Words of Wellness with Shelly
Do you get confused by all of the information that is available regarding ways to improve your health and wellness? Do you often become frustrated or overwhelmed with decisions on how to be your healthiest? We all know and understand how important our health and wellness is to the vitality of our lives, however navigating the wealth of health and wellness information available can often feel overwhelming. Understanding the significance of our well-being in leading fulfilling lives is crucial, yet determining what steps to take that are essential for our health can often be confusing.
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Words of Wellness with Shelly
The Healing Power of Breathwork and Emotional Resilience: Brenda Mundt's Journey of Emotional Wellness and Recovery
Ever wondered how to balance a demanding career while passionately pursuing wellness? Brenda, our guest on this episode of Words of Wellness, has mastered this art, and she's here to share her journey. Brenda is not just a full-time systems engineer but also the inspiring founder of Energized Life Wellness. Her story takes a poignant turn as she opens up about losing her husband in 2021, which catalyzed the transformation of her fitness business into an emotional healing practice.
Brenda offers a raw and honest perspective on grief, sharing how the Grief Recovery Method provided her with a powerful, lightening sense of emotional relief. You'll learn about her commitment to ongoing personal development and how she discovered breathwork as a vital tool for emotional healing. Brenda explains the unpredictable nature of grief and the various coping mechanisms she employs, shedding light on the essential balance between physical and mental health during tough times.
In one of the most compelling parts of our conversation, Brenda discusses her new 12-week program, the Radiant Living Roadmap, which integrates breathwork for a deep emotional reset. She also dives into the guilt she felt while finding a new path after her husband's passing and how a friend's support helped her navigate those feelings. Brenda's heartfelt advice on being present and cherishing loved ones offers a powerful message of hope and resilience that you won't want to miss. Tune in to be inspired by Brenda's story and discover actionable insights for maintaining passion and dedication through life's challenges.
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I think probably the biggest thing is just be present in the moment and stop and just breathe, take time for yourself and enjoy those around you, because you never know when it might be their last day.
Speaker 2:Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelley Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more to share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone, Welcome back to Words of Wellness. I am your host, Shelly, and I'm excited to introduce to everyone my guest today. She is actually a full-time systems engineer, but she finds time on the side to grow her wellness business. Her business is called Energized Life Wellness. She's a certified personal trainer. She is a certified breath coach. She also is certified in grief recovery, which is pretty amazing, and she's a wellness coach. She also is certified in grief recovery, which is pretty amazing, and she's a wellness coach. And what originally started as a fitness health business has kind of evolved into more of an emotional healing practice after she experienced her loss, and I know we're going to hear a little bit more about that. But, Brenda, welcome to Words of Wellness. I'm so excited to have you.
Speaker 1:Thank you so very much. I greatly appreciate this. Thank you for the nice, warm welcome. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so you have a lot of different hats that you wear. Yes, I do, and I'm just really, I'm just so curious about all of it. Like, how do you, how do you keep your full-time engineering job going and you're also getting your wellness business up and running? How do you do both?
Speaker 1:It can definitely be very challenging. I don't have it's like kind of like when I finally stopped moving. It's like to go to bed, it's like my wind down time. Uh, I, I try to, uh I try to accomplish as much as what I can weeknights, after I'm done working, Uh. But I really value, value my weekends so much because it's like it's like really the only time that I have to really work on stuff. So it's definitely a challenge, without a doubt, but I enjoy it, I'm very passionate about it and I just keep plugging away and doing what I can.
Speaker 2:Well, and that's key, right, when we're passionate about what we're doing, we, we continue and it, we make it work. We make it work and I'm with you. I'm really with you on the weekends, I mean you have to have that downtime and you have to keep certain parts of your time sacred. So I'm with you on that. Well, I love the name Energized Life. I think I shared with you I had a Facebook group with my wellness company a few years back and it was Energized for Life. So when I saw the title of your business, I went, oh, I like that, we're going to. So I mean, you started out more into the fitness area and personal training. Now, with what you do and what you incorporate, I love that you do breath work. I mean that's so, so important. And I'm really interested to hear about the grief recovery method that you, that you are using and you mentioned you kind of got more into that aspect and more into the healing practice after your loss. What, what did you experience, brenda?
Speaker 1:So I had in September 14th of 2021, I unexpectedly lost my husband. He was, he was my world. So life just kind of got, you know, massively turned upside down and I needed to very quickly. I knew, just because I've been into personal development for such a long time and I knew that I needed to do something to help myself. Other than I had a stretch of months where there were just certain things that I knew I needed to take care of and deal with, because we had the crappy conversations of that in the events.
Speaker 1:If anything like this were to happen, he'd be like okay, if something happens to me, then I'm gone. He's like this is what you need to do. And so we had those conversations. So my brain immediately went into okay, this is what I got to do. And I had a focus. I literally focused on that for probably, um, a good, strong, solid four months and um, but in the midst of all that, then I would say, because he passed away in in January, then I have that January in September and then in January is where like, okay, I'm like I I need to focus on me here a little bit and just because I was just in such a, for me it was a dark place because it was kind of like I wanted to live but I wanted to die, because if I would have gotten hit by a truck the next day I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have cared. I would have been like, just take me, I'll be with him and somebody else can deal with everything else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure normal I have to. I can't imagine. I'm sure that's a normal response and first of all I'm so very sorry for your loss.
Speaker 2:Um, I can't imagine, especially after everything that had been going around on that time. Uh, you know, in the world it had to have been really, really tough. So I mean, I you know, how did you, how'd you come out of it? Like you just got to a point where you're like I need to do something, I need to be able to move forward, I need to put myself as a priority.
Speaker 1:How did you come out of that? So I, for one, one thing that I did was my, because I was so much into taking care of myself physically as well as mentally I I needed to keep some type of normalcy in my life, which was my workouts. So even when my husband was in the hospital, when he was sick and everything, I am kind of like as hard as it was, I'm like okay, I'm like I cause that was like my stress reliever. So it's like I still got up every morning I did my workouts probably not the best workouts, you know, but I still did that because I needed. And even after he passed away, I I needed that some type of normalcy in my life to continue having something to relieve that stress. But then I just, like I said, I really needed to do something and through social media I the grief recovery method had. I say it found me because I do truly believe that it found me, that I didn't find it. It came in front of me for a reason and I had met with the. I met with the son's, the co-founder's son and we chatted. He explained everything to me what it was all about, and I mean there was nothing, no pressure about anything, and there was just something about it that just like resonated with me and so I had the choice of either, you know, just going through the program itself, and then, if I wanted to actually do the training to be able to turn around and help others, and just because it resonated, it just really clicked with me. Everything he shared with me, I just I jumped all in.
Speaker 1:So in January I did four days, four full days. I did so. The program itself is like eight weeks and we smashed all this into four full days. So it was so emotionally intense it's not even funny. And so I did that for four days. So I did the program itself, plus they went through the training to be able to turn around and and do the program with other people and help them. And when I, when I went in there cause we were connected with people like literally all over the world, and and the best way I could kind of describe myself was that I just I felt really empty and really lost and and then so we went through the whole program and everything and then, like I said, super challenging, very emotionally hard, but I'm kind of like nope, I'm like I committed to do this, I, I got, I have to do something. And and when I got done, by those four days, I the best way that I could describe myself was I felt lighter. Describe myself was I felt lighter. The really intense pain that I was feeling had lightened so much.
Speaker 1:I had pictures on the poster boards that they do at the funerals a lot these days. I had all those in a spare bedroom and I could not even go in there and look at them because every time I looked at them I just started bawling and I was just constantly having meltdown after meltdown. And you know, just because I, you know, when I took him into the hospital, I was, he was just like whisked away from me. You know, I I didn't get to give a goodbye, kiss, no hugs, nothing, and it was just and I was like, okay, got to go, you know, cause it was that time of the year, you know, and so it was just really so.
Speaker 1:That piece of it was just like just killing me inside and but going through that program just really helped me deal with that, that massive pain that I was feeling. And I mean I literally even had people within the that were taking the program as well, one gal had even commented to me and she's like Brenda, she's like the look when you first started as day four. She's like you look so much lighter. And I'm like I said well, I mean, that's about how best I could describe myself and how I felt as well was that I felt lighter.
Speaker 2:That's incredible. I mean it's like you say it was. It found you, the program found you for a reason, and it's almost like you can look back now and and my first thought was that it would have been that way for you almost I don't want to say cathartic, but just forcing you to kind of go through. Not that you weren't going through the emotions before, but this kind of was almost like on hyper speed in a way.
Speaker 2:It was on hyper speed right Like when you say it's an eight week program crammed into four and that first forced you to do everything so fast and to go through all those emotions I can't imagine. But it makes sense that going through that how so intensely and such an intense few days, that how you would feel after the fact, so that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I had continued, you know, as time went on, you know, continuing on like continue to find ways to help myself, and because there's always, I mean grief is just like you know, they always like continue to find ways to help myself. And because there's always, I mean, grief is just like you know, they always talk about the waves. You know how these waves just kind of come crashing in and you just don't know when it's going to hit you, and so I've always been. You know, I always continue to look for different ways to help myself and in it would have been in 20, january of 22 was when I got into I started doing the training for become a breath coach.
Speaker 1:Um, cause, later in the later the previous year, I had again I still think it's one of those things that found me and um, so I had taken um and so I had taken the person, my mentor. He had a five-day challenge. So I did this five-day breathwork challenge and I'm like, wow, this is pretty cool, you know, because I had heard about breathwork but I really never practiced it and, you know, just heard so many amazing things about it. So I did the five-day challenge, which I thought was really great and then so then he had a 30-day program. So then I bought that and I went through the whole 30 days and learned different breathing techniques and all that, and I found that very beneficial. But then, within that 30-day program, he had one, what he referred to as a transformational breathwork journey, you know, which is like an hour to an hour and a half, and then this had like nine dimensional sound on top of it, and so I was actually literally afraid to do this, because I'm like I'm in my house by myself. I've seen things online, some of the reactions these people have and everything, and I'm like I'm like, oh my God, I'm like I'm in my house by myself. I only have my cats, you know. And so it was.
Speaker 1:I remember it was like it was actually Labor Day weekend and then I finally had off on Monday, you know. So I'm like, okay, I'm like you just like need to schedule the day to do this, you know. And so I decided like, okay, sunday morning I'm going to do this. So I think the night before I texted my sisters and I told them, like I said, you know, you guys are like I'm going to be doing like this breathwork journey thing Sunday morning. I'm like. So if you don't hear from me by noon, I'm like you might want to come check it up on me.
Speaker 1:Make sure I'm okay through this journey, yes, but of course I ended up being absolutely fine and it was. It was absolutely amazing. I mean, I had so many releases. I mean I cried and I cried and I screamed and it was just so powerful and literally when I got done with it, I was laying on my bed and laying there and and I'm just like holy I don't know if I can swear in here or not, but holy shit, I'm just sitting there thinking to myself. I'm like, oh my god, I'm like everybody should be doing this and and I I've done. I lost even count of how many breathwork journeys I've done and every single one of them has always been a different experience, but so I mean so therapeutic and it's just been amazing.
Speaker 2:That's so fascinating to me because I I mean, I know about breathwork and I've done a little bit, but nothing like what you're describing. So it's like a four, four or five hour process. Is that what it is?
Speaker 1:The, the breathwork journey itself is actually, if you do like the, what they, what we call a transformational breathwork journey. We block off two hours for it because we do, when we, when we're meeting with people, we do this whole intro explaining to them you know what they might experience, because when it comes up we don't want them to like freak out or anything and cause there's I mean, there's like physical stuff that comes up, there's emotional stuff, there's all the mental stuff that comes up. You know there's breath holds in there, you know we have screams in there. So there's all this stuff that happens throughout that time and we so we do like our little introduction and then we actually have the journey itself. And then at the end we always kind of leave that what we call integration time afterwards to kind of let them just kind of chill out a little bit and just listen to some nice, you know soft music and whatnot and relax and just kind of soak everything in like cause a lot of times it's like, wow, what just happened?
Speaker 2:That's what I'm thinking. It's almost like you have to really sit there and kind of reflect on what just went on these last couple of hours. And I'm sure there's a. It's so emotional that there's probably there's probably that feeling like drained and exhausted from all of the emotions that come out. I'm fascinated by it. Is it something you do? Is it one-on-one, or you lead like a group you know virtually and they all are kind of going through it at the same time. How does that? How does that look?
Speaker 1:So I do a one-on-one and I do do, and I do one-on-one and I do group and I do in-person and online, and that's the beautiful thing about it is being able to do it online. So that was like you can connect with anybody.
Speaker 2:It sounds like it's something that would be beneficial for every single person. Oh my God, absolutely, and like you're saying not just one time, so you've gone through it numerous times.
Speaker 1:that's so amazing to me yeah, I mean because you figure. I mean I mean, look how challenging life can be. You know, every day we're constantly throwing stuff at us and it just life is just everybody's on full throttle you know, yeah, and they just don't.
Speaker 1:They don't take the time to deal with things. They just keep pushing and pushing and pushing and not even realize what that's actually doing to them internally. It's like they're feeling stuff, but it's like they don't want to stop and actually deal with all the emotions that they're feeling and might not even be realizing that on how it's affecting us in so many other ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's such a great point and I, you know, at this stage of my life I think about that. I, um, I went through the loss of both my parents 10 years apart. My mom died from cancer and then my dad 10 years later from various other illnesses. And you know it's uh, I mean it's certainly a different type of grief than what you've gone through with your husband. But I always will share and I really really focus on when I feel the emotions come up, to actually feel them.
Speaker 2:But I know it's never an imperfect situation.
Speaker 2:It's, like, you know, going through my kids when they go away and they've gone away to school and moving out of the house, like that's a whole other experience for me personally and I just I just really try and be intentional of, like when it's, when it's coming up and I feel like I need to cry, I just let myself cry Cause you just never know what's going to trigger certain things.
Speaker 2:And but even like, like to your point, when you think about all of the years of experiences that we all go through and we're just plowing through, we just continue with our routine and our schedule and never, always taking that rarely taking that time to just sit back with those emotions or sit back and reflect. And I mean you know you and I understand it, but there's so many people who don't, or they're scared, they don't want to, they don't want to face up to it, they don't want to go through the emotions. But I always know that. I mean I tell my kids you know, go through it, because it's just going to come back later at some point.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes so that's really the big key, I think, and yeah, and it goes back to it's like you.
Speaker 1:Just you need to feel to heal.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 1:Hundred percent. And the thing, and I think what I I think what a lot of people don't realize, is that there's there's a thing called generational trauma. So it's like we're not only dealing with our own emotions, it's like we're dealing with stuff that happened with our parents, our grandparents. They've actually cause. It hits us at a cellular level. So somehow they managed to supposedly prove that it actually goes back 14 generations, supposedly prove that it actually goes back 14 generations.
Speaker 2:That's, that's insane. That's insane. Yeah, and I, I I read a little bit about that and it's it's really hard to wrap my head around that for sure.
Speaker 1:So it's like you have, you know, it's like we have all these different generations of being, of being conditioned and stuff that we're not even familiar with because it happened from Lord knows how many generations ago. You know, it's just, it's wild.
Speaker 2:It really is wild and how they are able to research that, study that and prove it is just, it's fascinating. Yeah, I just I feel like it's. I'm getting excited because I'm like, well, I want to do, I want to go through this transformation journey. Cool, really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just I can't say enough about it Cause, like I said, I just I know how much it has helped me and continues to help me.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm actually can I, when I I had gone through a couple of surgeries last year, so from the surgery I knew I couldn't do a breathwork journey just because you have those bodily reactions. And, um, I got to a point where I could just feel the anxiousness in my chest and I just I could not wait until I could actually do a full blown breathwork journey, could not wait until I could actually do a full blown breathwork journey. I mean, I did some. I did kind of more of a slower paced breathwork just because I needed to do something, cause I just I felt that anxiousness and that helped enough to take the edge off. But I'm like, I'm like I need, like I need a full blown transformational breathwork journey so I can scream and I can cry and I can pound my fist into the bed of breathwork journey so I can scream and I can cry and I can how my fists into the bed.
Speaker 2:Well, it's amazing, Cause now you, you're like it's almost when you are in an exercise routine and when you skip your exercise and you're like, oh my gosh, I miss it, I need it so bad. I noticed it's like that kind of a thing. Now you're so used to it you know how beneficial it is and can be.
Speaker 1:I mean it's still hard because you just you because you know how uncomfortable it can be just facing that, you know. So I mean there are times that it's still hard, cause when I'm like I know that I know I need to do one, but then there's still that fear, but like it's like, oh gosh, you know, now I got all this, that's going to come up again, but it's like no, I'm like I need to do this because I need to get through it. I need to come out on the other side of it because I don't like the way I'm feeling right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that makes so much sense. So that's your main. It sounds like that's your main focus now. I mean, it's like you were saying earlier or you had shared with me that you know your wellness business has really evolved into more of this healing practice that you share. So do you find the majority of your clientele are the ones going through this breathwork journey?
Speaker 1:Is that majority of where your time is spent Right now?
Speaker 1:yes, because I actually do teach on Monday nights a kickboxing class and, uh, but I was in the process of the last um, I forget how many months it's been.
Speaker 1:So long now I was just working with my two sisters have been taking my class with me in the lower level of my house.
Speaker 1:Uh, but I have a space that I was in the process of remodeling so I will hopefully very soon hopefully next month be able to open that up to others in the area. So, yeah, so I do have Monday nights where I still do my kickboxing class because I absolutely love it, it's fun, and so I still do the whole some of the fitness side of it. But, like I said, I definitely more on the emotional healing side of it, because I'm actually also in the process of working and putting together a 12 week, 12 week program called the radiant living roadmap, which each week kind of steps through stuff we go touching on, you know, dealing you're becoming yourself, your authentic self, and to work on the inner child and dealing with stress and anxiety and that emotional healing. We just every week we cover something different. Every week there's breathwork journeys focused on the topic that we're covering that week and, yeah, so we're looking forward to get that done and be able to start offering that out.
Speaker 2:That sounds amazing. I love the title too. We'll have to put that in the show notes for sure. Where's the best place to reach you, Brenda, Because I definitely want to go through this breathwork journey and I'm thinking there's going to be other listeners who are going to want to as well. Where's the best place to? I mean, I will put your information in the show notes, but where's the best place to reach you?
Speaker 1:I'm on Facebook and Instagram. So Facebook under I have my my personal page under my name, brenda Munt. I also do have my business page under energized life wellness. I'm on Instagram under Brenda I. When I initially set it up, I forgot my A, so it's B R E N D M U N D T, but yeah, so you can find me on Facebook, instagram. I am also on LinkedIn under my personal name, uh, but I. My website is wwwenergizedlifewellnesscom.
Speaker 2:Okay, perfect. Yes, I will add all of that in the show notes. And, boy, I love everything that you're doing. I mean, I feel like, you know, I, I, I did an episode with another gal who lost her husband and, um, I feel like I need to connect, connect the both of you. But it's, um, it's quite something I can't, I can't imagine, but you're, you know, you're turning it into something good and a service to others, which is a needed service, for sure. So I, you know, I commend you for that. I think that's thank you. Why are you for doing that? What is? What is some last few thoughts or words of inspiration you'd like to leave with our listeners today?
Speaker 1:Um, I think probably the biggest thing is just be present in the moment and stop and just breathe, take time for yourself and enjoy those around you, because you never know when it might be their last day. Yeah, I love that and don't ever forget to tell people that you love them.
Speaker 2:So, so good. Yeah, well, you're definitely sharing from your personal experience and that's something that you know, not a lot of people have gone through, and it's something that I, I share. You know not a lot of people have gone through, and it's something that I, I share. You know about being present and being in the moment and, um, because you're right, you just never know. You don't, we don't know what tomorrow brings. We don't know, and it's, it's a, it's a challenging, I think, for a lot of people, but I know that's something that I have really been intentional about later on in my life and it's so important.
Speaker 2:So I thank you for that, and I thank you for just being vulnerable and sharing from a place of going through it. You've been there, you've done that, you've gone through it, you've been there, you've done that and you've gone through it, and I'm sure there's still always moments, emotional moments, but you've come from the other side and you'll be able to share and help others through their process, and so that's, that's a beautiful thing. You know there's a purpose, there's a purpose in the pain, there's a purpose to the pain, and and you're, you're, definitely an example of that. So thank you for all that you're doing. Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Yeah, I was, you know, when I had um and I, when I started doing all this, you know, with the grief recovery method and the breath work and all that, and also just like randomly, it just like hit me and I had like this massive guilt come over me. Because I'm sitting there thinking I'm like cause I would never be doing any of this if my husband was still here, and I literally had, and I just like I was, I had eventually I had such a hard time with it. And then I I reached out to a friend of mine that had lost her daughter, like two months prior to me losing my husband. And then I, I reached out to a friend of mine that had lost her daughter, like two months prior to me losing my husband, and and I told her I'm like, I'm like, I'm like what?
Speaker 1:I'm like I had like this massive guilt over this. I'm like because I wouldn't be doing this if he'd be here. And then it all sends, chatting with her and everything. And then I and also it was like I got home and and looking at his picture and I'm kind of like, you know, talking to myself, talking to him, you know, and I'm like what the heck? And also it was just like the light bulb finally went on and it was yet again being his beautiful self that he he is. It was he gave me this gift to be able to share with others.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it. That's exactly it. I mean, I know my friend, kelsey, shared that her husband told her she was going to write a book and she was like what do you mean? What are you talking about? You're the one that should write a book, not me. And he goes no, you're going to write a book and it just came out recently. So I told her I need to get her back on the podcast.
Speaker 2:But that's exactly like with you. You know he's it's, he's given you that permission and this is something where you can carry on his legacy and you know you shared and and help others through, through their pain in that process. And uh, yeah, I mean it's just, we never know how it, how it's going to go and how you're going to impact other lives in that process. You know which. I mean you never, you would never wish it on anyone to to have a loss like you did. However, I just see you doing. You know you're doing great things and helping a lot, of, a lot of other lives that you wouldn't have otherwise done. So it's, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and I'm grateful for that, yeah for sure Well gosh.
Speaker 2:Brenda, thank you so much for being on today. I really appreciate you sharing, and just sharing, such a big part of your life and your heart with all of us, and absolutely Well.
Speaker 1:thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, awesome I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:I just want to encourage any of the listeners out there know have gone through loss, or perhaps you have a friend or a loved one who has and I want to encourage you to reach out to Brenda and go through that breathwork journey and know that she specializes in in in grief recovery, so she can certainly help you. So thank you again for being on today. I so appreciate it and thank you to all of our listeners and, as always, do something for yourself and your wellness on this day and until next time. Have a blessed week, everyone, and we'll see you next time on Words of Wellness. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode.
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