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
104 episodes
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...
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57:48
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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33:43
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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59:00
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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49:51
Walk Beside Me, Not Inside Me.
What if our well-meaning care has been crossing a line we rarely name? We pull apart the quiet ways empathy can turn into supervision and how “emotional colonization” shows up in families, faith communities, and friendships. Instead of offering...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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26:17
Your Mindfulness Doesn’t Need An Audience.
What if the body’s silence is the most honest feedback you’ll hear all week? We sit with the rising noise of advice, certainty, and wellness performance and ask why so much “help” leaves us more tired, more watched, and less connected to oursel...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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20:00
What If Meaning Lives In How We Respond
The season opens with a breath you can feel. After months of enforced stillness—pain, surgery, and a body that said “enough”—we step back to examine what mindful living actually asks of us when the lights are off and the milestones stop countin...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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29:20
Beyond the Silence of Shame
What if the most powerful force holding you back isn't external criticism but the silent voice within that whispers "I'm not enough"? In this vulnerable and illuminating conversation, we unpack the complex emotion of shame—that intensely painfu...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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58:46
Adversity Is A Teacher
Adversity doesn't detour our journey—it defines it. This reflective episode explores how life's toughest moments can become our greatest teachers, using Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" as a guiding metaphor for personal transformation.Li...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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21:56
Fear: Signal or Saboteur? : A Mindful Journey
Fear—that flutter in your chest, that whisper of doubt, that paralysis when facing uncertainty. We all know it, but do we truly understand it? This episode takes you on a journey through the many faces of fear, revealing how this m...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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26:38
The Quiet Art of Grieving
Grief reaches far beyond death, weaving through our lives in ways we rarely recognise or honour. What do you think about the dream job that never materialised? The friendship that dissolved? The promotion you deserved bu...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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29:26
Sacred Pauses: Evolving in the Waiting
What if the stillness you're experiencing isn't stagnation, but sacred waiting? What if evolution—personal, spiritual, emotional—requires periods of apparent inactivity before breakthrough?Through ancient Nigerian folklore and the metap...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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24:08
Masculinity Unmasked: How Men Navigate Vulnerability & Self-Worth
What does it really mean to "show up" as a man in today's world? In this vulnerable, unfiltered conversation for Men's Mental Health Month, four men break down the walls of traditional masculinity to explore what happens when societal expectati...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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1:08:56
Finding Peace in Imperfect Consistency
Have you checked in with yourself lately? That simple question opens the door to one of the most profound realisations about consistency and mental well-being. When my mind and body seemed locked in...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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17:06
From Ill Health to Abundance: Reframing Mental Wellness
What if the power to support mental health wasn't limited to those with white coats and advanced degrees? What if the most powerful mental health tool was something we all possess naturally—our ability to be genuinely present with another human...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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59:00
The Dance of Dual Vulnerability: Loving Through Limitations
What does it look like to love someone through mental health challenges while navigating your own vulnerabilities? Dare Dairo, an advocate and polio survivor, opens his heart to share the beautiful complexity of his marri...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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1:05:18
When Personal Pain Transforms into Public Purpose
A powerful journey comes full circle in this deeply moving conversation with Folusho Oginni Liasu, founder of Super Parents Foundation. What began as a chance encounter with a mother's anonymous post about struggling to afford a hea...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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50:34
Love Unspoken: Honoring Relationships Before It's Too Late
Have you ever wondered why we often save our deepest expressions of love until after someone is gone? In this tender reflection, I explore the bittersweet human tendency to eulogize in death more than we celebrate in life.We journey thr...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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18:37
From Hurt to Peace: Navigating Forgiveness on Your Own Terms
Oluwatunmise sits down with #mindfulllywithtunmise's recurring co-host Ola. Through personal stories, they explore navigating the complex journey of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a complex journey that requires honouring our hurt befo...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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48:10
Permission to Pause: Walking Through Pain, Not Around It
Have you ever had life tap you on the shoulder—or shake you by the shoulders? That jarring moment when your body stops cooperating, your mind goes quiet, and suddenly the world demands you pay attention?After running out of medications ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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32:09
The Garden Within : Six Friends Get Real About Life.
What does it truly mean to be a woman, free from society's pressures and expectations? How do we nurture our authentic selves while navigating the multiple roles we play?Six close friends gathered for an intimate conversation to celebra...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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51:53
The Myth of Personal Space: Finding Connection Through Distance
Have you ever noticed how differently we react when we need personal space versus when someone asks it of us? That fascinating paradox sits at the heart of this deeply reflective episode.Personal space exists in a curious tension—we cra...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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20:35
Turning the Tables:When Lara Questions Tunmise
Coach Lara turns the tables on Tunmise in this intimate conversation that reveals the heart and mind behind Mindfully with Tunmise through playful games and profound questions.• Tunmise shares her six daily thoughts, including contempla...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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43:44
