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What if what you thought was true is a lie?
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What if the thing that is wrong with you is actually right?
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Hi there, and welcome to rewriting the Illness Story, a space where we see ourselves and our journeys through a new lens and decide our own truth.
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Hi, and welcome back to Rewriting the Illness Story podcast.
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I'm your host, Paula Hescock.
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Today, we have Ginger Hunt joining us.
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And she's gonna talk about her illness journey and how it's led her to her life's work.
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Hi, Ginger.
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Thanks so much for coming on the show today.
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Hi, Paula.
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So good to be here today with you.
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So grateful to share and be on your podcast.
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Thanks for having me.
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How did your, illness journey come about?
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Did you have issues from a young age, or was it something that happened to you later in life?
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So really, when I look at the beginning of my life, like in the womb, I was actually almost lost at six months, so I know that there was a traumatic experience in the womb.
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Um, my mom almost lost me, and then she delivered me breech.
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So those were two things that were traumatic.
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Um, and so when I was born, I was born with eczema, but it wasn't really like my whole life that I don't remember having eczema, just it was part of when I was born.
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And so as I journeyed through life, I just started noticing through the journey, kind of from that childhood, like play and then suddenly kind of shifting into that fight and flight.
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So losing just more like hypervigilance.
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You know, my parents went through a divorce at age five, and I got held back from school.
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And so I think I, I was beginning to, you know, notice that, okay, there's just, yeah, a lot of stored energy.
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And so as I continued to go through, um, I would say, you know, just awareness of maybe tension in my body, but not really diagnoses or anything.
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At that point, I was just, you know, like we all did, we just go through.
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We're going to our next.
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We're journeying through school.
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I was a decent student.
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When I hit high school, of course, I was looking at college and, playing sports, but I did notice that I had some stuck energy.
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So like when I would show up in my game, in my soccer game, I was like, "Why can I not get that goal?" And so, you know, it was just like I wasn't aligned.
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So I just knew that some stuck energy was keeping me from coherence and alignment.
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And at the time, I really was still in survival mode, just trying to figure life out.
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So I didn't really...
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I would do a little bit of self-help, and I was curious and always wanting to better myself.
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And, um, so then when I got into college, still going strong, doing all the education and always going for overachieving and doing and getting, just getting my life aligned.
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So as I finished up my undergrad in plant science, I had studied a lot of science, and I had a lot of fascination in science, just understanding how things work.
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And maybe I was a little bit over on the 3D side because I could trust it.
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So, like, the science showed me this 3D part that was, oh, I can understand it.
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I can see it.
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It was visual.
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And so then when I'd get to the quantum science stuff that I would study, I was like, "Oh, I can't see it." So it's interesting when I reflect back that I struggled with the quantum part 'cause it wasn't visible, and it wasn't that 3D stuff that was guaranteed or It's visible, I guess.
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So it's like that invisible before it's visible.
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So anyways, I just continued on.
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I started the journey of parenting and, became a stay-at-home mom.
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And I noticed through that journey, again, tight muscles just through my shoulders, and I would always kind of just gravitate towards a massage and just always like, "How do I release this?" But I really still didn't, didn't know.
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And so as I continued my journey, I went back to college in 2010.
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I went to, um, a dental program, so chairside.
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And I was thinking, you know, I've always had a passion for just helping people.
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And so I thought, well, maybe this is a good line of work for me.
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So as I went into dentistry and doing chairside learning, and still, again, beginning to become more aware that in my shoulders and we're tucked over a mouth, doing what we do to help people, and then there's also very high stress in dentistry.
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So people come in and they need help.
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They're, they might be in a huge pain body situation.
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And so I think, you know, I was wanting to help people, always wanting to help people feel better.
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So again, in this kind of caregiving role and then kind of abandoning myself.
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And so 2010, um, during my schooling journey, my parents both got diagnosed with cancer that year.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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It was like, what?
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I think I just froze.
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I was at capacity already studying in the high stress and just trying to get my dentistry done, and, I noticed I just kind of just did freeze.
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It was just too much, you know?
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And then I was like, okay, maybe I need to send the apology or the acceptance of apology to my parents.
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How do I just wrap this up?
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How quick is this gonna go?
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I mean, we don't know.
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But, My dad seemingly went through his surgery and repair and radiation, and then my mom was going through her surgery, and then now her, chemo.
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So my dad got out of remission, and five years went by, and he was still in remission.
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Amazing.
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So that was good, good news.
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And then, the other part, there was my mom, who was already stage IIIC, which is almost stage IV.
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And so hers was definitely terminal.
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And she, um, I she ended up coming down to Florida in 2013, and she said, "This might be the last time I see you, and I would like a real hug." And I was like, "Oh." You know, it's just like you swallow, and you just...
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It just gets real real when they say they might not see you again.
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And so at that point, I was like, well, maybe have a little bit more time with her.
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Maybe we can venture, move back closer to Nebraska from Florida.
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At the time, I was in Florida.
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And just help take care of her in her last days and just be with her.
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And so we did that.
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We got everything in order and moved back.
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And so I kind of became a caretaker for her during her last, I guess it was eight, nine months.
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And so really just watching her, um, taking care of her, of course, and then also the fact that she wasn't really able to be a complete advocate for herself And so that was a huge awareness that the person themself, they need a support system, and they really just can't go through with chemo, be in their chronic pain, be bleeding, and be in inflammation at the hilt, and take care of themselves.
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And so it really was teaching me how to
be an advocate for herself, even though at the time I really didn't know that's exactly what it was teaching me.
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But so as her days, um, became closing in, it would've been September 20th of 2014, she, you know, was just on her last few days.
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She was going into hospice and, and that was hard.
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Just a lot of grieving.
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Grieving her, having those hard conversations, trying to heal some of the past repair in a short time.
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And so I didn't really realize she, at the time, maybe like 20- 2007 to '10, she was studying Wayne Dyer, and I didn't even know who Wayne Dyer was.
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And so I was like, "Wow, how can she hold...
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She's holding this energy." Like I could look at my mom in her last days, and she could hold this light for me in her eye, and this empowerment, and this love, and it be her last days here on Earth.
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So I don't know.
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It was a beautiful gift for that part, just, um, that she was able to, to repair and just come into a peaceful place, and empowerment to me still that she wanted me to be successful and do good and have good people around me.
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So that part felt really good, but there was a lot of grief obviously.
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And so when she passed, I, my body just went into basically a convulsion.
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Like I threw up.
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I was like- Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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I just- I don't know.
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I guess it was just my body's way of saying, you know, "That's enough.
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You're holding too much.
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You can't do it." So, I wrote a poem about her life journey that I was gonna speak at her funeral, and I did speak it and do that in honor of her.
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But I noticed that I would start just singing to this tune inside of me of just empowerment.
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Like, the takeaway was, you know, I gotta, gotta look at these takeaways and the wisdom.
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And so as I'm watching, myself trying to be empowerment, come into her funeral and just honor her, I'm also noticing that I have some inflammation points and one in my hand and one in my left foot.
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And they were non-related.
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I hadn't had any injury.
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So I went to just a regular doctor, and they did some X-rays, and they're like, "No, I don't see no injury," and was like, "I think I need to send you to a rheumatologist." And I was like, "Ugh," you know, a lot of grief there.
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It's like, what is this?
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And yeah, I wasn't ready
for that.
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I don't think anybody wants to have a rheumatoid doctor appointment.
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So I went and realized my inflammation was peaked.
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It was really high.
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They did all the blood work.
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And so I started just really pausing.
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It really caused me to pause and start looking at energy, like what can we do in Eastern medicine to marry it with Western, and how can I be an advocate for myself so I don't end up on the same journey that my mom has been on or something similar?
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And so for me, it was really pausing, starting to look at the programs in my body and my mind As I was still grieving and trying to get out of the grief, which took me years, but as I realized the more I stayed in that grief and the longer I did, that the inflammation was not going anywhere.
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So really for me at that point, it was like I have got to rewire my mind, my energy.
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I've got to look at some more options, not just, a diagnosis.
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I wanted to maybe see about the prognosis and if I could alter it from a different standpoint.
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So for me, I really did.
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I started diving into repaired, like, an ankle surgery from soccer, started looking at my posture, and really just started looking at all the stored energy in my body that was blocking fluidity in this vessel that I have.
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And so I really became a really good advocate for myself through the process and just diving in deep for myself.
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Um, I went from PT, getting my ankle repaired.
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They put in an internal brace.
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And then I started looking at my whole body as a whole and, like what am I gonna do?
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I have to figure this out.
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I can't leave PT and go home and just do nothing.
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So it's about 2017, I started rewiring my mind and the energy and the, the grief and just coming into...
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It was Deepak Chopra's work, and it was a lot of just meditation, yoga of meditation, accepting what is and not being in resistance anymore, and just coming to this place of acceptance instead of in that resistance where it was all contraction through my body, and contraction is inflammation.
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And so I was really starting with the mind, and I was starting to get more balance through my body and rewire my posture.
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I, uh, just started going into PT.
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I left PT, and I was like, "You know what?
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I think I'm gonna start yoga." I started buying some massage table for home, this
Precor machine that would help me just rewire, stretch through my body, and open it back up.
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And then the foam rollers, did some dry needling.
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So I was really exploring the holistic side of moving back through my body.
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And so as I did that, I was like, "Well, maybe I...
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to understand my body more." It's like, well, if I go back to school, keep physical therapy, it's like all my undergrad in plant science would not transfer.
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I was like, that's an expensive way to learn.
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Right.
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So I was like, I, I need to look like what are my other choices at this stage in life?
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So it was yoga, actually, probably Deepak Chopra.
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You know, yoga of meditation.
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So literally it was then from the meditation part coming through the body and coming back through my body to create this open vessel back.
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And so I started just taking courses for myself and trying to understand how to rewire and create openness back for my shoulders All the way down correcting posture issues and strengthening.
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And so as I did that, then I thought to myself, "Well, I guess I'll get certified," 'cause that's really how you can get the depth.
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So even if it was just gonna be for myself at this time, I was like, "I'm gonna go through some certifications for yoga and just see if I can get the grander depth that I need to help myself." And so as I started doing that, I started seeing my inflammation numbers.
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Um, so I would go get my blood work done, 'cause blood has information.
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And as I was getting my results back, of course, they, they chart it, so over the long haul, at the time, I saw where it was, the set point.
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And then as I was like, "I'm not changing any medication.
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I'm not changing anything else, but why is my inflammation so much lower?" Like, it was fascinating.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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It just fed me into wanting more and more.
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So then I was like, "Well, what could be my next..." I finished my first, um, yoga instructor course, and then into...
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I saw, one that was YogaFit Warrior, so it was releasing, like, PTSD through the body through yoga.
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So basically, I went into that.
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I was like, "I think this is, like, the...
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This is really what I need," so I could understand where the trauma's stored and the patterns even more.
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We studied the book, The Body Keeps the Score, and that was a huge awakening.
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So 2020, during COVID, was when I was going through these different certifications.
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And it was just even more eye-opening, because during COVID was all the fear-mongering and all this fear around me, and if you have inflammation in your body, and if you get COVID, you're gonna have blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Mm.
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And I was like, "I, I can't succumb to that.
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I just...
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I'm not okay with that being my narrative." And so I would just find the places that I could go, that I could tap into good energy and move my body.
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So I really didn't succumb to the narrative of COVID, you know, that fear factor.
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And so I wrapped up that certification, and then I started collecting data, um, because I saw my inflammation going down.
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Like now, at this point, it was probably two or three years that I could see the tracking going down.
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And then I compiled my first book, Yoga Because.
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Which is, was and is, it's the rise into my yoga journey.
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Just the things that yoga taught me, the limbs of yoga, and how to, um, rewire your body and your mind.
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Your body and mind as one.
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So I don't know.
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I compiled this to share some different tools to help people because it was helping me.
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And so that was a huge I mean, next level that I didn't know I was gonna do.
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So- Yeah, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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That's a big undertaking.
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Yeah.
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I just had this wealth of new knowledge that I wanted to share, and it was like I was coming into my purpose in all of this, and I didn't realize the spectrum.
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I still don't, but I'm unfolding it.
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And so thank you for that.
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But, um, yeah, so then after that, I continued.
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I started, you know, reaching out to help people, different venues, doing, like, um, one-on-ones and just sharing the wealth.
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And so I started creating my own flow.
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And then I came on to Dr.
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Joe Dispenza, and I think it was right after COVID.
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Um, there was just a lot of information out there because of COVID, and so I was like, "Oh, there's something about Dr.
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Joe.
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He's got all that science," and of course I'm
attracted- Mm-hmm to science.
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And so started tuning into him.
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I started purchasing some of his stuff, his books, and just starting to really embody his work.
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And then I signed up for my first Dr.
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Joe in 2021, and then ironically, a week before, I got COVID.
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Oh.
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So it was literally like, "Ugh." And then, you know, we had to do COVID tests before Dr.
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Joe, and it was like you had to bring it in.
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I mean, 'cause there was the law of, you know, how we were gonna get together in community.
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If anybody had COVID, that wasn't gonna be good.
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So- Okay I put that one off because I didn't know if my COVID test would come back positive or negative.
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I was like, "Ugh." So I messaged Dr.
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Joe's community.
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I said, "I'm just gonna have to either get my refund or redo or do a different session at some point." And so in 2022, I got back into Denver and Dr.
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Joe progressive retreat, and I was like, "Fascinating." Just phenomenal.
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Like, oh my gosh, we can use epigenetics.
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We can also alter our inflammation by this work.
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Like, it's fascinating to watch all the people- Can you explain...
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Sorry.
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Yeah.
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Can you explain what epigenetics is?
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Yeah, so I don't have the definition right in front of me, but, um, that our environment shapes, also shapes...
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So we have our genetics, and we also have an environment that can upgrade or downregulate genetics and disease potentially.
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And so, I mean, again, it's another fascinating, another life force potentiality.
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I was when I got to the retreat, of course there's people coming in with cancer diagnoses, and then they're, they're showing their end results of maybe no cancer.
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Like, it's just fascinating.
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It's bone-chilling.
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Wow.
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And just, yeah.
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So that one, and then I went to Orlando, um, so it would've been fall of 2022, and I did a Pure Love seven-day retreat and became an advanced student.
00:20:23.751 --> 00:20:28.332
So when you spend extra time going to multiple Dr.
00:20:28.332 --> 00:20:31.122
Joe Dispenzas, you become an advanced student.
00:20:31.122 --> 00:20:35.362
He has advanced material for advanced students.
00:20:35.362 --> 00:20:56.152
So, but again, fascinating showing
up in a community of 2,000 people or 1,000 or whatever, I don't even remember what the number is, but that he was starting to do research on the blood and the microbiome in the stomach, um, just looking at the science backing the work.
00:20:56.152 --> 00:21:07.842
And that was fascinating to look at a thesis paper and just look at how it's affecting even our breath that is keeping the COVID from being as severe.
00:21:07.842 --> 00:21:10.942
There's a whole bunch of papers written from that time period.
00:21:10.942 --> 00:21:18.021
So very fascinating, and it just, it kind of just lights you up because it's more life force energy.
00:21:18.021 --> 00:21:21.261
I'm not super familiar with his work.
00:21:21.261 --> 00:21:22.692
I've heard a little bit about him.
00:21:22.692 --> 00:21:42.011
So is it, like, nervous system regulation and breathwork and, like, you, you said something earlier kinda about, like, the amount of inflammation that you have and the more contracted and, and fight or flight that you are, like, the more...
00:21:42.011 --> 00:21:44.442
Your body's out of whack basically.
00:21:44.442 --> 00:21:48.481
Like, you're not- Yes digesting well and- Yes you're contracted.
00:21:48.481 --> 00:22:04.662
I, I- Yes actually talked about this in another one of my podcasts, how, being contracted at that cellular level is, creating all this inflammation everywhere in my body, and my cells are not working together properly in- Yes the organs and the body systems.
00:22:04.662 --> 00:22:09.571
And so is that what he teaches is, Yes, it is.
00:22:09.571 --> 00:22:09.612
Okay.
00:22:09.612 --> 00:22:15.152
So basically 16-hour days, so it's very controlled environment, and I'm sure it's purposeful.
00:22:15.152 --> 00:22:29.021
So we, we tap into a lot of instruction, which is like if you went to college and you were learning about the brainwaves, and you were learning about the evidence of the frequency that we carry and the order in the body.
00:22:29.021 --> 00:22:31.051
So, like, there's an association with it.
00:22:31.051 --> 00:22:40.182
So he was, of course, showing a lot of evidence and just helping people in the education side, and then we would go into practice.
00:22:40.182 --> 00:23:02.036
So a 16-hour day might look like, you know- We break into groups, just to reiterate what he taught us, and he would do his education part and the layers of the brainwaves and inflammation and the frequency and the order in the body and health.
00:23:02.036 --> 00:23:07.546
So yeah, he would really focus on that, and then it got to the point where we were doing a...
00:23:07.546 --> 00:23:12.976
We did a four-hour meditation which seems- Oh, wow yeah, like a lot.
00:23:12.976 --> 00:23:23.625
And at first you're like, "How can I get up at 4:00 AM and do this?" And then you're like, "If I don't, I'm not showing up for myself." So again, it's like, are you gonna be an advocate?
00:23:23.625 --> 00:23:25.425
Once you know, you can't not know.
00:23:25.425 --> 00:23:28.925
Are you gonna show up or are you gonna just ignore it?
00:23:28.925 --> 00:23:30.695
Yeah.
00:23:30.695 --> 00:23:35.486
Yeah, and like what's the choice really once you know, right?
00:23:35.486 --> 00:23:40.675
Then- Yeah do you wanna go back to being absent, you know?
00:23:40.675 --> 00:23:51.536
It's like- hiding from yourself or hiding from the world, and then you just stay stuck in that- Yes fight or flight and the pain and all the things that come with that.
00:23:51.536 --> 00:23:52.965
Exactly, yes.
00:23:52.965 --> 00:23:54.086
Yes, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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It's so interesting to see how our thoughts...
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Like, we think that the mind is just going on and we have nothing to do with it, right?
00:24:03.655 --> 00:24:27.945
And then you're like, "Oh, wait a minute, but I am the thinker of my thoughts." And thinking this way when I'm thinking bad things about myself and, you know, thinking negatively, it- it's like I'm tense, I'm unhappy, even in my job, I'm like, "Oh, man, I gotta do this again." And I'm like, "I'm gonna have the worst day if I do this.
00:24:27.945 --> 00:24:29.256
I'm gonna be watching the clock.
00:24:29.256 --> 00:24:30.165
I'm gonna..." You know?
00:24:30.165 --> 00:24:41.976
And it's so- Yes, I do but it's so easy to just stay in those patterns and- It is is there anything that, that you've learned that helps you, shift out of that?
00:24:41.976 --> 00:24:51.346
'Cause I know I talk to a lot of people and they're like, "Yeah, but that's how I feel, so how am I just supposed to be like, 'Oh, I'm not supposed to feel this way'"?
00:24:51.346 --> 00:24:56.476
It almost feels like you're kind of in a fight with yourself if you're- Mm-hmm not feeling what you naturally feel, right?
00:24:56.476 --> 00:24:56.576
Absolutely.
00:24:56.576 --> 00:25:05.385
So is there any, techniques or tools that you've learned to shift out of that- Yes without feeling like you're negating the way that you really feel?
00:25:05.385 --> 00:25:08.145
Yes, yes, and yes.
00:25:08.145 --> 00:25:16.056
I would say, um, for me, 'cause I had the same thing, Yeah I was like, "Yeah, I'm feeling this," and it exists, and it's story.
00:25:16.056 --> 00:25:17.086
It's past story.
00:25:17.086 --> 00:25:20.655
And then I think once we learn from all the Dr.
00:25:20.655 --> 00:25:30.036
Joe advanced learnings and just tapping really deeply in that if I stay there, the end result is still the same result.
00:25:30.036 --> 00:25:33.375
So the way to change is doing something different.
00:25:33.375 --> 00:25:44.976
And so once you just succumb to I can stay up in the old story, I can stay in the pain body, I can stay in anger, I can stay in bitterness, it's also feeding inflammation.
00:25:44.976 --> 00:25:51.826
So am I gonna show up for more inflammation or am I gonna show up to reduce inflammation?
00:25:51.826 --> 00:26:01.375
So for me, that
was the logical piece- Mm that when I feel it, that I don't stay there, that I have to figure out how to complete that cycle of stress.
00:26:01.375 --> 00:26:10.236
I have to figure out how to release it through my body because the end result, again, is gonna be inflammation and dis-ease.
00:26:10.236 --> 00:26:11.796
Right.
00:26:11.796 --> 00:26:17.766
So you started learning from Dr.
00:26:17.766 --> 00:26:23.885
Joe, and then you do other healing modalities too- Yes as well now, right?
00:26:23.885 --> 00:26:24.596
Yeah.
00:26:24.596 --> 00:26:39.246
So, and as I evolved more and more, and I kept showing up in practices, and teaching in group settings, and just continuing learning the depths, and deep diving, I, I just looked at sound because sound and frequency is part of Dr.
00:26:39.246 --> 00:26:40.175
Joe's work too.
00:26:40.175 --> 00:26:47.925
So there's healing frequencies that tune the energy centers in the body, and so I wasn't aware of that either.
00:26:47.925 --> 00:27:05.175
So I started becoming aware of these frequencies, and then I was like, "Okay, I can go find the music." And then I was like, "Well, I actually wanna explore getting some tuning forks," which don't have them right in front of me, but they're tuned...
00:27:05.175 --> 00:27:18.826
The ones I purchased are tuned to the energy centers in the body, the chakras, and when you hit them on the activator, they vibrate, and they have a frequency that gets more order in that particular energy center.
00:27:18.826 --> 00:27:30.905
And fascinating, when you start doing the research on the, uh, vibration and frequency, it goes way back to Nikola Tesla in the 1800s.
00:27:30.905 --> 00:27:41.215
I don't have the data in front of me, but it's really fascinating that what we can't see is really happening by vibration and frequency.
00:27:41.215 --> 00:27:52.195
So you can go look on YouTube, and find a video, and just get educated quickly on it, and it does help you give you more education and understanding what we can't see is still happening.
00:27:52.195 --> 00:28:02.766
So yeah, for me, the tuning forks were the start of it, and I was like, "Wow, that's fascinating." You know, it can create more order in my body, like health, life force.
00:28:02.766 --> 00:28:07.228
Like, I'm just drawn to- Anything that gives more life force.
00:28:07.228 --> 00:28:10.557
So, and then I thought, "Well, there's these bowls.
00:28:10.557 --> 00:28:17.907
I'm just gonna go pop into a store." And, you know, you can go online, but I, I had never seen them in person.
00:28:17.907 --> 00:28:24.778
So I went to a place not too far from where I live, and there's a a guy that creates them.
00:28:24.778 --> 00:28:25.667
He's an artist.
00:28:25.667 --> 00:28:26.928
Absolutely beautiful.
00:28:26.928 --> 00:28:34.268
So they're crystal, and there's a whole kiln process where they infuse gemstones in them.
00:28:34.268 --> 00:28:40.907
So when you show up to look at these bowls, they're not just,
like, just a white- Wow they're clear.
00:28:40.907 --> 00:28:41.657
They're gorgeous.
00:28:41.657 --> 00:28:43.788
It's like- Wow.
00:28:43.788 --> 00:28:44.567
Yeah.
00:28:44.567 --> 00:28:49.548
And so there I was, looking at these bowls, and I'm thinking, "Healing," like, "What can I do with these?
00:28:49.548 --> 00:28:55.018
I can incorporate these to help more people." At this point, you know, I'm evolving to help more people now.
00:28:55.018 --> 00:29:02.577
And of course, at the end, I'm like, "Yes, I'll take those two." And so I started with the turquoise, and then the rose quartz.
00:29:02.577 --> 00:29:10.268
Um, so a root bowl was my rose quartz, and my turquoise was the throat chakra.
00:29:10.268 --> 00:29:14.278
I really didn't even still understand frequency and the notes.
00:29:14.278 --> 00:29:17.758
They're all noted, and there's a frequency about them.
00:29:17.758 --> 00:29:21.557
And so I'm still learning, you know, at that point.
00:29:21.557 --> 00:29:33.048
And as I start going back out into different, um, practices and group settings, I'm bringing my tuning forks in and doing energy clearings for people at the end of my yoga sessions.
00:29:33.048 --> 00:29:37.448
So I'm incorporating sound at the end, sound and meditation.
00:29:37.448 --> 00:29:48.268
And as I started pursuing more in my collection of bowls, um, actually, this last year, I decided to complete my set.
00:29:48.268 --> 00:29:49.847
I have a pearl one.
00:29:49.847 --> 00:29:52.208
That's my heart chakra.
00:29:52.208 --> 00:29:57.167
And I have a garnet, which is the sixth energy center.
00:29:57.167 --> 00:30:01.617
And then I have a amethyst, which is the crown chakra.
00:30:01.617 --> 00:30:03.577
And then I have...
00:30:03.577 --> 00:30:07.307
I'm trying to go through kunzite, which is the sacral chakra.
00:30:07.307 --> 00:30:08.397
Mm.
00:30:08.397 --> 00:30:10.647
And so my set is...
00:30:10.647 --> 00:30:12.347
It's, it's nice.
00:30:12.347 --> 00:30:13.067
I love my set.
00:30:13.067 --> 00:30:14.428
It's gorgeous.
00:30:14.428 --> 00:30:31.273
And when I show up and I bring it out to share it and be the leader to help people come into homeostasis and create more order and more health in their body- I just, it lights me up.
00:30:31.273 --> 00:30:34.864
It's just, I don't know, like looking at these beautiful bowls.
00:30:34.864 --> 00:30:45.084
It's like if you had a garnet ring and then you had a pearl ring and you had a turquoise ring, and they're just, they're gorgeous.
00:30:45.084 --> 00:30:48.074
They set the tone for a beautiful atmosphere.
00:30:48.074 --> 00:30:56.763
And I was asked a year ago to do a paddleboard sound bath meditation with my bowls at a YMCA.
00:30:56.763 --> 00:30:57.703
Oh, wow.
00:30:57.703 --> 00:31:00.604
And so I've been doing that over a year, yes.
00:31:00.604 --> 00:31:02.784
That's so cool.
00:31:02.784 --> 00:31:07.084
So do you use the tuning forks on yourself, or...
00:31:07.084 --> 00:31:09.723
And
does that help you?
00:31:09.723 --> 00:31:12.144
And then as well, the...
00:31:12.144 --> 00:31:13.864
I have the same question for the bowls.
00:31:13.864 --> 00:31:20.384
Do you- Yeah when you first got the first bowl, did you just use that, like those first two on yourself to help?
00:31:20.384 --> 00:31:30.973
Well, I, I did that with the tuning forks, and I was just- Mm-hmm experimenting and just feeling the resonant frequency vibrating through, and I was like, "Wow, it's fascinating." You know, just...
00:31:30.973 --> 00:31:34.473
You wouldn't think, 'cause we get lost in busyness.
00:31:34.473 --> 00:31:35.364
We get lost in...
00:31:35.364 --> 00:31:41.163
We can miss the very vibration that's sitting there that could tune us back to a better place.
00:31:41.163 --> 00:31:46.634
So I was just exploring in the pause with those tuning forks on myself, yes.
00:31:46.634 --> 00:32:03.953
And then when I got the bowls, I only had the two to start, and I tucked them away, 'cause I was like, "What if they break?" I tucked them away for a good year- Oh, wow just because they're, you know, they are, you know...
00:32:03.953 --> 00:32:05.564
It's more of an investment.
00:32:05.564 --> 00:32:12.034
It's not your typical- Yeah bowl where you just, you know, you can go buy a $60 bowl.
00:32:12.034 --> 00:32:14.673
They're more pricier.
00:32:14.673 --> 00:32:17.324
So I tucked them away.
00:32:17.324 --> 00:32:23.173
Of course, I have kids, and I'm like, "Maybe that was part of it, just protecting them," 'cause I didn't want anything to happen to them.
00:32:23.173 --> 00:32:32.193
And so, but a year ago, over a year ago, I started doing it twice a week and then, of course, other little pop-up even- events.
00:32:32.193 --> 00:32:35.463
But, um, when they come out, they're just...
00:32:35.463 --> 00:32:41.064
I think you just sit in awe with them, you know, 'cause they're a beautiful creation.
00:32:41.064 --> 00:32:46.493
Somebody created them, but they're also, you know, the elements that God created.
00:32:46.493 --> 00:32:46.804
They're...
00:32:46.804 --> 00:32:49.513
They have properties.
00:32:49.513 --> 00:32:51.473
That exist within each bowl.
00:32:51.473 --> 00:32:52.473
So they emit...
00:32:52.473 --> 00:33:00.104
They might, um, capture positive ions in the body, which are free radicals that could turn into something.
00:33:00.104 --> 00:33:06.294
So there's a lot of different properties that exist in the elements that are in the bowls, too.
00:33:06.294 --> 00:33:12.084
So- I think it's just really cool and that they're beautiful, and they're, they're also healing.
00:33:12.084 --> 00:33:13.824
Yeah.
00:33:13.824 --> 00:33:15.074
Yeah.
00:33:15.074 --> 00:33:25.824
I've done the, uh, Biofield Tuning before, and- Yes I've done some sound baths too, and it's just- Nice it feels so good, that vibration.
00:33:25.824 --> 00:33:26.324
It does.
00:33:26.324 --> 00:33:28.493
Just puts you back into regulation.
00:33:28.493 --> 00:33:28.884
Yeah.
00:33:28.884 --> 00:33:29.784
Yes.
00:33:29.784 --> 00:33:30.374
Yes.
00:33:30.374 --> 00:33:31.703
Ultimately, it's...
00:33:31.703 --> 00:33:43.804
Yeah, it's like, well, once we know when we come back into homeostasis, and which is the parasympathetic nervous system state, that there's more order and more health in the body.
00:33:43.804 --> 00:33:46.054
So it's just fascinating.
00:33:46.054 --> 00:34:08.143
So when I show up, it's like, yeah, the purpose is to help people come back to themself and be open back in the, through their body and just more regulated, more order, softening through those higher beta brainwaves or low-grade bano- beta waves, softening in the brainwaves down to, like, alpha, more creative.
00:34:08.143 --> 00:34:12.454
As they soften through, they're just gonna see with more clarity.
00:34:12.454 --> 00:34:15.974
They're gonna be more aligned and more expanded in their life as well.
00:34:15.974 --> 00:34:21.134
So it's really a beautiful gift to humanity.
00:34:21.134 --> 00:34:21.954
Yeah.
00:34:21.954 --> 00:34:22.253
Yeah.
00:34:22.253 --> 00:34:29.233
Are you having any more inflammation issues, or have you- So my chart is down in the normal range.
00:34:29.233 --> 00:34:30.414
It's fascinating.
00:34:30.414 --> 00:34:31.224
Oh, that's amazing.
00:34:31.224 --> 00:34:31.724
I know.
00:34:31.724 --> 00:34:31.923
Congratulations.
00:34:31.923 --> 00:34:32.634
Every day.
00:34:32.634 --> 00:34:33.603
Thank you.
00:34:33.603 --> 00:34:33.634
Yeah.
00:34:33.634 --> 00:34:38.023
Just like, like, "Is this real?" Yeah, you just had your blood drawn.
00:34:38.023 --> 00:34:38.673
Look at it.
00:34:38.673 --> 00:34:39.193
And I do.
00:34:39.193 --> 00:34:40.664
I'll show people my chart even.
00:34:40.664 --> 00:34:43.344
I'm like, can't make it up.
00:34:43.344 --> 00:34:45.693
The blood has information.
00:34:45.693 --> 00:34:47.273
Yeah.
00:34:47.273 --> 00:34:50.934
And it's fascinating That sounds amazing.
00:34:50.934 --> 00:34:51.634
Yeah.
00:34:51.634 --> 00:34:52.623
Thanks.
00:34:52.623 --> 00:34:53.043
Yeah.
00:34:53.043 --> 00:34:56.393
Where can people find you at if they wanna work with you?
00:34:56.393 --> 00:34:57.563
Where do you live at?
00:34:57.563 --> 00:35:00.244
So right now I'm based in Nebraska.
00:35:00.244 --> 00:35:01.164
That's my roots.
00:35:01.164 --> 00:35:11.753
So I did live in North Florida, but right now I'm in Nebraska, kind of Lincoln, Omaha area, smaller towns around, so that kind of vicinity.
00:35:11.753 --> 00:35:23.204
And right now I'm currently teaching, um, two, yoga flows at a YMCA in Beatrice, Nebraska, and I'm teaching, two sessions a week at Genesis Health Clubs.
00:35:23.204 --> 00:35:30.523
And then I'm doing the two paddleboard sound baths a week as well at, the Beatrice YMCA.
00:35:30.523 --> 00:35:34.463
And I do offer a one-on-one option.
00:35:34.463 --> 00:35:43.824
So I have this new workshop, the Architect of Vitality, and it's really about
feeding all this knowledge.
00:35:43.824 --> 00:35:45.224
It's a one-on-one right now.
00:35:45.224 --> 00:35:58.954
I might expand it to a group setting, but right now it's one-on-one, 90 minutes, where I just, kind of like we just talked, um, giving all the information that I can so once you know, you can't not know.
00:35:58.954 --> 00:36:14.784
And that just helping be in a regulated environment with me, sharing my results, sharing the benefits of all this practice, these practices, and then we'll go into practice as well during that 90 minutes.
00:36:14.784 --> 00:36:19.103
So super excited to have that, just released that this week, so...
00:36:19.103 --> 00:36:20.673
Oh, that's so awesome.
00:36:20.673 --> 00:36:21.574
Congratulations.
00:36:21.574 --> 00:36:21.893
Thank you.
00:36:21.893 --> 00:36:22.864
Thank you.
00:36:22.864 --> 00:36:23.074
Yeah.
00:36:23.074 --> 00:36:28.003
You've done so much work, so it's great that you have all these offerings to help out.
00:36:28.003 --> 00:36:28.713
Yes.
00:36:28.713 --> 00:36:29.483
And give back.
00:36:29.483 --> 00:36:36.983
I really just wanna p- I just wanna feel people be in their lightness, be in their joy, be in their purpose too, be expanded.
00:36:36.983 --> 00:36:49.003
So, like, when I'm walking down the road and I'm in this higher elevated state, that I can just connect with more people like that, because sadly, you know, you can see the pain body all around us.
00:36:49.003 --> 00:36:53.764
You can see where people are stuck in their body, and I just want people to feel better.
00:36:53.764 --> 00:36:55.233
Yeah.
00:36:55.233 --> 00:36:55.643
Yeah.
00:36:55.643 --> 00:37:10.284
As someone that had chronic pain for many years, it's, it's so disheartening to be going to the pain doctor and the orthopedic, and there's- Yes so many people that are just- Mm-hmm just, it's like drudgery.
00:37:10.284 --> 00:37:10.923
You know?
00:37:10.923 --> 00:37:16.403
Like barely getting by, and the existence is not a good one.
00:37:16.403 --> 00:37:18.083
Absolutely.
00:37:18.083 --> 00:37:18.543
Exactly.
00:37:18.543 --> 00:37:19.014
So...
00:37:19.014 --> 00:37:19.764
Yeah.
00:37:19.764 --> 00:37:20.103
Yeah.
00:37:20.103 --> 00:37:28.744
We can just look around us and we can, at the doctor's office, we can just watch afar and we can just envision, you know, what's taking place 'cause of our journey.
00:37:28.744 --> 00:37:29.114
You know?
00:37:29.114 --> 00:37:38.744
Once we understand it, that there's just more, that we don't have to have just the diagnoses and that's the end for us.
00:37:38.744 --> 00:37:39.313
You know?
00:37:39.313 --> 00:37:50.094
I didn't know this for my mom, and I wish I would've known, 'cause, you know, it really was kind of the start to me understanding all of this work, and the body keeps the score.
00:37:50.094 --> 00:37:56.936
So it really- Has shaped my, my future and what I'm doing and my purpose.
00:37:56.936 --> 00:37:58.856
Yeah.
00:37:58.856 --> 00:38:00.525
Well, it's done well for you.
00:38:00.525 --> 00:38:02.335
Yeah, I know.
00:38:02.335 --> 00:38:03.856
You're definitely glowing.
00:38:03.856 --> 00:38:06.715
I, I can tell- Thank you you're very passionate about what you do.
00:38:06.715 --> 00:38:07.936
Mm-hmm.
00:38:07.936 --> 00:38:08.445
And that's amazing.
00:38:08.445 --> 00:38:08.976
Thank you, Paula.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I am.
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I'm very passionate when I show up.
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I just want people to feel better, and, you know, it's a felt sense when you're with people.
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Like, you can just look in their eyes.
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You can feel the safety and trust, and I just offer that when I come into my sessions, and I just want people to start tapping into that too and resonating and co-regulating together.
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And I do see that, so at the end of my sessions, there's more laughter.
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There's more connection.
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There's so many thank yous, and they're heart-centered to me.
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Like, it just fuels me every day reflecting back.
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That's beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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What a gift.
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Thank you, Paula.
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Yeah, so grateful every day.
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Grateful to be doing this work.
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So where can people find you online?
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Do you have a Facebook community?
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I do, yes.
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I have my Muse of Yoga Facebook page.
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Can also connect with me, Ginger Hunt, on there.
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And, I do have an online.
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It's fairly new.
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It's called the Gemstone Collective.
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It's an online, so it's, it's in the vault, and there's live and recorded sessions.
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So it'd be sound bath and meditation and yoga.
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So I have that available as well currently.
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And, pretty much my book's available on Amazon and on Balboa Press as well, so that's available as well.
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What's the name of your book again?
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It's Yoga Because: The Rise Into My Yogic Journey.
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And it really was during COVID where I was like, ah, I...
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Yeah, this is where I was embedded in just life force, and it was the opposite of what COVID was literally.
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I'm like, "Ah, no, this ain't good enough.
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I'm gonna go
and find life force energy." So that's what I did, and when I wrote the book, I was like, "I have to share this wealth with people." Yeah, I love that you're sharing the information, because I think that is such a big part of it, that l- if I don't feel like I have the understanding, in my rational mind of how things work, I can't apply anything.
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Then it's just woo to me, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, it's true.
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I'm like, I need to have the, like, mental understanding.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Um.
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And that's very common when I show up in my classes, I'm always sharing everything I can share within that 60-minute period.
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And it's all about reducing inflammation, realigning our posture, softening through the body, creating this open vessel so you can be expansive in your life.
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And it's just like, I just share all the wealth.
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Like, whatever, wherever I show up, I'm like, I just want people to know.
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Yeah.
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You're here to help.
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Yes, absolutely.
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That's amazing.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, so grateful to connect with you on here as well, and your journey and, and your podcast.
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Yes, thank you.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Is there any takeaways that you have to help anybody that's, that's just kind of going through the beginnings of their journey and, and dealing with everything and trying to figure it all out and...
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Yeah.
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Yeah, uh, first thing that comes to my mind is, um, in the beginning, there's a lot of those programs, and they're very deeply seated and rooted.
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And so I think once we just simply understand that that resistance to those programs, like when we don't go into those, to circle through that stress cycle and to create this openness back through the body, that we're not allowing ourself to go there.
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So just seeing if you could just explore if you're in resistance at the beginning, 'cause, i would say a lot of us probably are, 'cause we're not educated.
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But once you just realize that the very resistance that you're in is actually probably keeping you in a higher state of inflammation and a stuck place- Yeah.
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So it's more just being open I like that you said that the resistance is the biggest part of it too because when we're, we're stuck in that, negative thinking and, negative mind loop and, you know, 'cause when you're in pain it's- Yes just natural that you're gonna
be- Absolutely like, spinning out because you're just like, "Oh my God, make it stop," right?
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Yes.
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So I think being able to, to just be mindful of that and, and you're feeling that, like, very heavy energy that if you can just kind of, notice it and then- Yes be like, "Oh, okay," and play around with it like you're saying.
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Like, "Okay, well what if I do this?" And like see if things get lighter.
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Yes.
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'Cause I think- I love that you know, that's a big thing.
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I think the- When you think of enlightenment, right, we always think it's like, oh, you have to get to this higher heavenly state of being, but really it's just letting the lightness and the playfulness come in- Yes to your body.
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Absolutely, yes.
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And be more expanded.
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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I love how you said that.
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And, and yeah, like for me, myself, I'm like, no, I'm just gonna be an experiment for myself, and that's what I did in the beginning.
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And I mean, you know, once you do a blood check number and you see the results, because there's information in the blood, then it's like you can even look at what you've done differently, and you can associate it.
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And then you're like, "Oh, I'm proving to myself," and you're rewiring your nervous system, and next thing you know, it just becomes a new way of life.
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That's amazing.
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I'm so happy for you that you- Thank you were able to do that.
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Yes.
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Because it takes time, and, you know, we all kind of want a quick fix, and it'd be so, so nice if you could just take a pill and make it all go away.
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I know, right?
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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So.
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And I think if I didn't have my mom's journey reflecting in my face and seeing, you know, her end result and just watching how she stored trauma and stress in her body all those years, like, you know, the body keeps the score.
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So yeah, it's just really beautiful to just start today, you know?
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Just start wherever you're at.
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It's the perfect place to start seeing if you can be receptive to looking at your patterns and just looking at non-resistance and just starting there.
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It really is simple, and then we just build on it, the building blocks, and next thing you know, it becomes the new normal.
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Yeah.
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It's definitely a practice, right?
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Yes, it is a practice.
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Absolutely, yes.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much, Ginger, for- Thank you, Paula joining me and sharing with everybody.
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It's been such a pleasure.
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I'm so grateful to be here today and connect with you and have this conversation.
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