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12th Jun 2025

151. Journal with Me: 5-Min Prompts to Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Self-Care

Tired of putting everyone else's needs before your own? In this 5-minute journaling session, you'll identify what self-care you're avoiding and uncover the real reasons why. Through 4 strategic prompts, you'll discover whose voice is keeping you stuck and how prioritizing yourself actually helps you show up better for everyone else.

Start the 5 Day Calm Mind Challenge, in just 2 mins/day!

What You'll Discover:

  • The specific self-care need you keep putting off (and why)
  • The story you're telling yourself about why you "can't" prioritize yourself
  • Whose voice is really making your decisions (spoiler: it's not yours)
  • How taking care of yourself creates a positive ripple effect for your family and work

2 Key Takeaways:

  • Self-awareness is the #1 indicator of success in personal and professional life
  • Resistance to self-care is your sabotage pattern showing up in real time

Perfect For:

  • Working moms who feel guilty taking time for themselves
  • Women who constantly put everyone else's needs first
  • Anyone who knows what they need but keeps making excuses
  • Moms stuck in survival mode who want to break the cycle of overwhelm

Mentioned Resources:

  • Free Calm Mind Blueprint: 5-day challenge with strategic journal prompts to go from overwhelm to inner peace (2 minutes/day). Click here to start!

Your Challenge:

Take ONE small action toward the need you identified today. Not tomorrow, not when things calm down—today. Even 2 minutes counts.

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Beyond Awareness: Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Beyond Awareness (formerly Journal Entries) is for successful women in leadership and business who know exactly what they need to do but can't make themselves do it.

You know you need to prioritize yourself, delegate more, set boundaries, stop bringing work home. You've tried therapy, coaching, retreats. You know the solution - but you either can't follow through, or when you DO, it doesn't stick.

Host Samantha Hawley helps business owners and executives earning $100k+ excavate the root beliefs underneath the execution gap. Why do you keep not doing the thing? Why doesn't it feel better when you do? Using strategic journaling and emotional excavation, we go beyond awareness into why you're actually stuck in the pattern.

This isn't about more tactics or tips. This is about understanding why awareness isn't enough and what actually needs to shift for you to change.

You'll hear about: decision fatigue, why you can't prioritize yourself, nervous system regulation, being present with your kids, root cause of overwhelm, why boundaries don't stick, self-sabotage patterns, and how your internal state impacts everything.

Perfect for: Female CFOs, VPs, directors, executives, business owners, and women in leadership who are tired of knowing what's wrong but not being able to change it.
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