39. How To Stay Grounded and Cultivate Self Awareness with Claire Yee

Let’s Slow Down: Simple + Intentional Living, Decluttering, Life on Purpose

39. Claire Yee on How To Stay Grounded and Cultivate Self Awareness

Discover how to stay grounded when feeling overwhelmed with Claire Yee. Claire is the host of The Mother Glow Podcast, a meditation coach, and a matrescense practitioner in New Zealand, where she has the top rated hypnobirth course. She is also the mother to two children ages 14 and 12. Today she comes to the podcast to share ways to stay peacefully grounded and avoid burnout, especially if you’re a mother. Claire says, “we can get so caught up in the busyness of it all and all of the things we should be doing, all of the expectations from others, from the internet, from everywhere, really. And so to be able to tune in to ourselves to create that space to hear what our gut feelings are telling us and what's right for us and our children, because that is a really unique journey. It is such an important piece of the puzzle of mothering, of raising children, and also making sure we don't get burned out ourselves in the process.”

She mentions there are other ways of doing meditation that don't require just sitting still and being quiet. It's really self-awareness. She will mix it up a lot by going for walks and being in the beauty of nature. Listening to the birds and just feeling the breeze on her face. Living by the beach is her favorite - it’s always such a beautiful grounding place to go.

Claire stresses the importance of having a sense of self awareness, which she’s had to cultivate over the years. And sometimes it's been through getting to those states of burnouts, forcing her to do something - work a muscle that she’s developed over the years.

Claire credits our kids as our master teachers. They're always bringing us back to this necessity; to be self aware, to take care of oneself, in order to be more available for them and their emotions. It can be such an intense journey. And she’s realized taking care of yourself is part of taking care of your children. Claire talks about overcoming so many automatic responses, her conditioned ways of living. In her life she had learned to sweep her feelings under the rug, and to bottle up her experience and emotions. However, her highly sensitive son was affected by it, so she needed to have a way of releasing a lot. And that led to a continual dedication to calm herself and come back to her own relaxed central nervous system so that she can respond to her children. To come from a space of, if something happens and she’s feeling stressed, she can just take a deep breath. She has learned to really center and balance herself before responding. Instead of what she would do in the early days, which was just react.

The intention to which Claire brings to herself as a mother and an emotionally healthy woman is incredible. Through her own personal journey, she has uncovered a deep understanding within herself that she can harness anytime, anywhere, to calm her emotions and stay grounded for herself and her children. She is such a bright, beautiful person and I’m thrilled to share our conversation with you today on Let’s Slow Down. Please enjoy and share with a friend :)

Connect with Claire! Connect with Claire on IG

The Mother Glow PodcastLoving this podcast? Please subscribe! Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Let’s Slow Down message can spread to those who need to hear it. Join Let’s Slow Down on Instagram: instagram.com/letsslowdown2023 Follow the Let’s Slow Down FB Page I love hearing from you! Comments? Ideas for a podcast topic or guest? Email Annemarie at [e-mail]