September 18, 2024 • 17 mins
18 months ago, my health plummeted. My cycle stopped, and six months later, I was told by doctors that I'd gone through early menopause.
I tried everything to align my body, but no matter what I did, my headspace and body were just not right.
Get ready for the plot twist!
Guided by Dr. Shivani’s expertise in Ayurvedic medicine, I found that my symptoms were tied to a Vata imbalance.
By adopting specific dietary and lifestyle changes, my cycles came back in five days ( after being told I was post-menopausal) I revitalized my energy and zest for life.
This episode underscores the significance of understanding your dosha for personalized treatment and celebrates the transformative power of self-love and continuous self-improvement. So, grab your favorite cup of herbal tea and tune in for a heartfelt conversation filled with encouragement, positive affirmations, and a reminder of the incredible strength within you.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast.
This is the place where you getto feel inspired and empowered
to step into your very best life.
Hey, hey, it is Em.
Welcome to this episode.
It's been a while, right, it'sbeen a really long time, so
(00:23):
sorry for my absence.
This episode is definitelygoing to explain everything, and
it's also going to be anepisode which is a huge
invitation to you to really,really, really pay attention to
your health, to keep seekinganswers, to keep going If you're
not feeling great at the moment, if someone in your family
(00:45):
isn't feeling great, if there'ssome sort of disease or
something going on.
Please, please, please, sharethis episode.
Please listen to this episodebecause, yeah, I've been on a
real, a real journey.
So, yeah, just to.
I mean, I guess I will start bysaying, thankfully, it didn't
turn into anything more serious,but understanding what has been
(01:10):
going on with me is just put meon even bigger mission to help
people to clear their minds andalso work to clear their bodies.
So let's just get into it,right, because it's a bit of a
bit of a story and a half, butessentially, 18 months ago my
well, actually, no, let's go wayback.
So probably since 2020, there'sbeen a lot of stressful things
(01:34):
going on in a lot of people'slives, but in mine, I would say,
in each year there's been somesort of big thing.
So I guess 2020 was obviously,as we all know, it was COVID.
I live in Australia, all myfamily are in England, so, as,
like a lot of people you know,there was a lot of, you know,
(01:57):
questions when am I going to seemy family again?
All that kind of stuff.
And for probably about sixmonths I really was trying to
get back home and every time Itried to, it was getting knocked
back, cut to when I got homeI'd actually was going through a
breakup with somebody inAustralia and when I got back
(02:18):
home I found out all this stuffand it was really awful too
awful to kind of share here.
But yeah it, basically thatrelationship just gave me such a
kick in the a kick in the teeth, I guess you could probably say
, and I went into even when Iwas back in the UK I had a huge
amount of anxiety and fear andjust so much old, old, old, old
(02:42):
wound stuff came up.
So, again, really stressful.
When I got back later on thatyear, I got work.
I was working on AustralianIdol, I was racing around the
country doing the audition tourand that's when I found out that
my investment property that Iown with my friend back here in
Australia had been absolutelytrash.
(03:02):
I'm going to cut through thisstory because it's you know, I'm
not here trying to get sympathy.
It is what it is and ithappened, but it ended up
costing us close to $60,000 inrepairs, which, you know, just
kind of wiped us both out alittle bit.
You know it's a lot of moneyand anyway.
So there's been a lot ofstressful events that have been
(03:24):
happening in the last few years.
So, cut to a year and a halfago, my cycle stopped and I was
over in New Zealand.
I was working over there on aseries called Alone Australia
where I was like the wellnessmanager and taking care of
everyone when they came out, andit was an amazing job and I was
in the most beautiful location.
(03:44):
But I just didn't feel right.
I like really was struggling,uh, with my energy levels.
I was really struggling.
Yeah, I was just struggling.
It was, I don't know.
I just did not feel like myself.
When I got back, I went to thedoctor and kind of explained
look, I've had a lot of stress,basically my cycles have stopped
.
I think it's connected.
And uh, they took a blood testand then they told me with the
(04:06):
results of the blood test that Ihad gone through essentially
early menopause.
So just to clarify in themedical world they can't
actually say to you you've gonethrough menopause until you're
without a cycle for 12 fullmonths.
So at this stage I'd probablygone about six months.
So my doctor didn't actuallysay to me at that moment in time
(04:27):
you have gone through menopause.
But she said, based on yourresults, it's very, very
unlikely your cycles will evercome back.
And it does look like you'vegone through menopause.
They've obviously got to bevery careful.
So after that what happened waslike I got vertigo for like
three weeks straight where Ithought I was going to just fall
over.
I had really bad depressionlike something like I've never
(04:51):
had it before, like literallycomplete hopelessness, lots of
anxiety.
I had to stop working.
I didn't work for like two anda half months and I was just a
mess Like.
Honestly, I was a mess LikeI've never been like that and
I've always prided myself onmindset because guess what?
That's what I do, right?
I know all the tools, I knowit's mind over matter, I know
(05:11):
all this stuff, but nothing wasworking for me and it was scary.
It was really, really, reallyscary.
So after a few doctors, you know, offered to put me on
antidepressants and I said no,that was just a personal choice
for me.
I fully support anyone'sdecision, you know, it's life
saving medicine and it has aplace.
(05:32):
But the other option for me washormone replacement therapy,
which is what I went on.
So, anyway, hormone replacementtherapy helped.
It's basically just a gel and apill One's oestrogen, one's
progesterone.
That's the the easiest way toexplain it.
I know there are other forms.
You can have patches and allthis kind of stuff, but just to
make it really simple, whathormone replacement therapy does
(05:55):
is it replaces the hormonesthat have been lost when you go
through menopause.
So you actually your serotonin,which are massively connected
to your hormones, um, arestabilized, and that's what got
me functioning again.
So very grateful for that.
However, I still didn't feelright.
Yeah, so I was going toacupuncturist, uh, which really
(06:18):
helped.
Um, I was um, you know, I I'dbeen vegetarian since I was 12.
So I basically chose to starteating meat again because
everyone was like you reallyneed to get protein into you.
So I made all these big changesand I was having lots of salads
and you know, just trying to behealthy, and stopped cardio
which was you know, and and justtook up weights, but I still
(06:41):
didn't feel good.
I just did not feel great and Iwas just like this can't be the
rest of my life.
So here we go.
This is where the plot twiststarts, and so I was doing a
course, an online course, with awonderful, amazing human being
or just, I don't know, just anangel.
His name is Peter Krohn,c-r-o-n-e.
(07:04):
If you don't know who he is,just jump on YouTube, put Peter
Krohn in and get ready for yourmind to explode.
He's an incredible human being,and one of the health workshops
that I did with him was himtalking about Ayurveda,
ayurvedic medicine, which is a6,000 year old ancient medicine
from India, very similar.
(07:25):
If you know about Chinesemedicine, ayurveda, you know
this crossover, but it comesfrom India and there was
something about what he wassaying that made me really wake
up and pay attention, and so Idid some research.
I jumped onto a website, Istarted pumping in all these
answers to all these questionsand essentially I was just like
(07:47):
I need to actually go and seesomeone.
I've just got this feeling.
So I found an Ayurvedic doctorDr Shivani, shout out to you who
is in Seaforth in Sydney, nearManly, and her company is called
the Healing Ayurvedic theHealing Ayurveda, sorry and you
can just jump online and findher work and book an appointment
(08:11):
, which I highly recommend.
So this is where the plot twistis coming in.
So I went to see her.
I didn't go to see her becauseI'd gone through early menopause
.
I went to see her because I hadthese symptoms that nobody in
Western medicine could explain.
I was like why am I stillfeeling anxious?
Why have my eyes broken out instyes?
Why is this happening?
Why is you know?
Why am I not sleeping?
(08:32):
Like what is going on?
I'm doing all these things, youknow, why am I not sleeping?
Like what is going on?
I'm doing all these things.
And so I went to see her aboutanxiety.
I went to see her about theseother symptoms and within 20
minutes she had explained to memore than I could ever imagine
about my body and what was goingon with it.
And her face was very she's gota very poker face, but
(08:55):
everything I was saying I waslike this is happening, this is
happening, this is happening.
And by the end of it she saidyou have what is called a Vata
imbalance.
And she felt my pulse, shelooked at my tongue, she asked
me a lot of questions.
She looked at my build, my bodytype you know my asked me lots
of questions about my digestionand she said you've got what's
called a Vata imbalance and it'saffecting your liver, your
(09:18):
colon and your large intestine,which is why you've needed to
get iron infusions, because yourlarge intestine isn't working
properly, it's not absorbingnutrients and it's also not
absorbing all these other things.
And then your liver is reallysluggish because it's picking up
the work and your colon isreally sluggish as well.
Liver is really sluggishbecause it's picking up the work
and your colon is reallysluggish as well.
So you're basically yourdigestive system is not working
(09:39):
and because of this, my brainhas been very clever and
switched off anything that isnon-essential, hence my cycle.
So I'm you've got to kind ofimagine.
I'm sort of sat there goingwhat, no, no, like I've got the
evidence, I've got the bloodtest that shows this.
I haven't had my cycle in 18months, what the frick?
(10:00):
And at the end of it she justsaid look, you know, let's focus
on getting you balanced.
That's the first stage.
She said, but I think you'llget your cycles back.
And I was just like I don'tknow what's going on, walked out
(10:23):
of there.
I was just like, okay, I'm justgoing to follow it to the T,
I'm just going to do everythingshe asks of me.
Did it all five days into itand my cycle comes back.
After 18 months of not having acycle, after being told I had
gone through early menopause,after being offered, um, you
know, antidepressants, all thiskind of stuff, all of these
symptoms were connected to myliver not working properly.
The sluggishness, thesleepiness, the low energy, the
lethargy, the depression, theanxiety was all being caused
(10:44):
because my organs, my digestiveorgans, were not working, my
body wasn't absorbing what itneeded.
And I would look at everyoneand be like how do you have so
much energy?
I really, I just really needenergy.
I just don't know what's goingon.
I'm eating the same as you, I'mdoing the same as you, I'm
working out the same as you, I'msleeping the same as you, and
everyone else seemed to have allthis energy and I just didn't
(11:05):
have it and it was all liver.
So my cycle came back.
I called the doctor, dr Shivani, and she was.
She kind of laughed and she waslike, well, I didn't expect it
to happen so quickly, but that'sa really good sign that your
body is now healing and so we'renow just continuing with this
(11:25):
plan.
I I I'm very reluctant to kindof share what I'm doing, and
it's not because I don't want toshare that information, but I
think this is the danger.
This is very specific to whatis going on in my body.
So, with a vata imbalance,there's three doshas in
ayurvedic medicine.
Um, you can just do a quickcrash course on on google, um,
but there's three doshas there'svata, pitta and kapha and, um,
(11:48):
everybody is has a little bit ofall three made up into them,
but some people have are moreprominent in others.
So I am more of a vata dosha,which is a body type and a type
of digestion, than I am a kapha.
And again, I don't want to.
I'm not an ayurvedic doctor, soI don't want to prescribe.
But essentially, with a vataimbalance, it means I have too
(12:09):
much air and too much drynessand too much cold in my body.
So me eating salads is theworst thing I can do, or having
a cold drink it's the worstthing I can do for my body.
It's going to actuallyaggravate the imbalance that's
already there.
So instead you have to do theopposite.
So I have to eat.
All my food has to be warm.
My body has to be warm.
(12:30):
I'm wearing Ugg boots all thetime, even though it's starting
to get warm.
And, yeah, I have to have lotsof oil because my body is dry.
If you have dry skin andcracking joints and again, this
is just a throwaway comment, butyou've probably got a bit of
Vata in you, you know, and thatmight be worth something to have
a look at.
(12:50):
So, long story short, I don'tknow what's going to happen with
my cycle.
I'm being completelytransparent.
I have no idea if that's goingto come back completely.
I have no idea if this was likea one off.
But one thing I can tell youmore than anything else is I
feel like I used to feel fiveyears ago or even 10 years ago.
(13:11):
I have so much vitality, I'm sohappy.
I want to spend time with myfriends, which I really have not
wanted to see anyone for ages.
I'm planning more trips, I'morganizing stuff.
I'm so productive at work, I'mjust absolutely smashing things
out the park, and it's allbecause my body is now starting
to heal itself.
And so if you know anyone who isgoing through something, either
(13:35):
hormonal, it doesn't have to behormonal.
If they're going throughinsomnia, if they're going
through I don't know like, theykeep breaking their bones, right
, all of this stuff will comeback to their doshas.
It will come back to that.
So my advice is, if you don'tknow about Ayurvedic medicine
already, or if you don't, ifyou're not following it, please
(13:58):
start looking into it.
It has completely given me theanswers that I've been searching
for for such a long time, andI'm so grateful for Dr Shivani.
I'm super grateful for PeterCrone, which is where I've, you
know, really found out aboutthis, but I am shouting this
from the rooftop right now.
I've got 15 of my friends whohave already gone to see.
I'm not even exaggerating whenI say 15, I counted them today.
(14:20):
15 of my friends have gone tosee Dr Shivani in the last four
weeks and every single one ofthem is just coming out with
answers.
You know, there's beautifulyoung girls who are having had
issues with their cycle for 10years much younger than me, and
have been told they're goingthrough early menopause and it's
absolute bs.
They're coming out with theexact same diagnosis that I am,
(14:43):
which is the zavata imbalance.
So if you have like dermatitison your skin or you get eczema
or flare-ups, it might be pittaimbalance, which is too much
fire in your body, and thenkapha is um again, I don't want
to do a hash job of this, butit's more.
You're more prone to depressionif you're out of balance in a
kapha body.
So there are a lot of othersymptoms and a lot of other
(15:05):
elements and I don't want to doa hash job of this, but I highly
recommend just jumping onGoogle and trying to find an
Ayurvedic doctor in your area.
It's much more beneficial foryou to go and see a doctor,
because they do need to see you,take your pulse, have a look at
your tongue, all that kind ofstuff which you know.
You can't get diagnosedyourself online.
I actually thought I was adifferent.
(15:26):
I actually thought I was PittaKapha and I'm not.
I'm Vata Pitta.
So it's a really good job.
I went to see a doctor inperson.
Big share, right?
Big, big, big share.
So going forward.
It's you know we are justmoving into this land of
wellness.
Now, mind, body, soul.
I am on the train.
I am on the train and you knowyou are very welcome to jump on
(15:50):
the train free of charge with me.
I will happily take youwherever I can go and whatever I
learn, I'm always going to bereally happy to share with you
and hopefully inspire you intotaking action in your own health
yourself.
So, without further ado, I'mgoing to sign off.
I love you, I think you'reawesome, I think you're so cool
(16:11):
and just know that you arehealthy, you are well, you are
an incredible human being.
So much love, so muchcompassion, so much kindness for
you and, um, you know, if youare feeling like you're not any
of these things, then just starttaking action towards it.
That's, that's all I can say,and I'm here with you.
So so much love to you.
(16:32):
Have an amazing morning,afternoon, evening or sleep
wherever you are.
Lots of love.
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Welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast.
This is the place where you getto feel inspired and empowered
to step into your very best life.
Hey, hey, it is Em.
Welcome to this episode.
It's been a while, right, it'sbeen a really long time, so
(00:23):
sorry for my absence.
This episode is definitelygoing to explain everything, and
it's also going to be anepisode which is a huge
invitation to you to really,really, really pay attention to
your health, to keep seekinganswers, to keep going If you're
not feeling great at the moment, if someone in your family
(00:45):
isn't feeling great, if there'ssome sort of disease or
something going on.
Please, please, please, sharethis episode.
Please listen to this episodebecause, yeah, I've been on a
real, a real journey.
So, yeah, just to.
I mean, I guess I will start bysaying, thankfully, it didn't
turn into anything more serious,but understanding what has been
(01:10):
going on with me is just put meon even bigger mission to help
people to clear their minds andalso work to clear their bodies.
So let's just get into it,right, because it's a bit of a
bit of a story and a half, butessentially, 18 months ago my
well, actually, no, let's go wayback.
So probably since 2020, there'sbeen a lot of stressful things
(01:34):
going on in a lot of people'slives, but in mine, I would say,
in each year there's been somesort of big thing.
So I guess 2020 was obviously,as we all know, it was COVID.
I live in Australia, all myfamily are in England, so, as,
like a lot of people you know,there was a lot of, you know,
(01:57):
questions when am I going to seemy family again?
All that kind of stuff.
And for probably about sixmonths I really was trying to
get back home and every time Itried to, it was getting knocked
back, cut to when I got homeI'd actually was going through a
breakup with somebody inAustralia and when I got back
(02:18):
home I found out all this stuffand it was really awful too
awful to kind of share here.
But yeah it, basically thatrelationship just gave me such a
kick in the a kick in the teeth, I guess you could probably say
, and I went into even when Iwas back in the UK I had a huge
amount of anxiety and fear andjust so much old, old, old, old
(02:42):
wound stuff came up.
So, again, really stressful.
When I got back later on thatyear, I got work.
I was working on AustralianIdol, I was racing around the
country doing the audition tourand that's when I found out that
my investment property that Iown with my friend back here in
Australia had been absolutelytrash.
(03:02):
I'm going to cut through thisstory because it's you know, I'm
not here trying to get sympathy.
It is what it is and ithappened, but it ended up
costing us close to $60,000 inrepairs, which, you know, just
kind of wiped us both out alittle bit.
You know it's a lot of moneyand anyway.
So there's been a lot ofstressful events that have been
(03:24):
happening in the last few years.
So, cut to a year and a halfago, my cycle stopped and I was
over in New Zealand.
I was working over there on aseries called Alone Australia
where I was like the wellnessmanager and taking care of
everyone when they came out, andit was an amazing job and I was
in the most beautiful location.
(03:44):
But I just didn't feel right.
I like really was struggling,uh, with my energy levels.
I was really struggling.
Yeah, I was just struggling.
It was, I don't know.
I just did not feel like myself.
When I got back, I went to thedoctor and kind of explained
look, I've had a lot of stress,basically my cycles have stopped
.
I think it's connected.
And uh, they took a blood testand then they told me with the
(04:06):
results of the blood test that Ihad gone through essentially
early menopause.
So just to clarify in themedical world they can't
actually say to you you've gonethrough menopause until you're
without a cycle for 12 fullmonths.
So at this stage I'd probablygone about six months.
So my doctor didn't actuallysay to me at that moment in time
(04:27):
you have gone through menopause.
But she said, based on yourresults, it's very, very
unlikely your cycles will evercome back.
And it does look like you'vegone through menopause.
They've obviously got to bevery careful.
So after that what happened waslike I got vertigo for like
three weeks straight where Ithought I was going to just fall
over.
I had really bad depressionlike something like I've never
(04:51):
had it before, like literallycomplete hopelessness, lots of
anxiety.
I had to stop working.
I didn't work for like two anda half months and I was just a
mess Like.
Honestly, I was a mess LikeI've never been like that and
I've always prided myself onmindset because guess what?
That's what I do, right?
I know all the tools, I knowit's mind over matter, I know
(05:11):
all this stuff, but nothing wasworking for me and it was scary.
It was really, really, reallyscary.
So after a few doctors, you know, offered to put me on
antidepressants and I said no,that was just a personal choice
for me.
I fully support anyone'sdecision, you know, it's life
saving medicine and it has aplace.
(05:32):
But the other option for me washormone replacement therapy,
which is what I went on.
So, anyway, hormone replacementtherapy helped.
It's basically just a gel and apill One's oestrogen, one's
progesterone.
That's the the easiest way toexplain it.
I know there are other forms.
You can have patches and allthis kind of stuff, but just to
make it really simple, whathormone replacement therapy does
(05:55):
is it replaces the hormonesthat have been lost when you go
through menopause.
So you actually your serotonin,which are massively connected
to your hormones, um, arestabilized, and that's what got
me functioning again.
So very grateful for that.
However, I still didn't feelright.
Yeah, so I was going toacupuncturist, uh, which really
(06:18):
helped.
Um, I was um, you know, I I'dbeen vegetarian since I was 12.
So I basically chose to starteating meat again because
everyone was like you reallyneed to get protein into you.
So I made all these big changesand I was having lots of salads
and you know, just trying to behealthy, and stopped cardio
which was you know, and and justtook up weights, but I still
(06:41):
didn't feel good.
I just did not feel great and Iwas just like this can't be the
rest of my life.
So here we go.
This is where the plot twiststarts, and so I was doing a
course, an online course, with awonderful, amazing human being
or just, I don't know, just anangel.
His name is Peter Krohn,c-r-o-n-e.
(07:04):
If you don't know who he is,just jump on YouTube, put Peter
Krohn in and get ready for yourmind to explode.
He's an incredible human being,and one of the health workshops
that I did with him was himtalking about Ayurveda,
ayurvedic medicine, which is a6,000 year old ancient medicine
from India, very similar.
(07:25):
If you know about Chinesemedicine, ayurveda, you know
this crossover, but it comesfrom India and there was
something about what he wassaying that made me really wake
up and pay attention, and so Idid some research.
I jumped onto a website, Istarted pumping in all these
answers to all these questionsand essentially I was just like
(07:47):
I need to actually go and seesomeone.
I've just got this feeling.
So I found an Ayurvedic doctorDr Shivani, shout out to you who
is in Seaforth in Sydney, nearManly, and her company is called
the Healing Ayurvedic theHealing Ayurveda, sorry and you
can just jump online and findher work and book an appointment
(08:11):
, which I highly recommend.
So this is where the plot twistis coming in.
So I went to see her.
I didn't go to see her becauseI'd gone through early menopause
.
I went to see her because I hadthese symptoms that nobody in
Western medicine could explain.
I was like why am I stillfeeling anxious?
Why have my eyes broken out instyes?
Why is this happening?
Why is you know?
Why am I not sleeping?
(08:32):
Like what is going on?
I'm doing all these things, youknow, why am I not sleeping?
Like what is going on?
I'm doing all these things.
And so I went to see her aboutanxiety.
I went to see her about theseother symptoms and within 20
minutes she had explained to memore than I could ever imagine
about my body and what was goingon with it.
And her face was very she's gota very poker face, but
(08:55):
everything I was saying I waslike this is happening, this is
happening, this is happening.
And by the end of it she saidyou have what is called a Vata
imbalance.
And she felt my pulse, shelooked at my tongue, she asked
me a lot of questions.
She looked at my build, my bodytype you know my asked me lots
of questions about my digestionand she said you've got what's
called a Vata imbalance and it'saffecting your liver, your
(09:18):
colon and your large intestine,which is why you've needed to
get iron infusions, because yourlarge intestine isn't working
properly, it's not absorbingnutrients and it's also not
absorbing all these other things.
And then your liver is reallysluggish because it's picking up
the work and your colon isreally sluggish as well.
Liver is really sluggishbecause it's picking up the work
and your colon is reallysluggish as well.
So you're basically yourdigestive system is not working
(09:39):
and because of this, my brainhas been very clever and
switched off anything that isnon-essential, hence my cycle.
So I'm you've got to kind ofimagine.
I'm sort of sat there goingwhat, no, no, like I've got the
evidence, I've got the bloodtest that shows this.
I haven't had my cycle in 18months, what the frick?
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And at the end of it she justsaid look, you know, let's focus
on getting you balanced.
That's the first stage.
She said, but I think you'llget your cycles back.
And I was just like I don'tknow what's going on, walked out
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of there.
I was just like, okay, I'm justgoing to follow it to the T,
I'm just going to do everythingshe asks of me.
Did it all five days into itand my cycle comes back.
After 18 months of not having acycle, after being told I had
gone through early menopause,after being offered, um, you
know, antidepressants, all thiskind of stuff, all of these
symptoms were connected to myliver not working properly.
The sluggishness, thesleepiness, the low energy, the
lethargy, the depression, theanxiety was all being caused
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because my organs, my digestiveorgans, were not working, my
body wasn't absorbing what itneeded.
And I would look at everyoneand be like how do you have so
much energy?
I really, I just really needenergy.
I just don't know what's goingon.
I'm eating the same as you, I'mdoing the same as you, I'm
working out the same as you, I'msleeping the same as you, and
everyone else seemed to have allthis energy and I just didn't
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have it and it was all liver.
So my cycle came back.
I called the doctor, dr Shivani, and she was.
She kind of laughed and she waslike, well, I didn't expect it
to happen so quickly, but that'sa really good sign that your
body is now healing and so we'renow just continuing with this
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plan.
I I I'm very reluctant to kindof share what I'm doing, and
it's not because I don't want toshare that information, but I
think this is the danger.
This is very specific to whatis going on in my body.
So, with a vata imbalance,there's three doshas in
ayurvedic medicine.
Um, you can just do a quickcrash course on on google, um,
but there's three doshas there'svata, pitta and kapha and, um,
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everybody is has a little bit ofall three made up into them,
but some people have are moreprominent in others.
So I am more of a vata dosha,which is a body type and a type
of digestion, than I am a kapha.
And again, I don't want to.
I'm not an ayurvedic doctor, soI don't want to prescribe.
But essentially, with a vataimbalance, it means I have too
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much air and too much drynessand too much cold in my body.
So me eating salads is theworst thing I can do, or having
a cold drink it's the worstthing I can do for my body.
It's going to actuallyaggravate the imbalance that's
already there.
So instead you have to do theopposite.
So I have to eat.
All my food has to be warm.
My body has to be warm.
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I'm wearing Ugg boots all thetime, even though it's starting
to get warm.
And, yeah, I have to have lotsof oil because my body is dry.
If you have dry skin andcracking joints and again, this
is just a throwaway comment, butyou've probably got a bit of
Vata in you, you know, and thatmight be worth something to have
a look at.
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So, long story short, I don'tknow what's going to happen with
my cycle.
I'm being completelytransparent.
I have no idea if that's goingto come back completely.
I have no idea if this was likea one off.
But one thing I can tell youmore than anything else is I
feel like I used to feel fiveyears ago or even 10 years ago.
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I have so much vitality, I'm sohappy.
I want to spend time with myfriends, which I really have not
wanted to see anyone for ages.
I'm planning more trips, I'morganizing stuff.
I'm so productive at work, I'mjust absolutely smashing things
out the park, and it's allbecause my body is now starting
to heal itself.
And so if you know anyone who isgoing through something, either
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hormonal, it doesn't have to behormonal.
If they're going throughinsomnia, if they're going
through I don't know like, theykeep breaking their bones, right
, all of this stuff will comeback to their doshas.
It will come back to that.
So my advice is, if you don'tknow about Ayurvedic medicine
already, or if you don't, ifyou're not following it, please
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start looking into it.
It has completely given me theanswers that I've been searching
for for such a long time, andI'm so grateful for Dr Shivani.
I'm super grateful for PeterCrone, which is where I've, you
know, really found out aboutthis, but I am shouting this
from the rooftop right now.
I've got 15 of my friends whohave already gone to see.
I'm not even exaggerating whenI say 15, I counted them today.
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15 of my friends have gone tosee Dr Shivani in the last four
weeks and every single one ofthem is just coming out with
answers.
You know, there's beautifulyoung girls who are having had
issues with their cycle for 10years much younger than me, and
have been told they're goingthrough early menopause and it's
absolute bs.
They're coming out with theexact same diagnosis that I am,
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which is the zavata imbalance.
So if you have like dermatitison your skin or you get eczema
or flare-ups, it might be pittaimbalance, which is too much
fire in your body, and thenkapha is um again, I don't want
to do a hash job of this, butit's more.
You're more prone to depressionif you're out of balance in a
kapha body.
So there are a lot of othersymptoms and a lot of other
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elements and I don't want to doa hash job of this, but I highly
recommend just jumping onGoogle and trying to find an
Ayurvedic doctor in your area.
It's much more beneficial foryou to go and see a doctor,
because they do need to see you,take your pulse, have a look at
your tongue, all that kind ofstuff which you know.
You can't get diagnosedyourself online.
I actually thought I was adifferent.
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I actually thought I was PittaKapha and I'm not.
I'm Vata Pitta.
So it's a really good job.
I went to see a doctor inperson.
Big share, right?
Big, big, big share.
So going forward.
It's you know we are justmoving into this land of
wellness.
Now, mind, body, soul.
I am on the train.
I am on the train and you knowyou are very welcome to jump on
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the train free of charge with me.
I will happily take youwherever I can go and whatever I
learn, I'm always going to bereally happy to share with you
and hopefully inspire you intotaking action in your own health
yourself.
So, without further ado, I'mgoing to sign off.
I love you, I think you'reawesome, I think you're so cool
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and just know that you arehealthy, you are well, you are
an incredible human being.
So much love, so muchcompassion, so much kindness for
you and, um, you know, if youare feeling like you're not any
of these things, then just starttaking action towards it.
That's, that's all I can say,and I'm here with you.
So so much love to you.
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Have an amazing morning,afternoon, evening or sleep
wherever you are.
Lots of love.
Thanks so much for listening.
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