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April 24, 2025 51 mins

Hey hey, beautiful caregiver souls! 

Did you know research shows that the effects of dementia can begin in the brain 20+ years before symptoms appear? Today’s guest is about to light up your mind, your heart, and your soul!

Meet Rachel Daugherty from Booty & Brains—a vibrant, radiant voice in the wellness world who turned her mother’s Alzheimer's diagnosis into a mission for brain-first, soul-aligned living. In this powerful kickoff to our 3-part series, Rachel shares how caregiving cracked her open, changed her life, and taught her the deep connection between metabolic health and the mind.

🧠✨WE TALK:✨🧠

  • Preventative self-care is a love letter to your future self. What you do now matters!
  • Alzheimer’s isn’t all genetics—it’s metabolic too. Lifestyle, stress, and daily choices play a huge role. The cascade can start decades before symptoms.
  • Reparenting while caregiving is real—and it's powerful. Kama shares how caring for her mom gave her the chance to reparent the self.
  • Laughter, levity, and weirdness are medicine. Rachel brings science with sparkle and proves self-love can be fun, weird, and wildly effective.
  • Young caregivers and feeling “too young” for the weight of it all.
  • Why squats, self-love lemonade, and Michelle Obama arms matter.
  • How our future self is always watching, cheering, and waiting!

This is a story of resilience, realness, and radiant transformation. Thank you for dancing with us today!

🧠✨JOIN RACHEL for MORE!✨🧠

  • From Stuck to Strong: The Metabolic Rebuild for Brain & Body is open for registration!
  • Learn how to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s while creating sustainable  practices that transform your body and brain.
  • Class begins April 27th — and if you’re listening after that, don’t worry! Doors stay open just a little longer.

🧠 Register at bootyandbrains.co or  @bootyandbrains.co on Instagram🧠

Until Part 2:

 💖 Be kind to your past self.💖
 🥂 Toast your future self. 🥂
 
💃🏻 And keep dancing with all the light & love you’ve got.💃🏻

💖SHARE THE LOVE!💖 If DWD touches your heart, please share it with another caregiver! And subscribe, rate, and review to help others find this community of light, love, and advocacy.

💃🏻Have topic requests, want to nominate a guest, or book a 1:1 consultation with me? Connect with us at SynergyRising.Life!/podcast💃🏻

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