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86. The Courage to Rest: Practicing What I Preach

• Naihomy Jerez • Episode 86

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Taking a break from the podcast in July to rest and recover from burnout after months of physical health challenges and a busy family schedule.

• Sharing the importance of listening to your body's signals before getting sick
• Experiencing burnout that's affecting creativity, mood, and desire to show up
• Dealing with consecutive health issues since March (COVID, sprained ankle, infection)
• Managing family responsibilities during the busy end-of-school season
• Explaining why true rest isn't solved with a spa day or face mask
• Providing four categories of recommended episodes to listen to during the break
• Wellness culture for people of color
• Client experiences with food and hormone health coaching
• Hormone health tips
• Mindset shifts for wellness

If you'd like to book a free consultation call to discuss wellness, food relationships, or exercise, my calendar is up to date. Visit www.naihomyjerez.com to join my email list and receive episode recommendations during the break.


Thank you so much for listening!


Speaker 1:

Hello friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast W-E-L-L-T-H-Y. Today's episode is going to be about me practicing what I preach. The truth is that if we do not tend to our bodies and listen to the signs that it's giving us, then it can spiral, it can make us really sick and unwell and that is never fun. And, as someone who that's what I teach my clients, that's what I try to help them understand how to listen to their body and how to take action on that it would be outside of my integrity and my values to not do that for myself, and I am human, so it is easy for me not to, I guess, practice what I preach and just keep on going. But I want to be fully transparent that I'm really not trying to do that, like not trying to push through and just listen, especially in a moment where I have the opportunity to rest. With that said, I will be taking a break from the podcast for the month of July 2025. I may be recording things, but I'm not going to be posting things on there, because I am trying to rest as much as I can, because the fact that I am honestly kind of burnt out at the moment is affecting me in a few different ways is affecting my creativity, is affecting my mood, it's affecting my, I guess, desire to show up. Sometimes. To be quite honest with you, the I did not. I think I did an episode about this a few weeks ago where I spoke about also feeling burnt out and taking a bit of a break but I feel like I've just been kind of, you know, like when you're at the beach I don't know if you've been to the beach, but like kind of getting knocked down over and over and over again. Um, that's kind of what it's felt like for me and I'm I just I'm stopping myself right now from minimizing my lived experience and my circumstances because I was going to go into oh, you know, like is not as bad as other people might have or what other people are experiencing, which is 100%, absolutely true. I also want to hold space for myself, also just acknowledging and validating that in my current lived experience, I am also tired and I am also deserving of whatever I need to meet my own needs right and for me to get better. Because, as I've been preaching these past few months, if we're not taking care of ourselves, then it's really hard to show up for other people and I love the way that I show up for you and my community and my clients and I want to continue doing that. Right?

Speaker 1:

So I was saying that I just feel like I've been like continuously getting knocked down one time after another, with starting like back in March when I got COVID for two weeks and then I ended up spraining my ankle. Um, and then in the past month I've been dealing with yeast infection in my body, which has been super annoying. It has been exhausting, um, it is trying to figure it out and go to doctor's appointments and talk to other wellness practitioners in the middle of one of the busiest months for me and just pushing through and pulling through because there's just so much going on while feeling so insanely uncomfortable in my body has taken a lot right and I'm like I currently just got my period on top of that. So it was just so much Um and I'm I am tired. Your girl is tired. Like I said, everything is being affected in the moment. I have like two to do lists in front of me right now that I want to get done, actually three for my business, but it's it's so insanely hard because it's it's taking so much from me to get this work done.

Speaker 1:

Now, I mentioned the stuff that was going on with myself, but there's also an insane amount of stuff with family going on as well. In the month of June is both my kids birthdays, is also my nephew's birthday and his celebration my kids celebration is also the end of the school year, which, if you're a parent with school age kids, there's like events popping off left and right this celebration, that celebration, this thing and that thing. So making space and time for that. Also, my son graduated the fifth grade this year as well, so his graduation and experience right and being there for that, one of my sons were required to be there on his field trips. So also the end of school year, no more tests and formal instruction happening in the classroom. So they have a million and one trips. One of my sons also has weekly therapy appointments and then they were also due for their dentist appointment and their eye doctor appointment and it's just been back to back to back, coupled with weather that's not so great here in New York city, with a lot of gray days, a lot of rainy days, now a heat wave, and then you know regular old things like let's plan out meals and what are we eating and when are we resting and trying to take care of myself.

Speaker 1:

So I don't know if you're tired yet from me sharing this, but I sure am tired. So I'm really like tomorrow, or I'm recording this on a Wednesday. So tomorrow, thursday, when this episode comes out, today, I guess, is the last day of school here in New York City, because it takes forever to end school here public school, because of all of the holiday breaks that they get, which is fun, but then it requires us to be in school for a very, very long time. So today is finally the last day of school and I feel like I just want to like collapse at making it through June, because I feel like I deserve a celebration. We all deserve a celebration, because it's just been so much back to back and it's hard to appropriately rest. And it's hard to appropriately rest when my immune system is fighting so hard and my mind is going a mile a minute. So that's why it was like I need to give cut some things out, I need to give myself some space to just be and, because I have so many episodes, I decided that it was a great like an opportunity to take a break from um being creative in this sense.

Speaker 1:

But what you will get is recommendations for episodes to listen to while I'm resting, because there are so many great episodes that are on here and I've kind of created four buckets for you to go to episodes on topics that you might be interested in, and some of the topics that, or buckets of topics, you will be seeing, is episodes on hormones and hormone health, with tips, episodes on my clients and their personal experience with me, one-on-one coaching and their personal experience and why they decided that they wanted to invest in something like food and hormone health coaching with me and the kinds of results that they've received. So if you're at all curious and want to hear from another person and feel seen and heard and validated, those are great episodes to listen to. There's also going to be a bucket on wellness culture right, wellness culture specifically for us people of color, and what that looks like. There's so much, I think, misconceptions and traumas and just one-sided ways of maybe thinking about wellness or executing wellness that it keeps us stuck and it just doesn't maybe align with the current season that you're in or the current country that you're in, right, your current situation. So there's going to be tips on that. And then the last one will be on mindset, right, and it's either going to be mindset or guess how to think about wellness. How can you approach it? How can we change our mind around it? Which kind of falls in line, more or less, with wellness culture?

Speaker 1:

But more or less those are going to be the buckets that you're going to be receiving via email. If you're not on my email list, I invite you to join. You can go to my website, naomijaurascom the link is in the show notes here and you can go ahead and join my email list there to keep informed as to what is happening. So that's basically the gist of it. Your girl is tired. Send me a nice text, show me some love, um, and I really do think it's a really good time for me to reflect and just make, maybe, decisions or get my creativity back from by creating some space for myself, um, to do that.

Speaker 1:

And if you haven't dealt with burnout or being extremely exhausted, it's not something that is solved from one day to the next. It's not something that's solved with a spa day or a face mask. It can help and it can be part of the process, however, really resting your nervous system and your body and your mind and your spirit and your soul takes time. It takes time and me not having to do long commutes for two months or so while the kids are not in school and kind of having a different schedule and being summer season. I think it's a good time to do that, because sometimes during the school year it feels like there's sometimes no space for that.

Speaker 1:

I know I can create the space and I'm extremely lucky and fortunate to be an entrepreneur and make decisions of maybe I will work one day or not, but sometimes it's really actually not that simple. There's a lot to think about. As I said, I have I have three to do lists in front of me right now that I would love to get done. I have, um, you know, events that I'm trying to plan. I also need to generate revenue, like. This is my livelihood, this is how I support myself and my family, and those are a lot of stressors that go on that happen in the entrepreneur's mind. Um, that hangs over us, in addition to let me create something to post on Instagram, right, or a newsletter or a podcast episode. So I'm just honestly sharing this in full transparency as someone I would share with a close friend. The great news is and it's something that I also help my clients with is building awareness around that and building the safety to take action on it, because a past version of myself, or a few years ago, this would have turned into a really big deal where I felt like I couldn't do it because I was failing or everything would fall apart. But in fact it is the opposite right and I'm sharing it.

Speaker 1:

In case you are in a similar position of feeling totally burnt out and maybe feeling guilty or a certain type of way about taking a break from your life, taking a break from certain things and not even allowing yourself the opportunity of how are you going to do that, because you feel like you just need to keep pushing through and doing the next big thing. But, as something that I know and I also share with my clients, it becomes so unproductive and so like, not in line with what you're actually trying to do, because you literally cannot think like I literally cannot think. So it becomes this cycle of me kind of like shaming myself for sitting in front of my computer, for sitting in front of this microphone or my phone and trying to create more, create, create, create when there is nothing to create from. Therefore, nothing comes out and you're like I just wasted my time, I can't do this, I suck, or all these like colorful thoughts and words that might come out to describe how we're actually feeling, but in reality, it's not the moment to do those things, because what you actually need is a change of pace, is some rest, is to be in your real life, doing things in nature, sitting outside, playing with your kids or whatever it is or not and and just resting sitting on the couch, um, watching reruns of your favorite show. So, yeah, that's that's where I am right now, and I wanted to share that because I didn't want to just like leave you hanging as to what was happening. Know that if you're on my email list, you're going to get recommendations of what shows to catch up on.

Speaker 1:

If that's something that you want to do while you are on your break, what you can do if, uh, you feel called to as well, is, you're absolutely welcome to book a free consultation call. If you want to talk more about wellness, talk more about having a better relationship with food, a better relationship with exercise, what does wellness even look like for you? Not understanding how your body's communicating with you and how to spot these signs of what's happening and meeting yourself where you are. Okay, I think a lot of times when we're feeling a certain type of way that we need to, you know, fix ourselves or something, we lean on. Things like, oh, let me go for a spa day or let me just sleep in today, but essentially that does not solve the bigger problem. It does not necessarily allow you to feel better for the long term. Okay, so I hope that this served you in some sort of way. I hope that you feel seen. I hope that you're meeting yourself where you are.

Speaker 1:

I am still here for you, um, and to support you and help guide you in whatever way you need. Help guide you in whatever way you need. I look forward to your consultation call. If you decide to book one, my calendar is up to date, so where you find a space on there in July or in August, you're welcome to book that. I am excited to talk to you and start supporting you in a personalized way that is fitting to you and your life, that gets you results long-term.

Speaker 1:

That you understand how to be consistent. Work on that consistency right. It's one of the number one complaints. I'm not consistent in my wellness journey or in my food or exercise or whatever it is, and that's just because there's a few steps in between whatever you're doing and the point where we reach consistency, also defining what consistency means for you and your life. I think that's really important so that you're not on this cycle that keeps repeating itself. Cool, all right. So I will see y'all with a fresh episode in July. In the meantime, we'll share episodes to catch up on and, if anything, I'll see you on a consultation call. I hope you're having a great summer and I will see y'all in August. Bye.