477: Alanis Morissette on Living Healthy to Enhance Mind, Body & Life
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/alanismorissette477
Since 1995, Alanis Morissette (IG: @alanis) has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise and seven Grammy awards.
Outside of entertainment, Alanis is a dedicated charitable activist and an avid supporter of mental health, female empowerment, as well as spiritual and physical wellness.
Today, we’re diving deep into her alternative ways of living and thinking about life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Being a highly sensitive person from a young age
- How Alanis felt internally after rising to fame
- Nurture your self-expression
- The 3 pillars of relationships
- The practice of stillness
- The double-edged sword of work addiction
- Experiencing phases of burnout
- What is an embodiment practice?
- Listening to your body and going within
- An inquiry-based approach to life
- Imagining your deathbed
- Prioritizing quality relationships
- Starting a daily journaling practice
- The inspiration behind Alanis’ new meditation album
- Battling an eating disorder to becoming a nutritarian
- Alanis’ approach to feeding her 3 kids
- Her modern style of homeschooling
- Traveling the world and experiencing different cultures as a family
- Learning from the wisdom of healers
- Experimenting with supplements for perimenopause
- Using essential oils to enhance breathwork
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Related links:
Alanis Morissette - The Storm Before The Calm (album)
Follow Alanis Morissette on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Conversations with Alanis Morissette
Richard Schwartz - No Bad Parts (book)
Colette Dowling - The Cinderella Complex (book)
Listen or watch Byron Katie previously on TUHP (episode #419)
James Fallon - The Psychopath Inside (book)
Listen to Dr. Dan Siegel previously on TUHP (episode #381)
Listen to Nadine Artemis previously on TUHP (episodes #041, #088, and #188)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. Most of us are chasing that embryonic experience of |
| 0:06.6 | warmth, a sense of connection to all inspiration. We're chasing regulation in some ways because |
| 0:15.2 | regulation is the jumping off point, right? So especially with the pandemic or in general, |
| 0:22.0 | just lifestyles, dysregulation became the norm and to stay in that chronic revving in the red. |
| 0:29.4 | We collapse, there's a collapse. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 477. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take |
| 0:42.3 | your help to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and |
| 0:46.7 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Alannus Morsell. Since 1995, |
| 0:52.1 | Alannus has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter musicians in contemporary music. |
| 0:58.0 | Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise and seven |
| 1:03.0 | Grammy Awards. Outside of entertainment, Alannus is a dedicated charitable activist and an |
| 1:08.7 | avid supporter of mental health, female empowerment, as well as spiritual and physical wellness. |
| 1:14.5 | Today we're diving deep into our alternative ways of living and thinking about life. |
| 1:18.8 | Highlights include being a highly sensitive person from a young age, |
| 1:22.9 | how Alannus felt inside after raising a fam, imagining your deathbed, battling and eating disorder |
| 1:29.2 | to becoming a nutritionian, and her modern style of homeschooling. As always, if you'd prefer to |
| 1:35.3 | watch versus listen, this full interview is available over on YouTube. You can get there by |
| 1:39.8 | going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there. |
| 1:44.8 | Each and every interview from here on out is going to be in full video form as well. |
| 1:49.3 | If at the end of this conversation you leave it feeling inspired and you take a lot away from it, |
| 1:53.9 | the best thing you can do to help this show continue to grow and also help people along their own |
| 1:58.6 | health journey is share the episode with somebody you care about. Thank you so much. Without further |
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