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42. When Hope and Trust is Low In Your Ability to Heal and Live Your Best Life: Try this Different Approach

• Naihomy Jerez • Episode 42

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Welcome back to the Wealthy Generation Podcast! Having just returned from a 2- week break, I'm excited to be back! I share some update on what I have been up to in the past 2 weeks.  I also reflect on my personal health journey, and share the time when I had zero hope and trust in being able to keep my results. 

In this episode, I candidly recount my postpartum recovery journey after having my second son via C-section. I discuss the importance of patience, self-compassion, and realistic expectations. By embracing a gentle exercise routine and working closely with a nutritionist, I managed to lose 50 pounds and build mental resilience. I'll share how this approach not only transformed my physical health but also fortified my mental well-being, proving that the journey to wellness is just as important as the destination.

Tired of one-size-fits-all wellness programs that don't cater to your unique needs? Discover how personalized wellness plans can make a world of difference. I discuss the limitations of generic programs and advocate for individualized approaches that address specific health concerns such as gut health, hormone balance, and stress management. Learn how setting realistic expectations and fostering kindness towards yourself can pave the way for sustainable health improvements. Join me in exploring how a lifestyle rooted in wellness can enhance your quality of life and support long-term healing.

Thank you so much for listening!


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Hey friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast. That's W-E-L-L-T-H-Y. We, as an. I have been away for the past two weeks just taking a break, spending time with family break, spending time with family, spending some time at the beach, where is one of my grounding places. I hope that in this time or during this time, you got to catch up on episodes you might have missed or had not listened to yet. So I hope you had an opportunity to do that. You had an opportunity to do that During that time as well.

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I hosted a workshop on perimenopause. It was called Feeling Weird Maybe it's perimenopause. I was trying to play off of the Maybelline commercial. So many people signed up for that. So many people have watched the replay. If you are one of those humans, thank you so much for showing up. Thank you for watching the replay.

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Run that workshop, because about 30 people followed me in one day and within 24 hours. It might not sound like a lot, but that's a lot to me. I was super grateful because a friend of mine tagged me on a story where she was saying how we had spoken about perimenopause before and I had shared information with her and it was helpful. And from that one story that last 24 hours I got about 30 new followers and then I was like, wow, this topic is super important. A lot of women are looking for this kind of information. So then I put together this workshop about everything perimenopause what is it? What are the hormones involved, what can we do from a food and lifestyle perspective. I also shared information that you can bring to your doctor. That are other options that you should speak about with a medical professional, but I at least wanted to share and help women be aware of what they were so they can have a conversation with the appropriate professional, which would be their doctor of some sort. So those are a few things that have been going on over here.

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And the third thing is what I want to really have still curiosity and desire to heal and to help themselves not feel the way they currently do and take care of a laundry list of health concerns and diagnoses that are going on. However, at the end of the day, they have lost a lot of hope in this being something that's possible for them and trust in themselves that they can actually take the action to help them heal. It's like kind of very convoluted, and I started thinking to myself like when have I ever felt that way? When was the time that I felt that way and how did I overcome it? That's one and then two.

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A question that I've been asked in July a few times is um, how is my program different? How is working with me different than everything these humans have tried before? Because the truth is that they have been looking for support, they have been looking for help, they have invested so much time, money and energy in finding support and solutions for themselves and yet here they still are, which is super frustrating, right? So I was also thinking about that. I'm like how is my program different? How can I support these humans? Um, that would be different. I would get them the results that they're looking for, that they have not received, and let's say, the 15 to 20 different support systems that they have invested in for themselves or put in the time in for themselves.

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How would that be different? How can I let them know and understand for themselves, like spark that little light of hope again, of trust again, which doesn't have to be at a hundred percent? I feel like when we're doing something new, there's still that doubt, that nervousness that comes through, and that's totally normal, and it's just that little bit of hope, or that little bit of trust in yourself that you just decide once again to do or to take action in a way that is going to support your healing and feeling better, right that you're not going to be let down by one your own body, which can hold so much trauma on its own and to kind of like yourself. One is your body and you yourself on actually following through, and it becomes very heavy when you've gone to other medical professional well, not other medical professional, cause I'm not a medical professional but, um, people who are professionals in their field and who you believe can help you, and you still feel like you've been let down or that hasn't worked for you, or you haven't received the answers and the guidance that you need to heal for you, or you haven't received the answers and the guidance that you need to heal. So the first thing is I want to share with you when I felt this way as well.

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It was not as like I wasn't suffering from health conditions per se, although I was. I was actually pre-diabetic, but I did not know it, which is even worse, like I didn't even know. I just lucked out that I chose this lifestyle and it reversed itself. Not, it didn't reverse itself, I helped reverse it, but it wasn't what I set out to do, because I did not even know I had pre-iabetes and it's still something I'm working on to this day, by the way, because with perimenopause, your body becomes less insulin sensitive. Therefore, you start to present signs again of prediabetes, and because I am already predisposed, it is something I am really focusing on as well. So, anyway, what I did not have trust or hope in was my weight loss journey.

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When I first started my health and wellness journey in 2016, it was after I had my second son. I looked in the mirror, had my second son, I looked in the mirror. I did not feel like myself. Um, when I had my first son, I was extremely mean to myself because and, mind you, it was almost a traumatic experience, or it kind of was because I was in labor for nearly 24 hours yes, I was dilating because I was under medication, but my son wasn't dropping and I ended up having a C-section and I was so insanely tired and swollen and like retaining water and I was just not well. And it was also my first son and I was new to the whole experience and I felt like I had to manage so much aside from my own wellbeing and taking care of my son. So after I gave birth, I was so mean to myself and I was like I told myself you're not allowed to wear pregnancy clothes anymore, maternity clothes, you must put on your pre-pregnancy clothes. Now that was so terrible because I did have a C-section and I was forcing myself to put on my jeans that were literally did not fit, and we're cutting into or pressing on my fresh C-section scar to go out or to leave the house instead of cutting myself the grace of wearing my maternity clothes until I was healed enough and was able to attempt to put on my pre-pregnancy clothes.

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Now, with my second son, I felt the same way, but it felt I did not. I felt like not myself, but I was not mean to myself this time. I promised that I was not going to be mean to myself and one of the first things I said was I was going to wear my maternity pants and clothes If it meant that I was comfortable and safe, because I again had a second C-section with my second son. So I said I'm not, there's no shame, I am going to wear what makes me comfortable. I am going to wear what is safe for me to wear. I'm going to wear what makes me comfortable. I am going to wear what is safe for me to wear. So I went ahead and wore my pre-pregnancy clothes well, my maternity clothes and then after that I decided that I was going to wear or purchase pants that actually fit. I was not going to try and stuff myself like a sausage into my pre-pregnancy clothes, sausage into my pre-pregnancy clothes Again. I was just going to invest in small amounts in clothes that actually fit, that were not maternity clothes anymore. So I was taking a much more gentler approach.

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And then after that, I said I want to lose the weight. I don't feel like myself. I knew that it was possible because I see other people not in my immediate family, not necessarily around me, but more at my job. I would see women. They would have their baby, they would come back. They never looked like they had a baby in their life and I was just super curious and I was like, well, if they could do it, then I could do it too. But another thing that I promised myself was that I was not going to again be mean to myself. So I was going to do this as gentle, as gentle as possible.

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So this was my whole process into stepping into wellness, stepping into weight loss at that time in my life, and everything I did was with the intention of am I being gentle with myself, am I being loving towards myself? Am I taking it step-by-step? And I want you to really lean into that, because that is exactly what I remind my clients of when the mean voice comes and when the voice of pressure comes. And it's a totally different experience when you approach it with grace and with compassion and with love towards yourself and you just give yourself that space, that time, instead of being super mean. It just never ends well, and that is exactly what happened to me as well. So, anyway, that was my process.

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And then I said, okay, well, I'm going to just try and lose this weight the old school way. I was never into dieting the old school way. I was never into dieting. I tried pills and shakes and cutting foods out and fasting and I don't know. I tried a bunch of stuff and none of it lasted more than 24 to 48 hours because I always hated how it made me feel. So I was like, okay, well, I know one of the first things that I could do is go exercise. So that's what I did when I was cleared. Okay, well, I know, one of the first things that I could do is go exercise. So that's what I did when I was cleared and ready after my C-section, to do that. Because, again, we're being nice, we're being gentle, we're not rushing into things.

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So that happened around six months or eight months after my son was born and I went back. So I started going to the gym and I started going only once a week, and then that was November, and then in February I was lucky enough to start working with a nutritionist, and I didn't want to at first because I was like I know everything about food. How is this person going to possibly be of any help to me? I had a lot coming, but I was still curious enough that I was like I just want to see what I can learn from this. Again, stepping into curiosity, gentleness, right, really being a student and wanting to learn. So I did that and with that process of going to the gym once or twice a week because, again, I had not even a one-year-old and a two-year-old and then a one-year-old and a three-year-old, um, cause, my kids are, like, born in the same month. Um, I stayed consistent with that and what actually made the biggest impact was that I learned so much about food with the nutritionist that was working with. I tracked my food for nearly two years and I would ask her tons and tons and tons of questions on the advice she was giving me, on the recommendations she was giving me, and I learned so much, so fast forward. I ended up losing 50 pounds.

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And here's the part where I say of trust and hope were non-existent, because after a year of working on this, I had lost the 50 pounds and I was really excited. I was like, yes, I did it. First of all, that was never my goal. Let me clarify that. I just wanted to feel good in my skin again and I accomplished that. Right, I was, I felt strong, and one thing was the weight loss, but another thing is other things that were happening. Like I felt really strong, I felt really fast, I felt really powerful.

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Um, also in my mental health. I was a lot more patient with my babies. I was a lot more patient with myself. I found that I was happier and more patient with life in general, more flexible and with somebody who also has a predisposition for depression, mental health, anxiety and I did dip into postpartum depression. That was very powerful to see that through the food and through the exercise, I was able to get a lot more and gain a lot more than just the weight loss.

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So, but yet the weight loss was where I had no hope and trust, because my mentality when that happened, after a year of sticking to my routine, was that it wasn't going to last. And I remember telling myself and thinking to myself as I saw myself in the mirror and as I wrote down the numbers, because I have been tracking progress since 2016 for myself, not only blood work, but also like weight and inches and things like that. I told myself this is great and I better enjoy it while it lasts, because everybody, everybody always gains the way back. And next year, when I've gained all the way back, I'm going to have to explain to everybody what happened, or I'm just going to have to talk to them about what happened, because you know no one minds their business and everybody and their mama wants to be asking you questions whether it's one way or the other.

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After I lost all the weight, everybody had a ton of questions and that's why I was thinking in this way. Everybody wanted to know what I did, what procedure I got done, what special magic pill or shake I took to get those results. And whenever I told everybody that it was the good old, boring consistent food and exercise, nobody wanted to hear it. Everybody thought I was BSing, and they were. They became disinterested in the conversation. So I was like, okay, when I gain all this weight back uh next year? I gave myself a year by in a year I was going to gain it all back, uh next year. I gave myself a year by in a year I was going to gain it all back. I'll just have to explain to them what happened. And that was it.

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So every day I just enjoyed my results and my progress, with the expectation that the weight was going to come back. I was just mentally preparing for that and then I would explain it in the following year. Mentally preparing for that and then I would explain it in the following year. The thing is that and now you can see where there was like zero trust and hope in my own process. I had not seen examples of this before. I did not trust what I was doing would work long-term. I also thought it was just going to be a small fix for a small amount of time, that's it, and I was literally making peace with this because those were the examples that I had seen before.

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So when the next year came, so now this is year two, 2018. Next year came, so now this is year two, 2018. I again, I was like writing down my little numeritos, my little notepad, just taking notes. I love to track progress and it wasn't to beat myself up, it was literally just to have information. Right, I was in shock. I was like, oh my gosh is year two and things are exactly the same. And this entire time, I have been living my best life. I have been traveling, I have my two little babies, I have this corporate job, I have my home and my partner and we're having so much fun. And still here I am in the same size, in the same weight, and that was great. I think I was 32. That was great.

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And that's when I realized, wow, I can really just live a life like this and keep my results. I can really just be mindful of what I'm eating, go to the gym when I can, and that's enough for me to keep my results. So that was very eyeopening to me and that is when my actual hope and trust like really filled up to the top, so much so that that's when I actually decided and like the light bulb went off that I really wanted to teach this to women in my community. I was like why is everybody suffering so much? Why is everybody making it so extra hard and miserable and being mean to themselves, when actually it can be quite simple, when you learn how food works and when you have some sort of consistency in your exercise and how you're eating and you can still have fun and you can still eat the carbs and you can still go on vacation and to family events and the holidays and the summer and your birthday and all this and still maintain your results. They're not needed to be a timeline. So that's what, when I was like, let me teach this to people, because my hope and trust just went through the roof on this Right.

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So I distinctly remember now that I just needed time. I needed to build evidence. I needed to. I think that one of the key things that helped along the way was being graceful and kind to myself and not pressuring myself to stick to something that was harsh. If it felt like too much, then it wasn't right for me because I didn't want that extra pressure and I learned so much along the way about how my mind worked, about how things would make me feel, and that helped and that made it easier to make decisions along the way about what I wanted to eat, what I did not want to eat, if I was going to skip the gym or not skip the gym. It just taught me so much.

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So, in terms of you know, these individuals who I hold so dearly into my heart and think about often now, because what I see is myself back in the day, when, at some capacity right, because I don't want to compare apples to apples here, because they have so much more that they're dealing with and also lived experiences, past traumas Like it just has a lot to do with the way we think past traumas. Like it just has a lot to do with the way we think, um, our trust and our hope in ourselves and what we actually think we're capable of or not. So I wouldn't go that far. But what I know is that we need something to hold on to and we need that tiny little bit of curiosity to move forward and I feel like when we lean into being graceful with ourselves and kind with ourselves and we take it at our own pace, with managed expectations, we can actually grab on to at least 1% of hope and 1% of trust in ourselves that we will follow through, that we will see progress and actually finally get the kind of results that we are looking for. Get the kind of results that we are looking for, which the main one for these individuals would be healing healing some list of health concerns, right.

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So when I think about, like my program, at what makes it different from, let's say, getting a gym membership or getting food delivered or going to other modalities of medicine or going to your doctor, things like that, is that essentially what is required in the long-term to make these changes and to see, to get the progress and to see the results and for it to last, is that we actually need to create a lifestyle change. Yes, you need to make changes. Yes, you need to acquire new habits and new tools, but at the end of the day, it needs to become your new lifestyle. Because of now, we will end up back into where we were before, and that's exactly what I created in those two years that I did not even realize which was this lifestyle. So when you work with me and my program, that is exactly what we start to create together a lifestyle.

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And normally when we go into different programs let's say, weight Watchers is a popular one, or Noom or any other like program where you're given a strategy what happens is that they need to sell that strategy to the masses. Right, they are a business, and so am I, but I just, I just work differently, y'all. I just I just really do. They want to sell this to the masses, they want to make it attractive, they want to make money, right, and they want people to get some sort of results. But they're not really looking out for you Like. I am like committed and invested in your long term healing all around, not just your weight dropping off, if that's one of your goals, but you um, reversing and preventing chronic disease, fixing those um blood work numbers, all of that.

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So what essentially happens is that you need to fit into them and that becomes a problem because not everybody works the same way. Something that can be super motivational for one person can be super overwhelming for another. Right, especially some individuals that I have coached who have ADHD diagnosis, or who I've spoken to over Zoom and that's one of their main concerns is like hey, my brain doesn't work the same. Or sometimes these kinds of things are overwhelming and there are too many steps or it sounds like a lot. So when you are kind of forced to fit into them because that's the way their program is set up and they're not going to change it or adjust it for one person, or that's not even available, then it becomes this situation of oh, I must be broken, it doesn't work for me, I can't do this, when in reality none of that is true and what's actually happening is that you just need a different way and a different approach.

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So I like to think about when I work with my clients is I fit them? I fit their learning style? I fit what feels comfortable for them? I fit what allows them to have grace and compassion for themselves, so that they start to build their confidence, their trust and see the progress with the actual tools and the amount of work or whatever it is that we're working on together that they need. So I fit into what you need for your wellness, I fit into your wellness and trust me almost with every single one of my clients. We work on just about the same things, you know gut health, hormone balance, um, stress management, sleep hygiene all of these very important things. However, however, it's not a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, whatever process. It's not. It's not a strict outline, because what happens is that I mold it to what the person needs at the time, and everybody needs a different approach and something different every single time. So the science is the same, the basic information and the knowledge is the same, but the way that is applied is different. It's different because you're different and your situation is different and your lived experiences are different. Right, and I really don't know any other person who's doing this in this way with the combination or program or whatever it is, with the combination that I do it in, about how food works, but also how your lived experiences might create those blocks for you from allowing you to take action.

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And then, how much action are you, do you have the capacity for at once? How much do we need to scale back or speed up on? And then, actual, realistic expectations of timeline right, because we want to put so much pressure on ourselves. Sometimes we have this expectation that by this day or by this time, it should look a certain way for you, and it does not always work that way, and that's again where grace and compassion comes in and proper management of our thoughts and our expectations is really important. Normalize these experiences for you.

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I see you and I validate you, because sometimes we feel like we're the only one struggling with losing weight or with healing something in our body. We feel like we're the only one and it's so hopeless and it's really hard and it is right, like here we go with the validation it is, and I also believe that sometimes we have not had somebody who is patient and who listens and who is not going to make you feel worse than you probably already do and have shame for oh my gosh, why are you still here and you've had all these resources, and have shame for, oh my gosh, why are you still here and you've had all these resources. Let's normalize that it's part of this human experience, that it's 100% okay and that we can be beginners and we can explore and experiment, trying things in a different way that we haven't done it before and when you're made to feel safe in that way where you're not judged for what you're doing. You're not judged for the way that you've been coping, because sometimes my clients come to me and they're like hey, naomi, like I've been managing through drinking alcohol, I've been managing through smoking or the most popular one is having tons of sugar, and I don't want to do that anymore. I know that it's not good for me but I just don't know how to stop. Right? And I've worked with people who've gone to AA and who's gone to Eaters Anonymous and who've gone through all these things Right. And I've worked with people who've gone to AA and who's gone to Eaters Anonymous and who've gone through all these things Right.

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And one of the things that they seem to not do I don't know, I've never been through these programs is loop in knowledge with validation and human experience. And I remember that with one of my clients. She told me that one of the tips that they gave her was to 100% avoid right. And that can be extremely difficult, especially with food, because all sorts of food is all around us often and that can make you feel like you don't have any willpower, instead of actually understanding why you're craving this, why you want this, what kind of comfort you're trying to give yourself, and actually building a toolbox of new tools, first of all, identifying what thought or feeling has you reaching for let's say, that candy bar or that muffin or whatever it is and then building in new, a new wellness toolbox that will actually help you feel the way you want to feel, and that takes practice, that takes validation, that takes like being okay with leaning into that way of comfort until we practice and learn Right. So that's something, again, that I don't generally see in other programs, especially with my clients who have really put in the work to try so many different things for themselves and it feel they still feel like nothing has worked.

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Um, another thing is that, um, we explore these thoughts and beliefs that hold you back. We don't leave it at just, oh, I can't do it, or oh, it doesn't work for me, or oh, I don't know why, like it always happens, or things like that. We actually really do explore what is behind it, and it's actually something that I discussed with one of my clients today, because she recently got a diagnosis and then we've been working together for so long now that she actually knows what to do with her food and she knows the choices that she needs to make to align with what her health goals are. And she wasn't doing it because she was rebelling a little bit and she felt like she didn't want to and she just didn't. And we spoke about that and she wanted to move forward with planning in a way for this month, the month of August. But I told her, I said you know we can go that route, but I'm pretty confident that you might know at least part of what to do here. But another route that we can go is really addressing this thought of rebellion and where do you want to go and where do you want to be. And that's exactly what we did and I'm glad that we chose that together because it brought a lot more peace again.

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Going back to the kindness and gracefulness with ourselves and being gentle, and we noticed that some of the language that she was doing to describe certain things were not serving her and were steering her in kind of the opposite direction of where she wanted to go and it wasn't really even aligned with what was actually happening. So it's so valuable to go ahead and really dig through the well, I can't just do this, or this is bad or this is good and really making things black and white, or good or bad or zero to a hundred. We are humans. We are complex. A lot of our decisions and what we do and what we don't do is intricately tied to how we feel and the thoughts we have and past experiences. Right, and I'm not a therapist either. I'm not a therapist, I'm just good at asking questions and helping you dig deeper and then we start to see that together.

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This is definitely not therapy. It just helps bring to light what is actually holding you back, aside from you can't do it and you're bad at this, and then it actually helps you take action from again, a kind and graceful space where it opens up what you're feeling. You get to build awareness about it. We practice different ways to address what your mind is telling you, which then makes it easier for you to go ahead and take the action that you actually want to take. Okay, and over time, this builds up evidence for yourselves, this builds up new tools.

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And when you start to build up evidence, when you start to see the progress which, again, we work on together, because y'all sometimes my clients be like I don't see no progress, I don't see anything. Nothing's working. Right, trust me, I said this too, and nothing's working. But the truth is that there is so much progress, there is so many good things happening, and sometimes we just can't seem to see it because we are too close to the process. We are just too close we cannot see it, or sometimes we just plainly don't know what to look for or don't realize that this is a win. And that's something that would happen to me a lot. When I all of a sudden didn't have allergies anymore, I all of a sudden wasn't hangry anymore and wasn't getting like pre-diabetic migraines anymore, I didn't notice those things, I didn't notice those wins. But now, because I am acutely aware of these things and what progress looks like, then I'm able to pick that up from my clients and then share it with them, and it's always such a beautiful moment.

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But I will tell you that building this evidence bank for yourself, knowing that you can help yourself heal um, knowing that you can take really good care of yourself and live a life rooted in wellness, if you were just given the time, the validation and being seen in how you need to approach things and how you, how things will work for you, how can we try the same thing or try and go after the same goal in multiple different ways. Break down these goals, break down these actions in a way that will actually, that will actually work for you, that you can actually see what is happening for you, that can be life-changing, that can build the trust in yourself, that can build your confidence and your evidence of you actually can do this, and it begins to turn into a lifestyle. It begins to shift into a lifestyle little by little, right, because all of this definitely has not happened at once. For me, that's one. It's been little by little, and two is a journey that is ever evolving.

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It doesn't necessarily stop, because I started the story I was telling you was from 2016 to 2018. And I was between 30 to 32 years old, and it just so happened that when I turned 37, a year and a half ago now I'm 38 and a half, right I realized that I had to start re-looking at my wellness, rethinking of my wellness, with perimenopause coming into play, and noticing these subtle shifts with me, and I and I had to kind of reassess. So I know that every once in a while we have to reassess, and that's okay, right, but but when you already transitioned to a lifestyle rooted in wellness, it becomes uh I'll just use the word easier to just keep it a little simpler. But you were able to adjust easier to what you need to do for your wellness when the time comes for you to adjust that, instead of just having to do the entire lifestyle shifts during that time, right? So really getting this headstart on what a lifestyle rooted in wellness looks like for you in this season.

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How can you treat yourself with kindness and grace, to start off, with what adjustments you would need to make to what you're eating, how you're eating, when you're eating, how you're moving, when you're moving, your sleep, like just an overall overhaul of your wellness in order to see and make the progress that you are looking for with healing and with feeling good in your body right and also your future. How are you showing up for your future self? How are we preventing our muscle loss? How are we making sure our bones are okay? How are we making sure that we are preventing disease right and reversing whatever's happening? It's an all around effect of taking care of your present self, making those changes so that in the present moment, you feel really good, and I'm not just talking about physically. Physically is awesome, also mentally and internally, when you see your blood work.

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In addition to, how is this going to protect you in the future to live the life that you actually want to live, to be able body, to be able to move, to be able to travel, to be able to do whatever it is that you enjoy doing and not have to think twice about it because you don't know if you're going to get sick or not, you don't know if you're going to be in pain, you don't know if you'll be able to keep up, right? So many questions. So if we're just working on it every single day by turning into a lifestyle, so it's not really like, oh my gosh, I'm, I'm torturing myself all the time it actually comes becomes enjoyable because you actually feel good in your body and you're seeing the results. Right, and you're feeling the results. So that's all I have for you today, right?

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I really wanted to just walk through when I felt that I had no hope and trust, how I took on the journey from being really mean to myself at one point to really leaning into grace and kindness and really talking about when I have spoken to other humans and they're like, yeah, but you know what? I've tried so many other things before and nothing has worked. How is working with you different? How is this actually going to help me? And really seeing if this like really sparking that little bit of trust and curiosity within these humans so that it's like, no, we got this Like? I know it's scary, I know you've invested so much, I know there's doubt, but listen, we're still having this conversation right now, so that means that you're still in it, you still want it, you still have not given up on yourself and that's beautiful to see and celebrate, right.

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So if you're like, oh my gosh, this is something that I have not tried, one of my clients the other day was like Naomi. When I speak to you about you, to other people, I tell them look, if you've tried everything else that you can think of and nothing has worked for you, then you have to go see Naomi. And that was so kind and it really like touched my heart and it was kind of a little like, oh my gosh, that's a lot of like responsibility and pressure, but I also have so much evidence as to how it's worked and the progress and the results that so many of my clients have received, and I am super grateful for that. So if you find yourself in that position where you've tried so many things, you are still dealing with certain health concerns. You feel like you're not living a lifestyle rooted in wellness and you really want to.

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If you feel like you want support in learning, managing and balancing your hormones and you want to learn more about that, and you just have very little hope, very little self-trust and it's kind of dwindling and you don't want that light and that hope to completely blow away, then I really do invite you to go ahead and book a free consultation call. Let's have this conversation, let's talk about it. That is one way to take action. In the consultation call, I'll just ask you questions, right. You'll share with me what have your struggles been, what have you tried before, why do you think it hasn't worked for you, and I can share with you how I can support you, if that is something I can do. Um, you're obviously welcome to ask me any single question that you might have. I am an open book and we'll be happy to answer anything, and then I will just help you come to a decision, right, and talk a little bit through that and give you some time to think about it. So that's a little bit about how it would look.

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If you're interested in booking a consultation, you can go ahead and go to the show notes on this episode. There'll be a link there. Or, if you follow me on Instagram, the link in bio, or on my website at wwwnaayomijerezcom In all these areas you can find my calendar booking link. Or, just plain old, send me a message. You can send me a text right through the show notes in this podcast episode, and or you can send me a DM on Instagram or you can email me right. So many ways to get in contact with me. So many ways to go ahead and take action. What I don't want to happen is that you lose total and complete hope on what is actually possible for you. It is possible for you as well, so let's chat about it. All right, I will see you next week. I will talk to you then. Bye.