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In this heartfelt and honest episode, Dr. Michelle sits down with her husband, Wayne, for a vulnerable conversation about mindfulness, marriage, parenting, and personal transformation. Together, they explore how mindfulness has shaped their individual journeys and their growth as partners and parents.

Wayne shares how he began seeking self-awareness after feeling lost amidst societal expectations, and how this shift impacted his identity as a husband and father. The couple discusses the impact of intentionality, the challenge of maintaining mindfulness in the chaos of parenting, and how inner work can transform communication and connection at home.

They open up about:

• How external influences shape our thoughts and relationships
• The role of self-reflection in healing and growth
• Reclaiming time and presence as parents (and avoiding "revenge bedtime procrastination")
• The mental “algorithm” and the importance of curating what we consume
• Practical ways to stay grounded while parenting in noisy, emotionally intense environments

This is a refreshing, real-world look at mindfulness beyond meditation cushions—one that acknowledges messy days, imperfect progress, and the power of pausing.

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Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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Ever feel like parenting just feels harder than it should?
You’re not alone — and there’s a reason it feels that way.

In this episode of The JoyfulRx Podcast, Dr. Michelle shares why parenting feels almost impossible when your own emotional and nervous system needs are unmet — and how nervous system regulation can change everything.

Through a personal story about her daughter and the lessons she learned about awareness, flexibility, and self-regulation, Michelle helps you see that parenting isn’t about perfection — it’s about capacity.

You’ll learn:
✨ Why it’s so hard to parent from survival mode
✨ How to recognize when your nervous system is running on empty
✨ What emotional regulation really looks like in daily parenting moments
✨ Simple, practical steps to restore your calm — so you can respond with clarity and connection, not exhaustion and guilt

If you’ve ever found yourself snapping when you want to stay calm, or feeling like you’ve lost touch with your own needs while trying to meet everyone else’s — this episode is your gentle reminder: you don’t need to parent perfectly, you just need to parent regulated.

🌿 Tune in to rediscover your calm, your awareness, and your capacity to parent from peace instead of depletion.

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Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca for free resources, including the "Decision Fatigue Self-Check Quiz"

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If you’ve ever caught yourself staring blankly inside the fridge, scrolling endlessly through your phone longing for escape, or thinking, “I can't make another decision today,” — this episode is for you.

In this gentle yet powerful conversation, Dr. Michelle unpacks the hidden mental load of decision fatigue — the exhaustion that comes from making hundreds of daily choices as a caregiver, mom, or support professional.

You’ll discover how decision fatigue shows up in four key areas of life — at home, emotionally, in caregiving roles, and in your professional life — and how it quietly drains your energy, focus, and joy.

Dr. Michelle shares her own personal story of hitting that point of “I don’t care anymore,” and how learning to simplify, regulate her nervous system, and build self-trust completely changed her relationship with decision-making.

You’ll learn:
✨ Why decision fatigue isn’t a sign of failure — it’s a signal your system is overloaded.
✨ The simple shifts that help you move from reaction to regulation.
✨ Practical, heart-centered tools to reduce mental clutter and restore clarity — starting today.
✨ Long-term strategies to strengthen your decision-making capacity and protect your peace.

If you’ve been feeling mentally exhausted, overwhelmed by choices, or disconnected from your own preferences, this episode will remind you that you’re not broken — you’re just depleted. And with the right tools, you can come home to calm again.

🎧 Listen now to learn how to reclaim your energy, simplify your days, and start making decisions from peace, not pressure

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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In today's episode I talk about my personal approach to handling frustration by choosing gratitude in the moment. I also discuss why we shouldn't wait to feel the motivation before taking action, rather if we commit to taking the action and start, the motivation will follow.

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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Gaslighting isn’t just something that happens in toxic relationships — it shows up in caregiving, too. And often, it’s so subtle and so normalized that caregivers don’t even realize it’s happening.

In this episode, we dive deep into what gaslighting looks like for caregivers:

👉 The unspoken indoctrination in healthcare where overwork, self-sacrifice, and constant stress are treated as “normal.”

👉 The societal narrative that mothers are supposed to be superheroes — doing it all, without complaint.

👉 The quiet, internalized ways caregivers doubt their own needs and silence their truth because the world tells them they should “just handle it.”

We’ll explore the toll this takes on your mind, body, and spirit — from the exhaustion of feeling like you’re “never enough” to the quiet erosion of self-trust. Most importantly, I’ll share the compassionate, science-and-soul-based approaches I teach my clients to break free from this pattern, rebuild confidence, and reclaim their voice.

Because here’s the truth: you are not imagining the weight of this. You are not “too sensitive.” And you don’t have to keep living inside a system that gaslights you into believing your needs don’t matter.

Tune in to discover how to spot gaslighting in your own caregiving journey — and how to step into a new way of leading yourself with clarity, calm, and power.

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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Frustration is one of the most common emotions caregivers experience — but what if I told you it’s not really about the situation at hand? Whether it’s the heartbreak of navigating a loved one’s incurable illness, the endless battle with medical systems, or the uncertainty of what the future holds, frustration has a deeper root.

In this episode, we uncover what’s really happening beneath the surface. We’ll explore why this hits caregivers especially hard — people who are used to handling everything, often without asking for help. And I’ll share how frustration isn’t a failure but actually a signal pointing you back toward rest, boundaries, and support.

You’ll hear stories from real-life caregiving experiences, why helplessness feels so unbearable, and how to transform frustration into clarity, courage, and presence. And most importantly, you’ll learn how my framework helps caregivers build resilience and self-trust, so they can stop spinning in stress and start showing up with steadiness and strength.

If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “How much longer can I do this?” — this episode is for you.

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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In this honest and soul-nourishing episode, we explore a question many caregivers and high-capacity women rarely stop to ask: Could I be the one standing in the way of the help I need?

Whether you’re navigating the complexities of caring for a loved one, running on autopilot, or quietly drowning under the weight of responsibility, this conversation is an invitation to pause and reflect. We’ll uncover the subtle yet powerful ways we resist support—from perfectionism and pride to fear and deeply ingrained beliefs about worthiness.

You’ll learn:

• The hidden reasons caregivers unconsciously block support—even when it's available.
• How control, identity, and “the good girl/good mother/good daughter” narrative quietly sabotage our ability to receive.
• Simple mindset shifts to help you open up to support, love, and ease—without guilt.

This episode is a gentle wake-up call and a warm hand on your back. Because you were never meant to carry it all alone. Let this be your reminder: You deserve help. You are worthy of rest. And you’re allowed to receive.

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

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Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why does it feel like I'm always waiting for the next crisis?”

You’re not alone—and you’re not imagining it. But here’s the truth: drama doesn’t just “happen” to us. It creeps in through our thoughts, our habits, and even the clutter on our desks and in our minds. And while it may feel normal, drama is secretly draining your energy, stealing your clarity, and keeping you stuck in survival mode.

In this episode, I share the unforgettable moment when a close friend told me, “Michelle, your life is so dramatic.” At first, it stung. But she was right—and it sparked a journey that changed my life. I’ll tell you how I went from chaotic relationships to calm, energizing ones… and how drama later tried to sneak back in, not through people this time, but through the everyday clutter and “mind drama” I was carrying without even realizing it.

This conversation will challenge you to take an honest look at your own life:
👉 Where is drama hiding for you right now?
👉 Is it in your relationships, your routines, your calendar—or the corners of your home you avoid?
👉 And most importantly—what would your life look like if you chose calm instead?

By the end, you’ll walk away with a powerful new belief: you are not a victim of drama—you are a co-creator. And with small, intentional choices, you can clear the drama, reclaim your energy, and finally create the peaceful, drama-free life you’ve been longing for.

✨ Ready to step off the rollercoaster? Listen in now—and then book your free call through the link in the show notes.

Caring for others—whether in your personal or professional life—can be deeply fulfilling, but it also comes with its challenges. The weight of constant caregiving can leave even the most dedicated among us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out. Too often, societal and cultural norms reinforce the idea that sacrificing ourselves is the price of being a “good” caregiver.

But here’s the truth: you cannot pour from an empty cup. You deserve to care for others without losing yourself in the process.

Welcome to The JoyfulRx podcast—your weekly dose of inspiration, tools, and strategies to rediscover your inner joy. Hosted by Dr. Michelle Welch, a practicing physician, mother, children’s author, entrepreneur, and certified coach, this podcast is designed specifically for caregivers who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.

Each week, Dr. Michelle dives into topics that matter most to caregivers, offering practical steps and actionable insights to help you reclaim your joy, build resilience, and create a life where you can serve others from your overflow, not your reserves.

Let’s stay in touch!

Visit: www.joyfulrx.ca to download free resources, powerful exercises and activities you can do today, to move you from burnout to balance. You can also join our Newsletter (we promise to only send information you will love).

📅 Book a free call with me today. Visit: ...