February 2, 2022 • 18 mins
Today we talk to Dr Michelle Trias, Naturopathic Consultant. She discusses holistic healthcare and positive impacts of what we eat, drink, and think. You can go to the link below and watch her blogs and learn about her Detoxes that you can join. You will get support and help from others participating in the Detox as well as Dr. Michelle.
https://mynaturowellness.com/
239-579-3846
drmichelle@mynaturowellness.com
To learn more:
https://barefootbungalowrealty.com/
Barefoot Bungalow Realty & Property Management
9200 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Suite 100
Bonita Springs, FL 34135
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Live Your Best Life Barefoot podcast
(00:02):
with your host Mary Mouritsenand the team at Barefoot
Bungalow
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Realty.
Good morning.
Welcome to our next episode ofLive Your Best Life Barefoot.
I'm here with Mary.
Hey Ruth,
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How are you?
Great.
How are you?
Mary?
I'm really good.
I was gonna do a quick marketupdate before we get started.
Sounds great.
We do still have some greatproperties.
I was just pulling a list andthere are some great properties
even here in Bonita.
So if you're looking, don't beafraid that there's nothing we
can help you find it.
(00:35):
And the interest rates haven'tgone up too bad yet.
Not yet.
So we can hook you up with somegood interest rates, so still
great, great news in the market.
That is
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's excellent for, especially for those people that
are hesitating.
Don't hesitate.
You wanna buy, buy buy now.
Yes.
Yep.
Oh, today our guest.
I'm so excited for.
I'm so excited for, how aboutyou introduce her?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hi Michelle.
This is Dr.
Michelle Trias
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hello.
Did I say that right.
Yes, you did.
You nailed it.
Good job, M ary.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I know her as Dr.
Michelle.
She's been, I've worked withher.
She's worked with familymembers.
I adore her and I reallyappreciate what she brings to
all of her patient.
She's done such a great jobhelping me and those people that
I've referred.
(01:28):
I thought it'd be a greatopportunity to have you on, so
welcome.
Thank you.
Thanks
Speaker 4 (01:32):
For having me.
It's great to be on.
I'm so happy to see you see youboth.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So tell us a little bit about who you are, what you
do.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yes.
Dr.
Michelle, TRIZ I go by Dr.
Michelle, cause I like to keepthings a little more casual in
the office.
But I am a traditionalnaturopath.
S o I have a doctorate i ntraditional holistic medicine.
And so what that means is thatinstead of focusing on
pharmaceuticals and chemicals,as a way to modulate or make
(02:05):
changes into the b ody'schemistry.
What we study in holisticmedicine is how you can do that
with food lifestyle and naturalherbs and supplements that can
help you re tain r e g o b ackto a state of what I call
homeostasis in t he styles.
Which means that the cells arehappy that you are not
replicating any bad cells.
You're only replicatingbeautiful, healthy cells.
(02:27):
That'll help you feel better andhealthier.
So that is what, t h at is whatI've studied.
And, and th at is what I bringto the practice.
And so when patients come to seeme, we're working on all kinds
of things.
There's not like a specific onething that we're, I only focus
on this or that, but, it kind ofruns the gamut, high blood
(02:49):
pressure, low blood pressure,diabetes, weight loss, headaches
is a big one.
Lots of people with skinconditions, eczema, psoriasis,
any sort of itching on the body,can be dealt with with holistic
medicine and healing the gut.
So yeah, that's what I do.
An d m y of fice i s i n Bo nitan ot too far from your offices,
(03:13):
a n d love it love to helppeople love to see
transformation happen inpeople's lives.
And, i t's really a veryrewarding work I have to
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Say.
And you're really good at it.
And one of the things I loveabout working with you is I love
that you're real, like it,you're not living in some
monastery, you know, practicingthese things.
You're continuing to have acrazy normal life that, that
(03:45):
you've implemented these thingsinto your own life and into your
own family's life.
So maybe tell us a little bitabout your family and who you a
re p ersonally.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah.
I mean, they really, my family'sreally my why as to like, why
did I go back?
Why I, because I was doingsomething else before this, I
went back to school after I hadgotten my bachelor's degree to
get my doctorate because of thembecause they were ill because my
husband had acid reflux and mydaughter had eczema and my other
daughter had asthma.
(04:18):
All of these conditions werehappening.
And one at a time I was able tohelp them.
And it took me a long time and alot of research.
And I didn't, I wasn't even inschool yet, but I just, I just
was asking the question, why,why is this happening to them?
And why can't we just fix this?
And how can we fix this each oneof them, we went through phases
(04:38):
of modulating their food andmodulating the lifestyle, what
they were eating and herbalsupplements.
And low and behold, over time,they were all able to heal up
these conditions, conditionsthat we were told that they
would always have acid reflux,always be taking Nexium, always
have asthma.
She would always be on aninhaler.
You'll never be able to get ridof this.
And within months we were ableto solve this problem.
(05:00):
Like we didn't use anymedication.
We used food, we usedsupplements, and we used
holistic approaches.
And, so, but it was not easy,right?
It's hard.
It is hard.
It is hard to make changes.
I like to give my clients this,this quote, when they make a big
change and I'm gonna share itwith you, when you can commit to
(05:22):
transforming your life, youcommit to getting very
uncomfortable over and over andover again, the friendly
unfamiliar, the risky, the Me Nowanna the discomfort means
you're almost there.
So I've been putting this at thetop of my protocols.
Now, Mary, I didn't do this inyour, but I've been putting this
at the very, very top.
(05:42):
Like, it's okay, you're gonna beuncomfortable and it's okay.
You're gonna mess up.
And that's cool too.
You know, like I'm not like thepolice here being like, you did
not do what I said to do.
I'm like, come on and get backon there.
It's okay.
You know, it's, I'm living inthis world too.
So I get it.
(06:03):
It's, it's not easy.
Sometimes.
It's just like, what, what can Ido?
What can I, what can I have?
Like, everything is all acidforming.
Everything is all causinginflammation.
So over time, you just start tolearn these tricks and tips and
techniques and you have thingsat your disposal, in the freezer
, in your fridge that are justeasy to grab and easy to get
that are gonna, that are gonnabe satisfying.
(06:24):
So and especially with kids,I've had to plan, plan, plan so
that, you know, they're nothaving things that I don't want
them to have.
I can't control everythingthough, you know?
Right.
I have a teenager,
Speaker 3 (06:38):
They go to
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Friends house.
I, they have friends, I cannotcontrol everything, but, you
know, they have, it's, it'sgood.
Better, best, right.
You, you do your best, but notevery day, sometimes it's just,
okay.
And that's, that's okay, too,you know, actually stressing
about it is, I think we'vetalked about this to Mary, like
yeah.
Stressing about it is nothelpful either.
(06:59):
Right.
So if you're gonna eat somethingthat's on your naughty list.
Oh, do so, enjoy it really,really, really like don't give
yourself any guilt and justlike, Hmm.
That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That is really that's good advice that's yeah, because
then you own it and you resetinstead of try and hide it and
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Beat yourself up.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
And then you just lead into
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Doing worse.
If you beat yourself up, I'mbound to just keep doing
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It then.
Right.
Right.
Because I feel bad because Ifeel failure and I don't wanna
feel failure.
So now I'm just gonna, not,since I wanna avoid that failure
feeling, I just won't do itanymore.
Right.
I won't try to get back on therebecause I don't and wanna feel
failure.
But if you don't consider itthat way, if you consider it
like, like, well, tomorrow is anew day or even today right now
is a new moment and thatmoment's over, it's much easier
(07:49):
to just like forgive yourselffor, for doing that and, and
enjoy it.
Like just really, really enjoythat bite of whatever it is that
you shouldn't probably have.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right.
Well, and on that note, I washoping to cover maybe some tips
that you had for all of us,probably set some great, lofty
new year's resolutions forgetting healthy, losing weight,
getting in, that m ay b e a rewaning now.
(08:23):
Yes.
so do you have some ideas andtips for us to reset and, get
back into it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yes, absolutely.
So, you know, most of us do kindof, even if we don't write it
down, we've made some sort ofcommitment in our head, even if
we didn't share it, like w e we've said to ourselves this
year, I'm gonna do this andthis.
And they did a study on it andmost new y ear's resolutions,
way over half are b roken by thethird week.
(08:54):
And another like 65% of what'sremaining is broken by
Valentine's day.
So we're almost on Valentine'sday.
Most of us, most of the u spopulation has broken their new
y ear's resolution by now.
Because new y ear's resolutionsdon't really work i t.
R ight.
It's it's not, it's like, okay,I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna
go out, I'm gonna eat healthy.
I'm gonna go to whole food andI'm g onna, I'm g onna spend
(09:16):
$500.
I'm gonna r edo m y, thatdoesn't work that never works.
What you have to do is take itin like little steps.
So for instance, instead oftrying to do that, you could do
like quarterly cleanses, right.
Or quarterly like detoxes of thebody.
Right?
So if the be, you know, so youdo a, you spend a week or two
weeks, however you, this is whatI do is quarterly.
(09:38):
Every quarter I do a, a cleanseor a detox and this doesn't mean
that I'm running to the bathroomor anything like this.
This just means this, this isdedicated focused time where I'm
eating completely 100% plantbased and I'm, I'm meditating
more and I'm taking detox,baths, and I'm, I'm doing all of
these like things I'm drybrushing my skin.
I'm brushing my tongue, I'mdetox, detoxifying the body.
(10:01):
And I'm going to like salt cavetherapy.
Like I'm doing all these thingsreally dedicated for 14 days.
And then, you know, I go off andI'm, and, and I go off of that
for 14 days.
And then I come back to sort ofmy more routine and then what
happens soon, right.
It, before you know, it it'sanother quarter has come along
and it's time to do it again.
That process has really kept me,in a very good place with health
(10:25):
wise because it's like rightaround the time and then things
start to fall off and I forgetto meal prep and I'm like
running around another i t's anew season.
It's time to dedicate myself forfourteen days.
I love doing this and I thinkthat it has been, it h as been
so transformative for me to justsay, okay, let's take it in
quarters.
Like let's just take it a quarter 14 days, two weeks,
(10:47):
that's it, two weeks.
And then you can, it's not.
And then what happens is afteryou're done, you feel really
good, right?
You don't wanna go back toeating really bad.
It takes you like another monthmonth and have to start eating
poorly again or to make some badchoices and right around the
time that you're making badchoices again, time for another
detox time for another cleansetime to dedicate yourself for
two weeks.
(11:08):
I think that's so much betterthan saying, o h, you know, it's
the whole year I'm gonna dothis.
The entire i t's j ustimpossible.
Right?
Just t ake i t i n a little sortof bite s ize chunk.
And then instead of trying toclean out your pantry and clean
out your fridge of all thethings that you know are not
good for you, j ust stop buying.
So today I'm g onna, I'm g onna,I'm g onna, I'm g onna skip the
(11:31):
Oreos and I'm g onna getsomething else or I'm just not
gonna do that one thing and I'mgonna swap it out.
So I swapped, you know, my I'mdairy free.
So I swap out my swapped out myregular butter for vegan butter.
Right.
But I didn't swap everything outat one time I did it like ea ch
g rocery trip.
(11:51):
I just made a new incrementalchange.
Okay.
Now we're having almond milk.
And so yeah, it was changehappened in the house.
Pe ople w e re l ike, this isalmond milk.
Now they can't, I can't livewithout almond milk.
They love the vegan cheese.
They love the vegan mayonnaise,but I did not, did not do it
overnight.
It's it's a s low process.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's such smart way to look at it.
In general to, and even toreassess quarterly, right.
To put it on your calendar ormakes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's huge.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's the beginning of the quarter or it's the
beginning of the new quarterthen.
Okay.
Now here's what I'm gonna do.
And it doesn't have to be, itdoesn't have to be really hard.
It can be pretty simple.
Like I'm gonna spend these 14days taking care of myself.
Right.
So in those 14 days, my familyknows I don't drink, I don't
have any wine.
I am focused on taking care ofmyself.
(12:48):
I feel really, really happy andreally, really good in those 14
days because I'm like, so mymuch self care goes into it.
So I'm like, you know, I'm nottaking baths all the time, but
in those 14 days I am, you know,so it's, it's great to kind of
care for yourself in little,little bitty increments.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, and I love that, the recommendation for
this, but I also love thatanybody can join you.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Anybody.
You do something that everybodycan participate in and be part
of.
And it's, it's not easy, butit's doable b ecause you break
(13:32):
it down and, a nd make itdoable.
Right.
So do you wanna tell us a littlebit about how they can
participate if they want?
Yeah,
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Absolutely.
So we, if you like are like, oh,I really would like to do that,
but, I think I need some moresupport.
Um, then you can come to mywebsite and we do these
quarterly cleanses together as agroup.
So we get on these, we get oncalls and video calls and we
support each other and say, howare you doing?
(14:01):
Oh, I'm doing great.
Or, oh, like, this is reallyhard today.
Or I'm not feeling as good.
C ause I can feel that I, I missmy wine or whatever.
And that sort of, group grouphelp, can be helpful for, fo r a
lot of, of people.
You can totally do this on yourown.
I've done it many seasons on myown.
But if you wanted to s omesupport, you could, c ome, go to
(14:23):
my, w ebsite and you look up, de toxes and cleanses and it's
gonna be there and I promiseyou, it's not, u m, it's not one
of those, the word detox gets alot of fla ck.
R ight.
You hear it.
And you're like, Ooh, s ounds,sounds awful.
I promise you, it isn't, it'smore just about not putting bad
things in, right.
Just saying I'm not gonna dothat.
(14:44):
I'm gonna have more good things,m o re about, yeah.
More about making good choicesthan anything else.
So, u m, so yeah, yeah.
They can find me there at, m ynaturowellness.com.
That's where, that's, where theycan fin ally li nk to that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And if anything else you wanna find out about Dr.
Michelle and what she can do tohelp you in your life, you can
get at my naturowellness com.
We like to throw in a questionabout any secret insight or tips
for what you like to do herethat, in Southwest Florida or
(15:25):
any, I guess, anywhere
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Like, like to do like for fun to do for fun.
Hmm.
Okay.
This is, this is my fun thing.
And so I like to go to the beachat night when, on the night of a
full moon.
So when the, the Moonlight isshining bright, most people
don't know that you couldtotally get into the beach at
Bonita.
And it is not, you can get backthere and hang out, don't go in
(15:49):
the water in the water at night,but I will bring like electric,
a big blanket and electriccandles.
And I will hang out with somefriends and we just have a blast
and, and we don't do it everymonth, but, but it's so fun to
be there at night.
(16:09):
No, one's around, there's nobugs.
It's just like so much fun.
And, uh, it's just like a secretthing that I don't think people
know to do that it's, it'sreally fun to hang out at the
beach at night.
I have, it's kinda somethingthat I did when, in my teens
that I was like, ah, you know, Ilet's do this again with some
girlfriends of mine.
And, and they were like, yeah,this is so fun.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I love that.
That's a, that's great.
That's a great idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I love that.
I try it on the next, well, Isay full moon so that you have
some light, you know, right.
Is really dark
Speaker 3 (16:44):
After it warms up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Like after April, April, may, it's like, oh, it's
great at night.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's that is so I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it.
Love that.
I love that.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
We'll see you there.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yes.
You'll see me there.
Beach in Bonita.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, thank you so much for joining us today.
It's been a pleasure and we lookforward to working with you more
on other adventures that youhave.
And we love having thesewonderful guests.
If you have anybody in mind thatyou'd like to hear from, please
(17:22):
reach out to us.
You can reach us at, info@barefootbungalowhomes.com or on
Facebook at Barefoot BungalowHomes.
So we wanna have wish you agreat week and as always
remember to live your best lifebarefoot.
(17:42):
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Speaker 1 (17:42):
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Welcome to the Live Your Best Life Barefoot podcast
(00:02):
with your host Mary Mouritsenand the team at Barefoot
Bungalow
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Realty.
Good morning.
Welcome to our next episode ofLive Your Best Life Barefoot.
I'm here with Mary.
Hey Ruth,
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How are you?
Great.
How are you?
Mary?
I'm really good.
I was gonna do a quick marketupdate before we get started.
Sounds great.
We do still have some greatproperties.
I was just pulling a list andthere are some great properties
even here in Bonita.
So if you're looking, don't beafraid that there's nothing we
can help you find it.
(00:35):
And the interest rates haven'tgone up too bad yet.
Not yet.
So we can hook you up with somegood interest rates, so still
great, great news in the market.
That is
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's excellent for, especially for those people that
are hesitating.
Don't hesitate.
You wanna buy, buy buy now.
Yes.
Yep.
Oh, today our guest.
I'm so excited for.
I'm so excited for, how aboutyou introduce her?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hi Michelle.
This is Dr.
Michelle Trias
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hello.
Did I say that right.
Yes, you did.
You nailed it.
Good job, M ary.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I know her as Dr.
Michelle.
She's been, I've worked withher.
She's worked with familymembers.
I adore her and I reallyappreciate what she brings to
all of her patient.
She's done such a great jobhelping me and those people that
I've referred.
(01:28):
I thought it'd be a greatopportunity to have you on, so
welcome.
Thank you.
Thanks
Speaker 4 (01:32):
For having me.
It's great to be on.
I'm so happy to see you see youboth.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So tell us a little bit about who you are, what you
do.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yes.
Dr.
Michelle, TRIZ I go by Dr.
Michelle, cause I like to keepthings a little more casual in
the office.
But I am a traditionalnaturopath.
S o I have a doctorate i ntraditional holistic medicine.
And so what that means is thatinstead of focusing on
pharmaceuticals and chemicals,as a way to modulate or make
(02:05):
changes into the b ody'schemistry.
What we study in holisticmedicine is how you can do that
with food lifestyle and naturalherbs and supplements that can
help you re tain r e g o b ackto a state of what I call
homeostasis in t he styles.
Which means that the cells arehappy that you are not
replicating any bad cells.
You're only replicatingbeautiful, healthy cells.
(02:27):
That'll help you feel better andhealthier.
So that is what, t h at is whatI've studied.
And, and th at is what I bringto the practice.
And so when patients come to seeme, we're working on all kinds
of things.
There's not like a specific onething that we're, I only focus
on this or that, but, it kind ofruns the gamut, high blood
(02:49):
pressure, low blood pressure,diabetes, weight loss, headaches
is a big one.
Lots of people with skinconditions, eczema, psoriasis,
any sort of itching on the body,can be dealt with with holistic
medicine and healing the gut.
So yeah, that's what I do.
An d m y of fice i s i n Bo nitan ot too far from your offices,
(03:13):
a n d love it love to helppeople love to see
transformation happen inpeople's lives.
And, i t's really a veryrewarding work I have to
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Say.
And you're really good at it.
And one of the things I loveabout working with you is I love
that you're real, like it,you're not living in some
monastery, you know, practicingthese things.
You're continuing to have acrazy normal life that, that
(03:45):
you've implemented these thingsinto your own life and into your
own family's life.
So maybe tell us a little bitabout your family and who you a
re p ersonally.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah.
I mean, they really, my family'sreally my why as to like, why
did I go back?
Why I, because I was doingsomething else before this, I
went back to school after I hadgotten my bachelor's degree to
get my doctorate because of thembecause they were ill because my
husband had acid reflux and mydaughter had eczema and my other
daughter had asthma.
(04:18):
All of these conditions werehappening.
And one at a time I was able tohelp them.
And it took me a long time and alot of research.
And I didn't, I wasn't even inschool yet, but I just, I just
was asking the question, why,why is this happening to them?
And why can't we just fix this?
And how can we fix this each oneof them, we went through phases
(04:38):
of modulating their food andmodulating the lifestyle, what
they were eating and herbalsupplements.
And low and behold, over time,they were all able to heal up
these conditions, conditionsthat we were told that they
would always have acid reflux,always be taking Nexium, always
have asthma.
She would always be on aninhaler.
You'll never be able to get ridof this.
And within months we were ableto solve this problem.
(05:00):
Like we didn't use anymedication.
We used food, we usedsupplements, and we used
holistic approaches.
And, so, but it was not easy,right?
It's hard.
It is hard.
It is hard to make changes.
I like to give my clients this,this quote, when they make a big
change and I'm gonna share itwith you, when you can commit to
(05:22):
transforming your life, youcommit to getting very
uncomfortable over and over andover again, the friendly
unfamiliar, the risky, the Me Nowanna the discomfort means
you're almost there.
So I've been putting this at thetop of my protocols.
Now, Mary, I didn't do this inyour, but I've been putting this
at the very, very top.
(05:42):
Like, it's okay, you're gonna beuncomfortable and it's okay.
You're gonna mess up.
And that's cool too.
You know, like I'm not like thepolice here being like, you did
not do what I said to do.
I'm like, come on and get backon there.
It's okay.
You know, it's, I'm living inthis world too.
So I get it.
(06:03):
It's, it's not easy.
Sometimes.
It's just like, what, what can Ido?
What can I, what can I have?
Like, everything is all acidforming.
Everything is all causinginflammation.
So over time, you just start tolearn these tricks and tips and
techniques and you have thingsat your disposal, in the freezer
, in your fridge that are justeasy to grab and easy to get
that are gonna, that are gonnabe satisfying.
(06:24):
So and especially with kids,I've had to plan, plan, plan so
that, you know, they're nothaving things that I don't want
them to have.
I can't control everythingthough, you know?
Right.
I have a teenager,
Speaker 3 (06:38):
They go to
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Friends house.
I, they have friends, I cannotcontrol everything, but, you
know, they have, it's, it'sgood.
Better, best, right.
You, you do your best, but notevery day, sometimes it's just,
okay.
And that's, that's okay, too,you know, actually stressing
about it is, I think we'vetalked about this to Mary, like
yeah.
Stressing about it is nothelpful either.
(06:59):
Right.
So if you're gonna eat somethingthat's on your naughty list.
Oh, do so, enjoy it really,really, really like don't give
yourself any guilt and justlike, Hmm.
That was amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That is really that's good advice that's yeah, because
then you own it and you resetinstead of try and hide it and
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Beat yourself up.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
And then you just lead into
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Doing worse.
If you beat yourself up, I'mbound to just keep doing
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It then.
Right.
Right.
Because I feel bad because Ifeel failure and I don't wanna
feel failure.
So now I'm just gonna, not,since I wanna avoid that failure
feeling, I just won't do itanymore.
Right.
I won't try to get back on therebecause I don't and wanna feel
failure.
But if you don't consider itthat way, if you consider it
like, like, well, tomorrow is anew day or even today right now
is a new moment and thatmoment's over, it's much easier
(07:49):
to just like forgive yourselffor, for doing that and, and
enjoy it.
Like just really, really enjoythat bite of whatever it is that
you shouldn't probably have.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right.
Well, and on that note, I washoping to cover maybe some tips
that you had for all of us,probably set some great, lofty
new year's resolutions forgetting healthy, losing weight,
getting in, that m ay b e a rewaning now.
(08:23):
Yes.
so do you have some ideas andtips for us to reset and, get
back into it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yes, absolutely.
So, you know, most of us do kindof, even if we don't write it
down, we've made some sort ofcommitment in our head, even if
we didn't share it, like w e we've said to ourselves this
year, I'm gonna do this andthis.
And they did a study on it andmost new y ear's resolutions,
way over half are b roken by thethird week.
(08:54):
And another like 65% of what'sremaining is broken by
Valentine's day.
So we're almost on Valentine'sday.
Most of us, most of the u spopulation has broken their new
y ear's resolution by now.
Because new y ear's resolutionsdon't really work i t.
R ight.
It's it's not, it's like, okay,I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna
go out, I'm gonna eat healthy.
I'm gonna go to whole food andI'm g onna, I'm g onna spend
(09:16):
$500.
I'm gonna r edo m y, thatdoesn't work that never works.
What you have to do is take itin like little steps.
So for instance, instead oftrying to do that, you could do
like quarterly cleanses, right.
Or quarterly like detoxes of thebody.
Right?
So if the be, you know, so youdo a, you spend a week or two
weeks, however you, this is whatI do is quarterly.
(09:38):
Every quarter I do a, a cleanseor a detox and this doesn't mean
that I'm running to the bathroomor anything like this.
This just means this, this isdedicated focused time where I'm
eating completely 100% plantbased and I'm, I'm meditating
more and I'm taking detox,baths, and I'm, I'm doing all of
these like things I'm drybrushing my skin.
I'm brushing my tongue, I'mdetox, detoxifying the body.
(10:01):
And I'm going to like salt cavetherapy.
Like I'm doing all these thingsreally dedicated for 14 days.
And then, you know, I go off andI'm, and, and I go off of that
for 14 days.
And then I come back to sort ofmy more routine and then what
happens soon, right.
It, before you know, it it'sanother quarter has come along
and it's time to do it again.
That process has really kept me,in a very good place with health
(10:25):
wise because it's like rightaround the time and then things
start to fall off and I forgetto meal prep and I'm like
running around another i t's anew season.
It's time to dedicate myself forfourteen days.
I love doing this and I thinkthat it has been, it h as been
so transformative for me to justsay, okay, let's take it in
quarters.
Like let's just take it a quarter 14 days, two weeks,
(10:47):
that's it, two weeks.
And then you can, it's not.
And then what happens is afteryou're done, you feel really
good, right?
You don't wanna go back toeating really bad.
It takes you like another monthmonth and have to start eating
poorly again or to make some badchoices and right around the
time that you're making badchoices again, time for another
detox time for another cleansetime to dedicate yourself for
two weeks.
(11:08):
I think that's so much betterthan saying, o h, you know, it's
the whole year I'm gonna dothis.
The entire i t's j ustimpossible.
Right?
Just t ake i t i n a little sortof bite s ize chunk.
And then instead of trying toclean out your pantry and clean
out your fridge of all thethings that you know are not
good for you, j ust stop buying.
So today I'm g onna, I'm g onna,I'm g onna, I'm g onna skip the
(11:31):
Oreos and I'm g onna getsomething else or I'm just not
gonna do that one thing and I'mgonna swap it out.
So I swapped, you know, my I'mdairy free.
So I swap out my swapped out myregular butter for vegan butter.
Right.
But I didn't swap everything outat one time I did it like ea ch
g rocery trip.
(11:51):
I just made a new incrementalchange.
Okay.
Now we're having almond milk.
And so yeah, it was changehappened in the house.
Pe ople w e re l ike, this isalmond milk.
Now they can't, I can't livewithout almond milk.
They love the vegan cheese.
They love the vegan mayonnaise,but I did not, did not do it
overnight.
It's it's a s low process.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's such smart way to look at it.
In general to, and even toreassess quarterly, right.
To put it on your calendar ormakes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's huge.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's the beginning of the quarter or it's the
beginning of the new quarterthen.
Okay.
Now here's what I'm gonna do.
And it doesn't have to be, itdoesn't have to be really hard.
It can be pretty simple.
Like I'm gonna spend these 14days taking care of myself.
Right.
So in those 14 days, my familyknows I don't drink, I don't
have any wine.
I am focused on taking care ofmyself.
(12:48):
I feel really, really happy andreally, really good in those 14
days because I'm like, so mymuch self care goes into it.
So I'm like, you know, I'm nottaking baths all the time, but
in those 14 days I am, you know,so it's, it's great to kind of
care for yourself in little,little bitty increments.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, and I love that, the recommendation for
this, but I also love thatanybody can join you.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Anybody.
You do something that everybodycan participate in and be part
of.
And it's, it's not easy, butit's doable b ecause you break
(13:32):
it down and, a nd make itdoable.
Right.
So do you wanna tell us a littlebit about how they can
participate if they want?
Yeah,
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Absolutely.
So we, if you like are like, oh,I really would like to do that,
but, I think I need some moresupport.
Um, then you can come to mywebsite and we do these
quarterly cleanses together as agroup.
So we get on these, we get oncalls and video calls and we
support each other and say, howare you doing?
(14:01):
Oh, I'm doing great.
Or, oh, like, this is reallyhard today.
Or I'm not feeling as good.
C ause I can feel that I, I missmy wine or whatever.
And that sort of, group grouphelp, can be helpful for, fo r a
lot of, of people.
You can totally do this on yourown.
I've done it many seasons on myown.
But if you wanted to s omesupport, you could, c ome, go to
(14:23):
my, w ebsite and you look up, de toxes and cleanses and it's
gonna be there and I promiseyou, it's not, u m, it's not one
of those, the word detox gets alot of fla ck.
R ight.
You hear it.
And you're like, Ooh, s ounds,sounds awful.
I promise you, it isn't, it'smore just about not putting bad
things in, right.
Just saying I'm not gonna dothat.
(14:44):
I'm gonna have more good things,m o re about, yeah.
More about making good choicesthan anything else.
So, u m, so yeah, yeah.
They can find me there at, m ynaturowellness.com.
That's where, that's, where theycan fin ally li nk to that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And if anything else you wanna find out about Dr.
Michelle and what she can do tohelp you in your life, you can
get at my naturowellness com.
We like to throw in a questionabout any secret insight or tips
for what you like to do herethat, in Southwest Florida or
(15:25):
any, I guess, anywhere
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Like, like to do like for fun to do for fun.
Hmm.
Okay.
This is, this is my fun thing.
And so I like to go to the beachat night when, on the night of a
full moon.
So when the, the Moonlight isshining bright, most people
don't know that you couldtotally get into the beach at
Bonita.
And it is not, you can get backthere and hang out, don't go in
(15:49):
the water in the water at night,but I will bring like electric,
a big blanket and electriccandles.
And I will hang out with somefriends and we just have a blast
and, and we don't do it everymonth, but, but it's so fun to
be there at night.
(16:09):
No, one's around, there's nobugs.
It's just like so much fun.
And, uh, it's just like a secretthing that I don't think people
know to do that it's, it'sreally fun to hang out at the
beach at night.
I have, it's kinda somethingthat I did when, in my teens
that I was like, ah, you know, Ilet's do this again with some
girlfriends of mine.
And, and they were like, yeah,this is so fun.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I love that.
That's a, that's great.
That's a great idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I love that.
I try it on the next, well, Isay full moon so that you have
some light, you know, right.
Is really dark
Speaker 3 (16:44):
After it warms up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Like after April, April, may, it's like, oh, it's
great at night.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's that is so I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it.
Love that.
I love that.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
We'll see you there.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yes.
You'll see me there.
Beach in Bonita.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, thank you so much for joining us today.
It's been a pleasure and we lookforward to working with you more
on other adventures that youhave.
And we love having thesewonderful guests.
If you have anybody in mind thatyou'd like to hear from, please
(17:22):
reach out to us.
You can reach us at, info@barefootbungalowhomes.com or on
Facebook at Barefoot BungalowHomes.
So we wanna have wish you agreat week and as always
remember to live your best lifebarefoot.
(17:42):
Thank
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You for listening to the Live Your Best Life Barefoot
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