This episode of the Wholeness podcast is particularly timely since most of the US is still staying mostly at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Melissa shares with listeners about her own personal experiences with dieting and the ways that the diet mindset stemmed from her 10-year old self. 10 years old is typically a milestone year for girls as they come to be more aware of their own bodies and establish beliefs about themselves in comparison with others or in comparison to how they think th...
Aug 18, 2020•54 min
Melissa’s topic on this episode of the Wholeness podcast is a familiar one to listeners who have been learning from Melissa for some time, but it is especially timely in the midst of COVID-19. Melissa has previously offered her insights on masculine and feminine energies, the balance that should be found, and appropriate times to be in each one, but as most women in the U.S. are still working from home and many are trying to manage households and families as well, the need for living in the femi...
Aug 11, 2020•43 min
In today’s episode, Melissa breaks down how to cut sugar and cure your cravings for good. She outlines four steps that can help you to break the habit and stop your sugar cravings. Melissa also spends time discussing the mechanics of emotional eating and how this plays a large role in why sugar feels more powerful than your desire to be healthy and fit. She wants to reiterate - there is nothing wrong with you, her beautiful friend. If you’ve been over-indulging this episode will help. The key ta...
Aug 04, 2020•25 min
Melissa knew given the climate into today’s world, there is never a better time to speak to this topic and give listeners an avenue of support where it is so needed. In Today’s episode, Melissa explains step by step how to connect with your angels. Giving her listeners a place to start if they have strayed from their faith, or simply never subscribed to the concept of angels. Melissa helps you to develop your intuitive abilities while guiding you on how to receive signs and more from the divine,...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 13 min
In today’s episode, Melissa speaks about the power in releasing control and shares exact steps to let go to create even more joy and certainty in your life. Here’s the thing with control - when we’re in control, we’re trying to play “God” with our own lives - meanwhile blocking the universe from giving us what it is we really want from the path of least resistance. The bottom line is, you’re not allowing room for support from anyone or anything in your life - making you feel like you always need...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min
In today’s episode, Melissa speaks about the power in releasing control and shares exact steps to let go to create even more joy and certainty in your life. Here’s the thing with control - when we’re in control, we’re trying to play “God” with our own lives - meanwhile blocking the universe from giving us what it is we really want from the path of least resistance. The bottom line is, you’re not allowing room for support from anyone or anything in your life - making you feel like you always need...
Jul 14, 2020•44 min
In today’s episode, Melissa discusses how to recognize your empathic nature, how to see it as a superpower, how to protect that energy, and how to use that for the good of others at this time. Melissa’s focus today is largely on the idea that empaths have the ability to help people, but they have to tap into their gifts first and see them as gifts versus weaknesses. Unfortunately, there are lots of stigmas around people who typically identify as empaths, and Melissa being one herself, knows the ...
Jul 07, 2020•46 min
In this episode, Melissa discusses something that is relevant to many people: addiction. Whether it’s an addiction to food, alcohol, drugs, sex, social media, or anything in between, this episode will help you or your loved ones understand and hopefully offer support to make sense of the need for excess, the strong desire to overindulge, and numb out which are the very things that keep us locked in the pattern of addiction. Melissa’s prayer is this episode supports you or your loved ones in heal...
Jun 30, 2020•33 min
In today’s episode, Melissa discusses how to ditch the mindset that is preventing you from being truly free from food. She calls this the “three mindset secrets to ditch your weight-loss struggle.” Melissa begins by offering some support to those who have struggled with placing food over themselves, and begins to offer some realistic ways to take captive those thoughts in order to best serve yourself. While explaining her background, Melissa expands on the “holistic” attitude, which ultimately e...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 17 min
In this episode, Melissa unpacks the problem of energy vampires, negative energy, and how we can regain a sense of control over our spiritual lives. She shares some tips about how to identify energy vampires, and she gives some insights into how to better tune in and clear out your own energies. Melissa explains that your energy can be defended by you and cleared out, but it’s up to you to do the work by identifying sources, people, places and experiences that detract from you feeling grounded, ...
Jun 09, 2020•30 min
You are in for a treat In this episode of the Wholeness Podcast! Melissa gives you the full rundown on sugar, things you may know and many you will be shocked to learn, such as where it’s hidden, what you are actually eating when you order in or eat out, how sugar is used and stored in the body and how much we as women can actually digest in a given day only 36 grams, that’s a medium size apple (clearly not very much and the rest is stored as fat). Melissa really wanted to do this episode to edu...
Jun 02, 2020•43 min
Melissa talks about the concept of the “power of intention,” and its ability to help you be a co-creator of your day and therefore your life. This is extremely empowering, especially during a time of such uncertainty. She goes in-depth helping her listeners to understand the concept Melissa teaches about how we all wear masks, different persona’s of ourselves we’ve intuitively created throughout our lives to support ourselves in varying life situations. However, as we age, some masks no longer s...
May 26, 2020•21 min
In today’s episode receive health, mindset and life hacks for the pandemic and beyond as Melissa is interviewed, sharing her expertise with you. Melissa speaks with Dr. Kellyann Petrucci about how the pandemic has impacted our relationship with food, breaking old habits, and how to advocate for yourself. Melissa talks about why saying “yes” to a diet is making yourself wrong. They also discuss body image, how weight connects to self-worth, and how to control your environment to create the change...
May 19, 2020•49 min
Whether this time in quarantine has you questioning your career, desiring to pursue your dream, start a new passion or want a new position in your current company, tune in as Melissa share’s how to create your dream career, pursue your passions and make a lot of money while making a difference! Melissa has had several careers, now at a recent age of 42, she was a self-taught designer for over a decade in NYC, fitness competitor, author, TEDx speaker, International best-selling author, hypnothera...
May 12, 2020•25 min
In today’s episode Melissa wanted to address many of the messages she’s continually receiving about COVID and how to best survive during this time. Melissa shares with listeners some key strategies for thriving in the middle of a pandemic, especially with regard to health and wellness. She’s received a lot of responses about how to deal with the new normal, and how not to eat everything in sight, so she developed this plan to help her listeners re-establish the structures necessary to beat this ...
May 05, 2020•28 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn celebrates her recent 42nd birthday by sharing the envisioning process that she does every year. She shares how it is important to assess yearly what you want to achieve, have and feel. There are 3 important pieces to co-creating the life of your dreams and it starts with clarity, which you receive through her process. Melissa wanted to share this process because she wants to empower you this time to of uncertainty, to create the future you do want for yourself. ...
Apr 29, 2020•19 min
In this episode of the Wholeness podcast, you’re going to be guided on how to connect to your body, to what foods work for you and what foods work against you. Melissa goes in depth, sharing top tips for slimming foods that beautify you from the inside out and help you to age backwards. Optimal health and taking care of yourself is a gift. It gives a woman a powerful feeling of inner strength and pride. This is something we all have at our fingertips and Melissa wants to highlight this and make ...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min
In this episode, Melissa talks about the link between our emotional state and our tendencies with overeating. It is a fact that most women who have dieted most of their lives, no longer trust their food choices or their bodies, fully disconnected from awareness around their true hunger patterns. Turning to food for comfort and emotional support is a coping mechanism for life and soothing ourselves, that was created from pre-programming or in childhood, and is now being highlighted due to being q...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 10 min
In continued support during COVID 19, Melissa stresses the importance of taking care of your “environment” i.e. your home, head, mind, body and spirit. She explains that now more than ever, things that are working in your life are being illuminated and things that haven’t been working or unhealed wounds are being triggered and illuminated as well, and now is the opportunity to heal them and clear them. She is here to guide and support you in this being an amazing and enjoyable journey of self-di...
Apr 07, 2020•53 min
In this live video podcast, Melissa provides support during the uncertainty and chaos of coronavirus. This time at home, in different routines, and without the busyness of our normal schedules is an opportunity for an energetic upgrade and cleansing. It’s time to connect with your body, come back to being human and support yourself in the present moment. Melissa reminds us that this is the perfect time to use our feminine way of being, not doing. Slow down and support yourself, rejecting the voi...
Mar 31, 2020•25 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn talks about Coronavirus from a place of support to help you feel grounded, positive and safe in when the world may feel unsafe and times are uncertain. She begins with a meditation to ground you in, and calm the body. Melissa offers that this time is an opportunity to shift from the perspective of quarantine to one of opportunity. She encourages listeners to recognize triggers and use this time to go higher within themselves and transcend these limiting beliefs o...
Mar 24, 2020•23 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn makes it clear, we all have trauma in some form. And the lack of addressing it is doing way more harm than good. We can’t keep brushing areas of our lives and ourselves we fear, under the carpet, out of fear we won’t like what we find or who we are. In fact, Melissa shares the immense damage being done by not giving yourself the grace, love and time to know all facets of yourself. And to this point, that this lack of knowing and accepting oneself and understandin...
Mar 17, 2020•40 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn talks about diets, restriction, deprivation and what slim, fit women do that you don’t know about to keep their bodies tight and toned. Melissa is busting the myths of the dieting industry, providing practical tips to help you love your body now, no matter whatever shape it is and why this is one of the most powerful things you can do to fully heal and release weight without struggle. Melissa shares from her own weight loss journey as well as client testimonials ...
Mar 09, 2020•41 min
Melissa shares with listeners simple steps for approaching anxiety, overwhelm, and chronic procrastination in a way that will lead to whole body wholeness rather than feeding into the cycle of those tendencies. The first thing to remember is that these feelings originate in your mind, which is set up to always keep you safe, and the answer is to get grounded within yourself and seek the answers from your body. It is often quite difficult to overcome the mindsets that have been programmed in us b...
Mar 03, 2020•29 min
It’s never too late to get the body of your dreams & heal your relationship with food. It’s never too late to change, to become who you’re meant to be. Melissa passionately shares about this in her own experience of aging backwards. Today she brings you a special guest, who is a beautiful example and testament to this, and what Melissa teaches in her Weight Loss For Life Program, now called Love Your Body Lose The Weight. This episode is dedicated to all women, who have the misguided belief ...
Feb 25, 2020•33 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn talks about falling in love with fitness. She starts off reading a poem she wrote to her body and shares about her journey of finding the gift in being fit and how she created a fit identity which she’s embodied for the past 22 years. Melissa begins with the story of her childhood identity with not being an athlete or fit, in fact, her brother’s were the star soccer players and she was, as she describes herself, average at everything. Melissa shares how our belie...
Feb 18, 2020•31 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn talks about falling in love with fitness. She starts off reading a poem she wrote to her body and shares about her journey of finding the gift in being fit. She begins with the story of her childhood identity and how her patterns and behavior followed suit. She grew sick of the story she always told herself and shares how that evolved into finding strength and self love. Melissa focuses on the healthy balance of fitness and food. She warns of the cycle of falling...
Feb 11, 2020•40 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn shares her personal training and insight on how to protect yourself from negative energy and how to clear it. She really wants others to understand the full power of energy and how it works and can impact us on a deep level. Melissa is very passionate about this because it was not until she understood the true impact of being around negative energy and how it can affect you, when it’s not even yours. And how the same applies to positive energy. And why it is equa...
Feb 03, 2020•37 min
“The #1 way to combat overwhelm is to be in action.” - MK “Overwhelm keeps you disconnected, keeps you playing small and keeps you doubting yourself.” “Get out of overwhelm by taking immediate action. Get out of your head and get into your body. Go back to your breath.” In this episode, Melissa Kathryn dives straight into how to overcome overwhelm. After noticing a consistent theme in her community and among her clients, Melissa feels it important to address this topic collectively for women so ...
Jan 28, 2020•26 min
In this episode, Melissa Kathryn is excited to share the things she’s worked through in her own life as a means to help women struggling with the same conditions including thyroid disease, cancer, sibo, gastrointestinal issues, IBS, autoimmune disease and more. She shares through a conversation she recently had with a client and finds it a gift to make an impact in the lives of others. First, Melissa explores the identity we have with illness. As women, we tend to take on identities and then bui...
Jan 21, 2020•47 min
