Work In Progress with YOUR Optimal Wellness - Part 2

connections. And I hope each and every week, you really are building up quality connections, whether that's with your family, your friends, meeting people online, meeting people around, even though that we are in the middle of this myths of a pandemic, can you still find a time to be kind Be gentle be say, Hello, even if you have to wear a mask, um, I know that it may be challenging, we do have to keep a six feet distance. But that doesn't mean we don't have

to show that we care. So from that, in addition to the quality connections, you also want to make sure that you're avoiding the toxic ones. So you're trying to make sure you're building up positive connections and decreasing a lot of that negative talk and then negative, toxic relationships. Another one of those additional toxin discussions that I consider part of optimal wellness is spiritual

health. Now spiritual health is different for many people, that may mean your faith and how you are with your, an organized religion or what who you believe in and, and that is in its in itself can be many things. But when I talk about searchof, it's not even just that it's bringing an encompassing a wellness that integrates this cultivation of appreciation of life, having good morals, good ethics.

There's no like understanding right and wrong, but really choosing the good path, ability to survive, even in the toughest times resilience. So, spiritual health encompasses many aspects.

But maybe that is for you, an addition your faith, whether you are praying, whether you are meditating, whether you are just in a quiet moment, there are many parts of this, that you can encompass in your life, because it will bring you more hope and more comfort and more energetic feelings in some times, especially with faith, you may not see things happening, but that does not mean that the miracles are not being born or the energy being transferred has

not happened. We are there are things that are not really explained our ways and you know, but they still have purpose, they still are, give us peace or they still the struggle helps.

When you have a spiritual illness within you you're able to find and cultivate and grow from those struggles and kind of gets you through so spiritual health and can encompass many parts for someone you know, everyone has a different way of saying that, you know, their core meaning maybe whoever they choose their their their whether they want to say God or no God, even if it's a no God, what what is beyond for them that gives them support? What is the deeper

meaning for them? How are they presenting themselves in the world on a daily basis? Are you being ethically morally good?

Are you putting out into the world more loving kindness are you finding yourself more negative, so that energy that you reflect will come back so as people have talked about that law of attraction, what you put out into the world will come back to you tenfold but when you put out the more positive energy and positive thinking and positive thoughts, the psychology and will reflect your life and the way you feel gentle movement and energetic movements like yoga and jig, Ki Jang, I

say it wrong but basically a gentle movements that kind of move the energy through. Sometimes traveling also can give you a spiritual ness because you're seeing other cultures and becoming observant of different wonders in the world. And you're connecting with people's different paths and what they do for their salts

of wellness. Maybe it may not be something that you do but it may be something that they do to help cultivate a different spiritual or advisor or counselor or someone in them that has helped them grow. And like I said, Oh He's trying to have take the high road and not the low road. And that as an aspect of spiritual health, and you know, finding the the overall meaning and things even if they may not exist, and whatever that is for you, sometimes it's literally just taking a pause, and a moment,

like just like this. And being okay with that minus aspect of optimal wellness for an individual is actually body love sexual health. So body love I put in here because I think we go through life, not really loving ourselves, whether that's the physical body, the mental body, or ourselves as a whole. And we kind of don't have the awareness and the alignment of who we are really is also another reflection of how we are

going to feel. And I add in sexual health, because loving your body right here and right now is an important part. Because what may happen to some individuals, and not everyone, but there may have been a previous history of abuse, trauma, sexual trauma, emotional abuse, something in someone's life may have triggered them to do things that to their body, or harm themselves in a manner that has not made them well, overall.

In addition to that, your sexual health has factors into this, and can be reflected by hormone imbalance to so it's a little complicated, you know, you go into thinking about your overall image and how you feel, but that also can affect how your sexual health is and your overall

health. Because the previous trauma sits there and builds up and can actually is even affected in the hormones and, and it's quite complex, but when you really look at it, your life from birth to here, you know, the stressors can increase the adrenals and then affects the hormones into thyroid, and then eventually affects the hormones in the sex, which then can it will affect your libido will affect your overall feelings, the way you are the way you feel, the way you identify.

There's many factors into this and it can be very intense, but this is still part of the health conversation. But we don't

always get discuss it. But in addition to that, our hormones within our sexual life in our in our body is directly affected into this so that those hormones that help with productivity, sensitivity, detoxification, these are all encompassing with like estrogen, testosterone, androgen cortisol, progesterone, it's a little bit more complex, but basically, you know, the hormones within the body have an effect on our overall many

aspects of what's going on. And so this will, I'll go into greater detail and other podcasts but and I'll get other guests on here. I just have one podcast coming up from a really amazing sex counselor and coach, she's like a coach. And she talks about sexual health within the body and how people are afraid to kind of pass or pass certain things because they've are identifying things in their life that has really gotten them to be afraid of, you know, them

in their partner. edition, as I talked about in the hormonal side, you know, there's a little bit complex, but you know, estrogen, testosterone, androgen, cortisol, progesterone, and these are just some types of hormones within the body that are needed to help, you know, produce be produced to you know, you to get through and to do many of life's work.

And when you have a low of one of these in the body, it can be a direct reflection of either an increase of inflammation, or a decrease in some sort of mood or brain fog. There's always some sort of symptom that may come out Because of one of these being off, so hormonal therapy is part of the sexual health because it is, it's part of a lot of aspects, but this I put it in this area as a necessity in the wellness area. Now, number 10, I talk about

environmental health. Now what the heck is environmental health? Well, some of us may say, it's kind of start, let's start with environmental health. First off with your home. So imagine you are trying to build the cleanest home that you live in. Now to do that, you need to make sure the home that you're living in is decreased with mold decrease with water stagnant, you don't if you live in an old house, making sure that there's no lead mercury excess metals.

In addition to that, or do you have a water filtration system, one for your shower, or something in addition to beauty products, or soaps, cleaning products, what do you use on an every day that you may not even realize may affect your overall health, because in these products are these chemicals, and preservatives and additives that are very harmful. And you may not even realize that you're consuming them a great resource.

So one resource that I've seen a couple of them, but a great one is called the Environmental

Working Group. And if you look up any beauty product, any cleaning product, even paint there's other one called I think clean labels.org that you need to know what you're being exposed to, you know, it could be as simple as a nail polish, to cleaning supplies to the paint on your wall, to that different water that you're consuming, and there's many of things but simple steps can help you take simple steps that you can take that can help kind of keep your home and start your

environment off well. So other aspects that can be in addition to toxins just in home environment is if you had a renovation that kind of stirs up a lot of old dust and old things and in addition, it stirs up

your emotions. And in addition he's me they can also stir up like bugs and fold things like cockroaches and and mice mosquitoes and all of those things also can affect your overall health because even in your backyard, there you know could be an infestation of something there is an additional

aspects is dental health. So environmental aspects could be fillings in your mouth could have mercury or some type of metal other way other things or foods that you consume that can let you know that's another looking at your labels, we can talk about that another and I think I've discussed it in one podcast, the labels that and foods that you eat, the more whole food the more consuming of vegetables and and that are even you have to clean even the vegetables that you eat, you

still would have to clean them because they may have pesticides on them. So that in itself can the environment can trigger your health also, some of those things are out of your control, but some of them are in your control. So that's why I say let's start with your home and yourself and then let's see if you can control that environment. Then let's go to let's say your car okay what's in the car How are you driving? Is it an electric? Is it a hybrid? Is it are you in the indoors driving a

lot? Are you outdoors you opening the windows? Are you what cleaning supplies are using? What you know that there's a lot of things that we don't realize Where do you work? What kind of are you using anything to any sort of air filter within your car or an air filter have a filter within your home. I have a HIPAA filter in my home for myself and my whole family and it's a large one you know, it's really very effective. And it cleans out a lot of the the debris and stuff

that's lying around. So those are just things I'll put in the no show notes. A couple of items that I use in my home, you know some cleaning supplies filter, water cooler thing, some lotions free and clear, the less the better. If you have, Allah can also send in and put in some resources. So those are just kind of I'm just giving you just the surface of environmental health can still affect your your health overall. Now, number

11 is genetics. So our genetics within our body, or we can also say pre birth genetics, how we were conceived when our genetic say about us and then birth to now. So, just because our genetic composition may say that we are predisposed for a certain disease or process or we have certain telomeres, telomeres would let you know the length of time that you will be living or your genetic composition says that you are going to need this or you have that does not mean necessarily that you will have

these disease processes. It does though, say what you may be predisposed to. So what it does is it kind of gives you an awareness. Now the problem is people may get a genetic report, and they say, Oh, that's interesting, I'm predisposed to have diabetes, I'm predisposed to have cardiac disease. So that means Oh, well, that's it doesn't matter, I'm going to have that. But instead, what they should do is say, I have the opportunity to change my life so that I don't get

diabetes. And if I do, and if so say, if it's type one, something you can't change, and that's genetically predisposed dispositioned in you, I have that, then I'm going to manage it in the best way that I can, or I have XYZ genetics, in my family, I'm going to get it do you may or may not trigger that genetic disorder or disease. But if you do know how to manage it, take control of your health, take control, because you actually have those

opportunities. The problem is, is most of us are I'm not gonna say lazy, but just become complacent, we get scared, we don't want to do the work. And we're not willing to just see what others may not be seeing or not aware. We're just not aware. In addition to our genetics, we talk about the so they just kind of give you like the information, the awareness, but that doesn't align with another time, I'm going to talk to you about my six, eight steps,

right? Initially, this gives you an awareness of who you are and your genetics. But that does not give you that's not the end story. That's not it, you know, you have the opportunity to manage your health better. This just kind of just gives you information. And they even I mean, the Gen X is getting to the point where it can be so personalized, you're even going to know what foods you can eat.

Your blood type is best for your blood pipe and will tell you what foods you should eat what what your predispositions are. And that will just gives you just kind of like the marker of like, this is what I could do. These are what I it's kind of just a little steps. And if you don't follow them, that's your fault, not, you know, not your genetics, they're just there as

just like a sign. With this also comes in and it's a little complex, I won't go into this, at this moment too much, but mitochondrial health, and that usually comes on the mother's side of the mitochondrial health. So when I'm doing consultations with individuals and learning about their birth story and and things that happen, how are you able to overcome those initial challenges? And then if your birth story or things that have happened to you may not have be

ideal? How can we kind of circle back and kind of decrease those events? So for example, my birth story is not great. You know, it doesn't give that butterflies and rainbows, vaginal delivery. It was not. I was a premature baby at two and a half pounds. I was in a Nicki for a number of months. I had to go on. I didn't have breast milk, you know, I was too fed. I had a lot of nutritional deficiencies. And my you know, mother prenatal care was

horrendous. I was unfortunately adopted I thankfully adopted but you know, I was, unfortunately had horrible, you know, prenatal care. And I was lacking in a lot of elements. So, but does that mean that my story My birth story my pre story, my mitochondrial health may not have been 100% thought of it in, it seems like that part was, Oh, goodness, you know that this is this is it. That's my story, I'm never gonna get better. No, it

doesn't. Because I'm doing quite well now, I've changed that story, I rewrote that story, I worked hard, I take care of myself, I did the work on the inside, on the outside, I still do it every single day. And that's what I try to tell everybody else. This is work. That's a work in progress each and every day. But I want to be healthier, I want to have less brain fog, I want to be the best

person that I can be. Not every day I have, I have moments and I'm not even just talking about personality wise, I'm just talking about from the inside out, I wanted to be the best person that I can be. But just because some of my genetics may have said one thing does not mean that is my story. And that's part of what I want you to understand. We keep rewriting these patterns. And these stories and this family history and there's traumas and these

things. And we don't really realize that we have the opportunity to change that. Now, my last goal for optimal wellness is talking about your purpose, your life goal in your health. Now, this may come at a later time in your life, this may come on early, this depends upon what you are doing, you know what is? First, the reason I put this toward the last is because you may need to work on other elements of your health in this optimal wellness circle, before you can get to your

purpose. Now if you are fortunate enough to be working in something or doing or growing toward your life purpose, or identifying the job, the achievement or, or something that represents who you are. I'm so grateful for you for being able to get to that point. I'm grateful for myself at this point to be able to do the work in and helping others in the best that I can and advising them about how my health had to

change. Before I could help others how I had to identify things weren't just a one size fits all and I had to encompass many aspects of my wellness and many aspects of wellness to grow. And it never is perfect. But to be able to talk about it, and bring it to the forefront is part of my passion. And to be okay with my past and have grown. It's It's huge. And now identify the importance of integrative health, and mindfulness each and every day. And helping others is part of my

goal. Now, I don't know what that is for you, and where you are right now. And may that may not be an achievement. But as we all call them, many goals many wins are what's your small like step today, you don't get to zero to 100. By speed racing. These things take time. You know, I'm, I'm coming to my 40s and I had a lot of struggles, and they're more false than ups. You know, people always see on social media, all the positives, all the good, but you know what, I always try to emulate the

positives. But all of those good things, there were a lot of negatives, but I know those struggles and those points made me grow, made you grow. So when you get to reflect on that and and each and every day, it may change. You know, being a mom Now, that's a whole other new challenge. I don't know what that is for you. But, you know,

see what that is. And I hope to you know, this podcast and YouTube channel is a form of information and just kind of a reset for you to kind of just think of, you know, where you are in your path of this optimal wellness goal of mindfully using Integrative Health and, and functional health to get better, realizing there's no one pill fix and identifying, you know, as I talk about the six A's in greater detail, where are you? awareness Are you aware of where you're Wrap, how are you aligned

in your overall wellness? What actions are you going to take? How are you presenting yourself authentically into the world? Are you accepting your choices? Or are you growing from them? And are you able to adapt even when the changes happen? Well, thank you so much today for joining in on this mindfully integrative podcast and YouTube channel. And I hope each and every day you find a mindful way to being better in your optimal self. No mistake