193. Aria Morgan - Life Is A Gift

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Aria Morgan at the very young age of 14 years old suffered a horrifying accident that led her on a path to profound gratitude and self awareness.  

Her accident taught her how to cultivate gratitude, joy, and empowerment amidst all circumstances, and how to view every day, every moment, as a tremendous gift.

Her message reminds us that anything is possible even if we're dealing with an injury or a diagnosis and have been told only one option is possible. 


Episode Highlights:

01:12 - Meet Aria Morgan, positivity spreader
05:01 - The accident that changed Aria's life 
21:30 - Aria's quiet yet effective rebellion against her diagnosis
28:03 - Surround yourself with positive people and ultimately trust your inner voice 
36:50 - Join Aria as she takes you through Box Breathing and Physical Stretches you can do at your desk
47:23 - 3 things you can implement today to improve your well being

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Website:  Yoga With Aria

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Transcript

[00:01:43] Colette Brown: Welcome to the Limitless Healing Podcast where everyone is welcome to take a front row seat and listen in on inspiring conversations, stories of healing and action steps to help you live your best life. My name is [00:02:00] Colette Brown and I am passionate about all things wellness mind. Body, soul. Inspired by my own personal transformation from unwell and not knowing where to turn to thriving and flourishing and motivated to help you do the same.

[00:02:17] Colette Brown: I share this platform with medical doctors, wellness practitioners, chronic illness survivors, meditation and mindfulness gurus, innovators of products from food to technology and more. Think of it as a one-stop shop for wellness resources where you can listen to professionals from around the world to help you thrive.

[00:02:40] Colette Brown: Join me Mondays while sipping a cup of tea or making your favorite meal as we explore the world of wellness to together. This is the Limitless Healing Podcast. Our next guest shares her story of a life changing event that happened when she was [00:03:00] 14 years old. She survived an accident that almost cost her her life through sheer tenacity, positive mindset, and exercise practice, and good nutrition.

[00:03:11] Colette Brown: She is a bright light that now radiates out to the world. Amazing mother meditation and yoga instructor, doula. Chief positivity spreader that often helps others live more vibrantly in their hearts, minds, bodies. I wanna give the warmest welcome to Aria Morgan. 

[00:03:32] Aria Morgan: Ah, chief Positivity Spreader. I love that.

[00:03:34] Aria Morgan: Thank you. Yes. 

[00:03:36] Colette Brown: Well, I've known you for a while, and the first thing when I hear your name or I think of you is this big smile and mm-hmm. You do just. Spread and ooze positivity wherever you go. And a lot of times those traits that we take on, sometimes they are innate and they are our personality. Mm-hmm.

[00:03:55] Colette Brown: And other times they've been cultivated through hardship and through struggle in our life [00:04:00] and whatever it is, aria, like, you're, you're doing wonderful. And it's just, I love being in your presence, sharing space with you, wherever that is. And I felt that your story, it has always, uh, moved me and spoke to me and given me inspiration.

[00:04:16] Colette Brown: And so I would like to just share you with the audience and give them that. Story of where you've come from and leading up to the accident. Why don't you just share a little bit about who you were as a kid mm-hmm. And leading up to what happened. 

[00:04:33] Aria Morgan: Okay. Thank you. And I'm excited to be here. Thank you.

[00:04:35] Aria Morgan: Thank you. Um, so my accident happened just as a con contextual kind of space. It happened on my 14th birthday, on my actual birthday. And, uh, leading up to that I was. You know, I'm a, I'm an immigrant. I was born in the former Soviet Union. Uh, my parents are both immigrants as well. And so I grew up in a very immigrant household, which is, um, very practical.

[00:04:59] Aria Morgan: Um, [00:05:00] you don't, you don't really have big, um, aspirations or dreams, like in terms of being a millionaire or something like that, but the idea is to work hard, study hard, and do the right thing, and you're in this amazing land of opportunity that didn't exist in either one of their home countries. So I was a good kid, you know?

[00:05:20] Aria Morgan: Yeah. I did what my parents asked of me. Um, we were very, um, we went to church regularly. I had, I had friends at school. I played piano daily. I was supposed to be a classical pianist. That was my parents' vision for me. And as like an obedient immigrant child, you don't. Question that you just, you just go along with it, right?

[00:05:42] Aria Morgan: So, um, or at least in my generation, in my family, that's, that was my place. And I wouldn't say that I was, I was definitely involved in like my church and, and active there, but beyond a classic religious, um. Foundation. I [00:06:00] really wasn't exploring other thoughts or other belief systems or other ways of accessing what you might term as spirit or God consciousness, you know, whatever it is that you mm-hmm.

[00:06:10] Aria Morgan: Who were watching may believe in. So, leading up to my accident, I played piano four or so hours a day. Wow. Um, yeah, five or more on the weekends, and I studied. That's it. You know, I had friends, I had church friends, I had friends on my street. I, you know, helped out around the house. Nothing, nothing exciting.

[00:06:33] Aria Morgan: Mm-hmm. Nothing exciting, but being very, uh, focused and very dedicated and, um, extremely disciplined. Mm-hmm. Extremely disciplined. So on my 14th birthday, um. And here's where a little bit of, you know, shall we say, um, I don't wanna use the word psychic, but it's the word that comes to mind. My mom was always in tune with her dreams, and she always had kind of premonitions that would come through her dreams.

[00:06:59] Aria Morgan: They didn't always come [00:07:00] true, but there there was a sense of, of warning or guidance that she received through the dream state. And when I woke up on my 14th birthday, she was very upset. She said she had had a very bad dream about me and to be very careful. I just dismissed her. I'm like, mom, you know, come on.

[00:07:16] Aria Morgan: It's, it's what, it's my birthday. Don't what's gonna happen. I'm going to school. Um, you know, this was in the eighties. It was well before the, the sort of the school violence and shootings that are horrible that, that we've seen since then. So that wasn't in any parent's mind, is the context that I wanna bring.

[00:07:35] Aria Morgan: And I went through my day, everything was fine. And, um, we lived in Tucson, Arizona. I was born in September. In September. It's still really hot in Tucson. It's like close to a hundred degrees, and so my mom worked at a little medical center about, I don't know, maybe half a mile, three quarters a mile from my high school, and I would walk back to her.

[00:07:57] Aria Morgan: Medical center that she worked at, wait for her to get [00:08:00] off of work and take me home and it's my birthday. So I thought very clearly, I'm gonna treat myself today. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go and get one of these like big sugary, you know, drinks that I never get because it's hot, darn it, and it's my birthday.

[00:08:14] Aria Morgan: So two different people offered me a ride to my mom's work that day. That's the other interesting thing. It doesn't usually happen, but it was my birthday and it was hot and I'm assuming that was in their mind. And I love to walk. Then I still love to walk. And I said, no, no, no, no. I wanna walk. 'cause walking's always been a way for me to like a walking meditation kind of de-stress and let go.

[00:08:35] Aria Morgan: And, um, so I was at a crosswalk, um, not one with lights, flashing lights, but with just your basic signs. And so if you visualize, you know, from, from your point of view, the street is split. You have two lanes of traffic coming this way and two lanes of traffic coming this way. And I'm standing right here.

[00:08:53] Aria Morgan: So these two lanes stop. Okay? This outer lane stops and this inner lane is clear. [00:09:00] So I start walking. Meanwhile, there's a car that's speeding in, in the outer lane, and then she switches to the inner lane at the last minute. So there was no time for her to stop. She hit me full on, on my left side. Uh, the witnesses from this side, there was a bus who had a, a, a, a better vantage point and a car.

[00:09:21] Aria Morgan: Um, the witnesses said that I, you know, stepped off. I was walking normally when I saw her. I. Tried to run, but of course you have a, a car she was traveling at over 45 miles per hour. Oh. Um, yeah. And she was driving a Suburban, which is like big, big vehicle, you know, 1986, suburban, if you wanna look it up. Um, and she hit me.

[00:09:47] Aria Morgan: Luckily, um, I got thrown onto the hood of the car, so this is where, however you wanna look at it. God, universe, grace, something meant for me to live, right? Because, uh, she [00:10:00] hit me right in the middle of the car. The later on, the police officer that visited me said, you know, everyone told me I should have died, but the police officer kind of got more specifics in the hospital.

[00:10:09] Aria Morgan: He later said, you know, if you had even been a couple inches to the right or a couple inches to the left with a car that size, he goes, I've seen it happen. He is like, it's horrible. The car just. Runs you over, you go under instead of higher. Right. Looking up on top of the, exactly. Exactly. I mean, think of like a half pancake, right?

[00:10:27] Aria Morgan: Like half my body and um, or, or who knows what else? My probably, yeah. It's like you got so lucky you got flipped onto her hood because I was right in the middle of the vehicle. So kind of statistics, right? She, she was going 45 to 50 miles per hour. It was a school zone. She was speeding, obviously. It, she, she, she skid for 80 feet before she could actually stop.

[00:10:53] Aria Morgan: Like that's how long it took her to stop. Wow. So, um, I'm assuming she was in shock too, you know, like, [00:11:00] oh. Like you all of a sudden horrified. Yes, horrified. Have a human being, uh, you know, right in front of your face. Right? Uh, when she finally did stop, um. I was thrown to the other side of the street, and so I don't remember any of that.

[00:11:16] Aria Morgan: I just remember stepping off the curb. And then I remember the scalding asphalt on my thigh. Oh. Because I was on the other side of the street. And this burning, you're burning because it's so, it's so hot, you know? And the asphalt, of course. And, um, you know, from there I remember bits and pieces. I remember kind of the muffled sound of like a of a, of a CB radio.

[00:11:37] Aria Morgan: I remember people asking me questions, repetitive questions, uh, where do you live? What's your name? Um, and I, and I gave them all my, all our, our, our information. I gave them my mom's work phone number, but I was coming in and out of consciousness. And then I remember waking up in the hospital. They were doing a test to determine the level of injury.

[00:11:58] Aria Morgan: And I remember them. Also [00:12:00] asking me questions. Um. I remember telling, uh, it was a male nurse. I remember this clearly a male nurse. And I remember telling him, it's my birthday today. And he said, I know you've both told me that already. And I said, oh, I'm sorry. And I like, you know, conked back out again. So there were these flashes of memory.

[00:12:19] Aria Morgan: And then all I remember from that point is being on a gurney and a very clear memory of hospital lights, you know, 'cause I'm looking up almost like a, like track lights blending into one another, like, you know, and I'm. That's it. And I'm out. And then I was in ICU for a week and um, really between life and death still.

[00:12:40] Aria Morgan: And then I came out. So my injuries were, I lost my kidney. It burst into pieces. I lost my spleen. I had massive internal bleeding. They couldn't figure out that I was bleeding as heavily at first because my. I'm half Egyptian, so I have dark skin. Um, as a teenager I used to lay out a lot, [00:13:00] so I was really dark and uh, I don't think they really processed how much blood I was losing until my mom showed up and told them I looked very pale and, you know.

[00:13:11] Aria Morgan: They were like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. And, and they started measuring my hemoglobin and it was down like 2, 3, 4. It was hovering in that range. So that's very, very low. If, if, you know, um, hemoglobin counts like under two and most people don't, don't lip 

[00:13:28] Colette Brown: Wow. They 

[00:13:28] Aria Morgan: started pumping me full of blood, but the hemoglobin never rose beyond that range.

[00:13:33] Aria Morgan: So obviously they were pumping me and it was just. Exiting Right. Exiting my body almost immediately. And that's what brought me into the emergency surgery. A lot of things were going in my favor though. Right. That's kind of the horrible, um, external glance of the story. But again, I was in the middle of the vehicle when I got hit.

[00:13:54] Aria Morgan: Um, I had no, I had, I had my, my skull fractured, but I ended up with no brain [00:14:00] damage. Right. I didn't lose any of my like. Eyes, even though that's not the end of the world, but to like a teenager, I still had my face. Mm-hmm. Right? Even though it was scratched up, um, I lost my kidney and my spleen, my pelvis broke my femur.

[00:14:15] Aria Morgan: The largest bone in your body split in half. And even then they said it was a clean split. Like someone took an ax and chopped it in half as opposed to splintered, right? Mm-hmm. And in tiny little pieces. Um, my kneecap broke, so my patella was broken, my ribs broke. Of course, I was really heavily scratched up.

[00:14:34] Aria Morgan: Um, the surgeon who operated on me, Dr. Richard Carmona later became the Surgeon General of the United States. Wow. I, I had, I had a lot kind of, you know, given to me, um, that helped my body come through this experience. What happened, and I'm just gonna kind of stop there. As opposed to going into all the recovery, I had many surgeries afterwards, uh, five or six more on [00:15:00] my leg, and I ended up in a body cast for six months, full body cast.

[00:15:04] Aria Morgan: So from actually not quite neck, but armpits, you know, so I could kind of move my head like so, and move my arms and that's it. My whole body was cast my legs.

[00:15:20] Aria Morgan: And that was after being in a wheelchair. That was after being in and out of traction for a month in the hospital on my back. So it would be a full year, uh, before almost a full year before I would walk with crutches and, and over a full year before I would walk without crutches. Wow. So what did that teach me?

[00:15:41] Aria Morgan: Um. 

[00:15:43] Colette Brown: Yeah. The hours of, of, of laying immobile, like, uh, there has to be some kind of a mental mm-hmm. Mental game that you're playing with yourself. 

[00:15:52] Aria Morgan: Yeah. Well, it taught me gratitude. It was, it was amazing. I remember waking up in the hospital. I don't remember ICU, but I'm [00:16:00] sure I was fairly. Heavily sedated, you know, at that point.

[00:16:04] Aria Morgan: But I remember in my hospital room, I remember there was a sliver of a window and every once in a while there'd be like, again, it's Tucson. You don't get these big leafy trees, right? We have like Mesquite and Palo Verde, small little desert trees. But I remember this like leaf of a tree would, would, every once in a while the wind would blow, would kind of come in and out of, you know, my visual reference in the window.

[00:16:27] Aria Morgan: And, and even that bit of movement to me was, was. Beautiful. Wow. Wow. You know, I get emotional when I think about it. 'cause it sounds, um, it sounds like I'm overdoing it, but I'm not. It truly was beautiful. Yeah. You know, and I remember thinking like, you're alive. Yeah. You know, you're alive. Like you could be dead.

[00:16:48] Aria Morgan: You can think. You gonna move again one day and you're 15 years old at this point, or 14? 14. 14. My 14th birthday. So it was like I was 14 years old and one week old when, when I had this, you know, [00:17:00] realization and I would have, um, you know, the whole sort of spiritual shift. Um. I don't really need to go there at this point, but it was, it started to happen there as well.

[00:17:10] Aria Morgan: I, I just became aware of so much more. Mm-hmm. So much more to life and consciousness and energy than what I had been exposed to and what I had been taught. And my, my, I'm gonna use the word God, even though, you know, again, you as a. As a host and, and anyone who's watching I, I'd encourage you to use the word consciousness or energy or spirit or universe, whatever, whatever appeals to you, right?

[00:17:33] Aria Morgan: That force that's greater than this body, right? Mm-hmm. In this space that we occupy, you know, that became expansive to me. It was no longer limited in this, in this visual lens that I had been presented. And within that expansion, I found the opportunity to. To grow out of the predictions that were handed to me, and this is kind of where we go into healing, right?

[00:17:56] Aria Morgan: Um, doctors told me You don't have a kidney, you're gonna be [00:18:00] fine. You're young enough. Like sure, you have to be careful and watch your diet and watch what you do. But don't worry, you know, people donate kidneys, your body's gonna be okay. Just kind of take it easy and take care of yourself. Don't, don't drink a lot, you know what I'm saying?

[00:18:15] Aria Morgan: Don't. Take care, but you don't have a spleen. And that's huge. A spleen is involved in the immune system. At the time, they weren't even exactly sure everything the spleen did. They knew it was involved in essentially cleaning out the red blood cells. Um, I almost think of it like a vacuum, like vacuuming up the dust, vacuums up the, the, the used and discarded and unnecessary red blood cells.

[00:18:37] Aria Morgan: Um, you don't have that, so we're really not sure how long you're gonna live. You're gonna be susceptible to all kinds of illness. You'll probably get sick a lot. Um, you, you know, will probably need to be on a low dose antibiotic for the rest of your life. And, um, you're gonna stay away from people who get sick because you're gonna have very, very little [00:19:00] defense against illness.

[00:19:02] Aria Morgan: And, you know, they didn't tell me this at the time, but my mom and through, um. Just through time, I later learned that they really didn't project for me to even live into my mid fifties. You know, they thought like, by my forties I'd probably be pretty sickly. And, you know, I, I get lucky. Did your 

[00:19:21] Colette Brown: mom, did your mom, uh, so she didn't tell this to you until you were how old?

[00:19:26] Colette Brown: Oh, this was probably not even until my twenties that she told me this. That's what, what a, what a wisdom. And I know just to not like predict because you're, when you get these, these. Predictions and you're never gonna heal, which, mm-hmm. I can't blame doctors for wanting to be realistic. However, there's something, as we know about the mindset, like you said, that little leaf that you saw flickering by, gave you hope and, and it gave you appreciation and [00:20:00] gratitude and.

[00:20:01] Colette Brown: Our minds are so powerful and okay, so you don't find this out until later, which I'm so happy, which probably plays a big role into your healing. Yeah. So go ahead and take us from there. 

[00:20:13] Aria Morgan: Yeah. I don't find it out until later, but, but from the get go, they told me that I would be sickly and ill and most likely on antibiotics, you know.

[00:20:23] Aria Morgan: Did, did 

[00:20:23] Colette Brown: you, in your mind, did you. Did you think? No, I'm not. Did you, did you immediately dismiss it or did you kind of, like, did, did you come to some realization or did you start practicing like, I, I I'm going to heal? 

[00:20:37] Aria Morgan: I didn't immediately dismiss that I, that, that was, that was sort of, um, I remember when I heard it, it was almost like, you know, like almost as an adult, if you have a, a job you're doing and you get two to three bids for it, I remember almost processing it like that.

[00:20:51] Aria Morgan: Okay. That's their take on me. Okay. Like interesting information and kind of put it aside. And I was so happy to be [00:21:00] alive at that point. I, I honestly just thought, well, I'll live as long as I live and, and I'm just happy to be alive. You know, who's to say? Like, when we live and die, I could have, I could, I almost died last week.

[00:21:12] Aria Morgan: So, you know, I remember being in that mindset of just kind of focusing on now, but what, what I did rebel against was I had so many problems with my leg. The trauma of being hit had turned the, this is your hip and this is your knee. And this is where the femur split. It had, um, I don't remember the exact degrees, but it had split this upper femur forward and the lower part of the femur back.

[00:21:37] Aria Morgan: And then this was rotated externally and this was rotated internally. So 

[00:21:41] Colette Brown: from here, for those of you listening, without the visual uhhuh, Anna has her fist facing each other. Mm-hmm. And her elbow's kind of protruding out and her wrists are twisting away from each other. Mm-hmm. In the opposite direction.

[00:21:55] Aria Morgan: Visualize, sorry. Uh, visualize. Yeah. If you have a stick, you chop it in half [00:22:00] and then you take the halves that you chopped and you rotate one out about tw 20 or so degrees and you rotate the other one internally, maybe 15 degrees, and then you separate 'em by like an itch. So that's what my femur kept doing and they kept having to reset it in the hospital and it.

[00:22:19] Aria Morgan: Separating and they would reset it and it would, and, and the way it was described to me was like, when the body has a point of trauma, it kind of goes back to that point of trauma. Oh. 

[00:22:28] Colette Brown: So 

[00:22:28] Aria Morgan: it was just kind of going back to how it, it had been broken. And because that presented so many problems, I. Eventually the orthopedic doctor told me, yeah, you know, you have so many problems.

[00:22:41] Aria Morgan: Um, your growth plates are still active. Your leg iss gonna end up shorter. You're never gonna walk normally again. You're gonna have all these problems with your leg. And that's it. That's just the diagnosis. You know, kind of, we'll do our best, but there you go. That's what I rebelled again against Colette.

[00:22:58] Colette Brown: Hmm. 

[00:22:58] Aria Morgan: That's where [00:23:00] I got so angry. But I was a polite kid, right? So I didn't say anything. But internally you silently 

[00:23:07] Colette Brown: rebelled and said, no, I'm not. 

[00:23:09] Aria Morgan: Exactly. I literally thought, who are you? You're a human being. You are not God. Yeah. You know, who are you to give me this diagnosis? And then secondly, how dare you?

[00:23:22] Aria Morgan: How dare you tell me what I'm capable of doing and not doing. And I think the reason I was more ballsy about that, because to me, very easy to imagine that bones can heal. And that I'm gonna work hard to make my body move. Right, right. It was more of a known factor and, and I just got so, so angry and then that really coalesced with the other diagnosis of being sickly and ill, and I just became, I.

[00:23:48] Aria Morgan: It wasn't resistant. 'cause I really wanna emphasize that we don't heal when we're resisting, what we're trying to heal from. You know that phrase, what you resist persists. I'm not saying you should embrace your [00:24:00] illness and like flood it upon yourself and visualize yourself as that illness. No, but, but you have to almost rise above it.

[00:24:07] Aria Morgan: Mm-hmm. You know, like if you're in an elevator, go one floor above you just let it drop. You just let that stuff drop and that's what happened to me. I literally thought, no, I'm not even gonna waste my energy with this. But you know what, you know, buddy, in my mind, you know, Mr. Doctor, sir, you just watch, like, you just watch because I'm, I am getting, I'll be back.

[00:24:32] Colette Brown: Exactly. I'll be back. 

[00:24:36] Aria Morgan: Um, and, and that's what brought me on my healing journey. And so over the years I had so many more surgeries. And yes, when I look at it, you could look at it from the perspective that the doctor was right. My legs are not normal. No, they, they never healed normally. Right. My knee is not normal.

[00:24:54] Aria Morgan: My femur is not normal. My hip is not normal. However, that hasn't [00:25:00] prevented me from achieving a high level of, of daily performance and ability to move in ways that I was told I would not be able to move. Yeah. And you know, and that stayed with me for my life. Um, in 2016, I reinjured my knee. 'cause again, the knee, the knee has limitations compared to a kind of normally developed right knee.

[00:25:23] Aria Morgan: And I was told I needed a new knee at that point. And, and I had been given this diagnosis earlier, like, you're gonna probably need artificial joints, you know, before you turned 40, maybe in your thirties. And I, and, and so I, 2016 I was in my mid forties and, um. Kind of early, mid forties, and I was told I needed a new knee.

[00:25:42] Aria Morgan: And same thing. I, I thought to the doctor, no, I'm, I'm not, no. I said, maybe one day, maybe you're right, but, but right now, no, I'm not ready for a new knee. Five doctors, five highly regarded orthopedic specialists through the UCLA network. These weren't just like quacky. [00:26:00] You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Nobody, and every one of them said, I'm sorry, but you need a new knee.

[00:26:05] Aria Morgan: Yeah. We can do this, we can do that. We can delay it for a couple months. But, um, there's nothing else you can do. And I, I was told of an opportunity for, um, a stem cell doctor in Missouri who worked, who had been working for 10 years at that point, had treated 20,000 people. And, um, I thought, well, why not try this person?

[00:26:25] Aria Morgan: Right. Give it a shot. Mm-hmm. All the doctors said, it's not gonna work. It's a waste of your money. It's, um, you know, it's not gonna help. Don't, don't waste your money. Don't waste your time. It helped. 

[00:26:36] Colette Brown: I needed more than one treatment. Yeah. They're not taught that in medical school about stem cell healing.

[00:26:41] Colette Brown: And, and so unfortunately, yeah, like they're, they're kind of misled in some ways, some ways not. Mm-hmm. Um, but good for you. Yeah. For the, the tenacity that you have to push forward and say, I'm gonna try it. And it worked. So you did this treatment? 

[00:26:59] Aria Morgan: I did, I did. I had to [00:27:00] do a couple treatments. Okay. But the point is that they worked, and even the, at the stem cell office, they have a, a, like a, a physical therapist kind of trainer that gives you an evaluation.

[00:27:11] Aria Morgan: Right. Prior to you seeing the doctor. And even then, I remember that woman saying I was, couldn't squat. Right one. My limitations was I couldn't squat, I couldn't have full flexion in the knee or, or bear that kind of pressure. And she said, yeah, I don't know if you're gonna be able to, to squat again, but we'll get you moving.

[00:27:27] Aria Morgan: You know, we'll get you doing this. You're not gonna be running, but we'll get you active. Well, I. I can squat, you know, it's taken me time. So, so my message kind of overall, right, if you kind of recap it from an external spa, um, van Vantage point perspective, is that don't ever accept someone else's diagnosis because un, un, un, unless you want to.

[00:27:53] Aria Morgan: Right. If you wanna go that direction, go, go ahead. If that's what you're being called to do and you feel that's the right path for you, go ahead. [00:28:00] But if you have that little voice or that little feeling or that little urge that something else is possible, um, go with that because that is, that is. That is the spirit of, of the divine, you know, that is consciousness, that is life talking to you.

[00:28:19] Aria Morgan: And, and that is what's going to open up doors and make things possible if you don't have even an inkling that something is possible. But you're wondering, go without wondering, right? Don't get in. Um, and I don't say this to someone who's facing a life-threatening condition. Obviously if you need immediate surgery, I'm, I'm not trying to tell you don't do that, but if you have time, that's the key.

[00:28:45] Aria Morgan: If you have time, the body heals. The body's always healing. The body wants to heal. 

[00:28:52] Colette Brown: Mm-hmm. It 

[00:28:52] Aria Morgan: really does. And health, just like disease doesn't happen overnight. 

[00:28:57] Colette Brown: Right. It just takes time. Right. Um, I, [00:29:00] I just wanna touch quickly, part of the healing journey is those that you surround yourself with. Mm-hmm. So let's pretend that you are by yourself on an island and Okay.

[00:29:11] Colette Brown: On, on, on the thought of I can heal. And you have people around you that are like, no, you can't. So would you recommend for those people whisper inside your head, create that vision, that dream, search it out, and maybe not share it with people that might give you that negative thought? Because once you have that seed planted of negativity, um, somebody can just wipe it out really easily.

[00:29:36] Colette Brown: So what do you have to say about positive? People in your life or, or not having positive people? Yeah, 

[00:29:41] Aria Morgan: absolutely, absolutely everything you said. If you have, if you are in a situation where you don't have any or very little support in your immediate network, I would recommend don't bear your heart, don't bear your deepest desires.

[00:29:58] Aria Morgan: If you're with people [00:30:00] that, that don't support you or are limited in their understanding and, and maybe don't actively tell you it's not possible, but sort of scoff and you know, internally mm-hmm. They're not energetically supporting you. I would say, uh, keep your desires, keep your, keep your truth inside and.

[00:30:19] Aria Morgan: And the reason I say that is the, the image that comes to mind is when a, when a, when a woman has a baby and a newborn, she traditionally doesn't just take it to the grocery store and to Costco and to the park and let everyone touch her baby, right? Mm-hmm. She keeps strangers at a distance because that newborn's immune system still hasn't developed.

[00:30:38] Aria Morgan: And so it's not like I'm saying, exclude the world from the newborn in this being, in this sense being your your dream, right? But give your dream a chance to grow. Just like that. Newborn has to develop an immune system, give yourself a chance to really feel like you have a foundation, right. Your roots have grown into solid soil, and then it doesn't [00:31:00] matter so much what other people.

[00:31:01] Colette Brown: Yes. Yes. Because you'll see the progress and you'll, you'll prove to yourself that mm-hmm. Something's happening here, and then through that mm-hmm. You can actually be a light and. Other people's life to give them hope, which is one of the things that this podcast is about, is spreading hope and stories of those who have healed and have recovered and have found a way usually through non-traditional methods.

[00:31:26] Colette Brown: According to Western medicine. Yeah. So why don't you share? So you, you were like on this amazing recovery, like that your body just, you saw it go from almost facing death to a year later. You see that you're able to start living a little bit more normal. Mm-hmm. And, and then you progress. So what helped you to today, I know that, that you've told me and shared with me in the past that one of the things that you have to do is exercise.

[00:31:52] Colette Brown: And when you find that. You lack in that your body is like, Hey, we don't like that [00:32:00] very much. Yeah, that's an understatement. Yeah. Yeah. So why don't you share how exercise and movement have played a part in your healing? 

[00:32:10] Aria Morgan: So, um, as soon as I can walk, um, my mom and dad had belonged to a gym in Tucson and they had me, um, they had me join the gym as a, as a teenager and I used the gym as my physical therapy space and, um, within a year and a half, uh, 'cause I was back in school by my sophomore year.

[00:32:29] Aria Morgan: Yeah. So less than a year and a half by my junior year, about midway through I competed in my first bodybuilding contest and I placed second. So that again, gives you perspective, uh, so much. Already had happened and I realized, um, being in the gym that my body really needed, needed exercise and it needed a lot of exercise.

[00:32:49] Aria Morgan: And so that's been a gift for me. It's been a gift to have that knowledge. And when I have gone through periods in life where I've been more stagnant, um, either due to my job or maybe I'm [00:33:00] traveling, whatever the situation may be, I definitely feel it. And so I just have to make space to move. I really do.

[00:33:05] Aria Morgan: Um, for those of you that work, um. Kind of a very traditional, let's say long hours job. You gotta make a decision. You just, do you, maybe you sleep less during the week. You catch up on sleep on the weekend and you get up 40 minutes early and you do a little meditation and a little breathing and a little movement, um, maybe you give up another activity.

[00:33:27] Aria Morgan: I mean, you have to make it work. You have to, because your body needs movement in order to heal, like energy and blood needs to flow. Being stagnant isn't healthy, even for someone who has no. Right. 'cause that's, that's a breeding ground for disease. Exactly. Yeah. It's a breeding ground for disease. And, and so there's movements you can do throughout your day if you're able to have flexibility throughout your day.

[00:33:51] Aria Morgan: You can walk during your lunch break, you know, grab a smoothie or a soup and eat it later at your desk. I mean, I'm just giving simple things that you can do to [00:34:00] 20 minutes of exercise, at least through the middle of the day. If you have flexibility in your schedule, let your body dictate to you what it needs.

[00:34:07] Aria Morgan: Mm-hmm. Um, my needs. Very, quite, quite drastically. There are times I got into yoga eventually from bodybuilding 'cause that really wasn't what I wanted to do. I don't, I'm just not drawn to that intensity or that kind of, I. Physical expression of really bulky, mostly. So I was drawn to yoga. Eventually I've done Qigong, um, off and on.

[00:34:31] Aria Morgan: I still have a Qigong practice. I swam, I, I've gotta 

[00:34:34] Colette Brown: take that up one day. I'm, I'm, I'm going to one day. It's so good. It's on my bucket list. I can't wait because I see people at the park and they're doing, and I'm like, that seems really, you know, when I was younger, I'd say, that looks a little odd. Right?

[00:34:47] Colette Brown: And the older I get, the more I'm like, that's so meditative. It's, and you're just in such an energy flow, and you can see it in the people, their face, their focus. Mm-hmm. Their, the piece within them. Like, I, [00:35:00] I see it different now, but, so that's on my bucket list. By the way. Maybe you'll teach me one day.

[00:35:04] Colette Brown: Aria 

[00:35:05] Aria Morgan: help you. There's. There's, there's about three, I mean, three that I know of forms of what's called medical Qigong. And then, um, Qigong itself is a discipline, is actually sort of training for martial arts. So all the other forms are really more focused on strength and, and agility. Um, but if you, if you, for those of you listening, I would say.

[00:35:30] Aria Morgan: Research the medical forms and see which one appeals to you. I happen to enjoy one called Five Animals Play, or Five Animals Frolic. Um, but my whole ethos is what works for me works for me. It may not work for you. Yeah. So, yes. You know, and, and, and the same thing with, with doctors and specialists and experts.

[00:35:51] Aria Morgan: Take everything with your own internal lens. As, as that perspective that really opens up. [00:36:00] What is it that, my intuition that my inner self is telling me? 

[00:36:03] Colette Brown: Yeah. I think that's part of it. Getting in tune with, with that little voice. And maybe you're listening today and there could be one thing that Aria shared that you're gonna extract and that's gonna make a huge difference in your life.

[00:36:17] Colette Brown: So listen to that and, and see what resonates with you because it's your own personal journey. It's not. Um, something that is set in stone that you have to do in order to be well, 

[00:36:29] Aria Morgan: absolutely, and, and I would also encourage everyone listening, don't discount someone just because part of their methodology doesn't fit with yours.

[00:36:39] Aria Morgan: It's, it's gonna be impossible, I think, to find a replica of yourself out there. Who, whatever systems worked for this replica person are gonna work exactly for you. I'm being, I'm being facetious here, right? Mm-hmm. But, but how can that be possible? You, collette have different injuries, different history, physically, emotionally, mental.

[00:36:59] Aria Morgan: We all [00:37:00] have different traumas. So what, what works for you that you've sustained and built together? Maybe 80% of that works for me, but I'm not gonna dismiss you because 20% of it doesn't work. 

[00:37:12] Colette Brown: Right. 

[00:37:12] Aria Morgan: You know? Right. So, so those of you on a healing path, you become your own doctor. You become your own therapist in a way, like in, in the sense of you physical therapist.

[00:37:25] Aria Morgan: Right. You get to dictate to yourself what your body needs. Um, there are days when I need. 30 minutes of movement and I'm okay. There are days when I have to put in two hours, I'll be honest. And it, you know, it's, it's not optimal, but, but hey, I'm walking around. I'm healthy, I'm vibrant, I'm alive. No one knows until I tell them my story, what's gone on in my life.

[00:37:51] Aria Morgan: And to me, that's worth those two hour days. 

[00:37:54] Colette Brown: Yeah. Yeah. No, you're, you're amazing. Um, so why don't you do, I, I [00:38:00] think another big component of this is the, um, kind of the meditative mm-hmm. State and sometimes it's hard to get there. We're stressed about life and we're on the go and we're playing Uber drivers to our kids and we're, we're working.

[00:38:14] Colette Brown: 80 hour, weeks, whatever it is. So can you share with us a breathing technique that, that somebody can do like right now? And they can do it whenever, wherever they're at. They can just pull the car over, they can do it at their desk. 

[00:38:28] Aria Morgan: Absolutely. Uh, the simplest breathing technique I've found is, um, kind of the Western name for it is box breathing, because if you visualize a box, you're gonna have an equal breath count and retention all the way through the exercise.

[00:38:41] Aria Morgan: So I'll, we'll start right now. So wherever you are, get comfy, right? Let your spine feel tall. Sit so that you're sitting on your sit bones. If your sit bones were legs, you'd be right on each sit. Bone equally, right? So maybe rock a little left and right and adjust. Just take a gentle breath, inhale, and as you exhale, just [00:39:00] relax your shoulders down, away from your ears.

[00:39:03] Aria Morgan: And then let's begin. You're gonna inhale for a count of five, so starting now. Inhale one, inhale two, inhale three, four, and five. And we're gonna hold for a count of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now exhale. Exhale. Five four. Three. Exhale, two, exhale, one. And now hold emptiness. Don't breathe in or out for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Continue.

[00:39:33] Aria Morgan: Inhale for count of five. Continue to inhale deeper and deeper. And deeper and deeper. And hold for 5, 4, 3, 2. One. Now exhale. Continue to exhale. Exhale more. Exhale more. Let all the air out. Pause now and hold emptiness for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [00:40:00] Inhale. Inhale into the low belly. Inhale, low back. Broaden the breath in the sides of the ribs up into the chest and hold for 5, 4, 3, 2.

[00:40:14] Aria Morgan: And now exhale. Let the air out. Slowly, methodically, visualize the air, exiting the body all the way out. All the way out. Now you're empty. No breath for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and release. 

[00:40:30] Colette Brown: That's amazing. That's amazing. 

[00:40:34] Aria Morgan: It's an amazing breath. I start with a count of five 'cause I feel like that seems to be accessible for most people.

[00:40:40] Aria Morgan: If at any point that creates anxiety, reduce it. But I would actually encourage you eventually to increase it. So, box breathing. 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5. Right? 7, 7, 7, 7. The idea is you're inhaling for count, holding the inhale, the same count, exhaling for the same count, and then [00:41:00] holding that space of emptiness. For the same count.

[00:41:03] Colette Brown: Amazing. I love that. That was so relaxing. And it oxygenates the brain, right? Mm-hmm. And it's so, it's, it helps you think better. Mm-hmm. 

[00:41:14] Aria Morgan: It does. You know, it, it's, it's proven to reduce anxiety and, uh, it's an even a breath count that maybe seals are taught. I mean, which is crazy awesome, right? Mm-hmm. People that are going into a very stressful situation to get you to focus.

[00:41:28] Aria Morgan: To get you to reduce anxiety and to get your, your, your heart relaxed. Right. Your stress levels relaxed. 

[00:41:36] Colette Brown: Mm-hmm. 

[00:41:37] Aria Morgan: So that you can perform at 

[00:41:38] Colette Brown: whatever 

[00:41:38] Aria Morgan: level you're 

[00:41:38] Colette Brown: performing. I love that. Amazing. Okay, so we've got, we've got breath work down. Mm-hmm. What's something, if we're sitting at our desk at a chair, what's something that we could do to maybe, you know, stretch out the back or what, what's a good option for that?

[00:41:54] Aria Morgan: Yeah. So, um, I'm going to scoot my chair back. Okay. So I have a chair without [00:42:00] a, a very deep back because it forces me to sit upright. Nice. If you have, if you have a chair with like a real back, a traditional back, I want you to scoot to the very edge of your chair so that your sit bones are just literally.

[00:42:12] Aria Morgan: Right on the edge of the chair, right? I'm not hanging off the chair. I have the chair under my sit bones. And then from here, you're gonna interlace your fingers and turn your palms forward. So I'm turning my palms out to face the front. Now I'm gonna turn sideways for a moment. You're just gonna drop the chin down a little bit of cat spine.

[00:42:31] Aria Morgan: So I'm rounding my tailbone under, pushing my palms, pulling the belly to the spine. And then your next inhale, you're gonna lift the spine up, lift the arms up, maybe lift the sternum up. Maybe take your gaze up. Inhale. So our hands are over our head. Interlaced. Mm-hmm. That's your inhale. Arms reaching overhead.

[00:42:51] Aria Morgan: Interlaced, cat and cow from a seated position. And exhale, you're gonna round and push the palms forward. Curl the tailbone under. [00:43:00] Inhale, you're gonna bring the spine to upright. So I'm on my sit bones, arms, reach up, maybe my gaze goes up, if that's okay, on the head and neck. Otherwise, gaze forward, arms straighter, and then exhale and curl and round in.

[00:43:15] Aria Morgan: And then one more set. Inhale, lift the spine, lift the arms, gaze forward or up, engage belly, and then exhale and round, and then from the rounding release and just come back into a neutral spine. So you're sitting up by, 

[00:43:31] Colette Brown: ah, that feels really good. I know. No, it feels really awesome. And it just gives you that stretch.

[00:43:38] Colette Brown: It feels great. 

[00:43:40] Aria Morgan: Mm-hmm. Yeah. The second thing we're gonna do is, um, I. Turning, twisting my hair up so you can kind of see a little bit better ears and shoulders. So you're gonna move your neck in in all ranges of motion. And this one, you don't have to worry about the breath. I don't want you to go super fast, like, like whipping the neck back and forth.

[00:43:58] Aria Morgan: The goal is to keep the [00:44:00] shoulders steady. Don't let the shoulders move with you. So it's not a whole body twist. So I'm just turning my chin towards my right shoulder, back through center and over the left shoulder. Almost like if you were an owl and you're looking to the right, and then you're looking to the left.

[00:44:14] Aria Morgan: And again, you can speed it up, but don't go so fast that the head is being whipped around and you're just gonna do a few rotations. Now. See if you can make this rotation happen a little bit more from the deepest part of your core, almost like your belly is working. Right. If that doesn't make sense, don't worry about it.

[00:44:32] Aria Morgan: Over time, you'll start to feel those core stabilizers engaged and then come back to neutral. And now we're going to go up and down. So you're gonna drop the chin down towards the chest and then lift the head up. Chin can be neutral or you can slightly lift it up if it doesn't create tension. Okay? So it's mostly chin.

[00:44:50] Aria Morgan: The chin lowers towards the chest, and then the chin lifts up neutral or slightly above neutral. And you're gonna go forward and. [00:45:00] Down. So now it's like I'm saying yes in slow motion, right? Last motion was an owl or sort of saying, no, this is a saying. Yes. And again, forward and down. Forward and down.

[00:45:13] Aria Morgan: Breathe comfortably. Breathe at your own pace, and then come back to neutral. Okay? And then we're gonna go ear to shoulder. Drop your right ear to your right shoulder, whatever. It drops a millimeter, an inch, and then left ear to left shoulder. So now I'm going side to side, ear to shoulder, ear to shoulder.

[00:45:35] Aria Morgan: And I Do you know if I can take a break? I do 10 of these in each of these motions though, you might even get a little crack or so in the neck. If you're feeling comfortable from ear to shoulder, come back to neutral. And we put it all together. If you have tightness in the neck. That might be enough, right?

[00:45:55] Aria Morgan: But if you feel comfortable, you could try right ear to right shoulder. Now roll the [00:46:00] chin down into center, half circle, left ear to left shoulder, and then inhale. Left ear to left shoulder. Roll the chin down. Exhale right ear to right shoulder. Some of you might feel comfortable going to full circle, so you'd go down through center circle all the way around.

[00:46:18] Aria Morgan: And if you're doing a full circle, do two. Breathe, inhaling and exhaling, and then come back to neutral and switch directions. So start left ear to left shoulder, circle, chin down. And then if you wanna go full circle, you're gonna go all the way around into full rotations. 

[00:46:40] Colette Brown: I feel little crackles. 

[00:46:42] Aria Morgan: Yeah, me too.

[00:46:44] Aria Morgan: And then come back to neutral when you are done. And you should feel a release in the neck. Right? Yeah, that felt really good. Amazing. Good. Thank you. Um, the last thing you can do at your desk is you are gonna sit and cross your [00:47:00] right ankle over your left knee as best as possible. And for this one, you actually wanna scoot your sit bones back a little so you have a little bit more support under the upper thigh.

[00:47:10] Aria Morgan: And then you're going to either bring your hands if you have seat rests on the seat rests, or maybe on your hips, not on your knee. You don't ever wanna push the knee down, and you're gonna fold forward to your own degree. And it's a really nice low back, like a seated pigeon pose and hip stretch. You're gonna fold all the way forward and just take two to three deep breaths into the low back.

[00:47:32] Aria Morgan: Imagine you're breathing into your kidneys, like if your kidneys or your balloons, you're puffing those balloons. And then you get a push down through your standing leg, the foot that's on the ground, use your belly and core Kamala up. I 

[00:47:43] Colette Brown: felt that in my hip. That was a fantastic hip stretch. 

[00:47:46] Aria Morgan: It's a really good hip stretch.

[00:47:47] Aria Morgan: You can do it in an airplane too, you know, maybe not all the way down, but partially. It's a nice as far as you can, far as you can. And then switch sides. So now you're gonna do left ankle flex through the left heel, cross the left ankle over the [00:48:00] right knee. Your shin is, you know. Parallel. Right. And once again, forward fold.

[00:48:05] Aria Morgan: Like a number four. Number four, exactly. Figure four, stretch. Exactly. And deep breath. And just breathe into your low back. Breathe into your kidneys. Those are your, um, those are your generators. In Chinese medicine, that's your, your generator. When you need extra power, the kidneys, uh, you know, is, is the organ that's taxed.

[00:48:25] Aria Morgan: And then inhale and come on back up. So those are three pretty easily accessible right stretches. Love it. 

[00:48:35] Colette Brown: I feel all rejuvenated. Awesome. I'm oxygenated and stretched and mentally great. Fantastic. So Aria, can you just share like maybe three things, um, with people that they could implement today? In their life that, um, in addition to these fantastic tools that you gave us with the breathing and stretching mm-hmm.

[00:48:58] Colette Brown: Um, that you would [00:49:00] recommend, uh, people can practice right now and they can start making a difference. 

[00:49:04] Aria Morgan: Absolutely. First and most important thing is your mindset. So establish a gratitude practice, a loving kindness practice, a meditation, prac, whatever appeals to you, prayer, whatever gets you into that state of gratitude.

[00:49:18] Colette Brown: Mm-hmm. 

[00:49:19] Aria Morgan: If you don't know how to do that, get a journal. Could be just a notebook every morning, five minutes, set your alarm five minutes early, and the first thing you do is you just write down what you're grateful for. Okay. So that's hugely important mindset. 

[00:49:37] Colette Brown: I wanna say, when you, when you're writing it down, it does a couple of things, right?

[00:49:40] Colette Brown: You, you, mm-hmm. You kind of solidify your thoughts. Mm-hmm. And then when you're having those off days, you can reflect back and remember what you're grateful for. 

[00:49:49] Aria Morgan: Absolutely. And it doesn't have to be these huge, grandiose things. Um, you know, I'm grateful for my favorite cotton sheets. I mean, it, it sounds [00:50:00] silly, but if you can't think of something big, you go small because that's how the mind works.

[00:50:05] Aria Morgan: The mind gets into habits. Mm-hmm. And once you start being grateful for the little things, then you're open up to the bigger things like your little leaf. Exactly. Yeah, I'm grateful for that little leaf that kept coming in outta frame. 

[00:50:17] Colette Brown: Mm-hmm. 

[00:50:18] Aria Morgan: You know, wasn't anything huge at that point. Um, second thing that's hugely important is a me.

[00:50:24] Aria Morgan: Um, well, I'm gonna. Lump meditation a little bit more with a gratitude practice. So the second thing would be a breath practice and a movement practice of some sort. The box breathing is great. You can do it in your car, you can do it in an office setting. Um, you don't need any tools. There's so many other breathing techniques out there, but start with that one.

[00:50:45] Aria Morgan: Do it, you know, three rounds. We'll shift how you feel. 

[00:50:50] Colette Brown: Mm-hmm. 

[00:50:51] Aria Morgan: If you do it for three or four minutes, you could probably get in, oh, maybe four to five rounds a minute. Right? So that's more like 20 rounds. Imagine how [00:51:00] powerful you'll feel. And then also movement, again, it doesn't have to be anything fancy. I love qigong and yoga.

[00:51:06] Aria Morgan: Those is what, that's what speaks to me. But walking is so healing, and if you can walk. Even if you're walking slowly, even if you're walking with a cane or a crutch, you know, uh, you can walk, right? If, if that's not possible for you, but you're physically limited, move your body, twist your upper body around, move, right, move.

[00:51:26] Aria Morgan: Don't be static. And the third, and probably one of the most important things is get outside. I recommend, uh, if you can, an hour a day outdoors. Um, obviously most of us don't have an hour. To do in one big chunk. But if you split that up between a morning walk and an evening walk, or a lunch walk and an evening walk, couple minutes of reading outdoors or gardening, or just feeling that, you know, sunrise or sunset, feeling that healing light on your face, getting sunshine on your [00:52:00] body, it's so good for the immune system, so good for the mind, so good for our nervous system.

[00:52:06] Aria Morgan: Really getting away from devices and getting into natural light. 

[00:52:11] Colette Brown: I love that. Yes, please get away from the devices. I mean, they're wonderful and we need them and I'm so thankful. Yeah. Um, but yeah, step away from the machine and, and get into nature. And Aria, I have one last just little spontaneous question, but if this was the last message that you ever gave that was broadcast to the world, what would that be?

[00:52:35] Aria Morgan: Oh gosh. That's easy. Life is amazing. Life is beautiful. Life is a gift. And when you realize that every single moment, every single day, even honestly, the crappy, horrible, disgusting days are a gift. Why? Because you're alive. 

[00:52:54] Colette Brown: Yeah. 

[00:52:54] Aria Morgan: You are alive and and I bet most of you listening are alive with a lot in your [00:53:00] life that you could be grateful for.

[00:53:01] Aria Morgan: You know, beginning with your body, if you can move, if you can see. And if you can hear, man, yeah. You are alive and you are doing good. 

[00:53:12] Colette Brown: I love it. I love it. Ugh, I could talk to you forever. This has been amazing, aria. And I just wanna say a personal thank you for showing up. And for doing what you do and for sharing your light, not just here, but every single day because I know who you are and that's what you do, just subconsciously, um, walking through life.

[00:53:35] Colette Brown: And I also wanna encourage. The listeners, if you, um, wanna find Aria and learn more about what she's doing, her programs, you can find her at Yoga with Aria a RI a.com and I will put that in the show notes and you can find different ways to work with her. Aria is in the San Diego area, but does things remote?

[00:53:59] Colette Brown: So [00:54:00] look her up, show her some love. If this resonated with you. Please share it with somebody else who needs this story and they need to hear the hope. Aria again, I just wanna say a big, huge thank you for your time and, um, being so gracious with us today and just being inspiring. Thank you Colette, for inviting me and letting me share my story Thank you, aria. And to everyone else. Until next time, be well. You just finished another episode of Limitless Healing, where we dive into all things wellness. If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to me if you would share it with your friends and family. Together we can plant seeds of hope that leads to transformation.

[00:54:49] Colette Brown: In our lives and the lives of those we love, let's get healthy [00:55:00] together.