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E 361: How Childhood Trauma Became Autoimmune Disease with Holly Haag
Episode 36122nd August 2026 • Adult Child of Dysfunction • Tammy Vincent
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What if your body has been carrying your childhood trauma long after your mind tried to forget it?

In this powerful episode, Tammy sits down with Holly Haag, holistic health coach and founder of The Healing Haul, whose life was shaped by severe childhood abuse, generational trauma, and multiple autoimmune diagnoses—including Multiple Sclerosis. Through years of research and personal healing, Holly now helps others understand the connection between trauma, chronic illness, and whole-body healing.

Rather than accepting that illness would define her future, Holly began searching for the deeper "why." Her journey led her through therapy, EMDR, nervous system healing, nutrition, detoxification, mindset work, and learning how unresolved trauma can influence physical health.

In this conversation, you'll discover:

• How childhood trauma can impact long-term physical health

• Why genetics may load the gun, but stress can pull the trigger

• The connection between nervous system regulation and autoimmune disease

• Why becoming your own safe person is one of the most important parts of healing

• Practical habits that support both emotional and physical wellness

If Holly's story resonates with you, you can learn more about her work at The Healing Haul, and connect with her on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram:

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Whether you're navigating childhood trauma, chronic illness, or simply searching for hope, Holly's message is clear: healing doesn't happen overnight—but with small, consistent steps, it is possible.

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hello everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of Adult Child of Dysfunction.

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Today we have with us Holly.

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Haag.

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She's a holistic health coach

with a focus on autoimmunity.

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She has to face her own multiple

autoimmune disease, so she took

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that knowledge, learned to help

others and get their health back.

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Welcome Holly.

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I am super excited to talk about this

because like I was saying right before

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we got on here, when you go through

that childhood trauma which is everybody

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I deal with, it affects not just

your mind but it affects your body.

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And you are living proof of that.

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So let's jump right in.

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How are you today?

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Great.

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Thank you for having me.

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I appreciate what you do and having a

voice for people like me because for

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many years I didn't have a voice at all.

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Thank you for doing what you do.

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Oh, you're very welcome.

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So you, I read, I…

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It's not just even in your bio but

I was reading later on in something

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that you wrote that you grew up

sounds very much like me with the…

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talk a little bit about your

childhood just so people can get

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a background of what you went

through when you were younger.

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Sure.

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So I'm the third generation in my family

to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

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My mother would be the second.

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And she was diagnosed when

I was three years old.

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So that in itself was very traumatizing

for me 'cause even though I didn't

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understand the concept of death, I thought

she was dying 'cause she was very sick.

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And so my father had to take more

care of, do more of the things to

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care for me during that moment.

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And my, my grandmother, which was

my saving grace in the story, she

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had to step in and so she did.

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She, I always referred to her

as a second mom because she

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was such a big part of my life.

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But during that time my father

started molesting me, started, He was

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verbally abusive, physically abusive.

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And fortunately he was a truck

driver so he was not always there.

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He worked nights a lot, so he'd go from

working nights to working mornings.

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So I didn't have to deal with him

all the time which helped me too, but

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when I did it was a scary place to be.

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And because I was an

only child I didn't know.

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I didn't know that what was

happening wasn't supposed to happen.

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It just, I internalized the

fear that this is scary.

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Oftentimes I'd play in my

closet because there were walls

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behind me 'cause it felt safe.

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So it was a scary situation

despite I think people have a

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hard time understanding that you

didn't know you were being abused.

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Especially back then.

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Like back then there wasn't social media.

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I had Oregon Trails eventually.

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There…

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We didn't even have computers.

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Eventually we got to, I

think, junior high, maybe high

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school, we had Oregon Trails.

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I don't even remember what age it was.

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But, that was the extent of what we got.

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Now you have a computer

in your hand every day.

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So it's hard to take somebody

in today's world and place them

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in the times that I was in.

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But there just was not a lot of

awareness around sexual abuse.

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And back then you also,

especially, like specifically

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in my family, you stayed quiet.

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You didn't talk about it.

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It was not…

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So there was no, there's no awareness.

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None.

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And- how old were you when it started?

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I was…

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so EMDR, it happened sooner, but my

first actual solid memory, I was three.

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Oh, wow.

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I was three years old.

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So my, the first memory of my father

giving me a shower is when I just

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playfully grabbed, like I'd never seen

up close in my mind his genitalia,

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and I just "Oh, what's that?"

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Just playfully.

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And he was a tit for tat person.

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So he had injured his hand.

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He used to work for the Alaska

P- Pipelines, and so they were

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almost like a Captain Hook.

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They were crooked fingers

'cause that's how they healed.

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And so he just took them and

shoved them up inside me.

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Wow.

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And that's my very first memory.

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And then I did tell my mother, but now

having children myself, I don't know how

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realistically I translated that at age

three and how it was heard or received.

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But as a parent, I would have also

then been In the back of my mind, huh.

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That's … whatever I had, I'd verbalized.

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I don't remember the exact words.

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But I did he put the, his fingers-

… and then, and h- his defense was

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that he must have just scratched

me, like, when he was washing me.

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So it w- that was how he was, though.

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They, my parents, they're both very

intelligent, so he was i- really able to

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s- to sell the, the, the lie, you know,

that everybody else is dysfunctional.

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Not him.

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You were three years old.

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I was three.

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Like- Yeah … anything he said

that he was going to be able to

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find a way to out-manipulate you.

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You were three.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, I was three.

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There wasn't- Yeah … there, you didn't

have much of a, a ground to stand on

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when it came to having the say and the

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That's crazy.

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And your mom, she just just

bought into it and went on, so

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of course you felt 100% unsafe.

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Did your grandma know?

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Or what, at what age did

you tell your grandmother?

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So I don't remember ever saying

anything to her- … even

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though she was my safe person.

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So it wasn't until I was 12 that I had

a name for it, and I know that sounds

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ridiculously old to not understand

what's happening to you, but I didn't.

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I had no, my mom was the helicopter mom.

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My family came from generational trauma,

so it wasn't anything new to any of them.

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Which- W- in one sense you think would

give you a more of an awareness that it's

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happening, but it also gives you sort of

a blind spot because you're used to it.

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Definitively I don't know that my mother

knew, I don't know that my grandmother

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knew, but I'm positive they did.

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Just because of, one, my third grade

teacher had reported something.

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I don't even know what.

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So I was … I thought it just, I had

trouble reading when I was little, so I

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thought it was for that, but I was tested.

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I went to a psychologist off the school

campus, and they had to d- go do a report.

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And so my aunt found that report when my

grandmother passed away, and apparently

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my grandmother also took notes.

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So she, every day she had a diary.

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Oh, wow.

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And so my aunt came to me before

she died, and she had told me,

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"Hey Holly, I think they knew."

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And I'm like, "I do, too."

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And my mother, she was really

good at manipulating things.

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So I thought my mom loved me so

much and I was so special to her

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until I realized as an adult she

was manipulating the whole thing.

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She was such a great,

masterful manipulator.

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So she would always get drawn into,

she'd have a book cover and she'd

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always be reading these romance novels,

yet she had no romance in her life.

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None.

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The, the actual idea of

intimacy for her was scary.

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It was unattainable.

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She didn't actually physically want

it, but she desired it in her books.

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And then really she used me,

because I was the one that was

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intimate with her husband, right?

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So I replaced that uncomfortable

part that she didn't wanna do.

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And I have to believe at

this point it was on purpose.

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There was one argument that my grandmother

and her had at my grandmother's house

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saying, "I'm not raising another child."

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I think my, my mom maybe tried to leave

or was looking for a different option.

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But I, it always stuck with me.

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It always stuck with me, because

I was like what is she talking

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about raising another child?"

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I didn't understand.

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And my mom was crying.

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I, we stayed there for a couple weeks

on a pulled-out futon bed that my

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grandmother every morning made us make,

like you had to fold it up to make s-

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make it look like nobody was there.

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So those always stuck with me.

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And- … and in EMDR they knew.

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Like, when I did EMDR, they knew.

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And it was y- they both had gone

through trauma themselves, and I

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don't know their full story 'cause

they were quiet about it, right?

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But I know it happened.

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So it's just, it's sorta tragic that They

didn't feel safe enough to get the help

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to have that self-worth to fix themselves

a- and then not to do it for your child.

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I mean- Because- Yeah, and that's

exactly why generational trauma exists.

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But I feel like- Yeah … we're

in a different world now.

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I don't know how old you are.

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Yeah.

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How old are you?

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If you don't mind.

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I'm 44.

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Okay.

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44.

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I, I have, I don't care about that stuff.

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Yeah, no.

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So I'm- Ask away.

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I'm 57, and it was the same thing.

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It was, my mother was

a child psychiatrist.

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Oh.

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So you talk about being

manipulated by the best.

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Oh, yeah.

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She was also an alcoholic and a drug

addict, and her father was a psychiatrist.

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And when she started cutting at

13 and was bulimic, he sent her to

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boarding school for four years and

said, "Come back when you're well."

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Obviously you don't come back after

being kicked out of your house when you

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have so- you know, mental health issues.

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So it's just, it's just a, it's a

cycle of tragedy is really what it was.

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But I like to think that now it's like

now there's so many cycle breakers because

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now- Yeah … there is the internet,

there is computers, there are- Yeah

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All this social media.

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We see we hear something on TikTok

and we're like, "Whoa, that's me."

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Yeah.

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That's how half my clients come to

me is from a podcast where I say one

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little thing and they're like, "Whoa,

I felt like you were in my brain."

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We didn't have that when we were younger.

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No.

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And so our parents most

certainly did not have that.

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No.

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No.

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So it's a whole different…

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I remember the day that I went through

so much inner child work and healing

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my inner child and doing all that

stuff, and then it was like one day

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all of a sudden my therapist was like,

"Can we try something different?"

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And I'm like, "Yeah."

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"Can we flip it?

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Even though you were your mother's

caregiver and you did hold her

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head back and hold her hair back

while she was vomiting into the

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toilet, can we flip it and try to

look at her as the wounded child?"

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Yeah.

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And I was like, "Whoa," "Blah."

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That was my initial- Yeah

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reaction.

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But it wasn't until I could look at her

and the trauma that she had been through

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that I was like 180, all of a sudden it

was like, wow, it wasn't any of her fault.

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No.

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It wa- it just wasn't, and that

was a, whoa, that was eye-opening.

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But what I wanna jump in, 'cause I'm sorry

you went through all that, it sounds- Yeah

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shitty.

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That's all right.

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To say the least.

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But I wanna jump into the

mind-body and just, you said you

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were the third generation MS.

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Yeah.

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Now, multiple sclerosis, I know.

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I've always been with the understanding

once I started healing my own issues was

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that mind-body connection, thought, eating

habits can overcome heredity any day.

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What do you think about that?

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Genetics have to be expressed.

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So I studied everything because

I knew there was a genetic link.

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I skipped my grandmother, but she

had many strokes and she ultimately

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died of a massive stroke, and so

she fits into that equation as well.

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She more than likely had rheumatoid

arthritis, whether sh- whether

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she told me about it or not.

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That's the thing with her,

she, her lips were sealed.

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You didn't know.

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You didn't know what was going on

but genetics always play a role.

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S- they always play a role.

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So you're expressing your genetics, and

what has to happen for that is stress.

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Some sort of stress, whether it's

a physical stress, whether it's an

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emotional stress that has to happen

for those genetics to express.

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So that's your environment.

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That might be childbirth.

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It might be…

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A lot of women it is childbirth, actually.

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It's such a great stress on the

body, and that's ultimately when the

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majority of my symptoms expressed

was after I had my first child.

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You're depleted of nutrients.

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So there's so much going on.

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It's a the, the vagus nerve, right?

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Where it's getting, like, when you have a

baby especially "Hey, something's wrong."

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And then if you're already…

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Say you go into that pregnancy and you're

depleted and you're toxic and your body

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is all full of heavy metals and now

microplastics, and it's just not healthy.

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So you're going in as this- Not

really a whole person, and then

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you're coming out, you're depleted

'cause the baby's taking from you.

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If you're breastfeeding, you're

gonna be depleted even more.

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And so it's just this cascade.

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And we think, "Oh, where

did this come from?"

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For my family, we expressed genetics.

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So we have the celiac gene.

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We have MTHFR.

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We don't methylate well.

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APOE4, Alzheimer's, that's the

bad four alleles in the brain.

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So we're not processing

saturated fats well.

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So there's a- the genetics, you

cannot remove genetics as much as

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functional med- medicine tries.

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And I'm part of functional medicine,

but I disagree that we don't

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pay attention to our genetics.

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It's the blueprint of who we are.

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But that emotional part of…

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that we don't deal with, that

part that we try to ignore

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and package up and "I'm fine.

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I'm fine."

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I said I was fine until I had my child.

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That's when I broke.

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Like completely broke.

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Like completely numb, completely y-

unable to human, is what I would say.

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So basic needs, showering,

making food, like I…

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brushing your teeth.

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I was unable to do basic needs for myself.

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I was able to care for my son as

much as I could, and that was it.

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My body completely shut down when

I had him because he was a twin.

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He was born sick.

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I had hyperemesis gravidarum.

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I had pre-term labor.

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It…

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the worst f- if you could think of the

worst first pregnancy scenario, I had it.

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It was horrific.

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It took an emotional toll.

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It took a physical toll.

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And so I had him, and I realized it

took that, all of that I need to change.

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I need to be better.

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I am responsible…

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It was the first time I

realized I was responsible for

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something other than myself.

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I really had never…

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I'd been so selfish before,

'cause it was all about me.

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It was all about me, and my husband

better be doing, like, all the things.

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Oh I'm awesome, so why aren't

you treating me better?

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Why aren't you…

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and then I realized too, I picked a

husband that's not very good, I realized

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that right away after my son was born,

and I'm like, "Okay how does this work?"

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So that sort of crumbled and fell apart

because I realized how dysfunctional

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my life was, and the choices I had

made, and why I had make, made them.

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I had all these answers of…

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or not answers, but questions as to, like,

how did I get here, how did I get here?

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Why, what i- what is happening right now?

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I already went through all this crap.

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Why d- why isn't it over?

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Why isn't it over?

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Why is this happening to me?

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That's how I initially took

that, and so I had to do therapy.

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I ha- I did EMDR.

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I did 15 years of therapy, and

therapy was good in the sense

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that I got to verbalize it.

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I got to talk with somebody that was

safe, that gave me tools so I could handle

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my stress, because I had none before.

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I had no ability to handle stress, because

nobody had given me anything other than

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dysfunctional ways to handle stress.

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And I ha- I wasn't really

super dysfunctional on paper.

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I, I went to dental school.

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I had a good job.

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I I bought my first house at 22.

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I had nicer cars, for my age.

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I didn't look like a hot mess,

but I felt like one inside.

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I think my marriage would eventually

show that, that was crumbling.

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That was eventually gonna show the

dysfunction, the cracks, so to speak.

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And even after all that therapy,

here I get diagnosed with MS at 38.

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I have my new marriage.

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I'm thinking gosh what like, I

have to do more, i'm not done?

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My, my big pile of crap isn't over?

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What else do I have to work through?

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And I think that's the part that needs

to really be understood is- There's

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so many layers to abuse and to healing

that there is no set end point.

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And I realize that now.

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There's still not an end point, right?

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So I started to do, like you s-

you suggested, inner child work.

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I started to view my self and l- I

literally would go to the park and go

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for walks and pretend to hold her hand

and say, "Do you wanna go with me?"

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And I…

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And here's the other truth.

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I went a lot of my life, a lot

of my life not trusting myself,

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because I couldn't protect myself.

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Couldn't protect myself as a child.

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I blamed myself as an

adult that I wasn't safe.

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Wasn't able…

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I always compare myself to Runaway

Bride, 'cause what eggs do I like?

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I would s- sit in front of a rack

of clothes and go, "What color?"

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Because I didn't know myself.

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It, I did not, and I was so separated.

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And so I had to get to know myself.

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I had to love myself.

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I had to become my safe person.

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I had to, just like you mentioned,

I, one of my core values, I figured

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out my core values, and one of

my core values is compassion.

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And so when I was able to see my

mother as the broken person, the

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the little girl that never grew up.

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She was in an adult body but a child

inside, and she acted like a child inside.

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Y- some of the arguments we were getting

into, I felt more of an adult than she,

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she was when I was a teenager, and I'm

like, "Why is she treating me like this?"

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Because she wasn't an adult inside.

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Absolutely.

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And so I, when I saw them for what

they were and who they were and

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where they were stuck and stunted, it

allowed me to heal a part of me that

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was unable to heal be- at that point.

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And when my mo- mother

passed away, there was…

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Here I thought I'd, I'm done.

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I did all the work.

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I did, I've done the energy healing.

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I've done the inner child healing.

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I've done all this stuff, and then she

passed away, and there was another layer.

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Here was all of this guarded trauma

that I had to have the armor up

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in order to have the relationship.

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Because I kept the relationship

because she's sick.

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She has MS.

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I was told by my grandparents, both sides.

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My grandparents were divorced.

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"It's your job, Holly.

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You're the only child.

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It's your responsibility."

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Here my grandfather's a millionaire,

and he's telling me that I need to take

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care of his kid, and he doesn't take…

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he maybe the whole time that

when my parents got divorced,

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he bought us a toilet.

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Here's this guy calling me up.

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Here I, what I'm working at

Blockbuster, and i- it's your

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responsibility making $7 and 10 cents

an hour to take care of your mother.

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And- Oh, my gosh.

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That reminds me.

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That's so crazy 'cause my grandfather,

who was my mother's mother or

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my mother's father, same thing.

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He literally…

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I was living with her for a

while, and it was the most

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dysfunctional environment ever.

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Yeah.

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We were living in someone's garage.

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She was lending me to her

drug dealers to pay her debt.

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There was no food in the house and

he was sending her $10,000 a month.

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And I was like She's not feeding me.

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I'm literally walking

to the grocery store.

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So he t- completely enabling

her to just snort everything

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she could get up her nose.

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I was like, "Are you kidding me?"

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Yeah.

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But he's like she's your responsibility.

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You're there with her."

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I was like, I was 16

and starving to death.

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Yeah.

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Cut me some slack, man.

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Yeah.

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And that…

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So my mom, it was always about

her MS and her nervous system, not

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ever worrying about anybody else's.

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And so when I was a child, I oftentimes

would go unfed, and so I would climb

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the ca- the cabinet and then there

was a counter right behind, so if I

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fell, I could have seriously been hurt.

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But I'd climb 'cause I knew

my dad kept candy up there.

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So you know, what does the kid go to?

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They go to the candy.

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And one time I went…

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I, my mom, she would, if you didn't

like what she liked, sh- you could not

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like things she thought were gross.

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And so one day I'd gone into the fridge to

get ranch dressing, and I just was eating

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the ranch from the bottle because I was

that young and that was food, because she

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was either sleeping on the bed or engulfed

in her romance novel, and wasn't…

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I was just this little kid

by myself r- in the house.

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Yeah.

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And she got enraged.

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Enraged.

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I never liked ranch again after

that because she came out screaming

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and yelling how gross I was,

how "How dare I get into that.

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That's disgusting.

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You'll never eat that again."

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And I never did.

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But it's funny that every food

she didn't like was white.

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Ranch, butter.

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So you say, "Oh I don't

know her story completely."

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You sorta do.

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Y- you sorta do, 'cause it's

okay you obviously were molested.

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You obviously…

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and the stories I do know of my

grandfather, of my grandmother's

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father, he was an alcoholic.

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My aunt in, in her last year, opened

up to me that possibly, through

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her therapy, that something had

happened with the grandfather there.

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:

And so you can see the line of

abuse- … that, that just unfolds,

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and it's like it's not a coincidence

you don't like foods that are white.

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:

So it…

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I had to be the detective in my

family too, so I had to want to

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heal enough to dig and find out

their stories as much as I could.

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:

You do.

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And- Of course you do.

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Yeah.

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:

So because you're not gonna under-

fully understand what- Yeah … you're

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:

going through unless you fully

understand where they came from.

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:

Yeah.

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Honestly.

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Yeah.

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:

And it- That makes 100% sense.

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:

Yeah.

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And it…

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it's heartbreaking.

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It really is.

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:

It's heartbreaking.

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:

It's it's tragic, but at

what point does it end?

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At what point- But it's-

Somebody has to stop it.

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:

A- absolutely, and that's why we're here

today, because you have the story of

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the hope and the healing and all of the-

Yeah … good stuff and moving forward.

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:

I'm gonna jump back in into the physical

stuff- Sure … because I'm fascinated

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:

with you healing your own body.

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:

Yeah.

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:

So first of all, let's talk about

how you think you g- didn't get MS

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until you were 38, you said, right?

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And you said it was kinda…

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it's triggered by the baby, and

all of this stuff is triggered.

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:

Did you not have any physical symptoms

of anything before that from trauma?

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No.

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So I had signs as a child that there

was something off just 'cause I'd

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have itchy throat, sinus issues.

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:

So there was signs there

that something was off.

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19, I ate a pack of…

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I got a, a box of fruit snacks that

I had eaten when I was a child,

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and I ate one pack, and here I'm

blonde, extremely good shape.

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I used to be a high-performance athlete.

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Tan.

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I look like the picture of health.

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I, my blood sugar crashed so bad

I had to take a four-hour nap.

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I woke up and my, internally

my body was shaking so bad.

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I thought…

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I went to my mom, I'm

like, "Mom, am I shaking?"

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Couldn't see it, but it felt like somebody

was just violently shaking me inside.

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And so I went to the doctor

thinking, "Oh, maybe I have diabetes.

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:

Maybe I, what could this be?"

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"Nope, everything's fine.

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You're fine."

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:

And then I wouldn't really

have major symptoms.

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I started to have constipation issues.

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I had an eating disorder at age

13, 'cause that's the only thing

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I could choose to do, 'cause my

mom had moved in my boyfriend.

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:

So I was in this, not on paper,

but an, basically an arranged

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:

marriage without the marriage.

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Because she had to keep me in the abuse.

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Got divorced, my father's not

there, but we gotta keep Holly,

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:

gotta keep her working, I don't

even know what else to call it.

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:

Which I cared for my boyfriend,

but I didn't wanna live with him.

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I didn't wanna, be forced to have

sex and- I don't mean to interrupt

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:

isolated from my kids.

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:

I don't mean to interrupt you, but

I'm like, your story just keeps

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going down these things, and I'm

like, you got so many layers, girl.

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:

Of course.

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You'll never have them unpacked.

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:

But, not all of them.

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:

Of course.

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:

But that's okay.

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:

So- Because it's okay.

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:

Yeah.

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:

The, so the physical part

there was so much to that.

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:

So t- 24, literally a week after

my 24th birthday, I deliver my son.

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:

And that's when the issues started,

and I kept asking to be tested for MS.

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:

I suspected it 20 years before I got it.

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:

So they wouldn't test me.

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:

They would not…

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:

Oh, there's no neurological symptoms.

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:

But bladder issues

came, vision in and out.

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:

Never did I test that there

was anything wrong with me.

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:

Thyroid's fine.

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:

Weight gain, extreme weight gain.

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:

So here I go from being, I don't

know, in today's world maybe I

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:

was a size two or a size four,

because the numbers are way off.

532

:

Like- … size two today was probably a

size six or eight when we were y- little.

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:

But, I went from that to

gaining 100 pounds effortlessly.

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:

N- no reason for it, and there it is.

535

:

Every- everything was just out

of balance, and that is so-

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:

Everything … that is just so stress

related anyway, those imbalances.

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:

I actually do a biofrequency

energy scan with your voice

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:

that detects a hu- oh yeah.

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:

It's really fun.

540

:

It's 171,000 different

frequencies it detects in your

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:

body, and it detects imbalances.

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:

So it doesn't, it's not diagnostic,

but when I get blood work done,

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:

I love to put it up next to it

because- Yeah … it's spot on.

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:

And those are the things, I

love doing it for clients.

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:

I'll have to let you do one.

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:

It's free.

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:

Yeah.

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:

Yeah, it's totally free.

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:

But it's fun because what it

does is it, like I said, your

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body is amazing at compensating.

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:

Yeah.

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:

So that's why, and if your cortisol

is high, something else will kick in,

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:

but your digestive juices will stop

flowing because they don't wanna wear

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:

this out, and it's all connected.

555

:

But this thing that's, that shows

these imbalances, it shows stressors.

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:

Yeah.

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:

So it will s- it showed me I wanna say

about seven months before my doctor told

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me that my A1C was high, that my A1C, my

glucagon, my glucose, that, my sugar, my

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metabolism, like it told me all of that.

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:

And had I listened and fixed it, my

sugar then before I had the actual blood

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:

test, I probably could have avoided it.

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:

Yeah.

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:

Yeah.

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:

It- But you don't listen, and

your body- You don't … your

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:

body whispers before it screams.

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:

And with people like me, w- we are so

good at faking life, at putting the

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:

face on, at separating from our bodies.

568

:

And so what it took for me is to

go and do the uncomfortable work of

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:

being part of my body, being part

of my body, feeling everything.

570

:

You have to feel to heal.

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:

You have to feel to heal.

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:

And doing vagus work, tapping, I

love tapping, and I used to tap to

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:

try to get rid of the dysfunction.

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:

What is my attachment to potato chips?

575

:

Tapping for that.

576

:

But then it became about…

577

:

I tap now.

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:

I sing this little song that

it's oh, how does it go?

579

:

All my cells are healthy and happy.

580

:

But I sing this little song telling my

body that I'm healthy and I'm happy,

581

:

and I tap, and I do it every day.

582

:

It's a non-negotiable.

583

:

And so I started practicing

things like that.

584

:

I…

585

:

Anytime I have negative

thoughts, I ask myself…

586

:

I don't comple- I used to just

dismiss them and say "Cancel" or,

587

:

"Nope, we're not gonna think of that.

588

:

Nope."

589

:

And sometimes I'll do that if

it's really I don't wanna give the

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:

energy to a b- a negative thought.

591

:

But I accept them now, and I go

why am I thinking about that?"

592

:

Why am I thinking about that?

593

:

I might pray about it

and say, "You know what?

594

:

I don't really wanna think about this.

595

:

I wanna understand why it's here,

but I don't wanna have these emotions

596

:

attached to it," and I don't.

597

:

I just release them.

598

:

I'm like, "Okay it's

your job, God, not mine."

599

:

"Your stress, not mine."

600

:

And so- Surrendering.

601

:

Yeah, surrender- Surrender … and

just give it up, and- Yep … you

602

:

have to do that sometimes.

603

:

But the tapping is actually amazing, and-

It is … if nothing else it's refocusing.

604

:

But telling your body over and over again.

605

:

Yeah.

606

:

I talk to people all the time,

and they wake up in the morning,

607

:

and they literally make a mental

inventory of everything that hurts.

608

:

Yeah.

609

:

I'm like, you literally just

spent 10 minutes bringing all of

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:

the negative energy and pointing

out all the things that hurt.

611

:

Manifesting pain.

612

:

Yeah.

613

:

Yeah.

614

:

How about waking up in the morning and

thanking God that your feet don't hurt?

615

:

Like- Yeah … my feet

feel great this morning.

616

:

But it's like, where our

attention goes, energy flows.

617

:

So- Yeah Oh, it's and I truly-

It's so true … I truly believe,

618

:

There's no, I guess you could

say coincidence, or there's no…

619

:

There is no coincidence that people

that have a, a horrible divorce that

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:

their rates of breast cancer are high.

621

:

Yeah.

622

:

It's like that's…

623

:

all of the mind-body connection is so

real, and now it's like you just have

624

:

to believe it, though, because then

you have to believe that what you put

625

:

into the universe is what you get out.

626

:

So when you're talking to your body, like

you say, you're tapping and you're saying,

627

:

"All of my cells in my body are whole and

healthy"- Yeah … then you're speaking

628

:

it into the universe, and the universe is

gonna look for experiences and anything

629

:

to evidence to show that what you said

was true, 'cause it wants it to be true.

630

:

Yeah.

631

:

And and that's the way I started looking

at praying, too is we pray for a little

632

:

bit of time, "Oh, I want this," right?

633

:

And then we think we're done.

634

:

We're done.

635

:

But then all day you're, like you said,

you're focused on, "Oh, my knee hurts.

636

:

My knee hurts.

637

:

My head hurts.

638

:

Oh, I'm sick."

639

:

You say these things to yourself.

640

:

I don't say, "Oh, I have,"

I say, "I was diagnosed.

641

:

I was diagnosed with this," because

I believe your body's meant to heal.

642

:

I believe your body can heal.

643

:

And there's so many of us.

644

:

It's not just me.

645

:

There's so many of us that have

done that, and it's about feeding

646

:

your, anti-inflammatory diet.

647

:

There's such a focus on

anti-inflammatory diet, but what is that?

648

:

That's you actually

taking care of yourself.

649

:

It's you not picking the food.

650

:

I used to comfort myself with

food, comfort myself with a chair.

651

:

The chair would hug me

because I needed a hug.

652

:

You can put your hand on your heart and

make practices where you hug yourself

653

:

or you actually literally hug yourself.

654

:

I was looking for that attention.

655

:

And what was that?

656

:

That was my little self, the little

me that needed somebody to be

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:

there for me that wasn't there.

658

:

I was all by myself.

659

:

Talking about abandonment issues.

660

:

When you are in a big house all

by yourself with a pool, like a

661

:

lot of scary things can happen.

662

:

And then the house is scary.

663

:

My, my parents, they slept separately,

so my dad, when he'd have to work

664

:

nights, he completely blacked out

with reflective tape the window.

665

:

And it stunk in there because it was

just so musty 'cause the window was

666

:

never open, and so I called it the

dungeon because it felt like one.

667

:

And so here's this scary place with this

scary person, really, in, in the house.

668

:

And so I didn't even…

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:

I would never…

670

:

When he wasn't there, I

wouldn't go play in there.

671

:

I wouldn't go in there.

672

:

Sometimes I was curious, and I'd

go- Navigate a little bit, but

673

:

I stayed out of there 'cause it

was just, it was scary to me.

674

:

And so when you're trying to heal your

body it's There's so ma- much to it.

675

:

It's what are you feeding yourself?

676

:

Are you feeding to fill in a void

and try to fill in the comfort with

677

:

the har- hot macaroni and cheese?

678

:

You're…

679

:

And that is what you have to recognize

and pull away from, because it's damaging

680

:

your health, and you become part of your

abuse because you are abusing yourself

681

:

every day when you're doing those things,

and you're not taking care of your body

682

:

the way that it deserves to be taken

care of because you don't deserve…

683

:

That you think, "I don't deserve to be

taken care of," when the truth is you do.

684

:

You do.

685

:

You deserve to be taken care of.

686

:

You deserve to love yourself.

687

:

You deserve the work that it

takes, and it takes a lot of work.

688

:

It's…

689

:

I'm not gonna ever lie and say

that this journey was easy for me.

690

:

It was not.

691

:

And then pulling away from the

relationships, because other people's

692

:

energy is just as bad as your own.

693

:

So if you s- are surrounding yourself

with people that are feeding you this

694

:

negative energy, that are feeding into

that you can't do it, that are feeding

695

:

into that you need to be exactly

where you're at I knew at a certain

696

:

point in my journey that all of my

relationships might have to dissolve.

697

:

Not my children, 'cause I

have to take care of them.

698

:

Not them, but my marriage, my…

699

:

Even though I love my husband and he's

700

:

the better, way better version

of a husband than the first one.

701

:

And thank the Lord he decided

to do the work with me, right?

702

:

'Cause I approached

him at a certain point.

703

:

I'm like, "Hey, I'm gonna be

changing, and I need you to

704

:

be okay with that, number one.

705

:

But I also need you to change

because we're not healthy right now.

706

:

I'm not healthy.

707

:

I don't really think you're healthy.

708

:

We need to make some changes and some

shifts, so do you wanna do it with me?"

709

:

That's how I approached that.

710

:

And when- so what steps did he

and you together take, for the

711

:

audience so they can get some- Yeah

712

:

practical stre- steps to re-

start regaining your health?

713

:

So where are you at with your MS?

714

:

Like, how are you feeling?

715

:

What did you do?

716

:

Talk about that.

717

:

Lesions, the second MRI I

got, they all were going away.

718

:

They all…

719

:

So I had three remaining,

and they were all shrinking.

720

:

So at this point I have to believe

that they're gone, so they're gone.

721

:

You go do testing.

722

:

Do I have demyelination?

723

:

No.

724

:

If I went to a doctor

today, could I be diagnosed?

725

:

Probably not.

726

:

Based on my history they're

always gonna diagnose you, right?

727

:

Because, oh, you have a history.

728

:

It doesn't go away.

729

:

You can't heal.

730

:

You have to go to a doctor that

actually believes you can heal.

731

:

So if you're going to one that the,

quite literally the last neurologist

732

:

I went to, "I prescribe drugs.

733

:

Why are you here?"

734

:

I'm not gonna take your drugs.

735

:

So you have to go to somebody there's

only one neurologist I know of, Dr.

736

:

David Perlmutter, that is

in functional medicine that

737

:

believes that things can shift.

738

:

Like- … that is the only doctor I would

agree to go to somebody like him again

739

:

that believes that, and the truth, really.

740

:

It's the truth.

741

:

And changing your diet.

742

:

We started by changing just that.

743

:

We started by sh- shifting our

diet The Plant Paradox, i- by Dr.

744

:

Steven Gundry.

745

:

And when we did that, man, within

three weeks my numb face … So my

746

:

face had e- eventually went numb, so

that's my neurological sign finally.

747

:

20 years later I gotta get tested.

748

:

Within three weeks my face woke up

and I could taste food again, and I

749

:

knew we were doing the right thing.

750

:

And my mom unknowingly had taken

a holistic approach, so I watched

751

:

her health get better through that.

752

:

So I already trusted it and

knew that it was … It works.

753

:

And then- Okay, so you

changed your d- diet.

754

:

What else?

755

:

Changed my diet.

756

:

Figuring out, getting

to know myself, really.

757

:

That was huge.

758

:

Getting to know myself and my core values

understanding my, my daily thoughts.

759

:

Really being more of a positive

person versus negative talk and

760

:

that includes other people, right?

761

:

So it's … And then that's hard.

762

:

My husband and I, we've always liked

to people watch and there's some

763

:

interesting individuals out there.

764

:

And that was always a fun game for us,

but it's it's shifting your mindset into

765

:

who you are and going, hey, maybe this

isn't a positive game that we're playing.

766

:

And shifting the behavior, and being

more active, physically active.

767

:

Of course with autoimmunity, that comes

when it's able to because that is a

768

:

stress, so you can make things worse.

769

:

So you want to lower inflammation then

add activity s- so that way you're

770

:

not adding too much of a heavy load.

771

:

And then I really focused on

why did my family get MS, right?

772

:

Those genetics.

773

:

So I support, I can't eat

folic acid, so grains.

774

:

All grains in the US are fortified.

775

:

So I stay away from

grains for the most part.

776

:

I make sure they're organic.

777

:

I make sure they're not fortified.

778

:

If I get them I don't want them fortified

with crap that my body can't process.

779

:

MTHFR was huge.

780

:

That is passed down by the mother.

781

:

So these are things we shared.

782

:

The celiac gene, the one that I have, is

the HLA genes in general are problematic.

783

:

But mine was overreactive, overresponsive.

784

:

So not only d- are the grains

fortified, so my MTHFR, my

785

:

methylation's not processing right.

786

:

So that, your methylation is huge.

787

:

It not only processes toxins out

of your body through your liver, it

788

:

also gets out your excess hormones.

789

:

So- … estrogen

dominant, it's your liver.

790

:

Yep.

791

:

Yep.

792

:

So I do liver flushes.

793

:

I do regular parasite cleanses,

infrared light, being out in the sun.

794

:

My family has a history of

skin cancer, I don't care.

795

:

I…

796

:

you eat high antioxidants,

you make more melanin.

797

:

You chlorophyll's excellent for, you do

these things that help, that where your

798

:

body helps protect your skin on its own.

799

:

And you go out and you get

your vitamin D the right way.

800

:

That's how our body's supposed to get it.

801

:

And s- Isn't it funny?

802

:

There's so many things and people are

like, "What are you talking about?"

803

:

My husband's a fisherman, and one

of the biggest things with fither-

804

:

fishermen is they eat, to keep the

skin cancer down, because we're in

805

:

Florida, you're in the sun all the

time- Yeah … a lot of watermelon.

806

:

Oh, okay.

807

:

Because watermelon has that protects

the skin from rotting from- Yep … so

808

:

it's literally, it's like we…

809

:

I always was like, "Why do we

always eat so much watermelon?"

810

:

Yeah.

811

:

I mean- It makes sense.

812

:

Yeah it was just…

813

:

And it's practicing these things

every day, it's a daily practice.

814

:

Every day I'm cleaning up the

penile gland in the beginning,

815

:

getting the heavy metals out.

816

:

When I tested my body, I was toxic.

817

:

I had heavy metal.

818

:

All the heavy metals that

I had six in the beginning.

819

:

They were all way past the toxic level.

820

:

I had Lyme.

821

:

Oh, that was a pain in the butt.

822

:

I had to hire a functional doctor

to actually get the proper Lyme

823

:

testing, 'cause the Western

Blot is ab- absolute crap.

824

:

Don't trust that.

825

:

It has a 50% fail rate.

826

:

Oh, the test?

827

:

Yeah.

828

:

Oh, yeah.

829

:

And it's not, and it's not…

830

:

Once the- It's crap … yeah, once

the first, once the actual initial

831

:

bam of the Lyme, it's like the testing

doesn't test anymore, but it still- No

832

:

continues to destroy all of your organs.

833

:

Oh, yeah.

834

:

So I had finally years later, but there's

the antibodies for Lyme, so they're…

835

:

Like, and also, I just was bit.

836

:

It wasn't in me.

837

:

I thought it was a spider.

838

:

It was very large.

839

:

So wherever that bug is in its recycling

phase so if it's been on another host

840

:

and it's ready to regurgitate and

it bites you, if that juice gets in

841

:

your system, it's in your blood now.

842

:

So it doesn't have to be implanted and

in you, obviously, because I got it.

843

:

And I suspected, 'cause a month

after that happened, my face went

844

:

numb, so I knew those were related.

845

:

But of course I'm crazy, and he's

the specialist, so what do I know?

846

:

Yeah.

847

:

It's really ha- it's really hard,

too, because there's so many, and

848

:

especially, my daughter went to a

functional medicine doctor and he s-

849

:

I, to this day, say he saved her life.

850

:

But she ended up taking all of her blood

out and putting ozone in it, shaking-

851

:

Yep … it back up and putting it back

in her body, because she had probably

852

:

mono in first grade or something-

Yep … and never got rid of it.

853

:

So she literally had no

immune system, so she had E.

854

:

coli in her body, she had

botulism, she had all the- Yeah

855

:

things that a normal, healthy

immune system is exposed to every

856

:

single day but we fight off.

857

:

Yeah.

858

:

Yep, I did ozone too.

859

:

I love now that was insane because

here I'd … By the time I did

860

:

a 10 pass, and then I did ozone

dialysis, which I recommend more.

861

:

It's called EBOO.

862

:

It's more expensive, but it filters out.

863

:

She, yeah, she did EBOO.

864

:

It- She did EBOO the second go around

after she had the freaking vaccine

865

:

and she got all jacked up again.

866

:

Yeah.

867

:

Oh, yeah.

868

:

But that, definitely EBOO over the

10 pass, because the 10 pass puts

869

:

the die-off back in your system.

870

:

And so when I did my 10 pass, I think

it was maybe the third treatment, here

871

:

I'd been detoxing for years at that

point, thought I was, doing amazing.

872

:

And then I had a Herxheimer reaction

on the third one, which is horrific.

873

:

It's the worst flu you could think of.

874

:

You just feel absolutely horrid,

and that's when I realized,

875

:

oh, it didn't get it all.

876

:

I hadn't gotten it all because the

ozone definitely got something there.

877

:

But then every one after that was fine.

878

:

But I was thankful that I had done

that treatment because when my,

879

:

when I did get my Lyme testing,

there was 12 co-infections.

880

:

Yeah.

881

:

12 co-infections.

882

:

Every animal I owned w- there

was one linked to every animal.

883

:

Yeah.

884

:

Great.

885

:

So me kissing my little dwarf hamster on

the nose And again, if you're out there

886

:

listening, this is not to scare you.

887

:

This is to- No … show you

that really the big picture.

888

:

You just wanna do what you can do.

889

:

Yeah.

890

:

Obviously people can't run out and

get ozone treatment or EBOO treatment-

891

:

No … at the drop of a dime.

892

:

It's unrealistic.

893

:

It's- Yeah … tens of

thousands of dollars for some-

894

:

Yeah … of the treatments.

895

:

But what you can do is you can, like

she said, Holly just said it flat

896

:

out, is you can start taking care of

your body the best way you know how.

897

:

Yeah.

898

:

And it's just making

small changes every day.

899

:

When you go to pick up

that cookie, go maybe not."

900

:

Yeah.

901

:

You know what I mean?

902

:

When your doctor tells

you your A1C is a 6.4,

903

:

don't pick up the cookie.

904

:

Pick up something else.

905

:

Just start making those little

changes and finding things.

906

:

Honestly, if you're trying to make those

small changes and it seems overwhelming,

907

:

find those things, those little things

where the replacements can still give

908

:

you that little dopamine hit because

if you grew up in dysfunction and

909

:

you grew up in that kind of trauma,

you still need that reward center.

910

:

Your brain needs it.

911

:

Yeah.

912

:

That's why it's a comfort food.

913

:

That's why it's a comfort game or whatever

your drug of choice is, and I don't

914

:

mean drug, but you know what I'm saying.

915

:

But- and with food, I learned how to

make the things I liked with whole foods.

916

:

So it's not about avoiding classes,

the the cookies or the brownies.

917

:

Make a resistant starch.

918

:

Sweet potatoes make a great base for

baked goods Bake it, put it in the

919

:

refrigerator, make it a resistant starch.

920

:

Now you're feeding your gut bugs, right?

921

:

Yeah.

922

:

You're healing your gut.

923

:

Leaky gut is attached to all

autoimmune disease, so you're

924

:

healing your gut, you're reduce…

925

:

the, the basics is what I…

926

:

Which seems simple, but it's doing the

basics for seven years in a row, right?

927

:

It's every morning waking up and

saying positive things to yourself.

928

:

It's every morning getting out

and getting in the fresh air.

929

:

It's earthing.

930

:

It's making sure you're active and

you're moving your calf muscles.

931

:

Really, your calves.

932

:

So after you eat a meal, there's three

exercises you can do to move that glucose.

933

:

Walk for 10 minutes, 30

jumping jacks, or 10 lunges.

934

:

Those have all equally been proven to move

that glucose to where it's supposed to go.

935

:

So it's about doing these

things on a regular basis every

936

:

day because you're worth it.

937

:

And I don't have it on me right

now, but I usually wear a bracelet

938

:

that says, "I am enough," because

some days I do need a reminder.

939

:

Some days, like, when somebody says

something that I don't like to me

940

:

or there's, something bad happens

that I can't control, sometimes

941

:

I need that reminder, and it's

right there on my wrist every day.

942

:

I just came back from the

beach, that's why it's not on.

943

:

I am enough.

944

:

I, and I know that about myself.

945

:

I know that some days I need the

support, and it's like me being that

946

:

support system for myself ahead of time.

947

:

Yep.

948

:

Because sometimes my husband might

be at work, my kids are at school.

949

:

I don't have them here to support

me in the moment that I feel weak.

950

:

And so it's, I'm enough, and

then I'm that person for myself.

951

:

And that's the most important thing, and

I've said that all the time, is like we

952

:

spend our whole lives not getting what,

the validation we needed from the outside.

953

:

Yes.

954

:

And it's now it's like all of

a sudden as adults, why do we

955

:

think we're gonna get it any…

956

:

we're not.

957

:

No- there's no knight in shining

armor that's gonna rush in.

958

:

No.

959

:

You, I always say between me

and my God, we got it all.

960

:

We just- Yeah … we just

have to know we got it all.

961

:

We c- we have e- all the tools

we need to make ourselves ha-

962

:

healthy, to heal our own bodies.

963

:

Yep.

964

:

We have it all.

965

:

We just have to learn

the tools to access it.

966

:

Yep.

967

:

And so much of it am mi- is mindset.

968

:

But Holly, this has been super fun.

969

:

Yep.

970

:

But if people wanna work

with you, tell them the…

971

:

I could talk to you all

day- … but I know people are

972

:

like, "Okay, I gotta go eat."

973

:

Tell people where they can reach

you if they wanna work with you.

974

:

Sure.

975

:

So my website is The Healing Haul,

so it's T-H-E-H-E-A-L-I-N-G, and

976

:

then Haul, H-A-U-L, at, oh, .com.

977

:

I was gonna give you my email.

978

:

But it, thehealinghaul.com.

979

:

Okay.

980

:

And all of my socials are linked

up top, so you just click on them.

981

:

And I do daily reels.

982

:

It's my way to give back to try

to help people with autoimmune

983

:

disease get their health back.

984

:

Perfect.

985

:

I absolutely love that.

986

:

And if you could leave, you're

not off the hook yet 'cause I-

987

:

so appreciate you coming on.

988

:

But if you could leave the listeners

with one, something tangible or words

989

:

of wisdom or piece of advice to walk

away with today to make their day a

990

:

little more positive, what would it be?

991

:

My favorite, one of my favorite sayings

that I always say is, "If you have

992

:

breath, God has a purpose for you."

993

:

And in the Bible it says to fast and pray.

994

:

Fast and pray.

995

:

That's it.

996

:

Fast and pray.

997

:

That's how you get better.

998

:

And whether you're religious

or not, you can say a prayer.

999

:

You can say a prayer.

:

00:49:28,046 --> 00:49:33,556

We can restrict food in a healthy way,

and I think we eat too much in today's

:

00:49:33,556 --> 00:49:35,586

world, and too much of the bad things.

:

00:49:36,036 --> 00:49:38,526

But you have a purpose.

:

00:49:38,566 --> 00:49:40,836

I truly believe everybody has a purpose.

:

00:49:40,846 --> 00:49:45,646

There's so many times in my journey I

thought I didn't, and so many times I

:

00:49:45,646 --> 00:49:52,846

came close to ending my own life because

I didn't see the value in myself.

:

00:49:52,896 --> 00:49:57,176

And today there is over

100,000 people that follow me.

:

00:49:57,396 --> 00:50:03,716

I am linked in the UK on a platform, and

I have no idea how many people follow me

:

00:50:03,716 --> 00:50:07,776

over there, but they found value, right?

:

00:50:07,976 --> 00:50:11,666

Don't give up on yourself

because your journey is hard.

:

00:50:11,706 --> 00:50:15,676

It is meant to be hard to build

you to who you're supposed to be.

:

00:50:16,056 --> 00:50:20,586

I am so thankful that I went through

all of what I went through to be

:

00:50:20,586 --> 00:50:27,096

who I am today, because God built

me to be this, and now I have a

:

00:50:27,096 --> 00:50:29,406

purpose, and I share that purpose.

:

00:50:30,036 --> 00:50:32,226

So that would be, that's it.

:

00:50:32,266 --> 00:50:33,306

And how do you get that?

:

00:50:33,316 --> 00:50:34,276

You love yourself.

:

00:50:34,286 --> 00:50:36,026

You listen to your intuition.

:

00:50:36,616 --> 00:50:38,426

You do small steps, right?

:

00:50:38,436 --> 00:50:38,746

You…

:

00:50:38,766 --> 00:50:42,416

We can a- we can all pick

to eat whole foods, right?

:

00:50:42,416 --> 00:50:43,536

We can eat the whole food.

:

00:50:43,536 --> 00:50:44,726

We can make recipes.

:

00:50:44,776 --> 00:50:48,996

It takes a little bit more work, but

you're loving yourself in that action.

:

00:50:48,996 --> 00:50:55,276

There's love being put into that food for

you to eat, to nourish who you want to be.

:

00:50:55,726 --> 00:50:56,276

Amen.

:

00:50:57,106 --> 00:50:57,986

Very well said.

:

00:50:57,996 --> 00:50:58,976

Thank you so much.

:

00:50:58,976 --> 00:51:01,366

And for everybody else out

there listening, you heard it.

:

00:51:01,686 --> 00:51:02,616

Just love on yourself.

:

00:51:02,616 --> 00:51:06,346

Treat yourself like your own best friend,

and know that you are so worth it.

:

00:51:06,346 --> 00:51:07,726

You hear me at the end of the podcast.

:

00:51:07,726 --> 00:51:09,486

If you listen all the way

through the end, it always says,

:

00:51:09,736 --> 00:51:10,926

"And know that you are enough.

:

00:51:10,926 --> 00:51:12,746

You are way more than enough."

:

00:51:12,766 --> 00:51:14,736

That's how I end my podcast every time.

:

00:51:15,106 --> 00:51:19,546

But it is true, and you deserve

every good thing that's out there

:

00:51:19,546 --> 00:51:21,256

for you, and you need to know that.

:

00:51:21,266 --> 00:51:23,936

So if you doubt that, and

you need somebody, and you

:

00:51:23,936 --> 00:51:25,466

need a backup, you got Holly.

:

00:51:25,466 --> 00:51:26,176

You got me.

:

00:51:26,176 --> 00:51:26,196

Yeah.

:

00:51:26,206 --> 00:51:28,506

You got all the support

in the world out there.

:

00:51:28,846 --> 00:51:30,906

Go and just nourish yourself.

:

00:51:30,996 --> 00:51:33,876

Just nourish yourself and love

on yourself, and . It will be

:

00:51:33,886 --> 00:51:35,266

so worth it, I promise you.

:

00:51:35,736 --> 00:51:38,986

So you all have a very blessed

week, and we will see you back

:

00:51:38,996 --> 00:51:41,176

here tomorrow for Tammy Sakes.

:

00:51:41,286 --> 00:51:42,096

Have a great day.

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