Dr. Christelle Oliver-Dussault continues this series of short bonus episodes from Reclaim the Pink Within, created to offer grounding tools and restorative moments of pause for mothers navigating the demands and emotional shifts of everyday life. In this meditation, she guides listeners through a calming mountain meditation designed to cultivate resilience, stability, and inner stillness through breathwork and visualization. Using the imagery of a mountain standing strong through changing weather, this practice encourages mindfulness, emotional grounding, and a deeper connection to the steady presence within yourself.
About The Host:
Dr. Christelle Oliver-Dussault is a family physician with a clinical focus on aesthetic medicine, women’s health, and psycho-education. Her work is grounded in a holistic, whole-person approach that integrates medical science with a deep appreciation of the mind–body connection. Alongside her clinical practice, she is deeply committed to medical education and mentors the next generation of family physicians through her work with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
She is the founder of Reclaim The Pink Within, a community created to support women through life’s most profound transitions. This project was born from personal experience. After becoming a mother, Dr. Oliver-Dussault became aware of a quiet but profound shift in her sense of self, one she had long observed in her patients, yet only fully understood once she lived it herself. What had once been a clinical observation became a deeply personal insight, shaping the lens through which she now supports and guides other women.
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Transcripts
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Slowly bring yourself into the moment. Bring
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yourself inwards.
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Check in.
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Are you feeling numb or are
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you feeling quite activated?
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Observe where you are on your dial of activation.
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With curiosity.
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Place a hand on your chest and a hand on your
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abdomen. Start by taking a big
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breath out.
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Then inhale deeply, bringing a
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breath all the way down to the bottom of your abdomen
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into your pelvis. And notice your
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hand moving as your belly expands like
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a balloon. Continue to
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take slow breaths in through the nose,
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feeling your belly rise, and slow breaths out
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through the mouth, feeling the
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belly fall.
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I'd like to guide you through a mountain meditation today.
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I find this meditation deeply grounding,
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especially in times of activation and
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in times where the world feel
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like it's whirling by or my mind
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is on overdrive.
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Find a comfortable seat either on
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a chair on the floor.
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Feel the floor beneath your feet, the
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chair or floor supporting your body.
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Pay attention to what the contact points feel
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like. Notice the stability
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and the solidity of this contact.
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Become aware of your upper body
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and how it balances over your hips.
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Allow your body to be still
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and sit with a sense of solidity
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and stability.
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Now start forming an image in your mind of the
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most magnificent mountain you have ever seen.
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I'm in the west coast of British Columbia and there
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is a particular mountain that always comes to mind on one of the very high
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mountain roads at the Coquihalla summit.
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It has a jagged edged rock face
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with a steep slope.
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Let your own image come into greater focus,
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even if this doesn't come as a visual image. Allow the sense of a
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mountain, the feeling of its overall shape,
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A large base rooted in the bedrock of the
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earth's crust. Notice how massive it
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is, how solid, how unmoving.
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Observe the mountain. Note its qualities.
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And when you feel ready, bring this mountain into your own
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body.
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Your body and the mountain
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and your mind become one.
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You share in the greatness and stillness of the mountain.
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Become the mountain with each breath
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as you continue sitting. Become a little bit more
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like a breathing mountain, alive and vital,
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yet unwavering in your stillness. Centered,
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grounded, unmoving.
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The mountain sits. It experiences change in
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every moment. It remains still
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as seasons flow into one another and as
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the weather changes moment by moment, day by
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day. At times it's visited by
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sunshine, others,
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violent winds and storms, snow,
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rain, changing weather
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patterns within an instant. But
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through it all, the mountain continues to
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sit, unmoved by the weather,
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by what happens on its surface. In
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the same way as we sit, we can
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learn to experience the mountain. We can
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embody the same unwavering solidity and
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groundedness in the face of everything that changes in our own
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lives, in our own minds.
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What we experience will vary in intensity and
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in threat in our outer world, in our
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minds and our bodies.
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And just like high winds, cold and rain, we endure a period of
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darkness and pain as well as moments
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of sunshine, joy and uplift.
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It may help to notice thoughts and
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feelings. Even
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things that happen to us are very much like the weather of the mountain.
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The weather of own lives is not to be ignored or denied.
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Acknowledge it, honor it.
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Recognize it for what it is.
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Hold it with openness even when it is uncomfortable.
