Whole-Minded: The Power of a Renewed Mind

Living in today’s world, staying clear-headed, working through our well-trained and conditioned brain, and getting a hold of our mindset is no easy feat.

Our minds are full of input every single day from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed.

In today’s episode, we’re diving into the third pillar of wholeness—our minds—and what it means to live whole-minded. This part of the journey is so important because our thoughts shape everything. And if we don’t get curious about how we think—not just what we think—then we risk living our lives through borrowed beliefs and automatic patterns that don’t serve us.

The Full Mind

We wake up every day and fill our minds with the news, the gossip of others, and endless scrolling. Whether our feeds our full of junk or educational and inspirational things, we are still filling our minds with others' thoughts, ideas, judgments, and others' lives. And most of us never stop to question how much of that noise we’ve just accepted as truth.

How often do we stop, get quiet with ourselves, and examine the things we hear and see? How often do we explore our truth, our beliefs, and our minds?

We fill our minds with input every single day from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed, and we leave very little room for the space our minds need to breathe and think on their own. 

It's like an overcrowded room full of people. We enter… but become easily overstimulated and overwhelmed. Our minds are no different! When we overcrowd them, they become overstimulated, overwhelmed, and start to shut down. 

What You Think vs. How You Think

Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about how we think. We just let thoughts in and let them take up space—unfiltered, unexamined, unchallenged.

That’s how we become mentally fragmented. And fragmented thinking doesn’t just stay in our heads—it bleeds into how we show up and navigate life.

When our minds become fragmented, it can look a lot like..

• Second-guessing ourselves constantly, seeking constant opinions or advice from others.
   
• Absorbing everyone else’s opinions as truth, instead of seeking our own from within, whether that's from family, friends, TV, or social media.
• Believing our thoughts are facts instead of information, and last but not least…
• Focusing and following through becomes a struggle, and we find ourselves moving on to new things all the time with no real outcome

This kind of fragmentation leaves us living in pieces.

Living like a remnant of ourselves instead of the whole, capable beings we were designed to be.

So what do we do?

We start questioning.
We get curious about our thoughts instead of blindly trusting them.
We ask where our beliefs came from—and whether they’re even ours.
We begin the process of reforming our mindset instead of staying stuck in the default.

Because mindset isn’t just what you think—it’s how you think.
And the beautiful truth?
It can all change.
What you believe about yourself, about your life, about what’s possible—it can all be reshaped, if you’re willing to challenge it.

This is where living whole-minded begins.

How to Quiet the Mind

Learning how to sidestep distractions and accept the challenge of mindfulness can be difficult.

But we all have to start somewhere. We don’t just wake up and miraculously have a new mindset and be all aware. It takes time. It takes practice. It takes concentration.

I share with you how I started, how I began to shut out the noise and bring awareness to my thoughts.

Back in 2018, I stumbled across author Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages practice—and it changed everything for me. Writing 3 pages, stream-of-consciousness, first thing in the morning before the world had a chance to weigh in... it was like unlocking a door in my mind I didn’t know I’d closed.

I want to share a small excerpt from one of those early pages because it’s wild to see how many thoughts were firing off before I was even fully awake. That’s how powerful our minds are—and how unaware we can be of what they’re holding.

“The minute my eyes are open, I hear the ding of my phone. The passing of a car against the wet pavement outside, then the soft breathing of Ginger, my dog, who has now replaced Sean next to me in the bed. The day has begun. I lay here still in and out of sleep, trying to make a conscious/unconscious decision to either respond to my text or let sleep consume me again. I mean it is quiet, dark, gloomy, and raining out. But I am energized at the impeccable timing of my husband, whose text miraculously came a millisecond after my eyes opened, that I couldn’t pass up the chance to tell him that! 

Respond to a text, check the clock, check my Facebook notification without scrolling, over to Instagram, put down phone. Ginger stirs, so I pet her, reassuring her that I am here and still love her. 

Then my mind starts pumping out all of the flow of thoughts it’s going to have today, and I remember in that moment why morning pages are so important.”

When I go back and read my words, I notice I had written 2 paragraphs of thoughts before I was even aware I was having thoughts. 

This practice brought me back to myself. It showed me the difference between living on autopilot and living aware. It’s where my journey toward living whole-minded began.

Whole-Minded

Being whole-minded isn’t about keeping our minds full. It’s about being mindful, making space—quieting the noise, and reconnecting with our own thoughts, values, and discernment. 

It’s about remembering that our minds were given to us on purpose, and we have the ability to renew and reshape them every day.

Our minds are our biggest competitor, but we must also remember that it is ours; it belongs to us, and we have the power to control it.

We are not powerless over our thoughts. 

We have power in what and how we think.

And we are powerful in what we do with the thoughts we have.

Reflection + Reveal Practice

Each week in this series, we will have a Reflection + Reveal Challenge to practice wholeness.

I invite you, if you will, to join me this week to practice wholeness in our emotional self.

Reflection Practice:

Ask yourself:
Where have I become just a remnant of my mental self?

Reflect on this, then answer the following questions.

Reflection Prompts:

• Where am I letting someone else’s voice override my own?

• Is my mind overcrowded with input?

• What truths am I living by right now? Are these mine?

• What would mental presence look and feel like for me?

Reveal Practice:

 I want you to take one whole week and write morning pages..

Write down 3 pages of whatever flows from your mind. It can be anything from I don’t like writing, to the dog needs to go out, to a song that popped in your head. 

Absolutely anything. 

Do not judge your thoughts or your writing. 

It is nothing more than a stream of thoughts. 

Sometimes they come together, most of the time they don’t.

Upon waking, write. No matter your schedule, whenever you wake up!

Your thoughts, your mind, will be thankful. 

Let it out of the crowded room and let it breathe. 

Just Write. 

If you have any questions about today's reveal practice, you may contact me at [email protected], and I will answer any questions you may have if you are interested in learning more.

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Key Takeaways:

✨ Your mind is a sacred space meant for discernment, clarity, and truth—not clutter, chaos, and conditioning.

✨ Mental fragmentation keeps you stuck. When we absorb too much without reflection, we disconnect from our own voice and live out patterns that aren’t truly ours.

✨ Mindset isn’t fixed—it’s formed. Which means it can be reformed. You can change how you think, not just what you think.

✨ Becoming whole-minded starts with awareness. Question your thoughts. Trace your beliefs. Challenge the voices that don’t belong to you.

✨ Writing can be your turning point. Tools like Morning Pages offer a way to quiet the noise, connect with your thoughts, and uncover deeper mental clarity.

Final Thoughts

You are not powerless over your mind. You’ve been given the gift of discernment, intuition, and the ability to renew your thoughts daily.

 Being whole-minded brings us into wholeness. Not leaving us living fragmented and in remnants.  

And when we are living in wholeness, we begin to live and see ourselves for who we truly are. 

Who God created us to be.

Fully, Freely, Wholly.