Dr. Simone’s Mind Space

Travelling with a baby: yes you can?

It’s all about coordinating. It’s finding the right time of the day to travel best. For my female empowerment movement UNE SUR CENT, I’ve organised a weekend getaway at Suvretta House in St. Moritz. I’ve solo travelled with my 9months old. It worked very well.

Too often, we hear what’s not possible, rather than been given encouragement to dare to try. Just the other day, I received a mommy newsletter that’s been so discouraging and old fashioned. The letter suggested not to travel with a baby! We’ve traveled around the world with a quiet, sleeping baby. It’s about how your lifestyle is and what the baby is accustomed to. Anything is possible, if you’d put your mind into it.

It’s important to empower women and young mothers in particular to say yes you can. In stead of no you can’t! The more we strengthen self esteem in young women, the better for the future of female empowerment and role modelling. The more we dare to try, the better, as it shows the options and possibilities we have, to parent in our  own individual way.

Young parents need all the support they can get. Positive reinforcement, rather than critical evaluation. Yes, we can! Together as supportive parents we can!

 

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@drschwank

@optimalperformancezurich

 

 

Back to work and back to school stress: Mental load

Briefly discussed in previous episodes, many of us, particularly women struggle with the mental load, they’re bearing on a daily basis.

What can be done to reduce the burden?

• Communication 
• Share responsibility within the family
• Curb out me-time (especially important for working moms)
• 20min exercise rule a day
• Healthy eating to reduce stress 
• Get into and establish a new routine to carry you through fall and winter
• TAKE THE OXYGEN MASK SELF BEFORE HELPING OTHERS

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@drschwank

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Back to work and back to school stress

As for so many of us, August is a big transition month. The seasons are changing from summer into fall, days get shorter, and crispier. We return back to work, school, start at kindergarten or daycare, all after a long summer break or no break for others. How can we best balance these challenging times, especially women, who take on the majority of the mental load of family schedules, appointments, and often lack personal time. As a consequence their body and mind will eventually tell them to stop. That’s often when they visit or practice for physiotherapy, holistic metabolic balance treatment or mental performance consultation. The earlier we address our challenges the better and easier to shift gears and start a new routine. 

 

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@drschwank

@optimalperformancezurich

Matterhorn climbed by a female

In today’s episode Agi shares her passion for mountaineering as a female among all the men. She takes us on her journey to the top. In this episode, Agi explains how she prepared herself, to make it up to the peak of Matterhorn . How mountaineering, long-distance running, and yoga all share the moving meditation aspect in common.  

 

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@agichristine 

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Empowerment series & yoga by the lake part 1

Today’s episode introduces a series inspired by Marie, power yoga teacher from California, currently in Switzerland. Her mission is to empower bus women to step off their at as stronger versions of themselves. 

The episode features nutritionist Denise, who’s dedicated her work to the female cycle. 

By having a deeper understanding of our cycle we can better manage our energy, heal our bodies from the inside out, prepare for pregnancy (or avoid pregnancy), and so much more. The woman's body is truly incredible and I can't believe I never learned about all of this before. So if you are saying the same things to yourself…you are not alone! 

Interested in learning more about the different phases + the types of foods to eat to best fuel our bodies during each season + eat lots of these amazing foods? Listen to today’s episode and follow us.

 

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@drschwank

@optimalperformancezurich

@swipedbyaswiss

@femflowpower

Growing up as a polyglot

In today’s global societies, it isn’t uncommon to grow up in a polyglot environments. More and more children have parents from different parts of the world, speaking different primary languages and only share one common language, such as English. These children grow up with a sense of normalcy for polyglotism.

Embrace your child in the beauty of languages and the multitude of cultures that follow.

 

Etymology

Borrowed from French polyglotte, from Ancient Greek (polúglōttos, “many-tongued, polyglot”).

 

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Back to traditional climbing: Mount Kenya Part 2

In today’s episode Agi shares her 13hours to the top of Batian Peak, Mount Kenya. The journey she took and prepared for herself, as an inspiring independent woman. Be prepared to hold your breath while Agi shares her adventures to the peak and back!

 

@drschwank

@agichristine

@unesurcent

@optimalperformancezurich

Back to traditional climbing: Mount Kenya Part 1

In today’s episode Agi shares her passion for mountaineering as a woman. She takes us on her journey to the top. In this episode, Agi explains how she prepared herself, to increase her chances to summit this 5000er.

 

@drschwank

@agichristine

@unesurcent

@optimalperformancezurich

Women: Mentoring across generations

In many cultures, women are the core of all education and in charge of passing on traditions and believes within the family and the community. Yet at work, women often act as concurrency rather than mentor and mentee. It’s a topic that has followed me through my entire life and often I realized the negative dynamic only when it already had been (almost) too late. Unfortunately, the topic of jealousy is way too common among people with similar backgrounds and trajectories. Jealous people will never stop, they will always want more, what to see the target to feel miserable and inadequate.  But there’s ways to avoid continuous exposure and major blow ups. At times, the wisest option is to run away, to a save and supportive space. As a young woman it’s extraordinarily important to have a senior mentor, who’s life experience will have jealousy on the radar and can intervene, when necessary.

 

Sources of jealousy and how to manage it?

There is no single cause for someone’s jealous behaviors, attitudes or feelings. However, there can be several of the following reasons why someone might feel this way, including insecurity, past history, or fear of loss. Jealousy can be triggered by these and might create tensions within themselves and relationships. Some of the various signs of jealousy might be accusations, suspicions, questioning your behavior or day-to-day activities, having negativity towards partner’s relationships, and comparing themselves to others.

 

Steps to jealousy awareness:

-Recognition: understand the origin

-Reflection: identify the motive

-Accountability: take responsibility for the way you’re thinking

-Communication: the most essential part of processing your feelings

 

Sources

https://centerstone.org/our-resources/health-wellness/what-is-jealousy-and-how-to-manage-it/#:~:text=There%20is%20not%20one%20root,create%20tensions%20within%20your%20relationships.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5609545/

 

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Powerful women across generations

Female role models inside and outside the family are crucial, to develop a sense of nonchalance and self-evident attitude towards gender equality. Wise women of previous generations have insights and knowledge that is of great importance to pave the path for younger ones to dare to try and reach new territories, yet always remembering their save harbors. Having a strong woman in a previous generation, has impact on following generations of women within the family. A feeling of yes we can, if grandma could. This feeling is of great importance and one of the reasons for generations of strong women, within a single family.

Seeing other women accomplishing things outside the box, is empowering and inspiring. It further takes away lots of self-doubts and some of the pressure to conform. Women across the world have passed on their wisdom to younger generations. This tradition is of immense value, not only for young women themselves, but their families, and their entire societies. Strong women have shaped societies and cultures around the world. The more we keep these women in mind and strive to conquer new territories, the more we can achieve for future generations and present female selves. The more we live up to our strong female heritage, the less exposed we feel and the better we can shelled off the winds, blowing from all directions. Internalising the nonchalance of our great grandmothers fighting for rights, completely unimaginable. It show us how we can change the world to a more gender equal place. The rights and benefits our great grandmothers achieve, so often is neglected. We take many things for granted.  It’s important to keep fighting for freedom, not all women around the world have the responsibility rights they deserve to have.

@unesurcent

@drschwank

@optimalperformancezurich