Episode 17 - Self Care, Healing & Authentic Living: A Guide to Women’s Empowerment with Melissa Crook

By Jessica Garrison

We are experimenting a little bit with the blog this week, because as of right now, I have yet to listen to the episode. This is because Melissa is starting to record her one on one empowerment episodes live and posting the recording straight from the new Substack Recording Studio. So this week we are discussing Living Out FEEL (Finding Empowerment, Embracing Layers) and using it in your everyday life. 

Living out FEEL is a way to enhance your life and the relationships around you. Once you learn to accept and embrace your layers, then this becomes easier to do with the people in your life. We’ve heard while discussing self care that you have to fill your own cup to be able to pour into others, and the same goes for this talking point. People seeing you live out FEEL encourages them to do it as well, especially once they see you thriving as your healthiest, most authentic self. It’s a journey that only you can choose to go on, but once you get started, it’s nice to have that support and community. 

So how do you live out FEEL? We live it by taking care of ourselves, refilling our cup, and checking in with ourselves every day to make sure we are doing what is needed for that particular day. Set healthy boundaries, standing by them when people try to push us past our limits. Remember to take care of all areas of health, including mental, physical, emotional, sexual, and spiritual. Support yourself and other women in living unapologetically. Live out your why and your values, allowing them to guide you in the decisions you make, big and small. Live out of your own expectations, not the expectations of society, the culture, or those around you. Find acceptance in and embrace your layers, all the parts of yourself that make up who you are: the past, the present, and the future. Continue living each day as your healthiest, most authentic self surrounded by those who fill their own cup in addition to yours. Pour into each other and be each other’s guiding light. All of these things work together to live out FEEL, just like how they are interconnected with each other. 

I’ll leave this blog with some of Melissa’s words that are crucial to remember: “You are worthy, you are valuable, and you get to choose.”

Ways To Engage: Revisit our past solo empowerment episodes with Melissa (https://www.embracinglayers.com/podcast - look at season 9 & 10), the talking points, and the Ways to Engage. Think of them carefully and answer honestly, seeing what areas you’re more comfortable in and which ones you need more work on. Remember that there is an  Embracing a FEEL Fueled Life freebie down below and you can schedule a complimentary 30 minute session with Melissa herself for extra help.

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