Bonus Friday Podcast- all about the retreat

Today. I want to talk about the truth about doing it all as women. What I was doing personally, and so many of my friends, family, and even women, that I just talk to on a daily basis is we are doing it all. We are taking care of everyone else, doing for everyone else.

So I would like to offer you what if you dropped the pressure and got real about the balance? And by that I mean, what if all the pressure for you to do all of the things was actually you putting it on yourself? The balance comes in by pausing. taking a look at what someone else could do, that you are doing, taking that off your plate and to slow down a bit.

when our bodies spike up a high cortisol level, which is a stress hormone that releases this cortisol. It is because we are doing too much and going too fast and never allowing ourselves time to rest.

So what if we took on a different role in which we delegated. We said, No, I can't do that right now. It is so good for your body to take that rest. That's how our cells turnover. That can be such a simple solution. Yet when things start to happen and our health starts to take a turn. Even if we want to do a holistic approach. we still get caught up in the thought of. I have to go see a holistic doctor or functional practitioner.

They will offer you holistic solutions, but it comes with a price tag, and oftentimes it comes with a protocol that is so overcomplicated that sticking to it oftentimes doesn't happen.

you can take a simple approach. and oftentimes it starts with the simple act of boundaries, taking things off your plate.

My 1st ministry was to my home and to our girls. I wanted to start homeschooling our kindergartner and I needed to really focus on doing that and doing it well. So what I'm here to tell you is that it's okay to say, no, it's okay to delegate.

I have so many beautiful, lovely women in my life who keep their grandchildren. They work full time, maybe 2 or 3 jobs, and they do not take time for themselves. Exercise class gets put on the back burner because the grandkids are out for summer. What's happening is that cortisol is continuing to rise. which is doing more damage than you know. It can cause heart palpitations. it definitely disrupts your sleep, which is very important, and it also will cause that midsection weight, gain that no matter what you do, you cannot get it off.

the foundation I found when looking for better health in a simple, holistic way is gut health. blood, sugar, balance, and also reducing inflammation. But what I have found is those things can be achieved through your nutrition through your food when we are so busy that we're going through a drive-through every single day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner over time, those bad seed oils that they cook with. and the poor ingredients in the food that they're using will not only increase our inflammation in our body, but it wrecks your gut health, and then, when you have high cortisol, this is the perfect storm to take you down.

Maybe you shift and go to a functional practitioner. And here is what I'm seeing in that area. the protocol is so complicated. Remember, you're stressed out. You're tired. You don't eat well, you don't sleep well. This overwhelming protocol is not what you need.

You need something simple, and that's why I feel like finding a holistic health coach is actually the better approach, because most of the time the coach is going to meet you You don't even have to be stressed out about going out in public and sitting in a waiting room going in a doctor's office. You simply can stay in the comfort of your home. and that coach is going to meet you where you're at. Listen wholeheartedly, and offer simple solutions. and that coach is going to meet you where you're at. Listen wholeheartedly, and offer simple solutions.

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When I 1st started having gut health issues. I knew I wanted to do a holistic approach. So there was a local chiropractor in town who was doing a cellular healing program. So I went and met with him. He sold me on the idea. It was very expensive. I paid for it up front, and then he gave me probably 8 bottles of supplements, and I was told that my diet needed to consist of only beef or venison, homemade beef, bone broth. and I believe I could have eggs.

He wanted me to take these supplements and eat like that for 15 days. 15 days later and start the fiber, supplement. It immediately bloats me out to where I look like I'm 7 months pregnant, and I cannot go to the bathroom.

I do not feel any better. I absolutely cannot stand the smell or taste of homemade beef broth. So, apparently either, was that I had Candida overgrowth in my gut. pivoted away from that program that I paid a lot of money for. Found a nutrition coach

everything you're eating is absolutely not being absorbed because your labs look like you're severely malnourished compared to your diet. So she told me that she wanted me to do a stool sample, because she was fairly positive that I had candida overgrowth, which I had no idea at the time what that even meant. But let me tell you what it means Basically, it is a yeast that coats your entire intestinal lining, and it is so It's almost like it has a shell around it that protects it like, think of a pill and eat shrimp. It thrives off of sugar.

that will make these tiny permeable holes of your intestinal lining, which leads to leaky gut. But what happens is, your body in turn starts to attack itself. That shows up as an autoimmune disorder. It can look different in each individual person, because we're all uniquely made up.

So different practitioners use different protocols like I said, a lot of them will put you on the most overly complicated protocol ever. and it does not have to be that complicated. So what I found was a really good probiotic. and I used to think probiotics had to be a certain brand name kept in the refrigerator, and like gazillion you know, cultures. I learned you really want a soil-based organism probiotic that can be shelf stable.

and can have the ability to have digestive enzymes that can break down that shell covering the yeast. and then have antifungals to kill the yeast. so a good magnesium and there are a lot of types of magnesium. They all do different things. So you want to make sure you get the magnesium that helps you go to the bathroom. also you want a gentle form of it. So you're not running to the bathroom like you're prepping for a colonoscopy. You're actually going to the bathroom like a normal person should. And let me stop here and tell you normal bowel movements. You should have one per meal that you ate 24 h prior. So if you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner the next 24 h you should go to the bathroom 3 different times to eliminate breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

if you're eating one meal a day, that's fine. But if you eat 3 meals a day that's not going to work.

some protocols are so complicated and yet aren't really addressing the root problem. It didn't matter how long I ate beef, eggs, and bone broth. It wasn't doing anything. It was trying to heal the gut. It was giving my gut a rest, but it wasn't breaking down the shell of the Candida, killing the Candida.

once you detox the sugar out of your body and get on the right supplementation to kill the Candida. Get it out of your body. You're gonna feel so much better, and you're not going to blow every time you eat fiber.

So that's my simple solution for starting off on a gut. Health regimen that will make you feel better, help you absorb your food. Better, nourish your body better, and also give you more energy. At the same time.