Rachel’s Room🛋️Monthly Affirmations

Happy Wednesday, Cadre crew. Hello, everyone. I'm gonna give folks a couple minutes to join in since we are gonna do affirmations today, and I wanna give people a chance to be here when we get started. So I'm just gonna sit here basking in the sun and letting some of these meditative sounds just be until folks start to roll in. And then we will start on our monthly affirmations. Hi, speak wonder. Hello. I am just giving folks a few minutes to join since we're gonna do affirmations today. Hi, Rachel.

Welcome. Hello. Hello. Hi, Russell. Welcome. So nice to see so many faces here. Hi. Get to the root, Rachel. We got a lot of Rachel's in here. Wow. This really is Rachel's room. Hello. From Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, I'm guessing. Hi, Lynn. Good to see you. Happy Wednesday. Hello. Hello. Well, today I'm actually home. I decided to actually cancel my coworking membership because I am trying to be more fiscal and budget oriented, and that was a pretty easy place for me to do that. So I will officially be back in my home for my live streams.

And today I'm sitting on the floor, which is really grounding for me. Hi, Luke. And the floor is a great place for me to ground. And since we're doing affirmations today, I really wanted to be grounded and be grounded with you so that we could really allow these to settle in. So what's up, Luke? So good to be here with you, too. I miss your face. Speak wonder says, I'm rocking with my two month old grandson, Oliver, while joining the live. That is very grounding. Holding, like holding a baby and rocking it back and forth is soothing for the baby, but it's soothing for us, too, to have just that gentle movement and to feel that weight in our arms can feel like a really lovely, warm embrace.

So I love that, doing that. Okay, so, my dears, today we are gonna do affirmations, our monthly affirmations to bring in the month of August. So, I don't know about all of you, but July was pretty turbulent for me. I went through a lot of transition, a lot of change. I felt like I lacked a lot of stability, and I felt a lot of intense emotions for most of the month of July. A lot of uncertainty, grief, overwhelm. And so I noticed that coming into August, what I really craving is stability. I really am craving to ground, to slow down, to build back some routine, to pause, and to take things, like, one step at a time.

So, with that in mind, I wrote us a list of affirmations, kind of on that theme for the month of August. So the way this will work, if you haven't done live affirmations with me before, welcome. I'm so happy you're here. The way we do this is I will kind of guide us through a very short sort of check in and body scans that we can get grounded and get present. And then I will let you know that I'm going to start reciting the affirmations and that you're to repeat after me. So I'll say an affirmation out loud and then pause.

And then in your own space, you'll repeat that affirmation out loud for yourself. So if you have the opportunity now to find a place that is comfortable for you, for me, that's the floor with the pillow underneath me. It could be your couch, your bed, sitting down, lying down in a chair. If you're outside sitting down on the grass or a bench. If you're not somewhere private, that's okay. This video will stay up on my profile, and you can always come back to it. And for now, you can just listen and repeat in your mind.

If you're not comfortable repeating it out loud, that's also okay. And if you can try to say it out loud, it can be really effective to have the words come out of your own mouth and hear your own voice saying them. So I will go through the affirmations twice. There are 13 total, so it won't be too, too long, and it should feel like enough to ground you and feel a sense of rooting. So, okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is just kind of get into our bodies and get grounded here. So wherever you're sitting, just start by kind of like, shaking out your limbs, maybe releasing your shoulders, taking a breath in, and just sort of like lifting the shoulders up to your ears really, really, really tight and then just letting it go and starting to just slow everything down, slowing down your breath, slowing down your movements, allowing yourself for these next few minutes to just be.

If you feel safe and comfortable, you can close your eyes. If not, find something to gaze at a point on the wall, something that's not moving, just to keep your gaze in one place. Notice any tension in your body. Maybe it's your neck, your shoulders. Just direct your breath there and invite some gentle movement. Don't forget to breathe. You're so lucky. You get to breathe. Take a nice, deep inhale through the nose on a count of four, and exhale out your mouth for a count of six. We'll do that again.

Together. Inhale through the nose. 1234. Exhale through the mouth 654321. Just find your normal breathing pace. You can put your hands face up on your lap. Maybe one hand on your heart, one on your belly. Wherever feels comfortable and safe for you. I'm going to open my eyes and read off our affirmations and invite you to repeat them after me and we'll go through this list twice. All that is required of me is this moment right here. I am always safe. When one door closes, another one opens. I can rely on myself.

When I feel lost or overwhelmed, I focus on the next right step. Sometimes it's okay to give my heart a rest from hurting. I don't need to have it all figured out right now. Even though I am lost, I do not have to rush being found. It is safe for me to feel my feelings. I know how to take care of myself and I plan to each day. When it all feels like too much, it's okay to take a break. I put 1ft in front of the other. It is safe for me to simply be okay. We're going to go through them one more time.

Don't forget to breathe. Take a nice deep inhale. Exhale through the mouth this time. Now that you know a little bit what's coming, I'm gonna invite you to really feel these words in your body. Notice anything that comes up without judgment, just gentle observation. Here we go. All that is required of me is this moment right here. I am always safe. When one door closes, another one opens. I can rely on myself. When I feel lost or overwhelmed, I focus on the next right thing. Sometimes it's okay to give my heart a rest from hurting.

I don't need to have it all figured out right now. Even though I am lost, I do not have to rush being found. It is safe for me to feel my feelings. I know how to take care of myself and I plan to every day. When it all feels like too much, it's okay to take a break. I put 1ft in front of the other. It is safe for me to simply be take a nice deep inhale through the nose. Let it out. Sigh out the mouth. The next inhale, give yourself a hug or a squeeze or just a gentle rub and say thank you. Thanks me.

Thank you for showing up for me today. Thank you for trying. Thank you for this moment. Take another inhale through the nose. Exhale through the mouth. Let it go. Relax your shoulders. Start to bring a little bit of life back into your fingers and your neck. And when you're ready. You can open your eyes. If your eyes were closed. Come back into the space, back into the room. You're here. If anyone has any realizations or thoughts, I will stick around for a few minutes to chat. Sometimes these affirmations can bring up a lot.

Sometimes certain ones are a lot harder to say out loud or believe than others. And that's okay. We don't have to believe all of these right now, or any of them. That's why we practice them and say them over and over. Rachel said, dang. All I thought when you said when it feels like too much, it's okay to take a break was, what if it's been always too much? Yeah. What if it's always too much? What if it's always too much? It might be. Sometimes I feel like it's always too much. Sometimes I wonder if it's ever.

If it's ever going to not feel that way. And. And in times when it feels like that, I have to pause. I have to pause and give myself, even if it's five minutes, a chance to just be. No, you can't always take a break. Sometimes it's a break in our mind. Sometimes it's a break in movement. Sometimes it's just a pause to check in with our bodies. I like to go for like five minute walks. I go walk around my block and I just, I put my phone on do not disturb. And for five minutes I just, I just leave my house.

Sometimes getting outside, being around others, just being out of our space, can be really helpful. Sometimes that break is not a physical one. Sometimes it's right now, I'm giving my mind a break from whatever I'm. Whatever I'm feeling, whatever is hurting me, it's going to keep hurting. I know that. So I'm going to give my heart a break right now. I don't have to feel this grief for five minutes. For five minutes, I don't have to feel this pain for five minutes. I'm not going to feel the sadness.

Sometimes I think we demonize distracting or suppressing or avoiding. And I think that that's, I think that's fair. I don't think we always want to suppress or avoid. And it's okay to give our minds a break and a rest from what hurts. We can't always be processing, always healing, always moving through. Sometimes we have to distract ourselves and give our brains a break because it's work to move through those feelings. So we have to give ourselves chance to rest. Can't wait till it cools off enough to walk?

Oh, yeah, it is. We're having a heat wave everywhere. It is wild. It is intense. Okay, my dears, well, this will be on my profile, so if you ever want to come back to it in your own time, you absolutely can. I hope you have a lovely rest of your day. Give yourself a lot of grace, drink a lot of water, be gentle with yourself, and I will see. See you next week. Same time, same place. Bye, Cadre crew.