☀️ embarrassing!

“Yes. Correct. It’s embarrassing. Be embarrassed.”

I’ve committed to posting a reel on social media for 75 days in a row. I had a feeling that this challenge was going to be WAY more of a mindset challenge for me than anything else.

The best advice comes from Elsie Larson (my ally and accountability partner) and it is this: “Showing up on social media is embarrassing; be embarrassed and keep going.”

My brain repeats it at least 100 times a day.

The best part: it’s working.

I’m literally getting used to feeling embarrassed and it’s losing its power over me.

(IN ONLY TWO WEEKS. HOW COOL IS THAT? NEUROPLASTICITY, BABY! THE BRAIN IS SO COOL.🤓)

When I’m working with my coaching clients on positive body image and wellness (yes! you can have both at once!), we commit to being “a scientist and not a judge” and we focus on moving their “health habits system” into the science part of our brain instead of the emotional part.

This social media experiment has been no different. I’m 14 days in and I can almost feel a physical shift to “this reel means a metric” from “ the reel means anything about me personally”.

So here is my question to you on this fine Monday:

What would you do if you could get past the fear of embarrassment?

What would happen if the next time you felt a deep pull in your soul to be more visible, you decided to embrace the discomfort and do it anyway? Even if it’s embarrassing.

Hit reply and tell me!

If you want to follow along on my embarrassing social media journey, I’m on Instagram (and TikTok) and I am posting a daily habit hack. Which means I have challenged myself to develop a habit of writing about habits. Meta!

I’ve also dusted off my ukulele so who knows what might happen next. (I’m as surprised as you are every day. 😆)

xoxo- Katie Day (write back soon!)

Current Growth Obsession:

The Big Leap Podcast: What would happen if you lived completely in your zone of genius and believed that life could actually just be good? That the other shoe doesn't HAVE to drop. (As a worst-case scenario thinker, this wild concept was tailor-made for me.)

Up Next:

The "birthday" gauntlet is over! (My three daughters and I all have back-to-back birthdays which is very fun, but very fast-paced.) I'm looking forward to some slow-paced ordinary time. I'm going to get our household back to "laundry zero". (Sigh, what a lovely, boring goal for a change. I ACCEPT. I think I'll drink a kombucha in a fancy glass while I fold.)