The Mental Fitness Podcast | Building Mental Strength & Resilience
Sep 29, 2026 · 50 min · 14 segments
When Jil Hunter's body started shutting down after the birth of her fifth child, doctors thought it was MS. It wasn't. What she actually needed was language for what she was feeling. Dave and Luke…
Jil HunterGuestDaveHostLukeHostYeah.
And even the language, like putting language and words into what's going on when you can't explain it.
I imagine that.
was almost a relief.
Like, okay, I am not broken.
This is normal human behavior and normal to feel these things, but putting language to it is powerful in itself.
So I imagine even looking back before these physical manifestations showed up in these symptoms, maybe people are suppressing these emotions or trying to cope them and kind of run from them instead of owning them and naming them, right? And sitting with them and distancing themselves from the emotion, right? How much did putting language to these and words to these things help?
Oh, that's actually like the whole show, this kid show we created is about that really, like creating or, you know, identifying your emotions and naming them and realizing what you can do with that particular emotion.
And then instead of just reacting, that you can actually choose how you would like to respond.
You know, you can still react if that's your choice, but you can take that moment and in that moment, is probably the most magic that happens because you take the power over and you choose what you're doing with it.
But I definitely feel like I look back and remember that these emotions felt so big and they felt like that I wasn't in control over them, but they were in control over me.
And to learn to recognize what those emotions are and that they're actually different from each other.
You're kind of the creator of your own decisions, your response, and your life, really.
You see it even in little toddlers how they are not very often young moms or young parents, caregivers do this, that they teach them sign language before they even speak.
Yeah.
And even the language, like putting language and words into what's going on when you can't explain it.
I imagine that.
was almost a relief.
Like, okay, I am not broken.
This is normal human behavior and normal to feel these things, but putting language to it is powerful in itself.
So I imagine even looking back before these physical manifestations showed up in these symptoms, maybe people are suppressing these emotions or trying to cope them and kind of run from them instead of owning them and naming them, right? And sitting with them and distancing themselves from the emotion, right? How much did putting language to these and words to these things help?
Oh, that's actually like the whole show, this kid show we created is about that really, like creating or, you know, identifying your emotions and naming them and realizing what you can do with that particular emotion.
And then instead of just reacting, that you can actually choose how you would like to respond.
You know, you can still react if that's your choice, but you can take that moment and in that moment, is probably the most magic that happens because you take the power over and you choose what you're doing with it.
But I definitely feel like I look back and remember that these emotions felt so big and they felt like that I wasn't in control over them, but they were in control over me.
And to learn to recognize what those emotions are and that they're actually different from each other.
You're kind of the creator of your own decisions, your response, and your life, really.
You see it even in little toddlers how they are not very often young moms or young parents, caregivers do this, that they teach them sign language before they even speak.
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