March 24, 2025 • 35 mins
In this 36-minute episode, I sit with Hope Pedraza, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, to discuss the often-overlooked topic of burnout, particularly among women in the corporate world and entrepreneurship. Hope shares her insights on recognizing the symptoms of burnout and the importance of listening to our bodies. We explore the connection between hormonal cycles and energy levels, using the seasons as a metaphor to understand our natural rhythms.
Hope also delves into the significance of mineral balancing in holistic health and how emotional and energetic factors play a crucial role in our well-being. Join us as we uncover practical strategies for preventing burnout and fostering a deeper connection with ourselves.
To connect with Hope: https://www.hopefulandwholesome.com
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Hope also delves into the significance of mineral balancing in holistic health and how emotional and energetic factors play a crucial role in our well-being. Join us as we uncover practical strategies for preventing burnout and fostering a deeper connection with ourselves.
To connect with Hope: https://www.hopefulandwholesome.com
♾ In a fast-paced world like the one we live in, time is one of our most important assets. For a few minutes every episode, I, Tannaz Hosseinpour, will be discussing topics that aim to enhance the quality of your life, by helping you feel empowered to take inspired action on your personal growth journey.
Connect with me for daily insights on:
www.instagram.com/MinutesOnGro...
www.facebook.com/MinutesOnGrow...
More resources available on www.minutesongrowth.com
This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
You're listening to the Minutes on Growth podcast, the show
that brings you mindfully curated insights into relationships, spirituality, personal
development and everything in between. With your hosts Tennas the
same floor. Welcome back, so friends to the Minutes on
Growth podcast. Today we have a special guest with us,
(00:27):
Hope Pedresa. She is a wellness expert. She's also the
host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm so excited to have you on. You dive on
such important topics that I feel like it's not discussed enough.
So thank you for giving us the time and for
being able being willing to share your insights with us
on some of these topics. So let's dive right in.
I would love for us to start the conversation with
(01:02):
something that comes up so often, especially in the corporate
world or for entrepreneurs, this idea of experiencing burnout. Can
we talk about it? What's your insights on it, what's
the approach you want to take?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I agree, And I think that it's
so common, yet so many people, especially women, don't even
realize that they're in burnout. Like there's so many symptoms
and facets to it, and a lot of times we
get our bodies. As glorious as they're they're very adaptable,
so we just kind of adapt and like, oh, I
guess this is normal, right, and you're feeling that, whether
(01:41):
it's you know, somewhat noticeable symptoms like headaches and brain
fog and migraines and anxiety like my the feelings, or
it's more subtle where it's the wired but tired thing,
where it's like my brain won't turn off, but I'm
actually really tired, but I really can't go to sleep,
whether it's just kind of low keyingnxiety playing in the background,
whether it's maybe low key inflammation where you might have
(02:04):
some joint pain here and there. But a lot of
these symptoms we pass off as quote unquote normal when
it's not really normal. Common, yes, but not necessarily normal.
And so I think so many women who deal with
burnout they go so long before doing anything about it
or dressing it because either they a don't know that
they're in it, or they be they just try to
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brush off like it's not that big of a deal.
But then the symptoms kind of compound and then they're
kind of forced to deal with it. And I think
a lot of the women I've worked with are in that,
in that boat where they've kind of pushed aside the
little nagging symptoms that they've been feeling for a while,
and then all of a sudden, now it's instead of
five sentems, that's like twenty five. So they've got all
(02:46):
these things like now it's like screaming at me. Now
I have to do something about it. But I think
that women are so susceptible for multiple reasons. There's a
lot of rabbit holes that can good down here, but
I've like women are so much more susceptible to it,
just in kind of the I mean the hustle culture.
I hate really using that word because it's so overplayed,
(03:08):
but it is. I mean, that's really we become kind
of ingrained in this kind of masculine structure of how
we work and do and productivity and efficiency and doing
and doing and doing and doing, and women's bodies just
aren't designed to operate like that. And so with my clients,
there's a kind of a multifaceted approach I take for
(03:28):
the burnout, but I think initially it's can we just
listen to our body, Like it's just as simple as that.
Can we just listen to our body, listen to our
natural rhythms and cycles and our hormonal cycle. And I
work my clients a lot we talk about cycle sinking
and working with your cycle, and even just understanding it,
even if you don't necessarily want to build your business
(03:50):
or your career around your cycle, just understanding your cycle
and how your energy comes in waves. And we're on
this twenty eight day hormonal cycle when we're forcing and
pushing ourselves to kind of fit in again, kind of
that masculine start because men men run on a twenty
four hour hormonal cycle, so they can do the same
thing yesterday and the day before and the day before
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the day and twenty eight days after this because there
were hormonal cycles the same every day. Women are not
designed to work like that, and our creativity and our
productivity waxes and wanes like the cycle of the moon. Right,
So I think even just just this basic understanding of
how our bodies work and our natural hormonal cycles and
energy cycles and rhythms, all of that is crucial for
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the first step of addressing burnout.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I love that so much to unpack here can we
talk about the hormonal cycles, because when I first heard
about it, I was so intrigued, but it made so
much sense, and I don't think too many people know
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's it, And you know it's funny. I did a
workshop less week this local group here where I live,
for this working mom's group, and that was something we
were talking about. Is at least for me, and I
know I can speak for a lot of women, like
maybe someone had had a mom who was really into
like teaching their daughter about it. But I was never
taught this in school, Like my mom didn't tell me
about you just weren't taught. It's like, oh, you have
(05:18):
a period, you can get pregnant the end, Like that's
the extent of it. So so just understanding how your
period works, how your minstrel cycle works, and so if
you want to go like through how the cycle, like
the phases of the cycles, do you want to go
through that? Yeah? Okay, yeah, So your first day of
your cycle is your first day of bleeding, and I
(05:38):
think some of them don't even know that that the
first day of their cycles are first day of bleeding.
So we started the minstrel phase and when I teach
my clients. I like to use the seasons. And I
know I'm not going to lane. I'm not the only one.
I didn't come up with this, but I like correlating
the seasons with the phases of your cycle because it's
just it's kind of easier to get into your mind
and contemplate, like where I am and what's happening in
(05:59):
ah phase cycle. So the minstrel part would be the
winter phase. And if you think about winter, right, it's
this time where things are dying and we kind of
go in and hibernating. We kind of go inward, and
that's what we're designed to do during our menstrual cycle.
And during this the minstrel phase of your cycle. Rather
and during this particular phase of your cycle, the right
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and left sides of our hemisphere, right and left hemispheres
of our brain are talking to each other more easily.
They're more connected. So this is the time where if
we allow ourselves to get quiet and go inward, we
get the creative downloads, like, we get the intuitive downloads,
the intuitive hits, like we can really go inward and
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see what comes up if we give ourselves the space
for that. And so that's the time to rest reflect.
Maybe you're setting goals, maybe you're setting to do list.
It's not the time to do those just yet. But
we're kind of setting the stage for what comes next,
which is spring. Right, Spring comes after winter. So spring
is when theular phase is starting, and this is where
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we're gearing up towards ovulation. And so when we're good
after the menstruation phase, our hormones start to rise, right,
so we feel our energy come back. We feel a
little bit more confident, We're feeling a little better in
our bodies. So this is the part of our phase
or we can start to get things done. The creative
your brain kind of comes back on track, like comes
(07:22):
back online. I know, at least for me, during my
mental phase, it's like this static it's like this static
in my brain where it's like I can't really get
So the static starts to clear, the fog starts to clear,
and so we are starting to get things done and
we're starting to feel productive and creative, gearing up towards summer,
which is ovulation. Now, ovulation is technically just one day,
it's like a one day event, but we feel the
(07:43):
effects of that maximum hormone levels. We feel that there's
a lingering, there's kind of a before and after. So
when we get to those peak hormones is ovulation. This
is the time, like we're feeling good, we're feeling confident,
we're feeling social. This is the time to do the
networking and the interview and the getting putting yourself out
there and you know, doing the lives on social media
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and like you're feeling good about yourself. So ovulation this
is the summer phase. This is the time to do things,
get out there, put yourself out there. From there you
go into your luteal phase. This is the fall. This
is the autumn, right, and if you think about autumn,
think about fall, things are kind of starting to wither away, right,
the leaves start to fall up, the trees, things are
(08:24):
getting ready for winter. So autumn is that time of
your cycle where kind of like nature does, like it's
like letting go of what no longer serves it. And
that's what we're meant to do during our ludeal phase.
And it's funny I'm saying this because one of my
friends on Facebook posted something it was either today yesterday,
and she was like, in my luteal rage, and she
like went on this rant. I thought that was hilarious.
I've never heard of lurial rage before. But in your
(08:46):
luteal cycle, this is the time where it's like you're
so our hormones start to drop. Our progesterone is rising,
but the rest of our hormones are falling. And so
this is the time of your cycle where you might
recognize you're getting a little moody, maybe a little irritable.
Certain things are getting on your nerves. But I tell
my clients everybody has a BS meter right where we
(09:06):
can measure the BS. Your BS meter is like on
a high alert during your luteal phase because of how
our mood is. So this really is the time to
decide what do I need to get rid of, what's
no longer serving me, what do I need to Maybe
it's a time where you're like you need to figure
out what to delegate in my business or whatever. So
this is the time where you just have this clarity
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on what is BS you need to get BS you
need to get rid of, and kind of let those
things go. The other thing about the luteal phase is
because our creative brain kind of starts to wane during
this part because we're gearing up for menstruation, which is
coming next. This isn't the time to necessarily be creative
and fun and you're not really feeling fun and spunky
(09:48):
when you're about to start your period. I think everybody
knows that. But this is the time to do the
boring admin stuff, like schedule your boring admin tasks and
like for me, it's like do the stuff in quick
books and your spreadsheets and all this stuff. Like for me,
I hate doing that stuff, but it doesn't require a
whole lot of brain power. So it's just kind of
like menial things that you can get done during your
(10:10):
luteal phase because we don't have to shut off our
creative brain to do that because it's kind of already
kind of winding down. So that's kind of that's a
kind of a general overview of of your cycle.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Wow, Hope, I love the way you like broke it
down for us and you connected it to the seasons.
That's actually so much easier to remember because sometimes when
I first when I first learned about it, I'm like, oh,
what phase am I in? Like what am I supposed to.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do right now? Yes, we're not supposed to.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So that connection that was really powerful. Thank you for sharing.
As you were sharing, I thought of like this one,
in my opinion, unhelpful advice that people give when someone's
experiencing burnout, and it's just like just rest, you know,
like resting, put everything off and just rest. For me,
(10:57):
it doesn't work to just stress because there's so many
other components. But I would love your expert opinion on this.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes, that's such a good point. And I think sometimes
when we're in this kind of pattern of overwhelm and
over stimulation, just telling somebody just rest, it's like it's
like your doctor being like, oh, well, this stuff's caused
by stress, Well just don't be stressed. Like okay, that's
just not helpful. It's not helpful at all. And I
(11:26):
think too, there's this nervous system component where when your
nervous system is so wrapped up in the doing and
it doesn't feel safe to just rest, like your nervous
system is like well when we're saying just rest. So
I think there's kind of like levels to this and
there's kind of steps to take to get to that
point where we can feel safe just resting. And so
(11:47):
for me, it's when I'm helping my clients through burn
and I mean I've have my own journey through burnout.
I completely tanged my adrenals and wrecked my body. For me,
it was this kind of one step at a time
where it was just taking little piece that of my
day where I get step away from work and you know,
go for a walk or go do something else. So
it's just taking those little minutes. Can I can I
(12:08):
stop working? Can I stop doing and go do something
else rather than just sitting and resting that didn't feel
safe at all? Can I just go do something else?
Can I, like flip change my environment? Flip the script
write make a shift and you know, I go outside
and sit outside, or can I go for a walk,
or can I just you know, change my environment. So
I think that as a first step is helpful for
(12:31):
especially when somebody's nervous system is so tied up in
the doing and it really doesn't feel safe to rest.
And then we can do that more and more. We
can build that that safety in the body where it
feels safe to rest and we can go you know,
maybe you go take a nap, or maybe you go
do a meditation and you sit still for a little while,
whatever whatever resting is for you, but finding that kind
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of mindful activity, something that where you're still doing but
you're not working and being productive. And it's the tricky
one too, because I know for me, when I was
trying to help myself out of burnout, I would tell
myself like, oh, yeah, I'm just going to go for
a walk, and you know, go for a walk outside. Well,
then I'm like listening to a business podcast or I'm
listening to a masterclass, or I'm still doing while I'm
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supposed to be not doing. So it was like an
excuse for me to like, oh, I'm still going to
do what I'm going to change my mind, I'm not
going to be sitting in my computer. So it's a
slippery slope there to really untangle those pieces to feel
safe to not do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I love that you brought that up, because that's something
that I was navigating anything like two or three years ago,
and like I would go for these walks and I
would love my daily walks, and then I would have
the podcast and I would come back and I'm like,
I'm still over stimulated. And so I really had to
like check in with myself and be like what do
you need? And I've discovered that like driving with nothing
(13:50):
on is like my my go to way of kind
of regulating my nervous system, and that's silence, creating that silence,
being intentional with this, So just checking in with myself,
like what do you need right now? I think a
lot of us forget to ask ourselves. We ask other people,
we ask our husband, our children, and our families like
what do you need? But we don't ask ourselves that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
One h hundred percent and being okay, sitting in the
sense and that's a tough one for people. I think
a lot of people struggle sitting in silence and being
in the silence. I was the same way though, recognizing that,
and I'm the same way in the car. It depends
on the car because some days I do want to
have like I'm listening to something or but a lot
of days like just a minute of silence, and especially
in the car where it's like you're going home or
(14:33):
you're going like for me, I have a brick and
mortar business too, where I'm about to be around people
like just give me like some peace and quiet and silence,
And now I like crave that it's like my time,
Like I don't want to call anybody in the car.
I don't want to talk to anybody if I'm in
there by myself, it's like, okay, can you just get silent?
So I think that's important. Important to pull out too,
is being able to create this space for quiet and silence.
(14:58):
And I think there's so much available when you give
yourself that space, Like we're talking about the menstrul part
of your cycle, where if you give yourself the space,
you can have these opportunities for the creative downloads and
the and twu of downloads or the divine downloads when
we would create the space for that stillness and silence.
So I think that's an important part of it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I really love how you take such a holistic approach
to your work. And I've been looking into your work
and I was like wow, Like I love how it's
like the nutrition part and then it's the nervous system
regulation part. But what really interested me was how you
brought in human design. Can we talk about that? What
you know? When?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
How? Why all of that all of it?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah? Yeah, I love human design and I think initially
I just loved it so much and how how it
made me feel about myself that I'm like, I got
to share this with other people, like I have to
have to use it my work. I found human design,
I guess now it's been about five years ago, just
(16:05):
through I was working with a spiritual coach and she
wasn't human design coach, but she had this little piece
of human design in the work we were doing and
it was just enough to pique my address and I'm like,
I've got to know more. So diving in, I worked
with some human design mentors and decided to get certified
and all that. For me. When I first discovered in DOVN,
it was, you know, I think it's it's the way
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a lot of people feel when they discover about their
human design. It's, you know, it feels validating, and it
feels freeing, and it feels you know, it's this permission
slip to be authentically all of those things, and it's
what really shifted how I was running my business, how
I was showing up in my business, how was addressing,
(16:48):
you know, caring for my physical body. It was this
kind of healing part of the healing journey for myself
and like healing their relationship with myself, I this side
tangent here had I had a pretty extensive history of
disordered eating behavior, and so for me, I just had
this tumultuous relationship with myself for so long that human
(17:10):
design was kind of the thing that just set me
on the patsy heel that part of myself and that
relationship with myself and so feeling that within me like
I have to bring this into my work. So when
I first started bringing it, so I started as a
functional practitioner and I'm doing the labs and I'm helping
people uncover, you know, root cause of chronic symptoms and
(17:33):
working with a lot of women. I'm recognizing, Okay, there's
these emotional, energetic components that are causing these physical things
to show up on the body, right, and I recognize
that in my own body. I have also have history
of IBS totally related to the disordered eating and my
type a perfectionist personal like it it's all related. But
recognizing that in myself and then seeing you know patterns
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and women and I'm like thinking, Okay, if I only
knew about your human design, like I feel like I could.
So that was kind of for me the catalyst, like Okay,
I can really dive into how to customize this process
and how to really get like we talk about root cause.
In my opinion, I'm of the belief that all the
physical things happening on the body, the actual root cause
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is an energetic piece. It's the energetic emotional piece. It's
these patterns that are playing on in the energetic body.
And so to really get to the bottom of that, well,
why not use human design to really understand your energetic blueprint,
to understand how your energy is moving through your body
and how you're meant to how your energy is meant
to move through the body and the environment and the
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universe interact with people. And so I love being able
to put all the puzzle pieces together, and you know,
I have the functional laps. We can see, Okay, this
is what's going actually going on in your physical body.
But then let's look at your human design to see
you know, we look at your open centers, your undefined centers,
defined centers, you look at all these pieces to see
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why these physical things are showing up on your body.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I love it. It's such a unique perspective to it,
and I think it's you know, similar to you at
this belief that the physical and the energetic are interrelated.
So being open to exploring that can be so insightful.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mm hmmm, yeah, yeah, And I think that's a big
piece of it, just the a lot of women coat
to me, they don't necessarily have fifty eight things going
wrong in their body, but they just want that insight,
Like I want to know what's going on in my body.
I want to know why sometimes these things happen to
my body, and I just they just want to know.
So I think just that, I mean, knowledge is power, right,
and so I think just having that feeling empowered and
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knowing I actually understand how my body is functioning and
why I'm doing the things that I'm doing, it's it's empowering.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So I'm curious, you know, based on your experience with
your clients, what's the most common ailment you're seeing that's
showing in the physical and how it relates to the
emotional and the energetic, especially for female entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, I think the most common So the most common
thing is related to this is I feel like this
is Oh, there's a couple of things I'll see. The
first one that's coming to my mind is happening in
the sacral center, and so our sacral center is associated
with our reproductive organs. So, right, the sacral center is
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the center for creativity and sexuality and life force. Right,
that's where life force comes from. And it's not lost
on me that so many women deal with hormonal issues
and that this is where it's all stemming from. So
have I mean, I have a lot of stories about this,
But the emotion typically that's connected with this is shame.
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Shame is an emotion that lives in the sacral center.
And it is unreal the amount of shame that women
carry with us from birth. Like it's generational, right, We're
literally born with it because of generation's past of women
who have lived and dealt with shame their entire lives.
And you know, they say, science says that we carry
(21:14):
up to seven generations of you know, generational trauma within ourselves.
I would say it's probably more than that. So we're
literally born with it, and so, you know, for no
fault of our own, this is something I think all
women are here to deal with, and it comes up
so much, and I think that this is one of
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the most common connections with reproductive issues and hormonal issues
and hormonal imbalances. Is this inherent shame that's in our DNA.
It's just in ourselves in our DNA. So I feel
like that's probably the most common and it's and it's
a tricky one too, because it's this also, this layered thing,
(21:58):
and I find with my clients a lot of times
it's like we have our own, you know, situations in
life where we felt shame in this life. But then
it's like we peel back these other layers and there's
other layers down there that in my opinion, this is
coming from generations past and now we have to deal with,
like our ancestors shame. But but I do think that,
I mean, I do think that's part of our part
(22:21):
of our existence on this planet, is that, you know,
heal generational trauma and generations past. So I feel I
love being able to be a part of that with
my clients, and like, you're literally undoing generations of trauma
that have happened in women and however many generations past.
So it's a beautiful thing to be able to heal that.
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But it's a tricky one and I really feel like
that one is something that all of us are here
to heal and here to deal with so powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thank you for bringing it up. And you know, shame
being the lowest vibrational frequency emotion on the chart, it
really is such a such a heavy emotion. A while back,
I was speaking to to a friend and we were
talking about actually shame and you know, associated to the
sacral chakra, and we brought up a topic and I
would love to hear your your perspective on it. We
(23:14):
were talking about how our first experience with our menstrual
cycle also impacts how we feel, you know, the energy
around the sacral chakra and even like motion of shame,
and so what was your first experience like? And for
her it was something like, oh, it wasn't talked about.
It was so hush hush, like it definitely didn't bring
it up. And for me, it was a very different
(23:36):
experience with like my dad like celebrating me and like
taking you know, my parents taking me to the supermarket.
And it was so like it was what I tell
people that like this is so odd for your.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Dad, it's beautiful, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, it was, honestly, it was so lovely and I've
never like I never felt shame around having my menstrual cycle,
like something I so openly talk about. And again it
goes back to that first experience of oh this is
my dad was like congratulations, you're a woman, Like what
kind of candy do you want? Do you want wings
(24:14):
or no wings for your pats? And I'm like, I
don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's so sweet, but I'd love to.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Know your perspective, like how that first experience. Have you
seen that in clients?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I can't say I've had those exact conversations with clients,
but it makes complete sense. And it makes sense too
how you experience your period after that? Like how? Because
and I think you know in I mean, I think
it's probably just Western society in general, Western cultures, it
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is something like we dread it and it's like, oh,
my period, Like I mean, you hear regular everyday women
talk about it. It's like it's horrible, we feel bad,
and we're oh, we're writing it. And one of the
things when I started bringing in kind of cycles, thinking
and these pieces into my work, one of the things
I wanted to do was was shift the narrative around
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everybody dreading their period. And so that's why I wanted
to educate women on Okay, let's understand how your period
works so you feel more empowered around your peer because
I know, like, hey, i know during my minstrel phase
of my cycle, I'm gonna like for me, I don't
schedule podcast interviews. I've rearranged my schedule so I know
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I have time to just be still, I have time
to go within like and I know, okay, I'm going
to create content. So you feel more empowered because you're
maximizing your energy within each phase. So I think if
we can understand the power that lies within your menstrual cycle,
then it doesn't have to be this thing that we
dread because the other thing is on the other end
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of that menopause. And this has been study. There's studies
that show this. Cultures who see menopause as this right
of passage and to wisdom and this next stage of life.
They don't have any symptoms. They literally have no symptoms
during menopause, Whereas if you ask most the majority of
women in Western society, it's horrible. The hot flashes and
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night sweats, the low libido, the painful sex, like all
of it, it's horrible. Well, the narrative around menopause, and
Western society is like, well that sucks, Like you're you know,
it's gonna be terrible. And you ask anybody, You ask
your mom and your grandma. The majority of us. Yours
might be different because your family celebrated you. But then
majority it's like it's terrible. Oh it sucked. It was.
So it's I think what you're saying makes total sense,
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and it's it's the energy and the intention and the
narrative around these different phases of life totally impacts how
you experience it. So I think that makes total sense.
And I wish I will say this, I wish everybody's
dad would celebrate them their daughters when they start their period.
That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard. That's amazing. Well,
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and I do think too, because I know for me,
I started my period pretty late. I mean I was
like a senior in high school, but I know it
was very hush hush, like I didn't you didn't want
your dad to know you had to go get tampons,
and you don't want to talk to anybody about it,
and like slowly trying to pass a tampon in class,
like so none of the boys see it, so there
is a there is a whole thing about it, and
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like why every female on the face of the earth
has one, So I don't know why it's such a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, we definitely need to have these conversations more openly
and kind of really normalize it because it is a
part of us. And I think the more we talk
about it, the more. I don't know how to say it,
but like we're releasing this this shield that's on us,
that's been put on us.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yes, yes, and that's it. It is freeing. And I
do think that there's I mean, I'm saying, like, what's
the big deal? But we know what the big deal is.
It's it's the it's the it's generations of women being
banned from society when they're in they're bleeding part of
their their cycle. And it's women not being able to
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go into the temple during their when they're bleeding. It's
generations of the patriarchy making us shame about something that
happens to every woman for a lot, very long time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, wow, I love I love that we are we're
talking about this. I love that the work you do
again with the energy, with the emotions, with the holistic
the functional part before we wrap up. I'd love for
us to actually go into that, the functional nutritional part.
I know a lot of the work you do around
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mineral balancing. Can we talk about that and like what
it is and how it impacts our energy levels, how
we show up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, So mineral balancing is kind of the foundational piece
of the functional nutrition piece that I work with my clients,
and it's something that not a lot of people are addressing,
not a lot of practitioners are addressing. Conventional medical doctors
are really not addressing it. And it's crazy to me.
I can read on this all day. I've lots of certifications,
I've done lots of courses on mineral balancing, So I
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love it and I love learning about it. But it's
crazy how it's not something that's mainstream. When we think
about minerals, and this is something we learn in biology
at some point, like minerals are considered the spark plugs
in the body, meaning that every reaction that happens in
the body, minerals are either a catalyst or a cofactor,
or they're playing a part in all these reactions in
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the body. So if we think about at a foundational level.
When we're addressing and balances in the body, why wouldn't
we start with the minerals, the most foundational piece of
what's happening in the body. So I love starting there,
and there's so much that we can address just looking
at the minerals. And so I do. When I'm looking
at minerals of my clients, I run what's it called
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a hair tissue in mineral analysis or an HTMA, and
you're literally sending in some of your hair and it's
giving you a ton of data on minerals, like a
couple dozen different minerals, toxic elements, heavy metals, and it
it looks at the relationships between the minerals. So we
can see what's going on with your adrenals and your
thyroid and your carbon metabolism and your nervous system and
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how your livers functioning. And there's so many things we
can look at just looking at minerals. And this really
is in my opinion. I mean, you know, women, so
many women come to me and it's it's hormonal things, right.
They're just like they're like, fix my hormones. They just
want me to fix your homones, Which is fine. I
can help fix your homones. But I'm never going to
start with the hormones. The hormones are always the last
step we're going to take because we have to start
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at that foundational piece what's happening at a cellular level,
and what's happening at a cellular level is what's going
on with your minerals. So this is the foundational piece.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Most people don't. I mean, it's not something that's very
it's very common, right, It's not a very common thing
that looking at and the way that I measure it,
the way that I test it is also not super common.
Like you know, conventional medical doctors. You can go get
a blood lab at the doctor, right, a doctor will
do a blood lab and they can look at some
of your minerals. But just like with any blood lab,
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a blood lab is just a blip in time. Right,
it's looking at what's going on in my body right now.
So if you do the same lab tomorrow, it could
look different. Right. With an HTMA, we're looking at your
hair as a tissue. This is what's going on chronically
in the body, So we can get a better look
at what's been going on over a period of time
versus right now. So it's going to be it's going
to give a deeper look. It's going to be a
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more accurate look. And since it's a tissue. Hair is
a tissue, it's also going to measure and read the
minerals differently because not to get too science a here,
but a lot of minerals are intracellular, meaning they're supposed
to be in your cell. So if I'm measuring it
from the blood, it's really not giving you an accurate
picture of some of the specific minerals that we want
to look at in an HTMA. So it's going to
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be a more accurate lie looking at it through that lens.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wow. So client comes to you, You run these tests,
so you're looking at it, you know, from a cellular level,
you're looking at it from an energetic level, you're looking
at it from an emotional level, and through you know,
this expanded perspective, you're able to help them prevent burnout,
have higher energy levels, less chronic illness, like or no
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chronic illness.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just it's really just
putting all the puzzle pieces together, and it's like I said,
I'll do the physical part first, and I think that's
one thing that the women I work with love because
I mean I love all of it, but looking at
the physical piece, it's there's no more guesswork. I don't
have to guess if it's my hormones, or is it
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my gut, or is it my you know whatever. I
don't have to guess, don't have to keep trying. We
can actually look at like we have empirical data on
the labs, like this is what's actually happening in your body?
And then from there, yeah, then now I tie and
the human design and the energetic pieces and do all
of that work amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
If you could go back to your younger self, what's
one piece of advice you would tell her, knowing what
you know today and having gone through what you've gone
through with.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Hmmm, A lot, a lot. I think the main lesson
I would want her to know, or the main piece
of wisdom is it doesn't have to be about affection.
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I think that that was such a big piece of
my downfall with you know, the disordered eating behavior and
the burnout and all of that. It was just everything
had to be perfect. And I think it's that self
love and again It's like a term I don't love
to use because it's so overused, But that was something
like I had no concept of that loving myself and
(34:01):
so I think for me it was me being a perfectionist,
was having needing this perpetual need to prove my worth.
And if I could just understand what self love really means,
I think that would have I mean, I wouldn't go
back and change a thing, because the lessons are the gold, right,
So the lessons are there. But that's what I would
(34:21):
tell her. I would tell my younger self is perfection
isn't the goal? Like, the goal is connection with yourself,
And I think that's the piece that was missing for me.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I love that I just shared. I created a reel yesterday,
you know, that trending reel of I had coffee with
my younger self, and that was exactly what I told her.
I told her perfectly, not the goal, it's genuine connections.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh my gosh, we're on the same wave, Like that's crazy. Yeah, Wow,
that's amazing. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's been such an honor, hope having you on and
wealth of them and insights. How can people connect with you?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, you can find me on Instagram. I'm at the
Hope Padraza. My website is Hopeful and Wholesome dot com.
And then I also have a podcast, Hopefully and Holsome Amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I'll put all of that in the show notes. Once again,
thank you for coming on, for giving us your time
and sharing all your insights with us. It's been really,
really insightful.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
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Hope Pedresa. She is a wellness expert. She's also the
host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm so excited to have you on. You dive on
such important topics that I feel like it's not discussed enough.
So thank you for giving us the time and for
being able being willing to share your insights with us
on some of these topics. So let's dive right in.
I would love for us to start the conversation with
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something that comes up so often, especially in the corporate
world or for entrepreneurs, this idea of experiencing burnout. Can
we talk about it? What's your insights on it, what's
the approach you want to take?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I agree, And I think that it's
so common, yet so many people, especially women, don't even
realize that they're in burnout. Like there's so many symptoms
and facets to it, and a lot of times we
get our bodies. As glorious as they're they're very adaptable,
so we just kind of adapt and like, oh, I
guess this is normal, right, and you're feeling that, whether
(01:41):
it's you know, somewhat noticeable symptoms like headaches and brain
fog and migraines and anxiety like my the feelings, or
it's more subtle where it's the wired but tired thing,
where it's like my brain won't turn off, but I'm
actually really tired, but I really can't go to sleep,
whether it's just kind of low keyingnxiety playing in the background,
whether it's maybe low key inflammation where you might have
(02:04):
some joint pain here and there. But a lot of
these symptoms we pass off as quote unquote normal when
it's not really normal. Common, yes, but not necessarily normal.
And so I think so many women who deal with
burnout they go so long before doing anything about it
or dressing it because either they a don't know that
they're in it, or they be they just try to
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brush off like it's not that big of a deal.
But then the symptoms kind of compound and then they're
kind of forced to deal with it. And I think
a lot of the women I've worked with are in that,
in that boat where they've kind of pushed aside the
little nagging symptoms that they've been feeling for a while,
and then all of a sudden, now it's instead of
five sentems, that's like twenty five. So they've got all
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these things like now it's like screaming at me. Now
I have to do something about it. But I think
that women are so susceptible for multiple reasons. There's a
lot of rabbit holes that can good down here, but
I've like women are so much more susceptible to it,
just in kind of the I mean the hustle culture.
I hate really using that word because it's so overplayed,
(03:08):
but it is. I mean, that's really we become kind
of ingrained in this kind of masculine structure of how
we work and do and productivity and efficiency and doing
and doing and doing and doing, and women's bodies just
aren't designed to operate like that. And so with my clients,
there's a kind of a multifaceted approach I take for
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the burnout, but I think initially it's can we just
listen to our body, Like it's just as simple as that.
Can we just listen to our body, listen to our
natural rhythms and cycles and our hormonal cycle. And I
work my clients a lot we talk about cycle sinking
and working with your cycle, and even just understanding it,
even if you don't necessarily want to build your business
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or your career around your cycle, just understanding your cycle
and how your energy comes in waves. And we're on
this twenty eight day hormonal cycle when we're forcing and
pushing ourselves to kind of fit in again, kind of
that masculine start because men men run on a twenty
four hour hormonal cycle, so they can do the same
thing yesterday and the day before and the day before
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the day and twenty eight days after this because there
were hormonal cycles the same every day. Women are not
designed to work like that, and our creativity and our
productivity waxes and wanes like the cycle of the moon. Right,
So I think even just just this basic understanding of
how our bodies work and our natural hormonal cycles and
energy cycles and rhythms, all of that is crucial for
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the first step of addressing burnout.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I love that so much to unpack here can we
talk about the hormonal cycles, because when I first heard
about it, I was so intrigued, but it made so
much sense, and I don't think too many people know
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's it, And you know it's funny. I did a
workshop less week this local group here where I live,
for this working mom's group, and that was something we
were talking about. Is at least for me, and I
know I can speak for a lot of women, like
maybe someone had had a mom who was really into
like teaching their daughter about it. But I was never
taught this in school, Like my mom didn't tell me
about you just weren't taught. It's like, oh, you have
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a period, you can get pregnant the end, Like that's
the extent of it. So so just understanding how your
period works, how your minstrel cycle works, and so if
you want to go like through how the cycle, like
the phases of the cycles, do you want to go
through that? Yeah? Okay, yeah, So your first day of
your cycle is your first day of bleeding, and I
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think some of them don't even know that that the
first day of their cycles are first day of bleeding.
So we started the minstrel phase and when I teach
my clients. I like to use the seasons. And I
know I'm not going to lane. I'm not the only one.
I didn't come up with this, but I like correlating
the seasons with the phases of your cycle because it's
just it's kind of easier to get into your mind
and contemplate, like where I am and what's happening in
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ah phase cycle. So the minstrel part would be the
winter phase. And if you think about winter, right, it's
this time where things are dying and we kind of
go in and hibernating. We kind of go inward, and
that's what we're designed to do during our menstrual cycle.
And during this the minstrel phase of your cycle. Rather
and during this particular phase of your cycle, the right
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and left sides of our hemisphere, right and left hemispheres
of our brain are talking to each other more easily.
They're more connected. So this is the time where if
we allow ourselves to get quiet and go inward, we
get the creative downloads, like, we get the intuitive downloads,
the intuitive hits, like we can really go inward and
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see what comes up if we give ourselves the space
for that. And so that's the time to rest reflect.
Maybe you're setting goals, maybe you're setting to do list.
It's not the time to do those just yet. But
we're kind of setting the stage for what comes next,
which is spring. Right, Spring comes after winter. So spring
is when theular phase is starting, and this is where
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we're gearing up towards ovulation. And so when we're good
after the menstruation phase, our hormones start to rise, right,
so we feel our energy come back. We feel a
little bit more confident, We're feeling a little better in
our bodies. So this is the part of our phase
or we can start to get things done. The creative
your brain kind of comes back on track, like comes
(07:22):
back online. I know, at least for me, during my
mental phase, it's like this static it's like this static
in my brain where it's like I can't really get
So the static starts to clear, the fog starts to clear,
and so we are starting to get things done and
we're starting to feel productive and creative, gearing up towards summer,
which is ovulation. Now, ovulation is technically just one day,
it's like a one day event, but we feel the
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effects of that maximum hormone levels. We feel that there's
a lingering, there's kind of a before and after. So
when we get to those peak hormones is ovulation. This
is the time, like we're feeling good, we're feeling confident,
we're feeling social. This is the time to do the
networking and the interview and the getting putting yourself out
there and you know, doing the lives on social media
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and like you're feeling good about yourself. So ovulation this
is the summer phase. This is the time to do things,
get out there, put yourself out there. From there you
go into your luteal phase. This is the fall. This
is the autumn, right, and if you think about autumn,
think about fall, things are kind of starting to wither away, right,
the leaves start to fall up, the trees, things are
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getting ready for winter. So autumn is that time of
your cycle where kind of like nature does, like it's
like letting go of what no longer serves it. And
that's what we're meant to do during our ludeal phase.
And it's funny I'm saying this because one of my
friends on Facebook posted something it was either today yesterday,
and she was like, in my luteal rage, and she
like went on this rant. I thought that was hilarious.
I've never heard of lurial rage before. But in your
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luteal cycle, this is the time where it's like you're
so our hormones start to drop. Our progesterone is rising,
but the rest of our hormones are falling. And so
this is the time of your cycle where you might
recognize you're getting a little moody, maybe a little irritable.
Certain things are getting on your nerves. But I tell
my clients everybody has a BS meter right where we
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can measure the BS. Your BS meter is like on
a high alert during your luteal phase because of how
our mood is. So this really is the time to
decide what do I need to get rid of, what's
no longer serving me, what do I need to Maybe
it's a time where you're like you need to figure
out what to delegate in my business or whatever. So
this is the time where you just have this clarity
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on what is BS you need to get BS you
need to get rid of, and kind of let those
things go. The other thing about the luteal phase is
because our creative brain kind of starts to wane during
this part because we're gearing up for menstruation, which is
coming next. This isn't the time to necessarily be creative
and fun and you're not really feeling fun and spunky
(09:48):
when you're about to start your period. I think everybody
knows that. But this is the time to do the
boring admin stuff, like schedule your boring admin tasks and
like for me, it's like do the stuff in quick
books and your spreadsheets and all this stuff. Like for me,
I hate doing that stuff, but it doesn't require a
whole lot of brain power. So it's just kind of
like menial things that you can get done during your
(10:10):
luteal phase because we don't have to shut off our
creative brain to do that because it's kind of already
kind of winding down. So that's kind of that's a
kind of a general overview of of your cycle.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Wow, Hope, I love the way you like broke it
down for us and you connected it to the seasons.
That's actually so much easier to remember because sometimes when
I first when I first learned about it, I'm like, oh,
what phase am I in? Like what am I supposed to.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do right now? Yes, we're not supposed to.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So that connection that was really powerful. Thank you for sharing.
As you were sharing, I thought of like this one,
in my opinion, unhelpful advice that people give when someone's
experiencing burnout, and it's just like just rest, you know,
like resting, put everything off and just rest. For me,
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it doesn't work to just stress because there's so many
other components. But I would love your expert opinion on this.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes, that's such a good point. And I think sometimes
when we're in this kind of pattern of overwhelm and
over stimulation, just telling somebody just rest, it's like it's
like your doctor being like, oh, well, this stuff's caused
by stress, Well just don't be stressed. Like okay, that's
just not helpful. It's not helpful at all. And I
(11:26):
think too, there's this nervous system component where when your
nervous system is so wrapped up in the doing and
it doesn't feel safe to just rest, like your nervous
system is like well when we're saying just rest. So
I think there's kind of like levels to this and
there's kind of steps to take to get to that
point where we can feel safe just resting. And so
(11:47):
for me, it's when I'm helping my clients through burn
and I mean I've have my own journey through burnout.
I completely tanged my adrenals and wrecked my body. For me,
it was this kind of one step at a time
where it was just taking little piece that of my
day where I get step away from work and you know,
go for a walk or go do something else. So
it's just taking those little minutes. Can I can I
(12:08):
stop working? Can I stop doing and go do something
else rather than just sitting and resting that didn't feel
safe at all? Can I just go do something else?
Can I, like flip change my environment? Flip the script
write make a shift and you know, I go outside
and sit outside, or can I go for a walk,
or can I just you know, change my environment. So
I think that as a first step is helpful for
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especially when somebody's nervous system is so tied up in
the doing and it really doesn't feel safe to rest.
And then we can do that more and more. We
can build that that safety in the body where it
feels safe to rest and we can go you know,
maybe you go take a nap, or maybe you go
do a meditation and you sit still for a little while,
whatever whatever resting is for you, but finding that kind
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of mindful activity, something that where you're still doing but
you're not working and being productive. And it's the tricky
one too, because I know for me, when I was
trying to help myself out of burnout, I would tell
myself like, oh, yeah, I'm just going to go for
a walk, and you know, go for a walk outside. Well,
then I'm like listening to a business podcast or I'm
listening to a masterclass, or I'm still doing while I'm
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supposed to be not doing. So it was like an
excuse for me to like, oh, I'm still going to
do what I'm going to change my mind, I'm not
going to be sitting in my computer. So it's a
slippery slope there to really untangle those pieces to feel
safe to not do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I love that you brought that up, because that's something
that I was navigating anything like two or three years ago,
and like I would go for these walks and I
would love my daily walks, and then I would have
the podcast and I would come back and I'm like,
I'm still over stimulated. And so I really had to
like check in with myself and be like what do
you need? And I've discovered that like driving with nothing
(13:50):
on is like my my go to way of kind
of regulating my nervous system, and that's silence, creating that silence,
being intentional with this, So just checking in with myself,
like what do you need right now? I think a
lot of us forget to ask ourselves. We ask other people,
we ask our husband, our children, and our families like
what do you need? But we don't ask ourselves that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
One h hundred percent and being okay, sitting in the
sense and that's a tough one for people. I think
a lot of people struggle sitting in silence and being
in the silence. I was the same way though, recognizing that,
and I'm the same way in the car. It depends
on the car because some days I do want to
have like I'm listening to something or but a lot
of days like just a minute of silence, and especially
in the car where it's like you're going home or
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you're going like for me, I have a brick and
mortar business too, where I'm about to be around people
like just give me like some peace and quiet and silence,
And now I like crave that it's like my time,
Like I don't want to call anybody in the car.
I don't want to talk to anybody if I'm in
there by myself, it's like, okay, can you just get silent?
So I think that's important. Important to pull out too,
is being able to create this space for quiet and silence.
(14:58):
And I think there's so much available when you give
yourself that space, Like we're talking about the menstrul part
of your cycle, where if you give yourself the space,
you can have these opportunities for the creative downloads and
the and twu of downloads or the divine downloads when
we would create the space for that stillness and silence.
So I think that's an important part of it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I really love how you take such a holistic approach
to your work. And I've been looking into your work
and I was like wow, Like I love how it's
like the nutrition part and then it's the nervous system
regulation part. But what really interested me was how you
brought in human design. Can we talk about that? What
you know? When?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
How? Why all of that all of it?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah? Yeah, I love human design and I think initially
I just loved it so much and how how it
made me feel about myself that I'm like, I got
to share this with other people, like I have to
have to use it my work. I found human design,
I guess now it's been about five years ago, just
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through I was working with a spiritual coach and she
wasn't human design coach, but she had this little piece
of human design in the work we were doing and
it was just enough to pique my address and I'm like,
I've got to know more. So diving in, I worked
with some human design mentors and decided to get certified
and all that. For me. When I first discovered in DOVN,
it was, you know, I think it's it's the way
(16:26):
a lot of people feel when they discover about their
human design. It's, you know, it feels validating, and it
feels freeing, and it feels you know, it's this permission
slip to be authentically all of those things, and it's
what really shifted how I was running my business, how
I was showing up in my business, how was addressing,
(16:48):
you know, caring for my physical body. It was this
kind of healing part of the healing journey for myself
and like healing their relationship with myself, I this side
tangent here had I had a pretty extensive history of
disordered eating behavior, and so for me, I just had
this tumultuous relationship with myself for so long that human
(17:10):
design was kind of the thing that just set me
on the patsy heel that part of myself and that
relationship with myself and so feeling that within me like
I have to bring this into my work. So when
I first started bringing it, so I started as a
functional practitioner and I'm doing the labs and I'm helping
people uncover, you know, root cause of chronic symptoms and
(17:33):
working with a lot of women. I'm recognizing, Okay, there's
these emotional, energetic components that are causing these physical things
to show up on the body, right, and I recognize
that in my own body. I have also have history
of IBS totally related to the disordered eating and my
type a perfectionist personal like it it's all related. But
recognizing that in myself and then seeing you know patterns
(17:54):
and women and I'm like thinking, Okay, if I only
knew about your human design, like I feel like I could.
So that was kind of for me the catalyst, like Okay,
I can really dive into how to customize this process
and how to really get like we talk about root cause.
In my opinion, I'm of the belief that all the
physical things happening on the body, the actual root cause
(18:16):
is an energetic piece. It's the energetic emotional piece. It's
these patterns that are playing on in the energetic body.
And so to really get to the bottom of that, well,
why not use human design to really understand your energetic blueprint,
to understand how your energy is moving through your body
and how you're meant to how your energy is meant
to move through the body and the environment and the
(18:36):
universe interact with people. And so I love being able
to put all the puzzle pieces together, and you know,
I have the functional laps. We can see, Okay, this
is what's going actually going on in your physical body.
But then let's look at your human design to see
you know, we look at your open centers, your undefined centers,
defined centers, you look at all these pieces to see
(18:57):
why these physical things are showing up on your body.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I love it. It's such a unique perspective to it,
and I think it's you know, similar to you at
this belief that the physical and the energetic are interrelated.
So being open to exploring that can be so insightful.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mm hmmm, yeah, yeah, And I think that's a big
piece of it, just the a lot of women coat
to me, they don't necessarily have fifty eight things going
wrong in their body, but they just want that insight,
Like I want to know what's going on in my body.
I want to know why sometimes these things happen to
my body, and I just they just want to know.
So I think just that, I mean, knowledge is power, right,
and so I think just having that feeling empowered and
(19:41):
knowing I actually understand how my body is functioning and
why I'm doing the things that I'm doing, it's it's empowering.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So I'm curious, you know, based on your experience with
your clients, what's the most common ailment you're seeing that's
showing in the physical and how it relates to the
emotional and the energetic, especially for female entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, I think the most common So the most common
thing is related to this is I feel like this
is Oh, there's a couple of things I'll see. The
first one that's coming to my mind is happening in
the sacral center, and so our sacral center is associated
with our reproductive organs. So, right, the sacral center is
(20:31):
the center for creativity and sexuality and life force. Right,
that's where life force comes from. And it's not lost
on me that so many women deal with hormonal issues
and that this is where it's all stemming from. So
have I mean, I have a lot of stories about this,
But the emotion typically that's connected with this is shame.
(20:51):
Shame is an emotion that lives in the sacral center.
And it is unreal the amount of shame that women
carry with us from birth. Like it's generational, right, We're
literally born with it because of generation's past of women
who have lived and dealt with shame their entire lives.
And you know, they say, science says that we carry
(21:14):
up to seven generations of you know, generational trauma within ourselves.
I would say it's probably more than that. So we're
literally born with it, and so, you know, for no
fault of our own, this is something I think all
women are here to deal with, and it comes up
so much, and I think that this is one of
(21:35):
the most common connections with reproductive issues and hormonal issues
and hormonal imbalances. Is this inherent shame that's in our DNA.
It's just in ourselves in our DNA. So I feel
like that's probably the most common and it's and it's
a tricky one too, because it's this also, this layered thing,
(21:58):
and I find with my clients a lot of times
it's like we have our own, you know, situations in
life where we felt shame in this life. But then
it's like we peel back these other layers and there's
other layers down there that in my opinion, this is
coming from generations past and now we have to deal with,
like our ancestors shame. But but I do think that,
I mean, I do think that's part of our part
(22:21):
of our existence on this planet, is that, you know,
heal generational trauma and generations past. So I feel I
love being able to be a part of that with
my clients, and like, you're literally undoing generations of trauma
that have happened in women and however many generations past.
So it's a beautiful thing to be able to heal that.
(22:42):
But it's a tricky one and I really feel like
that one is something that all of us are here
to heal and here to deal with so powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thank you for bringing it up. And you know, shame
being the lowest vibrational frequency emotion on the chart, it
really is such a such a heavy emotion. A while back,
I was speaking to to a friend and we were
talking about actually shame and you know, associated to the
sacral chakra, and we brought up a topic and I
would love to hear your your perspective on it. We
(23:14):
were talking about how our first experience with our menstrual
cycle also impacts how we feel, you know, the energy
around the sacral chakra and even like motion of shame,
and so what was your first experience like? And for
her it was something like, oh, it wasn't talked about.
It was so hush hush, like it definitely didn't bring
it up. And for me, it was a very different
(23:36):
experience with like my dad like celebrating me and like
taking you know, my parents taking me to the supermarket.
And it was so like it was what I tell
people that like this is so odd for your.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Dad, it's beautiful, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, it was, honestly, it was so lovely and I've
never like I never felt shame around having my menstrual cycle,
like something I so openly talk about. And again it
goes back to that first experience of oh this is
my dad was like congratulations, you're a woman, Like what
kind of candy do you want? Do you want wings
(24:14):
or no wings for your pats? And I'm like, I
don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's so sweet, but I'd love to.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Know your perspective, like how that first experience. Have you
seen that in clients?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I can't say I've had those exact conversations with clients,
but it makes complete sense. And it makes sense too
how you experience your period after that? Like how? Because
and I think you know in I mean, I think
it's probably just Western society in general, Western cultures, it
(24:49):
is something like we dread it and it's like, oh,
my period, Like I mean, you hear regular everyday women
talk about it. It's like it's horrible, we feel bad,
and we're oh, we're writing it. And one of the
things when I started bringing in kind of cycles, thinking
and these pieces into my work, one of the things
I wanted to do was was shift the narrative around
(25:09):
everybody dreading their period. And so that's why I wanted
to educate women on Okay, let's understand how your period
works so you feel more empowered around your peer because
I know, like, hey, i know during my minstrel phase
of my cycle, I'm gonna like for me, I don't
schedule podcast interviews. I've rearranged my schedule so I know
(25:29):
I have time to just be still, I have time
to go within like and I know, okay, I'm going
to create content. So you feel more empowered because you're
maximizing your energy within each phase. So I think if
we can understand the power that lies within your menstrual cycle,
then it doesn't have to be this thing that we
dread because the other thing is on the other end
(25:49):
of that menopause. And this has been study. There's studies
that show this. Cultures who see menopause as this right
of passage and to wisdom and this next stage of life.
They don't have any symptoms. They literally have no symptoms
during menopause, Whereas if you ask most the majority of
women in Western society, it's horrible. The hot flashes and
(26:10):
night sweats, the low libido, the painful sex, like all
of it, it's horrible. Well, the narrative around menopause, and
Western society is like, well that sucks, Like you're you know,
it's gonna be terrible. And you ask anybody, You ask
your mom and your grandma. The majority of us. Yours
might be different because your family celebrated you. But then
majority it's like it's terrible. Oh it sucked. It was.
So it's I think what you're saying makes total sense,
(26:33):
and it's it's the energy and the intention and the
narrative around these different phases of life totally impacts how
you experience it. So I think that makes total sense.
And I wish I will say this, I wish everybody's
dad would celebrate them their daughters when they start their period.
That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard. That's amazing. Well,
(26:56):
and I do think too, because I know for me,
I started my period pretty late. I mean I was
like a senior in high school, but I know it
was very hush hush, like I didn't you didn't want
your dad to know you had to go get tampons,
and you don't want to talk to anybody about it,
and like slowly trying to pass a tampon in class,
like so none of the boys see it, so there
is a there is a whole thing about it, and
(27:20):
like why every female on the face of the earth
has one, So I don't know why it's such a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, we definitely need to have these conversations more openly
and kind of really normalize it because it is a
part of us. And I think the more we talk
about it, the more. I don't know how to say it,
but like we're releasing this this shield that's on us,
that's been put on us.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yes, yes, and that's it. It is freeing. And I
do think that there's I mean, I'm saying, like, what's
the big deal? But we know what the big deal is.
It's it's the it's the it's generations of women being
banned from society when they're in they're bleeding part of
their their cycle. And it's women not being able to
(28:09):
go into the temple during their when they're bleeding. It's
generations of the patriarchy making us shame about something that
happens to every woman for a lot, very long time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, wow, I love I love that we are we're
talking about this. I love that the work you do
again with the energy, with the emotions, with the holistic
the functional part before we wrap up. I'd love for
us to actually go into that, the functional nutritional part.
I know a lot of the work you do around
(28:42):
mineral balancing. Can we talk about that and like what
it is and how it impacts our energy levels, how
we show up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, So mineral balancing is kind of the foundational piece
of the functional nutrition piece that I work with my clients,
and it's something that not a lot of people are addressing,
not a lot of practitioners are addressing. Conventional medical doctors
are really not addressing it. And it's crazy to me.
I can read on this all day. I've lots of certifications,
I've done lots of courses on mineral balancing, So I
(29:14):
love it and I love learning about it. But it's
crazy how it's not something that's mainstream. When we think
about minerals, and this is something we learn in biology
at some point, like minerals are considered the spark plugs
in the body, meaning that every reaction that happens in
the body, minerals are either a catalyst or a cofactor,
or they're playing a part in all these reactions in
(29:34):
the body. So if we think about at a foundational level.
When we're addressing and balances in the body, why wouldn't
we start with the minerals, the most foundational piece of
what's happening in the body. So I love starting there,
and there's so much that we can address just looking
at the minerals. And so I do. When I'm looking
at minerals of my clients, I run what's it called
(29:56):
a hair tissue in mineral analysis or an HTMA, and
you're literally sending in some of your hair and it's
giving you a ton of data on minerals, like a
couple dozen different minerals, toxic elements, heavy metals, and it
it looks at the relationships between the minerals. So we
can see what's going on with your adrenals and your
thyroid and your carbon metabolism and your nervous system and
(30:20):
how your livers functioning. And there's so many things we
can look at just looking at minerals. And this really
is in my opinion. I mean, you know, women, so
many women come to me and it's it's hormonal things, right.
They're just like they're like, fix my hormones. They just
want me to fix your homones, Which is fine. I
can help fix your homones. But I'm never going to
start with the hormones. The hormones are always the last
step we're going to take because we have to start
(30:41):
at that foundational piece what's happening at a cellular level,
and what's happening at a cellular level is what's going
on with your minerals. So this is the foundational piece.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Most people don't. I mean, it's not something that's very
it's very common, right, It's not a very common thing
that looking at and the way that I measure it,
the way that I test it is also not super common.
Like you know, conventional medical doctors. You can go get
a blood lab at the doctor, right, a doctor will
do a blood lab and they can look at some
of your minerals. But just like with any blood lab,
(31:15):
a blood lab is just a blip in time. Right,
it's looking at what's going on in my body right now.
So if you do the same lab tomorrow, it could
look different. Right. With an HTMA, we're looking at your
hair as a tissue. This is what's going on chronically
in the body, So we can get a better look
at what's been going on over a period of time
versus right now. So it's going to be it's going
to give a deeper look. It's going to be a
(31:36):
more accurate look. And since it's a tissue. Hair is
a tissue, it's also going to measure and read the
minerals differently because not to get too science a here,
but a lot of minerals are intracellular, meaning they're supposed
to be in your cell. So if I'm measuring it
from the blood, it's really not giving you an accurate
picture of some of the specific minerals that we want
to look at in an HTMA. So it's going to
(31:59):
be a more accurate lie looking at it through that lens.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wow. So client comes to you, You run these tests,
so you're looking at it, you know, from a cellular level,
you're looking at it from an energetic level, you're looking
at it from an emotional level, and through you know,
this expanded perspective, you're able to help them prevent burnout,
have higher energy levels, less chronic illness, like or no
(32:27):
chronic illness.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just it's really just
putting all the puzzle pieces together, and it's like I said,
I'll do the physical part first, and I think that's
one thing that the women I work with love because
I mean I love all of it, but looking at
the physical piece, it's there's no more guesswork. I don't
have to guess if it's my hormones, or is it
(32:49):
my gut, or is it my you know whatever. I
don't have to guess, don't have to keep trying. We
can actually look at like we have empirical data on
the labs, like this is what's actually happening in your body?
And then from there, yeah, then now I tie and
the human design and the energetic pieces and do all
of that work amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
If you could go back to your younger self, what's
one piece of advice you would tell her, knowing what
you know today and having gone through what you've gone
through with.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Hmmm, A lot, a lot. I think the main lesson
I would want her to know, or the main piece
of wisdom is it doesn't have to be about affection.
(33:36):
I think that that was such a big piece of
my downfall with you know, the disordered eating behavior and
the burnout and all of that. It was just everything
had to be perfect. And I think it's that self
love and again It's like a term I don't love
to use because it's so overused, But that was something
like I had no concept of that loving myself and
(34:01):
so I think for me it was me being a perfectionist,
was having needing this perpetual need to prove my worth.
And if I could just understand what self love really means,
I think that would have I mean, I wouldn't go
back and change a thing, because the lessons are the gold, right,
So the lessons are there. But that's what I would
(34:21):
tell her. I would tell my younger self is perfection
isn't the goal? Like, the goal is connection with yourself,
And I think that's the piece that was missing for me.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I love that I just shared. I created a reel yesterday,
you know, that trending reel of I had coffee with
my younger self, and that was exactly what I told her.
I told her perfectly, not the goal, it's genuine connections.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh my gosh, we're on the same wave, Like that's crazy. Yeah, Wow,
that's amazing. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's been such an honor, hope having you on and
wealth of them and insights. How can people connect with you?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, you can find me on Instagram. I'm at the
Hope Padraza. My website is Hopeful and Wholesome dot com.
And then I also have a podcast, Hopefully and Holsome Amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I'll put all of that in the show notes. Once again,
thank you for coming on, for giving us your time
and sharing all your insights with us. It's been really,
really insightful.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Thank you everyone for listening Speak Soon. Thank you for
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