Melissa Wood: When I was in a place in my life where I wasn't
happy with who I was, I also didn't love myself. The more
that I healed myself and started to connect to all of these
things that were slowly making me better, people who were
watching could really feel that this was something that they
could do as well, right? I want to share this realm of
possibilities that you can love yourself. It doesn't have to be
this torturous method to get there. I've definitely learned
that firsthand, which is what led me to starting the MWH
method. I am Melissa Tepperberg, I'm the founder of Melissa wood
Health, and the creator of the MWH method.
I started sharing my workouts right after my son was born. I
didn't have the time that I used to dedicate, you know, in my
previous years of literally torturing myself during my
workouts, which by the way, never left me feeling good. So
just giving myself those micro moments when he was napping, or
when he was in his little bouncy chair is how I was able to take
care of myself while also taking care of this little human that I
just brought into this world.
I started in my living room over six years ago, and I had a $24
tripod from Amazon, I used my phone. The tripod was like,
angled wrong, though it was dark, I was sometimes not even
positioning my mat where you could see the moves perfectly. I
had no mic, you couldn't really hear me. But I didn't care. I
had no idea what I was doing. But I just started sharing it. I
had never felt better in my life, I felt this level of peace
and ease. In my mind, I you know had a background of thinking
that if you didn't have an hour to dedicate to a workout 20
minutes of a workout like what can you get in in 20 minutes.
That was the mentality that I had. And I saw for myself right
there slowing it down, moving your body in this a mindful way.
It not only made me feel amazing, I was experiencing
results beyond anything I had ever experienced in my life.
Typically, I wake up around 5:30 to get a meditation and myself
because I know that if I prioritize myself and put my
mental health first, that the rest of the day just runs so
much smoother. My kids typically wake up around six hasn't been
that for this past week. I have my mornings alone with them,
which I cherish. I love that time we do breakfast together,
either myself or my husband take some to school, I come back
home, if I didn't get my practice in. That's where I
squeeze it in. And then I I make my juice. I at this point
already had my warm water with lemon and now my matcha. And
then I get ready and I come to the office. I film a few days a
week. We have a team meeting, we get a lot in.
When I started there was never this this goal. It was more so
this intuitive feeling because I experienced the difference in my
life and was hearing this difference and transformation
and so many of our members lives. I remember, in particular
there was someone from South Africa, someone from India and
someone from Australia who wrote me and said, Can you share more
of this, like this is helping me so much and I just it really
opened me up to the power of coming together with people all
over the world. I'm really good at taking care of myself now
because I know what life feels like when you don't. I would
define success by your level of happiness and your life. I think
that is the most important thing. At the end of the day.
How fulfilled and Happy you feel about doing the littlest things
in your life wanting to grow evolve change and to really
expand into the best version of yourself.