Her Wholeness

We haven't talked much yet about spiritual health here on the podcast, which is a critical component of our wholeness and influences all of the other domains. We are talking today about components of a spiritual practice, with encouragement to think about your own spiritual practice and if it may or may not need strengthening. We cover some ideas and components that you could add to enhance y...

Today's episode is our third installment of our series explaining what the title "organic" means for us as consumers and our food. The culmination of this series is an interview with an organic farmer, which will be released next week so stay tuned! Our topic today is...meat. Not a pretty word, which matches some ways in which animals are raised in non-organic animal farming. This i...

Today's episode is tailored for those weeks where you feel like you're rushing from deadline to deadline, event to event, task to task. Brigette talks through the acute phase of the busy season and offers tips on getting through the season without losing parts of yourself...maintaining your wholeness!  The second part of today's episode offers a challenging reflection on WHY those b...

Join us for today's episode where we discuss the meaning and purposefulness of the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen (also linked below). We discuss the challenges of buying organic - including cost and availability. This is another reason why the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen are so helpful.  At the end of the episode, Courtney teaches us how to wash our produce using either a baking sod...

Our first Friday episode! This one is a solo episode, where Brigette talks about how the holiday season can lead us to feeling overwhelmed, not enjoying the season, and feeling guilty about not meeting our own expectations - that were probably too high in the first place! Brigette shares an activity that she did (and shares her results) to help set better expectations going into this holiday seaso...

We are mixing things up a little bit here at Her Wholeness! Today is the first of a series we will be publishing about organic food. We will be culminating the series with an interview with an organic farmer! We will also be publishing a second episode every week on Fridays that will focus on other domains that make up our wholeness. So look for a new episode now published on Fridays as well. In p...

Oh, clutter! In today's episode we ponder what having clutter around your space and for your mind is costing us. Time. Emotion. Energy. Potential. Productivity. Money. Brigette read page 90 of a book by Patrice Washington, Redefine Wealth for Yourself (linked below!), then C&B talk about this excerpt and pull out topics to discuss further. This episode will be helpful to give you ideas of...

Whew, this episode is going to debunk a lot of myths you have heard about hydration. Our bodies are incredible at regulation, and our hydration status is a beautiful example of this. Tune in to hear more about what we can do (and also what we don't need to do) to help our body to function optimally with fluid and electrolyte balance. This one may make you want to reach for water, or it may gi...

Have you ever found yourself in a new role or new season and realized that you don't feel like "you" anymore? Today's episode is for you! Courtney and Brigette talk about how this happens to so many of us when we become Moms, but also have been through seasons of feeling like your identity is lost inside of a job, role, or even a relationship. Listen in for relatable conversati...

We are so honored to introduce you to Amanda DeLaney. Having gone through her own financial journey, she now helps and teaches women how to tackle major debt, gain control of their finances, and build confidence along the way through her mentorship programs at Financial FixHER. She is a financial mentor, coach, guru...and we adored our conversation with her on today's episode.   This episode...

Join Courtney and Brigette for a conversation about self-image. This episode covers discussion about blind spots, how we present to the world, social media's role in our self image, how our childhood impacts our self-image, why how we talk to ourselves matters, and much more. We hope today's conversation helps to shed light on your own self-image and helps give you some ideas or areas yo...

Walking...an incredibly underestimated activity that promotes wholeness in a lot of ways! Listen in to Courtney and Brigette share takeaways from research that show both physical and mental benefits of walking. In their discussion, Courtney and Brigette share some factors that enhance the benefits of walking, like walking in nature and walking in groups. They discuss their own biases toward walkin...

Meet Karen Doiron! Karen is our guest today on the pod. Karen is a RN and health coach specializing in working with women who are struggling with exhaustion. Today's episode is so good both Courtney and Brigette took a full page of notes. Listen in for discussion on what productive rest looks like, what resilience is and is NOT, and how you can incorporate Karen's pillars into your own l...

Resident expert Courtney takes the reigns on this episode as we talk some more about hormones, but this time specifically looking at our adrenal glands. We talk about the theory of adrenal fatigue. We talk about two hormones that are secreted by our adrenal glands: cortisol and epinephrine (aka adrenaline), which are related to stress.    In this episode, Courtney shares her own battle with adrena...

"Getting Started" is something we all have struggled with at some point. In today's episode, Courtney and Brigette adapt some frameworks (nursing process, Plan-Do-Study-Act rapid cycle process improvement framework, and System Development Life Cycle) to use for any things in your life you are wanting to get started on. Courtney discusses an adapted version of the PDSA cycle that she...

In episode 8, Courtney and Brigette take a deeper dive into something we don't necessarily think a lot about: fun. The two discuss how fun improves our lives, it's role in wholeness, how it is helpful for our growth and health journeys, and how fun can look different for different people. Courtney discusses Michael Rucker's findings from his research on fun and the two offer some ad...

While not necessarily a usually fun topic, in this episode Courtney and Brigette discuss how integral financial health is to our wholeness and offer some ways that improving financial health can impact our lives in a positive way. And even suggest some ways you can have more fun doing it! Courtney and Brigette share some things that have worked for them along their financial health journeys. The e...

In today's episode, Courtney and Brigette provide a high level overview of what the endocrine system is and what it does in our bodies. Courtney breaks down what endocrine system disruptors are. She also provides several examples of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), how our bodies are impacted, how to spot them, and gives us tactical ways to avoid them. Follow us on IG: @her_wholeness_po...

In today's episode Courtney and Brigette lay the foundation that you are worthy and you have value. Without this baseline belief, it is challenging to pursue wholeness. Courtney and Brigette discuss things that can impact our feelings of worthiness and strategies for improving your self worth. They connect knowing your worth to wholeness. This episode is also a reminder that your worth is not...

In this episode Courtney and Brigette explore what it means to invest in yourself. They share some every day examples of how to invest in yourself consistently. They share some bigger ways you can invest in yourself. And they discuss why it is important and how it is connected to wholeness. Courtney provides a detailed example of how eating a plant based diet is considered an investment. Courtney...

In today's episode, Courtney and Brigette discuss self-discipline. They discuss the difference between discipline and motivation. They discuss goal-setting as it relates to discipline. And provide 5 key ideas to help improve your discipline. Throughout the episode they provide examples of why discipline is so helpful for your wholeness. Thank you for listening!  Follow us on IG: @her_wholenes...

Pain is an unavoidable part of life. In this episode Courtney and Brigette discuss the nuances of pain, both emotional and physical. Courtney shares her painful season of infertility and discusses both physical and emotional pain. Courtney and Brigette pull out takeaways from Courtney's story to help with tactical ways to harness pain that we experience to grow, transcend, and thrive. Trigger...

Thanks for visiting our inaugural episode! In today's episode, we discuss the origin and hopes for our podcast. Brigette and Courtney each introduce themselves and give some background of where they've been. We talk nursing, motherhood, friendship, and community. Then we discuss how we define wholeness and hopefully provide some helpful tips on how to measure your own wholeness. Follow u...