Simply Resilient - A Podcast For Military Wives

I recently made a very fun video for an assignment for Life Coach School and I wanted to share the audio of this video here with you. Enjoy these 7 easy and doable tips that you can start applying today to the weight loss journey that you are already on that will help you think about weight loss in a way that you never have before and enhance your over all experience by taking it to the next level...

In this episode I share some of the experiences that I've had in my life with the power of music and song. I also discuss how you would use the model to improve your physical performance in any area (sports, singing, acting, etc.). I have a special treat for you on this episode. At the end of the episode I include the recording of a solo that I performed in high school "How Can I Keep From Singing...

Did you know that if we're not careful we tend to create user manuals for how we believe the people in our lives should behave? The problem with this is the people around us don't know what's in our manual or necessarily want to behave how we've decided they should behave. If you have a husband manual, it may say "good husbands don't leave their clothes on the floor." But guess what? Sometimes hus...

This weekend marked the six year anniversary since breaking my leg two weeks into my husbands first year long deployment. In this episode I share my story with you in great detail of what that experience was like for me and what I learned. This experience is a big part of who I am today.

Did you know that just like we can enjoy the anticipation of Christmas day all season long, we can enjoy anticipating the results of a goal today that haven't even happened yet? It comes from knowing for sure that they will happen and because of that knowledge having the confidence to enjoy those results today as you work toward them, which in turn increases the likelihood of you achieving them. I...

Many people ask me about my experience having a nanny. So here is my story about deciding to get a nanny, what it took to find her, and what it was like having her live in our house with our family for a year while my husband was deployed. Spoiler alert: it was fantastic, she was amazing, and it was a complete game changer!

I have decided to believe that every circumstance in life is 50/50 by design.  50% good 50% bad, 50% positive 50% negative, 50% hard 50% easy, 50% fun 50% hard work.  Believing this and applying it in my life has helped me love exactly where I am in life and not indulge in thoughts like "once I ________ then my life will be so much better."  It's 50/50 here and it's 50/50 there, just a different 5...

What does a self coaching session look like? Listen in to hear my tips for coaching yourself effectively and more on what it looks like for me.

Relationships are simply our thoughts about another person and relationships exist in our minds. The reason this is such good news is that when our husband is away and the usual ways that we believe are what make it easy to create connection (like going on dates, flirting, enjoying shared interests) are not available, we can feel very disconnected. Listen to this episode to see what you can do to...

A few months ago I had the amazing opportunity to be interviewed by the Rising Phoenix Podcast. This is a powerful podcast about maternal mental health and Postpartum depression and I was able to share with them my story about losing my baby Keith when I was 5 months pregnant with him. Being able to share about life after having a still born baby and dealing with Postpartum Depression is a healing...

Do you know what makes something a belief? When you decide to continue thinking something, that's it. When you know this you can more intentionally decide what you want to believe and what you don't want to believe by taking a look at what you're spending time thinking about and guiding your thoughts to create who you are and what you believe on purpose.

Did you know that the number on the scale is completely neutral? It's just information, it's just a number, it's just math, and it means nothing about you. In this episode I share they way I tell my story about my relationship with my health, my body, and my weight throughout my life so far. I also share where I am currently in my journey and how those goals are going so far. My husband asked me,...

Simply stated, emotional adulthood is when we take responsibility for how we feel. Learn about the opposite of emotional adulthood, which is emotional childhood, to get a better understanding of what it looks like to operate from emotional adulthood. When we learn how to be responsible for our own happiness and unhappiness (it turns out we're the best ones), we are empowered to be the person that...

Have you ever wondered what the difference between fear and worry is? For me, the difference is that worry pretends to be necessary but makes us miserable, while fear is a useful emotion that we can get good at feeling and taking action anyway. Make sure to listen to this episode to learn all about this topic and listen to a coaching session where I'm the client and I'm being coached by Natalie Cl...

While we may logically understand that negative emotions are a necessary part of life, we tend to respond to them in ways that do not serve us such as resisting, reacting, or avoiding. Learn more about that and about what it means to allow negative emotions and the impact that can have on your life. Also, listen in to learn about the difference between indulgent emotions that keep us stuck and pro...

Less than a year after we joined the military, a friend reached out to me because she and her husband were considering joining the military. She wanted to know what I thought and this is the letter that I wrote to her:

Do you have trouble making decisions in a timely manner and with confidence? In this episode we talk about how making decisions can be challenging even in normal life, but even more so when you're husband is away. Listen to find out more about why we get hung up on making decisions and lots of tools to help you make decisions like a boss!

Wondering what it would be like to be coached? Listen in on this coaching call with a military wife as we talk about an experience that she and her husband had when he came home during his deployment for 24 hours. We talk about holding the space, setting boundaries, making our cupcakes whole, thanking ourselves, making requests from a place of wanting without needing to be happy, and so much more.

I have found that people who are not in the military struggle to connect and relate with you when you are experiencing a deployment. They have desire to and it would benefit you as well if they could understand better, but what we go through is a pretty foreign concept to many people. I have found that explaining concepts of the deployment and drawing on similarities that people experience during...

Learn to be happy with moving forward in your life with results that are anywhere from B minus and up, instead of being held back by "if I can't do it perfectly I won't do it at all" or taking a very long time to get everything you do to the A plus level because it's the only way your happy about your work. Practicing this in my life has served me so well!

Have you ever wondered why you are stressed or worried about something that you logically understand is not that big of a deal? Do you have things in your life that you totally know what you could and should be doing better, but you just can't seem to do it. In this episode, learn about the amazing way that your primitive brain works and how some of it is incredibly helpful and how lots of it is m...

Want to learn about the model that I use in all of my coaching? My teacher Brooke Castillo developed a self coaching model that is at the foundation of all that I do as a life coach and I teach you in this episode how it works and how you can use it to solve any problem in your life. C-Circumstances T-Thoughts F-Feelings A-Actions R-Results

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Simply Resilient Podcast. My name is Jessie Ellertson and this is life coaching from a military mama who is in the trenches of life with all of you. This is a podcast for military wives who know how to handle the challenges of frequent deployments and trainings, but want to stop feeling mentally miserable in the process. You know what to do and you’re doing it, all w...