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Treasured Wellness | Brain Fog, Fatigue & Whole He... - Why Am I So Bloated? 3 Simple Ways to Nourish Your Gut | 378 · Christian Mix 106 On Demand

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  SPEAKER_00: Every Sunday morning, my family sat in the car waiting on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody was dressed for church, the engine was running,
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  SPEAKER_00: while I made one last trip to the bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Almost every single Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, in my late 20s, I was diagnosed with IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I wasn't given a lot of hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was told I could take Imodium AD daily, as needed, as often as I needed,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that it was perfectly harmless.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, it was the only thing they could do for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was literally told to live with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: For years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I learned which foods made it worse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mostly avoided them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it really did control so much of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never went anywhere without knowing where those bathrooms were.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is what I want you to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just because it is common does not mean it is normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are new here, welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am Michelle, founder of Treasured Wellness and host of this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And listen, cramping, bloating, constipation, gas, diarrhea,
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  SPEAKER_00: these are all complaints that so many of us have and do not like to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would we want to, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really uncomfortable, literally, but we'll whisper about it to our girlfriends.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll complain about it a little bit,
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  SPEAKER_00: but a lot of women will not even bring up the specifics with their own doctor out
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  SPEAKER_00: of embarrassment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they do, They often walk out without a real solution.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know because that was me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was literally patted on the hand and told I would just have to live with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that doctor did not know me very well because I don't do well
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  SPEAKER_00: with those non-answers, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Living with chronic bloating gas and diarrhea?
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  SPEAKER_00: No thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who would ever want to live that way?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't want you to live that way either.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have been around, you understand that we are not trying to find a diagnosis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes that can be very helpful for us to know what is actually going
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  SPEAKER_00: on But we don't want to own a diagnosis.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was not going to own the fact that I had IBS.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that was my lot in life at 28 years old that I was just going to have to live
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  SPEAKER_00: with eating Imodium AD like it was candy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And constantly searching for restrooms and constantly wondering,
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  SPEAKER_00: was this going to be the moment that I was going to actually be able to make it out
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  SPEAKER_00: the door on time?
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  SPEAKER_00: And everybody that understands any digestive issue, especially IBS,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know that stress only makes it worse, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you're stressed about getting out the door on time, what generally happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we get that nervous stomach, that urge to go, the urgency.
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  SPEAKER_00: And travel can bring this on so much more too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today I want to give you hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is always hope in God's kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is always hope for your midlife wellness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we are going to talk about three foundations to nourish your gut and help
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  SPEAKER_00: with some of these very common things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And often unspoken issues.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are in great company here because not only do I understand digestive upset,
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  SPEAKER_00: but these types of digestive concerns are far more common than anyone often lets on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Women are twice as likely as men to deal with regular bloating.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, I have one client who is like, you always ask me if I'm feeling bloated.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what that feels like.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay because women are twice as likely as men to deal with regular bloating.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was one large study where nearly one in four women reported bloating
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  SPEAKER_00: at least every week compared to about one in eight men.
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  SPEAKER_00: So good for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did come back to me later and say, oh, I think I know what you mean by bloating.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is so underreported that researchers are now telling doctors, hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about this first because women are not saying anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are walking into our appointments with a list of questions either written out
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  SPEAKER_00: or in our head and when we get to that one it's like the intimacy or lack
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  SPEAKER_00: of libido question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that those are really hard things to bring up especially if we don't
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of things that women are dealing with still today in 2026
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  SPEAKER_00: that they are just not talking about because it's uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: So hear me on this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing is wrong with you and you're not alone,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I want you to understand that common does not mean fine, does not mean normal,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I am not willing to accept what may be common as fine or normal
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  SPEAKER_00: and neither should you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is why your gut really does deserve this attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many people will be like, well, I know I shouldn't have eaten that,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it tastes really good or whatever the reason was,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'll just pay for it later.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 70% of your immune cells live inside your gut.
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  SPEAKER_00: 70%.
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  SPEAKER_00: So keeping your gut healthy is not just a nice to, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is one of the most important things that you can do for your whole body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that includes your brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: When your gut is off, so much of you is off.
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  SPEAKER_00: We cannot compartmentalize the body with its brilliant design.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is connected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when your gut is off, it's not sending just one signal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shows up as multiples often like the bloating after dinner
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  SPEAKER_00: and the restless night's sleep and then the brain fog the next morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of us treat each one on its own so we never see the connection and that is
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  SPEAKER_00: where the answers are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I learned that the hard way first with our daughter and then with my own body.
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  SPEAKER_00: 22 years ago I remember I was shaking in the car with our eight-year-old daughter
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  SPEAKER_00: after Three years of severe migraines and that final neurology appointment
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  SPEAKER_00: where they said, we can find nothing wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't help you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For three years, her doctors had told us food had nothing to do with her migraines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feed her whatever she wants.
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  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't feel well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Food had everything to do with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we only found that out because after a while I started writing everything down.
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  SPEAKER_00: What she ate, how she felt, when the migraines came, when the headaches were.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because she would have daily headaches and migraines three to four times a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there was an intensity there that I had to discover why.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the pattern was there the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I was learning the pattern, I was still being dismissed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is exactly why I created the Treasured Wellness Journal
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  SPEAKER_00: so you can see what your gut and your body have been telling you instead
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  SPEAKER_00: of guessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't just my daughter's experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: But over a decade later, it was my own body and my own experience that I walked through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Too many times I almost passed out at my stove making dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: My body had been warning me for years and I kept pushing through,
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  SPEAKER_00: giving myself drips and drops in my bucket just to get through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that night, God made me lie down, literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like my own Psalm 23 moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was so resistant. I was so mad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was so angry.
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  SPEAKER_00: But because this was not the first time he had done this,
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  SPEAKER_00: this was not the first time I had to turn everything off at the stove to go lay down
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  SPEAKER_00: until the Dizziness stopped and my heart calmed down and the whooshing
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  SPEAKER_00: in my ears went away.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this time I was ready to listen and it changed the course of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I know what some of you are thinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You probably have a stack of journals you have started and never finished
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  SPEAKER_00: and the last thing you need is one more thing to keep up with.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also know You're tired of trying to track everything on your phone.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're tired of looking at an app for every single thing you do and eat
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  SPEAKER_00: and how are you sleeping and how are you breathing and all of these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're tired of going to technology for something that is so personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: This journal was built for women who have a lot that they are carrying.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there are short, simple prompts on your food, your mood, your sleep, your energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: your digestion with five minute sacred pauses throughout the day
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  SPEAKER_00: that give you energy back instead of taking it from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most importantly, inside this journal, it keeps God at the center.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you know where he's leading you in your health
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  SPEAKER_00: and you were replacing lies like this is just my age and you just have to live
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  SPEAKER_00: with it with his truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And right now, since we are in November, hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is the season that you are carrying even more the shopping, the wrapping,
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  SPEAKER_00: the menus, the hosting, the travel, closing out the year at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will spend hours finding the right gift for every person you love
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  SPEAKER_00: and creating experiences for everybody that means so much to you
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  SPEAKER_00: while quietly planning to deal with your own health in January.
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  SPEAKER_00: May I suggest that you put yourself on your own list this year because the travel,
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  SPEAKER_00: the late nights, the closing out the year end at work, the rich foods,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of this is going to tell you more about your own body in the next six weeks
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  SPEAKER_00: than any other time of the year
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  SPEAKER_00: because everything you are carrying is heightened right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We like to say how fun the season is and it is, it's wonderful and it's fun and we love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet we feel everything so much deeper, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, let's be real.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are tackling more than you were in September.
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  SPEAKER_00: In November and December, you are handling more and more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can walk into the new year with answers instead of another fresh start.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you are well, sister, every person on your gift list gets more of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is not selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is stewardship.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go to treasuredwellness.com slash journal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the link will be in the show notes as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But treasuredwellness.com slash journal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're going to talk about the three foundations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one is hydration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hydration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is so necessary.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we're dehydrated, everything slows down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your brain function, your digestive system.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, think about how easily constipation can be helped greatly just
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  SPEAKER_00: by drinking more water consistently.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cannot tell you how many women believe they are actually drinking plenty of water
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  SPEAKER_00: and yet their cells are dehydrated. How do I see that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I see that in their urine tests.
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  SPEAKER_00: I see it in the blood when I look at their labs.
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  SPEAKER_00: The body is giving clues.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's what I don't want you to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to carry around a 64-ounce jug all day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember when that was the thing?
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  SPEAKER_00: I had clients literally putting a seatbelt around the jug in their car
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  SPEAKER_00: because it would not fit in the cup holder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, it was such a trend.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is that 64 ounce jug got heavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It got annoying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how long did it last?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the idea was good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just wasn't practical.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so women quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything that you add to your nutrition
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  SPEAKER_00: and to your life has to actually fit you
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  SPEAKER_00: or you will stop doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's human nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, hey, skip the jug.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never recommended the jug.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just always felt right out of the gate that that was unsustainable.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't going to do it, so I certainly was never going to ask any of my clients to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do encourage you to measure just for one day.
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  SPEAKER_00: How much water are you really drinking?
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  SPEAKER_00: So you actually know, you're not guessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I'm gonna say, water before coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before that first cup of water, drink a full glass of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep a glass next to the coffee pot so it's an easy reminder for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, foundation number two, move.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to move your body daily.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: That fits your body though.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that an inactive body leads to a whole host of issues, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like sedentary lifestyle is very, very unhealthy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it specifically leads to a stagnant digestive system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about how much of your day is spent sitting at a desk,
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  SPEAKER_00: even at a standing desk, which is better Still is not motion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being still is not being in motion.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have to find the pockets where movement actually fits into your day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to make this work for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for those of you who are drained with nothing left after work,
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  SPEAKER_00: the best movement for you is not the same as the best movement for a woman
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  SPEAKER_00: who is not deeply fatigued.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doing what she does the way she does it can drain you even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why I caution women who are following fitness instructors
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  SPEAKER_00: that have really good intentions, but if they don't know what you're going through,
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  SPEAKER_00: what they are suggesting could actually be draining you
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  SPEAKER_00: and harming your nervous system even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have to know yourself, understand what your body is needing,
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  SPEAKER_00: what is wiping it out, what is energizing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This reminds me of Kate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kate was a client of mine who was really resistant
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  SPEAKER_00: to giving up her daily four mile walk, even though she was so exhausted.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were supporting her adrenals nutritionally, it was helping,
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  SPEAKER_00: but she was still wiped out after work.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had a very physical job and then would do a four mile power walk every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we had been working on her mindset around those walks,
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  SPEAKER_00: her expectations of herself,
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  SPEAKER_00: and we started tailoring her movement to what her body actually needed,
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  SPEAKER_00: more stretching, Walking, but not the intensity.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kate was really resistant to slowing down her power walks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it took her some time before she was finally ready to implement that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because her walks had been more about her mental health.
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  SPEAKER_00: She loved them.
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  SPEAKER_00: She looked forward to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then she also felt like the fast pace and the distance
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  SPEAKER_00: of four miles would only help her to have more energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it was really draining her instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was so exhausted the next morning,
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  SPEAKER_00: even after she felt like she felt pretty good after her power walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when she was ready to slow it down with the intensity and the mileage,
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  SPEAKER_00: she was so surprised that her energy came back naturally.
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  SPEAKER_00: She felt good after her walk,
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  SPEAKER_00: even though it was only a mile and she had more energy the next morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kate was so surprised how good she felt mentally and physically.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she could not believe how long she waited to try it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust your God-given instincts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust the signals that your body is giving you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body is not a machine to manage.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a temple to steward.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so honoring the way your body is feeling right now in this moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is a good step towards stewardship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, foundation number three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whole food, real food, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: We are going to eat food the way God created it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of what comes in a package, a bag, or a box.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's made up of a combination of food or food-like substances
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  SPEAKER_00: that have been highly processed and tampered with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body struggles to recognize what isn't real.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in a lot of products that brag about adding things like fiber,
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  SPEAKER_00: let me tell you that fiber was added in a lab, not grown. And...
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  SPEAKER_00: For any ingredient, if you can't pronounce it, it's likely a chemical base.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you bring in more whole foods, foods that God created, your body responds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leafy greens, the colors of the rainbow in your fruits and vegetables,
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  SPEAKER_00: whole complex carbohydrates like quinoa, wild rice, lentils, and root vegetables.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chia and flax, black beans, chickpeas, and oats with no added junk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep it simple, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If God made it, eat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If man made it, be mindful of how much you eat and how your body is reacting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me just bounce back to fiber again because we're talking about digestion.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't necessarily need to drink that gritty fiber drink every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there are better products on the market now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially in my online supplement dispensary.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not gritty.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not made with processed ingredients and added fillers,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you might not need to drink a fiber drink every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may not be what your body needs. Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So your body, when you add in fiber is also giving you clues, whether how it,
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  SPEAKER_00: if it feels good after, or if it doesn't feel so good after.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to think about this as it pertains to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having a bowel movement every three days is not normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you may have been told that that is normal for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just about every woman who comes to me with gut issues tells me the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: My doc says going every three days is my normal and it's not constipation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a lie because your body was designed to eliminate daily.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: I can't tell you how many women in my world are just shocked to find
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  SPEAKER_00: that they can actually go every single day and that it's effortless
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  SPEAKER_00: after what has felt like a lifetime of constipation.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about freedom, right?
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Whole health freedom is such an amazing gift that God has given us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But see, the enemy wants God's people bound up in lies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is one area that too many of God's people are literally bound up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pun intended.
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  SPEAKER_00: And freedom can be theirs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reversing constipation unlocks so many other healthy shifts in the mind and body
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  SPEAKER_00: because all of those toxins are getting out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body was designed to eliminate daily.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me just say one more thing because this trips up so many women.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to clear this up.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of you have believed that you have to force down kale and broccoli to heal
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  SPEAKER_00: the belly bloat, to help your gut, to help yourself go to the bathroom more,
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  SPEAKER_00: to help your bowels, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To help your digestion.
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  SPEAKER_00: But not everybody's body responds to the same foods in the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Certain foods as healthy as they are can actually cause inflammation in your gut
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  SPEAKER_00: and really wreak havoc.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially if the gut is not healthy to begin with.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is not and there never was a one size fits all approach to health.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Kathy is proof of it. Kathy came to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had been eating a mountain of vegetables every day to lose her stubborn belly bloat.
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  SPEAKER_00: She also wanted to lose some weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every single night after dinner, she was bloated even more with painful gas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once we started working together,
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  SPEAKER_00: I built her a nutrition plan that left her more satisfied,
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  SPEAKER_00: her stomach much happier and a plan to help heal and seal her gut.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was based on her real life, her situations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the next time, because she really actually loved raw vegetables,
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  SPEAKER_00: but her body was not loving that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we had to fix that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had to help her body to what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Feel safe, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: In order to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: So once we helped her body to feel safe, it was able to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her gut was able to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And The next time by choice, she ate out and she had a kale salad because she wanted it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she was so pleasantly surprised to notice that her stomach was completely settled.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had no bloating and no painful gas.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is not one size fits all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We cannot compartmentalize and we cannot put God's beautiful design inside a box.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you might be wondering what happened to me in those Sunday mornings in the car?
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  SPEAKER_00: How long did we all, all being my family, deal with my stomach issues?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it took a few years, but years later, I really got fed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: After all we went through with our daughter's illness for three years,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was walking through my own struggles during that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I did what every mom does.
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  SPEAKER_00: They put their own health on the back burner.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I did that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once she was healing and my little girl was coming back to us again,
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  SPEAKER_00: she was growing, she was thriving, she did not look sick anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started to get very serious about my own gut.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started to research even more for myself
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  SPEAKER_00: and learn and record what my own body was saying.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then when I went back to school for nutrition, I I learned way more, like so much more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So within a year with very specific and intentional food and lifestyle changes,
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  SPEAKER_00: my IBS was completely gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now they told me I would have to live with this forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I am here to tell you, there is always something that we can do
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  SPEAKER_00: to help our body feel better.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's always hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you are dealing with gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea,
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  SPEAKER_00: or digestive pain often, it does not necessarily mean that you have a condition,
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  SPEAKER_00: right? Like you might not have a diagnosis of IBS, IBD, or Crohn's disease,
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  SPEAKER_00: but there is a big warning light that something isn't right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is where I would have you start.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's keep it simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: For one week, write down everything that you eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just the food though.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to write down how you feel afterward and how you are eliminating.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I used to call it the food mood poop journal,
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  SPEAKER_00: but that one week is going to give you great information
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: on how your body is working.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Once you do that, then you can make one simple change in only one area.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's say that you eat bread at every meal with crackers and chips
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  SPEAKER_00: in between and you go to the bathroom like every three or four days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something in your eating might need to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: So make one small switch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take the bread, the crackers, the chips, or any other form of wheat out of one meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep writing down your foods, keep writing down your mood, your energy, your poop,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the details, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't give up if you don't notice a change right away because it is a process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's really fast and other times it takes a few days.
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  SPEAKER_00: But during this week, this is what your Treasured Wellness Journal is for.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to give you a simple place to write it all down.
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  SPEAKER_00: All in one place.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've heard over and over from women that have the journal
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  SPEAKER_00: that they love having everything in one place.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't have to try to remember where they wrote what down.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have one solid hardbound book.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: To write everything in, all those details.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what feels random to you starts to make sense
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  SPEAKER_00: and you can see what your body has been telling you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go to treasuredwellness.com slash journal to get your copy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is really a chance for you to get curious about what your body is actually asking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because often we feel bad for so long that we think it's our normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may be common.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it isn't normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: So give your body time to adjust to a healthier way of eating
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: and your digestive system will respond to that.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: Your body is not fighting against you.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: It is communicating with you.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: And stewarding it is worship.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Wellness is worship.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 139 tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: Gut and all, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So listening to your body is simply honoring the temple that God gave you.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't want you to think you have to overhaul everything this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I want you to pick one thing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: One thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just take one faithful next step because it's these small intentional shifts
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: that lead to real breakthroughs and those baby steps create the macro wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: So You've got this. I am here for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm cheering you on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that one small thing is going to make a big difference for you.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, while you are starting to write a list for everything that you need
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: to do, for everyone's gifts that you need to order and purchase,
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: add one for yourself.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Get your Treasured Wellness Journal at treasuredwellness.com slash journal.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: You will not have to guess anymore.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: You get to know. Yay! You get to know.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can stop guessing.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: And this puts you way ahead of the January 1st, I'm going to start over January 1,
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  SPEAKER_00: that the majority of people are doing.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because you get to know right now, before the holidays start, during the holidays,
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  SPEAKER_00: you get to know what your body is communicating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body is not a problem to manage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body is a temple to steward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pray that this was helpful for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember you are a beautiful treasure so treasure your wellness.