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LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of HappyAuthor: Walt Thiessen
Lots of laughs. Lots of fun. Lots of secret insights and tips. Lots of daily Q&A. When was the last time you listened to a feel-good podcast or radio program, one that made you feel good from beginning to end? Probably never, if you're like most people. LOAToday talks about life. All of it, because the Law of Attraction and the Power of Positive Thinking touches every aspect of life. And we do it in a way that appeals to your feel-good side ... even if you didn't know that you had a feel-good side! Language: en-us Genres: Education, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Michelle Ford: She Lost Herself While Saving Everyone Else
Tuesday, 9 June, 2026
What happens when a woman spends decades trying to be everything to everyone, and her body finally says, “No more”?That’s the heart of the conversation between Walt, Anne Marie, and wellness guide Michelle, built around Michelle’s journey from overwhelmed, type‑A single mom to creator of the Holy Well program and the six dimensions of wellness.Michelle described growing up as a classic overachiever with type A parents, then becoming a single mom to two boys just 14 months apart while trying to be the perfect mother, daughter, colleague, and friend.Eventually, her health broke down, leading to an autoimmune diagnosis that forced a reckoning: “Something had to change, I was trying to be everything to everybody, and my health was what suffered.”That crisis pushed her back to her public health roots and to a powerful framework: the six dimensions of wellness - physical, social, spiritual, emotional, occupational, and intellectual. Instead of seeing life as random chaos, she began to see it as a “giant game of whack‑a‑mole” where different parts of us pop up depleted at different times.Walt pressed into the deeper side of this:Walt asked: “What role do you see those inner world pieces playing in your program?”Michelle answered that spiritual, emotional, and intellectual wellness go far beyond “Do I like my job?” or “Do I go to church?”- they are about values, creativity, and mental stimulation, and they directly impact our physical and emotional health.Michelle’s approach is disarmingly simple:Identify which of the six dimensions is most depleted.Notice your behavioral pattern. Are you a chaos‑loving Tilt‑A‑Whirl rider, a cautious Ferris wheel rider, or a stuck merry‑go‑round rider?Start with one tiny “anchor ritual”- a small, repeatable action, to begin refilling that depleted area. “The goal is to borrow from the full to refill the depleted, with baby steps instead of 17 things at once.”Anne Marie’s response made it deeply real. She shared that she went through a career change, menopause, and the loss of her mum in a short span and “completely lost” herself. Hearing Michelle’s framework, she saw how powerful it is to rate each area of life - “I’m an eight here, a four there, a two there” and then gently focus where you’re running on empty: “It just realigns you and brings you back to you.”Michelle’s Holy Well Quiz (18 questions that map those six dimensions) becomes both a mirror and a measuring stick. Women take it, see what’s low, start a micro‑ritual, and retake it months later to see how life has shifted. One woman discovered that, beneath her obvious physical concerns, her intellectual wellness was quietly depleted and that this mattered deeply to her because of a family history of dementia.Throughout, Michelle repeated one critical reassurance: “This isn’t selfish. It’s intentionally meant not to be selfish. It’s meant to make you a better mom, sister, daughter, employee, boss, partner, friend.”If you’ve been playing life’s whack‑a‑mole game, trying to hold everyone else together while slowly disappearing yourself, this conversation is an invitation:Where are you most depleted?Where are you secretly full and could borrow from?What is one tiny ritual you’re willing to claim as yours?Because you can’t save everyone else by losing yourself forever.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/michelle-fordMichelle Ford's Website: https://www.navigatingyourworld.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#WomensWellness #OverwhelmRecovery #MenopauseJourney #EmotionalHealth #SixDimensionsOfWellness #SelfCareIsNotSelfish #HolyWell #NavigatingYourWorld #SingleMoms #BurnoutToBalance #BabyStepsHealing #InnerWork #LifeDesign
