Healthy Vibes Podcast

Grace is a gift. Grace is a choice. You can show grace with kindness, compassion, humility, understanding, gentleness, and forgiveness. Grace can bring you more happiness, calm, and improve your health. Choose to be more gentle this week.

This comes up every day with family, friends, and other moms, and anyone we come in contact with honestly. Changing our perspective, or just the ability to try to see someone else’s, can change our world. When you begin to feel resistance to something, it is time to look at other perspectives, push through, or make a move. Just changing your own perspective to how you are seeing a situation, can h...

Let’s pause, stay calm, and truly think about what we want our kids to remember during this time. What should we be teaching them? Let’s be smart, calm, and thoughtful, but don’t let the media hype create panic, stress and anxiety. This won’t be the last uncertain challenge our kids will face. Let’s strengthen their faith, resilience, acceptance, understanding and self-care. I am not an expert, bu...

Listen, none of us have it all together, even if it appears that way. You can be grateful, joyful and love your life, and still have struggles each day. Fear is a big part of what brings on stress, anxiety and overwhelm. This week we are choosing faith over fear...every single time. We are choosing to trust God in his plans and timing, and not let fear take over. Resource: The War Room movie

I get honest on several habits that I am trying to let go of. These are the habits that I know hold me back, create more problems in relationships, and limit my growth. I want you to get honest as well, and work this week on letting go of the habits that are not serving you well. We have to remember they are habits, and they can be changed.

We all go through events and life challenges that can try to bring us down. How we react and how we handle these hard things affects our lives, outcomes, relationships and health. No matter how big this life event is, you can take care of yourself through the process. We don’t have to overreact through the process. Prayer and perspective will do wonders for your health, mind health and your relati...

Bad days and feeling down can come and go. We don’t want to stay in that place too long, but it is also up to us to start making simple choices to get out of it and feel better. Accepting ourselves, being kind to ourselves, and making small, good choices over and over can help us to feel better and get out of our funk easier every time. Just remember, there is nobody better to do you, be you, or l...

Protecting your energy and peace take intentional choices. Always feeling guilty and explaining your personal choices, will leave you feeling drained and frustrated. Start making choices for you, and giving a simple response for when you say no. This takes practice, but it is possible, and easier, when you are taking care of yourself, so you are strong and confident in your choices. One choice at...

It is more than ok to have things we struggle with. It is common to feel that you should “keep it all together”. But, we all have something that challenges us. We will talk about where to start to own what we are struggling with. Speak it and own it, then you can begin to improve it. Resources: The 5 Second Rule, by Mel Robbins

Be strong and love who you are. Be more intentional and slow down. Take time to choose. I will tell you what helped me make choices that aligned with my values. If something is tugging at your heart, and doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Romans 12:2 Resources: The Bible, Prayer

Before you can truly be you fully, you have to start loving every single part of you. Love your challenges, and your strengths. We talk about what has helped me accept me, love me, and be more of myself every day. It is a choice. You can start loving yourself right now too. Resources: The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene’ Brown

Having a smaller circle doesn’t mean you have to cut people off. This just means to choose your time wisely. Don’t feel pressured to say yes all the time. You can love people, and still choose to say no. Know what season you are in, and where your time and energy need to go. Use it wisely. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t have a big group of friends. Find people that let you truly be you and ap...

We talk about the benefits to doing something every day that is uncomfortable that will help you grow as a person. Also, how we will feel if we don’t get out of our comfort zone every day. Simple ways that we can manage the discomfort and help us take action. Together, let’s get out of our comfort zone, grow every day, chase our dreams, live fully, and find more happiness than we ever thought poss...

Sometimes too much health and fitness information can make us freeze and not take action at all. There are many myths and some simple hacks that can save us time and energy if we are open to it. Hopefully, there is at least one simple truth in this episode that helps make your fitness routine more meaningful. Most importantly, we want to get your body moving in some way every day.

The biggest differences come in the smallest actions every day. You can feel so much joy, and give joy, by giving just a little every day to those around us. Whatever season you are in life...be all there. I believe that God tugs at us sometimes to show us where we can make a difference, or who might need us. When you hear, or see this, listen. Helping your neighbors, aging parents, giving complim...

What are you doing that is creative that you truly enjoy? We all need to be creative for our soul, for happiness, to tap into something deeper. Creativity brings us joy and happiness. As we get older, we get away from doing things that just make us feel good. We feel like we always have to be productive or checking something off our list. What moves you? What is something you just enjoy? Creativit...

How we use our energy is as important, if not more than, how we use our time. What is considered good energy, and what energy can drain you? What lifts you up and what brings you down? Start paying attention to what you are letting into your life, and how it is affecting you, your mood, your happiness, how productive you are and your relationships. Remember...if something is on your plate, you put...

Gossip and judgement can be so common, and have unhealthy consequences for us. Why we should stay clear, and how we can avoid it, or get away from it. If you find yourself feeling judgemental often, you have to step back and nurture yourself. The happier we are with ourselves, the less judgement we will feel. Ask yourself if you are looking through the eyes of love or judgement. You can change you...

It is easy to get into the habit of criticizing mistakes, shortcomings, and expecting more than we should. When we constantly get upset over small things, we add so much stress to our lives, and the people’s lives that we love so much. Stress is one of the biggest culprits of disease, relationship problems, and anxiety in us and our kids. This episode talks about what we have to stop doing, and wh...

This is how I went from not liking social media, to learning how to set boundaries, enjoy, be inspired, and create lasting connections through social media. I created my own discipline, and learned how to change my feed for the better, and wasting less time on endless scrolling. There is so much good, but there can also be a downside for some of us. Let us all become more aware of how it makes us...

What are the benefits of a morning routine? Less stress. More clarity. More productivity. Self-care. Clear mind. More focus and progress. Happiness. What should you put in your own morning routine? Exercise, stretching, How do you choose and what time should you get up? Let’s discuss creating your own plan for your routine and how it can change your days. Our challenge this week is to create your...

It is common for most of us to feel the pressure of your choices from others, and even to look for approval, sometimes without even realizing it. Are you craving authenticity or even feeling unsettled? Become aware of what is making you unsettled, and what you truly value. If you are craving authenticity, you should truly make sure you are being authentic and genuine yourself. This starts with cho...

What is about your baggage that you are holding on to, and why is it bothering you? In order to move into becoming your best self, you have to let go of your old habits. We are going to find something that we need to let go of. Let go of the baggage one day at a time. It gets better in time. It is a daily habit and we have to work at it each day. It is common for most of us to struggle with lettin...

Today we are going to begin the work on our mind. You just have to start. Everyday there are things that can be bringing our mind down, and also filling it up. What is good, and not good, for your mind? We discuss ways to strengthen our mind, because we can’t avoid everything that might affect our mind negatively. We have to strengthen our self by over-filling it with good stuff. We discuss simple...

Many of us feel like we are on rollercoasters of taking care of ourselves. We are either taking care of ourselves...or we are not. The 80/20 rule can help you create a healthier lifestyle and stop depriving yourself. We have to change the conversation in our head to help our habits and choices. We look at our mindset and expectations for ourselves, and how mini-goals and mini-habits will help chan...