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“Awakened Wellness”, where self-discovery meets purposeful, lasting change.
Navigating a complementary and alternative medical system can be overwhelming and less successful than most would like. There is so much information out there to help us; why are we having such a hard time finding the correct information for us? This show will delve into all types of medicine, debunk the myths of what we have been programmed to believe, and, best of all, educate us on how to become our own healers by using all the information, medicine, and the innate healing abilities we are all born with. Be open to all possibilities in healing! To learn more visit awakenedwellness.life, It's a community of sharing and learning together. You can also find my book The Missing Piece to Health and Aging Gracefully on Amazon.com
“Awakened Wellness”, where self-discovery meets purposeful, lasting change.
Crafting Personalized Paths to Wellness and Empowerment
What if true wellness wasn’t just about diet, exercise, or quick fixes—but about understanding the deeper connection between your body, mind, and choices?
In this episode of Awakened Wellness, I introduce my latest book, The Pathways to Wellness – A Self-Help Guide, a transformative journey that empowers you to take control of your healing.
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✔️ The difference between surface-level health and true wellness
✔️ How intent behind your choices impacts your well-being
✔️ The mind-body connection and how emotions influence health
✔️ Practical self-care tools for daily healing
✔️ How to move beyond self-limiting beliefs and step into empowerment
✨ Healing is not a one-size-fits-all journey—it’s about learning to listen to your body, trust its wisdom, and create lasting wellness.
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Good afternoon and welcome to Awakened Wellness. Marie and myself, jocelyn, are glad that you could join us. We had a couple of months off. We had Thanksgiving, we had Christmas, we had the New Year's, and so we are back and on schedule. And Miss Marie has been absolutely busy. I'll throw it out a little early, we'll talk about later, but she wrote a book over the holidays. What did I do? I made muffins. So you know, you can just see what I'm dealing with brains and everything over here. So I'm going to have to get busy, I guess. Welcome back, happy New Year. So glad to have you. I know our first show is going to be Pathways to Wellness, but, as usual, recaps. We've got recaps. People sending you messages, questions, notices. What have they been saying?
Speaker 2:The first one is an awareness of somebody. She had a major surgery. She had her shoulder replaced oh, that's big. And in doing that because she's somebody who more frequents alternative medicine than the Western model of medicine she had her own ideas of how everything should work out Okay, and how the rehab should work out. So from the day she had it done, she didn't like what the doctor was telling her. She was trying to go against all of that. She had her own way of thinking how it was going to rehab and unfortunately she was misguided.
Speaker 2:Oh dear. Because the awareness that she's had to come to terms with is one part of medicine is very limited and the other one is so broad that you think anything goes Okay. And when you are living in both worlds but not seeing them for what they are, it can really take you on a sordid path, okay. So the awareness that she had to have that this was major, this is life-changing, there's always going to be side effects and it's not that instant gratification that she thought is just wow. But she's not the only one. I see it all the time because we're just too out here thinking anything's possible and then we're so limited here and we're mad at this system all the time but we don't understand. There's a middle, there's always a middle and we have to keep bringing ourselves out here on the edges.
Speaker 1:We need to come together.
Speaker 2:We need to understand what we're allowing to happen to us and why they say to do the things that they do.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we both had a friend that had shoulder surgery as well, and that was an interesting journey. So what else have you been?
Speaker 2:told. So I had another client and this is kind of a sad story because it's again, it's the difference between the two medicines blending. So she's recently been diagnosed with breast cancer but she's been always doing more the alternative route and she's had a lot of health issues and emotional issues and she had a major concussion. And then she has PCOS, which is hormonal issues, and she's had a lot of inflammatory issues and everything else. So she finally, because the alternative world wasn't really helping some of her issues, she went the Western model and she did hormonal therapy and she felt the best she ever felt in her life. She got diagnosed six months later with breast cancer and the alternative practitioner, whom is a Western model, pretty much blamed her because of the hormones caused it. Model pretty much blamed her because of the hormones caused it.
Speaker 2:And my heart sunk because this poor woman thinks she wronged herself in so many ways. But she said it was the first time I felt good in 15 years and I had a life and I had to explain to her how there were so many other reasons and nobody knows exactly why and that was unprofessional and uncalled for because we're extremists. So again we got to go down the middle and what this woman did to this woman, who was already suffering, and putting that blame on her, is unforgivable. Yeah, because this is a professional, but it's not the first time I've seen this, so again, that's why I'm bringing it forward, because we have to start really understanding that there is no real answer to anything and nothing is good or bad, and that you can't just put a blanket statement on something and put that kind of pressure on a person who's suffering.
Speaker 1:Right, you have to be open to when you know it start getting difficult. Sorry, sorry, sorry, people. We have to find out what's best for us without blocking out one or the other. We have to say what is really like you've said, go within, find out what makes sense to you. If that woman felt so fabulous, it's just devastating.
Speaker 2:But the alternative practitioner, who's also a nurse practitioner, believes that all drugs are bad, especially hormones. So she has her own theories. So in her mind it did happen. That is what created the breast cancer. So in her world maybe she's not wrong, in her mind right. But that's not the case, gotcha.
Speaker 2:Wow, so Way, but every side every practitioner has an ego and every practitioner has an opinion of how they interpret what they read. So, as a consumer, we have to match that with what we need, because you're never. As a consumer, we have to match that with what we need, because you're never going to find the perfect person, but you have to align with them. Correct, you have to align with them. Wow, this one is a nice story. It's one of more yucky stories. This one is a client. He has a 10-year-old son who's struggling a lot, but he comes from where his dad wasn't around and we talked a lot about it and what he understood fatherhood to be and I asked him why he wasn't taking his son hiking and ice fishing and all of those. And he goes well. He's not old enough. I go well, of course he is what's the right age?
Speaker 2:well, he doesn't know, okay, right. So the next thing, you know he did start doing that and he's just in awe of the relationship he's starting to have with his son. So he's breaking the patterns because he thinks, you know, that he must supposed to be older to do certain things.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So it's just kind of cool to see how he's learning a new way of being and it's paying off, breaking out of those chains, that indoctrination that we all have at so many varying degrees, that we need to be able to break those chains off and be able to see what is in front of us.
Speaker 2:And he's also been working more as a partner with his wife and seeing that you know, when you come from a broken home, people think you should just know these things. No, you don't, you don't know.
Speaker 2:So life is so exploratory and such a learning curve and that, unless it's come across for you to completely know that it exists, you don't know to do it, you don't know what you don't know. Well, it's a learning experience and I hear people tell me I'll think well, they should know that, they should know that they might not and it might have never come across their path or they might have never had the epiphany to understand why they should know that.
Speaker 1:Wow, or realize that it was different. So that's a cool story, that's a very good story, all right so going forward. Pathways to wellness. Pathways to wellness Okay, available on Amazon. So what?
Speaker 2:has driven this for me through the holidays is exactly the same reason that you talked to me when we first came in, saying your son was saying all these ambulances were being diverted from southern New Hampshire, st Joe's Down to Boston.
Speaker 1:Boston, Mass General and the main hospitals down there are taking in more ER patients than ever before from surrounding states no-transcript.
Speaker 2:Cmc had shut down their ER at certain times because it's such an overflow of what's going on in our health care and people keep saying people have to take better care of themselves. I get that, but what does that mean? Where does that start Exactly? Nobody knows. And there's so much information out there that you get bombarded with OK, I ate right today, so I must have done it. I did this, I exercised today, so I must have done it. But what does true healthcare mean? And what are you trying to accomplish to take care of yourself? What's the end goal? Right, and even my clients say well, I did this and I did that. I go, but you haven't added anything to this. Well, I don't know what I'm supposed to do, so this is what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1:Okay, the self-care guidebook and wellness planner right right.
Speaker 2:So it talks about what self-care is okay. Okay, we're going to get into that, but the whole thing is we need to have an answer and we need to have a way to help ourselves. So this may not be the perfect scenario. Somebody's gonna pick it apart and say you forgot this or you didn't add this or I don't like that. But everything that I give you is a way to spark something in you that you can figure it out for yourself too. And if you're doing my meditations of asking to see what you need to see every day and truly going inward, when you read this, you're gonna start having epiphanies of whether it's right for you or not.
Speaker 1:Well, I think, with the first book that I had gotten with you, it felt like it gave an option, a variable, and so then you could go oh well, what about this? Whereas you never had that little epiphany, you never had that little, that little seed to pick up and wonder.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, right. So we'll go over the table of contents real quick. So it talks about what your body within is and what you're trying to do in the meditation Understanding the whole balanced picture of self-care, of including your body, your mind, your spirit. Okay, it explains how uncomfortable you can get when you're trying to make changes, because that is life Change is really hard. Yes, it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we get into exercise. What does it mean to exercise? Does it have to be that aggressive? Do I have to go run? No, so it explains that movement is exercise and explains all aspects of it, all different varieties, how you can find options where you can get information and answers. Nutrition the same thing. We're not talking about a special diet. We're talking about just balancing what you're eating to understand your carb, protein ratio, to start to eat better foods, and then it will kind of fix itself. Okay, mindfulness, again what is? Do I have to sit and meditate? Some people can't meditate. So it explains all aspects of mindfulness, how it can help you, which ways that might serve you better than someone else.
Speaker 1:Right, there's no one answer for anything. There is no one answer. You don't have to stand on the circle and squeeze the Charmin and be fear mongering. You've got a whole list here and you can find what piques your interest, see the toolbox.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm getting to right now.
Speaker 1:See the toolbox.
Speaker 2:What's under mindfulness? Take a look at that.
Speaker 1:Breathing techniques, music therapy, singing, social support, laughing, smiling, meditation, laughing, smiling. So the other night on top. So I was telling you about a segment that I did. I did a lady segment and it was this gentleman, I think he was Australian and he was skip roping. But he was skip roping like I've never seen before. It was amazing, it was art and it was really fun to watch. But it calmed you down, it calmed me down, but it also made me think oh, I might want to try that. I'd probably trip myself and end up injuring myself, but it made me think.
Speaker 2:And then the laughing and smiling right after that came a couple of this guy doing some comedy and I realized I had not laughed in months for no reason, yep, so that was a mindfulness.
Speaker 1:I like that Nature, walk hikes, gardening, puzzles, painting, drawing, cooking, walking potteries endless. But that gets the juices flowing. It makes you think can I do horseback riding? It's not in there, marie.
Speaker 2:I put a disclaimer at the bottom. Yeah, anything that gives you a sense of peace, makes you feel more connected and, in the present moment, is mindful. It doesn't have to be sitting going. I don't want to think. I don't want to think, nope, can't think. That's not mindfulness, it's just being present in what you're doing, being part of it, understanding it.
Speaker 1:Smell the roses.
Speaker 2:Yes, pretty much. Hug the tree. So that's your toolbox. It's endless for exercise nutrition mindfulness.
Speaker 2:All that Cool, okay. Then I have a whole segment on connecting to your body and within access to my meditations. I wrote a couple of new ones for that, oh good. On connecting to your body and within access to my meditations I wrote a couple new ones for that, oh good. Um, the endless possibilities and healing. It talks all about that. We talk about the cab. Chaos breeds chaos and how to bring cabin to your life.
Speaker 2:If you need to de-stress a bunch of affirmations, you can use what they are. Why we have them? When you're overwhelmed for all those people who say I don't know what to do, I'm tired, tired, I'm depressed there's a list a mile long of things to try and ways to connect with yourself. And then there's also okay, I have a list. If you're on meds, write down your meds. Do your meds have side effects? Do you experience any of those side effects? So, if you do, what are you doing to try to mitigate that? Are you adding any of that? Because that's where a lot of the illness comes from. Is you have side effects but you're not paying attention to them and your body's wearing out Gotcha?
Speaker 1:And I think by writing them down. I think that's I like that idea that you've got them.
Speaker 2:There's an actual log in here to do that.
Speaker 1:Perfect, so you can write down your meds.
Speaker 2:You can write down and it tells you, and then the tools you're using out of these to try to help mitigate them. Then you have a symptom tracker. Okay For you shoulder pain, back pain, maybe sinuses. What are you trying to mitigate in your health? So, again, you're going to go look for those answers and add them to your daily program.
Speaker 1:And now it's right in front of you.
Speaker 2:You can look at it, so you know what you're trying to do, because people have dry mouth all the time, right? Then all of a sudden they get strep throat over it because they never did anything to mitigate it. You know, you might have ankle pain all the time and your swollen ankles. You never put your feet up, but I have swollen ankles all the time. I'm going to make sure I put my feet up once a day and make sure you check it off. Set yourself a plan. But it's not just nutrition, it not just exercise.
Speaker 2:It's your whole body, your whole picture it's your approach, it's your mind, then talks about goal settings, on how to set a goal, how to set up a program for yourself. So then you go and you fill out your goals according to what you learned about yourself with the meds and the symptoms.
Speaker 2:So then, you set your goals and then from there you have a log where you can do weekly plans. I've got a whole month's worth of logs in here that you can log and take care of yourself for a month, and then at the end there's a journal If you want to learn more about yourself. How did today go? Well, I hated this today. I really hated doing that exercise today. So tomorrow you try something different, Right and see if I learn about yourself.
Speaker 2:Even in the logs, the self-help parts, it tells you I did this today but I really didn't like that. Or I did the posture for life and I found my left leg wasn't moving right. Two weeks down the road you realize, oh my God, my left leg finally moves. I see that. So now I'm adding on to that. What can I do next? But it's a way to try to bring your health all into one place. Learn all the aspects of it and try to come up with your own program, because nobody there isn't a practitioner alive that's going to do that for you. No One of them's going to give you a supplement. One of them's going to give you a med. One of them's going to tell you to exercise but not tell you what to do, right? So if we want to stop backing up the ERs, because now they're talking, I think almost 50% of the entire population is obese, so everybody's being put on the weight loss drugs because that's going to stop all the health care costs from rising. So now we're going to be subjected to that. But that's a whole other show we're going to do. We're going to talk about that. So it's up to us to decide how do we want our journey to progress? Do we want to stay breaking down and end up in the ER constantly, or do we want to say, hey, body, what do you need? Right, take back the control. I'm going to learn about you.
Speaker 2:This may be painful in the beginning because I never thought to look at three areas of my life and make a plan. But you know, you do a daily check in. I love the daily check in. At night, I just lay there, I go. How did my day go? Oh my God. I was so stressed but I had my lunch and I sat and relaxed and my nutrition really saved me. I got my brain fog out of it and then I got back to work. You know, tomorrow I'm going to plan a little better because I know I have an even busier day. I'm going to make sure I have better nutrition. I have this and I have that. Did I get my exercises in? No, so I'm going to make sure I take time to at least go for a walk. You do a daily plan before you go to bed because you know what's going to happen the next day.
Speaker 1:Right, so you're not trying to jam it all in last minute when you get up. Oh, I should have, I could have Right, very nice. So, like I said, it's on.
Speaker 2:Amazon. It's on Amazon. I try to make it as affordable as possible. Like I said, there's a whole month in here.
Speaker 1:So you can really get started and start learning about yourself. And if you're going to do it for a while, I'd suggest you make a few copies on the machine and start off there, and then you can just continue to make copies of the blanks If I get some good feedback on my awakened wellness.
Speaker 2:I'll put up a feedback site just for this, and if people are doing it and they want me to put out just a small refill, I can do that as well. Yep, you know, I just don't want to bombard people with things but I'm more than happy to put out just the refill with the journal part, and all the charts in it too, that you can just refill once a month to do that I can also maybe go on to your um website and be able to download it there once they've already purchased the book.
Speaker 2:That's a great idea.
Speaker 1:I think that would be great to be able to go there and download the pages for you.
Speaker 2:That's a great idea so let's write that down you're welcome.
Speaker 1:I never even thought of that. It just popped into my mind that that would be a great place, sort of a thank you for subscribing and, you know, helping you go forward and helping all the people that could use this self-help and awareness and moving forward Right.
Speaker 2:And it's something fun you could do with somebody. Yeah, you know you could find somebody to connect with and say what did you learn about yourself Instead of, what are you eating today on that diet? What new recipe did you create? On that diet, did you lose 10 pounds? What did you learn about yourself today?
Speaker 1:Does your back, feel better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because nobody cares that you're in pain, nobody cares that you're struggling with your health every day, nobody cares that your breathing's off. But if you're doing it with someone else and you're kind of creating more of a self-help community for yourself versus Well, you might get some observations as well. Well, tell me somebody who's not in pain, yeah, somebody who doesn't have chronic pain or chronic illness.
Speaker 1:It's everywhere.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why our ERs are bogged down. Yeah, you know, like I said, it might not be the perfect fit, but I think it's going to be a way to point you in the right direction so you can start to learn more about your body and take back control.
Speaker 1:And what we're actually capable of healing ourselves. There's a lot of things.
Speaker 2:There's so many things.
Speaker 1:And we're, we're just been so indoctrinated and and and this is all you can do, you got to do. There is so much that you can do to improve yourself and it is mind over matter. It is Unless you know you've been in an accident and you know, cut your leg off or something. And I don't mean that to be facetious or anything, but there are some things you do need to go. But in the meanwhile you can figure out does that stretching help with that lower back pain? Does that, you know, walking around the block? Does that help with my endurance? If I, you know, eat a little bit differently, maybe I have my big meal at lunch. Do I feel better? Do I have less indigestion at night? Little, tiny things that we need to know about ourselves, especially when we go around pointing the fingers.
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny because my other project, as you saw. Yeah, okay, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So this is a funny story, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So probably about six or seven years ago my grandson, callan he's like one of those kids that bounces off of everything, jumps off of everything. So we were out for a walk and by the end of the walk he had fallen off of everything, tried to climb everything, you name it and then he was balancing on a curb and he was teetering and he was falling. And then I don't know if it was my husband or someone else said Callan, you need talons, like a hawk, because you're falling again. Yeah, so my oldest grandson and I started joking that we were going to write a kid's book on it the Callan, you need talons. Yeah, so about three years ago I wrote the book, but getting it illustrated was just a whole other expense with my work here and everything else. So I started playing with the AI. So I was able to illustrate it myself with AI. Oh, really.
Speaker 2:There's a positive about AI. Yeah, see, I did all the illustrations myself, oh nice, but it's really funny because I did it and it made me create a Discovering Me series on my website as well for kids.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Because the whole book is about children discovering how their body moves. So this is the step of what we need to do to get them to not have to deal with this later in life, because they'll already know their body, they'll already become more self-aware. So Callan in the story tries to act like he's a spider and mom says you're not a spider, you're a boy. And she explains why he can't climb a wall like a spider Because his hands do this. The spider's hands do that. The same as a monkey. The same as a monkey, an owl and a kangaroo, yeah. So he tries to act like the animal and do what the animal does, but obviously his body isn't designed like an animal.
Speaker 2:So I compare it to. So it's more of a learning curve, it's kind of a learning type book to help children start to connect with their body and learn how their body moves, so they have some sense of awareness, because as adults we have no idea. Correct People don't even understand when they're not walking correctly, when their balance is off, when their posture is off. So if we can start young. So I have one on nutrition I'm working on, and I have one on anxiety I'm working on as well, and I'm going to use animals again because nature is our best teacher.
Speaker 2:Correct Our best teacher.
Speaker 1:I mean, put a bird feeder in your backyard and just sit there. Yeah, but I want children to have a foundation.
Speaker 2:You know, my grandsons are very body aware. They understand how their body moves, they understand when it's off, and I'd like that for every child.
Speaker 1:It should be that way it should actually be taught in school.
Speaker 2:We need that more than some of the garbage that's there right now, but they have to understand that they have a body first Correct, Not just that they have a liver, a kidney and they have organs and a skeleton. What is their?
Speaker 1:body and what does it do and how does it serve them? Yeah, yeah, without getting too complicated. Exactly, kind of like that game operation. This is connected to this. This is connected to that.
Speaker 2:So this is kind of connected to that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2:And that's on the website.
Speaker 1:Callan needs talents. I love it. Grab on. Oh my goodness, this has been a fabulous show. I love this and I'm just I'm absolutely amazed that you were able to write this book.
Speaker 2:Well, it's been up here forever and I'm in the process of working with a functional medicine practitioner and we're doing a whole course on Parkinson's. That's our first course, so it's going to have everything from picking a practitioner to understanding what your how it's diagnosed, how the meds work, the alternatives that could work for it, all the things you can do for yourself to help it. It's going to be a whole thing that you can just sit there and click. Okay, I didn't know that. Okay, I didn't know that. How do I do this? And just a ton of resources versus it's one of the hardest things is very few neurologists. These people are going a year or two without seeing anybody. They are so lost in the shuffle right now I can't even tell you it's awful with the health care that we have, yeah, so if I can give them a way to start to claim back their power, I'm all in.
Speaker 1:I think it's absolutely brilliant. Appointments are nine months out. It's not going to be a quick fix.
Speaker 2:Nothing I'm giving anybody is a quick fix.
Speaker 1:But they're being empowered.
Speaker 2:I'm empowering you to take back your health, not to give it away. Yeah, not be reliant on that thing in the sky and I'm not telling you to do one thing, I'm telling you the whole picture. If you don't see yourself in a global way, you'll never be well Wow.
Speaker 1:It's just the way it goes, oh, my goodness. Well, thank you, I appreciate that, and Happy New Year everybody. You now have your homework, get busy, and we want feedback. Miss Marie wants feedback, because this is I love this taking your power back, empowering yourself to know who you are, what your body is and what you're capable of, and we are perfectly made. Don't ever forget that. See you next time.
Speaker 2:Thank you.