WEBVTT - Meredith Lile: From panic attacks to floating her anxiety away. Literally! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:16.959 Hi, Hi, Carola. She's a queen and she's getting not 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:26.599 afraid to feel, so just let it flow, no one, Caral, Carol, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.400 all right, I am so excited to be here with 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.400 Meredith Lyle. Thanks for having me. I'm so glad that 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.360 you're joining me. You are just beautiful and studying and glowing. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.160 Thank you. I'm not yoga closed today for a change, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.000 I know. So our paths just sort of started overlapping, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.800 which is what I always love, like, I always like 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.640 take notice of that in my life when like my 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.920 life starts kind of like overlapping with someone else's, I'm like, Okay, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.760 we're kind of like doing the same things, we're kind 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.400 of interested in the same stuff. So I think I 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.399 met you first in yoga class, I think so. I 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.319 think actually maybe like the same day I met you, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.280 I was like going to yoga and then I walked 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.160 over to float and like you were were on the 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:15.640 same that's right trajectory that day, Yes, exactly. So we 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.600 both go to Core Power Yoga Bretwood, love it, love it. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.040 And for all you guys who listen to podcast, I 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:27.080 had Christina on before, and she has such an amazing story. Gosh, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.040 she is the manager and like runs core Power Yoga Britwin. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.680 She's just awesome and array of sunshine, a ray of sunshine. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.959 She has something. She had five kids? She does? She 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.520 has five? She has five kids to like you. Yeah, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.640 and I think she is bonded like six kids. I 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.160 think does she have six? Yes? I know she's maybe 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.120 two adopted and then some of her husband. Now I 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.360 don't know, but yeah, she's got a four seven and 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.320 she she's got a lot of kids. And she looks 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.400 effortless every day. Effortless. I also started like an orphanage. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.760 She even has a beautiful so she'd really does. So 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.000 if y'all haven't listened to Christina's episode, you need to 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.160 go listen to Christina's episode. She runs Corpoer Yoga. So good, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.760 so good, such a great story. I mean, she struggled 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.520 with like um sexual abuse as a young child and 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.080 then it led her to a long journey in between 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.680 but then eventually loving her to yoga and her purpose 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.440 in life. So her stories are really redeeming, which is amazing. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.240 And she teaches a great cost a great class because 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:32.600 of her. But my friend Ashley Wilson, she's been on 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.440 my podcast many times she's amazing. Um, she and I 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.520 were talking. We had lunch yesterday after we had we 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.320 now we have like these are our dates. It's like, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.680 let's plan a yoga class, let's go float, and then 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.440 let's go have a salad, let's go eat. That's like 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.280 the best personal like mental health day. You could give 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.520 yourself a recharge whatever you call it, you know, personal 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.320 care day it is. And then you if you do 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.959 it early enough, you get on with your day and 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.959 you feel great. Who we're saying, like how doing that 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.120 kind of stuff just makes you feel like yourself against 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.000 So sorry, I ran a lot, but talk to me 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.480 about your journey because you are all about physical, mental, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:12.160 emotional wellness health, prioritizing that considering you run the float. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.560 Tell me about what your business is because that's how 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.800 we meant so it's pure sweat Float Studio. Candice is 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.639 the founder in Bellmade. And I was suffering from like 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.720 debilitating panic attacks, debilitating panics. Yeah, Like I didn't want 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.440 to leave the house because every time I hit a 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.000 certain stoplight, you know, it would trigger it or I'd 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.919 go into no offense Jason Stelli. But a store of 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.480 place like that, and it would just trigger it. So 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.120 what would get triggered? Um, I don't know. I would 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.280 just like go into that panic mode where I'd stop 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.840 breathing and I would think I'm gonna have a heart 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:50.760 attack and die. So several times you're having real panics. Yeah. So, Um, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.320 And it happened in about two thousand and six when 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.920 I went through some trauma in my first marriage. Um, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.120 I don't really know why they happened. It's very mental. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.920 Does really can really start panic att it does? Yeah? 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.640 So and then I managed them and they went away, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.440 and I don't know if it's just with all the 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:15.720 chaos opening businesses, blending families and life. Um, they started 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.200 triggering again. And I was on zoloft and xan x 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.680 and all the things, and my kids were finally like 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.839 you're not present at all, you know. They would be like, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.240 you didn't even hear what we said. You don't pay 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:29.920 at ten? You know. I was just kind of out 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.680 of it. Where was your mind? Like? Where does your 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.360 mind go when you're like out of it? Like where 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.520 does it rest? I think I just almost numb, you know, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.200 Like that's my thing. I don't ever want to be numb. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.160 I want to feel and be present, and especially when 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.479 you're raising kids. You know, that's the last thing you 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.719 need to be. You've got five three of your three 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.520 that you birthed and then five total blended with your 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.200 husband Corey, who I love. He also comes to yoga 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.440 influence and he's all about this style, to which I love. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.599 For all you men, it's so good, good for you, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.880 especially a sound like that person. But I got a 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.320 string hand in hand yoga and then getting in that 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.680 sauna because the sauna fights so much infection, like it's 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.440 helped cure autoimmune disorders. Absolutely, yeah, I mean there's really 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.880 something that. Yeah, it's good for your skin. It's it's 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.960 like such a great way to give yourself a mental break. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.720 It helps your nervous system, it really does. But then 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.119 also you're like helping your body fight off all sorts 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.320 of terrible things because that heat. Something about that heat 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:32.839 that just coming in. So what did it do for 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.040 you with the panic attack? Well, I read about it 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.560 with floating because um it's used for PTSD. Um. Some 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.520 military bases even have float pods. So um, really it's 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.599 just noise in our brain and we need to get 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.120 settled down and you need to de stimulate and that's 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.559 why it's so awesome today because we have so much 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.919 you know, Instagrams in our face and our poor kids 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.120 today that have to see, you know, all the bodies 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.400 and the who's doing what in the fear of missing 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.279 out and the bullying because you're not included, and you know, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.919 we just social media on social media, you know, and 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.760 I just think we have so much noise in our 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.720 heads probably in the middle of all that stuff because 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:15.080 they're like what late days really twenties exactly guaranting especially girls, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.440 how many girls are you raising for? What is it 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.680 like it than this time? And dating and likes so 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.839 much more than I can do online. We didn't even 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.760 know about, no I know, like I don't even have 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.760 to think about all the things. Yeah, and I really 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.560 do try to keep up with it or you know, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.720 now they're a little older for me to keep up with, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.160 but when they're in high school, I really tried to 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.560 keep my finger on it. And it's, um it's a 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.880 full time job, I have to say. And they have 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.839 ways around things. But just be like I said, just 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.560 be present and um, just kind of stay in the mix. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.040 Talk to parents, helping I've told good friends like talk 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.680 to me if you hear anything about my child, you know, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.600 like tell me, I'm not the mom that's going to 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.120 be like she didn't do that or no way. You know, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.240 I want to hear and I want to be um told. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.000 If something's going on and they get into some stuff, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.760 I'll tell you so. But um yeah. So I started 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.880 floating and it really helped, and so now I'm down 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.960 to just some zoll off a little bit, but I'm 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.360 definitely more present. So I approached Candice and I just said, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.080 you just started doing it on your own. I got so, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.280 how did you hear about floating? I just started googling. Okay, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.120 so you just kind of like your own and you're 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.960 just kind of desperate for anything, and you're like, because 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.000 it's not. I feel like it's just now starting to 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.640 hit it stride. Like floating has been around, but it's 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.360 I've always heard about it and always been super curious 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.960 about it, But I feel like it's really coming into 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.840 It's like moment now, don't you think like all health 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.400 and wellness like we're really shifting. I think we're all 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.080 needing it so badly after these past few years with COVID, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.040 this pandemic and the stress and then all the tension 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.160 that we're all feeling everywhere. It's just so much stress. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.000 It's just too much. When I read I love y'all's Instagram, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.400 y'all should just follow Pure Float Instagram. For Brent one, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.560 you tell us, what's the handle, It's at p s 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:11.600 F S p s F S Brent would so pure 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:17.040 sweat and wait, so what does that pure Pure Sweat 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.239 Float Studio? But it's p s F S brnt Wood 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.720 and then there's Cool Springs right now. It's a mouthful, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.360 but y'all should follow their Instagram just for like the 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.680 information that you guys should That's something else I really 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.040 love about your your social media and I think that's 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.400 how I can only like deal with social media and 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.880 all the negative effects. Is like you find, like you 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.559 find accounts like yours who are offering all sorts of 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.199 great tidbits of wisdom, Like you're offering wisdom about different 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.959 types of sweat that you have, You're offering wisdom about 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.320 mental health, and I feel that like, and you're sharing 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:58.400 why the floating and the infrared saunas are so effective well, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.640 and I think that, um, what I love about it 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.760 is that it literally is something for everybody. I mean, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.920 we get pregnant women in late in their third trimester 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.880 and they're they're just miserable. They can't sleep. Um. Candice 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.800 actually did it all through her last trimester. Um. So 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.760 your body absorbs the magnesium. It helps with any inflammation 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.560 you have, which you know, being pregnant, you have a 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.880 ton you can't sleep because you're miserable because you're flip 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.280 flopping around everywhere. Um. Yes, so it's just great. It 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.040 also aligns your spine because it takes all the gravity 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.880 off of you, which, as you know, you're staying it up. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.600 It's like bam bam bam, you know, on your body. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:38.640 It allows your nervous system and nervousus. No, absolutely not. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.800 And then it's for athletes. You know, athletes love it 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.440 for inflammation and other reasons. Musicians love it because it 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.800 helps with creativity. So we get a lot of musicians, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.840 songwriters in um just really restaurant owners. We get people 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:57.680 who live in very chaotic, probably loud, NonStop environments. Because 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.640 oh that's where I was going with my rambling. Sorry, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.760 I some of just ramp Hey. I love that is. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.520 We never are disconnected. We're never disconnected. Even when we 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.120 go to sleep. So many people go to sleep with 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.000 a TV onto the very last minute or whatever, and 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.680 then you wake up. The first thing, what is, what 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.080 do you do before you even try to meditate her? 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.439 You grab your phone, You're looking at your emails, you're 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.560 looking at your text, you're looking at social media, you're 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.319 looking at your calendar, and all of a sudden, you're 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.880 off to the races. You haven't even given your brain 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.720 one chance to chill out and like have a moment 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.680 of peace and space and be intentional about your day. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.959 So like, I'm so guilty of that. You know, I 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.079 wake up, I grabbed my phone, our beds, so we're 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.079 just getting all those radio aids into her brain all 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.920 night now. Yeah. But and also something you guys talked 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.800 about on your Instagram, which I love, which I had 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.199 never thought about. This is why everyone needs to follows 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.880 Instagram just for the wisdom is habit stacking. And someone 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.720 whoever runs your social media is really great. It's probably 0:10:54.720 --> 0:11:00.880 you you yeah, but they were actually my GM. She's great. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.760 She was talking about habits stacking, which is when you 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.240 want to create a new habit, you want to create 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.040 a new lifestyle, get intentional about how you're going to 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.760 start that new habit and then stack your life around 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.520 that habit. And so like that's what I've done with 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:21.480 yoga and then adding in pure float and because I 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.360 know I want yoga because that does so much for 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.720 my body and my brain, and then to give myself 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.760 the chance to go to re fill my body and 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.120 recover with the sauna and floating, it's like I have 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.319 to make that a priority for my life to do that. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.480 And once you make that your priority, then you figure 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.679 out how to stack everything else around it. Absolutely, I 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.720 think you just have to think of it as you know, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.320 we exercise to stay healthy, we eat, we try to 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.040 eat right. Um but then you also have to add 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.320 in some of these other modalities as just part of 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.120 your wellness plan and your lifestyle um so. And like 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.680 I said earlier, autoimmune that saunas are great for that. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.400 So we get so many people that come in that 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:03.200 have hashimotos, which is a thyroid issue UMI from possibly 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.880 breast implant leaking or just environmental lime disease, toxics. Works 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.360 of the studio like has healed herself. I don't know 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.000 if you can say you've healed yourself. All the way. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.960 But like the lime disease, symptoms do not present anymore, right, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.240 and you've just purged the toxins, so you know, the 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.640 tick has bit you, so you have all these toxins 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.400 in your system. So it's just um penetrate your skin tissue. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.439 It's not like a standard sauna. We're just the airs heated. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.160 This literally as a medical grade sauna. They use it 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.520 on babies and the nik you like when they have 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.959 when they're born too early. You know, they put the 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.480 light on them so it helps them, you know, progress quicker, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.920 get healthy. UM. Physical therapists use it. So so what 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.280 does the heat do because talking going specifically to like 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.760 autoimmune and let's talk about you panic attacks, Like what 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.920 does that heat due to your nervous system and your 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.440 body to heal it and help you overcome and honestly 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.320 get rid of these symptoms from your life. Yeah, well 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.400 they're this is a full spectrum, three wavelengths UM. So 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.839 the first is penetrates. The light comes out of these 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.000 panels that are in the sauna, and it's carbon and copper. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.600 It's been tested for the e MF so there's no 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.600 you know, electro magnetic magnetic that you need to worry about. UM. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.960 So the near penetrates the least amount into your skin, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.720 and that's more like superficial wounds, UM, collagen health, you know, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.160 skin health. And then there's also the second wave wavelength, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.000 which is mid and that helps with inflammation. So if 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.400 you know, a lot of us get sick and have 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.320 health issues because of the inflammation in our bodies. So 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.119 when you can purge, when you can heal the inflammation 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.959 in your body, then you know it heals. It heals 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.960 itself without having to do more traditional type medicine, right, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.480 because the heat gets in there, and like if you 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.319 don't use the heat, then your body is just trying 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.440 to like rush to it as best it can. But 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.640 this heat doesn't like fight or flight mode. You know, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.360 this heat just like yeah, super charges it. Right. And 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.120 then with the autoimmunity, it's the third wavelength that goes 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.000 the deepest into your skin tissue. UM. I think it's 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.120 about an inch and a half down under your skin 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.040 tissue and it literally will purge, you know, make you 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.640 sweat like crazy as you know you've been in it, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.520 like you are drenched when you get out. It's a 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.439 totally different swift than a yoga or a orange theory 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.440 and those you know, other type of exercises. It is, Um, 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.760 it's coming from within. I know that sounds so no, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.000 I'm strange. It's hard to explain. So come, you've got 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.040 to come and try it. Yeah, it's really amazing. So 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.560 what started happening to you when you started floating with 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.520 your panic attacks? Um, I just think it's settled my mind. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.640 You know, I be able to turn your mind off. Well, 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.680 it actually took me several times. The first time I 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.080 held my neck out. You couldn't even let yourself relax, No, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.800 because I didn't. Did you do the sauna to I 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.160 did the ona too, because some monies and I was like, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.560 what the heck? Right? Yeah, so um yeah I did 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.680 that too. But no, it took me about probably three 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.040 times to really settle down. And I knew when I 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.160 settled down when I started twitching, you know, because I 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.200 was kind of gotten to a state of almost sleep, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.720 I guess, And so I was twitching. And when I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.440 came out, I really had like this sense of stillness 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.600 and calmness. And you hadn't felt that in a year, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.320 and I have, and I have more of a type 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.320 a personality. Um, so it is very hard in general 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.080 for me to settle down. And then I also had 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.479 a therapist that worked through some things with me, like, um, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.160 you know when you start getting into that mode, which 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.840 is like if you think you're going to have a panic, like, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.080 un listen, I'm sitting at a red light, right. She 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.000 would say, all right, so you're getting in that mindset 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.800 and you're like, oh no, oh no, because you can 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.960 kind of feel it coming on, and I'd say, she'd say, 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.080 listen for four sounds. What does it sound. What does 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:51.040 it feel like when it's coming on? Um, I don't 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.440 really even know how to say. It's like a rush 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.040 of heat blood. You know, you can kind of feel 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.480 your blood start rushing. And then I have a hard 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.320 time swallowing. Okay, I start like my tongue is getting 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.840 really fat. It's very bizarre. And then my hands start 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.360 getting kind of stiff, you know, where I'm like sometimes 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.840 I can't even close them, Like I'll sit there and try. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.960 You know, it isn't your brain shutting down a little 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.240 bit and gets your brain. It's all and it's all manageable. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.280 So you know, like my my therapist gave me things 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.240 should say like, here are four sounds while you're sitting there, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.120 so you'd hear a car screech, or you'd hear a 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.200 horn beep, or you'd hear um the construction guys, you know, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.960 on the street hammering something, and so you're taking your 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.240 mind off of putting it into that mode. And then 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:39.760 she'd say, so you get through the four and then 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.600 you say, oh, I need to look for three colors, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.200 so blue, I'm gonna choose blue. And you start going 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.320 through that and then look for um, smell to smells, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.120 so I smell gas, and I smell pavement being laid, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.360 you know, whatever it is. And then you've kind of 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.360 worked your way out of it. Okay, the lights changed, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.640 you're moving on. Really, Oh yeah, it's really amazing, because 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.560 what happens if you have a panic attack and you're driving, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.320 you don't have these steps, you pull over? Okay, yeah, okay, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.480 so um yeah. So it's just kind of crazy. So 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.800 have the has the floating and the sonnet allowed you 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.800 to like not even feel like you have them coming on? 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.280 Or is it all a team effort? Is it like 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.040 everything you do it all together to make um the pie? 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.320 You know, I don't really have them anymore. So I 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.240 want to say it. Maybe it was a team effort. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.280 Maybe it's a little bit of this and a little 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.280 bit of that. Um, yeah, or I don't know. But 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.159 even during the pandemic, I was, you know, our business 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.520 shut down for a little bit. We had just jumping 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.040 in Brentwood unfortunately the day after the tornado, because we 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.600 were two months behind our build out and we just 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.520 kind of picked that day like Okay, we get to ompen. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.879 Then the tornado hit and so we couldn't really you know, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.040 we didn't want to promote it. We were mourning for 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.679 everybody in the city. And then three weeks later the 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.600 pandemic hit. Um. Wow, So what do you do as 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.600 a new, brand new business owner? Yeah, when all this 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.119 is happening, how do you handle that? What? What is 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.800 your natural response? Like, how do you how do you 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:14.040 stay motivated and not you know, getting super stress? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.160 because not a lot. It is a lot. I think 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.359 what I I don't really know what at the time, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.840 it is the timing of that. Yeah, I did get 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.040 in touch with the health department. UM and Candice did 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.240 the same thing in the Nashville location. Because I'm in 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.879 Williamson County. She um got approval through the health department 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.320 to be deemed essential, so she got to reback you know, 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.320 open back up, and so we did the same thing. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.480 She's like, Meredith, you need to get in touch with 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.040 the Williamson Health Department. And they were super nice there, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.960 like absolutely because people use it for you know, health reasons. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.200 So um, yeah, so they named us essential. I got 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.000 that letter, and I think that put my mind, you know, 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.080 at ease. I was like, Okay, they're gonna like let 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.399 us open. Unlike God bless the poor gems and oh, 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.119 I know, you know restaurants. I mean, that's tough. So 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.520 we we're on in close dirty days. Um. But the 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.959 trick was navigating masks and because how do you wear 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.159 a mask when you float? Well, you don't, but like 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.000 if they walked in, you know, we didn't really have 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.040 any rules around masks yet. So I was like, do 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.639 you leave it on? Do you leave it off? And 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.919 if I left it off, people would get upset. If 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.360 I put it on, people would get up sex. I'd say, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:30.320 you're too liberal if you know, yeah, you can't please everybody, right, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.359 So I would basically do it based on whoever walked 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.639 in the door. However, they looked as how I looked, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.480 you know, like if they had their mask on, I 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.520 had my mask on. If they had it off, I felt, okay, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:44.000 have it off because I've never been a big masker. Um. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:48.679 Sorry for all those who are true like it's a 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.919 true like almost like um moral decision people have, Like 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.280 I feel like people who are I've kind of always 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.880 set in the middle of everything, but like people are 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.439 like really anti are really four and like everyone has 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.840 such strong release on either side. It's like, you know so, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.919 and I do want to be respectful to people that 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.280 have health issues and it's real, it's legit out there. Um, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.479 but thank the Lord. I you know, I haven't had 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.040 any issues, but I did have COVID. Oh how how 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.840 was your experience? Um? It was okay. It was like 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.600 last November, I just lost my taste and smell. I 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.399 was super tired about five days. But I guess I 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.040 was one of the lucky ones. Right. So okay, so 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:34.280 you have this, You're deemed meant, you're deemed essential, which 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.680 I totally agree because mental health is so important. Important 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.960 When did you get on your mental health journey? Because 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.080 so much of your life now. I feel like just 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.440 from like knowing you, we haven't known it that long, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.600 but I can see how you roll. It is very 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.960 and your husband to like Corey comes to yoga and 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.879 he is very intentional and obviously floating and doing sauna. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.560