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Katie: Good day and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com and I actually cherished this episode that’s all about methods to breathe and permission to relaxation. And also you’ll discover a number of correlations to elements of my journey that I’ve shared with some actually vital, relevant and sensible suggestions that I feel are particularly wanted for ladies and mothers.
I’m right here with Ashley Neese, who’s a famend breath work instructor and the writer of How you can Breathe and Permission to Relaxation. She has spent over a decade working on the intersections of embodiment, transformation and renewal. And he or she’s additionally the host of The Deeper Name publication and podcast the place she shares her private reflections and restorative conversations on therapeutic and regeneration. And we get to go deep on a number of facets of this dialog right this moment on this podcast. We began off speaking in a enjoyable approach about her expertise as an newbie beekeeper and the way she received into it. And as a beekeeper as effectively, I appreciated that half, however it was truly an ideal springboard into our deeper dialog. as a result of being round bees, it seems, can truly assist us to downshift into parasympathetic. And that was a typical thread of this dialog the place we talked in regards to the understanding and significance of relaxation and the precise definition, which is commonly confused in fashionable society.
We talked about how relaxation can truly assist our capability to do onerous issues and enhance different areas of life, although it’s typically so easy it’s ignored. We talked in regards to the distinction between sleep and relaxation and the way whereas they’ll share some commonalities, they’re distinctly totally different as effectively. We additionally talked rather a lot about her trauma restoration and mine as effectively, and the way that grew to become a part of her therapeutic journey. We speak about easy practices to study relaxation and connect with the physique, how nature helps with this, what the stress response cycle is, and methods to full that to have the ability to downshift right into a relaxation cycle, and methods to interrupt the stress response cycle, what a physique funds is and the way that may assist us relaxation.
We go into the somatic parts of relaxation and therapeutic and restorative time, and a lot extra. I really feel like this dialog actually ties collectively a number of issues that I’ve talked about in different podcasts, and can be a extremely good useful resource and power for any of you who’re doing that interior work and having bother with that interior emotional, non secular, psychological facet, and the way that’s regarding your bodily well being. So with none additional wait, let’s be part of Ashley. Ashley, welcome. Thanks a lot for being right here.
Ashley: Thanks a lot for having me, Katie. I’m actually trying ahead to this.
Katie: I’m deeply excited for this dialog. I feel we’re going to get to the touch on some extraordinarily related elements of well being that aren’t as typically talked about, however that appear particularly related to ladies and to mothers. And I’m very excited to get to dive deep with you on that. Earlier than we do although, I even have a notice out of your bio that you’re additionally an newbie beekeeper. And it is a interest I’ve had since I used to be a young person. So I might love to listen to your expertise with that and the way you bought into it. I’m at all times up for any time I get to plug individuals being beekeepers as a result of I feel that’s so useful. The extra people who preserve bees and perceive bees and even simply plant issues that may profit the bees, I’m all about that. So how did you get into it?
Ashley: I received into it, so we moved to the Sierra’s from after residing within the Bay Space for some time. And one of many causes we moved out to the Sierras was to be nearer to the land and to have a unique form of tempo of life. And our first spring right here was truly on Earth Day two years in the past. We had simply completed our home and we have been simply driving to the property. And one of many gents who was engaged on our home was like, hey, there’s a swarm over there. Do you guys need this swarm? And my associate and I have been like, oh my God, there’s this swarm. That is so thrilling. We’re so into bees. We knew that we needed bees on the land, however we had no thought methods to get began. And Josh, who’s such a candy man, was like, why don’t I am going allow you to get the swarm after which I can convey you a hive and you will get began. And it simply occurred. They have been on the land. So he came to visit, received a noticed, received one of many branches down off the tree. We received the swarm right into a field and I transferred it into the hive two days later. And we’ve had bees ever since. And we simply caught one other swarm a few months in the past, only a week after Earth Day right here, too. In order that appears to be the time they have an inclination to interrupt off. And wish to go discover a new house.
Katie: I like that we have now beehives as effectively and we’ve had a few swarms this yr and now a few our neighbors even have bees due to the swarm. So I like that you just’re doing that as effectively. And like I stated, only a plug for any of you guys who’ve ever been curious, I extremely encourage beekeeping as a interest and engaging, I noticed a examine a few weeks in the past truly that the type of like resonant sound {that a} beehive makes is outwardly extraordinarily therapeutic to the physique and so they’re doing experimental therapies now with individuals simply being in proximity to the sound of a beehive and the way that may assist them of their parasympathetic. So for those who wanted a well being purpose to think about it. I discovered that fascinating that they only launched that examine and truly that springboards completely I feel into our dialog, which I discussed goes to be particularly related for mothers with that bees having the ability to assist with the shift to parasympathetic.
We’re going to get to speak rather a lot about relaxation and I feel it is a massively missed and sometimes ignored factor for ladies in right this moment’s society and particularly for mothers due to the busyness that tends to come back with motherhood. I do know you discuss rather a lot about this and far more eloquently than I may, however to begin off broad, possibly give us some background on what you imply while you say relaxation and the way relaxation pertains to our capability to really be capable of do the onerous issues as effectively.
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such a fantastic query. So relaxation, the very first thing I wanna say is that I feel there’s a lot confusion, there was undoubtedly a number of confusion for me. I at all times thought relaxation was the identical as sleeping. And as soon as I began this apply, particularly as a brand new mom, not getting any sleep and having a extremely sick little child, individuals would at all times say, effectively, oh, identical to relaxation when the newborn rests or do that. And it’s like, okay, effectively, I’ve an entire home to scrub and all this stuff. However I used to be actually curious. It’s like, okay, if I’m not sleeping at night time, if I’m getting up each hour with child, what can I do throughout my day that may give me just a bit micro second of restoration or just a bit option to shift my nervous system and shift my state.
And since I’d been a breathwork instructor for therefore a few years and been in that world, that was the primary instrument that I gravitated in the direction of. I used to be like, okay, I can take 5 actually lengthy inhales, actually sluggish exhales and simply give myself a second to recenter and refocus. After which I began extending these practices in addition to on the lookout for different ways in which I may discover little moments of respite all through the day.
So I write within the e book that this has been a apply, form of been working in the direction of relaxation for a few years, however it actually wasn’t till I grew to become a mother or father and I had that lack of sleep that all the pieces modified. I used to be like, oh, this may’t simply be this factor that I do each on occasion. This needs to be one thing that I’m tapping into all through the day. In order that on the finish of the day, I’m not simply utterly out of types.
And so far as doing the onerous issues, I imply, we’ve received three youngsters underneath 5 at house now. And one of many largest, I feel sides of my therapeutic journey has been recovering from trauma, actually form of facets of myself from after I grew up that have been averted, that have been ignored, that have been form of belittled. And there wasn’t actually anybody in my life after I was little who was displaying up for me after I was having a tough time. I’ll simply say that. I’m a giant feeler, proper? I’m empathic, I really feel all of the issues on a regular basis. And that’s rather a lot. And I’ve mother or father empaths now and my youngsters are large feelers as Dr. Becky would say, they’re deeply feeling youngsters. I received a number of deeply feeling youngsters. And as a deeply feeling child myself, I used to be by no means proven like, hey, that is how you might be with someone’s emotions, proper? As a result of my mother and father didn’t know methods to be with their very own emotions, in fact.
And in order a mother or father, doing this relaxation work has truly given me the capability to be with myself. So I’ve been capable of form of tune in and go, oh, I simply want a second. Let me pause, let me take a relaxation. Let me simply have a couple of minutes in order that I can are likely to myself and my little ones who’re freaking out, proper? After which flip to my youngsters and go, hey, what do you want from me proper now? And that has been such, it’s been so therapeutic for myself and for my household and for my lineage on so many ranges as a result of it’s simply that attunement and that resonance. And I can’t get to attunement and resonance after I’m going tremendous quick, after I’m hustling, after I’m avoiding, after I’m testing, it requires presence. And for me, the way in which that I get current is thru slowing down and resting.
Katie: You simply introduced up so many good factors. I feel to start with, the concept that relaxation and sleep typically type of are used synonymously, however I feel to your level, these are totally separate classes. They’re each crucial and so they do overlap. But when we simply suppose they’re the identical factor, we truly miss out on a number of potential to reap the benefits of relaxation that isn’t sleep and the methods to do this. And such as you, my trauma therapeutic was massively impactful to my interactions with individuals and in addition to even my bodily well being in a extremely excessive approach. And it was a really sluggish realized lesson for me. And ever since sharing that story, I’ve had many listeners and readers ask, like, what particularly did you do? How can I do this too? And I spotted that there’s an individualized facet right here in determining for every of us what that relaxation goes to seem like. There’s not, sadly, a simply guidelines blueprint, which additionally speaks to our type of mentality right here that we wish a guidelines. We wish a to-do checklist even for therapeutic and relaxation.
And so I like that it is a extra of a journey and an interior course of that has that individualization to it, however that additionally there appear to be some form of core issues that may assistance on that journey or like practices we will study that may assist us determine our personal response and our personal relaxation and our personal stress ranges and our personal trauma. I additionally love that you just introduced up your youngsters as a result of the older I get, the extra I actually come to firmly consider that the most effective present we may give our children as their mother and father is to our personal self-regulation, our personal trauma therapeutic, and our personal potential to exist presently in a relaxed state.
And I do know that could be a lifelong journey, definitely, however I might love to listen to a few of your examples or practices, possibly that you just realized alongside the way in which for having the ability to faucet into that relaxation all through the day. As a result of I might guess for a number of the mothers listening possibly, even the concept of that’s doubtlessly a brand new idea. The flexibility to only take type of like micro moments all through the day to recenter and the way to do this. So I might love so that you can give extra element on the way you’ve built-in that.
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such a lovely query. And one of many first practices within the e book is named Orienting. And that is truly a apply that I realized via all of the trauma work that I’ve executed. And orienting is so stunning as a result of you are able to do it anyplace. It doesn’t require something particular, and it’s actually fast. And so what orienting is, it’s an invite to take a second while you discover, like, oh, I’m getting actually offended, or I’m actually pissed off, or I’m completely overwhelmed, and I’m beginning to take a look at, or I simply want a second. As a result of it actually simply takes a number of seconds. And then you definately simply take a second. After which the very first thing you do is you simply go searching, simply together with your eyes. You simply go searching your area, and also you begin to title. What do you see? So after I go searching my area proper now, I am going, oh, there’s a yellow e book over there. Okay, I look out the window. There’s a tree. Oh, there’s a light-weight coming in from overhead. Simply that already begins to shift my nervous system. And it brings me into presence. It brings me into contact with the sensations which might be occurring in my physique. It brings me into contact with my breath.
After which if I wish to take it additional, I can go, okay, what do I hear? What am I listening to proper now? Okay, what am I smelling proper now? It’s like we simply actually get into our senses. And so orientation is an excellent option to get into our senses. And I discover that via this work, moving into our senses is one other approach that we will begin to downshift into parasympathetic and discover that second of relaxation . In order that’s a extremely stunning one.
One other one is nature. So I’ve an entire chapter within the e book simply particularly devoted to nature as a result of it’s so big. And we talked about bees at first. I like being in my backyard and simply tooling round in there and listening to the hum of the bees. We’ve got our hive actually near the backyard. It’s simply such a lovely sound. All of the hummingbirds, all the pieces else that’s occurring on the market. So any entry to nature, proper? That could possibly be getting your ft on the grass. That could possibly be tending to a little bit plant in your own home. It doesn’t should be a 60 foot backyard. You may actually make this accessible. It might probably even be the way in which that we join with our meals. And I do know meals is such a giant factor to your listeners and for the present too. It’s like, how are we connecting to the greens that we’re consuming, to the greens that we’re chopping up? All these issues are a extremely good option to begin to nourish and simply begin to discover, to start with, there’s connection, proper? I’m not alone. I’m related to this complete broad internet of the world. It isn’t that unbelievable. And that proper right here, that inherent reciprocity and connection is already main us into restoration, proper? As a result of once more, such as you stated, relaxation has all these deeper connotations that’s remembering and reclaiming our interconnectedness, which for me has been an enormous a part of this course of. And simply that slowing down sufficient to go, oh wait, proper? There’s all of the assist proper right here. Despite the fact that there’s all these actually onerous issues occurring and I didn’t get sufficient sleep and I’m harassed and all these things, there’s additionally this different factor occurring that’s true too. And that’s a part of the trauma knowledgeable. It’s like, what else can we herald? We’re not attempting to get away. We’re not attempting to love, you realize, power ourselves into something. We’re going, all that is occurring, however what else is feasible?
Katie: And I do know within the e book, you additionally speak about one thing you name finishing the stress response cycle. And I might love so that you can clarify what that’s and the way that pertains to downshifting into relaxation. And I really feel like many individuals, for me a minimum of, it was straightforward to get caught in that stress cycle. So I’d love so that you can clarify what you imply by that and form of the phases and methods to perceive that.
Ashley: For positive. So the stress response cycle is one thing that I’m intimately aware of as somebody who lived a lot of my life in a persistent state of stress. And I didn’t even know there was a such factor as a stress response cycle. I used to be simply at all times on that uptick. I used to be at all times in struggle or flight. Typically I used to be in freeze too, however I used to be, my nervous system was simply at all times actually jacked up and I used to be going actually quick. I’ve felt a lot of my life, the sense of urgency, proper? The sense of urgency is form of woven into my nervous system and it exhibits up in all these other ways. It exhibits up in how I discuss. It exhibits up in how I feel. It exhibits up in my, you realize, feeling like I’m undeserving if I’m not producing sufficient. Like I simply should go, go, go on a regular basis. And in order that stress response cycle is all a part of that. It’s simply that how our, like our stress physiology shapes us, proper? It actually shapes our brains. It shapes our our bodies. It impacts our well being, all these issues.
And so what we wish to do is have sufficient consciousness to go, Whoa, my nervous system is in a stress response cycle. I’m in that proper now. I must downshift as a result of what occurs if we don’t downshift and break that cycle, they only begin to stack, proper? And the extra the stress response cycles. one another, then we’re left with every kind of well being points and every kind of different psychological points. So that is one thing that I struggled with too. My stress was stacking a lot. Guess what? My again went out. Guess what? I used to be laid up in mattress for nearly a yr, identical to actually struggling to even placed on my garments and get myself dressed and bathe. And this was when our son was a yr and a half. It was so brutal. And it was additionally partly whereas I used to be scripting this e book, it’s at all times that factor like we form of create the drugs that we’d like on the earth.
And as I used to be scripting this e book and as I used to be going via this course of, my again was out and I used to be like, okay, I’ve received to really study this in a deeper approach now. So what does that imply? We have to downshift the stress response cycle. So there’s a number of actually true, like scientifically confirmed methods to do that which might be truly fairly enjoyable. So one in every of them is hugging. So that’s simply so stunning. Like we may give ourselves a hug. We will hug our family members. That’s an effective way to downshift the nervous system.
One other approach is to do one thing artistic. In order that could possibly be draw an image. That could possibly be one thing actually fantastic for your loved ones or for your self that you just wish to be. That could possibly be write someone a letter. That could possibly be make a cellphone name. One other approach is thru respiration. So I do know that simply that lengthy, sluggish exhale helps to go forward and begin to downshift the nervous system in a extremely stunning approach. After which yeah, so create, hug. Um, one other approach to do this is transfer and transfer is one other one which we use rather a lot in our household when issues that power begins to get actually intense or like, okay, let’s activate the music, let’s dance it out. Let’s get our our bodies shifting. Let’s have some enjoyable. Let’s launch that power. Let’s shift that cycle. After which after we dance, it’s like that good deep exhale on the finish, you go, okay, we transfer that cycle.
The factor I wish to say right here is that it’s, it’s okay. In case you begin to discover issues stacking, like I at all times wish to give a number of mission and the work and a number of selection and a number of area and a number of grace as a result of we’re not going to do that completely. Like I’m nonetheless going to get caught in my stress response cycles, regardless that I’m educating this work, however I’m residing it. And it’s the moments on the finish of the day after I’m like, Whoa, I’m so wired. I can not get myself down to fall asleep at night time. Like, what do I must do? I would like to finish my stress response cycles. And so these are the instances that I would lean right into a apply on the finish of the day in order that I can then downshift into sleep.
Katie: And also you additionally speak about one thing known as trauma-informed relaxation. And I feel this will even be related. I do know I’ve talked about I’ve talked about my trauma story, and it does appear to be there could also be a unique method or a minimum of like some added issues that may be useful if somebody is aware of that they’re conscious of trauma and that they notice that’s a component of their incapacity to downshift simply. So are you able to clarify what you imply by trauma-informed relaxation?
Ashley: Yeah, I’m so glad that you just requested this query as a result of at first, trauma-informed relaxation is basically our particular person historical past, proper? It’s trying collectively for positive too, however it’s actually our particular person histories. And as somebody who’s been in trauma coaching and is trauma-informed and trauma-certified, that is private to me and in addition in all of the work that I’ve executed with shoppers over time is likely one of the issues that I seen for myself was that after I began to relaxation, I used to be terrified. I used to be so scared to decelerate. I used to be like, if I decelerate, dangerous issues are gonna occur. If I’m not going full blast on a regular basis, if I’m not pushing, if I’m not grinding, one thing dangerous’s gonna occur. And so studying methods to, via the trauma-informed lens, go, okay, what in my historical past is displaying me this? After which what do I must do now? Hey, the recommendation that you just may hear on Instagram or someplace out on the earth, it’s like, hey, simply take a relaxation. It’s like, effectively, I can’t, I’m too scared. I don’t wanna take a relaxation. I don’t wanna take a look at the grief that I’ve or the ache that I’m carrying or all of the regrets that I’ve or no matter it’s. Like, I’m too afraid. And so what can we do?
And within the e book, I discuss rather a lot in regards to the totally different instruments that I’ve used from somatic experiencing, which is a extremely stunning trauma mannequin. And one of many instruments is titration. And titration was developed by Peter Levine. And it’s actually, actually stunning as a result of what it gives is only a micro dose. It’s like, okay, you don’t should relaxation for half-hour. Simply do 30 seconds. Are you able to only for 30 seconds, simply comply with your breath and simply put your ft on the bottom. Perhaps put your arms in your thighs and simply comply with your breath 30 seconds. 30 seconds is an excessive amount of. Okay, let’s do 10 seconds. It’s simply actually taking it in order that your nervous system can deal with it and so that you’ve the capability. As a result of so typically with trauma, we get into overwhelm actually rapidly or we’re going to close down, proper? All the pieces’s completely overwhelming. After which we shut down. And so with relaxation, it’s like, effectively, I’m too scared to relaxation. I can’t do this. There’s no approach I can like open myself as much as that or let down what I must let down. It’s like, okay, effectively, you are able to do that for 5 seconds or for 10 seconds. I’m gonna seize some water actually fast. And that’s. That’s so potent as a result of we will construct on that, proper? That’s one thing that we will construct on in that 5 seconds and that 10 seconds of titration can then go into one thing greater. And thru the trauma-informed lens, we’re actually our personal capability.
And that’s actually what I’m saying. Like not everybody has the capability to enter a relaxation apply for 20 minutes. And that’s okay. , all of us have our personal histories that we’re displaying up with. We’ve got various things occurring in our our bodies and in our brains and in our lives. It’s like, what can we do this works for us? And so it’s actually taking that individualized and that custom-made method to go, hey, there isn’t a one dimension suits all. Similar to you stated at first, there’s so many various methods to relaxation. And we have now to seek out those that work for us proper now on this season of our lives. Additionally with the caveat that like our lives are gonna change and our practices are gonna change and so they’re gonna ebb and circulate as we develop our capability, as we study to really feel protected in our our bodies, you realize, form of one second of relaxation at a time, one breath at a time, as a result of security is a large piece in that trauma-informed dialog. And I’m capability and I’m security. Like how a lot capability do we have now and the way protected can we really feel?
Katie: Yeah, I feel that feeling of security in our personal our bodies is so key. And in addition I spotted for me a minimum of was a journey. It didn’t occur in a single day by any means, however it’s been a lovely journey. And it looks as if after I realized a little bit bit to hearken to my physique, particularly in that trauma restoration section that I used to be in, I felt that my physique was demanding much more relaxation than I had been giving it. And so for an extended time period throughout that, I actually minimized excessive depth exercises. I actually simply targeted on light motion exterior, which these tie in with the recommendations you’ve given, however issues like light walks, light swimming within the water, simply time exterior in nature and let myself sleep greater than I had been sleeping. Let myself be capable of say no to issues and never simply have as a lot on my plate as a lot as attainable throughout that point.
And I felt like that was my physique and my soul form of demanding that relaxation so as to have the ability to heal. And now that I’ve gotten right into a a lot calmer area and have therapeutic, I really feel like I now even have a lot extra power that I don’t want as a lot of the day after day sleep and relaxation as I used to. And I’ve a lot extra power to have the ability to use for initiatives, however I don’t suppose I might have been capable of get there definitely not as rapidly had I not listened to my physique’s want for relaxation in that section. And so I like that you just talked about it’s consistently altering. This doesn’t imply that ceaselessly I used to be going to want that a lot relaxation and ceaselessly I used to be going to want 9 and a half hours of sleep. However I do suppose that actually helped the therapeutic section. And I really feel like this pertains to one other idea that you just speak about known as the physique funds. So are you able to clarify what that’s and the way it relates?
Ashley: Yeah, so our brains are form of these wonderful organizers and so they’re at all times form of budgeting like how a lot salt do we’d like? How a lot water do we’d like? What are our stress hormones? What’s occurring with our stress hormones? And so they’re form of budgeting our power all day lengthy. And so once we can take a look at one thing just like the physique funds, it may be actually useful to know, okay, after I’m getting in for this actually powerful dialog or when I’ve to go, you realize, to this get together with my youngsters or no matter it’s, this stuff are going to require a specific amount of power. Do I’ve that power proper now? I do know to your level, they’re so like, I’ve my very own private form of historical past with burnout and fighting burnout in many various facets of my life for a lot of totally different causes. Proper. And I discover that the deeper I am going on this journey, the form of, I’m attempting to suppose one of the simplest ways to say this.
Primarily what we’re on the lookout for with the physique funds is to actually put together ourselves for form of the longer term. So let’s say we’re heading into one thing traumatic. Our physique’s going to already begin to be wired. So all these hormones are going to be going off, cortisol goes to be going up, our adrenaline goes to be going off earlier than we even get to the occasion or earlier than we even have the dialog. So realizing that about our our bodies, what do we’d like to take action that we will form of shore ourselves up in these conditions? And somebody I actually admire talks about this rather a lot. She talks about in the beginning of the week, she seems at her calendar and he or she goes, okay, that is what I’ve scheduled for the week. Do I’ve the capability for that this week? Do I’ve the power for that this week? Have I blocked off sufficient instances of relaxation? Have I blocked off naps? Have I blocked off like time with my household sufficient to actually get via what I must get via? And if I haven’t, I’m going to cancel some stuff.
And that goes to your level round saying no and actually having boundaries round our personal power. And so I feel the physique funds is a extremely fabulous instrument for beginning to have a look at a few of these issues and go, oh, and for those who’re unsure what that’s, go do an exercise and simply see how do you’re feeling afterwards? Do you’re feeling refreshed? Do you’re feeling replenished? Do you’re feeling depleted? In case you’re feeling depleted, that’s data that’s actually vital. So subsequent time it’s important to go to an identical exercise, what I might say is form of bracket that like what are you able to do earlier than to present your self a little bit little bit of a buffer? Do you want a little bit bit further sleep? Do that you must do a relaxation apply? Do that you must just be sure you’re hydrated? After which after verify in and see what occurs. And so this is usually a actually enjoyable approach for us to begin to gauge like what’s working, what’s not working and never as a option to stress ourselves out much more. , I’ll have shoppers will probably be like, okay, so does that imply I would like to trace in a journal like each single factor I do in a day after which do some relaxation apply to counter that factor? I’m like, no, no, no, that’s approach an excessive amount of. It’s simply noticing. And it’s noticing after a dialog, after occasion, these forms of issues. How am I feeling? What’s my power like? okay, subsequent time, what can I do in a different way? What can I weave in to present myself that assist?
Katie: Yeah, you talked about hydration and I very a lot consider that is an space the place there’s both going to be a optimistic suggestions loop or a adverse suggestions loop anytime we’re speaking about relaxation and stress and the physique and the thoughts working collectively. And I feel the great thing about that’s understanding it. We will then hopefully do the issues that assist that shift right into a optimistic suggestions loop. And for me, a kind of was definitely hydration and in addition like my minerals. I wasn’t getting sufficient minerals and once we’re in a state of stress, we’re burning via a number of further magnesium and we’re depleting minerals extra quickly than we’d be if we weren’t harassed. And so for me in that section, I additionally paid consideration to actually supporting my physique via intentional hydration but in addition ensuring I used to be getting sufficient minerals, hint minerals, electrolytes, all of the issues that I had depleted with out realizing it for lots of years.
And I feel that there’s many issues in that class that assist the physique and that creates additionally a optimistic change for the thoughts and for the feelings. After which additionally these adjustments we make mentally and emotionally then additionally may give us extra power within the physique such as you’re explaining as effectively. And I feel additionally this touches on one thing that… I feel this half particularly is probably the most tough possibly for mothers as a result of it’s really easy to place everyone else first and we will get that mother guilt if we take time to relaxation. And so I needed to talk on to that for a minute as a result of I additionally suppose as mothers, top-of-the-line presents we may give our children is to mannequin the power to relaxation and the power to take a second and recenter.
I discover this for instance, even with my youngsters, if there’s stress occurring within the family, quite than put them in timeout or inform them to go away and isolate, I’ll mannequin it by I must go in my room and breathe for a few minutes after which I might love to come back again and have a dialog with you and I could be extra current and extra peaceable. And hopefully by doing that, give them the permission to have that habits as effectively. However are you able to converse particularly to possibly the mother guilt facet for those who encounter that with individuals that you just work with and any suggestions for getting previous that internally once we really feel dangerous for type of that analogy of placing on our personal masks first?
Ashley: Yeah, I like that a lot, Katie, and that’s simply what you stated is a apply that we do in our house to my associate, and I do this as effectively, simply going. Okay, we’re noticing it’s there’s methods during which it nearly appears simpler simply to place our children like, it’s like, okay, are you able to simply go away? And it’s like, no, I’m the one who must take a minute. I’m the one who must be modeling this and to present no matter, give myself no matter I’m needing in that second. And in order that’s undoubtedly a apply that we do. I spend a number of time exterior. That’s actually, actually vital to me. It helps me floor. It helps me really feel related. And it simply helps to shift my perspective so rapidly. Like actually all I must do is step exterior and form of look across the bushes and see the backyard and see some flowers and even simply take a look at the grass and one thing has simply modified already. So there’s a lot magic and a lot potential in that.
And when it comes to the guilt, you realize, for me, one of many issues that I typically do after I’m feeling responsible is simply attempt to get beneath that and attempt to get into, okay, the place’s that program coming from? The place’s that story loop working? Do I would like that proper now? Is that vital? Is that going to assist me transfer ahead? And infrequently it’s not. And infrequently for me, my guilt packages are, you realize, come from my historical past and so they come from my household of origin and so they don’t actually have relevance for me in that second. And so that is, I’m saying that, however it’s onerous. , it’s not like I simply get up at some point and do that. This has been years of remedy and making and years of doing this work. So for those who’re new and also you’re fighting that mother guilt and also you’re like, okay, I don’t even know what you’re saying. How do I get beneath that? Simply give your self a second. The extra moments that you just take for your self, the better it’s going to be sooner or later to form of get beneath that and ask these questions, these deeper questions of, oh, do I actually have to be feeling this proper now? Is that this truly serving to me proper now? Is it serving me? Is it not serving me? Why am I truly feeling responsible? And I feel as soon as we begin to unpack that, the guilt truly begins to shift fairly rapidly. And that’s undoubtedly been my expertise. As soon as I’ve been capable of get beneath it and begin to form of shine some mild on it, I discovered that I don’t want it as a lot as I as soon as did.
Katie: And I really feel like this additionally springboards into one other actually vital key, which is that reference to self-worth and self-trust. And I do know these have been very tough issues for me to study and I needed to take a, it was a means of studying to type of audit my inner language and are available into like discovering a spot of peace inside myself. And also you touched on this a little bit bit about making peace with our physique, however how do these concepts of self-worth and self-trust tie into this and the way can we nurture these?
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such a fantastic query. Self, and this has all form of come out of this work for me as a result of I didn’t, you realize, after I began engaged on relaxation and form of making relaxation extra of a degree in my life, I didn’t even understand how related it was to my self-worth and my self-trust. And, you realize, traditionally my self-worth has been fairly low and simply getting up to now the place I acknowledge, hey, I’m price taking good care of, my physique is price taking good care of, my coronary heart is price taking good care of, I’ve worth and never due to what I’m making or what I’m creating, however simply because I’m a human on this planet, and that’s nonetheless one thing that exhibits up for me typically. I imply, in preparation for this podcast, I used to be going over all the pieces final night time with my associate. He will get these downloads and he’ll simply cease himself. After which his physique will get actually nonetheless and his eyes form of shut. And I’m like, oh, Nick’s getting a obtain. That is gonna be good. And I’m ready like with bated breath. What’s he gonna say, you realize? Inform me methods to reply this query. After which he simply seems at me and he goes. You don’t have to clarify your self. He’s like, you already need to be right here. You might have a proper to be right here, you need to be right here. You don’t have to clarify your self. And it tears, proper? And it’s simply that second of, oh, proper, there’s nonetheless these locations the place that low self-worth exhibits up, as a result of there’s this baby, you realize, this youthful a part of myself that also needs to love do a great job and show myself and present everybody how good I’m or no matter it’s, you realize?
And after I can take a look at her and actually be together with her and say, hey, baby, I see you. I see that you just’re actually desirous to show your self and like work so onerous proper now. You don’t must. You may take a relaxation. You may take a nap. You may have a snack. You may identical to do what that you must do. Then that gives me the area and time for grownup Ashley to point out up and go, hey, like, let’s have enjoyable with this as a substitute of creating or not it’s a traumatic state of affairs. And that’s so related to my self-worth as a result of my self-worth is so, was at all times a lot, like I stated earlier than, about hustling, about proving, about striving, and it’s by no means sufficient. , and I’m positive so many different individuals relate to this. It’s like, we will lastly get the job or the factor or no matter it’s that we wish. And it’s nonetheless not gonna be sufficient. And so at that second in my life, it’s like, oh, I’ve to look inside myself. What’s it that I’m needing? What’s it that I’m working from?
And that was at all times a query for me with the remainder. It’s like, why am I working so onerous? And why am I working so quick? And so what do I must do to decelerate and cease working and actually take that breath and be with myself and be with the ache and the therapeutic and simply that complete journey? And in order that’s actually what it’s been. And studying methods to belief myself has been an enormous a part of that. And it actually ties into the Self-worth as a result of after I know and I’ve these moments after I really feel like, okay, I’m price resting, then I belief myself to take the following proper motion on behalf of myself afterward in that day or that week.
And I simply additionally wanna say one thing too, as a result of that is developing for me rather a lot. It’s like, we stay on this tradition that actually prioritizes like our exterior life, proper? It actually prioritizes like how a lot we will accomplish, how briskly we will accomplish it, what number of like prizes and accolades we have now. However actually, once we decelerate, I’ll simply reframe this, after I decelerate and I get quiet and I’ve a second of relaxation with myself that then I can have with my associate or that then I can have with my youngsters or that then I can share with individuals in my group, that’s productive. And never solely is it productive, it’s generative. And I’ve actually been trying on the distinction between productiveness and like what we generate. And being generative is basically on the facet of relaxation. It’s actually on the facet of revolution. It’s actually on the facet of regenerating and one thing that provides again. And so after I take into consideration resting too, it’s this like deeply private expertise, however it’s additionally a private expertise that then connects me outward into the remainder of the world.
Katie: I like that distinction. I’m so glad you introduced that up. And I additionally love that you just talked about the interior baby. This was an element that I did in remedy rather a lot, was studying to type of reintegrate and make peace and make mates with my interior baby and nourish them. And I even did visualizations the place I… visualized my interior baby and gave it a hug within the instances when it wanted a hug and didn’t get it. And I really feel like that’s so priceless.
And I additionally love that you just touched on. once we’re capable of entry that self-love and self-worth, it makes truly all the selections that result in higher well being, whether or not it’s bodily, mentally, emotionally, a lot simpler as a result of it’s coming from a spot of affection and nourishment and never punishment or deprivation or even when it’s one thing so simple as like bodily well being and weight-reduction plan, it’s a lot simpler to decide on the meals that nourish us from a spot of affection than a spot of deprivation and framing that issues are dangerous or that we’re afraid of it or we’re attempting to drop extra pounds. It’s simply such a extra highly effective mindset.
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Additionally, what you touched on with being with the happiness angle, it made me consider a quote from my buddy Naval that stated, needs once we make a contract with ourselves to be sad till we get what we wish. And I spotted I had tales in my head of, oh, I’ll be blissful after I’m this dimension or I’ll be blissful when this occurs or I’ll be blissful after I get via all these initiatives. And I needed to study truly happiness is the factor I can select now and nurture now. And people issues can nonetheless occur, however I don’t must make a contract with myself to be sad till they do. I can truly nurture that proper now.
I really feel like one other a part of this that’s tremendous priceless, and I’ve talked a little bit bit about on right here, however I feel you’re gonna have so a lot better perspective for is the somatic facet. And I first was launched to this after I learn the e book, The Physique Retains the Rating. After which I had my very own journey of discovering simply how intricately the physique and the thoughts are related and the way that course of unraveled for me. However I might love to listen to you converse to the somatic facet and something we will do from a somatic perspective to course of that stress response, to get into a greater place somatically, and in addition how that pertains to our interactions with different individuals and boundary setting and any practices which might be useful there.
Ashley: There’s a lot in what you stated. I wish to reply to all the pieces. However when it comes to the somatic piece, that’s been an enormous, big piece for me, particularly with the noting a lot trauma work myself personally has been actually like what’s displaying up in my physique. And it’s been an attention-grabbing journey for me. I imply, I grew up as a dancer. So I had a number of like early introduction to somatic motion, to being in my physique, to all these various things. However then I grew up doing classical ballet, which may be very, very formal and it’s very strict. And there’s a lot about overriding. There’s a lot about pushing, like get your physique into this form, proper? There’s no like, oh, you’re not gonna do this. So it’s not like, there’s simply, you’re doing it. The instructor’s yelling at you, you realize, and he or she’s like, it’s intense, it’s hardcore. That was my expertise with ballet as a child. And I cherished it. And it wasn’t till a few years later as an grownup, I used to be like, truly, I don’t wanna push my physique that onerous. I don’t wish to override a sensation that I’m having in my foot. After which I’m taking my pointy sneakers off and my ft are bleeding from dancing for 3 hours. It’s like, that wasn’t truly wholesome for me, however it taught me a lot. And as an grownup and the way that exhibits up in my life now with the somatic work that I do, I take these moments to verify in.
And that instance that I gave earlier of even simply my week forward, it’s like I verify in with my physique, not simply my calendar and it from this extra form of psychological, cognitive place, I am going, how does that really feel in my physique? or somebody calls and invitations me out someplace, I am going, yeah, give me a second. What am I noticing in my physique? Am I feeling tight? Am I feeling restricted? Is my tummy doing one thing unusual? Or am I feeling open? Is my chest open? Or are my shoulders relaxed? Like what are the cues for me? And the cool factor about this work, the thematic piece is all of us have these particular person cues that mark like, hey, I’m in a stress response. Hey, I’m beginning to disassociate. I’m feeling confused. My imaginative and prescient is blurry, proper? Or, oh, I’m beginning to really feel relaxed. My tummy is grumbling in that approach that it does when it’s like that form of digestive parasympathetic response. Or my jaw is softening, proper? Or my tongue is just not pressed up on the roof of my mouth. So there’s all these totally different physique markers and somatic alerts for us to know what sort of state we’re in.
Nevertheless it’s as much as us to concentrate to them. And that’s its personal apply and its personal journey, as you so superbly shared. And particularly for these of us like myself who’ve spent a lot of their lives both overriding, pushing my physique previous its limits, or utterly testing. It’s like, I’m in an excessive camp. I’m like one or the opposite. I’m both like completely not right here, or I’m so right here. I’m like driving myself into the bottom, doing one thing that’s actually tough for my physique. As a result of that’s acquainted to me, proper? It’s like, now I can put myself into this factor.
And what I’ve realized via this apply of relaxation and the way it connects is simply the softening. If I put on my physique, am I prepared to melt? The place do I really feel protected sufficient to melt? If I don’t really feel protected, what do I would like on this second proper now to assist myself even really feel 1% safer? I feel typically when it comes to trauma, the place we’re on the lookout for these large experiences, proper? We’re like, okay, I need the ayahuasca sort expertise with relaxation. What’s the massive peak second that I can have? And infrequently the height moments are available in these little tiny micro shifts. It’s like, oh, if I simply launch my shoulder 1% and simply stick with that, oh, wow, there’s some disappointment there. Oh, there’s some grief there. Okay, let’s stick with that versus simply attempting to override it and get my shoulder down as quick as attainable. So the somatic work is available in that approach too.
After which the way it exhibits up in {our relationships}. And it is a piece that I’ve needed to work via for therefore a few years. I’m somebody who typically would say sure after I meant no, you realize, I didn’t know methods to say no, it wasn’t, you realize, in my vocabulary, it wasn’t one thing I used to be allowed to say rising up. And it wasn’t till, you realize, in these previous few years, particularly having youngsters, and I’ve been capable of learn to say no. And prior to now, I might say no from this place of being actually disembodied. And so my no wasn’t anchored in something. It wasn’t stable. It wasn’t a agency. And so individuals would simply blow previous my no. And I’m like, I’m saying no, I’m doing what I’m speculated to do. I learn all of the remedy books and all of the boundary setting books. And I’ve this script proper right here. It’s like, you higher not discuss to me like that or no matter it’s. It’s like, nobody would even hear. My boundaries didn’t land with anybody.
And it wasn’t till I began doing the somatic piece that I used to be like, oh, I’m saying no, however my physique’s saying one thing completely totally different. How do I combine these items? How do I discover coherence? How do I get my mind and my physique on the identical web page? And it was via paying consideration and going to remedy. And my therapist would say, the place does that, the place do you’re feeling that no in your physique? And I must sit and go, Oh, I truly wish to push. Oh, I truly wish to kick. Oh, I truly wish to do these different issues with my physique. And that’s the place the true therapeutic got here in. As a result of as soon as I began letting my physique have the form of finishing again to that dialog, actually finishing that stress response cycle, finishing these trauma response cycles, then now after I say no, it’s clear, there’s no confusion about my no individuals are like, Oh, she’s severe. She stated, no, okay, transfer shifting on. Proper. They’re not nonetheless attempting to get in there and get me to say sure. In order that’s actually like, for me, just like the somatic piece round boundaries and relaxation comes into the combination. It’s like, are we saying no with our full physique? And if we’re not, how can we transfer in the direction of that?
Katie: You clarify that so, so effectively and such as you, I used to be… very habitually would say sure after I meant no, even I might verbally say sure after I met no. And I additionally had, I feel, a wound from childhood and from sure experiences the place I felt most secure if everyone was blissful. So I might go to even like nice lengths to maintain everybody blissful even on the expense of myself. And I needed to study slowly that… boundaries and kindness should exist collectively, and that features kindness towards your self. And that was the piece I had to determine. After which from there, I used to be capable of truly construct boundaries as effectively. And I do nonetheless suppose they not solely can exist collectively, they really should exist collectively, boundaries and kindness.
It looks as if for ladies, particularly, this is usually a tougher a part of the journey actually because we usually tend to be prepared to love give of ourselves to the purpose of exhaustion. and never replenish ourselves sufficient. And so I like that we’ve received to convey that into the dialog as effectively. I’d additionally love to speak a little bit extra deeply in regards to the respiration facet and any breath work practices that folks may use as child steps into studying these relaxation practices. As a result of I feel once we give it some thought from a logical standpoint, we will go weeks with out meals, we will go days with out water, we will solely go minutes with out air. And so we breathe far more any given day than we do every other enter into our biology. Nevertheless it’s typically probably the most missed, once more, as a result of typically the best issues are the best to miss, or probably the most computerized issues are the best to miss. However I’ve seen, for me, how profoundly simply making time for intentional breath work at totally different instances of the day, not even a very long time, not even a number of this, can have such a profound affect on even the physiology.
So even when somebody’s engaged on a bodily well being drawback or a sleep difficulty, I’ve seen breath work drastically change my sleep and different individuals’s sleep. And I feel that. our nervous programs truly study to reply. Like with all these belongings you’re speaking about with having the ability to get right into a state of relaxation extra, that pays dividends to our nervous system and the way we’re in our sleep and the way we’re, even our coronary heart fee variability in the course of the day, we even have the metrics now to see that this has a helpful affect on the physique. So I might love so that you can stroll us via any child steps into breath work practices that may be useful. You talked about some which might be useful pre-sleep possibly, and even simply all through the day to type of reset that stress response.
Ashley: And that’s stunning, Katie, and yeah, related to a lot of that. And infrequently the way in which I speak about relaxation is that it’s a bridge to sleep. And so at first of the dialog, we have been form of distinguishing like what’s relaxation, what’s sleep? These issues are totally different, they’re their very own practices. They’re each very, very, crucial, however a lot in our tradition now’s targeted on sleep accurately. , there’s so many statistics on the market. Like most of us should not getting sufficient sleep. And so due to that, particularly as mother and father, what can we do all through the day?
And I like that you just’re bringing in breath. , somebody who’s been learning breath and, you realize, written a e book about breath work, it is a matter that’s actually, actually near me in a apply that I’ve been doing for a few years. And I at all times recommend at first, simply begin actually small. And I say, begin with 5 breaths. So 5 rounds, you’re simply going to inhale via your nostril for so long as attainable. You’re not going to push it. You’re not going to power it, however simply take that deep inhale via the nostril. all the way in which to the highest. After which there’s be a slight pause on the high. You then’re gonna exhale via your nostril, simply for so long as you’ll be able to. Proper, so we wanna suppose sluggish, light, ease. These are the phrases that we wanna form of be fascinated with as we’re respiration, simply 5 instances. And I’m gonna have you ever do this all through your day. So while you get up within the morning, after you drop the youngsters off or no matter your form of like mid-morning day is, lunchtime, afternoon, earlier than mattress, proper? So do this 5 instances in the course of the day, the 5 by 5.
And it’s actually, actually, actually useful as a result of it’s useful for therefore many causes, however it begins to construct in that apply. And so typically we’ll hear from individuals, oh, I did breath work one time. It didn’t work. Or similar with meditation. I attempted meditating like twice. It didn’t work. It’s like, no, no, we have now to love construct this into our routine and make it tremendous straightforward. , I’m positive, I do know you’ve learn the e book and I’m positive lots of people have the Atomic Habits, however James Clear actually talks about it. It’s like, okay, for those who’re attempting to construct a brand new behavior, the place are you able to add that in to one thing that you just’re already doing? So he calls it behavior stacking. And I feel it’s genius. So I’ll say to shoppers, okay, while you’re brushing your enamel, after that do your breath work, proper? You drop the youngsters off from faculty. They get out of the automotive, shut the door, do 5 minutes or do 5 breaths. It’s simply actually, actually easy. And so the place are you able to weave it in? After which so far as the precise apply, begin there. These 5 inhales, maintain on the high after which exhale out of the nostril. That’s gonna be the best place to begin.
After which for those who’re wanting so as to add onto that, the following factor I might recommend is begin to prolong your exhalation via your nostril for so long as you’ll be able to. Once more, we wanna have a number of gentleness and a number of selection with this. This isn’t a forceful apply. It’s meant to be nourishing. It’s meant to be restorative. It’s meant to be replenishing to the system. And it’s additionally meant to be straightforward sufficient that you are able to do it sufficient instances to begin to construct that behavior. And the extra you do it, the behavior will get stronger and stronger. And then you definately actually begin to see the advantages, identical to you spoke of so superbly, Katie. It’s like then we get the true advantages of the work, that are unbelievable. I imply, there’s a lot science behind breath work now that it’s simply wonderful. And such as you stated, it’s one thing that’s really easy to miss or be like, oh, that’s simply, for those who’re scrolling on Instagram, you’ve received time to do 5 breaths. You are able to do it.
Katie: Yeah. And to talk to your level of how effectively that may work, I feel it’s like a nervous system coaching factor that the extra that you just do this apply, the extra your nervous system learns to breathe that approach with out you having to consciously give it some thought. And in order that improves your respiration fee when you’re sleeping. That improves, you typically see advantages in train, even simply from these little tiny micro breathwork classes such as you’re speaking about. And I additionally know for those who do battle with sleep, I’ve seen for me, if I do this form of breathwork or one thing related like a 4, seven, eight breathwork, any form of breathwork earlier than mattress. After which that tip you talked about about type of scanning the physique and stress-free any locations that you just really feel tight. I’ll begin at my head and attempt to chill out all the way in which right down to my toes. And I nearly by no means make all of it the way in which right down to my toes earlier than falling asleep as a result of it’s so stress-free and it brings consciousness to these spots within the physique that really feel sticky or tight. After which when you launch them, it’s just like the nervous system is prepared for sleep. In order that’s a tip I like to present individuals. In case you do battle with the falling asleep half, that’s been actually, actually useful for me.
And I do know you will have, you’ve talked about your e book. I’ll make certain in fact that’s linked within the present notes as a result of there’s a lot extra that it goes into than we will cowl in a one hour podcast episode. Although I like that we’ve gotten into so many each sensible and foundational facets of this. And I do know, like I stated, there’s a lot extra that you just’ve written about. I’ll make certain it’s linked. You guys test it out. It’s superior. That’ll be within the present notes at wellnessmama.fm. However on that notice, a number of questions I like to ask towards the tip of interviews. The primary is that if there’s a e book or variety of books which have profoundly impacted you and in that case, what they’re and why.
Ashley: Yeah, so I used to be fascinated with that. And the primary e book that got here to thoughts was the massive e book of Alcoholics Nameless. And I received sober after I was 21, which was fairly some time in the past. And although I’m not presently collaborating in AA, that e book had a profound affect on my life. I give a number of credit score to that e book for actually displaying me a unique option to stay, proper? And now what’s so fascinating is like with all the brand new analysis out and what we learn about trauma and alcoholism and habit, there’s a lot of that that doesn’t land with me in the identical approach that it did, however it modified the course of my life. So I can’t not point out it or can’t not take into consideration that e book.
One other e book that I simply love and return to so typically is Untethered Soul. I feel that e book is simply so unbelievable. It’s a option to actually like broaden my thoughts and open me as much as risk. And that e book, when it first got here into my life, it’s a kind of books, once more, I’ve so many books that I’ve have been on my cabinets for many years and that’s one in every of them, however it actually confirmed me what was attainable with even my considering thoughts and with my ego and simply gave me one other language and one other option to look and reframe issues and go, oh wait, after I’m having a thought, who’s considering that thought? I imply, that’s such a potent query. And it actually took me on this unbelievable journey of self-discovery and of simply extra consciousness and deeper consciousness.
Katie: I like it. These will each be linked within the present notes as effectively. For all of you guys listening, all that’s at all times at wellnessmama.fm. The place can individuals discover you on-line? Clearly, I’m positive your e book is wherever books are offered, however the place can individuals discover you and continue learning from you?
Ashley: So the most effective place to study from me proper now’s on my Substack and you will discover it at AshleyNeese Substack or thedeepercall.substack.com and that’s the place I’m hanging out. I write letters each week. I share suggestions, insights, every kind of stuff. We’ve got a number of enjoyable hanging out over there. I’m loving Substack as a result of it looks like, and I do know you in all probability relate to this, it’s just like the outdated days of running a blog. It’s identical to, looks like such a enjoyable group. There’s so many feedback and recommendations and questions and there’s simply a number of connection over there. In order that’s the place I’m hanging out. It’s the Deeper Name at Substack.
Katie: I’ll embrace that hyperlink as effectively. And lastly, any parting recommendation for the listeners that could possibly be associated to one thing we’ve talked about or totally unrelated life recommendation that you’ve discovered useful.
Ashley: The factor that involves thoughts and I feel this was simply one thing that I wanted to listen to a lot at first of my relaxation apply was that you just’re worthy of resting. And this ties into the Self-worth piece that we talked about. And it has taken me a very long time to actually get to a spot the place I do know that I’m price resting. Prefer it’s okay for me to decelerate and to the touch, you realize, form of tie again into the mother guilt. Even when my youngsters are having a meltdown or one thing else is happening, I can nonetheless take 30 seconds. I can nonetheless take a minute for myself to form of refill my cup and provides myself that reset. And I’m price it. And so are you.
Katie: I feel that’s an ideal place to place a pin in it for right this moment. Like I stated, you will have a lot extra within the e book that folks can proceed to study from you. However this has been such a lovely dialog. I’m so grateful to your time. I’ve cherished the route that this received to go. Thanks a lot for being right here.
Ashley: Thanks a lot, Katie. It was actually fantastic to be in dialog with you right this moment.
Katie: And thanks as at all times to all of you for listening and for sharing your most respected sources, your time, your power, and your consideration with us right this moment. We’re each so grateful that you just did, and I hope that you’ll be part of me once more on the following episode of the Wellness Mama Podcast.
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