Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

Do What You Enjoy, Not What You Think Repairs You

15 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Joanne Lee Smith shares her philosophy that self‑care activities should be pursued for the sheer enjoyment they bring, not as a means to "fix" oneself. She lists several practices she loves—listening to hypnotherapy audios, guided meditations, sleep stories that evoke childhood bedtime tales, and hula‑hooping in her office. She repeatedly emphasizes that she does these things because they are fun and fulfilling, rejecting the notion that anything is broken that needs repairing. The core message is a gentle reminder to view self‑care as a source of pleasure rather than a remedial task.

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So all the things that I found that I do, I do them anyway. I'd do it anyway because I just enjoy it. I just like laying down and listening to a hypnotherapy audio. I enjoy listening to a meditation sometimes, a guided one. I like listening to the sleep stories. It reminds me of being a little kid and having a story read to you, like a bedtime story, but they do them For grown-ups. So I don't see that as me trying to fix anything, because remember, nothing's broken. So I do those things anyway, like I just do them because I enjoy them. Hula hooping, always. Oh, wrong way. My hula hoops, they're my office hoops. I don't see that I need to do hula hooping to get myself better, it's just That's my hobby, I love it, that's my, um, doing it because you just really want to do it kind of thing.