The Mama Minute: A Social Worker on Micro Self-Care, News Boundaries, and Wandering Without a Plan

Julie-Anne is a social worker supporting families separated at the border, a mom of two in San Francisco, and someone who started this conversation by saying she's definitely not the girl with weekly Pilates on her schedule. Spoiler: she is absolutely taking care of herself, just not in the ways we're told it has to look. Jules talks about building tiny transition rituals into her day, the five-minute weed-pulling practice that's become her moving meditation, and how she decides when to take in the news and when to hard pass. She also names something that will hit close to home for a lot of listeners: the dream of a whole afternoon with zero agenda, and the guilt that still shows up even when she takes it. A deeply honest episode about self-care for women doing heavy work in heavy times.

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Jules touches on something co-host Lissy McConnell knows deeply -- the particular exhaustion of caring for others while trying to care for yourself. If you're part of the sandwich generation, Lissy has built a whole resource library just for you. at sandwichsupportco.com/resources.

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