Sept. 19, 2025

From Stressed to Blessed with Nutrigenomics

From Stressed to Blessed with Nutrigenomics

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 Tired of feeling stressed, exhausted, or stuck in survival mode? In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Tamar Lawful shares how nutrigenomics, personalized health through your DNA, can help you move from burnout to balance and live with energy, confidence, and peace. 

In this episode of the Daring Well Podcast, host Rita welcomes Dr. Tamar Lawful, a precision health pharmacist and founder of LYFE Balance. Together, they explore how stress doesn’t just live in your mind but also in your cells—impacting hormones, metabolism, sleep, and energy. Dr. Lawful reveals how nutrigenomics provides a blueprint to personalize nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices so women can break free from yo-yo dieting, reduce dependence on medications, and experience lasting transformation. She also shares her personal journey of burnout, resilience, and why loving yourself first every day is the key to sustainable wellness. 

(Original episode link: Listen on Daring Well | Apple Podcasts)


What You’ll Learn in This Episode

  • Why stress impacts you on a cellular level—and what that means for your health
  • How nutrigenomics reveals why diets and workouts may not be working for you
  • Practical ways to advocate for yourself at the doctor’s office

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00:00 - From Stressed to Blessed

07:35 - Dr. Tamar's Journey to Nutrigenomics

16:00 - Understanding Nutrigenomics and Genetic Testing

21:50 - Advocating for Your Health

26:40 - Transforming Stress into Wellness

31:35 - Essential Self-Care for Busy Women

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medications certainly have their place, but what if there was a way to support your body naturally by working with your genetics?

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We are a pill for an ill society.

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We take 18 pills per person, per american per day.

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It was so hard to find somebody who took my insurance and for me to get well it took thousands of dollars and and I thought what do regular people do?

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This is not right.

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Despite my best efforts, I wasn't actually reversing disease and helping people to heal in the way that I thought I would we want to empower yourselves to take care of this root cause?

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We don't just want to cover it up.

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If you're ready to break free from outdated, one-size-fits-all health care, you're in the right place.

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Welcome to Raise the Script with Nutrigenomics brought to you by InHer Glow®, by LYFE Balance.

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Here's a literature from.

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We are all unique, right down to our DNA, so it's no wonder we respond differently to the same medications, foods and environments.

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How do you discover what your body needs?

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Which medications, foods, supplements?

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How do you discover what your body needs?

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Which medications, foods, supplements or exercises are right for you?

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How can you manage chronic conditions without piling on more prescriptions?

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That's what we're here to explore.

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I'm your host, Dr.

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Tamar Lawful, doctor of pharmacy, nutrigenomics specialist, and your partner in reimagining how we personalize care for better outcomes, whether you're a patient or a practitioner, let's raise the script and bring healthcare to higher levels together, because the future of health is personal.

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Welcome to Raise the Script with Nutrigenomics.

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I'm your host, doctor of pharmacy.

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I'm also founder of LYFE Balance, where we design health the way it should be personalized, precise and aligned with your DNA.

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Today, I'm sharing a very special conversation from when I was invited to the Daring Well podcast.

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In it, we explore what it really means to move from stressed to blessed, not just as a catchphrase, but as a complete lifestyle transformation.

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We talk about how high achieving women often carry stress so deeply that it impacts their metabolism, hormones, energy and even their ability to maintain their weight.

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And I'll show you why the future of wellness nutrigenomics holds the answers that conventional medicine has overlooked.

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So if you've ever thought I'm doing everything right but my body still isn't listening, this episode will give you a new lens to see what's possible.

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Listen in Gone from stress to bless.

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It's a full body, full life transformation.

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It's a transformation Shifting from a state where your mind is racing, body is exhausted and everything feels too much to a place where you feel grounded, grateful and you're in control again.

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So for many of the women I work with, just in their head, it's actually in their cells.

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What, how is that?

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Break that down?

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For many of the women I work with, just in their head, it's actually in their cells.

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You know it's affecting.

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How is that Break?

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that down.

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It's affecting their metabolism, their hormones, their sleep, their ability to show up for things that matter.

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Thank you so much for joining us, Dr.

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Tamar.

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Today we're excited to have you for the Daring Well podcast to share more about your expertise in wellness from a different approach than we've talked about in the past.

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So talking about from the nutrigenomics am I saying that correctly?

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That's right.

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That's right From the nutrigenomics approach and then also thinking about it from the framework of wellness and how to live well in mind, body and spirit.

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So before we get started today, I'd love for you if you could just break down kind of a brief intro to your background and your expertise and your why.

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Why did you choose this?

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field.

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Oh, definitely, thank you for having me, rita.

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Well, I'm a doctor of pharmacy.

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I've been a pharmacist this will be my 21st year I'm starting to lose count.

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As a pharmacist, I specialize in a field called nutrigenomics, which is a science of looking at how our environment affects our genetics as ultimately affecting our health, and I have I'm licensed in New Jersey, pennsylvania, california Also do health coaching by way of my company, life Balance, which stands for Love Yourself First.

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Every Day.

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I have a 90-day program where I help guide my clients through on their health journey for whatever their health goals are, whether it's weight loss, more energy, using nutrigenomics.

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What's my why?

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My why is wanting to help people Pretty much why I became a pharmacist.

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Right, you know, you want to help people get better.

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When I was a teenager, my grandmother was dying of lung cancer in Jamaica, so my mom sent my brother and I there to visit her.

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Literally, she's on her deathbed.

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That moment stood out to me because there was nothing I could do to help my grandmother at this point in her life.

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Yeah, I just felt helpless.

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So I made a resolve to myself that whatever I do in life, it's going to be to help people who are sick, who are sick, so that they don't end up like my grandmother and if they are, if they, for whatever reason, do end up like her dying that they can at least be comfortable in that process.

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So my mother worked with me when it came that time.

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You know, every child has to figure out what are you going to go to college for?

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And I wanted to.

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I said Mom, I want to help people.

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She's a nurse.

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So I said I'm going to be a nurse, just like you.

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She said no, no, no, no, you're not going to be a nurse.

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I want you to do something else.

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I had talked to engineers, I talked to other people in other types of specialties in the healthcare field and I decided that I'll be a pharmacist.

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Because I was really curious how do these medications work to help people?

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Is that a thing?

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Because I didn't grow up on medications?

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We ate natural food.

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I rarely got sick.

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So how do these medications really work?

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So I went into pharmacy, graduated as a pharmacist and 15 years into my career I said people are not getting better.

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I thought I was trying to help people.

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They're not getting better, they have to stay on these medications and they still have diabetes, they still have high blood pressure, they still have heart failure.

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You know they still have high, you know whatever it is.

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So am I really helping people get better?

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So that's when I started looking into something else, looking into something else, and realized that people needed help, really focusing on nutrition and lifestyle changes, ultimately so that they can reduce the need for medications.

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Wow, I love that as a pharmacist wanting to reduce the need for medications.

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Yeah, because it's definitely something that is possible.

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In pharmacy school we're taught to first work with people on their lifestyle changes and nutrition After three months of actively trying that then we introduce medications.

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But now we're just introducing medications right away and not even working with them.

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You can tell somebody you need to eat better, but what does that mean?

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You know they don't.

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A lot of people don't know, you know they're not really given any guidance to it.

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So through life balance, I'm able to be by their side, hold their hands in that process so they can understand what their body really needs to start getting better, to start improving their health.

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And then, on the other side of that, why is I?

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Was a busy mom myself.

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I was newly married, I had a new baby.

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While I was pregnant I was serving on the board of three nonprofits and that's a very busy lifestyle.

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Plus, I was still working full-time and I was drained.

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After I had my baby, I had a very hard time losing weight.

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I was on the verge of prediabetes.

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The A1C was going up, creeping, creeping, closer and closer to prediabetes status and I didn't want to become one of my patients.

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So I sat back and I thought okay, what's missing?

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What do I need to do?

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I need to start taking care of myself, and the way to do that is to put myself first, prioritize myself, love myself first every day.

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Hence why I call my business Life Balance and spell it with a Y for love yourself first every day.

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So, with that being the core, what I discovered I needed was that self-love prioritizing myself first as well.

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What I discovered I needed was that self-love prioritizing myself first as well.

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That's pretty much what I built my health coaching program off of, and I encourage my clients to do at every step.

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Every phase of my program is to love yourself first.

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Are you prioritizing yourself today?

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How is that decision you made?

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Prioritizing yourself, prioritizing your health?

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Those are good questions.

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I love that.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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Can you briefly share about nutrigenomics?

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Like that sounds like a big word, like what does that really mean?

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And how can the everyday person advocate for themselves to one?

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If they could connect with you, that would be great.

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But also, how can they advocate with them, for themselves, with their doctor, their prescriber, or just in the everyday lifestyle, of lifestyle changes?

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That's a great question.

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Let's start with the nutrigenomics and we'll go into how they can self-advocate from themselves when it comes to their health.

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The nutrigenomics, nutra, nutrition, genomics, genetics.

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So genomics is the application of what we've learned right.

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So we're learning how food affects our genes.

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Also, our environment affects our genes and has the ability to turn those genes on or off to help them work more efficiently or to not work the way that they are programmed to work.

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So everything we put into our body, everything that we expose ourselves to, affects how well our genes are going to work.

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For example, a simple example I'll give is lactose.

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We know some people are lactose intolerant.

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So we have a gene that codes for an enzyme called lactase.

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That enzyme is what breaks down lactose so that we can tolerate milk or dairy products.

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Genetically, you may not be making lactase well enough.

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As a result, you're lactose intolerant.

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So that's just a genetic a change in your genetics.

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So genetically, you're not making that lactase enzyme the way that most people do.

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So that's just a genetic a change in your genetics.

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So genetically, you're not making that lactase enzyme the way that most people do.

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So that's a variant.

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So it's going to affect how your body responds to food.

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In other examples, we're able to make some changes in your nutrition so that your genes can work more efficiently.

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So nutrigenomics is a test that's done, that will identify pretty much the root cause what's going on on a cellular level that pinpoints to genetics that's perhaps making what's going on in your body that's making you feel more tired, because some people will sleep.

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They sleep 10 hours and they're still tired.

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So it's not that you're not getting enough sleep.

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So what's really going on?

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Some people exercise every single day and they can't lose one pound.

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So it's not that you're not physically active.

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So what's really going on?

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Nutrigenomics can help us identify what's really going on, and then we get a report that is very specific when it comes to nutrition.

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Now that we know what's going on, these are the type of foods that you can eat to help manage that problem, to help your genetics, your DNA, work better, to resolve that issue.

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And then there are these are the exercises that you should do instead.

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So I always like to bring out my experience, personal experience, with high intensity training and interval training.

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I love doing that.

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It gives you this rush right you have.

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I mean, it's hard, but the more you do it.

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But you know, you have this sense of accomplishment oh man, I made it, I did it, I did that and plus, you're you're building, you're developing your muscles.

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There's great strength training as well.

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In cardiovascular health, it's great workout.

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But when I read my nutrigenomics report, I discovered that it's not the best thing for me to do when it comes to weight loss.

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Maybe only two days a week, but I was doing this like five days a week, so it was actually contributing to something they call oxidative stress, which is kind of like your cells rusting.

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So as a result of that, there's more inflammation, you're tired, it's going to be harder to lose weight.

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So instead of high intensity interval training, my report recommended more moderate exercises like simply just walking, swimming, yoga.

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Those would be better workouts for me to do in order to reduce oxidative stress, reduce inflammation and promote weight loss.

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Wow, that's.

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That's a simple transition, and I think that's the other thing is like as women, like we're doing, we're showing up at the gym, we're doing some exercises, but like if it's not right for your body and your season of life and the way that, like you said, the report helps to detail those different recommendations, that's that's so powerful, cool, cool, awesome.

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So what are some other ways that women can advocate for themselves when they think about, if they think that they have like an imbalance in some way?

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Well, one of course, talking to your doctor about it.

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But I know from my client's experiences.

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They talk to their doctors and, hey, I feel this way or that way and it's like, oh, that's normal, there's nothing, give them another pill, give them another pill.

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This is what I like to say.

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Your doctors work for you.

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What your doctors work for you, they are part of your medical team, your health care team.

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That's a reframe.

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Yes, so if you feel that something needs to be done, you make sure that they do it, and if they don't do it, you go to another doctor.

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A lot of people they get this fear of the white coat.

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They can't question their doctor, they can't speak up.

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They're just going to say do whatever the doctor says.

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You have every right to ask questions.

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You have every right to demand the care that you know you deserve.

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So if you feel that you want additional tests done, all that doctor has to do is care that you know you deserve.

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So if you feel that you want additional tests done, all that doctor has to do is write that prescription for that test.

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They work for you.

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So I would encourage you to have that mind frame when you go to your doctor's office.

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Doctor, you work for me.

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So right.

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So there's some power, there's some ownership in that, and that's what we need when it comes to our health care, our health journey.

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We need to realize that it's in our control.

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So take that, yeah, take that control, take ownership of your health.

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Take ownership of your health.

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So definitely, if you have a practitioner or physician that you're with and they're brushing you off or they're just adding another medication, definitely get a second and third opinion.

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If you need to Also look into functional medicine practitioners Functional medicine practitioners they will take more of a root cause approach, trying to find the reason why you feel a certain way.

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So they're going to treat the reason, not the symptoms.

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Traditional medicine treats the symptoms, yeah.

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So, for example, you have a headache.

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Okay, let's take a Tylenol or Sajoran or aspirin, but why do you have that headache?

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So wouldn't it be better to find out why you have the headache and treat that reason so that you don't have the headaches anymore, rather than treat the headache?

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Yeah, because with the medicine, you're treating the headache every time that headache comes on, but let's prevent the headache from coming by finding out why we have a headache in the first place.

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So I would encourage to go to a functional medicine practitioner.

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How do you find a functional medicine practitioner Like is that listed as GP?

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And then they say under that functional medicine, like how do you?

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find that.

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Yeah, a simple Google search for in your area for functional medicine, it will come up.

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It will come up.

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They will definitely have themselves listed as functional medicine practitioners.

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Yeah.

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So that's an area of specialization Good to know.

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Yeah, Now the caveat with that is insurance may or may not cover those type of practitioners, because insurance really deal, especially in our healthcare system, I hate to say it.

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Insurance is all tied to medicine.

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So if the doctors aren't doctors that are prescribing medications and prescriptions, typically insurance companies not going to be linked to any kind of coverage.

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But depending on the practice, they may have found a way to have insurance coverage.

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That's good.

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Thank you for sharing different ways to advocate for ourselves, because I believe the medical model I mean it works to a certain extent Like the system is set up to have you as a recurring client.

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You know what I mean.

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The way it's set up, keep giving the meds and then the meds create a whole, nother problem of dependence or a whole nother diagnosis, especially long term, and so thinking about, like, what is the root cause?

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And so I love that you come at it from that approach to help people to live well, like that's the whole reason for my business is daring, well, daring to live well, daring to be well, like in your mind, body and spirit, and so I love it.

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The audacity to be well, the audacity, the audacity.

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I love that.

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I love the way you said that let's talk about from stress to bliss and ways to redefine wellness, and so maybe that's something that was similar to what we just talked about.

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But how do we go from stress to blessed and how do we redefine our wellness?

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You know, going from stress to blessed.

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It's a full body, full life transformation.

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It's a transformation You're shifting from a state where your mind is racing, your body is exhausted and everything feels too much to a place where you feel grounded, grateful and you're in control again.

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So for many of the women I work with, stress isn't just in their head, it's actually in their cells.

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You know it's affecting.

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How is that Break that?

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down.

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It's affecting their metabolism, their hormones, their sleep, their ability to show up for things that matter.

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So a lot of like when we typically think, oh my gosh, I'm so busy today, I'm so stressed.

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We don't realize the effect it's having on our bodies.

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Like, have you ever known someone that, okay, they've been in a relationship, say it's a really bad relationship?

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They gained so much weight in this relationship They've been trying to lose weight while in this relationship can't lose the weight.

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That relationship ends and all of a sudden they're like 10, 20 pounds lighter.

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Okay, can you relate to that?

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because that's right that's, yeah, that stress that we we don't realize the extent to how deep that stress really reached.

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So it's reaching down to a cellular level where it's affecting the functions of our bodies, not just how we physically present All that.

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We are physically presented in a certain way because of what's going on internally.

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That is like mind blowing.

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I cannot believe that.

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Oh my gosh, say more about that.

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I'm like, I'm like what?

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Yeah, so that's stress.

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It's beyond what's within our head, how we're feeling on day to day.

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It's it's really deep and it affects how we're breaking down foods, how we're breaking down sugar in our body, how our hormones you hear about the stress hormone and how people can gain more weight as a result of stress.

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It's all because of hormones, how our hormones are off balance, and that's why I really I think I was telling you before we went live, before I started using nutrigenomics in my health coaching business.

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People got results, but with nutrigenomics they really got results, and then these results were things that were sustainable.

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There was no yo-yo weight gain, weight loss, and it was because they were listening to what their body was telling them they needed to do.

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So, when they use their genetic blueprint and understanding how their body is responding to the stress, we create these personalized strategies for them so they can restore balance and energy.

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So blessed isn't just about having more.

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It's about feeling more, more peace, more energy, more alignment with your values and your purpose in life as well.

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So a complete health transformation when you go from stress to blessed, because now you're living in a way that feels good, not just looking good, but you're feeling good from the inside out and that shift is powerful, rita, but it's not overnight, you know it's, it's absolutely possible, but my coaching program is 90 days.

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Honestly, within a couple of weeks people start seeing that transformation as they start changing.

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But I would say 30 days to make a habit, 90 days to make a lifestyle.

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So you have to be consistent in that journey of going from stress the blessed.

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Yeah, that's really good.

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Yeah, Another researcher I like to follow Dr Caroline Leaf.

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She talks about the research of like 60 to 90 days to change a habit and we've always heard like 30 days.

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But it takes that time to build in the consistency to give in the days where we just don't show up for ourselves you know what I mean To build in the days where we're trying to break the old habits, the old mindsets that's tied to those old habits.

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And so I love that your program is 90 days to give people the window to define a new normal, a new healthy lifestyle.

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And I think that's the other thing that, like these fad diets, like it just comes and it goes and then it's not sustainable, Right.

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I think that when you said that that fad diets, like it just comes and it goes and then it's not sustainable, Right.

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I think that when you said that that key word sustainable like you lose the weight but you're not like dealing with the root cause, the root issues, as you've talked about through today's talk is like that's the reason, yeah, and so I love that.

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Yeah, you definitely need to get to that root cause.

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That's powerful.

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So, as we start to wrap up, thinking about the idea of the stress of the importance of self-care for working moms.

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So most of the audience is women, and so and there's some ladies out there that are moms, that are some that are not, and so but just how do we connect with the self-care strategies and how do we prioritize self-care?

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That's a great question.

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I teach that self-care is not the same for everybody.

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What one person needs is not what the next person needs.

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But self-care should also be something that we can do every single day.

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It shouldn't be.

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We go months of just running on this hamster wheel until we're burnt out and then we say, oh, I need a spa day or I need a vacation right.

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When we can incorporate self-care habits into our life on a daily basis, then we're more balanced.

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We're more balanced and well-rounded.

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So, for example, I had one client her self-care activity for the day that she realized she actually needed was taking a shower at the beginning of the day.

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Now, most of us do that already, but in her situation she was newly widowed, she had two kids, she was working from home shortly after COVID actually during COVID and she would come home and get right to work in front of the computer.

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And she identified that, okay, maybe what I need, maybe I should just take a shower before I get the kids ready for school, before I start working.

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Active activity of taking a shower, focusing on her, exactly lifted her mood and carried her the entire day.

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She said I don't feel sad, I don't feel depressed, I don't feel tired Just from taking a shower.

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I have all this energy.

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So what that was?

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You said it.

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It was tapping into herself, doing something for herself first that day, putting herself first that day.

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As I preach in my program, it starts with us.

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We have to put ourselves first.

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So I ask listeners, what self-care activity can you do?

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That is, putting yourself first at the beginning of the day, and is it something that you can do every single day?

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If it's not, let's come up with another idea, because I need you to do something every single day for yourself, and it doesn't have to be long, it doesn't have to be 30 minutes, it doesn't maybe 10 minutes, five minutes, whatever it is, but by putting yourself first, tapping into your needs, that can bring you a long way and carry you throughout the day.

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How do you shift a woman's mindset that says it's too hard?

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You've already talked about the time factor, so like bringing it into like small increments, but how do you shift the mindset for a lady that walks in your door and says, hey, I just, I have so many other people that I have to put before me, so it's it's so hard for them to put themselves first.

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And so how do you shift that mindset?

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How do you help them to prioritize that?

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Well, I'm very blunt.

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You want to be there for those that you love.

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You have a lot of people that you have to support.

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What happens when you're no longer around?

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Mic drop, there you go.

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So if you want to be around longer, you have to take care of yourself.

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We have 24 hours in a day and, as I mentioned earlier, the self-care portion does not have to be that long.

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So I would encourage everyone to start with five minutes and then build onto it.

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Do you have five minutes in the day for yourself?

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Is that doable?

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Okay, and what can you do during those five minutes to just have an aha moment.

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When I first started my self-care routine, rita, you know what it was.

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My daughter would wake up.

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Literally, it was like she's connected to me.

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She slept in her own room as a baby, but it's like she sensed that mommy was up.

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So within five minutes of me being awake, it was like a baby crying, right.

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Like she was awake calling for me to come to her.

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So I was like all right, I know I only have five minutes when I get up, so what am I going to do in those five minutes?

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So I would have my Keurig set so that it'll make tea for me at a certain time.

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So I would get up, my tea would be ready and then I can sit down for five minutes and just sip on that tea and just think about the day, think about reflect on things for those five minutes before she woke up, you know.

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So just having that quiet time to myself right before I had to start tending to her or anything else, really made a difference.

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And then, as she got older, I could have more time, so I could build onto it.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

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I love that great example because sometimes we get out of the bed, we're hitting the alarm or hitting the snooze five times and then when we do get out of bed, we're just like heading for the door, rushing to get our clothes on, like it just is not enough time to really sit and just be present and set your mindset for the day.

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Sometimes we're like, ok, well, I'll do it when I get time.

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You just won't have time, you got to make time and so five minutes that's also what I say in my practice is five minutes.

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So when people say they don't have five minutes, I'm like OK, you've got micro breaks that you can squeeze in in your commute time, that you can do some self-care before you get out of the car to go into work, before you get out of the car to go into your house.

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Like you can squeeze in five minutes somewhere in the middle of your day and preferably the beginning.

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And I think as women we do such a great job of, like hair nails, massage, going to the spa, like those kinds of things.

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But those are the big things.

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You can't do those self-care things every day, like you have to do the self-care literally every day, and so I love that from a doctor like you're literally setting the stage like this is what we need to do, and so I love that you said that and you saying like the hair and L thing, like I do my own hair, I don't do my own L, but I do my own hair Right.

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So my morning routine of getting ready, that's a self-care process for me.

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Nobody can interrupt me quietly.

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Now my daughter is six.

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She's about to be seven a couple of weeks.

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She knows mommy's getting ready.

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It's time.

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Do not bother, mommy, because that is my that's my sacred time.

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I'm getting ready and think you know, yeah, so, um, I think I just identified that as like okay, that's part of my self-care routine right there.

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Another thing I like to say, because we say make the time a lot, but we can't make time.

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It's already there.

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We have to take the time.

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Yeah, take those 15 minutes for yourself, because the time is there.

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You just got to figure out which in these 24 hours.

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What piece of that am I going to take for myself?

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And then again that's another terminology right with the empowerment, right we just make.

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And then there's take.

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So we're owning this, I'm taking it.

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It's's more empowered, so empower yourself to take care of yourself.

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Take that time, beautiful beautiful.

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What other words of wisdom or affirmation, or just words that you would like to share with the listeners before we start to wrap up today?

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I'm just gonna leave it with.

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Love yourself first every day.

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If you remember anything at all when you wake up, how am I gonna love myself first every day?

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If you remember anything at all when you wake up, how am I going to love myself first today?

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Ask yourself that and then from there you can you can figure out what you need to do for yourself, care for your health.

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So that's what I would like to leave everyone with Just remembering that question to ask yourself and and invite everyone to.

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If you're interested in learning more about how nutrigenomics can help you, to reach out to me on social media at Dr Tamar Lawful All social media channels, it's the same handle or visit my website at thelifebalancecom.

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That's T-H-E-L-Y-F-E balancecom, and if you decide to join one of my programs, you let me know that you heard about this interview and you will get free nutrigenomics tests included if you decide to join the health coaching program, and that's a $500 value.

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What?

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That's a huge value.

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Thank you for offering that to the listeners.

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I appreciate that because I'm all about holistic wellness, and so I'm so grateful for that offer and opportunity for listeners to connect with you and to find ways to tune into their body better.

00:30:36.773 --> 00:30:39.278
So awesome, awesome.

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Thank you so much, dr Tamar.

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You've been sucha blessing to share your heart, your words of wisdom, breaking down the complex things Like so grateful, so so grateful.

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So I'm so excited for listeners to hear this and I'm excited for them to learn how to implement this into their everyday life as well, as I'm excited for them to extend and connect with you.

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So that's awesome.

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Friends, I hope today's conversation showed you what's possible when you stop treating symptoms and start listening to what your DNA is telling you.

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True wellness isn't about doing more.

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It's about aligning your lifestyle with your body's blueprint so you can experience results at last.

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If you're ready to explore this level of precision for yourself, you can connect with me at wwwthelifebalancecom.

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That's wwwthelifebalancecom.

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Or find me on social media at Dr Tamar Lawful Coming up next week on the show.

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We're talking about the energy blueprint how you can stop feeling drained and start thriving, so you can break free from constant fatigue and finally have the energy you deserve.

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Talk to you next Friday.

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Until then, always remember to raise the script on health, because together we can bring health care to higher levels.

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