What if the secret to your best life was all about a shift in mindset and lifestyle? That's exactly what I, Naihomy , found out through out these seven years of my health and wellness journey. From feeling lost, I moved to a place of clarity and well-being, overcoming societal pressures and debunking the myth that a healthier lifestyle was not for people like me.
Join me as I share intimate details of my transformative journey which started with the simple desire to lose weight and ended up being a holistic overhaul of my life. I'll share how I unintentionally shed 50 pounds in the first year, and the important lessons I learned about consistency, mindful eating, and the profound effects of food on our bodies and minds. I'll also reveal how my journey paved the way for my career as a health coach, helping women in my community embrace a healthier lifestyle.
In the final segment, we dive into the often-underestimated importance of self-care and wellness. I'll explain how prioritizing our well-being doesn't just make us healthier - it makes us better parents, partners, friends, and individuals. So, come along and get inspired to take charge of your health and wellness. Let's break the stigma around self-care together and embark on a journey to a vibrant life rooted in wellness.
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What if the secret to your best life was all about a shift in mindset and lifestyle? That's exactly what I, Naihomy , found out through out these seven years of my health and wellness journey. From feeling lost, I moved to a place of clarity and well-being, overcoming societal pressures and debunking the myth that a healthier lifestyle was not for people like me.
Join me as I share intimate details of my transformative journey which started with the simple desire to lose weight and ended up being a holistic overhaul of my life. I'll share how I unintentionally shed 50 pounds in the first year, and the important lessons I learned about consistency, mindful eating, and the profound effects of food on our bodies and minds. I'll also reveal how my journey paved the way for my career as a health coach, helping women in my community embrace a healthier lifestyle.
In the final segment, we dive into the often-underestimated importance of self-care and wellness. I'll explain how prioritizing our well-being doesn't just make us healthier - it makes us better parents, partners, friends, and individuals. So, come along and get inspired to take charge of your health and wellness. Let's break the stigma around self-care together and embark on a journey to a vibrant life rooted in wellness.
Thank you so much for listening!
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Welcome to the Wealthy Generation Podcast. I am your host, naomi Jerez, your Bronx race, dominicana wife, mother of two new BFF and food and holistic health coach. I went from living a surface level healthy life to learning firsthand how to live my best life, rooted in wellness, and get my status back. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast, a food lover or simply curious about creating a healthier, more vibrant life, this podcast is your guide. We're going to dive deep into topics that will inspire you to make positive changes and elevate not only your well-being but those of generations before and after you. Stay tuned for exciting conversations, expert interviews and a whole lot of inspiration that will lead to action. Welcome to the Wealthy, wellthy Generation Podcast with me, your host, naomi Jerez. Welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast, and that's W-E-L-L-T-H-Y.
Speaker 1:This is actually a very, very special episode because I am celebrating seven years of my health and wellness journey, which I didn't even know that's what I started in the first place. I was going to actually launch a different episode today, but I was so sick over the past week that I had laryngitis and a cold and all that fun stuff that I totally forgot that this month marks my anniversary of health and wellness and I think that is something to celebrate, to acknowledge, to share, because a big thought that is out there and that I had myself was that or is that a health and wellness lifestyle is not possible. A health and wellness lifestyle is not for people like me, a health and wellness lifestyle is not sustainable, or it's for rich people or people with money or celebrities or all of these thoughts that get in the way of us actually trying to see if this is a possibility for us. And I want to break it down, because I never knew about this lifestyle either, the one that I am currently living. I had no examples of it. I didn't know anybody who actually sustained some sort of wellness habit past a certain amount of time, because everything was, you know, a challenge, a 30 day challenge, a 60 day challenge, a New Year's resolution, wanting to look good for a specific occasion, like a birthday or vacation or a wedding or something of the sorts. It was never just because it was never just for the individual.
Speaker 1:There was this bigger agenda, which I agree. There should be a bigger agenda, but I believe the bigger agenda should be solely about yourself and what you want for you, not about a specific expectation of an outside source or something like that. So I want to offer you what I've learned and my perspective and what I do and how I started, because I don't think that is shared enough from a point of view of just a regular old person, not someone who has a ton of money to spend on an entire support system, like a chef and I mean I do have a personal trainer but these, these are all thoughts, right, that can get in the way of us making some sort of change for ourselves, and I feel like I'm talking in circles. But I really want to have you understand that this was never my plan, and everything I know now, seven years later, has been a journey and continues to be a journey for me, because, for the most part, I learned about my health and wellness journey by myself. I learned this alone, aside from a few support people that I will talk about, because it was not 100% alone but the mindset piece, the piece where I decided that this is how I wanted to live my life, this is how I felt best, this is what I wanted to do for myself. That I realized on my own and is something I actually coach my clients on, because we assume that it's just about doing like you're eating in a specific way or you're working out and moving your body and doing you know actual, tangible habits, but no one ever talks about what a humongous mindset shift, thinking you need to have to adopt a lifestyle change whether it's this one or any other one, and that I had to figure out on my own where I kept what I know now, kind of looking for evidence and really deciding like what I liked better or how did I like to feel and all that. So let's, let's get into it. I'm going to take you all the way back to the beginning of my journey, which was October and November 2016. In 2016, I gave birth to my second son, and let me paint a little bit of a picture for you.
Speaker 1:Before I had kids, my first son was born in 2014. And before that, I was so lost, so lost. I was falling into societal traps of feeling miserable, not only in corporate America, but also in my body. Like I was always tired. I always had some sort of pain. I was flip flopping from staying consistent in anything I chose to do, whether it was a gym or eating in a specific way. I gave into so much peer pressure of drinking and staying up late and doing things that I kind of didn't want to do.
Speaker 1:But I did them because I wanted to belong and I believed that that's what young people did, and I'm talking when I was like in my early to mid 20s. Right, I did it because, you know, that was the cool thing to do. Everybody was doing it. So I felt kind of like a weirdo if I did not participate in that. And it was also kind of glorified to be tired. It was kind of like who can be more tired and pull through competition. I think that's what it felt like, especially when you showed up to work like you asked somebody how they were doing and they were always say they're tired or they didn't sleep well, but they're pushing through and they're sick and they're still here. So I think that is such a larger issue of what the expectation is, of how you should look or act or or belong. And because we do want to belong and we do want to be relatable, it's actually a human part of the human experience and part of survival to be part of some sort of tribe and to belong and then you just do it, and that was, that was me too, and I remember one time I was asked if, if you know, I was super healthy when I got pregnant. And the answer is no for both of them.
Speaker 1:For both of my pregnancies, I did not know how to eat well. I was not consistent in exercising. I actually drank so much soda when I was pregnant and just had everything I wanted to have, because that's what they would always say oh, if you're craving, it is for some reason right. So with both my pregnancies I ended up gaining a ridiculous amount of weight. And when I give birth to my second son, I knew I didn't want to have any more children. And then I was like, oh, I really need to get it together, right. And I felt not good in my own skin. I just didn't recognize myself, although I'm gonna give myself a lot of credit, because after I gave birth to my second son, I treated myself a lot more kindly than I did with my first. I wasn't bashing myself, I was giving myself time and patience and grace.
Speaker 1:At the same time, I knew I did not want to stay where I was, and I was very afraid that I would stay where I was, physically and mentally, because that's what I had seen in my community I would just see women give birth and then it would be like a downhill role of not taking care of themselves, like letting themselves go. Just everything about the family, and I don't mean just physically, I mean like you can see the mental load on these women as well. You can see the joy leave from their face, you can see their shine go away, and I always knew that I did not want that for myself. And I also saw other mothers aside from my community, because I did work in corporate America where the mass population was white women and when I went to college and things like this right, I saw other mother figures and I saw that they were a little different than women in my community and I knew that it was a possibility. So I always thought, like what are they doing that my community is not doing? What is going on? And oftentimes I thought it was like a monetary thing, like all they have money to you know, pay for a chev or pay for the nanny and they have more time and they have more resources, which is true.
Speaker 1:But what I decided to do, I said I am going to do the best I can with what I have. That's what I decided. I'm gonna do the best I can with what I have. And because in my early 20s I had tried things like pills, detoxes, like all this nonsense that I was so miserable and was giving me like heart palpitations and all these things, I decided I didn't want to do that, and my one goal in 2016 was to lose weight. I thought that would fix all my problems and that was what it would take for me to look great if I could just or and feel great for me to just be able to fit back into my clothes, and that was part of it. But I learned so much more. The weight loss was actually at the bottom of the list from everything I had experienced and learned. So let's go back to 2016.
Speaker 1:November, I decided that I was finally gonna go to this gym class that I had seen on Instagram and I bought a group on for Y'all remember group on? Is that still around? I don't know. Anyway, I bought a group on for this gym class and I decided to go in November. I had had a C-section, so I had to wait until I was healed enough and felt comfortable enough to go and move my body in new ways. I was still nursing. So I would get up and I would pump and I would leave a bottle and I would go to the gym and by this time I was already back at work, my maternity leave was done, so the only day that I could go to the gym was Saturday morning. So this gym class I showed up the first day, the first week of November and ever since that day I've consistently been working out. Okay, so that's, that's one.
Speaker 1:I think I have about seven things I'm gonna share that I've learned in these seven years. So the number one thing is that I know I say I did, I did, I did. But going to a gym class having a trainer although it was in a group setting and having other people there who were consistently showing up every single Saturday, really helped me stay consistent, because I decided that if I wanted to get the results, or I knew that if I wanted to get the results that they had, I had to put in the work that they were doing. They were showing up every single week, if not multiple times a week, because I would see them on the Instagram posts, right? So I, no matter how tired I was, how sleep deprived I would go, but I had to learn this the hard way, because I would think to myself.
Speaker 1:There were days where I would wake up and I was like, oh, I'm just too tired, I'm gonna stay. And then I was miserable the rest of the day. I just had such little patience. I felt like I let myself down because I didn't go, because I was just too tired or whatever excuse I would come up with at the time, and I did not like that feeling. This is when I started to notice how I felt versus how I didn't when I went versus how I didn't and I. It was a mental fight because my mind would serve me all of the excuses that we normally use I'm tired, I rather sleep. I don't have to go today, I should be doing something else. Oh my god, it's raining, it's really cold, like all of these things and I started it took about two or three times that I did not go to a gym class for whatever reason, and I did not like the person who I was.
Speaker 1:And then it was like, wow, I have to wait a whole other week to go to the gym class again, and I hated that. I did not like that. So that's how I started to stay consistent with going. It was literally a case of kind of FOMO and and identifying how I was feeling if I did go versus when I didn't go, and also looking at the community and those who showed up week after week after week, the results that they were getting and me knowing that if I wanted results like that too, I too had to put in the work. Okay, so let's fast forward to February 2017.
Speaker 1:This is when I started working with a nutritionist, so this is still part of my support system. It just so happened that my company had sent a super random spam looking email about getting your own nutritionist BFF through this app as part of the you know insurance or whatever, and my thought was oh, I know so much about food. I know how to eat well, but you know what? I? I always like to learn more about food, so I'm gonna see what this is about. This was the big life changer for me, because I joined this app where I chose a nutritionist and I never spoke to her in person. I never saw her. I I never spoke to her over the phone or zoom like this was purely just text, back and forth and photos, and she taught me so much. I logged my food, every single piece of thing that I ate and drink, for two years to get feedback and education from this woman, and that ended up changing my life. That is where I realized how powerful food was. It changed my life.
Speaker 1:I asked so many questions and that's when I became obsessed. Obsessed with learning about food, learning how it works, understanding how it was making me feel, understanding how my brain works, because my brain would say things like Naomi, you really love this food. You remember when you used to eat this all the time? And then you used to love it and I would eat it. And then my body was like what the fuck is that bloated out of my mind, migraines, farting, like everything, everything, everything. Because my mind was just like Naomi, you love this. So that's when I started to realize also the connection between my mind and my body and me kind of have to create this new narrative and like really decide what, what I really wanted, and it wasn't to give in to the past thought that my brain had, or was it to really honor my body and how it felt. So then the thoughts turned into remember, naomi, we ate that recently and you actually did not like how you felt how I felt. So all of a sudden, it became just fine to make the decision of me not wanting to eat, whatever that was, because I did not like how it felt. And I think this is one of the main things that we miss, because we start restricting food, but essentially it's not restriction, it's just noticing how it makes you feel Okay. So that's how it started.
Speaker 1:I remain consistent with going to the gym, even if it was once a week, and I remain consistent with sharing my food with my nutritionist, receiving feedback. And let me tell you, sometimes I was pissed at this woman and I would get so offended because I never knew how vulnerable it could be to share everything that you're eating is actually super vulnerable to do that. It's so personal. Okay. So if you're my client and you are putting your food in your food journal, I totally get what the feeling is. You're kind of like revealing a deeper layer of yourself, right? So I ended up losing.
Speaker 1:First of all, my goal, or what I wanted, was to lose weight, that's, it Was to feel good in my clothes. So I ended up losing 50 pounds on this journey within my first year, and it was unintentional because that was never initially my goal. I didn't really know how much weight I wanted to lose. I didn't really care, I just wanted to feel good in my skin again. My initial goal was to go back to my pre-baby weight, which I did, and then I ended up losing 20 pounds after that, so that was a true surprise for me. However, one thing that I didn't know then, that I know now, is that I was not properly fueling for my workouts, which I know now, but that's another story For another day.
Speaker 1:I just want to point out that if you are exercising and you aren't doing specific things to exercise and all that you have a well-rounded routine you should also have a well-rounded new nutrition plan that supports that. I was eating. I wasn't like restricting myself, but I was not eating. The best I could Could have been to support my exercise, and this is because I did not have a holistic health coach, like I am, who is guiding you in all these areas. I was just going to the gym. That's one thing, and then I was working with my nutritionist on solely food, but there's this whole huge gap in between of connecting the two to actually get you the real results that you want, because we all start with oh, I just want to lose weight. I just want to lose weight. But there's so much more than that. If you notice, I'm leaving in how I'm feeling so much, how I'm thinking so much. Anyway, it is a year later. I have lost 50 pounds.
Speaker 1:Everybody in their mama is asking me what I did because it's now super noticeable. Okay, which I actually was very embarrassed about I wasn't even celebrating, I was embarrassed. I didn't want people looking at me. I don't want people asking me questions. I actually tried to hide because my mind could not catch up with what had happened to my body, because it happened fairly quickly for me and I just couldn't believe what had happened because I wasn't even doing anything extreme. I was just going to the gym once a week and following whatever advice the nutritionist gave me and I got these results. I just want to tell you there's a whole range of emotions. I was actually super embarrassed and kind of wanted to hide. I would go to events where people knew me and I tried not to stand up from the chair until I really had to fucking pee. I didn't want to get up because I didn't want people to see me. I didn't want people to comment. I didn't want people to ask me questions. I was just not confident, super uncomfortable. I could not figure out what had happened to me. Okay, then my thought was too okay, this is great.
Speaker 1:It's been a year and I did not expect these results to last for me. I had not seen anyone in my community who had done anything for their health, who had adopted any sort of wellness habit for themselves that had stuck to it. No one, no one. I had just seen the time stamp. You know health and wellness goals, like I need to get look good for my wedding, I need to look good for somebody else's wedding, I'm going on vacation and I want to look at my, go to my swimsuit. So let me restrict, let me drink these pills, let me have these shakes. Let me not eat, let me drink this laxative, like all extreme ways.
Speaker 1:So I had zero expectation and belief in myself and confidence in myself that this is something that would last. I just thought, oh, it's nice for now. I'll enjoy it for now. Next year, when everybody sees me go back to how I was before, I'm just going to, you know, deal with the embarrassment. Then embarrassment again, right. And this was my mentality, because I had never seen anybody do it. I just did not think it was possible for me or anybody in my community To live a life this way.
Speaker 1:So, okay, aside from the 50 pounds, other things I noticed too Was that I was living my best life. I had so much energy, my mind was clear, I was such a better human to those I loved, I was a better parent, I was a better partner, I was a better friend I was. I had a Lot more energy. Mind you, I had two little boys With a long commute. I had a two-hour commute Into the city. I had to drive my kids or we had to drive our kids to daycare and Then part the car and then take the train into Times Square where I worked, to work my full-time job, to then do it all again back home two hours back up north to then make dinner Shower. You know when your kids or babies, they need you to do everything for them, so to feed them and to shower them and to do their nighttime routine, and then you're just so exhausted, so exhausted, and then their babies so they are not sleeping well, all right. So within my first year, this is everything that was happening for me. So I was like you know what? This is cool, but I'm not gonna have high expectations.
Speaker 1:Then the second year rolled around. Again, I Was living my best life. I was having so much fun in addition to Going to the gym once or twice a week and still eating the way that I had learned with my nutritionist because Because I really enjoyed feeling good, I really enjoyed Feeling strong, and I would notice whenever I would veer away from that. It would take me about a week for my stomach to recover and I would be like this shouldn't even worth it, like I have eaten xyz and now I feel like Absolute crap, with a migraine, super bloated. And then, and I would even tell my nutritionist, I'm like why is it? Three days later, four days later, and I still feel like shit. And she's like, yeah, it takes a while for your digestive system to get it back together and to clean up that mess. Those are my words, not hers, but that's basically what she was telling me and I just Disliked that feeling so much that I was not willing to keep putting myself through that.
Speaker 1:All right, so Year two came and I was exactly the same and by this point I had helped other women in my circle get results as well, because people would ask me like, what are you doing? Some people ask me if I got surgery. Some people Thought like they would tell me things like you stop drinking, you stop eating bread, you stop eating rice, you stop eating pasta, you stopped, you know, eating period. Oh, you must go to the gym five days a week, seven days a week. They had all of these ideas of what they thought I had done to get myself results and maintain them. And I'm gonna always be like, no, no, I, you know, I still eat whatever I want to eat. I Don't go to the gym more than two days a week because I don't have the time for that. And yeah, I just, you know, I eat real food and I just stay consistent with my one or two days going to the gym. And Everybody thought I was fucking lying. No one believes me. But there were a few family members that reached out and they were like, hey, can you just teach me what you're doing, can you just help me? And I was like, sure, yeah, I can help you. So these women were also losing weight and feeling good.
Speaker 1:And when that two-year mark came for me, that's when I was like, wow, this is sustainable, this is actually a lifestyle that is not so hard and gets you amazing results, not just by maintaining weight loss, but Really enjoying how you feel and living your best life Not feeling fatigued, not feeling restricted, having that energy to do what you want to do, having a better attitude. And it really doesn't take that much time. Because by this point, I was just meal prepping my lunches for work as well, and I was making super easy meals for myself. I had decided that it was less drama for me to Make like at least three lunches for the week at home for work. Then it was to go out in Times Square and Find something to eat that I was not even gonna be happy with. So I decided what's harder for me, what is less annoying, less stressful Is it taking an extra hour to prep something at three lunches at home, or is it to go out in Times Square and Find some food that I'm actually going to enjoy? That's under like freaking $15, right, and I decided that it was doing the things at home.
Speaker 1:So something else I want you to realize is that it's not always going to be filled with joy and excitement and you know rainbows and butterflies. Oftentimes, if this is really the lifestyle that you want and you want to do and you want to live by, then you're gonna have to, or you will feel a bunch of emotions, a Bunch of emotions, while still getting things done. You can be crying, eating your mokos, upset, angry, whatever it is, and still meal prep. You can be feeling all those feelings and Still get your walk in or your exercise done Okay, or prep yourself for good sleep. It's possible.
Speaker 1:There's this huge misconception that you need to be Feeling a certain way, you need to be excited about it, you need to love it, you need to like it, you need to be super motivated, you need to be super inspired and Sometimes you just have to switch on autopilot, make a decision and follow the route For yourself. And that is what I had to do often, because I was just so tired sometimes. So the way I would set myself up for autopilot was on Friday nights, I Would set my gym clothes out for the next day in the bathroom and my water bottle and all that. I would just set it up that way. I did not have to think in the morning it was I get up and brush my teeth, I put on my clothes, I grab my water bottle, I get in the car. That was it. That was it. There was no thinking, there was no debating, because I realized that if I woke up and started Having to make decisions even of what I was gonna wear, and I gave myself too much time to think that I would talk myself out of what I actually wanted to do. So that's how I started setting myself up for that and To meal prep lunches.
Speaker 1:When I would make dinner, I Would also cook my lunches at the same time, at least probably like once a week. I wasn't that Sunday night meal prep person, so I and maybe sometimes I did, but it was mostly like on that Monday I Would, if I was in the kitchen cooking anyway a dinner, that I would also make three lunches and I would do it all at once. So that's kind of Me habits backing like intertwining new things I wanted to do With old habits that I would do in the first place, making it super easy for myself to take the action Without it feeling super, super, super forced. Okay, so, after this second year and me incorporating all these skills and then feeling super natural, super easy, like excited, like this is really who I am now. That's when the seed was planted or not planted. I think it's always been my seed of my purpose.
Speaker 1:That's when it was revealed to me and I asked myself why Do more people, more women in our community, my community, do not know how to care for themselves this way? And we can go into a rabbit hole on this because obviously generational trauma, survival and migration, like there's just so much right, but I didn't want to keep seeing this happen. I Didn't want a. I knew that there were so many of us that it's just so brilliant and really wanted to feel good in their skin and were struggling to do so and they could not get there. And it was a struggle of one year yes, one year no, and so many health issues coming up and, mind you, my work with reversing health conditions had not even started.
Speaker 1:I just knew that I could help women feel better. I could help women shed a few pounds in a way that actually helped them feel better and it be sustainable and not have it be something that was just a good to have, a nice to have for now, like my initial thought in that first year of my health and wellness journey, I wanted them to see that if they learned these habits, if they learned a little bit about food and how they were eating and how to connect it with their body and their emotions and what they were thinking, then they could stick to it. And that is when, at first, I didn't even know that I was becoming a coach. I was actually super embarrassed to find out and to admit to myself that I was a coach that's another story for another day. But what I did decide was that I was going to help whoever needed help and I started out by doing consultations with people and coaching women in my lunch break. I created this form that I still use to this day.
Speaker 1:That has just really evolved with my clients to learn more about them and I would give them feedback. And because I worked in Times Square, I would go to hotel lobbies and hold my calls there and give, and some of my first clients were worked in offices nearby, so I would go to their offices and I would coach them there and they started to see results and they started to incorporate all of these new habits that I had learned for myself and I loved doing that. I loved it. I became obsessed with it. I did a lot of my coaching similar to now through what's at and I would be on the train, I would be brushing my teeth, I would be walking down the street on the bus, like on my lunch break.
Speaker 1:Helping these women, helping these women feel better in their skin, feel better in their body, gets well, and I kind of paused with that, but it was always in my heart because I had a full-time job. I had no idea about the coaching industry. I had no idea that I could do both at the same time. I had no guidance. So this business started in 2018 and it wasn't until 2020 that I took it on full-time to really help women. And then I got certified in the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I became a certified integrative nutrition health coach and then in my first year of coaching, I realized that a lot of what was going on with the women that I was coaching was that they had hormonal imbalances, so there was just deeper things that they were going on with them. So I got a continuing education certificate, certification in hormone health as well, and in continuing to coach women, I realized that through the work, not only are they seeing the results of weight loss, which a lot of us, it's the first thing that comes to mind when we say we want to make a change. But they were also reversing their health around, like they were doing things or they are doing things like reversing their prediabetes and reversing autoimmune conditions and high blood pressure and regaining their energy and reducing or eliminating joint pain and bloating and intestinal problems, getting rid of cystic acne, regulating and getting their period back, reducing PMS and intense pain when they get their period All right, reversing things like Hashimoto's.
Speaker 1:It's just incredible how building a lifestyle really rooted in wellness can give you everything that you thought you didn't need. And is this concept where we don't really think about it or give attention to or give value to, because everything else around us is given a lot more value, like our career or the money or other relationships? We always self-sacrifice for others and I don't want that to be the case anymore. When taking care of yourself better, you are able to give more, you are able to show up for others from a place of love, not resentment, from a place of deep caring and not exhaustion. Okay, so I really want to offer you the thought and the belief and the space I want to hold, the space that this is something that is accessible to you as well.
Speaker 1:I would not have my life any other way. These seven years have been obviously full of ups and downs and full of life happening for sure, like there's so much that has happened, but I've always kept grounded in taking care of myself the best I can, and it has allowed me to show up for others, because I do that for myself and there's a lot of stigma behind it being selfish, behind me taking time out and not doing things for my family or not showing up on time for specific things or whatever it is. And still I choose me because I am the only one who suffers the consequences. Actually, that's not true, I'll explain why. But the pain I feel it, the discomfort in my stomach I feel it, the fatigue I feel it.
Speaker 1:And then how does this relate to others? It relates to others because when you don't feel well, when life knocks you out and you end up in the hospital or with a certain health condition, then you really cannot show up. Then you really cannot show up, and now others have the responsibility to take care of you, and now your time is taken up by going to doctor's appointments and getting tests done and getting blood work done and getting treatments done, and you need assistance and you stopped having to do things you love to do because you are not well anymore and it does affect others around you to see you in that condition. So obviously I don't know what's going to happen, and neither do you, but what I do know is that we need to take a little bit more responsibility for ourselves, for our health. The medical system, you know, does its best when they can, but I really do think that is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and we need to learn how to do that, because we're not taught, we're not taught and we have all these messed up backwards beliefs of what's possible for us and what's not.
Speaker 1:So I hope this was inspirational. Thank you for helping me celebrate seven years. This was a snippet of my story and my journey and my thought process and how I kind of battled the same mindsets that you have and my ability to and learn how to stay consistent and what I actually want, how to feel my feelings. If any of this is new for you, I'm so glad you're hearing it here and I hope that this allows you and opens up your mind to take some sort of action and to seek the support that you need to learn how to live this lifestyle for yourself. I would love to be that support system for you. I would love to be your coach.
Speaker 1:If you know, I am the right food and holistic health coach for you. I love and is my passion to teach women of color and how it high achieving women, how to use food to heal their bodies, how to get their sas back, how to get their energy back, how to feel good in there in your skin, with taking care of the craziness that is life, how to live a lifestyle that is rooted in wellness for the long term game, how to increase that self trust and that self confidence in yourself so that you know that you can really take really good care of yourself and then everything else in your life you can handle after that, because you are your main asset. If you are not here and if you are not well, how are you going to accomplish everything else? Okay, I'll leave it right there. If you want one on one food and holistic health coaching for a whole six months with me, I invite you to book a consultation with the link in my bio.
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