Confidence Classic: How To Keep Moving Forward When You Feel Discouraged with Heather!

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan shares personal stories of resilience, emphasizing that challenges are temporary and solutions exist even when forgotten. She reflects on physical injury, mental shifts, and the power of gratitude and self-care. Her message centers on perseverance, self-compassion, and finding joy in small, meaningful moments.

Key takeaways

• Pain and setbacks are temporary.
• Self-care routines rebuild strength.
• Mindset shapes emotional well-being.

Transcript preview

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I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. Okay, first of all I just wanted to mention something that I just had this revelation myself about, which is how quickly we can forget things. It's terrible. But so let me give you an example. And hopefully you can relate to this in your own life. I threw my back out. I was 43 years old, right? So it's five years ago. I threw my back out, I was losing my hair, I was a hot mess, and it was because I was working alongside with someone that hated me and was making my life miserable, and I wouldn't walk away from it. So she ended up having to fire me. Cut two. The point of this is I was in so much pain. When I threw my back out, it was insane. That was worse pain than having a c-section and giving birth, no doubt, And it went on for a really long time. It wasn't something that healed really quickly, right? So, and I am sure anyone that's listening right now that's had back pain or back trauma understands us, it's probably, I mean, it's definitely one of the worst things, right? So to that end, I remember I had to stop working out for a while. And I am one of those people that working out for me is like my saving grace. It is what I look forward to every day. I get so excited about it, right. That's something that's something that's something that really makes my day and proud and uplifted, you need to have something like this in your life. It doesn't have to be working out, right? For you it might be meditating or gardening or I don't know, drinking your morning coffee on the belt of me. It could be whatever special and resonates for you, but for me it's working out. So I had to give it up for a while, the doctors that I could not work out at first. I could only go to PT and that was devastating. I got to find some kind of other outlet, right and then I flipping way under the sun that I could heal my back faster, right? Like I was ordering every concoction on Amazon electrical stimulants to heal your back, done overnight, it's in my house. I'm always one of these people that's like, there's got to be a solution, there's got to be a hack, and there always is a hack, so I found a couple of little gadgets like that that definitely help. They help get rid of some inflammation and literally found out. the stuff on Amazon and then after a little while my doctor said I could start going to yoga and yoga totally helped in a huge way I'm kind of disappointed to me because I have not been into yoga now for gosh a year and a half or maybe even more so not good Heather I need to get back at it but anyhow so the point is this is that so I figured out these hacks and then I started learning new things like I had not been into yoga before and then I started loving yoga right And the point is this is that there's always a solution you just don't know what it is yet number one number two there's things out there that you're just not familiar with that you might love like I loved yoga and I'm sitting here and I've like literally forgotten about it I gotta get back at it and so it's on us to constantly be looking and learning and understanding and sometimes remembering like I'm remembering yoga right now I forget about things cut too all right so it took a few months before my back healed and then I could work out again myself to the level I used to work out I used to run like nine or ten miles a day I mean I was super hardcore doing you know boot camps and I don't do that kind of stuff anymore just because I decided I don't ever want to go through something like that again so I've never pushed myself to that level again but I still work out like a madman and love it and do so many fun things but I definitely spin more than ever because it's low impact right it doesn't there's zero risk of getting injured when I'm spinning As you get older you make different choices. So cut to, after I was injured and took a few months off and your body's gonna change, right? So I lost a lot of muscle during that time. And so when I got back to running after my back injury, which was probably, I don't know, eight months or a year later, the first time I ever even ran a mile, I injured my Achilles. Not terribly, but I kind of pulled it. And so I started doing research into why did that happen. And what I learned was all about your calf muscle, but I didn't know that. I have super skinny chicken legs. They used to call me chicken legs when I was a kid. And so if I'm not aggressively working out my legs, like lifting deadlifts and lifting for my calf, they get small. So during that time when I threw my back out, my calf muscles were probably non-existent and then I go jump on a track somewhere and start running like, you know, I'm prepping for the Olympics. So, not shocking that I injured my Achilles, And again, I didn't tear it, but it definitely, I couldn't run for a while again. Cut to, if you've been watching the show or listening to the show for a while, you know that a little over a month ago I got hurt and I had to stop working out again for a month. Well, as I've, over the last week, started working out again, I've been spinning, of course, first. But then the other day I just said to myself, oh my gosh, the weather's amazing and floored right now. I, the thing I would love to do I would love to do I would love to do is and I went for running of course the next day my Achilles is killing me and I had forgotten what I learned last time which is when you take time off from working out at least for me I lose a lot of muscle and my calves aren't really big right now and I look down and see exactly why I re-injured my Achilles. So all I'm trying to do is remind you oh my gosh when you go through these situations whether you get injured or you go through a hard time remember the last time jog your memory about what the things are that worked and what didn't work. I wish I had done that before I went running out the door. What I would have done is for a couple of weeks lifted first for my calves, strengthened my legs so that I would be in a better position to