True Self-Care for Busy Humans: Find What Works for You

How do you find a self-care practice that fits your busy schedule and actually works for you? Vivianne offers a practical starting point for anyone who wants to manage stress but feels short on time or unsure where to look. With her signature energy and humor, she walks through ways to discover options using online searches, AI tools, and resource lists, along with what to check before trusting the results. Drawing on more than 20 years of personal exploration, Vivianne introduces her Wildly Busy Humans Self-Care Shortlist, featuring favorite practices with a range of time commitments. She also shares a simple approach to choosing one, giving it a fair test, and deciding whether it fits your everyday life. You don’t have to try everything at once. This conversation invites you to find a manageable place to begin. The Stress-Busting Good Stuff: A more focused online search offers a starting point for finding self-care practices that fit your schedule. Searching with AI brings useful possibilities, along with a few things to check before trusting its suggestions. Vivianne opens her personal shortlist of favorites gathered through more than 20 years of exploration. Choosing your first practice involves more than finding the shortest option. Giving a practice a fair test helps you discover whether it deserves a place in your everyday life. Prompts: Complete AI prompt: Perform as though you are well versed in self care and meditative practices, and look for practices that take less than 30 minutes time. Provide the URL, the name of the practice, the amount of time to perform sessions of that practice. How the information for the practice is delivered. Sort the results starting with the shortest methods first. Do not guess. Cite each resource. Regular search engine queries: "self care practices" + "less than 30 minutes" "meditative practices" + "less than 30 minutes" "meditation practices" + "less than 30 minutes" Get your copy of The Wildly Busy Humans Self-Care Shortlist - A self-care advocate's 20+ year curated list of powerful self-care methods at https://wildlybusyhumans.com/shortlist About the Host: After nearly 50 years as a critical care R.N. and first responder — and her own battle with breast cancer — Vivianne Winters Israel knows crisis from every angle. Now she teaches wildly busy caregivers, parents, and teachers a neuroscience-backed, two-minute stress-release practice that fits into any schedule, no matter how chaotic. She's also the award-winning author of Tender Moments: Diary of a First-time Mother, winner of the Author of Impact Award, and currently writing the Abby Hart children's novel series, helping young readers navigate today's social and emotional challenges. Her podcast, Stress Busters for Wildly Busy Humans,— proof that real relief doesn't require an hour to spare. Connect with Vivianne: Website: https://wildlybusyhumans.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildlybusyhumans YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildlyBusyHumans Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.