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Align Your Faith and Health with Christine Jewell
Episode 666th June 2024 • Own Your Calendar: Aligning Your Business & Life Goals • Stephen Box
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In part 4 of our 5-part series with Christine Jewell, faith-based executive coach and author of Drop The Armor, we explore the profound connection between faith and health. Christine reveals how neglecting your health can impact all areas of life and offers practical tips to realign your wellness with your faith. Tune in to discover actionable steps to achieve a balanced and fulfilling life.

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Stephen Box:

Welcome back to the Unshakable Habits Podcast.

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I am your host, Stephen Box, and this week we are really talking about

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People who feel very overwhelmed, there's just never enough time in the

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week, no matter how hard you work.

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And my guest this week, Christine Jewell, is a faith based executive

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coach and author of Drop the Armor.

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Christine has been really giving us insights all week long about

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how this shows up in our life and the problems it can cause.

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specifically on Monday, we talked about how this shows up in your career.

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And then on Tuesday, we talked about, our sick Tuesday.

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We talked about how this shows up in your career and Wednesday, we talked about

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how it shows up in your relationship.

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today we're going to talk about one that I personally know a lot about is, how

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this shows up when we neglect our health.

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so Christine, welcome back to the podcast.

Christine Jewell:

Thank you for having me.

Stephen Box:

So you've given us a lot of really good stuff this week.

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I'm just curious, so far, is there anything that you've maybe had some

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time to think about in hindsight from the first couple of episodes here

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that you maybe want to go back and just highlight or share with anyone?

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Just like a thought, just you know what, I wish I had said this before.

Christine Jewell:

I just want to, double tap and triple tap that I do believe

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overwhelm is always a lack of clarity.

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So whenever you feel like you're just under this weight, I would

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challenge you to be really clear of, am I still trying to be the source?

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Of everything to everyone, because when we're trying to carry the burden for

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everybody else and everything inside of our business, every project, every

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person, whether you have a team and you're like, you feel responsible for

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their salaries and their people, like when you start, it happens subtly, but

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we start thinking we're the source.

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of everything.

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it is a subtle distortion, but man, the minute you start thinking

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you're the source of everyone's happiness, you will soon be crucified.

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I always say if I'm the, if I'm the answer to everyone's problems all the time, I'm

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pretty soon going to be the reason for all of their problems because now they're

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putting all of that weight on me and in me and it's very heavy, to be carrying that.

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And we were not designed to operate.

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There's only one that can carry the weight.

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of everyone and everything.

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So I just wanted to say that as we go into this last day, we start

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thinking about how do I operate?

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This isn't like some hairy fairy, Oh, peace and happiness.

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It's about how do I operate lighter so I can fight battles more swiftly, focus

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on the right things, be more effective, be more present, be more grounded, be

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more available with a high level of capacity to lead, not from a burnt out,

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resentful, exhausted, But a strong, steady, spirit of sound mind, right?

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Not confusion, because if we're overwhelmed, we're often confused.

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We're not operating of sound mind.

Stephen Box:

So one thing I want to hop into on this conversation of health is I

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hear this a lot, especially from people with, a Christian background is when

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we talk about health, a lot of times it's looked at from the perception of.

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You're idolizing yourself or it's vain to try to make yourself healthy

Christine Jewell:

that is a great thing and I'm glad that you brought it up

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and I'm going to say that I do believe that is born out of a lot of dogmatic

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Christianity and old religious views that like the flesh is bad, right?

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We're so taught like the spirit is good.

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The flesh is bad.

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Don't be vain.

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Don't be focused on the flesh and all that.

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And I just want to remind us.

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that God gave Adam and Eve a body.

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He gave us a body from the beginning.

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He did not just put us as in the spirit.

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Otherwise, we would not have this physical body.

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Then when Jesus leaves, he says, your body is a temple.

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of the Holy Spirit.

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Your body is the temple where the spirit dwells.

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And so I think like we need to wake up to the fact that God did not

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create us just spiritual being.

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He created us holistic with a mental body, a consciousness, with a

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physicality, with a spirit and a soul.

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And I think that a lot of the turmoil a lot of us experience

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is that we think one part of us is good and another part is bad.

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And if we like this part too much, then somehow it's bad.

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Instead of saying, God, bring me back to wholeness.

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What is it like when I honor my body, my spirit, my mind, and my heart?

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the way that you designed me to honor all of it.

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Because I believe that is sacred design of a holistic, healed

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human, reintegrated human being.

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I actually interviewed my pastor on spiritual authority and power,

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and we shared this exact thing, and I want to just introduce it.

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Jesus wasn't offended by his physical body.

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He had a body where he could have come and just been like a walking spirit on earth.

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But.

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And I think, and I just think that's so important.

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He was like the perfect integration of the heart, the mind, the body, and the spirit

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operating on earth as it is in heaven.

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And I'm like, we have been given the same invitation.

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Will we honor not only our spirit, which is, yes, we want to honor the spirit,

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but also Our soul, the gifts that he put inside of us, the physical body.

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And I just think that, that whole thing about being a temple is so important.

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We are a temple.

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Would you just trash a temple if you walked into one?

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Would you just start throwing garbage in there and spray painting

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it or would you feed it good food?

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you put beautiful things in there, right?

Stephen Box:

Yeah.

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And I think it's, it comes down to this idea of, you don't have to chase after

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six pack abs or anything like that, right?

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it's about moving your body.

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It's about using this beautiful gift of motion that God has given us, right?

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we have this amazing, if you think about our bodies, how amazing they actually are.

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The ability to function and jump and run.

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And to think there's so many of us.

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Not only don't do those things, we look at those things as a burden.

Christine Jewell:

So isn't it interesting too, when you study neuroscience and

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we see what happens to our brain when we actually move and we exercise and we

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realize this intelligent design of our body is actually miraculously designed

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to operate so much more optimally.

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When we move that it puts us into creative states where we have divine strategies

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and divine solutions and all this stuff And so I believe that when we dishonor

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the body we actually dishonor Yeah,

Stephen Box:

one thing I want to point out here, because you've talked

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a lot this week about the idea of you need to fill your own cup first.

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And we talked about a lot, especially when we talked about relationships,

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but it ties back to work also.

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If you don't have the energy, if you don't have the mental capacity to show

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up as your best self at work, then, you're going to fall flat, right?

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To me, health, when I say health, both physical health and mental health.

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If you don't make the time for those two things, There is no

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way that you can possibly perform and show up as your best self.

Christine Jewell:

Yeah.

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You're basically being like, I'll settle for 10 percent God of what

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you have, because I'm going to operate from mental fog and, a

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bloated gut and more exhaustion.

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And I think it's like a slap in the face.

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I do believe we have a duty, to show up in, Be really taken care of.

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And I believe it's like anything else to whom much is given, much is required.

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We've been given body.

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You've been given, you didn't do anything to earn your body.

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You know what I mean?

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Like that has been gifted to you just like your talents, just like your abilities.

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And it's like, how are you stewarding that?

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Are you trashing it?

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I really operate by that belief that if I steward well, and I honor the

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things that God has created for me.

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to carry out, the purpose I have in this world, then I'm abundantly blessed, right?

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Longevity, long life, joy, blessing, like all of that.

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So I believe like it's a fundamental belief of mine.

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I have a responsibility to take care of my health, to take care of my energy,

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to show up with capacity, and to model that for the people that I lead.

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That was my children and now it's our staff.

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And that's why.

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Stephen, Mark and I, in our corporate coaching side of the business, we start

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all of our live events with a 6 a.

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m.

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workout.

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It's a bit of a shock to people because they're like,

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Oh, we're going boxing at 6 a.

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m.

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and we're like, yes, we are.

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It's a big wake up call for some people that haven't.

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move their body.

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But then we ask them during the event, what are your top three values?

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They say usually the same three faith, family, and health, but you look at

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them and they don't look healthy.

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They haven't had a date night with their wife and God knows how long,

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and they're still operating from fear.

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And I'm like, no wonder you feel upside down and inside out.

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You're compromising your values all day long.

Christine Jewell:

For what?

Stephen Box:

Yeah, that's, It's crazy because you're right, those

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are the things that most people are going to say and they're in complete

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contradiction on all three of them.

Christine Jewell:

And when you're a walking contradiction,

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you are highly stressed.

Stephen Box:

Yeah, I was going to say and so much of that comes from what

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you've talked about all week, which is.

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All that programming, all those beliefs that you've put in place, all those

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things that you've put on yourself that make you feel overwhelmed.

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That's what's, that's what's causing the problem.

Christine Jewell:

Yeah.

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Being misaligned is extremely overwhelming.

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Believing one thing and doing another is extremely overwhelming.

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Because now you're out of integrity.

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You know how hard it is to drive a car when the car, the alignment's off, right?

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It just is so much more work.

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And so this is about what if this was effortless?

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What if this was way easier?

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And that's why I started the very first thing you said, asked

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me on that first episode we did was I introduced the concept of

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what if you could be overwhelmed?

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with like flow state and like mental freedom and like ease

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and overwhelmed with grace.

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This is what we're talking about.

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As you start coming into alignment with your values, meaning you're not

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a walking contradiction, but you're a walking reflection of your values.

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There's flow, right?

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It's there's flow in your relationships.

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There's better flow in your marriage.

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You get more work done of the right things.

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The right people start showing up in your life.

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You start to attract different opportunities.

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And I know this is a hard one to hear.

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am I a walking contradiction?

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I think that's the question we need to ask ourselves.

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Where am I a walking contradiction?

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Where can I start getting into alignment?

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And this is again, to your point, it's not about building six pack abs,

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but it's about look, God created us with all these joints for a reason.

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If we were not designed to move, we wouldn't have joints.

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We would just have like straight sticks, right?

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I'm always like, I get fascinated.

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by studying the design of things, because then I understand the purpose of that.

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But when you actually look at the human design of our bodies, like

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we were designed to run, to jump, to crawl, to move all the time.

Stephen Box:

Yeah.

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Isn't

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that interesting?

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It is.

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It's very interesting.

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And what I think I really would want people to realize, and I think you'll

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agree with this, is when we prioritize our physical health, and we prioritize

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our mental health, what we end up with is a body that functions well, has

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energy, and a brain that has peace.

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And when we have energy and peace, that's when we get to show up and do all these

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wonderful things we really want to do.

Christine Jewell:

Yeah.

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And I think maybe that might be a reframe for some people.

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Cause a lot of times when I ask people like, what are your values?

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And they say health, I'm like, yeah, but I don't really think health is that cause

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health is a, it's something that gets you to the thing that you really want.

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for me, freedom is one of my values.

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Like I don't want to be a slave to the world.

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I don't want to be stuck in a wheelchair where I'm, I want to have freedom,

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to go skiing with my grandchildren.

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I want to have freedom now to, to go mountain climbing, climbing with my

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son and I want to have mental freedom, which means I have peace of mind.

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So for me, because I value freedom so much and I say yes to freedom, then movement

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is just that's what gets to happen so that I can experience freedom in my body.

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I love the way I, my body feels free when I move.

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So even though I value health, that's not really the thing that's pulling me.

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And so I just want to suggest that maybe for some of the

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listeners, maybe it's not health.

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Maybe that's not the real value, but maybe it's, I don't know, right?

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Like clarity or peace of mind, or maybe it's connection with your family because

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you can do stuff together, right?

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figure out what the thing is for you that when you move.

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It gets you there.

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Yeah, because health is not, very motivating necessarily for

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people if there's nothing broken.

Stephen Box:

Yeah, and I'll just add real quick.

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So you talk about 6 a.

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m.

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workouts.

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I am not there for that.

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I am right now, by nature.

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so for my fellow night owls out there, I know y'all like to work out in the

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evening and night like I do, but I would encourage, even if it's just five

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minutes of stretching or something, get some movement to start your day.

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It will absolutely transform your entire day, just even if it's five minutes, and

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then you can go do your regular workout at the end of the day, but just get five

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minutes first thing in the morning and you will be amazed how much better you feel.

Christine Jewell:

Yes.

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And one of my favorite morning routines, and I call it habit stacking.

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I'm sure you guys have talked about that before.

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I used to own a holistic health and performance studio.

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I just have a rebounder.

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I have a little trampoline or, and I'm just, I'm doing some breath work

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and I'm pumping my arms and I have that thing outside in the sunshine.

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So now I've got oxygen, I've got sunshine, I've got breath work.

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I got some music playing.

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I chug a liter of water and all of a sudden, like five minutes to

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your point, you could just stack.

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And you just get this huge infusion of energy.

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And again, if your value is energy, like I want to be energized.

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You don't need an hour workout.

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You can emulate the feeling.

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And then you can do a recalibration at lunchtime.

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maybe that's like I do some grounding in the grass and then maybe I do some squats

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or, some weights at the end of the day, but that's also why I've reframed like

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the idea of working out to activations.

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Cause I'm always turning something on or I'm letting go of a staff.

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Sometimes it's like I do a full day of coaching or a full day of calls.

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It's heavy, like you're dance and you're sitting and I just

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need to go like shake it off.

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So I do a lot of like.

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that's an awesome nervous system recalibration.

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I'm literally like just shaking off all this stuff that you take

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on consciously or unconsciously.

Stephen Box:

I love it.

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we can honestly go on for days and days.

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so for anyone who wants to learn more, or hear more about Some of the

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things that you do, what's going to be the best way for them to find you?

Christine Jewell:

So first of all, I want to gift all of your listeners

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with a free chapter of my book.

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The book is called Drop the Armor.

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It is available on Barnes Noble, Amazon, Books A Million, all that.

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But if you go to thechristinejewel.

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com slash drop it, drop it, we're gonna send you the first chapter.

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There's also a Warrior love letter, which I believe is the letter

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for all the warriors at heart out there, the time that you're in.

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So I would encourage you to just get in there.

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That gets you into my world.

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Also, you can tune into our podcast, The Breaking Chains.

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Podcast, which is all about breaking free from the chains of your past, the

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things that are weighing you down so that you can step into the extraordinary

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life that God has predestined for you.

Stephen Box:

Awesome.

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I love it.

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And I will also have the link and the show notes, for that.

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So if anybody wants to, get that, if you're driving or anything,

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please don't crash your car.

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It will be there for you later.

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You can go check it out.

Stephen Box:

Christine, thank you so much for coming and sharing your wisdom and

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your insights with us this week.

Stephen Box:

Is there any final words that you would like to leave people with?

Christine Jewell:

I just think that we need to remember all the time, a couple

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things, if you follow me, if we choose, we're always choosing every day, every

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moment we are choosing who we will serve.

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And we're either choosing to serve the one that says, my burden is this.

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Light.

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My yoke is easy.

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My burden is light.

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Or we're choosing to follow the one that says, Come, I got all the shiny

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things to promise you, but it's gonna feel heavy and stressful and exhausting.

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And it's just a moment by moment decision.

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When we start, when you start feeling heavy, remember, you can be

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overwhelmed by all the things of the world, or you can be overwhelmed.

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By, the things that you're grateful for, the things that you're excited about,

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the things that God is calling you into.

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And so I just want to invite you all to choose your overwhelm.

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And choose your master, and because we're always serving something.

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So you're going to serve the one that is life giving or are you going to

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serve the one that takes life away?

Stephen Box:

I love it.

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And with that, I will just remind everyone that while none of us are born

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unshakable, we can all become unshakable because being unshakable is a choice.

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