Latest / Cortisol Coach / Hormone Imbalance, Gut Health, and Fasting for Women Over 40 | Dr. Tabatha Barber

Transcript

Hormone Imbalance, Gut Health, and Fasting for Women Over 40 | Dr. Tabatha Barber · Cortisol Coach

• 0:03
  Welcome to the Cortisol Coach Podcast. If you're exhausted, gaining weight,
• 0:08
  losing your hair, your anxiety is through the roof, or the depression and emotional
• 0:12
  overwhelm have completely consumed your life, or maybe you're not showing up
• 0:16
  as the wife and mom you want to be.
• 0:17
  You've spent years never feeling
• 0:20
  good enough, taking care of everyone else while you quietly fell apart.
• 0:24
  And your body has been keeping score of every single bit of it.
• 0:28
  The chronic stress, hormonal shifts, perimenopause, menopause,
• 0:32
  whatever season you're in, cortisol is making all of it worse.
• 0:35
  And until you heal the root, nothing changes. But this show here is about to change that.
• 0:41
  I'm your host, Christine Marie, Holy Spirit-led Biblical Mindset Coach,
• 0:45
  and I have helped thousands of women heal their hormones and cortisol levels.
• 0:49
  Every week, I bring you leading experts, doctors, and coaches who will help
• 0:54
  you heal your body, mind, emotions, and your spirit so that you can step into
• 0:58
  every kingdom purpose that God has planned for your life.
• 1:01
  So go grab your cup of coffee and let's jump in.
• 1:05
  My guest today is someone I had the privilege of connecting with through the
• 1:09
  Midlife Reset Summit, and the moment that I heard her story,
• 1:12
  I knew she had to be on this show.
• 1:14
  Dr. Tabitha Barber is a triple board certified OBGYN who specializes in functional
• 1:19
  medicine as her primary approach to treating women's health.
• 1:22
  She's the founder of Fast to Faith, and she has dedicated her life to showing
• 1:26
  women how to heal their hormones, their gut, and their metabolism.
• 1:30
  But what makes Dr. Tabitha's story so extraordinary is that she was not always
• 1:36
  the picture of health that she now teaches.
• 1:39
  As a physician, she went on her own healing journey.
• 1:43
  She was sleep-deprived, eating food she knew she shouldn't, missing moments
• 1:47
  in her daughter's life, and convincing herself that sacrificing her health would
• 1:52
  make her a better doctor until she said no more.
• 1:57
  Her Hashimoto's flared, she gained weight, she fell into depression,
• 2:00
  she developed the uncontrollable IBS, and then came the back injury.
• 2:06
  Two surgeons telling her she needed a spine fusion, plates, and screws.
• 2:10
  But she walked out of that second opinion determined to find another way.
• 2:15
  What followed was a four-month journey of choosing herself, completely overhauling
• 2:19
  her lifestyle, discovering functional medicine, and encountering a faith that changed everything.
• 2:25
  And I want to share with you today that Jesus healed her.
• 2:28
  Today, she helps women do exactly what she did.
• 2:32
  Reverse chronic illness, balance hormones, heal their gut, and create a vibrant
• 2:36
  life full of energy and joy. using food, movement, mindfulness, and faith.
• 2:42
  Dr. Tabitha, welcome to the Cortisol Coach Podcast.
• 2:45
  Oh my goodness, Christine. Hearing that, it just lights my soul on fire. God is so good.
• 2:53
  He is a redeeming God. He is, and that's what connected me so much to your story,
• 2:59
  because I too spent years looking for answers,
• 3:03
  getting lots and lots of diagnoses, lots of medications but honestly I was desperate
• 3:09
  I was so desperate and now that I realize now I'm on the other end of this that
• 3:15
  by targeting the root and connection with Jesus and his promises.
• 3:22
  That we can truly step into the calling the purpose the life and the healing
• 3:26
  that he has predestined for us so take us back tell us a little bit more about
• 3:31
  your journey what led here I cannot wait for everybody to hear this.
• 3:35
  Oh my goodness. So I did have the benefit of being raised in the church a little bit.
• 3:43
  My mother was Catholic, and so I went to Sunday school, I went to Mass,
• 3:49
  I did the First Communion, the Confirmation, all the things.
• 3:53
  And I knew Jesus was my Savior and that He loved me.
• 3:59
  But I couldn't wrap my mind around being good. I was just so sinful.
• 4:07
  It was in my nature to rebel and do what I want. And I was just quite the wild child.
• 4:15
  I did not want to submit to authority.
• 4:18
  And that got me in a lot of trouble. By the time I was 16, I was pregnant.
• 4:24
  And I ended up dropping out of high school to have my daughter.
• 4:28
  And looking back, I am so grateful for God giving me that pregnancy and giving
• 4:36
  me my daughter because it just stopped me dead in my tracks of,
• 4:41
  you know, a lot of the things that I was doing and desiring.
• 4:45
  But it didn't stop me completely, I still continued to struggle and make bad choices for a long time.
• 4:55
  But I at least had this calling from him of like, go out and help women not
• 5:02
  have a terrible pregnancy and delivery like you had, help women have a voice
• 5:06
  and a choice in their health.
• 5:08
  So I had this mission that was driving me, but I was doing it from a place of,
• 5:14
  I'll show everybody, I'll show them that I'm good enough, that I'm worthy enough,
• 5:19
  because everybody was saying like, oh, you can't be a doctor.
• 5:22
  You're not smart enough. You can't afford it. There's no way you're going to
• 5:26
  do this, you know, as a teenage mom.
• 5:29
  And so it was me just trying to prove people wrong. That's what drove me through a lot of it.
• 5:34
  When you do things for the wrong reasons and you carry all that burden alone, it's
• 5:40
  it breaks you. It burns you out. And like you mentioned, I got to the point
• 5:45
  where I had back surgery. It failed.
• 5:48
  They threatened me with a second back surgery with all this hardware.
• 5:52
  And God was like, you did this alone.
• 5:55
  Yes, I gave you a mission, but you left me in the delivery room back where we
• 6:00
  had that conversation and you didn't bring me on the journey with you. You never consulted me.
• 6:05
  You never asked me to carry your burdens for you.
• 6:08
  You did it all on your own. And that is why you are the way you are.
• 6:13
  And so I know there's somebody listening right now who literally is trying to
• 6:19
  do all of this of her own fruition. And that is not what we're called to do.
• 6:25
  I promise you, Jesus says, my yoke is light. Give me your burden.
• 6:31
  I will carry it for you. right and so
• 6:34
  if you're finding yourself just like in
• 6:37
  this burnout situation or you're so
• 6:40
  busy that you don't have time for god that is
• 6:43
  not how you're called to live and that will lead to disease and destruction
• 6:49
  of your body of your soul of everything a hundred percent and i feel like that's
• 6:54
  where i connected with you so much because my husband and i we were foster parents
• 6:58
  for 10 years we took in 77 kiddos,
• 7:02
  And I, too, grew up in the church. I did all the programs. I knew God.
• 7:07
  But I always had this feeling like I needed to be re-baptized every week because I was so bad.
• 7:15
  And I needed to constantly be renewed in Him. I didn't understand that's not how God works.
• 7:22
  And when we walked out of our foster care journey, I had precancerous cells.
• 7:26
  I needed a hysterectomy. I had fibroids. You could feel through my stomach. My body was broken.
• 7:32
  And that's when I met Jesus for the first time, like the actual Jesus,
• 7:38
  when I collapsed on the hallway floor, just broken.
• 7:41
  And that's where he said, you need to go back and help other women not do this alone.
• 7:47
  Because we feel like we're doing more and we're doing it aligned with Jesus,
• 7:52
  which we are, but we're doing it separate. We're not co-laboring.
• 7:57
  So take us back now after you walked through all of that.
• 8:01
  What was the moment that you said, there's another way? There's so many moments.
• 8:05
  God has been chasing me down since I was a little girl, and he continues to
• 8:11
  give me opportunities to show up right.
• 8:14
  And the more aware I am of that now, the quicker it is to be obedient and surrender and do his will.
• 8:21
  But for so long, I was just dense. I didn't get it, you know?
• 8:25
  Like I would half get it or kind of get it, and then I would forget.
• 8:29
  Like, I just think it's in our nature to forget and continue to pick that crap
• 8:34
  up that we're not supposed to be carrying.
• 8:38
  So, you know, he was revealing to me when I was laying flat on my back for seven
• 8:43
  days, unable to move after my second injury, that I.
• 8:47
  You need to seek me first. He had me looking straight up at him,
• 8:51
  not able to do anything else but talk to him.
• 8:54
  And he's like, you need to seek me first.
• 8:58
  That is where you need to be. And so I started to realize that what I was helping
• 9:04
  women with, my tools in my toolbox as an OBGYN, as a surgeon,
• 9:09
  they were based on my idea and what I was trained to, you know, heal people.
• 9:16
  Like, you come to me, I'm going to do this surgery and heal you.
• 9:20
  And God was like, you need to teach women that,
• 9:24
  I actually created their bodies to heal and you can just guide them and show
• 9:30
  them the innate, incredible design of their bodies.
• 9:35
  And he started to reveal all of these things to me by helping me heal my own
• 9:40
  body and reverse my diseases and avoid that back surgery.
• 9:44
  And I think I found out that it absolutely matters how you're nourishing your
• 9:50
  body, what you're putting in it, what you're putting in your mind,
• 9:53
  how you're moving it, how you're processing your emotions and your childhood
• 9:57
  traumas and all those things.
• 9:58
  So I started to see that I could help women without being a surgeon,
• 10:04
  without using my hands. And for me, that was really hard because that was my identity.
• 10:10
  Like I was the surgeon. I was, you know, the baby deliverer.
• 10:14
  I delivered all the babies in town. And he's like, but we're doing a new thing.
• 10:18
  I'm doing a new thing in you.
• 10:20
  Can't you perceive it? And so I just trusted him and I opened a functional medicine
• 10:25
  practice and women started healing in a way that I had never seen before.
• 10:32
  You know, stage four endometriosis, I would cut it out. I would do all the surgery
• 10:36
  and they would feel really good for a minute.
• 10:39
  But I knew they would be back in a year or two for another surgery because the
• 10:44
  disease would just return and progress.
• 10:46
  And so now I was like doing stool
• 10:49
  testing and adrenal testing and food
• 10:52
  sensitivity testing and all of these things and the
• 10:56
  endometriosis wasn't coming back they didn't need
• 10:59
  more surgeries they were actually healing it wasn't just this band-aid approach
• 11:05
  anymore and so I couldn't go back to my old ways I had to just continue to trust
• 11:11
  and move forward I have to say I come from nothing so when I was an OBGYN,
• 11:17
  you know, making a quarter of a million dollars, having a 401k,
• 11:22
  having all the accolades, being chief of staff.
• 11:25
  I gave that up because I trusted that God was guiding me to do something more
• 11:32
  worthwhile, better for other human beings. I didn't know how I was going to pay the bills.
• 11:38
  I didn't know how life was going to be giving up all that security,
• 11:41
  all that stability that my entire life I longed for and worked for.
• 11:47
  But I trusted him and it's been the most rewarding thing I've ever done because
• 11:52
  it is helping countless women, and that is what we're called to do.
• 11:57
  We're here to serve others and to help lift others out of the pit and show them
• 12:03
  the way. We're called to be the light.
• 12:06
  God revealed to me recently, he's like, you are a torch.
• 12:10
  You are supposed to pass on my light and love to others, and that's my identity.
• 12:16
  My identity isn't a surgeon. I love that you brought up that childhood trauma
• 12:23
  in healing that peace, because I feel like there's a lot of us women who do
• 12:29
  more, be more like you collect the accolades.
• 12:32
  You feel like you need to accomplish more.
• 12:36
  And it comes from this wounding of worthiness and significance in our earliest
• 12:42
  childhood that the enemy continues to survive.
• 12:46
  Fire darts at us about. And you were obedient. I think that was one of the hardest
• 12:53
  lessons for me personally, is that not being obedient is disobedience.
• 12:59
  Well, and what I learned was obedience is actually freedom.
• 13:04
  I was striving for freedom. I wanted to be in control and be free.
• 13:09
  But when you're in control, you're not free.
• 13:12
  Actually being obedient and surrendering to Jesus is ultimate freedom.
• 13:16
  I finally don't have the shackles of depression or the fear of man or living
• 13:23
  up to anybody's standards.
• 13:25
  All of that is gone, and now I have freedom because of that.
• 13:29
  It does come from childhood, from people telling me that I could never do things,
• 13:36
  that I wasn't smart enough, that I wasn't capable,
• 13:38
  that I didn't come from the right family, whatever the lies were that I believed,
• 13:44
  I made a choice at one point to just say, you know what?
• 13:49
  Those are lies. I don't believe them anymore. I'm going to believe that God
• 13:54
  chose me to do something.
• 13:56
  And people thought I was crazy, even people in my own family.
• 14:00
  But you know when you're chosen.
• 14:04
  You feel that deep inside and you have to fan that flame.
• 14:11
  You have to keep that alive. You have to ask God to carry you through and refine you in that fire.
• 14:18
  100%. And going back to that piece, you talked about the gut flame.
• 14:23
  The gut health piece? Because I feel like a lot of us women who are doing all
• 14:27
  the things you just talked about, our gut health is awful.
• 14:31
  And it is feeding autoimmune and all kinds of things.
• 14:35
  I know that you struggled with multiple different health concerns.
• 14:40
  Can you walk us through the gut and hormone piece, how that connects and why
• 14:46
  that's such an important piece for women to step into healing on?
• 14:51
  Yeah, this is essential.
• 14:53
  So you can pray all day and cry out to God, but if your body is physically not
• 15:01
  balanced, if it's under assault,
• 15:03
  if you have undiagnosed gut infections or food sensitivities and your immune
• 15:08
  system is all upset and confused and on fire, You will never feel better or
• 15:14
  even be able to move forward.
• 15:17
  I say you cannot climb out of the pit.
• 15:20
  So we have an entire ecosystem living inside of us and running the show.
• 15:26
  We actually have more bacterial DNA in us than human DNA.
• 15:30
  So we have to figure out how to coincide with these trillions of bacteria and
• 15:37
  yeast and parasites and realize that they are affecting our ability to think
• 15:43
  clearly, to renew our mind,
• 15:45
  to make good choices and to change our habits.
• 15:49
  I had a rotten gut since childhood.
• 15:52
  I had parasite infections from running around in my bare feet as a kid and drinking
• 15:58
  the lake water and just enjoying, you know, my childhood.
• 16:01
  But I also had chronic ear infections because everyone around me smoked.
• 16:06
  And so I was always on antibiotics or steroids, different things.
• 16:10
  And so my gut was constantly under assault and being attacked.
• 16:14
  And it was never healthy in there.
• 16:16
  And that drove my depression because the little bacteria, they eat the food we eat.
• 16:24
  And just like we poop out waste, they poop out waste called metabolites.
• 16:29
  And those metabolites literally go up our vagus nerve, up to our brain,
• 16:35
  and they make our neurotransmitters like dopamine, GABA, serotonin.
• 16:41
  Those neurotransmitters are talking between our nerve cells from nerve to nerve.
• 16:47
  They're sending signals throughout our brain and all throughout our body.
• 16:52
  And so if you have toxic bacteria sending toxic signals to your brain cells
• 16:59
  out to the rest of your body, you're not going to be able to be healthy.
• 17:05
  And so I lived in depression from early childhood on.
• 17:09
  I had gone through like five different antidepressant medications.
• 17:13
  Counseling, nothing touched it until I healed my gut.
• 17:17
  I created Hashimoto's autoimmune condition after my delivery because of my chronic gut issues.
• 17:24
  I had eczema that would bleed. My hands would just crack and bleed after scrubbing
• 17:31
  them in the OR because my eczema was so bad. And like all of these things...
• 17:36
  Couldn't heal until I addressed my gut problem.
• 17:41
  And so once I figured that out, I was like, oh my gosh, the gut literally is
• 17:47
  the root. It is the gateway for health or disease.
• 17:53
  It's where it all starts. And if you don't fix that ecosystem,
• 17:57
  you cannot heal and thrive. And so I healed my gut through this whole process.
• 18:04
  And I got off my antidepressant medications. My Hashimoto's went into remission, essentially.
• 18:11
  I still need thyroid medication because they did this procedure to my thyroid
• 18:15
  with iodine. But my antibody levels have come down.
• 18:19
  My eczema has resolved. So many things. I lost like over 30 pounds, 35 pounds.
• 18:25
  Just everything shifted for me when I healed my gut.
• 18:29
  And so I have been on this mission to help women understand that in order to
• 18:35
  heal yourself, you have to heal your gut.
• 18:37
  And that is key. And I get it.
• 18:40
  Like so many women, they've tried to do certain supplements to help the gut,
• 18:45
  or I've taken the probiotics, I've done the fiber supplements,
• 18:48
  right? Or they've even done testing.
• 18:51
  Like I get so many women who come to me, they say, I did a stool test and I don't feel better.
• 18:56
  Or I did a food sensitivity test. I've been avoiding those foods for a year and I don't feel better.
• 19:01
  And the truth of it is, you have to do these certain tests and you have to treat.
• 19:07
  In the right order, doing the right things at the right time.
• 19:12
  So what I see is a lot of wrong protocols.
• 19:16
  They're not actually addressing the adrenal dysfunction or the nervous system
• 19:22
  dysregulation of living in fight or flight,
• 19:24
  or they're just avoiding those food sensitivities and they're not trying to
• 19:30
  actually calm and heal the immune system so they can bring those foods back.
• 19:35
  So it really is dependent on how you do these protocols all together.
• 19:41
  It's a comprehensive approach. And that has been my focus in our virtual medical
• 19:46
  practice now for the past five years is we just do this comprehensive program.
• 19:52
  Women get incredible healing and they get lifelong tools to understand their
• 19:57
  body of like, what does my body need?
• 20:00
  What upsets it? How can I get back on track when I fall off the wagon,
• 20:05
  because life continues to happen, right?
• 20:08
  So you need those tools going forward.
• 20:11
  I love that. And so you have developed a three-pronged approach.
• 20:16
  So can you tell our listeners what that is?
• 20:18
  Because this were me eight years ago, and I were in that place where my body was a mess.
• 20:25
  And you can fast-track your.
• 20:28
  And you don't have to wait eight years anymore. You can connect with Dr.
• 20:32
  Tabitha and step into the most beautiful life that God has for you because you're
• 20:38
  stepping into healing. So tell us about that.
• 20:40
  Yeah, I understand that a lot of horrible things came through with COVID,
• 20:47
  but COVID also gave us some incredible blessings.
• 20:50
  The ability to have a health care provider anywhere in the country.
• 20:56
  You don't have to go see a doctor at the end of the corner who nobody likes anymore.
• 21:02
  That's just not how it is in this
• 21:04
  day and age. So I see women all over the country and we help them heal.
• 21:08
  And that's been incredible. So I'm so grateful to COVID for bringing down those
• 21:14
  walls and those barriers. So you don't have to search for eight years to get
• 21:18
  help, right? Like you can get help now.
• 21:21
  You really can. And part of healing your body is understanding that you can't heal a body you hate.
• 21:29
  And in order to heal your body, you have to change your mind.
• 21:32
  You have to renew your mind. So everything's based on Romans 12 too.
• 21:37
  And the truth of it is that, like I mentioned, sometimes you have to do all
• 21:43
  of these pieces together because the gut affects the mind. The mind affects the gut.
• 21:49
  They affect the sex hormones. They affect the immune system.
• 21:52
  Everything is interconnected. It is not in a silo like conventional medicine would have you believe.
• 21:59
  So it's absolutely essential that while you're healing the body,
• 22:05
  while you're renewing the mind, you are nourishing your spirit.
• 22:09
  You are inviting the Holy Spirit into this journey with you because when you're
• 22:14
  healing, you're healing,
• 22:14
  If you don't heal your spirit and invite it back into your body,
• 22:19
  there is a spiritual realm that mirrors our world.
• 22:24
  I know it sounds a little crazy, but this is what the Bible says,
• 22:29
  that everything happening in the spirit world gets represented physically.
• 22:33
  So if your spirit is in bondage, if your spirit is being tormented or struggling.
• 22:39
  Your body's not going to actually heal and stay healed.
• 22:44
  And that is what I help women understand is you have to do a mind-body-spirit
• 22:51
  approach. You have to heal all aspects of yourself.
• 22:56
  We are a trinity just like God is a trinity.
• 22:59
  And I was thinking about this recently. Our body is like a micro version of the earth.
• 23:08
  The earth has all these ecosystems that have to figure out how to live in symphony,
• 23:15
  in harmony, the fish, the lakes, the birds, the animals, the humans.
• 23:21
  And we have these bacteria in our gut, on our skin. We have these cells.
• 23:27
  We have these neurotransmitters in our brain and these thoughts.
• 23:30
  They all have to, you know, live cohesively together in order to survive.
• 23:38
  And so if one species dies off, it shifts the whole ecosystem.
• 23:43
  And that same thing happens in our bodies. So I think we just have to start
• 23:47
  respecting God's design for us and us in this earth and in the spirit realm.
• 23:54
  And the more that you can understand that, the more that you can be empowered to shift it. Wow.
• 24:01
  Yes. Yes. I know it's a lot.
• 24:05
  But it's so true. And it's you have to look at the body as,
• 24:13
  mind, body, and spirit. And you can't just tackle one.
• 24:18
  I know that you are gifting our listeners today a free masterclass.
• 24:24
  Can you tell us about that?
• 24:25
  Yeah, we're actually doing three separate masterclasses over the next week.
• 24:31
  And I really just want to teach and educate women.
• 24:36
  But more than that, I want them to have hope again and feel like they have the
• 24:43
  ability to move forward in action because we are at this stage in life of infobesity.
• 24:51
  Like we are fat with information. You can Google anything at this point.
• 24:55
  There's no reason not to understand anything. So I'm going to go beyond helping
• 25:00
  you understand what your body is doing, getting into this gut and hormone conversation
• 25:05
  more and thyroid and immune system and explain that stuff.
• 25:08
  But I'm going to give women actionable tools of how can I get out of the pit? How can I get unstuck?
• 25:15
  And really, it is 30 years of me being an OBGYN and being in that conventional
• 25:22
  space and knowing what we say to women and how we fail them and how we dismiss
• 25:28
  them and studying functional medicine, that root cause medicine?
• 25:33
  And like, how does that integrate together? How can I help you navigate this
• 25:37
  system? And what do you need you personally in this time in your life?
• 25:43
  Because not everybody's on the same health journey.
• 25:46
  Not everybody needs the same protocol or plan. And so if you can figure out what you need right now.
• 25:53
  Then you can move forward. And that's what these master classes are going to do.
• 25:57
  They're going to be very eye-opening, and they're just going to connect a lot
• 26:00
  of dots for women, give them some ahas, and show them that next step.
• 26:05
  Because God never shows you the whole plan.
• 26:07
  He just shows you the next step, because He wants you to step out in faith and
• 26:12
  trust that He's making a way for you. And I promise you, He is.
• 26:16
  He's a redeeming God. He uses everything.
• 26:20
  Nothing goes to waste. I just live a Romans 828 life. I just trust that he is
• 26:26
  doing it all for my good and his glory. No matter what it looks like right now, that's what I believe.
• 26:32
  And you have built fast to faith.
• 26:36
  Can you give us a high-level overview on what that looks like?
• 26:40
  Because I know there's probably women listening to this right now who are going
• 26:43
  to say, I would love to attend the masterclass,
• 26:47
  But I want to skip past all of that and I just want to link arms with you because
• 26:52
  I am I we all want microwave results and we all want healing and we want to
• 26:57
  step into the best version of ourselves.
• 26:59
  So if somebody is saying that's great, but I want to connect with you.
• 27:03
  What does that look like?
• 27:04
  Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you asked. We actually get women who come to us just
• 27:10
  to become a fast to faith coach.
• 27:11
  They're like, I haven't even done the fast to faith 40 day program,
• 27:15
  but God laid it on my heart that I'm supposed to be a coach.
• 27:19
  And so here I am. What does it even look like?
• 27:23
  And so fast to faith is a 40 day awakening program where we teach you to go
• 27:29
  from sugar burner to fat burner to regain your metabolic flexibility to help
• 27:34
  you reverse chronic disease like insulin resistance,
• 27:38
  prediabetes, Hashimoto's, migraines, all of the things.
• 27:42
  It's an anti-inflammatory plan, but it's way more than that because we meditate
• 27:48
  on one scripture every single day and we start to have a relationship with God
• 27:54
  and we learn to hear from him.
• 27:56
  And when you cultivate that relationship and invite Jesus into your health journey, everything shifts.
• 28:02
  And then you can renew your mind on the word. And so it's really powerful.
• 28:06
  It's an amazing 40 days. Women go through it. But we have coaches who coach
• 28:11
  women through the program. So it's a sisterhood.
• 28:14
  It's a community of women.
• 28:16
  And that is what God called us to do, is to do this life together, not alone.
• 28:21
  When you're alone and isolated, that's when Satan can come in and get you.
• 28:26
  So you have to be in a community. And it's so powerful to see all of the women
• 28:32
  learning about their health together.
• 28:34
  You know, I answer all the medical questions and like do all the teaching and
• 28:38
  the training, but we pray over each other.
• 28:40
  We study scripture together. We lift each other up. We cheer each other on.
• 28:45
  It's a powerful sisterhood.
• 28:47
  So we have all of that going on in addition to our virtual medical practice.
• 28:52
  So I just feel like we can help women whatever place they are at and whatever their need is right now.
• 29:00
  I love that. What an answer to prayer. And.
• 29:04
  Oh, God. God, he is so good and so faithful and will redeem the years.
• 29:10
  If you want to connect with Dr.
• 29:13
  Tabitha and find out more about the masterclass or how to personally link arms
• 29:18
  with her in Fast to Faith, all of the information will be in the show notes today.
• 29:23
  Dr. Tabitha, I want to ask you one final question.
• 29:26
  What would you say to the woman who has been white knuckling her way through
• 29:30
  maybe it's perimenopause, menopause, maybe it's autoimmune disorder,
• 29:34
  whatever it is that's holding her back from living the true life God has planned
• 29:40
  for her, what would you say to her today?
• 29:43
  It is time to have a conversation with Jesus.
• 29:49
  It is time to sit down and say, I am done doing this on my own.
• 29:54
  I repent. I am sorry for trying to carry this by myself and thinking that it is all in my strength.
• 30:02
  Lord, I need you. And in your weakness, that is where God shows up and his strength shines.
• 30:11
  And he cannot wait to come and be your savior. But.
• 30:16
  The truth of it is we have free will. It is our choice.
• 30:20
  And God is just waiting like an eager little puppy for you to pay attention
• 30:25
  to him and give him some love and say, I need you.
• 30:28
  And he will get to work. He will start redeeming all of your mistakes, all of your choices.
• 30:34
  He will, if you are tired of not exercising because you feel lazy,
• 30:39
  because you feel bad or ashamed or whatever, like I felt all the things.
• 30:44
  And God was like, I'm going to take all that from you. And I'm going to get
• 30:48
  you excited to go to the gym and move your body and put those yoga pants on
• 30:52
  that you're ashamed to wear.
• 30:54
  Like we're going to redeem all of it. You got to get real and raw and invite Jesus in.
• 31:00
  And that can be really scary for some women because we don't want to give up
• 31:04
  our a glass of wine in the evening, or we don't want to give up those vices or do what he says to do,
• 31:12
  but I promise you there's so much freedom on the other side of being obedient to what he's saying,
• 31:18
  but you can't know what he's saying until you get still and start listening
• 31:23
  and reading his words so that you know who he is and what he's saying and know
• 31:28
  that it's not somebody else saying that in your mind.
• 31:32
  So that's what I encourage women. We go through an activity as a future gazing
• 31:36
  with God and really getting still and hearing what he's saying and discerning all of that.
• 31:42
  So if you need guidance on that, we can absolutely help you with it.
• 31:46
  But that is where every woman should start.
• 31:48
  Even if it's just one minute of opening your Bible, starting with one verse,
• 31:53
  or maybe it's not even opening your Bible.
• 31:55
  Maybe it's just having that honest conversation with Jesus and saying,
• 31:59
  I don't know where to start.
• 32:02
  Exactly. And, you know, read Isaiah 43. It says, do not fear, for I have redeemed you.
• 32:09
  I have summoned you by name. You are mine.
• 32:14
  Like, God's calling you out. And that is all you need to know. Amen. Amen.
• 32:20
  Well, thank you so much for being on today's episode. If you're listening,
• 32:23
  please make sure to go check out the show notes.
• 32:25
  I do not want you to miss the master class. and if you're ready to just say
• 32:30
  forget it all I'm going to lay it all down I want to work with Dr.
• 32:34
  Tabitha and her team we will leave leave that information for you in the show notes as well Dr.
• 32:40
  Tabitha thank you for being on the show it has been such an honor,
• 32:46
  friend I am so thankful that you are here today I pray this episode blessed
• 32:50
  you big time and if it did would you do me a favor and leave me a review on
• 32:54
  Apple Podcasts it helps more women just like you find the show.
• 32:57
  And it may be the very reason that somebody else gets the answers that they
• 33:01
  need. I would also love to connect with you personally on Instagram.
• 33:04
  You can find me by searching cortisol underscore coach. That's where I show
• 33:07
  up every single day and send me a DM. I would love to connect with you. I'll see you next time.