Self Compassion with Britt Olson

What's up guys.

Welcome back for another episode of healing.

In hindsight, it is the official first guest episode, and I'm really excited.

It is with the lovely Britt Olson.

And if you've been falling for a minute, I actually did my very

first guest episode with her on her podcast, living your own soul.

And it was a great conversation.

It was right before I launched season one, since then I've done an Instagram

live with her just to catch up.

So I'm really excited to have her now be on the show and just to pick her brain.

She is not only a podcast host, but a business owner of

her own health and wellness.

Coaching platform on the wellness.

It is a beautiful community.

And she also has a self-paced course, which I've personally taken and have

gotten so many great nuggets and things.

And she loves to combine Eastern medicine philosophy with Western medicine

philosophy and just bring you to a place where you have balance in your life

and, without super heavy restrictions or anything like that, just providing

a lot of insight tools and things for you to be able to optimize your

health in the best way that suits you.

So super excited for this conversation with Britt.

I feel like it definitely helped me a lot.

I hope it helps you and be sure to check out her services and offering

she's doing a deal where her prices will be going up in April.

I believe the 16th, but you can lock in her current rate now.

And if you need some time, like four weeks or so before you can

actually engage in the sessions with her, you can still keep that price.

Even if you start at a later date.

So.

Don't miss out.

Here's this conversation with Britt.

It's going to be super awesome, super powerful.

And I'm really excited to know what you guys think.

Let's do it

well.

Hi Britt.

Hello Taylor.

How have you been?

I have been so well, so good.

It's so funny.

I still, I don't know if you feel this at all or not, but just with

everything that's transpired in the last year, I still have this, a

little bit of guilt around saying how good I feel, but to be honest, like

fantastic life is really good right now.

Can't

no, that's great.

I think I think we don't do that enough.

I think we kind of have this expectation sometimes that, when.

At least with, with the past year being what it is, it's almost

like, Hey, how are you doing?

Shit is bad.

And it's just like, Oh, that's, that's sucks.

Like, let's talk about it.

So I think we're at a point where like, we expect bad news nowadays,

just because last year it just seemed like it never stopped.

So no, absolutely.

I think we should always speak to when we're feeling good.

And if not, I feel like if someone isn't feeling good, we can't

make that person feel bad for being in a good spot, so I'm glad

Completely.

I agree.

Yeah.

We need more transparency in the world.

That's for sure.

Way more.

It, it just makes life a lot easier.

That's why I don't like to do courtesy ask.

Like, if I'm asking how you're doing, I legit want you to

tell me how you're doing.

I'm mentally preparing space to receive that.

Otherwise I wouldn't ask, like, just, I hate that we've turned a

lot of things into just courtesy stuff with the expectation of like,

please don't tell me your life story, because I didn't want to hear it.

So

So true.

We could have a whole conversation on that.

whole conversation on that.

That's that's, that's a episode, whatever down the line.

So.

For those of you who don't know or if you didn't take the time to listen

to my guest episode bridge was my first podcast, like literally ever.

I was in the process of creating season one and through a mutual,

a Facebook group that we're in.

She was looking for guests.

I was looking for experience, honestly, I just didn't know what to expect.

And we had a really good conversation.

So I will definitely to that, but she is also a podcast host.

And I think what I love most about your show is I love the solo

ones where it feels like I'm just literally sitting in front of you and

you're just kind of sharing things.

And the music that you have in the background, I might steal it because

I felt like I was about to go into a meditation almost just to associating.

It was so soothing.

So.

I would love for you to just share a little bit about yourself.

Cause I know you're not just a podcast here.

And then we'll get into a couple of interesting questions I'd like to ask you.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you so much for that.

By the way, my little kind of mini solo episodes where I just kind

of riff on a particular topic.

I've gotten a lot of really nice feedback, so I appreciate

that, but I am Brett Olson.

I consider myself to be a leader in holistic and intuitive wellness.

And within that, I'm a certified health coach through the Institute

for integrative nutrition.

I have my podcast, as you just mentioned, loving your own soul.

And I actually last week just got my Reiki level one and two education.

So that's going to be fun.

I've always had this calling to do my own well to practice energy healing,

but then I feel intuitively that there might be something unique inside of me.

That'll kind of come out with that and yeah.

I also just started my online yoga teacher training this week

with a group called soul work.

And it's been something I've wanted to do for a while now, but what I love

about this program whistle work, which you would love to have the founder on

your podcast side note, but they do a lot with trauma informed training and

diversity and inclusivity, and really bringing yoga away from the way it's

kind of stemmed to like the 40 year old white women and hot yoga and getting it

back to the roots of the ancient ness of yoga and the true practice and within

the breath within the body, and then how to really bring yoga into communities,

all communities around the world.

So it's, I know it's an incredible program.

You should look into it.

I can connect you with the founder.

I think you appreciate her lifestyle a lot.

that's awesome.

So two things I I've done an energy clearing, but it was only one twice, but

I've never really deep dived into Reiki.

So I'm, I have to hit you offline to play around with that.

Use me as a Guinea pig so far.

And then I love, I love this yoga aspect of it because literally this week I was

thinking about, I need to get on the mat.

I need to get on the mat.

I need to get on the mat because I've, I keep trying to make yoga, regular thing

for myself in some form, especially cause I've been having issues with my

shoulder with some crazy inflammation.

So it's really stiff a lot of times.

And so I'm just like, I think I, I have moments where I get nervous because

I'm doing it at home and I want to make sure I'm doing the form right.

Because I don't want to get in the habit of doing it incorrectly and

that I'm injuring myself, whatever.

But I'm also very leery about going to studios still.

So it's just like, I'm just running into a middle, but every time that I

have started different sequences and things like that, I do feel really good.

So, and my house being everything it's, it's, it's so tough when your

house is literally everything or your apartment really find a house.

I have a whole separate room and then I'd be good at but that's really cool

that they're trying to bring back the, the historical aspect of what yoga is

for versus making it another trend thing.

Cause I used to do Pilates heavy especially when I was playing

volleyball in high school.

That was my warmup.

Before I actually went to practice.

I would do one of the little my mom had the Windsor set.

Oh my God.

She had the Windsor set and I used to do the 20 minute one every morning before

practice and probably one of the best, I'd say the best shape that I was in of

just like being so physically healthy because I was really taking that time.

So I do still love Pilates, but I just, just getting back on the mat in general

has been a struggle because I'm just like my dogs won't leave me alone.

I, this whole year has made it so hard on me with them because now they're just used

to me being here and I cannot go anywhere.

I can't do anything.

If I leave the house, they started having accidents in the house.

If I leave for too long, even if I walk them several times a day,

I'm like, y'all are really trying to trap me in this house with, you

Yeah.

I feel for animals of the last year, because it's just totally like shifted

their reality where they're like, Oh, you're with me all the time.

Okay.

Our PAC is within these four walls and we don't go anywhere.

And then it's like, when we do start merging back into society,

they're like, what is going on?

Like you're not supposed to leave.

I thought we were, I thought this is the new normal.

So

Yeah.

I actually joked with my partner.

He went out of town to go visit his family a couple of weeks ago

and I was like, I'm just going to treat my house like an office.

So I would crash at his house and I would leave them there.

And then I would come here.

So I could actually like film and everything.

And so I, I definitely would love to get to a place.

I actually started sharking around to see if I can afford

doing like a coworking space.

Even if it's just to do all my admin stuff, because I do miss

physically going somewhere.

I just feel like companies should offer the option.

I don't mind going into an office twice a week or whatever.

I just want the choice that if I roll out of bed and today's not the day for people.

That I can stay at home and not be around people, so

We all need that choice.

yeah.

Yeah.

And I hope I really do hope companies wise up to that very quickly as, as

we try to fit in what's normal again.

So speaking of which, I'm very curious.

I like to ask everybody one question at the top and at the end.

And so you being one of my non-diabetics, I'm curious because you you've been

navigating the health space for a while.

What is one health myth that you just want to like shut down right now?

Like myth, this is totally false.

Please stop following this.

Or, do your research on this.

What's one thing that just, when someone asks you just

like, no, that's not it at all.

Oh my gosh.

So there are a couple things that come to mind.

First one, I will say that I think I'll kind of stick with, is the myth about

how much protein our bodies need and how we've been conditioned to understand

that we only get protein from animal meat and protein is the way to go.

And if you're not getting enough protein, your body can't function and

this and that and everything else, every body is completely unique and

individual in and of themselves.

And some bodies yes, might strive and do better off of

high amounts of animal protein.

However, from what I've discovered is our most natural and regulated

States of being really comes from.

Less animal protein.

And that there is so much protein in plants and that plants carry the

right amount of amino acid profiles that our bodies naturally need.

And now too, and I speak of this and speaking of an average.

Healthy healthy and air quality body.

Obviously when we have different conditions or dealing with diabetes or

chronic illness, what our body's needs and the intake can definitely vary and

what it can handle and its own journey.

However, on average plants hold so much potency for us, including the right amount

of proteins and amino acid profiles.

So it's, I mean, I have to like be conditioned myself still with

the dialogue, but we are just in this like protein centric society.

And I just really I'm going to say, I don't agree with it, but when we

get back to like the ancient nets of where we really came from, we

really didn't have it all the time.

Right, right.

We had to go catch it.

that might, and then, coming up with the different ways that they had to

store, like it used to be a treat.

My mom actually joked a while back when I was visiting, she was like, I

wasn't involuntary, like vegetarian vegan, because in Thailand, like

it was not common for them to be able to have meat like that.

So what do they have?

Well, a crap ton of vegetables, especially when the jungle is providing a lot of

fruit and things like that for you.

But on the flip side, I have a friend who's from Brazil and she's

like, meat is huge in Brazil.

Like it's such a big thing, and so even from a cultural aspect of

like the region that you came from can not have a huge effect into.

What was seasonal for you.

And so for a lot of cultures, if you weren't near it or couldn't

have the means to catch it, or, it w it just wasn't around anymore.

Like, the, the herds migrated, whatever you weren't, you

weren't going to have that.

So, absolutely agree.

I've been trying to I've been playing around with the idea of getting a

food sensitivity test and then getting actual blood work to show like, what

exactly my body right now needs in terms of, am I going too much overboard?

Because one thing that a lot of diabetics are taught immediately is the whole macro

centric count, everything, especially carbs, and my partner's body like sheds

carbs, but needs a lot of protein.

But I'm kind of the opposite.

I really don't need a lot of protein.

I can tolerate moderate level of carbs, but you know, I have to watch

it threshold, but I need a lot of greens, so it's really interesting

how our bodies adjust and kind of the, the growth of information.

Cause I feel like if this was, maybe even 10 years ago getting blood work

to see what kind of foods your body needs, like too high society, you had

to really be up there to get that.

And now it's becoming way more normal.

Which I think is good.

So

I think it's so cool.

Yes, absolutely.

And then just one other myth that I will touch on lightly that I was kind

of cautious about only because of the diabetic community, but there is a big

myth in my opinion, but not my opinion in my professional understanding with

fruit and fruit sugar, and that all sugar is the same type of sugar and fruit.

Sugar is absolutely different than refined and processed and the fake sugar.

So we are gonna have sweet tooth.

Having a sweet tooth is natural because the earth naturally produces fruit.

And our bodies actually thrive off of fruit sugars.

Now, again, her different diagnosises or diseases or, medications or

things that you're dealing with, obviously we all need to monitor it.

However, the two types of sugar are completely different.

So please do not be scared of fruit and.

Eat fruit, your body most will thrive off of it.

And it's so, so good for us,

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's definitely a huge thing where we're good for berries.

In every diabetic comedian space, like, they're like, yeah.

Berries or go, and I'm like, great.

Cause I love blackberries and.

Strawberries are probably next to that.

And then of course, raspberries are cool.

I just hate that.

You just never know when they're actually sweet or not.

I know.

Oh my gosh.

My raspberries are such a crap shoot of like, you don't

know what you're going to get.

Right.

I gotta hope and pray and, and there's definitely some, like, I've never

tried gooseberries, so that's something that I'm like, ah, I see it on a

lot of gardens stuff that I watched that they, grow them fairly easy.

I'm like, I've never eaten them before.

But I eat apples pretty regularly and especially not having my CGM.

I'm like, it doesn't react like that.

And some people like you ate an Apple and I'm like, yeah, I can do that.

Or even like bananas and mangoes.

I mean, I still kind of moderate those a little bit more because I have noticed

they'll send me up a little bit, but at the same time, it's just like, okay,

maybe I can do half a banana, even though I won't eat the whole thing.

Same thing with mango.

I.

I will eat the whole thing, so I just have to slice it and

Friesen or something like that.

Cause I

I love that mangoes are so good.

Our neighbor actually has a huge mango tree, so I'm super privileged come around

Eating them.

It's amazing.

And I just want to say one thing too, if you have, with eating fruit

and sugar and all those things.

Yeah.

If you're eating an Apple and pineapple and then you have a bag of receipts

and then you have a bagel and cream cheese, it's actually bagel and cream

cheese has it kind of sugar in it.

And then you have a soda.

Yeah, shit.

Ton of sugar.

Like.

Watch yourself for sure.

However, if the only sugar you're consuming is a little

bit from through it's.

Okay.

So obviously everything in moderation, but just kind of the balance of it.

So yeah, if you have eaten a ton of candy and like fake sugar that day, probably

wouldn't advise adding fruit on top of it.

Just

Yeah.

tomorrow.

kind of restart.

Yeah, totally.

So I would love to hear more about your second I considered like your second

business, I guess you could say, cause I know you have your podcast too.

So I'd love to hear about your second business and that's your,

your coaching and wellness community that I'm graciously a part of.

And how you kind of wanted to start that because I think you were still

putting it together when we first started communicating and then

later on it came out and I'm like, dude, this is really exciting.

So I would love to hear more about why you wanted to start it and kind

of what your philosophy is with it.

Yeah, absolutely.

So Andrew is the name of my holistic wellness company.

That, to be honest, I have wanted to start this company probably as long

as I had wanted to start my podcast.

So we'll say maybe six, seven, eight years throughout my entire life.

I've always had a passion for health and wellness.

The term health has carried a lot of definitions over my lifetime as

to how I've understood it, how I've incorrectly understood it, how it's

been conditioned to understand it.

So I've definitely had my own kind of wounded healer journey in

that aspect of really not treating myself with respect and allowing

external factors to really influence.

Me, my day-to-day what I was doing, what I was putting in my body,

my environment, all the things.

And I've seen myself playing to the other side of the pendulum of being

completely out of balance, fully disconnected, just completely, not myself.

Now, back to the other side of the pendulum of really being that vibrant

soulful true to my truest nature.

So with my wellness company, food is huge.

I truly believe in the power of food and nutrients and also giving people

the tools to understand the why behind.

Like fruits and vegetables and whole grains.

And that it's so much more than just, Oh, eat your vegetables.

Cause like I would fold that in my whole life.

And I was like, okay, there's no substance to this.

Like, you're kind of forcing me to get my vegetables and that's really

making me not want to, until I started learning what they do for our bodies.

And then it was like, this information just downloaded into me.

And it was like this for a member and of how crucial these foods from the

earth are for us and what they can actually do to us and how to really.

Kind of like work in flow with them.

That really started shifting things for me.

And then on top of also just career and mindset and movement and

joy and balancing stress and all those are other huge key factors.

But at time where I really started kind of getting this like, Oh, awakening to food

ironically, but not ironically at all.

My now husband who is my boyfriend.

Yeah.

The time went through a huge health journey where out of the blue,

he was at a sales conference.

I was actually in Bali all the way across the world.

And he thought he was getting the flu, went to the ER, or went

to the urgent care, hoping to get like Z-Pak or something to

make it through his conference.

That was starting the next day.

The urgent care doctor happened to be an old ER, doctor, which to me, I believe

it's kind of like an earth angel and looked at him and his levels and was like,

I'm either putting you on an ambulance or I'm really not supposed to tell you this,

but you need to drive yourself to the Dr.

Phillips hospital in Orlando immediately.

He was like, what are you talking about?

Like what?

No.

And then long story short, went to the hospital.

He was in such critical care.

They then transported him in an ambulance to the more specialty hospital

in downtown ended up in neuro ICU.

Me with our 13 hours kind difference, got the communication

book, the flight back home.

And it was interesting because whenever I was in Bali, I couldn't get

settled, which is very unlikely for me.

So when I got that call, I was like, Oh, makes sense.

That it's never meant to stay here.

So, that journey though, we were just completely thrown into the.

Chronic illness, world and community and unexpected diagnosis undiagnosis

it took them forever to figure out what he had, understanding how rare

his condition and antibodies and levels and everything actually was.

And, and going through them, trying to figure out how to treat him

and not being able to treat him.

And they couldn't get his platelet levels to hold.

And they've given him the diagnosis of severe aplastic anemia,

which is a bone marrow disorder.

However, it was kind of like the, we can't find anything else.

So we're just going to stick the dart here and call it that And there's

definitely something else that I think eventually with science will evolve and

there'll be able to figure it all out.

But for right now, that's what they called it.

And really just got thrown into the world of medication and

prescription and being treated like a number and asking the doctor's

like, okay, so what else can we do?

I'm here.

Like, there's nothing else you can do.

Like, this is the answer and nothing against Western medicine because they,

they did save his life in the moment.

Had all that not happen.

He could have stroked out at any moment.

Had he not been in the right care?

There is a high, high probability who would not be here today.

However, The whole approach was just so it could have been

done differently in my opinion.

And it could have been done more humanely and just really looked at it.

And that was where we started asking these questions and I just could not stop

researching it and looking at holistic and alternative healing modalities

and looking at the body as a whole and trying to like piece the whole

timeline of his life together, and then bringing in food and herbs and plants.

And he got off of all of his medications about just over a year and a half after

his initial diagnosis, his doctors unexpectedly just like pulled him off

of everything, which in getting like you and I were just talking about second

and third opinions, which we got after the fact both other teams were like,

yeah, we would've never pulled you off of those because now that you're off of

them, you can't go back on them and your chance of what is it, not remission.

Relapsed or it happening again is like so much higher.

Now, however, we were gifted this opportunity and that he

got pulled off of everything.

So there was no longer that, Oh, well we've never this medication,

we've never tested it with these different herbs or CBD or these,

there, there was no more risk.

So we got to then go in and really, he was the Guinea pig.

I was also a Guinea pig in that.

I would try some of these things, myself, see how I reacted and have

him that he would be open to them.

And we just figured it all out.

And in the process, I've always had this niche for needing to help people.

And I've worked through the nonprofit industry and I've tried to kind of

funnel this passion and it wasn't until that, that I realized, wow,

this is what I care about among so many things, but this is my passion.

And.

Really was like, I feel like I'm doing the world a disjustice.

If I'm not going to go forward with this and create a company around it.

So I kind of have like multiple layers within my company and that myself on

a self level, I understand being out of balance, eating the wrong foods,

having digestive issues and stomach issues and being burnout, being the

workaholic, fueling my body with Starbucks coffees and diet Cokes and not eating

into then having also, I'm a little bit of disordered eating and you're

feeling the need to binge restrict.

And then this whole chronic illness side, which is interesting in that I

was the observer and kind of witness to it versus being diagnosed myself, that

it really just pieced it all together.

And then yeah, it just kind of like once I started working on it, it all just

honestly flowed and kind of miraculously has come to be what it is today.

wow.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

How life events kind of guide you because I really feel like even though

in some of the, like the more crazier things you don't feel connected to the

idea that it might've been purposeful, because it just seems so awful.

Like why would this be purposeful?

But in reality, that's kind of a little bit of just how it is in a way.

And I normally don't like to say that, but this is kind of one of those exceptions

because, had that diagnosis that happened.

As scary as it was, it wouldn't have driven you to

figure out what your thing is.

How much longer would you have been wandering, trying to

figure out what your thing is?

You know what I mean?

And it's kind of a similar story to mine.

I would not be sitting here in front of you right now, had I not been

diagnosed because that was the only thing that lit me up into a, okay.

I should probably do something about this.

So, pain into purpose is such a deep thing by itself and we're constantly

going through those cycles and it's just kind of understanding when it is

actually beneficial, which is why I try my best, not to get too upset or complain

when it just feels like everything's falling apart because everybody knows

when a good storm hits, you have some of the best rain and all of your plants

start to just thrive because they needed it, they needed that kind of pressure.

So I feel

isn't it so true.

Yeah.

It's interesting too.

As well, because, so when you and I had spoken before I had.

Four.

And a half years ago, almost five years started my own visual marketing company

where I just got really frustrated with working for other people.

I was like, this is, I'm meant to be an entrepreneur.

Who am I kidding by now?

And I did that and that really taught me how to work for myself.

through a notification that we were in a massive trademark infringement with

a huge national company that I had no idea, no clue that we were and did not

have the best legal team on their side.

And they wanted me out for what would take me, probably my whole life to

ever try to accumulate and pay back.

Luckily worked through it and then.

The pandemic hit and everything.

So it was like, I also then said leave because I knew what I wanted to

do, but I wasn't fully acting on it.

Literally got everything stripped away from me.

It was like the whole universe was shouting at me.

It's like, if you're not going to do this, we are going to force you into this

right,

So I kind of had that like final, kick in the ass that was

like, okay, you have to do this.

And it's crazy to think only like a year later.

I'm so thankful that I did so

Yeah.

The universe really does like to I'm pretty sure we're one big comedy show.

I just, I just feel like that's just what the divine is doing.

It's just so that it's one big comedy show.

Cause I had a similar experience where the last like six months or so every

reading, whether it's for myself or whether I've gotten one everything

that I've, aligned myself to get more educated on there's this big message

of, okay, you just need to do it.

Cause I'll go into super research mode spend all of my time just

researching and daydreaming.

But the action part is, is the, the piece that gets me a little anxious.

Cause it's just like, but what if, and you start down that, but what if

rabbit hole and you find yourself like giving yourself a panic attack because

it's just like, I want to do this, but I don't, but I do, but I don't.

And you're just like split and torn and all these different places until

you kind of land in the spot where you really have to just stand in a mirror

and be like, okay, Even if it's crazy, even if my therapist actually said it

to me last week, she's like, going for stuff might not always seem practical.

It might not always make sense, especially to other people.

When you decide I'm just going to leap in and do it because if I don't

leap in, I won't do anything at all.

So it's, it's really interesting how things just line up in a way

of like, I keep trying to tell you, but you clearly enjoy roughing it.

So I'm going to make you rough it for a bit.

It was just like, I I'm trying to listen more because we have to do that again.

We don't have to do that.

Yeah.

so in that kind of same vein, I would love to just pick your brain

a little bit for me, but also for others, because this is something that

is so prevalent in the community, a lot of the Facebook groups that I'm

in I'm seeing these posts a lot of.

Oh, my God, I ate this or, Oh my God.

I hate that.

I hate last night I had some Doritos and some sour, gummy worms.

I don't feel bad about it, but you know, there was a time where I

would just tear myself apart because it's like, okay, you know what?

You have, what your condition is, but we feel so defeated because we have

to have this restricted lifestyle.

It almost feels like, that whenever you fall off, it's so hard to reset

and go forward with a positive mindset.

Because sometimes a lot of us just repeat that same cycle of,

of dual K for a couple of days.

And then, ah, man, it's movie night and all the snacks around, and I don't want

to like be rude and not like eat some snacks with somebody serving or whatever.

And great.

Now I feel shitty about myself because I ate this all, gotta check my blood

sugar and it's through the roof.

Like you knew, and so I would love just from your professional expertise of like,

How do you give yourself that space?

How do you, how do you come to terms with the fact that it's okay,

that this moment has happened?

You just need to kind of, keep redirecting yourself to flow in the way that

you're supposed to at least for now.

Because I truly believe in food freedom.

I don't feel anybody should be restricted, but I understand sometimes

you temporarily need to, so your body can reset and kind of get back into

the raw space to be able to go forward.

So I, I would just love to know what your take is on, how do we get back

whenever we've kind of veered off track?

Yeah, 100%.

So a couple things that I want to say on this number one, kind of also tailing

off of what you were also talking about earlier with taking action and how you

go down that kind of wanted to spiral one thing that I found to be so, so

helpful for really those in my life.

And so many of my clients as well is when we fall off track or

we go into that negative spiral of, wow, why did I do this?

What if my blood sugars at this now?

What if this, what if this, like, we've literally just, what if the crap out

of the world is going to end tomorrow?

And instead there's duality to everything.

There's always a negative.

There's always a positive.

So in that, what if game?

But what if my body really needed this right now?

What if mentally I needed a night to hang out with my friends and

sit on the couch and what if I'm still gonna wake up tomorrow?

What if this isn't going to completely set me back?

What if this is actually for me?

What if this as a form of self care that I needed, or what if I did take action?

What if this did manifest for me?

What if the next best thing is waiting for me tomorrow and really reframing

that negative self-talk into the positive and it's a lot easier said than done.

However, what I've found is just trying to flip the, what if.

It suddenly, like, you can feel your whole energy change immediately.

And it's like, Oh, okay.

I'm only human.

And we don't know.

Cause we're just making up stuff in our heads.

We make up that this is going to be the end, but could we make up that this

is only the beginning or that there's something great for us happening on the

other side of that, but as it pertains to food and falling off track and just

to go a little bit deeper into that is the number one thing I always say

is have compassion for yourself, for your body in the present moment of

where you sit right here right now, because we are all truly only human.

And nobody has it all figured out.

And even the people on Instagram who are maybe a chronic illness survivor

and are posting how healthy they eat and all these things they do.

I guarantee you that behind the scenes, they still have a night where they sit on

the couch and they eat the pizza and they eat the candy because we are all human.

And if anyone out there is totally perfect, please reach out to me.

I would love to know how you got to that enlighten level.

However, the reality is is we're all human.

The difference is, is really catching yourself and not having

that all or nothing mentality.

If it's something where say for breakfast, you went off the cuff and you didn't, you

ate, if I did eat a whole box of cookies for breakfast or something like that,

You don't have to let the whole day go to waste, then you can stop right then

and there and say, okay, I did that.

It's okay.

That's an experience that's behind me.

Now.

I still have this whole day ahead to treat my body with respect

and kind of balancing it out.

And yeah, that dominance pizza last night was great.

But when I get home, because I wanted to spend time with my friends and

that's a huge piece of being human, I'm going to go drink my hot lemon water

because that's going to cleanse my body and help my body adjust to that

food overnight while I'm sleeping.

And when I wake up, I'm going to be really easy on myself.

So really trying to get out of that all or nothing and just taking life

so seriously, but at the same time as it pertained because we are, and

also too, like when we need comfort, Comfort food is totally okay.

Food is an emotional tie that we learned over time, and we're going

to comfort ourselves with food.

It's also when you're something stressful happened and you want a warm food.

That is a very natural response because heat comforts us and

makes us feel good internally.

And it immediately lowers our stress levels.

So

right.

honoring that you maybe want a warm comfort food, but then

is there a way to make it more sustainable to your lifestyle?

Can instead of the.

Bowl of refined white flour, pasta with a whole bunch of processed

meatballs and spaghetti sauce, that's filled with sugar and all the things.

When you instead transition that to a gluten-free at Brown rice pasta and

making your own tomato sauce without any sugar is actually super easy.

Obviously I know there's a little bit in tomatoes, but why like

store-bought tomato sauce is filled with so much sugar is honestly

beyond me because it's super simple.

If you don't have a blender to make your own.

So kind of figuring out, where can you meet in the middle and find balance and

know that there are certain things that we are going to crave and want, but to

also check yourself because sometimes in certain moments of craving can

also be a craving for something else.

So in your relationships say you've had a tough week with your partner,

or you're not seeing eye to eye.

You haven't had that sense of love and connection.

And then come Friday.

You're like, you know what, I'm just going to eat a gallon of

ice cream because I need this.

And this feels good.

That's where I check myself and know that the sugar, the dairy, the creaminess, the

comfort of that ice cream, when maybe we were crying as a kid and wanted a hug.

And instead our mom gave us the ice cream.

That's a craving for a craving.

Your body doesn't actually want the ice cream.

You just want love, and you just want to snuggle on the couch.

So I kind of just threw a lot out there because there's so many layers to it.

But I hope that that was kind of helpful little tidbits on kind of

like three different levels there

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I think that's really true because, especially what'd you say about

like craving a physical edible thing.

When it's actually a different physical thing that you're,

that you're looking for.

I'll, I'll use myself the other day I bought some snacks cause I'm like,

I've had a really long week and my numbers have actually been really good.

And like, I would just like to have some chips and I love sour candy.

Thank you.

Right.

And so I, I love it.

I love sour candy.

I don't do them often because I do recognize what they do for me.

And a lot of it is just, I go over the serving piece.

That's usually where I find myself struggling is a lot of times

it was like Charlie's salary.

Gomorrah impacts is like a servings, like five, which we know that ain't nearly

enough, so they need to figure that out.

So I can have like 10 to 20 that's usually what you're going to do.

Your damn they're going to finish the bag.

Yeah.

You're going to, that's.

Yeah, absolutely sour patch to listen.

Just, just put them in tiny packs for me, like, like fruit snacks.

Cause I can't I'll do the whole thing.

And I hit him up because he's in a pool league and I'm like, Oh crap.

I think this is one of his nights.

I'm like, ah, do you have to do full league tonight?

Like, is this the night?

And he's like, yeah.

And I'm like, Aw, well, and what I really wanted is I just wanted time with him.

I wanted to watch a movie and the snacks were kind of just the tying piece

that I really need to have them know.

But because he was going to be busy, I was like, well, I really just wanted to like

curl up and watch movies and like snacks.

So I just snacked and I've binged a little too much.

But I checked, I faced the fact that I saw my numbers go up now.

Thankfully they're not going up to the abysmal point of like when

I was first diagnosed, but even still, it was just a reminder of

like, okay, had I been with him?

I probably would have chilled out.

Because I was getting more of what I needed in the moment versus like, okay,

the snacks are there, so I definitely haven't even thought of it in a sense of

like, what is it that I'm trading for?

I mean, I definitely try to think through, when I'm trying to do distracted eating

of like, do you actually need this?

I want to have a craving, especially like the salty sweet, like is, is

actually what you need or you do, you need like an actual more fulfilling

meal that you're, you're missing out on.

But

Or even just water.

yeah.

Water, especially because the medication that I'm on now, like I have to drink a

lot of water to help me flush my system.

And so I forget, so my body would be like, no, you got 50 cases of water.

You're going to drink it off.

So, so with that, in that same vein As we're trying to identify those moments

where we might be craving something else.

Right.

How are you finding balance in building and incorporating meaningful

habits without it being overwhelming?

Because I think, that's one thing that can be so daunting is

I I'll pick on the yoga thing.

Right.

I love acrobatic yoga.

I think it's so cool.

Like there's a couple people that I follow where they just, I mean, it's a part of

the sequence, but I'm just like, I want to do like arm stands and stuff like that.

Like, that'd be really cool, but.

The effort that it would take to one second or the practice cause I'm clue in

our practicing to build to that is hard.

Or, Hey, I want to make sure I'm knocking out the right amount of water every day.

Getting up to refill things is, is tough.

So how do you incorporate those meaningful habits?

Without it being so overwhelming for you to go through a thin, because I

know sometimes we get into the space of like, there are five major things

that I need to incorporate into my life and I need to do them all now.

And then we're right back at square one.

Cause we fell off midway through.

So for me, I always kind of start out with asking, like, what is the rush?

If you were to suddenly be able to do this tomorrow, would your

life really change that much?

Usually now?

Sure.

It'd be super fun.

I mean, I would love to be able to snap my fingers and do all the acrobatic yoga

and everything starting tomorrow, but that's also not super realistic either.

So really understand kind of just using our history as an example of like, when

I did something before and I gave 200% at the beginning, was that sustainable?

Probably not.

And really giving that grace of like food.

This is fun.

And I feel really excited about this and I want this to last and what can I handle?

So be really honest with yourself as like, what can I handle right now?

I haven't been doing yoga in six months.

Obviously trying to go for like five days a week, probably not going to happen.

And your body is going to be like, ELA, what are you trying to do to me?

We haven't been doing this.

And now you think we're just, we're gonna like go right into this.

I don't think so.

So giving yourself that of, Ooh, I want this.

So let's do once a week and see how that feels.

And if that feels really good and you're crazy and more of it where you're

like, and go to two days a week, go to three days a week and kind of build a

little bit of a structure around it, but then also leave space for that

below, because I feel like we kind of get into this feeling of, okay, I'm

going to do this and I'm going to do it five days a week and this and that.

And then I wake up on day five and all I want to do is go for a walk

in nature, but I'm like, no, I told myself I was going to do yoga.

And like, that's not fair to yourself.

What is this whole structure thing really doing for your life?

Like if you listen to that internal Q and you go for a walk in nature

versus forcing yourself to do yoga, you're probably going to have way more

fun doing the first, then the later.

And then same if you force yourself into something, what's the point of doing that?

Like, that's not fun either.

So taking it slow, honoring yourself in that understanding, like, I

want this to work, so therefore I'm not going to, I'm going to try to

not bite off more than I can chew.

And if you bite off more than you can chew.

Okay, cool.

Another experience.

Wow.

I keep doing this.

No big deal.

I'm not going to go backwards and learn how to crawl before I can run again.

So I'm going to go back to doing it once a week kind of thing.

And just giving yourself freedom to mess up and to experiment and to try something,

but then freedom to also take it slow.

Slower than you ever have before.

I've been really practicing that because I truly believe that time does not exist.

It's kind of this made up thing that yoga once a week now, versus five days

a week and a year from now, we're all going to get there eventually with

where we're supposed to be going.

So kind of just like stripping away that like hustle mentality.

And I get it.

I fall into it myself all the time.

But I also just check myself and I'm like, let's slow down.

Let's take this back a notch.

So yeah, just giving yourself freedom and one thing at a time, I

actually like to practice just even taking, saying no to one small thing.

So that I can say yes to something better.

So like lately I had gotten in this winter of really cycling myself of

allowing myself really just downtime in the winter and it felt so good.

But I noticed I then was getting into that habit of sleeping in and

I'm naturally a morning person.

And I saw, Oh, I have, now this habit has developed versus

something my body actually needs.

So I was like, okay, I'm going to say no to hitting snooze so that I can say yes

to a morning walk or more energy, or, with my husband before he leaves for work

or whatever it is or brushing my piece before 7:00 AM, something like that.

That's just like super small and attainable that you can

just keep chipping away.

And then sure enough, a couple of days went by and I felt like myself again.

And I was like, Oh, okay.

We're back.

So small, small changes definitely make a big difference.

Yeah, I really do feel that, especially what you said, like, give

yourself downtime in the winter.

I was taking a class.

Through self care society Danica brushes membership love, love that.

Definitely check it out.

And one of the instructors the class that she was talking about that day

was like figuring out what your, your physical season is, and then mapping

out what that season looks like.

So then you can tell your support system, Hey, for the next couple of

weeks, I might be going in there.

I caught hermit crab mode.

When I, when I tell everybody like, I just need a minute.

If I don't respond all the time, it's not you it's me.

I'm not saying don't invite me to things, but I may say no, a lot more this, these

next couple of weeks, stuff like that.

And it really hit home because I'm like, we we've generationally

surrounded everything through physical seasons of what is nature doing,

but how often have we paid attention to what our physical season is of?

Like, this might be summertime for me.

All right.

I am a with your baby, so I really do feel like I'm kind of aligned

in that when winter comes for me.

It's actually between that, like December to February kind of timeframe

where I just feel really slow.

Not necessarily like, some are spring, summer, fall, I feel more active.

And so I even aligned the seasons now to give me that time off,

because I know it's the time where I'm just like, I'm not as creative.

I'm, my body feels like it's hibernating.

It's just taking this period of like really slow rest and reset.

But like you said, I still get up in the mornings, not to lose that because

there have been moments where I've like caught myself sleeping in way too much,

even though I have 50 alarms, but I'm like snoozing all of them because I've

allowed my body to kind of overtake.

The driver's seat, if you will.

And it's like, no, just lay here.

You're so drowsy.

And it's like, I haven't had any Benadryl at all.

Why do I feel like this?

And so, being able to say, no, no, I get it sleeping all day.

Sometimes sounds like a dream, but how about we get up and we find a

different way, to be in a restful state.

So I definitely like that, which kind of leads me to my next question.

So we've got the, building in habits slowly be giving us ourselves

compassion when we fall off.

But I think that the, at least in my opinion, the core thing of how to have

all of those things is the mindset is ensuring that you're, what do I call it?

Like your command center in your head, if you will, is so fine tuned that.

Sending off of command of like, we're not going to hit snooze is

more likely to succeed than fail.

So, what are things that you've done or have taught with your clients or anything

to help shift their mindset so that when they come up against these obstacles,

they're not they're not shutting down and I'd also be curious to know, like

what's one mental block that you have to overcome yourself in order to kind of push

forward into doing what you're doing now.

Yeah, absolutely.

Such a fun question.

So it's so funny because such a good segue, cause I was going to say with

all this, awareness is really key here and it's really hard to take action

until we have awareness and awareness.

Sometimes you might just even be noticing, like start paying attention.

If some, if life isn't jiving the way you want it to just start kind of

watching your life and understanding, Oh.

I do do this you're right.

I have been hitting snooze five times and, lays really quote unquote, I

don't really believe in the word lazy, but doing myself an injustice by not

getting out of bed and things like that.

And with that, my day doesn't shape up, has good.

I don't feel as good in the morning and it takes me longer to start my day.

I don't feel as productive and just kind of start watching these patterns

and habits and you don't have to change them right away by any means.

But if you can at least take note of them and bring awareness to the forefront,

that's where you can then start thinking about, okay, do I want to change that?

How much maybe does this matter to me?

How much do I care about this?

How much do I want to teach this?

And then also we were talking about that.

Like, what if.

What would happen if I did change this, could my life

improve if I did change this.

And is this something that in my true nature, do I really want to be this way?

Maybe not.

Maybe it time and place for everything like hibernating in the winter fully

believe in that full component of that.

100% and yeah, so awareness is key.

And to really start building awareness, we have to start the wallowing down.

So getting away from constantly consuming.

So so much so, and by consuming, consuming on social media, consuming

on TV, even just consuming ourselves in what's going on with other people's

lives, whether it's our partners or our families, and like we consume, and then

being intentional with what food we're consuming, like we consume so much.

So to kind of try to step away from the consumer and going into more of like

conscious consumption will really help there, but then really quieting the mind.

And I don't want to call it meditation because I know meditation can be really

intimidating and almost triggering for people because it's thrown around so much

now, but just connecting with the breath.

If you can close your eyes for 60 seconds, take three deep breaths in and out.

You immediately feel yourself change.

And that can be great.

So giving your mind space to just like slow down for a second.

So connecting with the breath is just huge, like so, so important

if you don't want to meditate.

Perfect.

But meditating can also be just forms of mindfulness and consciousness that

can kind of work that awareness muscle.

So as we're talking about consuming and things like that, if say.

When you're working from home, I loved playing music.

I have friends of mine who will play podcasts while they work.

I cannot focus and have someone else talking at the same time.

I actually can't even really do any music with lyrics.

So if you feel just really rattled, like, look at what you're doing and

maybe turn some things off, like if you're working and you play podcasts

or music, and you find that you have really high levels of anxiety, see what

it would feel like to work in a quiet space or maybe adjusted, or even as

simple, just to like shift that energy.

I was just doing an interview, interviewing someone right for hours.

And I had like a 15 minute break in between.

And I was like, I need to kind of like shake this off so I can be present.

So I just went and stood outside, I think maybe two minutes, max I'll

even 30 seconds, like put my feet in the grass because that's available to

me, felt the wind on my face and just kind of was like, okay, Take a minute.

Now I can come back.

And when we take those little breaks, we're able to really just notice

more about our life and notice more about our actions and our habits.

And again, just start being aware and if you can at least

be aware, that's the first step.

And then typically your mind down the road is gonna want to take action.

Just like watching a movie, you always want to see what's happening

next with like the Netflix series.

Like I will binge watch Netflix because I have to know what is next.

It is so hard for me and kind of same thing in life.

Like when we start watching our own lives and we're doing the same

repetitive movements, naturally, we want to see something different.

We want to see a change.

So the change will always follow awareness.

Wow.

You made me think of like, there was once a time where we had to wait a whole week.

For the next episode.

Can you believe we're at it?

Like, it's just so crazy.

Like we used to have to actually wait.

I mean, I guess we kind of do it now with podcasts in a way, but you know,

it seems like that kind of short form is gone now of just like, nah, we want

the whole season front by, after, put my eyeballs on it, and sometimes I try

to actually force myself to like do a weekly watch because either the show's

really heavy and I just, I can only do so much or I get really upset when I

binged the whole season and I'm like, crap, I gotta wait a whole nother year

now instead of pacing it, so, I'm glad that some stations and streaming services

still do weekly because it makes sense to, to build that anticipation if you will.

But at the same time, like.

The access to do that.

That's sorry.

That was just a really funny tangent that I was like, we used

to have to actually wait all the time for the next episode to come.

But I feel like that though is so fanatic of our life in

general, where we are right now is we don't want to wait for anything.

We want the Amazon package to be here tomorrow.

We want the whole series so we can binge it that whole night because

we don't want to wait a week.

So, I mean, to that point, you then like test yourself and see what would happen.

If you pick a new series and you watch one episode a week, like create

new habits, it can be really fun.

Bring back the Tuesday night TV show that you have to wait for.

yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's something interesting as well because I used to actually

form my habits around that.

My cleaning schedule is kinda like that I've been following it very

loosely now, but you know, Mondays is like, Living room Tuesdays is

like bathroom, something like that.

And even surrounding habits through that sometimes feels a lot better

than just okay, five times a week.

I need to make sure that I'm cleaning all the things.

Right.

Just, I know on this day, this is when I do it.

And then I'll have to think about it, for, for the rest of the week.

So, I find myself flowing into that type of style and then flowing out

and kind of just, I don't even like to use the word routines anymore.

I've noticed, I actually like to say systems because systems feels like

it's fluid, whereas routines feels like it's set you can't deviate around it.

If, if you, I used to be that person down to like the last 10

minutes, it's all time blocked out.

I mean, I love the concept of time blocking, but I use

it so much differently now.

Because crap, I missed this the whole day is thrown off.

The world is over, kind of thing.

Whereas if you just.

Give that flexibility and space of like, okay, I have time to do this here.

I'll just move it there kind of thing.

So yeah, I feel that so much.

So this leads me to my last, at least subject matter question.

So I told you one advice question at the beginning.

But now what I would like to ask is what's one piece of advice that you

would give to someone who's just starting their health journey, or maybe

they're restarting their health journey.

What would be the one piece that you would tell them as they're about to get back on

the saddle or try it for the first time?

Yeah, be open to change.

He says, it's going to change.

It's going to evolve.

It's going to ebb and flow.

You're going to have good days and bad days and know that more than likely you're

not going to completely change all of your habits or systematic ways of walking

through life or the way you eat and the way you go through things in a day or

a week, it's just, it's not realistic.

But with being open to change, enjoy the journey, allow it to be fun.

Don't feel so regimented to pick this one thing.

And then if two weeks later you learn something new and that feels more

aligned and you want to divert that way.

Give yourself the freedom to divert that way, or learn different principles

or theories and take a little bit from each that makes sense to you.

And do that.

Don't be afraid to do it your own way.

There's truly no one right.

Way of being healthy, going through a wellness journey, just

looking at our health in general.

Like there's no one way of doing it because we're also individuals.

So give yourself freedom to just be open, to change and have fun with it.

Like I always say if you're not having fun, what's the point.

And I completely equate that to a health journey.

Yeah.

I think I found it interesting.

I did the paleo diet like four or five years ago and I did it

for about nine months straight.

And now the first three days was brutal because the withdrawals were real.

Just because I just did not understand how much processed stuff that I had.

And so I had to start like moving things out.

I was like, Oh my God.

I'm like giving everything away to my roommates.

Cause I'm just like, I just I've consumed so many box refined process stuff.

But even afterwards, just that clarity of, I feel really good right now.

Like, I mean, I'm not about to go do CrossFit and like flip tires

and shit, but like, I feel really good and it made things fun.

It made things so enjoyable because I felt like this fog being lifted which

has led to a lot of my habits now.

Like I rarely do dairy.

Like I used to just cheese is probably the only thing that you'll catch me.

And I'm like, it's GGR I got to.

Melty smoked Gouda.

Yes.

But you know, I mainly do almond milk, I don't my, my parish non-perishables are

very well selected, because there's so many more options now than it was before.

But you know, most of my fridge is a lot of perishable foods, which forces me to,

like, if you don't cook, you're just going to have a rotting fridge, and you get

really frustrated when you're having to throw out food that could have been easily

used and also reminding myself to freeze stuff more because there's that option

too, it, it just had this ripple effect.

And I remember just kind of feeling that, like, I actually like feel good

bouncing in the work, even though I don't like any of you people, like, it's just

so yeah, I'm so glad you brought that up because at the beginning it

is so challenging and I'm not going to tell you that it's not, you have the

withdrawal symptoms, you have all these other things taking place mentally.

I mean, it's a very similar to addiction with substance abuse and things like that.

Food addiction is a very real thing.

However, When that veil starts to lift.

I mean, it is better than some drugs, like to have that clarity and that energy.

And once it starts lifting, you start understanding it.

But until you feel it left, I will say it's really, really hard to understand it.

So.

Trust again, feel the burning desire inside of yourself.

Look at other people's experiences.

And yeah, it's like once we removed certain things, it's interesting how much

we realize, Oh, I don't really need those.

Or there are better suited alternatives for me.

And with kind of limiting processed foods too.

I always say like do things that your future self will thank you for, yeah.

Chopping a bunch of vegetables.

It's not fun.

I don't like meal prep with the, like, like the way I did paleo before as well.

And I would meal prep all the time with paleo and stuff.

Now, all I do is chop my vegetables.

So come Thursday night when I'm exhausted, I have an idea of what I can just

literally take, throw on the stove and the less effort, the better, because

we're all creatures of convenience.

I am myself, but I just do those little things.

So it's less difficult later down the road.

And then I'm less likely to be like, yeah, I'm just going to have the bag of chips.

Which I still do on occasion.

yeah, yeah, no, totally.

I think the finding the balance of what is convenient for you is also

something that I've been working on.

So like it's funny.

Cause the company is called Taylor farms and I'm like, where's my check.

Like

Right?

Seriously.

You need some that residuals.

right, right.

But they have these stir fry kits and I'm like, I ain't got to cut nothing.

I literally just dumped the bag and then the sauce is usually I'll either

use it, but I'll use only half of it.

Because a lot of times the sauce is where there's a lot of that sugar

and stuff, or I just saved the sauce for something else that I might use,

like as a marinade or something.

And I, I do my own, but it's all chopped.

I started buying Julianne carrots now more and like, different slaws like, there's

a broccoli slaw that I use and I'll like, throw it in soups and stuff I don't

have to do is like chop up some cabbage.

And I'm good.

Like, there's those little hacks that you can do to make it convenient

because I'm definitely guilty of like having these moments where I'm

not inspired by cooking as much.

And I realized there's a couple of factors, convenience and what

my ingredients are is my kitchen.

A hot mess in my kitchen is a hot mess.

I'm not in the space to do it.

That's the only thing that I miss about me and my partner living together.

And I whined about this all the time to him is we had a nice flow of I'll cook.

He'll clean the kitchen cause he's very.

Just militantly disciplined about making sure the kitchen is pretty straight.

And so I miss those days because I'm just like the kitchen is a mess.

Yeah.

I'm not cooking.

So I need to, and that's where I got my, my bags of salad.

Ready to go, just dump, get my, get my dress and get I'm good.

Throw some extra veggies on it, so I appreciate that a lot.

So how can people find you?

What you working on?

You, you got some, some stuff in the works I hear.

So I'd love to know about any offerings that you have or promotions and how

people can connect with you to take advantage of all of this great knowledge.

If they want to work with you, one-on-one.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you.

So if you have not yet listened to our episode together on my podcast

has definitely go check that out which you can also find my podcast

on Instagram or the website.

They're both just at loving your own salts for all the podcasts knowledge

and then to work with me, or just for general wellness tips, mindset

tips, all the things you can find me on Instagram is really where I'm most

active and that is at ambush wellness.

And that's a M B U wellness for my website is also ambula wellness.com.

And I have some three and six months one-on-one coaching containers.

And because we are all so unique, I actually offer with a human design

coach who I'm paired up with we with my three and six month programs

actually do a complimentary human design reading within those, because it

benefits you the individual, but then myself as to how I can work with you.

I understand you more intricately truly at that cellular level,

which has been so beneficial.

But then I also have my nine week life and balance program, which is a self-paced

program, really covering all the topics.

We kind of talked about all about bringing your life into a state of balance,

of course, what you eat, but then.

How much more goes into it as well.

And all of my offerings are I will actually be raising

my prices on April 16th.

So between now and then you can buy all my offerings for the current prices.

However, if you're interested in working with me, you want

to grab the current price.

Perfect.

However, you can start the program or coaching container at any point in time.

So you don't have to start it right away.

I'm very big on just win-win situations.

And like life happens.

Life goes on.

So if you're interested and you want to nail in my current pricing, go for it.

However, there's no pressure or you can start it whenever that feels good for you.

that's nice.

It's like reserving your spot and what's good, even though you're not gonna, be

there for like four weeks or something.

That's awesome.

I can speak to your a self-paced program because you've graciously

allowed me to go through it.

And there's a lot of great.

Just great nuggets.

I actually have gone very slowly through it so I can truly ingest it because I

will admit I am a course junkie, but it's just because I love that's what actually

one of my top five, if we're going to Clifton Gallup's strengths is learning.

And when it's something I'm interested in, I will hoard information.

Because at any moment I feel like it's going to come up.

It's gonna be trivia night and I'm going to suddenly know all the things cause

it's related to health and wellness and I get the free beer for the night.

So I wrote a first time I answered a trivia question

and it was about Starbucks.

It was what their largest cup sizes.

And I was like, I know this because I get them all the time.

And I felt really accomplished with it.

It's was like,

I love that.

I am, of course, junkie.

I have to check myself and I'm like, okay, I really need to take it more right now.

Thank you.

Right.

Right.

Especially those big bundles that come out.

I did two of them.

And I'm still working through a lot of that content because

it's just like, there's so much.

And some of it doesn't apply right now.

Some of it applies later.

So they had that, that wellness one that came out a while ago.

I had to, I had to graciously say, no, cause I was this close, but I'm just

like, It's like, this is not the time to go on a deep soul journey just yet.

You just came out of one.

Now it's just to the daily practice thing.

And then we'll have a break where you can do it again because I don't

need to be falling apart in the middle of the podcast because I'm

doing so much intense shadow work.

I can't function.

I can't function will be.

I love you.

You already know that we're basically like stateside sisters.

And podcast sisters, and it has been so fun catching up with you again.

So thank you so much for your time, for your wisdom, all of the

gracious tips and tricks on that I'm planning on implementing in my life.

I don't know about y'all because I am definitely prone to

falling off and getting a little discouraged about getting back on.

So hopefully this was helpful to anybody, but it was definitely helpful for me.

So thank you for that.

That's all we got for this round, but I definitely would love to

have you come back until then.

I guess I'll catch you on the Instagram side of things.

Yeah.

Thank you so much, Taylor.

This was such a treat.

I always love chatting with you.

We definitely have such a sisterly bond.

It's so special.

So thank you.

We the best we the best.

All right.

Y'all until next time,

man, what a conversation am I right?

Like.

I just, I don't listen.

I'm, I'm surprised that I was able to keep it concise to just an hour

because Brynn and I can talk for days.

Like we can talk about everything when we were hopping off.

I like, I just started rambling.

And like, I think we say goodbye, like three times, because we

could just talk about anything.

So I really hope you got some value from that conversation, especially

from, my episode earlier this week about just how to reset, especially when you

get some crazy, I won't say crazy, at least in my case, but like, my A1C went

up and I, kind of had an interesting endocrinologist, appointments and kind

of feeling a little defeated in a way.

And so just feeling encouraged and empowered to jump back in

and have some self-compassion.

Go slow, and not pile myself under all of these habits that I want to

build, but just doing what feels right.

And, saying no to the right thing.

So I can say yes to the better things.

So thank you, Brit for all of your time and wisdom.

I super enjoyed our conversations and I know it will not be the

last one that we ever have.

I happy to have her back on the show.

So let me know what you think.

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Let me know.

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Love to see you guys commenting things like that.

Hitting me up in the DMS.

Forgive me if I'm not speedy enough in responding to them, but

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I keep forgetting that it's also on Amazon and of course you can

always check me out on YouTube.

I know it's like, everybody's ending thing of like how many channels are on.

So no that I won't do this every time, but just want you to make aware

of all the places you can find me.

And of course, healing and hindsight.com is the number one

place that you can reach me.

So thank you guys for your time and for listening and I'll

catch you next week on Tuesday

coming up next time on healing.

In hindsight, I think we often try to look at the positive beliefs

and then the negative beliefs kind of just stay by the wayside.

We try not to acknowledge them because by acknowledging them, it shows that

we are playing a role in our own.

Progress not to say that there aren't outside things that, cause trouble, but

initially it boils down to what you value.