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Beyond Barbie-Style Self-Care: Transforming Your Nervous System's Response to Calling with Janice McWilliams

Beyond Barbie-Style Self-Care: Transforming Your Nervous System's Response to Calling with Janice McWilliams

Update: 2025-05-06
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In this episode of the Graced Health Podcast, Janice McWilliams joins us, a psychotherapist, spiritual director, and author of "Restore My Soul: Reimagining Self-Care for a Sustainable Life." We discuss how to practice meaningful self-care that goes beyond "Barbie-style" pampering to create sustainable rhythms that prevent burnout while living out your calling. 

Janice McWilliams (MDiv, LCPC) is a psychotherapist in private practice, a certified spiritual director, speaker and author of Restore My Soul: Reimagining Self-Care for a Sustainable Life. Janice completed her Master of Divinity at Howard University and her counseling degree at Loyola University in Maryland. Janice’s love of the depths and intrigue of the human experience is matched by her desire to find her place in God’s work of restoring and revitalizing souls everywhere. Her blog promotes spiritual, relational, and psychological transformation


You'll hear today:

1.  The Problem with "Barbie-Style" Self-Care 

2. What the "Hormone Soup Metaphor" is

3. How to Take a Better Break  

4. Learning from Jesus's Rhythms 

5. Discerning What Is "Ours to Do" 

6. Balancing Fast and Slow Seasons 

7.  Phone Usage and Self-Care 

8. The Four Realms of Self-Care 


Connect with Janice:

Book: Available on Amazon and NavPress

Website: hormonesoupresource.com


Janice’s Resources:

Restore My Soul: Reimagining Self-Care for a Sustainable Life

Online course for ministry leaders


Connect with Janice:

https://janicemcwilliams.com

Instagram: @janicemcwilliams


Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter

30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health (free download)

Connect with Amy:
GracedHealth.com
Instagram: @GracedHealth
YouTube: @AmyConnell






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Beyond Barbie-Style Self-Care: Transforming Your Nervous System's Response to Calling with Janice McWilliams

Beyond Barbie-Style Self-Care: Transforming Your Nervous System's Response to Calling with Janice McWilliams