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Country Proud Living Nurturing Home, Empowered SelfAuthor: LoriLynn of Country Proud Home
This is a podcast designed to nurture and inspire you to create a home you enjoy living in! I'll empower and encourage you as a design coach to help you start making improvements in your life while also creating a living environment that supports YOU! An emphasis on country living with color & design as a focus, while also encouraging a nurturing and welcoming community, positive mindset, and overall wellness. Language: en-us Genres: Home & Garden, Leisure Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Ep. 95 When the World Feels Heavy: How to Care for Yourself Without Carrying It All
Episode 95
Monday, 2 February, 2026
Send us a textWelcome to Country Proud Living with your host LoriLynn. "Where nurturing spaces empower your life and every day feels a little more like home." When the world feels heavy, uncertain, and overwhelming, this gentle episode of Country Proud Living offers a pause—a moment to breathe, soften, and tend to yourself without guilt. LoriLynn speaks honestly about emotional overload, empathy fatigue, and the weight many are carrying right now, while offering compassionate reminders and practical tools for caring deeply without carrying it all. If you’ve been feeling tired, tender, distracted, or emotionally full, this episode is a soft place to land.🕰️ Episode Timeline00:11–01:30 | Welcome + Setting the Tone A gentle welcome to Country Proud Living and why this episode needed to be a pause instead of pushing forward.01:30–04:00 | Acknowledging the Weight Why feeling heavy doesn’t mean something is wrong with you—and how constant exposure to crisis affects our nervous systems.04:00–07:00 | You Can Care Without Carrying It All Empathy, humanity, and why we weren’t meant to absorb everything we see and hear every day.07:00–10:00 | Practical Ways to Care for Yourself • Limiting doom-scrolling, Choosing education or uplifting content, Grounding in the present moment, and Focusing on what you can control10:00–13:00 | Healing Through Creation, Kindness & Joy • Creating something, Allowing feelings without rushing to fix them, Small acts of kindness, and Letting joy, laughter, and connection still exist13:00–15:00 | Breath, Rest & Gentle Closing A short grounding breathing exercise (safe for driving listeners), reminders to hydrate, rest, disconnect—and a final truth to carry with you.Welcome to the Country Proud Living Podcast, I'm your host LoriLynn. Thanks for stopping by today! Please subscribe to the podcast by clicking plus follow at the upper right. Click those three little dots at the top right & copy the link to share the show with your friends and family. Please leave me a review. This is truly one of the only ways to help my podcast grow. I just want you to know what it means to me that you're here today. I know everyone's time is valuable and it means a lot. Thank you. Love and light, Lori Lynn.Please share this podcast with your like minded friends and family and subscribe to never miss an episode! If you have questions, ideas of topics you would like to learn more about, you want to work with me, or you have feedback both good and bad is welcome it can be sent to lorilynn@countryproudliving.comSHARING ADDITIONAL LINKS TO CONNECT WITH ME: : )IG: www.instagram.com/lorilynn_countryproudlivingPODCAST:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/country-proud-living-nurturing-home-empowered-self/id1715855014?i=1000645120377OR for Spotify, iHeart, the pod can be found most anywhere you choose to listen:https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2247458.rssLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafsonloriMY ART GALLERY: https://lorilynn-o-uter.pixels.com/PINTEREST: https://pin.it/3mX6xMNcR
