October 14, 2024 • 28 mins
After focusing on our mental health and matters of the heart for multiple episodes, Morgan brings on Holistic Nutritionist Grace Terrell to help us understand the health industry better. Plus, the things we should be doing to help heal our bodies, the importance of the foods we consume, and how to grocery shop better. Then, Morgan shares an audio journal entry of her experience with food and how being vegetarian really shifted her health journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Take personally.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Listen Morgan Juelsman.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome everyone, Morgan here. I've had so much fun talking
with experts across the board. It's been incredibly informative for me,
and I hope for you all as well. My hope
for this podcast has been it will continue to be
that anyone listening feels a little less alone in their
feelings and whatever season of life they're in. Right now,
I'm bringing on holistic nutritionist Grace to talk about the
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importance of health and wellness for our everyday lives. Then
I will share what my life has looked like from
a health and wellness perspective, from becoming a vegetarian at
eight years old to now having a vegetarian, gluten free
and mostly sugar free diet. Grace is a holistic nutrition
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as to health coach and the founder of Graceful Wellness.
She specializes in gut and hormone health. She's helping people
take back control of their lives in a natural and
sustainable way by using a holistic approach to nutrition and lifestyle. Grace,
how are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm great? How are you I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm super excited to talk to you. I've been on
my own holistic health journey for a little bit now,
and it's been a huge help in my life across
the board. So I'm excited to have you on here
and talk and hopefully help some other people get to
that place in their life.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, that's awesome. I'm so happy to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I went through my own holistic journey myself, so one
of my favorite topics.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Obviously, something you really help people with is their gut
and hormone health, as well as helping people find a
way to really sustain and incorporate holistic approaches into their
nutrition and lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yes, I always try and make it the most sustainable
as I possibly can, because I feel like all these
quick fixes are so popular these days, and my whole
ideology is getting people off that hamster wheel of trying
something and then falling off the wagon and then trying
something else.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So more sustainable approach is always better.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I would love to know we're going to start with
something super easy. What is the importance of holistic nutrition?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Of course, not everything can be healed through food, but
I think it's such an important component of our lifestyle.
I mean, what we put into our body affects everything
our digestion, our hormones, to our mental health, and so
I think really understanding the importance of nutrition and how
nutrients affect all of those parts of our health is.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
One of the most important things that we can learn about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If there is someone out there who is trying to
do this, and they're trying to be better about what
they're putting in their bodies, what are some lifestyle changes
they can make right now that could start showing up
and making a different.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's the easiest thing I always like to say is
shop the perimeter of the grocery store, because typically a
lot of the junk is in the middle, in the aisles.
So if you just stick to the outside your produce,
fruits and vegetables, your meats, stuff like that, making that
small change just eighty percent of the time is going
to make a huge, huge difference. I think the not
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total elimination, but the reduction of the amount of processed
foods that we have in our diet is like the
number one thing that I always suggest. Just start there,
start reading labels and paying attention to what you're putting
in your body, and just that tiny, even like mental
shift is going to make a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Why is it more beneficial for us to focus on
the overall health and wellness of our bodies rather than
just I'm going to go to the doctor, let me
grab some medicine real quick, and I'll be better tomorrow.
Why is this a better option for you long term?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? I think it's the whole shift of preventative care
versus acute care. Obviously, medicine is incredible, and there are
so many times that we need it, but we want
to prevent needing medication as much as we possibly can,
and so taking care of our bodies before they get
to a point where we need that acute medical care
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is I think really really important.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is there any supplements or anything that you use that
you encourage people to take. Yes, you can fix your
diet and stuff, but are supplements another part of that
journey along the line.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It depends.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
My whole approach is being as minimal as I can
with supplementation and really focusing on the dietary component. But
of course there are times when supplements are really really beneficial,
like if you're trying to heal your gut at certain points,
like a probiotic can be really beneficial. Or I'll glue
tomine to help seal the gut lining. But I think
people overdo it with the supplements and they kind of
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go that route instead of making the maybe necessary shifts
in their diet, they kind of bandaid it with supplements.
So I kind of try and steer people away from that.
But supplements, Yeah, they can be really, really beneficial, but
I think it depends on the individual. I mean, and
there's certain things like I think most people could benefit
from a little bit of magnesium because our soil is
so depleted of it and so our produce doesn't get
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as much as it used to. In general, I think
supplements are very very individual.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I agree with that. I was just curious that was
kind of part of the process too. And it's really
easy to find things at the store and buy them
because you heard or saw something online and you're let
me put that in my body real quick. It may
help if someone isn't focused on the overall health and
the foods that they're putting into their bodies. What are
some symptoms that they're probably dealing with and they just
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don't know what's related to that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, well, I think a lot of people nowadays feel
tired all the time. Maybe they're not managing their stress
as best as they should. Bloating digestive pains, maybe your
hair is falling out. Maybe as a female, you have
like really bad PMS.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I would say like.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Symptoms are the way that your body communicates to you.
And I think nowadays we just move at such a
fast pace just our lifestyle, that we don't really pay
attention to the things that our bodies are telling us,
and we kind of just push them off as normal. Oh,
everyone just feels like they could sleep for fourteen hours
a day and not have enough energy, you know, But
really like tuning in paying attention to how our body
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might feel off is really really important because I think
most people nowadays are kind of on autopilot and they
don't realize how good they can actually feel. And it's
all about like optimizing the way that you feel every day.
When people start eating better and taking care of themselves
and really like tuning into how their bodies feel, they've
noticed a huge, huge difference with that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
In talking about foods, you mentioned how to avoid processed foods,
paying attention to the outer rim when you go to
grocery stores. Is there specific ingredients that we need to
be looking for. I know, a hot one that is
talked about often is red dye. Is there others along
that line, And what are some of those specific ingredients
we should probably be paying attention to.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Man, there's so many for what I deal with digestive issues,
mostly the artificial sweeteners a erythritol, xiolatol, superlose those are
huge ones.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You'll find those in all the products that are like
sugar free or keto, all the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Products that are marketed as being a healthier alternative have
some of those artificial sweeteners that can cause a lot
of digestive issues, loading, stomach cramps. And then canola oil
the seed oils. Now I think is like a trend
of people trying to avoid those, which are in a
lot of health foods as well. So yeah, I would
say artificial sweeteners, seed oils, and then you want to
look out for gums, But of course it depends on
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the severity of the issues. I think the easiest way
to do it is just reduce the amount of processed
foods that you're having and not pay too much attention
to the specific ingredients. And I think that'll make a
huge difference because you don't want to stress yourself out
so much with having to learn about every single ingredient
and what it's doing to your body.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and that's what I wanted to ask about, why
specific ingredients are important to pay attention to, because at
least we can pay attention to certain words, that's a
little bit easier than the overall there's eighty million things
you have to avoid. You talk about also, produce, do
we have to be buying organic produce or as all
produce kind of made similar? Is that something that's been
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marketed to us? And what about freezer vegetables fruits? Are
those okay to buy? If somebody's trying to do this
and they want to do this in a cheap way possible,
what does that kind of look like.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, so this is kind of a hot topic. And
personally I don't stress too much about organic versus non organic.
I think if you're someone who's really really struggling with
your health, organic is probably better because it's not sprayed
with as many herbicides, pesticides, that sort of stuff. But
for the general person, if you're just trying to make
the shift, I wouldn't stress too much about the organic
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versus non organic as long as you're eating enough vegetables,
even if it has to be frozen for convenience.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're super busy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You don't want to buy a bunch of produce and
then have it go bad, you know, and waste your money.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I wouldn't worry about that too much.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So I'm okay to buy some frozen but still
buy some whole fresh ingredients. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yes? Totally fair?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Also with our culture, we are very busy working culture.
I know that comes a little bit with wellness as well,
that we have to pay attention to our mental health.
Wellness overall is looking at the entire aspect of your body,
not just the foods that are going into it. So
if there's something people can be doing besides eating really
healthy right now to improve their lives, what are some
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other things you suggest for them?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Exercising of course, getting out in nature I think is
like one of the most important things that you can
do because it naturally just calms you down. When you're
walking in the woods or just going outside and getting
fresh air in some light like you are naturally going
to decrease your cortisol level. And when your cortisol is
chronically elevated, which most of ours are. That's when we're
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more vulnerable to getting sick and to developing these chronic conditions.
So yeah, if you can exercise outside, that right there
is so ideal. But just going outside and getting fresh air,
spending time in nature, meditating, just moving your body, like
the things that we're meant to be doing. You got
to do those at least a couple times a week
if you can, and along with the diet component, like,
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if you do those things, you're going to feel generally good.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I love that, especially because I think it's important to
get out in nature, regardless mental health, physical health. Let's
just get all the way around.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I totally agree. We're supposed to be outside.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I think now we're inside so much under like fluorescent
lights on our computers, and that's just the way that
the world is making it a priority to go outside
and get fresh air. It makes a huge difference in
people's moods.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
If you have to go out to eat or if
you just want to go enjoy time with friends. What
are things that you look for on a menu to order.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I might be biased, but I feel like it's really
not that hard to get good food at a restaurant,
I try and typically avoid gluten or like pasta or
pizza or things like that that I know are going
to upset my digestion. That's how I am, so I
typically try and order something with protein, carbs, and a
fat like I think having a balanced meal so important.
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I'm having a carbohydrate rich meal. I want to get
like a side of protein. But I don't stress about
it too much. If there's certain things that you know
make you feel crappy, like I'm not going to go
out and have a whole pizza because I know that's
not going to make feel good, so I'll get like chicken.
I love sushi, tacos, things like that. It doesn't have
to be so hard, and you don't have to never
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go out to eat if you're on a health journey.
I think that's something people overcomplicate.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You were speaking of foods that you know that upset
your stomach. How did you get to that point where
you started figuring out what food's upset you and your
digestive system.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So I did an elimination diet. I eliminated.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It's so funny because my mom told me for years,
you probably shouldn't eat gluten and I was like, no,
I'm fine. But I finally cut it out, and like
after the second week, I was like, oh my gosh,
I feel so much better now. Some people are going
to have gluten and feel totally fine. I'm not saying
everyone should cut out gluten, but for me, I mean
I got hives, my stomach hurt, I got really really bloated.
It made me really tired, I had brain fog. All
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these symptoms that I thought that's just the way that
I was were correlated to me having gluten in my diet.
And so when I removed it, I felt so much better.
And I did go through phases where there was more
foods that I couldn't have, but through healing my gut
and really made my health a priority, I've been able
to reincorporate those and I feel fine. The only thing
now that I don't eat is gluten.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I am currently on that same journey. I can't have gluten,
and I can't have sugar well processed sugars. Our guts
is a little bit more sensitive than we give it
credit for. I would think, yeah, I agree, I asked
you all the things that we should take out or
what we should change, but what are some things we
can add to our diet that might be able to.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Help most people under eat protein. If you're a veganer, vegetarian,
try and get as much protein as you can. If
your digestion is impaired, it's going to be a little
tricky because you're gonna have to eat beans and lagoons
and tofu and stuff that might upset you. But protein
is so so important for energy, for healing, for everything.
To make sure you're getting enough protein. And then fermented
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foods are also great, like sauer kraut, kimchi, stuff like that.
Produce fruits and veggies and root vegetables are also great,
like potatoes, carrots, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, And I can't speak to being a vegetarian. I've
been on since I was eight years old. It's not
a long journey for me. But protein shake in the
morning with some almond milk and spinach and berries is
one of my go to things that I add to
my diet. Do you have one of those go to recipes?
It's super easy, something you can always put together. It's
kind of always in your fridge.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I go through phases where I get like really obsessed
with certain foods until I get pick them. Then I'll
stop eating them for right now, it's shrimp, plantains, and zucchini.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Do you sautee those things together? Those individual things you eat?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So the plantains I have an air fryer, so I
air fry them, and then the zucchini and the shrimp
I saute.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Love that these are some great ideas and ways to
incorporate stuff into your diet and your health that should
really start to help you. I feel like, so thank
you for sharing so many tips and tricks with us.
Is there anything else that you've learned recently that has
really even blown open this whole holistic lifestyle even more
for you? They're like, wow, I wish I would have
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known that sooner.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I think the importance of our circadian rhythm, and not
just how much we're sleeping, but like the timing of
one you go to bed and when you wake up,
and how important light is to our bodies, the sunrise
and the sunset and having blue light and all those
sorts of things and how they affect the hormones that
are produced throughout the day. So I guess the best
way to have a healthy stircating rhythm is to go
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to bed at around the same time, wake up around
the same time every day. And if you're watching TV
or on your phone or on your computer late at night,
wear like blue light blocking glasses and just try not
to be on your phone late at night because that
really affects the production of melatonin, which is going to
help us fall asleep, and that affects our cortisol, which
is going to help us wake up. And it's just
this whole cycle. So I think that whole thing has
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been really really eye opening for me.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, we got things to change at the grocery store,
and we got sleeping habits to change as well, which
I appreciate. Thank you so much for joining me. This
has been awesome and just super informative. Also, not a
lot of people like to talk about this stuff. It's
really easy to go about our lives and not change
our diets or take things out even though it could
be affecting us. Appreciate what you're doing and what you're
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educating people about.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And I think the most important thing is don't overwhelm
yourself when you're trying to start. Just make tiny shifts
and your journey will go from there. It doesn't have
to be complicated. I think the internet overcomplicates things a lot,
and just keeping it simple as.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Best, wonderful. Thank you so much again, just for joining
me and talking about all these things. I can tell
you're super passionate about too, which is even better.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
If you want to connect with Grace, you can find
her on Instagram at underscore Graceful Wellness. After having Grace on,
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who is an expert in the health and wellness field,
I wanted to share a little bit of my health
and wellness journey because it hasn't always been very pretty.
I was eight years old and I decided I wanted
to be a vegetarian. It's a vivid memory for me.
We were in line waiting for our McDonald's Happy Meals
in the car and my older sister decided to bring
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up the topic of where meat came from being an
eight year old. When I discovered that my hamburger I
was getting in this happy meal came from a cow,
I checked it out the window and declared my vegetarianism,
if that's even a word, and decided I was no
longer going to eat meat. You can imagine being an
eight year old and being vegetarian, I didn't want to
eat healthy foods. I wanted grilled cheese, cheeseca, sadillas, mac
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and cheese, and basically any carb and cheese you could
put together. That's what I wanted to eat, so that's
what my parents gave me. It was the only thing
that made me happy, and I want to eat meat,
and that didn't change much either as I got older.
I was so busy with sports and being involved in
activities that I never cooked for myself or I was
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running out the door with a peeb and j or
eating at Buffalo Wild Wings because that's where I worked
through high school. I wasn't eating healthy foods or spending
time in the kitchen. That just wasn't a part of
my growing up experience because of everything else that I
was involved in and did. The summer after I graduated
college was when I adopted Remy and I ended up
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finding a holistic veterinarian who really opened my eyes to
this whole other world of health and wellness. They combined
your usual vet care with holistic treatments for the best
well rounded care. And when I saw this lifestyle change
I was making for Remy, to give her the best
healthiest life possible. I kind of thought about it, like,
why am I not doing this for myself? And so
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I was intrigued. This was where the start of my
looking into overall health and wellness begun. Because throughout my
entire life, I had always been active. I'd always worked out,
and I was always listening to coaches and trainers and
doing all the right things. So I didn't ever think
twice about what I was putting into my body. And
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this was the moment that it kind of started to
show me a different side of things that I wasn't
really considering. That never really came into place until later
when I moved away from home and moved to Nashville
about six years ago, my taste palette started to expand.
Nashville had a lot of new culinary things to offer
me that I hadn't experienced before, and I became a foodie.
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This whole new world of foods that was out there
that I had never really eaten or maybe given a try.
I started eating foods that I hate it and I
would refuse to eat. Also a part of just growing
up in general, but being in a new city, I
could explore things in a different way. So I was
a foodie, but I still wasn't a healthy foodie. I
was eating so many carbs and so many sweets. I
wanted to try all the things. It's like a whole
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new world of palette had been opened for my mouth.
But I wasn't eating foods that were really helping my body.
I was just helping myself and my taste boads and
my cravings. And despite not having a very nourishing diet,
I was always active. I was still working out all
the time. The sports side of me continued into adulthood.
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I was working out every day, or I would go
on a lot of walks, or I would go do
outdoor activities. Being active was never a problem for me.
It was the food that was my biggest problem. And
it wasn't really until the pandemic that I started to
spend time in the kitchen and learn how to cook
my favorite foods. And the favorite foods, again weren't my
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healthiest nourishing foods, but I was learning to cook. I
was trying something new that I never thought I could do,
because cooking was just not something I ever got into.
And I don't know why, because I love it now
and exploring and cooking has allowed me to see so
many things that I can create input together that I
never would have eaten before. So cooking started to push
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me more in the direction that I've always wanted to
be in I just never thought possible, And learning to
cook turned into me cooking healthier foods. Now that still
wasn't the end of my food I would cook and
eat really healthy during the week, and then the weekends
I would totally binge and splurge on all the things
that I could buy out in the world. So that
leads me to where I'm at right now in this
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health and wellness journey that I'm on. I guess you
could say you know when I share this, because as
you can tell, it's not pretty. It's not like I
grew up juicing and eating fruit and veggies all the time.
I was the most difficult kid when it came to
eating food. I loved cheese and I loved carbs, and
I still love those things. I also have the biggest
sweet tooth of anyone I know outside of my family.
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But as I've gotten older and all of those things
have caught up to me, I was doing so many
activities but I wasn't losing any weights like I had
reached a plateau, which was not the end all be all,
but I had reached a plateau, and I was frustrated.
I had chronic inflammation. I was always bloated, my hormones
were all over the place, I was constantly tired. I
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felt like I was having the flu every other day.
These flu like symptoms felt debilitating to my body, and
I didn't understand none of the pieces were adding up.
I started to get really frustrated, which is why I
decided to seek out a holistic nutritionist to help me
figure out what my next step is and to address
my chronic issues. And before going to this holistic nutritionist,
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I probably would have looked at this from the outside
in and said, this is crazy. There's no way this exists.
There's no way these are impacting everything that you're talking about.
And you almost have to experience it for yourself, and
you can't make other people put themselves in your shoes.
They just have to feel it and see what their
body reacts to. Because everybody is different, not one body
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is similar in how they respond to things, and so
I think that's a very big misconstrued idea of the
whole health industry. You can't just watch someone and do
an exercise and you automatically get ABS. So you can't
follow a one diet and automatically look like the person
who's talking about the diet. Everybody is so different, and
that's why I wanted to go to someone who had
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information and who was doing this in a system that
I believed in, which was holistic and nutrition combined the two.
We sat there for over two hours in the first
appointment and talked about so many aspects of my life
that can contribute to my body and how it's feeling.
I went in there with chronic fatigue, chronic nausea, inflammation, bloating,
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and thyroid issues that I wanted to address. Those were
the main points and not in my wildest dreams that
I think I would be coming out of that appointment saying,
Oh my gosh, I have to be gluten free. I
have to stop eating sugar. I never wanted to believe that.
Now I was very excited that it wasn't dairy free, because,
as you can possibly tell, I am a cheese theen
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I love cheese, so gluten I was like, no problem,
I'll figure this out and over the six week course
that I've been working with her, She's really helped me
understand different things that are affecting my body. I have
scars that impact how I feel. Sometimes I have environmental
things that are around me that impact my adrenal levels.
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There's so much that goes into your body than just
the food you're putting into it, the activity you're doing
from day to day. It's mental, it's physical, it's emotional,
and they're all intertwined. I was blown away by what
this experience did to me. This still feels crazy, but
I'm gonna give it a try. I'm gonna try and
be gluten free. I'm gonna try and not eat a
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lot of sugar, focus on whole foods, use the supplements
that my body is asking for, and just try this.
The worst that happens is my body says, nah, we're good.
This isn't helping doing that and accepting. I was needing
to be gluten free, and I was needing to be
sugar free, and I was needing to address things that
for so long I never wanted to. I feel incredible.
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I felt better now than I have ever felt in
my life. I just never imagine that at twenty eight
years old, I'd be saying this is the time that
I feel the best version of myself. And I like
to mention when I say sugar free, I had to
take processed foods out of my diet. Your girl loves cheese, ites, Okay, chips, crackers,
any kind of candy you get out of the candy
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out oreos. I mean, I could go on a list
of all the things that I love and I eat
on the daily before this happened, But I hate to
say that it changed a huge perspective in me. Then
now when I go to the grocery store, I'm really
only shopping. Like Grace had mentioned the outside aisles, I'm
shopping in the produce and things that expire because that's
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what is needing to be in my body. Yes it
requires more cooking, Yes it can sometimes be more expensive,
and yes it's sometimes really hard and I just want
to give up. So this is not something I'm doing
to appease a weight loss or attain a goal. I'm
doing this as an overall I want to be healthy,
live a long life, and feel good. When I talk
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about this, it's an entire lifestyle change. It's not this.
I'm going to do this for six weeks and now
it's over. This is going to be what the rest
of my life looks like. If I want to feel
this good, and that's going to be hard. I know
that's going to be hard. It's already been hard. When
there's days I want to come home from work and
do absolutely nothing and pick up Taco Bell on the
way home because that used to be my favorite fast
food it still is. And when I can have that
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huge craving and go and it not be debilitating to
my body because I've worked out all the other issues
I have going on, I'm going to be excited for that.
But for now, this moment that I'm in right now
is so clear on putting whole foods and cooking things
that are coming straight from the outside aisles of grocery
stores even when I don't want to, and food prepping
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has been a great friend to me. I try and
spend a few hours doing that, and I get it
looking from an outsider's point of view at this and
what I'm saying and saying that's not true, that's not possible.
These people have been living long lives forever and they're
great and you know what, that's true again. There are
some people out there who are so lucky and they
don't have any problems, and they can eat anything and
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whatever they want. And I love them for that. I
love that they get to do that, and I'm jealous.
But that's not it for me as much as I
want it to be, and I just want to have
a really solid, good, healthy life for many more years
to come and feel really good about it. That's why
I wanted to come on here and not only bring
Grace on with me, but to share my side of
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this wellness journey, because it looks different for everyone, and
it's really easy for people to say, do this, do that,
these are the things you need to do, when in reality,
it's a different journey for every single person and there
is not a one size fits all when it comes
to health and wellness. In fact, there's not any size
fits all. It is a total individual situation for yourself.
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And I can't stress that enough. I think when we
use things online and we reach out to people to
ask for help, use them as a guide and as
tools and as resources, but at the end of the day,
remember that you're different than that person. Even when you're
looking at other people online and you're seeing their bodies.
That body is different than yours for a reason, there
are different things going on. I love talking about this
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because it's been such a funny journey from point A
to point Z at this point in my life. But
I want anyone out there who's been struggling with their
health in any aspect to hear this and say, it's
never too late to start. It's never too late to
do some research or to find what works for you.
There are so many tools and resources out there to
help different types of people, and of course all of
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our different bodies and how we are unique. So I
encourage you to look into this stuff and find experts
who have the knowledge to help you with the problems
that you're having. It feels so good to me to
feel this good, and if I could make other people
feel this good, I would. I would just love to
pass it on very easily. But that is my hope
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with this episode of the podcast, that in some way
I can pass it on to you to hopefully find
your own health and wellness journey that feels good and
you can truly be not only physically, but mentally and
emotionally the very best version of yourself. This week, we
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took a little detour of healing the mind and the
heart to talk about our physical bodies, and I hope
it helps some of you. I think it's important we
focus on healing all aspects of our life, not just
a few parts. So that's why I brought on Grace
and shared a little bit of my story with health
and wellness. If you will, make sure to follow the
podcast Instagram, take this personally for some fun content, and
drop me a DM if you're loving these episodes. Next
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I'm so happy you're here. I love each and every
one of you, and we'll talk next week.
Take personally.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Listen Morgan Juelsman.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome everyone, Morgan here. I've had so much fun talking
with experts across the board. It's been incredibly informative for me,
and I hope for you all as well. My hope
for this podcast has been it will continue to be
that anyone listening feels a little less alone in their
feelings and whatever season of life they're in. Right now,
I'm bringing on holistic nutritionist Grace to talk about the
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importance of health and wellness for our everyday lives. Then
I will share what my life has looked like from
a health and wellness perspective, from becoming a vegetarian at
eight years old to now having a vegetarian, gluten free
and mostly sugar free diet. Grace is a holistic nutrition
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as to health coach and the founder of Graceful Wellness.
She specializes in gut and hormone health. She's helping people
take back control of their lives in a natural and
sustainable way by using a holistic approach to nutrition and lifestyle. Grace,
how are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm great? How are you I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm super excited to talk to you. I've been on
my own holistic health journey for a little bit now,
and it's been a huge help in my life across
the board. So I'm excited to have you on here
and talk and hopefully help some other people get to
that place in their life.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, that's awesome. I'm so happy to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I went through my own holistic journey myself, so one
of my favorite topics.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Obviously, something you really help people with is their gut
and hormone health, as well as helping people find a
way to really sustain and incorporate holistic approaches into their
nutrition and lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yes, I always try and make it the most sustainable
as I possibly can, because I feel like all these
quick fixes are so popular these days, and my whole
ideology is getting people off that hamster wheel of trying
something and then falling off the wagon and then trying
something else.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So more sustainable approach is always better.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I would love to know we're going to start with
something super easy. What is the importance of holistic nutrition?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Of course, not everything can be healed through food, but
I think it's such an important component of our lifestyle.
I mean, what we put into our body affects everything
our digestion, our hormones, to our mental health, and so
I think really understanding the importance of nutrition and how
nutrients affect all of those parts of our health is.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
One of the most important things that we can learn about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If there is someone out there who is trying to
do this, and they're trying to be better about what
they're putting in their bodies, what are some lifestyle changes
they can make right now that could start showing up
and making a different.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's the easiest thing I always like to say is
shop the perimeter of the grocery store, because typically a
lot of the junk is in the middle, in the aisles.
So if you just stick to the outside your produce,
fruits and vegetables, your meats, stuff like that, making that
small change just eighty percent of the time is going
to make a huge, huge difference. I think the not
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total elimination, but the reduction of the amount of processed
foods that we have in our diet is like the
number one thing that I always suggest. Just start there,
start reading labels and paying attention to what you're putting
in your body, and just that tiny, even like mental
shift is going to make a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Why is it more beneficial for us to focus on
the overall health and wellness of our bodies rather than
just I'm going to go to the doctor, let me
grab some medicine real quick, and I'll be better tomorrow.
Why is this a better option for you long term?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? I think it's the whole shift of preventative care
versus acute care. Obviously, medicine is incredible, and there are
so many times that we need it, but we want
to prevent needing medication as much as we possibly can,
and so taking care of our bodies before they get
to a point where we need that acute medical care
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is I think really really important.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is there any supplements or anything that you use that
you encourage people to take. Yes, you can fix your
diet and stuff, but are supplements another part of that
journey along the line.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It depends.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
My whole approach is being as minimal as I can
with supplementation and really focusing on the dietary component. But
of course there are times when supplements are really really beneficial,
like if you're trying to heal your gut at certain points,
like a probiotic can be really beneficial. Or I'll glue
tomine to help seal the gut lining. But I think
people overdo it with the supplements and they kind of
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go that route instead of making the maybe necessary shifts
in their diet, they kind of bandaid it with supplements.
So I kind of try and steer people away from that.
But supplements, Yeah, they can be really, really beneficial, but
I think it depends on the individual. I mean, and
there's certain things like I think most people could benefit
from a little bit of magnesium because our soil is
so depleted of it and so our produce doesn't get
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as much as it used to. In general, I think
supplements are very very individual.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I agree with that. I was just curious that was
kind of part of the process too. And it's really
easy to find things at the store and buy them
because you heard or saw something online and you're let
me put that in my body real quick. It may
help if someone isn't focused on the overall health and
the foods that they're putting into their bodies. What are
some symptoms that they're probably dealing with and they just
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don't know what's related to that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, well, I think a lot of people nowadays feel
tired all the time. Maybe they're not managing their stress
as best as they should. Bloating digestive pains, maybe your
hair is falling out. Maybe as a female, you have
like really bad PMS.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I would say like.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Symptoms are the way that your body communicates to you.
And I think nowadays we just move at such a
fast pace just our lifestyle, that we don't really pay
attention to the things that our bodies are telling us,
and we kind of just push them off as normal. Oh,
everyone just feels like they could sleep for fourteen hours
a day and not have enough energy, you know, But
really like tuning in paying attention to how our body
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might feel off is really really important because I think
most people nowadays are kind of on autopilot and they
don't realize how good they can actually feel. And it's
all about like optimizing the way that you feel every day.
When people start eating better and taking care of themselves
and really like tuning into how their bodies feel, they've
noticed a huge, huge difference with that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
In talking about foods, you mentioned how to avoid processed foods,
paying attention to the outer rim when you go to
grocery stores. Is there specific ingredients that we need to
be looking for. I know, a hot one that is
talked about often is red dye. Is there others along
that line, And what are some of those specific ingredients
we should probably be paying attention to.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Man, there's so many for what I deal with digestive issues,
mostly the artificial sweeteners a erythritol, xiolatol, superlose those are
huge ones.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You'll find those in all the products that are like
sugar free or keto, all the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Products that are marketed as being a healthier alternative have
some of those artificial sweeteners that can cause a lot
of digestive issues, loading, stomach cramps. And then canola oil
the seed oils. Now I think is like a trend
of people trying to avoid those, which are in a
lot of health foods as well. So yeah, I would
say artificial sweeteners, seed oils, and then you want to
look out for gums, But of course it depends on
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the severity of the issues. I think the easiest way
to do it is just reduce the amount of processed
foods that you're having and not pay too much attention
to the specific ingredients. And I think that'll make a
huge difference because you don't want to stress yourself out
so much with having to learn about every single ingredient
and what it's doing to your body.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and that's what I wanted to ask about, why
specific ingredients are important to pay attention to, because at
least we can pay attention to certain words, that's a
little bit easier than the overall there's eighty million things
you have to avoid. You talk about also, produce, do
we have to be buying organic produce or as all
produce kind of made similar? Is that something that's been
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marketed to us? And what about freezer vegetables fruits? Are
those okay to buy? If somebody's trying to do this
and they want to do this in a cheap way possible,
what does that kind of look like.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, so this is kind of a hot topic. And
personally I don't stress too much about organic versus non organic.
I think if you're someone who's really really struggling with
your health, organic is probably better because it's not sprayed
with as many herbicides, pesticides, that sort of stuff. But
for the general person, if you're just trying to make
the shift, I wouldn't stress too much about the organic
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versus non organic as long as you're eating enough vegetables,
even if it has to be frozen for convenience.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're super busy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You don't want to buy a bunch of produce and
then have it go bad, you know, and waste your money.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I wouldn't worry about that too much.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So I'm okay to buy some frozen but still
buy some whole fresh ingredients. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yes? Totally fair?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Also with our culture, we are very busy working culture.
I know that comes a little bit with wellness as well,
that we have to pay attention to our mental health.
Wellness overall is looking at the entire aspect of your body,
not just the foods that are going into it. So
if there's something people can be doing besides eating really
healthy right now to improve their lives, what are some
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other things you suggest for them?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Exercising of course, getting out in nature I think is
like one of the most important things that you can
do because it naturally just calms you down. When you're
walking in the woods or just going outside and getting
fresh air in some light like you are naturally going
to decrease your cortisol level. And when your cortisol is
chronically elevated, which most of ours are. That's when we're
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more vulnerable to getting sick and to developing these chronic conditions.
So yeah, if you can exercise outside, that right there
is so ideal. But just going outside and getting fresh air,
spending time in nature, meditating, just moving your body, like
the things that we're meant to be doing. You got
to do those at least a couple times a week
if you can, and along with the diet component, like,
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if you do those things, you're going to feel generally good.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I love that, especially because I think it's important to
get out in nature, regardless mental health, physical health. Let's
just get all the way around.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I totally agree. We're supposed to be outside.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I think now we're inside so much under like fluorescent
lights on our computers, and that's just the way that
the world is making it a priority to go outside
and get fresh air. It makes a huge difference in
people's moods.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
If you have to go out to eat or if
you just want to go enjoy time with friends. What
are things that you look for on a menu to order.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I might be biased, but I feel like it's really
not that hard to get good food at a restaurant,
I try and typically avoid gluten or like pasta or
pizza or things like that that I know are going
to upset my digestion. That's how I am, so I
typically try and order something with protein, carbs, and a
fat like I think having a balanced meal so important.
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I'm having a carbohydrate rich meal. I want to get
like a side of protein. But I don't stress about
it too much. If there's certain things that you know
make you feel crappy, like I'm not going to go
out and have a whole pizza because I know that's
not going to make feel good, so I'll get like chicken.
I love sushi, tacos, things like that. It doesn't have
to be so hard, and you don't have to never
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go out to eat if you're on a health journey.
I think that's something people overcomplicate.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You were speaking of foods that you know that upset
your stomach. How did you get to that point where
you started figuring out what food's upset you and your
digestive system.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So I did an elimination diet. I eliminated.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It's so funny because my mom told me for years,
you probably shouldn't eat gluten and I was like, no,
I'm fine. But I finally cut it out, and like
after the second week, I was like, oh my gosh,
I feel so much better now. Some people are going
to have gluten and feel totally fine. I'm not saying
everyone should cut out gluten, but for me, I mean
I got hives, my stomach hurt, I got really really bloated.
It made me really tired, I had brain fog. All
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these symptoms that I thought that's just the way that
I was were correlated to me having gluten in my diet.
And so when I removed it, I felt so much better.
And I did go through phases where there was more
foods that I couldn't have, but through healing my gut
and really made my health a priority, I've been able
to reincorporate those and I feel fine. The only thing
now that I don't eat is gluten.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I am currently on that same journey. I can't have gluten,
and I can't have sugar well processed sugars. Our guts
is a little bit more sensitive than we give it
credit for. I would think, yeah, I agree, I asked
you all the things that we should take out or
what we should change, but what are some things we
can add to our diet that might be able to.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Help most people under eat protein. If you're a veganer, vegetarian,
try and get as much protein as you can. If
your digestion is impaired, it's going to be a little
tricky because you're gonna have to eat beans and lagoons
and tofu and stuff that might upset you. But protein
is so so important for energy, for healing, for everything.
To make sure you're getting enough protein. And then fermented
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foods are also great, like sauer kraut, kimchi, stuff like that.
Produce fruits and veggies and root vegetables are also great,
like potatoes, carrots, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, And I can't speak to being a vegetarian. I've
been on since I was eight years old. It's not
a long journey for me. But protein shake in the
morning with some almond milk and spinach and berries is
one of my go to things that I add to
my diet. Do you have one of those go to recipes?
It's super easy, something you can always put together. It's
kind of always in your fridge.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I go through phases where I get like really obsessed
with certain foods until I get pick them. Then I'll
stop eating them for right now, it's shrimp, plantains, and zucchini.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Do you sautee those things together? Those individual things you eat?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So the plantains I have an air fryer, so I
air fry them, and then the zucchini and the shrimp
I saute.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Love that these are some great ideas and ways to
incorporate stuff into your diet and your health that should
really start to help you. I feel like, so thank
you for sharing so many tips and tricks with us.
Is there anything else that you've learned recently that has
really even blown open this whole holistic lifestyle even more
for you? They're like, wow, I wish I would have
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known that sooner.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I think the importance of our circadian rhythm, and not
just how much we're sleeping, but like the timing of
one you go to bed and when you wake up,
and how important light is to our bodies, the sunrise
and the sunset and having blue light and all those
sorts of things and how they affect the hormones that
are produced throughout the day. So I guess the best
way to have a healthy stircating rhythm is to go
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to bed at around the same time, wake up around
the same time every day. And if you're watching TV
or on your phone or on your computer late at night,
wear like blue light blocking glasses and just try not
to be on your phone late at night because that
really affects the production of melatonin, which is going to
help us fall asleep, and that affects our cortisol, which
is going to help us wake up. And it's just
this whole cycle. So I think that whole thing has
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been really really eye opening for me.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, we got things to change at the grocery store,
and we got sleeping habits to change as well, which
I appreciate. Thank you so much for joining me. This
has been awesome and just super informative. Also, not a
lot of people like to talk about this stuff. It's
really easy to go about our lives and not change
our diets or take things out even though it could
be affecting us. Appreciate what you're doing and what you're
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educating people about.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And I think the most important thing is don't overwhelm
yourself when you're trying to start. Just make tiny shifts
and your journey will go from there. It doesn't have
to be complicated. I think the internet overcomplicates things a lot,
and just keeping it simple as.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Best, wonderful. Thank you so much again, just for joining
me and talking about all these things. I can tell
you're super passionate about too, which is even better.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
If you want to connect with Grace, you can find
her on Instagram at underscore Graceful Wellness. After having Grace on,
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who is an expert in the health and wellness field,
I wanted to share a little bit of my health
and wellness journey because it hasn't always been very pretty.
I was eight years old and I decided I wanted
to be a vegetarian. It's a vivid memory for me.
We were in line waiting for our McDonald's Happy Meals
in the car and my older sister decided to bring
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up the topic of where meat came from being an
eight year old. When I discovered that my hamburger I
was getting in this happy meal came from a cow,
I checked it out the window and declared my vegetarianism,
if that's even a word, and decided I was no
longer going to eat meat. You can imagine being an
eight year old and being vegetarian, I didn't want to
eat healthy foods. I wanted grilled cheese, cheeseca, sadillas, mac
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and cheese, and basically any carb and cheese you could
put together. That's what I wanted to eat, so that's
what my parents gave me. It was the only thing
that made me happy, and I want to eat meat,
and that didn't change much either as I got older.
I was so busy with sports and being involved in
activities that I never cooked for myself or I was
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running out the door with a peeb and j or
eating at Buffalo Wild Wings because that's where I worked
through high school. I wasn't eating healthy foods or spending
time in the kitchen. That just wasn't a part of
my growing up experience because of everything else that I
was involved in and did. The summer after I graduated
college was when I adopted Remy and I ended up
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finding a holistic veterinarian who really opened my eyes to
this whole other world of health and wellness. They combined
your usual vet care with holistic treatments for the best
well rounded care. And when I saw this lifestyle change
I was making for Remy, to give her the best
healthiest life possible. I kind of thought about it, like,
why am I not doing this for myself? And so
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I was intrigued. This was where the start of my
looking into overall health and wellness begun. Because throughout my
entire life, I had always been active. I'd always worked out,
and I was always listening to coaches and trainers and
doing all the right things. So I didn't ever think
twice about what I was putting into my body. And
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this was the moment that it kind of started to
show me a different side of things that I wasn't
really considering. That never really came into place until later
when I moved away from home and moved to Nashville
about six years ago, my taste palette started to expand.
Nashville had a lot of new culinary things to offer
me that I hadn't experienced before, and I became a foodie.
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This whole new world of foods that was out there
that I had never really eaten or maybe given a try.
I started eating foods that I hate it and I
would refuse to eat. Also a part of just growing
up in general, but being in a new city, I
could explore things in a different way. So I was
a foodie, but I still wasn't a healthy foodie. I
was eating so many carbs and so many sweets. I
wanted to try all the things. It's like a whole
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new world of palette had been opened for my mouth.
But I wasn't eating foods that were really helping my body.
I was just helping myself and my taste boads and
my cravings. And despite not having a very nourishing diet,
I was always active. I was still working out all
the time. The sports side of me continued into adulthood.
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I was working out every day, or I would go
on a lot of walks, or I would go do
outdoor activities. Being active was never a problem for me.
It was the food that was my biggest problem. And
it wasn't really until the pandemic that I started to
spend time in the kitchen and learn how to cook
my favorite foods. And the favorite foods, again weren't my
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healthiest nourishing foods, but I was learning to cook. I
was trying something new that I never thought I could do,
because cooking was just not something I ever got into.
And I don't know why, because I love it now
and exploring and cooking has allowed me to see so
many things that I can create input together that I
never would have eaten before. So cooking started to push
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me more in the direction that I've always wanted to
be in I just never thought possible, And learning to
cook turned into me cooking healthier foods. Now that still
wasn't the end of my food I would cook and
eat really healthy during the week, and then the weekends
I would totally binge and splurge on all the things
that I could buy out in the world. So that
leads me to where I'm at right now in this
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health and wellness journey that I'm on. I guess you
could say you know when I share this, because as
you can tell, it's not pretty. It's not like I
grew up juicing and eating fruit and veggies all the time.
I was the most difficult kid when it came to
eating food. I loved cheese and I loved carbs, and
I still love those things. I also have the biggest
sweet tooth of anyone I know outside of my family.
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But as I've gotten older and all of those things
have caught up to me, I was doing so many
activities but I wasn't losing any weights like I had
reached a plateau, which was not the end all be all,
but I had reached a plateau, and I was frustrated.
I had chronic inflammation. I was always bloated, my hormones
were all over the place, I was constantly tired. I
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felt like I was having the flu every other day.
These flu like symptoms felt debilitating to my body, and
I didn't understand none of the pieces were adding up.
I started to get really frustrated, which is why I
decided to seek out a holistic nutritionist to help me
figure out what my next step is and to address
my chronic issues. And before going to this holistic nutritionist,
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I probably would have looked at this from the outside
in and said, this is crazy. There's no way this exists.
There's no way these are impacting everything that you're talking about.
And you almost have to experience it for yourself, and
you can't make other people put themselves in your shoes.
They just have to feel it and see what their
body reacts to. Because everybody is different, not one body
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is similar in how they respond to things, and so
I think that's a very big misconstrued idea of the
whole health industry. You can't just watch someone and do
an exercise and you automatically get ABS. So you can't
follow a one diet and automatically look like the person
who's talking about the diet. Everybody is so different, and
that's why I wanted to go to someone who had
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information and who was doing this in a system that
I believed in, which was holistic and nutrition combined the two.
We sat there for over two hours in the first
appointment and talked about so many aspects of my life
that can contribute to my body and how it's feeling.
I went in there with chronic fatigue, chronic nausea, inflammation, bloating,
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and thyroid issues that I wanted to address. Those were
the main points and not in my wildest dreams that
I think I would be coming out of that appointment saying,
Oh my gosh, I have to be gluten free. I
have to stop eating sugar. I never wanted to believe that.
Now I was very excited that it wasn't dairy free, because,
as you can possibly tell, I am a cheese theen
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I love cheese, so gluten I was like, no problem,
I'll figure this out and over the six week course
that I've been working with her, She's really helped me
understand different things that are affecting my body. I have
scars that impact how I feel. Sometimes I have environmental
things that are around me that impact my adrenal levels.
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There's so much that goes into your body than just
the food you're putting into it, the activity you're doing
from day to day. It's mental, it's physical, it's emotional,
and they're all intertwined. I was blown away by what
this experience did to me. This still feels crazy, but
I'm gonna give it a try. I'm gonna try and
be gluten free. I'm gonna try and not eat a
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lot of sugar, focus on whole foods, use the supplements
that my body is asking for, and just try this.
The worst that happens is my body says, nah, we're good.
This isn't helping doing that and accepting. I was needing
to be gluten free, and I was needing to be
sugar free, and I was needing to address things that
for so long I never wanted to. I feel incredible.
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I felt better now than I have ever felt in
my life. I just never imagine that at twenty eight
years old, I'd be saying this is the time that
I feel the best version of myself. And I like
to mention when I say sugar free, I had to
take processed foods out of my diet. Your girl loves cheese, ites, Okay, chips, crackers,
any kind of candy you get out of the candy
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out oreos. I mean, I could go on a list
of all the things that I love and I eat
on the daily before this happened, But I hate to
say that it changed a huge perspective in me. Then
now when I go to the grocery store, I'm really
only shopping. Like Grace had mentioned the outside aisles, I'm
shopping in the produce and things that expire because that's
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what is needing to be in my body. Yes it
requires more cooking, Yes it can sometimes be more expensive,
and yes it's sometimes really hard and I just want
to give up. So this is not something I'm doing
to appease a weight loss or attain a goal. I'm
doing this as an overall I want to be healthy,
live a long life, and feel good. When I talk
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about this, it's an entire lifestyle change. It's not this.
I'm going to do this for six weeks and now
it's over. This is going to be what the rest
of my life looks like. If I want to feel
this good, and that's going to be hard. I know
that's going to be hard. It's already been hard. When
there's days I want to come home from work and
do absolutely nothing and pick up Taco Bell on the
way home because that used to be my favorite fast
food it still is. And when I can have that
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huge craving and go and it not be debilitating to
my body because I've worked out all the other issues
I have going on, I'm going to be excited for that.
But for now, this moment that I'm in right now
is so clear on putting whole foods and cooking things
that are coming straight from the outside aisles of grocery
stores even when I don't want to, and food prepping
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has been a great friend to me. I try and
spend a few hours doing that, and I get it
looking from an outsider's point of view at this and
what I'm saying and saying that's not true, that's not possible.
These people have been living long lives forever and they're
great and you know what, that's true again. There are
some people out there who are so lucky and they
don't have any problems, and they can eat anything and
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whatever they want. And I love them for that. I
love that they get to do that, and I'm jealous.
But that's not it for me as much as I
want it to be, and I just want to have
a really solid, good, healthy life for many more years
to come and feel really good about it. That's why
I wanted to come on here and not only bring
Grace on with me, but to share my side of
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this wellness journey, because it looks different for everyone, and
it's really easy for people to say, do this, do that,
these are the things you need to do, when in reality,
it's a different journey for every single person and there
is not a one size fits all when it comes
to health and wellness. In fact, there's not any size
fits all. It is a total individual situation for yourself.
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And I can't stress that enough. I think when we
use things online and we reach out to people to
ask for help, use them as a guide and as
tools and as resources, but at the end of the day,
remember that you're different than that person. Even when you're
looking at other people online and you're seeing their bodies.
That body is different than yours for a reason, there
are different things going on. I love talking about this
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because it's been such a funny journey from point A
to point Z at this point in my life. But
I want anyone out there who's been struggling with their
health in any aspect to hear this and say, it's
never too late to start. It's never too late to
do some research or to find what works for you.
There are so many tools and resources out there to
help different types of people, and of course all of
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our different bodies and how we are unique. So I
encourage you to look into this stuff and find experts
who have the knowledge to help you with the problems
that you're having. It feels so good to me to
feel this good, and if I could make other people
feel this good, I would. I would just love to
pass it on very easily. But that is my hope
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with this episode of the podcast, that in some way
I can pass it on to you to hopefully find
your own health and wellness journey that feels good and
you can truly be not only physically, but mentally and
emotionally the very best version of yourself. This week, we
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took a little detour of healing the mind and the
heart to talk about our physical bodies, and I hope
it helps some of you. I think it's important we
focus on healing all aspects of our life, not just
a few parts. So that's why I brought on Grace
and shared a little bit of my story with health
and wellness. If you will, make sure to follow the
podcast Instagram, take this personally for some fun content, and
drop me a DM if you're loving these episodes. Next
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week's episode is a great one, so make sure you
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I'm so happy you're here. I love each and every
one of you, and we'll talk next week.
Host
Morgan Huelsman
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