Why We Need More Self Acceptance and Less Self Improvement

08/26/21 • 29 min

Ep#070 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
As a holistic health coach, I’ve come to know that when it comes to creating the change we desire for ourselves, cultivating Self Acceptance is the fundamental piece . Without a high level of self acceptance we will lack what it truly takes to take constructive empowered action in our lives.
The problem with Self Improvement is that it makes our self acceptance conditional . We can’t feel like we are truly okay until ......... Our efforts to better ourselves no matter how correct and sensible can feel like being on a hamster wheel. Self Acceptance is here and NOW - no conditions, no standards. It doesn't mean we're ignoring the things we would like to change, we just aren't including them in our equation of inherent worth and acceptability.
Self Acceptance doesn't makes us lazy, idle or complacent. All the research points to the fact that Self Acceptance is what actually sets the stage for growth and real change.
In this special solo show, I share some key strategies for why and how we need to make this important shift when it comes to stepping into our full personal power to create the health and wellbeing we truly desire.
Recommended Resource: "Radical Acceptance - Embracing Your Life With The Heart of a Buddha " By Tara Brach

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Overcoming Busyness - How To Identify and Heal Our Societal Addiction

Ep#069 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
We live in a society that glorifies being busy all the time. In our minds, busyness equates with importance and even worse to our self worth. In my coaching work, I have found this compulsion to be "doing, doing doing" the #1 health de-railing habit when it comes to caring for ourselves.
Learn how to identify the difference between addiction to busyness and living a full, active, productive life.
Understand the high price on our health and happiness of living in chronic busyness, what's underneath and drives the cycle of frantic living, exhaustion and delayed self care and some strategies to heal your body, mind and soul.
Recommened Resources for Mind Body Healing:
Tara Brach
Brene Brown
Louise Hay
Don Miguel Ruiz
Sadhguru
Mark Nepo
Gary Zukav

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A Mind, Body, Spirit Approach To Healing Our Gut - Peter Kozlowski, MD

Ep#071 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
When it comes to finding a roadmap to true wellbeing, there is no better subject area to dive deep and gain insights into the interconnected landscape of nutrition, emotions and the mind than our gut health.
This episode is a down to earth conversation with Dr. Peter Kozlowski and his new critically acclaimed, award winning book, " Unfunc Your Gut - How To Boost Your Immune System, Heal Your Gut and Unlock Your Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health" .
Dr. Peter Kozlowski is a practicing functional medicine doctor who serves patients in person and online via his Montana and Chicago-based practices. He has trained with leaders in his field including Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Susan Blum.
Dr. Kozlowski is extremely passionate about the primary importance of mental, emotional and spiritual health when it comes to getting to the root cause of dis-ease. He is an excellent teacher and a gifted healer who "walks his talk", bringing a distinctive level of experiential wisdom from his own healing journey through addiction recovery.
Learn more: http://doc-koz.com
Get the Book: "Unfunc Your Gut"