Jessica Brothers, a human biologist, joins us to talk about what makes us light up on the inside. In this candid conversation, we discuss the power of Spirit or Source as being a part of the body’s healing process, as a means forward in trust and intentional living. Jessica shares her passion for striving to create a happier world for all – mind, body, and spirit – with the power of mindset as a starting point to create something greater in your life.
We also talk candidly about the decision to choose yourself first in a world where we are trained to put ourselves last, particularly as women. This conversation with Jessica is a reminder of the value caring for yourself as one of the most important actions you can take for yourself and those you love.
In this podcast we also dive into juicy stuff like:
-Victim mindset
-The power of positivity
-Loving those that do not support us whole heartly from a distance (sometimes even family)
-Surface relationships vs authentic relationships
- The importance of choice
-Values and boundaries
Jessica shares that her mission is to help reduce the struggles of happiness and health impacting 98% of the world. Her mission is to reverse that impact for even 1% of that by teaching the four driving factors of our health: Methylation process (cheek swab), GI mapping (stool sample), Organ funcion (blood work), and Thought Mapping (energy work). Jessica believes that everything going on in the body must be supported by your mental health, and we cannot separate the parts and expect to function as a whole.
This is REAL talk with a beautifully authentic human being!
About The Guest:
With over 20 years dedicated to Human Biology, and a Board Certified Integrative Nutritionist, Jessica Brothers is an Expert Health Strategist. She and her team help people become healthier, more powerful and ageless through a simple process and naturally. Jessica is a multiple award winner in the health and wellness industry. Amazon best selling author, and co-author to Cracking the Rich Code with Jim Britt and Kevin Harrington. She is also a podcaster and International speaker sharing stages with Darren Hardy, Grant Cardone, Bill Walsh and many more. Jessica has been featured on NBC for over 7 years as a fitness and nutrition expert who is also a multiple business owner scaling from 3k to 7 figures. Her mission is to impact the health of the world and reverse the aggressive rise of chronic diseases.
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About the Host:
Tanya's mission is to create a legacy of self-love for women that reinforces trust in themselves through our programs, coaching, podcast, and book, The Trifecta of Joy! As Founder and creator of the Trifecta of Joy Philosophy, she combines over 30 years of research and work in various helping fields, to help you achieve your greatest successes!
Using her philosophy of the Trifecta of Joy, her mission is to empower people through their struggles with the elements of awareness, befriending your inner critic and raising your vibe. This podcast is about sharing stories of imperfection moving through life to shift toward possibilities, purpose, and power in your life!
Having had many wtf moments including becoming a widow, struggling with weight and body image issues, dating after loss, single parenting, remarriage, and blending families, Tanya is committed to offering you inspiration and empowerment – body, mind, and spirit!
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Hi friend, I'm Tanya Gill Welcome to lighten up and unstuck your What the fuck. Together we explore the ways through life's stickiness moments, and how to live with more peace, joy, love and gratitude. We're going to talk honestly about what isn't easy so you can discover the light within you that will carry you forward. My friend, this podcast is about you in real life, your body, mind and soul and the opportunity to not only live your best, but shine doing it
Jessica Brothers:Thank you. I am so excited to be here. I just absolutely love you. And I know we're about to have so much fun.
Tanya Gill:So much fun. So much fun. Now, you are a human biologist, huh? Can we start by talking about what the hell a human biologist is? Please?
Jessica Brothers:Yes. So basically, biology is a study of life. And I study human life. More, more specifically, the insights of our body cellular health processes about what makes us tick, what makes us work, what makes us light up?
Tanya Gill:What makes us light up. So obviously, lighten up and unstuck. You're What the fuck is the place to be? Now, I'm not gonna lie, I had the privilege of meeting you in person in Vegas. And when I met you, I fell in love with your energy. I fell in love with your spirit. And I also noticed that you are so unapologetically you. And that is incredibly inspiring.
Jessica Brothers:Thank you. Thank you. being
Tanya Gill:unapologetically you means living your life. And when you help people live their lives. How do you teach them and support them to be unapologetically them in the world of human biology?
Jessica Brothers:Yeah, absolutely. Because part of human biology is energy spirit, not just physical internal, is I say what makes us light up. If we were to the body open right now see light, we don't see the thing that makes us light up. Right? That is our spirit that is our soul that is source, whatever you call it. And that is part of the body, the healing process to support the process, the happiness, the emotion process. It's so important, right? Oh my god.
Tanya Gill:So Oh, my God. And so and what, what I love is that when we met, I was also maybe slightly intimidated because you are super jacked. Like you are one of the humans that I've met. And right I know, I'm like, But you own it. And it's beautiful. And what I love about you is that there's no judgment of others. There's nothing but acceptance of others where they're asked, and encouragement to just let their light shine.
Jessica Brothers:Yes, yes, I want a happier world. And we're mirrors of ourselves. So if I don't judge myself, I therefore will not judge others. If I judge myself, I'm going to judge others on what I've judged myself on and that's something that we have to realize, when someone says something about us it's because they don't like in themselves. You know? And, and for me to show up for others, I have to be honest with myself so I can be honest with them. Otherwise you're gonna have for me or a fake of me and, and fake doesn't help fake is not relatable fake is is another good energy to walk life in for sure.
Tanya Gill:Well, I'm fake feels like ass.
Jessica Brothers:It does, right? It feels like crap. Like, you just you don't feel valuable. Your confidence goes down. You carry yourself well, and I want to have your world I want everyone around me to be happy. So I see MyLab people do things, you know, support them to make them feel good. I flipped every, every situation on the on the other side, when I hear people saying things that are you know that the downside of the coin? I say, well, it could be this, you know, it's this perspective instead and I flipped the coin to the, to the happier side, because there's always two sides of every coin. There really is. I want more people to feel that and see it, understand it, practice it.
Tanya Gill:Practice it. Thank you for saying the word practice. Oh my god, it's always a practice. Like, and, and you know, you say like, if someone comes and they're like, you know, they're feeling depressed, they're feeling down, things are really shitty in their lives. And guess what the fox happen? Shit happens. Life isn't always fuckin happy. Right? But offering a perspective of and what else? Yes. Right. And what else? Right? It's like, when when you offer the perspective of what else? It's like? Is there a silver lining? Are there other possibilities? Are there other choices? What? What could you do? What small thing? Could you do that to make this feel a little
Tanya Gill:bit better? Absolutely. But also, honoring that
Tanya Gill:stuff is shitty, too. That's that happens with life.
Jessica Brothers:It can be it can be and you know, I'll tell you I spent way too much time of my life in a depressive, negative, you know, victim, everything's happening to me, kind of state like, nothing's my fault. And the reality is, we have to own our emotions. No one can make us feel sad without our permission. No one can piss us off without our permission. That's energy coming at us. And our power is to transform that energy into something that serves us. And yes, surely things happen. And we can either dwell in the shittiness of the feeling of it and be like, you know, what, what lesson can I learn here? What can I do different next time? Who can I talk to, to alleviate or, you know, flip the situation? Can I just add a smile to my frickin face right now and just feel better about it all because smiles are powerful. They're instant. And they will change your mood in a heartbeat. And they're fucking free.
Tanya Gill:In a world where inflation is out of control, they're fucking free.
Jessica Brothers:As in you know, what? just smiling at someone and lighting that candle for them. They're now going to walk around like everyone else's candles.
Tanya Gill:It's how we turn the planet on fire sister in a good way. Yes,
Jessica Brothers:yes, yes. But the other choice of that is, if you disabled everyone you interact with, you're gonna you're gonna burn out their flame too. And then, then you create that that domino effect of burning out people's flames. When when you could be just choosing to smile and light everyone up. Instead, it's a choice.
Tanya Gill:It is a choice. Okay, but I want to get real about this. When people are listening to this, and if their life is shit. They're gonna be like, oh, yeah, you make it sound like it's an easy choice. And I know that in some ways, it's easy. And in other ways, it's really fucking hard. It's really fucking hard. And you said that you chose to stop living your life in that place. What was happening in your life that you decided that it was time to stop?
Jessica Brothers:Oh, my gosh, I was so angry. I was so angry. You know, up until I was about 21. I was just angry abuse after abuse. I mean, I had so much I name it. My life. And to the point where I said abusing myself in every era fitness was abuse, food was an abuse. My words weren't abused everyone that was in relationship friendship and, and boyfriends were all abusive. And I was so angry at the world inside I finally found martial arts. And because I want to I want to fight people. I wanted to fight this anger. Atomy and I discovered something completely different. Martial arts taught me a discipline of there's a choice. You know, I thought I was going to fight people and fight this anger at me instead, it taught me to control my power and use it for good. And I remember the day that that light bulb came on, and I said my inner self said to me, Jessica, you are so proud. Our for everything you do maybe is like you see this happening? What would happen if you chose the other side of the coin, and decided to use your power for good, just smile instead of flip people off, what would happen, this is the talk I had inside my head, I feel it was from source or whatever you call your soul, your your inner self. And from that day forward, I said to myself, I'm going to always choose the opposite. Every time I'm in a bad mood, I'm going to become more aware and smile I used to, I used to use smiles as a way to cover up my misery. I didn't want anyone know I was miserable. So I had I already had the habit of smiling to everybody. But this time, I promised myself it was going to be genuine, be you, Jessica, be you. And it's a slow process to become aware or be in a pissed off mood and decide to be happy. Of course, it's hard. But being miserable is hard to write. Not loving your body, abusing yourself. That's hard, too. So I decided to do the work to create a habit of just being happier, truly more authentic to me. And it becomes easy after a while it really does it becomes your new habit.
Tanya Gill:And in my programs and in in the perfectly and we're perfect world we talk a lot about habits, we call them practices because I think that we have like, I think we have a really negative association with the word habit because we always want to throw the word bad on top of it, right. But it's really a practice. It's all practices. It's a practice around when you get up, it's about when you work out. It's about how you're treating your body with nutrition and with hydration. And it's how you're treating your whole self in the way that you're thinking. And what you're putting out to the world. And it's all practice. Yes, huge. And I what I love, where I love, love, love, love love about you is that you talk about how we it's a habit. It's a practice, it's something we do. But it also magnifies that what you put out into the world, is what you attract. And I know that you attract beautiful, intelligent, wise, heart centered, kind, amazing humans into your life, by the way that you show up.
Jessica Brothers:Thank you, thank you,
Tanya Gill:when you when you work, can
Tanya Gill:I ask a question about that when you were angry? What kind of people were you
Jessica Brothers:attracting? Oh, angry people. Angry surface people, people who were also angry at the world, people who use drugs and alcohol to numb themselves. People who were settling for being the life that others you know, wanted for them. Just settling not being authentic, not being true, not making your own choices, just surface level everything. Nothing was deep, there was no real conversation. Everything's let's go out, let's do some drugs. Let's drink. Let's you know, until the wee hours in the morning, let's pretend you're happy and dance when we're really just so mad at the world. You know, you you attract what you put out? You're a magnet to who you are. So if you're attracting people that don't support you, maybe you're not fully supporting yourself. You know?
Tanya Gill:Fucking mic drop, right? If you know how you're really doing, look at the people around. Are they miserable? Are they happy? Are they authentic? Are they surface I love that you talked about surface because there's so many relationships in our lives, where you can where I can speak personally. There's so many relationships in my life where I've become aware of what relationships are surface, and actually have only been kind of serving like a holding place instead of something authentic. And I think that, that we all have the experience of the more we lean into ourselves and get to know ourselves the more we realize that we may not be aligned with some of the people that we've had in our lives to.
Jessica Brothers:true, so true. Yes, I had to do a cleanse of people. Some of them just some of them just kind of dissipate without you having to do anything because you're doing different things. You're showing up differently in different places your your your practice of Your lifestyle is different. So some of them just kind of like disappear out of your life. But others want to hold on and, and try to pull you back down from from where you want to go. That's my experience anyways, and you have to go through almost like a rebirth of your life for them to be like, Wow, this is this is Jessica. This is no longer the Jessica that was controlling, and making me happy. This is the real Jessica and people get fearful, they get angry, like their stuff, their stuff that they feel and they have to go through comes to surface for them. They don't like that. They don't like that at all. And they start judging you, you know, and trying to tear you down. And that means you're moving in the right direction. But how you deal with that is is really important. I had to stand up for
Tanya Gill:a totally, I heard the coolest, cute quote by heard the coolest quote and it was sometimes people will talk about you behind your back. And it's because you're ahead of them. And I
Tanya Gill:write and and, and,
Tanya Gill:and the way I think or actually I got it wrong. It's it's not That's not it. Sometimes people will talk about you behind your back, but it's because you're in front of them. So in front of them is two pieces. The first is is that they're talking about you behind your back, it means that you're important enough to be worthy of talking about Yes, right. So own that shit. Second, yes. Know what people are saying about you anyway, so fucking let them talk. But the reality is, is if they're talking, it may also be that they see in you something that they wish they saw in themselves, and they see you're
Jessica Brothers:right. That yeah, that's that couldn't be more spot on. I mean, the truth is, if they're talking about you behind your back, when when you're ahead of them, or in front of them, they're talking about you, behind your back, even if you're in line with them. They're just talking about you anyways, because that's what they do to justify or alleviate whatever they're going through. It's it's what I used to do. And that's why I speak about that, because that's how it felt for me. That's exactly how it felt for me.
Tanya Gill:So when you speak about that, what do you share with people?
Jessica Brothers:When I speak about how I used to be, or whether I share with people that a it's not the play, it's not, for me, it's not a satisfying life, you're always craving for more. You're always wondering what if you feel lonely inside, you're always depressed, you're gonna have vices, and that's, and maybe it's hard to change, and I get that. But it was very hard for me to not love myself. And that was hard there. That was something I was not willing to accept. And you have to come to terms with yourself? Do you really want things to get better? Or do you want them to get worse? Because staying the same is an illusion, there is no staying the same. You're either making choices that propel you forward, or you're making choices that hold you back. There is no staying the same. So are you okay with your current life? If the answer is yes, they keep making choices to propel you forward, it's gonna get better. If you're not okay, with the way your life is now, you can either make the choices to propel you forward, or keep making the same practice choices that you're doing right now. And things will just get worse and worse and worse. You have to be real with yourself. Because both are hard. They're both hard. You can't tell me that being unhappy is easy. It may be the transfer in it's easy to stay in and keep those those ongoing, you know, auto pilots firing or or you can choose to wake up and be aware and be like, oh, wait a minute. This is what I used to choose. I'm gonna choose something different. It's a choice. I think, you know, either way, life is hard period. I just rather live it happy and smiling.
Tanya Gill:Right and and, you know, you talk about like that zombie trance. And I think that a lot of us are in a place where we're kind of waking up from that trance and we're going oh my god, wait a second. This is For my life, I get one shot at it, I want to actually make it the best that it is. And yet, every single day seems the same. And I seem to be moving through it. And it's all just wash, rinse repeat with the same problems and the same issues. And they all just keep coming and coming and coming in all the bullshit. And it's an you nailed it. It starts with awareness. Yes, noticing, notices. What am I and it can be as simple as what do I have for breakfast every day? And does that serve me? Yes. What time? Do I get up in the morning? And does that serve me? Who am I? With and how does that serve me? Yes. But then, as they build that awareness, and as you built that awareness, how did you start to action that change besides smiling
Jessica Brothers:more? Yeah, so boundaries, values, writing those down being strong? And then who am I? Who is Jessica? Or who's the Jessica? I'm? I'm bringing out okay, who is this, Jeff? That I want to be?
Tanya Gill:Let's play this game. I love this game, what are your top three values? Hmm.
Jessica Brothers:So number one, is having your word that's gold. Integrity, your word is cool. If I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it. Therefore I expect in return for the people that I surround myself with, you know that that is my number one value, your word is gold. And that goes for yourself for others, how you live your life. You know, integrity is huge. And then authenticity and not honesty, authenticity, it's a much higher frequency. It's the it's the only frequency where two things actually have to happen. For authenticity to take place. Where as honesty is different. Honestly, it's just, you have to be honest about what you're saying authenticity, not only do you have to tell the truth, but you have to believe it's true, there's a whole belief element. And a whole different frequency explodes when you're authentic, which is why it attracts other humans so well, because they feel that energy. And that's, I think that's the energy people feel off me when they're like, I love your energy. It's authenticity. It's so powerful, you know. So that that is my second one being often authentic. And my third one is showing up as love choosing love, show up as Love in every area. Relationships for number one for yourself, love is always the choice. And that's, that's a value to show up in love. And every moment I can every moment I'm willing to, you know, I'm not perfect, but I catch myself. And then I'm like, wait a minute, choose again, choose again, those, those are my top three that always are cycling in my head on every moment of every day,
Tanya Gill:to live with authenticity, to live within integrity and to live with love. Yes. Thank you for sharing that, my friends. Thank you. Because, you know, asking someone what their values are is a very interesting thing. A lot of people first of all, don't actually have a clue. They're like, well, I like honesty and like, I like things that are I like happiness and like, you know, but when you get very, very clear about your core values, then you start to operate in all of your relationships and all of your choices and all of the in every aspect of your life. Comes back to is this aligning with my values. Right, which is why you did an edit, if you will to some of your friendships, I'm guessing.
Jessica Brothers:Oh, yes, absolutely. friendships, relationships, family. That's the hardest one everyone's like, Yeah, but the people I hang around most are my family. You can't can't divorce your family, my way the minutes. You can love from a distance. You can love from a distance, my value, love, always show up as love. And I love my family. But spending my time with them is toxic to my energy. And I became aware of that. I became aware that when I started making my own choices, they didn't support me anymore. And if these doesn't matter who you are in my life, if you don't support my highest greatest self that I need to show up as No one is no one is above me to sacrifice me. I'm selfishly selfish. I am sorry, I'm self lessly selfish, I need to put my energy. First, my cup, I need to fill it first. And if anybody wants to tear that down, no matter who you are, you should ask yourself, why do you allow that? Even if they're your mom, why did you allow her to tear you down? Why don't you stand up for yourself? Why don't you set those boundaries? Why don't you share with her your core values, and she can decide whether she wants to support you or not, that's no longer my choice is now her choice. Right. And you can still love from a distance if they choose not to support you.
Tanya Gill:With them, sister. So for our listeners, they probably are familiar with my adventurous life and, and my road. And what's interesting is that my core values are my overarching value is authenticity. And then my core values are love. And health. And, and for me, love is like the center of it all. Because the more I love myself, the more I can love others authentically, and, and when you describe loving from a distance, that's a huge piece. Because back in March, there was a situation with my mom, where I shared with her that I was sexually abused by my father. And she, where she was she was in a she made the choice at that time not to accept that. And so then I had to make the choice not to have that around me. And my choice is to continue to love my mom dearly. I love her more like I love her so much. But for now I have to love her at a distance. And I make the choice to love her at a distance. And it doesn't change my love for her at all. It means that right now, us being together wouldn't be healthy for her or for me, because there couldn't be the authenticity,
Jessica Brothers:which you and I have to mother,
Tanya Gill:which ultimately then means that it's not healthy. So it then interferes with another one of my values, which is health, right? Because health is not about just about the food, it's about your community. It's about your relationships, it's about your honesty, it's about how you show up for yourself. It's all of those things. So it would impact that piece as well. And quite honestly, life is a fucking adventure. And the reason I choose adventure as a as a core value is I want to fucking Have fun exploring and make it juicy. Life is too short for it not to be an adventure, and people along for the adventure. So those are my core values. But when you talk about loving from a distance, that really really hit home for me. And I think that a lot of people think that if they aren't in constant contact or regular contact with their family, their original loved ones, that they are bad for creating that distance in order to do what is needed for themselves. What do you say to those people?
Jessica Brothers:You're conditioned to feel that way. But it doesn't mean it's true for you. You know, I used to think it was bad to How dare you push your mother away? Because those are the words My mom would say to me. How dare you push me away? How dare you put yourself first? Who do you think you are? You're no one's special. We're not special people will never be successful. We'll never have money, all her beliefs she was putting on me. So I had to ask myself Do I Do I down to the core? Belief those things? No, I I don't feel I'm a selfish person. No, I don't feel like I'm not special. I feel I'm very special. There's only one of me. There's only one of me. How am I not special? I've seen many people go from poor to rich or wealthy doing what they love doing. That's proof right there that I can do it. And I started looking all around at proof of things that I was conditioned to believe I was programmed to believe and I had to choose for myself what I believed and you know, it's we're made to feel that family is everything. But where are we, in importance in all of that? If family is everything? Does my family believe that I am everything to? Or do they need me to fit into their little box? In order for it to work for them? If I don't fit into their little box? Am I willing to live my life like that? And why are they not accepting of me? If I don't fit into their little box, if family is everything, and I don't fit into their little box, then I'm not everything to them. That doesn't make sense to me. This relationship is two sided, not one. And all these things started popping up in me and I had to, I had to ask myself those hard questions and really dig into into my, my, my soul, who am I? What do I believe? What do I want? What makes me happy? What makes me authentically smile, and I would just start writing things down. And over time it developed into what really was authentically me. And I would set those boundaries, those values. And I realized that it doesn't matter if they're family, friends, loving relationships, you know, partner. Yeah, whatever it may be, if, if they support you in the, in the wholeness of you, then why are you going to support them in the wholeness of them? Things have to end the wayside as
Tanya Gill:soon as can you? Right, like, like, relationships are reciprocal. So if someone doesn't believe heartedly in you, you feel it. You know it, sometimes they actually verbalize it. Sometimes it's all like, in the passive aggressive comments, or even in the silence, the silence can also be a tell that someone doesn't approve. Right? And so and so it's like, okay, so what do you do with that information? And when you find that awareness of it, you know, I'm, I'm not someone who advocates from, for divorcing from your family and all of your people. But I am someone who says, you need to know if these relationships are serving you? Do they contribute to your life? Or do they contaminate it? Oh, good friend, James says, does it contribute or contaminate? And if it contaminates? Is there a way to make it contribute? Or is it necessary to move to a space of loving from a distance? It does not mean you have to hate these people?
Jessica Brothers:Absolutely, absolutely. It doesn't mean you're in the wrong or you're doing anything wrong either.
Tanya Gill:And it doesn't necessarily mean that they're in the wrong either. They're using their own framework of what they understand to be their lives, and the stories that they've consumed in their lives since they were born.
Jessica Brothers:Right? Absolutely. I call it our filters. We all live through a filter, you know, in every day, filters can be different to and there are stories, we tell ourselves stories, we believe our belief systems, you know, we all have filters, and there are moods, every choice we make is through the mood that we're currently in. And so next time you're making choices that aren't serving you check your mood, am I in the best mood to make the best choices for myself? That's why when when you're angry, it's not. It's not the best time to make any kind of decisions, you know, at all, but choosing you first there's nothing wrong with that you're selfish if you don't, because now if if if you're contaminating yourself with contaminating relationships and experiences, then everyone you meet. Remember those flames, you're putting those flames out and simulating them. And that's
Tanya Gill:that's important.
Tanya Gill:Is extinguishing lights instead of igniting them.
Jessica Brothers:Yes. Coming back to that,
Tanya Gill:it comes back to the light it comes back to the downlight right? It's why this podcast is called lighten up. And yes, unstuck. You're WHAT THE FUCK because we all have the words. But it starts with that awareness. And God the way you I love the way that you describe that experience of choice. Hmm. Choice is so powerful. Just to tell the world what you're up to.
Jessica Brothers:PI Yes. I love this. I love this. So right now I'm starving, I'm fully focusing on what used to be my side hustle. Because it's so important, so 98% of people struggle in their life 98% of the world struggles with happiness, and, and just their health, number one, their health. And my mission is to reverse that. So that 98 becomes 97%, that's 1% of the world, I want to impact. And I do that by teaching the four driving factors of our health things that people in, in the health and fitness world, don't talk about being a human biologist, I definitely have a special skill. And one of them is your methylation process. And I what that is, it's the process that our body goes through to take environmental nutrients, the foods we eat, and process them turn them into usable ingredients that our body can use. So it breaks all the vitamins and minerals down to a raw material. So we can feel our best we can have our optimal health. And I do that by, you know, doing a test. It's just a simple cheek swab test. So when people come to me and say, I work out, I eat healthy, I do my personal development, but I still don't sleep good, I still feel unmotivated, I still can't focus, you know, I still don't just love myself, I don't feel good in my skin, I'm not getting the results I want and I'm living a healthier lifestyle. I say well, let's check your methylation. Because all those symptoms tell me you have a broken methylation process. And when our methylation process isn't healthy and consistent, those symptoms occur. Any one of those add ADHD stress, the way we feel stress, anxiety, insomnia, and the list can go on and on and on. So the methylation processes, five actionable genes, okay, that are expressed through our DNA. And our DNA comes from our mother and our father. And I haven't met a single human yet, who has a perfectly healthy methylation process. Okay, so if you are experiencing any one of those symptoms, by me looking at your methylation process, I can tell you what symptoms you're already experiencing by the combination of what's fully working, what's fully broken, or what's only working 40% of the time. So if you have a team, okay, and only part of them are showing up, your work is getting the backup, right? Things aren't gonna go as smooth as you want. And our body's doing the same thing with our methylation process. It has a team of five workers. And if those workers aren't showing up, your body's gonna get backed up, you're gonna have weight loss resistance. So people who feel like they've tried everything and can't lose weight, or women who are feeling pre or post menopausal symptoms think it's normal. No, it's not. It's a broken methylation process. And that's how I help people now.
Tanya Gill:Okay, so you work on methylation. But you said there were other pieces that you work on as well. The first is, what are the others?
Jessica Brothers:Second is gi mapping. So the buzzword of gut health, it's really important. 90% of our hormones are made in our gut, if our gut is full of preservatives or holes, okay, our bodies not absorbing nutrition, therefore, our methylation process is not being fed, and our hormones are not being produced. And without hormonal production, you know, pre post menopause, depression, all of those Buchert not sleeping well because you're not getting all your proper hormones for sleeping. So that's number two. Number three, is how your organs are functioning. And we do that through bloodwork. Okay, so the GI mapping is done through everyone's favorite it's a stool sample. We love digging through our poop.
Tanya Gill:It's just like going back to being two years old and playing in poker. Okay. Okay, so we got that we got methylation, cheek swab. Yeah, we got we got we got the poop.
Jessica Brothers:Yes, the GI map,
Tanya Gill:the GI Okay, the GI map is poop. What am I missing? What's your organs? Oh, yeah. organ function, your organ function. Thank you your organ function? Yes. And that's blood work.
Jessica Brothers:That is a blood work. It tells us all about your cell count everything how everything is functioning. You know if your testosterone is being produced and pushing on your bone marrow to produce your red blood cells and healthy ones too. And now, it tells us everything about that we do a very unique blood panel that you can't get from your normal physician, you know, we see things a lot differently as human biologists. And then the fourth one is thought mapping that sequence. Our thought patterns boom, boom,
Tanya Gill:okay, but how do you do that piece though? Because that's the like, that's, that's not a whole bunch of tests. That's not that's work.
Jessica Brothers:Yep, that is energy work through muscle testing forms of energy, healing, like Reiki, all of that, and coaching to self talk, I'm sure you understand a lot of that with with your coaching, you know, you get to understand people's thoughts, right? How, because those thoughts create an emotion, that emotion creates an energy in our body, which creates the environment of our body, which then creates the health of our future cells.
Tanya Gill:Thank you. Yes, thank you, I hope that our listeners are rewinding that, and then hearing that over and over again, because what happens so often is that we are looking for all of the answers to all of the things outside of ourselves. And, and that one of the most critical components is, is not just what's happening inside of our body biologically, like you're describing, we do need that awareness. It's so fucking important, because it's all happening behind closed doors. It's all happening under your meat suit. And, and so our experience of it is fatigue and, and depression and lack of sleep and moodiness and hormonal fluctuations, because it's all happening in the meatsuit. But another piece of it is like how we're controlling the meatsuit. With our brain, in our relationship with ourself.
Jessica Brothers:The Mizzu I love
Tanya Gill:Oh, man,
Jessica Brothers:I love that. Yeah, you know, what's going on in the meat soup is, is has to be supported by our mental health as well. They go their union Yang, you can do all the personal development you want. But if you're not, if you're not take care of what's in the meat suit, you're going to be off and vice versa. If you're taking care of what's in the meat suit, but your mental health is off it you're not going to get the results you want. You need both to get the result you're looking for.
Tanya Gill:They are they are the yin and yang, perfect description. Yin and oh my god. Yes. I love it. Okay, so you're doing all of this amazing work? How do people find you?
Jessica Brothers:Yes, so the best way, either you can reach out to me on social media. It's at Jessica brother's life. But I love to give away free gifts. You know, because who doesn't want to win right now, who doesn't want to win right now, everyone want when you want to get started, you want something right now to start winning. So if you go to free, healthy book.com I have a beautiful breathing guide that when you do consistently is proven in science at seven years to your life, something you can add to your morning routine, or do whenever you're feeling stressed. It's a breathing exercise. And in that book, you can click a link because it's a virtual book. And you can click a link and you can actually do it with me. So I teach you how to do it. It's it's beautiful. You feel so good afterwards. It's energizing. It's life hacking, you know, adding years to your life. It's phenomenal. So I want to give that away to everyone watching for sure so they can start winning today.
Tanya Gill:Jessica You're amazing what a cool gift. And now I'm so excited because I'm like well where's my link? And I obviously need to go and get the book and then breathe with you because I have I've had the privilege of breathing with you but not intentionally so now I want to breathe
Jessica Brothers:you got it. You got it.
Tanya Gill:Oh my god, you're my friends. We can continue on this conversation with Jessica forever because she's a beautiful human. You need to find her you need her in your life. Please grab her free gift and breathe with her. Watch my Instagram watch my Facebook because you're gonna see videos of me breathing was Jessica because you know what if it raises my vibe What the fuck? I'm going to do it right. And I know that breathing with you will make me happy. Because you are just a beautiful human and I enjoy you. So it's that easy. Oh right. Oh, I love you so
Jessica Brothers:yes, you know what you and I will set for zoom calm we can breathe together live.
Tanya Gill:Oh my god. I love it. I love it. Hey, and you know what? Maybe I'll invite you sometimes the collective our group and you can come and breathe with us and walk us through it. Would you be open to that?
Jessica Brothers:My gosh. Yeah. 100% Please do it would be my honor. Yes, absolutely. I'll say yes to you all day long to anything, girl.
Tanya Gill:Oh, I just adore you. I adore you. Jessica, as we're wrapping this up, what's your final piece of advice to our listeners today?
Jessica Brothers:The most important thing, honestly, I think is making time for yourself daily. It first thing in the morning, you have to do you, you absolutely have to do you. If you start your morning, with time for yourself, you're setting yourself up for a much better day, full of better choices for yourself. Start in the morning, doesn't have to be long. It can be five minutes, 10 minutes, do something that fulfills you, makes you feel happy. So it puts a real authentic smile on your face. It's gotta be done. It's got to be a non negotiable no matter what, do it.
Tanya Gill:You heard it from no other beautiful face than Jessica brothers. And my friends make time for you in the morning. I totally agree, you know that I'm gonna totally jump on that bandwagon. And it doesn't have to be long. But it's that space of honoring yourself, because it's your fucking life. And it's your fucking day. So be intentional about it. Yeah, it could
Jessica Brothers:be the seven minute breathing exercise that you're about to receive. It could be that every single morning, who doesn't want to live longer. I know my goal is to live to 150 is going to happen 100 My word 100 and 50? Yes, I'm all about researching what's making our cells age faster and die off sooner. And all these things that happen as we age why there's a reason. And if there's a reason, that means there is a way to slow it
Tanya Gill:down. Oh my God, my friends. Just you heard it out of her. Well, she's gonna live to 150 which means I'm really great, glad that she'll be at my funeral. Because I don't think I'm gonna live that long. But you know, I'd be happy with 9095 As long as I have my faculties about me. And and yeah, it's interesting. I'd be curious to see how, how, if anyone else has thought about how old they would like to live to if they've set an intention around how long they've wanted to live. I love that. It's not. It's amazing. You're amazing. Jessica, thank you for this time, our listeners. You know just because awesome because you've just listened to this incredible conversation. Her contact info is in the show notes. But until then, from the bottom of my heart Stay awesome. Live life juicy and fuck I love you.