Guided Journaling Workshop with Krista Steele
Get to know the 2024 Mental Health and Motherhood Virtual Conference speakers in this summer series!
It’s time for another meet and greet!
As we wait for the 2024 Mental Health and Motherhood Conference on October 11, 2024, we have the chance to meet our speakers this summer on Substack. I sat down with
and asked her our conference question:“How can we treat ourselves with compassion through guided journaling?”
After speaking with Krista, I was completely assured she was the right person to lead our attendees through a workshop halfway through the event. Take a 5-minute pause in your day to watch our chat or read the transcript below!
“I think as adults, you know, and especially as mothers, like we expect ourselves and the world expects us, to be so responsible and put together and have things in order. But there's this very young, tender part of us still that like needs to be seen and really like talked to like a little child. I don't know how often in my journal I'm sitting down and I'm just like, “you're going to be OK. You can get through this. Hey, you know what you need to do? Have a snack”.”
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Chanel Riggle (00:02.91)
Hi Krista, I'm so happy you can take a few moments to talk to our audience really quick. For those of you just finding this, we are doing a speaker introduction for all of our speakers for the 2024 Motherhood or Mental Health and Motherhood Virtual Conference. It's gonna be October 11th, so please stay tuned for details. And Krista, I'm so happy you're here.
I wanted to ask you, how can we treat ourselves with compassion through guided journaling?
Krista Steele (00:32.334)
I think that's a great question. I think that there are so many ideas out there. There's so much information on ways that we can care for ourselves. You know, we are not lacking information. We've got podcasts, we've got books, we've got audio books, we've got social media. And all of it is telling us and offering us good ideas, but not every good idea is good for us. And the beautiful thing about journaling, in particular is that you know more than you think you know.
There's so much happening inside you that is really hard to like pin down and pay attention to in the course of a day. And so, you know, as we're listening to podcasts, as we're like going throughout our day, taking in information and just like being people overloaded by noise and, you know, touch and all of the things that we're doing while mothering, to be able to sit down and say like, “okay, what do I need right now?” Right, because somebody might talk about how life-changing their running habit has been, like how that's one way that they practice self-compassion, that they're like, “this is a way that I really tend to my own needs”. But if you hate running, that's not gonna work for you.
Or if someone says like, man, yeah, like I know everyone, you know, is waking up early, but I love to sleep in because that that feels more like self-compassion for me. Like, if you're one of the people who loves to get up early, that doesn't mean that you need to, you know, like start sleeping in late. So, you know, so many good ideas about like what self-compassion can look like. But until we spend some time really digging into our current needs in our current season, because those needs change with the seasons, we're not going to be super effective in the ways that we care for ourselves.
And I think as adults, you know, and especially as mothers, like we expect ourselves and the world expects us to be so responsible and put together and have things in order. But there's this very young, tender part of us still that like needs to be seen and really like talked to like a little child.
I don't know how often in my journal I'm sitting down and I'm just like, you're going to be OK. You can get through this. Hey, you know what you need to do? Have a snack. Do you know what today is a good day for? A nap. And through that practice over time, I think it's really transformed the way that I speak to myself throughout the day.
Chanel Riggle (03:11.198)
I love that. I am very excited to have you lead our workshop for the virtual conference because a lot of the things that you talked about here are different topics we're going to be exploring. Noise and motherhood. We're going to have a speaker panel on that one. And we really need to have time to sit and process all this information that's coming at us. So I'm really excited that you are joining us, Krista.
Why is this topic so important to you when it comes to self compassion?
Krista Steele (03:46.537)
It's something that I'm still learning. Like it's something that I'm naturally not great at. I'm a firstborn. I am the one, you know, like I am the auxiliary parent. I find a lot of my worth in relationships from being useful and responsible and helpful. So practicing self -compassion is really key for me and my well -being because it is way too easy for me to tend toward self -criticism, to be really hard on myself to set not just high expectations, but unreasonable expectations. And so, yeah, it's just become essential to my well -being.
Chanel Riggle (04:34.846)
Krista, thank you so much for hopping on real quick and giving everybody a little preview of what your workshop is going to be about. Again, October 11th is the first mental health and motherhood virtual conference. I'm very excited to have all of these wonderful women help walk you through what that might look like for you to give yourself some more self -compassion. So thank you Krista, we will talk to you later.
Krista Steele (05:01.608)
Thanks Chanel
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