Sarah Nelsen Take Over

Brooke Monaghan22min

Brooke Monaghan

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Today, you're going to be hearing from Sarah Nelsen, Sara works with people who have chronic health conditions or experience chronic pain, and helps them to use yoga to deal with that pain and anxiety. And I'm so excited about the fact that she is actually going to walk you through a guided practice today that you can do anytime that you're feeling overwhelmed. And I love Sarah's message in this episode, because what she's talking about is that self care for stress, and overwhelm, first of all, can be a very useful tool in actually avoiding burnout so that you don't have to even recover from it, you can just catch yourself in the moment and build this habit of relaxation so that you don't get to that point. But what I really love is that she's making it accessible. Sarah has a yoga from bed free course. So if you love what you're hearing in this episode, then you definitely are going to want to go and check that out. I'm gonna put the link in the show notes. But this is what I'm talking about. When I say accessible, self care does not need to be this huge, heavy lift, it can be about small and fancy practices, you know that you can just make a habit of, of revisiting whenever you're feeling anxious. I also love this episode today. Because I think that so much of what we hear in the business development world is really geared toward people who are not struggling with other things. When you're struggling with pain with chronic pain with a chronic illness, or with mental health issues or anxiety or depression. All of the tools that are shared with you might not be accessible for you. And what Sara is going to share for you today is actually geared toward folks who might be struggling. And so I'm really happy to bring this to you because I know that as business owners, we do short struggle with anxiety and overwhelm and burnout. And that's exactly what this guided practice is for. So in addition to that, you're also going to hear from Sarah about the rules that she's breaking in her business, some of her biggest learnings as she's grown this business, where she provides both online and in person support and really excited to bring it to you go ahead and check out the show notes if for all the links for where to find Sarah. If you are loving what you hear from her today, and I know that you're you'll enjoy

Brooke Monaghan

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the stuff the sound of a 90s rock radio station, a son of the rule breaker takeover, for my rule breaking clients take over the show to share their wisdom teachings and lessons from their own business growth for a peaceful loving bunch, but we also reject just about everything that we're supposed to do. And if I say so myself, I think we make the world just a little bit cooler, and inspire others to bring out their inner badass. So deep down, I think we're metal as fuck. If you want to join these Rule Breakers and myself, you can learn more about the Rule Breakers crew at Brooke dash monahan.com mo na, G H A N. But you don't need to be in that space to be in community with or learn from these brilliant business owners.

Brooke Monaghan

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so head to the shownotes to find their work. Because we could all use just a few more badasses in our network.

Sarah Nelsen

03:31

Hi, I'm Sarah Nelsen. I'm a yoga teacher and yoga therapist specializing in working with people who struggle with chronic health conditions, especially those that include symptoms of anxiety and pain. I'm located in Portland, Oregon, where I see clients in person, but I also work with people from all over via my online therapeutic yoga membership. I came to yoga therapy in my 20s after complete burnout, the kind where you have to move back to your childhood home so your mom can take care of you. I was lucky to have a place to rest and recuperate and was back on my own within a few months. But that experience scared the shit out of me and gave me a deep respect for anxiety as a messenger that I'm doing too much. And I need to slow down. Learning how to relax through the slower practices of yoga has been a lifesaver over the past few years as I started my own business. I know that stress and anxiety and burnout are not uncommon for entrepreneurs. Many people starting their own business while also continuing to work, raise a family be involved in their communities. It all adds up and can take a toll and one of the first thing Things that we usually let go of is self care. Now sometimes people think self care is pampering themselves with massages or taking 90 minute yoga classes, and they just don't have the time or the resources for that. Today, I'd love to share with you a short guided practice that you can do. Anytime you're feeling overwhelmed, stressed or anxious, or even better, do the practice before you start to feel that way and avoid the overwhelm and the anxiety. Just like we use sunscreen to prevent skin cancer so we can avoid the cancer treatments, you can get in the habit of relaxing so that you don't need to recover from burnout in the future. So if you're driving you'll probably want to save this practice for when you can be undistracted I would love for you to place your body into a comfortable position. So you might be lying in bed resting on the couch sitting. Use whatever extra pillows and blankets that you have around to help you feel as supported as possible.

Sarah Nelsen

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Let's begin with a few exhale sighs So inhaling through your nose and then just allowing the breath to escape out through your mouth. You might even make a sign noise as you release your breath

Sarah Nelsen

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exhale size may help you to release tension in your face and feel a little more relaxed throughout your body.

Sarah Nelsen

07:13

I want to start our practice by sharing a poem by Donna faults. Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold the holding of plans or dreams or expectations. Let it all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear and desperate attempts to flee from the very energy you longed for. Let go. Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes through your days. Whether you receive it gently or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders. Take this on faith. The mind may never find the explanations that it seeks. But you will move forward nonetheless. Let go and the waves crest will carry you to unknown shores beyond your wildest dreams or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of rest and peace and certain transformation we are going to spend the next few minutes doing a body scan practice. If at any time you need to wiggle your body or change your position. Please listen to that urge and allow your body to move. As we move our awareness through our bodies I'll be repeating the direction to unfurl. I have in mind an image of a fiddlehead Fern rolled up tightly then gently releasing an opening. If there is another image that works better for you go ahead and use that. And to be clear we aren't actually moving or stretching our bodies. We are imagining the sensations of unfurling.

Sarah Nelsen

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Let's start at the feet. Imagine you could unfurl the soles of your feet really seeing any tension in the soles of your feet

Sarah Nelsen

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imagine you could unfurl each of your 10 toes. unfurl and release any tension in your toes bring your awareness to the tops of your legs. And imagine you could unfurl your legs from the hip creases

Sarah Nelsen

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all the way down to the ankles. release any tension in your legs unfurl your tailbone. Feeling a release of tension throughout your pelvis and allow that to move all the way up your spine.

Sarah Nelsen

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unfurling each vertebrae in your low back, your mid back, your upper back and your neck now imagine you could unfurl your arms from the tops of your shoulders to your wrists. Feel the tension release from your arms let the palms of your hands unfurl. Then each finger and both thumbs allow your hands and fingers to release any tension imagine you could unfurl your brain creating more spaciousness and release throughout your head allow your whole body to feel unfurled, relaxed and released

Sarah Nelsen

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take a few deep breaths to come back. Allow for some movement in your body. Maybe even stretch and a yawn if you enjoyed that practice and are ready to make time for yourself on a regular basis to relax. Then I am excited to share with you my free yoga embed course it's just 310 minute practices that can all be done from your bed. So if you think you don't have time or space for yoga, you can do these when you wake up in the morning or before bed. There's a stretching practice a strengthening practice and a guided relaxation practice. You don't need any fancy clothes or props. You can check it out at BIT dot L y forward slash in bed yoga. Now I would love to share with you a bit about my experience working with Brooke in the Rule Breakers crew. So when I landed in the Rule Breakers crew in 2021 I was just starting the launch of my online therapeutic yoga membership. I was fresh out of a quote how to launch training that had me near overwhelm once again. There were so many rules around marketing and launching. And I was working long hours for no money and feeling pretty exhausted. At that time my family actually took Good trip to the coast and I basically worked the whole time. I had spent many years learning to trust myself when it came to my yoga practice and other parts of my life. But because I don't have a business degree or a background in business, I was outsourcing my trust in how to run a business to others, and it was not serving me well. And Tobruk and the rule breaker screw. Brick showed me there is more than one way to do a launch and that I can make up my own roles. Brookes way of running business, finding a business aligns so completely with my own yoga practice. One of the teachings that has most profoundly impacted me and how I am running my business was around zone of genius and not so much learning what that is and what mine is, but learning how I can best nurture and access my ability to work within my zone of genius. So it's different for everyone. But for me, it's being well rested, it's taking walks, and it's being out in nature, even even when that's just my own backyard. These were all things I didn't think I had time for when I was setting up my business. But now I see they are the very things that help me show up in through Z caustically for my business zero the things that helped me create authentic content and marketing. In the real break your screw, Brooke asks questions that forced me to look at my habits and patterns, and my programming around the right and wrong ways to run a business. Over and over, we returned to trusting ourselves to know the right next step. Even if that step doesn't appear on a business flowchart or a spreadsheet. As I mentioned, I struggled with trusting myself and my business decisions. But the more I hang out in my zone of genius, the more the next step just presents itself to me.

Sarah Nelsen

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But then there was last month. Last month, I got a really clear message that I needed to rest more that it was time to step back and take a breath. This felt like it went against all the business rules. If I ran my business off of the advice found on most Instagram business pages, I should be producing more content, creating more buzz, and not resting, never resting. And I was scared of this message to rest. What if I just rested and everything fell apart? What if I rested and I never wanted to work again? That was a legit concern. And then I get to hear Brookes voice in my head. What if you rested and it didn't all fall apart? What would a person who prioritized their well being and rest do? And so I rested? A bit reluctantly. At first, I made a deal with myself that for one week, I would work in the mornings to do the bare minimum I needed to do for my online membership. And then I would quit work every day by lunch. And I would just relax in the afternoons. And I wouldn't think about work. I wouldn't read books about business. Yeah, just relax. And that week turned into a month. And at the end of the month, I spent a whole week with my best friend not working. And then I came home and all I wanted to do was work. I had a million ideas and so much energy. I felt lit from the inside with excitement and passion for what I do. trusting myself to rest when I needed to rest saved me from burnout and has made returning to my work and absolute joy. I am incredibly grateful to Brooke for helping me get off the merry go round of business rules and advice and hustle and learn to listen and trust myself to know they know what I need to be doing. And then and then when it's time to take the next step. All now if you're listening to this and you're feeling overwhelmed by all the shoulds around business, I want to assure you knew that there is another way to run your business. It might take some mind shift, mindset shifting and some practice. But it is absolutely worth it for you and for your mental health, and so that you can show up with excitement and energy for your business. I had been following Brooke online for a while based on the recommendation of a friend. And the thing that finally motivated me to join the Rule Breakers crew was hearing a transcend your dichotomy podcast episode, where Brooke talk to members about their experience being a part of the rule breaker screw. It's basically impossible to narrow down my favorite thing about Rule Breakers grew. But I will say one of the sweetest benefits is the supportive community. Being an entrepreneur can be so isolating and doing it during a worldwide pandemic is a whole nother level. Whether it's the support we give each other on our weekly calls or in the online community. I feel like every member has my back and is cheering me on. It takes a special person to create that kind of community and that kind of camaraderie. I am so grateful to have it and to have Brooke in my life.

Brooke Monaghan

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Transcender dichotomy is a production of passion and process collaborative LLC. The podcast is produced by me Brooke Monaghan with post production and marketing support from Alex Henderson. If you want to support me in the show the best way to do that is to subscribe leave a rating and a review and share with someone who you know needs to hear it to take the free circumventing should DIY workshop and start getting my newsletter where I drop all of my best work go to Brooke dash monahan.com That's mo N EY Ghan. Love y'all. See you next week.

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