28: Comparison is the Thief of Joy with Melissa Joulwan

Vibrant Happy Women

Jen Riday

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4.8 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Joulwan had perfect health - excellent fitness, high energy, amazing strength - only to have it all come crashing down when a nodule on her thyroid ended in a complete thyroidectomy (removal of her thyroid). Hear Mel's story of growth and comeback and how she learned to stop comparing herself to others as well as to stop comparing herself to the "old Mel."

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 28.
0:05.7	It can be really easy if you've been successful in the past, if you had some kind of, you know, big accomplishments.
0:11.7	Maybe you were a high school athlete or you were really delighted when you had your first child or any of these things, you know, life milestones.
0:19.7	And now maybe life is a little bit calmer or things have changed.
0:22.9	It can be really difficult and damaging to yourself to compare yourself to your previous self.
0:30.7	Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives.
0:36.9	And now your host, Jen Ridey.
0:39.5	Hey there, Jen here, and welcome to today's episode of Vibrin's happy women.
0:55.2	On our last episode, I spoke with Scarlet Paulecki, and she shared her story of overcoming the grief after a miscarriage.
1:01.8	She has some great tidbits about listening to intuition and using writing as part of the healing process.
1:08.0	Today I'll be talking with Melissa Jewel-Wan, author of the well-fed one and well-fed
1:13.1	two paleo cookbooks, two of my all-time favorite cookbooks. She shares her story of being in the
1:20.6	greatest shape of her life, being completely fit, only to learn that she had to have a thyroidctomy.
1:30.4	Her energy decreased and she had to change everything. She shares some important wisdom how we should not compare our current self to our
1:37.0	former self. And also after the interview ended, Melissa decided to share a copy of a 70-page
1:43.6	PDF of her favorite recipes with us.
1:46.1	I'll tell you where you can get your copy at the end of the show. So let's go ahead and get
1:50.1	started. Hello there. Welcome to vibrant happy women. I'll be interviewing Melissa
1:55.4	Julwan today. Melissa is the author of the best-selling well-fed cookbook series and the blog meljuwon.com.
2:03.3	After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and food as the enemy, Melissa found the paleo diet in 2009
2:09.8	and has been happily following it ever since. That year, she also underwent a thyroidctomy.
2:16.2	In the aftermath of that surgery and recovery, she
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