Hey there! I called on all my courage to create my first Facebook live video to celebrate a very important occasion! What’s the occasion? It’s Wednesday! It’s hump day, we’ve made it halfway through the week! From now on I plan to call it Good Medicine Wednesday. “GoodMedWed” for short. And you’re invited.
https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.shryock/videos/10155810074700240/
Introducing Good Medicine Wednesday
Last summer I led my first nature retreat in Glacier National Park. It was such good medicine! I’d been a hiking guide and river guide way back in the olden days of my college years. Those trips didn’t include the transformational personal work of my coaching retreats, but even then I felt so strong, sure, and connected to Source. In the years since, I’d become lost, sick, and disconnected.
Leading that first coaching retreat bridged the decades-long and lonely gap between my self-trusting, nature-loving, guide self and the older, been-to-hell-and-back, soul
But I’m not on retreat all the time
Back home, I continue to carry that sense of purpose. I’m blessed to work with amazing people and to receive feedback that my work matters. That purpose and connection is certainly good medicine!
But much of the time I work alone at a desk. Maybe you do, too. I’m not on retreat all the time, but I want to sustain that sense of vitality I feel on retreat. So I’m starting GoodMedWed with the intention to take little mini retreats, even 5 minutes, mid-week, to dedicate to reconnecting to good medicine.
Good Medicine Wednesday is all about dedicating at least a few minutes mid-week to self-care. A little dose of preventative medicine, if you will.
Good medicine is all around and within us
Having a sense of purpose is good medicine in itself. I help people to cultivate a love affair with their lives and their work. What could be better? But even with delicious work, I need to step away sometimes and nurture myself, reconnect to something bigger, in order to stay fresh and energized.
There are myriad ways to give myself good medicine. I’ll choose my treatment based on how much time I can carve for myself, where I am, and how I’m feeling, rather than prescribing a rigid treatment plan in advance. My experience is that the remedy is inherent in the symptom, so it’s my intention to notice how I’m feeling, my “symptoms,” and feel into what might be my best medicine on any given Wednesday.
Of course, I hope to be able to get outside for at least five minutes of fresh air and sunshine. But medicine can come in so many forms, including naps, reading, listening to something inspirational, walking a labyrinth, simply tuning in to my body or emotions, and on and on. There are so many ways I can take mini-retreats and give myself good medicine. And I hope to sneak out early on Wednesdays for longer breaks whenever I can.
Join me?
I’ll be checking in on Wednesdays on social media and will hashtag goodmedwed. I’d love to see what you’re doing on Wednesdays or any time to give yourself good medicine, little mini- or larger retreats, to take care of yourselves! I’d love to see your pictures or video of your environment and your good medicine. I hope you can go outside and get some fresh air or some kind of good medicine for a few minutes, too. Tell me in the comments, tag me on social media, hashtag #goodmedwed, too?
I’m excited to continue GoodMedWed every week and see what it brings to my own love affair with my work and my life. And yours. Talk soon!
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