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In this episode, I speak with Moniqué Danaê about holistic nutrition tips to heal the body and thrive in wellness.

Moniqué is a Holistic Nutrition Specialist, Plant-Based Advocate, Wellness Educator & Mentor, and owner of Moda Wellness. She helps young adults transition to holistic lifestyles, enjoy plant-based eating, break cycles of unhealthy habits, and ultimately live well! Her clients are guided through a transformative wellness journey that enables them to reach their wellness goals and empowers them to live their best life.

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Moniqué is also offering an exclusive deal to the Wholē Temple audience. When you book your wellness journey with Moda Wellness, mention the Wholē Temple podcast in the referral section to receive 25% off your program!

Moniqué’s mantra: I am God’s masterpiece created to do good works which He has already prepared me for.

-based on Ephesians 2:10

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Listen to Moniqué’s Nutrition Tips for Skincare: https://youtu.be/D2t68bAad_c

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Here’s your reminder to hold on to your pockets of joy. In this episode, I was really excited to speak with Grace Cantrell, author and owner of Deserved Happiness about the importance of experiencing and acknowledging happiness and expressing gratitude in your life.

Grace Cantrell, MBA, is an author and the creator of Deserves Happiness. She has written several books that focus on self-love, self-worth, and daily happiness. Grace founded Deserved Happiness in 2017 with the goal of creating a brand that helps women to shift their mindset and write their own happy ending through transformational journaling.

Memorable Quotes & Moments:

Grace’s mantra: I’m on the right path.

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We’re spiritual beings having natural/physical experience. As spiritual beings, it’s vital for us to stay connected to our Source—God.

In this episode, Yolanda Mukombe shares with us the importance of spirituality and having an unique relationship with God.

Yolanda is a wife, mother, community leader, and CEO-that’s chief empowerment officer! She serves others by helping them embrace their power and experience life on their terms. And she’s living this out too. By day, Yolanda is a financial consultant who recently entered full-time entrepreneurship, and recently published her first book: Don’t Forget Who God Is, a 52-week devotional. Yolanda has a heart for God and is passionate about encouraging others to develop and strengthen their own relationships with God.

This episode is a mix of conversation between girlfriends and a testimony at Bible study! Yolanda shares her experience with becoming disconnected with God and how she mended that relationship and talks about her work to encourage others to incorporate spirituality into their wellness practice.

Yolanda’s mantra: Don’t forget who God is.

Connect with Yolanda: ygmukombe.com

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Grab your notebook, your pen, your bank statements, and get ready for this financial wellness masterclass! In this episode, I speak with Diana Morris, a financial wellness advocate, and Founder and CEO of Ladybug Collaborative. Diana has a career spanning 20+ years in financial services, and it’s across the board. She’s worked in banking as a manager and mortgage consultant, within insurance as an agent, and she’s been an investment advisor.

And from her diverse career, Diana has learned that personal finances are confusing and fragmented across each section and she decided to change the narrative. In 2017, she launched Ladybug Collaborative Inc., a platform providing comprehensive education and resources for managing personal finances. She and her diverse team use their skills in personal finance, personal development and behavior-driven solutions to provide real-time data to help their clients make better financial decisions. Diana and Ladybug Collaborative are on a mission to eliminate barriers, myths, and shame around personal finance and infuse financial wellness into your personal journey.

Get ready to gain a new perspective on finances and learn how they reflect your values and priorities. Diana shares some amazing acronyms and steps for you to get a better handle over your finances, stop living paycheck to paycheck and lengthen your financial runway so you can achieve financial independence. She also gives some amazing advice on handling differing financial behaviors as a couple or family.

Memorable Quotes:

8:15 Financial wellness=living in such a way that your personal values and priorities are being fully realized at the same time as you’re optimizing all of the resources available to you to take care of your own ongoing needs and future needs

13:15 How to begin your financial wellness journey

16:15: Own your numbers

23:45: Own your numbers

26:00 Some creative assets to acquire: owning vs. borrowing

30:00: how to stop living paycheck to paycheck and experience financial zen

36:12: how to manage financial wellness as a couple or a family

Diana’s mantras

Connect with Diana: www.ladybugcollab.com ; www.myfinzen.com

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Sticking to a skincare regimen can be a sure-fire way to practice self care. This is a lesson our host, Kristin, learned as she approached her late twenties, entered motherhood and struggled with a healthy work-life balance. Ironically, her full-time business was running a skincare company. She was constantly teaching others on the importance of clean products and practicing self care, but wasn’t applying her advice to her own situation. After experiencing a painful skin condition, Kristin knew she needed to take better care of herself and put a greater focus on her skincare regimen. In this solo episode, Kristin shares her body care routine and how she reverences her whole temple.

Kristin’s holistic skincare company, Earth-Kissed Beauty is holding a storewide sale for the month of May: Buy 1 item, get 1 item for 50% off. No code needed! Give your skin the nourishment it craves with this storewide sale of holistic, clean products.

Kristin’s Body Care Rules & Routine:

Memorable Quotes:

16:50: “Every choice we make affects everyone and everything else. We are not doing this life experience alone.”

28:15: “For my temple, I’m working on nourishing my internal body so my external body will be healthy as well. And I’m doing this on the flip side. I’m nourishing my internal body so my external body will be healthy as well.”

30:00: “I definitely consider skincare to be a part of self-care experience because you are literally showing your body love, from the outside in.”

Shop Earth-Kissed Beauty: www.earthkissedbeauty.com

Check out Kristin’s armpit detox tutorial: www.instagram.com/earth_kissed_beauty

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May in Mental Health Awareness Month, and during the month mental health advocates strive to shine light on the importance of mental health, provide support to those who are impacted, and break down the stigma around mental health.

Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental illness that affects almost 7 million adults in the US every year. The ways the disorder displays itself vary among individuals, but it is certainly an illness that can take control of your life if you allow it.

In this episode, I speak with Leslie Stevens-Tavera, a licensed clinical mental health counselor on generalized anxiety disorder. We chat about the differences between generalized anxiety disorder and feeling anxious, ways to manage the illness, and how to support loved ones who battle this illness.

Leslie Stevens-Tavera is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, life strategist, spiritual coach, and writer. She is licensed to practice therapy in both North Carolina and Virginia. Leslie co-founded The Congruence Counseling Group PLLC, a private practice in Carrboro, NC, to help meet the growing mental health needs of individuals in her community. She is a believer, and trusts in the infinite and limitless possibilities of God’s love.

By nature, Leslie is an empathic, intuitive helper. She shows up in life ready to serve and willing to provide support. She is a direct impact person. The clients that she serves come away from their sessions feeling heard, validated, and supported. With that, they are able to make healthy changes that impact all spheres of life. She is also a motivating public speaker, equipped to inform and enlighten others on the benefits of good mental health practices. Her passion in life is to help people understand their own thoughts, feelings and patterns, and to promote the healing process through that work. She is skilled in dismantling faulty belief systems, reframing maladaptive thinking patterns, and processing human emotions.

Leslie is also on her own journey towards living with intention. She shares how she recognized her life was out of balance and talks about her new priority for rest and loving herself first.

Memorable Quotes:

15:10: “Create safe space for people who are struggling…Open one’s heart and mind to let someone have their experience…let them label it as they desire to…don’t project and try to change or fix. Give them space to work out whatever issues they may be having, and give them safe space to do that with you…or allow them to find safe spaces with someone who will support them.”

20:15 “We can’t move them any more than they’re willing to be moved and will move on their own. All you can do is be the light. Live in your own authenticity and truth. Even if we don’t reach that person, we can still model and be the light for someone else.”

27:30: “People have to be taught how to love themselves before they can be taught how to love somebody else…because the paradigm of loving somebody else first and loving yourself last doesn’t serve and doesn’t make for sustainability.”

31:45 “A mantra needs to be beneficial, believable, and true.”

Leslie’s mantra: “If it’s not born out of rest, I don’t want it.”

Connect with Leslie: www.lesliestevenslpc.com

https://www.congruencecounselinggroup.com/

www.instagram.com/counselingwithleslie

Mental Health Awareness Month resources: https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Mental-Health-Awareness-Month

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Let’s talk about sex, baby! It’s often seen as a taboo subject, but sexuality plays a part in our lives from birth to death. We need to address it throughout our lives and recognize that it is a part of our overall wellness. The Southern Sexologist™, Dr. Tanya Bass chats about the importance of having sexual health education beyond high school sex education class. She uses a brain-based approach to sex education that is holistic and ties in sensuality, intimacy, and identity. Dr. Bass also shares how our sexual needs change throughout life.

Dr. Tanya Bass, MS, MEd, CHES®, CSE is the founder of the North Carolina Sexual Health Conference (NCSEXCON). She previously served as Program Supervisor managing the Cultural and Community Initiatives in the NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is a member of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WoCSHN), the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians (ABSC), and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). She is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE). She is a current member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Tanya is an alumna of North Carolina Central University’s (NCCU) Department of Public Health Education, where she has served as an adjunct instructor for several years and is currently the lead instructor for Human Sexuality. She recently completed her PhD in Education at Widener University in the Center for Human Sexuality Studies.

Memorable Quotes:

7:46: “In school [sex education classes], they’re so focused on the genitals, that they don’t focus on the brain. The brain is the biggest sex organ…my approach is brain based.”

9:00 “from a wellness perspective, I think it’s just about being able to have a positive and having a good quality of life.”

20:45 “[in adulthood], now we’re trying to shove consent conversations when we should have kept talking about it. Just because I’m older, I still need to protect my body and tell someone ‘no’ confidently.”

26:40 “We are trying to protect our children to help them be able to say an affirmative ‘no’. It instills in them sexual esteem and confidence to assert themselves, so they can continue to do that throughout life.”

Tanya’s mantra: “I’m giving myself grace. I’m giving you grace. Grace all the way around. I need it from you. I will extend it to you. And I will give and receive it from myself."

Connect with Tanya: www.tanyambass.com

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What do you do when your child is allergic to over 10 different foods? You embrace the change, learn as much as you can, and face the opportunity together.

In this solo episode, Kristin shares her family of three’s experience with their son’s 13 different food allergies. She also gives 4 tips to manage food allergies as a household. While it may get difficult at times, her confidence never wavers because she knows the three of them are in this journey together.

4 tips to manage food allergies as a household:

Memorable quote: “Just because the reality is different than you planned or expected doesn’t make it any less beautiful.”

Helpful resources

Check out what meals we’re making: https://www.pinterest.com/kpridgen13/food/

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Do you fall into the perfectionism trap? When does your desire to do good work and perform well become a problematic stumbling block? According to this week’s host, the answer is when we’re doing hard work to matter, rather than doing hard work that matters. Emotional wellness coach, Erika Shepard comes to the show to talk about the dangers of perfectionism and how to stop falling into its trap.

Erika believes in a world where people don’t just know that they’re good enough, they actually feel that they’re good enough. She is an international speaker, coach and healer where she empowers perfectionists to use their innate abilities to restore consistent peace, calm and joy. She lives by the mantra: love can’t be known, it needs to be experienced. When you spend time with Erika, you’ll go on a powerful journey of self-discovery and self-love.

Some Memorable Quotes:

13:45- “Perfectionism gives us the validation that we seek and then we confuse it with love. Then love becomes performance based and conditional.”

14:20- “At the end of the day, perfectionism is about not getting enough love.”

17:00- “Through listening to our emotions, we can get more aligned on our path, especially the emotion of joy. Joy is our compass North. We are here to experience love and joy.”

20:20- “It’s not that you’re not doing enough. It’s that you aren’t leaning into you already being enough. You already are enough.”

3 steps to get the love you need without falling into the perfectionism trap:

1-Build a relationship with yourself for self-love and self-validation

2-Listen to your emotions and embrace all of them

3-Build a bridge from where you are to where you’re going and how you want to feel

Erika’s mantra: “Love can’t be known. It needs to be experienced.”

Enroll in Erika’s emotional health and healing from perfectionism courses: www.erikashepard.com

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On today’s episode, I speak with Veronica Medley, a pain management psychologist. After battling rheumatoid arthritis with conventional medicine, Veronica personally experienced the power behind the mindful pain management techniques she taught her patients and decided to tackle her illness through mindful, holistic living. She’s now been on her holistic living journey for 5 years and shares some helpful lessons learned along the way.

Veronica is a military spouse and is currently stationed in Germany, assisting soldiers who are transitioning from active duty. Besides spending time with her husband and puppy, Veronica loves traveling, food, fashion, and a good set of acrylics!

Veronica's mantra: "I am enough. If you want any more than I can give, find somebody else. I'm doing my best."

Follow Veronica’s journey of holistic living and living abroad: www.instagram.com/la_v_in_rose

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