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The Silent Puppeteers: What's Really Controlling Your Health Decisions?
Are you tired of feeling powerless over your health? In this eye-opening conversation, hosts Jocelyn and Marie unpack the many ways we surrender control of our wellness to external forces—often without even realizing it.
The hosts challenge listeners to examine where they've relinquished health autonomy: to family traditions around comfort foods, social pressures at gatherings, medical professionals without seeking second opinions, and perhaps most significantly, to the tyranny of time itself. Our society's obsession with speed has created unrealistic expectations for healing and recovery, leading us to seek quick fixes rather than sustainable solutions.
Ready to stop giving away your power and start trusting your body's wisdom again? This conversation will inspire you to take the first steps toward genuine health autonomy and discover what happens when you become the ultimate authority over your wellbeing.
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Good afternoon and welcome back to Awakened Wellness. Marie is joining me here. My co-host and I am Jocelyn, and the show today is what do you let control your health? That's quite a mouthful, and I'm just shortened it to what control? Art just shortened it so it fits on the screen, which is great. I'm guessing we let an awful lot of things control us that we should never, ever, ever relinquish. Oh, you're going to be shocked. Oh boy, but before we jump, in.
Speaker 2:Do we have feedback Recaps? We don't. We don't want to lose that. Okay, I have a client who's got osteoporosis and weak muscle tone and everything else and she had a car accident. Somebody rear-ended her and she got two fractures. Oh, the interesting part of the story is she's somebody who doesn't again again like Western medicine much, so she does tons of alternatives. So the practitioners immediately put her on all types of anti-inflammatories to help. So she goes to see the surgeon, the orthopedic, and they immediately took her off of all of them, because the bones naturally becomes inflamed and there's enzymes in the inflammation that heal the bone. And she had gone months and the bones weren't healing because she was pumping so many supplements into her body to reduce the inflammation Okay so it was totally working opposite.
Speaker 2:Right, so acute medicine and, you know, chronic medicine don't always mix. And she was devastated and I had to show her the studies and print them out and explain to her what the doctor was saying. And she was devastated and I had to show her the studies and print them out and explain to her what the doctor was saying because she was dead set that these alternative practitioners knew what they were doing. I go, but they're not acute medicine, they don't deal with acute medicine.
Speaker 1:And when you say acute medicine, you're meaning there's a-.
Speaker 2:A broken bone, an immediate surgery, those kinds of things.
Speaker 1:Right that it's immediate, it's acute, it's a big deal as opposed to something that's been going on for a while.
Speaker 2:Alternative is way better at chronic, western is way better at acute.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, the next one. Again, it's a humbling situation because we're in such a quick fix mentality that we just can't stop our minds from thinking everything should just rectify like that. Well, this woman blew her back out and I told her that she slipped a vertebrae, meaning she's got a little what's called spondylolisis, and she wasn't happy with me and I said you need to just, you know, work with your doctor, your chiropractor, and you need to just walk right now until it gets figured out. Well, I need to go to the gym. I said you need to walk. And she was just so adamant about well, what can I do when I go to the gym? I said you can walk. So she goes down the whole list of exercises and I said no, finally, she keep emailing and emailing and finally I said your body will tell you what works. If it hurts, don't do it. So then I started getting the email.
Speaker 2:Every time I tried this, it hurt. Every time I tried that hurt. I can't. This is taking too long. Why is it taking too long? It's been two days.
Speaker 1:What? What is? What is that? What time period is too long? Could somebody please? Yeah, it depends on the person, doesn't it? And the injury People do not have the patience.
Speaker 2:They, they do not. They do not because it's supposed to just fix itself and they don't have time for it. You know, and I was talking to my friend who's a functional medicine practitioner and she has people coming in two days on a cold and this and they're just they've had enough and she's just like the body needs time to regroup and heal and she's so overwhelmed that people just think it should just go away, that they should take something and it should just go away. But we've programmed ourselves into it, hence the show Correct, because we've decided everything should just be a pill and it's going to fix itself, whether it's a supplement or a drug. Yep, we don't want to do the work.
Speaker 1:Well, everybody's so quick to. It's a disease. Well, it's dis-ease within your body and, oh my gosh, I've got this, I've got that. That's your body getting rid of, whatever the problem is. And you need to be patient because if you're taking these pills and doing these, you know quick fixes. Your body hasn't gotten rid of, dealt with, decided what it wants to do. You're actually taking this perfect machine. People may hate that word, but you're taking this perfect human, this perfect thing that's you, and you're disrupting it by not letting it, sort of the computer, go through its checklist. You're not letting your body go through and decide. Well, I need this because it'll tell you.
Speaker 2:Right, this last person again. It was a humbling experience for her as well. She was ice skating and she broke her elbow oh ow, yeah. So she went to see an orthopedic and he told her she needed to have a pin put into it, but she'd only have 60% mobility at the end. But it was really vital that she had to do it as soon as possible. So she got frustrated. She got a second opinion and, as she's with the second opinion, they're backpedaling and he's just sitting there. Well, I can see where he's coming from. And she says I don't want you to see where he's coming from, I want your opinion. What would you do? He goes I wouldn't do the surgery. So then he does the MRI. There's no surgery warranted at all, except for in the wrist, because she had torn ligaments in the wrist and the bones are out in the wrist. So now she still needs surgery. But she's so upset that had she went with the first opinion, she'd have a 60% limitation on her elbow and it wasn't even needed.
Speaker 2:And now her elbow is actually moving and working since it's been quite a few weeks now, right, and she wanted to know how can one doctor say one thing and one say the other? And it's this show in a nutshell, because there is. So you have to have your radar on when you're sitting there, because you're only getting the interpretation of what they learned and what they believe Correct. There is no one thing that works. Yep, it's what they believe will work for you, but do you believe it will work for you?
Speaker 1:And it also, per their expertise, what you know, what they've become their complete focus on, and again they don't know you. And again they don't know you. And if you're not giving your body a little bit of time to shake that right, but shake out what's going on, yeah, because it's acute medicine, so you have to kind of go with it. I mean, you can't go on forever, but you can at least take a deep breath how interesting it happens all the time that you get different opinions.
Speaker 2:That's why people are so afraid to go get a second opinion when they don't agree, because then they have to decide, you should.
Speaker 2:But they think that their doctor should already know. But if it doesn't feel right, walk away and then go back. If you get a second opinion and his now feels right, if that's what you need to do, but don't ever do it if it doesn't feel right. Right if that's what you need to do, but don't ever do it if it doesn't feel right, because something inside of you is saying you need more information and again that inner voice, the awakened, that is what we all need to drive us, because we all have one.
Speaker 2:We just stopped listening, and that's hence this show that we have given control in so many aspects that we have no idea.
Speaker 1:We've allowed people to say you don't have that voice.
Speaker 2:We've allowed people to say you don't listen to that and what's driving the show for me are the weight loss shots and how much that they're a result of how much we've given away the power over time from all these other areas that we're going to talk about, that now we can't even see how we're being manipulated Correct and it's dangerous. It's very dangerous 24-7. And these are forever. You got to really think hard before you put something forever that you're not even sure the long-term side effects of this.
Speaker 1:Well, they've been around for less than a year, right.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, what do we give away our power to? We give our power away to well if we're talking about this show, we give it away to doctors and insurance companies and health care.
Speaker 1:Oh, ok, back up, all right, ok, we give it away to family with their opinion.
Speaker 2:Just what we believe is right from what we learned growing up comfort food because we believe that's right.
Speaker 2:Even though it's comfort food and it was. Most of it was at a time when there wasn't a lot of money or a lot of resources and we have more, better nutrition now, we still eat those things because we believe they're life okay. So we give that inside of ourselves more power than our health. That grits and fried chicken is better for us because we grew up with it. Not true Right? Not true Correct. That was what was available at the time. A lot of people didn't have money, so you calories, fat, whatever you had. That doesn't mean that that's where you should be at now.
Speaker 1:And certainly not at a different age in your life. That can change as well, right.
Speaker 2:Family traditions with family and gatherings right. You give a lot of power away there. I'm the one that brings the healthy option because I just can't eat them. Right. For years I was chastised and I know people all the time that eat them because they don't want to upset their family and they don't want to be singled out as that person. So you're giving away your power, correct? You shouldn't have to make excuses for wanting to feel good.
Speaker 1:Correct. And that's like going out to eat. I find I don't go out to eat as much because I don't have control of what the food is, but I also know that it upsets my stomach or whatever. So I'm not giving that power away anymore and if I do like you, I will bring a healthy alternative. I will look for healthy alternatives, without being, you know, a stick in the mud, but yeah, we do. Oh, that's okay, it's just a little bit, you can have that. It's just once Our.
Speaker 2:It's okay, it's just a little bit, you can have that it's just once Our emotional connections to food. We give away our power to our emotions all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that chocolate bar All right, yeah, friends in social circles, we give away power to them all the time, yep, yep. All the time. We're afraid of feeling judged. I know, for years I was judged and they told me I ate rabbit food, and I ate this, and I ate that, and I stood tall because I wasn't going to make it through a day. But I know people who cave all the time because their spouse wants to go for pizza and a beer. Go for pizza and a beer.
Speaker 2:But maybe eat a salad if you can't eat the pizza, right, but still go, yeah, and well, he wants to share it with me? Well then, he's not looking out for you. You gotta look out for you. Take if it really bothers you that much. If it doesn't bother you, eat it, I don't care. But we, we give it away all the time because we don't want to upset others, and then we're down for a week or two. Um, the medical system, right. We give away our power to them all the time. Like I said with that woman with the elbow, right, she was afraid. What if I had done that?
Speaker 1:Well, always thinking like in the acute injuries. I understand going to the ER, but again we need to decide is this an acute injury or not an acute injury? That, when you're working on the ambulance, medicine is?
Speaker 2:more than acute too. I mean, you have your preventative care and all of that. But I know so many people say the doctor said. The doctor said I said well, what do you think? What do you think? Well, I would rather. Well, maybe you should investigate that. So it's not about not listening to the doctor, it's about taking it in and saying is it right for me? Not because you don't want to do it. I mean, he wants me to eat right, I don't want to do it. I'm not saying that Right, because we all have that little stubborn side and stuff. But if he says you should start eating right and you say I don't know what that is, well, maybe you should go investigate that and figure it out, versus just shut down.
Speaker 1:Right, right. Well, I know I ran into it a lot on the ambulance and working 911 and you'd show up at somebody's house. Well, the doctor said I need to come in right now. Why, what's going on? I threw up 10 times, 20 times and again giving that power away and not dissing on the doctor. But if you don't have all the facts, you know we need to keep our ERs for emergencies and the medicine is treating symptoms, not causes.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we're giving that power away too, because we're allowing ourselves just to be treated for symptoms and not trying to find the cause.
Speaker 1:Ie refills for 13 years, 15 years, 20 years. Sometimes it's something.
Speaker 2:I would say 89% of the time. It's something we're doing that we can mitigate. Sometimes you're just not well and you have to take the meds for life. I'm okay with that. But if you can mitigate it, do you really want to be on that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pharmaceutical companies we give a lot of power away from to them. But you know, and this is my pet peeve, Everybody complains to me about the pharmaceutical companies and their drive. But they wouldn't have any drive if we didn't need it or ask for it, or take it.
Speaker 2:We give them the power by not self-caring. Yeah, we give them free reign to become opportunists over our weaknesses, because we're choosing to stand tall and I don't want to care for myself.
Speaker 1:I can't have my cold for two days. I need it gone. I need that pill.
Speaker 2:You're exactly right, and I don't want to eat right, so I need my diabetic meds. I don't want to eat right, so I need my heart meds. I need my high blood pressure meds. Sometimes you need them and you can't mitigate it, but 89% of the time we are driving them to create these weight loss drugs. We're driving them to create. They don't make money off of ALS. That's this very rare illness. They make money off the masses of things they can get people to take all the time. So you can be mad at them all they want, but we're giving them the power. Yeah, we give them the power by not caring for ourselves. So stop being mad at them and look in the mirror and say am I giving them?
Speaker 1:am I enabling them?
Speaker 2:am I giving them power over me? That's all you have to do, and what's going to happen is what happened to chicken in the grocery stores. We now have all kinds of organic versions we never had because people stopped buying it.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:We drive everything in our choices and we're allowing all these things to multiply because we do not want to look in the mirror. It's all on us. You can blame them all you want, but if we do not self-care, they have all the pull. We're like puppets.
Speaker 1:And it's the same with food. Well, you know, I don't have time to cook, I don't have time to this, I don't have time to that. So TV dinner started, blah, blah, blah, and we gave the power away for what our food sources would be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, yeah. How about your alternative practitioners? Same thing, right yeah, the supplements are driven by money. They're educating the practitioners. The practitioners are treating you for all these things that you don't want. To self-care on Correct they're a billion dollar. To self-care on Correct they're a billion dollar industry. Oh, absolutely, absolutely Same thing. Does that mean they don't have a place? Of course they have a place, but we give them way too much of a place.
Speaker 1:We put them up here.
Speaker 2:Everybody thinks if I take this, I don't have to do that. If I take that, I can eat that.
Speaker 1:If I take that, I'm going to feel that and I can do my research on TikTok.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying we are giving away the power to all of this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah. So it's become very overwhelming on what self-care is and they're all doubling down on us because we're so confused. The diet industry oh my God, they love us because they know New Year's Eve they are going to double down and make a ton of money off of all of us that didn't self-care all year and they know they've got 30 days to do it in Yep.
Speaker 2:January 30 days to do it and they double down on us and we just go, we eat it up like you wouldn't believe how many people sign up for the gym and then by February 1st they're done.
Speaker 1:Oh, the gym makes them.
Speaker 2:Planet Fitness's whole business plan is if you only charge $10 a month, people will never cancel it and never go, because if everybody who had a membership at Planet Fitness went, they'd never fit through the door. So their whole business plan is we know they're not going to show up because we know how you all think. Yeah, they double down on us all the time because we do it. We give these people the power. We're so mad at them all the time. Yeah, but don't give them the cookie.
Speaker 1:I like it. Take away the cookie. That's funny. I watched in January is jam packed and then maybe April, but definitely May is jam packed because it's right before summer my and I are regular gym goers and come January 1st I said to him.
Speaker 2:I said I think we need to start reserving our bikes again.
Speaker 1:Because we can go to.
Speaker 2:Spain class the rest of the year and not have to care, but that first month you better make sure you're not getting into class. And then by the third week it's gone. It's gone, Yep, it's gone. But they made a heck of a lot of money on all those people that walked through the door and didn't follow through and they're not going to. They signed on for a year, For a year.
Speaker 1:And they're going to forget. And it's $100, $120. So it's no skin off their nose at that point, yep.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's just how we roll and we just keep pointing fingers and getting madder and madder, but without us they have no power. Yep, so the next person who says something about the pharmaceutical companies. I say to them why are they so strong? Why are you?
Speaker 1:buy their products and you allow them. My grandmother once said to me when you point at somebody, you've got three pointing back at yourself, and that's what we're not dealing with. Yeah, so we all have to.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so for me. We talked about this in the last show, so I'm going to double down on you and not caring for yourself and saying to you if you want to care for yourself. You can fund me now, absolutely Right, and this is going to fund more research into helping us take care of ourselves.
Speaker 1:Fund yourselfhelp, stop funding someone's version. You know, and you can be interested. I mean, look, look at your foods, don't go crazy, because you know we there's a lot of junk out there. But if it, if you are totally approaching what you eat, how you eat, when you eat, in a very positive manner, that you're balancing it per what your body can tolerate, what it can eat. You know what you're allergic to, not allergic to incorporate it into the book, but tell yourself you're nourishing yourself. Tell yourself, don't be negative. I hate this, it's not gonna work. You have to nourish yourself and be positive.
Speaker 2:The last one that I forgot. I just saw it.
Speaker 1:This is the most important one I knew.
Speaker 2:there was another one, yeah, the most important one, okay, the one that is controlling us the most is the clock. Oh, the clock, the clock, time, time, because we want everything yesterday.
Speaker 1:Oh Right, I'm like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Because we are in this huge energy wave. Three seconds on a website, right? Yeah, three minutes in a video. Anything longer than three minutes in a video, youtube will tell you you'll never monetize Because nobody will watch you over three minutes. That's why I don't do so. Well, because my videos are longer than three minutes, because I can't give you your answer in three minutes. Three minutes, right minutes Right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's why, as an early morning riser, I have all my shows and I lay there and I do my exercises as I listen to a half hour show, Just FYI, Right.
Speaker 2:So the beginning the recap with the lady with the back right. She wanted it yesterday.
Speaker 2:She doesn't want to take the time. I had another guy. He was on a vacation, he, his appendix, his appendix burst, so he ended up in a hospital in new york. And he comes in because his kids tell me that he just had appendicitis and it burst and stuff. So he, he comes into my office and it's been like five days, okay, and I'm like how'd you get here? Because I drove. I go don't you still have drains? Yeah, so it's not a big deal. I go, do you even realize you're? So I don't you still have drains? Yeah, so it's not a big deal. I go, do you even realize you're? So I don't know what you're making such a big deal out of. And he's mad at me because I'm making a big deal out of this huge abdominal surgery that he just had and that he had a seatbelt on and then he still had drains and he feels great, he's fine, it's no big deal, then why do you?
Speaker 2:have the drains? Oh, they just told me you had to have them. So he didn't have time for this. He didn't have time for this, he didn't have time to slow down for this and within a week's time he crashed because he was so fatigued. But we have to. The energy moves us. So we're being so pushed by the energy right now of quick fixes and the three second videos, whatever it is that it's spilling into all the other areas of our life. When your child starts talking, you cut them off. When your spouse starts talking, you cut them off. When you're in the car, you're cutting people off. So if we don't start taking a step back so this one step that you take with your health back, and start looking at the bigger picture, all that stuff is going to slow down.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, all of it's gonna slow down, instead of being in a continual 24 seven race Because we're all in this continual, yeah, rat race, yeah, it's a total race.
Speaker 2:So we have to slow down.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's hard to slow down and it's even harder to stop. But once you do it a couple of times, it actually there's a little voice in the back of your head that goes did you consider stopping? Did you consider just taking a step back? And I've often said someone said, oh, I'm just so aggravated. I'm like go hug a tree and they're like I can't believe you said something so ridiculous and stupid. I'm like I'm telling you, go over to that tree, put your head on it and just breathe. And I can't tell you how many people have said what is going on with you and it's I said it's taking time to breathe the air, it's allowing nature to ground you. And you may think that's all weird stuff, but look at what we're surrounded by Electricity and microwaves and all this stuff necessary for life. But you don't have to embrace it 24-7. You can unplug, ergo that you need to unplug.
Speaker 2:Go read. So the key is what are you giving your power to? And that is everything. We all give it away every day to everything.
Speaker 1:And we actually need to let it come out here, change your mind, stop and come back in and just start learning about you.
Speaker 2:But if you start with your health, which is the most important piece of all, of it the rest of it will all fall.
Speaker 1:Well, isn't there a saying if you don't have your health, you have nothing. Not all the money in the world can buy you your health, is it? I'm thinking that's a t-shirt.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just because.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you don't have your health, money isn't going to fix it.
Speaker 1:The only thing money will do is if you're dead serious about it. You're going to eat the better foods and you'll exercise and you'll do a few things. You're relying on it, but it isn't everything. You can accomplish all of that on your own.
Speaker 2:And it's baby steps. Everything's baby steps, and in here we talk about how you can start charting down where your health's at what you're trying to accomplish. Just take the baby step gives you a million ideas of what you can do to help yourself, versus just thinking there's only two ways to do it, or you don't even know how to get started.
Speaker 1:You don't know how to get started and I think that's the biggest problem with most people and they try to keep it mentally. And what I really like in looking at this book is that you can write it down. And what really struck me, being an EMS for so long, was that writing down the meds and vitamins and whatever you're taking, writing down what it's supposed to do and then writing down what the side effects are so that you can actually go. I really felt awful and I liked how you explained that. Make a little tick mark by it, actually visually, look at that and check in with yourself.
Speaker 2:Now you can check in, it could be something is one of your meds gives you nausea and you don't know what to do about it. And you read fresh ginger or something and you have ginger tea after you eat and the next thing you know, you feel better every day because you recognize that your med was giving you nausea, you recognize there was a way you could mitigate it and then all of a sudden you have more energy to do all these other things you couldn't do because you mitigated that one side.
Speaker 1:Exactly. You empowered yourself by following a few simple steps so that you could identify it, which is the same thing that the doctor does. He writes it down and take this. Take that If you've already got that. Look at what's going on. I love it. I'm so proud of you, seriously so proud of you. I just write the book over Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2:I'm a five o'clock riser, I am too, and I just sit 5 o'clock riser, I am too, and I just sit there and just kind of play and the ideas just keep flowing, and then by 6 o'clock I'm done and I just move on. And it happens pretty quick when you're just sitting there, kind of letting the energy flow. And it's not a burden to me because it's what I enjoy doing when I wake up.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm an early riser. I get more done early, early in the morning. My brain is sharpest first thing in the morning, yep.
Speaker 2:Come six o'clock.
Speaker 1:I'm a little wishy-washy. I can't profess.
Speaker 2:I enjoy creating. I enjoy creating.
Speaker 1:I like it and we should all enjoy creation. We're one of the greatest creations ever I'm doing pottery now, and it's a wormhole for me.
Speaker 2:Oh is it, yeah, like those reels. And it's a wormhole for me? Oh is it, yeah, like those reels. It's a wormhole. I never watched reels before, other than exercise ones.
Speaker 1:Now you are.
Speaker 2:I'm a pottery reel wormholer yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, the ideas are endless. Yeah. So now I got to get a kiln, I got to get everything. I love it. Well, stay tuned, because between the reels and TikTok and all these little fun things again. They're fun, Don't be afraid of it. Enjoy it, Smile, laugh. And remember you are perfection and you got to listen, so thank you for joining us. Thank you, marie, and I am Jocelyn. We will see you next time and don't forget, grab these books and send in your comments and questions. Have a great day, thank you.