July 19, 2023 • 37 mins
Falyn Morningstar's personal journey through digestive discomfort, insomnia, fatigue, hair loss, muscle soreness, and emotional eating led her to explore integrative and eastern modalities for healing. Dissatisfied with the support from western-thinking practitioners, Falyn delved into Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and became a certified Practitioner herself. As she unraveled deeper layers of her health, including sexual trauma, emotional shutdown, iron dysregulation, and thyroid issues, she recognized the frustration and isolation that comes from feeling like something is missing. Now, Falyn guides health-minded women on a transformative journey to reclaim their vitality, pleasure, and emotional connection. Through holistic and alternative approaches, including functional lab testing and powerful resources, she helps women uncover the missing pieces in their health stories and radiate their luminous selves to the world. Falyn's passion for optimizing life and her commitment to healing together and rising together shape her approach.
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And welcome to another episode. I am your host,
W-I-Z-E. I'm excited to speak to my guests.
Let's just get it right onto the show. Welcome to the show. Violin Morningstar.
Thank you so much for having me. Happy to be here. I have to say,
the intro gave me goosebumps. Thank you.
Okay, so you have a very
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unique story.
Share a little bit about your personal journey and
what led you to what you're doing now. Yeah, I
love the question. I feel like we could have a whole episode just on
the intro part, but to give a
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brief synopsis, really, at age 26 and to
give you a time frame. I'm 29 now. At 26, I was
dealing with a lot of physical health symptoms. Not necessarily a
diagnosis, but things like very poor
sleep. I always felt tired. I could not
recover after exercise. It would be four days. I would still be
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sore. I was experiencing hair
loss more than my usual. There was
body odor going on. I started to develop an
irregular menstrual cycle. And it's not like all of these
symptoms came up right then and there. They kind
of progressed and intensified as time went on. And
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I actually saw my family physician, I saw my gynecologist, and
neither one of those Western thinking
practitioners helped me to find some answers
of why I'm feeling so crappy. And at this point, I
had zero education on what functional health really
is. So thankfully, I
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had a friend that was going through some functional
lab testing. So things like a food sensitivity,
hormone stool, and I'm very data
driven now. There's
parts of me that are more into the spirituality
aspect of life, but very much in that masculine.
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I would love to experience this as well
because I think this could help me. And so I actually went through the same
testing as what she did, and that led me to actually
becoming a practitioner in that same certification
of what had helped me, because I was like, this
information is so transformative. I want to be able to
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continue to educate other people and try to help them
find those missing pieces in their health. So
from the lab test, they really validated my
concerns, all of the concerns I just mentioned, I'm like,
Hallelujah, because now we have some direction
to heal these physical symptoms.
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Can you explain to us what Functional
Diagnostic Nutrition is and how it's helped
transform your understanding of health? Yeah,
would love to. So Functional Diagnostic
Nutrition is the company that I have a functional
health certification in. And when I
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say functional health, that's really taking the
body as an entire body. It's not necessarily
just looking at our mental side and maybe we're seeing
a psychologist or psychotherapist. It's not just if we have
digestive discomfort, we're going to see a gastroenterologist
or taking something for our stomach. This
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is really a whole body approach.
And really what us practitioners help other
clients with is that holistic way of living?
And we really teach on the five pillars that's called the
dress protocol. So I feel like probably by the end of
this episode you'll very much remember this, but it
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stands for Diet, Rest, Exercise,
Stress Reduction and Supplementation. So
that's how we coach our clients. But we also have
this big beautiful umbrella of functional lab test to
help us find out more of what's going on inside.
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Because you hear number of times of
people being dying, not being able to find
out what their issues are,
what they're being diagnosed with. How did
your experience with this make you
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want to help other people?
I think in large part I felt like
very alone. I felt
like I'm not supposed to feel this way.
There was this intuitive sense that I'm,
like these doctors should know this, in my
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opinion. However, I think a lot of us put
a lot of weight in doctors to help heal us. But I
do think we have the responsibility for ourselves to find those
answers and wherever they might be. So following your
intuition when you know something doesn't feel right
is really the best way to find those
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answers. And I think that once I felt
validated because a lot of people, they love seeing
something on paper to say yes, that really
correlates with this symptom that I'm having. It helps the brain
feel a little bit more safe to say, okay, now I know a little bit
of a direction because the unknown can be very scary sometimes,
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especially when these symptoms are
debilitating. You can't get out of bed, you can't actually function,
you're trying to type this email and you keep misspelling words when you're
rechecking it. And I think for
me, the biggest thing was that validation of this is
concrete and we have some direction to go to be able to
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heal. Can you share some of
the alternative and holistic approaches
you use to help guide women on their journey?
Absolutely. So with the first pillar, like just
taking diet into account, diet is one of the largest
things, lifestyle things that we can transform
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into what works for us. I don't necessarily
teach on a specific diet. It's not like I follow keto
or carnivore. It's not that. However, I do explain
how food works in the body, how important protein
is, even for our physical health, but also for our mental
health. And we really incorporate what's called a
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food sensitivity test. So depending on what the
client presents as far as symptoms, a lot of times it is that
chronic fatigue or bloating, some digestive distress or
even migraines. To be honest, when we go through
the food sensitivity test, what's really cool
is that it looks at 176 different foods
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and it's taking your own blood and
explaining what foods you are sensitive to
or not sensitive to. So there's a very clear green,
yellow and red category of you can
eat these. These are a little bit cautionary. These you definitely want to
stay away from because your immune system is very much reacting and
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causing inflammation in your system. So with the
test, it's beautiful because it gives you direction on
what works for you in your current state of health.
And when you mean what works for you, it breaks down what
foods are best used for you to
help you diet and change your life,
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because what it really is, is a lifestyle change. You have to give up a
lot of things that you know aren't good for you. And
does this help you pinpoint what are the
proper foods that you should be eating? Exactly? So,
for example, when I was dealing with some bloating
and a lot of the symptoms that I explained in the beginning, I had that
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food sensitivity test in front of me, and it was sharing a lot of the
foods I was sensitive to, I was actually eating, which is very
common, but broccoli was on. There
green peppers and things that we know to be
healthy. However, for your current state of health, it's
just reactive to your system. So when we have food
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sensitivities, we do have leaky gut. And to kind
of give you I know that a lot of us have probably heard the phrase
before a leaky gut. And that's really essentially saying that
your microbiome, your gut lining is
basically leaking. So particles that are
supposed to stay in your gut are actually leaking out into your
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general blood circulation, and it's causing an
inflammatory reaction. And so when we see those
food sensitivities on the test, that's what it's sharing with us. There's
a sensitivity in your immune system that
is reacting with broccoli or chicken or whatever. So there are,
like I said, 176, and it's looking at different proteins,
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dairy, beans, fruits, veggies. There's
things like flavor enhancers or even things like ibuprofen
and some chemicals that we might see.
I think it's 93 or 94% accurate,
but it really provides a beautiful direction for you to
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remove the yellow and the red foods
for at least 90 days to allow your
system to naturally heal. Because when we remove
things that are kind of wreaking havoc on us,
we have this beautiful innate ability to heal, but we just have
to support it in the right way. And I found that this test is really
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I know we're just talking about diet right now, but it's a really great way
for you to know what foods you should and shouldn't be eating.
Yeah,
I had a scare recently, so it's kind of
waking me up too. I need to change my diet. I nearly need to
focus on eating certain foods,
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cutting out certain foods, and I'm learning that now. And
so it's not easy. It's not easy.
But if I'm serious
about changing my health, it's something that
I really need to focus on and really learn about. Yeah,
absolutely. And I feel like
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when symptoms come up, and they always come up, it's kind of like that beautiful
onion being peeled back of like, oh, here's something else we should look at.
But for me, when something comes up, it's like, okay, well, let's dive
deeper into that. And we're always changing. The food
sensitivity test in 2023 is going to look different in
2024 because we are continuously
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evolving. Different stressors are
impacting us. If we've removed the foods
in 2023 and we're retesting later, it's like, okay, we've had
some healing. Because I even noticed with my
own test, the grains category was
actually fairly sensitive and reactive in my
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first test. And so I really removed those foods. I
removed gluten for a while in my second test, which was
about a year and a half or two years later, that grains category was very
much in the green, which shows me, oh, that's great.
Some healing has been done. So does that mean
that you can eat some of those grains,
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or should you just regulate on how much of it did
you eat? I would say if they're in the yellow or red, definitely
removing those for at least 90 days and then slowly
reintroducing them one by one just to see how it
feels. Not rushing that process of the reintroduction.
But there are some cases that it will stay
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in the red or the yellow. Like, for me, lamb,
even though it tastes good to me and I don't feel like I have that
visceral bloating reaction, it's still consistently in
both tests, I've had it in the red. So it can be
cases like that where that's just not a food that works for you.
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I used to love broccoli. I still do, but
it came to a point when I started eating it, it really was
making discomfort for me on my stomach and everything. So
I can't eat it.
You don't understand. I love eating broccoli, broccoli
and cheese, broccoli with my potato,
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and now I just can't. And I want to
so bad. But I don't want to suffer the consequences of
eating the broccoli. It's too much pain. Yeah.
I wonder if you would remove it for like, 90 days and then
attempt to reintroduce. I don't know
when was the last time I ate.
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I'm afraid to try. Yeah, for sure.
Sometimes it's not like I
purposely eat foods that I know I'm reactive to, but
if after 90 days I'll give it a try, or like, maybe if
I'm going out to a restaurant or something, I will maybe have
activated charcoal with me that helps bind
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and absorb any sort of proteins that might aggravate my
system. So I like to keep that on handy.
So if you're going to kind of shoot in the dark and try
broccoli again, maybe have those activated charcoal capsules
on hand. All right, so something else
you talked about is how do you address
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emotion healing and trauma recovery in your work
with your clients? So I will
know when I went through the FDN certification, and again,
that's functional diagnostic nutrition, in large
part, it was very data driven. Certainly
the stress reduction pillar was
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one that it was recommended to start meditation,
and that was pretty much the only
recommendation, like journaling, sure, going for a walk, sure,
that's great stress reduction techniques. But I felt like
there wasn't really education on how
to handle things in the emotional sense,
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just different tools to help regulate your nervous
system. Now, sure, everything that we do helps to regulate your nervous system, helps to
bring it back in balance. But there was no specifics for me. So I felt
like I lacked that for a little bit. And then the world
of somatic experiencing came into my life. And
there are leaders in this field, peter
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Levine, even Dr. Stephen Porges,
if you look either one of those up, they have great short videos on how
to do a somatic exercise of if you're feeling overwhelmed or
anxious and even working
with coaches that kind of deal with the
emotional side. I've had that experience now, and
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I want to say that the emotional side is just as important as the
physical side. You can't have one without the other.
Because for a while I was asking myself the question, why
don't I still feel like this
bliss of what I think I should be feeling? And I was like, oh,
there's the emotional side. It's not like I didn't know about it, but
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I didn't know about it in a way. And I
think as I healed more of the
physical body, I was able
to have the capacity, my nervous system capacity,
to open up a little bit by little bit, the
emotional side and the trauma side. So
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for me, I think it's kind of the universe just saying, like, we need to
heal these things first before we open this big can of
stuff. And since then,
I help teach clients how to actually, like, if
they're feeling up and overwhelmed, whether they had a conflict with their
partner or at work or
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whatever it is that they're feeling anxious about. We go
over different tools that you can use at your
disposal, what feels right, and actually
have your system calm down into that parasympathetic, that rest and
digest state. Because a lot of times as we do this work and
as we're healing, it's like you don't realize how much you were in
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that fight or flight, that sympathetic state, because you're just not
aware of it. And
you just always have that fear or that lurking, like you're always lurking
like what's coming next type of thing. And that's
a stress response whenever we think something bad is going to happen, we're
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making chemicals in our body that have us in this
stressed out state that are burning through our hormones and
after years and years of doing that, you do get these physical
symptoms, which that's what happened to me.
So I think the emotional side is one
that and the physical side sure is one that you have
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to just continue to practice every day because our
society in this environment really gets us up, if you know
what I mean. All of this stimulation
is quite a lot and the more that we can have
those tools that I teach clients with, the more that we can
regulate ourselves and actually show up authentically of how
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we actually want to be. And that's one thing
I realized, that being able to be your authentic
self is key in your mental health
and physical health because now you get to
just be you.
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You don't have to go out and try
to prove to everyone else who you are or who you truly
want. It's been great for me. This, for
me is kind of my therapy. Being able to come and talk on
my podcast and express the things that have gone on in my life and being
able to have these conversations,
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it's my form of therapy.
And being able to listen
to these amazing stories like your own and see that
we all go through these struggles in life. It's how
we deal with them and how we approach
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them and look at them. That
it's.
It's gonna what? It's gonna the way you react to it's gonna show
you how you're gonna handle the rest of your life.
Because you could have easily given up and
said, I don't know what's going on with me. And doctors don't know.
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It would have been easy for you to just give up. But the frighter in
you was like, no, there's something wrong with me, I'm going to find
out. And with you doing that now,
you're helping people with similar
struggles and I commend you for that. That's an amazing
thing you're doing. And that's why I
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got into what I'm doing is because I wanted to help people
get through whatever traumas and struggles that they've been through in their
lives. I love that. Yeah, there's this
motto that always comes up for me is the heal together, rise together.
And sure, we are all doing our individual work,
but our individual work helps all of us heal
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and continue to rise. So I love that. And again, I love
having these conversations too, and just thank you again for having me on
here. It's been my pleasure. We're not done yet. No,
I know. No, I'll say it again and again, but I'm just saying.
Okay.
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How do you help women reconnect with their inner power and
develop positive relationships within themselves?
Yeah, this one's big.
Besides going through the five pillars, which are
huge when we're sleeping, well, we're getting
some movement in. That's fantastic. But I think
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for women, a lot of us have had
repressed emotions. I'm sure males as well
but speaking from the female side, it's like that
loss of expression, like that throat chakra
area. And what's interesting is that
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more women than men have thyroid issues. And isn't
our thyroid this little beautiful butterfly of an organ over here,
right where our throat chakra is? And so
when we have trauma or when our
family dynamic is showing us like, oh,
just be a good girl, put
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this dress on, smile pretty, and don't show
anger
as well. Looking in the mirror, oh, I look so fat, blah, blah,
blah. Having that passed down from generation to generation,
of course we're going to have low self esteem. We're going to feel
that shame. Or even to throw in a little twist
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here at our
pleasure centers, we'll call them
even having the family dynamic share with us, like,
oh, no, don't do that, or not really
explaining how powerful, beautiful
and sacred this area is. And it's really like, we develop
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this shame for that area. Like, these are bad parts
of us. And over time, yeah, we
shut down, we disconnect, throw on top of that, using
a contraceptive to stop birth. Yeah,
we're disconnected. And it's a
shame because it's like, I remember my gynecologist
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saying, like, yeah, go ahead. And I don't remember hearing any
side effects. However, when I used the birth control
pill from 16 to 26, so ten years,
synthetic estrogen fortified iron.
It's minimizing my magnesium, my B vitamins for ten
years. And no one told me that. No one's telling anybody that
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except for people that have already been through it and be like, no, maybe
think about it this way a little bit more, and then make an educated
decision. So by saying all these things,
we are very much disconnected from our emotions
and from our pleasure center. So it's not like we can feel that
joy and that bliss in life, which is such a shame. And I know for
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me, certainly, as I'm preaching this
work, I'm doing this work. No one is exempt from this.
And I just had an instance the other day where I felt this emotional
trigger. And I think what's really beautiful about
the work that I've been able to do just on myself, to give you an
example, is that I was able to
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pause for a second, go to my room,
because I feel like my room is more of like a safe space.
It's very grounding went in there. I was able to actually
release the belief. And again, these are
just memories in our mind. These are just your own perceptions and
your own beliefs. It's not like they're real. It's not like that's the real you.
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It's just this emotion that you need to just get out in
some fashion. And so for me, it was screaming in my pillow. It was
tears coming out. And I have found
that over two and a half years, I
would say I wasn't able to do that.
Two and a half years ago, I wasn't able to do that. I would call
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somebody because I would seek like I wasn't
able to handle it myself because I didn't have the tools. I
didn't know what to do. And now
that I've continued this practice and
this is what I teach my clients to continue this practice. Literally
put these regulating
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techniques that I teach you into your phone. Do it in the
morning, afternoon and evening, or just once a day
to start. And as you develop that habit, you'll
see that it'll just come like, oh my gosh,
I need to do some grounding right now. Let me pull out that exercise that
I know, because over time your body will be like, we need to
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do this. We need to get this out.
So with the way the times are now,
are more your clients more remote based or are you
dealing more with personal
interaction? Right now? It is remote based.
I think I would love to do some hybrid
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options. I do really value that in person
contact, but right now it is
remote. So would you ever consider probably having
like a little conference where you get to invite a bunch of clients together?
That'd be awesome. Like a retreat? In a way. Yeah, that'd be
super cool. I would love to do that. And I think the more of us
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that can get together, I just love retreats and just the
community aspect.
I would love to go speak at a retreat. It would be a great experience
to spend the weekend and go speak at a retreat
and talk about your experiences and stuff like that. To me, that
would be a great experience. I love going to conferences and
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networking because that is one of the ways
for me to grow and learn, because you meet so many different
people. Honestly, since I've started
my podcast
and when we got shut down and everything and everything
switched more to remote,
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some of these interviews, I would have never had the
pandemic not happened. Because now we were forced to use
technology, use tools like StreamYard, zoom, and
actually get to interact with people. I've interviewed people from all over the
world and
I don't know if that would have happened had I not had the world shut
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down. Yeah, I love that. And that is the
beauty of technology. I know sometimes I have such resistance
to it, but I think in these circumstances, it's
really cool to be able to communicate with people from anywhere.
And I think having that larger group
or going to conferences or retreats or whatever and expanding yourself in
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that growth area, it's like, so is everybody that
signed up for it. And the energy that's brought to those
events is like it changes lives because
it's so powerful, because we're meant to be in
connection with each other and we are at distances. Like, certainly I'm
connected to you, but I'm also connected to the neighbor, like, way down there,
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because it's so mind blowing how
much we are connected, even though sometimes we feel very
alone. Yeah, I feel you.
I definitely feel what you're saying. It's definitely
been like last year was my first
time where I got to attend I
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attended Podfest last year. I attended it as well this year, but
last year was my first conference for a podcaster
as a podcaster, and
it was oh, my God. It was
an amazing experience. The people that I got to kind of connect
with the relationships that I started.
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It was nothing but great
energy because you're surrounded by like minded
people who have a lot of the same interest, who are trying
to do the same things that you're doing. Or some of them
are where you want to be at and to be able to
speak to them and pick their brains and ask
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questions and have this experience.
It was like anybody who asked me, should I attend a conference or should I?
Yes. Those are some of the best things you can do
for yourself as a person, because just the growth
and the learning you're going to get from the experience.
Yeah, I totally agree. Now you have me itching to sign up for
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something.
I'm in a group chat, and a friend asked, should she attend
a certain event coming up in August? And I was like, yeah.
Heck, yeah. I recommend it to anyone that if you can
go attend the conference, attend it. It's a great
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experience. When is
it? There's one coming up in August.
Podcast movement. It's in Denver.
I haven't been able to attend one of those yet.
That's something on my checklist that I've
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definitely got to make happen. But I've attended
Podfest the last two years, and
it was great. It was an experience that
I would highly recommend to anyone. Awesome. Very
cool. All right,
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so now it's time. Where did you get the solo screen? You get to
share upcoming projects. Anything you
want to promote, this is your time right
now. Awesome. So
there are three opportunities to share with
you. The first one is actually it always happens biweekly.
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It's every second and fourth Wednesday of the month from seven
to 07:30 p.m.. Est. This is
actually a contribute what you can free
live meditation on Zoom. I
host these live meditations since the beginning of this
year because I felt this pool to do it. I've been
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meditating for about three years now, and it's been so
transformative to help get my mindset back on
track. Less anxious, more grounded, and
feeling this state of
peace. I would say peace and joy. So if you're
interested in that, we can share the Zoom link. It's the
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same every two weeks, same time, same place, and
the recordings of those are actually uploaded to my YouTube channel. If
you cannot make us live, the two other options
are actually programs that I have that are all one on
one. I found that people really want this one
on one communication, this live interaction, not necessarily
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the group setting. So I really value that feedback. And that
is how I run my programs. The first is dealing
with it's called Vacant to Vital. So if
you're feeling vacant, empty, distaste about yourself,
whether that's physical or emotional, if you're feeling like
some symptoms are coming up for you as far as your physical health
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or emotional health, that is the program for you. Because we go
over a whole host of functional lab tests, actually
five of them, and we work together for twelve sessions
to really transition you into feeling that
vital person, that person that has energy,
that vitality for life and feels those pleasures
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of life. The second program is
called let's Start with Food. And that is what it is. There's
a functional lab test included that we discussed today, the food
sensitivity test, and we are working together for three
sessions. And this is again one on one, and you get
direction on what specific foods that you need to eat
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to heal your physical self and your emotional self. You might be
quite surprised by when you change your diet, how your emotional and your mental
state change as well. So those are the three
opportunities that you can work with me.
And to get more information about that, you can
feel free to send me an email which is at
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discover@fallonmorningstar.com
discover@fallonmorningstar.com.
You can also find me on Instagram, which is at
Fallonhuntermorningstar. Thank you.
You're on mute.
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Everything will be put in the description. So definitely check out her website,
definitely go support her and take advantage of the program
she has. So I will say there
is not a website, even though I do have the domain, but the
website is not up. So the best way to contact me would be through
the email. So send her an email to join her
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programs. Are you working on getting the website together? I
am. I had it out for a little while and then
that was also when I was in the corporate life, very busy
over in that side. So it is on my list.
But thank you so much for being a guest. This has been great. I
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appreciate you coming on the show. Yeah, thank you again. But don't leave
just yet. Let me close out the show and we'll chat a little bit off
the air. And again, it was a pleasure having you on.
All right, so now it is time for shout outs. Big shout outs to
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And welcome to another episode. I am your host,
W-I-Z-E. I'm excited to speak to my guests.
Let's just get it right onto the show. Welcome to the show. Violin Morningstar.
Thank you so much for having me. Happy to be here. I have to say,
the intro gave me goosebumps. Thank you.
Okay, so you have a very
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unique story.
Share a little bit about your personal journey and
what led you to what you're doing now. Yeah, I
love the question. I feel like we could have a whole episode just on
the intro part, but to give a
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brief synopsis, really, at age 26 and to
give you a time frame. I'm 29 now. At 26, I was
dealing with a lot of physical health symptoms. Not necessarily a
diagnosis, but things like very poor
sleep. I always felt tired. I could not
recover after exercise. It would be four days. I would still be
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sore. I was experiencing hair
loss more than my usual. There was
body odor going on. I started to develop an
irregular menstrual cycle. And it's not like all of these
symptoms came up right then and there. They kind
of progressed and intensified as time went on. And
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I actually saw my family physician, I saw my gynecologist, and
neither one of those Western thinking
practitioners helped me to find some answers
of why I'm feeling so crappy. And at this point, I
had zero education on what functional health really
is. So thankfully, I
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had a friend that was going through some functional
lab testing. So things like a food sensitivity,
hormone stool, and I'm very data
driven now. There's
parts of me that are more into the spirituality
aspect of life, but very much in that masculine.
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I would love to experience this as well
because I think this could help me. And so I actually went through the same
testing as what she did, and that led me to actually
becoming a practitioner in that same certification
of what had helped me, because I was like, this
information is so transformative. I want to be able to
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continue to educate other people and try to help them
find those missing pieces in their health. So
from the lab test, they really validated my
concerns, all of the concerns I just mentioned, I'm like,
Hallelujah, because now we have some direction
to heal these physical symptoms.
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Can you explain to us what Functional
Diagnostic Nutrition is and how it's helped
transform your understanding of health? Yeah,
would love to. So Functional Diagnostic
Nutrition is the company that I have a functional
health certification in. And when I
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say functional health, that's really taking the
body as an entire body. It's not necessarily
just looking at our mental side and maybe we're seeing
a psychologist or psychotherapist. It's not just if we have
digestive discomfort, we're going to see a gastroenterologist
or taking something for our stomach. This
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is really a whole body approach.
And really what us practitioners help other
clients with is that holistic way of living?
And we really teach on the five pillars that's called the
dress protocol. So I feel like probably by the end of
this episode you'll very much remember this, but it
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stands for Diet, Rest, Exercise,
Stress Reduction and Supplementation. So
that's how we coach our clients. But we also have
this big beautiful umbrella of functional lab test to
help us find out more of what's going on inside.
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Because you hear number of times of
people being dying, not being able to find
out what their issues are,
what they're being diagnosed with. How did
your experience with this make you
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want to help other people?
I think in large part I felt like
very alone. I felt
like I'm not supposed to feel this way.
There was this intuitive sense that I'm,
like these doctors should know this, in my
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opinion. However, I think a lot of us put
a lot of weight in doctors to help heal us. But I
do think we have the responsibility for ourselves to find those
answers and wherever they might be. So following your
intuition when you know something doesn't feel right
is really the best way to find those
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answers. And I think that once I felt
validated because a lot of people, they love seeing
something on paper to say yes, that really
correlates with this symptom that I'm having. It helps the brain
feel a little bit more safe to say, okay, now I know a little bit
of a direction because the unknown can be very scary sometimes,
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especially when these symptoms are
debilitating. You can't get out of bed, you can't actually function,
you're trying to type this email and you keep misspelling words when you're
rechecking it. And I think for
me, the biggest thing was that validation of this is
concrete and we have some direction to go to be able to
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heal. Can you share some of
the alternative and holistic approaches
you use to help guide women on their journey?
Absolutely. So with the first pillar, like just
taking diet into account, diet is one of the largest
things, lifestyle things that we can transform
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into what works for us. I don't necessarily
teach on a specific diet. It's not like I follow keto
or carnivore. It's not that. However, I do explain
how food works in the body, how important protein
is, even for our physical health, but also for our mental
health. And we really incorporate what's called a
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food sensitivity test. So depending on what the
client presents as far as symptoms, a lot of times it is that
chronic fatigue or bloating, some digestive distress or
even migraines. To be honest, when we go through
the food sensitivity test, what's really cool
is that it looks at 176 different foods
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and it's taking your own blood and
explaining what foods you are sensitive to
or not sensitive to. So there's a very clear green,
yellow and red category of you can
eat these. These are a little bit cautionary. These you definitely want to
stay away from because your immune system is very much reacting and
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causing inflammation in your system. So with the
test, it's beautiful because it gives you direction on
what works for you in your current state of health.
And when you mean what works for you, it breaks down what
foods are best used for you to
help you diet and change your life,
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because what it really is, is a lifestyle change. You have to give up a
lot of things that you know aren't good for you. And
does this help you pinpoint what are the
proper foods that you should be eating? Exactly? So,
for example, when I was dealing with some bloating
and a lot of the symptoms that I explained in the beginning, I had that
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food sensitivity test in front of me, and it was sharing a lot of the
foods I was sensitive to, I was actually eating, which is very
common, but broccoli was on. There
green peppers and things that we know to be
healthy. However, for your current state of health, it's
just reactive to your system. So when we have food
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sensitivities, we do have leaky gut. And to kind
of give you I know that a lot of us have probably heard the phrase
before a leaky gut. And that's really essentially saying that
your microbiome, your gut lining is
basically leaking. So particles that are
supposed to stay in your gut are actually leaking out into your
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general blood circulation, and it's causing an
inflammatory reaction. And so when we see those
food sensitivities on the test, that's what it's sharing with us. There's
a sensitivity in your immune system that
is reacting with broccoli or chicken or whatever. So there are,
like I said, 176, and it's looking at different proteins,
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dairy, beans, fruits, veggies. There's
things like flavor enhancers or even things like ibuprofen
and some chemicals that we might see.
I think it's 93 or 94% accurate,
but it really provides a beautiful direction for you to
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remove the yellow and the red foods
for at least 90 days to allow your
system to naturally heal. Because when we remove
things that are kind of wreaking havoc on us,
we have this beautiful innate ability to heal, but we just have
to support it in the right way. And I found that this test is really
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I know we're just talking about diet right now, but it's a really great way
for you to know what foods you should and shouldn't be eating.
Yeah,
I had a scare recently, so it's kind of
waking me up too. I need to change my diet. I nearly need to
focus on eating certain foods,
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cutting out certain foods, and I'm learning that now. And
so it's not easy. It's not easy.
But if I'm serious
about changing my health, it's something that
I really need to focus on and really learn about. Yeah,
absolutely. And I feel like
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when symptoms come up, and they always come up, it's kind of like that beautiful
onion being peeled back of like, oh, here's something else we should look at.
But for me, when something comes up, it's like, okay, well, let's dive
deeper into that. And we're always changing. The food
sensitivity test in 2023 is going to look different in
2024 because we are continuously
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evolving. Different stressors are
impacting us. If we've removed the foods
in 2023 and we're retesting later, it's like, okay, we've had
some healing. Because I even noticed with my
own test, the grains category was
actually fairly sensitive and reactive in my
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first test. And so I really removed those foods. I
removed gluten for a while in my second test, which was
about a year and a half or two years later, that grains category was very
much in the green, which shows me, oh, that's great.
Some healing has been done. So does that mean
that you can eat some of those grains,
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or should you just regulate on how much of it did
you eat? I would say if they're in the yellow or red, definitely
removing those for at least 90 days and then slowly
reintroducing them one by one just to see how it
feels. Not rushing that process of the reintroduction.
But there are some cases that it will stay
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in the red or the yellow. Like, for me, lamb,
even though it tastes good to me and I don't feel like I have that
visceral bloating reaction, it's still consistently in
both tests, I've had it in the red. So it can be
cases like that where that's just not a food that works for you.
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I used to love broccoli. I still do, but
it came to a point when I started eating it, it really was
making discomfort for me on my stomach and everything. So
I can't eat it.
You don't understand. I love eating broccoli, broccoli
and cheese, broccoli with my potato,
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and now I just can't. And I want to
so bad. But I don't want to suffer the consequences of
eating the broccoli. It's too much pain. Yeah.
I wonder if you would remove it for like, 90 days and then
attempt to reintroduce. I don't know
when was the last time I ate.
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I'm afraid to try. Yeah, for sure.
Sometimes it's not like I
purposely eat foods that I know I'm reactive to, but
if after 90 days I'll give it a try, or like, maybe if
I'm going out to a restaurant or something, I will maybe have
activated charcoal with me that helps bind
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and absorb any sort of proteins that might aggravate my
system. So I like to keep that on handy.
So if you're going to kind of shoot in the dark and try
broccoli again, maybe have those activated charcoal capsules
on hand. All right, so something else
you talked about is how do you address
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emotion healing and trauma recovery in your work
with your clients? So I will
know when I went through the FDN certification, and again,
that's functional diagnostic nutrition, in large
part, it was very data driven. Certainly
the stress reduction pillar was
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one that it was recommended to start meditation,
and that was pretty much the only
recommendation, like journaling, sure, going for a walk, sure,
that's great stress reduction techniques. But I felt like
there wasn't really education on how
to handle things in the emotional sense,
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just different tools to help regulate your nervous
system. Now, sure, everything that we do helps to regulate your nervous system, helps to
bring it back in balance. But there was no specifics for me. So I felt
like I lacked that for a little bit. And then the world
of somatic experiencing came into my life. And
there are leaders in this field, peter
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Levine, even Dr. Stephen Porges,
if you look either one of those up, they have great short videos on how
to do a somatic exercise of if you're feeling overwhelmed or
anxious and even working
with coaches that kind of deal with the
emotional side. I've had that experience now, and
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I want to say that the emotional side is just as important as the
physical side. You can't have one without the other.
Because for a while I was asking myself the question, why
don't I still feel like this
bliss of what I think I should be feeling? And I was like, oh,
there's the emotional side. It's not like I didn't know about it, but
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I didn't know about it in a way. And I
think as I healed more of the
physical body, I was able
to have the capacity, my nervous system capacity,
to open up a little bit by little bit, the
emotional side and the trauma side. So
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for me, I think it's kind of the universe just saying, like, we need to
heal these things first before we open this big can of
stuff. And since then,
I help teach clients how to actually, like, if
they're feeling up and overwhelmed, whether they had a conflict with their
partner or at work or
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whatever it is that they're feeling anxious about. We go
over different tools that you can use at your
disposal, what feels right, and actually
have your system calm down into that parasympathetic, that rest and
digest state. Because a lot of times as we do this work and
as we're healing, it's like you don't realize how much you were in
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that fight or flight, that sympathetic state, because you're just not
aware of it. And
you just always have that fear or that lurking, like you're always lurking
like what's coming next type of thing. And that's
a stress response whenever we think something bad is going to happen, we're
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making chemicals in our body that have us in this
stressed out state that are burning through our hormones and
after years and years of doing that, you do get these physical
symptoms, which that's what happened to me.
So I think the emotional side is one
that and the physical side sure is one that you have
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to just continue to practice every day because our
society in this environment really gets us up, if you know
what I mean. All of this stimulation
is quite a lot and the more that we can have
those tools that I teach clients with, the more that we can
regulate ourselves and actually show up authentically of how
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we actually want to be. And that's one thing
I realized, that being able to be your authentic
self is key in your mental health
and physical health because now you get to
just be you.
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You don't have to go out and try
to prove to everyone else who you are or who you truly
want. It's been great for me. This, for
me is kind of my therapy. Being able to come and talk on
my podcast and express the things that have gone on in my life and being
able to have these conversations,
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it's my form of therapy.
And being able to listen
to these amazing stories like your own and see that
we all go through these struggles in life. It's how
we deal with them and how we approach
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them and look at them. That
it's.
It's gonna what? It's gonna the way you react to it's gonna show
you how you're gonna handle the rest of your life.
Because you could have easily given up and
said, I don't know what's going on with me. And doctors don't know.
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It would have been easy for you to just give up. But the frighter in
you was like, no, there's something wrong with me, I'm going to find
out. And with you doing that now,
you're helping people with similar
struggles and I commend you for that. That's an amazing
thing you're doing. And that's why I
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got into what I'm doing is because I wanted to help people
get through whatever traumas and struggles that they've been through in their
lives. I love that. Yeah, there's this
motto that always comes up for me is the heal together, rise together.
And sure, we are all doing our individual work,
but our individual work helps all of us heal
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and continue to rise. So I love that. And again, I love
having these conversations too, and just thank you again for having me on
here. It's been my pleasure. We're not done yet. No,
I know. No, I'll say it again and again, but I'm just saying.
Okay.
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How do you help women reconnect with their inner power and
develop positive relationships within themselves?
Yeah, this one's big.
Besides going through the five pillars, which are
huge when we're sleeping, well, we're getting
some movement in. That's fantastic. But I think
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for women, a lot of us have had
repressed emotions. I'm sure males as well
but speaking from the female side, it's like that
loss of expression, like that throat chakra
area. And what's interesting is that
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more women than men have thyroid issues. And isn't
our thyroid this little beautiful butterfly of an organ over here,
right where our throat chakra is? And so
when we have trauma or when our
family dynamic is showing us like, oh,
just be a good girl, put
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this dress on, smile pretty, and don't show
anger
as well. Looking in the mirror, oh, I look so fat, blah, blah,
blah. Having that passed down from generation to generation,
of course we're going to have low self esteem. We're going to feel
that shame. Or even to throw in a little twist
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here at our
pleasure centers, we'll call them
even having the family dynamic share with us, like,
oh, no, don't do that, or not really
explaining how powerful, beautiful
and sacred this area is. And it's really like, we develop
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this shame for that area. Like, these are bad parts
of us. And over time, yeah, we
shut down, we disconnect, throw on top of that, using
a contraceptive to stop birth. Yeah,
we're disconnected. And it's a
shame because it's like, I remember my gynecologist
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saying, like, yeah, go ahead. And I don't remember hearing any
side effects. However, when I used the birth control
pill from 16 to 26, so ten years,
synthetic estrogen fortified iron.
It's minimizing my magnesium, my B vitamins for ten
years. And no one told me that. No one's telling anybody that
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except for people that have already been through it and be like, no, maybe
think about it this way a little bit more, and then make an educated
decision. So by saying all these things,
we are very much disconnected from our emotions
and from our pleasure center. So it's not like we can feel that
joy and that bliss in life, which is such a shame. And I know for
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me, certainly, as I'm preaching this
work, I'm doing this work. No one is exempt from this.
And I just had an instance the other day where I felt this emotional
trigger. And I think what's really beautiful about
the work that I've been able to do just on myself, to give you an
example, is that I was able to
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pause for a second, go to my room,
because I feel like my room is more of like a safe space.
It's very grounding went in there. I was able to actually
release the belief. And again, these are
just memories in our mind. These are just your own perceptions and
your own beliefs. It's not like they're real. It's not like that's the real you.
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It's just this emotion that you need to just get out in
some fashion. And so for me, it was screaming in my pillow. It was
tears coming out. And I have found
that over two and a half years, I
would say I wasn't able to do that.
Two and a half years ago, I wasn't able to do that. I would call
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somebody because I would seek like I wasn't
able to handle it myself because I didn't have the tools. I
didn't know what to do. And now
that I've continued this practice and
this is what I teach my clients to continue this practice. Literally
put these regulating
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techniques that I teach you into your phone. Do it in the
morning, afternoon and evening, or just once a day
to start. And as you develop that habit, you'll
see that it'll just come like, oh my gosh,
I need to do some grounding right now. Let me pull out that exercise that
I know, because over time your body will be like, we need to
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do this. We need to get this out.
So with the way the times are now,
are more your clients more remote based or are you
dealing more with personal
interaction? Right now? It is remote based.
I think I would love to do some hybrid
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options. I do really value that in person
contact, but right now it is
remote. So would you ever consider probably having
like a little conference where you get to invite a bunch of clients together?
That'd be awesome. Like a retreat? In a way. Yeah, that'd be
super cool. I would love to do that. And I think the more of us
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that can get together, I just love retreats and just the
community aspect.
I would love to go speak at a retreat. It would be a great experience
to spend the weekend and go speak at a retreat
and talk about your experiences and stuff like that. To me, that
would be a great experience. I love going to conferences and
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networking because that is one of the ways
for me to grow and learn, because you meet so many different
people. Honestly, since I've started
my podcast
and when we got shut down and everything and everything
switched more to remote,
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some of these interviews, I would have never had the
pandemic not happened. Because now we were forced to use
technology, use tools like StreamYard, zoom, and
actually get to interact with people. I've interviewed people from all over the
world and
I don't know if that would have happened had I not had the world shut
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down. Yeah, I love that. And that is the
beauty of technology. I know sometimes I have such resistance
to it, but I think in these circumstances, it's
really cool to be able to communicate with people from anywhere.
And I think having that larger group
or going to conferences or retreats or whatever and expanding yourself in
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that growth area, it's like, so is everybody that
signed up for it. And the energy that's brought to those
events is like it changes lives because
it's so powerful, because we're meant to be in
connection with each other and we are at distances. Like, certainly I'm
connected to you, but I'm also connected to the neighbor, like, way down there,
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because it's so mind blowing how
much we are connected, even though sometimes we feel very
alone. Yeah, I feel you.
I definitely feel what you're saying. It's definitely
been like last year was my first
time where I got to attend I
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attended Podfest last year. I attended it as well this year, but
last year was my first conference for a podcaster
as a podcaster, and
it was oh, my God. It was
an amazing experience. The people that I got to kind of connect
with the relationships that I started.
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It was nothing but great
energy because you're surrounded by like minded
people who have a lot of the same interest, who are trying
to do the same things that you're doing. Or some of them
are where you want to be at and to be able to
speak to them and pick their brains and ask
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questions and have this experience.
It was like anybody who asked me, should I attend a conference or should I?
Yes. Those are some of the best things you can do
for yourself as a person, because just the growth
and the learning you're going to get from the experience.
Yeah, I totally agree. Now you have me itching to sign up for
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something.
I'm in a group chat, and a friend asked, should she attend
a certain event coming up in August? And I was like, yeah.
Heck, yeah. I recommend it to anyone that if you can
go attend the conference, attend it. It's a great
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experience. When is
it? There's one coming up in August.
Podcast movement. It's in Denver.
I haven't been able to attend one of those yet.
That's something on my checklist that I've
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definitely got to make happen. But I've attended
Podfest the last two years, and
it was great. It was an experience that
I would highly recommend to anyone. Awesome. Very
cool. All right,
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so now it's time. Where did you get the solo screen? You get to
share upcoming projects. Anything you
want to promote, this is your time right
now. Awesome. So
there are three opportunities to share with
you. The first one is actually it always happens biweekly.
(32:11):
It's every second and fourth Wednesday of the month from seven
to 07:30 p.m.. Est. This is
actually a contribute what you can free
live meditation on Zoom. I
host these live meditations since the beginning of this
year because I felt this pool to do it. I've been
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meditating for about three years now, and it's been so
transformative to help get my mindset back on
track. Less anxious, more grounded, and
feeling this state of
peace. I would say peace and joy. So if you're
interested in that, we can share the Zoom link. It's the
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same every two weeks, same time, same place, and
the recordings of those are actually uploaded to my YouTube channel. If
you cannot make us live, the two other options
are actually programs that I have that are all one on
one. I found that people really want this one
on one communication, this live interaction, not necessarily
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the group setting. So I really value that feedback. And that
is how I run my programs. The first is dealing
with it's called Vacant to Vital. So if
you're feeling vacant, empty, distaste about yourself,
whether that's physical or emotional, if you're feeling like
some symptoms are coming up for you as far as your physical health
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or emotional health, that is the program for you. Because we go
over a whole host of functional lab tests, actually
five of them, and we work together for twelve sessions
to really transition you into feeling that
vital person, that person that has energy,
that vitality for life and feels those pleasures
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of life. The second program is
called let's Start with Food. And that is what it is. There's
a functional lab test included that we discussed today, the food
sensitivity test, and we are working together for three
sessions. And this is again one on one, and you get
direction on what specific foods that you need to eat
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to heal your physical self and your emotional self. You might be
quite surprised by when you change your diet, how your emotional and your mental
state change as well. So those are the three
opportunities that you can work with me.
And to get more information about that, you can
feel free to send me an email which is at
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discover@fallonmorningstar.com
discover@fallonmorningstar.com.
You can also find me on Instagram, which is at
Fallonhuntermorningstar. Thank you.
You're on mute.
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Everything will be put in the description. So definitely check out her website,
definitely go support her and take advantage of the program
she has. So I will say there
is not a website, even though I do have the domain, but the
website is not up. So the best way to contact me would be through
the email. So send her an email to join her
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programs. Are you working on getting the website together? I
am. I had it out for a little while and then
that was also when I was in the corporate life, very busy
over in that side. So it is on my list.
But thank you so much for being a guest. This has been great. I
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appreciate you coming on the show. Yeah, thank you again. But don't leave
just yet. Let me close out the show and we'll chat a little bit off
the air. And again, it was a pleasure having you on.
All right, so now it is time for shout outs. Big shout outs to
my real wise FAM, Poppy J, Brandy J. Shout
(36:11):
out to my man Tony Mostello for coming through. Greatly appreciate it.
Big shout out to my man Ben seller if the third from the BS Three
network, which we air on Monday, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays at 05:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Big shout out to the boss lady, FINA. Greatly. Appreciate you and love
you, baby. Big shout out to my guest, Fallon
(36:34):
Morningstar, for coming through and sharing her story.
And as always, a big, big shout out to all the essential workers out
there. God bless y'all. Be safe. You know how your boy Wise does
it. Peace out.
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