Parasites, Root Causes, & Healing Stored Trauma with Christy Nault

why wearing sunglasses could be hurting us. Oh, and parasites. Yes, all those things, and then I'll share some very candid thoughts in my audio journal entry after doing this interview. I'm excited to be joined right now by Christy Nolt. She's a root cause health practitioner, educator, plant medicine expert, CEO of a company just all the things. Christy, welcome.

seven years. And he went in for just a routine get seven years old and was severely vaccine injured. He went into the doctor's office vibrant, healthy, incredible, and left that day as a different person. So we started having Grandma seizures just hours after this appointment. Soon was diagnosed with the most severe case of epilepsy that doctors had ever witnessed at this point in time.

think Western medicine is incredible for emergency care. Like you get in a car accident, you're going to go to the er, right, You're not going to go to your natural path. But when it comes to chronic conditions, they are lifestyle based. We can talk about depletion, dysregulation, poisons, right, and a lot of times our quote unquote solutions in

Western medicine just create a lot more issues. So for me, that was the blueprint of my nervous system from a really young age was chaos and fear, and a lot of the medications that he was on caused behavioral outbursts, so I didn't feel.

the system. So essentially, at one point in time, my mom was like, what we're doing is clearly not working. He's just getting worse. And that doctor in turn diagnosed my mom with Munchausen biproxy, basically saying, you're making this all up, You're making your child ill, and they took the doctors took my brother off all his meds cold turkey. That day, he seized for seventy two hours straight and was never the same after that. It was just so wild, and I don't have a lot of memories. Under the

age of twenty five years old. I starting to come back because I've been working with a lot of plant medicines, which we can possibly talk about today, but that's something I have a very vivid memory of. And so for me growing up, like I just didn't want to cause any more issues for my parents. They had enough on their plate. So my form of coping and survival was debilitating forms of perfectionism. Just straight a thriving student, thriving

a lead athlete had to have perfect body. It really led into severe eating disorders by the time I was in middle school, and it was just like it was just rough. My brother ended up passing away when he in twenty fifteen, so about ten years ago, and the trauma of that incident, like he was sick his entire life, but it was still a shock when he passed away.

And I had been dealing with gut issues, I had been dealing with some hormone issues, but the trauma of that death really sent me into a tailspin of a list am I along of my own journey with chronic illness ahead. So I was, just weeks after my brother's death, diagnosed with endometriosis, chronic lime disease, masstyle activation syndrome, autoimmunity. Like the list goes on and on, and I knew right then and there that the system wasn't going to have answers for me. I had already been working in

the holistic healing space. I've been working in this space for over fifteen years.

is over fifty percent of the puzzle. So within that next year, ripping away entirely from the system, I completely healed everything on my own naturally, and that's really my message to this day. I don't believe that there's anything that's incurable. That just mean when we're told there's an incurable disease, it means there's not a pill to fix

it right now. But when we get to the physical, emotional, and spiritual roots of why we became ill and imbalanced in the first place, I truly believe healing is always available to us, and that is the work that.

got ridiculed for doing so. And I think that's heartbreaking in itself. But there's so many levels of that. And I want to recognize just the importance of your family and that situation that you guys went through. You mentioned your experience as you were doing all of the right things, you knew that health's nutrition will and this was important because you'd seen this at such a young age. You

really had a first row seat to that experience. So then naturally you started to find ways to understand that and help others. But when you were having that moment of I'm doing everything correctly, but I have all of these problems, what was that turning point?

So this wasn't new to me, like mind, body, soul wasn't new, but I got to experience it differently, like it was a little bit fragmented, maybe disembodied prior to that. So for me, it was just like, all right, here we go, this is my initiation. And when my brother passed away, I had very it was a massive spiritual awakening for me. I had very clear communication with him, like within the first couple days of him passing, and

I was able to actually see he showed me. He came through to me and showed me the sole contract that we had before coming to this planet together, like what we really pre planned, and he vowed to give up his life to wake me up so I can share this work with so many other people. So for me, the very clear thing after his death was how deeply dysregulated my nervous system was not just from the death. Obviously,

that's very traumatic, anyone would react quite severely. But I was like, I've actually been living in survival mode for thirty years, Like my body doesn't even know what it means.

in these boxes. But the one thing that's consistent when I was reading your content is your body is the one thing that's been through through all of it. Yes, and we don't really treat it as such. We focus on different pieces of the body to heal. But what I hear you talking about is really trying to overhaul your entire system that's been through all of this. What do people need to wake up to see to know that this is happening to them. I know this is

such a new conversation. It's a hot topic. Health and wellness is a hot topic on social media, but this in particular is a very newer conversation where you have to heal your body from the inside out. So how can we start to wake up people in that discussion.

a lot of things. People will go to a hormone doctor, and then a gut gastro doctor, and then they're psychologists for all these separate issues. It's all the same thing.

From an emotional perspective. People listening may not be able to relate to my story of what I went through with my family, but we all have our own story, and at this point, working with well over fifteen thousand women, even people who had incredible childhoods and really loving, supportive parents, we all have some degree of unprocessed trauma because we most of us grew up in a generation or in a family in school systems that we weren't taught how

to process emotions like what we were taught how to numb. We were taught how to dissociate. We were taught how to fit into a mold and disconnect from the authentic truth of who we are to thrive in school, But no one ever taught us like that. Emotion is sensation in the body, and we need to feel it, and we need to be with it and learn it. And when we do that, we can alchemize it and transmute

it and liberate it and release it. But most of us are just walking around with decades of unprocessed emotions in the body. The body keeps the score. Our issues are stored in our tissues. I like to say, so it doesn't have to be these massive, big TA traumas.

A lot of those little TA traumas add up over time as well, and things like traditional talk therapy can be really helpful for people, but it's not the be all, end all, because we're still staying in the realm of the cognition in the mind, so we need to go deeper into the soma into the body to release what's being held and creating a lot of disruption and chaos and disease, so we can't fully heal a lot of

these chronic conditions. We talk about things like cancers. I've helped people heal from stage four cancer and late stage ms and things that we're conditioned to believe are impossible, and a huge part of that process, in addition to the nutrition and the blood sugar and their circadian biology and reducing the toxin load and detoxing, is working at the subconscious level, where all of that stuff is stored

below our conscious awareness. We don't really know that it's even there, so it takes a lot of work to stir it back up and build the capacity within our nervous system so we can hold it without quite literally blowing a fuse in the circuitry of our nervous system. A lot of people we have to like a lot of people want to go all in when they start to learn about holistic healing, trauma healing, they want to go from zero to one hundred, and that's a big issue too. We do have to I say, like one

percent daily shifts. We have to start with our foundations. We can't dive headfirst into detox, and we shouldn't be diving headfirst into our deepest, darkest trauma because for most people, I always say, like a disregulated nervous system is really easy to disregulate. So if we do too much at once, it can be tough people and set people back. So starting with the body and starting with the things that are beautiful, free medicine, sunshine, grounding nature for women, especially

eating enough. We've been conditioned for so long to believe that when we were little, growing up, that being tiniest synonymous with health, which isn't true. A lot of us want on yo yo diets, a lot of us if we didn't have full blown eating disorders, had a lot of disordered eating body dysmorphia. A lot of us then get into wellness and really think that like juices and

salads is nourishing ourself, and that's not enough. Either so nourishment, like our body needs the fuel to detox to produce hormones, but also to like process and metabolize emotions. We actually need the energy to do that. So starting with the very basics is what's going to take people the furthest and that's when people are going to also start to recognize like, wow, I'm nourishing my body. My mental health feels better too. They're not separate whatsoever.

So it is all connected, and a lot of what you're mentioning here I'm hearing and I'm like, this is so great, and I hope people truly hear this. But there's this level that we've been taught to believe what you were talking about is it's not real, it's not what we've been taught. So why is what she's saying actually true now? Or what would you say to those people?

Because I want to make sure to give you the space to do so, because I think that's such a huge component of understanding holistic, integrative, all of these levels of untraditional types of medicine, if you will, is the best way I can describe that. But because I want people to open their minds to understand that this is an important conversation. This is important for them to understand without being like, oh, you know what it is, woo, it's not real. There's no way this is going to

help me. Totally yeah, I totally get it.

optimization forever, since the dawn of humanity. We are looking for answers in a system that profits trillions of dollars a year on people getting.

So I encourage people to do the research on how Rockefeller Medicine came in, closed down all of the herbalism schools and really just ushered in a whole new era of what we've now conditioned to believe is health. But it's sick care, right, So I think people just need to see how they actually feel going to their doctor. Do you ever feel heard?

our education. So an important part of something that I often always say, once we know better, we do better, and so much of that is education and understanding the systems that exist within our world. And I'm really glad that you gave that. Don't have to listen to me, but here's some education in case you would like to know the background of this, because it is an important piece of this. And I want people to hear your words and not just automatically be like this is too

wo and it's not. This is real. This is a way to help you heal.

to change that's gonna help all of these things? And it's so true when you look at it from that perspective, when you have been dealt a hand of chronic illness, to say, something is obviously not right and if you're just gonna give me more medicine to heal it, I don't feel like that's also right. If you like genuinely like just sit and think about it for a few minutes. Everybody can feel that you're always your body always knows when something is right or wrong, and we know that

in those moments. I would love to go into You mentioned these different topics, and I also know you've talked about parasites, you talked about the circadian rhythm, these different kind of levels of things. What are some things that we weren't taught that you feel like are really important for us to understand about our body when you're talking about this kind of years of things that we shoved out and stopped learning about, because maybe this is an

educational moment for all of us. Totally, I think we could just start.

things like detox and deep trauma healing. We start by building a really strong, well resourced foundation, and I'm going to share a couple great tips in just a moment, and regulating the nervous system, opening our drainage pathways, and then going into multidimensional detoxification, which really is when we open up when we start cleansing things like parasites and candida, and they hold the emotional imprints of unprocessed trauma too,

Like you're going to feel these different emotions getting stirred up as you're detoxing. Again, what's biological, is psychological, is energetic. It is all the same thing. We are multi dimensional beings, we just we are. So I feel like it's really important for people to start. It's number one with women, especially eating enough a lot of us who were told twelve hundred calories a day growing up is what we

should be striving for. We first need to know that's the caloric recommendation for a two year old toddler, not a grown ass woman who is.

as well. There's a lot of I feel like a lot of my work is so much more than teaching and helping people learn. There's a huge unlearning that comes with this. So nutrition, of course, making sure we are remineralizing our body, adding minerals to our water is like the easiest thing you can do to start there. But I feel like what I really want to talk about is what's going to help people feel amazing quite immediately, which is optimizing our circadian rhythm, and it's totally free.

So just to keep it really simple, our cells. We have trillions of cells in our body, and they need to know what time it is in order for them to do the jobs they were designed to do, produce different hormones, different enzymes, gene expression. If our body doesn't know what time it is, it's going to be firing on all cylinders at different times and it's going to feel like chaos. So our body only knows what time it is through light exposures.

time it is anymore. So I always say first hour of the day if you can not touching your phone, going outside and just getting direct sunlight in your eyeballs, no sunglasses, no glasses, no contacts, and even five minutes is going to make such a big difference. And for people who actually struggle with sleep, getting that morning sunshine actually signals to the brain to start producing melatonin sixteen hours later, which we need for deeper sleep.

be super healthy for you. And get as much light during the day and then at night, wear blue blocking glasses. Change a couple bulbs in your home. I don't use any of the overhead lights at night. I just change a couple of the bulbs in my lamps to red light bulbs and just softly dim your house. If you're exposed to that blue light after sunset, your body thinks it's daytime and going to your cortisol is going to get spiked. Your cortisol should be going down at night,

your melatonin should be rising. But with blue light exposure, it's going to be the opposite effect, and people might be like, Okay, who cares because our circadian rhythm's going to trickle into your gut health, your hormone health, your mental health, your energy. People who are walking around with brain fog and fatigue and low energy and all these things we've normalized. I always say common, it's not normal. Even if your friends are dealing with it, it doesn't mean

it's normal. A lot of these things can be supported by really simple things, by getting our light exposures back in check and optimizing our circadian biology. So that's where I would encourage people to just start. It's really easy and it doesn't cost a penny.

But I'm not telling people that they have to start living back in a cave and living outside, and like, I really love to weave in the ancestral wisdom and make it modern because I do love a little reality TV at night sometimes, but there are ways that we can make it just better for us.

you were talking about the parasite side of things. Tell me about that, because gosh, I'm sure I have some I've never known. I've never looked into it. I don't have any idea about any of this. Like we know about parasites, but we don't know about parasites.

one years old. On social media. I have people obviously all over the world, and a lot of women in other countries in Latin America, they'll message me all the time and they're like, Wow, Christy, it's crazy. You have to actually convince people in the US that parasites are real, because it is part of every single person's chronic illness journey I've ever worked with. I've supported well over fifteen

thousand people. Like I said, through the process of parasite cleansing, one hundred percent of women have released loads of parasites. I'm not talking about one, I'm talking about thousands. So parasites are attracted to toxic tissues. We're living in the most toxic time to date on planet Earth. Our food is poisoned, our water is poison the air is poison The products we use on our body on our face are cleaning products. The candles were burning in our home right,

So we've just become a toxic soup. A lot of women, especially have been undernourished for so long, which means like when our metabolism slows down, our metabolism isn't just like how quick.

I attract health conscious people, and a lot of people have come to me doing things like detoxes and parasite cleanses for years and then the parasites keep returning. So yes, anyone can go do a Candida cleanse, a parasite cleanse.

That's not the whole story here. We also need to address all the physical, emotional, and energetic reasons why our bodies become so hospitable to these pathogens in the first place, and toxicity is going to be the number one thing there, so just doing our best to swap things out, starting with whatever touches your skin directly gets absorbed directly into your bloodstream. So can we start with like our products right,

cleaning up our food, removing fragrance from our home. That single word fragrance can contain over thirty five hundred unregulated carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting chemicals. Thirty five hundred chemicals in one word on a label. So if your makeup just says fragrance, that can mean thirty five hundred more chemicals. So really starting to reduce that toxin burden is going to help reduce our parasite burden. But parasites live not.

when we're eating enough. They steal our life force energy, they create blockages in our system. So I see like health and disease or illness as flow vers stagnation. When things are flowing, like we're eliminating, we're pooping consistently, we're sweating, our digestion is flowing, our energy is flowing. We're able to speak our truth and metabolize our emotions and cry when we need a cry, like that's going to lead

to a state of health. But when things become stagnant, when we're constipated, when our mitochondria becomes so weak we can't sweat anymore easily, When we have stagnant emotions, when we swallow all of our words down and they're just stewing in our body, that stagnation breeds disease, and it also attracts all of the parasites, and then the parasites

create even more blockages in the body. So this conversation can go so deep from a physical perspective, from an energetic perspective, because parasites are a very energetic thing as well. Parasitic relationships can fuel biological parasites. Having leaky boundaries with people, it can.

your body, the toxins are just going to recirculate. So I was smart to just like you're hearing me talk about parasite cleansing, to go run and do it right away. There are steps before that part.

It's a slow moving process and back to the baby steps. I've tried to just acknowledge and give myself grace that this is an entire lifelong process, just like, let me swap everything right now totally, because I also don't be wasteful. I've bought these things and I've consumed them, but as soon as I finished something, I'm like, Okay, what's my new swap for this? And it's been this baby step process.

I'm getting towards the end, like we've really taken a long time, but it's taken close to two three's.

And I've already made a lot of the swaps. But I think it's an important part of the conversation because, like you're saying, you can heal as much as you want to, but if you're still continuing to add toxins and bad things to your body, what do you think is going to happen. It's a portant piece of this whole puzzle. And also you were talking about something else that had reminded me of I also have endometriosis, and I've dealt with it for decades, like it's been a

huge part. If I don't take every single birth control pill a day, I am in debilitating pain where I've been in the hospital. And this happened at the very beginning of like my gosh, when this full first of all started, that was the reason. It was because I was in debility, like you would have thought that my kidney burst every time I would be in the hospital. I feel you, and it was the worst experience I

ever had. So hearing you talk about that, because so many people have issues like endometriosis, and they do suffer, and they go through all of these experiences trying to help themselves and nothing's working. So hearing you say that, like, this is a new path to take. If you're the person like me, he's tried everything and I've done it. This is another path to start going down. And I know that's a big, big part of what you do.

get it when people have been suffering for a long time. However, I think people need to start getting more curious than just like bashing, because if I, back when I was struggling so severely with endos, saw that someone else had healed it, the first thing I'd want to be asked them is like, what did you do? And some things that I've observed with women with endometriosis, parasites are always a huge part of the picture. You're going to release

them from your uterus. You're going to bleed them out like it's pretty wild. I have observed that there's typically some form of mother wounding when we're getting into the energetic aspect. So whether it's like your relationship with your mother or your mother's relationship with her mother, it can be ancestral too. But there is this like feminine wounding in the ancestral lineage. I know this can be a little woof for people, but like our womb is a

portal to the feminine lineage, it goes so deep. There's usually mass cell activation syndrome and like a histamine response going on. Obviously, estra gen dominance is a huge part of endometriosis, but we have to address why is estrogen dominant in the first place, right, and when our liver is so overwhelmed with toxins from drinking alcohol consistently or using toxin toxic products, having a lot of processed foods, or even whole foods, but our food system in the

US is quite contaminated with glyphosate. What I'm saying is when the liver is so overwhelmed with toxins, it actually doesn't have the capacity to metabolize our metabolic waste aka our hormones. So when your body uses a hormone like estrogen, it should get metabolized and excreted and eliminated through the colon. But when the liver doesn't have the capacity to do

that process, it's just going to get recirculated. So when we reduce our toxin burden, it actually makes a huge difference on our hormones, not overnight, but our liver, like it needs to have the capacity to work on our metabolic waste too, not just all the waste that we're poisoning ourselves with. And there's so many other things with ENDO, But for anyone else struggling, I do want to say, like, there is hope. I this isn't my story of healing

ENDO isn't abnormal. It's so many of my students have fully healed late stage ENDO. And yes, some people get the excision or the surgery to provide some relief, but as you probably know, a lot of people will go through surgery and what happens, it grows back because we're not getting to the roots of why it was there in the first place. That's the same with a lot of things like cancers too. Whatever people need to do, if people want to go down more the conventional path,

Like we all have to make our own choice. But there is a reason as to why cancer returns in so many people because we're not addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual roots of why it did develop in the first place. So this root cause healing conversation. I think people can connect the dots when they hear that, right, Like, you go through surgery, you get something cut out, you go through chemo, you kill all the bad cells. Why is it coming back? It's not just bad genes.

and that's just not where we are anymore. We've learned that with mental health, like we've come so far, we have to continue going so far again, I will repeat the phrase until I die. Once we know better, we do better, and that's what we have to keep doing for ourselves too. This is such an important part I had on another episode. It was a woman had said to me, she goes, why do we care about everything else?

But the one thing we need is our health and we don't want to invest in it, and that's so important. That's so it's an important realization of like, you're right, why do we not? Like we I work out, I eat healthy, but like I'm really not diving as deep

as I probably should. And so I just love everything that you're sharing, and I appreciate you being here, and very clearly I don't know you beyond today, but hearing what you said about your brother and the experience you had when you lost him, and him wanting you to share all of this information and stuff, you're clearly doing work that you should be doing. It's very clear, and how you talk and how passionate you are about everything

that I don't think he was wrong. And I don't know you guys by any other direction, but based on what I'm sitting here and having this experience with you, he was absolutely right in passing on that torch to say, please share this information. So thanks for saying that, yeah, and thank you for being here. I love to end the podcast with whether it be a piece of motivation or a piece of advice, or something that maybe we never touched on to that you would love to share.

I love to end the episodes that way as something to encourage people in a direction, even though we've done a lot of that. Yeah, this whole podcast, that's what I like to end on.

like our health journey. This is if forever journey we're on. I understand it can feel overwhelming if the information is new, but you don't need to change everything overnight, and in fact, our nervous system doesn't like that anyway. Our nervous system is actually not wired for change. That's a whole other conversation. But the little things do add up, and that's what I want to leave people with. Don't get over don't feel overwhelmed. If some of this information is due new

get outside and get sun. Start swapping one product at a time, like Morgan was just saying, start mineralizing your water, Start wearing blue blocking glasses at light at night, and you know, the rest just opens up for you. Our health is the portal to everything else we came here to experience on this planet. What was wild to me on my journey is how much mental real estate became freed up when I was not bogged down anymore with endopain,

with bloating, with low energy. And it's like, when you're not worried about your body all the time, you have so much mental capacity to create, to be present, to love, to connect, and that's what life is all about. So our health is just the foundation for everything else we came here to experience.

It's so educational. It gives us information that I don't feel like we're being given in a lot of different forms, but thanks to social media, we now are and we're learning a lot of things. This is the bright side of technology and evolution and seeing the experiences that people are going through and somebody like Christy who helps them understand that they've tried everything and there's still other ways

to go about healing their health and chronic issues. But I also have to recognize this other side of me that gets really frustrated. I'm so angry because being a human right now is so hard. And I'm not talking about all the ways that you're probably thinking, like, yes, all the horrible injustices in the world, all of the things that are going wrong with different political parties, and

all the things that you naturally gravitate towards. I'm talking about just literally being a human right now is tough. And talking to Christy reminded me of that we are consuming and eating things every day that are having products and them that are killing us and hurting us, especially our long term health. We have so many people out there who are making healthy swaps and trying to clean organize their homes and trying to do things for better lives.

Maybe it's for themselves, maybe it's for their families, their children. But the fact that we even have to do this, the fact that we have to pay such close attention to the ingredients, to the things that products are made of, that makes me so sad, and it makes me so angry because being a human is already tough enough as it is, having a job, trying to keep friends, keeping yourself physically mentally in a great place. Maybe you have pets,

Maybe you're trying to keep your relationships intact. Maybe you're trying to go after a new dream. Like the list of things that humans have to do every day is a laundry list. If you actually want to tackle everything that you hope to do in your lifetime, and to add on to that, it can't just be easy to go to the store and find things that you can put in your body and you can feel safe about doing so, or you can't go buy a new product that you saw online because you're like, Oh, that's a

safe one that looks really cool and good. I'm gonna use it. No instead any time now, whether it be clothing or the food you're consuming, the stuff you're putting on your skin, the stuff that you buy for your kids, your pets, the products that you bring into your home, you have to analyze them. You have to say, what does this mean? What is this going to look like in five ten years if I continued using said product

for that long? Like, we haven't made everything tough enough on us, And then there's this laundry list of things that we're adding on to our already long to do lists. And you're looking at somebody here and you're hearing somebody right now, and the majority of spaces life is great. I don't have a lot of things to complain about. Am I able to move every day? Am I able to wake up? Am I able to love on my pets and talk to my friends and my family? Yes?

All those things. But I'm also someone who, day in and day out, is trying every day to make a cleaner, healthier, safer alternative for my everyday life. Heck, I'm even trying to make sure all of the things I'm using are cruelty free, which in twenty twenty five, the fact that things aren't cruelty free wild to me, Like, what's the point of getting all this technology if we're still testing on animals. That's a story for another day. But beyond that, when you look at me, I'm able bodied, I can

get up, I'm healthy, right, but I'm actually not. I have long COVID. I'm now dealing with vertigo, lack of smell, lack of taste, memory issues, all from that experience. Before that, I've had endometriosis since I was in my early twenties. I had a multitude of other illnesses that popped up

as I was dealing with vertigo. And now I'm in such a weird place of trying to figure out what path am I supposed to take to make myself better because much like carrying Christy talk, I want to do everything Christie is saying, you know why, because it sounds great. It sounds like I can be healthy, it sounds like I can make the right decisions, and it sounds like my body will feel good again. But also that's so hard to do in the world that we live. In

and yes, everything is a choice. I wholeheartedly believe that you get to decide what you prioritize, what are going to be your decisions that you make in that day. But it also empathized with all of the people who are literally just trying to get by and just trying to be human and doing the very best that they can.

My health journey has been all over the place lately, and as an adult sitting here, I have these conversations with people like Christy and Kara in another interview that's coming with a woman named Stephanie, and they're so inspiring in so many ways. They're so informative. They have knowledge that can help you with so many chronic illnesses and so so many issues that we face that when you typically go into a doctor's office today, they say, we

can't help you. And so think of how refreshing it is to have these people now where you may actually get answers, or you may actually get help to something that before everybody told you there is no answer to, we can't help you. I think that's a beautiful thing about the space that we're in right now, But there is no doubt that it's also overwhelming That's why me cleaning out my home to make it more clean and cruelty free and non toxic has taken upwards of three

years and is still happening. Like I haven't just done it one weekend and it's all over and everything in my house is all of a sudden non toxic. Heck, I still use fragrances and I'm still using things that I know are probably not the best. Like, this is a hard choice. This is a hard battle to fight to truly be on this other side where people like Christy are. But you see them and you're like, oh, I love that. I want that energy, I want that experience.

But I just want to make sure that in this diary. But I just want to make sure in this diary entry that people realize I am not bringing all these interviews to be like you have to do this, this has to change. It's to give you the information. I would rather a hundred times over have the information, have the knowledge, and then I can make my own choices

based on having all of the information. It's like in school when they give you a test and you're like, well, you only gave me half of the study materials for that. I don't know the other half, and they're like, we kind of have to figure it out. That's what our health has become. Here's half of the answers. We don't know the other half or we can't help you with the other half, but you have to figure it out.

So I like people like Christy, like Kara who is on another episode, who can come and give alternative perspectives. I love the idea of blending holistic medicine with the medicine that's helping save lives. I like both. I like gray areas in all things. I like to find that middle ground where both things can coexist in a beautiful way to help all of us instead of hurting us.

And it's funny we do interviews like this on this episode, and I know there's gonna be people who will say, Gosh, that's so woo woo, or that's so far fetched, or this doesn't make any sense, there's no way. And of course people are gonna feel that way because we've been taught to believe stuff like this can't help us or it shouldn't. But there's also proof that this stuff has

helped people. The things that she's talking about has changed people's lives and helped a lot of people, So why can't two things coexist, especially in the matter of our health, our wellness, our entire lives, the bodies that we live in day in and day out. It's wild the human experience in so many ways. And I think as I become an adult, I realize just how much everything's pretty convoluted,

and it's better to live in the gray area. It's better never to have all the answers, and it's better to question everything, because if you sit there and you think you have all the answers and you never question one type of way of doing things, then you're never

gonna evolve and you're never gonna grow. And I am the walking contradiction of the internal battle, right Like I have that side of me that feels that way, and then the other side that's just so angry that I have to question everything and so angry that everything has

to be so complicated. And why does it take me forever until I'm thirty one years old that I finally hear some from somebody who's like Christy, who has all of this experience, knowledge, science, and says, hey, this can actually help you, Like, why did it take me thirty one years to find someone to have that type of conversation with that's not cool. So it is an internal battle.

It's fighting the things that we've been taught our entire lives to then coming into this belief of we don't know everything, and sometimes it's really important that we explore different things, especially when it comes to our health. And that's the journey that I've been on gosh for probably

the last five years. COVID really put it on a different track with the experiences that I've had with long COVID, but even dealing with indometriosis before that, and then also finding out I was sensitive to gluten and sensitive to refine sugars, and just that my body needed me to overall be healthy. I'm hearing all of these and I recognize that me being vegetarian, especially being vegetarian since eight

years old, can have its own detriment. But what I'm also never gonna do is gonna go online and get mad at somebody for a choice that they decided to live their life by, which a lot of people love to do for me. They love to hear my problems about long COVID or whatever and say you're vegetarian. That's your fault. Also, why do I have to be the one to make the choice between I don't want to kill living things just so I can get all of

my stuff? Like, why was that the only choice? This is hints why I like to live in the gray area. I don't think that has to be the only choice. I don't think it has to be black and white like that. And I think that for most things in my life. I think that for a lot of the experiences I've had as an adult, I've come to the conclusion that most things are just better to exist in

the gray area. But really even more so in this health journey, and as I'm about to go get blood work done here soon, that I gosh, I haven't had a full blood panel done in my life and over a decade because I had such horrible experiences with doctors and going into doctor's offices and everybody highlighting one specific thing that needed to be worked on, and then they'd send you to somebody else for another specialist to do

another thing. And hearing Christy's share stories and just understanding the body as a whole feels like I finally got some validation for the things that I experienced, and I hope that did for a lot of people too. And as I go in to get this blood work done, which is going to be very comprehensive, and we're checking in autoimmune diseases and we're checking out my iron levels and vitamin D for vertigo and all kinds of things that we're going to be checking into. But that's just

step one. Beyond that, I'm also about to change my diet and work with Kara to start to really evolve my nutrition and understand what's happening in my body. And it's going to be hard. Doing all these things is going to be really hard, and I'm actually really scared because it's going to be lifestyle changes and I think I'm going to get answers to things that I probably don't actually want the answer to. But sometimes getting the answer is the only way forward. When you have chronic issues.

It's like you want the answer, you want to know how to solve your problem. But then you also know when you get the answer, it's probably not going to be easy. It's not going to be an easy change or like, oh, I can't just one day cut out

eating crackers. That's not going to change it. It's going to be a whole lifestyle change, And I think there's this terrifying moment that I'm having right now where if I really want to get my health, health and everything in this truly like healthy, great space that I'm doing everything right for my body, the body that I have to live in for the rest of my life, I'm going to have to start making some changes in a

lot of ways, and that's scary. So maybe you resonated with the Vertigo episode last week, Maybe you resonated with the episode with Kara when she was on and talking about nutrition. Maybe you resonated this week and hearing Christy talk about all kinds of different things. But I think it's an important time right now where we're at, that people are waking up and trying to make the decisions that are best for themselves in their lives and the people in them. And that's a really cool place to

be in. But just like me, it's also probably pretty scary at first. So if you're going through it like me, or you're about to go through it, or it could be coming for you, then I hope you know that you're not alone in it, and it's not a thing that we really talk about. You don't really go up to your friends and you're like, oh my gosh, my health problems and go on this whole rant that I

just did in this diary entry audio form. But maybe you feel seen because this is a conversation you wish you could have or I said something that feels relevant to what you're going through. But all this to say, I hope everybody out there who's struggling with any version of health issues gets the answers that they need, and I hope you all find some healing in whatever form it may come in. Thanks for joining me this week. As always, I'm so happy you're here and I hope

it helped you in more ways than one. I have some episodes coming up about friendship, veterans, disabilities, and someone who truly has been through so many things and has pushed through to be here on the podcast and share her story. Follow the Instagram page at Take This Personally. We've got full interviews also up on the YouTube page at web Girl Morgan. You can watch all of these in video form. And that's all for now. I'll chat with you guys next week. I love you. Bye,