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Balancing Hormones and Mental Health
Laurie interviews clinical herbalist Nicole Haglund about how Chinese medicine can help women restore balance to their hormones and nervous systems for better mental health. Nicole explains her journey from disordered eating to becoming an expert in women's health after successfully helping her husband overcome Crohn's disease through natural methods.
• Women today are experiencing burnout trying to balance careers, family responsibilities, and personal wellness
• Chinese medicine identifies patterns of symptoms rather than treating isolated complaints
• Magnesium deficiency is a common underlying cause of anxiety and stress
• The nervous system must be regulated before herbs and nutrition can effectively work
• Tongue diagnosis reveals internal health issues by examining color, shape, and coating
• The gut-brain connection plays a crucial role in both emotional and physical wellbeing
• Passion flower is particularly effective for people who struggle with overthinking
• During perimenopause, depleted adrenal glands must take over hormone production
• Nicole's Beauty Reset program provides customized herbal formulas, dietary guidelines, and nervous system support
For more information about working with Nicole, visit her Instagram @FixingYourFlow and DM the word "reset" to learn about her 90-day program.
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Hello everybody, welcome to Therapist Unplugged. This is Laurie Poole, your host licensed professional counselor in Dallas, texas, and today I am so excited to talk about women's mental and physical health with Nicole Haglund, clinical herbalist, nutrition coach and the founder of Fixing your Flow, where she helps women go from burned out to beautiful by balancing their hormones and resetting their nervous systems, all of which are linked to mental health. With over a decade of experience and deep training in traditional Chinese medicine, nicole guides women into their healthiest, hottest selves through herbs, beauty, nutrition and stress-relieving lifestyle rituals. As the creator of the Beauty Reset, she specializes in helping women boost their energy, achieve glowing skin, regulate their cycles and handle life's stressors with grace and resilience. A mom of two who once struggled with anorexia and self-worth, nicole turned her healing journey into a mission to help others feel vibrant, balanced and confident in their bodies. Welcome, nicole, I am so glad to have you here on Therapist Unplugged.
Laurie Poole:Thank you so much for having me oh listen, we have so much to talk about, girl. We have a lot to talk about. First of all, let me ask you how did you get into Chinese medicine and working with women? I'm always curious about people's stories of how they've landed where they are today.
Nicole Haglund:Yes, yes. So I was always sort of on the natural mindset. Like I had said in that you had mentioned, I did struggle with anorexia. As a teenager I had, you know, a lot of problems with food, and it wasn't until I looked at a photo of myself that I didn't realize it was me and I was like who's that sickly thin looking person? Even in my head I'm thinking the whole time like, oh, I'm gaining weight or, you know, I'm not thin enough. And I was so blown away that I was like I need to get on a health journey, like I need to eat well and like really heal myself. And so I.
Nicole Haglund:I, when I entered my marriage about 15 years ago, I had this health mindset and my husband was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and so he was on all these injections and medicine and he had all these digestive issues and the doctors were basically telling us, oh, his diet doesn't matter and he's gonna be on this for the rest of his life. There's nothing that you can do. And that didn't sit well with me and I said there has to be another way. So we started working with, I started doing my own research and I started working with other naturopathic doctors, other herbalists and as he started following their guidance, he was healed within a year and he was off all his medication. He's been completely Crohn's free with no issues for about 14 years now, so it was amazing. So when I saw that healing, I that really propelled me to go back to school, because now I'm like give me the secrets of the universe, like I want to know like.
Nicole Haglund:I want to know how to help people. You know like there's more to this nutrition herb thing, like that's real medicine. So I went back to be an herbalist and nutrition coach and here I am today.
Laurie Poole:What a story about your husband. I have family members with Crohn's and I'll tell you that's such a debilitating disease, so his recovery is truly remarkable yes, truly remarkable. Fixing your flow. Tell me more about that and sort of what are some of the areas or what do you notice? Let me ask you this what do you notice in women's health? What are some of the themes and what you're seeing amongst women today in terms of why they come into you looking for help?
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, I see women completely burned out. We are doing so much, especially and I felt this myself I'm a working mom, you know, we're trying to run a house, we're taking care of the kids and I have my job and my career. You know there's so much happening. So these women are coming to me and their whole systems are just, you know, unbalanced, right, whether it's their hormones, whether it's their nervous system, whether it's just their skin and their body, gaining weight because of underlying imbalances. And they're just tired.
Nicole Haglund:So their body can't, you know, absorb the nutrients. Well, the body can't really rejuvenate itself. And when you're tired and stressed chronically now, that's affecting your sleep, and then it's a vicious cycle, right, which now then leads to mental health as well, because women are feeling anxious and stressed that's the biggest thing that I see coming in and then when they start to see these imbalances, that stresses them out even more, because they're like my period is off, my cycle is off, I'm bleeding more heavily or my digestion doesn't feel right, I'm bloated all the time. And women, we just want to feel like our best selves, we want to feel better and look our best, and it's hard when there's all these challenges.
Laurie Poole:So you're finding that women are coming in more stressed and burned out and higher levels of anxiety.
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, big time.
Laurie Poole:I feel like, even in my practice too, anxiety is a common sort of presenting concern, particularly amongst women. I think it also certainly happens with men who are less likely to come in seeking therapy, but anxiety is a huge complaint. Yes, and I wonder, nicole, if people understand or clients, the general population understands the relationship between anxiety and what happens to our bodies physiologically, right? Can you talk a little bit about that in terms of you know, when someone comes in presenting with anxiety or complaining that they're, you know there's a lot of stress in their lives and so on. Where do you start working with a client like that?
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, that's a great question. So obviously everyone is different, and one of the reasons why I've had so much success is because I'm able to personalize my treatment plans for each client individually. So I like to look at the root cause. Many times, believe it or not, a lot of this anxiety comes from a magnesium deficiency, I find, which is very, very, very common. So I'm always going to prescribe the appropriate version of magnesium for my clients to paint, based on their symptoms. And as the more stressed we are, the more we are depleted in magnesium. On top of the fact of you know our soil, where we're growing, our food isn't as rich of nutrients as it used to be. So even though you're eating you know you're eating healthy food you're not always getting the full magnesium that you would from your diet. So, like I also, I look for, like, where is the body being depleted? Because when there is a depletion, usually anxiety and stress can grow from that.
Laurie Poole:And how do you find out where in the body things, minerals are being depleted, like do you put your clients through blood tests and that kind of thing Like how do you figure that out?
Nicole Haglund:So because I do Chinese medicine, chinese medicine is. I love it because I it has given me such amazing results. I do look at my clients' blood work but I don't necessarily focus on that as much, because what Chinese medicine does is Chinese medicine has patterns that happen in the body, based on the organs, so they'll do different classifications of different patterns. So maybe there's too much heat or too much coldness in a certain organ, or there's dryness or too much dampness, let's say, in a certain another organ, and or the energy, which Chinese medicine says the energy is not moving. So there's a lot of stuck energy, a lot of times women that are stressed, anxious, a lot of PMS issues that's in Chinese medicine we call that liver chi stagnation. So there's a lot of blockages there.
Nicole Haglund:So I look for symptoms, but I look for patterns of symptoms and that's the key. It's not just like, oh, two women coming to me and they both have PMS. Okay, well, the root cause could be two completely different things in Chinese medicine. So I'm looking okay, you both have PMS, you're dealing with bloating and mood swings, but you're dealing with headaches and mood swings. Okay, that's different, that's going to fall into a different pattern. So I am able to really make specific adjustments in their plan because of that. So I'm looking for patterns of symptoms.
Laurie Poole:Patterns of symptoms. That's so interesting because I don't think the average person thinks about patterns of symptoms like that.
Nicole Haglund:No, and so many clients will come to me and they'll say I'm a mess, I have this and this and this and this wrong. And I look at it and go it's all one pattern. Here's the formula. You're better in three months, like it's. You know it's. It's crazy, you feel like everything's falling apart, but really it's. Oh, because you know I have, I have liver cheese stagnation, right, and and I and I it's causing all these symptoms from the same pattern. Or sometimes there are clients that have multiple patterns going on. So now I have to adjust the formula and, you know, maybe give them either two separate formulas or blend a formula. I create my own formulas, you know, based on the needs of that client.
Laurie Poole:When you say formulas, what are you talking about?
Nicole Haglund:Oh, great question. So there's two. In Chinese medicine there's two ways to do a formula. We have classic formulas that are that have been used for, you know, since centuries. And so let's say, if you are presenting with a certain pattern, there's a certain formula Like, for example, if you are, let's say, you're blood deficient, right, and maybe you know you're showing signs of blood deficiency, maybe your period is like a few days, it's not really robust, you don't have like that rich flow, and or maybe you can be iron deficient. The formula for that is siwu tang, which is basically a bunch of herbs that are specific to building the blood in the body. Or if we're stressed, you know there's certain formulas that are classic formulas that we use.
Nicole Haglund:Or the second way is, as an herbalist, I'm trained in not only Chinese medicine but I also am trained in Western, traditional Western herbalism. I know how to look at someone and create a specific formula, so the amounts of herbs that would help treat their issue. So sometimes what I do is I'll do modifications of a Chinese formula. I'll take the base Chinese formula for their pattern, but maybe they have another symptom that I need to fix. So let's say someone is blood deficient, but they're also, let's say, their progesterone is low. I'm going to give them the blood building Chinese medicine formula, but I'm going to add, let's say, vitex, which is chase tree berry herb that helps balance their progesterone levels. In addition to so, or I can create it completely from scratch. So I know these herbs, you know, have certain effects on the body and I create a balanced formula for that individual.
Laurie Poole:Wow, this is really fascinating. Yeah, I have to say, I know you and I talked when we first met, which was under very interesting circumstances, yeah, yeah. But this whole idea of patterns of symptoms or that people can have multiple patterns- and that you have formulas that you can prescribe to address these patterns.
Laurie Poole:Either they are. What I'm understanding is they're either individually developed, customized for the client, or it's a combination of traditional Chinese medicine with also your knowledge and expertise around herbalism. Do we say herbs or herbs? I think it's herbs, isn't it herbs? I think it's herbs, isn't it herbs?
Nicole Haglund:I think it's herbs, but in England they say herbs.
Laurie Poole:Okay, we're gonna say herbs, herb.
Laurie Poole:Yeah all right. So when we're thinking about women and their mental health, which, of course, is my area of interest, I'm wondering when someone comes in and they're talking about, or they're complaining about, anxiety and so on, and you look at the patterns of symptoms, is there sort of a common overview of, or I'm not saying this very clearly Are there patterns related to anxiety, like you talked about magnesium deficiency, for example? But I'm I'm curious too if there's other patterns, like when you're looking for that pattern, like what do you notice? What? How would you describe a pattern of a symptom? What does that look like?
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, so I'm looking for, like, adrenal burnout, which is part of the kidney meridian, part of the kidney pattern. I'm looking for symptoms of like if they're depleted, if, like, I asked what their sleep is like, I asked how many times they're waking up. I'm asking about their digestion. I asked about their elimination habits in the bathroom, because that tells me, like, what is the health of their body and I can tell. And also their feelings of of their mind, right, like, like, oh, I'm thinking if they're overthinking, right? Usually, a lot of times people are so tired and then when they hit the pillow, they're wired and they're thinking about a thousand things.
Laurie Poole:That's right.
Nicole Haglund:So so I'm looking for for those types of like what? What's the state of their mind? What is their like? What's going on with your adrenals? You know what's, what's the patterns that their body is presenting with throughout the day, right? Or are you tired when you wake up? Or are you tired more, like around, like two, three o'clock, right after lunchtime, you know, is this fatigue and anxiety coming from a diet issue, or is it actually coming from a fundamental constitutional issue where there's an imbalance?
Laurie Poole:Okay. So yeah, you know, when I think about anxiety and sorry, I'm so sorry, I have a head cold and so I'm like choking but when I think about anxiety, what you just said something about overthinking, ruminating, going over and over and over things in a person's head, about what, if, what, if, what, if and it's an exhausting place to be stuck in yeah, and it probably does affect things like illumination and sleep, eating patterns, all of that, and one of the things you mentioned earlier, just before we started the podcast, was the link between the nervous system and mental health. I'm wondering if you could speak to that a little bit.
Nicole Haglund:Oh sure, yes, Because, like I had said when we spoke, I can give my clients the best herbs or and diet food in the world, but if your nervous system is dysregulated, it's not going to work Right. So the nervous system, it it. There's a mind body connection, right, we know, we all know this. There's a mind body connection.
Nicole Haglund:And and when the mind is going and right or dealing with stressors and having sensory you know input coming from their environment, it affects the body physiologically. If our body is unable to handle that stress, it then, in turns, loops back to the mind, and so there's this cycle that goes on right, Because now the body is tired and depleted, which makes the mind go even more. So, being able to bring our bodies into balance, resetting our nervous system, making sure that we have the correct lifestyle habits to and herbs like adaptogenic herbs to help, you know, support the adrenal glands, to help our body deal with the incoming of stress, will help with our mind. And that's the other thing I try to tell my clients, because I just want to get rid of stress. Stress will always be there. It's how are you handling it? How resilient are you building your body to handle stress? And people who have trouble handling stress where it is affecting their mental health, usually there is some type of depletion or in some type of system of their body that needs to be, you know, balanced.
Laurie Poole:What kind of results are you getting from clients when they come in and report anxiety and that their brains feel like they're on fire and you know they can't sleep and and and so on? Talk to me a little bit about how this works with what you're providing.
Nicole Haglund:Yes, so we notice an increase of energy because that's huge right. Most of the time I'm seeing a link between like, oh, I'm always tired or I have, you know, I feel like very lethargic. So there's an increase in energy. One, we're eating right and balancing the body with herbs. We're also noticing like a lot of my I work with women so they're like oh, my nails are growing, my hair feels better, my skin is looking better, because their body isn't in like this fight or flight, it's in a rest and digest system.
Laurie Poole:You know we want to be in rest and digest.
Nicole Haglund:We don't want to be in fight or flight. You know your body's in survival mode, so that's really what we're looking at Better sleep. We're looking at better digestion, you know. So that's. Those are the markers, really.
Laurie Poole:Okay, I love that. Rest and digest, you know, not not freeze or flee, because you know that whole mind body connection, nicole, I think it's something that folks with digestive issues, particularly Folks with digestive issues- particularly.
Laurie Poole:Oh for sure, when we think about the gut as the emotional center of the body. Right, we know there are cells in the gut that are the same as cells found in the brain, and oftentimes people can identify what's happening in their body before they know what's happening to them emotionally. So if I'm in a romantic relationship with someone and someone's been not very consistent and I never know when they're going to show up, for example, that's an emotional response to uncertainty. And what happens? The stomach clenches, the gut gets tight. There is a physiological my body is starting to speak and often we don't trust what our body is telling us and the mind tries to override what the body is speaking. You know, and it's really, really good point.
Nicole Haglund:It's oh, no, no, that can't be the way. No, no, no. But my body is speaking, you know, and it's really really good point.
Laurie Poole:It's oh, no, no, that can't be the way. No, no, no. But my body is still saying oh, wait a second. It's almost as though and I share this with my clients it's like your body's reaction is like an inner GPS. Yes, it will speak the truth every single time.
Nicole Haglund:That's why they call it a gut instinct.
Laurie Poole:Yes, exactly, that's exactly right. Trust your gut, it will not steer you in the wrong direction. You have to pay attention. So I will often say to my clients where are you feeling that in your body? Yeah, might be in the shoulders. Some people say it's in my head, like I, I feel like my thinking is foggy. I just feel like I have a really foggy brain. The gut is a big big place. Yes, a big big place.
Laurie Poole:I had just to share a quick story with you. I'd be interested, from your perspective, with Chinese medicine and I had a young man come in who had a terrible scenario with his GI system and he would get violent diarrhea every single morning and it would delay his ability to get into work on time, like it was really affecting his life. And intuitively, I said to him it sounds like you're really pissed off and there had been a breakup, a romantic breakup, and so this scenario had, you know, sort of exacerbated and I said I want you to sit on the toilet and bring a pad of paper and a pen and I want you to write down all the things that you're experiencing in that moment.
Nicole Haglund:Wow.
Laurie Poole:He was also suffering from depression.
Nicole Haglund:Oh yeah.
Laurie Poole:And with a combination of medications and therapy, the diarrhea stopped.
Nicole Haglund:Amazing, amazing.
Laurie Poole:Yeah, it's just like you know, he was so debilitated, he was losing a tremendous amount of weight and I share that just as an example of how powerful that mind and body connection is just as an example of how powerful that mind and body connection is. Yes, and it sounds as though when women come in and they're presenting to you these things, it's like maybe it comes from an emotional like they recognize. Emotionally. I'm stressed, I feel all this anxiousness. My hair's falling out.
Laurie Poole:What the hell is going on and they don't know what to do.
Nicole Haglund:Right. That's why Chinese medicine is wonderful, because it doesn't just look at the body physically but it looks at the emotion, like they see the body as a spiritual, emotional, physical and mental being, so that, and they have emotions for each that are corresponding to each of the organs, right. So the liver would be grief, or the heart is supposed to be for joy. There's different ones for each. The kidneys are fear, and, based on what you told me with that patient of yours, I definitely would say his pattern. I don't know all the other symptoms, but from what, only the symptoms you told me I would say that he has a kidney yang deficiency, because and that's okay if you don't know what that means, because it's all terms but basically having diarrhea in the morning is very common. What Chinese medicine calls cock's crow diarrhea, like right when the cock is crowing outside, they call it cock's crow diarrhea.
Laurie Poole:I'm going to remember that.
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, yeah.
Nicole Haglund:And it's like just only having diarrhea in the morning, you know, and it could be very debilitating. And a lot of depression like in his, seems to be more situational than actually like chemical and physiological. But kidney yang deficiency has depression as one of their, one of the patterns. But depression can also be in, like liver tree stagnation. It could also be in others. It's. It's really interesting that he had that emotional reaction which led to that physical, you know, manifestation and really by healing our emotional and mental state our body can also heal as well, which is why I work a lot with the nervous system as well.
Laurie Poole:No, that makes a tremendous amount of sense when I was looking at your Instagram account, which is called Fixing your Flow your energetic flow, your menstrual flow. However, the body flows right. The digestive flow, yes, your feminine flow, absolutely. I was fascinated by a photograph that you have of the human tongue and how there are body parts associated with your tongue. So tell me about that.
Nicole Haglund:Yes, this is one of the things that gives me the most results and I have pictures to prove it. So the tongue, each area, and you can look on, those listening can look on my Instagram Each part of the tongue corresponds to organs in the body. Now, what we call this is tongue diagnosis. So when a client comes to me and acupuncturists use this as well, if anyone who's ever gone to an acupuncturist they usually take your pulse and they'll usually look at your tongue because it is a huge indication of the state of the body. So I'm looking at the shape of the tongue Is it thin, is it puffy? I'm looking at the color Is it pale, is it red or is it a healthy, you know, natural, like pinkish red? I'm looking if there's cracks.
Nicole Haglund:I'm looking at so many different symptoms or so many different signs to tell me what's going on internally. So, for example, if someone has, like, let's say, heart pattern going on, I'm going to notice the tip of their tongue is usually more redder or more pointy, or more pointy If there's excess heat in the heart, if someone's having, like liver or breast issues, that's the sides of the tongue. The sides are like the liver, gallbladder. If I'm seeing digestive issues, I'm going to look at the middle of the tongue. The sides are like the liver gallbladder. If I'm seeing digestive issues, I'm going to look at the middle of the tongue and it'll be so fascinating because many times people just like, okay, it's a tongue.
Nicole Haglund:When you start looking at tongues and actually see what a healthy, normal tongue is supposed to look like, compared to all these other tongues that I see on a daily basis, you can be like, oh my gosh, what's what's wrong with this person? Like there there's clearly an imbalance, because you can see there's redness in this area, but not in that area. Or there's a coating. Maybe Some people might have a very thick white coating, some people might have a very thick like yellow coating. Everything tells me different and it guides me to use the best herbs for them. So, yeah, so that's, and I so I always have. When clients come to me, they always have to submit a tongue picture for me and then after a couple of months, we take another picture and I try to tell them try not to look at your tongue every day in the mirror, because it doesn't change that often, but you know, like it's, it's going to change over the course of a couple of months.
Nicole Haglund:Like you know, I had this one client, um, she was actually dealing with extreme, extreme depression, anxiety, stress. The doctor wanted to put her on all this medication. She didn't want to one of. Uh, as soon as I looked at her tongue I knew that it was blood stagnation in the heart, because her tongue was purple, like literally. It was like purple, tinged purple. Yeah, it was very puffy. So I can tell that the energy was all stuck in the heart, the blood wasn't flowing, there was a stagnation of blood.
Nicole Haglund:So I put her on, you know gentle, blood moving heart herbs and within I would say, five months, we I treated her for six months but within five months we took another photo of her tongue. All the purple was gone because we moved it at her anxiety, her stress went away. She didn't have to go on medicine and you know she has a tincture that helps her. She does tend to overthink, um, so one of the best there's a lot of herbs for that One of the best herbs for overthinking is actually passion flower. So if there's someone who's like going to bed and like you can't, I gave her some passion flower and like in a herbal formula and uh, and so she just has that and she takes it when she needs it and you know she's moved on with her life and Wow, it was amazing to see the transition in her tongue.
Laurie Poole:That's unbelievable and I guess a transition, not only in her tongue, but just in her overall well-being. Yeah, you know how her brain was like, because, man, when your brain is on fire, it is really, really hard to calm things down and that kind of rumination that accompanies anxiety and depression, and inflammation as well.
Nicole Haglund:Like a lot of times when there's inflammation in the body, it definitely affects the brain. And when we're not sleeping because we're chronically stressed, the sleep is when our hormones reset. The sleep is when the lymph from our brain actually drains, and when we burn fat is when we're sleeping. So it's again the cycle. You know that cycle that's going back and forth as a post-menopausal woman myself.
Laurie Poole:Okay, I am curious about how you treat um women going through menopause. Oh, yeah, post-menopause, because that whole perimenopausal I mean the difference between being perimenopausal and menopausal is not having a period for a year. I think that's that the the definition of it. But it doesn't mean that we don't need continued support, especially as postmenopausal women.
Nicole Haglund:And so I'm curious from your perspective, what are some of like perimenopause and menstrual issue? Menopause is when our body is going through the perimenopause time. Our ovaries are starting to close up shop, right, but our hormones are still our hormones, hormones. We always have hormones, right. So which organ has to take over the burden of handling all of our hormones? Right, that's our adrenal glands and, unfortunately, because women are so stressed, out.
Laurie Poole:Perimenopause was like only now it's getting like really talked about. It really wasn't a thing. You know what I mean? Oh, not at all.
Nicole Haglund:When I was going through, going through and sweating bullets it's like all over the place, but no, I'm sorry, like so when, so when you like. Look at women from okinawa, japan. They're like what's menopause? Because they're bought, they have the resiliency in their body to go through this transition. So here in america, when we're stressed all the time, our ovaries are stopping their production, the adrenals are starting to take over their function and bring you towards that next season of your life, but they're stressed and they're tired and they can't.
Nicole Haglund:So out comes the hot flashes and out comes all these symptoms On top of what's the state of your body? Are you blood deficient? Is your chi not moving? Maybe you don't have like what Chinese medicine calls yin deficiency, or like the fluids in the body I'm not talking about water, I'm talking about actual, like the internal bodily fluids that nourish our tissues and our organs that when that's depleted, it's like a car that doesn't like. You know, when a side of the road, a car is like steaming and they have to just put engine fluid in. That's what happens when our bodies have a hot flash. We don't have enough engine fluid because there's this, there's dryness. That's going on from all the changes, from it and also from the state of the body.
Laurie Poole:Right.
Nicole Haglund:You know from Chinese medicine. So this weakening of our adrenal glands, from whether it's mental stress, physical stress, emotional stress, whatever stress, the adrenal glands are so depleted and so now we're seeing all these symptoms. So I do the same thing, and with different herbs of course, to help these women treat the perimenopause, because also in the perimenopausal time, because the transition is going, the hormones are wacky. And I also look at the diet, because when we look at the diet, if we're eating, where we're spiking our insulin, insulin knocks off all the other hormones. Insulin is going to also knock off your cortisol too. So so I I always create um part of my, the beauty reset plan that I have is I um include a glow kitchen guide that has all recipes to help make sure that your you know blood sugar and your cortisol levels can remain stable, to help balance every woman, no matter what season of their menstruation that they're going through.
Laurie Poole:Okay, that's interesting. Nicole, can you tell me a little bit more about the beauty reset that you've developed and sort of what you know? When do you, when do you prescribe that or or how it's used? How to just tell me more about that?
Nicole Haglund:Yeah, so so I see all different types of clients. A lot of them don't come to me for nervous system, you know. I have women that come to me because they have high blood pressure. You know all different things. So I, when I have someone fill out their intake form before our appointment, I will look to see if they're, you know, a good candidate for this 90 day program. And then we get on an hour phone call and I go over you know all the symptoms that are presenting.
Nicole Haglund:I explain what's going on in the body, which is really important, because so many women when they come to me, they're like I don't know what's going on, I feel off, I just don't feel right when I explain hey, this is what's happening with your liver and here's how we're going to support it, right, or here's what's happening with you know your digestion. I'm able to teach. And then I get them their plan. So it's a diet plan, right? They're the foods that they're going to eat, like focus on, and foods that they're going to avoid because we have to bring the body into balance. Uh, and then I create a whole herbal plan and supplement plan.
Nicole Haglund:I'm not big on supplements. I maybe will recommend one or two supplements. The rest is just herbs. Okay, you know, like the only supplement I really feel all women should be on is a good magnesium. You can start with magnesium glycinate, and there's other forms, like if you suffer with constipation you might be able to add magnesium citrate. But I do that and then I have a whole nervous system plan for them and it seems like it's a lot but it's really simple. You know, just they follow it, the guidelines, and I add in like videos from YouTube that they can just click on that help with like a breathing exercise or vagus nerve reset, things like that to help them. And then we have follow up phone calls where I can adjust maybe the dosages of the herbs or, you know, adjust their plan.
Laurie Poole:Beautiful. Wow, that sounds very comprehensive, and you're located in Long Island, new York, is that correct?
Nicole Haglund:Yes, yeah, that's right.
Laurie Poole:Okay, so you get born and raised, so clients from Texas or anywhere else listening to this podcast can reach out and work with you virtually.
Nicole Haglund:Yes, yes, all they have to do is on my Instagram at Fixing your Flow, if they can DM me. If they're interested in the program, they just have to DM me. The word reset and then I'll send them more information of like pricing and all that.
Laurie Poole:Okay, very good. Nicole, I can't thank you enough for our time together today.
Nicole Haglund:This has been great.
Laurie Poole:And I just I'm a very strong believer about the whole mind-body connection and I think there's so much about our bodies. That is just regular. You know people. That is just regular. You know people we just don't know or don't understand, or it you know. We don't think about how the mind and the body are so connected and the effects of stress, inflammation, anxiety, our mental health. It's just like a feedback loop right Between our mind and our body. So I think this has been really, really interesting in terms of considering some alternative forms of therapy and physical and emotional health, and I the other piece of this is that really fascinates me is the is the energetic piece of all of this in terms of our body. Has all this energy in it and how does it flow? We're going to fix our flow, right? Yeah, that's exactly Nicole. Thank you so much for your time today.
Nicole Haglund:Thank you so much for having me.
Laurie Poole:Oh, it was my pleasure and anyone looking to connect with Nicole can go to Instagram and her Instagram account called fix fix your flow at fixing your flow, fixing your flow, and can DM and get into connection with her that way. All right, well, thank you so much. It was great to see you, nicole. Yes, thank you so much. Have a great day.
Nicole Haglund:Take care.
