Protecting your peace isn't a reward you earn once everything else is sorted… it's the foundation everything else is built on. But most of us have quietly filed it under ‘nice to have’, something ‘to get around to’ once work's under control or everyone else is finally happy… except that moment never actually arrives, and so your peace just keeps getting rescheduled indefinitely. This episode of the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast reorders that entirely: protecting your peace comes first, not last, because nothing else holds up properly without it as a foundation underneath; not your decisions, not your relationships, and not your energy. Protecting your peace also means being honest about something most advice skips over: sometimes making your peace the priority is the harder choice, not the easier one, and choosing it anyway is what actually changes things… even when that means disappointing someone, or saying no. This episode will teach you how to do that, so you can begin to protect your peace a lot more.
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💡 TL;DR: Protecting your peace is about choosing yourself even when that's the harder option, because it’s the foundation that everything else is built on. Episode 354 teaches you how to do that.
ℹ️ Let's Talk About Mental Health with Jeremy Godwin is about practical mental health advice for real life; each week I help you understand and improve your mental wellbeing with simple mental health tips that actually work, drawing on my professional expertise as a counsellor and my personal experience living with anxiety and depression. Welcome, and let's talk!
⏱️ Chapters/Timestamps:
0:00 Peace and mental health
0:48 Protect your peace
3:33 What is protecting your peace?
9:09 Why protecting your peace matters so much
16:18 How to actually put your peace first
25:53 What I want you to take away
📝 Transcript & show notes: https://ltamh.com/?p=21557
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➕ Related episodes:
Protect your peace and avoid a breakdown (Episode 300): https://ltamh.com/?p=18109
Why finding balance feels impossible (Episode 353): https://ltamh.com/?p=21524
Barriers to peace of mind (Episode 293): https://ltamh.com/?p=17668
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