In this episode we are joined by special guest Hope Pedraza, Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. Hope explains what Human Design is and the important role it plays in your health and nutrition. Everyone is different and it is important to embrace your own uniqueness when it comes to designing what works best for your health and wellbeing. Hope also shares how powerful your own intuition can be when it comes to tuning into your body to understand exactly what it needs.
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Hope Pedraza is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and host of Hopeful and Wholesome Podcast. Hope helps career-driven women to heal their gut, balance their minds, and feel good in their bodies again. Hope also is a mom, serial entrepreneur, and founder of a Pilates-based franchise - inBalance studio.
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I am a financial professional, who specializes in helping people to achieve their financial goals. My absolute passion is creating new possibilities in people’s lives by showing them the ropes when it comes to money. I’m here to spark healthy and positive conversations around wealth and investment and create a world where nobody is limited by their financial situation. I believe this begins with education and shifting our relationships with money. I love getting to witness people achieving their most ambitious goals and creating new possibilities for themselves and their families!
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Kalee Boisvert:Kaylee. And thank you so much for tuning into this episode of
Kalee Boisvert:the wealth and wellness podcast. Really excited for today's guest
Kalee Boisvert:in our conversation today. Very wellness focused, we can all use
Kalee Boisvert:a little bit more of that in our lives. So our special guest
Kalee Boisvert:today is hope Pedraza who is a certified holistic nutritionist,
Kalee Boisvert:a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner. And
Kalee Boisvert:she's the host of her own podcast, hopeful and wholesome
Kalee Boisvert:hope helps career driven women to heal their gut, balance their
Kalee Boisvert:minds and feel good in their bodies again. And she is a mom,
Kalee Boisvert:a serial entrepreneur and founder of a Pilates based
Kalee Boisvert:franchise in balanced studio. So you got lots on the go. Yeah.
Hope Pedraza:Thank you.
Kalee Boisvert:Thank you so much for joining us. Hey, thanks
Kalee Boisvert:for having me online. To get started. Do you want to share a
Kalee Boisvert:little bit more like about your self, your background? What
Kalee Boisvert:brought you to do this work that you do?
Hope Pedraza:Yeah, sure. Um, so my background is in dance, like
Hope Pedraza:I started dancing when I was three years old. And that kind
Hope Pedraza:of got me into like, the movement space and kind of the
Hope Pedraza:Mind Body realm. Because as I danced throughout high school
Hope Pedraza:and college, I got into Pilates. I started taking it myself. And
Hope Pedraza:then I started teaching and it's just like a side gig in college.
Hope Pedraza:And so that really got me into just really diving deeper into
Hope Pedraza:movement. And the human body led me to nutrition. So it just kind
Hope Pedraza:of all snowballed from there. I started my studio about 10 years
Hope Pedraza:ago, and then initially just you know, wanted to build a studio
Hope Pedraza:that kind of just offered a little bit of everything,
Hope Pedraza:because all of our classes are Pilates based, but we have we
Hope Pedraza:have you know, we bar if trampling cardio, we've hit
Hope Pedraza:classes, and then from there kind of I brought in the
Hope Pedraza:nutrition piece, realizing that, you know, all the ladies coming
Hope Pedraza:into my studio needed to you know, they were looking for that
Hope Pedraza:like holistic, comprehensive, like approach, right? And me
Hope Pedraza:listening to them talk to each other, you know, in the studio
Hope Pedraza:talking about they're doing this diet and that diet, and I do it
Hope Pedraza:and I'm like no like this is you're not doing it right. And
Hope Pedraza:so I started just kind of with like a basic nutrition coaching
Hope Pedraza:program, like what least let me offer like some level support.
Hope Pedraza:And then from there, I just, you know, I did some further
Hope Pedraza:education, I did a degree program and just kind of kept
Hope Pedraza:learning. So I could really offer like, as a deep go as deep
Hope Pedraza:as I could with their nutrition and really help them like put
Hope Pedraza:the pieces together.
Kalee Boisvert:I love that. Yeah, the whole holistic
Kalee Boisvert:approach. You're right, because we do the exercise, we get into
Kalee Boisvert:that stuff. But the nutrition side of things can get really
Kalee Boisvert:confusing.
Hope Pedraza:It can yeah, there's a lot of noise out
Hope Pedraza:there. And there's a lot of, you know, conflicting information
Hope Pedraza:and trendy stuff. And that was really what I was listening to
Hope Pedraza:the ladies do and then, you know, then I'd hear them all
Hope Pedraza:complain about let's get this ache and that ache and I don't
Hope Pedraza:have any energy. I'm like, Well, yeah, you're like starving
Hope Pedraza:yourselves. So it's, it's there's a lot of noise out
Hope Pedraza:there. So it's, it's hard to navigate. I think it can be it
Hope Pedraza:doesn't have to be but it can be hard to navigate the World of
Hope Pedraza:Wellness and trying to figure out you know, what path you
Hope Pedraza:should be taking? It can be, it can be tricky.
Kalee Boisvert:Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So we're here
Kalee Boisvert:to chat about that. And let's talk about that. What does that
Kalee Boisvert:so you're a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition
Kalee Boisvert:practitioner. Now, what is that? What does that mean? Yes,
Hope Pedraza:yes, yes. So basically, it we're taking a
Hope Pedraza:functional approach to nutrition. And so I use
Hope Pedraza:functional labs in screenings to help get a picture of like
Hope Pedraza:what's going on underneath the surface, and then treat the body
Hope Pedraza:as a whole so we're instead of treat treating things like
Hope Pedraza:symptomatically like if you were to go into just a regular
Hope Pedraza:doctor, right, they're going to treat you per symptom, but
Hope Pedraza:treating the body as a whole so treating the whole body coaching
Hope Pedraza:up function of the entire body and then coaching down any like
Hope Pedraza:dysfunction, imbalances, metabolic chaos, it's going in
Hope Pedraza:the body, so we're treating the body from a holistic perspective
Hope Pedraza:to heal the whole body. Okay,
Kalee Boisvert:good. I like that. Not just dealing with the
Kalee Boisvert:things as they happen, but actually being proactive. Do we
Kalee Boisvert:all need that? Yes. Um, so what'd you do? Like I was on
Kalee Boisvert:your Instagram and you had information about, like human
Kalee Boisvert:design types? So can we tell a little, like, talk a little bit
Kalee Boisvert:about human design? And how that plays into health and nutrition?
Kalee Boisvert:And what what that means?
Hope Pedraza:Yeah, yeah. So I got into human design, I guess
Hope Pedraza:about a year ago, just with for, like, my own self, and just
Hope Pedraza:really fell in love with it. Like, I, I connected with the
Hope Pedraza:girl on the Facebook or Instagram. And that's, you know,
Hope Pedraza:I did a couple of readings with her. And I, I just fell in love
Hope Pedraza:with it. I had, like, I told her, I felt like, after having
Hope Pedraza:that first meeting, like I was meeting an old friend, which
Hope Pedraza:sounds so cheesy, but it's like, you know, you spend, you spend a
Hope Pedraza:lot of your life like either trying to fit a mold and try to
Hope Pedraza:fit like the conditioning that society puts on you. And then
Hope Pedraza:when you realize, like, through human design, especially with
Hope Pedraza:something like human design, like how you were actually
Hope Pedraza:designed to be, it's like, it's so freeing, it's like, no, wait,
Hope Pedraza:I've been trying to, like, hide all these pieces of me, but
Hope Pedraza:like, this is me, like, and so it's just like that validation,
Hope Pedraza:like, Okay, this is me, this is how I was designed, this is how
Hope Pedraza:I was designed to live, this is like, you know, what my soul is
Hope Pedraza:here for. And so I wanted to bring in that element to my
Hope Pedraza:coaching with my nutrition clients. Because, you know, the
Hope Pedraza:nutrition part, of course, is key. But I also feel like
Hope Pedraza:there's, there's a way to look at wellness through the, through
Hope Pedraza:the lens of human design, in that, a lot of times, I think
Hope Pedraza:that a lot of times chronic disease happens when we spend
Hope Pedraza:too much energy, trying to be who we are not trying to be
Hope Pedraza:something that we're not in whether it's you know, society,
Hope Pedraza:our family lineage, whatever our experiences, just beliefs as a
Hope Pedraza:collective, but we're trying to, like mold ourselves to how we
Hope Pedraza:should be right using quotes there, how we should be and what
Hope Pedraza:behavior should look like, or how you know how we should
Hope Pedraza:exist. And so when these things are, when these things add up,
Hope Pedraza:and we're trying to be all the things we should you know,
Hope Pedraza:using, quote should be, we expend a lot of energy, we waste
Hope Pedraza:a lot of energy, and we spend excessive amounts of energy
Hope Pedraza:trying to like, hold that like persona, these things, we think
Hope Pedraza:we should be in that. Doing that, I think that that's what
Hope Pedraza:builds up this ease in the body, because we're holding up all
Hope Pedraza:that that stored energy, with with nowhere for it to go. And I
Hope Pedraza:think that's a lot of times what causes you know, the body to
Hope Pedraza:burn out and for, you know, stress really tickets toll on
Hope Pedraza:our body. And so I think that with human design, you're able
Hope Pedraza:to really discover how you were designed to exist, like what
Hope Pedraza:your unique blueprint is, so that you can really live more in
Hope Pedraza:alignment with who you're meant to be. Instead of wasting energy
Hope Pedraza:trying to be someone you're not.
Kalee Boisvert:Yeah, I love that. I started listening to a
Kalee Boisvert:book last night on my like, Hay House membership. And it's
Kalee Boisvert:called like f the shoulds. So it's exactly I love what you're
Kalee Boisvert:saying. I'm like, oh, yeah, love. That's a lot of sense. But
Kalee Boisvert:yeah, that coming, like coming into alignment with you know,
Kalee Boisvert:who am I? How am I designed? Because it is different for
Kalee Boisvert:everyone. And when we tried to kind of fit into the wall,
Kalee Boisvert:that's what this person does. So I'll try that. And then you're
Kalee Boisvert:chasing, and you're and then there's the guilt and the shame
Kalee Boisvert:and the way when it's not working. It's like, Well, why is
Kalee Boisvert:it work for them? But it's not working for me? And then
Kalee Boisvert:Exactly, yeah, um, so what are the types of human design? Like?
Kalee Boisvert:Are there a few types that you can talk about? Or?
Hope Pedraza:Yeah, yeah, there's a, there's four or five
Hope Pedraza:main types that can kind of go through like just kind of the
Hope Pedraza:gist of each of them. If for anybody listening, if you're not
Hope Pedraza:familiar with human design, you can go online and get your chart
Hope Pedraza:free. There's like, multiple sites out there. I really like
Hope Pedraza:my human design.com. She does a really good job of giving good
Hope Pedraza:explanations and stuff, you can go to genetic matrix.com. My
Hope Pedraza:body graph, there's a lot of sites, but But yes, you can kind
Hope Pedraza:of get your chart and then kind of follow along. And you know,
Hope Pedraza:because it'll give you your type, it'll give your profile
Hope Pedraza:give you a lot of the basics. So for the types, so first, there's
Hope Pedraza:a generator. Generators are here to kind of have initiate things.
Hope Pedraza:They're the initiators. And so it's about 38% of the
Hope Pedraza:population. And they're like the life force of the planet.
Hope Pedraza:They're like the builders, they're the the self starters.
Hope Pedraza:And so they have a really strong aura that's really magnetic.
Hope Pedraza:Like it's constantly pulling like to them. And they're really
Hope Pedraza:here to do what lights them up. And that's where they find like,
Hope Pedraza:their zone of genius is really doing things that light them up
Hope Pedraza:and enable to like, do the creative endeavors that that
Hope Pedraza:they find that they're passionate about. They they're,
Hope Pedraza:they have a lot of energy. So they're meant to expend a lot of
Hope Pedraza:energy. So I usually tell like my generators like work until
Hope Pedraza:exhaustion like but by the end of the day, you should be
Hope Pedraza:exhausted because a lot of times If you're not, and you're trying
Hope Pedraza:to go to bed, you have all this pent up energy that you haven't,
Hope Pedraza:like expended and it's just ruminating in your head, and
Hope Pedraza:then your body's like, Oh, it doesn't know what to do with,
Hope Pedraza:you know, the excess energy. So working till exhaustion is what
Hope Pedraza:I always tell my generator types. And then in really
Hope Pedraza:focusing on kind of what we were talking before, which I think
Hope Pedraza:it's true for every type, but especially for generators, doing
Hope Pedraza:the things in terms of like, diet, nutrition, doing the
Hope Pedraza:things that let you up, and the things that excite you eating
Hope Pedraza:what excites you doing exercise that excites you, rather than
Hope Pedraza:what you think you should be doing? Because that's when
Hope Pedraza:you're going to meet resistance when you're doing things that
Hope Pedraza:you think you quote, should be doing. Right. So, so that's the
Hope Pedraza:generators. There's also next is manifest errs. So manifester is
Hope Pedraza:a very small percentage, only about 9% of the population. And
Hope Pedraza:they are the initiators. And so they're they're here to inform
Hope Pedraza:the people around them about their decisions before they take
Hope Pedraza:action. Manifest errs, because it's such a small percentage,
Hope Pedraza:they can sometimes make people feel a little off because
Hope Pedraza:sometimes they like to keep to themselves. And they kind of
Hope Pedraza:have to protect their energy a little bit, but, but they really
Hope Pedraza:are like visionaries. They're very independent, but they're
Hope Pedraza:visionaries and they activate, they're here to activate people
Hope Pedraza:around them. So the manifest errs are the ones that activate
Hope Pedraza:the generators to get things done. So, for the manifester,
Hope Pedraza:is, it's really important to like work with your energy. And
Hope Pedraza:knowing that there's like a working phase, there's kind of a
Hope Pedraza:transition phase, and then there's a resting phase where
Hope Pedraza:they can kind of like recharge their batteries. And so I like
Hope Pedraza:to encourage my manifester is to kind of use food and exercise
Hope Pedraza:like that to like be okay with kind of doing things in spurts.
Hope Pedraza:Like when you're in that like really working phase, that like
Hope Pedraza:action phase, eating things that keep your energy up, maybe it's
Hope Pedraza:higher calorie foods, maybe it's higher fat foods, doing things
Hope Pedraza:to like, expend a lot of energy, but then when you're in that
Hope Pedraza:resting phase, kind of have to shift that taking time to take
Hope Pedraza:naps, rest, like do what your body needs, really tuning into
Hope Pedraza:your body and do what your body needs to really like protect
Hope Pedraza:your energy. And then next, we have manifesting generators. And
Hope Pedraza:that's what I manifest generator. And these are here to
Hope Pedraza:do things their own way. So I, when I did my reading, I've
Hope Pedraza:always been somebody who has my hand and like 28 different
Hope Pedraza:things at once. Like, my, my Google Chrome tab is like full
Hope Pedraza:like testament to that my husband is on me all the time,
Hope Pedraza:you can't possibly know what's going on and all those tabs and
Hope Pedraza:like, but I do know what's going on all these tabs, but it's the
Hope Pedraza:generators are here to do a bunch of different things and do
Hope Pedraza:things their own way they like set their own rules, they're
Hope Pedraza:supposed to be they're supposed to be multitaskers. And, uh, you
Hope Pedraza:know, psychologists say that you can't really multitask, but
Hope Pedraza:manifesting generators, you're here to multitask, you're here
Hope Pedraza:to really inspire creativity, and to bring about creativity
Hope Pedraza:and other people. And to really trust their intuition, their and
Hope Pedraza:their own internal compass to find, like where they're
Hope Pedraza:supposed to go. Because they have so much energy similar to
Hope Pedraza:to generators, they have, they have a lot of energy that they
Hope Pedraza:need to get rid of. And so they require higher calorie diet, a
Hope Pedraza:lot of times, they require eating more like variety of
Hope Pedraza:foods. So eating the same thing all the time for manifesting
Hope Pedraza:generators isn't usually productive for them.
Hope Pedraza:And knowing that, that you can go through phases, because you
Hope Pedraza:change your mind a lot. And for manifesting generators know that
Hope Pedraza:it's okay to change your mind a lot, that's you're here to
Hope Pedraza:change your mind and follow where your intuition is telling
Hope Pedraza:you to go, which sometimes mean, you know, changing directions.
Hope Pedraza:And so the same is true for like phases in like exercise,
Hope Pedraza:nutrition, you know, you might have a running phase, and then
Hope Pedraza:you have a CrossFit phase, you have a cycling phase, but like
Hope Pedraza:doing things in phases, because you're doing things that light
Hope Pedraza:you up and that excite you and then you move on to the next
Hope Pedraza:thing when it no longer excites you anymore. Because Because
Hope Pedraza:once you're doing things that don't excite you, you're wasting
Hope Pedraza:energy. So kind of what I was talking about the beginning when
Hope Pedraza:we spend so much time, like being who are not made to be you
Hope Pedraza:waste a lot of energy, you're expending energy, that's really
Hope Pedraza:not, it's not to be wasted, you'd have to protect your
Hope Pedraza:energy. And so yeah, that's what manifesting generators are. And
Hope Pedraza:there's projectors. So projectors are about 22% of
Hope Pedraza:population, and they are here to wait for recognition for an
Hope Pedraza:invitation. So they are like our world's most gifted guides and
Hope Pedraza:they're here to guide us but they're also here to wait for
Hope Pedraza:the invitation for for them to guide us. So they're able to
Hope Pedraza:really it's like the people you know that can really see things
Hope Pedraza:differently they relate to like they're able to really like see
Hope Pedraza:deep into other people and to read other people's energy
Hope Pedraza:really well which can work against them in some cases
Hope Pedraza:because it leaves them open to like taking on others people's
Hope Pedraza:emotions and other people's conditioning. And so they really
Hope Pedraza:have to buy projectors always tell them that you really have
Hope Pedraza:to work to protect your energy so projectors are good at
Hope Pedraza:working in spurts whereas like generators and manifesting
Hope Pedraza:generators are like they just work work work they can work
Hope Pedraza:till exhaustion, and then they can be like, Okay, I'm done for
Hope Pedraza:projectors working in spurts, like even just like just Three,
Hope Pedraza:four hours at a time and then taking a break, giving their
Hope Pedraza:their internal battery a chance to recharge and so that they're
Hope Pedraza:not running themselves into the ground. Because a lot of times
Hope Pedraza:they feel pressure and conditioning, especially if
Hope Pedraza:they're around other like generators and manifesting
Hope Pedraza:generators. For people who are like, like partners, whether
Hope Pedraza:it's spouses or dislike partners, a lot of times that
Hope Pedraza:can cause you butt heads, because you feel this pressure
Hope Pedraza:to like, oh, I need to be working, I need to be doing
Hope Pedraza:this, I need to be doing these things because their spouse or
Hope Pedraza:significant other is a different type. But that's not how
Hope Pedraza:projectors are made to be projectors are made to just work
Hope Pedraza:in spurts. And then and then they rest. And so using food
Hope Pedraza:like that, too, so big portions can help you kind of feel
Hope Pedraza:weighed down as projectors, so eating things that make you feel
Hope Pedraza:light and vibrant. A lot of times having like a very
Hope Pedraza:specific way of eating is helpful for a projector. So
Hope Pedraza:whether that's you know, paleo or vegan, or you know, whole 30,
Hope Pedraza:whatever they're good at, like sticking to something specific
Hope Pedraza:ways of eating, and that keeps their energy up, and then
Hope Pedraza:knowing to listen to their body because they, if they end up
Hope Pedraza:working themselves too much, they can start to feel a little
Hope Pedraza:foggy, their energy's low. And so just knowing that, that
Hope Pedraza:that's an indication, your body's telling you like, hey,
Hope Pedraza:it's time to take a rest period. And then the last type is
Hope Pedraza:reflector. reflectors are the most unique type less than 1% of
Hope Pedraza:the population is reflector. And reflectors are very sensitive to
Hope Pedraza:the energy around them, they have a really sensitive aura,
Hope Pedraza:where they just kind of take in everybody's energy around them,
Hope Pedraza:and that kind of reflected back to them. So because they're so
Hope Pedraza:sensitive to other people's energy, again, they have to
Hope Pedraza:protect their own energy. And so you know, I always encourage
Hope Pedraza:them reflectors, like taking time to be by yourself, alone,
Hope Pedraza:time is really important. Having like a space that's your own,
Hope Pedraza:like I meditation is something I always encourage my clients to
Hope Pedraza:do, just keeping that mindfulness piece and with like
Hope Pedraza:the holistic nutrition equation, holistic wellness. So if you if
Hope Pedraza:you, you know, set a little corner up in your room, like
Hope Pedraza:having your space, so that's your space for meditation, or
Hope Pedraza:for quiet time, or for journaling, or whatever it is,
Hope Pedraza:but having like, a safe space environment is really important
Hope Pedraza:to reflectors. And so having just a space that's your own can
Hope Pedraza:be feel really like grounding and nourishing to the body. And
Hope Pedraza:then and then for reflect for reflectors, like like playing
Hope Pedraza:with what feels good to your body. And, and if a specific way
Hope Pedraza:of exercising or a specific way of eating feels good. If it
Hope Pedraza:gives you a sense of like consistency for your energy,
Hope Pedraza:then do that. So it's, it's reflectors, like really have to
Hope Pedraza:hone in on like trusting your intuition listening to their
Hope Pedraza:intuition, so they can find what works best for them. Because
Hope Pedraza:everybody's different, it's going to be different for
Hope Pedraza:everybody. But yeah, just really tuning into what feels good for
Hope Pedraza:them and what feels like nourishing and helps them keep
Hope Pedraza:just their energy consistent.
Kalee Boisvert:Yeah, I love it. It was a really good rundown.
Kalee Boisvert:There's a wealth of knowledge over there. Love it. Um, so
Kalee Boisvert:knowing that, like, it sounds like that kind of how you work
Kalee Boisvert:with your clients is taking that into consideration. And then
Kalee Boisvert:that being how it impacts nutrition, their lifestyle,
Kalee Boisvert:their
Hope Pedraza:exercise. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because it really
Hope Pedraza:affects everything like, you know, we kind of look at like
Hope Pedraza:the pillars of wellness that I work with, with my clients which
Hope Pedraza:is like you know, it's diet nutrition and sleep that stress
Hope Pedraza:it's you know, supplements and kind of putting that together
Hope Pedraza:with human design because everything is affected by I mean
Hope Pedraza:your sleep and your nutrition and all of that is you know,
Hope Pedraza:human design is is so it integrates into all of those
Hope Pedraza:pieces. And so yeah, just kind of personalizing that to each
Hope Pedraza:person and knowing like because these it's the same thing with
Hope Pedraza:like, like with diets, right? Like I always say this like
Hope Pedraza:there's no one size fits all diet and I feel like human
Hope Pedraza:design is like is the exact reason why like we're literally
Hope Pedraza:all designed on a percent different. And so taking that
Hope Pedraza:piece and putting the human design with it is a really good
Hope Pedraza:just blueprint for like, hey, let's let's make this as, like
Hope Pedraza:flowy as possible, like so you're meeting with as little
Hope Pedraza:resistance as possible. So we can implement these things and
Hope Pedraza:we're working with your body and not against it.
Kalee Boisvert:Yeah, absolutely. So they can do
Kalee Boisvert:you're saying online tests can help them at least identify Yes,
Kalee Boisvert:their type and then yeah,
Hope Pedraza:so you'll get so if you do it online, it'll give
Hope Pedraza:you like your type and your profile, depending on which site
Hope Pedraza:you go to, which is why my favorite really is probably my
Hope Pedraza:human design cuz she gives I forget her name. Zoey, I'll
Hope Pedraza:think of it later. But she gives a really good description of
Hope Pedraza:like the main things now you can of course pay to get like more
Hope Pedraza:in depth stuff, but she gives us a really good job of giving at
Hope Pedraza:least like the main things, she gives talks about like your
Hope Pedraza:digestion, your your best, like your most crucial since you're
Hope Pedraza:like what environment you thrive in the most. So yeah, she gives
Hope Pedraza:you all like the important stuff.
Kalee Boisvert:Okay, I love it and then come From that people
Kalee Boisvert:can even go deeper and write and even working with you to really
Kalee Boisvert:get a plan in place of how that works. Okay. And then, like we
Kalee Boisvert:talked about, like, okay, taking cues from your body trusting
Kalee Boisvert:your intuition. I mean, I feel like people always want to know
Kalee Boisvert:more about that, like, how do we do that? How do we, you know,
Kalee Boisvert:navigate that I feel like we're, we're on the go, we're busy.
Kalee Boisvert:There's so many things coming at us all the time. That, you know,
Kalee Boisvert:it's hard to decipher. Okay, what, what is my body telling
Kalee Boisvert:me? And yeah, so what is your recommendation for that?
Hope Pedraza:That's a good question. And, and I mean, no,
Hope Pedraza:this is like, kind of a non answer. But it really is just
Hope Pedraza:like practicing and listening, because, and that's one of the
Hope Pedraza:things I work with my clients first, like when we first start
Hope Pedraza:working together, I have them do this food journal. And it's,
Hope Pedraza:which sounds really boring and lame, but they're not just
Hope Pedraza:tracking, like what they eat. But they're asking, like, how
Hope Pedraza:did you feel before you eat? How did you feel after you eat? What
Hope Pedraza:kind of mood were you in? Like, I'm asking him all these like,
Hope Pedraza:really specific questions, like one of my clients is like, I
Hope Pedraza:feel like I'm in therapy, like answering all these questions
Hope Pedraza:about my food. But really, it's really to build that sense of
Hope Pedraza:self awareness. Because a lot of times, you know, we're like, go,
Hope Pedraza:go, go go going throughout the day, a lot of us very rarely
Hope Pedraza:stop and really check in with with our body and like what our
Hope Pedraza:body is doing. And so with, like, with this food journal,
Hope Pedraza:it's forcing you to think about, okay, what mood was I in? How
Hope Pedraza:did I feel what was going on during the day, and so then we
Hope Pedraza:can relate it back to oh, well, I felt really crappy later in
Hope Pedraza:the day. But then earlier in the day, I was super stressed, and I
Hope Pedraza:was eating on the go, and then my digestive system was all
Hope Pedraza:messed up. So you're able to like connect dots that way. So I
Hope Pedraza:really think it just takes practice. And it takes
Hope Pedraza:intentionality mean, it takes intention for sure. And, and
Hope Pedraza:just even, you know, a few times a day stopping everything you're
Hope Pedraza:doing. And this is something I always encourage my clients to
Hope Pedraza:do. Just stopping. And literally just checking in like asking
Hope Pedraza:yourself, hey, like, how do I feel right now? So I have no
Hope Pedraza:holding tension anywhere? Am I feeling tired? Do I need to get
Hope Pedraza:up and take a walk real quick? Do I need it, you know, so just
Hope Pedraza:intentionally taking a couple breaks throughout the day to
Hope Pedraza:check in with yourself. And I think that's really, the easiest
Hope Pedraza:way to really check in with your intuition is checking in with
Hope Pedraza:yourself and letting because your intuition knows the answer,
Hope Pedraza:a lot of times we're just blocking the answer, because
Hope Pedraza:we're in our head about it, but it's getting you out of your
Hope Pedraza:head and getting you into your bodies, we can really feel it's
Hope Pedraza:it's more about feeling the thinking. And so when we're able
Hope Pedraza:to kind of put that into practice, it kind of helps that
Hope Pedraza:that that inner voice of intuition speak a little bit
Hope Pedraza:louder. And then I think the other part of it is, is really
Hope Pedraza:bringing in mindfulness into your life. And that's why I
Hope Pedraza:mentioned the meditation earlier. But but it doesn't have
Hope Pedraza:to be meditation, it can be journaling, it could be praying,
Hope Pedraza:it could be walking in nature, it could just be sitting outside
Hope Pedraza:on the porch. But but but quieting your mind, right?
Hope Pedraza:Again, turning off the mic going into your body, this that
Hope Pedraza:bringing that sense of mindfulness really helps quiet
Hope Pedraza:down the noise of the world and really can help you tune into
Hope Pedraza:your intuition to that inner voice.
Kalee Boisvert:Okay, absolutely love that. Lots of good ideas
Kalee Boisvert:there. What else was he gonna say? Um, so what does this mean?
Kalee Boisvert:Like once, like, what do you see from your clients? I guess kind
Kalee Boisvert:of like, as you start them, you make these plans and sort of end
Kalee Boisvert:result, like, what kind of things can they expect as as
Kalee Boisvert:changes and noticeable kind of, like positive results from doing
Kalee Boisvert:some of this work?
Hope Pedraza:Yeah. So for most of the ladies I work with,
Hope Pedraza:they're dealing with a lot of different things on the health
Hope Pedraza:front, like there's, you know, multiple symptoms involved, some
Hope Pedraza:of them have autoimmune issues. Some of them it's like, you
Hope Pedraza:know, stubborn weight, which really and truly is just a
Hope Pedraza:symptom of other things going on. So they just really want to
Hope Pedraza:figure out what's going on in their body. So it's really a
Hope Pedraza:combination of things. Because, you know, we're putting the
Hope Pedraza:nutrition piece together with the mindfulness piece in with
Hope Pedraza:just kind of that wellness piece. And they really build on
Hope Pedraza:each other. And it's, again, it's my first goal is always to
Hope Pedraza:get them to build that sense of self awareness first and
Hope Pedraza:foremost, because that's really when you make the biggest
Hope Pedraza:changes and the biggest transformations with anything,
Hope Pedraza:not even with boldness, I mean, it can be in relationships, or
Hope Pedraza:you know, whatever. But building that sense of self awareness is
Hope Pedraza:always crucial. First and foremost, like let's really
Hope Pedraza:track what's going on. And when they're having reactions to
Hope Pedraza:things when you know, we've made some changes in their diet or
Hope Pedraza:whatever and they're still having reactions haven't go back
Hope Pedraza:to go back to wellness journal left, start journaling to speak
Hope Pedraza:check everything you're eating, track your cycle, like let's
Hope Pedraza:tune into our body and figure out what's going on. So that's
Hope Pedraza:the first piece and in all of them come out with this sense of
Hope Pedraza:like, feeling like kind of what I was saying before that cheesy
Hope Pedraza:live life. I felt like I was meeting an old friend when I
Hope Pedraza:started learning human design, but uh, you're feeling like that
Hope Pedraza:to building that sense of self awareness because you're like,
Hope Pedraza:Okay, I actually know what's going on in my body. I can feel
Hope Pedraza:when things are off so we can help you kind of redirect you
Hope Pedraza:know, your life or your diet or whatever to kind of get back on
Hope Pedraza:track. So, I'd say that's first and foremost. and using human
Hope Pedraza:design is like, I mean, I just think it's just the other
Hope Pedraza:transformational piece because not only are you able to build
Hope Pedraza:that sense of self awareness with like your health and stuff,
Hope Pedraza:but now you've got this human design piece that's really
Hope Pedraza:helping you to live in alignment in every other aspect of your
Hope Pedraza:life. And so it's just, it just does just go hand in hand. And
Hope Pedraza:then and then to the other big, you know, transformational piece
Hope Pedraza:is the whole goal. And that's what I do as an FDA NP is to
Hope Pedraza:help them live symptom free. And so it's being able to, you know,
Hope Pedraza:heal the gut, lower inflammation and balance hormones, whatever
Hope Pedraza:the issue is we're dealing with, so that they feel like them
Hope Pedraza:again, they feel free in their body, again, they feel like they
Hope Pedraza:have control their body. And so now I feel I have to have
Hope Pedraza:control my body again. And now I can live in alignment, like it
Hope Pedraza:just, it just all goes together.
Kalee Boisvert:Yeah, that's very, like empowering. What
Kalee Boisvert:you're describing is that self awareness, knowing yourself, and
Kalee Boisvert:then you're right, the more you know, and recognize yourself,
Kalee Boisvert:the more you're willing to make a change, because otherwise,
Kalee Boisvert:you're just gonna kind of keep going to those past behaviors or
Kalee Boisvert:whatnot. It's easy, right? It's easy. Yep. To go to McDonald's
Kalee Boisvert:and get the french fries.
Hope Pedraza:It really is. And it really is just like, you
Hope Pedraza:know, interrupting. It's just interrupting those patterns.
Hope Pedraza:Yeah,
Kalee Boisvert:yeah, absolutely. Um, I love that, um,
Kalee Boisvert:anything else that you can give people like, I think so common
Kalee Boisvert:with women and busy women? Is that low energy, I feel like gut
Kalee Boisvert:health, things like that, and kind of what they impact in, in
Kalee Boisvert:our in our lives. And I guess maybe since there's symptoms of
Kalee Boisvert:things like thyroid issues, or digestive issues and things like
Kalee Boisvert:that, is there anything like kind of a few comments you can
Kalee Boisvert:make on some of those, like, very commonly experienced, I
Kalee Boisvert:guess? Issues and symptoms that people go through?
Hope Pedraza:Yeah, yeah. Those really are probably the most
Hope Pedraza:frequent ones is like the energy part, the digestive part, the
Hope Pedraza:hormonal, like all, of course, all of its tied together. Yeah.
Hope Pedraza:I mean, it's hard to give like a quick answer for this because a
Hope Pedraza:kid like, yeah, right away. But I'd say really, of course, first
Hope Pedraza:and foremost is like really tuning into your body. Because a
Hope Pedraza:lot of times, you can kind of redirect things yourself, if you
Hope Pedraza:can really go into your body and kind of start tracking things
Hope Pedraza:and seeing when things happen when I'm feeling this way, that
Hope Pedraza:way that you're able to pinpoint, okay, I know that
Hope Pedraza:those foods are causing me problems. So maybe I don't eat
Hope Pedraza:those as much. Or it's okay, well, I didn't drink as much
Hope Pedraza:water this day, and I felt really crappy, by the end of the
Hope Pedraza:day, probably need to hydrate more. So a lot of times, you're
Hope Pedraza:able to redirect yourself by just like keeping track of what
Hope Pedraza:you're doing, like just tuning into your body. Tracking your
Hope Pedraza:cycle is always good, even if you're on hormonal birth
Hope Pedraza:control, tracking your cycle to know what your body's doing at
Hope Pedraza:what time of the month because a lot of times that triggers a lot
Hope Pedraza:of other things, I have a lot of clients who their autoimmune
Hope Pedraza:flares always happen around their menstrual cycle, like
Hope Pedraza:that's, they know, they're gonna have triggers right then. So
Hope Pedraza:like, Let's track things, let's do all the things around when
Hope Pedraza:your cycles is about to start again, so that we can, making
Hope Pedraza:sure we're you know, we've cut out the sugar and the alcohol,
Hope Pedraza:the inflammatory things that are going to make the symptoms
Hope Pedraza:worse. And then it's just, you know, limiting the amount of
Hope Pedraza:inflammation on the body. So that's, it's, you know, there's
Hope Pedraza:so many stressors that happen on and in the body, there's
Hope Pedraza:physical stressors, there's chemical stressors, there's
Hope Pedraza:situational stress, right? And so it's just limiting that as
Hope Pedraza:much as possible and knowing how to, like manage the effects of
Hope Pedraza:it. So, you know, eating as anti inflammatory as possible,
Hope Pedraza:getting rid of super inflammatory foods are limiting
Hope Pedraza:them as much as possible, right. It's limiting toxic exposure to
Hope Pedraza:chemicals, and like, you know, makeup and personal care
Hope Pedraza:products and cleaning products, it's really just limiting that
Hope Pedraza:toxic load on the body, because that's, it's the toxic load on
Hope Pedraza:the body is really just what causes things to go haywire in
Hope Pedraza:the body anyway, and they come from somebody, and it's
Hope Pedraza:impossible to limit all of them like we live on planet Earth,
Hope Pedraza:there's going to be toxins we're going to come our environment is
Hope Pedraza:not the best unless you're going to live in some agrarian society
Hope Pedraza:out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean somewhere or something.
Hope Pedraza:But we're, you know, we're gonna come into contact with toxins,
Hope Pedraza:but it's just limiting it as much as possible. And knowing
Hope Pedraza:how to like counteract that with anti inflammatory things in ways
Hope Pedraza:to like really help the body detoxify.
Kalee Boisvert:Okay, what are some anti inflammatory things
Kalee Boisvert:for people but good? I aren't familiar.
Hope Pedraza:Yes, yes. So it's really it's plants like plant
Hope Pedraza:based foods, not saying you have to go plant based but plant
Hope Pedraza:based foods, it's fruits and veggies and nuts and seeds, and
Hope Pedraza:legumes. All of those foods are high in antioxidants, vitamins,
Hope Pedraza:and minerals, all the things that your immune system needs to
Hope Pedraza:really thrive and function optimally. It's all the things
Hope Pedraza:that your gut means to thrive and function optimally. It helps
Hope Pedraza:build a healthy gut, it helps build a healthy gut microbiome,
Hope Pedraza:which is all the bacteria in your gut. So the power of plants
Hope Pedraza:really can't be overstated. And that's again not saying you have
Hope Pedraza:to eat plant based there's There's always room for meat, if
Hope Pedraza:that's what you want to eat, but really putting a focus on it's
Hope Pedraza:what I have my clients, I call it a plant focused diet with my
Hope Pedraza:clients since just getting a focus on plants, and just
Hope Pedraza:getting the power of the fiber and the vitamins and the
Hope Pedraza:minerals and antioxidants and all the things that plants have
Hope Pedraza:to offer.
Kalee Boisvert:So make sure you get those plants, right, love
Kalee Boisvert:it, okay, um, anything else before we wrap up, like, this is
Kalee Boisvert:amazing. And like I said, you're just, there's so much here, so
Kalee Boisvert:much good information, that, again, helps just anyone in day
Kalee Boisvert:to day life like I think we can get so caught up in our lives or
Kalee Boisvert:you know, we have our kids or work or just everything on a lot
Kalee Boisvert:on our plate. So this is things that we do need to stop and pay
Kalee Boisvert:attention to and have that awareness and be taking cues
Kalee Boisvert:from our body. So I love this because our body is what's, you
Kalee Boisvert:know, what are the the whole vehicle that we're able to
Kalee Boisvert:function through? So we need to keep on you've got Yeah, it is.
Kalee Boisvert:Anything else before we like wrap up that you'd like to leave
Kalee Boisvert:listeners with or anything like that?
Hope Pedraza:Um, yeah, I think my my parting wisdom is just to
Hope Pedraza:spend more time tuning into yourself and spending more time
Hope Pedraza:quieting your mind and really tuning in tune to your
Hope Pedraza:intuition. I think that's really one of the most powerful things
Hope Pedraza:you can do is to learn how to listen to your intuition. So
Hope Pedraza:yeah, finding more time to do that can really be like the most
Hope Pedraza:important thing you can do. Yeah,
Kalee Boisvert:it is. And like you said, with that example, I
Kalee Boisvert:just the other day, I was like, I was feeling off this day. And
Kalee Boisvert:I noticed I didn't drink as much water. And so it was like the
Kalee Boisvert:answer just came to
Hope Pedraza:me myself. Exactly, exactly. Your body will
Hope Pedraza:tell you. Yeah, it was like,
Kalee Boisvert:okay, so I have to drink more water so that we
Kalee Boisvert:do have that inner guide, and we just have to listen to it. There
Kalee Boisvert:though. It's all it's there for us. How can people find you and
Kalee Boisvert:connect with you?
Hope Pedraza:Yes, yeah, so you can find me I'm probably most
Hope Pedraza:active on Instagram at the hope Pedraza and then I have a free
Hope Pedraza:Facebook group. It's live wholesome and healthy. Just all
Hope Pedraza:things, holistic nutrition and holistic wellness. Okay,
Hope Pedraza:perfect.
Kalee Boisvert:And I'll include those in the show notes too, for
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Kalee Boisvert:That's right. Awesome. Well, thank you so much hope I love
Kalee Boisvert:this. Love this conversation. And yeah, I'm sure everyone
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