August 20, 2025 • 39 mins
What if the most radical act of compassion you could perform was directed at yourself? In this soul-stirring episode, we welcome Adonai Flores, a naturopathy practitioner and co-founder of Herbs We Love, who introduces us to the transformative "30 Days of Self-Compassion" program launching August 22nd.
Adonai shares how this initiative evolved from a prison outreach fundraiser into a comprehensive self-love journey designed to help participants prioritize their wellbeing without guilt. "You can't have compassion for others unless you have compassion for yourself," she reminds us, challenging the common pattern of putting ourselves last until crisis forces a change.
We explore how trauma affects everyone differently yet remains a universal human experience. Through Trauma Music Therapy and other healing modalities, Adonai and her collaborators are bringing humanity back to underserved communities, particularly those impacted by incarceration. The conversation reveals how even in the most challenging environments, simple daily practices of self-compassion can transform lives from the inside out.
The program's holistic approach addresses mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing through a 30-day calendar of simple yet powerful practices. One of the most profound? Forgiveness—especially self-forgiveness—which Adonai describes as "one of the most powerful tools" for releasing the baggage that prevents healing.
Each compassion bundle includes natural wellness products from Willow Creek Springs, a company dedicated to holistic healing for over 25 years. These handcrafted formulations represent an authentic alternative to the chemical-laden "natural" products flooding today's market.
Whether you're seeking personal transformation or wanting to help others, this episode offers a beautiful reminder that self-compassion isn't selfish—it's sacred. By filling your own cup first, you create ripples of healing that extend far beyond yourself. Join the journey by following @HerbsWeLove on social media and embrace the daily affirmation: "I am altogether beautiful and there is no flaw in me."
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, joe Grumbine,and today I've got a really
special guest.
Her name is Adonai Flores, andmost of the time when I have
guests here, these are eitherpeople that have approached me
to participate in the podcast orit may be people that I know
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that I've worked with, but thisis actually somebody that I'm
working directly with with theprogram and I'm kind of excited
to share this.
So, adonai Flores, she's anaturopathy practitioner and
co-founder of Herbs we Love, andthis year 2025, she began a
collaboration with Willow CreekSprings, my company.
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After researching the familyowned company's wellness
products and finding them to besuperior in quality and more
affordable than similar productson the market, and out of this
collaboration we've came up.
She came up with a program thatwe're calling 30 Days of
Compassion, and this campaign iscreated as a way to embody and
communicate the heart of theproducts, and the initiative
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later expanded into 30 Days ofSelf-Compassion, designed to
inspire daily acts of self-loveand intentional living.
Each compassionate bundleincludes the 30 Days of
Compassion pledge, a 30-dayself-love exercise calendar and
a self-love certificate.
Adonai, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Welcome Hi, thank you .
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So you and I have been working together.
Well, we started talking maybeabout what?
Six months ago or so.
Yes, and we have a friend incommon and I have an aunt that
is also working with you andwe've been working together on a
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program or project that isinvolved inside the prison
system.
And you know, I've been workingwith prison outreach for 20
years with my Human SolutionInternational, but since that
got put aside to other thingsand I've started really building
this community of healthyliving.
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I was really touched when youguys reached out, because I've
always had a spot for you knowthe people that are compromised
and you know, when you talkabout people in prison, a lot of
times we just kind of turn ournose and say, well, you know,
these are bad people, theythey're getting what they
deserve and we don't realize thetruth about all of this.
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And, yeah, there's some badpeople getting what they deserve
in there and there's also a lotof other folks doing a lot of
other things.
And regardless of what got youin there one of the things we
were talking with your partner,friend Megan, last week about
this and regardless of what gotyou in there, a prison is
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supposed to be a place that youcan help to get a new start, fix
your problem and become abetter human being.
And more often than not itdoesn't do that.
Yeah, sadly not.
Why don't you tell us a littlebit about what you've been doing
?
And then I'm excited to starttalking about the 30 Days of
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Compassion program.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, so I've been working closely with you, jay
Wells, your aunt, really justtrying to empower and inspire
people, one to better themselves, two to just be good citizens
in society and make the worldjust a better place.
In just in all, with our TMT,our trauma music therapy 40
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songs and a mic herbs.
We love just all of it.
They're all they all have aboutthe same mission.
Just you know like bring goodinto the world and try to change
the world a little bit at atime.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Why don't you tell us a little bit about the trauma
music therapy program?
I was looking at that throughthe notes and I'm not really
familiar with what you guys aredoing, but its name would
suggest that it's right in theline with the things we're
already doing.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, yeah, definitely so.
Trauma Music Therapy is atrauma-informed program we're
trying to get into possibly anonprofit, but basically we're
just on there, we're educatingabout trauma and it ties into a
lot of stuff.
Trauma could just likeunderline a lot of things
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Addiction, people that areincarcerated, just a lot of
things.
So we're trying to just traumainform people, which inform
people about trauma, educate andthen through music.
So Jay Wells does do a lot ofmusic.
He has a trauma informed album.
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So we're really trying to justpush that and help people heal
through music.
I know a lot of people that'sone thing that brings the world
together is music.
So in healing is very big inmusic with illness, health and
trauma, mental, physical,everything.
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So we're mainly just focusingon that.
We did have that both trauma inum, gospel inside just 40 songs
in the mic, but we decided tosplit it up just so we can have
two different audiences and it'sbeen working well.
Um, so we have the traumainformed community over there
and then gospel to another side,cause not a lot of people like
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to mix the two, so we just splitit up basically.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, that's good, The's good.
The more uh audience you canget, the better chance you have.
And, like you're saying, musicis kind of a universal language.
You know, we, um, we did aceremony retreat over the
weekend and, uh, they brought alot of music into it and that
was the first time I'd sat in aexperience like that, with all
the music, and I thought, youknow, it's really the language
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that everybody can understand.
You know, it doesn't matterwhat language you speak, what
words.
Language the words are in themusic is a universal language.
And you know, I think trauma isalso a universal experience.
You know, we think about traumaand some people think, oh well,
you know, if you weren't raped,you don't know trauma.
And it's like, well, trust me,I wasn't raped, but I've gone
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through some trauma and it comesin every shape, size, form.
It could be mental, it can befrom the system, it can be
physical, it can be spiritual.
It can be spiritual, it couldbe.
I mean, you know, anytimeyou're attacked in any way of
mind, body, spirit it's atraumatic event.
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And how you handle it is onething, but what does it do to
you?
And there's a whole other pieceof it Nobody ever comes out of
a trauma the same way they wentinto it, regardless of what it
looked like on the surface.
Yeah, I think we all have thatin common.
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So when we're we're looking tobring people together, you know
there's not a lot of thingsreally that everybody has in
common, you know.
Aside from you know we're allhumans and you know we're all
born of a mother and a fatherand there's a handful of things
that you could say all right,everybody fits into that box.
But trauma, I think I don'tthink there's a person alive
that says, oh, I've neverexperienced trauma, so let's get
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into.
Well, let's introduce Jay Wells,because he's a part of this,
and I know that I think youmight be locked out and, if you
are, try turning your camera offfor a second, because I don't
see you moving and I don't hearyou right now.
(08:04):
But give yourself a chance tocome back in.
But Jay Wells is a guy who is.
We have all this in common andmy aunt is actually working
inside the prison system becauseI have a cousin who is
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currently incarcerated and she'shelping him with this case and
a lot of things, and apparentlymy cousin and this guy, jay,
connected and I'm not reallyquite sure you know how they got
together, but Jay's doing a lotof work inside the system and
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he is working on a um, a programfor a garden program that's
going to be working with mygardens of hope, and through all
that he introduced me to Adonaiand um, we began working on
this program.
All right, adonai's back withus and we didn't really lose
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anything.
So let's keep going talkingabout the trauma music therapy.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, we just hope just bring the community
together and something like howyou said, just that's universal
trauma and music and reallywe're just, we're really
striving just to heal ourcommunities underserved and
incarcerated communities andjust try to bring just a sense
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of humanity back to the world.
Just like all of the otherprograms, um, like um, the one
that megan shared with you herempathy in action and right um,
hopefully you get to meet fritzysoon with her compassion prison
project, but all of those umprograms we're just striving to
be basically like them and um,just bring the community back
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together and bring humanity back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, we're talking about with gardens of hope,
working on a garden program inthere.
So as I'm trying to rebuildmyself a little bit, then I'll
be able to put some attention atthat.
Well, why don't you tell meabout what brought the idea of
the 30 days of self compassion?
And well, the 30 days ofcompassion, and then ultimately,
(10:26):
the 30 days of self-compassion.
And well, the 30 days ofcompassion and then ultimately
the 30 days of self-compassion.
What?
What's the genesis of that?
How did you come up with thatidea?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
yeah, definitely so.
Um, we just wanted to um reallyget something that like come up
with a campaign that embodiedthe products and what we're
doing and everything, all of theum, like the things that we
have, the projects that we have,trauma music, therapy 40 songs
on my herbs.
(10:53):
We love um.
And first it started out astrying to raise um funds for
compassion prison project,because so many um programs out
there they're actually they'restruggling and I'm sure you know
they're struggling and they'rejust trying to bring healing to
the world.
So we wanted to do 30 Days ofCompassion, raise funds for
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Fritzie with the CompassionPrison Project.
She is tied up with a lot ofstuff right now.
So it later evolved into the 30Days of Self-Compassion, just
to kind of keep it alive.
And we thought you can't havecompassion for others unless you
have compassion for yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So that's actually.
You know, when you came up withthat, I thought about it.
It's like in the work that I dowith you know, when you came up
with that, I thought about it.
It's like in the work that I dowith you know, plant medicine
and ceremonies and retreats andthings.
A lot of the work that we do isabout self-compassion,
self-love.
You know, we, we go throughlife, you know, raised a certain
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way, taught about certain.
You know men and women havedifferent ways that they
communicate and everything.
But most people, especially, Ithink, good people we tend to
put ourselves second and we helpother people, you know, more
easily and we put ourselves andsay, well, I'll get to that
later, let me, let me go do thisthing that's needed.
(12:23):
And then after a whilesomething happens, like you
know'll get to that later, letme go do this thing that's
needed.
And then after a whilesomething happens, like you know
, you get sick or you have abreakdown or, you know, in my
case I got a cancer.
You know, and I think there'sno small piece of that that come
from setting yourself assecondary.
And I know, with me in the workI've worked with medicine,
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people and and prayer and andjust working on myself, trying
to heal myself and be a betterperson.
That came up as you know youwill.
Let's look at yourself now andand recognize you know who you
are and and honor yourself andto to realize that you know you
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really can't love somebody elseif you're putting yourself up on
a shelf somewhere, I think, butreally it's empty.
You know, and I think it'sreally important, and especially
for people in prison.
You know you.
You have to spend so much.
You know, in the brief amountof time I was locked up, I've
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experienced some of it at least,and you're protecting yourself
all the time.
You have to be aware ofeverything, aware of everything
you say, you do, you can't.
You got to notice everythingand you got to be with that
program or bad things can happenpretty quick and you spend a
lot of energy managing you knowyou and the outside world.
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Not a lot of time to sit thereand be loving to yourself in a
cold, toxic place that doesn'thave your best interest in mind.
So to think about that you knowwe were talking with Megan
about.
You know About that.
You know we were talking withMegan about.
You know, affirmations andacknowledging.
You know that in spite of itall, we have choices.
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So we get stuck in these victimmentalities and we go, oh, you
know, I have to, I can't.
You know this person, that thing, you know it's everybody's
fault but mine.
And you know the truth is we'rehere because we got ourselves
here and it's not always fair,it's not always right and it's
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not always just, but at the endof the day, we're here because
of choices we made and things wedid and we're going to move on
to the next place also becauseof choices we make and things we
did.
And we're going to move on tothe next place also because of
choices we make and things we do.
So this is an opportunity, Ithink, to not only bring to the
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attention of how important thesethings can be, but maybe to
share some tools about what wecan do, little choices we can
make and I know you were talkingabout sharing some affirmations
with us and to just show thelisteners what that's like.
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Some of us think, oh, everybodyknows what that is because
we've been busy trying to helpourselves for years, and
affirmations are kind of anormal thing, but there's a lot
of people out there who wouldlove to learn more, but they
don't know what to do.
And why don't you share alittle something with us?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, of course.
So the affirmation I want toshare today is I just want the
listeners whether you guys comeon the 30 days of
self-compassion journey with usor not just hold this with you
and maybe, when times get hard,or um, if you remember it, it's
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very simple Um, but I just wantthe listeners to hear this Um,
so I am altogether beautiful andthere is no flaw in me.
And just those two sentencesthey're very powerful.
One you're telling yourselfyou're altogether beautiful, and
that means every part of you isbeautiful.
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And two, there is no flaw inyou.
And just always rememberthere's no flaw in you.
Nobody's perfect.
We're all human.
And God, he says there's noflaw in you.
And just always rememberthere's no flaw in you.
Nobody's perfect.
We're all human.
In God, he says there's no flawin us.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's so true, so true.
A lot of times we spend ourtime looking at these
imperfections or things thatdon't fit our version of perfect
.
But truth is we don't knowperfect, we could never know
perfect, because we're human,and that's the beauty of it.
We're beautiful in ourimperfection and we're perfect
in our imperfection, and sothat's it.
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Once you can understand thatand appreciate it, it's so
liberating because you realize,you know you're no better or
worse than anybody.
You know we're all, we're allin the same process.
We're all somewhere between youknow something less than human
and something more than human,and we're all just working our
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way through it.
And, um, you know, it takes,takes form in every possible way
, just just like all thedifferences.
You know we're we're tall,we're short, we're skinny, we're
large, we're dark, we're light,we're two eyes.
Sometimes we got one eye.
You know we have every kind ofpossible difference.
And what's to say, the onethat's closest to God, right?
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Well, never.
We won't know that till ourtime comes, and I think it's
really the light that's insideof us, that's the part that's
close to god and that's the partthat we all have, you know, and
so that's beautiful.
I really like that, um, thattestimonial.
Well, let's talk a little bitabout you know this, this
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program and the products andthings, because I don't talk a
lot about my company on thispodcast, although I thought
about it and there's no reasonwhy I wouldn't.
It's a really great company.
We make great products and theyall have to do with health and
healthy living.
And I've been running thisbusiness for almost 25 years now
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.
My wife and I been running thisbusiness for almost 25 years
now.
My wife and I, uh, we develop,we formulate, we grow the
ingredients for many of theproducts.
We, we put them all together ina in a handcrafted way, put a
lot of love and and caring intothem, and these are products
that you know we make forourselves.
This is my medicine chest, um,you know, I don't use
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pharmaceuticals, um, unlessthere's no other possible uh
answer.
And I, um, you know, with thiscancer I've had to go down some
of that road, but I before thatI hadn't been to a doctor in 20
years.
You know I didn't need to.
Anything goes wrong, I've got anatural answer for it.
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And skincare, I think, isanother huge piece of that.
You know, our skin isindicative of our health and I
always tell people, you know,when they come to me for
consultations and things, I say,well, pinch your skin together
and let it go and see whathappens.
And most people, when you dothat, your skin will like stay
together for a second becauseit's telling you you're a little
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dehydrated and that's just oneof the little indicators that
say you know, hey, maybe you canwork on that a little bit.
And people don't realize yourskin is your largest organ.
You absorb everything thattouches your skin goes inside
your body.
You collect vitamin D from thesun.
It keeps out all of the thingstrying to attack you.
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I mean, your skin is the mostamazing thing.
Most of us just ignore it,abuse it, don't take care of it,
or we put products that havechemicals and things of it, or
we put you know products thathave chemicals and things.
So my wife was actually in anaccident, um, when she was a
teenager, and crushed her faceand she's had to have a bone
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implant in her front jaw.
She lost a bunch of teeth, shehas nerve damage in her face and
it's a lifetime.
You wouldn't know it.
She's gorgeous, but they puther back together and um, but
she has this, the suffering andshe's super sensitive to all
chemicals and it was because ofthat that she actually got the
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idea to come up with our firsthealing salve and it worked so
well for her that you you knowshe started expanding and I've
been formulating for 40 years.
So I quickly jumped in andstarted making some things.
And you know we work togetherand now we've got this great
product line and we're reallygood at that part of it.
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But we're not a marketingcompany.
We're not.
We don't, we don't really,we're not.
We're actually terriblebusiness people.
And so we've always just letthe products kind of do the work
on their own.
And you know my aunt uses andloves the products.
It's all been word of mouth and,um, I think, uh, jay heard
about them and said hey, can yousend some samples over to you?
(21:26):
We sent some samples over toyou.
I'm always looking for somebodythat you know can try them out.
And I didn't sell them to you.
I said try it, tell me what youthink.
If you like it, you'll comeback.
If not, well, then you know Ididn't waste your money and
that's just all I've ever done.
And then subsequently,subsequently, you've come around
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and said you know, I think wegot something we can work with
and I've always set it up towhere.
You know, if you want to starta business, I only do wholesale,
so you can anybody can buy myproducts and resell them and
make make some money at it.
I think everybody should beable to benefit.
But then all of a sudden youapproached me about this.
This project and you know that'sthe other part of this company
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is we've always supportednonprofits.
We've worked with schools, weworked with all a bunch of
different nonprofits over theyears and helped them with
fundraising.
And you know, it's just kind oflike my, my tithe.
You know sometimes people willtithe to the church or whatever
and just give them money.
Me, I work with the peopleone-on-one and if somebody's
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willing to get out there and doa project that is going to help
people, then let me come andhelp you do that.
So we donated some products tomatch some of the things that
you guys originally connectedwith, and so now we have more to
offer, and so why don't youtell us a little bit about how
this works?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yes, and we are so thankful.
Gannon, your products areamazing.
I've been into the holistichealing as well, just like you,
for a very long time.
And all of your ingredients.
I'm like, wow, yes, likethey're all.
I was telling, like Jay Wells,and he was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Like he doesn't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And I'm like, yes, these ingredients are like top,
top tier.
And I did my research.
I looked at other ones.
I was like and it's funny likehow you said like all of these
chemical field like products andthey, they say that they're not
.
And then you look at theiringredients and they are.
I love that you are definitelygenuine with what you guys do
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and it's all just fresh andauthentic and definitely
holistic, healing it, so it canhelp anybody you, you know, and
it's not gonna bring any damageto anybody.
But yeah, so our 30 days ofself-compassion um, really, we
want to start these next 30 daysjust to really kick start, um,
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and empower and inspire peopleto show themselves
self-compassion all year round,every single day, for the rest
of their lives, because, likeyou mentioned as well, we really
have to fill our cup as well,instead of just giving other
people, because then we're goingto be left with an empty cup.
We can't expect anybody to fillour cup.
That's just a choice, you know,to give other people like some
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of your cup, but a prioritydefinitely should be showing
yourself love and compassion.
So it is going to start thisFriday, august 22nd, and we're
going to carry it on toSeptember 20th.
And how it's going to startwe're just going to on our
social media pages, we're goingto follow along with our 30 day
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self-love calendar and we'regoing to give tips and we're
just going to do it and we'regoing to invite people to do it
with us so that they can reallyjust kickstart and practice
doing it and then eventuallythey keep doing it on their own,
because I know it's hard toremember and do it on your own.
But it's just simple things youknow, like cry if you need to
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or journal about your feelings.
And we have on our self lovecalendar 30 days.
We have mental, emotional andphysical, so they're all 10 days
each.
My favorite is day 12, which ispractice forgiveness for
yourself and others, and that isso important because a lot of
people they hold on and theydon't forgive, like others and
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especially themselves, and itreally holds you, you hold
baggage with that.
So that's one of the mostpowerful tools forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know.
Jesus taught about forgivenessand a lot of times, I think, we
take it all wrong.
Like you know, forgiveness is a.
It heals us more, I think, thanit heals the person you forgive
.
You know, and we hold on to somuch stress and anxiety over
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these things that we could letgo by forgiving, and especially
ourselves.
You know, I've learned toforgive myself for things I did,
you know, when I was a kid, andyou don't realize that.
You know, some part of you isstill holding on to that.
You know, with a little guiltor a little, you know you need
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to be punished or whatever it is, and so I couldn't agree more.
That's a very, very powerfultool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yes, and so we're going to be focusing on our
three bundles, which is the giftof compassion.
That includes five differentproducts.
And then we have the compassioncare pack, which that is, the
massage oils.
And then we have the soul andskin starter kit, which is the
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luxurious, um sugar scrubs,which they are amazing.
They smell amazing, they feelamazing.
I love them.
I love scrubs.
There's something very simple,just to implement in your daily
routine or weekly routine, um,and they really just they make
you feel a lot better.
You know, the smell is amazingand just the feel and just
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everything.
The application, um.
So we do just want to encouragepeople to get their bundles.
You can go to herbs we love.
You can reach out to us on oursocial media at herbs we love we
, but we have an Instagram and aFacebook, um, the bundles are
on there.
So we want to just encouragepeople get their bundles, follow
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the 30 day self-love calendarwith us and each bundle will
come with a 30 days compassionpledge, which I'll go over
shortly, the 30 days ofself-love calendar and a
certificate of self-love just toremind people and empower
people and inspire them thatthey are loved and just to know
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that they're enough.
Just the way that they are.
It's very beautiful.
I think it's a beautiful touchand it's all wrapped beautifully
inside the 30 days ofcompassion gift bag.
So yeah, I think it's amazingwe already we do have one
customer that purchased hersalready and she left a great
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review.
She got the gift of compassionand I would like to go over her
review.
She said I was delighted toreceive my gift of compassion
from me to me.
It arrived exactly when Ineeded it.
The quality and care put intoevery single item was evident,
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from the packaging to theproducts themselves.
I love the 30 day challenge andhow easy it's laid out for
practicing a specific skill ofself-compassion Do yourself a
favor.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, you locked out again.
Dang it, Hang on.
I'm going to pause this again.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So do yourself a favor and make yourself a
priority so you can continue toshow up in service and love
those around you.
I didn't even realize how badlyI needed this, and thank you,
christine, for joining us andsupporting us and leaving that
amazing comment and review justto show people your experience
(29:26):
with the products and thepackaging, and she loved
everything.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So I'm very happy and that's kind of cool, because
she doesn't know anything aboutus.
It's, you know, like a lot oftimes people have come to us
because they know us and theysupport what we do, because they
know who we are, and so theyautomatically, like already have
kind of a well, we're going tolove this already, and they do.
But when somebody who doesn'thave any expectation, doesn't
(29:53):
know anything about it, theyjust receive this cold and that
was their reaction.
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Definitely yeah, we were really happy.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's a great way to start, since it hasn't even
started yet, right?
Yes, that's beautiful, so let'sit looks like Friday.
So let's it looks like Friday.
We're going to be launchingthat's in two days and you're
going to be posting on socialmedia, you're going to be
tagging Willow Creek Springs andcollaborate, so we'll be able
(30:28):
to share all this stuff as well.
And really, I think at thismoment, aside from participating
, donating and sharing thesepackages and participating in
this 30 Days of Self-Compassion,I think the most important
(30:48):
thing people can do is to letother people know about it,
because we don't have a bigbudget for marketing, we're not
putting out big ads, we're notdoing.
This is all grassroots and ithas the ability to really help a
lot of people, includingyourselves and I think that's
(31:09):
the most important partEverybody that if all you're
doing is saying I just want todo a little something nice for
me, well it's going to turnaround and help a lot of other
people at the same time.
If you think you want to justhelp a lot of other people, well
, it's going to end up beingreally nice to you at the same
time.
So, either way, everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Definitely yes.
We want to encourage people tonot only like get these packages
and bundles for themselves, butuse them as gifts, holiday
seasons, coming up, birthdays,even if you're just thinking
about somebody and want toinspire them, buy it for
somebody you love and you wantto inspire them to show
themselves more self-compassion,yourself and just others random
(31:49):
people maybe even as well.
So yeah, and when you get yourpackage, we would love to see it
in action.
So yeah, and when you get yourpackage.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
We would love to see it in action.
If you take a video, a picture,tag us at Herbs.
We Love Willow Creek Springs.
We want to see how you love youknow, adna, you impressed me a
lot.
You know, for such a youngwoman, you're out there just
doing a lot of good and a lot oftimes, you know, people wait
till they get old, like me,before they start making a
difference in the world, andit's really inspiring.
I've been working with a lot ofyoungsters lately that are out
(32:35):
there doing the good work, sothat's another reason that I'm
really supportive and I'm reallyproud to be a part of this,
because it's not just mecarrying something for once in
my life.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah.
So, yeah, definitely.
We have to be the change wewant to see in the world, like
Gandhi said.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, so true, and it's easy for people to say that
it's another thing to live it,and that's what this is all
about.
So we're going to continue tosupport this effort and, you
know, I'm looking forward toworking with apparently, we have
some other folks that are partof other prison outreach type
(33:16):
programs that we'll be bringinginto the show and and discussing
their work, and I believe thiscommunity that we're building
through the podcast is reallygrowing in layers, different
ways.
You know, from a lot of theindigenous and plant medicine
(33:36):
world to you know, theself-healing world, and now
we're stepping inside of theworld of incarceration and
trauma, and I really think it'sreally starting to build a
worthy community that transcendsall of these things.
(33:57):
And, like I say to a lot ofguests, this is a project that's
going to be going on for 30days and then it's going to go
on for another 30 days underanother angle, and so we'll have
you back, as we need to, totalk about the progress of this
and, you know to, to keep it inlight, and you're going to be
(34:22):
sharing some flyers and updatedinformation that will I think
I'll be able to include that ineven into the show notes, where
I have a few little things thatevery episode show notes, where
I have a few little things thatevery episode features.
I think I can bring some ofthat down into that, or at least
(34:42):
a link, so we'll be featuringthat information on the podcast
as we go.
This is the part where I'd liketo give you a chance to once
again give all your contact, howpeople can find you and connect
to this.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yes, of course.
So we are on Instagram at herbswe love, or Facebook as well.
We have an email connected onthere which is connect with an
herbalist at outlookcom.
Lastly, I would just like to goover.
I know people may not know whatcompassion is the importance of
or how they could like do it,and maybe they don't want to
(35:19):
purchase a bundle or they don'thave the money to.
So I do just want to go overour 30 days of compassion pledge
.
If I could with you guys.
So our 30 days of compassionpledge reads I pledge to show
myself compassion every day.
For the next 30 days, I willgive myself the care, patience
and kindness I so often give toothers.
(35:40):
I understand that in order totruly care for those around me,
I must first take care of myself.
I commit to putting mywell-being first, without guilt,
speaking to myself with loveinstead of criticism, listening
to my needs, mind, body andspirit of criticism, listening
to my needs, mind, body andspirit.
This is not selfish, this issacred, this is self-compassion
(36:05):
and I hope that just helpspeople understand the importance
of self-compassion, what it isand how you can practice it
every day.
Thank you so much for openingup your podcast to us and just
supporting us through everything.
You've really been a bigsupport and help to us and we
just really appreciate it andlove it.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Well, it's my pleasure and again, you know
you're earning it.
So I believe that togetherwe're going to make a difference
out there.
And you know, I suspect this isthe first of many projects like
this.
So that night has been anabsolute pleasure and I want to
thank all the listeners and Iknow that you guys are going to
(36:42):
support this project.
So, ahead of time, I'm going tothank you for that and Ed and I
we're going to have you on in afew weeks and we'll go over
where we're at maybe close tothe halfway point and we'll get
back into it.
But pay attention, we're goingto be sharing information and
(37:03):
graphics and things on theWillow Creek Springs site and I
want to thank everybody thatsupported the podcast and we
will see you next time.
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, joe Grumbine,and today I've got a really
special guest.
Her name is Adonai Flores, andmost of the time when I have
guests here, these are eitherpeople that have approached me
to participate in the podcast orit may be people that I know
(00:23):
that I've worked with, but thisis actually somebody that I'm
working directly with with theprogram and I'm kind of excited
to share this.
So, adonai Flores, she's anaturopathy practitioner and
co-founder of Herbs we Love, andthis year 2025, she began a
collaboration with Willow CreekSprings, my company.
(00:44):
After researching the familyowned company's wellness
products and finding them to besuperior in quality and more
affordable than similar productson the market, and out of this
collaboration we've came up.
She came up with a program thatwe're calling 30 Days of
Compassion, and this campaign iscreated as a way to embody and
communicate the heart of theproducts, and the initiative
(01:08):
later expanded into 30 Days ofSelf-Compassion, designed to
inspire daily acts of self-loveand intentional living.
Each compassionate bundleincludes the 30 Days of
Compassion pledge, a 30-dayself-love exercise calendar and
a self-love certificate.
Adonai, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Welcome Hi, thank you .
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So you and I have been working together.
Well, we started talking maybeabout what?
Six months ago or so.
Yes, and we have a friend incommon and I have an aunt that
is also working with you andwe've been working together on a
(01:51):
program or project that isinvolved inside the prison
system.
And you know, I've been workingwith prison outreach for 20
years with my Human SolutionInternational, but since that
got put aside to other thingsand I've started really building
this community of healthyliving.
(02:11):
I was really touched when youguys reached out, because I've
always had a spot for you knowthe people that are compromised
and you know, when you talkabout people in prison, a lot of
times we just kind of turn ournose and say, well, you know,
these are bad people, theythey're getting what they
deserve and we don't realize thetruth about all of this.
(02:35):
And, yeah, there's some badpeople getting what they deserve
in there and there's also a lotof other folks doing a lot of
other things.
And regardless of what got youin there one of the things we
were talking with your partner,friend Megan, last week about
this and regardless of what gotyou in there, a prison is
(02:59):
supposed to be a place that youcan help to get a new start, fix
your problem and become abetter human being.
And more often than not itdoesn't do that.
Yeah, sadly not.
Why don't you tell us a littlebit about what you've been doing
?
And then I'm excited to starttalking about the 30 Days of
(03:20):
Compassion program.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, so I've been working closely with you, jay
Wells, your aunt, really justtrying to empower and inspire
people, one to better themselves, two to just be good citizens
in society and make the worldjust a better place.
In just in all, with our TMT,our trauma music therapy 40
(03:47):
songs and a mic herbs.
We love just all of it.
They're all they all have aboutthe same mission.
Just you know like bring goodinto the world and try to change
the world a little bit at atime.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Why don't you tell us a little bit about the trauma
music therapy program?
I was looking at that throughthe notes and I'm not really
familiar with what you guys aredoing, but its name would
suggest that it's right in theline with the things we're
already doing.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, yeah, definitely so.
Trauma Music Therapy is atrauma-informed program we're
trying to get into possibly anonprofit, but basically we're
just on there, we're educatingabout trauma and it ties into a
lot of stuff.
Trauma could just likeunderline a lot of things
(04:38):
Addiction, people that areincarcerated, just a lot of
things.
So we're trying to just traumainform people, which inform
people about trauma, educate andthen through music.
So Jay Wells does do a lot ofmusic.
He has a trauma informed album.
(04:59):
So we're really trying to justpush that and help people heal
through music.
I know a lot of people that'sone thing that brings the world
together is music.
So in healing is very big inmusic with illness, health and
trauma, mental, physical,everything.
(05:20):
So we're mainly just focusingon that.
We did have that both trauma inum, gospel inside just 40 songs
in the mic, but we decided tosplit it up just so we can have
two different audiences and it'sbeen working well.
Um, so we have the traumainformed community over there
and then gospel to another side,cause not a lot of people like
(05:41):
to mix the two, so we just splitit up basically.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, that's good, The's good.
The more uh audience you canget, the better chance you have.
And, like you're saying, musicis kind of a universal language.
You know, we, um, we did aceremony retreat over the
weekend and, uh, they brought alot of music into it and that
was the first time I'd sat in aexperience like that, with all
the music, and I thought, youknow, it's really the language
(06:06):
that everybody can understand.
You know, it doesn't matterwhat language you speak, what
words.
Language the words are in themusic is a universal language.
And you know, I think trauma isalso a universal experience.
You know, we think about traumaand some people think, oh well,
you know, if you weren't raped,you don't know trauma.
And it's like, well, trust me,I wasn't raped, but I've gone
(06:29):
through some trauma and it comesin every shape, size, form.
It could be mental, it can befrom the system, it can be
physical, it can be spiritual.
It can be spiritual, it couldbe.
I mean, you know, anytimeyou're attacked in any way of
mind, body, spirit it's atraumatic event.
(06:51):
And how you handle it is onething, but what does it do to
you?
And there's a whole other pieceof it Nobody ever comes out of
a trauma the same way they wentinto it, regardless of what it
looked like on the surface.
Yeah, I think we all have thatin common.
(07:14):
So when we're we're looking tobring people together, you know
there's not a lot of thingsreally that everybody has in
common, you know.
Aside from you know we're allhumans and you know we're all
born of a mother and a fatherand there's a handful of things
that you could say all right,everybody fits into that box.
But trauma, I think I don'tthink there's a person alive
that says, oh, I've neverexperienced trauma, so let's get
(07:43):
into.
Well, let's introduce Jay Wells,because he's a part of this,
and I know that I think youmight be locked out and, if you
are, try turning your camera offfor a second, because I don't
see you moving and I don't hearyou right now.
(08:04):
But give yourself a chance tocome back in.
But Jay Wells is a guy who is.
We have all this in common andmy aunt is actually working
inside the prison system becauseI have a cousin who is
(08:27):
currently incarcerated and she'shelping him with this case and
a lot of things, and apparentlymy cousin and this guy, jay,
connected and I'm not reallyquite sure you know how they got
together, but Jay's doing a lotof work inside the system and
(08:47):
he is working on a um, a programfor a garden program that's
going to be working with mygardens of hope, and through all
that he introduced me to Adonaiand um, we began working on
this program.
All right, adonai's back withus and we didn't really lose
(09:12):
anything.
So let's keep going talkingabout the trauma music therapy.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, we just hope just bring the community
together and something like howyou said, just that's universal
trauma and music and reallywe're just, we're really
striving just to heal ourcommunities underserved and
incarcerated communities andjust try to bring just a sense
(09:40):
of humanity back to the world.
Just like all of the otherprograms, um, like um, the one
that megan shared with you herempathy in action and right um,
hopefully you get to meet fritzysoon with her compassion prison
project, but all of those umprograms we're just striving to
be basically like them and um,just bring the community back
(10:03):
together and bring humanity back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, we're talking about with gardens of hope,
working on a garden program inthere.
So as I'm trying to rebuildmyself a little bit, then I'll
be able to put some attention atthat.
Well, why don't you tell meabout what brought the idea of
the 30 days of self compassion?
And well, the 30 days ofcompassion, and then ultimately,
(10:26):
the 30 days of self-compassion.
And well, the 30 days ofcompassion and then ultimately
the 30 days of self-compassion.
What?
What's the genesis of that?
How did you come up with thatidea?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
yeah, definitely so.
Um, we just wanted to um reallyget something that like come up
with a campaign that embodiedthe products and what we're
doing and everything, all of theum, like the things that we
have, the projects that we have,trauma music, therapy 40 songs
on my herbs.
(10:53):
We love um.
And first it started out astrying to raise um funds for
compassion prison project,because so many um programs out
there they're actually they'restruggling and I'm sure you know
they're struggling and they'rejust trying to bring healing to
the world.
So we wanted to do 30 Days ofCompassion, raise funds for
(11:19):
Fritzie with the CompassionPrison Project.
She is tied up with a lot ofstuff right now.
So it later evolved into the 30Days of Self-Compassion, just
to kind of keep it alive.
And we thought you can't havecompassion for others unless you
have compassion for yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So that's actually.
You know, when you came up withthat, I thought about it.
It's like in the work that I dowith you know, when you came up
with that, I thought about it.
It's like in the work that I dowith you know, plant medicine
and ceremonies and retreats andthings.
A lot of the work that we do isabout self-compassion,
self-love.
You know, we, we go throughlife, you know, raised a certain
(12:02):
way, taught about certain.
You know men and women havedifferent ways that they
communicate and everything.
But most people, especially, Ithink, good people we tend to
put ourselves second and we helpother people, you know, more
easily and we put ourselves andsay, well, I'll get to that
later, let me, let me go do thisthing that's needed.
(12:23):
And then after a whilesomething happens, like you
know'll get to that later, letme go do this thing that's
needed.
And then after a whilesomething happens, like you know
, you get sick or you have abreakdown or, you know, in my
case I got a cancer.
You know, and I think there'sno small piece of that that come
from setting yourself assecondary.
And I know, with me in the workI've worked with medicine,
(12:45):
people and and prayer and andjust working on myself, trying
to heal myself and be a betterperson.
That came up as you know youwill.
Let's look at yourself now andand recognize you know who you
are and and honor yourself andto to realize that you know you
(13:06):
really can't love somebody elseif you're putting yourself up on
a shelf somewhere, I think, butreally it's empty.
You know, and I think it'sreally important, and especially
for people in prison.
You know you.
You have to spend so much.
You know, in the brief amountof time I was locked up, I've
(13:26):
experienced some of it at least,and you're protecting yourself
all the time.
You have to be aware ofeverything, aware of everything
you say, you do, you can't.
You got to notice everythingand you got to be with that
program or bad things can happenpretty quick and you spend a
lot of energy managing you knowyou and the outside world.
(13:48):
Not a lot of time to sit thereand be loving to yourself in a
cold, toxic place that doesn'thave your best interest in mind.
So to think about that you knowwe were talking with Megan
about.
You know About that.
You know we were talking withMegan about.
You know, affirmations andacknowledging.
You know that in spite of itall, we have choices.
(14:12):
So we get stuck in these victimmentalities and we go, oh, you
know, I have to, I can't.
You know this person, that thing, you know it's everybody's
fault but mine.
And you know the truth is we'rehere because we got ourselves
here and it's not always fair,it's not always right and it's
(14:34):
not always just, but at the endof the day, we're here because
of choices we made and things wedid and we're going to move on
to the next place also becauseof choices we make and things we
did.
And we're going to move on tothe next place also because of
choices we make and things we do.
So this is an opportunity, Ithink, to not only bring to the
(14:57):
attention of how important thesethings can be, but maybe to
share some tools about what wecan do, little choices we can
make and I know you were talkingabout sharing some affirmations
with us and to just show thelisteners what that's like.
(15:19):
Some of us think, oh, everybodyknows what that is because
we've been busy trying to helpourselves for years, and
affirmations are kind of anormal thing, but there's a lot
of people out there who wouldlove to learn more, but they
don't know what to do.
And why don't you share alittle something with us?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, of course.
So the affirmation I want toshare today is I just want the
listeners whether you guys comeon the 30 days of
self-compassion journey with usor not just hold this with you
and maybe, when times get hard,or um, if you remember it, it's
(15:56):
very simple Um, but I just wantthe listeners to hear this Um,
so I am altogether beautiful andthere is no flaw in me.
And just those two sentencesthey're very powerful.
One you're telling yourselfyou're altogether beautiful, and
that means every part of you isbeautiful.
(16:18):
And two, there is no flaw inyou.
And just always rememberthere's no flaw in you.
Nobody's perfect.
We're all human.
And God, he says there's noflaw in you.
And just always rememberthere's no flaw in you.
Nobody's perfect.
We're all human.
In God, he says there's no flawin us.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's so true, so true.
A lot of times we spend ourtime looking at these
imperfections or things thatdon't fit our version of perfect
.
But truth is we don't knowperfect, we could never know
perfect, because we're human,and that's the beauty of it.
We're beautiful in ourimperfection and we're perfect
in our imperfection, and sothat's it.
(16:52):
Once you can understand thatand appreciate it, it's so
liberating because you realize,you know you're no better or
worse than anybody.
You know we're all, we're allin the same process.
We're all somewhere between youknow something less than human
and something more than human,and we're all just working our
(17:14):
way through it.
And, um, you know, it takes,takes form in every possible way
, just just like all thedifferences.
You know we're we're tall,we're short, we're skinny, we're
large, we're dark, we're light,we're two eyes.
Sometimes we got one eye.
You know we have every kind ofpossible difference.
And what's to say, the onethat's closest to God, right?
(17:40):
Well, never.
We won't know that till ourtime comes, and I think it's
really the light that's insideof us, that's the part that's
close to god and that's the partthat we all have, you know, and
so that's beautiful.
I really like that, um, thattestimonial.
Well, let's talk a little bitabout you know this, this
(18:02):
program and the products andthings, because I don't talk a
lot about my company on thispodcast, although I thought
about it and there's no reasonwhy I wouldn't.
It's a really great company.
We make great products and theyall have to do with health and
healthy living.
And I've been running thisbusiness for almost 25 years now
(18:23):
.
My wife and I been running thisbusiness for almost 25 years
now.
My wife and I, uh, we develop,we formulate, we grow the
ingredients for many of theproducts.
We, we put them all together ina in a handcrafted way, put a
lot of love and and caring intothem, and these are products
that you know we make forourselves.
This is my medicine chest, um,you know, I don't use
(18:45):
pharmaceuticals, um, unlessthere's no other possible uh
answer.
And I, um, you know, with thiscancer I've had to go down some
of that road, but I before thatI hadn't been to a doctor in 20
years.
You know I didn't need to.
Anything goes wrong, I've got anatural answer for it.
(19:08):
And skincare, I think, isanother huge piece of that.
You know, our skin isindicative of our health and I
always tell people, you know,when they come to me for
consultations and things, I say,well, pinch your skin together
and let it go and see whathappens.
And most people, when you dothat, your skin will like stay
together for a second becauseit's telling you you're a little
(19:32):
dehydrated and that's just oneof the little indicators that
say you know, hey, maybe you canwork on that a little bit.
And people don't realize yourskin is your largest organ.
You absorb everything thattouches your skin goes inside
your body.
You collect vitamin D from thesun.
It keeps out all of the thingstrying to attack you.
(19:54):
I mean, your skin is the mostamazing thing.
Most of us just ignore it,abuse it, don't take care of it,
or we put products that havechemicals and things of it, or
we put you know products thathave chemicals and things.
So my wife was actually in anaccident, um, when she was a
teenager, and crushed her faceand she's had to have a bone
(20:15):
implant in her front jaw.
She lost a bunch of teeth, shehas nerve damage in her face and
it's a lifetime.
You wouldn't know it.
She's gorgeous, but they puther back together and um, but
she has this, the suffering andshe's super sensitive to all
chemicals and it was because ofthat that she actually got the
(20:39):
idea to come up with our firsthealing salve and it worked so
well for her that you you knowshe started expanding and I've
been formulating for 40 years.
So I quickly jumped in andstarted making some things.
And you know we work togetherand now we've got this great
product line and we're reallygood at that part of it.
(21:03):
But we're not a marketingcompany.
We're not.
We don't, we don't really,we're not.
We're actually terriblebusiness people.
And so we've always just letthe products kind of do the work
on their own.
And you know my aunt uses andloves the products.
It's all been word of mouth and,um, I think, uh, jay heard
about them and said hey, can yousend some samples over to you?
(21:26):
We sent some samples over toyou.
I'm always looking for somebodythat you know can try them out.
And I didn't sell them to you.
I said try it, tell me what youthink.
If you like it, you'll comeback.
If not, well, then you know Ididn't waste your money and
that's just all I've ever done.
And then subsequently,subsequently, you've come around
(21:49):
and said you know, I think wegot something we can work with
and I've always set it up towhere.
You know, if you want to starta business, I only do wholesale,
so you can anybody can buy myproducts and resell them and
make make some money at it.
I think everybody should beable to benefit.
But then all of a sudden youapproached me about this.
This project and you know that'sthe other part of this company
(22:12):
is we've always supportednonprofits.
We've worked with schools, weworked with all a bunch of
different nonprofits over theyears and helped them with
fundraising.
And you know, it's just kind oflike my, my tithe.
You know sometimes people willtithe to the church or whatever
and just give them money.
Me, I work with the peopleone-on-one and if somebody's
(22:35):
willing to get out there and doa project that is going to help
people, then let me come andhelp you do that.
So we donated some products tomatch some of the things that
you guys originally connectedwith, and so now we have more to
offer, and so why don't youtell us a little bit about how
this works?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yes, and we are so thankful.
Gannon, your products areamazing.
I've been into the holistichealing as well, just like you,
for a very long time.
And all of your ingredients.
I'm like, wow, yes, likethey're all.
I was telling, like Jay Wells,and he was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Like he doesn't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And I'm like, yes, these ingredients are like top,
top tier.
And I did my research.
I looked at other ones.
I was like and it's funny likehow you said like all of these
chemical field like products andthey, they say that they're not
.
And then you look at theiringredients and they are.
I love that you are definitelygenuine with what you guys do
(23:37):
and it's all just fresh andauthentic and definitely
holistic, healing it, so it canhelp anybody you, you know, and
it's not gonna bring any damageto anybody.
But yeah, so our 30 days ofself-compassion um, really, we
want to start these next 30 daysjust to really kick start, um,
(23:58):
and empower and inspire peopleto show themselves
self-compassion all year round,every single day, for the rest
of their lives, because, likeyou mentioned as well, we really
have to fill our cup as well,instead of just giving other
people, because then we're goingto be left with an empty cup.
We can't expect anybody to fillour cup.
That's just a choice, you know,to give other people like some
(24:24):
of your cup, but a prioritydefinitely should be showing
yourself love and compassion.
So it is going to start thisFriday, august 22nd, and we're
going to carry it on toSeptember 20th.
And how it's going to startwe're just going to on our
social media pages, we're goingto follow along with our 30 day
(24:46):
self-love calendar and we'regoing to give tips and we're
just going to do it and we'regoing to invite people to do it
with us so that they can reallyjust kickstart and practice
doing it and then eventuallythey keep doing it on their own,
because I know it's hard toremember and do it on your own.
But it's just simple things youknow, like cry if you need to
(25:07):
or journal about your feelings.
And we have on our self lovecalendar 30 days.
We have mental, emotional andphysical, so they're all 10 days
each.
My favorite is day 12, which ispractice forgiveness for
yourself and others, and that isso important because a lot of
people they hold on and theydon't forgive, like others and
(25:30):
especially themselves, and itreally holds you, you hold
baggage with that.
So that's one of the mostpowerful tools forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know.
Jesus taught about forgivenessand a lot of times, I think, we
take it all wrong.
Like you know, forgiveness is a.
It heals us more, I think, thanit heals the person you forgive
.
You know, and we hold on to somuch stress and anxiety over
(26:00):
these things that we could letgo by forgiving, and especially
ourselves.
You know, I've learned toforgive myself for things I did,
you know, when I was a kid, andyou don't realize that.
You know, some part of you isstill holding on to that.
You know, with a little guiltor a little, you know you need
(26:21):
to be punished or whatever it is, and so I couldn't agree more.
That's a very, very powerfultool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yes, and so we're going to be focusing on our
three bundles, which is the giftof compassion.
That includes five differentproducts.
And then we have the compassioncare pack, which that is, the
massage oils.
And then we have the soul andskin starter kit, which is the
(26:48):
luxurious, um sugar scrubs,which they are amazing.
They smell amazing, they feelamazing.
I love them.
I love scrubs.
There's something very simple,just to implement in your daily
routine or weekly routine, um,and they really just they make
you feel a lot better.
You know, the smell is amazingand just the feel and just
(27:10):
everything.
The application, um.
So we do just want to encouragepeople to get their bundles.
You can go to herbs we love.
You can reach out to us on oursocial media at herbs we love we
, but we have an Instagram and aFacebook, um, the bundles are
on there.
So we want to just encouragepeople get their bundles, follow
(27:31):
the 30 day self-love calendarwith us and each bundle will
come with a 30 days compassionpledge, which I'll go over
shortly, the 30 days ofself-love calendar and a
certificate of self-love just toremind people and empower
people and inspire them thatthey are loved and just to know
(27:55):
that they're enough.
Just the way that they are.
It's very beautiful.
I think it's a beautiful touchand it's all wrapped beautifully
inside the 30 days ofcompassion gift bag.
So yeah, I think it's amazingwe already we do have one
customer that purchased hersalready and she left a great
(28:16):
review.
She got the gift of compassionand I would like to go over her
review.
She said I was delighted toreceive my gift of compassion
from me to me.
It arrived exactly when Ineeded it.
The quality and care put intoevery single item was evident,
(28:36):
from the packaging to theproducts themselves.
I love the 30 day challenge andhow easy it's laid out for
practicing a specific skill ofself-compassion Do yourself a
favor.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, you locked out again.
Dang it, Hang on.
I'm going to pause this again.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So do yourself a favor and make yourself a
priority so you can continue toshow up in service and love
those around you.
I didn't even realize how badlyI needed this, and thank you,
christine, for joining us andsupporting us and leaving that
amazing comment and review justto show people your experience
(29:26):
with the products and thepackaging, and she loved
everything.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So I'm very happy and that's kind of cool, because
she doesn't know anything aboutus.
It's, you know, like a lot oftimes people have come to us
because they know us and theysupport what we do, because they
know who we are, and so theyautomatically, like already have
kind of a well, we're going tolove this already, and they do.
But when somebody who doesn'thave any expectation, doesn't
(29:53):
know anything about it, theyjust receive this cold and that
was their reaction.
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Definitely yeah, we were really happy.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's a great way to start, since it hasn't even
started yet, right?
Yes, that's beautiful, so let'sit looks like Friday.
So let's it looks like Friday.
We're going to be launchingthat's in two days and you're
going to be posting on socialmedia, you're going to be
tagging Willow Creek Springs andcollaborate, so we'll be able
(30:28):
to share all this stuff as well.
And really, I think at thismoment, aside from participating
, donating and sharing thesepackages and participating in
this 30 Days of Self-Compassion,I think the most important
(30:48):
thing people can do is to letother people know about it,
because we don't have a bigbudget for marketing, we're not
putting out big ads, we're notdoing.
This is all grassroots and ithas the ability to really help a
lot of people, includingyourselves and I think that's
(31:09):
the most important partEverybody that if all you're
doing is saying I just want todo a little something nice for
me, well it's going to turnaround and help a lot of other
people at the same time.
If you think you want to justhelp a lot of other people, well
, it's going to end up beingreally nice to you at the same
time.
So, either way, everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Definitely yes.
We want to encourage people tonot only like get these packages
and bundles for themselves, butuse them as gifts, holiday
seasons, coming up, birthdays,even if you're just thinking
about somebody and want toinspire them, buy it for
somebody you love and you wantto inspire them to show
themselves more self-compassion,yourself and just others random
(31:49):
people maybe even as well.
So yeah, and when you get yourpackage, we would love to see it
in action.
So yeah, and when you get yourpackage.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
We would love to see it in action.
If you take a video, a picture,tag us at Herbs.
We Love Willow Creek Springs.
We want to see how you love youknow, adna, you impressed me a
lot.
You know, for such a youngwoman, you're out there just
doing a lot of good and a lot oftimes, you know, people wait
till they get old, like me,before they start making a
difference in the world, andit's really inspiring.
I've been working with a lot ofyoungsters lately that are out
(32:35):
there doing the good work, sothat's another reason that I'm
really supportive and I'm reallyproud to be a part of this,
because it's not just mecarrying something for once in
my life.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah.
So, yeah, definitely.
We have to be the change wewant to see in the world, like
Gandhi said.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, so true, and it's easy for people to say that
it's another thing to live it,and that's what this is all
about.
So we're going to continue tosupport this effort and, you
know, I'm looking forward toworking with apparently, we have
some other folks that are partof other prison outreach type
(33:16):
programs that we'll be bringinginto the show and and discussing
their work, and I believe thiscommunity that we're building
through the podcast is reallygrowing in layers, different
ways.
You know, from a lot of theindigenous and plant medicine
(33:36):
world to you know, theself-healing world, and now
we're stepping inside of theworld of incarceration and
trauma, and I really think it'sreally starting to build a
worthy community that transcendsall of these things.
(33:57):
And, like I say to a lot ofguests, this is a project that's
going to be going on for 30days and then it's going to go
on for another 30 days underanother angle, and so we'll have
you back, as we need to, totalk about the progress of this
and, you know to, to keep it inlight, and you're going to be
(34:22):
sharing some flyers and updatedinformation that will I think
I'll be able to include that ineven into the show notes, where
I have a few little things thatevery episode show notes, where
I have a few little things thatevery episode features.
I think I can bring some ofthat down into that, or at least
(34:42):
a link, so we'll be featuringthat information on the podcast
as we go.
This is the part where I'd liketo give you a chance to once
again give all your contact, howpeople can find you and connect
to this.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yes, of course.
So we are on Instagram at herbswe love, or Facebook as well.
We have an email connected onthere which is connect with an
herbalist at outlookcom.
Lastly, I would just like to goover.
I know people may not know whatcompassion is the importance of
or how they could like do it,and maybe they don't want to
(35:19):
purchase a bundle or they don'thave the money to.
So I do just want to go overour 30 days of compassion pledge
.
If I could with you guys.
So our 30 days of compassionpledge reads I pledge to show
myself compassion every day.
For the next 30 days, I willgive myself the care, patience
and kindness I so often give toothers.
(35:40):
I understand that in order totruly care for those around me,
I must first take care of myself.
I commit to putting mywell-being first, without guilt,
speaking to myself with loveinstead of criticism, listening
to my needs, mind, body andspirit of criticism, listening
to my needs, mind, body andspirit.
This is not selfish, this issacred, this is self-compassion
(36:05):
and I hope that just helpspeople understand the importance
of self-compassion, what it isand how you can practice it
every day.
Thank you so much for openingup your podcast to us and just
supporting us through everything.
You've really been a bigsupport and help to us and we
just really appreciate it andlove it.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Well, it's my pleasure and again, you know
you're earning it.
So I believe that togetherwe're going to make a difference
out there.
And you know, I suspect this isthe first of many projects like
this.
So that night has been anabsolute pleasure and I want to
thank all the listeners and Iknow that you guys are going to
(36:42):
support this project.
So, ahead of time, I'm going tothank you for that and Ed and I
we're going to have you on in afew weeks and we'll go over
where we're at maybe close tothe halfway point and we'll get
back into it.
But pay attention, we're goingto be sharing information and
(37:03):
graphics and things on theWillow Creek Springs site and I
want to thank everybody thatsupported the podcast and we
will see you next time.
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