Episode 39 - Embracing Real Health: Living in Total Wellness with Glen Alex
By Jessica Garrison
If you’ve been keeping up with our Together We F.E.E.L panels on YouTube, this next guest will sound familiar to you. Glen Alex was featured in the episode, “Meet the Different Makers — Holistic Health & Self-Advocacy.” Meanwhile, Melissa has also been a guest on The Glen Alex Show in episode, “Embracing Emotional Layers for Living in Total Health,” so now we have the privilege of hosting Glen on our podcast. She is intuitive, insightful, joyful, creative, and acts with complete integrity.
Another character trait Glen mentions is that she sees the big picture of things while also seeing the little pieces that make it up. Context is so important when having a thoughtful discussion or looking at certain decisions you’ve made. Glen says something similar while discussing self care, which is “knowledge is potential, and the application is power.” If you have the knowledge inside of you, then there’s the potential to do all these incredible things. However, if you don’t apply the knowledge in real life and keep it to yourself, then nothing will physically change. It’s that application of the knowledge that gets you the results you’re looking for, just like how the pieces of the puzzle matter for the big picture to be complete.
Glen also said while discussing self care that it isn’t necessarily the “how to” that is most important, but it’s the why behind it. Why take care of yourself? Why do something nice or relaxing for yourself? If you don’t see the worth or value in yourself, then you’ll let self care fall to the bottom of your list. Burnout becomes inevitable when you aren’t taking the time to fill up your own cup and reset, but remember the pieces to your big picture. If you figure out the why, Glen says, then the “how to” will follow.
One last thing I want to touch on is the spin that Glen puts on talking to yourself like you would a friend. We always hear women say you should talk to yourself like your best friend in negative situations because you’d never say the horrible things you tell yourself to a friend. But Glen went a step further in saying that you should do that for the wins too. If your friend has something exciting happen for them, you tell them how much they deserve it after the work they’ve put in or maybe you celebrate with a night out. I think it’s great to apply these things to yourself, like take yourself out for dinner after a successful project. If you’d do it for your friend, then you should do it for yourself as well. It all ties into that self care piece of understanding that you are worth putting energy into yourself and celebrating.
Listening to this episode as well as the YouTube panel show with Glen is a great reminder for how you think you treat yourself versus how you actually treat yourself. She is a champion for women, especially with the work she does with her own podcast in sharing their stories and spreading a positive message. I look forward to everyone hearing Glen’s journey, and I’d love for everyone to check out The Glen Alex Show as well. We’re changing the world one podcast episode at a time!
Ways to Engage: Be aware of saying you “should” do something and change it to “could.” Think of things as you are capable and can do them, rather than twisting reality to what you should be doing, but aren’t. See how this changes your motivation and perception of yourself as you make this shift.