Latest / Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD / 338: Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill: Heal Hive: Creating a Community Where Healing Thrives
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- 0:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm your host, Dr. Jill and with each episode we dive into the heart of healing and personal transformation.
- 0:14Dr. Jill Carnahan: Join me as I interview medical experts, world leaders, innovators of all types helping you on your journey to optimal health and healing.
- 0:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: Today we're going to hear from Nicole Fox.
- 0:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: She's been a friend, a conference organizer, done so many roles in our functional integrative world and now she sharing with us the new book that she just wrote with her friends and this book talks about sisterhood, talks about really being in community with other women.
- 0:42Dr. Jill Carnahan: You are going to love this episode and I'll introduce her in just a moment.
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- 2:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: Again, you can find that@drjillhealth.com okay, I want to introduce our guest, Nicole Fox.
- 2:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: She's the founder and CEO of Integrative Medicine Consulting Group where she helps Physicians and medical practice successfully integrate integrative and functional medicine, lifestyle and integrative medicine into their practices.
- 2:33Dr. Jill Carnahan: She has more than 20 years of experience in the field and worked with hundreds of physicians national wide, collaborated with Jeff BL and many other providers.
- 2:41Dr. Jill Carnahan: But today we're talking about her new book about the bee sisterhood.
- 2:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: So let's join Dr. Nicole actually, I'm sorry, let's join Nicole Fox for the BE Sisterhood.
- 2:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: Here she is.
- 2:53Dr. Jill Carnahan: Let's welcome Nicole.
- 2:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: Nicole, I am so excited for this episode.
- 2:59Dr. Jill Carnahan: We talked just briefly before coming on, but even though people might wonder that this isn't the exact normal kinds of guest and topic that we talk about, you and I agree that the future of medicine, healing and community is the kinds of things we're going to talk about today with your new book.
- 3:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I'm so excited.
- 3:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: He'll hide.
- 3:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: I have agreements, right?
- 3:22Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 3:23Nicole Fox: Yes.
- 3:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I am so excited to dive into your book and the topic and I always love to set the stage in.
- 3:29Dr. Jill Carnahan: Often we get insights, inspirations from various sources and then it kind of comes together.
- 3:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: I know my book was that way.
- 3:35Dr. Jill Carnahan: How did this come about with your co authors and the hive Agreements tell us a little bit about the backstory.
- 3:43Nicole Fox: Yeah, well, and first off, thanks for having me.
- 3:45Nicole Fox: It's just so fun to be on this with you.
- 3:48Nicole Fox: So thanks for inviting me.
- 3:50Nicole Fox: So yeah, we, me and three of my dear sisters, we met at a retreat about four and a half years ago.
- 3:59Nicole Fox: And the retreat was a, just a intentional retreat to go and do some like deep healing work, really self discovery, transformation work.
- 4:09Nicole Fox: And were in the middle of this event.
- 4:13Nicole Fox: I didn't know any of them.
- 4:15Nicole Fox: We had all met for the first time and there was a certain like process they were taking us through.
- 4:20Nicole Fox: And I don't know if I remember exactly what the process was, but I was sitting there in the room and I just like had like this deep stomach pain.
- 4:28Nicole Fox: Like I was just feeling a lot of like harsh energy.
- 4:31Nicole Fox: It was kind of in my solar plexus and I was sitting there, I was just kind of like breathing, trying to like move it.
- 4:37Nicole Fox: And this woman walks up to me and she's like, can I put my hands on your back?
- 4:42Nicole Fox: And there was, it was a co.
- 4:44Nicole Fox: There was men and women there, but it was just like a very loving space.
- 4:47Nicole Fox: So, you know, I felt very safe.
- 4:49Nicole Fox: And so I was like, sure.
- 4:50Nicole Fox: So she puts her hand on my back and she just was like comforting me.
- 4:54Nicole Fox: And next thing I know, all the women in the retreat, one by one, start Walking up to us and.
- 5:00Nicole Fox: And everyone kind of like, just put their hands one of another.
- 5:04Nicole Fox: And I don't know if you ever saw the movie Avatar, but there's a place where they're all kind of like turning into a web.
- 5:09Nicole Fox: Well, it was kind of that.
- 5:11Nicole Fox: And then all of a sudden, one of the women in, like, the group, she started to hum.
- 5:19Nicole Fox: She kind of starts buzzing, like a.
- 5:21Nicole Fox: Just a light buzz.
- 5:23Nicole Fox: And all of us start buzzing.
- 5:24Nicole Fox: And it was like the weirdest thing.
- 5:26Nicole Fox: And then all of a sudden, we all started laughing because it was like, what are we doing?
- 5:32Nicole Fox: Oh.
- 5:34Nicole Fox: And at the time, you know, were just kind of laughing, thinking, like, gosh, this is kind of random.
- 5:38Nicole Fox: But the thing that was, like, the most profound for me in that moment is what I noticed was like, that deep pain, like, that experience that I was experienced.
- 5:47Nicole Fox: It was like the vibration of the hum, it actually moved the energy out of my stomach.
- 5:53Nicole Fox: And I just.
- 5:54Nicole Fox: I felt like, the release.
- 5:55Nicole Fox: It felt like this pain that I just been holding onto for a very long time.
- 6:00Nicole Fox: And it actually took many years to integrate that experience.
- 6:04Nicole Fox: But it was through that four of us became really dear friends.
- 6:09Nicole Fox: And then we.
- 6:10Nicole Fox: Together, we felt like there was a gift given to us that we now call the BE Sisterhood.
- 6:17Nicole Fox: And we originally started just, like, creating these agreements that we now live by with each other, which there was no intention to start a business or to write a book.
- 6:27Nicole Fox: We just wanted to, like, really consciously begin a true sisterhood and a safety, I guess, like a container full of safety so that we could really go deep with one another.
- 6:38Nicole Fox: And.
- 6:39Nicole Fox: And then it was such a profound experience that one day we've decided, like, we need to share this with.
- 6:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: Share this.
- 6:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, wow.
- 6:47Dr. Jill Carnahan: I love that it comes from such a beautiful, personal story.
- 6:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I feel like the divine is always working.
- 6:53Dr. Jill Carnahan: And often those things do come in the moments that we're paying attention when we're just living and we get this gift.
- 6:59Dr. Jill Carnahan: And this gift is our own connection, our own healing.
- 7:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I know in my own journey of healing from various things and the people in my life and the stories and all of that, it's always like we experience this incredible thing, and then that gift is given, and then the call is, can we share that with the world?
- 7:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: And you've done that, and you've just described the exact path, I think, that many of us go through.
- 7:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: But how cool that it was in community, that it was this.
- 7:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: I just love the buzzing and all of that.
- 7:26Dr. Jill Carnahan: And we know, like, from science, even if we bring in the science, like humming and buzzing.
- 7:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: You know, you can talk more about that too.
- 7:32Dr. Jill Carnahan: But how cool is that and how amazing what's come out of that and that you had this experience with the sisters, you know, your sisterhood.
- 7:41Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I think I want to start with what you mentioned, which is in the beginning of this book.
- 7:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: I have a copy.
- 7:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: Thank you.
- 7:47Dr. Jill Carnahan: There's a special prayer do you want to share to set the tone a little bit about?
- 7:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: Just share that with us.
- 7:52Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 7:52Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 7:53Nicole Fox: Thank you.
- 7:54Nicole Fox: So we have studied the bees since this has happened.
- 7:58Nicole Fox: So were never any beat experts, nor do we claim to be now.
- 8:01Nicole Fox: But through the process, in studying the bees, we kind of looked at, like, the queen bee versus, like, the hive as a tool as a whole.
- 8:09Nicole Fox: And one of the things we've really learned is, like, they are in service to the queen.
- 8:13Nicole Fox: And for us, as we wrote the book, it felt really important to start it with a prayer, because to us, we're.
- 8:18Nicole Fox: We're representing the queen as, like, the divine.
- 8:21Nicole Fox: And so that's how we relate to the queen bee.
- 8:25Nicole Fox: So this is the introduction to the way of the hive.
- 8:28Nicole Fox: This is our prayer.
- 8:30Nicole Fox: No more do we choose me or you.
- 8:33Nicole Fox: We choose me and you.
- 8:36Nicole Fox: We are, we are for you.
- 8:38Nicole Fox: We are you.
- 8:39Nicole Fox: We take up our space.
- 8:41Nicole Fox: We build each other up.
- 8:42Nicole Fox: We already belong.
- 8:44Nicole Fox: We choose community.
- 8:46Nicole Fox: We stand together.
- 8:48Nicole Fox: We create together.
- 8:49Nicole Fox: We cross pollinate.
- 8:51Nicole Fox: We choose more than enough.
- 8:53Nicole Fox: We honor our own guidance.
- 8:55Nicole Fox: We choose sisterhood, sacred belonging, and sustainability.
- 8:59Nicole Fox: We choose the way of the hive.
- 9:02Nicole Fox: No more do we choose one way or another.
- 9:05Nicole Fox: We choose one way and another.
- 9:07Nicole Fox: We choose harmony.
- 9:09Nicole Fox: This is a global reset.
- 9:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, I love it.
- 9:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: And again, anyone out there listening knows that our world is changing and people are more lonely than ever.
- 9:18Dr. Jill Carnahan: I think the biggest factor on illness is really loneliness.
- 9:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: There's nothing bigger that impacts us.
- 9:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: So this concept of community, of sisterhood, and it could be sisterhood, brotherhood, community in many ways, but obviously starting with our female friends and our sisters and our colleagues.
- 9:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: So many years there's been competition and tearing each other down and all the things that we don't want.
- 9:39Dr. Jill Carnahan: And today we're talking about we do want.
- 9:40Dr. Jill Carnahan: And you've always lived that.
- 9:42Dr. Jill Carnahan: I mean, I see your light and the way you go, and I hope that I am the same.
- 9:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: But it's like we know that the more we are just loving one another and having that community, the more that we all benefit.
- 9:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right?
- 9:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: There's no competition.
- 9:53Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I really love that because historically, women can be pretty catty.
- 9:57Dr. Jill Carnahan: So how beautiful.
- 9:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: So you started to love the story we just heard the intro to the book talk about, there's five agreements.
- 10:06Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right?
- 10:06Dr. Jill Carnahan: Is that right?
- 10:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: The center.
- 10:08Nicole Fox: There's actually six agreements.
- 10:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: Are six.
- 10:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: Six.
- 10:10Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 10:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah, let's talk about those a little bit.
- 10:13Nicole Fox: Yeah, absolutely.
- 10:14Nicole Fox: And the thing that's really great about them also, just to let you know, it just really goes into some of the stuff that you were just talking about also.
- 10:21Nicole Fox: You know, obviously, as women, we have, you know, we've all been trained and to kind of experience a certain way of how we relate with one another.
- 10:33Nicole Fox: And so through this process, we have really, like, dove into that and saw, like, what would happen if we as women around the world came together and chose to live by these agreements.
- 10:43Nicole Fox: Like, not just what it would do for us personally, but, like, how could it actually shift the consciousness of the planet?
- 10:49Nicole Fox: And so that's where these hype agreements came from.
- 10:52Nicole Fox: So do you want me just to go through them, really?
- 10:54Dr. Jill Carnahan: I would love to.
- 10:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: And before we do, too, you mentioned your story in that group and what happened.
- 11:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: Is there any deeper personal Nicole story that goes along with this as far as maybe that transformation from that moment till you wrote the book?
- 11:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: I feel like story is so key.
- 11:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: Before we jump into those agreements, is there any other piece for you personally where you were like, this is so important to share with the world, not just your pain and that experience, but since that moment till you wrote the book?
- 11:23Nicole Fox: Yeah, I think that, like, my whole life, I've just really always.
- 11:27Nicole Fox: I mean, I just, you know, I came from a broken family.
- 11:30Nicole Fox: I. I, you know, I was just a normal teenage girl growing up, but I think that there was just a lot of experiences in my life where I just always felt like I didn't fit in, or I felt like I was broken, or there was something wrong with me.
- 11:47Nicole Fox: And so I was.
- 11:49Nicole Fox: I think that's actually been a blessing for me because I believe that's what's kind of helped me to, like, step into this transformational work and to, like, really dive into healing.
- 11:59Nicole Fox: But there's this idea, like, I didn't belong or, like, I was broken.
- 12:06Nicole Fox: And so I think through this, those are some of the agreements that we have actually created.
- 12:11Nicole Fox: Is like, one, we all belong.
- 12:13Nicole Fox: No matter what.
- 12:14Nicole Fox: How whoever you are, we all belong.
- 12:17Nicole Fox: And that we are all sacred and whole.
- 12:18Nicole Fox: Like, we are all come from the divine and whatever that means to you, there is no mistake inside of that.
- 12:25Nicole Fox: And if we can just choose to believe that one thing, like, if we're not broken, then what is available to us, and then the Other one is that we all belong.
- 12:33Nicole Fox: So if I know I belong, it doesn't mean that I need to fit in.
- 12:36Nicole Fox: I can actually fit out, you know, so I can be, like, my unique expression of who I am, and that is exactly who I meant to be.
- 12:44Nicole Fox: And that's exactly what the hive needs.
- 12:46Nicole Fox: That's what the world needs.
- 12:47Nicole Fox: And, like, through that diversity, it's actually supporting.
- 12:50Nicole Fox: It's like, the answer is also part of the question.
- 12:53Nicole Fox: It's what we need is also part, you know, as part of the gift.
- 12:56Nicole Fox: And so I think, to answer your question, is a lot of these agreements that we've moved into, it's been my own transformation, because I didn't actually believe it myself.
- 13:07Nicole Fox: And then what I realized is that a lot of these areas that we've gone into, it actually is a choice.
- 13:13Nicole Fox: Like, we can choose to fit in, or we can choose to believe that we don't fit in.
- 13:18Nicole Fox: It's all a choice.
- 13:19Nicole Fox: And so just in realizing that it's that powerful, that I can just choose to believe that I belong, that just in that alone can create the transformation.
- 13:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: Wow.
- 13:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: I just want to pause there for a moment.
- 13:33Dr. Jill Carnahan: I want to go on to the six.
- 13:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: I know people are anxiously waiting, but I feel like this is so important, because what you've just expressed is common human suffering, like the things it make in your book makes a striking assertion that there's nothing a woman needs to do now to belong.
- 13:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right?
- 13:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: And we've all led to believe we have to perform and we have to be conscientious, and we have to, you know, love and serve, and especially as those of us who are healers, there's this idea that my value comes from what I do, not just being.
- 14:05Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I really love that we've started here because this need, what happens is we in isolation, as you described as a child.
- 14:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: We believe that we're the only ones that doesn't belong.
- 14:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 14:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: That doesn't fit in and back in.
- 14:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: I don't know how junior high was for you, and I was not, like, you know, an outcast, but I also felt like I didn't belong.
- 14:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it's so weird that most young women don't feel like they don't belong.
- 14:26Dr. Jill Carnahan: So this is super common, not just unique to you and me, Nicole.
- 14:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right?
- 14:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: And so as you write this book and share this message, and even adults, you know, at my age, there's still times when I'm like, I remember walking into certain groups or conferences where I'm like, oh, do I fit in?
- 14:42Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do I Belong.
- 14:42Dr. Jill Carnahan: I feel so weird.
- 14:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I really love that you're addressing that.
- 14:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: Why is this deep human need for belonging so sacred?
- 14:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: And why did you start there?
- 14:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because I think there couldn't be a more important place to start.
- 14:55Nicole Fox: Well, I think that if we don't believe we belong, then we're not going to let down our walls and let other.
- 15:01Nicole Fox: And it's interesting what you were saying about, you know, being a teenager.
- 15:06Nicole Fox: I've, you know, this book launched in May of this year and the biggest feedback that I have gotten from adult women is just how they have felt like they were not lovable and that they felt like they are broken.
- 15:21Nicole Fox: And so just in the very first agreement which we say is that we are all sacred and whole.
- 15:28Nicole Fox: Like, just believing that can completely make people feel like if I'm sacred and whole, then that can mean that I, I belong.
- 15:35Nicole Fox: I am lovable.
- 15:36Nicole Fox: And, and it's like we get to start our own journey into self love.
- 15:40Nicole Fox: And the thing, Dr. Jill, that's been like so profound inside of this experience with these other three women is that the work that we've done together, I couldn't do it in a corner by myself.
- 15:51Nicole Fox: And that was the problem is like I was feeling like if I could just get this done, then I'll belong or if I can just achieve this one thing, then I feel like I can be everything I need to be in the world.
- 16:04Nicole Fox: And what I realized was, is that the work that were doing together was like in the sacred witnessing, in the vulnerability, in the trusting of one another.
- 16:15Nicole Fox: That's where the real healing came.
- 16:17Nicole Fox: It was like I was trying it one way and I wasn't getting anywhere.
- 16:22Nicole Fox: And then all of a sudden, like this deep transformation was happening.
- 16:25Nicole Fox: But it was because of the safety that were all like agreeing to.
- 16:29Nicole Fox: It's like, no matter what you can bring the good, bad and ugly, you don't have to change anything.
- 16:34Nicole Fox: And no matter what, we're choosing to be in relationship with each other and accept all of it without having to change anything.
- 16:42Nicole Fox: And then from on a deeper level, as were exploring this, were like, gosh, this is like what the world needs.
- 16:49Nicole Fox: Like, instead of us trying to convince each other that we need to change, to belong or to be accepted, why don't we agree to just live in harmony?
- 17:00Nicole Fox: Harmony does not mean that we have to agree.
- 17:04Nicole Fox: Harmony means that we can both coexist and they can both be okay.
- 17:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: Hey guys.
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- 17:47Dr. Jill Carnahan: So profound.
- 17:47Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like I said, I think this is important to pause for a moment because it's so important.
- 17:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: One thing that comes to mind that we see all over social media is this polished fake AI versions of women that really aren't real at all.
- 18:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: And then the climbing of younger, older, every type of women to try to be what they're supposed to be and actually abandoning themselves.
- 18:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: What do you think happens to a woman who spends decades shape shifting to try to belong?
- 18:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like, how does that harm the soul of a woman?
- 18:19Nicole Fox: Well, I think what, I mean, we've all been there, right?
- 18:22Nicole Fox: So I can just speak to what it did for me because I've been there, done that and I think what it did is it made me stop trusting myself because it's like if you're not trusting who you are and what you represent and you're trying to change it, then anything you think or say, you're not actually going to believe yourself.
- 18:43Nicole Fox: Yeah, I don't know if that makes sense, but it's like it's.
- 18:47Nicole Fox: For me, what it was doing was, it was just like I wasn't able to like really trust that I knew the right answers for myself because I, there was something wrong with me that I needed to fix it and change it to be something different.
- 18:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: Nicole, it makes perfect sense.
- 19:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: I remember when writing my own book about my journey and healing and really understanding so I had to go back to my younger self and love her and accept her fully, just like we're talking about.
- 19:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 19:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I actually did a lot of work around reparenting that 5 year old that felt unloved, unaccepted, all those things.
- 19:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: But what I realized is your point right there so was so powerful because I could not re, love and heal my younger self until I trusted myself and I spent years kind of shutting down.
- 19:29Dr. Jill Carnahan: In fact, I believe that my cancer and Crohn's disease in my twenties in medical school was I was so good at shutting down, to dissociate from pain and suffering and all of this, to just go forward and drive and do the medical training and all that stuff.
- 19:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: I really lost touch with my body.
- 19:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: You know, talk about even your first story there with the pain in your gut.
- 19:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: You were sitting there and actually feeling that.
- 19:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: And that was the start of the healing and this whole incredible thing that turned into a book.
- 19:54Dr. Jill Carnahan: But you had to actually feel the pain and not dissociate.
- 19:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: Whereas for me, for years what I did is I practiced.
- 20:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: I was really good.
- 20:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: And when you say high pain tolerance, a lot of us women have that all that is really freaking good at dissociating from our own pain in our own body.
- 20:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: But that healing is like.
- 20:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: And so that trusting of yourself, you have to come back into your body and have a safe place of community where you can actually re.
- 20:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: Feel some of the pains but actually be okay in that space and trust that your body's wise enough to give you that information.
- 20:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: Now I don't want to take over the discussion.
- 20:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: I want you to go on to the next agreement.
- 20:26Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I think this is so relevant.
- 20:28Nicole Fox: Because that's, I just want to say like the joke about what you're just sharing is that we think like by us not going into the pain or acknowledging it, that we're hiding from it.
- 20:37Nicole Fox: But for me it's always running the show.
- 20:39Nicole Fox: Like it's always there.
- 20:41Nicole Fox: It's pretending like it doesn't exist or something.
- 20:44Nicole Fox: But the funny like the joke of it all is that it's always there.
- 20:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah.
- 20:49Nicole Fox: And so like when we actually allow ourselves just to be honest with whatever's going on internally, like then all of a sudden it can release, it can let go and then it's.
- 20:58Nicole Fox: We're more free.
- 20:59Nicole Fox: So I totally hear what you're saying,.
- 21:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I just, I had this total crazy image of like, you know, like a eight year old boy who's at the window, he's like making faces to his friend or whatever and, and they're just ignoring.
- 21:13Dr. Jill Carnahan: And this gets louder and louder.
- 21:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's like our body is like kind of like the boy or a little girl like hello.
- 21:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I. Hello.
- 21:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: You know, like this kind of.
- 21:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: Are you listening?
- 21:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: I might hear because I look medical training, I was just driven and I was ignoring the pain and totally dissociated.
- 21:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: And my body was like, if we can't get your attention, we might manifest as breast cancer.
- 21:35Dr. Jill Carnahan: And again, there was more to it.
- 21:36Dr. Jill Carnahan: Than that.
- 21:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: But there's a big freaking piece of my cancer that was my body trying to get my attention, right?
- 21:43Dr. Jill Carnahan: Screaming out like the boy at the window.
- 21:45Nicole Fox: Well, it's amazing.
- 21:46Nicole Fox: So I don't know if you know this, but I got my master's in spiritual psychology and it was a two year program.
- 21:53Nicole Fox: It was amazing.
- 21:55Nicole Fox: But it's actually one of the things that really got me involved in this integrative world was because I was like, oh, my gosh, this is the missing piece.
- 22:03Nicole Fox: Like, this is the part where practitioners are not going into.
- 22:06Nicole Fox: And it's like, how is disease being brought on by our thoughts or by our trauma?
- 22:10Nicole Fox: And it's the one place nobody goes.
- 22:12Nicole Fox: I mean, some people do, but it's not generally practiced.
- 22:16Nicole Fox: So.
- 22:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: Wow.
- 22:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: And again, you've had experience.
- 22:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like, a lot of our interactions have been your organization of some of the best conferences in the world and all the cool things that you've done.
- 22:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: So it's been really fun to know you there.
- 22:27Dr. Jill Carnahan: And now this part, like I said, I. I was like, you have to be on the podcast.
- 22:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: So we talked about one agreement.
- 22:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do you want to start going into some of the other ones?
- 22:33Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because I think each one we can kind of dive into.
- 22:35Dr. Jill Carnahan: These are so good.
- 22:36Nicole Fox: Absolutely.
- 22:37Nicole Fox: So I'll just start with the first one.
- 22:39Nicole Fox: So I'm just going to read it because we have a little tagline and I just don't want to mess it up since I'm on live.
- 22:44Nicole Fox: Okay.
- 22:44Nicole Fox: So number one is we are sacred and whole.
- 22:46Nicole Fox: We do not see each other small.
- 22:49Nicole Fox: We see each other as whole.
- 22:50Nicole Fox: We hold each other in our highest possibility, even if it doesn't look that way.
- 22:56Nicole Fox: Number two is we all belong.
- 22:58Nicole Fox: We accept and love all of you.
- 23:01Nicole Fox: This is a place where we know each other.
- 23:03Nicole Fox: Or, excuse me, this is a place where we know each of us already belongs just as we are.
- 23:07Nicole Fox: There's nothing we need to do.
- 23:10Nicole Fox: Number three, we honor ourselves and each other.
- 23:14Nicole Fox: We believe that all women have a divine guidance system, and we honor how it expresses itself.
- 23:20Nicole Fox: We do not try to fix each other.
- 23:21Nicole Fox: We do not gossip, and we take up our space.
- 23:26Nicole Fox: Number four, we learn from each other.
- 23:29Nicole Fox: We get to own, love and accept all aspects of ourselves.
- 23:32Nicole Fox: In what we see reflected in each of our hive sisters, welcome all of each other.
- 23:37Nicole Fox: The light as well as the shadow.
- 23:40Nicole Fox: Number five, we live sustainably.
- 23:43Nicole Fox: We choose to live in harmony with ourselves, then with others and our world.
- 23:47Nicole Fox: We no longer create from depletion.
- 23:50Nicole Fox: We trust ourselves to know what is and is not ours to do.
- 23:54Nicole Fox: And Then number six is we are stronger together.
- 23:57Nicole Fox: We do not do things alone.
- 23:59Nicole Fox: No be left behind.
- 24:00Nicole Fox: We hold your dreams and stories as sacred.
- 24:03Nicole Fox: We see your desires magnetizing to you.
- 24:05Nicole Fox: Right now we are meant to cross pollinate.
- 24:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, such good stuff there.
- 24:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: Okay, so we've got a lot to talk about.
- 24:13Dr. Jill Carnahan: But one thing that stood out to me that I really love.
- 24:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: I grew up in a very small town in farm country in Illinois.
- 24:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: And the beauty of that was they knew community.
- 24:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: Anyone was sick or there was a death in the family or whatever happened, people were over there with meals and they were, you know, taking care of one another.
- 24:29Dr. Jill Carnahan: So what they did do, right, was there was so much support community.
- 24:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: And in that way, they were in each other's business.
- 24:37Nicole Fox: Right?
- 24:37Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 24:38Dr. Jill Carnahan: So on this other side here, the thing that why I left that area and one reason I always never.
- 24:43Dr. Jill Carnahan: There was one piece I didn't love, and that was the gossip.
- 24:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it was often paved or coded in a way that was like, oh, this is a prayer request or something.
- 24:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 24:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: But then someone called the neighbor and they'd go.
- 24:55Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it was stuff that was really painful, private, hurtful, and I never like that.
- 25:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I noticed in one of your agreements, we will not gossip.
- 25:04Dr. Jill Carnahan: I actually really love that word is in there because it's kind of an old word.
- 25:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: We don't talk a lot about that.
- 25:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: And we can clothe it in that community.
- 25:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: It was a faith community.
- 25:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: So it was like, let's prayer request kind of thing, which they meant well.
- 25:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 25:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I never liked, like, wait, you're talking about someone.
- 25:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do you have the permission to share that?
- 25:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because, like, medically the same as if I talked about a patient, I would never, ever share anything someone told me in confidence.
- 25:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: So that gossip thing can be really harmful and hurtful to people.
- 25:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: And then I want to talk about right next to it, which was, we can take up space.
- 25:36Dr. Jill Carnahan: How powerful is that?
- 25:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because we're all so often, like, shrunken, small, because we're taught.
- 25:41Dr. Jill Carnahan: Again, my community growing up was women are, you know, more.
- 25:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: They're serving and they're helping and they're loving, but we're not supposed to be allowed and necessary leaders and all of that.
- 25:49Dr. Jill Carnahan: So let's talk about those two things.
- 25:51Dr. Jill Carnahan: How does that work into this?
- 25:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: And how powerful is that you're taking a stand against gossip and giving a woman permission to take up space?
- 26:00Nicole Fox: Well, there's two things.
- 26:01Nicole Fox: So the first thing is it's like kind of what were talking about earlier is like how were taught as young women to compete with one another.
- 26:07Nicole Fox: And like, I feel like it all is kind of in the same energetic.
- 26:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yes.
- 26:11Nicole Fox: And so what were very clear we needed to do for ourselves and for one another was to create the sacred container.
- 26:19Nicole Fox: And so it had to be dealt with.
- 26:20Nicole Fox: Like, there is the sister wound.
- 26:22Nicole Fox: We, we had it, A lot of us have experienced it.
- 26:24Nicole Fox: And so it was just very clear, like, that we do not tolerate gossip.
- 26:28Nicole Fox: And if it happens, like, we don't engage in it.
- 26:31Nicole Fox: It's not supportive and it's not part of where we want, who we want to be in the world or where we're headed.
- 26:36Nicole Fox: There's just no space for it.
- 26:38Nicole Fox: And so I think, like, we just were aware and it's like you could read this book and say, like, these are very simple concepts.
- 26:47Nicole Fox: They are very simple concepts, but they're also very profound that if we all practice it, like, it can make a big difference.
- 26:53Nicole Fox: And to even acknowledge, like, where are we gossiping?
- 26:56Nicole Fox: Where are we speaking, you know, hurtful about another or sharing something that is not ours to share.
- 27:02Nicole Fox: So it just felt like an important part to create that safety so that we felt safe to go deeper with one another.
- 27:09Nicole Fox: And since there was four of us, you know, I've never been in a group of four women where they've never talked about another sister, you know, or another friend.
- 27:17Nicole Fox: And so it just isn't tolerated.
- 27:19Nicole Fox: So we all feel really safe.
- 27:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: So that's really the core, isn't it?
- 27:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because what you're doing, it's again, it's very similar to my medical encounters with a patient.
- 27:28Dr. Jill Carnahan: When they share, they know there is no way unless I'm subpoenaed by a judge or something.
- 27:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: But otherwise, there's no way that I will ever share that sacred information.
- 27:39Dr. Jill Carnahan: So there's a place where I will hear things that they have never told anyone else because.
- 27:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: So you're creating that same, almost like, you know, medical HIPAA compliance, but it's a much more beaut way.
- 27:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: And talk about, in your experience or maybe with these women, how many women that you know of, not only in your intimate group, but as you've gone in the world with this, have sister, mother wounds like this that have cause or friends.
- 28:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 28:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: It can be any sort of woman relationship, but how often are you having these, that we have to heal these old wounds?
- 28:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 28:11Nicole Fox: There's no woman that I have come across, and clearly through this work, we talk to a lot of that doesn't have a sister wound at some level.
- 28:19Nicole Fox: And it could be through the mother, through a family member, or just another woman, but it exists.
- 28:24Nicole Fox: And part of it is because.
- 28:26Nicole Fox: And I think this is really important that I would love to share, but one of the key agreements that we have, which is agreement number four, is that we learn from each other.
- 28:35Nicole Fox: And so what I think in the past has happened is that we have sized ourselves up by comparing ourselves to other women in the world.
- 28:44Nicole Fox: So if you're really this amazing, powerful woman, maybe that's been.
- 28:49Nicole Fox: That makes me feel intimidated.
- 28:51Nicole Fox: Right.
- 28:52Nicole Fox: And instead, we're re.
- 28:53Nicole Fox: We're shifting.
- 28:54Nicole Fox: The way we.
- 28:55Nicole Fox: We talk about this is that we as women are each other's mirrors.
- 28:59Nicole Fox: So, doctor, I can look at you and be like, wow, she is such a powerful creator.
- 29:05Nicole Fox: Look at all the amazing things she's doing in the world.
- 29:07Nicole Fox: And I can, like, acknowledge all of the things that you're doing.
- 29:10Nicole Fox: Right.
- 29:11Nicole Fox: Instead of making it like, you're big and I'm small, what I can do is say, okay, if Jill is showing me how courageous and powerful and beautiful a woman can be, then I get to own that inside of myself.
- 29:27Nicole Fox: And so when I see someone that I think owns something that I don't have, I get to stop and pause and be like, I am powerful.
- 29:34Nicole Fox: I am beautiful.
- 29:35Nicole Fox: I am courageous.
- 29:37Nicole Fox: Thank you, Dr. Jill, for being that reflection for me so that I can own those qualities inside of myself.
- 29:43Nicole Fox: So now I don't have.
- 29:44Nicole Fox: Have to, like, compare myself.
- 29:46Nicole Fox: I get to actually rise up with you.
- 29:49Nicole Fox: And I think that's, like, when we've been hearing about the rise of the feminine, to me, I feel like that's what it is.
- 29:56Nicole Fox: It's like we all get to build each other up.
- 29:58Nicole Fox: We all get to rise, and we get to celebrate how magnificent we are, and then imagine what magic and beauty and, like, who knows what can be created from that type of space of women in relationship with one another, just even random strangers.
- 30:14Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 30:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah.
- 30:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: Wow.
- 30:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: I love that framework so much.
- 30:20Nicole Fox: Can I say one more thing about it that feels really important?
- 30:24Nicole Fox: It goes for the negative also.
- 30:26Nicole Fox: So let's say I see a woman, and I see her as judgy, or she's being awful to her husband, or, you know, like, the places where we go into that.
- 30:36Nicole Fox: That other energetic it.
- 30:38Nicole Fox: She gets to be my mirror for that, too.
- 30:40Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yes.
- 30:41Nicole Fox: Where am I treating my husband awfully?
- 30:44Nicole Fox: Where am I being judgmental in the world?
- 30:46Nicole Fox: Like, it.
- 30:47Nicole Fox: It works on both ways.
- 30:49Nicole Fox: And so, again, if I really want to rise and be the most, like, loving, powerful woman on this planet, then I get to look at both.
- 30:57Nicole Fox: And if someone is showing me that, I get to look inside myself and see where am I being?
- 31:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, I love that so much.
- 31:04Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I love that you said, wait, there's more.
- 31:06Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because there.
- 31:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: This is maybe the more important part.
- 31:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: Or at as important as the pot, like, so good.
- 31:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: I recently interviewed Dr. Demartini, who's this incredible teacher, and he took a woman through this wasn't on my show, but on another podcast I'd watched of him.
- 31:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: He took a woman who was upset at a betrayal of another woman.
- 31:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: And she had shared this woman incompetence about an affair.
- 31:29Dr. Jill Carnahan: And the woman told her husband and it broke up the marriage, ended up being beautiful for her in the end.
- 31:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: But Dr. Dean Martini started with, what do you see in this woman that you're afraid of or that you don't like?
- 31:41Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it's this betrayal, right?
- 31:42Dr. Jill Carnahan: And then he said right to her, where have you betrayed?
- 31:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: You know, like, where have you?
- 31:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it was so interesting to me.
- 31:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: I just was blown away because she, not too long into that, came up with a very clear where she saw herself in that light.
- 31:55Dr. Jill Carnahan: And they said, okay, give me another example.
- 31:57Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I'm like, oh, my gosh, two.
- 31:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: And then he said, give me another.
- 31:59Dr. Jill Carnahan: He went on to like 6, 7, 8.
- 32:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: And he's like, okay, we could be here forever.
- 32:04Dr. Jill Carnahan: But you see, what I'm trying to say is you are actually reacting to a hidden dark spot in yourself that you are not acknowledging that you are actually the reason why you're so perturbed by her behaviors, because you have that in yourself.
- 32:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it made me really think about, okay, where am I getting like, oh, I don't like that person who's judgy.
- 32:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm like, oh, where am I judging, right?
- 32:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: Or that person, like, whatever kind of thing.
- 32:28Dr. Jill Carnahan: And so it shifted exactly what you're saying.
- 32:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it's hard, right, because it's like when we're really irritated by someone and usually we believe that we're irritated because, well, I'm not like that, right?
- 32:40Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm not dishonest, I'm not judgy, Whatever thing we could come up with.
- 32:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: But then when you flip it like he did with this woman, and by the end he had her, like, thanking that woman because the way her behavior brought to light this thing, and then now she's been with her daughter, like, all the things that came from that really horrible situation transformed her life completely.
- 33:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: And she's in a much better spot.
- 33:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: And by the end, she's like, I need to Go tell this woman thank you.
- 33:06Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I love that because.
- 33:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: So.
- 33:07Nicole Fox: Yeah, really.
- 33:08Nicole Fox: And it gives us an opportunity to forgive ourselves and have some compassion for ourselves and for others.
- 33:14Nicole Fox: Because then we're like, oh, wait, I. I have that too.
- 33:17Nicole Fox: Like, let me give that love.
- 33:20Nicole Fox: Or that might.
- 33:20Nicole Fox: It might show something that we don't want to look at, right?
- 33:23Nicole Fox: Where we don't like that piece of ourselves.
- 33:25Nicole Fox: And it's like, those places need love too, so.
- 33:28Dr. Jill Carnahan: Exactly.
- 33:29Nicole Fox: Deep work.
- 33:30Nicole Fox: And it is.
- 33:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's like.
- 33:31Nicole Fox: And like I said, I can't do it by myself.
- 33:34Nicole Fox: Like, if there's something I can't see inside of myself and another woman is showing it to me, I'm so grateful that she's showing it to me because I might not have never seen it without her.
- 33:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, so powerful.
- 33:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: I really love that piece.
- 33:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: One thing you do in this community and what you're sharing in the book is, you know, how to be really, how to be in community, how to retrain women to really be in that place.
- 33:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: One thing I think is important is so often when we're in these intimate groups and starting to go deep, we're sharing deep pains and deep hurt and deep sufferings and deep shame points and all the stuff that we don't normally have the freedom to share.
- 34:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: How do you sit with a woman and not do what we often do, which is rescue, correct, or be like, oh, or share our story and override their story.
- 34:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: What are some principles where you can be with someone, create a container, let them be all their flawed, messy, beautiful self, but not step in to do a rescue or correct or judge or all the things that we typically do.
- 34:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do you have any hints about how to address that?
- 34:32Nicole Fox: That.
- 34:32Nicole Fox: I love this question so much so I feel like this is where we go into the sacred belonging piece.
- 34:38Nicole Fox: And, you know, I'll just talk about the four of us because we've given each other permission to go there, of the work we're doing.
- 34:47Nicole Fox: But, you know, we all.
- 34:48Nicole Fox: We've gotten to know each other very well, and we can see each other's things, right?
- 34:53Nicole Fox: Where they're like, if you could just.
- 34:54Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do this, especially when you're working on a book together, right?
- 34:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: It all comes out.
- 35:00Nicole Fox: But what we.
- 35:01Nicole Fox: But the thing that we started doing is we just listen, we don't give advice, and we believe that we each have a divine guidance system inside of us that has the answer.
- 35:13Nicole Fox: So I might think I have the answer for you, but, like, who am I to know what's right for you to do like, that's?
- 35:19Nicole Fox: Not my lane.
- 35:20Nicole Fox: That's your lane.
- 35:21Nicole Fox: And if I am trying to live my life for you and rescue all these people in my life like a.
- 35:28Nicole Fox: It's exhausting.
- 35:29Nicole Fox: But on top of it's like we're almost taking away the power and the beauty of believing that people have those answers inside of themselves.
- 35:39Nicole Fox: Do you know what I mean?
- 35:40Nicole Fox: So it's like, yes, I'm actually stealing and robbing something from you, that if I gave you the space to find it within yourself, it's going to be so much more profound and healing than if I, I were to give it to you, for you to get it for yourself.
- 35:56Nicole Fox: That's where, like it actually lands.
- 35:59Nicole Fox: So it might take a long time and we might have to learn to be patient with one another.
- 36:04Nicole Fox: But if we can believe that someone is going to get there's no rescuing.
- 36:09Nicole Fox: God's got a divine plan.
- 36:10Nicole Fox: Like, let's let it unfold and let's witness what happens inside of that.
- 36:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, Nicole, once again, this is so powerful.
- 36:18Dr. Jill Carnahan: Just today I was talking to a friend who is.
- 36:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: We're kind of the same.
- 36:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: We're, you know, always consulting.
- 36:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: Whether it's like a healer, an acupuncturist or massage therapist or physical therapist or an intuitive or a psychic or a, you know, like all of these people that were like, oh, can you help me?
- 36:32Dr. Jill Carnahan: Can you give me wisdom?
- 36:32Dr. Jill Carnahan: I need to help here.
- 36:33Dr. Jill Carnahan: And what were talking about and what I was sharing at this moment and she shared with me at other times is, sweetheart, you got everything you need inside of you.
- 36:41Dr. Jill Carnahan: And right now you're seeking, seeking, grasping.
- 36:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I've been there.
- 36:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: That's the way I can see it, right?
- 36:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: You already have what you need.
- 36:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: And if you just go to that place of quietness with the divine, like for me, God always gives me that wisdom, but I somehow think I need to outsource it.
- 36:57Dr. Jill Carnahan: And, and not that we can't, like, listen to our friends.
- 36:59Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because so often when I'm in crisis, I'm calling all my dear friends, I'm like, this is what's happening.
- 37:04Dr. Jill Carnahan: What do you think?
- 37:05Dr. Jill Carnahan: And, and sometimes through your friends, the divine speaks too.
- 37:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: So all of that is true.
- 37:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I really love, because my nature is to go seeking to someone to validate, either validate me or give me the wisdom that I already have.
- 37:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: And this, like, going back to the source and what I've done, like, non negotiable for me, is this morning time where I'm journaling and praying and I Always get downloads for the day there.
- 37:26Dr. Jill Carnahan: And my best wisdom is there.
- 37:28Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 37:28Dr. Jill Carnahan: Communion with the divine.
- 37:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: How does that work with your agreements and just encouraging women to kind of find that sacred wisdom?
- 37:37Nicole Fox: Well, I think what you're saying is so profound because how many times does someone give you advice and then you feel like you have to do what they said.
- 37:43Nicole Fox: Right.
- 37:44Nicole Fox: But it doesn't actually feel in alignment with what you're feeling is right for you.
- 37:48Nicole Fox: And then it's like, are you trusting somebody else or are you trusting yourself?
- 37:53Nicole Fox: And so again, it's robbing you of.
- 37:58Nicole Fox: I mean, we've all been there.
- 37:59Nicole Fox: I've.
- 38:00Nicole Fox: We've all gone to the psychics.
- 38:02Nicole Fox: Yes.
- 38:04Nicole Fox: And all of it.
- 38:05Nicole Fox: But I feel the real healers on the planet are the ones that create the space for people to do their work and to heal themselves.
- 38:14Nicole Fox: Because if we become dependent one another, I, I don't actually believe that's where the healing happens.
- 38:20Nicole Fox: I could be wrong.
- 38:21Nicole Fox: But.
- 38:21Nicole Fox: And, and the other thing that you said that was really important was the conversations with friends.
- 38:26Nicole Fox: Sometimes just in the sharing and the reflection in the conversation is where we find our answers.
- 38:31Nicole Fox: So it's actually, that is a gift that our sisters and our friends, our family, will give to us to explore, because sometimes you don't have those thoughts.
- 38:41Nicole Fox: And then it's through the conversation or through the experience that the answers actually come to us.
- 38:45Nicole Fox: So it's in those relationships that we get the answers.
- 38:47Nicole Fox: But there still are answers.
- 38:49Nicole Fox: They come from us.
- 38:52Nicole Fox: So I don't know if I answered your question, but it feels important that we do believe and trust ourselves and learn to trust ourselves.
- 38:59Nicole Fox: Like that is part of the healing.
- 39:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, it's so important.
- 39:03Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I think again, more than ever before, and especially with AI and all this information that we have, the one thing I cannot replicate is God's wisdom and intuition and these deep, profound kinds of things that are not illogical necessarily, which in my experience, sometimes the most profound knowing and understandings, they don't make sense logically.
- 39:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 39:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I have to trust that even if it doesn't make sense, there's still a truth there.
- 39:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: And that's.
- 39:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: And that's part of the feminine.
- 39:32Nicole Fox: Right.
- 39:32Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's like this almost like I always say, it's more like you're.
- 39:35Dr. Jill Carnahan: Your logic has a.
- 39:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: You know, you could write a paragraph and your intuitive.
- 39:40Dr. Jill Carnahan: Might be an image or a feeling or a thought, and it's not always clear.
- 39:43Dr. Jill Carnahan: It might be kind of vague, but it can be just as powerful.
- 39:47Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 39:48Nicole Fox: 100.
- 39:49Nicole Fox: And yeah, I, I do feel that just in the believing in ourselves and loving ourselves and trusting ourselves, like that alone can just be the healing.
- 39:58Nicole Fox: That is it.
- 39:59Nicole Fox: That is it.
- 40:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 40:02Nicole Fox: And the self love, that's the other piece.
- 40:04Nicole Fox: Like really loving ourselves.
- 40:06Nicole Fox: And I, I don't know about you, but I've been on my own personal journey and it's, it is an onion layer and it's like we get to keep on going deeper and deeper, but there, I don't think there's anything more healing than us just really learning to just accept and love who we are.
- 40:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: Could not agree more.
- 40:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like, at the core, unconditional love is where it is at.
- 40:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: So.
- 40:25Nicole Fox: And it's the hardest thing, right.
- 40:27Nicole Fox: For sometimes for us to get there with ourselves.
- 40:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah.
- 40:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: So because of your book, you have probably studied bees to some extent because you're making this metaphor with the bees.
- 40:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: Do you want to tell just a little bit about the pearls of the wisdom of the bees and maybe some of the things where you're like, oh, this is a very applicable lesson that we could learn from bees and the hive?
- 40:47Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 40:48Nicole Fox: Thank you.
- 40:49Nicole Fox: So there's a few that are sticking out to me right now.
- 40:52Nicole Fox: Probably one of them is because I feel very.
- 40:55Nicole Fox: One of the things we really have been working on is sustainability.
- 40:58Nicole Fox: So, like, inside of our book, we have a sustainability quiz on our website too.
- 41:02Nicole Fox: But it looks at all the different areas in our life to see, like, where are we living in sustainability?
- 41:09Nicole Fox: And our definition of sustainability is just really living in harmony with ourselves, with others and the world.
- 41:16Nicole Fox: But when we look at the bees, it's amazing how much they rest.
- 41:21Nicole Fox: You know how you hear about, like, the busy bees, huh?
- 41:24Nicole Fox: Actually, not that busy.
- 41:27Nicole Fox: Actually, there's a lot of rest that happens.
- 41:31Nicole Fox: So that's one of the things that they are sustainable.
- 41:34Nicole Fox: The other thing I love about the bees is they have all these different types of bees that have different jobs.
- 41:41Nicole Fox: Right.
- 41:41Nicole Fox: Or different personalities.
- 41:43Nicole Fox: And there's no be trying.
- 41:46Nicole Fox: Like, there's not a worker bee trying to be like a protector bee or, you know, the drones.
- 41:53Nicole Fox: Like, they are who they are.
- 41:56Nicole Fox: And so one of the things we always say to each other is let it be via be.
- 41:59Nicole Fox: Like, let's not try to change who we are.
- 42:01Nicole Fox: Let's just be who we are.
- 42:02Nicole Fox: And it's so important that they each be does their job, because without it, there would not be the harmony inside of the hive.
- 42:11Nicole Fox: And so for us looking at our world, how we're all trying to morph or be something different, it's kind of interesting, like, how are we a disservice to our communities by doing that?
- 42:23Nicole Fox: So there's that.
- 42:23Nicole Fox: And then obviously the one that I shared, which has been a really profound one for us, was just about the queen, just really honoring the queen first.
- 42:32Nicole Fox: And so everything we do, any event, like even in our gatherings together, we meet every week for a couple of hours, and we always start our container with a prayer and just bringing in the divine and just knowing that, like, divine and then trusting ourselves again.
- 42:49Nicole Fox: It came from the bees in that they know what is theirs to do and what is not theirs to do as well.
- 42:55Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, gosh.
- 42:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: That's a hitting.
- 42:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: Another really powerful lesson, which is we often take on things that are our responsibility that we have no control over.
- 43:02Dr. Jill Carnahan: So you're reminding each other, like, let it go.
- 43:05Dr. Jill Carnahan: Would you say be the be.
- 43:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: Let it be or.
- 43:09Nicole Fox: Yeah, another thing that you were bringing up also.
- 43:13Nicole Fox: But in our studying of the be as were just.
- 43:16Nicole Fox: It was so profound to learn that the beekeepers are some of the healthiest humans on the planet.
- 43:23Nicole Fox: And it's because that they are surrounded by the buzzing of the frequency of these bees.
- 43:29Nicole Fox: And, you know, there's a lot of different information about where the bees actually.
- 43:34Nicole Fox: The herz.
- 43:35Nicole Fox: Where they actually are vibrating.
- 43:37Nicole Fox: But some of it shows that it actually is at the vibration of love and the same vibration of creation.
- 43:44Nicole Fox: And so I. I mean, honestly, I believe that at that retreat, that's what happened is that there was that frequency that was coming in and I was actually like.
- 43:54Nicole Fox: It was going into potting.
- 43:55Nicole Fox: It was like moving and healing and.
- 43:57Nicole Fox: And so I'm.
- 43:58Nicole Fox: I'm fascinated.
- 43:59Nicole Fox: I have a lot to learn about the bees, but they definitely have a lot to teach us.
- 44:04Nicole Fox: Us.
- 44:04Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, gosh.
- 44:05Dr. Jill Carnahan: I've done a lot of work around the frequencies and the.
- 44:07Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I put like 530 hertz.
- 44:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm.
- 44:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: A lot of my music is on that herz because I feel.
- 44:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: I feel it like deeply that.
- 44:14Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I really believe in that.
- 44:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I feel like there's so much more.
- 44:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like you said, I just scratched this.
- 44:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's just like.
- 44:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: It feels good to me, but I don't know all the data so interesting.
- 44:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm looking to my left.
- 44:23Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm going to try to show you guys this.
- 44:24Dr. Jill Carnahan: And this just hit me like, as you talked about the beekeeper.
- 44:27Dr. Jill Carnahan: So I have on my wall this beautiful painting.
- 44:30Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm going to just do this.
- 44:31Nicole Fox: This.
- 44:31Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's called Be Joyful, Be Happy.
- 44:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: And in that in the corner, you.
- 44:36Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's Hard to see, but there's bees all over there and there's hives over there and there's a beekeeper in the corner.
- 44:43Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it literally.
- 44:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: A dear friend of mine who is the wife of a pastor actually painted this for me locally.
- 44:49Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like, and it was.
- 44:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: I saw it in her studio and I'm like, oh.
- 44:53Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like it just my whole body and it's so interesting.
- 44:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: We're talking about that.
- 44:57Dr. Jill Carnahan: I never really thought.
- 44:57Dr. Jill Carnahan: I mean, I knew the bees are on there, the hive, the past, it was hard to see.
- 45:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: But in that whole painting is the hive pattern all over the art.
- 45:06Dr. Jill Carnahan: And it's right here beside me in my most precious space because it's meant so much.
- 45:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: How cool is that?
- 45:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: Like, it's just.
- 45:12Nicole Fox: That is so cool.
- 45:13Nicole Fox: I love it.
- 45:14Nicole Fox: And now you're even more present to the energy.
- 45:16Nicole Fox: Probably.
- 45:17Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm just like, okay, that's going to mean a whole new level from what we had, our conversation in your book and everything.
- 45:21Nicole Fox: Totally.
- 45:22Nicole Fox: And the thing that's also like just being a functional medicine provider, you know, learning about or you probably knowing about the hertz and the frequency of the.
- 45:30Nicole Fox: Also they had found.
- 45:32Nicole Fox: And I could totally be butchering the story.
- 45:34Nicole Fox: So don't.
- 45:36Nicole Fox: I believe that they had found some honey in the pyramids in Egypt.
- 45:42Nicole Fox: Some old honey that was like thousands of years old and it still was like you could still eat it.
- 45:49Nicole Fox: It's like one of the only foods that you don't have to add anything for it to like continue to be sustainable.
- 45:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: Wow.
- 45:58Nicole Fox: Like, yeah, I'm totally butchering probably how to communicate this.
- 46:03Nicole Fox: But there's also something very healing about the honey.
- 46:07Nicole Fox: And I've heard, not that I know anyone, but that we could literally sustain our.
- 46:12Nicole Fox: Ourselves off honey alone.
- 46:14Dr. Jill Carnahan: I believe it because it has a propolis and all the healing immune factors people use it for and.
- 46:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, love.
- 46:20Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 46:21Dr. Jill Carnahan: I want to kind of close with a few very personal questions if you're willing to answer.
- 46:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: Because I think that people first of all, story always drives the meaning.
- 46:29Dr. Jill Carnahan: And just your story with your sisters and how that developed so powerful.
- 46:32Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I love that it's now going out in the world with your book, which is why I wanted to have you on.
- 46:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: But let's see, let's ask.
- 46:40Dr. Jill Carnahan: What have you finally stopped apologizing for?
- 46:47Nicole Fox: I used to be a big apologizer.
- 46:50Nicole Fox: It's a practice and I. I'm sure I don't know if you've ever heard this, but I just.
- 46:57Nicole Fox: I try not to apologize.
- 47:00Nicole Fox: I do apologize.
- 47:01Nicole Fox: I just don't use the Words I'm sorry.
- 47:03Nicole Fox: So there.
- 47:04Nicole Fox: It feels like there's a difference energy between the word I'm sorry, like there's something wrong with me versus I apologize.
- 47:10Nicole Fox: Like I consciously have done something that I just need to own.
- 47:13Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah.
- 47:14Nicole Fox: You know, so I would say the thing that I stopped saying I'm sorry for is, like, bumping into people or taking up space or shining my light or apologizing for who I am.
- 47:26Nicole Fox: So if I do, you know, we still.
- 47:29Nicole Fox: I still get very uncomfortable in my old patterning, but I've learned to thank people instead of saying I'm sorry.
- 47:36Nicole Fox: So, like, if I feel something, I'll just say, thank you for tolerating this or thank you for, you know, waiting for me, even though I'm a little late, instead of saying, I'm sorry, I'm late.
- 47:46Nicole Fox: And so I just.
- 47:47Nicole Fox: In.
- 47:47Nicole Fox: Just in general, I'm just thanking people for their patience and for their love versus for apologizing for who I am.
- 47:54Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, that's so good.
- 47:55Dr. Jill Carnahan: I love that.
- 47:56Dr. Jill Carnahan: It's just really powerful.
- 47:58Dr. Jill Carnahan: I hope people listening are taking notes.
- 48:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: So let's think about a woman listening in her car, on her walk, on her jog, you know, in the gym right now.
- 48:09Dr. Jill Carnahan: And she's accomplished.
- 48:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: She's taking care of everyone.
- 48:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: Yeah.
- 48:12Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 48:13Dr. Jill Carnahan: And everybody thinks she's doing beautifully.
- 48:16Nicole Fox: Right.
- 48:16Dr. Jill Carnahan: We all know this woman.
- 48:18Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm touched as I say it, because I know I've been there before.
- 48:20Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right.
- 48:22Dr. Jill Carnahan: Privately, she's exhausted and lonely, and she's wondering who's going to take care of me.
- 48:27Dr. Jill Carnahan: What would you say to her right now?
- 48:31Nicole Fox: I would tell her that we are stronger together, and it is a choice.
- 48:37Nicole Fox: And so just to be brave, to take that step, to trust that there's other people out there that want what she has and that, you know, like, she has the gifts they need, and they have the gifts that she needs.
- 48:48Nicole Fox: But it just.
- 48:51Nicole Fox: It takes a little bit of courage for us to trust that it's available for us, you know?
- 48:58Nicole Fox: So that's what I would say.
- 49:01Dr. Jill Carnahan: And what is the one thing that little Nicole, years ago, would look at you today and say, wow, I'm.
- 49:08Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm surprised, I'm proud.
- 49:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm.
- 49:10Dr. Jill Carnahan: I'm amazed.
- 49:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: What.
- 49:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: What thing would you want your younger self to look at you today and say, I'm proud of you for?
- 49:17Nicole Fox: I think it's the self love.
- 49:19Nicole Fox: I just.
- 49:19Nicole Fox: It was such a journey for me to get there.
- 49:22Nicole Fox: It was.
- 49:23Nicole Fox: I just really.
- 49:25Nicole Fox: I think I tried and tried to love myself, but I never really could get there.
- 49:30Nicole Fox: And And I, I feel that I've tapped into that self acceptance and that love.
- 49:36Nicole Fox: But it's again, instead of me trying to change something, to be like lovable, it of a choosing to just believe that I already am lovable.
- 49:46Nicole Fox: Like I choose just to believe that, like there's nothing I need to do, there's nothing I need to fix.
- 49:52Nicole Fox: And it's so funny you even bring up that question because sometimes we'll, you know, we're talking about our little children.
- 49:59Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 49:59Nicole Fox: Sometimes we talk about like my 80 year old self.
- 50:02Nicole Fox: So what is my 80 year old self telling me right now that she wants me to know, to support her and you know, 30.
- 50:12Nicole Fox: So it works both ways.
- 50:13Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I love that shift.
- 50:14Dr. Jill Carnahan: That's really good.
- 50:16Nicole Fox: But.
- 50:17Nicole Fox: And so I feel like it goes both ways.
- 50:19Nicole Fox: Like I feel like that woman that I'm about to become is accepting and loving me right now and that girl that I just thought was broken, like, I also get to just love and accept her right where she is and there's nothing she needs to do to change.
- 50:34Nicole Fox: Change.
- 50:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: Oh, good.
- 50:35Dr. Jill Carnahan: I hope the women out there who are feeling that are listening.
- 50:37Dr. Jill Carnahan: This is so powerful, so maybe more powerful than any other podcast just because this is where the heart is.
- 50:43Dr. Jill Carnahan: I love the heart.
- 50:44Dr. Jill Carnahan: Right though.
- 50:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: Last thing.
- 50:47Dr. Jill Carnahan: If the bees, all the wisdom of the bees.
- 50:49Dr. Jill Carnahan: If the bees could speak to humanity, we're gonna go out, you know, a little bit larger.
- 50:52Dr. Jill Carnahan: The beast could speak directly to our human existence right now and give us just one piece of wisdom on how we've been living, how we might behave or live differently.
- 51:00Dr. Jill Carnahan: What do you think they'd say to us?
- 51:03Nicole Fox: I think they would say that we always call it the big be in the sky.
- 51:12Nicole Fox: I believe the big be in the sky would say to us that we all, there is no right and wrong like in a sustainable world.
- 51:22Nicole Fox: That there's diversity there's the left and the right.
- 51:27Nicole Fox: It's not one or the other.
- 51:31Nicole Fox: Yeah.
- 51:32Nicole Fox: And I, I just think that we're all here having our unique human experience and it all belongs and that if we can just all accept that and love each other like we can let go and let down all of our walls.
- 51:45Dr. Jill Carnahan: Beautiful.
- 51:46Dr. Jill Carnahan: Nicole, thank you for bringing this work to the world.
- 51:48Dr. Jill Carnahan: Thank you for sharing your story of the.
- 51:50Dr. Jill Carnahan: How this all started and just the beautiful human that you are.
- 51:54Dr. Jill Carnahan: I hope this grow as this movement and that more women will get in sisterhood and community.
- 51:59Dr. Jill Carnahan: I think it's really what we need as women more than ever before.
- 52:03Dr. Jill Carnahan: So thank you for your work.
- 52:05Nicole Fox: Thanks for having me.
- 52:06Nicole Fox: It's just been so delightful to be here with you.
- 52:08Nicole Fox: I was very excited to join you today, so.
- 52:11Dr. Jill Carnahan: Me too.
- 52:12Dr. Jill Carnahan: And I said I'm sorry in the beginning because I was late.
- 52:15Dr. Jill Carnahan: But I'm gonna say thank you for being so patient with me and so kind and gracious.
- 52:19Dr. Jill Carnahan: Hey guys, wasn't it a fun and inspirational episode with Nicole Fox about the BE Sisterhood?
- 52:25Dr. Jill Carnahan: You can find all of her book and information about the BE Sisterhood at bsisterhood.com It'll also be in the show notes if you're looking for more information.
- 52:34Dr. Jill Carnahan: Thanks as always for joining me for another episode of Resiliency Radio.
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