Wholeness: How to Feel Complete as You Are Now Whole, Full, & Alive

Three things we dive into in this episode:
What it means to feel your innate sense of wholeness and to stop sourcing it from outside yourself
Why sourcing a sense of wholeness from outside yourself harms your health and wellbeing
Holistic and actionable ways to start sourcing a sense of wholeness from within yourself today


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📌Episode Highlights
[05:24] About the Whole, Full, & Alive Podcast
Whole, Full, & Alive’s mission is to help you fall in love with your life and with who you truly are.
The podcast aims to inspire you to embrace yourself underneath all the titles, labels, relationship status, body shape/size, or other limitations you may have put on yourself.
At the end of every episode, Caitie will give a processing prompt and an actionable “experiment” to help you move forward in your own journey towards feeling whole, full, & alive.
[12:24] Getting Your Sense of ‘Wholeness’
Many of us depend on something outside of ourselves — a job, relationship, body size — to feel complete. We then feel threatened or out of control when we lose it.
When this happens, people result to maladaptive coping tools to feel in control.
Please forgive yourself if you’ve ever turned to maladaptive coping tools when you lost your sense of wholeness.
Caitie: “Just don’t forget: when you’re making life decisions, when you’re creating your life, when you’re living your life, the most reliable home you have is always going to be the one within you. You are whole. You are complete on your own.” - Click Here To Tweet This
[17:47] Romanticize Your Life
Do all the things that you do with or for other people for yourself.
Play cozy music in the morning and make yourself a luxurious breakfast. Make your life romantic.
You do not have to suppress the desire or intention of finding someone. But you will never feel as good as you can if you think you’re inadequate without a partner.
A partner will be an addition to your life, not someone who makes you whole.
[21:07] Wholeness as a Foundation for Nutrition
When you source your sense of wholeness from the way you eat, this only buries you in rigidity and restriction.
Instead, nutrition habits should come from a place of understanding that you are already whole and deserve good self-care.
Use healthy habits and self-care to boost your energy levels, amplify what you can contribute to the world, and live an awesome life; not as a way to make yourself feel more worthy.
This intentional mindset also applies to other things we mistake to be the reason for our wholeness.
[24:00] Seeking Wholeness Outside Yourself Can Lead to Disordered Eating
Caitie grew up seeing women trying to complete themselves through having a certain body size, being the perfect wife, or playing a certain role just to feel complete or get validation.
This drove her to engage in unhealthy practices, from developing disordered eating to exercise addiction.
Eventually, she found the grace to break through these maladaptive behaviors. She found wellness mentors and holistic and sustaina