Bonus Friday Podcast- all about the retreat

Today. I want to talk about the truth about doing it all as women. What I was doing personally, and so many of my friends, family, and even women, that I just talk to on a daily basis is we are doing it all. We are taking care of everyone else, doing for everyone else.

So I would like to offer you what if you dropped the pressure and got real about the balance? And by that I mean, what if all the pressure for you to do all of the things was actually you putting it on yourself? The balance comes in by pausing. taking a look at what someone else could do, that you are doing, taking that off your plate and to slow down a bit.

when our bodies spike up a high cortisol level, which is a stress hormone that releases this cortisol. It is because we are doing too much and going too fast and never allowing ourselves time to rest.

So what if we took on a different role in which we delegated. We said, No, I can't do that right now. It is so good for your body to take that rest. That's how our cells turnover. That can be such a simple solution. Yet when things start to happen and our health starts to take a turn. Even if we want to do a holistic approach. we still get caught up in the thought of. I have to go see a holistic doctor or functional practitioner.

They will offer you holistic solutions, but it comes with a price tag, and oftentimes it comes with a protocol that is so overcomplicated that sticking to it oftentimes doesn't happen.

you can take a simple approach. and oftentimes it starts with the simple act of boundaries, taking things off your plate.

My 1st ministry was to my home and to our girls. I wanted to start homeschooling our kindergartner and I needed to really focus on doing that and doing it well. So what I'm here to tell you is that it's okay to say, no, it's okay to delegate.

I have so many beautiful, lovely women in my life who keep their grandchildren. They work full time, maybe 2 or 3 jobs, and they do not take time for themselves. Exercise class gets put on the back burner because the grandkids are out for summer. What's happening is that cortisol is continuing to rise. which is doing more damage than you know. It can cause heart palpitations. it definitely disrupts your sleep, which is very important, and it also will cause that midsection weight, gain that no matter what you do, you cannot get it off.

the foundation I found when looking for better health in a simple, holistic way is gut health. blood, sugar, balance, and also reducing inflammation. But what I have found is those things can be achieved through your nutrition through your food when we are so busy that we're going through a drive-through every single day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner over time, those bad seed oils that they cook with. and the poor ingredients in the food that they're using will not only increase our inflammation in our body, but it wrecks your gut health, and then, when you have high cortisol, this is the perfect storm to take you down.

Maybe you shift and go to a functional practitioner. And here is what I'm seeing in that area. the protocol is so complicated. Remember, you're stressed out. You're tired. You don't eat well, you don't sleep well. This overwhelming protocol is not what you need.

You need something simple, and that's why I feel like finding a holistic health coach is actually the better approach, because most of the time the coach is going to meet you You don't even have to be stressed out about going out in public and sitting in a waiting room going in a doctor's office. You simply can stay in the comfort of your home. and that coach is going to meet you where you're at. Listen wholeheartedly, and offer simple solutions. and that coach is going to meet you where you're at. Listen wholeheartedly, and offer simple solutions.

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When I 1st started having gut health issues. I knew I wanted to do a holistic approach. So there was a local chiropractor in town who was doing a cellular healing program. So I went and met with him. He sold me on the idea. It was very expensive. I paid for it up front, and then he gave me probably 8 bottles of supplements, and I was told that my diet needed to consist of only beef or venison, homemade beef, bone broth. and I believe I could have eggs.

He wanted me to take these supplements and eat like that for 15 days. 15 days later and start the fiber, supplement. It immediately bloats me out to where I look like I'm 7 months pregnant, and I cannot go to the bathroom.

I do not feel any better. I absolutely cannot stand the smell or taste of homemade beef broth. So, apparently either, was that I had Candida overgrowth in my gut. pivoted away from that program that I paid a lot of money for. Found a nutrition coach

everything you're eating is absolutely not being absorbed because your labs look like you're severely malnourished compared to your diet. So she told me that she wanted me to do a stool sample, because she was fairly positive that I had candida overgrowth, which I had no idea at the time what that even meant. But let me tell you what it means Basically, it is a yeast that coats your entire intestinal lining, and it is so It's almost like it has a shell around it that protects it like, think of a pill and eat shrimp. It thrives off of sugar.

that will make these tiny permeable holes of your intestinal lining, which leads to leaky gut. But what happens is, your body in turn starts to attack itself. That shows up as an autoimmune disorder. It can look different in each individual person, because we're all uniquely made up.

So different practitioners use different protocols like I said, a lot of them will put you on the most overly complicated protocol ever. and it does not have to be that complicated. So what I found was a really good probiotic. and I used to think probiotics had to be a certain brand name kept in the refrigerator, and like gazillion you know, cultures. I learned you really want a soil-based organism probiotic that can be shelf stable.

and can have the ability to have digestive enzymes that can break down that shell covering the yeast. and then have antifungals to kill the yeast. so a good magnesium and there are a lot of types of magnesium. They all do different things. So you want to make sure you get the magnesium that helps you go to the bathroom. also you want a gentle form of it. So you're not running to the bathroom like you're prepping for a colonoscopy. You're actually going to the bathroom like a normal person should. And let me stop here and tell you normal bowel movements. You should have one per meal that you ate 24 h prior. So if you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner the next 24 h you should go to the bathroom 3 different times to eliminate breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

if you're eating one meal a day, that's fine. But if you eat 3 meals a day that's not going to work.

some protocols are so complicated and yet aren't really addressing the root problem. It didn't matter how long I ate beef, eggs, and bone broth. It wasn't doing anything. It was trying to heal the gut. It was giving my gut a rest, but it wasn't breaking down the shell of the Candida, killing the Candida.

once you detox the sugar out of your body and get on the right supplementation to kill the Candida. Get it out of your body. You're gonna feel so much better, and you're not going to blow every time you eat fiber.

So that's my simple solution for starting off on a gut. Health regimen that will make you feel better, help you absorb your food. Better, nourish your body better, and also give you more energy. At the same time.

Hello! Welcome! Welcome! I'm Alicia Trotter, your host of trotting through life today. I want to start by sharing a little bit of my personal story, how my wellness journey began and what I've learned, and why I'm passionate about making it simple.

So let's back up a little bit to 2,007 I had just found out I was pregnant with my second, had a 2 year old with me. We traveled to Georgia to tell my grandparents that I was pregnant while I was there. During that visit, my grandfather, who was on a waiting list for an artificial heart who is also on oxygen full time, was outside showing my parents something to do with a car, because he always loved to tinker.

I was in the house still with my two-year-old. He came in and immediately went into the bathroom. When he came out he was fumbling in his pocket of his shirt for his nitroglycerin and the color of his face was gray. and I immediately knew something was wrong. He was trying to take deep breaths through his nasal cannula to get in the oxygen, and he sat down on the couch. He had a pacemaker defibrillator. All of a sudden it started shocking him and going off, and I knew he was having a heart attack. So I ran outside to where my parents were leaving and told my mom, you don't need to leave. We need to call 9 1 1. Grandpa's having a heart attack. So my grandmother went inside, sat down on the couch, held his hand, and comforted him as he passed away.

I called 9 1 1, and my mom called my aunt, who was a cardiovascular surgical nurse. By the time the ambulance arrived he was gone they hooked him up to the defibrillator, and of course it showed that he still had a heartbeat because he had a pacemaker. But we told them he had a DNR. So we had to provide it before they would not resuscitate.

Luckily my grandmother knew where it was, but that moment spiked my cortisol and sent my adrenals into fight or flight mode, which at the time I didn't even know what that was. Not being able to do anything to help or to save him was heartbreaking.

So fast forward to the time I had the baby another little girl. And I didn't realize at the time that when you get spun into an adrenal fatigue moment, an adrenal rush, cortisol moment. And then you are also say, pregnant how devastating that is to the body. Maybe you've heard of the body keeps score right when there's trauma. When there's injury the body keeps score.

So have the baby, life goes on, but I am barely surviving. I'm losing weight at such a rapid pace that people are asking my husband if I have an eating disorder.

I was eating tons of calories because I was starving, but because I was losing weight so fast and my breast milk supply was diminishing. The baby wouldn't take a bottle. It was just all of these things compiling on top of each other, and I did not realize that my adrenals still thought I was in the chase of a lifetime. So what ended up happening was, I was exhausted, thinking it was from having a toddler and a newborn, and so I would wake up 1st thing in the morning, go straight to the coffee pot, brew that coffee, put the sugar and cream in it. and live off of that coffee until about lunchtime. Then I would eat lunch. Then I would have to take a nap and then go about the evening.

Go to bed, but I would wake up at like 3 Am. Every single night, and I could not go back to sleep for about 2 h. So, though waking up, not being hungry. The living off the coffee with sugar and cream. The need to take a nap every single day, and the 3 o'clock nighttime wake up! That kept me awake for hours are all signs that I now know are high cortisol. That was a result of my adrenals thinking I was still in the fight of my life.

so years going on of that not knowing what it was or what to do, is what led to insulin resistance that then led to poor gut health.

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What if wellness didn't mean expensive routines, strict diets, or chasing perfection?

Hello, and welcome to trotting through life where we keep things simple, intentional and actually doable.

I'm going to share a little background about who I am. I'm a nurse by education, turned wellness, coach, retreat, host, workshop, leader, and now author of a soon to be published. Allergen, Friendly Cookbook.

My passion is making wellness approachable without all the overwhelm.

I started my blog also called trotting through life back in 2,010, when I was sharing my own health struggles and the journey that it took me on so many doctors, functional practitioners. So much money, spent complicated protocols, and yet I was left really not feeling any better. I knew there had to be a simpler approach that led to feeling better.

And since I've spent years figuring out how to feel good in a realistic way. I learned it wasn't about perfection, but about progress along the way. So each week I'll be sharing simple lifestyle practices, wellness tips and mindset shifts.

I believe in simple solutions that support the body as a whole system. I'll talk about nutrition, habits, hormones, healing, energy and burnout, all without fluff or fear tactics.

You see, I've walked through insulin resistance, adrenal fatigue, gut health, healing breast, implant illness and now, Alpha-gal, syndrome. Through all of this I've learned. Health doesn't have to be perfect, to feel good. It just has to be yours. And I'm here to help you make it simple.

This is not another wellness podcast, that's going to tell you what you're doing wrong. It's a place to be inspired, encouraged, and reminded that small steps matter.

New episodes will drop every Tuesday. So if this sounds like your kind of journey hit, follow, and let's trot through life together. One feel good step at a time.

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