Nourishing Trouble

What kind of name is that!! It is the hidden treasure that is in the trouble we face in this world. With some intention and direction trouble can take us to that next level of healing and wholeness. Trouble can now be viewed as an asset verses and adversary. Leverage is everything. As yuppers we leverage and turn all things to work for us. Enjoy, learn and leverage this episode to live the best life possible. Always appreciate reviews and shares.

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hey, hey, hey, we are back. If you found the podcast, this is the Yup Podcast with Tom Baldwin or Tombo Baldwin. A little redneck wisdom coming your way. Oh yeah, gosh, I like that intro. Cold rainy day here in Montana and it actually snowed for just a hot minute when I was driving this morning. So it's a little chilly. Fall has arrived here in Montana. I was just in Florida last week visiting my brother and only one rainy day, sunny, 70, 80 with a breeze. Oh my goodness, it was beautiful. But I have to say, I'm glad to be back to Montana. It was a good visit. Just being there, giving some support to my brother as he's just going through it. Last podcast, I told you he had a pretty substantial diagnosis. That is his story to tell. I'm not going to tell that, but we had a good visit and what a strong guy. I'm going to call him here in a bit when I'm done with this podcast and just check in and see how he's doing. He was doing great yesterday, but let's just get into it. I told you that I was going to start to cover some topics. Today's podcast is nourishing trouble and you're just like, what is that? Initially, my idea for the title was seeds of change, but as I was thinking of it, I always want a catchy title. Usually, negative titles don't get as many downloads, but that's not necessarily what I'm about here. I'm about putting out good quality material that's actually going to help those of you out there that listen and are interested. I thought nourishing trouble is really good. I'll just go back where this last season of growth for me started when we were in Mexico. While we were in Mexico, we had so much fun, probably too much fun. It's probably where a lot of my trouble started, for one, just did not make good choices in what I consumed. That included alcohol and included just eating. I know this is a hot rave. I'll just say this. It doesn't really even mean anything. It just makes me sound more important than everybody else. I was doing the whole seed oil thing before the seed oil was a thing. I'm glad it's a thing now because if you're actually paying attention to seed oils, you're doing your body a huge favor. When I was down there, the tendency in Mexico, and I don't think this is everywhere, is to produce inexpensive food. When you do inexpensive food, you use cheap ingredients. One of the ways to substitute and save some money on ingredients is using vegetable oil or pretty much soybean oil or canola oil, also known as rapeseed oil. When women had unwanted pregnancies back before the option of ending a life, and wow, some of you got lit up there. Maybe, hopefully not. It's undeniable now that it really is the only place where we have an option to end a life. Having six kids, I know there's all kinds of arguments around that. I'm not going to get into that. For me personally, I just can't. It's unimaginable. Kids are not without work, lots of work, honestly, lots of work and lots of effort. No judgment here. Just for me personally, I just can't do it. In the olden days, women would consume lots of canola oil and it would lead to an aborted pregnancy. Those of you that are huge canola oil fans out there, I just ask you to maybe look a little deeper. Canola, there actually isn't much good about it. But when I was in Mexico, I consumed just things that I know that were not made and prepared with the best quality ingredients. I could have made better choices. As you might imagine in Mexico, there are a ton of fresh options out there. I totally could have made different decisions, fresh eggs, all kinds of fresh stuff to eat, but I did not. Coming back from almost two months in Mexico, I literally felt like crap. I referenced yesterday that I felt like I was at about 20%. When I got back, I decided I was going to do something. This is where nourishing trouble comes in because trouble and pain in your life can push you to make decisions and move in arenas maybe for a long time you haven't, but your pain tolerance finally reached the max. Trouble, as most of us would agree, can cause pain. It turned out to be a huge blessing in my life because this trouble nourished me to the point where I could make some changes. It was like, is that really nourishment? That feels like pushing or love, the shove love. I would agree with you, but in the end, the trouble did nourish. I know this is true in my life and maybe you have found this true or you're thinking it might be true, is that intention around looking at hard circumstances matters. If you look at hard circumstances as always against you, always driving you down, beating you down, your life probably is going to be that, beaten down, victim. There's always the victim excuse. Hey, no judgment here. I've been there. The victim excuse is a great excuse. It's a great excuse not to move. It's a great excuse not to do anything. Everything probably, at least in my world, about being a victim was true. Does it make it good and right? Does it promote a better life? No, but it is true and you can stand on the fact that it's true and you can live there and you can live in truth and be absolutely miserable or you can reach your pain tolerance and some of us have really, really high pain tolerance and so we can live there for a really long time and hopefully not till you're dead, but in my life of 50 some years approaching 60 some years, not there yet and not close, but well, close, but not super close. Yeah, we can go all the way there and never, never make the changes that the trouble and the hardships are leading us to. I really believe that trouble is a pathway to freedom or can be, doesn't have to be, but can be. So after all the trouble and most of it I caused myself and yes, can you blame things on your childhood? Absolutely. Did they probably play into my desire to choose those things? Absolutely. I recently had, I'm not going to go there, that's for another podcast. Maybe let's just say acquaintances with persons of my past and realizing that yeah, you know, those relationships in the past does affect us and does push us. Maybe we all make our own choices, but kind of leads us into a way to make maybe those negative choices and yeah, I made a lot of those and I came back. Yeah, literally 20% and you know, if you're operating at 20%, your phone is at 20% and it starts flashing, charge me, charge me, you know, you're getting down into the 15s because you're, you're at 20%, but then all of a sudden you had a bunch of phone calls or messages and now you're at 15 and my body was saying, charge me, charge me, you know, system failure, system failure. So I just started looking. It's just like, what can I do? And came across a company, 10x Health, and been a lot of controversy around that. The Gary Breka, the spokesman, I originally for 10x, I believe he's left that and he's maybe doing his own thing now and I'm not going to argue the right and wrong of what they were offering, but they did offer a genetic test and you can get these tests anywhere, but I took it and it didn't necessarily test a ton of things, but it tested like six pretty specific markers as far as genetic stuff and how it affects your health. And as I got that report back, and I'll go over that in the next podcast, we'll get into that in more detail, but that's not necessarily the scope of this podcast and I don't want to dwell there, but I'll just say, as I sent in that test and it took about six weeks to get back. So we got back from Mexico. I did that right away. Yeah, it's pricey. I don't know what it is now, but it was five or $600 then. Got it back, looked at the nutritional supplements and what's really nice with this company, when they do your genetic testing, they sell the customized protocols that you may need, well, yeah, that you may need according to the genetic results. And there were some supplements that I needed. The nice thing is it's not just supplements, but they actually tell you the substances you need and they also tell you how you can get those in your diet so you're not bound to buy their supplements. And I'm not necessarily advocating this test. I'm telling you my story and how I began to get some energy back and some nourishment from the troubles and the hardships that I had been in. And so I ordered the supplements. It was easy. They weren't super expensive and they came and let me tell you what, for the first time, maybe in a decade, did I start getting amazing sleep. Any sleep would have been good, but amazing sleep. The tendency in the past was that I would go to bed, maybe nine or 10, sometimes 11, wake up at two, be awake and wrestle trying to fall asleep back in the morning until it was time to get up to go to work anywhere from six to eight o'clock in the morning when I had to go to work. Yes, I'm self-employed so I can do that kind of stuff. And for the first time when I laid my head down on my pillow, that tape in my head, you know, that voice as soon as it's quiet, it's just like, shouldn't you worry about this? Shouldn't you worry about that? Remember this? Remember when that guy cut you off? Remember this at work? What if you do that? How are they going to respond to this email? You know, that voice is relentless and it just, it does not stop. And one of my genetic variants, the supplementation that address that, stop that voice in my head. When I lay my head on my pillow at night, there is none of that. Can you imagine some of you out there are like, oh my gosh, I can't even imagine that would be amazing. Oh, let me tell you, it is amazing. And that would have never happened had not the trouble and the hard season and the draining of my body just to the absolute bottom. I would not have been able to do that. So nourishing trouble, the trouble helped and maybe nourishing trouble's not the best. I kind of like it. And, and it's all about attention intention here. I'm going to talk about intention and I did a little bit, but intention I found is probably one of the biggest keys to living my life. That, that mental game that we play moment to moment in all of our thoughts, intention is so important that I look and attitude at trouble and stuff and everything that comes into my life with intention. It's like, I'm an intentionally going to make this a good thing. So I look at that trouble and it's like, how can this lead me to a better place? And so the problem of the energy and that has led me to discovering some really key things about my body. And part of this genetic testing company, another aspect of this genetic company is they actually do blood work too. And yeah, they charge you another, you know, I think it was another, you know, couple of five Benjamins, you know, $500, maybe $600 to get this incredibly extensive blood work, same thing. Because after the genetic testing saw some vast improvements, and I'd say we, you know, we got up to 50% when you're sleeping and your body is beginning to rest, restoration and rebuilding begins to happen. And then when I did the blood work, there were more results, but the key to the blood work was talking to the doctor. And I talked to the doctor because I was taking some prescriptions for my thyroid. I was taking prescriptions for my hormones. And I was not necessarily filling them and I felt like they were a waste of money. And talking to the doctor and spending those$500 allowed me to get the big picture and understand how my thyroid and how my hormones interact and work together. And the doctor, we talked about changing some of the prescriptions up a little bit. And oh my gosh, for my thyroid, it has made a ton of difference. And so the trouble and the pain of not feeling right and feeling like things aren't working, when you put intention into it, and you begin to seek answers, the answer will come. And my thyroid right now is doing great. We're still working on the hormones, but the hormones, I think we about got it figured out. And so, you know, I'm reaching 70-ish percent. Well, bam, more trouble this year as we're going down to Mexico. My wife, Adrienne, my lovely bride, Adrienne was diagnosed with breast cancer after seeing an abnormality on her breast and going to the doctor and getting the news of it being malignant. And boy, if you've got any kind of diagnosis like that, you know, it's like that. That is trouble. And it's like, how, Tom, can that be nourishing trouble? Well, let me, I'm not going to dwell on here a long time, but just let me talk about it. And since we were planning on going down to Mexico, I'd already had the time off of work. And so this trouble allowed Adrienne and I to spend almost every moment together and to have conversations around the diagnosis and to begin to make decisions around the diagnosis. And to ask all those hard questions of why me, you know, why now? How come this? What did I do? And, you know, the tears that come just with that, you know, we both shed a lot of tears and that hardship, that trouble bonded us in this season where our kids are growing up and it's a different season. Our relationship is changing. It brought us together and we began talking about so much more and we began looking with intention for the good side of this. And there were some amazing events that happened. And I'll just describe one in particular that just really struck me as I was, I had dropped Adrienne off and she was having some coffee with some friends. They were doing a study together and I dropped her off and it was about an hour. So I drove around and then I came back to pick her up and on my way to pick her up, I was driving a country road and I pray and I think like I do and I look up and there are these trees. Top of these trees are two bald eagles, beautiful prominent bald eagles just staring at me. And in my spirit, I was just like, this is a sign. This is a sign. Adrienne and I were moving on together. We're rising above this. We are above this. We are in the tallest trees and was just really blessed to the point of tears. I was moved. If you don't know what blessed means, you're not part of the church culture, which I'm no longer a part of, but it's been pretty ingrained to me. So I like that word, but moved, moved with emotion, moved towards emotion. And so I went to pick Adrian up. It was probably 20 or 30 minutes. And I was like, I'm just going to loop back around and see if they're still there. Maybe it was even 40 minutes later. And I told Adrian, I was like, I think I got a surprise for you. Not knowing if they would be there, hoping they would be there because it just really moved me. And I saw, sorry, I'm even getting emotional now. And I just started crying. I almost couldn't get the words out to Adrian. And I just said, that's us. That's a sign. And she was also moved. And how that moment, how I believe the divine, the supernatural, Yahusha, it's the real name of Jesus, Yahusha and Yahuwah, the Father, showed up and entered our world and say, Hey, I got you. I do. I got you. And there were so many things like that. So without the trouble, the nourishment that came to that from that fed us. And throughout this whole journey, we had so many great conversations because we were just home. And as she went through her surgery, and as she went through her radiation, her energy was low. So we were just at home. She did puzzles and I, I don't do puzzles. I figure life is puzzle enough for me and trying to figure that out. I don't need puzzles. And plus she's super smart. Not that I'm not, I have my own smarts. And yeah, it was just, it was an incredible time. And not that we would wish it or choose it again, but it's undeniable the wealth that came from that, the nourishment and the growth that has come from that. And even now, she rang the bell, cancer-free, Yahoo. In the midst of that, we, we've been making dietary changes, but guess what kind of turbo boost you get with a diagnosis like that? An undeniable boost. It's like to make change. And so we have transition, we eat healthy, we eat with intention. And so continuing, both of us, energy is being restored. Stability is coming into our life. Nourishment is coming into our lives. Am I advocating for trouble? No, but let's be honest. It happens. And I'm going to do some podcasts in the future where I think we can mitigate some of that, but there's just a truth that like in weightlifting, because I love lifting weights. And so it's a good analogy for me that the pain and the stressing and the breaking down of muscles to the point where you can't lift anymore. And we feel that in our emotions when we go through these challenging times, we feel, can't do anymore. I can't take anymore. I can't handle any more negative news. And our emotional muscles are absolutely fatigued. We rest a little bit. We take some intention, give some gratitude. We rebuild the strength and the resilience, resiliency, and the wisdom that comes from that is amazing. And so my friends, uh, I'm just going to encourage you as you move through these hard times. It's just breaking down. You're having a hard time. What intention can you put towards that? What can you learn from that? What can you, can you ask? Just throw it out there into the universe, into the quantum field, into the kingdom of heaven. I believe so many of these terms that we're getting for that divine field beyond us are the same thing, just with some different labels behind them. Say, what can I learn from this? What is, what is this meant for? What am I meant to, to what gift is behind this? What nourishment is behind this? I have found a hundred percent that there are answers there. And so I'll leave you with that. It's like, if you're facing trouble, just begin to put some intention behind it and begin to leave the, why me? Why now? What is, what is the nourishment? What is the wisdom? What is the gift that is on the other side of this? That is really challenging right now. It's, it's a good day. It's a really good day. So my friends, we're going to wrap it up for this podcast. And let me just say, Hey, I love and appreciate you. And yep. I got you. I do.