Episode29: Balanced Goals

01/10/21 • 45 min

Breaking Free - A Body, Mind, Spirit Approach to Mental Health

It's the New Year and many of us are hitting the ground running seeking a better 2021! For this purpose, I invited veteran fitness instructor and health coach, Melanie Gillespie, to share her journey from reaching extreme fitness goals that led her to crashed adrenals and a broken mindset to taking time to do the inner work. She now enjoys a balanced mindset, a healthy body, and a health relationship with herself. Her story is all too familiar as we often seek to "run faster than we have strength" and to set goals from the ego, shame-based part of us rather than from our hearts and true self. Come learn how to set goals in a sustainable way that leads to you having success both mentally and physically.

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Episode 28: Let's Discuss Loneliness

In this episode, I invite my friend and colleague, Rachael Grant Dixon (host of "She's Awake Podcast") to share her unique perspective on the mindset of loneliness. We discuss how to "get curious" and experiment on new ways of processing the feelings of loneliness we all experience. Learn how feelings of division or separation with those to whom we seek meaningful connection can contribute to our loneliness. Come sit at our table and enjoy a candid conversation between two friends as we discuss ways to address these challenges, and how we personally have addressed feelings of disconnect.

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Episode 30: Radical Self-Love

We live in a cultural that is in opposition to the true mindset of happiness, love and acceptance. In this episode, we will explore how choosing to love and accept yourself right where you are is the key to moving out of shame-based mindsets that keep you stuck in cycles of addiction, fear, blame, and feelings unworthiness of the love and freedom you desire. You will begin to see that when you radically accept that you are worthy of love and belonging, even in the midst of times when you are not living from your best self, you can begin to live free of the shame that holds you hostage. We will explore the skills of radical acceptance and meditation practice of RAIN by Tara Brach to help you address where you are stuck in your pain and learn to integrate your story of woundedness rather than spend energy running away, numbing out, or remaining in conflict with others. If you are someone seeking to transform your pain into purpose then this is the podcast for you!