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Healing my body, periods & nervous system regulation ❤️‍🩹 · She Rises with Ashy & Tijana

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Speaker 1: Appogiae production.
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Speaker 2: We begin today by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the
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Speaker 2: land on which we gather today and pay our respects
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Speaker 2: to their elders past and present. We extend that respect
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Speaker 2: to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's here today. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to the Grow and Glow Podcast. I'm Ashy, I'm Kiara.
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Speaker 2: This is a podcast where we learn, laugh, and level
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Speaker 2: up together.
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Speaker 3: Let's go deep, let the.
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Speaker 1: Emotions flow, combine the lessons to grow and glow. Nothing
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Speaker 1: is off the table with Grow and Glow, and we're
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Speaker 1: here to be your expander. I like I welcome back.
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Speaker 1: We're worrying red and we're about to talk about periods.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: I love that we were well aligned animal one period.
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Speaker 4: Too much information.
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Speaker 2: Never So today I was just going to chat a
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Speaker 2: little bit about how my periods have been, because this
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Speaker 2: is not like I've spoken openly about how bad they
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Speaker 2: have been in the past.
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Speaker 3: And I'll touch all of that as well, so you.
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Speaker 2: Guys can get a good understanding of how they have changed.
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Speaker 2: So it's about periods, but also nervous system regulation and
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Speaker 2: just some tools and tips and tricks that I've newly
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Speaker 2: learned that are really helping me out with this as well.
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Speaker 1: I love how you're like, I'm going to give you
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Speaker 1: an update in my period, Because if you've never listened
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Speaker 1: to Grow and Glow, you'd be like, why the fuck
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Speaker 1: is she gonna tell me how heavy her flow is.
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Speaker 3: It's not like that, Like I'm getting into it.
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Speaker 1: There's so much valuable information and things that you can
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Speaker 1: implement that will dramatically.
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Speaker 4: Help your cycle.
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Speaker 1: Definitely, Like we're talking every symptom that you can get,
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Speaker 1: from bloating to headaches to fatigue to oh so much
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Speaker 1: like business calls. Yeah, the severity of your period. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the stuff that you were going to share that you've
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Speaker 1: changed is literally life changing for women, so life changing
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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, she's not just going to tell us
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Speaker 1: how heavy her flow is or how light it's seen,
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Speaker 1: how much chocolate she's been eating.
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Speaker 4: There's actually so much in this.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So.
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Speaker 2: My share of the Week this week is a book
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Speaker 2: that I'm halfway through reading, and I also got one
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Speaker 2: for Ashy. It's called The Vagus Nerve Reset. And this
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Speaker 2: is a lot of what I'll be chatting about in
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Speaker 2: today's episode, and a lot of the knowledge and things
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Speaker 2: that I've learned about certain things I've gotten out of
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Speaker 2: this book as well, but just such an incredible book
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Speaker 2: all about regulating and resetting your nervous system. I'm not
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Speaker 2: finished yet, but I'm really excited to get into it
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Speaker 2: because it gives you a bunch more like tools and
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Speaker 2: stuff as you get deeper.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, more things that you can add in that helps. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's just always so much to learn.
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Speaker 3: Hey, always, yeah, I know.
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Speaker 1: So called you think you're like, yes, I've nailed this,
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Speaker 1: like add it on this and you've got it. But
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Speaker 1: then you're reading like, wow, I can do this and
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Speaker 1: that's going to help that more I know.
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Speaker 2: And even you think you know a little bit about
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Speaker 2: something and then you start to read like a different
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Speaker 2: book even and you're like, oh wow, there's still like
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Speaker 2: all these like this side of that is crazy.
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Speaker 4: I feel like health.
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Speaker 1: I never ever think I've learned too much or learned
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Speaker 1: at all. And also there's different perspectives and opinions on
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Speaker 1: things too, Like I feel like you could find an
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Speaker 1: article I don't know a certain stufflem or whatever. One
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Speaker 1: will say it's really good for this, and the other
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Speaker 1: person say, no, it's actually really bad for this.
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Speaker 3: So true, like.
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Speaker 1: There's just so much to learn about with health. I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited to read that book. So I've actually got
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Speaker 1: two because a book reminded me. I read one when
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Speaker 1: we were at eating retreat called hook Line and Sinker
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Speaker 1: by Tessa Bailey.
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Speaker 4: I think it was Tessa Bailey, and.
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Speaker 1: It's just easy to read romance, but I just really
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Speaker 1: love the characters, the.
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Speaker 5: Spicy things are really good and.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a fast reader, but I read this quite fast.
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Speaker 1: One because we had a lot of time too, because
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 3: Just so hooked.
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Speaker 1: Three because I wasn't distracted by my phonelin and sincer
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Speaker 1: and Sincer hooked you in. Yeah. The second is just
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Speaker 1: a post that I saw on an Instagram page emotionally
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Speaker 1: dot perfect, and it says the biggest lesson I learned
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Speaker 1: this year is to not force anything. Don't force conversations, friendships, relationships,
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Speaker 1: attention or love. Anything forced is just not worth fighting for.
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Speaker 1: Whatever flows, flows, what crashes, crashes, it is what it is.
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Speaker 3: I love that, Amen, girlfriends.
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Speaker 4: Isn't that so true and just so?
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Speaker 1: And I feel to everything that I've been going through, like,
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Speaker 1: just stop forcing things, just let them flow and whatever's
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Speaker 1: meant for you will come for you.
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Speaker 4: I truly do believe that even.
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Speaker 1: If someone or something isn't working out right now, it
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Speaker 1: might come back later when the time's right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Just let it flow in and out. How it is. Oh,
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Speaker 4: I love that I have money, even like they.
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Speaker 1: Go of the attachment to money. I know that's really
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Speaker 1: hard in this day and age, things are tough for
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Speaker 1: a lot of people. But I just like to think
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Speaker 1: of money like that. I think comes and goes and
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Speaker 1: we will always be okay.
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Speaker 5: Change of energy, Yeah it really is.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's mine. But let's get into the episode.
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to Kiara a year ago. Kiara a
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Speaker 2: year ago was suffering with extremely heavy periods, to the
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Speaker 2: point where for two to three days out of the month,
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Speaker 2: I felt like I couldn't even leave the house. I
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Speaker 2: would put a tampon in. If you are weird about
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Speaker 2: blood and stuff, this is not.
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Speaker 4: Your episode tap on through.
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Speaker 3: I would put a.
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Speaker 2: Tamp on in and I literally go for a twenty
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Speaker 2: minute walk, come home, and not only would I had
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Speaker 2: completely bled through, it went all through my active where
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Speaker 2: it was literally like running down my leg I had
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Speaker 2: to like bolt home once I noticed I was starting
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Speaker 2: to leak not only was my period like super heavy,
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Speaker 2: it was lasting like eleven twelve days, and that was
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Speaker 2: just kind of my norm and.
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Speaker 5: For a long time, for a period, a really long.
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Speaker 3: Time, not normal.
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Speaker 2: And then on top of that, the emotions on my period,
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Speaker 2: I was super emotional. I was really easily triggered, I
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Speaker 2: was not well regulated whatsoever, and everything was just so highlighted.
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Speaker 3: So it's like all of.
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Speaker 2: My symptoms were elevated. It wasn't just my bleeding or
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Speaker 2: just as well, like the pain that I felt or
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Speaker 2: the longevity of it, but also like emotionally, I felt
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Speaker 2: like I really was hugely being affected by that in
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Speaker 2: my cycle as well. So I had a fair bit
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Speaker 2: going on at the time. So I decided to kind
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Speaker 2: of push it aside and not deal with it and
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Speaker 2: just kind of try to do what I could to manage.
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Speaker 2: And I ended up going and seeing a doctor and
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Speaker 2: getting on some medication, which was great for the interim
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Speaker 2: and the period of life that I was in where
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Speaker 2: I needed to kind of get things done and push
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Speaker 2: through life. But the last few months I really wanted
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Speaker 2: to not be on the medication long term. I knew
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Speaker 2: that was never my long term game to stay on it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: the last month, probably two months, but particularly month, I've
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Speaker 2: really really gone internal, listened to my body, and I
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Speaker 2: was actually shook to my core at the results.
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Speaker 3: Like I remember talking to her at the end of
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Speaker 3: my period and I was like, oh, was that it.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: It's like all of my symptoms were so minimized. And
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Speaker 2: there's been a lot that I've changed, so it's not
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Speaker 2: just like one thing here or two things here.
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Speaker 5: And consistently right, It's consistent.
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Speaker 2: And the really amazing thing is by me doing this,
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Speaker 2: I have changed. It's so drastically and it's been amazing.
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Speaker 2: But the downfall is I don't really know what necessarily
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Speaker 2: has been making the biggest impact because there's been so
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Speaker 2: many things.
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Speaker 3: That I've incorporated at once.
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Speaker 4: It's got to be all of it, though I think
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Speaker 4: all of.
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Speaker 3: It plays a part for sure.
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Speaker 2: And I also do just want to say, like, this
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Speaker 2: is just my personal experience, you know, I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: that this is necessarily going to work for you or
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Speaker 2: heal you or make things easier. But I also want
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Speaker 2: to be able to share this because this has been
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Speaker 2: life changing for.
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Speaker 1: Me, and there's no harm in trying some of these
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Speaker 1: because they're all natural. They are all things we can
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Speaker 1: incorporate every single day. Like you'll listen them off in
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Speaker 1: a second, but they're all things that we can take
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Speaker 1: on board to try. Why would you not If you're
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Speaker 1: suffering and there's a holistic, natural way to help yourself,
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Speaker 1: why would you not try it?
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Speaker 4: So cool? Can I ask? Are you off your medication now?
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Speaker 3: Not yet?
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Speaker 4: But yet? Okay?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an extent step.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Also, there was about two times that I almost called
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Speaker 2: an ambulance just to let you know how severe the
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Speaker 2: bleeding was.
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Speaker 3: Because I was.
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Speaker 2: At home with my daughter on her orange was in
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Speaker 2: school holidays, and my husband wasn't at home, he was
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Speaker 2: out at work, and I was bleeding so heavily that
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Speaker 2: I kept feeling like I want to pass out, and
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Speaker 2: I was worried because my daughter was obviously at home,
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Speaker 2: so having a young child at home, that's why I
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Speaker 2: went on medication when it was that bad, and I
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Speaker 2: was like, I need to be able to show up
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Speaker 2: for her, and I'll be passed out on a couch
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Speaker 2: when I'm supposed to be caring for her. And you
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Speaker 2: don't know exactly when your period's going to come, what
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Speaker 2: day is going to be bad. It just was not
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Speaker 2: away for me to continue to live my life, and it.
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Speaker 3: Was scary, of course.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I am still on my medication and I
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Speaker 2: did have two doctor's appointments booked in to get an
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Speaker 2: ultrasound and start working on things, but I've canceled all
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Speaker 2: those appointments because I want to keep doing this for
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Speaker 2: another few months and see what my body can do
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Speaker 2: naturally on its own. So first thing, which we're going
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Speaker 2: to do a whole episode touching on anyway, is I
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Speaker 2: went on a detox from alcohol, and I want a
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Speaker 2: dtox from caffeine. So that is absolutely zero coffee and
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Speaker 2: zero alcohol.
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Speaker 3: And I know that sounds scary, but you did it,
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Speaker 3: but I did it.
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Speaker 2: And there's also heaps of tips and tricks that I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you guys when we go into the episode of
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Speaker 2: abstaining from alcohol and caffeine.
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Speaker 3: When we do that one.
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Speaker 2: If that's one thing you're really wanting to implement, go
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Speaker 2: to that episode because it'll be so much that we'll
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Speaker 2: touch on over there. But yeah, I did thirty days
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Speaker 2: abstaining from both of them, so I feel like definitely
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Speaker 2: that would have played a role in my information. And
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Speaker 2: after the first two weeks, I promise you it gets easier.
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Speaker 3: And now it's at the end. I'm like, what was
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Speaker 3: I doing? Wow, I'm so proud of you.
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Speaker 1: Like I just I've known you for how many years now,
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Speaker 1: probably seven years or something, so you've never not had
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Speaker 1: him warning coffee like it's just your.
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Speaker 5: Thing, and you've always enjoyed a wine. It's just so cool.
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Speaker 5: I'm so proud of you. Incredible.
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Speaker 1: Not many people, you know, most people drink coffee and alcohol.
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Speaker 1: I don't know many people that could give it up.
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Speaker 1: Like my mum and Megsie have done not coffee, they've
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Speaker 1: done alcohol though, But you did two really hard, like
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Speaker 1: pretty addictive things all in the same thirty days.
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Speaker 4: That's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Leave I helped me with that a little bit too,
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Speaker 2: because we had that podcast episode. I was already reading
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Speaker 2: Dopamine Nation and thinking I wanted to do the thirty
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Speaker 2: Days no Alcohol, and then when he spoke about the
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Speaker 2: effects of caffeine and anxiety, I was like, well, if
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Speaker 2: I'm someone who does I feel like my nervous system
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Speaker 2: is regularly in vital flight and I'm struggling to be
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Speaker 2: in rest and digest.
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Speaker 3: Why in the world would I feed my body caffeine.
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Speaker 2: Like when he said that, and it was just such
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Speaker 2: a simple thing to take out of your day to
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Speaker 2: day routine. I was like, he's so right, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: just decaf all the way. If you feel like you
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Speaker 2: still want to have that coffee, feel go get a
10:23
Speaker 2: takeaway decaf a couple.
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Speaker 4: Times a week.
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Speaker 3: Trucks So good, so good. The next thing that I
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Speaker 3: did actually was a Levi tip too. Thanks Levi.
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Speaker 2: These are all the great people get on the podcast guards,
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Speaker 2: I said to Ash, you, like, every time we get
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Speaker 2: someone on here. Yeah, I take all the information they
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Speaker 2: give us, I take it home and I use it.
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Speaker 2: Of course, so supplements, so I was already doing magnesium
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Speaker 2: and zinc, but what leve I had recommended was vitamin
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Speaker 2: B twelve and then I also incorporated vitamin D as well.
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Speaker 2: So I've been taking all those supplements now every single day.
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Speaker 2: But vitamin B six and B twelve are both really
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Speaker 2: great for nervous system regulation as well. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of these things that I am talking about, you will
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Speaker 2: notice has had a lot to do with slowing my
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Speaker 2: nervous system down because it's so heavily.
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Speaker 1: Just actually can sporting your nervous system and supporting your body.
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Speaker 2: Yes, giving my body a chance to rest a bit
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Speaker 2: more and feel yet more supported. Another thing is just
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Speaker 2: choosing to have more moments in the day to just
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Speaker 2: be and be with yourself and be slow rather than
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Speaker 2: constantly doing things and checking off a list. I feel
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Speaker 2: like we get in our heads sometimes with thinking, oh,
11:34
Speaker 2: I can't just sit around all day. You don't have
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Speaker 2: to just sit around all day, but you should take
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Speaker 2: ten minutes here and ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: There, or longer if you can, longer, if you can.
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Speaker 2: Definitely, I have upped my water intake. Oh okay, heavily
11:47
Speaker 2: up to my.
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Speaker 1: Water intake are now so beforehand, I feel like I
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Speaker 1: was probably having like around two leaders a day.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm more like three, especially on my period because
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Speaker 2: it helps flush everything out, so on my period up
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Speaker 2: to that drastically and just being really conscious of being like, hmm,
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Speaker 2: did I last have some water, and trying to drink more.
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Speaker 4: So good.
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Speaker 2: Cut back on blogging, oh my gosh, which feels so nice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are not a logger or you've never edited, like,
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Speaker 1: you don't understand how much time goes into it. I do,
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Speaker 1: and hence why I'm not consistent on YouTube so I've
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Speaker 1: watched you for years, like like how do you do it?
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Speaker 1: And it's incredible that you've done it for so long.
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Speaker 1: But I can imagine how much light that would feel.
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Speaker 2: Even the technical difficulties and stuff like you can just
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Speaker 2: get really frustrating. So yeah, cut back on things where
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Speaker 2: I can, so just change around my routine slightly. I
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Speaker 2: have been doing the sauna five days a week minimum.
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Speaker 4: Love this. How good's a sauna?
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Speaker 3: Sauna is so good?
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Speaker 2: And if you do not have a sauna, I would
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Speaker 2: recommend to have a nice.
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Speaker 3: Long, warm buff.
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Speaker 2: Oh, specifically when you're on your period, I would say
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Speaker 2: do a nice long, warm bath, even a couple days,
12:55
Speaker 2: like leading up as sooner you start to feel like
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Speaker 2: those twinges, like's that bit of pain, you feel really tired, slow,
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Speaker 2: just leaning into that heat therapy.
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Speaker 4: Really good advice.
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Speaker 5: Sauna to a bath because that's what I do and
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Speaker 5: I have a sworn but I have a bath.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a nice long one to really get your body temper.
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Speaker 2: So this next thing I want to talk about is
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Speaker 2: measuring my hr V levels, which is something I've never
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Speaker 2: actually heard of before. I've been reading the book The
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Speaker 2: Vagus Nerve Reset, and it's all about regulating your nervous system,
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Speaker 2: but I never ever knew that you could actually chart
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Speaker 2: and see what level your nervous system is at. And
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Speaker 2: it's been really fascinating to me, and it's been a
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Speaker 2: really great way for me to kick myself off the
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Speaker 2: buttause I can check it each day and be like,
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Speaker 2: where am I at? How much capacity do I have?
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Speaker 2: And where can I pull back if my capacity is
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Speaker 2: not there today?
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Speaker 4: It's incredible. I didn't even know this until she told
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Speaker 4: me this morning.
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Speaker 3: I was like, what do you mean? It's really cool.
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Speaker 2: So basically, on a smartwa wash so if you've got
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Speaker 2: an Apple watch or a fitbit, it can measure your
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Speaker 2: HRV and what it measures is the fluctuations between each heartbeat,
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Speaker 2: and that lets you know whether your nervous system is
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Speaker 2: more in your parasympathetic nervous system or in your sympathetic
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Speaker 2: nervous system. So one is for fight and flight and
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Speaker 2: one is for rest and digest. So my number when
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Speaker 2: I first pulled this up and started to look at
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Speaker 2: the results was low, and I could tell.
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Speaker 4: Out of one hundred it scores.
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Speaker 2: You yep, So it has a score from zero to
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Speaker 2: one hundred and the average for a thirty year old
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Speaker 2: female should be between fifty five and seventy five, and
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Speaker 2: mine was at about a thirty. So I've done a
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Speaker 2: few things like all these things that I'm telling you
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Speaker 2: guys throughout the month, and I've gotten it up to
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Speaker 2: about a forty.
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Speaker 3: Five, which is a good climb.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome improvement. But I still really want to get
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Speaker 2: myself up to that like fifty five mark. But I
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Speaker 2: will get there in time, and it can be a
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Speaker 2: gradual thing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: But then also I was saying to Ashi that if
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Speaker 2: I have a really bad night sleep or something like that,
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Speaker 2: it will throw me back down into.
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Speaker 3: A lower level.
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Speaker 4: But this is just kids.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks kids, But this has just been something that
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Speaker 2: has been really helpful to track. And also on my fitbit,
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Speaker 2: you can actually look at your stress score as well,
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Speaker 2: So if I say, over exercise or my sleep's not
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Speaker 2: RESTful even though it's long, it will give me a
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Speaker 2: score in the morning of where I'm at as well,
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Speaker 2: and just having that guide when I wake up in
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Speaker 2: the day. Kurt doesn't like it. He doesn't like to
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Speaker 2: look at it and let it see how he wants
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Speaker 2: to go about his day. But for me, I love
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Speaker 2: it because I can be like, okay, I also checking
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Speaker 2: with myself like how am I feeling? But it's actually
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Speaker 2: got it there in black and white, like this is
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Speaker 2: your score and where you're at today. So on the
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Speaker 2: days when I have got heaps of capacity, I'm like, sweet,
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Speaker 2: get heaps done today, yes, And then on the days
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Speaker 2: we're our way up, I'm like, ooh, she's not feeling
15:37
Speaker 2: like great date. It's like push it aside if you
15:39
Speaker 2: can whatever you can push aside, push aside and leaning
15:42
Speaker 2: into that and really listening to my body.
15:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been really cool.
15:46
Speaker 1: I love that because you are actually just honoring your
15:49
Speaker 1: body and your health. You're choosing it because if you
15:52
Speaker 1: didn't track all of that, you would just keep pushing
15:54
Speaker 1: through every day like you always do, running the same patterns.
15:56
Speaker 1: Whereas now you're actually checking in with your nervous system.
15:59
Speaker 1: I remember Megsie actually said to me once that, you know,
16:02
Speaker 1: every single day we track like oh I have a drink,
16:04
Speaker 1: enough forward to eat enough food, have I exercise.
16:07
Speaker 4: It's like tick that box, tick that box, tick that box.
16:09
Speaker 1: But she runs her day with like every morning she
16:11
Speaker 1: wakes up and she's like, where's my nervous system at
16:15
Speaker 1: and I at a seven and matter three. Okay, if
16:18
Speaker 1: I'm at a three, I need more sunlight today. I'm
16:20
Speaker 1: gonna put my feet in the grass. I'm going to
16:22
Speaker 1: do my little things to get that back up. And
16:24
Speaker 1: that's how she runs her day.
16:25
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Yeah, that's incredible.
16:27
Speaker 1: And like before learning that, like I would never just
16:30
Speaker 1: ask myself, how's my nervous system today? I was like, Oh,
16:33
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a bit shit today, but oh, okay, get
16:35
Speaker 1: to work, like, do what you gotta do.
16:37
Speaker 3: That's it.
16:37
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be like that.
16:38
Speaker 2: No, And it's so nice to actually see it in
16:41
Speaker 2: the morning and be like, even.
16:43
Speaker 5: If you have certain plans on yes, maybe just cancel
16:46
Speaker 5: them if.
16:46
Speaker 2: Your nervous system's really shot and you're feeling really shit
16:49
Speaker 2: and you can feel it, and then also see it
16:51
Speaker 2: like you've got the power to make that decision ampletely more.
16:54
Speaker 5: Hay, that's it.
16:55
Speaker 2: And I never actually knew that this was a thing.
16:58
Speaker 2: So cool, and I wish I knew this a long
16:59
Speaker 2: time ago, because I think that if you're aware of it,
17:01
Speaker 2: it's just I guess it's just working on your health
17:04
Speaker 2: like it's it is.
17:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to wear my watch to bed, and
17:07
Speaker 1: I think it was a sleep score. It just annoys
17:09
Speaker 1: me being on my wrist at night because I sleep
17:11
Speaker 1: with my hands up here me too, But now I
17:13
Speaker 1: want to because I really want to track this.
17:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really really cool even at the start, just
17:17
Speaker 2: to see where you know its just st it for
17:19
Speaker 2: one night and be.
17:19
Speaker 3: Like, ooh, this is my score is I'm so curious
17:22
Speaker 3: what your scory is.
17:23
Speaker 1: And I feel like me and you are like not
17:24
Speaker 1: with each other, but just with our souls competitive. So
17:26
Speaker 1: now it's like if it was same thirty, I'd be like, right,
17:29
Speaker 1: come here fifty.
17:31
Speaker 4: I know this, but.
17:32
Speaker 2: It's really nice to them and also be like, okay,
17:35
Speaker 2: I need to incorporate a little bit more meditation before bed.
17:38
Speaker 3: I'm not going to watch Netflix.
17:38
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to sit down and meditate for twenty
17:40
Speaker 2: minutes instead.
17:41
Speaker 1: Such a nice, healthy way to compete with yourself. And
17:45
Speaker 1: I give yourself that challenge of like how calm and
17:48
Speaker 1: regulated can you get? Definitely, how's it going to feel?
17:50
Speaker 1: How's it going to impact my life? Then it's the
17:52
Speaker 1: role on effect of how beautifully that can impact your
17:54
Speaker 1: life in a positive way.
17:56
Speaker 2: One hundred percent and sometimes too. Like for me, what
17:59
Speaker 2: I'm doing is I'm putting all these things in place
18:01
Speaker 2: to try to raise that score. But if it doesn't
18:03
Speaker 2: raise another month or two, have to look at my life, yes,
18:06
Speaker 2: and go, okay, where can I.
18:08
Speaker 3: Pull something back?
18:09
Speaker 2: So I can, because when your level is below that
18:13
Speaker 2: baseline level, you're more susceptible to chronic illnesses, diseases, diseases.
18:18
Speaker 2: If your nervous system is not in a great way,
18:20
Speaker 2: everything else pretty much turns to shit.
18:22
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if I wore this watch when I
18:24
Speaker 4: lost my sight?
18:25
Speaker 2: I know I was thinking of that this.
18:27
Speaker 4: Last couple of months. My score would have been it's
18:30
Speaker 4: so low.
18:30
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
18:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have it here, but I'm going to
18:32
Speaker 4: do this when I get.
18:33
Speaker 3: Home, sleep in it. Yeah. So for me, this has
18:36
Speaker 3: just become such a huge priority.
18:38
Speaker 2: Nothing, as we have been speaking about so much of
18:40
Speaker 2: the podcast, is more important than our health. So if
18:42
Speaker 2: in a couple of months, you know, I can't get
18:44
Speaker 2: that back up, that's when I'm gonna have to look
18:46
Speaker 2: at my life and be like, okay, so where can I.
18:47
Speaker 4: Push that shift?
18:48
Speaker 2: Something's going to change because nothing's more important than that.
18:52
Speaker 2: And I truly believe in my soul and my gut
18:56
Speaker 2: that this has been the number one thing that.
18:59
Speaker 3: Has helped with my period.
19:00
Speaker 2: Wow, out of everything else, I feel like this has
19:03
Speaker 2: been the number one. I think everything else is definitely
19:05
Speaker 2: played its part, yes, but I.
19:07
Speaker 3: Think this has made the most significant.
19:09
Speaker 4: Just focusing on your nervous system.
19:10
Speaker 3: Focusing on our nervous system.
19:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you think about it.
19:13
Speaker 1: When your nervous systems disregulated and you are disregulated physically,
19:17
Speaker 1: you feel that, but mentally and emotionally, that raises your
19:21
Speaker 1: quartersol levels, That raises your stress hormones. So then your
19:23
Speaker 1: body gets inflamed. It thinks the tigers kind of come
19:26
Speaker 1: and get you, so you're running and your your stress like.
19:29
Speaker 1: Of course, that causes information and problems in your body,
19:31
Speaker 1: and that comes out and symptoms in your period. Because
19:33
Speaker 1: when you're on your period, your body is understressed. So
19:36
Speaker 1: then if you've got information, it's added stress. That's when
19:38
Speaker 1: the headache comes in. That's when they're bloating, that's when
19:40
Speaker 1: your digestive system gets affected. That's when you don't sleep
19:42
Speaker 1: as well. So regulating your nervous system lowers those stress
19:46
Speaker 1: levels low as your quartersole doesn't spike them and your
19:50
Speaker 1: body doesn't get as many symptoms.
19:51
Speaker 5: It makes total sense, makes so much sense.
19:53
Speaker 2: Hey, incredible, But resting and digesting it's not something that
19:57
Speaker 2: most of us take time out of by.
19:59
Speaker 4: Day nor time.
20:00
Speaker 1: I wonder so many people have gut issues these days
20:02
Speaker 1: and skin issues makes sense?
20:04
Speaker 2: Hey yeah, yeah, So I think that that's such a
20:07
Speaker 2: huge one for me. Something else that I have incorporated
20:10
Speaker 2: as well, because I feel like the more we can
20:12
Speaker 2: move our body, I feel like that definitely plays a
20:14
Speaker 2: role in helping that periods too. I've just been still
20:17
Speaker 2: doing my regular walks, but I've up to my gym
20:18
Speaker 2: to doing like four or five times a week. And
20:20
Speaker 2: this is also something that's great for your HRV levels.
20:23
Speaker 2: So living a healthy lifestyle, eating whole foods, exercising more regularly,
20:28
Speaker 2: and also on the flip of that, giving your body
20:31
Speaker 2: a chance to rest and chill throughout the day, all
20:33
Speaker 2: those things are what play a part in your HRV
20:35
Speaker 2: SCOT and your sleep.
20:36
Speaker 1: Wow.
20:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's really going back to the basics. But
20:40
Speaker 2: it's so easy for us to think that all these
20:42
Speaker 2: things don't have an impact on us, and you wouldn't
20:44
Speaker 2: necessarily think that it has such a huge impact on
20:46
Speaker 2: things like your period. Yeah, you might be having heavy
20:48
Speaker 2: People like, oh my gosh, it's just because I've had
20:49
Speaker 2: three kids, or just because I've had this happen. It's like, well, no,
20:52
Speaker 2: you actually can calm it all down. And this last
20:56
Speaker 2: one for me that I had, I had like one
20:58
Speaker 2: heavy day and it was seven days long.
21:00
Speaker 4: Oh so much better than eleven or two.
21:02
Speaker 2: It got to the end of it and I said
21:04
Speaker 2: to Kurt, I was like, I think that's it. And
21:06
Speaker 2: I was like, what, Like, it's been years that I've
21:10
Speaker 2: suffered with heavy, long periods, and it is just me
21:14
Speaker 2: not tuning in, not listening to myself, not stepping back
21:19
Speaker 2: when I need to. I think it's like all those
21:21
Speaker 2: little things as well, Like when leeve I said the
21:23
Speaker 2: supplements and that why not take it? If it's gonna
21:27
Speaker 2: make you feel better, why not.
21:29
Speaker 1: That's what somethings are there there to support and supplement
21:31
Speaker 1: what you're not getting elsewhere.
21:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, so good.
21:35
Speaker 2: And then just like another little thing that I've been
21:36
Speaker 2: doing because i haven't been having my coffee is I've
21:38
Speaker 2: been incorporating a kama mal tea before bed because kamamal
21:41
Speaker 2: tea is very calming very good for our nervous system
21:44
Speaker 2: regulation as well. But I've just had so many people
21:47
Speaker 2: because I spoke with my stories and I was like,
21:49
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, my period has been fine this month.
21:52
Speaker 2: It's actually crazy and they're like, what have you done?
21:55
Speaker 2: And I think that you know, as we always talk
21:58
Speaker 2: about this day and age, life is just so busy,
22:00
Speaker 2: it's so go, go go. We all feel like we
22:03
Speaker 2: can't take a break. But we all to listen to ourself,
22:09
Speaker 2: listen to an intuition and lean into giving ourself the
22:14
Speaker 2: space and the love and the care that it needs,
22:16
Speaker 2: especially being a female and having a cycle that week beforehand,
22:21
Speaker 2: really tuning in and yeah, I was ignoring it for
22:24
Speaker 2: a long time.
22:25
Speaker 4: So important.
22:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
22:27
Speaker 1: Another thing that really just to add on there, really
22:28
Speaker 1: helps with your nervous system is gut health, because your
22:32
Speaker 1: gut is basically your second braine, and if your gut
22:35
Speaker 1: health is off, it causes so much inflammation and disease
22:38
Speaker 1: and health issues and digestive issues and skin problems and
22:42
Speaker 1: bloating and all those symptoms headaches. Like if your gut
22:45
Speaker 1: is not being taken care of and you do not
22:47
Speaker 1: have a good lining of good bacteria, you'll find a
22:50
Speaker 1: lot more of a symptoms will come out. So for
22:52
Speaker 1: gut health, I think I've said it before, but I'll
22:54
Speaker 1: repeat it. The course of probotics, good quality probotics that
22:57
Speaker 1: need to be in the fridge, our glutamine on an
22:59
Speaker 1: empty stomach, having just a tea spoon with some water
23:02
Speaker 1: and shot it down and bone breath is incredible.
23:05
Speaker 3: Been doing that daily too. Yah, bone broth and it's
23:07
Speaker 3: so yummy.
23:08
Speaker 4: It's so great nice, it's warming. Hey.
23:11
Speaker 2: Now bone broth has been regular as well, and just
23:14
Speaker 2: really focusing on eating nutritious foods, not eating things because
23:18
Speaker 2: they're quick and easy or they're right there. But like
23:21
Speaker 2: even this morning, like I made a birch and musical.
23:23
Speaker 2: It's golled like apple, and it's got banana in there
23:26
Speaker 2: and seeds and nuts and strawberries and all that good stuff,
23:31
Speaker 2: natural yogurt, and just really trying to eat yummy, whole foods.
23:36
Speaker 2: And as well, I've been cooking a lot more so,
23:37
Speaker 2: finding that there is healthy, yummy recipes that.
23:40
Speaker 1: You can make, definitely, and so many easy ways that
23:43
Speaker 1: you can pack a ton of vegetables into your meals.
23:45
Speaker 1: Like I'm really into my sloc cooko at the moment,
23:47
Speaker 1: put so many veggies into a solo coocut and it
23:49
Speaker 1: just like all meshes together and makes a beautiful soup
23:51
Speaker 1: or beautiful curry. And you can add more bone broth.
23:54
Speaker 4: In there when you get back in my so.
23:57
Speaker 1: So easy to Yeah, I made like a honey so
23:59
Speaker 1: chicken the other day with like chicken chicken broth, chicken stock,
24:02
Speaker 1: chicken thighs, carrots, bock, choy brock, and it's put on
24:06
Speaker 1: a better rise.
24:06
Speaker 4: It's delicious with like.
24:07
Speaker 1: Sauce with coconut aminos, honey like manooa honey and a
24:12
Speaker 1: little bit of coconut oil and minced.
24:16
Speaker 5: Garlicif that was my source, that was so.
24:18
Speaker 1: Young, all natural, all healthy, but a healthy alternative. The
24:24
Speaker 1: sauce really good and mix it with coconut oil and
24:26
Speaker 1: it makes like a delicious, sticky marinate delicious. Get it
24:30
Speaker 1: from my health food store. I've said it before too,
24:33
Speaker 1: but period undies I swear they help. Oh yeah, when
24:36
Speaker 1: you have a tampon in, it's blocking it's not allowing
24:40
Speaker 1: the blood to float out and come out. You're literally
24:42
Speaker 1: clogging and blocking it up there. And I'd still wear them,
24:46
Speaker 1: but if you can be in period undies, it would
24:48
Speaker 1: definitely help minimize your symptoms.
24:50
Speaker 4: I swear by it. There's got to be studies about it.
24:52
Speaker 1: I need to look at it, but I swear I
24:54
Speaker 1: noticed way less symptoms.
24:57
Speaker 3: Pain drastically, I find.
24:58
Speaker 1: Us, and it just feels so much more natural to
25:00
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to have something shoved up.
25:02
Speaker 4: No, we are not only something else.
25:08
Speaker 5: Sorry, how did I not think of that?
25:11
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
25:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, And even you know, if you do go home
25:16
Speaker 2: and you do decide to track your HRV levels, I
25:18
Speaker 2: want you to know this. You can be super healthy,
25:21
Speaker 2: be feeling or thinking that you're very regulated and you're
25:24
Speaker 2: doing all the right things in your lifestyle, but if
25:26
Speaker 2: somebody has dealt with trauma or PTSD, it can still
25:30
Speaker 2: show up in a low score because it's still stored
25:32
Speaker 2: in your body. So all we, you know, need to
25:34
Speaker 2: try to heal that trauma and move through it as well.
25:36
Speaker 1: Even if I feel like, even if you're super healthy
25:39
Speaker 1: doing all the things, if you're not feeling in alignment
25:42
Speaker 1: and you feel off center, as if I explained, and
25:44
Speaker 1: you feel stressed or worried about something or something in
25:47
Speaker 1: your gut's telling you that it's not right, and you
25:49
Speaker 1: keep just doing that thing, because you do that will
25:53
Speaker 1: show up your nervous system feels everything does. It's literally
25:57
Speaker 1: their anxiety is there to give you a message, like
26:00
Speaker 1: a little pop up on your message out, like a
26:02
Speaker 1: little notification like hey, dingdin ding something not right?
26:06
Speaker 4: Are you going to listen to me?
26:07
Speaker 1: Or do I have to push you a bit harder
26:08
Speaker 1: so that you have to listen to me? So listen
26:11
Speaker 1: to those signals. Definitely be a.
26:13
Speaker 4: Good point about the trauma.
26:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, so much of us store things because one we've
26:17
Speaker 1: had to park it to the side to survive, Like
26:20
Speaker 1: our body has got incredible ways to protect ourselves and
26:23
Speaker 1: to help us get through life. But it's got to
26:26
Speaker 1: come out some way later on, and a lot of
26:28
Speaker 1: time that is in our nervous system and in pain
26:30
Speaker 1: or diseases or addictions.
26:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
26:34
Speaker 2: But anyways, I really just want to share that because
26:36
Speaker 2: it's been really nice.
26:37
Speaker 3: Being on this health journey.
26:38
Speaker 2: So it's been really nice to not be drinking and
26:41
Speaker 2: not be having caffeine and taking extra supplements and listening
26:45
Speaker 2: to my body. And I really am excited that I'm
26:48
Speaker 2: down this route now and it's like I'm definitely going
26:50
Speaker 2: to continue on and The goal is to try to get.
26:52
Speaker 3: Off my medication and see what I can do with that.
26:54
Speaker 2: Keep trying to learn and keep trying to incorporate new
26:56
Speaker 2: things and see what I can do naturally.
26:59
Speaker 4: So inspiring.
26:59
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you wanted to do this episode because
27:01
Speaker 1: it's something that I feel is just so normalized have
27:05
Speaker 1: bad periods and to have pain and to have all
27:07
Speaker 1: these symptoms like oh, you see some of your videos
27:09
Speaker 1: even on Instagram of like this is normal, and it's like,
27:11
Speaker 1: what is it?
27:12
Speaker 4: And does it have to be like that? Does it
27:14
Speaker 4: have to be your normal? It doesn't.
27:16
Speaker 1: There is other ways. It's not easy, and it can
27:18
Speaker 1: be uncomfortable, and you can still speak with your medical
27:21
Speaker 1: team and your doctors or whatever and do your own research.
27:23
Speaker 1: But I'm so glad you shared all of this because
27:25
Speaker 1: so many of those little things each of us can try,
27:28
Speaker 1: Like why don't you try and add more magnesium in?
27:30
Speaker 1: Why don't you try and just carve out five minutes?
27:31
Speaker 1: Why don't you whar you watch to bed? There are
27:33
Speaker 1: some little things that people can incorporate with give yourself
27:36
Speaker 1: a challenge.
27:36
Speaker 5: You might think coffee's not affecting you, try thirty days.
27:39
Speaker 3: And yeah, freaking amazing.
27:42
Speaker 2: I promise you to get Yeah, but yeah, I think
27:43
Speaker 2: the biggest thing is to like all in our own
27:45
Speaker 2: season if you're in a busy season. Like I said,
27:47
Speaker 2: this whole thing started for me like two years ago,
27:49
Speaker 2: and only now have I felt ready and like I've
27:51
Speaker 2: had this space to be like, Okay, let's actually try to.
27:54
Speaker 3: Fix this issue that's going on here.
27:56
Speaker 2: I do understand like life goes on and life is
27:58
Speaker 2: busy and things are happening sometimes.
28:00
Speaker 3: And to do what I need to do to push through.
28:02
Speaker 4: That's right.
28:02
Speaker 2: And sometimes you might think that the little things don't
28:04
Speaker 2: really make that much of a difference, but they really do.
28:07
Speaker 4: Oh, I think they make all the difference.
28:08
Speaker 1: The worlder centers they add up and it's like what
28:11
Speaker 1: I've loved about watching you do this is it's consistent.
28:14
Speaker 1: It's not just one sauna once a month or one
28:16
Speaker 1: sauna when you get a bit of period pain or
28:18
Speaker 1: taking make thees in once a week, Like this is
28:20
Speaker 1: every single day you've been doing this, and consistency pays off.
28:24
Speaker 4: It really does.
28:25
Speaker 2: Even the sauna I said five times a week, but
28:27
Speaker 2: it's probably been every day.
28:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon, Yeah, so good, it's so proud of you.
28:32
Speaker 1: If everyone takes on lots of this and tries it
28:34
Speaker 1: and hopefully there if you.
28:36
Speaker 2: Do try it and your period gets better, come let
28:38
Speaker 2: me know. Let's chat about it in the forum.
28:41
Speaker 5: PS.
28:42
Speaker 2: Start with yourself, be the energy you.
28:45
Speaker 5: Want to attract.
28:47
Speaker 4: That's beautiful.
28:49
Speaker 5: PS. Fear is temporary, regret is forever. So wow, this
28:56
Speaker 5: is so true.
28:58
Speaker 4: Like that kid me, your face.
29:00
Speaker 5: Is good and I wasn't prepared for That's like a
29:02
Speaker 5: spade though.
29:04
Speaker 1: Fear it is so temporary. It's for a moment or
29:07
Speaker 1: a day or a week, But if you say no
29:09
Speaker 1: to something out of fear, you could potentially regret.
29:12
Speaker 4: That for the rest of your life. Yeah crazy.
29:15
Speaker 3: All right, guys, we'll see you next time. Bye.