Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul
The Menders: Lead from Within podcast engages real-world healthcare leaders in conversation to explore innovative and emotionally intelligent approaches to addressing the most complex challenge facing healthcare leaders today: how to take better care of their people.
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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul
Use Intuitive Eating to reprioritize yourself with Victoria Yates
If you’re a woman in leadership struggling to prioritize yourself, try Intuitive Eating as a first step to honoring yourself.
You can't be the woman in leadership your people need you to be without prioritizing self-care.
One of the things that women leaders mention is the difficulty they have prioritizing taking time for themselves, especially when that is not being encouraged in their work environment. Leaders (especially women) feel time pressured as they balance the many needs of everybody else: their organization, employees, and family. In this busy context, self-care can feel unimportant.
Victoria and I discussed how the difficulty prioritizing self-care applies to women's relationships with food and their bodies.
You can learn to nourish yourself and your body as you care for yourself, both as, just as humans, as women, as women in leadership, or just as women in healthcare.
Prioritizing yourself can feel selfish, so you may sometimes feel guilty for making yourself a priority. But as Victoria points out, this all-or-nothing mindset of self-denial and service to others is exhausting and problematic. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.
Listen to learn:
- The fundamentals of the intuitive eating framework
- How intuitive eating relates to self-care principles
- Why diet culture is so harmful to women and the health of the body
- How to prioritize time for yourself when you are incredibly busy
- Why prioritizing pleasure is healthy for the body
- How self-awareness will reduce your risk of burnout
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Bio: Victoria Yates is a registered nurse, and an intuitive eating coach focused on helping women with issues surrounding food and their bodies. Victoria cares about helping women to care for and nourish themselves and develop more calm confidence with who they are and their approach to caring for themselves and their bodies. You can find her at victoria-yates.com.
