ideal is integrity. While it can be wrapped in many negative emotions, Trina would like to remind you that you can find your values and dig into the practice of personal integrity. You are worth it and you deserve to feel that freedom.

We're all going through a difficult time right now. We get it. The gentle reminders today are around cultivating hope through connection with yourself, others and your community. There are ways to be connected while acknowledging that it is an emotionally, physically and mentally exhausting. Take care everyone!

Happy Sunday! Trina goes through a tool to help you get focused for the week ahead and talks a bit about how our preconceptions of the work week could be contributing to our "Monday Blues". Check out the tool to help focus your week and start getting you doing more of what you want to do!

Oh no! Two of the episodes have similar names! Ahhhhhhh!In this episode, Trina goes over five reminders that can apply to everyone's daily lives: -You don’t have to be perfect-Having a bad day is okay-Small steps are also progress-Asking for help is strength-People love and appreciate you

In this episode, Trina's talkin' about money - all them dolla dolla bills. Money is used by all of us and it's incredible the amount the average Canadian carries in debt. When we're thinking about money, it's time to break down barriers, talk to our friends honestly and remember that we all kind of suck with money at one point or another.

Trina explores the quote "self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what's left of you" while sharing her personal experiences with migraine and the holidays. The invitation in this episode is to reflect, decide what you'd like to be 1% better in your life, create a self-care plan for it and tell someone you trust how they can help you in those moments. Self care plans templates: https://twitter.com/kimschon/status/938807992400703489https://sellfy.com/p/DVva/Trina would love to connect: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gentlereminderspodcast/Twitter - https://twitter.com/RealGRPodcastFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Gentle-Reminders-Podcast-108426100578901/Email - gentlereminderspodcast@gmail.com

Gossip - it can be insidious and hurtful to hear. Everyone experiences it in some form and how you react to it is so important to your mental health and to helping stop it. Trina makes three invitations for when you hear gossip, suggestions that allow you to take back the power of reaction.

In this episode, Trina explores the bad day and how it is different from grief and trauma. The quote is an opening to discuss a bit of darkness that we all experience and the messiness that we all have in life. There are opportunities to explore accessible mental health professionals and advocates on Instagram:@the.holistic.psychologist @millennial.therapist@lisaoliveratherapy@i_weigh@lizlistens@julesvonhep@bensmithhasanxiety

Habits are the foundation of our day to day lives. Trina explores two quotes from Mike Litman and shares her experiences with building habits, including her struggle to get the laundry done or avoid fast food. The habits we all have impact our lives in ways we don't really think about. When you do start to think about them, the opportunity for success is greater and the gentle reminder here is to think about your habits as the blueprint for your life. Books: -The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg-High Performance Habits by Brendon Buchard-I Know How She Does It by Laura VanderkamApps: -Fabulous -Tody

In this episode, Trina explores a quote from a fantastic friend of hers. Don't let the urgent crowd out the important. But, in the world of notifications and false urgency, what is really urgent? What is truly important? Trina provides her perspective on both and some tools to determine what is what. Also, what if you're the one providing the urgency to another person? How do you frame it within yourself in order to get a better response, instead of passing along anxiety and pressure? Trina gives a few tools that she uses in these moments and how she acknowledges her role in giving and receiving urgency.

In the first episode of Gentle Reminders, Trina talks about the opportunities to live well - showing up for ourselves, friends, community and what that means for her. She starts off with a great quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - then relates it to her own experience of living well.