Healthy Vibes for Moms

You are more likely to stick to something that is not extreme. Anything extreme isn’t a sustainable lifestyle. We want a more enjoyable lifestyle, and it is possible with healthy, balanced choices. This is also a perspective, and a mindset. Let us find the goldilocks zone, as Jillian Michaels says. Challenge: What are you getting too much of and not enough of? Figure out where you could adjust and get a better balance. Resource: The 6 Keys, by Jillian Michaels

Let us become aware this week and work to shift our mindset little by little to a more positive, hopeful, abundant, and grateful mindset. Challenge: Become aware of your mindset this week and make small shifts to make it more positive. Quote: “You can’t feel stressed and blessed at the same time.” Jon Gordon

Don’t give up. Get rest, pause, and take a step back. Then start again. When something is so important to your soul, you will feel much resistance as you pursue it. Take a new perspective. Try something new. Step back and pause. Then…start again. Take action. **Challenge: **Whatever you have given up on, or have thought about giving up on, I want you to step back, pause, rest and then, start again. Do not give up. *Quote: *“The more important an activity is to your soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.” Steven Pressfield **Resource: **The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Taking care of our health is overwhelming. Too many options, opinions, fads, diets, gadgets, and advice from everyone. This can leave us stuck, and not doing anything to improve our health. Just start. Start with what seems easy and possible. Take the walk. Drink more water. Get up earlier. Pick the one thing that you think you can accomplish and start. Challenge: Start one new habit this week. Whatever seems easiest. *Quote: * "Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the right moment to make an improvement.” James Clear Resource: Atomic Habit, by James Clear

Dr. Michelle Young is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and owner of Young Medicine. She is a rising leader in natural pediatric healthcare dedicated to educating, empowering, and building the foundations of health for children, thereby leading to thriving adults. Young Medicine offers one-on-one care, a group program called Healthy Families Collective, and online educational courses. The courses focus on using homeopathy safely and effectively with children, optimizing gut health, supporting detoxification, and using natural remedies for acute coughs and colds. We discuss the foundations of health, cod liver oil, detoxifying our homes, the many services she provides in person and online, and a whole lot more. Resource: https://www.youngmedicine.com/

This is a deeper dive into our daily choices and how we can be more humble and authentic in our way. Humility isn’t just not bragging or boasting. It is so much more. Let us begin by remembering that His ways are better than our ways. Challenge: Pay attention to how you interact with those you love this week. Are you truly listening? Pausing? Being patient? Or taking over and reacting? He must become greater; I must become less. John 3:30

There are many obvious distractions that we could be spending our time and energy on, but there are also some sneaky ways the devil gets into our days, our mind, and our relationships. Let us pay attention and make sure we are spending our time and energy on the right things. Get quiet and get back to your values that matter to you and your family. Challenge: Have a purpose each day of where you time and energy is going. When we insist on chasing other things, God lets us have our way. ~Lisa Bevere

Let us choose to see the good, have a positive outlook, and change the norm. **Challenge: **Pay attention to where your heart is this week.

This episode is an interview with Jennifer Pressimone. This conversation is filled with a wealth of information. We discuss the role of our gut, circadian rhythms and patterns, and how it can affect our mind, anxiety, depression, sleep, stress levels and more. Her story and knowledge will blow you away. I learned so much during this conversation and you will too. She is a Certified Clinical Aromatherapy & Herbal Educator at JennScents Aromaversity, author, product formulator & owner at JennScents, Inc. She empowers health & wellness professionals with clinical aromatherapy certifications and specialty training courses. JennScents Aromaversity is a NAHA Level 1, 2 & 3 & NCBTMB approved school. Jennifer holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida, numerous natural health certifications, and is a Diploma in Spiritual Phyto-Essencing for deep emotional healing. She serves as the current Vice President and Central Florida Regional Director for the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA.org). Jennifer has a passion for empowering others with knowledge, inspiration & encouragement to foster mind, body, spirit & soul balance. Inspired by her own health journey, she has dedicated the past 2-decades to exploring, expanding & evolving aromatherapy practices for mental & emotional health. Her passion and heart shines through in her teaching and mentoring with the next generation of aromatic colleagues. Check out Jennifer’s websites for oil blends, education, and more: JennScents Aromatherapy JennScents Aromaversity Challenge: Open your mind to alternatives this week. What is going on in your life that you feel helpless? Too many times we hear that “this” is the only thing that works, or that maybe we have tried it “all”. It is time to keep looking for answers. There is always another option to try.

In today’s society, we seem to keep going, keep pushing, keep rushing, and what really matters to us can easily pass us by. This conversation is permission to slow down, and embrace what is right in front of you, what really matters, and learn to let so many things go. Challenge: Take extra time to pause and sit in silence this week. Resource: Daily Surrender Journal

This is an encouraging conversation about prayer, keeping God close in our day to day life, our teen’s faith, and more. It was so good to sit down with Freyda Smith, who is a friend and fellow mom that always encourages and steers me straight to God. She lives in Winter Garden, FL with her husband of 20 years, and their three children 18,16, and 11. She is a licensed Realtor, and has been practicing for 18 years. When she isn’t running the children to and from school, you can find her on a ball field cheering her kids’ baseball, or softball teams. Her children attend a local Christian school and she stays active there as well as leading Moms In Prayer. She thrives on having God at the center of everything she does, so she feels balanced and finds great peace attending church, finding a safe place with her Bible study group of 11 years, and committing to show up with her workout group of 7 years. From Freyda, “God called me to Moms In Prayer. No doubt about it. I was searching for something to encourage other moms at school. I have an amazing group of moms I’ve been doing bible study with for 8 years and I met other moms that I knew could really benefit from that same type of community fellowship. I shared this with a school/baseball mom/friend who had just recently moved to Maitland and her kids were now enrolled at Orangewood Christian. She invited me to attend their MIP meeting and that summer I spoke with our elementary school principal and by the fall we had the green light to begin meeting at First Baptist Church in Winter Garden’s basement. So many women hungry for fellowship came and they all had the same goal, to trade in their fear and anxiety about their children for the freedom that comes from prayers covered by the blood of Jesus. I came to have a personal relationship with Jesus at about the age of 9. My family moved to Florida from Puerto Rico and our neighbors at the time invited us to church. This small act set ablaze in my heart a fire for God and it spread to my entire nuclear family. We’ve all been Christ followers since then and I pray to ensure that legacy of Christ-followers for generations to come.” Challenge: Use one of Freyda’s tips this week to spend more time this week with God. *Books we talked about: * Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper Quiet, by Susan Cain The Truth About Us, by Brant Hansen

Let’s not shy away from being bold in all of our roles as parents, christians, prayer warriors, and neighbors. Let us share God’s love. Parent our kids to be really good humans. Help our neighbors in need. Love fiercely. Whatever it is you are going out to do this week, live boldly and live like it matters. Challenge: Live boldly in the small areas as well as the big areas of your life this week.

Yes, we could have a big purpose in life, but I also believe each day, and season, we could have a different purpose, or even multiple purposes. Let us slow down enough to hear God’s whispers and where we are needed today, and let us be open to hearing where we can make a difference in today. Challenge: Be open to what your purpose just this week might be.

It is too easy to ride the wave of stress, anxiousness, and aggravation. It is too easy to overreact, rather than stay calm. Once we become intentional about our situations, our reactions, and letting go of the need to control the situation, we can find more peace. Let’s start paying attention this week to what is trying to get us frustrated and stressed. Choose not to participate. Challenge: This week pay attention to what tries to steal your peace. Be prepared with ways to stay calm.

We will experience a lot of pain in our life, and suffering as well. But many times, continuing to suffer is a choice. We have to choose to get out of it. So many of us choose to stay comfortable with whatever is holding us back, making us moody, or unhealthy. Let us become aware of where we make a different choice, deepen our relationship with God, trust Him and make better choices moving forward. **Challenge: **What is something that you are choosing to suffer in? Resource: Ed Mylett podcast: How to Attain TOTAL Freedom

Decisions become clearer and easier when we base them on what matters most to us. Take time to pause, and think about your values, before all of your choices. Let Your Choices Bring You Closer to God. I find that my best choices, the choices that lead me, and my family, closer to God, closer to each other, and to our best selves, are quite often inconvenient, unpopular, hard and sometimes feel lonely in the short-term. I usually know in my heart that it is the best choice. Once we get through the challenge and all the feelings, there is a sense of peace eventually, that we made the right choice. The choices that are best for our future, are usually the most challenging to make right now, but will bring us the reward we are craving, and a true feeling of content later.

Boundaries are healthy and good, not for others, but for ourselves, to help us use our time and energy on what matters most. Start, little by little, protecting your time and energy. Give yourself permission and grace along the way. Open your time up to what matters most to you. Challenge: Work on at least one boundary this week to give yourself more time. Podcast: Ed Mylett Podcast with Tim Tebow YouTube: Ed Mylett Podcast with Tim Tebow

Let us get honest with ourselves and decide if we are truly feeling joy and happiness, and if it is easy, or hard, to be kind. If we are struggling, let us do the hard things and work on ourselves so that we can truly feel joy, love, and kindness.

You get to choose who you are every morning. Do you look for whats good in your day today, or are you going to find all that is wrong and complain? This is a choice that we should remind ourselves every single day before we start the day. When we are intentional, we can choose to be the person that looks for the good and shares it.

We don’t always have someone that reminds us of this. I want to remind you, and let you know that you matter always, no matter what, to God.

When we let go of our ego, become more open, and truly listen, our perspective, and our life can truly change.

It is easy as the new year wears off, and we get back into life, to get too comfortable with those things we want to say no to. Let’s get back into paying attention and breaking these patterns.

We are a few weeks into the new year, and this is when resolutions and new habits start getting derailed by life, distractions, and many times we start sabotaging ourselves. It is time to break the pattern and take back ownership of our habits and goals.

Let us choose good every day and decide what we want more of this year, and what we want less of. Quote: Instructions for Living a Life: Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It. -Mary Oliver

You don’t need permission, but sometimes I believe we just want some to tell us that it is ok to go for it. So, I am giving you permission to go for it. Whether it is a dream, time for yourself, your health, or just setting boundaries…I give you permission. Challenge: This week I want you to live boldly. Make you the choices that you have been wanting to make. At least one thing this week. *Quote: * "You have the life you are willing to put up with." Gary John Bishop

It is ok to feel hope as we go through heartache. This is life. We feel like we need permission. We don’t, but I give you this permission, because I feel that hope is how we heal, and how we keep our eyes up during the heartache. So let us keep looking for joy and light in our hardest seasons. Verse: Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

In order to truly feel the joy that comes each day, we have to slow down and live through the simple things, by speaking it, sharing it, being an example of noticing it, and giving this to our kids.

It is our choice where we put our time and energy. Even when we have to do something we don’t want to, we can put our energy into a bad attitude and complaining, or trying to find some good in the situation. Be more intentional about what you give life to. It matters.

Today’s guest, Lindsey Wilson is a mindset and high performance mindset coach, a former professional athlete and the founder of Positive Performance and The Mindset Coach Academy. As a collegiate and professional athlete, Lindsey utilized mindset coaching tools from a young age. This allowed her to experience tremendous success as a basketball player at Iowa State University, get drafted in the WNBA and play overseas for 8 seasons. However, despite her many accolades, her proudest result was being described as ‘relentless’ more than once by opposing coaches. Something she attributes to her mindset training. But she also had a front row seat to so many of her peers struggling with performance simply because they didn’t know how to train their mindset. Because of this huge need, she launched her company in the mid 2000s with a simple mission: to get mindset training tools to as many athletes as possible. Her mission continues now by providing mindset coaching tools to athletes, teams and other high performers with her cutting edge online courses and workshops. Her company works to expand access by training other mindset coaches in her craft. Her company offers the world’s first live dual certification for aspiring mindset coaches through their 4 month Mindset Coach Academy certification program. Lindsey is also a mom to three young girls and practices the same mindset training tools she used as a professional athlete, now as an entrepreneur and mom. Resources: www.positiveperformancetraining.com Mindset Coach Academy Podcast

Our days are filled with so many things pulling on us, weighing on us, and asking for our response, or our decision. Learn to take your time, and go to the one who has our path already known for us. Quote: Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12

Quoted from Lysa TerKeurst’s Instagram… “A prayer for the girl who’s tired of trying to please everyone in her life. Dear God, I have been giving so much of my energy trying to stay “good” with people, and it has left me exhausted, depleted, and constantly feeling taken advantage of. Lord, help me determine what I should say yes to and what I should say no to. And as I draw necessary boundaries, I ask for your peace to guard my heart and mind through difficult decisions and conversations. I ask today that you remind me of how much you love me so I’m less tempted to turn to others to fill me up with things that I really should be turning to you for, and only you can sustain the type of giving that a desperate soul longs for. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27 *Resources: * Good Boundaries and Good-byes by Lysa TerKeurst The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst

There are so many instances each day where I believe God is trying to teach us to become more patient and accepting in the waiting, to help grow us spiritually for greater strength and acceptance in the big challenges in life. Quote: And God would not waste her time waiting. He was planning. He was preparing. And her heart grew stronger in every prayers. @laurenfortenberrywrites on Instagram Quote: But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7

Choose to believe, even when things seem dark and uncertain. Choose to believe in your loved ones, even on the hard days. Resources: Lauren Daigle: You Say

These are small choices that we can shift, or change, and make all the difference in how we feel, our relationships, and how our day goes. Evaluate your choices this week, and decide where you can choose differently.

There are so many benefits of a morning routine. There are simple choices you can make starting now for your morning to feel better, and change the rest of your day. Decide that you want to control your day, rather than your day controlling you. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal

It is easy to become complacent in things that matter to us, like our health, relationships, marriage, time with God, or our goals and dreams. The world can easily pull us away from what matters. Take time this week to pause and evaluate where your time and energy is going. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal Quote: God can not be the source of your strength if the world is the source of your standards.

Many times these continual distractions are helping us to react better, and learn how to not be derailed by them, so that we can grow and mature spiritually.

Let us pay attention to what we are filling up with this week.

We have to remember that our mood, reactions, attitude, tone, and more is in our control. Let us take ownership of knowing that we can control ourselves. Resources: Daily Surrender Journal Mantra for the week: It starts with me.

Many times these hard things are hurdles that God puts in front of us to help us grow and mature spiritually. Resources: Daily Surrender Journal Quote: God can not be the source of your strength if the world is the source of your standards.

Let’s strengthen our perseverance, resilience, and patience. *Resources: * Daily Intentions Journal for clarity and peace. Verse: And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. -Hebrews 12:1 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. -Galatians 6:9

Jesus came to set us free, and I believe God wants us to feel freedom and peace. Choose to let go of all those ugly feelings today. *Resources: * Daily Intentions Journal *Quote: * How we decide to receive and react to the really hard parts of our circumstances shows us what our hearts are filled with. - Bob Goff

Healthy habits begin with consistently making small, simple choices day after day. Resources: Bible Daily Intentions Journal for clarity and peace.

It is the small, simple choices that add up to big changes in our lives. Every good, small choice we make, consistently creates positive change in our relationships, our mindset, and our perspective. We then want to make more good choices for our mind and our health.

It is ok to speak up when something isn’t right, or goes against your values, but let’s just approach it in a healthy way, so that our voice is heard, and based on God’s word. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal for clarity and peace.

Let us be an example of self-care for our kids. If they don’t see us caring for our heart, mind, and soul, they won’t realize how essential it is to take care of ourselves in this world. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal

Let us grow, mature, create boundaries, and have the courage to make hard choices when needed. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal for clarity and peace.

Pay attention to who makes you feel good, improves your energy, and makes it easy to be yourself. Be that person for someone else. What makes you different is what makes you great. Be original. God made you unique, and gave you gifts, so be sure to use them. Resources: 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know, by Kari Kampakis

There are many times throughout the day and season that we all just need small shifts. Find a different perspective. Adjust your lens. Forgiveness. Grace. It could be worse. You probably don’t know the whole story, and sometimes you don’t need to know every little detail and opinion. Pause and take a breath.

It takes maturity, letting go, courage and humility to actually take a calm, strategic approach to solving the problem, fixing it, walking away, or just enduring your way through. God didn’t remove the Red Sea…he parted it. Resources: Daily Intentions Journal