June 19, 2025 • 47 mins
In this powerful episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz welcomes functional nutritionist and lifestyle medicine expert Margie Setterlof, founder of Sunlight Health. Margie shares her inspiring journey from physical therapy to Kingdom-rooted wellness, blending holistic nutrition and faith-based healing. Margie equips women with 7 Kingdom Keys to radiant health, identity restoration, and spiritual breakthrough. Tune in to discover how surrender, detox, and supernatural wisdom unlock lasting healing.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast.
I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz,and I'm also the founder of New
Wings Coaching.
I help and empower wildheartedand adventurous women of faith
feeling caged and stuck, unlocktheir true purpose and potential
, break free from limitationsand thrive with confidence,
courage and hope.
If you're curious to learn moreabout coaching with me, head to
newwingscoachingnet and be sureto explore the show notes for
(00:38):
ways to connect with me further.
Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
insights in this episode.
So tune in and let's unlockhope together.
Welcome to the Hope Unlockedpodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me.
Welcome my sweet friend, MargieSutterloff to the show.
(01:00):
I am so thrilled to have herhere today.
I feel like it's been a longtime coming, but we know that
his timing is perfect and Icannot wait to have her share
her story and what she's up tothese days.
So, Margie, would you be opento sharing a little bit about
yourself before we get started?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, absolutely, kristen.
Thank you for having me on yourpodcast.
I'm honored to be here, so Iappreciate that.
Yeah, I will share just alittle bit of background.
I've been a physical therapistfor multiple years and most
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recently I really just movedmore into being just a
functional nutritionist and whatI call a lifestyle medicine
expert.
Just because of my journey thatI've been on and where God has
called me to be, so it's areally good space to be in at
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this point in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, well, so you went from physical therapist to
tell me again the.
I love the title you have.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A functional nutritionist I.
I went back and got my master'sin holistic nutrition when I
was 50 years old, back before,before anybody was doing any of
this, and I was kind of pavingmy own path and kind of they
didn't have, we didn't haveGoogle to look things up in, and
so I sort of had to just do iton my own.
(02:28):
I, you know, I realized thattraditional medicine wasn't
wasn't going to cut it for thepeople that I was working with.
You know they were a lot of.
These women were strugglingwith chronic issues, chronic
pain, just a lot of chronicdiseases that they were.
Chronic pain, just a lot ofchronic diseases that they were.
I was seeing them on the rehabside of everything.
I wasn't able to really seehealing going on in them.
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So that's when I knew thatthere was so much more to the
healing journey than just simplytraditional medicine.
We need it but we don't wantwith the chronic condition.
So that's why, you know, theLord had me go back and and just
I studied all about it withoutthe, without the credentials,
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until he finally said, okay,open that door.
But like you said, there washardly anybody doing this way
back then.
So I've learned a lot along theway this way back then.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I've learned a lot along the way, but that was the
.
That was Hmm, wow, such a sucha pivot um that he had you take,
was there?
I mean, was there anyhesitation to go down that road
at all?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just knew that, I I knew that this is where he
called me and I just it justmade sense yeah, it just made
sense to do it.
And because I was alwaysinterested in natural things
from the get go, even even youknow, in my younger years, and
even even when I was practicingphysical therapy, it was I was
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always had a bend towards thenatural.
You know, what can we do thatwould be healthier?
What can we do to?
Even in, you know, my, when, my, even when my kids were little,
I, I was kind of one of thosecrunchy moms way back when
before it was popular.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, well, I love that, like I, you know, see you
as like a trailblazer, obviously, and I have to highlight that
you like started this, you know,educational journey at 50,.
You like started this, you knoweducational journey at 50,
right, yes, yes.
So I want to highlight, ifanybody's listening out there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's never too late, that's true.
It's never too late, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, wouldn't you say that a lot of people, um, you
know, I I just think of kids,you know, going to college and
like, hey, you need to figureout what you're doing with your
life.
You know, people just get soboxed in, like at a young age,
and then I don't know about you,but I just feel like there's so
many people that are justmiserable.
And you know they went tocollege when they're 18.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And you know it's 20 years later and they're just
like yeah, I think it's aboutlistening not just to, not just
to your heart, but listening tothe Lord.
I think that's really the keyis is not just going through the
motions and feeling likethere's no way out.
Right, because there always isthere.
There's a way out if you, ifyou are called to do something.
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You know the Lord will show you, and sometimes you have to.
Now I will say that I havephysical therapy in my blood.
I mean, I love being a physicaltherapist because I loved
helping people.
I just knew there was more toit.
So it wasn't like I was not inmy calling at that point in time
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, because I was.
He was just taking me into thenext level and, um, something I
was going to say about that um,in terms of of growing in that,
um, I forget now exactly what itwas.
It was on my heart there, butit'll come back anyway.
It was.
It's about just staying in thestage of, in the phase of life
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that he has you, and so, oh, Iknow what it was going to say.
Sometimes you have to stay insomething while you start
something else, but you can't.
He won't open doors unless youtake that step.
So, in other words.
I knew that traditionalmedicine wasn't going to be my
end road, but I stayed in itwhile I opened up other doors
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because I had to pay the bills,so you know.
So I stayed there, knowing thatmy heart was really being
pulled into the natural health.
And then and then I, just as Istepped more and more into that,
he opened more and more doorsand then it just was one of
those processes where I couldjust finally leave and just do
the natural healing in and ofitself.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, well, I love that you noticed that too.
It's not like everybody ejectsright yeah On the path, and some
do, others don't, and I lovethat you were able to just
really recognize that this wasobviously the Lord was calling
you to the more right.
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And I think sometimes and Idon't know about you, but I'm
not one who can like be on onetrack I feel like I'm kind of
multi-passionate.
Would you say that aboutyourself as well?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, yes, yes, and sometimes that drives me crazy.
Sometimes I think, oh my gosh,you know I have to stop.
Okay, yeah, I just have to letit all go for a while and then
pick it back up because, yes, Ido, I have multiple interests, I
have multiple ways that theLord has called me to share with
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people.
And you know, also, I think Ifind it interesting that along
our path he prepares us for thenext phase and he just gives us
opportunities to learn and grow.
And then sometimes we look backand we go oh, that's why I was
going through a certain thing,because now it's coming back to
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help me, but in a way that ismuch more suited for the kingdom
work that he's called me to,even though I may not have
understood what I was goingthrough at certain times.
So, and he did that with youknow, he did that with this,
with, with what his myprofessional calling, or I call
it.
I say it's a professionalcalling, but really it's.
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It's a business ministry, it'sa business Business ministry.
Yes, Because it's never feltlike work, you know, it's never
felt like it's something thatthat I had to do, it's something
that I've just been called todo.
So I've always loved.
I've loved that mission, but hehas.
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There have been times along theway that you know the peaks and
the valleys and you can't gothrough those peaks unless
you've just struggled throughthe valleys and walked through
the fire, and and that's, that'sthe things that that that he's,
that he's taught me along theway.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, well, I know, like actually the first season
for Hope Unlocked was calledVoices of Hope from the Valley
and it was really.
It's been beautiful becausethis season and last season has
been launching pioneers and Ireally believe that like there's
an aspect of you know I had aconversation with somebody
yesterday and how you know somany of us who walk through a
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lot, um, I find it rare to comeacross to anybody that has been
through a lot and isn't thenturning around and helping
people.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Would you say as well .
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, and I also feel like, yes, I totally agree with
that.
I think we have to be, we haveto be refined by the fire and
and we can, we can help people.
But I think once we experiencewhat it means to really
surrender, that's what he cantruly use us to to our greatest,
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his greatest advantage.
And you know that.
That's you know, I guess.
I guess, from my perspective,health and healing has always
been important to me.
It's been one of those thingsthat I think I don't know if I
mentioned this today yet or notbut even as a child, you know, I
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was not a very healthy child mymother would put messages in my
head that you know that shetold me I was a sickly child.
It's like, well, ok, well then,guess, maybe I am, and so I
would come down with colds andflus and and all those types of
things.
As a child.
It's like, well, okay, wellthen, guess, maybe I am, and so
I would come down with colds andflus and and all those types of
things as a child, because Iwas never told I was, because
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that's what I was told thatyou're going to catch cold if
you don't wear your coat.
You know, those are things thatI guess lots of moms would
probably say that, but just thepower in the word, power in the
spoken word, over our health ishuge, and so that's kind of what
I had to break free from thatin terms of when I got into
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going into physical therapy.
I think one of the reasons Igot into that in the beginning
was because, well, I don't wantto be unhealthy and I want to
know, I want knowledge about howto, how to be healthy, and at
that time that's all I knew, youknow.
So let's go, let's study this,because that would be, that
would be, and then it wasperfect.
It was exactly what I needed.
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Like I said before, I got to thepoint where the Lord was ready
to grow me into the next, thenext era of it.
So that's when I realized thatyou know helping people with
their food, and that's where thenutrition certification came in
helping people eat better.
And that was level one of mygrowth, you know, and so I,
because I taught myself how tostay well with food and I
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learned that early on and I juststarted sharing that with
others.
And then the next level of thatwas really watching how my
parents didn't age well, theydid not age well.
They were on lots ofmedications.
But again, that was thatgeneration your doctor knows
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everything and they got caughtin that cycle, that downward
cycle or spiral of getting onmore and more medications.
And so, ultimately, theystruggled and I walked that path
with them as they aged, while Iwas still.
You know, I was, I was workingin, I was, I had a natural
health practice on the side, ofcourse, back then.
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But I was walking them throughthese, through this journey of
end life, and really saying tomyself okay, lord, this is not
how I want to age, I don't wantthis.
But I learned so much bywalking that journey with them,
and it was more about learningthe root causes of things, just
understanding more a depth ofwhat it was.
(13:02):
And so to me that was okay andI was doing what I was called to
do, but the real challenge interms of health and healing
hadn't happened yet.
That happened a little bitlater, but, but we learned.
We learned from what we gothrough, what we don't want and
what we do.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So right, absolutely, and, as you know, like I'm
walking through, you know thingswith my own mom and my dad
passed away about eight yearsago, and I think it's so
interesting because I'm veryholistic, you know functional
medicine, naturopath minded,partly because you know,
probably similar to you, I've Iwas kind of thrown around the
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medical system, my kids were, Iwas seeing things that I was
just not okay with.
My eyes started opening again,having to go through some really
challenging and hardexperiences to then go wait a
second.
This can't just be it.
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And to really start questioningwhat.
What would you say was like oneof those first indicators or
something that you saw that youwere just like there's got to
like.
This is not okay.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I, you know I saw multiple.
I saw it so often in peoplethat are you asking me like,
what did I see in terms of thetraditional medicine, or in
terms of what?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
it was kind of that first eye-opening experience for
you that kind of had you tostart going down maybe a another
road of looking into thingsright, like way back, like back
back when we started the naturalhealth.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, well, I would.
I would watch, uh, people thatI was working with people, a lot
of people with low back pain, alot of people with a lot of
people with low back pain, a lotof people with a lot of
arthritis, and you know, theywould just have so much pain and
I would even suggest to themwhy don't you stop eating sugar
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for a little bit, you know?
And so they would do anexperiment and they'd stop for
three days and then, all of asudden, they'd come back.
Well, my back feels better, butwhat I wasn't seeing and I
think the trigger on that is itwasn't supported by the
traditional doctors.
I think that and that's not tosay anything against traditional
medicine per se but it's likethere were things that I would
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like to brought to the tablewith some of my patients back
way back then, but the medicalcommunity just poo pooed
anything that might be a littlebit different than the straight
and narrow, and so I realized Ididn't fit there anymore,
because I knew I think therewere, there were things.
There were things that I thinkwould have helped people, but
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but it wasn't, um, it wasn'taccepted.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, and that's really challenging to
kind of be boxed in and yet youknow that there's alternatives
to you, know you can tell peoplewhat to do in that box.
But then you're like, oh mygosh, there's something like
super simple, kind of like wewere talking about that a little
bit before we got started withsimple, right, I've had.
Well, it's like how much youknow most people, I know I'm how
(16:27):
much water are you drinking?
You're getting migraines allthe time.
Yes, drinking any.
And I'm like, well, you knownot saying do this.
But it's like, how about?
What would it look like for youover the next week to try
drinking like three glasses?
You know to start simple, startslow.
That's so true To see people bedelivered of migraines just by
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drinking water.
And guess what?
It's free.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, I love that.
I love that.
I love that, and that's exactlywhat I'm saying is that you
know, the basic core things thatour body requires is rest and
water and good food and noprocessed foods, and these are
things that, without that, ourbodies are not going to be able
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to heal.
You know, we've got to supplythe body.
The body is intelligent, thebody wants to heal, the body
knows how to heal, but it has tohave the right elements in
order to flourish and to thrive,and you know when.
But.
But it takes.
It takes responsibility andaction on the part of the person
to do it.
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And I've found a lot of timesthat if people are caught up in
the, in what's traditional, thenthat they would say well, those
things take a lot of effort andI would rather just go take a
pill and or go get that shot inmy back or just take the circle
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out.
And so I've just realized thatI've got to go.
I've got to be where peoplewant to.
They want more and they want to, um, go in a different
direction and and and so it gotto be a little frustrating to to
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stay in that world.
I gotta say that it because Iwas working with people, but I
was and I was helping themphysically.
You know they were getting,they were getting off of the
processed foods they were, theywere drinking their water.
They're doing all of that and Iwas seeing a lot of things
happening for people.
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Physically, they were gettingbetter, but I didn't know what.
I didn't know at that point.
The Lord had something biggerfor me, but I didn't even
realize that because I wasfocusing mainly on physical
health and I studied a lot ofthings about it and I knew how
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to do certain things anddetoxing, and I knew how to do
all that, but I only knew itfrom the physical perspective.
But what happened, whathappened in 2019, was what
really took me to the next whole, next level, and it just took
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me totally by by surprise.
That Lord had he I looking back,I know that this happened
because he wanted me to grow andhe really wanted to take me
into this next level.
But but what happened was thatin 2019, my life basically was
shattered because my, my, my son, who was 40 years old, he
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suddenly passed from from acardiac arrest and it was just
very unexpected and it was thegrief was was so overwhelming
that I didn't really know Icouldn't even breathe for weeks.
I couldn't either, was I'venever experienced.
I hope nobody ever has toexperience what that is, but
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it's it's grief at the levelthat I couldn't even explain.
But it was working, it was doingsomething to my body obviously
in a very negative way, but Ididn't recognize that it was the
again.
I can't even explain howdevastating that was during that
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time and all I did I wanted todo nothing but seek God during
that time because I was sodesperate that there was, there
were no other answers.
I know that when sometimes,when this happens, women seek
other people or they or theydon't know God and I don't know
how many gets through thiswithout it but but at that point
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in time I couldn't do anythingbut seek the father's face and
so.
But on top of that, we wentright into COVID and I struggled
with a very, very severe caseof COVID, which then ended up
with some residual health issuesthat took place.
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I had, you know, very severefatigue for quite a while,
unrelenting, what I would callunrelenting hormone shifts and
just many, many gut-relatedissues that I had never
experienced before.
So all along before Ben'spassing and before all the
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things that happened with COVID,I was pretty healthy.
I thought I was, and I neverreally struggled with much of
anything.
But this was a new experiencefor me.
I was feeling what a lot of myclients were feeling and I think
the Lord allowed me to go downthat path so that I could learn
what I needed to learn.
But, you know, nothing wasworking.
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Nothing in the natural that Ihad known before was working,
and so I was just getting worseand I could not get the symptoms
under control until it was thesurrender was, it was the
surrender and it was.
It was surrendering everythingto him.
You know, surrendering my child, which was the bigger, biggest
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thing I'd ever had to ask tosurrender, but then just
surrendering my health,surrendering it all to him and
asking him to show me what's itgoing to take, and but, yeah, it
was the stress of the griefthat really took me down that,
that, that path.
What he showed me at that duringthat time, he showed me what
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kingdom healing really means andwhat it's all about, and he
downloaded seven kingdom keys to, to, to what we call kingdom
health principles, and so Ilearned that.
I learned a lot more about howto do some functional medicine
lab testing.
I learned much more about howto truly detox the body, how to
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cleanse the liver, how tocleanse the gut, and so it was a
combination, and out of all ofthat, he really showed me what
he gave me the vision of what wenow call radiant health freedom
.
And that's where the freedom inbecoming who, the best version
of who God created us to be,comes from, first of all,
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surrendering it all to him andallowing him to be the healer,
be and change who we are, who we, who we are on the inside, so
that we can walk in that truehealth and that he's provided
for us.
So that's that was really.
That was six years ago, and sohe's been taking me now from one
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step to the next.
He's been taking me now fromone step to the next but helping
me actually put hissupernatural healing on the
natural health practice that Ihad for years.
But now it's now.
It's all about him and seekinghim and surrendering all to him
in order to really walk in thatfreedom.
And I just, you know, I, just II I'm so honored to help and
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talk with women about what it isthat their identity and not
allowing their pain and theirsuffering to be their identity
and to be able to work throughwhatever barriers they have to
walking in that radiant healththat he's called us to.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't know if that makes sense, oh my gosh, so much
goodness I mean I'm thinkingabout, like you know, I often
say like listen in.
You know, listeners, this is akey and I love how I love keys
too.
So at the scope unlocked, likeshe was given seven keys to
really help women specificallywalk radiantly and live life
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abundantly.
And I will say like, if youguys could see her, she is a
radiant one, like he shinesthrough her.
And again, like you've walkedthrough a lot these last six
years and you still have likethe joy and the peace of the
Lord and you know that you'vebeen with him.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, it's that joy.
I don't think I ever understoodwhat true joy was until I knew
what true pain was, becausethey're so, they're so opposite.
But that's why I and I didn'tthink I'd ever smile again and I
felt guilty about I'd eversmile again and I felt guilty
about feeling good again.
But then the joy wouldn't bethere if it weren't for the Lord
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.
And he has been so faithful andso good to bring me through all
that so that I could have asort of a renewed purpose and
desire to help women, whetherthey've been through that type
of a grief or you know, becausethere is, there is life after
that.
Whether it's that or whetherit's.
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They may not have suffered thesame trauma, but whatever it is
has affected their health.
It's keeping them from whathe's called them to do.
It's been, it's a.
It'll get a hold of you andit'll take you down.
If you don't, if we don'trecognize what that root is and
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tip it in, most often it's aspiritual or emotional root,
because the physicalmanifestations are typically
negative, just a result ofwhat's going on in our mind and
in our stress levels and in thespiritual level and all of that.
And so that's the gift that'scome from the pain that I've
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gone through is being able tohelp others see that in
themselves and help them breakthrough some of those things
that hold them back.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, well, I know, like both of us being, you know,
coaches and ones who comealongside others, we both have
confidentiality right.
So, without like giving anynames or full details, would you
be open to sharing atestimonial of somebody that
you've walked alongside thatcould be kind of in a general
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sense, without giving it away?
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh, yes, I, yeah, I I have there.
There is a we'll.
We'll call her Susan becausethat's not her name, but if I,
if I use that name, then we'llbe fine.
Yeah, susan, uh uh came to me acouple of years ago and she was
really struggling.
She couldn't lose weight, nomatter what she did.
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You know, it was just a totalstruggle and she was quite a bit
overweight at the time.
She couldn't, she was onmedications, she had a lot of
chronic pain, a lot of digestiveissues, just a lot of, a lot of
what we, what I see often in inmidlife women, but the, but she
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was stuck, I mean just reallystuck.
Energy level was down, and soso we just put her, we, we, we,
we put her on a path, first ofall, to just help her understand
who she is and get her, get hersolid in her identity and and
as as a woman, as a daughter, asa child, as a child of God, and
and help her with that identity, knowing that, you know, jesus
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has paid it all.
And it was about walkingthrough, walking out her healing
.
Not that she wasn't healed, notthat she and she wasn't broken,
she, she just needed to walkinto her healing.
So she, yeah, so she.
We got her off of sugar.
She, at that point, in thebeginning, she didn't know that.
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She didn't know what was whatwas bad, and I wouldn't not bad.
That's not the right choice ofwords.
Thank you, lord, for changingme on that.
Foods that would fuel and healher versus foods that were
inhibiting her healing.
So we talked about all of thatand it was a new concept for her
.
She didn't know she couldn'thave fried foods, she didn't
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know what was good and whatwasn't.
So we helped her get hernutrition under control, and
that was hard because she didn'thave a lot of family support.
So I think that's another thingthat I want to make sure people
women realize is that this canbe done even if the rest of your
family isn't on board with it.
You know, it's our own bodies,where bodies are the temple, and
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even if it's done in simplesteps, it doesn't all have to
happen at once, and that's whatthis took to almost two years
before she, and it doesn't takeeverybody that long.
So I'm not saying that fullhealing takes that long, but,
but, but for but.
There were challenges along theway.
So I got her eating well andthen we worked on the gut, the
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gut health, and getting herdigestion cleaned up, and that
was that was not not not thatdifficult, but but that was the
next step.
And that was that was not notnot that difficult, but but that
was the next step.
And then the detoxing came andand I don't know about going
into all this conversation, butnot that it's personal to her,
but but it may be more than wewant to go but parasite
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cleansing and heavy metalcleansing and those are things
that those are, those are very,very common.
People don't realize how commonthat is and they think it's
something that just people inthird world countries have.
But I would say, venture to saythat 90 over 90 percent of
people here that are walkingaround today have some type of
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parasites, some type ofparasites plural, I should say
parasites in their bodies andthat is the, as I've been
discovering and realizing later,that's the catalyst for a lot
of diseases that we see as weage.
So, bringing it back to thetestimony for her, yeah, we got
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rid of an awful lot of parasitesand it was a journey but it was
so free testimony for her.
Yeah, we got rid of an awful lotof parasites and it was a
journey but it was so freeingfor her.
And we worked a lot in thephysical realm of at first with
her because she wanted, sheneeded to see some results and
so she felt so good and shedropped a lot of weight.
But then what we noticed too isthat she would get stuck.
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You know, her weight didn'tdrop more, things weren't
working like they were.
So we would tackle some of thewhat are the mindset blocks that
were going on and what weresome of the spiritual blocks.
So the Lord really helped herwalk through areas that she
needed to let go of.
And it was like again peelingback layers of the onion.
And we didn't force it, we justwhen the time was right, she
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was ready for that next level ofhealing.
So she is such an absolutebeautiful woman.
She walks with the Lord.
She knows now how to let thingsgo.
She knows how to heal her bodyfrom a physical, emotional,
spiritual level.
She's she's just, and you knowwe she's just the.
She's really been a perfectexample of how radiant health
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can just blossom up from theinside when you, when you follow
what the Lord has for you andand and follow his leading.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yes, and I mean, I can only imagine like how, how
you know, we all know this whenyou're feeling well, you are
more likely to go do the thingyou're called to do, or you know
oh yes because when you're notfeeling well, I mean it's.
I haven't been sick since 2022,but back then I was sick for a
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little while.
I didn't want to talk toanybody, I just wanted to hide.
And when you're feeling well,like you're, I mean, it's truly
like John 1010.
The thief came to steal, killand destroy, but there's the
other side of that.
We can have life and lifeabundance.
So, absolutely, she had quite aflip in her life that not only
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affected her, but it's likelegacy.
You're doing legacy work.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Oh, I love it Because , yes, because it'll pass on.
You know she'll pass that on toher family and she already is.
She's already got people dothat.
And so something you said,chris, is very, very profound
and it's like I want topiggyback off of that.
Said something about.
Said something about you know,health being healthy is not the
absence of disease, it is the,it is it's.
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We want optimal health, youknow, and that's what.
That's where the John 1010 doescome in.
It's like the enemy doesn'twant us, the enemy's happy if
we're just not feeling diseasein our body but we're not
actually walking in true healthand abundance.
And there is a difference.
And so that's one thing that Ithink in traditional medicine,
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well, if nothing's showing up onyour labs, then you're well and
you're okay, because there'snothing that can be done until
quote, disease shows up.
So they'll tell you just go anddo that, do what you're doing.
But if you really want optimalhealth, it's it's so much more
than just the absence of diseaseor the or, the or or or
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something's.
You know, things showing upnormal on a lab, because you can
still be quite, things canstill not be well with you and
your labs can look okay.
So that's another.
Another area that I've I liketo help women understand is that
your labs don't tell youeverything, but they can tell
you more than what, what you'regetting right now.
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You know that a lot of times weread more things into those
when we look at them from afunctional standpoint.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, I remember, just even for myself, back after
I had my oldest son he'll be 20this summer.
You know I was just dealingwith some things.
You know postpartum, you knowall these different things, and
immediately and I was still not,I would say I'm awake now,
that's my way to put it.
You know more awake to towhat's going on in this world,
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especially in the medical realm,and, um, you know, the first
thing they said was oh well, youhave depression and anxiety.
And I didn't even question, Ijust wanted to feel good.
So they're like pop a pill.
Well, come to find out.
You know, somebody, thankfully,had said you have, you had your
thyroid checked.
And I was like I don't evenknow what a thyroid is.
And you know, of course they do.
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The labs, and you know, put youon a pill and not saying
anybody who's on pills.
You know, please hear me onthis Like we all make choices
and but they didn't.
You know, I didn't know thatthere was more than three things
to read on the labs.
There's more, more to go deeperon, especially like I'm
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speaking just of thyroid righthere.
So that was kind of like one ofmy awakening moments back in
that time.
Um, and I love like thefunctional side of things,
because they don't, the numbersare different, right, like as
far as that goes, would you?
I feel like a lot of peoplehave thyroid issues.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Literally like so many people have been coming to
me lately and I'm like, wouldyou be willing to just even talk
a little bit about how you lookat things?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yes, I would.
Um, I thank you for mentioningthat, and and yes, and with uh,
typically, when you go to thedoctor, when you go to your
annual checkup, the doctor willorder your TSH, that's your
thyroid stimulating hormone.
It's really not a thyroidhormone, it's a brain hormone,
but that's what the that's whatthe baseline is that they look
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at, and that's that's just likelooking at the tip of the
iceberg.
That doesn't tell us reallyanything about it.
So, yes, when we order athyroid labs, we always order
the full panel, the T4, the T3,the free T3, and then the
antibodies that will tell uswhether there's an autoimmune
condition going on.
So that's much more.
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It's a clearer picture of thethyroid.
However, one thing that we haveto remember is that there are
other hormones that affect thethyroid as well.
The thyroid and the adrenalsare intimately connected, and so
there's a different way to lookat hormonal balance, and that's
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what I wanted to really mentionis that many times, women will
come to me and they'll say,especially midlife, they'll say
my hormones are just all out ofbalance and my doctor says I
need to go on hormonereplacement therapy, and I need
to know my doctor says I need togo on hormone replacement
therapy, and so this is.
This is again in my world.
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It's like putting the cartbefore the horse.
Nothing wrong with hormonereplacement therapy if you need
it, and that's that's so again,I want to make sure that we're
saying it's not not anythingthat someone shouldn't be on.
But what I encourage women todo is look at what's going on
with gut health, what's going onwith our adrenals you know, as
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far as our stress is concernedwhat's going on with our detox
pathways.
Are they open?
Are we?
Because if we work on gettingthe gut cleaned up, if we work
on getting the liver cleansedand the cells more receptive,
that's one of the biggestproblems when it comes to the
hormonal issues is that it's notalways a problem with the
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hormone.
It's a problem that the cell istoxic and cannot hear with the
hormones.
Hormones are messengers andmany times the cells can't hear
what the hormones have to saybecause they're loaded with
toxins.
So back to the key.
The example of the key hormones.
Like there's a, there's areceptor on every cell.
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That's fit, that fits a hormone.
And if that cell is blocked, ifthat keyhole is blocked because
the cell is not healthy, then itagain.
It can't hear what the hormonehas to say and it won't do what
the hormone is there to do.
So that's why we go back and weclean up the gut, we detox the
cells and then we make them morereceptive.
So once that happens, thehormones especially like the
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reproductive hormones estrogen,progesterone, things like that
they can be heard and thenthey're more effective and
sometimes the symptoms that thewomen came with in the beginning
are no longer there, becausenow the hormones have a voice.
Basically, if you put it thatway, Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
That makes sense.
Yeah, they're happy hormones.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Whereas before they're like Icall them, she moans, they're
moaning, they're just like ah,she's moaning, that's right,
that's right.
I love it, but isn't it?
It's so incredible and that'swhat I love so much about.
You know the supernatural, youknow I call it supernatural ways
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of healing.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Like it's.
It's so fascinating, yes, andthings are reversed in the
kingdom.
What we, what we think we needto do in to be healthy, is
really the opposite in thekingdom.
Yeah, you know, it's like, um,we think we have to medicate and
really, what we really diseaseis really nothing more than
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either a lack, eitheroverabundance of something that
isn't healthy for the body or alack of something that is so our
bodies don't go around withlacking Advil.
It's not a deficiency of Advilthat our bodies need, it's just
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that's how we treat things.
We treat the symptoms, buttruly by getting to the root
cause and really addressing that.
That's where the true healingcomes.
And when we say root cause,we're talking both physical,
emotional and spiritual, becausethat's the, that's where the
surrender comes in and that'swhere the that's where the true
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lasting healing comes is when weget to that point in the, in
the journey.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
So much goodness.
Wow, I think we need to haveyou back on again sometime.
I would love that.
So your business tree, tell usthe name of it.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The business is called Sunlight Health, and the
Lord gave me that after my sonpassed, because it was spelled
sun S-O-N light, not sun as insun in the sky S-O-N light, not
sun as in sun in the sky.
But it's really because Ibelieve that his passion just
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for people was tremendous, andso I know that he lives on
through this business and alsothe son of God.
I couldn't do this business ifit weren't for Jesus and the
power of the Holy Spirit.
Behind all of this so that'sthe name of the company is
Sunlight Health and it's all Ido everything virtual pretty
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much.
I just I love.
I love that that relationshipbuilding with people and getting
to know them and what the Lordspeaks to them and help them go
from where they are to wherethey see themselves based on
what God's shared with them, andit's a beautiful journey.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yes, I love, I just love you dearly and there's so
much goodness coming, so muchexpansion coming so you can work
with people around the world.
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, absolutely.
That's what the beauty of Zoomand the Internet has opened up
doors and opportunities all over.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Isn't that amazing?
Well, what would be the bestway for somebody to get a hold
of you?
And I'll be sure to put it inthe show notes too.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Actually, the best way is they could just go
straight to my website and go tothe contact page, and it's very
simple sunlighthealthcom, okay.
Or I'm always on my email andthat's margisett S-E-t at
gmailcom, okay sounds good.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Well, um, you are such a joy and I'm so thankful
for another voice in this worldthat is, you know, pioneering
health.
Who is?
What I am so excited to see isum a system, flip, parallel
systems that give people options, opportunities for supernatural
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wellness, healing right.
I can do many things on that,but I'm so thankful for you and
as we close today, I just youknow, as we were talking before
this, I really do this for theone, and if you could just think
of the one that's listening intoday, is there something that
you'd like to share over thisperson?
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Encouragement, any wisdom thatyou're led to speak over them,
and then would you pray us outtoday?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Absolutely yes.
I would just like to say that,regardless of your age or your
stage in life, it is never toolate to experience a healthy and
whole body, soul and spirit.
That is something you neverwant to give up on.
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Just never give up, becauseyour freedom is right around the
corner.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, yes, amen, so good, yes, margie.
Well, would you pray us out?
I feel like you're justspeaking to somebody today, for
sure.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yes, I will Thank you .
Thank you, lord, for thisopportunity to be a voice
through Kristen.
Kristen is such a vessel foryour glory and your goodness for
everyone, and I just thank youfor bringing her into my life
years ago so that we could havethis moment today.
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And I thank you years ago sothat we could have this moment
today, and I thank you, lord,that you gave me a message to
share.
This is from you and I justknow that.
I pray that it has touched theheart of, like we said, at least
one person, and I just pray nowthat, as these words go out,
that they would be inspirationalto whoever needs to hear them,
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that, knowing you and knowingthat you are there for them and
that you already paid the pricefor their health, all they need
to do is surrender to you, and Ipray that that is what, whoever
it is that needs to hear, that.
I pray that that is what theywill do, and I also pray for
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everyone who has heard thispodcast, that you would be their
light, their radiance, andallow them to shine their light
and know that it is from you,and we pray all this in Jesus'
name.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Amen.
Thank you, Margie.
I'm so thankful for you andyour friendship.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Thank you, Kristen, for the opportunity.
It's been a joy, absolute joy.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, as we close today, I'm going to close with
our Hope Unlocked anchoringverse, and it is may the God of
hope fill you with all joy andpeace in believing so that, by
the power of the Holy Spirit,you may abound in hope, and
that's Romans 15, 13.
So, thank you again, margie,and thank you for being a brave
voice.
Who's setting so many free?
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So tune in and let's unlockhope together.
Welcome to the Hope Unlockedpodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me.
Welcome my sweet friend, MargieSutterloff to the show.
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I am so thrilled to have herhere today.
I feel like it's been a longtime coming, but we know that
his timing is perfect and Icannot wait to have her share
her story and what she's up tothese days.
So, Margie, would you be opento sharing a little bit about
yourself before we get started?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, absolutely, kristen.
Thank you for having me on yourpodcast.
I'm honored to be here, so Iappreciate that.
Yeah, I will share just alittle bit of background.
I've been a physical therapistfor multiple years and most
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recently I really just movedmore into being just a
functional nutritionist and whatI call a lifestyle medicine
expert.
Just because of my journey thatI've been on and where God has
called me to be, so it's areally good space to be in at
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this point in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, well, so you went from physical therapist to
tell me again the.
I love the title you have.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A functional nutritionist I.
I went back and got my master'sin holistic nutrition when I
was 50 years old, back before,before anybody was doing any of
this, and I was kind of pavingmy own path and kind of they
didn't have, we didn't haveGoogle to look things up in, and
so I sort of had to just do iton my own.
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I, you know, I realized thattraditional medicine wasn't
wasn't going to cut it for thepeople that I was working with.
You know they were a lot of.
These women were strugglingwith chronic issues, chronic
pain, just a lot of chronicdiseases that they were.
Chronic pain, just a lot ofchronic diseases that they were.
I was seeing them on the rehabside of everything.
I wasn't able to really seehealing going on in them.
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So that's when I knew thatthere was so much more to the
healing journey than just simplytraditional medicine.
We need it but we don't wantwith the chronic condition.
So that's why, you know, theLord had me go back and and just
I studied all about it withoutthe, without the credentials,
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until he finally said, okay,open that door.
But like you said, there washardly anybody doing this way
back then.
So I've learned a lot along theway this way back then.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I've learned a lot along the way, but that was the
.
That was Hmm, wow, such a sucha pivot um that he had you take,
was there?
I mean, was there anyhesitation to go down that road
at all?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just knew that, I I knew that this is where he
called me and I just it justmade sense yeah, it just made
sense to do it.
And because I was alwaysinterested in natural things
from the get go, even even youknow, in my younger years, and
even even when I was practicingphysical therapy, it was I was
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always had a bend towards thenatural.
You know, what can we do thatwould be healthier?
What can we do to?
Even in, you know, my, when, my, even when my kids were little,
I, I was kind of one of thosecrunchy moms way back when
before it was popular.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, well, I love that, like I, you know, see you
as like a trailblazer, obviously, and I have to highlight that
you like started this, you know,educational journey at 50,.
You like started this, you knoweducational journey at 50,
right, yes, yes.
So I want to highlight, ifanybody's listening out there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's never too late, that's true.
It's never too late, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, wouldn't you say that a lot of people, um, you
know, I I just think of kids,you know, going to college and
like, hey, you need to figureout what you're doing with your
life.
You know, people just get soboxed in, like at a young age,
and then I don't know about you,but I just feel like there's so
many people that are justmiserable.
And you know they went tocollege when they're 18.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And you know it's 20 years later and they're just
like yeah, I think it's aboutlistening not just to, not just
to your heart, but listening tothe Lord.
I think that's really the keyis is not just going through the
motions and feeling likethere's no way out.
Right, because there always isthere.
There's a way out if you, ifyou are called to do something.
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You know the Lord will show you, and sometimes you have to.
Now I will say that I havephysical therapy in my blood.
I mean, I love being a physicaltherapist because I loved
helping people.
I just knew there was more toit.
So it wasn't like I was not inmy calling at that point in time
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, because I was.
He was just taking me into thenext level and, um, something I
was going to say about that um,in terms of of growing in that,
um, I forget now exactly what itwas.
It was on my heart there, butit'll come back anyway.
It was.
It's about just staying in thestage of, in the phase of life
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that he has you, and so, oh, Iknow what it was going to say.
Sometimes you have to stay insomething while you start
something else, but you can't.
He won't open doors unless youtake that step.
So, in other words.
I knew that traditionalmedicine wasn't going to be my
end road, but I stayed in itwhile I opened up other doors
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because I had to pay the bills,so you know.
So I stayed there, knowing thatmy heart was really being
pulled into the natural health.
And then and then I, just as Istepped more and more into that,
he opened more and more doorsand then it just was one of
those processes where I couldjust finally leave and just do
the natural healing in and ofitself.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, well, I love that you noticed that too.
It's not like everybody ejectsright yeah On the path, and some
do, others don't, and I lovethat you were able to just
really recognize that this wasobviously the Lord was calling
you to the more right.
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And I think sometimes and Idon't know about you, but I'm
not one who can like be on onetrack I feel like I'm kind of
multi-passionate.
Would you say that aboutyourself as well?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, yes, yes, and sometimes that drives me crazy.
Sometimes I think, oh my gosh,you know I have to stop.
Okay, yeah, I just have to letit all go for a while and then
pick it back up because, yes, Ido, I have multiple interests, I
have multiple ways that theLord has called me to share with
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people.
And you know, also, I think Ifind it interesting that along
our path he prepares us for thenext phase and he just gives us
opportunities to learn and grow.
And then sometimes we look backand we go oh, that's why I was
going through a certain thing,because now it's coming back to
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help me, but in a way that ismuch more suited for the kingdom
work that he's called me to,even though I may not have
understood what I was goingthrough at certain times.
So, and he did that with youknow, he did that with this,
with, with what his myprofessional calling, or I call
it.
I say it's a professionalcalling, but really it's.
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It's a business ministry, it'sa business Business ministry.
Yes, Because it's never feltlike work, you know, it's never
felt like it's something thatthat I had to do, it's something
that I've just been called todo.
So I've always loved.
I've loved that mission, but hehas.
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There have been times along theway that you know the peaks and
the valleys and you can't gothrough those peaks unless
you've just struggled throughthe valleys and walked through
the fire, and and that's, that'sthe things that that that he's,
that he's taught me along theway.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, well, I know, like actually the first season
for Hope Unlocked was calledVoices of Hope from the Valley
and it was really.
It's been beautiful becausethis season and last season has
been launching pioneers and Ireally believe that like there's
an aspect of you know I had aconversation with somebody
yesterday and how you know somany of us who walk through a
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lot, um, I find it rare to comeacross to anybody that has been
through a lot and isn't thenturning around and helping
people.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Would you say as well .
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, and I also feel like, yes, I totally agree with
that.
I think we have to be, we haveto be refined by the fire and
and we can, we can help people.
But I think once we experiencewhat it means to really
surrender, that's what he cantruly use us to to our greatest,
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his greatest advantage.
And you know that.
That's you know, I guess.
I guess, from my perspective,health and healing has always
been important to me.
It's been one of those thingsthat I think I don't know if I
mentioned this today yet or notbut even as a child, you know, I
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was not a very healthy child mymother would put messages in my
head that you know that shetold me I was a sickly child.
It's like, well, ok, well then,guess, maybe I am, and so I
would come down with colds andflus and and all those types of
things.
As a child.
It's like, well, okay, wellthen, guess, maybe I am, and so
I would come down with colds andflus and and all those types of
things as a child, because Iwas never told I was, because
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that's what I was told thatyou're going to catch cold if
you don't wear your coat.
You know, those are things thatI guess lots of moms would
probably say that, but just thepower in the word, power in the
spoken word, over our health ishuge, and so that's kind of what
I had to break free from thatin terms of when I got into
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going into physical therapy.
I think one of the reasons Igot into that in the beginning
was because, well, I don't wantto be unhealthy and I want to
know, I want knowledge about howto, how to be healthy, and at
that time that's all I knew, youknow.
So let's go, let's study this,because that would be, that
would be, and then it wasperfect.
It was exactly what I needed.
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Like I said before, I got to thepoint where the Lord was ready
to grow me into the next, thenext era of it.
So that's when I realized thatyou know helping people with
their food, and that's where thenutrition certification came in
helping people eat better.
And that was level one of mygrowth, you know, and so I,
because I taught myself how tostay well with food and I
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learned that early on and I juststarted sharing that with
others.
And then the next level of thatwas really watching how my
parents didn't age well, theydid not age well.
They were on lots ofmedications.
But again, that was thatgeneration your doctor knows
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everything and they got caughtin that cycle, that downward
cycle or spiral of getting onmore and more medications.
And so, ultimately, theystruggled and I walked that path
with them as they aged, while Iwas still.
You know, I was, I was workingin, I was, I had a natural
health practice on the side, ofcourse, back then.
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But I was walking them throughthese, through this journey of
end life, and really saying tomyself okay, lord, this is not
how I want to age, I don't wantthis.
But I learned so much bywalking that journey with them,
and it was more about learningthe root causes of things, just
understanding more a depth ofwhat it was.
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And so to me that was okay andI was doing what I was called to
do, but the real challenge interms of health and healing
hadn't happened yet.
That happened a little bitlater, but, but we learned.
We learned from what we gothrough, what we don't want and
what we do.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So right, absolutely, and, as you know, like I'm
walking through, you know thingswith my own mom and my dad
passed away about eight yearsago, and I think it's so
interesting because I'm veryholistic, you know functional
medicine, naturopath minded,partly because you know,
probably similar to you, I've Iwas kind of thrown around the
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medical system, my kids were, Iwas seeing things that I was
just not okay with.
My eyes started opening again,having to go through some really
challenging and hardexperiences to then go wait a
second.
This can't just be it.
(14:04):
And to really start questioningwhat.
What would you say was like oneof those first indicators or
something that you saw that youwere just like there's got to
like.
This is not okay.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I, you know I saw multiple.
I saw it so often in peoplethat are you asking me like,
what did I see in terms of thetraditional medicine, or in
terms of what?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
it was kind of that first eye-opening experience for
you that kind of had you tostart going down maybe a another
road of looking into thingsright, like way back, like back
back when we started the naturalhealth.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, well, I would.
I would watch, uh, people thatI was working with people, a lot
of people with low back pain, alot of people with a lot of
people with low back pain, a lotof people with a lot of
arthritis, and you know, theywould just have so much pain and
I would even suggest to themwhy don't you stop eating sugar
(15:18):
for a little bit, you know?
And so they would do anexperiment and they'd stop for
three days and then, all of asudden, they'd come back.
Well, my back feels better, butwhat I wasn't seeing and I
think the trigger on that is itwasn't supported by the
traditional doctors.
I think that and that's not tosay anything against traditional
medicine per se but it's likethere were things that I would
(15:42):
like to brought to the tablewith some of my patients back
way back then, but the medicalcommunity just poo pooed
anything that might be a littlebit different than the straight
and narrow, and so I realized Ididn't fit there anymore,
because I knew I think therewere, there were things.
There were things that I thinkwould have helped people, but
(16:02):
but it wasn't, um, it wasn'taccepted.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, and that's really challenging to
kind of be boxed in and yet youknow that there's alternatives
to you, know you can tell peoplewhat to do in that box.
But then you're like, oh mygosh, there's something like
super simple, kind of like wewere talking about that a little
bit before we got started withsimple, right, I've had.
Well, it's like how much youknow most people, I know I'm how
(16:27):
much water are you drinking?
You're getting migraines allthe time.
Yes, drinking any.
And I'm like, well, you knownot saying do this.
But it's like, how about?
What would it look like for youover the next week to try
drinking like three glasses?
You know to start simple, startslow.
That's so true To see people bedelivered of migraines just by
(16:51):
drinking water.
And guess what?
It's free.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, I love that.
I love that.
I love that, and that's exactlywhat I'm saying is that you
know, the basic core things thatour body requires is rest and
water and good food and noprocessed foods, and these are
things that, without that, ourbodies are not going to be able
(17:14):
to heal.
You know, we've got to supplythe body.
The body is intelligent, thebody wants to heal, the body
knows how to heal, but it has tohave the right elements in
order to flourish and to thrive,and you know when.
But.
But it takes.
It takes responsibility andaction on the part of the person
to do it.
(17:35):
And I've found a lot of timesthat if people are caught up in
the, in what's traditional, thenthat they would say well, those
things take a lot of effort andI would rather just go take a
pill and or go get that shot inmy back or just take the circle
(17:55):
out.
And so I've just realized thatI've got to go.
I've got to be where peoplewant to.
They want more and they want to, um, go in a different
direction and and and so it gotto be a little frustrating to to
(18:23):
stay in that world.
I gotta say that it because Iwas working with people, but I
was and I was helping themphysically.
You know they were getting,they were getting off of the
processed foods they were, theywere drinking their water.
They're doing all of that and Iwas seeing a lot of things
happening for people.
(18:43):
Physically, they were gettingbetter, but I didn't know what.
I didn't know at that point.
The Lord had something biggerfor me, but I didn't even
realize that because I wasfocusing mainly on physical
health and I studied a lot ofthings about it and I knew how
(19:05):
to do certain things anddetoxing, and I knew how to do
all that, but I only knew itfrom the physical perspective.
But what happened, whathappened in 2019, was what
really took me to the next whole, next level, and it just took
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me totally by by surprise.
That Lord had he I looking back,I know that this happened
because he wanted me to grow andhe really wanted to take me
into this next level.
But but what happened was thatin 2019, my life basically was
shattered because my, my, my son, who was 40 years old, he
(19:52):
suddenly passed from from acardiac arrest and it was just
very unexpected and it was thegrief was was so overwhelming
that I didn't really know Icouldn't even breathe for weeks.
I couldn't either, was I'venever experienced.
I hope nobody ever has toexperience what that is, but
(20:16):
it's it's grief at the levelthat I couldn't even explain.
But it was working, it was doingsomething to my body obviously
in a very negative way, but Ididn't recognize that it was the
again.
I can't even explain howdevastating that was during that
(20:37):
time and all I did I wanted todo nothing but seek God during
that time because I was sodesperate that there was, there
were no other answers.
I know that when sometimes,when this happens, women seek
other people or they or theydon't know God and I don't know
how many gets through thiswithout it but but at that point
(21:00):
in time I couldn't do anythingbut seek the father's face and
so.
But on top of that, we wentright into COVID and I struggled
with a very, very severe caseof COVID, which then ended up
with some residual health issuesthat took place.
(21:21):
I had, you know, very severefatigue for quite a while,
unrelenting, what I would callunrelenting hormone shifts and
just many, many gut-relatedissues that I had never
experienced before.
So all along before Ben'spassing and before all the
(21:41):
things that happened with COVID,I was pretty healthy.
I thought I was, and I neverreally struggled with much of
anything.
But this was a new experiencefor me.
I was feeling what a lot of myclients were feeling and I think
the Lord allowed me to go downthat path so that I could learn
what I needed to learn.
But, you know, nothing wasworking.
(22:05):
Nothing in the natural that Ihad known before was working,
and so I was just getting worseand I could not get the symptoms
under control until it was thesurrender was, it was the
surrender and it was.
It was surrendering everythingto him.
You know, surrendering my child, which was the bigger, biggest
(22:29):
thing I'd ever had to ask tosurrender, but then just
surrendering my health,surrendering it all to him and
asking him to show me what's itgoing to take, and but, yeah, it
was the stress of the griefthat really took me down that,
that, that path.
What he showed me at that duringthat time, he showed me what
(22:50):
kingdom healing really means andwhat it's all about, and he
downloaded seven kingdom keys to, to, to what we call kingdom
health principles, and so Ilearned that.
I learned a lot more about howto do some functional medicine
lab testing.
I learned much more about howto truly detox the body, how to
(23:12):
cleanse the liver, how tocleanse the gut, and so it was a
combination, and out of all ofthat, he really showed me what
he gave me the vision of what wenow call radiant health freedom
.
And that's where the freedom inbecoming who, the best version
of who God created us to be,comes from, first of all,
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surrendering it all to him andallowing him to be the healer,
be and change who we are, who we, who we are on the inside, so
that we can walk in that truehealth and that he's provided
for us.
So that's that was really.
That was six years ago, and sohe's been taking me now from one
(23:57):
step to the next.
He's been taking me now fromone step to the next but helping
me actually put hissupernatural healing on the
natural health practice that Ihad for years.
But now it's now.
It's all about him and seekinghim and surrendering all to him
in order to really walk in thatfreedom.
And I just, you know, I, just II I'm so honored to help and
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talk with women about what it isthat their identity and not
allowing their pain and theirsuffering to be their identity
and to be able to work throughwhatever barriers they have to
walking in that radiant healththat he's called us to.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't know if that makes sense, oh my gosh, so much
goodness I mean I'm thinkingabout, like you know, I often
say like listen in.
You know, listeners, this is akey and I love how I love keys
too.
So at the scope unlocked, likeshe was given seven keys to
really help women specificallywalk radiantly and live life
(25:00):
abundantly.
And I will say like, if youguys could see her, she is a
radiant one, like he shinesthrough her.
And again, like you've walkedthrough a lot these last six
years and you still have likethe joy and the peace of the
Lord and you know that you'vebeen with him.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, it's that joy.
I don't think I ever understoodwhat true joy was until I knew
what true pain was, becausethey're so, they're so opposite.
But that's why I and I didn'tthink I'd ever smile again and I
felt guilty about I'd eversmile again and I felt guilty
about feeling good again.
But then the joy wouldn't bethere if it weren't for the Lord
(25:46):
.
And he has been so faithful andso good to bring me through all
that so that I could have asort of a renewed purpose and
desire to help women, whetherthey've been through that type
of a grief or you know, becausethere is, there is life after
that.
Whether it's that or whetherit's.
(26:06):
They may not have suffered thesame trauma, but whatever it is
has affected their health.
It's keeping them from whathe's called them to do.
It's been, it's a.
It'll get a hold of you andit'll take you down.
If you don't, if we don'trecognize what that root is and
(26:28):
tip it in, most often it's aspiritual or emotional root,
because the physicalmanifestations are typically
negative, just a result ofwhat's going on in our mind and
in our stress levels and in thespiritual level and all of that.
And so that's the gift that'scome from the pain that I've
(26:53):
gone through is being able tohelp others see that in
themselves and help them breakthrough some of those things
that hold them back.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, well, I know, like both of us being, you know,
coaches and ones who comealongside others, we both have
confidentiality right.
So, without like giving anynames or full details, would you
be open to sharing atestimonial of somebody that
you've walked alongside thatcould be kind of in a general
(27:22):
sense, without giving it away?
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh, yes, I, yeah, I I have there.
There is a we'll.
We'll call her Susan becausethat's not her name, but if I,
if I use that name, then we'llbe fine.
Yeah, susan, uh uh came to me acouple of years ago and she was
really struggling.
She couldn't lose weight, nomatter what she did.
(27:46):
You know, it was just a totalstruggle and she was quite a bit
overweight at the time.
She couldn't, she was onmedications, she had a lot of
chronic pain, a lot of digestiveissues, just a lot of, a lot of
what we, what I see often in inmidlife women, but the, but she
(28:06):
was stuck, I mean just reallystuck.
Energy level was down, and soso we just put her, we, we, we,
we put her on a path, first ofall, to just help her understand
who she is and get her, get hersolid in her identity and and
as as a woman, as a daughter, asa child, as a child of God, and
and help her with that identity, knowing that, you know, jesus
(28:32):
has paid it all.
And it was about walkingthrough, walking out her healing
.
Not that she wasn't healed, notthat she and she wasn't broken,
she, she just needed to walkinto her healing.
So she, yeah, so she.
We got her off of sugar.
She, at that point, in thebeginning, she didn't know that.
(28:52):
She didn't know what was whatwas bad, and I wouldn't not bad.
That's not the right choice ofwords.
Thank you, lord, for changingme on that.
Foods that would fuel and healher versus foods that were
inhibiting her healing.
So we talked about all of thatand it was a new concept for her
.
She didn't know she couldn'thave fried foods, she didn't
(29:13):
know what was good and whatwasn't.
So we helped her get hernutrition under control, and
that was hard because she didn'thave a lot of family support.
So I think that's another thingthat I want to make sure people
women realize is that this canbe done even if the rest of your
family isn't on board with it.
You know, it's our own bodies,where bodies are the temple, and
(29:35):
even if it's done in simplesteps, it doesn't all have to
happen at once, and that's whatthis took to almost two years
before she, and it doesn't takeeverybody that long.
So I'm not saying that fullhealing takes that long, but,
but, but for but.
There were challenges along theway.
So I got her eating well andthen we worked on the gut, the
(29:55):
gut health, and getting herdigestion cleaned up, and that
was that was not not not thatdifficult, but but that was the
next step.
And that was that was not notnot that difficult, but but that
was the next step.
And then the detoxing came andand I don't know about going
into all this conversation, butnot that it's personal to her,
but but it may be more than wewant to go but parasite
(30:15):
cleansing and heavy metalcleansing and those are things
that those are, those are very,very common.
People don't realize how commonthat is and they think it's
something that just people inthird world countries have.
But I would say, venture to saythat 90 over 90 percent of
people here that are walkingaround today have some type of
(30:38):
parasites, some type ofparasites plural, I should say
parasites in their bodies andthat is the, as I've been
discovering and realizing later,that's the catalyst for a lot
of diseases that we see as weage.
So, bringing it back to thetestimony for her, yeah, we got
(31:00):
rid of an awful lot of parasitesand it was a journey but it was
so free testimony for her.
Yeah, we got rid of an awful lotof parasites and it was a
journey but it was so freeingfor her.
And we worked a lot in thephysical realm of at first with
her because she wanted, sheneeded to see some results and
so she felt so good and shedropped a lot of weight.
But then what we noticed too isthat she would get stuck.
(31:22):
You know, her weight didn'tdrop more, things weren't
working like they were.
So we would tackle some of thewhat are the mindset blocks that
were going on and what weresome of the spiritual blocks.
So the Lord really helped herwalk through areas that she
needed to let go of.
And it was like again peelingback layers of the onion.
And we didn't force it, we justwhen the time was right, she
(31:47):
was ready for that next level ofhealing.
So she is such an absolutebeautiful woman.
She walks with the Lord.
She knows now how to let thingsgo.
She knows how to heal her bodyfrom a physical, emotional,
spiritual level.
She's she's just, and you knowwe she's just the.
She's really been a perfectexample of how radiant health
(32:09):
can just blossom up from theinside when you, when you follow
what the Lord has for you andand and follow his leading.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yes, and I mean, I can only imagine like how, how
you know, we all know this whenyou're feeling well, you are
more likely to go do the thingyou're called to do, or you know
oh yes because when you're notfeeling well, I mean it's.
I haven't been sick since 2022,but back then I was sick for a
(32:38):
little while.
I didn't want to talk toanybody, I just wanted to hide.
And when you're feeling well,like you're, I mean, it's truly
like John 1010.
The thief came to steal, killand destroy, but there's the
other side of that.
We can have life and lifeabundance.
So, absolutely, she had quite aflip in her life that not only
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affected her, but it's likelegacy.
You're doing legacy work.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Oh, I love it Because , yes, because it'll pass on.
You know she'll pass that on toher family and she already is.
She's already got people dothat.
And so something you said,chris, is very, very profound
and it's like I want topiggyback off of that.
Said something about.
Said something about you know,health being healthy is not the
absence of disease, it is the,it is it's.
(33:33):
We want optimal health, youknow, and that's what.
That's where the John 1010 doescome in.
It's like the enemy doesn'twant us, the enemy's happy if
we're just not feeling diseasein our body but we're not
actually walking in true healthand abundance.
And there is a difference.
And so that's one thing that Ithink in traditional medicine,
(33:54):
well, if nothing's showing up onyour labs, then you're well and
you're okay, because there'snothing that can be done until
quote, disease shows up.
So they'll tell you just go anddo that, do what you're doing.
But if you really want optimalhealth, it's it's so much more
than just the absence of diseaseor the or, the or or or
(34:16):
something's.
You know, things showing upnormal on a lab, because you can
still be quite, things canstill not be well with you and
your labs can look okay.
So that's another.
Another area that I've I liketo help women understand is that
your labs don't tell youeverything, but they can tell
you more than what, what you'regetting right now.
(34:37):
You know that a lot of times weread more things into those
when we look at them from afunctional standpoint.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, I remember, just even for myself, back after
I had my oldest son he'll be 20this summer.
You know I was just dealingwith some things.
You know postpartum, you knowall these different things, and
immediately and I was still not,I would say I'm awake now,
that's my way to put it.
You know more awake to towhat's going on in this world,
(35:05):
especially in the medical realm,and, um, you know, the first
thing they said was oh well, youhave depression and anxiety.
And I didn't even question, Ijust wanted to feel good.
So they're like pop a pill.
Well, come to find out.
You know, somebody, thankfully,had said you have, you had your
thyroid checked.
And I was like I don't evenknow what a thyroid is.
And you know, of course they do.
(35:27):
The labs, and you know, put youon a pill and not saying
anybody who's on pills.
You know, please hear me onthis Like we all make choices
and but they didn't.
You know, I didn't know thatthere was more than three things
to read on the labs.
There's more, more to go deeperon, especially like I'm
(35:48):
speaking just of thyroid righthere.
So that was kind of like one ofmy awakening moments back in
that time.
Um, and I love like thefunctional side of things,
because they don't, the numbersare different, right, like as
far as that goes, would you?
I feel like a lot of peoplehave thyroid issues.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Literally like so many people have been coming to
me lately and I'm like, wouldyou be willing to just even talk
a little bit about how you lookat things?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yes, I would.
Um, I thank you for mentioningthat, and and yes, and with uh,
typically, when you go to thedoctor, when you go to your
annual checkup, the doctor willorder your TSH, that's your
thyroid stimulating hormone.
It's really not a thyroidhormone, it's a brain hormone,
but that's what the that's whatthe baseline is that they look
(36:39):
at, and that's that's just likelooking at the tip of the
iceberg.
That doesn't tell us reallyanything about it.
So, yes, when we order athyroid labs, we always order
the full panel, the T4, the T3,the free T3, and then the
antibodies that will tell uswhether there's an autoimmune
condition going on.
So that's much more.
(37:02):
It's a clearer picture of thethyroid.
However, one thing that we haveto remember is that there are
other hormones that affect thethyroid as well.
The thyroid and the adrenalsare intimately connected, and so
there's a different way to lookat hormonal balance, and that's
(37:26):
what I wanted to really mentionis that many times, women will
come to me and they'll say,especially midlife, they'll say
my hormones are just all out ofbalance and my doctor says I
need to go on hormonereplacement therapy, and I need
to know my doctor says I need togo on hormone replacement
therapy, and so this is.
This is again in my world.
(37:47):
It's like putting the cartbefore the horse.
Nothing wrong with hormonereplacement therapy if you need
it, and that's that's so again,I want to make sure that we're
saying it's not not anythingthat someone shouldn't be on.
But what I encourage women todo is look at what's going on
with gut health, what's going onwith our adrenals you know, as
(38:13):
far as our stress is concernedwhat's going on with our detox
pathways.
Are they open?
Are we?
Because if we work on gettingthe gut cleaned up, if we work
on getting the liver cleansedand the cells more receptive,
that's one of the biggestproblems when it comes to the
hormonal issues is that it's notalways a problem with the
(38:36):
hormone.
It's a problem that the cell istoxic and cannot hear with the
hormones.
Hormones are messengers andmany times the cells can't hear
what the hormones have to saybecause they're loaded with
toxins.
So back to the key.
The example of the key hormones.
Like there's a, there's areceptor on every cell.
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That's fit, that fits a hormone.
And if that cell is blocked, ifthat keyhole is blocked because
the cell is not healthy, then itagain.
It can't hear what the hormonehas to say and it won't do what
the hormone is there to do.
So that's why we go back and weclean up the gut, we detox the
cells and then we make them morereceptive.
So once that happens, thehormones especially like the
(39:21):
reproductive hormones estrogen,progesterone, things like that
they can be heard and thenthey're more effective and
sometimes the symptoms that thewomen came with in the beginning
are no longer there, becausenow the hormones have a voice.
Basically, if you put it thatway, Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
That makes sense.
Yeah, they're happy hormones.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Whereas before they're like Icall them, she moans, they're
moaning, they're just like ah,she's moaning, that's right,
that's right.
I love it, but isn't it?
It's so incredible and that'swhat I love so much about.
You know the supernatural, youknow I call it supernatural ways
(40:00):
of healing.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Like it's.
It's so fascinating, yes, andthings are reversed in the
kingdom.
What we, what we think we needto do in to be healthy, is
really the opposite in thekingdom.
Yeah, you know, it's like, um,we think we have to medicate and
really, what we really diseaseis really nothing more than
(40:26):
either a lack, eitheroverabundance of something that
isn't healthy for the body or alack of something that is so our
bodies don't go around withlacking Advil.
It's not a deficiency of Advilthat our bodies need, it's just
(40:49):
that's how we treat things.
We treat the symptoms, buttruly by getting to the root
cause and really addressing that.
That's where the true healingcomes.
And when we say root cause,we're talking both physical,
emotional and spiritual, becausethat's the, that's where the
surrender comes in and that'swhere the that's where the true
(41:11):
lasting healing comes is when weget to that point in the, in
the journey.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
So much goodness.
Wow, I think we need to haveyou back on again sometime.
I would love that.
So your business tree, tell usthe name of it.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The business is called Sunlight Health, and the
Lord gave me that after my sonpassed, because it was spelled
sun S-O-N light, not sun as insun in the sky S-O-N light, not
sun as in sun in the sky.
But it's really because Ibelieve that his passion just
(41:52):
for people was tremendous, andso I know that he lives on
through this business and alsothe son of God.
I couldn't do this business ifit weren't for Jesus and the
power of the Holy Spirit.
Behind all of this so that'sthe name of the company is
Sunlight Health and it's all Ido everything virtual pretty
(42:17):
much.
I just I love.
I love that that relationshipbuilding with people and getting
to know them and what the Lordspeaks to them and help them go
from where they are to wherethey see themselves based on
what God's shared with them, andit's a beautiful journey.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yes, I love, I just love you dearly and there's so
much goodness coming, so muchexpansion coming so you can work
with people around the world.
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, absolutely.
That's what the beauty of Zoomand the Internet has opened up
doors and opportunities all over.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Isn't that amazing?
Well, what would be the bestway for somebody to get a hold
of you?
And I'll be sure to put it inthe show notes too.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Actually, the best way is they could just go
straight to my website and go tothe contact page, and it's very
simple sunlighthealthcom, okay.
Or I'm always on my email andthat's margisett S-E-t at
gmailcom, okay sounds good.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Well, um, you are such a joy and I'm so thankful
for another voice in this worldthat is, you know, pioneering
health.
Who is?
What I am so excited to see isum a system, flip, parallel
systems that give people options, opportunities for supernatural
(43:49):
wellness, healing right.
I can do many things on that,but I'm so thankful for you and
as we close today, I just youknow, as we were talking before
this, I really do this for theone, and if you could just think
of the one that's listening intoday, is there something that
you'd like to share over thisperson?
(44:11):
Encouragement, any wisdom thatyou're led to speak over them,
and then would you pray us outtoday?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Absolutely yes.
I would just like to say that,regardless of your age or your
stage in life, it is never toolate to experience a healthy and
whole body, soul and spirit.
That is something you neverwant to give up on.
(44:38):
Just never give up, becauseyour freedom is right around the
corner.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, yes, amen, so good, yes, margie.
Well, would you pray us out?
I feel like you're justspeaking to somebody today, for
sure.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yes, I will Thank you .
Thank you, lord, for thisopportunity to be a voice
through Kristen.
Kristen is such a vessel foryour glory and your goodness for
everyone, and I just thank youfor bringing her into my life
years ago so that we could havethis moment today.
(45:20):
And I thank you years ago sothat we could have this moment
today, and I thank you, lord,that you gave me a message to
share.
This is from you and I justknow that.
I pray that it has touched theheart of, like we said, at least
one person, and I just pray nowthat, as these words go out,
that they would be inspirationalto whoever needs to hear them,
(45:45):
that, knowing you and knowingthat you are there for them and
that you already paid the pricefor their health, all they need
to do is surrender to you, and Ipray that that is what, whoever
it is that needs to hear, that.
I pray that that is what theywill do, and I also pray for
(46:07):
everyone who has heard thispodcast, that you would be their
light, their radiance, andallow them to shine their light
and know that it is from you,and we pray all this in Jesus'
name.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Amen.
Thank you, Margie.
I'm so thankful for you andyour friendship.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Thank you, Kristen, for the opportunity.
It's been a joy, absolute joy.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, as we close today, I'm going to close with
our Hope Unlocked anchoringverse, and it is may the God of
hope fill you with all joy andpeace in believing so that, by
the power of the Holy Spirit,you may abound in hope, and
that's Romans 15, 13.
So, thank you again, margie,and thank you for being a brave
voice.
Who's setting so many free?
(46:54):
I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
Bye, bye-bye.
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