Speaker 1: Personally Fueldsman. Joining me on this episode is Christi Nlt.
Speaker 1: She's a root cause practitioner and educator as well as
Speaker 1: the CEO of a company called Microflow. I'm bringing her
Speaker 1: on to educate on topics like how body stores trauma,
Speaker 1: why people haven't been able to heal from chronic conditions,
Speaker 1: understanding the science behind root causes of our health, and
Speaker 1: why wearing sunglasses could be hurting us. Oh, and parasites. Yes,
Speaker 1: all those things, and then I'll share some very candid
Speaker 1: thoughts in my audio journal entry after doing this interview.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be joined right now by Christy Nolt.
Speaker 1: She's a root cause health practitioner, educator, plant medicine expert,
Speaker 1: CEO of a company just all the things. Christy, welcome.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Morgan, I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Happy to be here with little friend me too, the
Speaker 1: podcast Therapy Dog. Rimmy's gotten very good at her role
Speaker 1: here sat the show. But thank you for being here
Speaker 1: and talking about some really important things. I would love
Speaker 1: to start in a place where you share your story
Speaker 1: and your why to where you are now before we
Speaker 1: get into the nitty gritty details of all the other
Speaker 1: good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much. It's so important. I can't
Speaker 2: really share what I'm doing or why I'm doing what
Speaker 2: I do without taking you guys all the way back.
Speaker 2: So I like to say my story started when I
Speaker 2: was three years old. I am one of three children.
Speaker 2: I'm the middle child. My brother was the oldest, and
Speaker 2: my parents describe him as truly the perfect firstborn ever.
Speaker 2: He was so healthy, so smart, so funnyarismatic and athletic,
Speaker 2: and it had so much fun with him for about
Speaker 2: seven years. And he went in for just a routine
Speaker 2: get seven years old and was severely vaccine injured. He
Speaker 2: went into the doctor's office vibrant, healthy, incredible, and left
Speaker 2: that day as a different person. So we started having
Speaker 2: Grandma seizures just hours after this appointment. Soon was diagnosed
Speaker 2: with the most severe case of epilepsy that doctors had
Speaker 2: ever witnessed at this point in time.
Speaker 1: In the early.
Speaker 2: Nineties, he was having three hundred and fifty Grandmall seizures
Speaker 2: every single day, went through over thirteen brain surgeries by
Speaker 2: the time he was in middle school, had over half
Speaker 2: his brain removed. Was just on dozens of medications that
Speaker 2: were creating so many other issues. So I saw from
Speaker 2: a very young age what clearly wasn't working in the
Speaker 2: medical system. I like to share with people that I
Speaker 2: think Western medicine is incredible for emergency care. Like you
Speaker 2: get in a car accident, you're going to go to
Speaker 2: the er, right, You're not going to go to your
Speaker 2: natural path. But when it comes to chronic conditions, they
Speaker 2: are lifestyle based. We can talk about depletion, dysregulation, poisons, right,
Speaker 2: and a lot of times our quote unquote solutions in
Speaker 2: Western medicine just create a lot more issues. So for me,
Speaker 2: that was the blueprint of my nervous system from a
Speaker 2: really young age was chaos and fear, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the medications that he was on caused behavioral outbursts,
Speaker 2: so I didn't feel.
Speaker 1: Really safe in my home. These medications, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, now have black box warnings on them for young
Speaker 2: boys that they create violence. And my mom was such
Speaker 2: a fierce advocate for my brother. We didn't have the
Speaker 2: internet back then, so she would go to the library
Speaker 2: and just research and do the best she could and
Speaker 2: present alternative options to my brother's team of doctors. So
Speaker 2: even back then, like chiropractic care was considered alternative, and
Speaker 2: we were incredibly gas lit as a family, and I
Speaker 2: saw what happened also when you use your voice against
Speaker 2: the system. So essentially, at one point in time, my
Speaker 2: mom was like, what we're doing is clearly not working.
Speaker 2: He's just getting worse. And that doctor in turn diagnosed
Speaker 2: my mom with Munchausen biproxy, basically saying, you're making this
Speaker 2: all up, You're making your child ill, and they took
Speaker 2: the doctors took my brother off all his meds cold turkey.
Speaker 2: That day, he seized for seventy two hours straight and
Speaker 2: was never the same after that. It was just so wild,
Speaker 2: and I don't have a lot of memories. Under the
Speaker 2: age of twenty five years old. I starting to come
Speaker 2: back because I've been working with a lot of plant medicines,
Speaker 2: which we can possibly talk about today, but that's something
Speaker 2: I have a very vivid memory of. And so for
Speaker 2: me growing up, like I just didn't want to cause
Speaker 2: any more issues for my parents. They had enough on
Speaker 2: their plate. So my form of coping and survival was
Speaker 2: debilitating forms of perfectionism. Just straight a thriving student, thriving
Speaker 2: a lead athlete had to have perfect body. It really
Speaker 2: led into severe eating disorders by the time I was
Speaker 2: in middle school, and it was just like it was
Speaker 2: just rough. My brother ended up passing away when he
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, so about ten years ago, and the
Speaker 2: trauma of that incident, like he was sick his entire life,
Speaker 2: but it was still a shock when he passed away.
Speaker 2: And I had been dealing with gut issues, I had
Speaker 2: been dealing with some hormone issues, but the trauma of
Speaker 2: that death really sent me into a tailspin of a
Speaker 2: list am I along of my own journey with chronic
Speaker 2: illness ahead. So I was, just weeks after my brother's death,
Speaker 2: diagnosed with endometriosis, chronic lime disease, masstyle activation syndrome, autoimmunity.
Speaker 2: Like the list goes on and on, and I knew
Speaker 2: right then and there that the system wasn't going to
Speaker 2: have answers for me. I had already been working in
Speaker 2: the holistic healing space. I've been working in this space
Speaker 2: for over fifteen years.
Speaker 1: So I was doing all.
Speaker 2: The right things already, perfect diet, perfect exercise, taking all
Speaker 2: the supplements, detox, meditating, journaling, right, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: I just witnessed how my body reacted to an emotional trauma,
Speaker 2: and it really led me down the path of multidimensional healing,
Speaker 2: where yes, we have to focus on the physical body,
Speaker 2: and that's a huge part of my foundational work, but
Speaker 2: our unprocessed emotional wounds are unprocessed trauma. Our nervous system
Speaker 2: is over fifty percent of the puzzle. So within that
Speaker 2: next year, ripping away entirely from the system, I completely
Speaker 2: healed everything on my own naturally, and that's really my
Speaker 2: message to this day. I don't believe that there's anything
Speaker 2: that's incurable. That just mean when we're told there's an
Speaker 2: incurable disease, it means there's not a pill to fix
Speaker 2: it right now. But when we get to the physical, emotional,
Speaker 2: and spiritual roots of why we became ill and imbalanced
Speaker 2: in the first place, I truly believe healing is always
Speaker 2: available to us, and that is the work that.
Speaker 1: I do today.
Speaker 2: I teach big online courses. I also have a microdosing
Speaker 2: mushroom supplement company which has just been completely next level.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's taking it back for you.
Speaker 1: There's so many different directions now that we can start
Speaker 1: to dive into. Thank you for sharing in a nutshell
Speaker 1: what your story is. I know, there's so much more
Speaker 1: than what you just said there. And first, I want
Speaker 1: to recognize how difficult that had to be growing up
Speaker 1: with that experience for so many different reasons for all
Speaker 1: of you involved. I can't imagine. And I also just
Speaker 1: it really hurts my heart to know that your mom
Speaker 1: was trying to be such an advocate and she really
Speaker 1: got ridiculed for doing so. And I think that's heartbreaking
Speaker 1: in itself. But there's so many levels of that. And
Speaker 1: I want to recognize just the importance of your family
Speaker 1: and that situation that you guys went through. You mentioned
Speaker 1: your experience as you were doing all of the right things,
Speaker 1: you knew that health's nutrition will and this was important
Speaker 1: because you'd seen this at such a young age. You
Speaker 1: really had a first row seat to that experience. So
Speaker 1: then naturally you started to find ways to understand that
Speaker 1: and help others. But when you were having that moment
Speaker 1: of I'm doing everything correctly, but I have all of
Speaker 1: these problems, what was that turning point?
Speaker 2: Describe that a little bit more. For me, it was
Speaker 2: so obvious to me. It was just like it was
Speaker 2: so blatantly obvious that I just went through this trauma
Speaker 2: and I in addition, so I was a personal trainer
Speaker 2: out of college. I was a personal trainer for thirteen years.
Speaker 2: I started health coaching immediately. I was like immersing myself
Speaker 2: in women's hormone healing. I was Reiki attuned and certified,
Speaker 2: really studying a lot of energy healing modalities as well.
Speaker 2: So this wasn't new to me, like mind, body, soul
Speaker 2: wasn't new, but I got to experience it differently, like
Speaker 2: it was a little bit fragmented, maybe disembodied prior to that.
Speaker 2: So for me, it was just like, all right, here
Speaker 2: we go, this is my initiation. And when my brother
Speaker 2: passed away, I had very it was a massive spiritual
Speaker 2: awakening for me. I had very clear communication with him,
Speaker 2: like within the first couple days of him passing, and
Speaker 2: I was able to actually see he showed me. He
Speaker 2: came through to me and showed me the sole contract
Speaker 2: that we had before coming to this planet together, like
Speaker 2: what we really pre planned, and he vowed to give
Speaker 2: up his life to wake me up so I can
Speaker 2: share this work with so many other people. So for me,
Speaker 2: the very clear thing after his death was how deeply
Speaker 2: dysregulated my nervous system was not just from the death. Obviously,
Speaker 2: that's very traumatic, anyone would react quite severely. But I
Speaker 2: was like, I've actually been living in survival mode for
Speaker 2: thirty years, Like my body doesn't even know what it means.
Speaker 1: To be safe.
Speaker 2: My body was just living in a state of hypervigilance
Speaker 2: for so many years, and it was very clear to
Speaker 2: me that the nervous system was the next big portal
Speaker 2: for me to enter into my healing.
Speaker 1: Why do you feel like our bodies do experience this trauma?
Speaker 1: Because I did see some of your content about this,
Speaker 1: and it was so interesting to me. I don't know
Speaker 1: that we give ourselves enough credit that the life experiences
Speaker 1: we have and how much our body just really fights
Speaker 1: for us all the time. It's the one thing that's
Speaker 1: being put through everything all the time. And you want
Speaker 1: to pinpoint things and say this was emotional trauma, or
Speaker 1: this was physical, this was mental health. You put them
Speaker 1: in these boxes. But the one thing that's consistent when
Speaker 1: I was reading your content is your body is the
Speaker 1: one thing that's been through through all of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: and we don't really treat it as such. We focus
Speaker 1: on different pieces of the body to heal. But what
Speaker 1: I hear you talking about is really trying to overhaul
Speaker 1: your entire system that's been through all of this. What
Speaker 1: do people need to wake up to see to know
Speaker 1: that this is happening to them. I know this is
Speaker 1: such a new conversation. It's a hot topic. Health and
Speaker 1: wellness is a hot topic on social media, but this
Speaker 1: in particular is a very newer conversation where you have
Speaker 1: to heal your body from the inside out. So how
Speaker 1: can we start to wake up people in that discussion.
Speaker 2: Well, we are in the thick of the most severe
Speaker 2: collective mental health crisis that's ever taken place on this planet,
Speaker 2: and mental health is being talked about more than ever before.
Speaker 2: But people are struggling worse than ever before. So I
Speaker 2: like to say pharmaceuticals, safe spaces, crisis hotlines, that's not
Speaker 2: what's going to save us. What's biological is psychological. There
Speaker 2: is no separation. We're trying to, like you said, compartmentalize
Speaker 2: a lot of things. People will go to a hormone doctor,
Speaker 2: and then a gut gastro doctor, and then they're psychologists
Speaker 2: for all these separate issues. It's all the same thing.
Speaker 2: From an emotional perspective. People listening may not be able
Speaker 2: to relate to my story of what I went through
Speaker 2: with my family, but we all have our own story,
Speaker 2: and at this point, working with well over fifteen thousand women,
Speaker 2: even people who had incredible childhoods and really loving, supportive parents,
Speaker 2: we all have some degree of unprocessed trauma because we
Speaker 2: most of us grew up in a generation or in
Speaker 2: a family in school systems that we weren't taught how
Speaker 2: to process emotions like what we were taught how to numb.
Speaker 2: We were taught how to dissociate. We were taught how
Speaker 2: to fit into a mold and disconnect from the authentic
Speaker 2: truth of who we are to thrive in school, But
Speaker 2: no one ever taught us like that. Emotion is sensation
Speaker 2: in the body, and we need to feel it, and
Speaker 2: we need to be with it and learn it. And
Speaker 2: when we do that, we can alchemize it and transmute
Speaker 2: it and liberate it and release it. But most of
Speaker 2: us are just walking around with decades of unprocessed emotions
Speaker 2: in the body. The body keeps the score. Our issues
Speaker 2: are stored in our tissues. I like to say, so
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be these massive, big TA traumas.
Speaker 2: A lot of those little TA traumas add up over
Speaker 2: time as well, and things like traditional talk therapy can
Speaker 2: be really helpful for people, but it's not the be all,
Speaker 2: end all, because we're still staying in the realm of
Speaker 2: the cognition in the mind, so we need to go
Speaker 2: deeper into the soma into the body to release what's
Speaker 2: being held and creating a lot of disruption and chaos
Speaker 2: and disease, so we can't fully heal a lot of
Speaker 2: these chronic conditions. We talk about things like cancers. I've
Speaker 2: helped people heal from stage four cancer and late stage
Speaker 2: ms and things that we're conditioned to believe are impossible,
Speaker 2: and a huge part of that process, in addition to
Speaker 2: the nutrition and the blood sugar and their circadian biology
Speaker 2: and reducing the toxin load and detoxing, is working at
Speaker 2: the subconscious level, where all of that stuff is stored
Speaker 2: below our conscious awareness. We don't really know that it's
Speaker 2: even there, so it takes a lot of work to
Speaker 2: stir it back up and build the capacity within our
Speaker 2: nervous system so we can hold it without quite literally
Speaker 2: blowing a fuse in the circuitry of our nervous system.
Speaker 2: A lot of people we have to like a lot
Speaker 2: of people want to go all in when they start
Speaker 2: to learn about holistic healing, trauma healing, they want to
Speaker 2: go from zero to one hundred, and that's a big
Speaker 2: issue too. We do have to I say, like one
Speaker 2: percent daily shifts. We have to start with our foundations.
Speaker 2: We can't dive headfirst into detox, and we shouldn't be
Speaker 2: diving headfirst into our deepest, darkest trauma because for most people,
Speaker 2: I always say, like a disregulated nervous system is really
Speaker 2: easy to disregulate. So if we do too much at once,
Speaker 2: it can be tough people and set people back. So
Speaker 2: starting with the body and starting with the things that
Speaker 2: are beautiful, free medicine, sunshine, grounding nature for women, especially
Speaker 2: eating enough. We've been conditioned for so long to believe
Speaker 2: that when we were little, growing up, that being tiniest
Speaker 2: synonymous with health, which isn't true. A lot of us
Speaker 2: want on yo yo diets, a lot of us if
Speaker 2: we didn't have full blown eating disorders, had a lot
Speaker 2: of disordered eating body dysmorphia. A lot of us then
Speaker 2: get into wellness and really think that like juices and
Speaker 2: salads is nourishing ourself, and that's not enough. Either so nourishment,
Speaker 2: like our body needs the fuel to detox to produce hormones,
Speaker 2: but also to like process and metabolize emotions. We actually
Speaker 2: need the energy to do that. So starting with the
Speaker 2: very basics is what's going to take people the furthest
Speaker 2: and that's when people are going to also start to
Speaker 2: recognize like, wow, I'm nourishing my body. My mental health
Speaker 2: feels better too. They're not separate whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really important to recognize how connected everything is.
Speaker 1: I think as an adult it reminds me of the
Speaker 1: moment when I somebody was like, what is the biggest
Speaker 1: organ in the body, And when somebody told me the skin,
Speaker 1: I had this huge revel I was like, I been
Speaker 1: like understanding my body wrong this whole time, I've missed
Speaker 1: something and I did. That wasn't something that they were
Speaker 1: teaching us growing up and understanding our bodies in those ways.
Speaker 1: So it is all connected, and a lot of what
Speaker 1: you're mentioning here I'm hearing and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: so great, and I hope people truly hear this. But
Speaker 1: there's this level that we've been taught to believe what
Speaker 1: you were talking about is it's not real, it's not
Speaker 1: what we've been taught. So why is what she's saying
Speaker 1: actually true now? Or what would you say to those people?
Speaker 1: Because I want to make sure to give you the
Speaker 1: space to do so, because I think that's such a
Speaker 1: huge component of understanding holistic, integrative, all of these levels
Speaker 1: of untraditional types of medicine, if you will, is the
Speaker 1: best way I can describe that. But because I want
Speaker 1: people to open their minds to understand that this is
Speaker 1: an important conversation. This is important for them to understand
Speaker 1: without being like, oh, you know what it is, woo,
Speaker 1: it's not real. There's no way this is going to
Speaker 1: help me. Totally yeah, I totally get it.
Speaker 2: I have thousands of doctors, surgeons, healthcare professionals in my program,
Speaker 2: so people firsthand who are seeing what's clearly not working
Speaker 2: are coming to me for support. I feel like that
Speaker 2: says a lot, But I think it's important for people
Speaker 2: to research and look at the history because this information
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about has been the foundation of human
Speaker 2: optimization forever, since the dawn of humanity. We are looking
Speaker 2: for answers in a system that profits trillions of dollars
Speaker 2: a year on people getting.
Speaker 1: And staying sick.
Speaker 2: It's big business, right, Big pharmac puts together med school curriculum.
Speaker 2: So our medical system is designed to help keep people
Speaker 2: alive with pills and with surgeries. It's not designed to
Speaker 2: help heal people. And all of the information I'm talking
Speaker 2: about from ancient wisdom with detoxification and plant medicines and
Speaker 2: optimizing your circadian rhythm and eating real food is all
Speaker 2: of this stuff has really been only taken out of
Speaker 2: the literature within the last one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: So I encourage people to do the research on how
Speaker 2: Rockefeller Medicine came in, closed down all of the herbalism
Speaker 2: schools and really just ushered in a whole new era
Speaker 2: of what we've now conditioned to believe is health. But
Speaker 2: it's sick care, right, So I think people just need
Speaker 2: to see how they actually feel going to their doctor.
Speaker 2: Do you ever feel heard?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Is there a solution you've ever been given if you
Speaker 2: go in for severe cramps and bloating hormone issues other
Speaker 2: than here's birth control, Like that's not healing. And again
Speaker 2: saying I'm not shaming anyone who goes that direction. I
Speaker 2: think there's a time and place for everything. I think
Speaker 2: we can use some of those things as band aids
Speaker 2: while we allow ourselves to go a little bit deeper
Speaker 2: into figuring out those root causes.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that I made you have that response,
Speaker 1: because I think people needed to hear it. And sometimes
Speaker 1: we have to be reminded that our schooling didn't teach
Speaker 1: us everything. We spend a lot of time in school,
Speaker 1: so you would have thought that we have all the
Speaker 1: answers and all the knowledge in the world, but we don't.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of things that was withheld from
Speaker 1: our education. So an important part of something that I
Speaker 1: often always say, once we know better, we do better,
Speaker 1: and so much of that is education and understanding the
Speaker 1: systems that exist within our world. And I'm really glad
Speaker 1: that you gave that. Don't have to listen to me,
Speaker 1: but here's some education in case you would like to
Speaker 1: know the background of this, because it is an important
Speaker 1: piece of this. And I want people to hear your
Speaker 1: words and not just automatically be like this is too
Speaker 1: wo and it's not. This is real. This is a
Speaker 1: way to help you heal.
Speaker 2: It's quantum physics, it's quantum biology. It's all rooted in science,
Speaker 2: but like what we were only taught part of science
Speaker 2: in school.
Speaker 1: We just didn't learn it all. And it's overwhelming. Now
Speaker 1: you have these conversations, and chronic illness in general is
Speaker 1: overwhelming because when you're faced with like you also dealt with,
Speaker 1: you had this plethora of things that you were diagnosed with,
Speaker 1: You're like, where do I even begin? What is going
Speaker 1: to change that's gonna help all of these things? And
Speaker 1: it's so true when you look at it from that perspective,
Speaker 1: when you have been dealt a hand of chronic illness,
Speaker 1: to say, something is obviously not right and if you're
Speaker 1: just gonna give me more medicine to heal it, I
Speaker 1: don't feel like that's also right. If you like genuinely
Speaker 1: like just sit and think about it for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Everybody can feel that you're always your body always knows
Speaker 1: when something is right or wrong, and we know that
Speaker 1: in those moments. I would love to go into You
Speaker 1: mentioned these different topics, and I also know you've talked
Speaker 1: about parasites, you talked about the circadian rhythm, these different
Speaker 1: kind of levels of things. What are some things that
Speaker 1: we weren't taught that you feel like are really important
Speaker 1: for us to understand about our body when you're talking
Speaker 1: about this kind of years of things that we shoved
Speaker 1: out and stopped learning about, because maybe this is an
Speaker 1: educational moment for all of us. Totally, I think we
Speaker 1: could just start.
Speaker 2: So in my full root cause healing methodology, I teach
Speaker 2: something called the order of operations, which is so important.
Speaker 2: Like I was saying before, we can't dive immediately into
Speaker 2: things like detox and deep trauma healing. We start by
Speaker 2: building a really strong, well resourced foundation, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to share a couple great tips in just a moment,
Speaker 2: and regulating the nervous system, opening our drainage pathways, and
Speaker 2: then going into multidimensional detoxification, which really is when we
Speaker 2: open up when we start cleansing things like parasites and candida,
Speaker 2: and they hold the emotional imprints of unprocessed trauma too,
Speaker 2: Like you're going to feel these different emotions getting stirred
Speaker 2: up as you're detoxing. Again, what's biological, is psychological, is energetic.
Speaker 2: It is all the same thing. We are multi dimensional beings,
Speaker 2: we just we are. So I feel like it's really
Speaker 2: important for people to start. It's number one with women,
Speaker 2: especially eating enough a lot of us who were told
Speaker 2: twelve hundred calories a day growing up is what we
Speaker 2: should be striving for. We first need to know that's
Speaker 2: the caloric recommendation for a two year old toddler, not
Speaker 2: a grown ass woman who is.
Speaker 1: Able to very important minor detail there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so our bodies don't run on thin air.
Speaker 2: We need fuel for our bodies to do what they
Speaker 2: were designed to do, which is enter a state of
Speaker 2: self healing. But that requires energy, so eating enough And
Speaker 2: for me, I when I went deep into my initial
Speaker 2: wellness journey, I was super plant based and vegan for
Speaker 2: a long time. And now I really understand that when
Speaker 2: I talk about nourishment and nutrient density, that really high
Speaker 2: quality animal nutrients are a big part of that conversation
Speaker 2: as well. There's a lot of I feel like a
Speaker 2: lot of my work is so much more than teaching
Speaker 2: and helping people learn. There's a huge unlearning that comes
Speaker 2: with this. So nutrition, of course, making sure we are
Speaker 2: remineralizing our body, adding minerals to our water is like
Speaker 2: the easiest thing you can do to start there. But
Speaker 2: I feel like what I really want to talk about
Speaker 2: is what's going to help people feel amazing quite immediately,
Speaker 2: which is optimizing our circadian rhythm, and it's totally free.
Speaker 2: So just to keep it really simple, our cells. We
Speaker 2: have trillions of cells in our body, and they need
Speaker 2: to know what time it is in order for them
Speaker 2: to do the jobs they were designed to do, produce
Speaker 2: different hormones, different enzymes, gene expression. If our body doesn't
Speaker 2: know what time it is, it's going to be firing
Speaker 2: on all cylinders at different times and it's going to
Speaker 2: feel like chaos. So our body only knows what time
Speaker 2: it is through light exposures.
Speaker 1: But now now we.
Speaker 2: Live inside these homes with bright lights, and typically we're
Speaker 2: on our phones and computers first thing in the morning,
Speaker 2: and our body thinks that sunshine and our we're looking
Speaker 2: at our phones and watching TVs and screens after the
Speaker 2: sun goes down, and our body literally doesn't know what
Speaker 2: time it is anymore. So I always say first hour
Speaker 2: of the day if you can not touching your phone,
Speaker 2: going outside and just getting direct sunlight in your eyeballs,
Speaker 2: no sunglasses, no glasses, no contacts, and even five minutes
Speaker 2: is going to make such a big difference. And for
Speaker 2: people who actually struggle with sleep, getting that morning sunshine
Speaker 2: actually signals to the brain to start producing melatonin sixteen
Speaker 2: hours later, which we need for deeper sleep.
Speaker 1: So sleep hygiene.
Speaker 2: Actually starts with your daylight exposure, So just getting as
Speaker 2: much natural sunlight during the day as possible. You know
Speaker 2: when you cannot wear sunglasses because it's the light entering
Speaker 2: our eyeballs that signals to the brain and tells the
Speaker 2: body like what to do. So I actually don't all
Speaker 2: sunglasses anymore, which is crazy. If you need them when
Speaker 2: you're driving, like obviously be safe, but if you're out
Speaker 2: for walks, try to not wear sunglasses. It's going to
Speaker 2: be super healthy for you. And get as much light
Speaker 2: during the day and then at night, wear blue blocking glasses.
Speaker 2: Change a couple bulbs in your home. I don't use
Speaker 2: any of the overhead lights at night. I just change
Speaker 2: a couple of the bulbs in my lamps to red
Speaker 2: light bulbs and just softly dim your house. If you're
Speaker 2: exposed to that blue light after sunset, your body thinks
Speaker 2: it's daytime and going to your cortisol is going to
Speaker 2: get spiked. Your cortisol should be going down at night,
Speaker 2: your melatonin should be rising. But with blue light exposure,
Speaker 2: it's going to be the opposite effect, and people might
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, who cares because our circadian rhythm's going
Speaker 2: to trickle into your gut health, your hormone health, your
Speaker 2: mental health, your energy. People who are walking around with
Speaker 2: brain fog and fatigue and low energy and all these
Speaker 2: things we've normalized. I always say common, it's not normal.
Speaker 2: Even if your friends are dealing with it, it doesn't mean
Speaker 2: it's normal. A lot of these things can be supported
Speaker 2: by really simple things, by getting our light exposures back
Speaker 2: in check and optimizing our circadian biology. So that's where
Speaker 2: I would encourage people to just start. It's really easy
Speaker 2: and it doesn't cost a penny.
Speaker 1: And I'm assuming too that this means we should not
Speaker 1: be watching TV at night. It would be a good guessed.
Speaker 2: It ideally if I still like to watch TV at
Speaker 2: night too. So if you're going to do it, put
Speaker 2: on some we don't want to like raw Dog the TV,
Speaker 2: or can we like have some blue blocking glasses so
Speaker 2: it's just not so bright and maybe hopefully like at
Speaker 2: least an hour before bed. Hopefully we're not doing that.
Speaker 2: But I'm not telling people that they have to start
Speaker 2: living back in a cave and living outside, and like,
Speaker 2: I really love to weave in the ancestral wisdom and
Speaker 2: make it modern because I do love a little reality
Speaker 2: TV at night sometimes, but there are ways that we
Speaker 2: can make it just better for us.
Speaker 1: No, that's important because this is how we start to
Speaker 1: integrate them and really start to make the shifts and changes.
Speaker 1: Because listen, I'm a big fan of baby steps because
Speaker 1: baby step is better than no step totally and everything
Speaker 1: in life. So if my baby step is I got
Speaker 1: to start wearing some glasses that I can do, and
Speaker 1: then we evolve and we continue. So I love that
Speaker 1: part of it. And also I was so fascinated when
Speaker 1: you were talking about the parasite side of things. Tell
Speaker 1: me about that, because gosh, I'm sure I have some
Speaker 1: I've never known. I've never looked into it. I don't
Speaker 1: have any idea about any of this. Like we know
Speaker 1: about parasites, but we don't know about parasites.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you have a pulse, you have parasites. So
Speaker 2: every single person listening to this has parasites. And to
Speaker 2: some degree, there is a normal amount of parasites in
Speaker 2: our body. It's when they become it's when they overgrow
Speaker 2: that it becomes an issue. So again, one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty years ago, the primary way that humans protected their
Speaker 2: health was through parasite cleansing. You start literally as at
Speaker 2: one years old. On social media. I have people obviously
Speaker 2: all over the world, and a lot of women in
Speaker 2: other countries in Latin America, they'll message me all the
Speaker 2: time and they're like, Wow, Christy, it's crazy. You have
Speaker 2: to actually convince people in the US that parasites are real,
Speaker 2: because it is part of every single person's chronic illness
Speaker 2: journey I've ever worked with. I've supported well over fifteen
Speaker 2: thousand people. Like I said, through the process of parasite cleansing,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of women have released loads of parasites.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about one, I'm talking about thousands. So
Speaker 2: parasites are attracted to toxic tissues. We're living in the
Speaker 2: most toxic time to date on planet Earth. Our food
Speaker 2: is poisoned, our water is poison the air is poison
Speaker 2: The products we use on our body on our face
Speaker 2: are cleaning products. The candles were burning in our home right,
Speaker 2: So we've just become a toxic soup. A lot of women,
Speaker 2: especially have been undernourished for so long, which means like
Speaker 2: when our metabolism slows down, our metabolism isn't just like
Speaker 2: how quick.
Speaker 1: Or easy we gain or lose weight.
Speaker 2: Our metabolism will control our gut, our elimination, our every
Speaker 2: single physiological reaction in the body. So when your metabolism
Speaker 2: slows down from undernourishing yourself for so long, our detox
Speaker 2: pathways become sluggish, we become more toxic, and then the
Speaker 2: parasites are then even more attracted to all of those
Speaker 2: toxic tissues, both physically and emotionally. So I do know
Speaker 2: a lot of people I work with health conscious people.
Speaker 2: I attract health conscious people, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: have come to me doing things like detoxes and parasite
Speaker 2: cleanses for years and then the parasites keep returning. So yes,
Speaker 2: anyone can go do a Candida cleanse, a parasite cleanse.
Speaker 2: That's not the whole story here. We also need to
Speaker 2: address all the physical, emotional, and energetic reasons why our
Speaker 2: bodies become so hospitable to these pathogens in the first place,
Speaker 2: and toxicity is going to be the number one thing there,
Speaker 2: so just doing our best to swap things out, starting
Speaker 2: with whatever touches your skin directly gets absorbed directly into
Speaker 2: your bloodstream. So can we start with like our products right,
Speaker 2: cleaning up our food, removing fragrance from our home. That
Speaker 2: single word fragrance can contain over thirty five hundred unregulated carcinogenic,
Speaker 2: endocrine disrupting chemicals. Thirty five hundred chemicals in one word
Speaker 2: on a label. So if your makeup just says fragrance,
Speaker 2: that can mean thirty five hundred more chemicals. So really
Speaker 2: starting to reduce that toxin burden is going to help
Speaker 2: reduce our parasite burden. But parasites live not.
Speaker 1: Just in the gut.
Speaker 2: They live in every organ system, tissue, fluid in our body, brain, sinuses, pancreas, liver,
Speaker 2: bile ducts, colon, lymphatic fluid in your blood. I've seen
Speaker 2: people blow them out of their nose, people who have
Speaker 2: dealt with like lifelong sinus infections and like inflamed sinuses,
Speaker 2: and these are very real issues. The parasites steal our
Speaker 2: nutrients before our body is able to assimilate the nutrients
Speaker 2: that we're eating, so we become even more malnourished even
Speaker 2: when we're eating enough. They steal our life force energy,
Speaker 2: they create blockages in our system. So I see like
Speaker 2: health and disease or illness as flow vers stagnation. When
Speaker 2: things are flowing, like we're eliminating, we're pooping consistently, we're sweating,
Speaker 2: our digestion is flowing, our energy is flowing. We're able
Speaker 2: to speak our truth and metabolize our emotions and cry
Speaker 2: when we need a cry, like that's going to lead
Speaker 2: to a state of health. But when things become stagnant,
Speaker 2: when we're constipated, when our mitochondria becomes so weak we
Speaker 2: can't sweat anymore easily, When we have stagnant emotions, when
Speaker 2: we swallow all of our words down and they're just
Speaker 2: stewing in our body, that stagnation breeds disease, and it
Speaker 2: also attracts all of the parasites, and then the parasites
Speaker 2: create even more blockages in the body. So this conversation
Speaker 2: can go so deep from a physical perspective, from an
Speaker 2: energetic perspective, because parasites are a very energetic thing as well.
Speaker 2: Parasitic relationships can fuel biological parasites. Having leaky boundaries with people,
Speaker 2: it can.
Speaker 1: Go so deep.
Speaker 2: But I completely reversed debilitating like debilitating endometriosis with one
Speaker 2: parasite cleanse. In my first cleanse, I released so many parasites,
Speaker 2: But that wasn't the be all, end all for me.
Speaker 1: The thing that I have really learned through the Root
Speaker 1: Cause Lens.
Speaker 2: Is again, like people can dive into those cleanses all
Speaker 2: they want, it's not going to help you long term
Speaker 2: if you're not again addressing all of the reasons why
Speaker 2: your body's becoming so hospitable to the parasites, and our
Speaker 2: drainage pathways must be open before entering a cleanse, because
Speaker 2: what isn't eliminated gets recirculated. So if you are constipated,
Speaker 2: if you are struggling to sweat, if you're not moving
Speaker 2: your body, the toxins are just going to recirculate. So
Speaker 2: I was smart to just like you're hearing me talk
Speaker 2: about parasite cleansing, to go run and do it right away.
Speaker 2: There are steps before that part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And as you're talking about all of this, it's funny,
Speaker 1: I was, I've recently, in this part of my life,
Speaker 1: really been trying to make all of the swaps. Even
Speaker 1: when you came in, I got you a glass of water.
Speaker 1: I was like, sorry, I don't do water bottles, which
Speaker 1: is a weird new experience because you're so accustomed to
Speaker 1: like go and grab a water bottle for someone. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I hope you like glass because it's course.
Speaker 1: But that's very much like my lifestyle now I've been.
Speaker 1: It's a slow moving process and back to the baby steps.
Speaker 1: I've tried to just acknowledge and give myself grace that
Speaker 1: this is an entire lifelong process, just like, let me
Speaker 1: swap everything right now totally, because I also don't be wasteful.
Speaker 1: I've bought these things and I've consumed them, but as
Speaker 1: soon as I finished something, I'm like, Okay, what's my
Speaker 1: new swap for this? And it's been this baby step process.
Speaker 1: I'm getting towards the end, like we've really taken a
Speaker 1: long time, but it's taken close to two three's.
Speaker 2: To do this, same when I started as well.
Speaker 1: And once you get there, it's easy because then you
Speaker 1: know what you're buying. You're paying attention to things, to
Speaker 1: what to be aware of. But as the process is happening,
Speaker 1: you're like, it feels so overwhelming when I hear you
Speaker 1: talk about these things, like it feels overwhelming to me.
Speaker 1: And I've already made a lot of the swaps. But
Speaker 1: I think it's an important part of the conversation because,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, you can heal as much as you
Speaker 1: want to, but if you're still continuing to add toxins
Speaker 1: and bad things to your body, what do you think
Speaker 1: is going to happen. It's a portant piece of this
Speaker 1: whole puzzle. And also you were talking about something else
Speaker 1: that had reminded me of I also have endometriosis, and
Speaker 1: I've dealt with it for decades, like it's been a
Speaker 1: huge part. If I don't take every single birth control
Speaker 1: pill a day, I am in debilitating pain where I've
Speaker 1: been in the hospital. And this happened at the very
Speaker 1: beginning of like my gosh, when this full first of
Speaker 1: all started, that was the reason. It was because I
Speaker 1: was in debility, like you would have thought that my
Speaker 1: kidney burst every time I would be in the hospital.
Speaker 1: I feel you, and it was the worst experience I
Speaker 1: ever had. So hearing you talk about that, because so
Speaker 1: many people have issues like endometriosis, and they do suffer,
Speaker 1: and they go through all of these experiences trying to
Speaker 1: help themselves and nothing's working. So hearing you say that, like,
Speaker 1: this is a new path to take. If you're the
Speaker 1: person like me, he's tried everything and I've done it.
Speaker 1: This is another path to start going down. And I
Speaker 1: know that's a big, big part of what you do.
Speaker 2: A huge part of endometriosis as parasites in the uterus.
Speaker 2: It's very It's not the only thing I have witnessed.
Speaker 2: So I've helped a lot of people heal endo. I
Speaker 2: post about it on my Instagram. Some people get really
Speaker 2: angry because they're like, endometriosis doesn't have a cure, Like
Speaker 2: f you stop sharing this like horrible information and snake oil,
Speaker 2: all the things that people want to say, And I
Speaker 2: get it when people have been suffering for a long time. However,
Speaker 2: I think people need to start getting more curious than
Speaker 2: just like bashing, because if I, back when I was
Speaker 2: struggling so severely with endos, saw that someone else had
Speaker 2: healed it, the first thing I'd want to be asked
Speaker 2: them is like, what did you do? And some things
Speaker 2: that I've observed with women with endometriosis, parasites are always
Speaker 2: a huge part of the picture. You're going to release
Speaker 2: them from your uterus. You're going to bleed them out
Speaker 2: like it's pretty wild. I have observed that there's typically
Speaker 2: some form of mother wounding when we're getting into the
Speaker 2: energetic aspect. So whether it's like your relationship with your
Speaker 2: mother or your mother's relationship with her mother, it can
Speaker 2: be ancestral too. But there is this like feminine wounding
Speaker 2: in the ancestral lineage. I know this can be a
Speaker 2: little woof for people, but like our womb is a
Speaker 2: portal to the feminine lineage, it goes so deep. There's
Speaker 2: usually mass cell activation syndrome and like a histamine response
Speaker 2: going on. Obviously, estra gen dominance is a huge part
Speaker 2: of endometriosis, but we have to address why is estrogen
Speaker 2: dominant in the first place, right, and when our liver
Speaker 2: is so overwhelmed with toxins from drinking alcohol consistently or
Speaker 2: using toxin toxic products, having a lot of processed foods,
Speaker 2: or even whole foods, but our food system in the
Speaker 2: US is quite contaminated with glyphosate. What I'm saying is
Speaker 2: when the liver is so overwhelmed with toxins, it actually
Speaker 2: doesn't have the capacity to metabolize our metabolic waste aka
Speaker 2: our hormones. So when your body uses a hormone like estrogen,
Speaker 2: it should get metabolized and excreted and eliminated through the colon.
Speaker 2: But when the liver doesn't have the capacity to do
Speaker 2: that process, it's just going to get recirculated. So when
Speaker 2: we reduce our toxin burden, it actually makes a huge
Speaker 2: difference on our hormones, not overnight, but our liver, like
Speaker 2: it needs to have the capacity to work on our
Speaker 2: metabolic waste too, not just all the waste that we're
Speaker 2: poisoning ourselves with. And there's so many other things with ENDO,
Speaker 2: But for anyone else struggling, I do want to say, like,
Speaker 2: there is hope. I this isn't my story of healing
Speaker 2: ENDO isn't abnormal. It's so many of my students have
Speaker 2: fully healed late stage ENDO. And yes, some people get
Speaker 2: the excision or the surgery to provide some relief, but
Speaker 2: as you probably know, a lot of people will go
Speaker 2: through surgery and what happens, it grows back because we're
Speaker 2: not getting to the roots of why it was there
Speaker 2: in the first place. That's the same with a lot
Speaker 2: of things like cancers too. Whatever people need to do,
Speaker 2: if people want to go down more the conventional path,
Speaker 2: Like we all have to make our own choice. But
Speaker 2: there is a reason as to why cancer returns in
Speaker 2: so many people because we're not addressing the physical, emotional,
Speaker 2: and spiritual roots of why it did develop in the
Speaker 2: first place. So this root cause healing conversation. I think
Speaker 2: people can connect the dots when they hear that, right, Like,
Speaker 2: you go through surgery, you get something cut out, you
Speaker 2: go through chemo, you kill all the bad cells. Why
Speaker 2: is it coming back? It's not just bad genes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, more in conversation. And I know that you're like,
Speaker 1: I could go so many different ways with this, but
Speaker 1: I'm happy you shared it. I'm happy you shared so
Speaker 1: many different pieces to the puzzle because even having conversations
Speaker 1: like this starts to make people wake up in question.
Speaker 1: And even if it's one piece of this, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can start going down this road. Because so much
Speaker 1: of our experience is just these very direct paths, like
Speaker 1: there's only this one way to do any of it,
Speaker 1: and that's just not where we are anymore. We've learned
Speaker 1: that with mental health, like we've come so far, we
Speaker 1: have to continue going so far again, I will repeat
Speaker 1: the phrase until I die. Once we know better, we
Speaker 1: do better, and that's what we have to keep doing
Speaker 1: for ourselves too. This is such an important part I
Speaker 1: had on another episode. It was a woman had said
Speaker 1: to me, she goes, why do we care about everything else?
Speaker 1: But the one thing we need is our health and
Speaker 1: we don't want to invest in it, and that's so important.
Speaker 1: That's so it's an important realization of like, you're right,
Speaker 1: why do we not? Like we I work out, I
Speaker 1: eat healthy, but like I'm really not diving as deep
Speaker 1: as I probably should. And so I just love everything
Speaker 1: that you're sharing, and I appreciate you being here, and
Speaker 1: very clearly I don't know you beyond today, but hearing
Speaker 1: what you said about your brother and the experience you
Speaker 1: had when you lost him, and him wanting you to
Speaker 1: share all of this information and stuff, you're clearly doing
Speaker 1: work that you should be doing. It's very clear, and
Speaker 1: how you talk and how passionate you are about everything
Speaker 1: that I don't think he was wrong. And I don't
Speaker 1: know you guys by any other direction, but based on
Speaker 1: what I'm sitting here and having this experience with you,
Speaker 1: he was absolutely right in passing on that torch to say,
Speaker 1: please share this information. So thanks for saying that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and thank you for being here. I love to end
Speaker 1: the podcast with whether it be a piece of motivation
Speaker 1: or a piece of advice, or something that maybe we
Speaker 1: never touched on to that you would love to share.
Speaker 1: I love to end the episodes that way as something
Speaker 1: to encourage people in a direction, even though we've done
Speaker 1: a lot of that. Yeah, this whole podcast, that's what
Speaker 1: I like to end on.
Speaker 2: I want to just mirror back what you've said, probably
Speaker 2: like three different times in this episode, which is all
Speaker 2: about the one percent shifts and how impactful that is
Speaker 2: and how important that is. And it sounds a little cheesy,
Speaker 2: but if you think about it, at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, one percent daily shifts adds up to a
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five percent massive shift. So these
Speaker 2: micro shifts do make a big difference. We're not here,
Speaker 2: we don't get a report card at the end of
Speaker 2: like our health journey. This is if forever journey we're on.
Speaker 2: I understand it can feel overwhelming if the information is new,
Speaker 2: but you don't need to change everything overnight, and in fact,
Speaker 2: our nervous system doesn't like that anyway. Our nervous system
Speaker 2: is actually not wired for change. That's a whole other conversation.
Speaker 2: But the little things do add up, and that's what
Speaker 2: I want to leave people with. Don't get over don't
Speaker 2: feel overwhelmed. If some of this information is due new
Speaker 2: get outside and get sun. Start swapping one product at
Speaker 2: a time, like Morgan was just saying, start mineralizing your water,
Speaker 2: Start wearing blue blocking glasses at light at night, and
Speaker 2: you know, the rest just opens up for you. Our
Speaker 2: health is the portal to everything else we came here
Speaker 2: to experience on this planet. What was wild to me
Speaker 2: on my journey is how much mental real estate became
Speaker 2: freed up when I was not bogged down anymore with endopain,
Speaker 2: with bloating, with low energy. And it's like, when you're
Speaker 2: not worried about your body all the time, you have
Speaker 2: so much mental capacity to create, to be present, to love,
Speaker 2: to connect, and that's what life is all about. So
Speaker 2: our health is just the foundation for everything else we
Speaker 2: came here to experience.
Speaker 1: That's the perfect thing to end on it. I have
Speaker 1: asked you to say anything better in that moment, So Christy,
Speaker 1: thank you for being here, thank you for sharing your
Speaker 1: story and all of your wealth knowledge. It's been great
Speaker 1: talking with you. Thank you so much. It's that time
Speaker 1: for my diary entry in audio form. I love doing
Speaker 1: interviews like the one that I just did with Christie.
Speaker 1: It's so educational. It gives us information that I don't
Speaker 1: feel like we're being given in a lot of different forms,
Speaker 1: but thanks to social media, we now are and we're
Speaker 1: learning a lot of things. This is the bright side
Speaker 1: of technology and evolution and seeing the experiences that people
Speaker 1: are going through and somebody like Christy who helps them
Speaker 1: understand that they've tried everything and there's still other ways
Speaker 1: to go about healing their health and chronic issues. But
Speaker 1: I also have to recognize this other side of me
Speaker 1: that gets really frustrated. I'm so angry because being a
Speaker 1: human right now is so hard. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about all the ways that you're probably thinking, like, yes,
Speaker 1: all the horrible injustices in the world, all of the
Speaker 1: things that are going wrong with different political parties, and
Speaker 1: all the things that you naturally gravitate towards. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about just literally being a human right now is tough.
Speaker 1: And talking to Christy reminded me of that we are
Speaker 1: consuming and eating things every day that are having products
Speaker 1: and them that are killing us and hurting us, especially
Speaker 1: our long term health. We have so many people out
Speaker 1: there who are making healthy swaps and trying to clean
Speaker 1: organize their homes and trying to do things for better lives.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's for themselves, maybe it's for their families, their children.
Speaker 1: But the fact that we even have to do this,
Speaker 1: the fact that we have to pay such close attention
Speaker 1: to the ingredients, to the things that products are made of,
Speaker 1: that makes me so sad, and it makes me so
Speaker 1: angry because being a human is already tough enough as
Speaker 1: it is, having a job, trying to keep friends, keeping
Speaker 1: yourself physically mentally in a great place. Maybe you have pets,
Speaker 1: Maybe you're trying to keep your relationships intact. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: trying to go after a new dream. Like the list
Speaker 1: of things that humans have to do every day is
Speaker 1: a laundry list. If you actually want to tackle everything
Speaker 1: that you hope to do in your lifetime, and to
Speaker 1: add on to that, it can't just be easy to
Speaker 1: go to the store and find things that you can
Speaker 1: put in your body and you can feel safe about
Speaker 1: doing so, or you can't go buy a new product
Speaker 1: that you saw online because you're like, Oh, that's a
Speaker 1: safe one that looks really cool and good. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use it. No instead any time now, whether it be
Speaker 1: clothing or the food you're consuming, the stuff you're putting
Speaker 1: on your skin, the stuff that you buy for your kids,
Speaker 1: your pets, the products that you bring into your home,
Speaker 1: you have to analyze them. You have to say, what
Speaker 1: does this mean? What is this going to look like
Speaker 1: in five ten years if I continued using said product
Speaker 1: for that long? Like, we haven't made everything tough enough
Speaker 1: on us, And then there's this laundry list of things
Speaker 1: that we're adding on to our already long to do lists.
Speaker 1: And you're looking at somebody here and you're hearing somebody
Speaker 1: right now, and the majority of spaces life is great.
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of things to complain about.
Speaker 1: Am I able to move every day? Am I able
Speaker 1: to wake up? Am I able to love on my
Speaker 1: pets and talk to my friends and my family? Yes?
Speaker 1: All those things. But I'm also someone who, day in
Speaker 1: and day out, is trying every day to make a cleaner, healthier,
Speaker 1: safer alternative for my everyday life. Heck, I'm even trying
Speaker 1: to make sure all of the things I'm using are
Speaker 1: cruelty free, which in twenty twenty five, the fact that
Speaker 1: things aren't cruelty free wild to me, Like, what's the
Speaker 1: point of getting all this technology if we're still testing
Speaker 1: on animals. That's a story for another day. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: when you look at me, I'm able bodied, I can
Speaker 1: get up, I'm healthy, right, but I'm actually not. I
Speaker 1: have long COVID. I'm now dealing with vertigo, lack of smell,
Speaker 1: lack of taste, memory issues, all from that experience. Before that,
Speaker 1: I've had endometriosis since I was in my early twenties.
Speaker 1: I had a multitude of other illnesses that popped up
Speaker 1: as I was dealing with vertigo. And now I'm in
Speaker 1: such a weird place of trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: path am I supposed to take to make myself better
Speaker 1: because much like carrying Christy talk, I want to do
Speaker 1: everything Christie is saying, you know why, because it sounds great.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I can be healthy, it sounds like
Speaker 1: I can make the right decisions, and it sounds like
Speaker 1: my body will feel good again. But also that's so
Speaker 1: hard to do in the world that we live. In
Speaker 1: and yes, everything is a choice. I wholeheartedly believe that
Speaker 1: you get to decide what you prioritize, what are going
Speaker 1: to be your decisions that you make in that day.
Speaker 1: But it also empathized with all of the people who
Speaker 1: are literally just trying to get by and just trying
Speaker 1: to be human and doing the very best that they can.
Speaker 1: My health journey has been all over the place lately,
Speaker 1: and as an adult sitting here, I have these conversations
Speaker 1: with people like Christy and Kara in another interview that's
Speaker 1: coming with a woman named Stephanie, and they're so inspiring
Speaker 1: in so many ways. They're so informative. They have knowledge
Speaker 1: that can help you with so many chronic illnesses and
Speaker 1: so so many issues that we face that when you
Speaker 1: typically go into a doctor's office today, they say, we
Speaker 1: can't help you. And so think of how refreshing it
Speaker 1: is to have these people now where you may actually
Speaker 1: get answers, or you may actually get help to something
Speaker 1: that before everybody told you there is no answer to,
Speaker 1: we can't help you. I think that's a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about the space that we're in right now, But there
Speaker 1: is no doubt that it's also overwhelming That's why me
Speaker 1: cleaning out my home to make it more clean and
Speaker 1: cruelty free and non toxic has taken upwards of three
Speaker 1: years and is still happening. Like I haven't just done
Speaker 1: it one weekend and it's all over and everything in
Speaker 1: my house is all of a sudden non toxic. Heck,
Speaker 1: I still use fragrances and I'm still using things that
Speaker 1: I know are probably not the best. Like, this is
Speaker 1: a hard choice. This is a hard battle to fight
Speaker 1: to truly be on this other side where people like
Speaker 1: Christy are. But you see them and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I love that. I want that energy, I want that experience.
Speaker 1: But I just want to make sure that in this diary.
Speaker 1: But I just want to make sure in this diary
Speaker 1: entry that people realize I am not bringing all these
Speaker 1: interviews to be like you have to do this, this
Speaker 1: has to change. It's to give you the information. I
Speaker 1: would rather a hundred times over have the information, have
Speaker 1: the knowledge, and then I can make my own choices
Speaker 1: based on having all of the information. It's like in
Speaker 1: school when they give you a test and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: you only gave me half of the study materials for that.
Speaker 1: I don't know the other half, and they're like, we
Speaker 1: kind of have to figure it out. That's what our
Speaker 1: health has become. Here's half of the answers. We don't
Speaker 1: know the other half or we can't help you with
Speaker 1: the other half, but you have to figure it out.
Speaker 1: So I like people like Christy, like Kara who is
Speaker 1: on another episode, who can come and give alternative perspectives.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of blending holistic medicine with the
Speaker 1: medicine that's helping save lives. I like both. I like
Speaker 1: gray areas in all things. I like to find that
Speaker 1: middle ground where both things can coexist in a beautiful
Speaker 1: way to help all of us instead of hurting us.
Speaker 1: And it's funny we do interviews like this on this episode,
Speaker 1: and I know there's gonna be people who will say, Gosh,
Speaker 1: that's so woo woo, or that's so far fetched, or
Speaker 1: this doesn't make any sense, there's no way. And of
Speaker 1: course people are gonna feel that way because we've been
Speaker 1: taught to believe stuff like this can't help us or
Speaker 1: it shouldn't. But there's also proof that this stuff has
Speaker 1: helped people. The things that she's talking about has changed
Speaker 1: people's lives and helped a lot of people, So why
Speaker 1: can't two things coexist, especially in the matter of our health,
Speaker 1: our wellness, our entire lives, the bodies that we live
Speaker 1: in day in and day out. It's wild the human
Speaker 1: experience in so many ways. And I think as I
Speaker 1: become an adult, I realize just how much everything's pretty convoluted,
Speaker 1: and it's better to live in the gray area. It's
Speaker 1: better never to have all the answers, and it's better
Speaker 1: to question everything, because if you sit there and you
Speaker 1: think you have all the answers and you never question
Speaker 1: one type of way of doing things, then you're never
Speaker 1: gonna evolve and you're never gonna grow. And I am
Speaker 1: the walking contradiction of the internal battle, right Like I
Speaker 1: have that side of me that feels that way, and
Speaker 1: then the other side that's just so angry that I
Speaker 1: have to question everything and so angry that everything has
Speaker 1: to be so complicated. And why does it take me
Speaker 1: forever until I'm thirty one years old that I finally
Speaker 1: hear some from somebody who's like Christy, who has all
Speaker 1: of this experience, knowledge, science, and says, hey, this can
Speaker 1: actually help you, Like, why did it take me thirty
Speaker 1: one years to find someone to have that type of
Speaker 1: conversation with that's not cool. So it is an internal battle.
Speaker 1: It's fighting the things that we've been taught our entire
Speaker 1: lives to then coming into this belief of we don't
Speaker 1: know everything, and sometimes it's really important that we explore
Speaker 1: different things, especially when it comes to our health. And
Speaker 1: that's the journey that I've been on gosh for probably
Speaker 1: the last five years. COVID really put it on a
Speaker 1: different track with the experiences that I've had with long COVID,
Speaker 1: but even dealing with indometriosis before that, and then also
Speaker 1: finding out I was sensitive to gluten and sensitive to
Speaker 1: refine sugars, and just that my body needed me to
Speaker 1: overall be healthy. I'm hearing all of these and I
Speaker 1: recognize that me being vegetarian, especially being vegetarian since eight
Speaker 1: years old, can have its own detriment. But what I'm
Speaker 1: also never gonna do is gonna go online and get
Speaker 1: mad at somebody for a choice that they decided to
Speaker 1: live their life by, which a lot of people love
Speaker 1: to do for me. They love to hear my problems
Speaker 1: about long COVID or whatever and say you're vegetarian. That's
Speaker 1: your fault. Also, why do I have to be the
Speaker 1: one to make the choice between I don't want to
Speaker 1: kill living things just so I can get all of
Speaker 1: my stuff? Like, why was that the only choice? This
Speaker 1: is hints why I like to live in the gray area.
Speaker 1: I don't think that has to be the only choice.
Speaker 1: I don't think it has to be black and white
Speaker 1: like that. And I think that for most things in
Speaker 1: my life. I think that for a lot of the
Speaker 1: experiences I've had as an adult, I've come to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that most things are just better to exist in
Speaker 1: the gray area. But really even more so in this
Speaker 1: health journey, and as I'm about to go get blood
Speaker 1: work done here soon, that I gosh, I haven't had
Speaker 1: a full blood panel done in my life and over
Speaker 1: a decade because I had such horrible experiences with doctors
Speaker 1: and going into doctor's offices and everybody highlighting one specific
Speaker 1: thing that needed to be worked on, and then they'd
Speaker 1: send you to somebody else for another specialist to do
Speaker 1: another thing. And hearing Christy's share stories and just understanding
Speaker 1: the body as a whole feels like I finally got
Speaker 1: some validation for the things that I experienced, and I
Speaker 1: hope that did for a lot of people too. And
Speaker 1: as I go in to get this blood work done,
Speaker 1: which is going to be very comprehensive, and we're checking
Speaker 1: in autoimmune diseases and we're checking out my iron levels
Speaker 1: and vitamin D for vertigo and all kinds of things
Speaker 1: that we're going to be checking into. But that's just
Speaker 1: step one. Beyond that, I'm also about to change my
Speaker 1: diet and work with Kara to start to really evolve
Speaker 1: my nutrition and understand what's happening in my body. And
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard. Doing all these things is
Speaker 1: going to be really hard, and I'm actually really scared
Speaker 1: because it's going to be lifestyle changes and I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to get answers to things that I probably
Speaker 1: don't actually want the answer to. But sometimes getting the
Speaker 1: answer is the only way forward. When you have chronic issues.
Speaker 1: It's like you want the answer, you want to know
Speaker 1: how to solve your problem. But then you also know
Speaker 1: when you get the answer, it's probably not going to
Speaker 1: be easy. It's not going to be an easy change
Speaker 1: or like, oh, I can't just one day cut out
Speaker 1: eating crackers. That's not going to change it. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a whole lifestyle change, And I think there's
Speaker 1: this terrifying moment that I'm having right now where if
Speaker 1: I really want to get my health, health and everything
Speaker 1: in this truly like healthy, great space that I'm doing
Speaker 1: everything right for my body, the body that I have
Speaker 1: to live in for the rest of my life, I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to start making some changes in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, and that's scary. So maybe you resonated
Speaker 1: with the Vertigo episode last week, Maybe you resonated with
Speaker 1: the episode with Kara when she was on and talking
Speaker 1: about nutrition. Maybe you resonated this week and hearing Christy
Speaker 1: talk about all kinds of different things. But I think
Speaker 1: it's an important time right now where we're at, that
Speaker 1: people are waking up and trying to make the decisions
Speaker 1: that are best for themselves in their lives and the
Speaker 1: people in them. And that's a really cool place to
Speaker 1: be in. But just like me, it's also probably pretty
Speaker 1: scary at first. So if you're going through it like me,
Speaker 1: or you're about to go through it, or it could
Speaker 1: be coming for you, then I hope you know that
Speaker 1: you're not alone in it, and it's not a thing
Speaker 1: that we really talk about. You don't really go up
Speaker 1: to your friends and you're like, oh my gosh, my
Speaker 1: health problems and go on this whole rant that I
Speaker 1: just did in this diary entry audio form. But maybe
Speaker 1: you feel seen because this is a conversation you wish
Speaker 1: you could have or I said something that feels relevant
Speaker 1: to what you're going through. But all this to say,
Speaker 1: I hope everybody out there who's struggling with any version
Speaker 1: of health issues gets the answers that they need, and
Speaker 1: I hope you all find some healing in whatever form
Speaker 1: it may come in. Thanks for joining me this week.
Speaker 1: As always, I'm so happy you're here and I hope
Speaker 1: it helped you in more ways than one. I have
Speaker 1: some episodes coming up about friendship, veterans, disabilities, and someone
Speaker 1: who truly has been through so many things and has
Speaker 1: pushed through to be here on the podcast and share
Speaker 1: her story. Follow the Instagram page at Take This Personally.
Speaker 1: We've got full interviews also up on the YouTube page
Speaker 1: at web Girl Morgan. You can watch all of these
Speaker 1: in video form. And that's all for now. I'll chat
Speaker 1: with you guys next week. I love you. Bye,