410: Mayim Bialik on Owning Your Truth & Living Life on Your Own Terms
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/mayimbialik410
Mayim Bialik (IG: @missmayim) is an American actress, neuroscientist, author and film director. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of the NBC sitcom Blossom. Mayim later played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2010 to 2019.
She hosts Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, a quirky, informative, and interactive podcast breaking down the myths and misunderstandings about mental health and emotional well-being.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The inspiration behind Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown
- Mayim's mental health struggles over the years
- The impact of the pandemic on introverts/extroverts
- Practicing self-care during lockdown
- Connecting & bonding with your children through attachment parenting principles
- The boundaries of gentle discipline
- Mayim’s decision to leave academia to raise her children
- Consciously preparing to be a mother
- Navigating celebrity life with young kids
- Teaching your kids about the internet & access to information
- Why Mayim isn’t a fan of watching her work afterwards
- The Waldorf & RIE homeschool philosophy
- The college system is adjusting to the rise of homeschoolers
- Becoming vegetarian at age 19, later transitioning to veganism
- How Mayim’s sinus infections stopped after eliminating dairy from her diet
- Raising healthy vegan children
- Learn how to quiet your mind through meditation
- Religion provides a foundation to build an ethical & spiritual framework for life
- Falling in love with Judaism
- Appreciating the wonder of the human experience
- Teaching your kids to talk about their feelings
- Mayim's OCD diagnosis
- The challenges filming a sitcom during a pandemic
- Mayim’s future goals & upcoming projects
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Mayim Bialik - Boying Up (book)
Mayim Bialik - Girling Up (book)
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Mayim Bialik - Beyond The Sling (book)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | I already knew that growing a human |
| 0:05.7 | and then birthing a human was not going to be the same life |
| 0:09.6 | that I had before. |
| 0:11.2 | And one of the reasons that I am such a believer |
| 0:14.5 | in natural birth and home birth and things like that |
| 0:18.6 | is it does force a preparation and a consciousness on you |
| 0:22.9 | that already indicates that it's time |
| 0:25.7 | to shift into a different phase of life. |
| 0:27.8 | And I'm 45, and I know that especially for young moms |
| 0:31.7 | today, the notion of like my life has to change |
| 0:34.7 | can feel very oppressive. |
| 0:37.2 | And this is why many people choose not to have children |
| 0:41.2 | because it's not the same as not having children. |
| 0:45.6 | So for me, I was really blessed with a mother |
| 0:49.3 | who valued both her feminism and her career, |
| 0:52.6 | but also really valued being a mom and a homemaker. |
| 0:55.8 | So I was raised with a real reverence for that. |
| 0:58.3 | And our culture does not really have a reverence for that. |
| 1:00.9 | And you can see that reflected in maternity leave |
| 1:03.1 | and paternity leave, the way many families lack protection |
| 1:06.7 | to build a family when a baby is born. |
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