Episode 84: Non-tangible Signs of Growth, Being Your Own Guinea Pig, & Intention-Setting as Self-Experimentation

Happy New Year, y’all! For this week’s episode of the podcast, Tracey and Cayly are doing a bit of a year in review and talking about how they are approaching intention-setting this year.

Specific topics include:

- What’s something you’ve done this year that would surprise the you of the previous year?

- More subtle indicators of growth and celebrating our evolution

- Recognizing non-tangible accomplishments

- Do we plan to set in intentions this year?

- Alternatives to resolutions or intentions

- Cardiovascular health, heart rate variability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate_variability), and emotional health

- Allowing yourself to be the villain in someone else’s story

- What we’re focusing on this year

- How we’ve both changed our approach to fitness and movement

- What do we think about aesthetic goals?

- Aging and why we don’t like the term “anti-aging”

- Our thoughts on diet- and exercise-related goals

- Letting go of our egos in the gym

- How Tracey and Cayly make changes to their diets

- Cayly’s experience cutting out alcohol

- The benefits of experimenting on yourself

- Using intentions or resolutions as a way to gather information about yourself

- And more!

Tracey and Cayly hope you find this conversation helpful and that it offers some useful insights you can apply to your own intention-setting process this year.

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Resources:

Girls With Heads (https://www.facebook.com/events/1273262846090881/)

Episode 78 about tragedy striking someone you love (http://organicacupunctureportland.com/curious-curiouser-podcast-episode-78-when-tragedy-strikes-someone-you-love-how-to-empathize-without-surrendering-your-joy/)

Episode 79 about not putting up with nonsense and stories other people tell about you (http://organicacupunctureportland.com/curious-curiouser-podcast-episode-79-you-dont-have-to-put-up-with-nonsense-other-truths-about-the-holidays/)

Brene Brown (https://brenebrown.com/)

Liz Winters of Sprout Wellness (http://www.sproutwellnesspdx.com/)

Food as Medicine on Cayly’s website (http://organicacupunctureportland.com/on-food-as-medicine/)

Abby Bliss White of Bliss Holistic Health (https://blissholistichealth.com/)

Piquing Our Curiosity:

Multnomah County Library (https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com). I love the library, y’all. I use it all the time. Use it, love it, save yourself some money.