Lauryn Bosstick On Nervous System Regulation Practices & Building Routines To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

0:00Michael Bosstick:The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bosstick are bringing you along for the ride.

0:16Lauryn Bosstick:Get ready for some major realness.

0:18Michael Bosstick:Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her.

0:24Lauryn Bosstick:Today we're discussing overstimulation. I wanted to do a bite-sized episode on feeling overstimulated because I think with all of the lights and the phone and the computer and the television and the news and the content, a lot of us are feeling overstimulated. And I wanted to tell you guys how I self-regulate when I feel overstimulated. I really try to use the overstimulation as information. So if I'm feeling like that, there's a good chance that I am taking on too much and I need to take a step back and self-regulate. So I use it as like a guide of where I need to go. Okay. So that's like the first thing that I do.

1:08Lauryn Bosstick:So, okay, let's say I feel stimulated on a Friday. I'll come home. I will put my phone in the laundry room and turn it off immediately. That's the first step. I don't want to look at my phone. I don't want to deal with it. It goes on airplane mode and gets turned off. I don't like to walk into my home in front of my kids on my phone I feel like it's dismissive and we can all remember a time where you've been out to dinner with someone and they pick up their phone And they're talking to you as they're scrolling and they're not looking you in the eyes and it doesn't feel good And so I don't want to do that when it comes to my children.

1:44Lauryn Bosstick:I want to walk in fully present So that's the first step is like the phone is away Gotta have that The second step is I turn on really like low frequency music. I am a huge Stan Goetz fan. If you know, you know, he is very vintage, but the music just puts me in a mood that is the right mood when I'm feeling like too much is going on. It's a little bit of like bossa nova jazz. It's really light. It's like background music. It's not too much. The last thing that I want to do is like listen to some crazy loud rock and roll rap music when I'm already feeling overstimulated. So the music goes on. I'll light a candle.

2:29Lauryn Bosstick:I'll be really present for my kids in that moment. And then after I put my kids to bed, I have like a whole setup. So we don't turn on the light upstairs in our house. There's no lights in my kids room that get turned on at night. There's no lights in our room. There's not even really lights in the hallway. I got these like little nightlights that I plug into the walls that are red light and I put them all over my house. And I also do salt rock nightlights in our bathrooms. So everyone is essentially going back to the olden days. Like with someone carrying a candle, I want to create that really warm feel with red light.

3:09Lauryn Bosstick:I don't want any blue light in my ether. There's no news in our house. There's no really shiny LED lights. I don't want that. I want to really convey a vibe of relaxation. And there is nothing better than showering with a salt rock nightlight on and a Louise Hay meditation or a little bit of Stan Goetz. It's so relaxing and it immediately solves so much of that overstimulated feeling. then I will go and I will grab this thing I call a warmie my kids and I love it it is a heated neck pillow I have a lavender one and I have it in this like heater situation and I'll grab that and I'll put one on my neck and I'll give one to my daughter and son they love them and we'll all get in bed with our warmies I'm a very flexible as a parent when it comes to my kids in bed I kind of just do whatever everyone's feeling.

4:05Lauryn Bosstick:So if they want to sleep with me, I'm like the more the merrier. If they want to go to their room, sometimes they do. I'll like let them make the decision. When it comes to my kids in the bed, it's really relaxing for not only them, but for myself. I read this thing about how when you're feeling overwhelmed or emotional, your kids will come lay on you. And it's not because they want to lay on you for their own nervous system. It's because they want to help you regulate. I don't want to like look to them to regulate, but if they want to sleep in my bed and they feel that they're happy there, I will let it rip.

4:38Lauryn Bosstick:Whatever they're feeling, I'm flexible with it. So that's a way to just all wind down. We'll read like a kid's book. We're reading Pig the Pug. We're going through every single Pig the Pug. There's a lot of them. And we have a book light that is red light. So again, we're reading hard books, which I think is really helpful when you're feeling like you're taking on too much or you're overstimulated. And then I'll have a huge glass of thorn magnesium water. I have my mouth tape on the side. That really helps me relax into nasal breathing, which I think is really helpful if you're breathing really deeply and you're feeling like you have too much stimulation to just sit and breathe with that warm lavender pillow and your mouth tape is amazing.

5:23Lauryn Bosstick:I'll put my mouth tape on after I drink my magnesium water and I'll grab usually my Kindle. Right now I'm reading a lot of Truman Capote. I'm on this kick right now, but I also have the hard copy book next to my bed. So here's a tip. The hard copy I use when I've just been staring at screens for too long. I do not want to stare at screens my whole life, which is why my phone goes in the laundry room. I don't want to look at it. I don't want it in the bedroom. I don't want it on the charger. I think it's bad for your brain to charge your phone next to it when you're sleeping. I don't think it's healthy.

5:58Lauryn Bosstick:No one can convince me otherwise. I don't think waking up in the morning and grabbing your phone off the charger that's been charging all night is healthy. I think it's a lot of EMF. It's not conductive for me to grab my phone with the goals that I have. I don't think it supports my goals to wake up and grab the phone. So the phone is nowhere near me. And I actually think a big reason of why we feel so overstimulated is because of the phone. So that's like, it's the foundational step, I think, if you're feeling like you can't self-regulate. I am proud to say that my hair is not shedding anymore.

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11:30Lauryn Bosstick:So in the morning, what I'll do is if I'm feeling like I'm taking on too much is I'll wake up 30 minutes before my kids, which for me is about 645 or 630. I'll wake up I will go do red light and I'll meditate and for me meditation does not have to be fancy it doesn't have to be crazy it could just be sitting in silence getting some red light it could be doing Joe Dispenza it could be doing an activation by Mimi Bouchard it could be doing Melissa Wood health I just sort of like feel wherever I'm at I've also been doing this Wayne Dyer meditation that you actually say, you go, you actually say, um, and that stimulates the vagus nerve.

12:13Lauryn Bosstick:And I found that to be really helpful. I started like humming when I was pregnant, naturally when I was meditating randomly. And then Chervene from Symbiotica came on the show and he's like, no, Lauren, this is a scientific thing. It stimulates your vagus nerve and calms you down. So getting that meditation in the morning before my kids wake up, especially with the red light, is absolutely amazing if I'm feeling overwhelmed. So already after I've woken up and had a really good night's sleep, I should note that I get in bed no later than nine o 'clock. Like sometimes it's 8.15 if I'm being honest.

12:49Lauryn Bosstick:I wake up and I just feel more refreshed. And then after that meditation, I just don't feel like there's so much going on. Waking up and looking at my phone would be a completely different result. Okay. I want to note that if you are feeling overstimulated and the first thing you do is grab the phone, of course you feel like that. So the phone to me is not even an option until about 10 o 'clock. The only thing I will use my phone for is to put on a meditation or to listen to an uplifting lecture or a podcast. I don't want to touch my phone if it's not for one of those things. Don't even think about going in my text message in the morning.

13:26Lauryn Bosstick:I can't even do that. Like that's just reacting to everyone's to-do list. So I really try to create boundaries around that. And then what I'll do is I will wake up my kids. We'll start breakfast. You know, I'm doing all the things, lemon water, the beauty salt. I'm getting my protein, my coffee, all my little drinks. And if I have time, and usually I do, I will strap the baby in the stroller and go for a walk and get outside and get some sunlight and some movement. And I usually will listen to something inspiring, whatever that is. It could be a walking meditation or like I said, a podcast. And I just breathe and appreciate the groundedness of Austin.

14:15Lauryn Bosstick:There's a really like very grounding, pure energy in the morning in Austin that really puts things in perspective and allows me to think and have space and clarity. And so all of these things that I just told you are stacking up for me to sort of re-regulate so I don't have to feel like there's too much going on. Of course, if I had like a perfect world and I had all the time in the world, and sometimes I do have time, I would love to cold plunge sauna. I think that's a really great way to do almost like a reset on your system. And you don't have to have a cold plunge. You could just do a freezing cold shower.

14:53Lauryn Bosstick:You could do contrast shower. The heat really helps you decompress. So if you're looking for a release, if you're feeling very hyped up, I feel like the heat is like it helps you like slow down. And I always pair my heat and cold with hydration and minerals. So I'll do the Skinny Confidential Beauty Salt, which is the best salt, colostrum, and pearl powder on the market. it's amazing. I froth it up in water. I add a full lemon. Sometimes I add a hydrogen pill in there. And then I'll add some minerals. I like Keaton minerals. And I just get all my minerals and my vitamins and make sure that I'm really concentrating on supplementation.

15:37Lauryn Bosstick:So you get the daily movement to drain the mental load. You get the supplements that are helping you with the energy and you have your boundaries around your phone. And then another thing that I do to like kick off the day is I'll just write everything down. So I'll write down what my top three priorities are for the day. And then I'll write down my to do list. And then I will write a memo of what I need to post on social media. I will write out my calls for the day. I will write out my goals for the day. And I will make sure that that piece of paper is filled with only the most important priorities.

16:16I am not focused on this paper, on the minutia.

16:19Lauryn Bosstick:It's just the most important things to keep the ball rolling. It's like a memo to myself. Okay. So that's important. Martha Stewart taught me about the memo. Okay. She explained the memo. You got to have a memo to yourself every single morning. And so this is like a brainstorm that I have where I can clear my thoughts and get clarity. And again, there's no phone involved.

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18:20Lauryn Bosstick:I have been on a chicken kick. I've switched my beef for a minute to chicken. I am tightening up for a very specific photo shoot and I'm just doing white meat right now. So I'm doing a little shift. I love my beef bowl, don't get me wrong, but for the next month, I'm just doing white meat, and I am making the best bowl. I start with Taylor Farms Mediterranean Crunch. They have the best chopped salad kits. I have told you guys about this. It is so easy to get your salad together, and they really come in so many flavors. So maybe you're like a sweet kale person. Maybe you like Caesar. Maybe you even like avocado ranch.

18:58Lauryn Bosstick:They have thought of everything. So I'll do Mediterranean Crutch Taylor Farms chopped salad first. No leaving half a cabbage in your fridge. I'll add the chicken on top. I'll add some hot sauce and I'll do a little bit of lemon on top and I'll make it a bowl. Sometimes I add chopped tomatoes, chopped white onion. I just mix it up. It's ready to go. It's a bunch of protein with a delicious mix of salad. Taylor Farms has 28 chopped kits. They have 10 salad kits, six organic chopped kits, and nine mini chopped kits. So what I do is I just bring it to the office. I have it in the fridge. It's really truly something for every appetite and occasion.

19:35Lauryn Bosstick:You can mix it up. You could make a hamburger bowl. You could do like a fiesta bowl, whatever your heart desires. If I can do it, you can too. Grab a Taylor Farms chopped salad kit and get your salad together. Let me tell you about how I rebrand my children's food and drinks. I do cookie water for electrolyte water. I do candy water for amino water. And I do the best cookie granola by Purely Elizabeth for a little healthy treat. Purely Elizabeth granola. Okay. Salty, sweet, crunchy clusters, delicious taste. But the best part, everything is amazing when it comes to the ingredients. Organic oats, ancient grains, and superfood seeds.

20:18Lauryn Bosstick:They have chia, quinoa, delicious crunchy clusters with a unique salty sweet taste. My kids go crazy for this. They think it's the ultimate treat. Everything is baked with coconut oil and it's simply sweetened with a coconut sugar, which is so great. And all Purely Elizabeth products are gluten-free, vegan, certified USDA organic, and non-GMO project verified. I personally though like the original ancient grain granola. I add it to Greek yogurt and then I'll add raw honey on top and a little bit of bee pollen and I eat that after a workout. It's delicious. I like this granola for myself because there's no artificial flavors and everything is certified gluten-free.

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