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And now, Lauren Everett's and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for the major wellness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Today we're discussing over stimulation.
“I wanted to do a bite-sized episode on feeling overstimulated because I think with all of the”
lights and the phone and the computer and the television and the news and the content a lot of us are feeling overstimulated. And I wanted to tell you guys how I self-regulate when I feel overstimulated. I really try to use the overstimulation as information. So if I'm feeling like that, there's a good chance that I am taking on too much and I need to
take a step back and self-regulate. So I use it as like a guide of where I need to go.
Okay, so that's like the first thing that I do.
So, okay, let's say I feel stimulated on a Friday. I'll come home. I will put my phone in the laundry room and turn it off immediately. That's the first step. I don't want to look at my phone.
I don't want to deal with it, it goes on airplane mode and gets turned off. I don't like to walk into my home in front of my kids on my phone.
“I feel like it's dismissive and we can all remember a time where you've been out to dinner with”
someone and they pick up their phone and they're talking to you as they're scrolling and they're not looking you in the eyes and it doesn't feel good. And so I don't want to do that when it comes to my children. I want to walk in fully present.
So, that's the first step is like the phone is away, got to have that.
The second step is I turn on really like low frequency music. I am a huge stand-gots fan. If you know, you know, he is very vintage. But the music just puts me in a mood that is the right mood when I'm feeling like too much is going on. It's a little bit of like boss and over jazz. It's really light. It's like background music.
It's not too much. The last thing that I want to do is like listen to some crazy, loud, rock and roll rap music when I'm already feeling overstimulated. So, the music goes on, a light a candle, I'll be really present for my kids in that moment. And then after I put my kids to bed, I have like a whole set up. So, we don't turn on the light upstairs in our house.
There's no lights in my kids room that get turned on at night. There's no lights in our room. There's not even really lights in the hallway. I got these like little nightlights that I plug into the walls that are red light. And I put them all over my house. And I also do salt rock nightlights in our bathrooms. So, everyone is essentially going back to the olden days.
Like with someone carrying a candle, I want to create that really warm seal with red light. I don't want any blue light in my ether. There's no news in our house. There's no really shiny like LED lights. I don't want that. I want a really convey a vibe of relaxation. And there is nothing better than showering with a salt rock nightlight on.
And a Louise hay meditation or a little bit of stand-gats. It's so relaxing and immediately like solves so much of that overstimulated feeling. Then I will go and I will grab this thing. I call a warmie. My kids and I love it. It is a heated neck pillow. I have a lavender one. And I have it in this like heater situation. And I'll grab that and I'll put one on my neck and I'll give
one to my daughter and son. They love them. And we'll all get in bed with our warmies. I'm very flexible as a parent when it comes to my kids and bed. I kind of just do whatever everyone's feeling. So if they want to sleep with me, I'm like the more the merrier. If they want to go to their room, sometimes they do. I'll like let them make the decision.
What it comes to my kids and the bed, it's really relaxing for not only them, but for myself. I read this thing about how when you're feeling overwhelmed or emotional, your kids will come lay on you. And it's not because they want to lay on you for their own nervous system. It's because they want to help you regulate. I don't want to look to them to regulate. But if they want to sleep in my bed and they feel that they're happy there,
I will let it rip. Whatever they're feeling, I'm flexible with it. So that's a way to just all wind down. We'll read like a kids book. We're reading pig the pug. We're going through every single pig the pug. There's a lot of them. And we have a booklay that is red light. So again, we're reading
“hard books, which I think is really helpful when you're feeling like you're taking on too much”
to your overstimulated. And then I'll have a huge glass of Thorne Magnesium water. I have my mouth
Tape on the side.
if you're breathing really deeply. And you're feeling like you have too much stimulation to just
sit and breathe with that warm lavender pillow and your mouth tape is amazing. I'll put my mouth
tape on after I drink my magnesium water and I'll grab usually my Kindle. Right now I'm reading a lot of Truman Capote. I'm on this kick right now. But I also have the hard copy book next to my bed. So here's a tip. The hard copy I use when I've just been staring at screens for too long. I do not want to stare at screens my whole life, which is why my phone goes in the laundry room. I don't want to look at it. I don't want it in the bedroom. I don't want it on the charger.
“I think it's bad for your brain to charge your phone next to it when you're sleeping. I don't”
think it's healthy. No one can convince me otherwise. I don't think waking up in the morning and grabbing your phone off the charger that's been charging all night is healthy. I think it's a lot of EMF. It's not conductive for me to grab my phone with the goals that I have. I don't think it supports my goals to wake up and grab the phone. So the phone is nowhere near me. And I actually think a big reason of why we feel so overstimulated is because of the phone. So that's
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So in the morning, what I'll do is, if I'm feeling like I'm taking on too much, is I'll wake up 30 minutes before my kids, which for me is about 645 or 630. I'll wake up, I will go do red light and I'll meditate. And for me, meditation does not have to be fancy, it doesn't have to be crazy, it could just be sitting in silence, getting some red light, it could be doing Joe Dispensa, it could be doing an
activation by Mimi Boushard, it could be doing Melissa Wood Health, I just sort of like feel wherever I'm at, I've also been doing this Wayne Dyer meditation that you actually, you say, you go, you actually say, um, and that stimulates the vagus nerve and I found that to be really helpful. I started like humming when I was pregnant, naturally when I was meditating randomly, and then Chervene from Symbiotica came on the show and he's like, no Lauren, this is a scientific thing,
it stimulates your vagus nerve and calms you down. So getting that meditation in the morning
before my kids wake up, especially with the red light, is absolutely amazing if I'm feeling
overwhelmed. So already after I've woken up and had a really good night's sleep, I should note that I get in bed, no later than 9 o'clock, like sometimes it's 815. I'm being honest. I wake up and I just feel more refreshed and then after that meditation, I just don't feel like there's so much going on. Waking up and looking at my phone would be a completely different result, okay? I want to note that if you are feeling overstimulated and the first thing you do
is grab the phone, of course you feel like that. So the phone to me is not even an option
“until about 10 o'clock. The only thing I will use my phone for is to put on a meditation”
or to listen to an uplifting lecture or a podcast. I don't want to touch my phone if it's not for one of those things. Don't even think about going in my text and I said in the morning. I can't even do that. That's just reacting to everyone's to do list. So I really try to create boundaries around that. And then what I'll do is I will wake up my kids. We'll start breakfast. You know, I'm doing all the things lemon water, the beauty salts. I'm getting my protein, my coffee,
all my little drinks. And if I have time and usually I do, I will strap the baby in the stroller and go for a walk and get outside and get some sunlight and some movement. And I usually will listen to something inspiring. Whatever that is, it could be a walking meditation or like I said a podcast. And I just breathe and appreciate the groundedness of Austin. There's a really like very grounding pure energy in the morning in Austin that really puts things in perspective
and allows me to think and have space and clarity. And so all of these things that I just told you are stacking up for me to sort of re-regulate. So I don't have to feel like there's too much going on. Of course, if I had like a perfect world and I had all the time in the world and sometimes I do have
“time. I would love to cold punch sauna. I think that's a really great way to do almost like”
a reset on your system. And you don't have to have a cold punch. You could just do a freezing cold shower. You could do contrast shower. The heat really helps you decompress. So if you're looking for a release, if you're feeling very hyped up, I feel like the heat is like it helps you like slow down.
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minerals and my vitamins and make sure that I'm really concentrating on supplementation. So you get the daily movement to drain the mental load. You get the supplements that are helping you with the energy. And you have your boundaries around your phone. And then another thing that I do to like kick off the day is I'll just write everything down. So I'll write down what my top three priorities are for the day. And then I'll write down my to-do list. And then I will write a memo
of what I need to post on social media. I will write out my calls for the day. I will write out my goals for the day. And I will make sure that that piece of paper is filled with only the most
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“and I think you have to show up. It's reps, right? So I put in the reps of my workout.”
And then after that workout, then I will reach for my phone. And what I will do is I will do a full brain dump to chat GPT. And a lot of you guys have messaged me about how I do that brain dump. So I'll say, "Hey chat, today's a little crazy, I want you to help me make this the best day ever with a Lauren touch." So it's going to give me 15 minutes extra because I don't run late. It's going to organize it the way I want it. I like it when it uses emojis. I like
it when it's on one lock screen. I'll tell chat all of this. I'll be like put it on a lock screen. How do I make this day make sense? And I will just tell it everything I'm doing. So I'll be like, I have five calls. These are the times. These are what they're with. I need agendas for each. I am shooting a podcast today. I need time to organize my outfit. Take a shower.
I also need driving time.
glam. So what can I be doing? What needs to get done? What are the priorities? And then after
“podcast, I have to film ABCDEFG and then I have a meeting with my team for product. I want to make”
sure that I'm home for my kids around a certain time and I want to be able to pick my daughter up from school. How can I make this all happen? I also would love to get an asana tonight. Where does it make the most sense? The kids go to bed at this time. And I literally will talk to it like it's a unicorn assistant. And I actually call it a unicorn assistant. I saw this through Chloe Digital. She wrote out about her unicorn assistant on chat. And that's exactly what my
“chat is. It's just like an assistant that comes in with a magic wand, a faire assistant. And”
makes sure that I'm hitting everything that needs to be hit. I'll even be like, hey, I want to write for an hour today. Where do I put that? Now, you could have used this for anything. It doesn't matter if you are a CEO or you are an intern or you're staying at home on. You could use chat as your unicorn assistant. And that really helps me self-regulate too to have everything organized on one lock screen. And I'll screenshot that and I will check it throughout the day.
There's obviously like the sensory regulation that you want to do through beauty rituals. So for me, it's ice rolling, it's skin care rituals, it's facial massage, it's warm showers, it's cold showers, minerals, hydration, salt, electrolytes, all these little things they really do add up. But at the end of the day, if I'm not getting enough sleep, it's not going to happen. I have to sleep, and I like to be in bed, like I said at eat 30. So I don't want a lot of chaos at all, especially when I'm
feeling overstimulated. These are the things that I do that help me really go back and like recalibrate myself. I think it's important to recognize when you are experiencing any kind of noise. Like when you feel like, oh my god, there's so much noise going on. You know, I can't even hear
“myself think. I think you need to use that as a guide and a compass to sort of put you back on the”
right track. And ultimately, before we go, I do want to say this. I don't reinvent my routines every single
week. Okay. I have the same rituals, the same tools, the same anchors, the same supplements, the same cold, hot therapy, the same meditations, the same routine, the same, you know, Kindle that I read off of, the same lights set up, the same chimes, the same music. I'm very clear in knowing what I like, because what I've realized is repetition suits the nervous system.
And that is what I do. So, if you like these solo bite-size episodes, let me know. It's always
fun to hop on the mic and just riff. With that, I will see you next time.
