July 19, 2023 • 38 mins
Just how powerful are our brains when it comes to self-healing? Not in a metaphysical way, but in a very real, everyday application. How much do our brains hear what our minds have to say? We explore some powerful stuff about the psychoneuroimmunology on today's show.
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Welcome to brain Lady Speaks with JulieAnderson. Julie brain Lady Anderson is considered
to be one of the nation's topexperts on the brain personality connection. She
has been inspiring her audiences to fireup their brains and ignite positive changes in
their relationships, and now she ishere to bring that knowledge to you.
The information she shares will help thosewho hear it to accelerate their success in
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life and business through the discovery oftheir natural gifts and maximizing their brain power.
When you learn to tap into thepotential of your natural gifts and the
power of the brain mind connection,there is no limit to what you can
accomplish. Today and every Wednesday onbrain Lady Speaks, you'll explore the latest
findings to see how they have practicalapplication in your life. And now get
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ready to join Julie Anderson on thebrain Lady Speaks radio show. Take it
Away, Julie brain Lady Anderson,and I'm very excited to be here today
to share some amazing conversation and amazingconversation with our guest from all the way
coming all the way in from Spain, Miss Sarah Dawkins. How are you
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today, Hi, Julie, I'mgood, Thank you. How are you?
I am doing so well and Iam so excited about this topic.
I always get so jazzed up whenwe're able to share things that help us
to live better lives, especially whenwhen we connect in the brain and the
body's healing mechanisms and all of that. It's always such a great conversation to
have, and we are very excitedto have you here as a guest.
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Let me go ahead and I'm justgoing to read a little bit of Sarah's
bio so that everyone kind of getsa little bit of background, and then
I'll have you kind of tell alittle bit of your story to let us
know the other side of the coin, so to speaking. So we are
here with Sarah Dawkins, who hasa Bachelors and science and Masters in science
and AMC. You'll have to explainwith that. As of Sarah s sd
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health Essential health dot Com. Sarahis a holistic health and healing coach,
keynote speaker, the author of HealYourself, a multi award winning entrepreneurs and
previously she was a registered nurse fortwenty years. We're going to talk a
little bit about that journey. Shehas extensive experience and health and wellness gained
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from naturally healing a multitude of healthissues at her work and her work as
a registered nurse. She uses thisknowledge to take the holistic approach in her
and holistic approach in her work.Sarah supports clients to find and heal the
root cause of their health problems,thereby improving their health and of course,
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ultimately their lives. Isn't that thetruth? Welcome again, Sarah to the
Brain Lady Speaks podcast. Thank youso much, so kind of just elaborate.
Then AMC is accredited Master coach.So I did a master coach training
course for coaching and it was accredited. Awesome, amazing, that's great.
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That's great to hear, and that'sgreat for our listeners to know. So
you were a registered nurse for twentyyears. How did that tell us a
little bit about your journey? Right? What led you to here? Because
obviously you weren't nursing, but youmade this shift. So what made you
interested in the nursing profession? Andthen why did you? What had you
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after twenty years and that make thisshift to what you're doing now? So
I was raised in a medical model. My mom was a nurse, am
a dada's a fireman. So Iwas raised thinking that when you sit,
you go to a doctor, hegets a prescription, you get some medicines,
and you are healed in inverted commas. And that's what's high belief for
most of my life. And intwo thousand and five, while I was
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working in America, we were livingin Florida for two years, somebody just
dropped a little gets and seeds aboutsomething. So I'm like, well,
why would she say that, BecauseI'm totally bought into the medical model and
this is how it is and thisis how we all live, don't wait.
So I started doing some research andone door opened, fifty doors open,
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fifty thousand doors, and it wasjust like wow. So I started
looking at what I could do tosupport my body. Meanwhile, I was
still working as a registered nurse inthe US and then I went back to
the UK. But all the timeI was doing all this research, I
was starting to look at what Icould do. So I started changing my
diet, eating better, doing moreexercise, becoming mindful, and I started
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healing. I had exma, Ihad soriasis at different times. I had
acid reflux, I had a candiderinfection, I ended up with two frozen
shoulders, one one year with theother one the next year, and hip
knee, back pains, and thenI ended up with a suicidal depression.
I burned out my adrenal glands andhad an undirective thyroid. So after naturally
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self healing all of that, Ithought, I really cannot stay in the
role of the time in as aregistered nurse because my beliefs around pharmaceuticals and
healing and what our body can dono longer aligne. But it took me
two years because even though I wasno longer aligned with being a registered nurse
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all of my life because my mumwas a registered nurse, I'd wanted to
be a nurse to help people,to care for people, to help them
to get better. And took metwo years to think, well, if
I'm not Sarah the registered nurse,who am I? And I'd fixed who
I was my personality to being aregistered nurse. So after two years of
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soul searching, I decided that wasenough. I could no longer work within
that environment because it didn't it hasa place for emergency in trauma but for
everything else, we can do ourselves. So I did my coaching training and
I've worked as a holistic health coach, helping other people to understand how they
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too can naturally self heal all thedifferent facets of it. Because our body
heals, it's what it does.You know, when we cut ourselves,
when we bruise ourselves, we don'tthink, oh, well, how am
I going to heal that. We'rejust like, well, it'll heal,
so why not multiple scurosis and alsand allergies and autoimmune and everything else.
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Yeah, that's beautiful. You know. It's interesting because going all the way
back to my teen years, that'swhen I was just became fascinated with natural
health. And then fast forward tomy late twenties, I was actually homeschooling
my kids and I was like,I want to go back to school too,
So I started to get my degreein natural health because it is it's
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just fascinating. It's like, thebody is so beautifully and I believe created
right. That's my personal belief thatit can do that if you give the
body the right tools and you don'tfight against it. It's amazing, absolutely
amazing. What the body? Whatthe body can do. And it's interesting
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that you had that internal kind ofargument with yourself for two years. This
is the path I'm supposed to beon over here, but I'm being drawn
into this. So I think that'sa good lesson for a lot of the
listeners to hear that it's not likeyou have this brainstorm of an idea of
where you want to go and thathappens overnight, right, Sometimes it's this
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growth journey mentally, Yeah, toget there, to get there, and
I think sorry as well the universe. My belief is the universe has a
way of just not genuine making youreally uncomfortable if you're not quite on the
right path. And I've got tothe place where I wasn't I wasn't happy.
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I didn't feel fulfilled in my work. I was, yeah, I
was helping people, but there wasguidelines that I had to follow within the
nursing, within the medical model,and it just I was really struggling with
helping people. But through the medicalmodel, I wanted to help them in
to help them to support their ownbody, and it was just so misaligned
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and I became so unfulfilled in mywork because I wasn't helping them in a
way that I thought would actually benefitthem. And that's why I left the
nursing because actually we don't need thepharmaceuticals outside of an accident and a trauma.
We can do everything ourselves supporting ourbody. Yeah, it's so interesting
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because I agree on but you knowwhole hurriedly that in acute situations, you
know, you break your ankle,you you get poisoned, well even poison
it can be. There's a lotof natural remedies for that, but there's
there's those certain things that are youknow, antibiotics for specific infections that you
need to get taken care of immediatelyor they can become serious. There are
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those moments that you that you know, western I call it western medicine,
but traditional medicine model is necessary.But most long term chronic illnesses, you
have a much it's a much betteridea too, if you can go at
it from that holistic or from thatnatural healing and let your body do the
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work, or else you're working againstyour body and it just it makes a
chronic situation even more chronic. Yeah, and if you noticed as well that
we're so used to or programs whonot do anything until we've got a problem,
so then we become reactive to thesymptoms rather than taking a proactive approach.
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I'm looking after ourselves before we getthe symptoms. Yeah, so true,
so true, it's yeah, yep. And if we give ourselves,
if we're healthy and we have astrong, healthy immune system, which means
we're giving the body those building blocksto keep that immune system up to its
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highest level, you don't get sick. I do not get I very rarely
get sick. Now. I havebeen in a few car accidents that I
have neck injury issues scar tissuing fromthat. But outside of that, I
go a ton like the energizer bunny, right. And the only reason why
I'm able to do that, Iknow, is because of living a high
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wellness level lifestyle where I'm getting exerciseand I'm getting the nutrition, and I'm
drinking my green drink, and I'mdoing the things from my brain that you
know, keeps my brain healthy.All of that helps to deal with that
one. This is an interview foryou. I'm talking too much, Okay,
So you kind of mentioned some ofyou dropped some of those things that
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health issues that you had dealt with. Now, how did you do that
self? Healing. So how whatwere some of the the lifestyle changes,
the things that you did to helpto heal those conditions that you were struggling
with changes in your life. Soit all starts with baby steps, because
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you can't do everything all at once. And I said, when one side
colleague that I was working with justgiving me one of some seeds about the
body and it's natural healing outside ofpharmaceuticals, I started looking at what I
could do to support my body tostay well not get sick. And first
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and foremost was actually to change theway I ate, because you know,
I had a reasonably healthy diet,but I also ate a lot of crap
as well, So I stopped eatingthe rubbish, and I also stopped eating
gluten and dairy because they are knownto cause inflammation, and inflammation is the
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root cause of all pain, alldisease, all health problems. So by
cutting those out instantly, actually theacid reflux that I had went away,
and the exma and the psoriasis reducedjust by doing that. Obviously I had
to address the stress as well,because but again the stress was my own
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making, because it's my own perceptionof what was going on around me.
So when we changed the way welook at things, the way that we
look at things change exactly, perspectiveis huge. Yep, yeah, very
cool. So now when you talkabout it's interesting. So I have to
ask you this just because you arein a different country and here in the
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United States, gluten and gmode foodsare a big culprit of a lot of
a lot of issues, and alot of that has to do with the
way our food is prepared out andthe preservatives in it, and the you
know, fast food mentality that wehave here in the US. Now you're
in Spain, So are you stillgluten free? Do you find that that
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is still healthy for you there,even though they don't tend to have the
same gluten issues that we do inthe US. Yeah, I'm still gluten
free. And I went through aphase of eating gluten free breads, but
then, you know, when theingredients started to change and become not very
nice, so I cut out glutenfree bread. And I've found a recipe
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use in chickpea flower and I thinkit's cassava root flower. We're mixed together
two to one, two chickpea toone cassava. It makes a batter,
and with that batter I can makepancakes and torteaas. So rather than use
bread, we eat a lot ofwraps and of course chickpeas. As well
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as having the fiber, it's gotsome protein in it too. So so
it's you know, you can ifyou're willing to look for recipes and make
it all yourself, that you cando anything. The Spanish is a lot
of bread, an awful lot ofbread, but their bread is very different
from the US. It's not sweet. Yeah, But I have found just
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recently, I've bought a few glutenfree rolls. I haven't had any for
years, and then I saw themin the shop and I'm like, well,
I give them a try because Ilooked at the ingredients and they were
okay. As a standby, I'vegot those. But but no, it's
not difficult to stay gluten free becauseI don't eat a lot of sweets.
If I want sweets, I'll havea dule date or I use maple syrup
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or honey for sweetness because they're bothalkalizing, and being dairy free isn't a
problem. There's all sorts of differenttypes of nut milks and oat milks and
I buy shredded coconut and make myown coconut milk as well, so I
can organic coconut milk, which isjust coconut and filted water. You know,
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it's if you're willing to spend thetime, you can eat clean,
but you need you're willing to investin yourself, and you know so much
of that. So as the brainlay over the years, one of the
things that that's so fascinating to meis that, you know, this is
the executive portion of our entire body, and so it's our thought process.
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It's our mind set around certain thingsthat has the ability to completely change things
in our lives. And we areraised with certain you know, with a
certain thing. Like fifty years ago, you didn't I should say, more
like a hundred years ago, right, there weren't such things as packaged foods
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like there are now. There wasno such thing as a TV dinner one
hundred years ago, whereas fifty yearsago it was fairly popular, right because
it became this easy thing. Sothen all of a sudden, the mentality,
the mindset begins to shift from ohI have to allow this much time
to prepare my food too. Oh, now I can just pop it in
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the oven for you know, thirtyminutes or whatever it was when I was
growing up to now, Oh,I can just pop it in the microwave
and it'll take thirty seconds. Right. So it's it's just it's a mindset
shift. So when you train yourbrain to look at a situation differently,
right, then then everything begins toshift. And it's just a matter of
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shifting, shifting your mindset and youcan do the food prep ahead of time
so that you can still do thingsfast right during the week when you're busy.
But it help. It just takesthat shift, that shift in the
in the mind. Do you findthat's probably one of the most challenging things
when you work with your clients,Yes, because they, like I was,
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that they're set in a conditioned mindsetthat you know, if this,
then that must happen. And I'llsay, well, you can change your
belief because it's not set in stone, and and the look of shock and
horror because ninety nine point nine percentof people don't even realize what their beliefs
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are, the origins of them,and that they can change them. I
mean, I had somebody recently askedme, how do you change a belief,
Well, you just you know,you decide one day that that belief
doesn't work for you, and whatdo you want to believe instead? And
you just change your mind. It'slike changing your mind. Do you want
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soup for dinner? Now? Iwant fruit? Yeah? Both? The
hell? They you know you could. It's it's just a mindset change.
And like we said, you know, it's about looking at does it serve
you? But in the main,it's about becoming conscious of it. Because
most people are not aware of theirown beliefs. So if you've asked them
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to write it down, they can'tbecause they're running on the autopilot unconscious of
it. Absolutely, I agree,one hundred one hundred percent. I have
an APT formula ACT formula that Iuse when I'm working with my clients,
and that's what the A is.It's the awareness and acknowledgement, right,
It's it's being aware of those automatedprogrammings that you run from the moment you
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get up in the morning to themoment you go to bed at night.
It's just it doesn't mean they can'tchange. It's just your comfort zone.
So you just have to start toshift shift that a little bit, and
then that can make a world ofdifference. So when you talk about your
now your book is heal your right, heal yourself? Is that the name
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of your book forgive me heal yourself? And you have your book is Heal
Yourself, and you have a coursethat's Heal Yourself at Home? So what
does what does natural healing mean?What does that? What does that mean
heal yourself? Like? Is that? Explain that to the audience because that
could be interpreted a few different ways. Yeah. For me, it's about
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challenging your beliefs about your own body'sability to heal and tapping into what I
call your inner wisdom. Our bodyknows what to do and how to do
it, but we often suppress thatthrough our diet, our lifestyle, and
our beliefs that pharmaceuticals are the answerto the problems. So it's about understanding
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how our body works on the baseat a very very basic level, and
the fact that the mind and thebody are inextricably linked and the science,
as you know, has proven thatfor years and years and years, and
on top of that, the placeboeffect works with that to show that we
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can manifest wellness, We can healour body purely by thinking that we can
heal. But I tell my clientsit's not. You can't just think I'm
going to heal and I'm going toheal. You have to challenge your beliefs
that are sat in that subconscious mind, because you know, you can say
I'm going to heal, but ifsubconsciously you're still running that program that I
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need a doctor and I need apharmaceutical, that conscious I'm going to heal
is going to be outweighed by thatsub consciousness. Eventually you know that belief
doesn't say that. That belief won'tallow that you need to go to a
doctor. So it's about challenging thebeliefs primarily, but also changing your lifestyle
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as in, be proactive, dosome a bit of walking, stay hydrated,
get a good night's sleep, eatwell, but change your thoughts around
things. Because I have people whocome to me want to lose weight,
and they're like, well, Idon't eat anything that I shouldn't. So
A, let's look at portion sizes. B Let's look at your thoughts around
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what it is that you're eating,and see, if we go to a
metaphysical level, why is it thatyou need to put fat on around your
body for protection. What is itthat you're trying to protect yourself from.
So it's all to do. It'sit's not just one thing. It's our
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thoughts, our beliefs, what we'reeating, drinking, and everything else.
But it's also what's happened to usin the past. Our emotional traumas play
a huge part in our lives,and a lot of people don't link their
past. And I've had clients sayto me, my childhood was great.
It was perfect. I could dowhatever I want. I would stay out
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all night. So I'm thinking,okay, so parents had no boundaries.
Tell me more. And then whenthey've come back the following week, they've
said, actually, my childhood reallywasn't that good because I had to do
and I had to do that,and one day my parents dropped me off
at the children's home. And sowhen I start to get people to look
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back without the roast tinted glasses,and then we need to address the emotional
trauma that's happened, because true healingrequires us to either to let go of
whatever's gone on in the past.Forgiveness is a great part of healing,
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but not everybody can bring themselves toforgive, So our acceptance is the next
best thing. We can accept what'shappened in the past. It wasn't our
fault. We didn't like it,we didn't have the skills and knowledge to
deal with it. But if wecan accept it, to let it go
so that it doesn't affect our worldnow, our present world now. And
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a lot of people really struggle withthat. And I've got the meditation that
I do do with some clients toget them to go into their subconscious mind
to find that hurt and have aconversation with the people involved, because our
subconscious mind knows what was going onin that person's life. And as another
saying goes, hurt people hurt people. Yeah, so unless we become conscious
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of our hurt, but also knowledgethat the person that hurts us, quite
possibly more than likely was hurting theirchildhood and we know nothing about that.
Yeah, if we can forgive ourselvesbut also forgive them for what they've done,
because we don't know what's happened tothem or even acknowledge that they are
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very likely to have been hurt throughtheir childhood to have done whatever it was
that they did to us and feelthat on a deep level and feel it
with compassion not just for ourselves butfor that other person to be able to
forgive them to let it go.And that plays such a huge part in
the healing role for our body becauseour traumas are what's it is the issues
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in the tissues, isn't it Ourbody holds onto the memories of what's happened
in the past. So if wecan let that go, then our body
no longer holds onto that, andit's doing that it's not ever for that
other person because they quite likely forgotten. They definitely remember us, they don't
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remember the act. So that isreally the gift that we give ourselves because
it allows us to offload that weightthat we've carried around with us all of
our lives. And it takes courageto open that kind of worms that once
we've opened it and dealt with it, we've healed it and we can move
forward without that weight that we've carriedaround so long. Yeah, and it's
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important too that I emphasize this.I know there's a there are certain thought
processes out there and certain individuals whohave that belief system that you can you
can rewire the brain. The brain'splastic neuroplasticity. You can rewire the brain
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to let go of old memories.The memories are always going to be there,
right, especially if they were brandedinto the brain by some some type
of trauma. The difference they're rewiring, the retraining of the brain comes from
how you deal with it, howyou process it in your body on a
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cellular level, in your gut,like, that's what you have to and
that's probably a lot of what youtake your clients through that understanding. You
have to do that acknowledgement again,right, awareness of where that all stems
from, and then start to removethe sting of that so it's not still
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stinging you every single time it's broughtup. And a lot of people don't
even realize, as you said,they don't even make that connection to how
they're feeling today based on a memoryfrom the past, and how it's still
in control of a lot of theirday to day actions. Yeah, and
I find this well, once oncewe've done the forgiveness and that accepted forgiveness
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let go. Over time, thememories fade, The emotion from the memories
is removed, and the memories actuallyfade, which it's rare that we ever
forget, right, But that awfulmemory becomes a really distant memory. It's
no longer vised in the mind,which is certainly got to be a good
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thing, right Yep, yep,very much so. And you begin to
notice the once you begin to identifythe triggers, you know, what are
the things that pull those memories up. And it could be a sound,
it can be smell, smells orhorror, you know, incredibly powerful.
Um. You know, once you'reable to identify, oh, that's why
I react this way when I smellthis thing, or when I see this
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thing, or when I hear thisthing, then you can start to disassociate.
Well, that's this is a currentsense, a current, smell,
a current, right, it's notthat moment. And being able to start
cutting those ties from the current presentto the past is also very very helpful.
Now, what are some of thethings. So let's say we have
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someone right now listening to this programor watching this video and they say,
well, I want I want toexplore this, I want to start my
own healing journey, but I'm notnecessarily ready to call Sarah. What would
you? How can they kind oftake first steps in starting that right now,
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like as soon as they're done watchingthis, like, what's of something
that they can do. So myadvice is you can't do it all at
once, as I said earlier,So take baby steps. Whether it's improve
your lifestyle, you know, cutout foods that are full of shoga,
full of transplat, start eating healthy, whether that stop doing a bit more
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walking, whether that's identifying what yourstresses are. I'm dealing with those situations.
Can you look at it differently orcan you change something about that situation?
Identify your feelings as well, becausea lot of us have dissociated from
our body and we're not in tunewith what's going on in our body,
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with what's going on in our minds. And I've had clients who've had migraines
and ibs and so I'm not stressed, but your body's telling you your stress.
So it's try and tie in withthat feeling, that emotion, with
the symptoms that you've got going onin your body. Any one of these
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is a great place to start,you know, but baby steps. Do
it all slowly, do a bitof meditation when you're out walking, Become
mindful, don't beyond your phone upbeyond your earbuds, just listen to the
sounds of nature. You can youcan meditate while you walk in just be
in that moment. Bring yourself backto that moment. Stop thinking about what
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you're having for dinner, or what'shappening tomorrow, what's happening right here,
right now, because there is onlythis now minute. Every minute of our
life is only in now moment.The past has gone and the future hasn't
yet arrived, and when it arrives, it would just be another moment in
the now. So become really consciousand pleasent of what's going on every moment
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of your life, and step outof autopilot to become conscious of what it
is that you're doing, Be reallyfocused on the tasks or the walking or
whatever it is you're doing, Bereally focused on it, and let go
of all that extreneous thought. Ilove that. That's one of the things
that one of the processes that Ilove is just that mindful meditation. And
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I tell people, if you cando that, even just a couple of
minutes every morning and then a fewminutes every night, where you're doing some
gratitude at night, right because thelast thing you think about before you go
to bed, is what your brain'sgonna ruminate on while you're sleeping. So
having that positive always looking at thatpositive flood of the positives I experienced today.
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But just doing those they give youthe ability to then in moments of
stress. You've trained your brain sowell. If you're doing that on a
daily basis, whether it's when you'reout for a walk or whatever you do,
then in those high stress moments,you have trained your brain to instantly
be able to jump into present because, as you said, so much of
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the stress comes from the worry,you know, the worrying about oh how
did that go? How did Iyou know? That thing that was said,
or that day that happened at work, or oh what's going to happen
tomorrow? Like so much of thestress in our lives are based on that.
But if you can instantly bring yourselfinto the net, you can calm
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that reactive fight flight free you systemand the brain, and it makes it
very It helps your brain. Yeah, and just take some deep breath,
you know, if you're feeling reallyuptight, anxious, angry, breathe deeply,
really slowly and really deeply, andjust concentrate on the breath and be
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mindful. Follow the breath in throughthe nose and down through the throat and
into the lungs, and feel themexpand and feel them contract and feel the
breath come out. And just dothat really, really, really slowly,
as slow as you can. Itworks a treat, it doesn't It's wonderful.
So let's talk about some of theways that the listeners can continue to
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work with you or continue to stayconnected with you. So you have a
podcast, tell us a little bitabout the podcast. So my friend with
gifts, shall we say, toldme I'd write a book and it will
be very successful when I was inthat place of depression and I am not
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a writer. So I'm like,well, I don't. I don't see
that. I'm never going to writea book. I've got no plans to
write a book. Anyway. Iwrote a book and it's it's doing well.
It's it's in four languages. Andlast year she said, Sarah need
to start a podcast, and I'mlike, oh, what, what even
is a podcast? You know,I've got an idea of what it is,
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and she said, it's you needto keep getting your message out more
to the world through a podcast,and funny enough, my post this morning
was all the x morale over myarms on social media while I was thinking
about doing that podcast, because Ihad this massive amount of anxiety of working
with the camera, especially not somuch with people, but more so on
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my own. So so I becamea guest on quite a few different people's
podcasts to get some experience as whateven a podcast is and what it looks
like and how it works. Andthen I started my podcast in February married
this year, and I have interviewedseveral of the healers in my book Heal
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Yourself, and a few of thepeople who wrote articles for my course Heal
Yourself at Home, and we arejust literally having a conversation, like we
are here about what they've done toheal themselves of conditions that doctors have said
can't be healed. So we talkabout their journey through the healing process,
just to share the message, andthen I'll turn it weeks. I just
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share snippets of health and healing information, just very short audiocasts. And my
podcast is called Heal Yourself with SarahDawkins, and it's on all the major
podcasting sites, Spotify, Apple,Amazon Music, and Google Podcasts, so
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anybody can tap into me there andfind me free, totally free, showing
all the information from other people onwhat they've done and what they've healed and
how they've healed. I love it. I love it. And as you
were talking about your book, youcan pick that up on Amazon. There's
a link that we have in theshow page for those of you who are
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listening and not watching. For thoseof you who are watching, obviously,
it's popping up there on the onthe picture on the framehare and you can
also go to your your website a'sSD essential health dot com. So I'm
assuming the sd is for Sarah Dawkins. It is, so that'll make it
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easy for people to remember, andif you want to reach out, you
can reach out to Sarah via heremail at Sarah at e SD essential health
dot com. Sarah, it hasbeen an absolutely wonderful time being able to
have you as a guest on theshow. Thank you so much for your
wisdom and for sharing just the powerof being able to be like the both.
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The body is amazing, give itthe right tools, take away the
bad stuff, and it's amazing whatyou can do. Absolutely and Thank you
for having me, Julie. It'sbeen a pleasure speaking to you. Absolutely
absolutely, it's my pleasure. Ifyou would like to stay connected with us
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Away, Julie brain Lady Anderson,and I'm very excited to be here today
to share some amazing conversation and amazingconversation with our guest from all the way
coming all the way in from Spain, Miss Sarah Dawkins. How are you
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today, Hi, Julie, I'mgood, Thank you. How are you?
I am doing so well and Iam so excited about this topic.
I always get so jazzed up whenwe're able to share things that help us
to live better lives, especially whenwhen we connect in the brain and the
body's healing mechanisms and all of that. It's always such a great conversation to
have, and we are very excitedto have you here as a guest.
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Let me go ahead and I'm justgoing to read a little bit of Sarah's
bio so that everyone kind of getsa little bit of background, and then
I'll have you kind of tell alittle bit of your story to let us
know the other side of the coin, so to speaking. So we are
here with Sarah Dawkins, who hasa Bachelors and science and Masters in science
and AMC. You'll have to explainwith that. As of Sarah s sd
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health Essential health dot Com. Sarahis a holistic health and healing coach,
keynote speaker, the author of HealYourself, a multi award winning entrepreneurs and
previously she was a registered nurse fortwenty years. We're going to talk a
little bit about that journey. Shehas extensive experience and health and wellness gained
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from naturally healing a multitude of healthissues at her work and her work as
a registered nurse. She uses thisknowledge to take the holistic approach in her
and holistic approach in her work.Sarah supports clients to find and heal the
root cause of their health problems,thereby improving their health and of course,
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ultimately their lives. Isn't that thetruth? Welcome again, Sarah to the
Brain Lady Speaks podcast. Thank youso much, so kind of just elaborate.
Then AMC is accredited Master coach.So I did a master coach training
course for coaching and it was accredited. Awesome, amazing, that's great.
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That's great to hear, and that'sgreat for our listeners to know. So
you were a registered nurse for twentyyears. How did that tell us a
little bit about your journey? Right? What led you to here? Because
obviously you weren't nursing, but youmade this shift. So what made you
interested in the nursing profession? Andthen why did you? What had you
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after twenty years and that make thisshift to what you're doing now? So
I was raised in a medical model. My mom was a nurse, am
a dada's a fireman. So Iwas raised thinking that when you sit,
you go to a doctor, hegets a prescription, you get some medicines,
and you are healed in inverted commas. And that's what's high belief for
most of my life. And intwo thousand and five, while I was
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working in America, we were livingin Florida for two years, somebody just
dropped a little gets and seeds aboutsomething. So I'm like, well,
why would she say that, BecauseI'm totally bought into the medical model and
this is how it is and thisis how we all live, don't wait.
So I started doing some research andone door opened, fifty doors open,
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fifty thousand doors, and it wasjust like wow. So I started
looking at what I could do tosupport my body. Meanwhile, I was
still working as a registered nurse inthe US and then I went back to
the UK. But all the timeI was doing all this research, I
was starting to look at what Icould do. So I started changing my
diet, eating better, doing moreexercise, becoming mindful, and I started
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healing. I had exma, Ihad soriasis at different times. I had
acid reflux, I had a candiderinfection, I ended up with two frozen
shoulders, one one year with theother one the next year, and hip
knee, back pains, and thenI ended up with a suicidal depression.
I burned out my adrenal glands andhad an undirective thyroid. So after naturally
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self healing all of that, Ithought, I really cannot stay in the
role of the time in as aregistered nurse because my beliefs around pharmaceuticals and
healing and what our body can dono longer aligne. But it took me
two years because even though I wasno longer aligned with being a registered nurse
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all of my life because my mumwas a registered nurse, I'd wanted to
be a nurse to help people,to care for people, to help them
to get better. And took metwo years to think, well, if
I'm not Sarah the registered nurse,who am I? And I'd fixed who
I was my personality to being aregistered nurse. So after two years of
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soul searching, I decided that wasenough. I could no longer work within
that environment because it didn't it hasa place for emergency in trauma but for
everything else, we can do ourselves. So I did my coaching training and
I've worked as a holistic health coach, helping other people to understand how they
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too can naturally self heal all thedifferent facets of it. Because our body
heals, it's what it does.You know, when we cut ourselves,
when we bruise ourselves, we don'tthink, oh, well, how am
I going to heal that. We'rejust like, well, it'll heal,
so why not multiple scurosis and alsand allergies and autoimmune and everything else.
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Yeah, that's beautiful. You know. It's interesting because going all the way
back to my teen years, that'swhen I was just became fascinated with natural
health. And then fast forward tomy late twenties, I was actually homeschooling
my kids and I was like,I want to go back to school too,
So I started to get my degreein natural health because it is it's
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just fascinating. It's like, thebody is so beautifully and I believe created
right. That's my personal belief thatit can do that if you give the
body the right tools and you don'tfight against it. It's amazing, absolutely
amazing. What the body? Whatthe body can do. And it's interesting
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that you had that internal kind ofargument with yourself for two years. This
is the path I'm supposed to beon over here, but I'm being drawn
into this. So I think that'sa good lesson for a lot of the
listeners to hear that it's not likeyou have this brainstorm of an idea of
where you want to go and thathappens overnight, right, Sometimes it's this
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growth journey mentally, Yeah, toget there, to get there, and
I think sorry as well the universe. My belief is the universe has a
way of just not genuine making youreally uncomfortable if you're not quite on the
right path. And I've got tothe place where I wasn't I wasn't happy.
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I didn't feel fulfilled in my work. I was, yeah, I
was helping people, but there wasguidelines that I had to follow within the
nursing, within the medical model,and it just I was really struggling with
helping people. But through the medicalmodel, I wanted to help them in
to help them to support their ownbody, and it was just so misaligned
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and I became so unfulfilled in mywork because I wasn't helping them in a
way that I thought would actually benefitthem. And that's why I left the
nursing because actually we don't need thepharmaceuticals outside of an accident and a trauma.
We can do everything ourselves supporting ourbody. Yeah, it's so interesting
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because I agree on but you knowwhole hurriedly that in acute situations, you
know, you break your ankle,you you get poisoned, well even poison
it can be. There's a lotof natural remedies for that, but there's
there's those certain things that are youknow, antibiotics for specific infections that you
need to get taken care of immediatelyor they can become serious. There are
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those moments that you that you know, western I call it western medicine,
but traditional medicine model is necessary.But most long term chronic illnesses, you
have a much it's a much betteridea too, if you can go at
it from that holistic or from thatnatural healing and let your body do the
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work, or else you're working againstyour body and it just it makes a
chronic situation even more chronic. Yeah, and if you noticed as well that
we're so used to or programs whonot do anything until we've got a problem,
so then we become reactive to thesymptoms rather than taking a proactive approach.
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I'm looking after ourselves before we getthe symptoms. Yeah, so true,
so true, it's yeah, yep. And if we give ourselves,
if we're healthy and we have astrong, healthy immune system, which means
we're giving the body those building blocksto keep that immune system up to its
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highest level, you don't get sick. I do not get I very rarely
get sick. Now. I havebeen in a few car accidents that I
have neck injury issues scar tissuing fromthat. But outside of that, I
go a ton like the energizer bunny, right. And the only reason why
I'm able to do that, Iknow, is because of living a high
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wellness level lifestyle where I'm getting exerciseand I'm getting the nutrition, and I'm
drinking my green drink, and I'mdoing the things from my brain that you
know, keeps my brain healthy.All of that helps to deal with that
one. This is an interview foryou. I'm talking too much, Okay,
So you kind of mentioned some ofyou dropped some of those things that
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health issues that you had dealt with. Now, how did you do that
self? Healing. So how whatwere some of the the lifestyle changes,
the things that you did to helpto heal those conditions that you were struggling
with changes in your life. Soit all starts with baby steps, because
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you can't do everything all at once. And I said, when one side
colleague that I was working with justgiving me one of some seeds about the
body and it's natural healing outside ofpharmaceuticals, I started looking at what I
could do to support my body tostay well not get sick. And first
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and foremost was actually to change theway I ate, because you know,
I had a reasonably healthy diet,but I also ate a lot of crap
as well, So I stopped eatingthe rubbish, and I also stopped eating
gluten and dairy because they are knownto cause inflammation, and inflammation is the
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root cause of all pain, alldisease, all health problems. So by
cutting those out instantly, actually theacid reflux that I had went away,
and the exma and the psoriasis reducedjust by doing that. Obviously I had
to address the stress as well,because but again the stress was my own
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making, because it's my own perceptionof what was going on around me.
So when we changed the way welook at things, the way that we
look at things change exactly, perspectiveis huge. Yep, yeah, very
cool. So now when you talkabout it's interesting. So I have to
ask you this just because you arein a different country and here in the
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United States, gluten and gmode foodsare a big culprit of a lot of
a lot of issues, and alot of that has to do with the
way our food is prepared out andthe preservatives in it, and the you
know, fast food mentality that wehave here in the US. Now you're
in Spain, So are you stillgluten free? Do you find that that
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is still healthy for you there,even though they don't tend to have the
same gluten issues that we do inthe US. Yeah, I'm still gluten
free. And I went through aphase of eating gluten free breads, but
then, you know, when theingredients started to change and become not very
nice, so I cut out glutenfree bread. And I've found a recipe
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use in chickpea flower and I thinkit's cassava root flower. We're mixed together
two to one, two chickpea toone cassava. It makes a batter,
and with that batter I can makepancakes and torteaas. So rather than use
bread, we eat a lot ofwraps and of course chickpeas. As well
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as having the fiber, it's gotsome protein in it too. So so
it's you know, you can ifyou're willing to look for recipes and make
it all yourself, that you cando anything. The Spanish is a lot
of bread, an awful lot ofbread, but their bread is very different
from the US. It's not sweet. Yeah, But I have found just
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recently, I've bought a few glutenfree rolls. I haven't had any for
years, and then I saw themin the shop and I'm like, well,
I give them a try because Ilooked at the ingredients and they were
okay. As a standby, I'vegot those. But but no, it's
not difficult to stay gluten free becauseI don't eat a lot of sweets.
If I want sweets, I'll havea dule date or I use maple syrup
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or honey for sweetness because they're bothalkalizing, and being dairy free isn't a
problem. There's all sorts of differenttypes of nut milks and oat milks and
I buy shredded coconut and make myown coconut milk as well, so I
can organic coconut milk, which isjust coconut and filted water. You know,
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it's if you're willing to spend thetime, you can eat clean,
but you need you're willing to investin yourself, and you know so much
of that. So as the brainlay over the years, one of the
things that that's so fascinating to meis that, you know, this is
the executive portion of our entire body, and so it's our thought process.
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It's our mind set around certain thingsthat has the ability to completely change things
in our lives. And we areraised with certain you know, with a
certain thing. Like fifty years ago, you didn't I should say, more
like a hundred years ago, right, there weren't such things as packaged foods
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like there are now. There wasno such thing as a TV dinner one
hundred years ago, whereas fifty yearsago it was fairly popular, right because
it became this easy thing. Sothen all of a sudden, the mentality,
the mindset begins to shift from ohI have to allow this much time
to prepare my food too. Oh, now I can just pop it in
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the oven for you know, thirtyminutes or whatever it was when I was
growing up to now, Oh,I can just pop it in the microwave
and it'll take thirty seconds. Right. So it's it's just it's a mindset
shift. So when you train yourbrain to look at a situation differently,
right, then then everything begins toshift. And it's just a matter of
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shifting, shifting your mindset and youcan do the food prep ahead of time
so that you can still do thingsfast right during the week when you're busy.
But it help. It just takesthat shift, that shift in the
in the mind. Do you findthat's probably one of the most challenging things
when you work with your clients,Yes, because they, like I was,
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that they're set in a conditioned mindsetthat you know, if this,
then that must happen. And I'llsay, well, you can change your
belief because it's not set in stone, and and the look of shock and
horror because ninety nine point nine percentof people don't even realize what their beliefs
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are, the origins of them,and that they can change them. I
mean, I had somebody recently askedme, how do you change a belief,
Well, you just you know,you decide one day that that belief
doesn't work for you, and whatdo you want to believe instead? And
you just change your mind. It'slike changing your mind. Do you want
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soup for dinner? Now? Iwant fruit? Yeah? Both? The
hell? They you know you could. It's it's just a mindset change.
And like we said, you know, it's about looking at does it serve
you? But in the main,it's about becoming conscious of it. Because
most people are not aware of theirown beliefs. So if you've asked them
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to write it down, they can'tbecause they're running on the autopilot unconscious of
it. Absolutely, I agree,one hundred one hundred percent. I have
an APT formula ACT formula that Iuse when I'm working with my clients,
and that's what the A is.It's the awareness and acknowledgement, right,
It's it's being aware of those automatedprogrammings that you run from the moment you
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get up in the morning to themoment you go to bed at night.
It's just it doesn't mean they can'tchange. It's just your comfort zone.
So you just have to start toshift shift that a little bit, and
then that can make a world ofdifference. So when you talk about your
now your book is heal your right, heal yourself? Is that the name
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of your book forgive me heal yourself? And you have your book is Heal
Yourself, and you have a coursethat's Heal Yourself at Home? So what
does what does natural healing mean?What does that? What does that mean
heal yourself? Like? Is that? Explain that to the audience because that
could be interpreted a few different ways. Yeah. For me, it's about
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challenging your beliefs about your own body'sability to heal and tapping into what I
call your inner wisdom. Our bodyknows what to do and how to do
it, but we often suppress thatthrough our diet, our lifestyle, and
our beliefs that pharmaceuticals are the answerto the problems. So it's about understanding
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how our body works on the baseat a very very basic level, and
the fact that the mind and thebody are inextricably linked and the science,
as you know, has proven thatfor years and years and years, and
on top of that, the placeboeffect works with that to show that we
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can manifest wellness, We can healour body purely by thinking that we can
heal. But I tell my clientsit's not. You can't just think I'm
going to heal and I'm going toheal. You have to challenge your beliefs
that are sat in that subconscious mind, because you know, you can say
I'm going to heal, but ifsubconsciously you're still running that program that I
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need a doctor and I need apharmaceutical, that conscious I'm going to heal
is going to be outweighed by thatsub consciousness. Eventually you know that belief
doesn't say that. That belief won'tallow that you need to go to a
doctor. So it's about challenging thebeliefs primarily, but also changing your lifestyle
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as in, be proactive, dosome a bit of walking, stay hydrated,
get a good night's sleep, eatwell, but change your thoughts around
things. Because I have people whocome to me want to lose weight,
and they're like, well, Idon't eat anything that I shouldn't. So
A, let's look at portion sizes. B Let's look at your thoughts around
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what it is that you're eating,and see, if we go to a
metaphysical level, why is it thatyou need to put fat on around your
body for protection. What is itthat you're trying to protect yourself from.
So it's all to do. It'sit's not just one thing. It's our
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thoughts, our beliefs, what we'reeating, drinking, and everything else.
But it's also what's happened to usin the past. Our emotional traumas play
a huge part in our lives,and a lot of people don't link their
past. And I've had clients sayto me, my childhood was great.
It was perfect. I could dowhatever I want. I would stay out
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all night. So I'm thinking,okay, so parents had no boundaries.
Tell me more. And then whenthey've come back the following week, they've
said, actually, my childhood reallywasn't that good because I had to do
and I had to do that,and one day my parents dropped me off
at the children's home. And sowhen I start to get people to look
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back without the roast tinted glasses,and then we need to address the emotional
trauma that's happened, because true healingrequires us to either to let go of
whatever's gone on in the past.Forgiveness is a great part of healing,
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but not everybody can bring themselves toforgive, So our acceptance is the next
best thing. We can accept what'shappened in the past. It wasn't our
fault. We didn't like it,we didn't have the skills and knowledge to
deal with it. But if wecan accept it, to let it go
so that it doesn't affect our worldnow, our present world now. And
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a lot of people really struggle withthat. And I've got the meditation that
I do do with some clients toget them to go into their subconscious mind
to find that hurt and have aconversation with the people involved, because our
subconscious mind knows what was going onin that person's life. And as another
saying goes, hurt people hurt people. Yeah, so unless we become conscious
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of our hurt, but also knowledgethat the person that hurts us, quite
possibly more than likely was hurting theirchildhood and we know nothing about that.
Yeah, if we can forgive ourselvesbut also forgive them for what they've done,
because we don't know what's happened tothem or even acknowledge that they are
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very likely to have been hurt throughtheir childhood to have done whatever it was
that they did to us and feelthat on a deep level and feel it
with compassion not just for ourselves butfor that other person to be able to
forgive them to let it go.And that plays such a huge part in
the healing role for our body becauseour traumas are what's it is the issues
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in the tissues, isn't it Ourbody holds onto the memories of what's happened
in the past. So if wecan let that go, then our body
no longer holds onto that, andit's doing that it's not ever for that
other person because they quite likely forgotten. They definitely remember us, they don't
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remember the act. So that isreally the gift that we give ourselves because
it allows us to offload that weightthat we've carried around with us all of
our lives. And it takes courageto open that kind of worms that once
we've opened it and dealt with it, we've healed it and we can move
forward without that weight that we've carriedaround so long. Yeah, and it's
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important too that I emphasize this.I know there's a there are certain thought
processes out there and certain individuals whohave that belief system that you can you
can rewire the brain. The brain'splastic neuroplasticity. You can rewire the brain
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to let go of old memories.The memories are always going to be there,
right, especially if they were brandedinto the brain by some some type
of trauma. The difference they're rewiring, the retraining of the brain comes from
how you deal with it, howyou process it in your body on a
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cellular level, in your gut,like, that's what you have to and
that's probably a lot of what youtake your clients through that understanding. You
have to do that acknowledgement again,right, awareness of where that all stems
from, and then start to removethe sting of that so it's not still
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stinging you every single time it's broughtup. And a lot of people don't
even realize, as you said,they don't even make that connection to how
they're feeling today based on a memoryfrom the past, and how it's still
in control of a lot of theirday to day actions. Yeah, and
I find this well, once oncewe've done the forgiveness and that accepted forgiveness
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let go. Over time, thememories fade, The emotion from the memories
is removed, and the memories actuallyfade, which it's rare that we ever
forget, right, But that awfulmemory becomes a really distant memory. It's
no longer vised in the mind,which is certainly got to be a good
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thing, right Yep, yep,very much so. And you begin to
notice the once you begin to identifythe triggers, you know, what are
the things that pull those memories up. And it could be a sound,
it can be smell, smells orhorror, you know, incredibly powerful.
Um. You know, once you'reable to identify, oh, that's why
I react this way when I smellthis thing, or when I see this
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thing, or when I hear thisthing, then you can start to disassociate.
Well, that's this is a currentsense, a current, smell,
a current, right, it's notthat moment. And being able to start
cutting those ties from the current presentto the past is also very very helpful.
Now, what are some of thethings. So let's say we have
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someone right now listening to this programor watching this video and they say,
well, I want I want toexplore this, I want to start my
own healing journey, but I'm notnecessarily ready to call Sarah. What would
you? How can they kind oftake first steps in starting that right now,
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like as soon as they're done watchingthis, like, what's of something
that they can do. So myadvice is you can't do it all at
once, as I said earlier,So take baby steps. Whether it's improve
your lifestyle, you know, cutout foods that are full of shoga,
full of transplat, start eating healthy, whether that stop doing a bit more
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walking, whether that's identifying what yourstresses are. I'm dealing with those situations.
Can you look at it differently orcan you change something about that situation?
Identify your feelings as well, becausea lot of us have dissociated from
our body and we're not in tunewith what's going on in our body,
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with what's going on in our minds. And I've had clients who've had migraines
and ibs and so I'm not stressed, but your body's telling you your stress.
So it's try and tie in withthat feeling, that emotion, with
the symptoms that you've got going onin your body. Any one of these
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is a great place to start,you know, but baby steps. Do
it all slowly, do a bitof meditation when you're out walking, Become
mindful, don't beyond your phone upbeyond your earbuds, just listen to the
sounds of nature. You can youcan meditate while you walk in just be
in that moment. Bring yourself backto that moment. Stop thinking about what
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you're having for dinner, or what'shappening tomorrow, what's happening right here,
right now, because there is onlythis now minute. Every minute of our
life is only in now moment.The past has gone and the future hasn't
yet arrived, and when it arrives, it would just be another moment in
the now. So become really consciousand pleasent of what's going on every moment
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of your life, and step outof autopilot to become conscious of what it
is that you're doing, Be reallyfocused on the tasks or the walking or
whatever it is you're doing, Bereally focused on it, and let go
of all that extreneous thought. Ilove that. That's one of the things
that one of the processes that Ilove is just that mindful meditation. And
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I tell people, if you cando that, even just a couple of
minutes every morning and then a fewminutes every night, where you're doing some
gratitude at night, right because thelast thing you think about before you go
to bed, is what your brain'sgonna ruminate on while you're sleeping. So
having that positive always looking at thatpositive flood of the positives I experienced today.
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But just doing those they give youthe ability to then in moments of
stress. You've trained your brain sowell. If you're doing that on a
daily basis, whether it's when you'reout for a walk or whatever you do,
then in those high stress moments,you have trained your brain to instantly
be able to jump into present because, as you said, so much of
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the stress comes from the worry,you know, the worrying about oh how
did that go? How did Iyou know? That thing that was said,
or that day that happened at work, or oh what's going to happen
tomorrow? Like so much of thestress in our lives are based on that.
But if you can instantly bring yourselfinto the net, you can calm
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that reactive fight flight free you systemand the brain, and it makes it
very It helps your brain. Yeah, and just take some deep breath,
you know, if you're feeling reallyuptight, anxious, angry, breathe deeply,
really slowly and really deeply, andjust concentrate on the breath and be
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mindful. Follow the breath in throughthe nose and down through the throat and
into the lungs, and feel themexpand and feel them contract and feel the
breath come out. And just dothat really, really, really slowly,
as slow as you can. Itworks a treat, it doesn't It's wonderful.
So let's talk about some of theways that the listeners can continue to
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work with you or continue to stayconnected with you. So you have a
podcast, tell us a little bitabout the podcast. So my friend with
gifts, shall we say, toldme I'd write a book and it will
be very successful when I was inthat place of depression and I am not
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a writer. So I'm like,well, I don't. I don't see
that. I'm never going to writea book. I've got no plans to
write a book. Anyway. Iwrote a book and it's it's doing well.
It's it's in four languages. Andlast year she said, Sarah need
to start a podcast, and I'mlike, oh, what, what even
is a podcast? You know,I've got an idea of what it is,
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and she said, it's you needto keep getting your message out more
to the world through a podcast,and funny enough, my post this morning
was all the x morale over myarms on social media while I was thinking
about doing that podcast, because Ihad this massive amount of anxiety of working
with the camera, especially not somuch with people, but more so on
(33:43):
my own. So so I becamea guest on quite a few different people's
podcasts to get some experience as whateven a podcast is and what it looks
like and how it works. Andthen I started my podcast in February married
this year, and I have interviewedseveral of the healers in my book Heal
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Yourself, and a few of thepeople who wrote articles for my course Heal
Yourself at Home, and we arejust literally having a conversation, like we
are here about what they've done toheal themselves of conditions that doctors have said
can't be healed. So we talkabout their journey through the healing process,
just to share the message, andthen I'll turn it weeks. I just
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share snippets of health and healing information, just very short audiocasts. And my
podcast is called Heal Yourself with SarahDawkins, and it's on all the major
podcasting sites, Spotify, Apple,Amazon Music, and Google Podcasts, so
(34:50):
anybody can tap into me there andfind me free, totally free, showing
all the information from other people onwhat they've done and what they've healed and
how they've healed. I love it. I love it. And as you
were talking about your book, youcan pick that up on Amazon. There's
a link that we have in theshow page for those of you who are
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listening and not watching. For thoseof you who are watching, obviously,
it's popping up there on the onthe picture on the framehare and you can
also go to your your website a'sSD essential health dot com. So I'm
assuming the sd is for Sarah Dawkins. It is, so that'll make it
(35:30):
easy for people to remember, andif you want to reach out, you
can reach out to Sarah via heremail at Sarah at e SD essential health
dot com. Sarah, it hasbeen an absolutely wonderful time being able to
have you as a guest on theshow. Thank you so much for your
wisdom and for sharing just the powerof being able to be like the both.
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The body is amazing, give itthe right tools, take away the
bad stuff, and it's amazing whatyou can do. Absolutely and Thank you
for having me, Julie. It'sbeen a pleasure speaking to you. Absolutely
absolutely, it's my pleasure. Ifyou would like to stay connected with us
at your Best Mind or with brainLady Speaks, please follow us and give
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you yourself have a message that youthink would be a good fit for this
program, and send us an emailat Kelly at brainlady speaker dot com.
She has our liaison for all Thingspodcast. She does all of the wonderful
scheduling for us and setting up allthis stuff on graphics and all of that.
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She's wonderful. So it's k EL L I at Brainlady speaker dot
com and send her a message.One more thing, I'm gonna popup for
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and have you or the content untilnext week until we meet again. Once
again, Thank you Sarah for beingon the program, and everyone out there,
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take a nice deep breath in,let it outide go, enjoy the
day, simply enjoy every moment.
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