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Another tool nugget was you

had a wonderful sense of humor.

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Yes, you do.

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You did.

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You had incredible sense of humor

where you were able to laugh at the

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bleakest moments or make light of it.

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I, I've, I've never heard so much

about someone's bowel movement.

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No, I'm kidding.

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Welcome to Transform with Dr.

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Maggie Yu Podcast, where

education meets results.

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I'm Dr.

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Maggie Yu, your guide with nearly

three decades of experience

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in root cause medicine.

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Here, we dive deeper into the root

causes of chronic disease through

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interviews, case studies, and trainings.

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There's a lot of people out there

who are skeptical and fearful.

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What are some of your own

experience or insights into this?

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How do people cross that and, and should

they, I mean, it's protecting them, right?

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It's protection, right?

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Yeah.

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How do they cross that?

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No, it's, and honestly, I, I love

talking about this because it's,

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I really think that it's rooted

in a space of a lack of deserving,

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like people don't feel that they.

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To themselves and

putting themselves first.

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They feel guilty about that.

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And so how do you get through that?

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We need to go through a process of

forgiveness first and foremost for

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the other people in your life, right?

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Including the medical doctors, including

medical field, going through a process

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of forgiveness there, not necessarily

with them, but one that you just do

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internally that then follows with

forgiveness of yourself you feel

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you've made that have gotten you the.

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Right.

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I think that's critical.

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Yeah.

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It's so funny 'cause you know I've

actually done videos and on many

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interviews I've actually said that

the number one emotion that actually

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keeps people with auto immunity sick

is actually lack of forgiveness.

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Yeah.

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And it's not always towards other

people is towards ourselves.

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Mm-hmm.

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. Yeah.

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Because, you know that story I just told.

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It's not that all people are evil.

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That's wasn't even the main thing.

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The biggest fear I had

was now I can't trust.

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I've been embezzled and, and

I know I can't trust myself.

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I shouldn't forgive myself

for letting that happen to me.

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Therefore I am untrustworthy.

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And that's what happens when you don't

forgive yourself is it actually erodes

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your, even your belief in yourself.

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Yeah.

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Well, and I even tell clients

I'm, I'm like, you, you need to,

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you need to like drink, even if

it's just lemon water, right?

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Like drink that every morning.

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The more you can consistently take action

towards your own wellbeing, the more

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reliable you become to your own system.

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Actually.

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You lose the faith in

your own consistency.

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Yep.

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You just lose faith in

every action of your own.

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So encouraging them.

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To actually just take one step at a time.

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May it just drinking lemon water,

as you said, actually makes them

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feel that yes, they can do it.

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They have forgotten the fact

that yes, you are capable.

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Your confidence is so eroded

in yourself completely.

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That's interesting you guys say that

because one of the reasons we just

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finished our 10 day water challenge in

the Facebook group that we just did, and

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that was one of the biggest feedback I

had from a lot of people was that a lot of

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people didn't feel like that was something

they could do for a full 10 days.

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They, they, the confidence every

road is such that 10 days, I ain't,

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I can't do this, I won't do this.

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And after.

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One of the things that people said

was that they, their ability, they had

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never gotten this much support in a

community to be consistent, to actually

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nurture in self-care, to the point

where they actually see the results

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keep stacking up more and more and more.

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That there was undisputable proof.

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That they could believe in themselves,

they could achieve this and that

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the community support and mentorship

actually worked because they had

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indisputable results from their own body.

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And that's the piece that

I think there isn't a.

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And to help people recover from this

type of trauma and erosion of their

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physical being and their health.

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And their mental health.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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What, what I found especially for myself

and then in hearing other people's

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stories, is what was happening with

our own body was sort of a metaphor.

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For what was happening

emotionally, mentally.

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Right.

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So for me, I had these issues because

of my trauma about my inability

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to handle life, handle my life.

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It was, it was a, it was a

capability problem, right?

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And then my body started to mirror that.

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Right now it wasn't capable of keeping

me well, it wasn't capable of healing.

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And so I started to look

at things as a metaphor.

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And so when I, I see people that come

into my practice and they're having lots

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of issues, you know, we, we start to

look at their illness metaphorically to

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see what's going on behind the scenes.

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And like what Laura was talking about, a

lot of it is rooted in unforgiveness, both

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of other people and of yourself, right?

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Yeah.

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And so when you can't forgive

yourself, Oh, I should have done this.

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I should have done that.

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Then you start to lose, there's,

there's this innate self-trust,

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right, that you don't have.

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And so it, it sounds like that's

what you guys were talking about.

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Even in adding little things like water,

every single day, you're starting to

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build your own self-trust and you're,

you're, you're knowing that you're

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capable of doing certain things, right?

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So building that self trust, building

that capability, I think is really key.

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You know, I've seen of you in

your own way, During the program

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have that point where it was

your lowest point in some way.

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And Jamie, I remember like towards

the end of the program, you actually

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had a medical procedure I did that

like brought you to your knees and

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your career to your knees mm-hmm.

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. And you were at your lowest point

where literally you couldn't

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even trust that you could sit up

for an hour or even 20 minutes.

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Dealing with all those neurological

symptoms and pot symptoms.

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Right.

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And I remember, I, I had to

come to Jesus conversation

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with you . Excuse the metaphor.

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Yeah.

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Where I, I was like, I think at

that point were you even working or

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you were, you had to stop working

because you were feeling so sick.

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Yeah.

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And I actually, you were like, I don't

even know if I, I can't work and I don't

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even know I could do what you're asking.

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I'm like, what do you mean?

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Of course you're going back to work.

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What do you mean?

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Of course you can do that.

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Yeah.

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And I even had to say, you know,

even if you don't believe it, you're

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gonna have to borrow your, the belief

from me because I've seen hundreds

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of you have this happened and I've

seen hundreds of this get better.

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So even if you don't have that

certainty and you don't, the

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belief you can borrow it from me.

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Totally.

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And, and that I think was so huge

for me because not only, you know,

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are you an expert telling me I've

seen this, you're gonna be fine.

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This is possible.

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You're not too far gone.

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But then you also hear the

testimonies of other people.

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And then I also started reading

books on my own about neuroscience

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and rewiring the brain and mindset

and, and hearing those stories.

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And so I just chose at that point, go.

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Symptoms because everything

told me I was doomed.

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Right?

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Everything told me, you're

not gonna get better.

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This is your life.

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So I stopped doing that and I started

surrounding myself and filling

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my brain with stories of hope.

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Mm-hmm.

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with stories of possibility.

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And that's what I lived in.

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That's what I chose to marinate

myself in day and night, day

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and night, day and night.

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After the come to Jesus moment with you,

because I'm like, this is, at some point,

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this is gonna be a mindset thing for me.

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You know, at some point I have

to decide that I'm gonna go in a

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certain direction and then make

the choices to get myself there.

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Well, I think that's

clearly the focus is power.

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And you were focused on the fact

that, no, I'm never gonna be

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able to do any of this again.

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And guess what?

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You were growing and manifesting

and I was like, no girl.

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We're interrupting this right now.

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You made the decision to be open

to being coached about this and

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you shifted your focus to hell?

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Yes, of course I can do this.

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Hell yes, of course I can.

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Better and hell yes.

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I'm gonna actually surround myself

with people and videos and stuff.

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Of all the people who get better.

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I mean, think about this.

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How many hours a week do you think

most people without immunity and

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chronic disease spend Googling

all the stuff that can go wrong?

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Yeah, a lot.

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And what do you, and you said that,

Jamie, you said that yourself, right?

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You said I was Googling all the things,

people with pots or people with this

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neurological condition, people with

this migraine from this procedure or

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this that, like what else can go wrong?

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And you were already living

as if you were dying and dead.

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Mm-hmm.

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, were you gonna die?

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Mm-hmm.

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. And shifting the focus,

I think is a tool I.

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Because she's totally right.

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It's, you just need to decide.

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And it's funny because those

people who say, well, I can't do

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this program because I'm too sick.

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I've been let down too many

times, I can't tolerate it.

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That's actually the exact

reason you need to do it.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Because you need, I, I gotta be

honest, like one of the biggest

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things that I can say I've gotten

from being ill is growing that hell

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up, like growing up and learning.

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I.

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To take care of myself in the

way that my body desired it.

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But that I was like, no, no, no.

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Having like a tantrum about,

no, I don't wanna do that.

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Right?

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And so I was held accountable

and was almost like trained

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in this program as well.

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Just automatically where this

just, honestly, I'm doing this

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because it feels loving, right?

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I'm being so loving and

so good to myself and.

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So borrow her mentality for a bit.

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And Laura, don't you think that once

you adopt this about your health, it

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transfers to other areas of your life too?

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh yes, it does.

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That's, yeah.

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I've become a fierce guardian of my,

my emotional life, my, my mental life.

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Right.

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A fierce guardian.

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Fierce guardian right there.

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Boop, boop boop.

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Yeah.

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, . No, I mean, it's beautiful to

see what you've done with being

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your, your healthy boundaries

and seeing your strength in that.

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I mean, there's no waiver . I, I

can't, my health depends on it.

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You know, my, my life depends on it.

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I can't, I can't.

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I can't wait.

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One thing I've seen Laura do, and I'm

just gonna comment on Laura here, a

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little kudos to Laura is shit went down.

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Shit went down in the middle.

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While you were in the program, there

was a lot of stuff that was going on

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with your, with you and your health.

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It was a journey through

that out the other side.

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But what I really loved, and this is a

tool for everybody, another tool nugget

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was you had a wonderful sense of humor.

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Yes, you do.

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You did.

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Incredible sense of humor.

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Where you were able to laugh at the

bleakest moments or make light of it?

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I, I've, I've never heard so much

about someone's bowel movements.

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No, I'm kidding.

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all day.

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Dr.

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Maggie , but I loved that.

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Was that you were able

to have a sense of humor.

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Yeah.

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You know if you guys haven't

watched the show, Ted Lasso.

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I love Ted Lasso.

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And one of the things that he tells one of

the Ted Lassos is he says, be a goldfish.

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They lost this giant game.

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He goes, be a goldfish.

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He's like, what's the of a goldfish?

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Three seconds.

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Next and, and one of the things

about you, Laura, is that we could be

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having a conversation about a really

bleak, terrible time and literally

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I just see you, three seconds is

up, shift, laugh, make light of it.

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There that is.

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Do you see that?

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Yeah.

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Humor is a really strong

tool in resiliency.

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Mm-hmm.

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and laughing is a way, quick way to shift.

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And I think it's a pattern.

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Interrupt.

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Your humor interrupts your pattern.

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Yes.

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Yeah, I agree.

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And because I do feel, yes, I, I think

one of the biggest things that happens

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with autoimmune that I see mindset

wise is shifting into mentality.

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Right?

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Mental.

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I've done it so many times, and I

do believe that we need to honor it

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because its coming up for a reason.

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So it's like two.

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Get the lesson, get the understanding

of moving forward to who you would

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desire to become, make your decision,

like Jamie said, and snap outta it.

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Yep.

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I think this needs to be a conversation

about what is the difference between

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being victim and being responsible.

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There's a big difference and

it is really rooted in our

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languaging and, and everything.

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When we are a victim, we think

things are happening to us.

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Okay.

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When we are responsible.

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We're actually creating this.

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We're responsible for this experience

we've created for ourselves, . So

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most of us are living in victim.

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It's everybody else's fault

because they failed me.

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It's because I can't do this.

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I was fired from this.

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I was that.

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That's why I am here.

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Whereas response, being

responsible is, I made that choice.

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I created that, I made that choice, I

created that I'm choosing to think in

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this way, and that's why I feel depressed.

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I'm choosing, you know, like it's,

there's a big difference between

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being victim and being responsible.

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And yet most of us are living, spending

most of our time as a victim, like as if

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all this stuff is happening to us, and

we have no personal responsibility in

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this because we're scared to take it on.

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Because then we're like,

what happens if I fail?

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Then what's gonna happen?

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Right?

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You fail anyway, so you fail anyway.

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Right, exactly.

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That's what I'm like.

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Owning full responsibility was

very daunting to then for how

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Own over beautifully liberating.

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It is actually an experience

because I had Laura on one of the

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pod meetings with me and yeah, she

started off with a pod meeting.

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There was a little tantrum and

then she shifted her gears real

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rapidly and actually it was a

learning moment was right there.

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So it was Laura's growth

happening right there in just

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40 minutes with us in the pod.

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Yeah.

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Well, and and to me, I actually think.

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Yep.

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And I actually like the fact that

even as a, you, you say, I, I'm the

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leader in this, in this program, right?

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I'm growing every single

day, every single day.

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I ha I'm just being smacked with

life lessons every single day.

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And it is not shameful for me to admit

this is an area I'm working on to grow.

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In fact, that happened today.

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You guys saw the post in the group?

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Oh yeah.

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I made a book talking about my personal

area of growth that I needed to work

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on, that I was practicing, that I was

sharing with everyone in the group.

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And I think that's really

important to know is, is that

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life is practicing the skill.

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Like Laura had to practice

to laugh at danger.

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Mm-hmm.

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and sadness.

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Right.

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Jamie had to practice shifting from

I feel sorry for myself versus I'm

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responsible for what I think and do now.

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Mm-hmm.

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I mean, there had to be a

shift that had to happen there.

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Being responsible for yourself.

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