Yvette Murray (she/her)

Yvette joined Momma on April 20, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about Caring for the Caregiver

About Yvette

Yvette Murray is a mental health advocate, influencer, author, motivational speaker, and keynote speaker; a psychotherapist; and a facilitator of the Mental Health First Aid Certification. Yvette also offers coaching and training support in Workplace Mental Health Law. A passionate mental health advocate, Yvette loves to travel internationally in person and virtually to deliver keynotes on Mental Health, train Mental Health First Aid certification and Workplace Mental Health Law for non-profit organizations, corporations, government agencies, institutions, corporations, and individuals.

Yvette has taught students employed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Federal Government, National Defense, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Scotia Trust, MD Trust, Scotia Wealth Management, Ellis Don, Salvation Army, Shepherds of Good Hope, CFIA, UFCW, Loblaws, Starbucks, and Hospitals. Yvette has taught students across a variety of industries, including human resources, insurance, security, retail, law firms, banks, and many other trades.

In addition to her experience as a mental health educator, Yvette is a Body Language Institute (BLI) Certified Instructor. A graduate of the BLI “You Can’t Lie to Me” Train the Trainer program, Yvette is trained and mentored by the Internationally sought after Body Language Expert, Janine Driver, New York Times Best Selling Author and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, the go-to expert in lie detecting and body language for the media, the FBI, CIA, ATF and the International Chiefs of Police.

Yvette is a contributing author to the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Catalyst Magazine and the author of the recently released book The Mental Health Contagion™️: Navigating Yourself Through a Loved One’s Mental Well-Being Decline.

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Website - https://mentalhealthtrainer.ca/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/yvette.murray

• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@thementalhealthcontagiontm/featured

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yvettemmurray/

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvettemurray/

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Speaker Slam

• Murder of Travis Alexander 

• Book Recommendation - Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times by Lise Van Susteren & Stacey Colino 

• Movie Recommendation - Four Good Days 

• Brene Brown

• Favorite Poem - Will You Hold My Hand by Zoe Johansen 

Episode Summary

This one's for anyone who's been so busy holding someone else together that they forgot to check on themselves.

Caregiving doesn't always look like what you think it looks like. It's not just the adult child managing a parent's dementia or the spouse driving someone to chemo. It's the partner absorbing someone else's mental health crisis. It's the coworker who ends up being the person everyone vents to. It's the parent walking on eggshells around a kid's big emotions. On this episode of Even Tacos Fall Apart, MommaFoxFire sits down with Yvette Murray, registered psychotherapist, mental health first aid facilitator, body language expert and author of The Mental Health Contagion, to talk about what happens when the people doing the supporting forget they need support too.

Yvette grew up watching her mom navigate bipolar disorder while also becoming one of the country's leading voices in mental health advocacy. That mix gave her an early education in what caregiving actually costs a person, and it shapes everything she teaches now. She and MommaFoxFire dig into the real warning signs that a caregiver is running on empty: emotional inflammation, irritability, isolating from friends and family, feeling numb or apathetic, even something as small as brushing your teeth turning into the biggest event of the day.

They talk honestly about boundaries, including the messy, guilt soaked kind. Yvette breaks down the difference between guilt and shame, why resentment does more damage than guilt ever will, and how loving someone doesn't mean absorbing every consequence of what they're going through. She shares real stories, including one about a man who had to ask his brother to move out of his basement after years of enabling, and what it took for both of them to come out the other side better off.

There's a lot of practical stuff here too. Yvette talks about her own toolbox for burnout, things like quiet time, walks in nature and calling her dad, and why building that list before you're in crisis matters so much. She and MommaFoxFire get into the physical toll of caregiving, the habit of one upping other people's pain instead of sitting with your own, and why a good cry might be one of the most underrated tools you have. Yvette says giving herself permission to really cry, no holding back, is still her favorite life hack.

They also cover body language, why crossed arms or a fidgeting habit doesn't always mean what you think it means, and how asking someone what a gesture means to them beats guessing every time. And they close on something every caregiver needs to hear: you don't have to earn your own self care by being useful to someone else first. You're worthy of it just because you're human.