When was the last time you took a moment to simply be present?
Being present is one of our greatest superpowers, and we don’t use it enough.
We constantly run from one thing to the next. Then when we feel a loss of control over our lives, we blame it on the never-ending hurry to check the next thing off our to-do list.
Rather than taking time to simply be quiet and still in the mornings, we rush and add stress to an already ill-prepared day. Many of us have decided that rest should only happen during the night while we’re sleeping. But when we learn to slow down, joy and wellness will come to us naturally.
Slowing Down To Bring Joy & Wellness Into Your Life
When the mornings start out in a rush, it sets the tone for the entire day. If we don’t have the time to prepare lunch, we may end up munching on a pack of crackers or vending machine snacks to get us through the day. Or if time allows, we might grab something from a healthy-ish looking restaurant.
With kids in every activity known to man, cooking a life-giving dinner for the family feels like a far-off dream. So once again we swing through the drive-thru and put dead food into our bodies instead. Honestly, we’re too exhausted to cook anyways.
Then we look around the house. It’s a disaster. No one offers to help. We find ourselves wondering how we could possibly go through so much laundry. When is the last time the sheets were washed anyways?
And how, after eating out all day, are there still stacks of dirty dishes? The stress spirals as we go through another chaotic day.
Falling From The Chaos
When we constantly run from one appointment to the next, it feels like we’re barely keeping up. We want to live a life of purpose, but we’re doing our best to simply keep up with the day-to-day demands.
We know our bodies deserve more. But our unhealthy bodies remain in the back of our minds all day every day. We’re not certain how to add any more tasks to the chaos of our already hectic schedules.
So again, we push health to the side. We tell ourselves we’ll do better at some point.
Until we inevitably end up sick.
Going non-stop could land us in bed for a week.
Or worse, the hospital.
Illness is a wake-up call to the seriousness of things you’ve been putting off. It’s time to take a break. We have to start slowing down. And we must get some help around the house.
We didn’t have time to get everything done before we were sick. Now things are much worse.
But what if it all could have been prevented?
What if our crazy, hectic lives are the very things driving illness?
Even still, there are times in my life when I feel like everything is falling apart. And other times, I feel like everything is coming together and falling into place.
The difference is not what is actually taking place in my life. After all, mundane, day-to-day life isn’t what brings us joy.
Instead, it is how we experience day-to-day life that brings us either stress or joy. We can actually be going through the very same life, but a different attitude can result in experiences of stress or joy.
The key is taking time to get quiet. And in the hustle and bustle of what we’ve deemed normal life, getting quiet is something we’ve failed to do.
Choosing Joy & Wellness For Our Lives
Perspective can perpetuate either joy or stress. I see this happen so clearly in my own life, but I also see this happen in my clients’ lives.
Health is in everything we do. When we level up in our health, we not only feel better, but it impacts everything we do. Here are a few examples:
Finances. When we’re healthier, our brains work better. This quickly translates to having more energy and no longer calling in sick to work because of exhaustion. Instead, we show up and possibly get a raise.
Relationships. Getting healthy results in feeling good and balancing our hormones. It’s suddenly a little easier to get in the mood to be intimate with your spouse. Finishing the workday and having energy means it’s possible to entertain the idea of enjoying time with friends. And when the day doesn’t leave you frazzled, it’s much easier to love your children the way they should be loved.
Physical body. This seems obvious, but getting healthy makes our bodies stronger. Have you imagined if you actually have the strength in your physical body to help save another person? Or on a simpler scale, a healthy body could mean rolling down a hill with your children or grandchildren. The opportunities to enjoy an active life open up.
Emotions. There’s a huge connection between your gut and brain. If you’re feeding your body junk, then it’s going to impact your brain in a negative way. Poor diet and lack of exercise are both scientifically proven to be associated with poor mental health.
Can you see how your health literally impacts every area of your life?
What in your life are you giving up each time you choose to push your health aside?
Allow Yourself To Slow Down
If I can convince you of one thing today, allow me to sell you on the fact that you need to slow down.
Recently, I went on a personal adventure that I call 30 days of yoga. It transformed me. When I started, I felt something shift for good.
Suddenly, I began allowing myself to slow down more. I also began to take time to appreciate nature, truly hear it, and submerge myself in it when I walked outdoors.
Although I didn’t realize it at the time, there was a time in my life when I was taking the steps just to check them off my list. I did enjoy it, but I wasn’t truly immersing myself in the moment.
It makes such a difference to truly learn to be still and quiet while enjoying the present moment.
Learn To Embrace The Moment To Bring Joy & Wellness Into Your Life
When clients tell me how stressed they are, one of my first couple of questions to ask is, “What does your morning routine look like? How often are you meditating, praying, getting out in nature, or doing something more centering and grounding to your soul?”
I’ve had clients respond that they are doing all these things but are still stressed to the max. So my next piece of advice is to stop doing them as a duty or part of a daily routine. Instead, truly immerse your mind and your emotions into the activity. Get lost in it until it becomes a way of life for you.
Two people can have identical health routines but have two different experiences. This all has to do with the way they approach the routines.
When you immerse yourself into a healthy lifestyle, you’ll no longer be yo-yo-ing up and down on the scale. Cheat days will no longer leave you feeling guilty. And you’re going to notice that your stressors start to look a little less stressful.
Are You Willing To Slow Down Before Life Slows You Down?
This is exactly what I help my clients do. With my help, my clients are able to go from chaos to peace in their health to bring joy & wellness into their life so that they can make a bigger impact in this world.
The longer you wait, the less likely it is that you’ll ever take action. Over the past month, I’ve seen three people enter the hospital because they said no to their health and avoided slowing down. Not only are they still sick, but it also impacted them financially. What if you could spend less money getting well? Would you do it? Take the first step to living a life worth living by completing my intake application. Start slowing down with me today to experience joy and wellness!
This phrase – what lights you up? – has come up over and over by many of my mentors. So many times that I began to pay attention.
I hope you pay close attention when you start to see patterns like this in your life.
The interesting thing is, these mentors have no affiliation with one another.
But the question was the same.
I know that life and healing has a deep spiritual component. And it’s very important to me. This is what I mean when I say pay attention to what’s going on around you. There’s always a deeper meaning. The daily things you do in life impact your health.
So what does the question what lights you up actually mean?
The Power of The Mind
The mind has immense power over one’s health.
For example, if I meet someone who is chronically fatigued, I can almost bet they hate their daily job. There’s something at work that exhausts them. Maybe that’s true for you.
When I started my own health journey, it all started with mindset. And I never realized it until many years later. I remember listening to recordings and teachings to drive a positive, can-do attitude into my life. It became such a part of me that no matter how sick I was, people began to comment on how positive my attitude was. What they didn’t know is that I worked on it every day of my life.
And I’m absolutely certain this impacted my level of healing and my ability to get better and better with time. I believed it… Even before I could see it.
One moment really stands out when thinking about how my positivity impacted my health… I was standing in a hospital on a very cold winter day. Everyone around me had sniffles and coughs – except for me. I made the comment that I never get sick. A man standing in the group looked at me, rolling his eyes, and said, “you can’t say that!”
The truth is, I can believe anything I want.
That conversation took place almost 10 years ago. I wasn’t sick then and haven’t been sick since. Will that day ever come? Let’s hope not!
My point is… The beliefs I hold have a lot to do with the state of health that I’m in.
“What Lights You Up?”
What lights you up? I used to preach that message for a long time until I got so caught up in what needed to take place from a nutrition, exercise, and lab test perspective. Unfortunately, I almost pushed the mindset work to the side.
While I was preaching a message that I believed in, I wasn’t preaching the whole picture.
So when my mentors began to ask me what lights me up again, I sat back to recall the amazing conversations I was having with my clients. Those that went a little deeper. Those that dug into the reasons they were sitting in front of me. The trauma, the victim mindset, the beliefs that they weren’t good enough…
What I recalled was conversations with these people about their childhood, the things their life had brought them through, and how they were overcoming adversity that was driving illness in their bodies.
Those were the things that drove me.
I’ve always been determined, driven, career-oriented, and passionate about health.
I began to check all those boxes in my own life…
Start my own business
Make my own schedule
Teach others how to heal their bodies naturally
And while doing this work was extremely rewarding, there was something missing on the inside of my imbalanced life.
I’ll go back to the example I gave about my chronically fatigued clients… I was becoming exhausted in the work, but part of that was because I wasn’t doing and focusing on what I loved the most.
My gift to this world is to love everyone I come in contact with and encourage them to live and be their best selves. My desire is to take someone from a place of chaos and show them how they can experience freedom – whether that be their physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual well-being.
Willingness To Commit To The Work
As I began to watch my most successful clients, I realized they all had one thing in common… Their willingness to commit to the work.
Willingness to commit to the work has more to do with your mind than anything else. If you’re willing to execute, then you will be successful with consistency. The decision to win and succeed all starts in the mind.
Some people like to say success is 10% execution and 90% managing your mind and emotions.
As humans, we’re often resistant to change and have a difficult time doing the work when we’re uncertain how to manage that part of our mind.
The people I see struggle the most are the ones who can’t get their head in the game. They’re trying to force physical transformation in the body. They say things like…
I’m eating all the right foods.
I’ve removed gluten, dairy, and sugar.
What else am I supposed to eat?
I’m walking everyday.
I’ve been going to the gym.
I’m saying my affirmations.
I’m doing detox baths.
And I’ve completely cut out wine.
I’m taking my supplements.
And I’m not getting well.
Can you see their mind? It’s like a spiderweb of emotions. Even reading this can cause stress!
And right before the needle begins to move, they give up. They bring back the wine and cheese before dinner, dessert on the weekends, decide that exercise is too taxing… And before they know it, they’re back living their old lifestyle.
The worst part of this is they gain all their weight back. They’re completely depressed and have spent a lot of money to gain nothing in return.
2 Types of People
When asking the question what lights you up, there are 2 types of responses I hear.
Mind Master
The first person chooses to learn the art of mastering their mind. They enjoy the journey by:
Learning new recipes that are fun and delicious
Choosing fun activities they can do with their children and family brings them closer together
Turning off their to-do list instead of wishing they were somewhere else during their yoga class
Looking at affirmations and self-help books as a way to encourage themselves on a daily basis
Duty Checker
The second person feels like everything is a duty. They have to knock of the following duties:
Exercise
Eat special foods
Attend family gatherings as its an inconvenience
And they certainly will not give up the biggest stressors in their lives to take time to nurture themselves and heal. And this is the reason they give up.
Here’s a few steps you can take to get your mind right and add positivity to your mindset before you start working on everything else.
Envision The Life You Desire
First, I want you to understand that everything you want in life is already available to you.
You are living the exact life you’ve created in your mind.
If you can think about something, you can have it. I pull up old journals from years ago all the time, and it’s amazing what I read. I’m living almost the exact life I journaled. And it hasn’t taken that long! While I don’t reflect on those things every day, I simply believe I can have them once upon a time. Then I trust that with my aligned action, those things will come to pass.
It’s not about a feeling. You just have to move forward with certainty – realizing that the journey is the destination. There is no endpoint. You will always be learning and growing and progressing. That’s the way you were created. When you stop growing, you die.
To live the life you desire, you must master self discipline.
Your daily practices either set you up for success or failure. Not only do you need to fuel your body, but you need to fuel your mind, your passion, and your creativity.
Pray, journal, and express gratitude. Write down or talk about your daily wins. This will help you step into that next version of yourself. Think about who you are at the next level and who you want to be. Tune in so you can figure out how to take action toward that.
Clear out anything that isn’t supporting you at your highest level. You must align your heart with the person you want to become and focus on that more than anything else.
If there’s something on your to-do list that is going to take you further in your life and health than anything else, then wake up and do that first.
Take Inspired Action
People ask me what’s the best food to eat for breakfast? What is the best exercise?
While there is some science around that…
Yes, eating protein instead of carbs for breakfast is going to help you sustain blood sugar…
Yes, weightlifting is going to help increase your metabolism and burn the most fat…
I really want you to begin to tune into your body’s needs.
One of the things that gets us in the most trouble is that we look for a logical explanation for everything before we take action. And maybe there’s no logical explanation. This is what I mean by taking inspired action.
There is so much possibility when you stop aligning your life with what everyone else is doing. You are doing what works for you.
Master Your Mind And Emotions So You Can Add Positivity
When you make a decision to do something big in your life, chaos is going to happen.
You’re going to…
Feel like you don’t have the money to start the program
Think about all the other things that are more important
Worry that it may not work for you
Decide that you can’t give up the foods you love
REALLY?
When you do this, you begin to emotionally vote on your success or failure.
If you’ve decided to put your health first no matter what, then you’ve made the decision and you need to go for it.
When you go back and forth on a decision you’ve already made about anything in your life, you are putting yourself in a place of overwhelm and resistance. It shows up in the form of confusion, fear, and anxiety. It will ultimately lead to your failure.
I want to remind you that you are more than a physical body.
You are more than the nutrition you consume, more than the exercises you perform, and believe it or not, more than the thoughts you think.
You are more than enough.
Ready To Set Yourself Up For Long Term Success?
If you want success in your life and health, you have to make the decision to keep your eye on the big picture. Set yourself up for long-term success. Do what’s sustainable and what helps you grow.
Make a decision to do it now!
Stop sitting on the fence. When you sit in a place of indecision, it only makes your problem bigger. Sometimes, you’re going to make bad decisions, but a bad decision is fixable. No decision keeps you stuck.
With heart health month in full swing, I want to talk about your heart – the one that drives your passions, energy, and drive. I’m talking about the emotional side of your heart. If we want to experience wholeness in our lives, we must address the whole person. That includes your mind, body, and spirit. If you’re reading this right now, it is not an accident. There’s a reason. If for nothing else, I want you to understand that there is hope for your situation. Whether you are experiencing pain, anxiety, depression, or if you’ve simply stopped dreaming about how good your life could possibly be due to a sense of hopelessness, allow me to give you some hope today. For years, I’ve been studying the human body and mind… To help me understand it in a way that allows me to work with other people. To help them uncover the underlying issues that are causing disease and chronic illness. In that time, I’ve tried a whole plethora of healing modalities (so many I actually wrote a book on them). While some of the strategies worked well for many years, others were only quick fixes. Are you relying on drugs (that may only be masking your symptoms)? Are you not ready to give up when your doctors have told you that you just have to live with it? If so, you’re in the right place. So stay with me! You see, I was that frustrated and discouraged person who became afraid of nothing when it pertained to my health. I was willing to try anything to get well. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Because of that emotional exhaustion (or emotional illness), I became physically ill. So how does your heart impact your physical wellness?
Emotional Illness Drives Physical Illness
Poor health is not inevitable as you age. While we all have the potential of getting sick, it doesn’t have to be the norm. Free yourself from the belief that you have to get sick before you die. Illness and stress is simply the result of a crazy, fast-paced world. The people I work with on a regular basis are experiencing not only physical symptoms, but they are suffering from emotional illness.
Emotional Illness
Emotional illness includes low self-esteem, lack of confidence, anxiety, depression. And many times, it drives physical illness. Did you know that before this global pandemic 2 out of 3 Americans were seeking help for some sort of emotional stress? In fact, 3 out of 4 hospitalizations are stress-related. Stress can cause symptoms like fatigue, headaches, muscle tension, decreased sex drive, nervousness… And can even drive physical disease in the body! If you’re only looking at your physical body for the answers, then you’re missing part of the picture. You are not your body. You are a result of your thoughts and your habits. Our life is a reflection of the things we think about most. Whatever you believe, you will take action on.
Emotional Resistance
One of the biggest dilemmas we face is our resistance to our negative emotions. We are taught that some emotions are good and some emotions are bad. The truth is, we are the ones that give emotions meaning. When we get an uncomfortable physical reaction that comes from an emotion, we have a natural tendency to try to get rid of it. This creates a negative pattern or habit. When we stuff our emotions and ignore them, we create an imbalance in our body. This isn’t always your fault. You grew up with certain beliefs, attitudes, and reactions based on the way you were raised. Just because you’ve been responding in a certain way your entire life doesn’t mean it’s serving you well.
How to Overcome Emotional Resistance
I want to help you uncover some of the things that may be causing you pain from an emotional standpoint that could be leading to physical pain in your body. So let’s get to the heart of things and address a few different types of emotional resistance that lead to physical resistance and prevent you from progressing in your health. The most common emotional patterns my clients get stuck with include:
Researching habitually and nervously
Procrastinating
Stopping when there is a crisis
Setting unrealistic expectations
Panicking
If you sense that you fall into one or all of these categories, use the strategies below to help you overcome emotional resistance. These are especially important if you’re experiencing physical symptoms in your body. Many times, these emotional tendencies will lead to physical reactions.
Trust Your Intuition Over The Research
One thing that keeps us stuck is our “need” to research everything. We feel that we must have it all figured out before we take action. As a result, we grow more nervous and anxious. The Internet has told us the worst case scenario and we’ve already made it up in our minds that we’re dying.
The problem with this research approach is that you’ll overwhelm your brain with information, leaving you no space to actually think.
Sometimes, we have to trust our intuition.
When we are constantly researching, we’re expecting that we will find the answer suddenly.
When suddenly doesn’t come, we feel frustrated. You don’t have to know everything before you start your health journey.
Procrastination is another form of emotional resistance that keeps us stuck. We typically procrastinate because the task seems like it will be daunting or something that’s not fun. We are motivated by love, potential, fun, and meaning. And many times, we procrastinate out of fear. We end up saying we can figure it out on our own instead of hiring a mentor. Or we end up doing a lot of busy work that never moves us toward our goals. The emotion that stands in the way when it comes to procrastination is usually fear and uncertainty. The key to moving past this is understanding that you don’t have to do everything on your to-do list to move the needle forward. Just take one step forward. Once you commit to that first 15 minutes, it’s a lot easier to take action and continue the task through to completion. Again, you want to get clear on the actions that are going to move the needle for you.
Stop Making Excuses & Ignore The Drama
This next one will catch you by surprise! Do you have something that you feel like you can’t move past? That’s drama, and almost every single one of my clients get distracted with it. When you start moving forward and progressing with your goals, something is going to happen. Something will stand in your way. It could be your child misbehaving, pulling you away to handle their issues. It could also be a major crisis at work that demands your immediate attention. Your car may break down, and you can’t get to the gym as easily. These excuses are one of the biggest forms of resistance. It is simply your brain trying to keep you safe. This is one of the biggest reasons people stay stuck in their health. Don’t miss this! When this happens to you, ignore the drama! See it for what it is, resolve the issue, and keep moving forward.
Have Realistic Expectations
I know you think you’re special, and you may be inclined to magical thinking since you are special. But this magical thinking will get you nowhere when it comes to results. Some people have unrealistic expectations when it comes to their change and transformation (i.e. losing 20 pounds without changing diet or exercise regimens). You are going to have to do something different if you want different results. There is no such thing as calorie free donuts, as you may like to believe. These unrealistic stories you’re telling yourself are keeping you in a state of emotional resistance. You cannot skip the rules. You cannot keep starting over on Monday. And you cannot meditate or imagine that the results will just show up and expect it to happen. Let me friendly slap you back into reality and tell you that you’re going to have to do the work. Show up every single day no matter what. Set the goal, and stick to it. That is what will get you the results.
Push Through The Panic Stage
Panic happens when you feel like nothing is working. Have you started to change a few things? You’re expecting massive transformation almost immediately, but results are slow to come. Maybe you started losing a little bit of weight, but you hit a plateau. Let me caution you by saying… Do not interpret this and tell yourself something is wrong. When you experience this type of panic, you will start looking for other answers. “I must be doing it wrong. I should have known this wouldn’t work.” Stand confident and continue taking action. Consistency is the key when it comes to pushing through this stage of panic. When you make healthy decisions, your results will come. When you push through this stage of panic, you will get your breakthrough.
Ready to Overcome Your Emotional Resistance?
Emotional resistance is the #1 reason people stay in a painful pattern. In my program, I share 13 different ways to help you push through these painful patterns and overcome emotional resistance. While you’ll never get rid of resistance, the key is to learn how to push through the resistance. Acknowledge its presence and continue moving forward, taking action every step of the way. Interested in learning if my program is right for you? Click here to schedule a discovery call with me.
This time of year, we tend to lose focus on the things that really matter. There are so many other things happening – family gatherings, holiday shopping, closing out the year strong.
But this time of the year is a fantastic time to refocus on your goals.
When was the last time you thought about your goals?
It’s often said, the things you think about regularly become your reality .
Recently, I had to remind myself of that saying because my enemies, negative thoughts, and worries started to creep in.
This happens to the best and worst of us – even if we do practice mindfulness and meditation on a regular basis.
There’s a missing connection to your physical health that you may often ignore.
Your mind.
There’s a reason why I intentionally block out time every morning to meditate and plan out my day to help me reach my goals. It’s also why I’m careful about who I surround myself with on a daily basis. I want to make sure I’m choosing people who live life in a super positive light.
Case Study: The Impact Of Your Thoughts On Your Health
One of my clients started her health journey two years ago. She was sitting on the couch staring into her phone all day long, gaining weight, entering into menopause, and had no energy. It took all her energy to peel herself off the couch to cook dinner for her kids and husband. To be honest, life was looking a little bleak for my client. And her attitude towards life was less than lovely.
Unfortunately, her hormones were out of control and impacted her life greatly. She wasn’t pleasant to live with. But she’s not the only one to experience what that feels like.
Focusing On Your Physical Health
Fast forward to 2 years later… She started focusing on her physical health and is living an amazing life now. She’s lost her excess body fat, working out on a regular basis, eating organic foods, and serving healthy meals to her family with joy. She’s an entrepreneur and ministering to those in need. It truly is a life she could only dream of from her couch just a couple of years ago.
She called me recently and wanted to talk about her health. She’s been on a protocol to help balance a little issue with her gut and hormones. We’ve been using an amazing protocol to shrink some little tumors. What a miracle!
But a few days before we spoke on the phone, she sent me photos of her weight gain. She even felt like her tumor was growing. It was difficult to tell though because she felt so bloated and distended.
During our call, I could hear the distress in her voice.
Now the cleanse protocol she was on was a doozy! She was getting rid of some pretty nasty bugs, and her body was feeling it.
I had to ask some tough questions.
What do you want?
Do you want your tumors to shrink or grow?
Or do you want to lose more weight and set a new goal for that?
Do you believe you are actually setting yourself up to gain weight when you feel like you’re doing everything right?
And she began to tell me the areas where she felt like she was slacking off. These weren’t major things, but they could have been playing a role.
But the biggest thing I noticed is that she felt defeated. She felt like she had been putting all the right things in, but she just wasn’t making any progress.
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Recommendations To Get Mental Health Back Into Health
I see this same story over and over with my clients. Here’s what I recommended: do the things you know to do.
If you’re walking less and it was working for you to walk more, then walk more.
If you slacked off on your water intake, then you know what to do. Drink more water.
And if you’re doing a gut cleansing protocol and you’re not working on your gut from the outside by doing things like castor oil packs and coffee enemas, then hop to it! I know it’s not fun, but it’s a small part of the process that is going to get you amazing results.
But the biggest piece of advice I gave her was this…Focus on what you want; not what you currently have. See yourself without these tumors and these bugs.
Focus On What You Want
What would your life look like if you didn’t have tumors? If you didn’t have the excess inflammation and body fat you want to get rid of?
And when those negative thoughts arise, do you have something you can actually grab hold of and believe in? To replace those negative thoughts?
What is one positive thing you can say?
For my client, she can say…I’m shrinking my tumors every day. I’m getting rid of toxins and inflammation everyday. I am reaching my health goals… Fill in the blank for yourself here. What are the things you want in your life?
Within a few days, she called me absolutely astonished.
There was one day when she didn’t feel her best and felt like she was drained of her energy. But she said she could not believe how many toxins her mind could hold onto in the form of physical toxins in her body. “I’m actually reaching my goals by just shifting my thoughts.”
When you practice managing your mind, you are going to create the future you want.
So if your thought life is not what it needs to be, I want you to practice shifting that today. Because you can have what you believe. And I’ll take it a step further and say you will have what you believe. It’s a well-proven strategy.
Missing Connection To Your Physical Health
If you’re looking for similar results to this in your life, this is the kind of work I do with my clients – helping you find the missing connection to your physical health.
It’s not all about supplements, lab tests, and eating the right foods.
It’s about helping you create your future in your mind so you can have it in reality.
We all need people who will call us out when we’re not doing the things we should be; when we’re living too much in our head, worrying, trying to figure out everything logically, it just doesn’t work. We have to set ourselves up for success by managing our minds first. Then we can make those a part of our reality
I meet a lot of people who are working on their health at varying degrees.
Some people even say they’re willing to do anything to get well.
But when it comes down to it, anything doesn’t mean anything.
This blog is a little bit of tough love mixed with truth. As a health and wellness coach, I have to be tough with my clients. While it may be hard to hear, my clients oftentimes tell me how much they appreciate that.
In today’s blog, I’m revealing 4 common objections to natural medicine I frequently hear from business professionals.
Common Objections to Natural Medicine
Here are the most common objections to natural medicine I hear from people on a regular basis. These objections get in the way of potential treatment.
1. Natural Healing Seems Too Simple To Work
The first objection I commonly hear to natural medicine is… It’s too simple to work! They aren’t willing to try simple natural approaches because they seem too simple and natural to work.
Now, I’m not here to push or pressure anything on anyone. But if I make a suggestion and it’s not heard, I’ve learned to accept the fact that they may not be ready. I’m here to help anyone who is willing to help themselves. But that’s about where I draw the line.
I recently talked to a lady with a rare condition; unfortunately, there is no medicine that will treat her condition. Instead of giving her the same runaround her doctors gave here, I encouraged her to do a few simple things at home (including taking other tests to potentially expose the underlying root of her condition). Simple.
God created everything we need to heal our bodies, and He placed it right here on this Earth for us to access. If natural medicine can solve your body’s failing system but Western medicine can’t, then why not look to the things God provided on this Earth?
If you think the simple answer is too simple, then remember this… The simplest explanation may be the best.
(Western medicine often focuses on treating the symptoms. Natural medicine focuses on addressing the root cause. If you want a “simple” process to discover (and then treat) your illness, let’s chat. I’m here for you!)
2. I Don’t Have The Money To Invest In Myself
The second objection I hear from people who don’t want to explore natural medicine is “I don’t have the time or money to invest in myself”. People are not willing to invest in themselves.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve met several individuals who are paying over $1,000 for health insurance, and it’s still not getting them the answers they need. As a matter of fact, their health keeps failing. Why? Because they’re not addressing the root cause of their condition. The number of medications are increasing. Their health is worse. And they are being told they need to remove organs (i.e. gallbladder and even their thyroid, etc.).
I have a serious problem with this.
I know the other side of this story – partly because that was my story.
Doctors told me that medication was the only way out of my illness and that I must remove organs.
Thank God I kept all my organs, but I spent many years suffering with medication after medication – not getting well and worse than that, feeling hopeless.
So why do I hear this objection to natural medicine?
Because people justify that they’ve already invested in their health insurance and that should solve their problem.
Many of these same people could see huge transformations if they adjusted their mindset and tried natural medicine.
Yes, it is out of pocket.
Yes, it is an investment.
And yes, you may even have to take out a loan.
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But is it worth saving your own thyroid, gallbladder, or kidney from being removed?
These organs are saved every day with natural medicine. And they are removed every day with conventional medicine because instead of addressing the root, conventional medicine says the organ is bad. It’s “causing you problems” so it’s necessary to cut it out.
I’m here to tell you from personal experience from myself with a saved gallbladder and other clients who’ve experienced similar stories with natural medicine. In most cases, these organs aren’t bad.
The lifestyles that have led to diseased organs is the problem.
Once you address the root of the condition, the body can heal itself.
Determine Whether Or Not You Are Worth The Investment
You have to determine whether or not you are worth the investment.
You pay $1,000 a month for insurance that doesn’t work for you. Another $1,000 for a cell phone every one to two years. And you pay a mortgage every month to put a roof over your head. And you have the money to put your child in dance class and karate. You do this because you want a quality life. And there is nothing greater than your health.
Without your health, you have nothing.
Here’s the truth… Health insurance doesn’t cover natural medicine. It is an out-of-pocket investment. You will pay out of pocket for your lab tests, consulting fees, and your care provider’s knowledge. It can cost you thousands of dollars. But it can also save your life.
Is the investment worth it to you?
That’s up to you to decide.
I know for me it was.
3. I Don’t Have Time
Onto the next objection to natural medicine… They don’t have time.
I used to think I didn’t have time for help too – until my health took my time.
Gallbladder attacks that would rob me from going to work. Exhaustion that would prevent me from enjoying time with friends or socially engaging. And brain fog that would keep me stuck on a task for hours when it should have taken a few short minutes. I was constantly cleaning up messes because I couldn’t pay attention.
Some days, I couldn’t even hold on to a water glass. I would walk in my kitchen, and my cabinet doors would be open because I forgot to close them. I would hit the floor crying.
Have you been there?
I was too busy trying to be busy with life to even notice that I didn’t have a life. My time was being robbed because I was going in a circle most of my day.
Have you ever experienced this?
I certainly hope that’s not your story, but you can also prevent that from being your story today too. You have a choice to take care of your health now, or you may be required to take care of it later. The thing with natural health and healing is that it’s great as a preventative. Once the damage is done, it’s a little more difficult to take care of yourself and a lot more work (but it still may be possible to see complete healing).
4. I Don’t Think Natural Health Works For Me
The last of four objectsions to natural medicine is they’ve already tried natural health, and it doesn’t work for them.
Here’s the thing… Most people I meet on a regular basis have gone semi-gluten- and dairy-free. They’ve removed part of the inflammatory foods. Maybe even done over-the-counter so-called detoxes that left them in the bathroom for a week while flushing out their colon (P.S. That is not a detox by the way, and you don’t have to subject yourself to those types of things. That is not natural health.)
You can try all the wonderful things like removing inflammatory foods, exercising on a daily basis, reducing your stress, dealing with relationship issues, and even replacing your medicine cabinet with essential oils. Most of the people I work with have already taken a few good healthy steps in that right direction. But they’re still dealing with chronic pain, headaches, weight and metabolism issues, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
There is likely an underlying condition that you haven’t addressed.
It doesn’t mean natural medicine and natural health doesn’t work.
It means your limited knowledge or understanding of natural health and medicine is not enough. I told you this blog was going to be a tough love post.
When you work with someone to help you get to the root of your health issues, they can help you investigate things like underlying food sensitivities that may be impacting your nutrition, hormone imbalances, toxicity, closed drainage systems, poor immune health, or cellular damage.
A lady recently told me that she is going to die from a specific cancer because she has the specific gene for that cancer.
Unfortunately, this depressing, hopeless mindset is something I hear often.
With genetic testing on the rise, people jump to conclusions that if their genes say they are bound for disease, it means they are without a doubt going to end up with it.
The truth is…
Our thoughts drive our beliefs.
And our beliefs drive our decisions.
Our decisions drive our actions.
And our actions drive our results.
Mindset plays a big role in whether we rid our bodies of disease or we live free of disease. It’s powerful.
So when it comes to what plays a bigger role in our future health – genetics vs mindset – we need to look at the facts.
If we believe that we will be sick when we die, it will likely become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and we’ll be sick when we die.
Genetics vs Mindset: Which Plays a Bigger Role in Your Future Health?
Generational diseases are a result of us doing things that allow our genes to express in a certain way. The study of epigenetics proves that to us. We have a choice in how our genes express themselves.
Just because you come from a background of diabetes, breast cancer, or other known diseases, it doesn’t mean you have to have them.
“We don’t have to get the disease simply because we have the gene.”
Many times, we falsely believe we’re cursed to live with a particular disease process because we rightfully inherited it from our ancestors. Only about 10% of disease is genetically based. If we work on improving our diet, exercising more, and removing toxins and stressors, we can stop disease in its tracks.
We either drive disease or drive health.
Mindset Plays A Bigger Role
The study of epigenetics and the bible both tell us we can choose life or death, blessing or the curse.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Proverbs 18:21
How do we do this?
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 12:2
I love it when science lines up with the Bible.
Truth is… The Bible tells us what to eat (Genesis 9:3), what to think (Colassians 3:2), and what to meditate on (Philippians 4:8).
This isn’t your average health article.
I want to empower you to take control over your health today.
It all starts with shifting your mindset.
Know and believe that you are not doomed just because every family member that’s recently passed died of cancer.
I remember when a close family member did genetic testing. He has a propensity for diabetes, arthritis, and other pretty yucky disease processes, according to his genetic makeup. His dad even had cancer. Other family members suffered from alzheimers, aneurysms, and other things that “run in the family.” Without stress, toxins, and environmental factors that drive those disease processes, he can choose to live in health.
You may have heard of a case where a person is completely healthy until they go through a traumatic experience, and then they get sick. It’s not just some crazy coincidence.
Many people I work with have some sort of traumatic event that took place before they found themselves in a sick enough state where they felt it was necessary to seek someone to help them.
It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back, if you will.
Those genes existed all along. They just needed the right stressful event to express themselves. Stress does crazy things to the body and the mind.
Metabolic Chaos
In my world of functional diagnostic nutrition, we like to call this “metabolic chaos.”
But what does this term mean? Metabolic chaos is a term that describes the breakdown of the body after it encounters physical, emotional, and chemical stress. That stress causes normal processes in the body to start getting a little chaotic.
This looks different in all people.
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All our body parts are interconnected. We are an entire being – mind, body, and spirit… Not just separate parts attached to each other.
And everyone has a weak link – whether it’s your gut, hormones, or headaches. It’s just how you uniquely express stress in your unique physical body. When left unchecked, this is what leads to disease.
Where Metabolic Chaos Arises From
Metabolic chaos can arise from many different stressful situations. Many times, it’s an emotional stress, but not always. We live in a state of chronic stress – pollution and smog, traffic jams, electromagnetic frequencies, harmful chemicals and pesticides sprayed on our foods, loads of sugar, relationship stress, financial stress, loss. Our immune system suffers when we’re chronically stressed like this.
So if we come into contact with a true invader like a pathogen in the form of a virus, bacteria, parasite, or even a physical injury, our body reaches a point where enough is enough.
This is the perfect storm for disease processes to rear their ugly head(s).
Then the diagnosis comes, along with the medication, and potentially the surgery…
You get the point.
The thing is… Propensity for disease is there.
It’s in our genes, it always has been.
But we have a choice as to whether or not we express those genes.
So what if you’re in the middle of your perfect storm of metabolic chaos?
When eliminating stress, think about your relationships and emotional stressors. Also, consider the physical stress.
Are you creating metabolic chaos by the toxins around or inside you?
This could be…
Foods you choose
Words you speak
Products you put on your skin
Toxic cookware and cleaning products
Simply not expelling toxins properly by moving your body, sweating, and eliminating waste (pooping) like you should
Feeling a Little Overwhelmed?
Feeling a little overwhelmed on how you can eliminate some of the metabolic chaos in your life?
That’s normal. I’ve been there, and I’ve helped many others who once felt the same way.
Let’s change that for you too!
I have a simple 90-day program that will give you the basics of how to clean up your lifestyle to help you eliminate stress before it turns to disease. This program was created for those looking for a way to prevent or stop disease in its tracks before it ever begins. It provides you the tools you need to live a life of health for the rest of your life.
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