Holistic Living & Limitless Healing with Colette Brown

How often do we find ourselves lost in the chaos of modern life, forgetting to truly listen to our bodies, and ignoring the silent cries for attention? This episode, featuring personal wellness advocate and certified holistic practitioner, Colette Brown, is a gentle reminder to stop and listen. Colette shares her compelling story of transformation, from surviving to thriving, from enduring chronic health issues to enjoying extraordinary health. Through her journey, we learn about the power of integrity, the joy of self-care, and the miracles of holistic living.

Have you ever considered the impact of your diet on your overall health? Could the balance of Omega 6 and Omega 3 in your meals be playing a more significant role than you think? Colette offers eye-opening insights into the role of diet, particularly the anti-inflammatory diet, in our wellness journey. We also discuss the perils of the Western diet and share practical tips on how to adopt healthier eating habits. And, for those with a sweet tooth, there's a tantalizing hint of a new granola product on the horizon.

It's not all about what we eat, though. The conversation then turns to mindfulness and meditation, the silent powerhouses of holistic wellness. Colette generously shares her experiences and insights on how these practices can enhance problem-solving abilities, unleash creativity, and help us navigate the labyrinth of modern life with grace and resilience. By tuning into our bodies and emotions, she argues, we can unlock an extraordinary life of health and happiness. It's a simple yet powerful message: slow down, listen, and nurture yourself, and see how life transforms. Tune in, and let's embark on this incredible journey together!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Everything that comes our way, we have a part in it and when we can be part of it and understand that, whether we want to agree that we have had a part in it or not, in some way we are connected to be part of the solution.

Speaker 2: 0:18

Hi, I'm Michelle Rios, host of the Live your Extraordinary Life podcast. This podcast is built on the premise that life is meant to be joyful, but far too often we settle for less. So if you've ever thought that something is missing from your life, that you were meant for more, or you simply want to experience more joy in the every day, then this podcast is for you. Each week, I'll bring you captivating personal stories, transformative life lessons and juicy conversations on living life to the fullest, with the hope to inspire you to create a life you love on your terms, with authenticity, purpose and connection. Together, we'll explore what it means to live an extraordinary life, the things that hold us back and the steps we all can take to start living our best lives. So come along for the journey. It's never too late to get started and the world needs your light.

Speaker 3: 1:22

I am so excited about this week's guest. I had with me personal wellness advocate, certified holistic practitioner, entrepreneur and the host of Limitless Healing my dear friend, the beautiful kind, the curious, colette.

Speaker 1: 1:38

Brown oh my goodness, thank you, michelle. It's so great to be here. I love it.

Speaker 3: 1:43

Welcome. Welcome to the show. Okay, we're going to start with a big question what does it mean to you to live your extraordinary life, colette?

Speaker 1: 1:53

I am leaving by a principle of integrity. I read Martha Beck's book the Way of Integrity and since then it's been life-changing. It's not just the word integrity, but it's how we approach every decision, whether it's what we do. So with my work, I love helping people to be well and being authentic and transparent and being that way with my children and just in every aspect of life. So that's been really forefront for me and it's been really life-changing.

Speaker 3: 2:29

So you have been on this journey. First of all, everyone listening has to understand you have to go look her up. Look up Colette Brown and Limitless Healing. She is absolutely stunning. I mean just stunning.

Speaker 3: 2:46

And it's from the inside out, right. She's just one of these people who glows. She lights up the room when she walks in, but you know that she takes impeccable care of herself, and so I'm so grateful to have her on the show to talk about her journey to healing, her journey to really looking at food as fuel and making choices that are going to energize you and add vibrancy to your life, because that's what we're looking for, right, when we talk about living an extraordinary life, it's in all aspects of living, and so to feel good from the inside out is really at the heart of all that Colette is working on, but it wasn't always this way. Take us on the journey, colette, because I know there was a period of time where you did not feel good, and for more than 20 years, you were not in the kind of health you enjoyed it in.

Speaker 1: 3:48

Yes, it's so true, and it feels good to be where I'm at today. Let me just say that, and I'll take you back to when I was younger I was the second oldest of nine children. I was the oldest girl, I had a lot of responsibility around helping with the household. We had horses and cows and dogs and cats, and a lot of responsibility within the household as well, and sleep was not prioritized, and I don't blame my parents for that, but it was just the way it was. We didn't know as much today as we then as we do today, and so lack of sleep created a real deficit in my body and I was sick all the time. My fourth grade year I had strept throat and tonsillitis seven times. I remember my mom coming to my elementary school with a bag of sugar and my penicillin pill that gave me my antibiotic. So looking back, I know what happened. My gut microbiome, ancestral DNA, that DNA that we get going through the birth canal, was all destroyed and it left me vacant and I didn't have the wherewithal inside of me to the microbiome to help me thrive. And when I was living at home, kind of on the farm, interacting with the earth and the animals and my siblings. I was sustaining.

Speaker 1: 5:11

But when I went to college in a sterile environment, that is when my health just went downhill. And I went into college and started getting cystic acne and I would get chronic stomach pains and then my joints started herniating and I was diagnosed in my twenties with arthritis. And it just kept going and going. And I was young and I was wondering, you know, is it my diet, was it the stress? What's going on and why is my health not thriving? And I did all the right quote things. According to the FDA, what they recommended started taking really good care of my skin. I went to esthetician school because dermatologist and estheticians couldn't fix my skin. So I became an esthetician and my skin still wasn't fixed.

Speaker 1: 5:56

And I went into the corporate world where I was for 10 years. You understand the demands and the stress of that. My problems compounded and got worse. I became a mother. I had my oldest daughter, didn't sleep through the night for four and a half years, I was stressed out because I had this crying child. And looking back, I see these little milestones that I hit along the way of, not in a good way, of getting better, but of getting worse, and it all led up to right before I turned 40,.

Speaker 1: 6:27

I wound up in the emergency room two times in one month and the second time I went in the night before. It was like normal I made dinner, I bathed my girls, I put them to bed and around 11 o'clock at night I started getting a horrible pain in my chest and it felt like what I described as a heart attack. I went into the emergency room and the nighttime interventional radiologist didn't know what to do. He's like I'm not sure. I think I know what it is, but I'm not sure. Let's admit you to the hospital, let's get a second opinion. Second opinion in the morning comes in, different than the first, and I asked for a third opinion. The third opinion.

Speaker 1: 7:08

The doctor walks into my room and he said we need to do surgery and we'll put you on the books at 10 o'clock and kind of not really talking me through what was going on. And then his phone rings and he answers it and he said yeah, hey, joe, I have a quick procedure, I'll see you at the game at one. And I thought, okay, if I need this, you are not going to be the one that's touching me, because that was so rude and inconsiderate, horrible bedside manner. Then interstage left is my angel, who was a nurse, and she whispers in my ear Collette, I looked at your charts and I think you have something called a leaky gut, but I didn't tell you because I could get fired for giving any kind of medical advice. So that was my little thread. I know you have that thread that you pull off of a sweater and the whole thing unravels. That was it for me and I knew that that was the answer.

Speaker 1: 8:03

I took that I found a gastroenterologist in Los Angeles who was also a GI. He did all my blood work and he said, collette, you're going to be fine. This is like three weeks waiting after the blood work, by the way, and all the tests that he did. And I go in and I didn't believe him at first. I wanted to believe him, but all these doctors for 20 years were telling me that this was chronic and I would have to live with it.

Speaker 1: 8:30

And I tried everything. I tried eating gluten free and the white diet and keto and all these things. Nothing worked. And so I started eating the way that he recommended and I took some supplements. Literally within 30 days my body was changed, transformed. I felt better, more energy, my skin was clinging up, my arthritis was going away, I was sleeping better. It was like magic and it just lit me up inside and everywhere I went, I was telling everyone you've got to go see this doctor. He's amazing, it's wonderful. So that's what led me into the wellness space, and I've always been very mindful and healthy throughout my life. But now that I know how easy it is to have a really healthy lifestyle it's not a diet, it's a way of living I'm so passionate about it. I just dove in headfirst and did a holistic practitioner course and have not turned back, and through COVID, I had an online course and now I'm developing a food product that's not inflammatory, because it's hard for me to recommend products. I'm living my best life today and I'm really happy for that.

Speaker 3: 9:45

Amazing, amazing. But let's get back for a minute because it's so great. You're sitting in the hospital. There's a doctor with four bedside banners saying that he's going to have a quick procedure before the game. How do you get out of that? How do you say no, no, no, no. I don't actually want this done. And what were they planning?

Speaker 1: 10:03

on doing the doctor. The third opinion said I needed an appendectomy and he said everybody those are his words everybody gets their appendix out at some point in their life, so he didn't know that. I had about four years of medical device sales where I was working in hospitals and selling to doctors and educating them. I got to know doctors very close and personal and everyone is different and I really appreciate Western medicine and I also know that they're trained so little in the nutrition category and in that finding the root problem. They're really good at putting band-aids on and triaging and we need Western medicine and it's really good.

Speaker 1: 10:53

I don't want anyone to think that I'm talking down to it because it's necessary. However, functional medicine goes in the direction of what is the root problem, so they're not comorbidities. I had all these things that doctors thought were comorbidities but in actuality the root was my gut and 95% of all autoimmune diseases from the gut. So, going back to your question, I had experience working with doctors and knew that they were human and that they could make mistakes and that they weren't educated properly and different types of healing modalities, and I also was coming into a phrase that I love today, which is no is a complete sentence and tuning in to that little voice inside that is so easy to push away that I had pushed away my entire life, that little gut feeling that I was just like, oh, this is uncomfortable, but yes, I'll do it. This is uncomfortable, sure I will. I didn't want to live like that anymore.

Speaker 1: 12:00

I felt like it was at that moment that I had to be my own personal advocate, which is why I call myself a personal wellness advocate because I want to advocate for you and to help you find your voice and to cut through the confusion and bring clarity to all the information that's out on social media and it's out there, and there's so many different opinions and, when it comes down to it, it's very simple eating non-inflammatory, practicing mindfulness meditation, get your exercise, control your stress, do breath work, do have novel experiences, find things that light you up women, tap into your femininity and surround yourself with good people. So it's a lifestyle and it's not hard, but you do have to focus your mind and you have to really know what you want to go for and not just stumble along thinking you know, I'm going to try this and that like, be intentional.

Speaker 3: 13:05

There's a phrase that you and I are very familiar with and I'm going to share, and it's are you interested or are you committed? Think that that's something that's so important because, when it comes to taking care of ourselves, particularly, I would say, when it comes to nutrition, I think Americans don't do as good a job as they could, probably not as well as some of our European friend do. So walk us through, because I know that this is something that you do, and in fact, you have boot camps and courses that you do with your students that are interested in understanding what should be even going on my plate. What does it mean to have an anti-inflammatory diet? Can you walk us through what we should be eating?

Speaker 1: 13:55

Yeah, this is a long conversation but in short, I've kind of boiled it down to looking at your Omega 6 and Omega 3 as kind of a foundation and it's not everything, but it's something that we need to investigate. And Omega 6 is more inflammatory, omega 3 is more anti-inflammatory and our ratio of what we're eating should be a one to one or at most like a two to six to one Omega 3 ratio, which is why you'll see Omega 3s in the supplement section. Our American diet is so high in Omega 6 and most Americans are eating about a 20 to one ratio. And it's easy to do that because greens are extremely high in Omega 6. Nuts are high in Omega 6. Almonds are about 2000 to one. And so when you're eating gluten free and you think that you're doing something good for your body because you're not consuming gluten, the grains that you are eating in lieu of the gluten the rice, the white potato, the oat are all high in that Omega 6. And so it's creating inflammation in the body. So you're reducing one, but you're increasing it with another. So I like to just bring that into perspective, because people think, oh, I'm going to go vegan and I'm going to eat all this fruit and vegetable but and they're eating like some grains and so they're getting real abundance of the Omega 6, which is inflammatory. So that's just one angle of it.

Speaker 1: 15:31

A well rounded plate is important. Lots of greens. I do a green drink every single morning and this consists of. It could be lettuce and celery, mint, cilantro, parsley, and I always put sea vegetables, because sea vegetables contain the entire periodic table of elements and in the ocean, historically, cancer has not been there. In the animals it's not been manifested. There's a lot of pollution today, but they're living in a perfect environment of the periodic table of elements and so they found that if we can start incorporating that in, so I do put a little kelp and spirulina matcha powder and that's my drink. And then I'm big on bone broth. I think that's really important. Eating enough protein and good protein and the pesticide free eating is a real thing.

Speaker 1: 16:26

Trying to eat non-GMO If people don't know about glyphosate. In Vietnam, when they did the dust cropping, the Agent Orange, they killed vegetation rapidly so that they could build their camps. They could see the enemy and soldiers got this Agent Orange. Well, they saw a need for this and a use for it. They brought it back to the States this glyphosate and they package it in what we call Roundup.

Speaker 1: 16:53

So Agent Orange, roundup, glyphosate it's the same thing, and they've increased that in our food supply, which is why they've had to create the GMO seeds to withstand the glyphosate, and so this is why it's just infiltrated our food system, which is why Europe is a lot healthier, because they banned glyphosate and we haven't. We've increased the use, and so when you're getting the grains and you're getting the glyphosate and the GMO, it just really bombards the system. So be just being mindful and I never say you can never have anything, but it should be a lifestyle of a 90, 10, or an 80, 20, where most of the time this is how you're eating and to be mindful of that organic produce and grass-fed meat, free-range chicken, no hormones or antibiotics.

Speaker 3: 17:49

I'm just curious when Colette gets a sweet tooth, what do you go to?

Speaker 1: 17:56

It depends. I'm a baker. I love to bake Like I'll make my own chocolate. I'll make banana bread out of coconut flour and I put my chocolate chunks that I make inside of it. I love to do apples and I just cut them in half and core them and sprinkle some cinnamon on and put them in the oven and bake them, and it tastes amazing. You can also bake nectarines and I try to do nature's candy. That's my cheat, and one of the things that I've also made then bring into market is granola, and it's absolutely good. It hits that sweet, salty, low-inflammatory target and I can't wait to share it so that people it can help ease people's life, because when you're on the go and you do want something like, what do you get? That's it bars. I can recommend that to you, by the way. So if you're out and you're wanting something kind of sweet, those are some fruit. Those are really good ones to have to you.

Speaker 3: 18:57

That's wonderful, and when might we expect this granola to be available?

Speaker 1: 19:02

The plan is hopefully Q1. Stay tuned but, as we know, it always takes a little bit longer, but it's right around the corner.

Speaker 3: 19:11

So I'm excited and the early part of 2024, we are so excited about that.

Speaker 3: 19:16

I cannot wait.

Speaker 3: 19:17

Tell me a little bit about your overall holistic practices, because we know that you really do think about this as a body-mind-spirit approach, and I do think one of the things that I know about you, having spent some time with you and I've heard it lately just I think Serena Williams said I have great discipline in my life so that I can experience greater freedom, and she's like let me explain that.

Speaker 3: 19:48

I'm okay, knowing I need to be disciplined about what I put into my body, how I move my body, how I reduce stress so that I can enjoy my life to the maximum and have freedom there because I'm not feeling depressed and feeling uncomfortable and low on energy and fatigue. Tell me a little bit about your practices because I've gotten a little inkling about what you do. I mean, you have the benefit of living on the West Coast, having access to some really wonderful escapes to nature and mountains nearby, which is fantastic. But tell us a little bit about how you take that holistic approach in your own life, In discipline, as a way of actually creating more freedom in your life.

Speaker 1: 20:37

Yes, there is a saying that is, you can spend your life building your wealth and then spending your wealth to get your health. So for me, I have my why, my vision of where I want to be when I'm 100. And it's with my kids. It's living in a very well functioning body and I know that our muscle deteriorates the older that we get and we have to be on it and that's why I work out almost every day and wait three times a week, cardio, mat exercises and just doing things from home. I work out from home completely because that's one of the ways I can save time, like in Los Angeles, I'll save about an hour and a half in driving to a gym to do that. So I'd rather keep that hour and a half and do that at home. So that's a non-negotiable and I have non-negotiable so that I can be happier in life. And I know that if I don't get my sleep, if I don't exercise, I will start feeling bad. If I don't eat right, I'll start feeling bad. I think digging into your non-negotiables and what those are and they can iterate and you can add on to them as you go. And now one of the things that I do, I try to do at least once a week is cold plunging, and that's a non-negotiable. If I'm somewhere else and I can't get to the ocean or do a cold plunge, I'll do a cold shower. It invigorates my body, it gets my blood moving, it creates discipline to show myself that I can do hard things. And it's not fun, but once you get into it and you get out of it, you feel so good. So I think it's that the discipline of I don't want to go back to my suffering. I don't want to go back to arthritis and lethargy and not being able to show up for my children the way that I need to and should and want to, and that drives me to eat healthy, to eat clean, and I don't eat gluten at all anymore just because it really hurts my body. And don't you want to just like, try or just taste a little and it's just a no, like it doesn't call me anymore, because what calls me is knowing where I'm going and what's going to get me there. And I just have found workarounds. Everywhere I go in the world, I can always eat, I can always work out. I can't always have a green drink, I try. I have a little portable blender that I'll take with me and sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't and just healthy friendships and relationships. And I've learned that saying again no is a complete sentence.

Speaker 1: 23:36

I historically would take on people that were takers and I'm a giver and it's easy for me to be with 10 kids, like people drop their kids with me because I'm the pipe-piper of children and I don't mind that and I love it still, like I love being around kids, but when it was not reciprocated then it gets a little heavy. You're not feeling supported. So having people around you that were lifting me up too, and that beautiful dance and harmony of knowing what that feels like when you have that true, genuine support and just the big why Like so, my big, why drives my discipline, my happiness, just the root of me.

Speaker 3: 24:22

So we've often talked and I know this is pretty mainstream now, but we are really the average of the five people we spend the most time with. I will just say Collette is one of my fives and I have a large group of women in various circles that I have enjoyed. But on this journey, particularly in being a podcaster and an entrepreneur, we need to find friends who we have things in common with, and Collette and I really enjoy a friendship where we can call each other and say, hey, can I balance this idea for you? I'm going to give me your thoughts on this and just really help to bring the best out in you, and that's what I think we should think about. And we are on opposite coasts people, so don't need to have your top five in the same city as you. There are so many modern ways now we can communicate and connect and share ideas and provide each other support, so I'm so grateful to have you in my life, that is for sure.

Speaker 1: 25:24

I am so grateful and when we connected it was just like where have you been all my life, literally literally.

Speaker 3: 25:35

Tell me a little bit about your mindfulness practices and your thoughts on spirituality and connecting with a higher power.

Speaker 1: 25:45

This is a long one, but, in short, when I was going through a very difficult part in my life, I was raised with the belief that once you're married, you're always married and you don't get divorced, and that kept me in a relationship that I shouldn't have been in for 18 years, and during that I was trying to turn over every stone. Is it me, is it him, is it us? Like what's going on? And I did so much introspection and diving deep into really painful places. And then I had the toxic relationship and I had four and a half year old that finally went to sleep and a younger daughter that had chronic ear infections and then pressures of work and being an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1: 26:31

I went to a women's seminar. There I learned about meditation and for some people it might sound woo-woo but it's really not and it can be done in many forms. Some people call it prayer, but I feel that it's really just tuning in inside, almost like the part of it is doing a body scan and just filling like from your head to your ears, to your cheeks, neck, chest, stomach, all the way down to your toes, and checking in with yourself and breathing through it, and if you're feeling resistance and stuck and just like an uncomfortable feeling anywhere. Just stay there and breathe into it and be gracious, pay attention to that and really start tuning in to how you're feeling. So every morning I start with meditation, breath work and guess what? The mornings that I don't do that, I always have those days that are just a little bit harder and I've learned through time that it's always best just to stop, Even if my day has started late. I need to give myself five, 10 minutes just to come inside and to really just love myself and give back to myself first. So that is a non-negotiable mindfulness meditation and that helps me to be a more mindful person because I can be grounded and feel really present, like I'm present with you right now. My head is not elsewhere, it's right here, and so, whatever relationships, whatever conversations we're having, if we can tune into that.

Speaker 1: 28:08

And I also tell people to see how they feel after they eat and it surprised me the first time I started hearing what does it feel like to know that it feels good what you eat?

Speaker 1: 28:19

And I'm like that's a really interesting question because that's something that I naturally just started doing. So that's part of the mindfulness is mindfulness of your own body and if you don't know what it feels like when you're eating something that you shouldn't be eating or that you should be eating, and how does it feel like when you feel good after you eat something and you're not tired, then that's being mindful to yourself and it's not selfish to tune into you. And I know a lot of us were raised that you put everybody else first and you're kind of bottom on the totem pole. And while I believe in giving and being philanthropic, sharing and just helping others, I also know that doing it depleted is not good for anyone and especially not for me. So I've learned to tune in first so that I can give more and give back and love better, be a better friend, be a better boss, be a better person in the world.

Speaker 3: 29:19

I think that's so important to remind everyone. I also heard this over and over again now as I'm going to my own meditation journey and getting certified to teach meditation, and one of the things that comes up is the person who says I have no time to meditate, needs to meditate more. That was just a really interesting way to think about it. I was like but they don't have time. That is exactly why they need more time. It's almost like a quantum shift. When you're in that place, you actually have better ideas, you're creating more focus, you are problem solving better afterward and it is amazing. So I highly encourage.

Speaker 3: 30:04

If you don't think you have time for meditation, it's probably that you need to do that immediately. Take a few minutes. It's easy to do now. There's so many apps that are easily accessible on our phones. Even five minutes Start with five minutes the least focus, mindfully aware meditation are. In the beginning, I would be there going over my to-do list and thinking all the truth and then slowly I've gotten to a place where it's nothing. It really is this empty space where I connect with myself, one that now is an incredibly important relationship that we tend not to nurture. That connection to with yourself is that communion in meditation is a great way to connect with yourself.

Speaker 1: 30:52

It is and to really just tune in. If you're uncomfortable there, stay longer and ask why, and really be so gentle. If I can impart one thing is just be gentle with yourself. We all mess up, we're not perfect, but really love back that inner child and there could be some things that come up in meditation.

Speaker 1: 31:17

And I also wanna say that amidst the chaos, when you're going through the day and things are just happening, I can now just like I can go into a meditative state and I can see things from a different platform, a different angle perspective, and I can have like almost like a wisdom download into a situation that I couldn't have gotten on my own had I been like oh, I'm frantic, I'm looking at all this is going on and you can't see straight. But if you can like, in an instant, just get yourself into a very calm mindset, you can see things different, you can problem solve better, you get great downloads. I'm an inventor, I'm a creator and I think of a hundred things that I could change every single day and those downloads come faster and I love it. It's fun to see how you really can control your mind and what happens when you start paying attention to that and tuning in.

Speaker 3: 32:12

Yeah, I think it's incredibly important. We were actually on the phone yesterday. The world is becoming ever more complex and there's a lot happening. It's very heavy and there's this moment of where even central nervous system is really an overload. And I remember thinking, as we were talking I really need to walk, I need to go outside, it's in my body, I need to release it, I need to walk.

Speaker 3: 32:42

And it was so helpful. Instead of delving back into the situation that I was trying to problem solve and solve for I just put on a pair of sneakers and went for a really long walk and really calmed myself down so I could come back and go okay, how's the best way to respond to the situation? Where do we go from here? How do we move through this?

Speaker 3: 33:05

And it was so different and, conversely, when I was in the thick of things in the world of corporate, I often didn't give myself the permission to walk away from a situation and just go for a short walk. I would often be trying to solve in the moment and realize I sort of cut off my opportunity to think about the full range of potential solutions to a situation when I try to do that in the moment. So if you're finding yourself in that situation, perhaps take a moment, give yourself some grace to step outside of that situation. Go for a walk, go meditate, go exercise and then come back to it after, whether or not more downloads and more potential solutions come into light. Because you let it go for a minute, it's not that you don't care and it's not that you're not gonna respond, but that you can put the situation down for a moment and come back to it more grounded, more centered and more peace in your body.

Speaker 1: 34:16

Yeah, it can help us problem solve better. And to go back to the very first question of when I said it was being an integrity, it also means to every situation to say what is my part in this. Everything, everything that comes our way, we have a part in it and when we can be part of it and understand that, whether we wanna agree that we have had a part in it or not, in some way we are connected to be part of the solution and to think more compassionately, not to throw out judgment so fast and just to be present and look at it a little bit different.

Speaker 3: 34:53

Well and to think how it's happening for us and for us Could teach us. Yes, right, yes, dare to teach us. Or how is it? Yes, yes, and I think in the rush of modern times, we want instant solution to problems or things that are uncomfortable. We want to get out of the discomfort. And learning to sit with that discomfort for a little bit or set it aside and walk away and do something different and come back to it, it could be a good way to just see the situation with new eyes and more grace, and they seem coming up with new ideas on how to approach it. Right, whatever that is, whatever it is that you're working on, tell me a little bit about. I know you love nature. I know you grew up on a farm. I know you were often at the ocean because you live close, because you're in Santa Monica, so you're right there near the ocean, and so you're often walking. Tell me about nature and maybe how you connect to spirituality in that sense and how it ruminates for you in this particular season of your life.

Speaker 1: 36:04

I can go so many directions with that. And when I'm in nature I often think this tree. If you're in the Redwood Forest, this tree has been here for hundreds of years and how many people have touched it and walked through here and it's provided shade and comfort or whatever like. It's connecting me and I love to take my shoes off and put my feet on the ground and fill the grounding and just really connecting in filling the negative ions coming off the ocean and smelling the flowers, the herbs, just being able to have this escape. It's a meditative escape. It connects me and allows me to go deeper within myself and I need it, like I need water, I need nature. I need to connect because it does give me that.

Speaker 1: 36:57

I guess you could say it's a spiritual aspect, in a sense of a reverence to nature and all that it gives to us. It's a reminder to you that even after a wildfire, you drive through areas and naturally everything grows back and more abundant and green and you can still sometimes see those marks from where the fire were on the trees, but around it is lush green. And it's the same with us, like our bodies are so resilient. And it's inspiring to look at nature, think, okay, like our bodies are the same, like they're gonna come back, and we can have those scars, whether it's mental or physical, and there can be an abundance that grows around us and those scars can be reminders of where we came from and what we went through. Look how we're thriving today. So I think that answers your question and you can ask me more around it if you want.

Speaker 3: 37:52

Well, I think what I'm gonna do is just thank you for coming on the show today, because I'd love you to come on again when your product is available and we can talk more about it. I think that's gonna be an exciting moment and time for us to see what you have been working on for a long time and tell people how they can find you, collette.

Speaker 1: 38:16

You can find me on Instagram is probably where I'm most active right now. It's at wellnessbycollette, my website, wellnessbycollettecom. I am on LinkedIn I'm not super active there, but I know I need to be and just shoot me a message If you have questions. I do work with people one-on-one. I have my podcast where you can listen to it's Limitless Healing with Collette, and I share everything that we talked about today, and I have guests that share their stories of how they healed and they're beautiful and there's tips on wellness. It's a passion project that I feel that everyone should be able to have access to. So thank you for having me, Michelle. I really enjoyed this time.

Speaker 3: 39:04

Well, I just want to also just say everyone asks me, as a podcaster who has her own baby and a podcast, what do I listen to? And I will tell you wholeheartedly one of the podcasts I listen to religiously is Collette's Limitless Healing, so please give it a follow. It is really a lovely, lovely podcast, chocked with just goodness, and I really appreciate all the work that you're doing and all the techniques you're putting out in the universe. So we'll make sure all the links to how to connect with Collette are in the show notes. But, my dear friend, thank you for coming on the show today. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, your wisdom and your knowledge and your story with us. I love you to pieces and I cannot wait to see what comes next.

Speaker 1: 39:50

Yes, I love you, Michelle. Thank you so much. I so appreciate your time. Until next time. Thank you for listening to today's episode.

Speaker 2: 40:01

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