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    Making Sense of a Healthy Life

    Welcome to the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast where you’ll find answers to all your questions about living a healthy lifestyle, raising a healthy family, taking care of yourself, achieving your health & fitness goals, and creating a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. Because health and fitness should support your dream life, not rule it. Making sense of a healthy life can seem completely overwhelming. I know you have so many questions and there’s an endless stream of contradicting answers. What does a healthy lifestyle even look like? How do I do self-care when I have no time? How do I teach my kids healthy habits? How do I improve my health? Do I have to buy into the health, fitness and diet fads in order to live a healthy life? What workouts and exercise should you be doing to maximize your results when your time is limited? How do I eat healthier without spending hours in the kitchen and my whole paycheck? Where do I find a balance between caring for myself, raising a happy, healthy family, and pursuing my own interests? Can I live a healthier life while managing chronic pain, chronic illness and other health issues? I’m your host, Jess Roe, a Health & Fitness Coach and Mom of 2, successfully making sense of a healthy life while living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and the other health issues that go along with. I know what it’s like to try to create a healthy life in the face of health issues, becoming a wife, parent and entrepreneur while managing everything life throws my way. But I’m here to tell you that you CAN do it too. That’s why I’m bringing you simple, actionable answers to all your questions so you can start making sense of a healthy life today. I’m empowering families and friends like you to ditch the guilt, the confusion, and the belief that healthy living has to be boring, uncomfortable, or downright tortuous and start taking simple but powerful steps to take back your energy, build your confidence, and supercharge your health and fitness while finally living the vibrant, active life of your dreams - even if you don’t know what that looks like yet! I am so glad that you’re here and I can’t wait to hear about your health & fitness journey as you transform your life. Let’s get started.
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    Episodes (33)

    The Importance of Fatherhood in Creating Healthy Families

    The Importance of Fatherhood in Creating Healthy Families

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m talking with Tammy and Alexandria Kokx, the Mom & Daughter team behind Our True North Life about the importance  of fatherhood in creating healthy families.

    We’re talking about:

    • How fathers’ roles are valuable because they are different from moms’ roles
    • How fathers support their kids’ emotional, physical, cognitive and social development
    • How dads teach their kids about healthy relationships
    • How fathers support their families’ well being
    • And so much more!

    Tammy is a 30-year wife and mom veteran and Alexandria is in the toddlerhood trenches with her husband. Together they bring amazing experience and insight to help us recognize and honor the value that fathers bring to our families and marriages. 

    Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!

     

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 3: Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day with Mindi Huebner

    Episode 9: Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future with Alexandria Kokx

     

    Suggested Reading (affiliate links)

    Big Body Play by Frances M. Carlson

    The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

    The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman

     

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    How You Need to Be Setting Smaller Goals to Achieve Your Long Term Dreams

    How You Need to Be Setting Smaller Goals to Achieve Your Long Term Dreams

    Are you still struggling to reach goals that you think ANYONE should be able to achieve? It’s time to learn how setting smaller goals will help you.

     

    “You do not lose value because you struggle to reach a goal you think you should be able to reach.” 

    You'll learn how:

    • Working on your goals becomes a process of learning to be in tune with your body
    • Confidence checks will help you set realistic goals
    • Setting SMART goals will help you succeed
    • What the process of working toward a goal will look like
    • And more!

    This episode is part 3 of the Build Your Ideal Healthy Life series. Check out parts 1 and 2:

    Episode 10: How to Define Your Ideal Healthy Life

    Episode 11: Do You Even Know What Your Goals Are?

     

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    Do You Even Know What Your Goals Are?

    Do You Even Know What Your Goals Are?

    It’s great to know that you want to be healthier, but what are your goals that will get you there?

    If you’ve been struggling to reach your goals, it might be because they aren’t the right goals for you. In this episode, I’m going to show you how to break down your dream healthy life into goals that you’ll be excited about pursuing every day. 

    “When you place value on a goal because it is meaningful or important to you, you are so much more likely to succeed at it no matter how long it takes.” 

    You'll be learning:

    • How to set goals that you’ll be motivated to pursue
    • How you’re more likely to succeed with positive goals   
    • How to turn a negative goal into a positive goal

     

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 2: Forget What You’re Supposed to Do

    Episode 4: The 4 Crucial Healthy Habits You Need to Create

    Episode 10: How to Define Your Ideal Healthy Life

     

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    How to Define Your Ideal Healthy Life When You Don't Know Where to Start

    How to Define Your Ideal Healthy Life When You Don't Know Where to Start

    Do you want to live a healthier life but you aren’t even sure what that means?

    If you’ve been struggling to find ways to be healthier, it might be because you don’t even know what healthy looks like for you. In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m going to show a simple 4 step process to help you figure out what your ideal healthy life will look like. 

    “You can’t create a reality that you can’t first envision.” 

    So stop wasting your precious time and energy trying every fad out there hoping something will work and cut through all the confusing messages from social media. In this episode, you’ll figure out what healthy will look like for you. Then you’ll be ready to set real goals to create your healthy life. 

     

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 2: Forget What You’re Supposed to Do

    Episode 8: It’s Ok If You Need to Reprioritize Everything

     

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    Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future

    Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m talking with Alexandria Kokx, a Mom of 2 and blogger at Our True North Life about how she has made sense of a healthy life during the Coronavirus Quarantine. 

    “It’s ok to take small steps. You don’t have to overhaul your entire life and do all the hard programs and do really strict diets. You can start with baby steps… Baby steps are still steps.” 

    We’re talking about all the ways Alexandria has shifted her mindset to create true improvement in her health and fitness:

    • Resting more guilt-free, without losing the benefits of your routine
    • Recognizing health & fitness improvements outside of losing weight
    • Consciously changing your relationship with food and with your body
    • Shifting your mindset about what you have to do and feel to get real results
    • Post-pregnancy mind and body shifts
    • Celebrating healthy choices that make you feel good
    • And so much more!

    Alexandria shares a look into her health journey to show you that small steps taken consistently create the biggest changes in your future health and fitness. I hope hearing how she makes sense of a healthy life inspires you along your health journey!

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 3: Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day with Mindi Huebner

    Episode 6: Needing to Grow Where You’re Planted with Giulianna Renzetti Wood

     

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    It's Ok If You Need to Reprioritize Everything

    It's Ok If You Need to Reprioritize Everything

    Let’s talk about reprioritizing. 

    When we have a wrench thrown into our normal routines (I’m looking at you Covid-19), we have to pivot and figure out what we’re going to spend time on. To figure out what our priorities need to be. And that might require REPRIORITIZING. But if you’re anything like me, you don’t make that leap smoothly or gracefully. 

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, you’ll: 

    • Learn my simple and enjoyable method for reprioritizing 
    • Get in touch with what matters most to you 
    • Figure out if you’re on the right track 
    • Be ready to create a plan with your new priorities 

    “Every day, every week, every month is a new start. So take the time to listen to your needs, discover what’s important to you and then CHOOSE to do what you need to do.”

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 2: Forget What You’re Supposed to Do

    Episode 6: Needing to Grow Where You're Planted with Giulianna Renzetti Wood

     

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    Practicing Self Care When You're Already Too Busy

    Practicing Self Care When You're Already Too Busy

    Do you think that you don’t have enough time for practicing self care?

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m here to tell you that you don’t need any extra time for self care. Instead, I’ll show you how to recognize what you’re already doing plus simple hacks to squeeze a little more self care in to maximize your well being. 

    By the end of this episode you’ll be able to: 

    • Identify your self care goals
    • Celebrate what you’re already doing
    • Modify or ditch what isn’t serving you
    • Have 16 super simple, super fast self care ideas to try

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 3: Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day with Mindi Huebner

    Episode 4: The 4 Crucial Healthy Habits You Need to Create

    Episode 8: It’s Ok If You Need to Reprioritize Everything

     

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    Needing to Grow Where You're Planted

    Needing to Grow Where You're Planted

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m talking with Giulianna Renzetti Wood, a fellow Earlham Alumnus, Mom of 2 and owner of Renzetti’s Italian Cookies about how she has made sense of a healthy life during the Coronavirus Quarantine. 

    “I need to grow where I’m planted but that doesn’t mean I’m stuck where I am.”

    We’re talking about:

    • Finding joy in healthier food
    • Using an accountability partner to boost success
    • Cultivating a positive mindset to support health and well-being
    • Teaching kids gratitude through our actions 
    • And so much more!

    I love Giulianna’s powerful growth mindset and her amazing awareness of how her thoughts control her own health and that of her family. I hope hearing how she makes sense of a healthy life inspires you along your health journey!

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 3: Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day with Mindi Huebner

    Episode 9: Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future with Alexandria Kokx

     

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    How to Foam Roll Properly for Stress Relief, Injury Prevention and Chronic Pain

    How to Foam Roll Properly for Stress Relief, Injury Prevention and Chronic Pain

    Do you know how to foam roll to relieve stress, prevent injury and relieve chronic pain?

    On this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, we’re diving into how to use one of the most powerful at-home tools. Learn the benefits of foam rolling plus how to foam roll properly from a Corrective Exercise Specialist who uses her foam roller to manage chronic pain.

    Learn about: 

    • What is foam rolling?
    • Why foam roll?
    • Who should foam roll?
    • When to foam roll?
    • How to foam roll?
    • And where to foam roll?

    Watch the Full Body Foam Roll Playlist on YouTube!

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 4: The 4 Crucial Healthy Habits You Need to Create

    Episode 7: Practicing Self Care When You’re Already Too Busy

     

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    The 4 Crucial Healthy Habits You Need to Create

    The 4 Crucial Healthy Habits You Need to Create

    Join the Creating Crucial Habits Program to kickstart your health & fitness today!

    Have you struggled to create healthy habits? Maybe you just can’t seem to get your health and fitness where you want no matter HOW HARD you’ve worked? Do you want a healthier life but don’t know where to start? You’re in the right place!

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, you will discover the 4 healthy habits that you’ve been overlooking because they seem too simple to work. And they’re NOT the latest restrictive diet or high intensity workout! 

    “Together, these 4 crucial healthy habits form the foundation you need to live a healthy life, feel amazing and thrive every day. Without them in place, no amount of dieting or exercising is going to get you where you want to be.”

    Ready to start the Creating Crucial Habits Program?

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 7: Practicing Self Care When You’re Already Too Busy

    Episode 9: Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future with Alexandria Kokx

     

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    Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day

    Choosing to Become Your Best Self Every Day

    In this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, I’m talking with Mindi Huebner, a Health, Life and Belief Clearing Practitioner about how she has made sense of a healthy life during the Coronavirus Quarantine. 

    “This is an unprecedented time, so why not be unprecedented?” - Mindi Huebner

    We’re talking about:

    • How there’s more to a healthy life than diet and exercise
    • Shifting from drowning to overcoming challenges to thriving
    • Figuring out your wellness puzzle
    • How your mindset controls your health
    • Choosing to become your best self
    • And so much more!

    Mindi brings some seriously uplifting messages to today’s episode. I hope hearing how she makes sense of a healthy life inspires you along your health journey!

     

    If you enjoyed this episode, you might like:

    Episode 6: Making Sense of a Healthy Life with Giulianna Renzetti Wood

    Episode 9: Easy Ways to Shift Your Mindset Today to Change Your Future with Alexandria Kokx

     

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    Mindi Huebner is a certified Health, Life and Belief Clearing Practitioner and certified NLP Practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She has been an entrepreneur for over 23 years. Mindi knows energy is our currency as entrepreneurs and it is the NUMBER ONE key to growing more income and having unbelievable impact on the world. Equipping women to show up for themselves - body, mind and soul to create this energy is what sets her heart on fire. She is an author, speaker, coach, mentor and difference maker. When she's not listening to a podcast or out for a walk, you'll find her meditating and planning her next trip to Southern California and the beach!

    Forget What You're Supposed To Do

    Forget What You're Supposed To Do

    Is all the conflicting health fad information out there overwhelming? How do you create a healthy, sustainable lifestyle you love when you don’t know what you’re supposed to do?

     

    On this episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast, we are going to learn how to cut through the info, challenge your assumptions, and ask the single most important question to discover what you’re really supposed to be doing. 

     

    We’re going to be tackling common questions like:

    • Do you need to do monthly detoxes to get healthy and lose weight? 
    • Should you spend hours in the kitchen meal planning and meal prepping in order to eat healthy? 
    • Do you have to eat a bland, boring diet of chicken, broccoli and rice for the rest of your life to be healthy? 
    • Are you supposed to work out for an hour every day until you puke so you can get fit?

     

    By the end of this episode, you’ll have the right answers to these questions FOR YOU, plus you’ll be on your way to discovering what you’re really supposed to be doing for your health and fitness. 

     

    Thanks for listening!

     

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    My Bizarre Health Journey That's Not So Uncommon + Welcome to the Podcast!

    My Bizarre Health Journey That's Not So Uncommon + Welcome to the Podcast!

    Listen to the first episode of the Making Sense of a Healthy Life Podcast to learn about my bizarre health journey that’s not so uncommon. I’ll also be sharing why I’m starting this podcast, my vision and what you can expect from it!

    Click subscribe to start making sense of a healthy life today.

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