Mindfully With 'Tunmise
Mindfully with Tunmise, The Podcast is a weekly talk/interview show that seeks to promote mental health awareness by demystifying perceived mysteries surrounding mental health stability. The show features personal stories from Tunmise, who lives with Bipolar II and also collects stories from individuals from all walks of life. The conversations aim to answer questions surrounding mental health myths and promote living mindfully through self-compassion and showing up instead of perfection. The show also features resource experts to provide a balanced explanation to each question raised. The target audience includes young adults, parents, and middle-aged citizens who are struggling with self-esteem, identity conflicts, cultural conflicts, existential questions and resolving relational conflicts. Mindfully with Tunmise. The show's mission is to encourage people to live mindfully, tell their stories, and promote self-compassion. The show's duration is between 30 to 60 minutes per episode, and it can be accessed at all podcast platforms and at www.blackhemages.com
Episodes
123 episodes
Walking Through The Empty Season
Grief has a way of shrinking your identity until the worst thing that happened becomes the loudest thing about you. We start there, with Naomi returning home after famine and loss, refusing her old name and choosing “Mara” because bitterness fe...
What If Your Survival Story Is Not You
Something feels off lately: people are quicker to snap, slower to trust, and tired in a way sleep can’t fix. I sit with that feeling out loud and ask whether we’re still carrying COVID-era survival mode without realising it, hoarding not just f...
A Brother’s Faith And The Questions That Follow
How do you keep living when the answer never comes? We start with a question that is easy to dodge and hard to sit with: how are you, really. Then we slow down, breathe, and make room for the truth that being triggered doesn’t mean you’re faili...
Staying Yourself In Babylon
The world can rename you without ever touching your birth certificate. It can do it through praise you start chasing, criticism you start believing, trauma you didn’t ask for, or a culture that rewards you most when you feel yourself the least....
Living Without Neat Answers While You Wait
How do you live when life refuses to make sense and the answers never arrive on time? We start with a simple question that can change the whole day: “How are you… really?” Not the polite version, the honest one. Then we slow down, soften our sh...
I Memorised The Script Then Cried
You can be “doing everything right” and still feel hollow inside. That’s the quiet cost of approval addiction: the constant performing, the overthinking, the perfectionism that looks like excellence from the outside but feels like panic on the ...
My Inner Child Filed A Formal Complaint
Some pain doesn’t end with a bow, and that doesn’t mean you’re failing. I’m talking about ambiguous grief, also known as ambiguous loss, the kind of grief that lacks closure because something is gone but never really leaves, or something is pre...
When Confidence Is A Mask
Confidence isn’t always confidence. Sometimes it’s insecurity with good posture, a steady voice, and years of practice hiding in plain sight. We talk directly to our mindful partners about what it feels like when your inner world is loud, your ...
My Inner Narrator Could Use A Nap
The loudest voice in your life might be the one nobody else can hear. We’re talking about personal dialogue the inner self-talk that shapes your mental health, your relationships, and the choices you make when life gets heavy. I’m not asking yo...
A Novel That Rewrites Manliness
A man can look “fine” and still be standing on a ledge inside his own mind. That tension sits at the heart of our conversation with author Ulutumbi Ito about his novel My Mrs. Solomon: A Man’s Quest For True Manliness, and why storytelling may ...
You Are Human Before You Are A Man.
The world is loud right now: war, economic stress, nonstop online gender battles, and the quiet feeling that everyone is bracing for impact. So we take a different approach. We pause, breathe, and talk honestly about men’s mental health, not as...
Give Me My Flowers
“Give me my flowers while I’m still here” sounds like a clean rule for life, but once you factor in loneliness, shifting relationships, and the masks we wear to survive, it gets complicated fast. We start with a simple mental health frame I kee...
Taking Responsibility Without Losing Connection
“No one is coming to save you” is supposed to be motivating, but what if it’s also making us lonelier? We start with a simple mindful check-in, soften the body, breathe, and ask the real question beneath the slogan: how are you actu...
Repetition Can Be Real Growth
“Nothing happens in your comfort zone” gets quoted like a law, but I’m not convinced it tells the whole truth. Sometimes the most meaningful growth happens in the quiet, repetitive middle when you keep showing up, keep practicing, a...
Why Slowing Down Builds Real Strength
Mindfulness gets mislabeled as soft, fragile, or unrealistic and that misunderstanding keeps a lot of us stuck in speed mode. I’m pushing back on that. Slowing down, choosing stillness, and listening to yourself when eve...
The Question That Saved A Life
One late night, I asked a throwaway radio question because I needed something to fill a segment. Months later, a woman called during a Christmas broadcast and told me that question made her pause long enough to choose life. I’ve carried that mo...
Permission To Dance Badly And Call It Healing
Healing can sound big and dramatic, but for me it often starts with something small: a pause, a breath, and the courage to stop rushing past the parts of my story that still sting. After last week’s heavy conversation, I wanted to offer a gentl...
Facing The Mirror
Sexual abuse stories trend every week, and the internet reacts like it has only two buttons: defend and attack. But when the noise gets louder, the people behind the story can disappear. We slow the pace down and ask what those viral debates ar...
You Can Share A Past Yet Live Two Truths
Are you reacting to what’s happening or to the story your nervous system learned to tell about what’s happening? That question sits at the center of this reflective Mindfully With Some Shadow Space session, where I slow down with you to look at...
Food As Culture, Memory, And Medicine For The Body And Mind
Your plate is a mirror. Not just of taste, but of attention, memory, and the way your body asks for care long before you feel unwell. We sit down with a chef, speaker, and wellness advocate whose mantra—make your food your medicine—turns everyd...
Put Down The Scorecards
Healing can turn into a stage play before we even notice. We share, we overexplain, we chase validation—then wonder why peace still feels far away. This episode leans hard into a countercultural truth: your healing doesn’t need an audience. We ...
What Happens When Love Isn’t Enough?
What if love is present but you still can’t exhale? We dig into the lived difference between being loved and being held, and why emotional safety—how we are seen, corrected, and accompanied—can change the entire texture of life. Emotions become...
If Care Feels Like Distance, What Is Love For
What if being loved still leaves you lonely? We sit down with Ola—now an author—to trace the subtle gap between affection and attunement, and why safety is the missing ingredient in so many families and partnerships. Through personal stories, c...
Breath Before The Next Hundred
Ever feel like the world demands a performance while your soul asks for quiet? We mark our 100th with a breath, not a bow, and step into a tender exploration of healing that doesn’t need applause. I share how delays, detours, and stillness resh...
