Cultivating a Healing Mindset and Self-Acceptance with Murlene Joseph
Murlene Joseph is a Registered Nurse and Certified Health Coach. Because of her own experience navigating chronic illness, she began her coaching business Myrrh Wellness in order to support others struggling on their own healing journeys. She’s here to remind you that you’re in control of your health. You can feel strong, light, and happy. In this episode of The Live Well Podcast, we speak about the importance of mindset on your healing journey, and how to cultivate self-acceptance and self-love in order to heal.
Murlene Joseph is a Registered Nurse and Certified Health Coach. She is a descendant of Haiti, born and raised in Florida. Murlene has always loved helping people with their health, but it was her own experience with autoimmune disease beginning at age 25 that led her to health coaching and teaching individuals how to advocate and uplevel their health with small, consistent habit changes that provide sustainable healthy lifestyles.
When she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, rheumatoid arthritis, and polycystic ovarian syndrome she felt hopeless navigating the murky messaging of health and wellness, not sure where to start feeling good again. Because of her own experience navigating chronic illness, she began her coaching business Myrrh Wellness in order to support others struggling on their healing journeys. She’s here to remind you that you’re in control of your health. You can feel strong, light, and happy.
In this episode, we speak about the importance of mindset on your healing journey, and how to cultivate self-acceptance and self-love in order to heal.
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SHOW NOTES:
0:00 Intro
8:02 - Learning to find balance
Moving away from extremes and an all or nothing mindset
Letting go of unrealistic expectations
Accepting what is
10:32 - Murlene talks about her love for food
Not denying yourself
We gravitate towards the things we love and bring us happiness
12:08 - The turning point: realizing that her body and what was happening was not something Murlene could control
Shifting mindset to being happy and being healthy
13:10 - The goal is 80-20
13:34 - Being imperfect is easier
Trying to get to perfection is a journey we will never reach
14:17 - Constant self-criticism can affect how you show up in your business
14:45 - Being authentic and honest
15:23 - It’s okay to admit that you don’t know everything
16:52 - Healing isn’t always linear
Learning acceptance
Getting up and moving forward
It’s about self-confidence, self-love and getting rid of expectations
Acknowledging that no one is perfect
19:09 - Showing up authentically in business and in sharing her healing journey
Healing also means failing sometimes or falling and getting back up
20:19 - Live is happening now and being present in this moment
23:13 - Shifting your mindset around healing
28:18 - Asking for help, listening, getting advice, and understanding that we don’t have to have all the answers
36:16 - Finding acceptance and what that means for Murlene
Accepting change which can be really hard
Accepting that we don’t have all the answers
Accepting help
Loving your body the way that it is - flaws and all
Accepting imperfections
41:50 - Having supportive people in your life to interrupt negative thoughts and emotions
44:08 - Not holding back anymore and living life regardless
47:01 - Asking yourself what you’re really willing to do to change
48:28 - Practicing humility
49:39 - Where to find Murlene
50:15 - Final thoughts & comments
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If we haven't met before, I'm Christina Tidwell and I'm so excited that you're here! I am a RN & Functional Nutrition Practitioner that helps those with autoimmune disease, hormone imbalance and gut issues heal without overwhelm so you can feel better in your body in a way that honors your unique needs and feels sustainable for the rest of your life.
If you suffer from:
Fatigue and energy crashes
Brain fog
Poor digestion
Painful periods and PMS
Symptoms of autoimmunity
Stress and overwhelm
...and aren't getting the support you need, I’m here to help guide you! My job is to clear the overwhelm, help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and co-create a sustainable path forward to help you reach your goals and feel better in your amazing body. When we work together you can’t fail.
In my health & nutrition coaching programs I support you in the quest to get back into balance by listening to your story, understanding your needs, getting to the roots of imbalance in the body and co-creating a sustainable path to healing together. These sessions weave together functional nutrition and science, lived experience, mindset shifts, and intuitive guidance for a unique and full-spectrum approach to nutrition counseling and holistic health.
I always offer free 20-minute discovery sessions to get clear on your major health concerns and identify what’s standing in your way. Click the button below to set up your free consultation and we can create a plan of action specifically for you.
Overcoming Wellness Burnout
If you’re feeling like your daily wellness routines are a chore or something that’s becoming really overwhelming then you may be experiencing wellness burnout. I define wellness burnout as a state of increased stress and overwhelm that comes from the constant pursuit of health and wellness practices. In this post, I share the importance of having a toolkit and a few questions that you can use as soon as you feel that your body needs it.
Overcoming Wellness Burnout
Over the last several years working in the realm of holistic health I've come to see a phenomenon I like to call "Wellness Burnout."
It can feel SO empowering when we realize we have the power to use nutrition and lifestyle shifts to improve how we feel. We might start out by experimenting with diet, then start taking new supplements, then incorporating dry brushing, taking saunas, meditating, doing yoga, oil pulling, tongue scraping, trampolining, acupuncture, breathwork, fasting, cleansing, blue light blocking, grounding, seed cycling, and ALL the things!
I speak with clients at this place of burnout who say, "Christina, I'm literally doing everything right and I'm STILL not feeling better. What gives?"
At the end of the day, we all just want to feel BETTER. And most of us are willing to do whatever it takes! If you get to the place where your wellness routines have begun to feel like a chore, you're feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and you're trying to get through tasks so you can mentally check off a box that you "did it" but are feeling stressed the whole time, you might experiencing some Wellness Burnout.
While we can certainly use many of these amazing health-supportive practices, we don't have to do ALL of the things ALL the time.
In fact, we aren't meant to. Taking the time to tune into the practices that feel good and supportive to you specifically at this moment in time, and working to bring more depth and presence to those (rather than adding on more interventions) allows us to reap the benefits more fully and take some pressure off of ourselves to do it all.
If you are experiencing some Wellness Burnout, what are you noticing? Are there 1-3 practices that are the most beneficial to you right now? Is there any room to release others? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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If we haven't met before, I'm Christina Tidwell and I'm so excited that you're here! I am a RN & Functional Nutrition Practitioner that helps those with autoimmune disease, hormone imbalance and gut issues heal without overwhelm so you can feel better in your body in a way that honors your unique needs and feels sustainable for the rest of your life.
If you suffer from:
Fatigue and energy crashes
Brain fog
Poor digestion
Painful periods and PMS
Symptoms of autoimmunity
Stress and overwhelm
...and aren't getting the support you need, I’m here to help guide you! My job is to clear the overwhelm, help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and co-create a sustainable path forward to help you reach your goals and feel better in your amazing body. When we work together you can’t fail.
In my health & nutrition coaching programs I support you in the quest to get back into balance by listening to your story, understanding your needs, getting to the roots of imbalance in the body and co-creating a sustainable path to healing together. These sessions weave together functional nutrition and science, lived experience, mindset shifts, and intuitive guidance for a unique and full-spectrum approach to nutrition counseling and holistic health.
I always offer free 20-minute discovery sessions to get clear on your major health concerns and identify what’s standing in your way. Click the button below to set up your free consultation and we can create a plan of action specifically for you.
3 Questions to Help You Tune Into Your Body
In order to cultivate sustainability in our healing journey, what we really need to do is become experts at listening to what our bodies are telling us. Instead of constantly searching and looking outside of ourselves for the answers, I'll share tips on how to look within to figure out what works best for you and your beautiful body, and three simple but very powerful questions to help you tune into your body.
3 Questions to Help You Tune Into Your Body
Have you ever found yourself following a diet plan or a protocol only to get bored or only last a few weeks before you “fall off the wagon” or revert back to your old way of doing things? Do you feel like you do ok when you’re on a strict guideline but the minute life happens and you travel, go out to eat or have a stressful day you fall back into old habits? Does it feel like you’re really black and white about your health and like you’re either being “good” and adhering to a plan or you’re being “bad” and doing whatever you want?
It can feel like a really frustrating cycle of trying something, falling off, trying something, and falling off. If you’re felt this way you’re certainly not alone!
Many of us do well with protocols where someone tells us what to do and we follow that plan. But this means that when we stop doing the protocol or veer off track, we feel lost.
When the focus is on diet plans or protocols that we must follow, we rely on this external cue to tell us what to eat, how much to eat, what to do, etc. While it can be helpful to have guidelines and a plan when we are trying to accomplish a goal or improve health, solely relying on these external guides can have the unintended effect of disconnecting us from what our body is trying to tell us about what it needs.
If we follow a plan that restricts calories, for example, we rely on that caloric number to tell us how much more we are “allowed” to eat. The signals we get from our bodies like hunger and fullness cues, energy levels, digestion, etc. take second place to this external guideline.
Even in the case of a healing diet or supplement protocol from a doctor, if we get a list of things we need to do on a daily basis without connecting to how those things are actually affecting our body, we continue to rely solely on these external guidelines for how to care for ourselves. When this protocol or plan is over, or if it didn’t have the intended effects we wanted, we don’t have any information about where to go next and we’re left going back to square one.
Sometimes we need specific protocols to support us during different phases of our healing journey, but in order to cultivate sustainability in our healing journey, what we really need to do is become experts at listening to what our bodies are telling us and turning inwards.
“Listen to your body” might be an annoying phrase that you can’t quite wrap your head around. It’s in the same family as, “reduce your stress” or “self-care” or other phrases that sound so nice and simple, but can be hard to pin down when you’re actually trying to achieve them.
Listening to our bodies has become a vague and somewhat challenging task because we've gotten so used to looking outside of ourselves for information and guidance on how to feel better.
Instead of constantly searching and looking outside of ourselves for the answers, I want to talk about how to look within as the only way to really figure out what works best for you and your beautiful body.
Here are 3 questions to start this process of tuning into the body
1. How do I feel?
This question can also be expanded a little more. You might also ask: Where am I holding tension? What are my symptoms? What is my energy level? To feel into the answer to this question, you may need to pause, stop, take inventory and breathe.
2. What do I need?
Based on the answer that you get by asking yourself “How do I feel?” you can then ask yourself what you need based on this? Answers that come up for you when you ask yourself what you need might be things like: rest, something to eat, letting out your emotions, a long walk. When you answer this question of what you need based on how you feel, you’ll get a very different answer than “I should”. Be careful of “shoulds”, and if they do come up when you ask yourself what you need, then come back to these two key questions.
3. Can I give myself that?
This is where the dynamic comes into play where we might feel the “shoulds” or conflicting emotions. When you ask yourself this question, take the responses that you got when you really tuned in and try to really honor your body, what you’re feeling, and your needs. See if you can start developing a practice of saying yes when you ask yourself this question of “Can I give myself that?”.
Other tools that can help you tune in
5-second body scans. Before meals to ask yourself these questions to help you continue the process of strengthening this connection.
Getting quiet. Silence isn’t empty. It's full of answers. Breathing and meditating allows us to clear mental clutter so we can more fully listen to the signs and signals our bodies are trying to give us. I like the apps Calm or Insight for introductory meditation, or I practice my favorite 4-7-8 breathing technique.
Complete a 5-day food/symptom journal. This is a great way to start the process of noticing how what you put in your body makes you feel. You can download it by going to: http://www.christinatidwell.com/blog/symptomjournal
These 3 questions might sound simple, but they are SO powerful. This is a process, and it's like strengthening a muscle, so be patient with yourself! Let me know in the comments where you're at with this process of tuning in. What do you notice right now if you do a 5-second body scan? What comes up? If you complete your 5-day food journal and come up with some interesting insights, let me know!
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If we haven't met before, I'm Christina Tidwell and I'm so excited that you're here! I am a RN & Functional Nutrition Practitioner that helps those with autoimmune disease, hormone imbalance and gut issues heal without overwhelm so you can feel better in your body in a way that honors your unique needs and feels sustainable for the rest of your life.
If you suffer from:
Fatigue and energy crashes
Brain fog
Poor digestion
Painful periods and PMS
Symptoms of autoimmunity
Stress and overwhelm
...and aren't getting the support you need, I’m here to help guide you! My job is to clear the overwhelm, help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and co-create a sustainable path forward to help you reach your goals and feel better in your amazing body. When we work together you can’t fail.
In my health & nutrition coaching programs I support you in the quest to get back into balance by listening to your story, understanding your needs, getting to the roots of imbalance in the body and co-creating a sustainable path to healing together. These sessions weave together functional nutrition and science, lived experience, mindset shifts, and intuitive guidance for a unique and full-spectrum approach to nutrition counseling and holistic health.
I always offer free 20-minute discovery sessions to get clear on your major health concerns and identify what’s standing in your way. Click the button below to set up your free consultation and we can create a plan of action specifically for you.
3 Ways to Ease Anxiety and Create Calm with Audrey Sutton Mills
I am so happy to have Audrey Sutton Mills on this episode of The Live Well podcast to speak about the collective fear and uncertainty that many of us might be facing in these times. Audrey’s purpose is to help you uncover your light and embody your worth, knowing that you are enough and you matter. I can think of no better person to speak into the big emotions that are coming up collectively right now, and how we can use simple tools to help bring us back to ourselves and find more calm and ease.
I am so happy to have Audrey Sutton Mills on the podcast today to speak about the collective fear and uncertainty that many of us might be facing in these times, and explore ways to ease anxiety and come back to ourselves.
Through her podcast, courses, writing, and events, Audrey teaches tools to cultivate deeper self-love and connection. Audrey believes we all have a light within us, but it gets covered up by the complexities of life. Her purpose is to help you uncover your light and embody your worth, knowing that you are enough and you matter. I can think of no better person to speak into the big emotions that are coming up collectively right now, and how we can use simple tools to help bring us back to ourselves and find more calm and ease.
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SHOW NOTES:
0:00 Intro
4:03 - Using mindfulness tools to come home to yourself
Dealing with fear, uncertainty, and our own inner critic
Using simple tools to work through the unknown
6:02 - Some of the things we're noticing now given everything that's happening in the world with COVID-19
Dealing with uncertainty and letting go of 'shoulds'
9:29 - Trying to control everything around us actually keeps us stuck
10:50 - The tools and ways that people can begin to learn how to come home to themselves
“There’s your business, other people’s business, and God’s business.” - Bryon Katie
Letting go of control, understanding what you want & need, and changing our perspective during this crisis
12:32 - The tools and ways that people can begin to learn how to come home to themselves
Focusing on what is actually in your control
Self-care and getting clear on what self-care actually looks like for you in small and sacred ways
Giving yourself self-love which might mean compassion, grace, sitting with the tough emotions
16:17 - The practice of surrender and simple ways to surrender
Write down what you want to surrender, let go of the control, and release it
Rewiring your thoughts by letting go of what’s not serving you
Meditating and holding space for what is
20:27 - Resources for meditation practices
Audrey’s Podcast Episode: 5 Easy Ways to Learn to Meditate
Visit Audrey's website for more useful tips on meditation
21:03 - Slowing down, moving through the process of winding down and going inward
23:20 - Audrey shares some of her personal backstory and how she was forced to truly evaluate her life and learn to slow down
“We either willfully shed or we are broken open.” - Mark Nepo
True transformation takes place through trauma and tough times
25:59 - The Guest House by Rumi
28:07 - Finding more joy and gratitude on the other side of tough times as individuals and as a collective
31:08 - Recapping the 3 steps to stay open and come home to yourself
32:48 Additional resources from Audrey and where to find her
ALWAYS ENOUGH course available now and $6.00 for a limited time with proceeds going to help supply masks for frontline healthcare workers
Audrey’s signature course SOUL SCHOOL
Her podcast Soul School with Audrey
Audrey’s website - www.audreysuttonmills.com
If you loved this episode, I'd be honored for you to give me a rating on iTunes. This helps me to get content out to others who are interested in getting control of their health through diet, lifestyle shifts and personal empowerment.
If we haven't met before, I'm Christina Tidwell and I'm so excited that you're here! I am a RN & Functional Nutrition Practitioner that helps those with autoimmune disease, hormone imbalance and gut issues heal without overwhelm so you can feel better in your body in a way that honors your unique needs and feels sustainable for the rest of your life.
If you suffer from:
Fatigue and energy crashes
Brain fog
Poor digestion
Painful periods and PMS
Symptoms of autoimmunity
Stress and overwhelm
...and aren't getting the support you need, I’m here to help guide you! My job is to clear the overwhelm, help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and co-create a sustainable path forward to help you reach your goals and feel better in your amazing body. When we work together you can’t fail.
In my health & nutrition coaching programs I support you in the quest to get back into balance by listening to your story, understanding your needs, getting to the roots of imbalance in the body and co-creating a sustainable path to healing together. These sessions weave together functional nutrition and science, lived experience, mindset shifts, and intuitive guidance for a unique and full-spectrum approach to nutrition counseling and holistic health.
I always offer free 20-minute discovery sessions to get clear on your major health concerns and identify what’s standing in your way. Click the button below to set up your free consultation and we can create a plan of action specifically for you.