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Life with Uncle Rev

by Marcus "Uncle Rev" Pernell

Catch wrestler. Mentor. Coach. Educator. Yoga teacher. Counselor-in-training.I believe we’re all works in progress caught up in this beautiful, crazy, and sometimes complex thing called life. In an attempt to make some sense of the many ebbs and flows that life presents us with, ‘Life with Uncle Rev’ aims to reflect on the intricacies of life through an exploration of my own personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Will you join me in this journey?Follow me on Instagram: @uncle_rev

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Episodes

  1. Therapy's in Session: Get Off Your Back

    In this segment of "Therapy's in Session," I'll be exploring some of my personal upbringing through the concept of, "Don't settle- get off of your back," which is something I'm working on in my training. Please note that this segment is explicit. Therapy's in session, friends.

  2. Therapy's in Session: The Catch of Mental Health

    It's certainly been a minute. There's a lot that I've been venturing through as of late, and I'm going to unpack some of that in this segment. Therapy's in session, friends.

  3. Marcus's Monday Motivational: How Is Your Weather?

    If you had to describe how you're doing in terms of weather, how is your weather? Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  4. Marcus's Monday Motivational: How We Treat Others

    We could all do and be better with how we treat others. Editor's note: This segment is explicit. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  5. Marcus's Monday Motivational: The Only Thing We Can Control

    For this week's MMM, I'd like to invite each of us to sit with the following truth: The only thing we can control is how respond (or react) to a given situation. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  6. Love Thy Neighbor

    I think we've lost what it means to relate to one another, as well as what it means to "love thy neighbor". Because this reality isn't sitting well with my soul, I'll be using this week's segment to break down my perspective on this reality in an ad lib manner. I will leave it up to you to form...

  7. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Going Off-Script

    Sometimes you have to go “off-script” and be honest with yourself and wherever you’re at. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  8. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Perspectives From Gratitude

    For this week's MMM segment, I'd like to invite you to wrestle with the following statement: Gratitude can help bring matters back into perspective. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  9. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Honoring Moments

    For this week's MMM segment, I'd like to challenge you to sit with the following thought: Make space to honor the moments that you experience. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  10. Marcus's Monday Motivational: You Are Awesome & Wonderful

    For this week's MMM segment, I'll be offering several reminders about why you, the listener, are awesome & wonderful in more ways than one. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  11. Marcus's Monday Motivational: It's Not That Hard to Be a Decent Human Being

    For this week's segment, I'd like to invite you to sit with the following thought: It's not that hard to be a decent human being. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me at: [email protected]

  12. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Getting Outside of Your Box

    In this week's segment, I'd like to invite you to reflect upon the following question: Where in your life do you need to "get out of your own box"? Follow me on: Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me at: [email protected]

  13. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Worry & Your Sense of Self

    In this week's segment, I'll be exploring the following question, which I'd like to encourage you to explore as well: What's there to worry about when you're being your full, authentic self? This segment is also explicit. Follow me on: Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev…

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  14. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Not Everyone is Worthy of You & Your Energy

    In this week's segment, I'll be offering some reflections upon the following reality: Not everyone that you come in contact with is worthy of you and your energy. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Send me an email at: [email protected]

  15. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Fixedness vs. Pliability

    In this week's segment, I'll be offering several reflections on the following quote from Miyamoto Musashi's book, The Book of Five Rings: "Fixedness means a dead hand. Pliability is a living hand." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: twitch.tv/uncle_rev Send me an email:...

  16. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Challenging Limitations

    In this week's segment, I'll be offering some reflections on the limitations we put upon ourselves, including several that I've put upon myself, through the following thought: Challenge the limitations that you put on yourself. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Medium: @reverendgains...

  17. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Just Show Up

    For this week's segment, I'll be discussing my recent mental and emotional headspace through the following thought: Just show up. This segment is explicit. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  18. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Running From Yourself

    For this week's segment, I'll be offering some reflections on running away from oneself, and why people run away from themselves through the following thought: You can only run away from yourself, and reality, for so long until everything catches up. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains...

  19. Marcus's Monday Motivational: All We Really Have is The Moment

    For this week's Marcus's Monday Motivational segment, I'll be offering some personal reflections upon the idea of being present in "the moment" and bringing attention to "the moment" through the following thought: All we really have is the moment. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch:...

  20. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Choose to Do Something with Your Circumstances

    For this week's Marcus's Monday Motivational segment, I'll be sharing a personal story regarding my physical health with the following thought in mind, "You can choose to do something with your circumstances." Unlike most of my segments, the audio in this segment is raw and unedited. Follow me...

  21. Marcus's Monday Motivational: A Little Validation Goes a Long Way

    For this week's segment, I'll be reflecting on the idea of validation and what it means to validate someone else with the following statement in mind, "A little validation goes a long way." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  22. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Sometimes You Have to Give Yourself Grace

    For this week's segment, I'll be offering a brief reflection on the idea of giving ourselves grace from time to time, which I hope you'll consider doing yourself. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev Email me: [email protected]

  23. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Change Calls For Accountability

    I think there are some, if not many, people in the world who are "all talk" when it comes to promoting some sort of change- be it at a personal level or a collective level within society. They are "all talk and no walk," even going so far as to remove something like accountability from the...

  24. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Competitors Find a Way

    In this first segment of the new year, I reflect upon the following statement from Notre Dame's football head coach, Marcus Freeman, "Competitors find a way." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me:...

  25. 2024: A Year in Review

    In this last segment of 2024, I'll be reflecting upon the two following questions, which I'd encourage you to reflect upon as well: What did you learn about yourself in 2024, and what are you choosing to do moving forward? Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch:...

  26. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Listen to Understand, Not to Reply

    In this week's segment, I discuss how we as a society have lost the ability to actively listen to others, as well as what we can do about this- namely listening to understand others versus listening to reply to them. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch:...

  27. Marcus's Monday Motivational: It's OK If You Don't Have It All Together

    In this week's segment, I share about a personal experience dealing with an aspect of myself I'm not very fond of, how that reared its head this past week, and what I'm in the process of learning as a result. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch:...

  28. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Yes, You Can Do It

    In this week's MMM segment, I offer several positive affirmations that I hope resonate with you in some capacity. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  29. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Deal With Yourself & Your Stuff

    In this week's MMM segment, I reflect on my thoughts on how we as people don't like dealing with ourselves and "our stuff" and the importance of flipping this particular narrative. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains...

  30. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Sit With Your Uncertainty

    In this week's MMM segment, I reflect on my uncertainty toward this segment that I worked through in real-time with this recording. For this week's MMM, I'd like to invite you to reflect on the following thought: Sit with whatever uncertainty you're experiencing. Follow me on... Instagram:...

  31. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Taking a Step Back

    In this week's MMM segment, I discuss my two-month break from the MMM and my lack of social media activity with the following thought: It's OK to step back and take a break. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email…

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  32. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Believe in Yourself

    "Believe in yourself and whatever it is you're doing and working toward." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  33. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Peace and Expectations

    "Peace begins where expectations end." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  34. Marcus's Monday Motivational: We Need to Deal with Our Brokenness

    This past weekend reminded me of how broken we are as people, along with the reality that we need to deal with this brokenness. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  35. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Being Receptive to Feedback

    If we aren’t receptive to feedback, then how are we supposed to grow & mature? Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  36. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Love of Self

    "What does your love of self look like, if it looks like anything at all?" Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  37. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Space To Sit With Yourself

    "Make space to sit with yourself and whatever is going on in your life." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  38. Marcus's Monday "Motivational": People Are Exhausting

    I will preface this post in saying that I am preaching to myself and acknowledging the log in my own here. If you're looking at this segment's title, this week's Marcus's Monday "Motivational" is going to seem less than motivating because something needs to be said about how we as people will...

  39. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Deal With Your Trauma

    Deal with your trauma, or your trauma will deal with you. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains TikTok: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  40. Don't Be Afraid To Use Your Voice

    If I'm being honest with myself, I've not been myself for over three months now. Much of this is due to having my voice suppressed over naming genuine cares and concerns of mine. Despite this, what I'd like to encourage you to do, as I'm encouraging myself to do is the following: Don't be afraid…

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  41. Marcus's Monday Motivational: You Have to Keep Going

    “You have to keep going.” This statement has been on repeat in my mind for a while because of where I’m at mentally and emotionally, which is what I dive into with this week's MMM. This segment is also explicit because of how honest and raw it is. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch:...

  42. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Excuses

    "Excuses are the easy way out." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  43. Marcus's Monday Motivational: What Someone Else Is Experiencing

    We will never fully know or understand what someone else is experiencing. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  44. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Allowing Things to Happen Organically

    Allow things to happen naturally instead of forcing them into existence. Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  45. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Making Yourself a Priority

    "It's OK to make yourself a priority." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  46. Marcus's Monday Motivational: The Human Experience

    "No one is immune to the human experience." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  47. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Being Honest with Yourself

    "Where in your life do you need to be honest with yourself?" Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains Twitch: www.twitch.tv/uncle_rev X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  48. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Tackling Challenges

    "You can tackle the challenges that you encounter." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  49. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Practicing What We Preach

    "If you're going to preach something, then practice it yourself." Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

  50. Marcus's Monday Motivational: Making Space for Other Voices

    "How are we making space for the voices of others?" Follow me on... Instagram: @reverendgains X: @reverendgains Email me: [email protected]

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Catch wrestler. Mentor. Coach. Educator. Yoga teacher. Counselor-in-training.I believe we’re all works in progress caught up in this beautiful, crazy, and sometimes complex thing called life. In an attempt to make some sense of the many ebbs and flows that life presents us with, ‘Life with Uncle Rev’ aims to reflect on the intricacies of life through an exploration of my own personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Will you join me in this journey?Follow me on Instagram: @uncle_rev

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Marcus "Uncle Rev" Pernell

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