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There's not like A1 hack fits all when it comes to nourishing
your body and prepping your vessel for the most expansive
life. But there are things that you
can do and there are things you can learn about that truly will
allow you to have a greater capability to handle life.
Because you are nourishing your vessel.
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You are nourishing your body. What is up guys?
And welcome back to Skinny to Bing.
The podcast will be stripped down and we dive in to the mind,
the body, and the soul in order to create actionable change in
our lives. How do we actually apply it?
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And this is the season of The Alchemist.
So each week we are diving into the acronym ALCHEMIST to uncover
ways for us to transfer heavier,denser energies that feel a
little bit more icky into expansive, lighter, more open
energies that just make us feel like we're moving towards life.
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Because that's really how the human brain activates.
We either move away from pain and fear, or we move towards
pleasure. We move towards life and I want
to get us in a space where everysingle atom in each of our
bodies are moving towards life, moving towards expansion.
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And the reason that the L in alchemy is for learning about
your body and learning about your human vessel is because I
truly believe that the point of all this work, the spiritual
work, the mental health work isn't to necessarily quote UN
quote make life easier. Because the inevitability of
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life is that shit's going to happen.
Shit may hit the fan when we decided to reincarnate into
these little human bodies and have this human experience with
our, you know, godly divine soul.
What happened was we signed up for this shit.
We signed up for pain and grief.And you know, with that we are
able to experience the joy and the love and the expansion of
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life because we have something to compare it to.
If you never experienced pain orgrief, you wouldn't really know
what love felt like. You really wouldn't know what
joy felt like because how are you to know what something feels
like if you don't have a comparison, if you don't have
the ability to see the difference, to differentiate, to
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discern. So in life, I think, you know,
people really try to make life easier for you in this work.
But I actually want to set you up for success.
I want to set you up in a way that allows you to have a
greater capability to handle thebullshit of life.
And that's what this episode is really about.
Because when you apply these things in your life, you really
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set yourself up for success. You set your body up for success
so that you can really live a more joyful life, You know?
And I like to say, oh, everything's going to be better
when you apply these things. But what is better?
Better for me means expansive, joyful, excited, inspired when I
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am in those emotions, create creative when I'm in those
emotions. That's how I know that I am in
this expansion period. And of course, we honor the
contractions with such love because for me personally, I
think when we are in a contraction period, it's the
perfect opportunity to allow ourselves to expand greater and
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expand further. And just like when we breathe
and we exhale and we inhale, we first need to contract in order
to expand. And it's the same with our
muscles, right? Like we go to the gym and what
happens when we're working on our muscles?
We're contracting, but then our muscles get bigger and we're and
we're fit. And maybe that's a poor example,
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but everything in the world contracts and then it expands.
And if you're in a contraction period, just know you can apply
these things to elevate your vessel, your body, so that you
can have a greater capability tohandle the bullshit of life.
So that when you know the stressand the anxiety and the
frustration is presented upon you from an external source in a
way that you may not be able to change.
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You know that you are capable and grounded in your body and
that your body feels energized and joyful.
And in this energy, you know that you have a greater
capability to handle life. So today we're going to be
talking about the things that I've learned that have that are
just my non negotiables, right? They're the things in my life
that I actually believe change my life on the daily.
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And that's like learning about movement and the power of
movement, nourishment for my body, learning about the
chemicals in my brain and how toactivate them, flow state,
creativity, even boredom is sucha key component of being able to
handle life in a more resilient way.
You know my experience with PMDDI'm going to talk about, we're
also going to be talking about living with ADHD.
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I'm not diagnosed, but if you hear me speak, you probably know
that I could be diagnosed as some sort of neurodivergent.
And I want to talk about sunshine and sleep and just all
these things that truly are going to allow you to have a
greater capability to handle life when things are thrown at
you as they inevitably will be. So also, what's up guys?
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I'm Kayla Rose, I am the host ofskinny dipping and you know, I
love talking about the mind, thebody and the soul and we're
going to be really actionable ineverything that we talk about
today. I'm going to give you the nitty
gritty and everything that I'm talking about comes from both
personal experience and what hasworked for me personally, but
then also most of it, actually all of it is scientifically
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backed. I went ahead, read articles, did
research, dope into my hot girl science era.
Once again, if you remember thatseason, I just like love doing
research. I love learning.
That's something that lights me up is education.
And all of these, you know, havebeen approved through cross
studies. So multiple studies have proven
that this information is true. So just so that you know, I'm
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not just spewing bullshit at you, this is both with
scientific evidence and personalexperience.
And these things changed my life.
And I think you might be like, oh, I know that, I know that,
but still talk about it. Let's reaffirm that these things
are good for us because I know that I'm the type of person,
once I learn something is good for me, once I learn that
something makes me feel brighter, I want to do it right.
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I want to go forward. I want to do it when we have the
information, when we have the proof, it shows our brain that
we should do this. And I love to work with my brain
in that way and be like, how canI prove this to myself?
So that proof of it eventually leads to devotion and discipline
with taking care of myself. So let's strip down and dive in.
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I'm Kayla Rose, and this is skinny dipping.
The first thing that I want to talk about when it comes to
learning about your vessel, which is a key component in
alchemization because if you want to alchemize, you need to
have the best capability to handle life because that's how
you really alchemize is being inthe driver's seat.
Not the victim's seat, but the driver's seat of your life.
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Knowing that you have the ability to impact everything in
your life and everything in yourexternal circumstances depending
on your own internal state. That is truly this process of
alchemy. So how do we prep our body to be
ready for this? We learn about our body.
We educate ourselves on our body.
And the biggest thing that I have found that preps me for the
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bullshit of life and allows me to handle stress and anxiety in
a more, you know, demure way, like a more, a more graceful, a
more mindful way actually, like is movement.
Exercise, you could call it, butI call it movement.
Movement is medicine because forme, exercise feels like going to
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the gym. But movement for me can be just
like dancing around. It can be going on a walk.
It can be, you know, swimming, it can be surfing.
Like I feel like movement is a very diverse word versus
exercise. If you like exercise feels like
so intense when movement feels more fun and more light.
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And according to numerous studies, including a study that
I read by Harvard, exercise or movement is 1.5 times more
effective than drugs for depression, anxiety, and other
mental health disorders. Can you fucking believe that?
Literally they are prescribing people up the fucking wazoo
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because they are profiting off our mental illness.
The big big pharma is genuinely one of the most, in my opinion,
one of the most dangerous facetsof Western civilization.
Because what we don't realize, Imean, I'm not saying like if
you're medicated, literally no judgement, do what you need to
do. For me personally, I think it's
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important for us to acknowledge,even if we are taking things
that they are trying to make money off of us and they don't
want us to know this. And what they don't want us to
know is that movement and exercise and getting your heart
rate up and moving your body andmoving stagnant energy is
incredible for your mental health and allows you to combat
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that depression. It allows you to combat that
anxiety and what does this look like in the day-to-day?
So the actual steps behind this,because not everyone has the
time, money and resources to go to a workout class every single
day, right? And I love a workout class
because for me, I'm like, okay, I paid for it.
I better show up. So it has that accountability
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aspect and it also has the community aspect and in that has
accountability because people may be looking forward to seeing
you there and they're like, where are you?
Come back to class? And that just motivates us to go
and to stay consistent and devoted to our practice.
Also, the reason I use devoted over discipline for me
personally is because disciplinefeels like I'm doing this
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because I hate myself and I feellike I need to fix myself.
And devotion feels like I'm doing this because I love myself
and I know I deserve to take care of myself.
I know I deserve this. I know that I am worthy of
showing up for myself. So that's why I love to use the
word devoted. So in this knowing how powerful
movement is, you know, we can goto classes.
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We can go to, you know, a gym and you can, you know, go on the
snare machine, do some weights. That's kind of my go to.
But also, what do you do when you have a busy day or you know,
you don't have the finances for it?
YouTube has so many amazing classes like I love Sammy Clark
I love move with Nicole who she's Pilates.
Sammy does like a lot more like hit and weights which I really
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love her for. And you can find so many amazing
people depending on your vibe all on YouTube for free.
And I think even 10 to 20 minutes of movement a day is a
non negotiable for me even if I don't do like an official
workout. I don't think we need to be
overwhelmed and think a workout needs to be 45 minutes to an
hour every single day. 20 minutes is sometimes enough,
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especially if we are working outfor our mental health.
For me, that's really my motivation.
You know, of course I love to look snatched and like that's
like a plus, but it's never the core motivation is how I look.
It's always how I feel and knowing that this movement is
nourishing my mind and nourishing my body and how
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amazing it feels to show up for myself.
Something I've personally reallystruggled with is thinking
nobody cares about me. No one shows up for me, no one,
no one gives a fuck. And that's like this narrative
that I've had to reprogram. And the best way to reprogram
this narrative is to show up foryourself, is to support
yourself, is to love yourself, is to prove to yourself that you
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is the key because it, you know,it releases these chemicals in
our bodies like endorphins, dopamine, serotonin,
norepinephrine, which actually allows us to be more regulated
in our mood. It allows our mood to be
elevated. It allows more pleasure and more
joy in our life. It allows us to like feel high
off of life. And that's what I really love
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about movement. And that is my #1 non
negotiable. It's movement because of all the
proof, personal and scientific Iknow, that moving your body
daily is life changing. Even if it's only a walk, Even
if it's only like a 10 minute hit.
Even if it's like a dance for three songs around my room and
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sweat it out. Like whatever it is.
Show up for yourself in movementand watch your life and your
mood transform before your eyes.Watch your ability and your
capability to handle life transform before your eyes and
watch you manifest all the things.
Like if I could give you one thing to do, it would be
movement. Forget about everything else
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we're going to talk about. Movement is the number one and
it's helped me manifest. It's helped me, you know, create
a better life because it really does raise your vibration,
connect you to yourself and prove to yourself, your brain,
your mind, your body, your spirit, that I am willing to
show up for myself. And I fucking love myself.
And that's the beauty of being devoted in movement.
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The next thing that has completely transformed my life
is learning how to properly nourish my body.
And I feel like this has only happened in the last year.
I say this to my friends as a joke, but it's dead serious.
Like when I turned 25, I did feel my prefrontal cortex fully
develop. And all of a sudden, like, I
wanted to be wifey. Like I wanted to feed myself and
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my partner. I wanted to nourish myself
through meals and I didn't have this desire or want before I ate
out 90% of the time. And in this eating out, you just
like don't know what like chemicals and oils and like all
the unnecessary things that they're putting into your food.
I would eat out in a healthy way, but honestly, I would go to
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a lot of like salad bars and I'dbe on the go and I would be very
in a rush with my nourishment for my body.
And I think just slowing down cooking yourself a meal, pouring
love into it, that in itself is more nourishing than getting fed
by a restaurant because you're actually putting love into it.
Just like how they've showed studies, they've proven that if
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you speak to your flowers, if you give them positive
affirmations, they will grow. If you give your plants love,
they will grow because they are a living Organism, you know?
And you know, the food that we eat, even though some of it's
not living anymore, a lot of like the plants and the meat,
like it once was a living Organism.
And with that, when we pour loveinto it, it increases the
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vibration of that food. And for me, I was talking with
my mom last week and she told meabout, you know, the real food
pyramid. We were talking about it because
the food pyramid we're taught inschool has a capitalist agenda
for sure. And now we're learning the real
food pyramid and the real, you know, foods that nourish our
brain and our body. And my mom loved this book that
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she's reading called Limitless. His name's Vim Quick, I think is
how you pronounce it. And he's known as like the boy
with the broken brain. He had brain trauma when he was
younger. And with that, he really learned
about how to nourish the brain and how to, you know, teach
himself things. So I just wanted to repeat back
to you guys. What they have shown through
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scientific studies are some of the most potent foods for our
brain, our body and also our soul.
And actually, these are things that I eat all the time.
And when I found out this, I waslike, this makes sense.
Like our body intuitively, once you train it away from all like
the bullshit that you know is inin food, when we actually learn
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what our body likes, our body moves towards it.
We actually crave it. We actually want it.
And so honey is one of the most powerful things.
I would say honey is at the top of the food pyramid.
It is so nutrient dense and alsosomething so special about honey
is if you which I would highly recommend eating local honey in
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your area can actually help you with allergies, which is really
cool and so fascinating. These are just like the coolest
thing ever too. So honey, olive oil, Oh my gosh,
olive oil is one of the most fantastic things for you.
That's why the Mediterranean diet is so incredibly healthy.
And you know, I learned a lot about this when watching the
Blue Zones documentary, which I would highly recommend.
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And olive oil is so incredible for you.
Blueberries, turmeric, of course, for inflammation.
Salmon is one of my, you know, favorite proteins to eat and
also tastes so good. Collard greens, kale, spinach,
just like that really like densegreens, dark chocolate, cacao,
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avocados, eggs, which is also like one of my favorite
proteins, broccoli, coconut oil and walnuts.
And I've also been having Brazilnuts for the, I think it's
called selenium that's in them. And those are just like some of
the most nutrient dense things that we can have for ourselves.
And you know, I really struggledwith PMDD.
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And if you don't know what PMD is, PMDD, it's premenstrual
depression disorder. And I was on the pill for about
like 7 years before getting off of it.
Now I've been off of it for 3 1/2 to four years now.
And I really think the pill, like the birth control pill
really messed up my hormones. And when I got off of it, I was
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really struggling with really low periods right before my
period. And for me, this wouldn't look
like like just being tired and lethargic.
The actual depression was reallyin my mind and in my intrusive
thoughts. All of a sudden I would just
completely feel like the world was falling apart, that I wasn't
good enough, that everything I was doing was complete shit.
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That's how I felt and this wouldhappen because I would have a
complete drop in my hormones andthe hormone imbalance would
happen and I would literally be like everything that I'm doing
is not worth it. I don't know why I've been
wasting my time and I would justhave such intrusive thoughts
about myself where I was just speaking so unkindly to myself.
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I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to click that, but I feel like
that that is accurate honestly. But that cracks me up.
I, I was like, I got to figure this out, right?
I got to figure out this PMDD and I know I didn't even know
what it was at first. I just felt so low and so sad
and I couldn't even differentiate that it wasn't,
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you know, my true thoughts and my true beliefs about myself
that it was actually an incredible hormonal imbalance
until I connected the dots and Iwas like, oh, this happens at
the same time like every single month.
And there's definitely somethingto, to this.
So I like got blood panels done.I worked with somebody
one-on-one and it was really powerful because I actually
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found out that although there are around like 5 to 6 reasons
that people with cycles can experience PMDD, for me
personally, it was my blood sugar.
So I didn't know that I strugglewith my blood sugar, but putting
all the pieces together, I'm like, OK, it makes sense.
Like it makes sense. Like I get incredibly hangry.
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And what was happening was that I was having this like imbalance
of blood sugar constantly leading to these mood swings all
throughout my 28 day cycle. But once it got to, you know,
the whole cycle impacted that three days of that PMDD.
And because I was so imbalanced in my blood sugar, I really
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realized that that was completely causing my PMDD.
So I got really serious about feeding myself high protein
meals above anything else and just really nourishing my gut
microbiome. Because 90% of your serotonin,
which is your mood stabilizer, is created in your gut.
Your gut is your second brain. It's actually your first brain,
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like your gut. Gut is telling your entire body
so much about how it feels and what it needs constantly.
And if you are having incrediblyintrusive thoughts, I urge you
to look into balancing your hormones and your blood sugar
and also just really nourishing your gut microbiome because that
is really where I think all of these intrusive thoughts were
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stemming from. So I got super serious about #1
having a high protein meal and most importantly breakfast.
Breakfast. I skimped out all my whole life
and I really had to teach myselfhow to eat breakfast and how to
just feed myself in general. And, and I've done this since
like January and my PMDD, it honestly makes me want to cry
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because I'm so happy my PMDD like has not been what it ever
was before. And I noticed like the months
that I nourish myself the most, I won't have any like of those
intrusive thoughts that happenedright before my period caused by
that PMDD. And I really think for me, you
know, stabilizing my blood sugarthrough protein and just really
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nourishing my microbiome and my gut through really nourishing
meals that light my soul on fire.
Like just, oh, it makes me emotional because it really
sucks to have PMDD. Like if you know, you know, like
you don't feel like yourself, like you feel like everything's
falling apart. So when I got that right now, I
feel so much better before my period.
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And of course, like I'll get like a little like unstable and
you know, have some cramps, but it just wasn't, it's just not
like it was at all before. So I'm so grateful.
So now I want to give you the actual meals that are my
favorite. So my favorite go to brekkie is
avocado toast with an egg. I love sourdough because
sourdough processes so much better in our bodies.
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Like people who are gluten free like can eat sourdough because
it's just so different and it's alive.
So it really like nourishes our gut microbiome.
So sourdough avocado is like so good for you healthy fats.
And then I'll put pickled cabbage on it that I just
absolutely love because that really nourishes that gut
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microbiome. Anything pickled.
And then I put sprouts on it fornutrients because sprouts are so
nutrient dense. And then I'll do local honey and
I'll do hot sauce and that is mygo to for breakfast.
And without fail it always makesme feel amazing.
The other thing is caffeine after breakfast every single
time. Coffee is not my thing.
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I do yerba mate or matcha. And that is also way better for
your gut, which is going to affect your mind, your body,
your spirit, and allow you to have a greater capability to
handle life. For lunch, I do eat out a lot.
And I've been loving this lemongrass chicken sandwich from
this place on Maui called Alive and Well.
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And it's lemongrass chicken. Lemongrass is so nourishing for
you. It's local chicken.
It's on sourdough. It has, you know, Pickled
cucumber and a couple other pickled things on it.
And it's just so good with this,like, Dijon dressing.
I love sauce. Sauce is my go to for
everything. I love hot sauce, I love spice.
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I love it on everything. So that's my favorite lunch.
And then for dinner, my two favorite dinners are bowls, like
rice bowls, the first one being a salmon avo sprouts rice bowl.
And me, my boyfriend do like a hot honey salmon.
We bake it so good and then we'll make sure that you put the
honey on kind of towards the endbecause I guess like honey when
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it's like cooked for too long can get kind of toxic for you,
I've learned. So put it on like 5 minutes at
the end for the honey. And then I also have been doing
like a really good like teriyakiBBQ chicken with like broccoli
and squash, sweet potatoes and purple sweet potatoes with a
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rice bowl. And that is also a huge favorite
of mine with avocado, of course.So those are my favorite
nourishing meals. And I just wanted to give you
guys those because I was always like, what do I eat?
And I feel like I hate to like constantly make the decision on
what to eat. So I literally only have like a
couple meals that I rotate through.
And for me that really works forme.
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So the next thing I want to talkabout, I'm going to take a deep
breath. Just talking about the PMDD gone
kind of got me like really emotional because I feel like I
think about the younger version of me and like how she didn't
know what was going on and like how scary that was and like how
she really felt like she was broken.
So that just kind of makes me emotional.
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So I'm just going to take a deepbreath.
If you want to join me on a deepbreath, inhale, hold at the top,
exhale. I'll actually use that as a
perfect opportunity to talk about the power of regulating
your nervous system. I think when it comes to taking
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care of your body, regulating your nervous system is key.
Because if we're acting from a dysregulate, regulated place, we
are going to be reacting to lifeand everything from our past is
going to be affecting our present.
But when we are acting and speaking from and being from a
regulated place, a regulated point of view within our body,
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we have a greater capability to respond to life rather than
react. And you know, that's why
movement is really big for regulating your nervous system.
And then also for me personally,I love just like breath work and
breathing, making sure that I'm not going on my phone first
thing in the morning because that is completely dysregulatory
to your nervous system to be scrolling first thing when
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you're in that first like 30 minutes of waking that waking
period. And also for me, like the
easiest way to regulate your nervous system is to inhales and
hold the top exhale. So we'll do one more of those
inhaling in, one more at the top, cold, exhale slowly through
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a straw. Regulating your nervous system
is super huge and making sure that your vessel is taken care
of. And most of us are highly
dysregulated just because of thesociety that we live in.
So we just need to make the extra conscious effort to
nourish our bodies and make surethat our nervous system feels
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super safe. The other thing that you can do
is kind of tap on yourself and just remind yourself that I am
safe, I am protected, I'm worthy, and just repeating that
to yourself can begin to reprogram your brain.
The next thing that I wanted to talk about, OK, so we got
movement is medicine. It's like a little recap.
Movement is medicine. It's so much more effective than
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drugs. They've proven it in multiple
studies over like the last 10 years. 1.5 more effective than
drugs. I would say even more for me
personally and in the lives of those that I'm closest to, I've
seen this. The other thing that we talked
about is, you know, high proteinmeals and how this can help with
like PMDD and other like chemical imbalances, hormonal
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imbalances, and just really nourishing your gut, your
microbiome so that you can produce optimal amounts of
serotonin, which is our mood stabilizer.
And then we got into regulating your nervous system through
breathing, through breath work, through movement, and really
activating that double breath in, slow hold at the top and
slow exhale. The next thing that I feel like
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is so potent when it comes to nourishing your vessel is flow
state. Flow state.
Oh my gosh, you guys know, flow state is one of the most
powerful things in the world. I'm so passionate about it.
I'm literally going to make a documentary one day on flow
state going all around the worldand talking about the science
about it, talking about the art of it, talking about the God
within flow state, talking aboutspirit within flow state.
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Because I think that's just whenwe feel most ourselves.
Like when I am dancing, when I am singing, when I am speaking,
when I am in that flow state, when I am surfing for other
people it's painting or for my boyfriend, it's like riding
horses or like playing sports. Like whatever is flow state is
the ultimate, ultimate high thatwe create within our own bodies.
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And we have the ability to feel this way at any moment through
flow state. So flow state is created when we
are concentrated, when we are concentrated, and when we are
moderately challenged. So what happens is we are
moderately challenged. So we feel like we need to
really focus. And in this focus, we want to
make sure we're stretching ourselves.
So we're pushing ourselves just a little bit, but not enough to
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get frustrated that we snap. Because for me, when I'm doing
like an IKEA table and I'm setting that up, that is not
putting me in flow state becauseit is hard and it is hurting my
mind and it is not fun. So when you're able to be
concentrated and the challenge is moderate, it's not too easy
and it's not too hard. You create this beautiful
balance of flow state, which allows us to activate, you know,
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all the things that we activate in movement, endorphins,
dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine.
But then I learned about today in my research, which I'm so
excited to share about is Anatomid.
Anatomid, anatomied, yeah, I think that's how I pronounce it.
It's not anatomy, it's anatomiedNANADAMIDE.
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This is new to me. I just learned about it today,
but it was so fascinating that Ireally wanted to share with you
guys one of the other molecules and chemicals that is released
when we are in flow state and it's really associated with
that, you know, quote UN quote. Runner's high, right?
That feeling that runners get, Idon't really get the runner's
high because I think you have toreally get in the flow for that
to happen. But for me personally, I get
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this feeling when I dance. When I dance, I'm just
completely present in the current moment.
No future exists, no past exists.
I am just here in the present with my body.
And that's when this flow state is activated and this bliss
molecule known as anatomy is also activated.
What happens when we are in flowstate is we are able to create
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easier pattern recognition. So what happens is we don't have
to think our way out of problems.
We just put ourselves in the flow state.
And naturally, both sides of ourbrains are communicating in a
more powerful, more charged way,and we're able to create more
creative solutions for us and our life and our problems that
we're experiencing, whatever hardships or heaviness that are
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coming through us in our life right now, when we actually
forget about the problems, focuson flow state, get in that state
of concentration and presence and focus, what happens is we
have deeper pattern recognition.We're able to see, oh, this is
happening because of this. And our brain just puts it
together in this effortless way without us actually having to
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think through it. I actually think thinking can
sometimes be detrimental to coming up with the best and
creative solutions. And the sooner that you can step
away, take a deep breath, get into flow state through art,
through movement, through words.Talking to a friend can even get
you into flow state if you're having a really great
conversation. What happens is we're able to
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make greater creative connections, which creates
better solutions for ourselves. And what's so cool about the
anatomy D is that it was actually discovered in 1992 with
THC and CBD studies. So through studies about
cannabis, they actually realizedthat this same molecule
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structure that is released when consuming cannabis, known as
this bliss molecule, which is, you know, a cannabinoid, it's
called, actually can be created in our own body through flow
state, which is so incredibly cool because it's basically your
own cannabinoid without drugs. And you guys know, I love a
little bit of weed, but it makessense that I also love flow
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state more than anything becauseit has that same chemical that
is being produced in our body, which is really this chemical.
They call it like the bliss molecule, which is so cool and
so interesting. So actually anata is Sanskrit
for the word bliss. That's why they called the
molecule anatomy so interesting.I absolutely love it.
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And I just think that flow stateis one of the best ways to get
our bodies attuned to being morecapable and more resilient in
life so that we can alkalize deeper and more effectively in
our life. So flow state, we love her.
So I want you guys, as your homework to write down five ways
that you can get into flow statethis week and make sure that you
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cross off at least one of them. And send me a picture of your
homework assignment and I'll follow you back.
I love the actual stuff. So we're getting on these
homework assignments. So five ways that you can get
into flow state. And also, if you have any ideas
for recipes that you feel like Iwould really enjoy, please send
them my way as well. OK, the next thing I want to
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talk about is the power of doingnothing.
And all these things, you know, require action that we've talked
about so far. But have you ever tried just
going outside, putting away yourphone, putting away your
journal, putting away your tarotcards, literally bringing
nothing with you and just layingin the grass and looking up at
the sky, watching the clouds flow by, looking at the birds,
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looking at the trees, literally doing nothing.
Because that is one of the most effective things for regulating
your nervous system and also clearing your mind.
What happens in the beginning when you first completely de
stimulate your surroundings and your external perspective, Our
mind starts to run. It starts to talk about you know
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that best friend breakup from the past or you know the
current, you know boss that is just like bugging the fuck out
of you. Or it starts worrying about all
your finances. The worry and the stress and
anxiety will come. You literally just let it, let
it run, let it flow and then eventually it'll tire itself out
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and it'll shut up and it'll be quiet.
It's literally amazing and you have to get past that
uncomfortable point when you're de stimulating yourself, when
you're in the stimulation depletion, it is so incredibly
uncomfortable in the beginning, but once you get through that
first like 20 minutes, you will begin to actually feel peace in
your mind. Just let your mind run.
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Let it say whatever it wants to say.
Don't attach it to emotion. Don't even think about it.
Just let the thoughts come and let them go.
And you will see that in the power of doing nothing.
That is when you are going to begin to feel most yourself
again because we are, Oh my gosh, in this society, guys, we
have so much fucking stimulation.
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We have so much being asked for us, asked of us.
And I just believe that humans aren't really built for this
shit. Like we're built to live in
small communities of under 100 people supporting each other,
leaning into our gifts to createservice for the communities we
grew up in, this tribe mentality.
And then all of a sudden we're just in this crazy world where
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we can scroll on our phone and connect to over millions of
people. Like we weren't built for this
shit and therefore we need to make the conscious and mindful
and the demure effort. No, it's funny, I don't like
demure because I'm definitely not demure.
But mindful is definitely the word here.
The mindful and conscious effortto be bored.
Boredom is the greatest life hack to creativity.
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Boredom is the greatest life hack to rediscovering who you
are again. Because once you de stimulate
your surroundings and you deplete your surroundings of
this stimulation, you will see that you'll feel so overwhelmed
and so uncomfortable for a moment because you aren't being
distracted. And then eventually you will
feel peace. Kind of this so fucking powerful
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to feel this way. And the only way to do this is
to be bored, to do nothing, to lay in the grass, no journal, no
tarot cards, no phone, no music,Literally just you and yourself
and the earth. That's all you need.
And in this, whenever I'm bored,I genuinely believe boredom is
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the greatest medicine to any sort of like creative depletion
or creative blockage. You're over stimulated, babe.
You're not broken, you're just over stimulated.
And what we realize, and this iswhen we're bored, we have the
opportunity to be creative. And you will see that after you
sit outside for 30 minutes and you let your mind run and you
let it go. You're going to want to write
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poetry, you're going to want to write a song.
You're going to feel re inspiredfrom that next business
endeavor. You're going to know what to do
in your relationship or whateverit is.
Everything is creativity. And when we can tap into
creative solutions, which is like the greatest way to
alchemize, the greatest way to handle life, we first need to
get bored. We first need to do nothing.
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And I would highly encourage youthis week to whenever you feel
overwhelmed, do the opposite action, the radical opposite
action. When you're feeling overwhelmed,
your mind tells you, I need to do this.
I have a whole list of things todo.
It's so overwhelming. Opposite action radical opposite
action, radical self love is going outside, laying down on a
blanket, looking at the clouds, having no concept of time and
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doing nothing. Let the mind run, let it
complain, let it be frustrated, just let it and watch what
happens. The next thing I really want to
talk about that has really changed my life has been
learning about ADHD and neurodivergency.
All of this information is from Andrew Huberman, and I feel like
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he's so interesting. I will say, like a lot of
research is done on men and not women, but I do think that this
is a lot of potent information. And they've really found that
ADHD isn't really this like attention deficit.
It's not that you can't focus onthings.
Like for me, it's that I focus on too much.
I have too many interests and there I want to do it all.
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It's not that I can't focus on anything, it's that I want to
focus on it all. And he really says that this
comes from this like low dopamine.
So with people in ADHD, they've really discovered that they have
lower dopamine levels than neurotypical people.
That's why people with neurodivergency will like really
go towards caffeine, cigarettes,drugs, coke, weed scrolling,
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binge watching TV, like all these things that pump this fake
false dopamine into you. What happens is that.
It's not that you're broken, it's just that sometimes your
dopamine like levels just produce differently than people
who are neurotypical. And that's why we really need to
nourish this real dopamine. So real dopamine comes from
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sunshine first thing in the morning, that vitamin D, that
sunshine. It's so important because what
happens is it actually activatesa healthy amount of cortisol.
People are so scared of cortisolnowadays, but our body actually
needs cortisol to function a healthy and regulated amount.
But what happens is when you like go outside and you
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experience sunlight and sunshine, especially first thing
in the morning, it sets the tonefor the rest of your day and it
activates your cortisol earlier in the day.
And that's what's really beneficial for you is having
cortisol earlier in the day versus later in the day because
that's when you like stay up andthat affects your sleep.
And then also it activates your dopamine and hormones that in
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the first thing in the day. So it can create that really
gentle upward motion where your hormones and dopamine can
increase. And then it can go downwards
during the day so you can get more tired and you can go to
sleep. The other thing that's really
important for activating your dopamine system in a healthy
way, obviously fun being in nature, being with friends, but
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also sleep. Women typically need way more
sleep than men. And what happens is when you get
the proper amount of sleep, it restores your baseline dopamine
in the morning for you to have abetter day.
And that's why if you have a really early morning, we got to
teach ourselves how to go to bedearlier.
I'm really, I really struggle with this, but with the work
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that I do, like I do have the privilege of sleeping in and
whenever I sleep in, I really and just sleep to when my body
wants to sleep. I noticed that my dopamine
levels feel really activated andease at ease during the day,
which feels really good. So making sure we have really
good sleep is super important. And this means like removing any
artificial lights in the night time, an hour before bed and
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also in the morning so that, youknow, our dopamine can be
healthier, which feels really good, you know, and you know,
with ADHD, I think it's really important to pour into all
things that, you know, teach us what it feels like to produce
real dopamine in our bodies. That includes, you know,
nourishing our gut microbiome, moving our body, having, you
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know, wholesome fun with our friends, getting in nature,
being in flow state. That's a really great way to do
this. And when we do this, we don't go
so much to the fake dopamine, you know, the scrolling, the
binge watching TV, the, you know, maybe like just we all
know, we all know the ways, we all know the ways that we cope
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and the ways that we give ourselves the fake dopamine.
And I just think it's so important for us to take
conscious responsibility to fillup our cups in a healthier way
so that we don't want to go to, you know, the fake dopamine
sources at all, because we already feel fulfilled.
We already felt filled up in theways that we truly want to be
and, and the truth in the ways that we need.
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The way that I've also learned how to work with my ADHD is to
have a whiteboard. And every two days I write two
to three days I write down a newlist and I just try to check
things off my whiteboard. And I feel like with ADHD
there's lots of time blindness, so I'm not really good at future
planning per SE. So I just try to focus on the
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next logical step and the few days in front of Maine and what
I can get done. And for me, I get a lot more
done and I feel a lot better about myself when I activate my
gifts in that way through just focusing on the next logical
step, my tasks for you know, theday or the two to three days
before. And I only focus on that because
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I can get really overwhelmed future planning.
So I really like to chunk it down and make it not
overwhelming. Make really small tasks, put
them on my whiteboard, check them off, hopefully complete
them in two days and then restart, make a new whiteboard.
And for me, I think ADHD also comes from feeling like you're
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not doing enough because your brain is so active and activated
that you can see all the possibilities of everything you
can do, which can teach you thatyou're not doing enough.
And it's just so important to check those things off and it'll
just tell your brain, OK, we aredoing enough.
See, we can see it visually on the whiteboard.
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See, you're doing enough, you'redoing great, you're trying your
best. We love this for you.
And I think having that visual representation really helps me
personally. And also the biggest thing with
ADHD is I don't think of it as something that holds me back.
I think it's a gift. I literally think being
neurodivergent is a gift becausewe have the ability to create
more creative solutions and think outside of the box in ways
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that neurotypical people just don't necessarily.
And so instead of thinking that it's such, you know, a thing
that holds me back, I really think of it as a gift that I
have like I have the gift of connecting all the dots.
I see it like like mushrooms and, and their under workings
underneath, you know how mushrooms create this like huge
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communication system underneath the grounds that, you know,
translates across the world. I see that as the same with
people with ADHD. We have the ability to create
these communication systems within ourselves.
That may feel odd when we relateit to society, but it's actually
the most special thing about us and it's our fucking gift.
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And I think just really nourishing myself and making
sure that I realize that I am responsible for my own
well-being is everything. So that's all I wanted to talk
about today because I think whenwe have the information, we have
the ability to be so much more powerful because we can take the
information that resonates with us and we can use it as proof to
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then create motivation within ourselves because that's how we
create this internal motivation.External motivation is I'm doing
it because I need other people to see that I'm good enough.
I need to get this accolade. I need to get this, you know,
paycheck or whatever, whatever it is.
But internal motivation is what we need when it comes to our
health. And the way to develop this
internal like motivation and devotion that we crave is to
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really show our brains the proofand why this is good for us and
how we can feel better because we're moving towards pleasure.
Our bodies want it. We want to feel more joyful.
We want to feel more energized. So when we learn the information
and we learn the knowledge and we create the proof in our brain
that allows us to create that internal motivation within
ourselves. And when we learn about our
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vessel like we did today and we use this information and we
apply it in our life, which I'm so excited to hear.
Like more like DM me if you havethings that you do.
I'm really curious to know, But like learning about all these
things allows us to completely transform our life and alchemize
whatever it is we're experiencing into more expansive
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energy because our vessels are now prepared to handle denser
energies. And when those denser, lower
vibrational, not lower vibrational, but when those
denser heavier energies come upon us in life as they do, as
it is, inevitably what happens is we are so much more prepared
to handle it. We are so much capable.
We are so much more capable to handle it.
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We are more capable to handle the bullshit of our life because
our actual chemicals are balanced, like our hormones are
balanced, our serotonin is potent, our dopamine is being
fulfilled. You know, we are, we are doing
the things that make us feel more capable.
And I think that's just a reallyspecial place to be in.
And for me personally, I just know when I want to alchemize,
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my body needs to be prepared first.
So that's why this week was all about Elle learning about your
vessel in the acronym of The Alchemist.
That's a little bit of a tongue twister.
I love you guys so much. Make sure to share this on
Instagram. Tag me.
Make sure to share this with somebody that you love that you
feel like would benefit from this information.
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And let's do this thing. I love you guys.
You're inherently fucking worthy.
By the way, you don't have to doany of this to be worthy to love
yourself. But I promise when you create
the action towards pouring into yourself, you prove to yourself
that you love yourself and it's just a little little life hack.
I love you guys. Bye.
Thank you.
There's not like A1 hack fits all when it comes to nourishing
your body and prepping your vessel for the most expansive
life. But there are things that you
can do and there are things you can learn about that truly will
allow you to have a greater capability to handle life.
Because you are nourishing your vessel.
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You are nourishing your body. What is up guys?
And welcome back to Skinny to Bing.
The podcast will be stripped down and we dive in to the mind,
the body, and the soul in order to create actionable change in
our lives. How do we actually apply it?
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And this is the season of The Alchemist.
So each week we are diving into the acronym ALCHEMIST to uncover
ways for us to transfer heavier,denser energies that feel a
little bit more icky into expansive, lighter, more open
energies that just make us feel like we're moving towards life.
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Because that's really how the human brain activates.
We either move away from pain and fear, or we move towards
pleasure. We move towards life and I want
to get us in a space where everysingle atom in each of our
bodies are moving towards life, moving towards expansion.
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And the reason that the L in alchemy is for learning about
your body and learning about your human vessel is because I
truly believe that the point of all this work, the spiritual
work, the mental health work isn't to necessarily quote UN
quote make life easier. Because the inevitability of
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life is that shit's going to happen.
Shit may hit the fan when we decided to reincarnate into
these little human bodies and have this human experience with
our, you know, godly divine soul.
What happened was we signed up for this shit.
We signed up for pain and grief.And you know, with that we are
able to experience the joy and the love and the expansion of
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life because we have something to compare it to.
If you never experienced pain orgrief, you wouldn't really know
what love felt like. You really wouldn't know what
joy felt like because how are you to know what something feels
like if you don't have a comparison, if you don't have
the ability to see the difference, to differentiate, to
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discern. So in life, I think, you know,
people really try to make life easier for you in this work.
But I actually want to set you up for success.
I want to set you up in a way that allows you to have a
greater capability to handle thebullshit of life.
And that's what this episode is really about.
Because when you apply these things in your life, you really
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set yourself up for success. You set your body up for success
so that you can really live a more joyful life, You know?
And I like to say, oh, everything's going to be better
when you apply these things. But what is better?
Better for me means expansive, joyful, excited, inspired when I
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am in those emotions, create creative when I'm in those
emotions. That's how I know that I am in
this expansion period. And of course, we honor the
contractions with such love because for me personally, I
think when we are in a contraction period, it's the
perfect opportunity to allow ourselves to expand greater and
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expand further. And just like when we breathe
and we exhale and we inhale, we first need to contract in order
to expand. And it's the same with our
muscles, right? Like we go to the gym and what
happens when we're working on our muscles?
We're contracting, but then our muscles get bigger and we're and
we're fit. And maybe that's a poor example,
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but everything in the world contracts and then it expands.
And if you're in a contraction period, just know you can apply
these things to elevate your vessel, your body, so that you
can have a greater capability tohandle the bullshit of life.
So that when you know the stressand the anxiety and the
frustration is presented upon you from an external source in a
way that you may not be able to change.
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You know that you are capable and grounded in your body and
that your body feels energized and joyful.
And in this energy, you know that you have a greater
capability to handle life. So today we're going to be
talking about the things that I've learned that have that are
just my non negotiables, right? They're the things in my life
that I actually believe change my life on the daily.
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And that's like learning about movement and the power of
movement, nourishment for my body, learning about the
chemicals in my brain and how toactivate them, flow state,
creativity, even boredom is sucha key component of being able to
handle life in a more resilient way.
You know my experience with PMDDI'm going to talk about, we're
also going to be talking about living with ADHD.
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I'm not diagnosed, but if you hear me speak, you probably know
that I could be diagnosed as some sort of neurodivergent.
And I want to talk about sunshine and sleep and just all
these things that truly are going to allow you to have a
greater capability to handle life when things are thrown at
you as they inevitably will be. So also, what's up guys?
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I'm Kayla Rose, I am the host ofskinny dipping and you know, I
love talking about the mind, thebody and the soul and we're
going to be really actionable ineverything that we talk about
today. I'm going to give you the nitty
gritty and everything that I'm talking about comes from both
personal experience and what hasworked for me personally, but
then also most of it, actually all of it is scientifically
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backed. I went ahead, read articles, did
research, dope into my hot girl science era.
Once again, if you remember thatseason, I just like love doing
research. I love learning.
That's something that lights me up is education.
And all of these, you know, havebeen approved through cross
studies. So multiple studies have proven
that this information is true. So just so that you know, I'm
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not just spewing bullshit at you, this is both with
scientific evidence and personalexperience.
And these things changed my life.
And I think you might be like, oh, I know that, I know that,
but still talk about it. Let's reaffirm that these things
are good for us because I know that I'm the type of person,
once I learn something is good for me, once I learn that
something makes me feel brighter, I want to do it right.
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I want to go forward. I want to do it when we have the
information, when we have the proof, it shows our brain that
we should do this. And I love to work with my brain
in that way and be like, how canI prove this to myself?
So that proof of it eventually leads to devotion and discipline
with taking care of myself. So let's strip down and dive in.
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I'm Kayla Rose, and this is skinny dipping.
The first thing that I want to talk about when it comes to
learning about your vessel, which is a key component in
alchemization because if you want to alchemize, you need to
have the best capability to handle life because that's how
you really alchemize is being inthe driver's seat.
Not the victim's seat, but the driver's seat of your life.
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Knowing that you have the ability to impact everything in
your life and everything in yourexternal circumstances depending
on your own internal state. That is truly this process of
alchemy. So how do we prep our body to be
ready for this? We learn about our body.
We educate ourselves on our body.
And the biggest thing that I have found that preps me for the
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bullshit of life and allows me to handle stress and anxiety in
a more, you know, demure way, like a more, a more graceful, a
more mindful way actually, like is movement.
Exercise, you could call it, butI call it movement.
Movement is medicine because forme, exercise feels like going to
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the gym. But movement for me can be just
like dancing around. It can be going on a walk.
It can be, you know, swimming, it can be surfing.
Like I feel like movement is a very diverse word versus
exercise. If you like exercise feels like
so intense when movement feels more fun and more light.
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And according to numerous studies, including a study that
I read by Harvard, exercise or movement is 1.5 times more
effective than drugs for depression, anxiety, and other
mental health disorders. Can you fucking believe that?
Literally they are prescribing people up the fucking wazoo
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because they are profiting off our mental illness.
The big big pharma is genuinely one of the most, in my opinion,
one of the most dangerous facetsof Western civilization.
Because what we don't realize, Imean, I'm not saying like if
you're medicated, literally no judgement, do what you need to
do. For me personally, I think it's
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important for us to acknowledge,even if we are taking things
that they are trying to make money off of us and they don't
want us to know this. And what they don't want us to
know is that movement and exercise and getting your heart
rate up and moving your body andmoving stagnant energy is
incredible for your mental health and allows you to combat
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that depression. It allows you to combat that
anxiety and what does this look like in the day-to-day?
So the actual steps behind this,because not everyone has the
time, money and resources to go to a workout class every single
day, right? And I love a workout class
because for me, I'm like, okay, I paid for it.
I better show up. So it has that accountability
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aspect and it also has the community aspect and in that has
accountability because people may be looking forward to seeing
you there and they're like, where are you?
Come back to class? And that just motivates us to go
and to stay consistent and devoted to our practice.
Also, the reason I use devoted over discipline for me
personally is because disciplinefeels like I'm doing this
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because I hate myself and I feellike I need to fix myself.
And devotion feels like I'm doing this because I love myself
and I know I deserve to take care of myself.
I know I deserve this. I know that I am worthy of
showing up for myself. So that's why I love to use the
word devoted. So in this knowing how powerful
movement is, you know, we can goto classes.
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We can go to, you know, a gym and you can, you know, go on the
snare machine, do some weights. That's kind of my go to.
But also, what do you do when you have a busy day or you know,
you don't have the finances for it?
YouTube has so many amazing classes like I love Sammy Clark
I love move with Nicole who she's Pilates.
Sammy does like a lot more like hit and weights which I really
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love her for. And you can find so many amazing
people depending on your vibe all on YouTube for free.
And I think even 10 to 20 minutes of movement a day is a
non negotiable for me even if I don't do like an official
workout. I don't think we need to be
overwhelmed and think a workout needs to be 45 minutes to an
hour every single day. 20 minutes is sometimes enough,
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especially if we are working outfor our mental health.
For me, that's really my motivation.
You know, of course I love to look snatched and like that's
like a plus, but it's never the core motivation is how I look.
It's always how I feel and knowing that this movement is
nourishing my mind and nourishing my body and how
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amazing it feels to show up for myself.
Something I've personally reallystruggled with is thinking
nobody cares about me. No one shows up for me, no one,
no one gives a fuck. And that's like this narrative
that I've had to reprogram. And the best way to reprogram
this narrative is to show up foryourself, is to support
yourself, is to love yourself, is to prove to yourself that you
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are willing to show up for yourself.
And then you will notice you no longer think that about other
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is the key because it, you know,it releases these chemicals in
our bodies like endorphins, dopamine, serotonin,
norepinephrine, which actually allows us to be more regulated
in our mood. It allows our mood to be
elevated. It allows more pleasure and more
joy in our life. It allows us to like feel high
off of life. And that's what I really love
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about movement. And that is my #1 non
negotiable. It's movement because of all the
proof, personal and scientific Iknow, that moving your body
daily is life changing. Even if it's only a walk, Even
if it's only like a 10 minute hit.
Even if it's like a dance for three songs around my room and
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sweat it out. Like whatever it is.
Show up for yourself in movementand watch your life and your
mood transform before your eyes.Watch your ability and your
capability to handle life transform before your eyes and
watch you manifest all the things.
Like if I could give you one thing to do, it would be
movement. Forget about everything else
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we're going to talk about. Movement is the number one and
it's helped me manifest. It's helped me, you know, create
a better life because it really does raise your vibration,
connect you to yourself and prove to yourself, your brain,
your mind, your body, your spirit, that I am willing to
show up for myself. And I fucking love myself.
And that's the beauty of being devoted in movement.
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The next thing that has completely transformed my life
is learning how to properly nourish my body.
And I feel like this has only happened in the last year.
I say this to my friends as a joke, but it's dead serious.
Like when I turned 25, I did feel my prefrontal cortex fully
develop. And all of a sudden, like, I
wanted to be wifey. Like I wanted to feed myself and
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my partner. I wanted to nourish myself
through meals and I didn't have this desire or want before I ate
out 90% of the time. And in this eating out, you just
like don't know what like chemicals and oils and like all
the unnecessary things that they're putting into your food.
I would eat out in a healthy way, but honestly, I would go to
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a lot of like salad bars and I'dbe on the go and I would be very
in a rush with my nourishment for my body.
And I think just slowing down cooking yourself a meal, pouring
love into it, that in itself is more nourishing than getting fed
by a restaurant because you're actually putting love into it.
Just like how they've showed studies, they've proven that if
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you speak to your flowers, if you give them positive
affirmations, they will grow. If you give your plants love,
they will grow because they are a living Organism, you know?
And you know, the food that we eat, even though some of it's
not living anymore, a lot of like the plants and the meat,
like it once was a living Organism.
And with that, when we pour loveinto it, it increases the
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vibration of that food. And for me, I was talking with
my mom last week and she told meabout, you know, the real food
pyramid. We were talking about it because
the food pyramid we're taught inschool has a capitalist agenda
for sure. And now we're learning the real
food pyramid and the real, you know, foods that nourish our
brain and our body. And my mom loved this book that
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she's reading called Limitless. His name's Vim Quick, I think is
how you pronounce it. And he's known as like the boy
with the broken brain. He had brain trauma when he was
younger. And with that, he really learned
about how to nourish the brain and how to, you know, teach
himself things. So I just wanted to repeat back
to you guys. What they have shown through
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scientific studies are some of the most potent foods for our
brain, our body and also our soul.
And actually, these are things that I eat all the time.
And when I found out this, I waslike, this makes sense.
Like our body intuitively, once you train it away from all like
the bullshit that you know is inin food, when we actually learn
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what our body likes, our body moves towards it.
We actually crave it. We actually want it.
And so honey is one of the most powerful things.
I would say honey is at the top of the food pyramid.
It is so nutrient dense and alsosomething so special about honey
is if you which I would highly recommend eating local honey in
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your area can actually help you with allergies, which is really
cool and so fascinating. These are just like the coolest
thing ever too. So honey, olive oil, Oh my gosh,
olive oil is one of the most fantastic things for you.
That's why the Mediterranean diet is so incredibly healthy.
And you know, I learned a lot about this when watching the
Blue Zones documentary, which I would highly recommend.
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And olive oil is so incredible for you.
Blueberries, turmeric, of course, for inflammation.
Salmon is one of my, you know, favorite proteins to eat and
also tastes so good. Collard greens, kale, spinach,
just like that really like densegreens, dark chocolate, cacao,
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avocados, eggs, which is also like one of my favorite
proteins, broccoli, coconut oil and walnuts.
And I've also been having Brazilnuts for the, I think it's
called selenium that's in them. And those are just like some of
the most nutrient dense things that we can have for ourselves.
And you know, I really struggledwith PMDD.
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And if you don't know what PMD is, PMDD, it's premenstrual
depression disorder. And I was on the pill for about
like 7 years before getting off of it.
Now I've been off of it for 3 1/2 to four years now.
And I really think the pill, like the birth control pill
really messed up my hormones. And when I got off of it, I was
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really struggling with really low periods right before my
period. And for me, this wouldn't look
like like just being tired and lethargic.
The actual depression was reallyin my mind and in my intrusive
thoughts. All of a sudden I would just
completely feel like the world was falling apart, that I wasn't
good enough, that everything I was doing was complete shit.
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That's how I felt and this wouldhappen because I would have a
complete drop in my hormones andthe hormone imbalance would
happen and I would literally be like everything that I'm doing
is not worth it. I don't know why I've been
wasting my time and I would justhave such intrusive thoughts
about myself where I was just speaking so unkindly to myself.
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I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to click that, but I feel like
that that is accurate honestly. But that cracks me up.
I, I was like, I got to figure this out, right?
I got to figure out this PMDD and I know I didn't even know
what it was at first. I just felt so low and so sad
and I couldn't even differentiate that it wasn't,
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you know, my true thoughts and my true beliefs about myself
that it was actually an incredible hormonal imbalance
until I connected the dots and Iwas like, oh, this happens at
the same time like every single month.
And there's definitely somethingto, to this.
So I like got blood panels done.I worked with somebody
one-on-one and it was really powerful because I actually
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found out that although there are around like 5 to 6 reasons
that people with cycles can experience PMDD, for me
personally, it was my blood sugar.
So I didn't know that I strugglewith my blood sugar, but putting
all the pieces together, I'm like, OK, it makes sense.
Like it makes sense. Like I get incredibly hangry.
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And what was happening was that I was having this like imbalance
of blood sugar constantly leading to these mood swings all
throughout my 28 day cycle. But once it got to, you know,
the whole cycle impacted that three days of that PMDD.
And because I was so imbalanced in my blood sugar, I really
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realized that that was completely causing my PMDD.
So I got really serious about feeding myself high protein
meals above anything else and just really nourishing my gut
microbiome. Because 90% of your serotonin,
which is your mood stabilizer, is created in your gut.
Your gut is your second brain. It's actually your first brain,
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like your gut. Gut is telling your entire body
so much about how it feels and what it needs constantly.
And if you are having incrediblyintrusive thoughts, I urge you
to look into balancing your hormones and your blood sugar
and also just really nourishing your gut microbiome because that
is really where I think all of these intrusive thoughts were
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stemming from. So I got super serious about #1
having a high protein meal and most importantly breakfast.
Breakfast. I skimped out all my whole life
and I really had to teach myselfhow to eat breakfast and how to
just feed myself in general. And, and I've done this since
like January and my PMDD, it honestly makes me want to cry
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because I'm so happy my PMDD like has not been what it ever
was before. And I noticed like the months
that I nourish myself the most, I won't have any like of those
intrusive thoughts that happenedright before my period caused by
that PMDD. And I really think for me, you
know, stabilizing my blood sugarthrough protein and just really
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nourishing my microbiome and my gut through really nourishing
meals that light my soul on fire.
Like just, oh, it makes me emotional because it really
sucks to have PMDD. Like if you know, you know, like
you don't feel like yourself, like you feel like everything's
falling apart. So when I got that right now, I
feel so much better before my period.
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And of course, like I'll get like a little like unstable and
you know, have some cramps, but it just wasn't, it's just not
like it was at all before. So I'm so grateful.
So now I want to give you the actual meals that are my
favorite. So my favorite go to brekkie is
avocado toast with an egg. I love sourdough because
sourdough processes so much better in our bodies.
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Like people who are gluten free like can eat sourdough because
it's just so different and it's alive.
So it really like nourishes our gut microbiome.
So sourdough avocado is like so good for you healthy fats.
And then I'll put pickled cabbage on it that I just
absolutely love because that really nourishes that gut
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microbiome. Anything pickled.
And then I put sprouts on it fornutrients because sprouts are so
nutrient dense. And then I'll do local honey and
I'll do hot sauce and that is mygo to for breakfast.
And without fail it always makesme feel amazing.
The other thing is caffeine after breakfast every single
time. Coffee is not my thing.
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I do yerba mate or matcha. And that is also way better for
your gut, which is going to affect your mind, your body,
your spirit, and allow you to have a greater capability to
handle life. For lunch, I do eat out a lot.
And I've been loving this lemongrass chicken sandwich from
this place on Maui called Alive and Well.
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And it's lemongrass chicken. Lemongrass is so nourishing for
you. It's local chicken.
It's on sourdough. It has, you know, Pickled
cucumber and a couple other pickled things on it.
And it's just so good with this,like, Dijon dressing.
I love sauce. Sauce is my go to for
everything. I love hot sauce, I love spice.
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I love it on everything. So that's my favorite lunch.
And then for dinner, my two favorite dinners are bowls, like
rice bowls, the first one being a salmon avo sprouts rice bowl.
And me, my boyfriend do like a hot honey salmon.
We bake it so good and then we'll make sure that you put the
honey on kind of towards the endbecause I guess like honey when
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it's like cooked for too long can get kind of toxic for you,
I've learned. So put it on like 5 minutes at
the end for the honey. And then I also have been doing
like a really good like teriyakiBBQ chicken with like broccoli
and squash, sweet potatoes and purple sweet potatoes with a
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rice bowl. And that is also a huge favorite
of mine with avocado, of course.So those are my favorite
nourishing meals. And I just wanted to give you
guys those because I was always like, what do I eat?
And I feel like I hate to like constantly make the decision on
what to eat. So I literally only have like a
couple meals that I rotate through.
And for me that really works forme.
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So the next thing I want to talkabout, I'm going to take a deep
breath. Just talking about the PMDD gone
kind of got me like really emotional because I feel like I
think about the younger version of me and like how she didn't
know what was going on and like how scary that was and like how
she really felt like she was broken.
So that just kind of makes me emotional.
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So I'm just going to take a deepbreath.
If you want to join me on a deepbreath, inhale, hold at the top,
exhale. I'll actually use that as a
perfect opportunity to talk about the power of regulating
your nervous system. I think when it comes to taking
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care of your body, regulating your nervous system is key.
Because if we're acting from a dysregulate, regulated place, we
are going to be reacting to lifeand everything from our past is
going to be affecting our present.
But when we are acting and speaking from and being from a
regulated place, a regulated point of view within our body,
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we have a greater capability to respond to life rather than
react. And you know, that's why
movement is really big for regulating your nervous system.
And then also for me personally,I love just like breath work and
breathing, making sure that I'm not going on my phone first
thing in the morning because that is completely dysregulatory
to your nervous system to be scrolling first thing when
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you're in that first like 30 minutes of waking that waking
period. And also for me, like the
easiest way to regulate your nervous system is to inhales and
hold the top exhale. So we'll do one more of those
inhaling in, one more at the top, cold, exhale slowly through
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a straw. Regulating your nervous system
is super huge and making sure that your vessel is taken care
of. And most of us are highly
dysregulated just because of thesociety that we live in.
So we just need to make the extra conscious effort to
nourish our bodies and make surethat our nervous system feels
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super safe. The other thing that you can do
is kind of tap on yourself and just remind yourself that I am
safe, I am protected, I'm worthy, and just repeating that
to yourself can begin to reprogram your brain.
The next thing that I wanted to talk about, OK, so we got
movement is medicine. It's like a little recap.
Movement is medicine. It's so much more effective than
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drugs. They've proven it in multiple
studies over like the last 10 years. 1.5 more effective than
drugs. I would say even more for me
personally and in the lives of those that I'm closest to, I've
seen this. The other thing that we talked
about is, you know, high proteinmeals and how this can help with
like PMDD and other like chemical imbalances, hormonal
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imbalances, and just really nourishing your gut, your
microbiome so that you can produce optimal amounts of
serotonin, which is our mood stabilizer.
And then we got into regulating your nervous system through
breathing, through breath work, through movement, and really
activating that double breath in, slow hold at the top and
slow exhale. The next thing that I feel like
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is so potent when it comes to nourishing your vessel is flow
state. Flow state.
Oh my gosh, you guys know, flow state is one of the most
powerful things in the world. I'm so passionate about it.
I'm literally going to make a documentary one day on flow
state going all around the worldand talking about the science
about it, talking about the art of it, talking about the God
within flow state, talking aboutspirit within flow state.
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Because I think that's just whenwe feel most ourselves.
Like when I am dancing, when I am singing, when I am speaking,
when I am in that flow state, when I am surfing for other
people it's painting or for my boyfriend, it's like riding
horses or like playing sports. Like whatever is flow state is
the ultimate, ultimate high thatwe create within our own bodies.
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And we have the ability to feel this way at any moment through
flow state. So flow state is created when we
are concentrated, when we are concentrated, and when we are
moderately challenged. So what happens is we are
moderately challenged. So we feel like we need to
really focus. And in this focus, we want to
make sure we're stretching ourselves.
So we're pushing ourselves just a little bit, but not enough to
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get frustrated that we snap. Because for me, when I'm doing
like an IKEA table and I'm setting that up, that is not
putting me in flow state becauseit is hard and it is hurting my
mind and it is not fun. So when you're able to be
concentrated and the challenge is moderate, it's not too easy
and it's not too hard. You create this beautiful
balance of flow state, which allows us to activate, you know,
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all the things that we activate in movement, endorphins,
dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine.
But then I learned about today in my research, which I'm so
excited to share about is Anatomid.
Anatomid, anatomied, yeah, I think that's how I pronounce it.
It's not anatomy, it's anatomiedNANADAMIDE.
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This is new to me. I just learned about it today,
but it was so fascinating that Ireally wanted to share with you
guys one of the other molecules and chemicals that is released
when we are in flow state and it's really associated with
that, you know, quote UN quote. Runner's high, right?
That feeling that runners get, Idon't really get the runner's
high because I think you have toreally get in the flow for that
to happen. But for me personally, I get
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this feeling when I dance. When I dance, I'm just
completely present in the current moment.
No future exists, no past exists.
I am just here in the present with my body.
And that's when this flow state is activated and this bliss
molecule known as anatomy is also activated.
What happens when we are in flowstate is we are able to create
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easier pattern recognition. So what happens is we don't have
to think our way out of problems.
We just put ourselves in the flow state.
And naturally, both sides of ourbrains are communicating in a
more powerful, more charged way,and we're able to create more
creative solutions for us and our life and our problems that
we're experiencing, whatever hardships or heaviness that are
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coming through us in our life right now, when we actually
forget about the problems, focuson flow state, get in that state
of concentration and presence and focus, what happens is we
have deeper pattern recognition.We're able to see, oh, this is
happening because of this. And our brain just puts it
together in this effortless way without us actually having to
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think through it. I actually think thinking can
sometimes be detrimental to coming up with the best and
creative solutions. And the sooner that you can step
away, take a deep breath, get into flow state through art,
through movement, through words.Talking to a friend can even get
you into flow state if you're having a really great
conversation. What happens is we're able to
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make greater creative connections, which creates
better solutions for ourselves. And what's so cool about the
anatomy D is that it was actually discovered in 1992 with
THC and CBD studies. So through studies about
cannabis, they actually realizedthat this same molecule
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structure that is released when consuming cannabis, known as
this bliss molecule, which is, you know, a cannabinoid, it's
called, actually can be created in our own body through flow
state, which is so incredibly cool because it's basically your
own cannabinoid without drugs. And you guys know, I love a
little bit of weed, but it makessense that I also love flow
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state more than anything becauseit has that same chemical that
is being produced in our body, which is really this chemical.
They call it like the bliss molecule, which is so cool and
so interesting. So actually anata is Sanskrit
for the word bliss. That's why they called the
molecule anatomy so interesting.I absolutely love it.
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And I just think that flow stateis one of the best ways to get
our bodies attuned to being morecapable and more resilient in
life so that we can alkalize deeper and more effectively in
our life. So flow state, we love her.
So I want you guys, as your homework to write down five ways
that you can get into flow statethis week and make sure that you
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cross off at least one of them. And send me a picture of your
homework assignment and I'll follow you back.
I love the actual stuff. So we're getting on these
homework assignments. So five ways that you can get
into flow state. And also, if you have any ideas
for recipes that you feel like Iwould really enjoy, please send
them my way as well. OK, the next thing I want to
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talk about is the power of doingnothing.
And all these things, you know, require action that we've talked
about so far. But have you ever tried just
going outside, putting away yourphone, putting away your
journal, putting away your tarotcards, literally bringing
nothing with you and just layingin the grass and looking up at
the sky, watching the clouds flow by, looking at the birds,
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looking at the trees, literally doing nothing.
Because that is one of the most effective things for regulating
your nervous system and also clearing your mind.
What happens in the beginning when you first completely de
stimulate your surroundings and your external perspective, Our
mind starts to run. It starts to talk about you know
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that best friend breakup from the past or you know the
current, you know boss that is just like bugging the fuck out
of you. Or it starts worrying about all
your finances. The worry and the stress and
anxiety will come. You literally just let it, let
it run, let it flow and then eventually it'll tire itself out
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and it'll shut up and it'll be quiet.
It's literally amazing and you have to get past that
uncomfortable point when you're de stimulating yourself, when
you're in the stimulation depletion, it is so incredibly
uncomfortable in the beginning, but once you get through that
first like 20 minutes, you will begin to actually feel peace in
your mind. Just let your mind run.
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Let it say whatever it wants to say.
Don't attach it to emotion. Don't even think about it.
Just let the thoughts come and let them go.
And you will see that in the power of doing nothing.
That is when you are going to begin to feel most yourself
again because we are, Oh my gosh, in this society, guys, we
have so much fucking stimulation.
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We have so much being asked for us, asked of us.
And I just believe that humans aren't really built for this
shit. Like we're built to live in
small communities of under 100 people supporting each other,
leaning into our gifts to createservice for the communities we
grew up in, this tribe mentality.
And then all of a sudden we're just in this crazy world where
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we can scroll on our phone and connect to over millions of
people. Like we weren't built for this
shit and therefore we need to make the conscious and mindful
and the demure effort. No, it's funny, I don't like
demure because I'm definitely not demure.
But mindful is definitely the word here.
The mindful and conscious effortto be bored.
Boredom is the greatest life hack to creativity.
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Boredom is the greatest life hack to rediscovering who you
are again. Because once you de stimulate
your surroundings and you deplete your surroundings of
this stimulation, you will see that you'll feel so overwhelmed
and so uncomfortable for a moment because you aren't being
distracted. And then eventually you will
feel peace. Kind of this so fucking powerful
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to feel this way. And the only way to do this is
to be bored, to do nothing, to lay in the grass, no journal, no
tarot cards, no phone, no music,Literally just you and yourself
and the earth. That's all you need.
And in this, whenever I'm bored,I genuinely believe boredom is
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the greatest medicine to any sort of like creative depletion
or creative blockage. You're over stimulated, babe.
You're not broken, you're just over stimulated.
And what we realize, and this iswhen we're bored, we have the
opportunity to be creative. And you will see that after you
sit outside for 30 minutes and you let your mind run and you
let it go. You're going to want to write
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poetry, you're going to want to write a song.
You're going to feel re inspiredfrom that next business
endeavor. You're going to know what to do
in your relationship or whateverit is.
Everything is creativity. And when we can tap into
creative solutions, which is like the greatest way to
alchemize, the greatest way to handle life, we first need to
get bored. We first need to do nothing.
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And I would highly encourage youthis week to whenever you feel
overwhelmed, do the opposite action, the radical opposite
action. When you're feeling overwhelmed,
your mind tells you, I need to do this.
I have a whole list of things todo.
It's so overwhelming. Opposite action radical opposite
action, radical self love is going outside, laying down on a
blanket, looking at the clouds, having no concept of time and
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doing nothing. Let the mind run, let it
complain, let it be frustrated, just let it and watch what
happens. The next thing I really want to
talk about that has really changed my life has been
learning about ADHD and neurodivergency.
All of this information is from Andrew Huberman, and I feel like
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he's so interesting. I will say, like a lot of
research is done on men and not women, but I do think that this
is a lot of potent information. And they've really found that
ADHD isn't really this like attention deficit.
It's not that you can't focus onthings.
Like for me, it's that I focus on too much.
I have too many interests and there I want to do it all.
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It's not that I can't focus on anything, it's that I want to
focus on it all. And he really says that this
comes from this like low dopamine.
So with people in ADHD, they've really discovered that they have
lower dopamine levels than neurotypical people.
That's why people with neurodivergency will like really
go towards caffeine, cigarettes,drugs, coke, weed scrolling,
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binge watching TV, like all these things that pump this fake
false dopamine into you. What happens is that.
It's not that you're broken, it's just that sometimes your
dopamine like levels just produce differently than people
who are neurotypical. And that's why we really need to
nourish this real dopamine. So real dopamine comes from
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sunshine first thing in the morning, that vitamin D, that
sunshine. It's so important because what
happens is it actually activatesa healthy amount of cortisol.
People are so scared of cortisolnowadays, but our body actually
needs cortisol to function a healthy and regulated amount.
But what happens is when you like go outside and you
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experience sunlight and sunshine, especially first thing
in the morning, it sets the tonefor the rest of your day and it
activates your cortisol earlier in the day.
And that's what's really beneficial for you is having
cortisol earlier in the day versus later in the day because
that's when you like stay up andthat affects your sleep.
And then also it activates your dopamine and hormones that in
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the first thing in the day. So it can create that really
gentle upward motion where your hormones and dopamine can
increase. And then it can go downwards
during the day so you can get more tired and you can go to
sleep. The other thing that's really
important for activating your dopamine system in a healthy
way, obviously fun being in nature, being with friends, but
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also sleep. Women typically need way more
sleep than men. And what happens is when you get
the proper amount of sleep, it restores your baseline dopamine
in the morning for you to have abetter day.
And that's why if you have a really early morning, we got to
teach ourselves how to go to bedearlier.
I'm really, I really struggle with this, but with the work
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that I do, like I do have the privilege of sleeping in and
whenever I sleep in, I really and just sleep to when my body
wants to sleep. I noticed that my dopamine
levels feel really activated andease at ease during the day,
which feels really good. So making sure we have really
good sleep is super important. And this means like removing any
artificial lights in the night time, an hour before bed and
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also in the morning so that, youknow, our dopamine can be
healthier, which feels really good, you know, and you know,
with ADHD, I think it's really important to pour into all
things that, you know, teach us what it feels like to produce
real dopamine in our bodies. That includes, you know,
nourishing our gut microbiome, moving our body, having, you
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know, wholesome fun with our friends, getting in nature,
being in flow state. That's a really great way to do
this. And when we do this, we don't go
so much to the fake dopamine, you know, the scrolling, the
binge watching TV, the, you know, maybe like just we all
know, we all know the ways, we all know the ways that we cope
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and the ways that we give ourselves the fake dopamine.
And I just think it's so important for us to take
conscious responsibility to fillup our cups in a healthier way
so that we don't want to go to, you know, the fake dopamine
sources at all, because we already feel fulfilled.
We already felt filled up in theways that we truly want to be
and, and the truth in the ways that we need.
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The way that I've also learned how to work with my ADHD is to
have a whiteboard. And every two days I write two
to three days I write down a newlist and I just try to check
things off my whiteboard. And I feel like with ADHD
there's lots of time blindness, so I'm not really good at future
planning per SE. So I just try to focus on the
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next logical step and the few days in front of Maine and what
I can get done. And for me, I get a lot more
done and I feel a lot better about myself when I activate my
gifts in that way through just focusing on the next logical
step, my tasks for you know, theday or the two to three days
before. And I only focus on that because
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I can get really overwhelmed future planning.
So I really like to chunk it down and make it not
overwhelming. Make really small tasks, put
them on my whiteboard, check them off, hopefully complete
them in two days and then restart, make a new whiteboard.
And for me, I think ADHD also comes from feeling like you're
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not doing enough because your brain is so active and activated
that you can see all the possibilities of everything you
can do, which can teach you thatyou're not doing enough.
And it's just so important to check those things off and it'll
just tell your brain, OK, we aredoing enough.
See, we can see it visually on the whiteboard.
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See, you're doing enough, you'redoing great, you're trying your
best. We love this for you.
And I think having that visual representation really helps me
personally. And also the biggest thing with
ADHD is I don't think of it as something that holds me back.
I think it's a gift. I literally think being
neurodivergent is a gift becausewe have the ability to create
more creative solutions and think outside of the box in ways
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that neurotypical people just don't necessarily.
And so instead of thinking that it's such, you know, a thing
that holds me back, I really think of it as a gift that I
have like I have the gift of connecting all the dots.
I see it like like mushrooms and, and their under workings
underneath, you know how mushrooms create this like huge
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communication system underneath the grounds that, you know,
translates across the world. I see that as the same with
people with ADHD. We have the ability to create
these communication systems within ourselves.
That may feel odd when we relateit to society, but it's actually
the most special thing about us and it's our fucking gift.
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And I think just really nourishing myself and making
sure that I realize that I am responsible for my own
well-being is everything. So that's all I wanted to talk
about today because I think whenwe have the information, we have
the ability to be so much more powerful because we can take the
information that resonates with us and we can use it as proof to
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then create motivation within ourselves because that's how we
create this internal motivation.External motivation is I'm doing
it because I need other people to see that I'm good enough.
I need to get this accolade. I need to get this, you know,
paycheck or whatever, whatever it is.
But internal motivation is what we need when it comes to our
health. And the way to develop this
internal like motivation and devotion that we crave is to
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really show our brains the proofand why this is good for us and
how we can feel better because we're moving towards pleasure.
Our bodies want it. We want to feel more joyful.
We want to feel more energized. So when we learn the information
and we learn the knowledge and we create the proof in our brain
that allows us to create that internal motivation within
ourselves. And when we learn about our
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vessel like we did today and we use this information and we
apply it in our life, which I'm so excited to hear.
Like more like DM me if you havethings that you do.
I'm really curious to know, But like learning about all these
things allows us to completely transform our life and alchemize
whatever it is we're experiencing into more expansive
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energy because our vessels are now prepared to handle denser
energies. And when those denser, lower
vibrational, not lower vibrational, but when those
denser heavier energies come upon us in life as they do, as
it is, inevitably what happens is we are so much more prepared
to handle it. We are so much capable.
We are so much more capable to handle it.
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We are more capable to handle the bullshit of our life because
our actual chemicals are balanced, like our hormones are
balanced, our serotonin is potent, our dopamine is being
fulfilled. You know, we are, we are doing
the things that make us feel more capable.
And I think that's just a reallyspecial place to be in.
And for me personally, I just know when I want to alchemize,
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my body needs to be prepared first.
So that's why this week was all about Elle learning about your
vessel in the acronym of The Alchemist.
That's a little bit of a tongue twister.
I love you guys so much. Make sure to share this on
Instagram. Tag me.
Make sure to share this with somebody that you love that you
feel like would benefit from this information.
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And let's do this thing. I love you guys.
You're inherently fucking worthy.
By the way, you don't have to doany of this to be worthy to love
yourself. But I promise when you create
the action towards pouring into yourself, you prove to yourself
that you love yourself and it's just a little little life hack.
I love you guys. Bye.
Thank you.
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