E137 | From Burnout To Balance: Leena's Story of Transformation

Stop chasing hacks that leave you more stressed and less hopeful. We sit down with Leena, a midwife and mom who did everything “right” and still felt trapped in insomnia, adrenal fatigue, and creeping weight gain. Her breakthrough didn’t come from a new supplement stack; it came from surrendering the solo mission, trusting coaching, and rebuilding safety in her body so real change could happen.

We unpack the early signs that something was off.... low cortisol from over-suppressing stress, thyroid strain, insulin resistance, and a constant hum of worry and how pulling back on “more” allowed recovery to begin. You’ll hear how we used targeted labs to guide choices, why we stopped certain supplements so cortisol could rebound, and the practical habits that made the biggest difference: protein-forward meals, strength training, gentle movement, light exposure, and consistent sleep windows. When the nervous system finally exhaled, Leena’s weight and blood sugar followed, and her energy returned in a way that felt steady rather than fragile.

The surprising catalyst was mindset work that wasn’t about “thinking positive.” We get into dismantling sleep catastrophizing, spotting worry as an energy leak, and using simple language shifts and nightly prompts to retrain reflexive fear. That mental reset changed her physiology: fewer spirals, calmer nights, and a body that started to feel safe enough to let go. Non-scale wins came first, better mornings, looser jeans, stable glucose... then the scale began to move. Along the way, Leena shares honest lessons on asking for help as a healthcare professional, trusting a plan long enough to work, and finding relief in not carrying it all alone.

If you’re stuck in the “I’ve tried everything” loop, this conversation offers a grounded path forward: align labs, habits, and mindset, and let safety lead. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to help more women find this show.

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introductions

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on the Renewating Health Podcast are solely those of the speakers and are intended as such. Please consult your trusted healthcare practitioner for medical advice. Let's go, girls. Hey ladies, welcome back to the Renewating Health Podcast where we talk all things, hormones, metabolism, and mindset. And I'm Lindsay. I'm your nurse practitioner and founder. And today we have like a fun, different episode. Coach Legan isn't here. Instead, we have Coach Allison and one of our amazing clients, Lena. And we're gonna dive in to Lena's powerful journey that she's been on over the past six months. Like I think she joined a lot for maybe some physical transformations, but she really had a very much like mental and emotional and physical um transformation. But we're super excited to chat with you today and hear your hear your story, Lena.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

Thanks. I'm excited to be here and to share my story. It's been kind of an amazing experience.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yay, yay, yay. So kind of let's just start from the beginning. Like when you first came to rejuvenating, um, what were you struggling with?

SPEAKER_03 1:23

Oh gosh. Oh my goodness. I mean so many things. And like how do I was struggling with um I had some insulin resistance, my blood sugar was high, um I had terrible insomnia, my hormones were really um I I'm 46 now. I from the time I turned like 40, 41 for those several years before, I had a lot of like kind of what felt like early like perimetopause symptoms, like some irregular cycles and um a lot of insomnia, depression would come, like super intense depression. Um, I was struggling with a lot of helplessness, uh, adrenal fatigue. I had like no cortisol left to spare. Um I was tired. I was on a sabbatical from my work because of adrenal stuff. I mean, uh, I think that's it. And over the course of those several years, I had I had gained, I just kept gaining weight.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

So yeah, I mean, I remember talking to you and like you weren't working because you just felt so awful. Like you were pretty much at your what's end of I can't go on living like this anymore.

Hitting A Wall Despite “Doing It All”

SPEAKER_03 2:36

I definitely was. I mean, I had intentionally taken the sabbatical, I'm a midwife, and so I I had to take like time off so I wasn't on call getting up at night and going to births and stuff, and um I took that time off because I was I knew that something had to shift. Like last fall I realized that I had the adrenal fatigue going on, and I just knew like this is not sustainable, something has to change. And so I took the six-month sabbatical for the first half of the year, which ended right when I joined the program, and I felt like I was worse at the end of the sabbatical than when I started it, and so I was really just like, what is I I it was so much hopelessness because I felt like I did all the things that should have worked, right? Like I was taking all the supplements and I was getting the rest and I had the sleep schedule down and I took the time off work. I did all of the stuff that you're supposed to do, and then I just it was like I felt like I was just spiraling like down, down, down.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Yeah, yeah. And you met with Allison first, like you worked with Allison for like a month before we even got your blood work back. And chime in, Alison, on like your perspective when you first met Lena, what she was going through.

Coaching vs. Just Bloodwork

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Yeah, well, Lena. Um, Lena has become one of my favorite clients. I'll just preface all of this um by saying that. Um, but yeah, Lena came in really. I remember one of the first things she said to me is I'm not one of those clients that doesn't do the stuff. Like I work out, I eat well, like I'm already doing everything right. I I it's just this blood work, I've got to get all this figured out. So she was coming in, kind of telling me, and she and she does, like she she does work out, she does eat really well. Um, she came in as a vegetarian, so that was an initial challenge that actually changed pretty quickly, all just on her own decision. I did not push anything on her, she decided. Um, but yeah, she came in and quite honestly, kind of a dark place. Um, that that feeling of hopelessness was very, very strong. And she mentioned, you know, depression. I feel like that's exactly where she was when we first started. So that was hard.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Yeah, I think a lot of I think you hit on a really key point there, and that we do get a lot of women that come to us, they're like, I'm doing all the right things. I just need the blood work. I just need you to tell me what's going on. So, from your perspective, Lena, like talk to me about why you didn't just need the blood work, but why you needed Allison as well. Yeah.

Surrendering Control And Trusting Help

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Yeah, I don't think I realized until I started working with Allison, or until I didn't realize until I joined the program what I needed at all. I think another piece of it for me, and I'm branching off, I'm not answering your question yet, but another piece of it. Like, so I was just kind of like, okay, well, I'll do these herbs and I'll see this person for thyroid medication, and I'll do like I was kind of just managing it all myself. And so when I came to the program, it was like I can't do this anymore. Like I have to like hand the reins over to somebody else. Kind of like almost like the way people come into 12-step where you're like, there's a higher power, like I'm not in control. Like it kind of felt like that. Like I was just like, I have to just trust that somebody else is like in control. So when I came in, um, I didn't even know, you know, like the health coaching part of it. I remember just kind of initially having like a okay, I don't need that. Like, I don't need someone to tell me how to eat. I don't need I lift weights, I exercise, I do all the stuff. Like, I don't need that. So I think initially I was like, okay, well, that's part of it, fine, I'll do that part, but that's not what I need. And then pretty quickly, once I decided to join, when I made the decision to join, I honestly kind of like the way people join 12 step. Like, I have a my best friend is sober in AA for a long time, and she talks about like the very first meeting she went to where she was just like, she just walked in and she's like, I'm gonna do whatever these people tell me. And when I came to the program and I finally decided to join, I was like, I'm gonna do whatever these people tell me to do, and I'm just gonna do it. So by the time I joined, I was like, sure, health coaching, great. I'm gonna talk to this coach, I'm gonna let her give me suggestions, I'm gonna be open, but um, I don't think I realized that it would be as helpful as it was.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Yeah, and I think that that's huge what you just said. Like you came in surrendering because a lot of people, like, I'm sure Allison can attest to this too. We work with a lot of women, and a lot of women don't come in and surrender, and they kind of battle us the whole way. And those are the women that don't get as good of results, right? Like, if you can get like, I don't know if you have anything to say about that, Allison, but yeah, I know that I feel that. I do actually.

Breaking The Spiral Of Overthinking

SPEAKER_01 7:48

No, I I do think you're exactly right, Lindsay, but even for Lena who decided I'm gonna do whatever the heck they tell me to do, there was still like this, that was still really hard for her. And a lot of our conversations were about, well, what about this? Well, I've been researching this and I was gonna try this. And it was, you know, it's it's funny now to look back on it because she's come such a far way. But she would like find one thing, and that was the obsession for the week. And it's like, well, should I be doing this? I feel like I should be doing this, you know. Um, and so we I called it spiraling. It's like we're you're spiraling into something that we've not discussed yet. This is not something that's come up for you. Um, but it was something that she felt strongly about, and we kind of just had to talk through that. And there was a that's hard to trust the process when you are used to handling it all on your own and doing your own research. You do have to surrender to it, and that's not easy. It's not like you decide right then and everything's perfect. There's still a battle that you're fighting, and that's why the coaching is so helpful because it helps you kind of there were several times that we would talk, and there would be like this aha moment where she would realize, like, oh my gosh, you're right. Like, I don't know how many times you would say that, and you would like take a pause and you're like, Yeah, that's right. And not that I had the answers, but it was helping her realize what she was doing in that moment and how that wasn't helpful for her.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

For sure. Yeah. Oh, sorry. No, go ahead. What when I mean this one thing that comes to my mind uh related to what you're saying, Alison, is I remember one time I was talking to you about um like wasting energy like related to my adrenals, like like how like wanting to kind of look at like where am I spending energy that maybe I could be conserving? And I was talking, and I just remember after I was done, I probably talked for too long and was just spiraling. And then when I was done, you were like, Well, do you think you spend a lot of energy worrying? Like, do you think that takes up a lot of your energy? And I was like, Oh my gosh, yes, obviously, but I wouldn't like so. I feel like through our conversations, there were all these little insights about myself. It was really just you observing things about me and then reflecting them back to me. And it was like, oh, that's a really good point. Like, maybe let's focus on that instead of this other direction that I was gonna spiral down by myself, you know.

Mindset Work That Goes Deep

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Yeah, and I mean like for me, you were I remember when we first started, I would get an email from you like every week, which is totally fine. And now I'm like, oh, I haven't heard from Lena. Like, you know, we eventually just started. Trust me, actually. Which is totally fine. I don't care if my clients email me, but I just remember that.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

Yeah, I said something very similar recently because Lena would message me multiple times a week, which is just how our relationship was, and that I knew, okay, if I don't reach out to her, she's gonna reach out to me like every single day, and we'd go back and forth, back and forth. But I know she's in a much better like mental state now. Like she's she's doing good because I don't really hear from her really that much. I mean, anytime I reach out to her, she always responds back, but there's never this like, okay, I need to talk about this. This is where I'm at right now. Like, she's come a long way.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah, yeah.

unknown 11:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

I mean, whenever I like when we did your labs, you definitely had some thyroid issues going on, and your adrenals were like you were taking all these supplements to bring your cortisol down, and your cortisol was like non-existent. I'm like, stop taking that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

I remember when you said you're like, you're taking too much, like just stop. And I was like, Oh, well, that's an interesting idea.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

And it worked, it worked because then we tested again like two months later, and it was like back. Like I had cortisol again. Remember, it was like two months later, my cortisol had gone from like one to 16 or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Like, yeah, and you could like get out of bed again. Yeah, yeah.

unknown 12:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

So what was what's it been like going through the program for you? Like, um, what was your like turning point? Do you feel like?

SPEAKER_03 12:15

That's a good question. I mean, to be honest, I would say there's probably a few, but honestly, for me, one of my turning points was that like decision to join. That was actually even before I started the program, I think the decision to join. I went back and forth also on a lot of your Sarah, I think.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Sarah and me, yeah.

Rewriting Sleep And Body Stories

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Yeah, I went back and forth, back and forth, uh asking her so many questions. I was like, I okay, I'm not, I'm not that person that needs to be told to take magnesium to sleep. Like, I need more than that. So I was just felt very unsure. Um, and so I think when I made the decision, like I said, to join, that was a turning point. That was my like surrender moment of like I accept that I don't have the answers and I'm going to believe that maybe this could get better instead of just like drowning in the hopelessness. So that was a turning point, honestly, just to join. And then um I think well, I the mindset work has been such a huge part of this program for me. And I don't know, I had a friend the other day ask me, she's like, what do you think it's been that's made the difference? And I'm like, it all of it has been a part of it. I mean, every piece of it, it's not you can't pull out like one thing, right? Like it's the whole picture, but the mindset part really stands out to me as um having been so transformative for me. I feel like I've I feel like a completely different person.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Yeah, so I think we need to dig into that a little bit further because when people hear mindset, they're like they think that you're just telling yourself to like be happy. Yeah. And that's not what it I don't like. I don't so I think going a little bit deeper into that in Allison. If you like, I know that you did a lot of work with Crystal. Crystal was your mindset coach, right? Yeah, but then a lot of it pours in over into with Alison too, because your coach then is an extension of that. So talk like talk about what that was like a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Yeah.

unknown 14:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

I mean, mindset, yeah, I had the same thought. I was like, okay, I don't know what this is, but sure, whatever, it's included, I'll do it. Yeah. Um and I I used to be a therapist. I have a degree in clinical psychology. Like I've had been in therapy for a long time. And so I always thought mindset work was kind of like fluffy, like, oh, it's just like trying to change your thoughts to be positive. And it's never really been my thing. Um, and then I had my first session with Crystal, and I was like, oh, this shit is like getting deep. Like we're getting, oh sorry, I don't know if you're allowed to swear on this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

No, it's fine.

unknown 14:54

Go ahead.

Lab Insights And Cortisol Recovery

SPEAKER_03 14:56

Like we're really getting into some stuff. And then the first session we had, it was about my sleep and the story around my sleep, which was utter hopelessness around my sleep issues. And by the end of that session, I was like just tears and just had so much awareness of the ways that my own mind is holding me back from from even experiencing anything different or more hopeful or more positive. And um, and then I just kept going. I mean, then I kept working with Crystal, you know, for a bunch of sessions, and we dug into all sorts of stuff. But I think like some of those really deep beliefs around like where that hopelessness comes from in me. Um, some of those things come from like very young places in myself, like um the hopelessness, the negativity towards my body, the feeling of um a lot of the feelings towards my body. Um so many of those things we kind of started to unpack. And I started doing all these things, like when I would get on the group mindset call and like in her crystal would have a little homework or whatever. Part as part of my like, I'm doing all of it. I just did it, I did everything. Crystal had me put like the what if, the st what if all the good stuff like on my, I have it still on my mirror. There's a post-it every night before bed for the last like six months. I like go through and say all the what if I can restfully sleep, what if like all the good stuff? Um, I just started doing all of it, but I don't think I realized that it would it would shift things in such like a um like uh almost like a permanent kind of way. Like I've done work before where you start to see a little bit of a shift, but you're still stuck in the same old patterns, and so you're like, okay, we're still just circling the same issue over and over again. But this was like some of this stuff just shifted and it just changed. Like I don't I don't struggle with like the hopeless thoughts anymore, and that's crazy for me because I have lived in hopeless thoughts my whole life. I mean, and now when the hopeless thoughts come up, I can so quickly just bring myself back to like, oh, that doesn't make sense. Why would that be true? And then I could just come back to center. Um I never ever would have imagined that some of those things could change. And I certainly didn't think that a program like this that I joined for other reasons would lead to that.

Turning Points And Daily Practices

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Yeah, I think most people think about our program, they're like, oh, it's to balance my hormones and to figure out something that's wrong. But I literally tell every one of you, I'm like, no, a healthy body is healthy from like a blood marker space, it's healthy from like a habits space, the way you like do your healthy lifestyles, and it's healthy from a a mental mindset space. And if you don't have all three of those things, like if you don't have the habits, if you don't have the good blood work, and if you don't have the good mindset, then you're never gonna be like able to feel the way you feel now. And that's why it takes all of those aspects working together to be able to get out of that vicious cycle that you were kind of in, essentially. And you tried a lot of different things. And I think it's really hard for professionals. Like you're a professional, like you're a midwife, you're a well-educated woman that was doing all the right things. So to ask for help and surrender that you couldn't do it on your own, that's hard to do.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

I think it's a hard decision to make, but as soon as I did it, I felt this immense amount of relief of like it's not like it's such a weight on me that was like, I'll just hand it over to you guys. I'll just pay you and then hand it over to you. And then it felt like such a relief to me to not have that responsibility.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Well, we talked about like where you were at when you started. You were hopeless, you couldn't really get out of bed, your thyroid was jacked up, your hormones were kind of wonky, um, you weren't working. Like, what does life look like now? Like a lot of and you did have body composition goals that you wanted. And I you know I mean, you didn't have some like crazy 50-pound weight loss goal, but kind of like where are you at now and what what is what kind of results and reflection do you have?

Weight Loss After Nervous System Safety

SPEAKER_03 19:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I yeah, I started in a hard place. I actually could get out of bed. What's crazy is that I'm just such a like I just keep going kind of person. I was getting up every morning, getting my kids to school, doing my workouts. I was functioning, I just didn't realize how tired I was, but I was so tired. Like sometimes I would walk in the door after going to the grocery store, and I was like, I literally have to sit down, like I'm I'm just tired all the time. Um, now, yeah, and I did have body composition goals. I mean, over the course of you know, this last whatever five years, like I've I've always been a small person, but I just like gained five pounds. So I was like, okay, this is weird, but fine, I guess we'll we'll just accept this, and then I would gain five more stones and then five more pounds, and then it's like, okay, now we're getting into like territory that feels very unfamiliar to me and doesn't feel good. Um, and I think with that, I I had kind of just been working mentally around trying to find acceptance about the changes in my body. I was like, okay, well, you're in your 40s and blah blah blah, and so we're just gonna accept it. And finally I reached this point in May, right before I joined, where I was like, no, I don't accept this. Like, I want something different, and it's okay to want that, and I'm gonna seek out options to help me with that. So I did have a goal of I mean, it's not a tremendous amount of weight, but it's probably like 15 to 18 pounds of weight that I'd gained that I was like, I would be very happy to lose like 10 to 12 of that or whatever. Um so now I am was a source of weight. I I probably lost like almost half of if I had to guess, maybe almost half of the total of what I had gained. Yeah, which is awesome. I feel good. I feel like clothes that didn't fit in the last year or so are fitting again. Like I'm definitely feeling better when it comes to that aspect. And but besides that, I mean um everything else, everything is different. I mean, my well, my blood sugar is is normal, I think, which is crazy. Because I've been working on blood sugar for like a year and a half. I mean, I and I worked on it, you know, I did all the right things that you're supposed to do. Um, but my blood sugar seems like it's pretty normal. Sleep is like, you know, sleep is up and down because I do have hormones fluctuating and all that kind of stuff. But in general, I sleep much better in the last, I would say in the last five months. Most nights I'm sleeping enough. And I think the bigger thing with sleep is that I don't feel distressed about it. Like when I don't sleep, my mindset is positive. I don't spiral into that, like, oh my gosh, I didn't sleep, maybe I won't sleep tonight, maybe I won't sleep for the whole next week, and then someone's gonna have their baby, and then I'm not gonna sleep because of that. Like I used to just kind of spiral about the sleep, and now it's like I feel very positive about it and hopeful. Um I feel happy, like I haven't been depressed since May. I I feel genuinely very happy. I feel more present. Um, Crystal and I did a lot of work on some deeper issues that I have around kind of not being present or dissociating sometimes. And I I feel like there's been shifts there. I feel very present um when I'm with my kids or my family or whatever. Uh I don't know.

Non‑Scale Wins And Stable Blood Sugar

SPEAKER_01 23:11

All right, well, the weight loss for a minute. Yes, can we talk about your weight loss? Sure, go for it. So this is okay, so losing half of her the weight that she wanted to lose. This is coming from someone who, like for the first three months in the program, did not believe that her body was ever going to change, ever. Like she was adamant and she was like, Well, I'll just keep doing it. I mean, maybe it'll change, but I just I just don't know. Like it's probably never gonna change. And you know, I'm feeling better, so that's fine, you know. But we know deep down that that was still her goal. Like we still want to change. Um, and so you've lost about seven pounds, um, which is huge for you because your weight was not moving for a long time. And if it was, it was going up, not down, never down, and now it's going down. And the way that your check-ins have been lately, um, and talking about wearing jeans that like you have not worn and thought you would never ever wear again. Yes, you've lost weight, but your body has changed too. Like, it's not just about what the scale says, like your body has changed and you're feeling better. Even if you don't ever lose the rest of that weight, your your body is feeling better than than it had been in a really, really long time.

SPEAKER_03 24:28

Yeah, that's true. I remember you used to say, because I remember telling you at one point, Allison, I was like, I'm I'm probably just gonna be one of those people that like does the program and all the all the mindset's gonna work and the sleep's gonna get better and blah blah blah, but like the weight's not gonna change. Like I just kind of had that idea because it was that last thing that was like that can't change, like don't be ridiculous, you know, like that can change, that can change, sure. But like this is the thing that can't change, and I think there was that underlying, like, it was one of the things that I really wanted to change, but I didn't want to even let myself believe that it could change because it was like, don't even get your hopes up, was kind of the feeling that I had. And I remember you would say, because it took nothing changed for several, several months, like it's just started to change more recently. And um, I remember you would tell me, Allison, sometimes you would be like, Your body is changing. And I remember, like, I have that in my mind, you know, you would remind me like in the ways that like the blood sugar was improving and my sleep was getting better. So you would just remind me like your body is actually changing. So that would kind of just combat that idea in my mind of like my body can't change. So if it's changing in these ways, why couldn't it also change in these other ways? I think so. I would held on to that from you for a few months before I actually saw some of the other changes that were more obvious.

Trusting The Process Over Time

SPEAKER_00 25:59

But I mean, I also think that you have to like, I don't know if you correlate this, Allison, at all, but I noticed like when I stopped hearing from Lena, she started losing weight because she had healed all the other stuff, right? Like your weight, like you were so your adrenals were so bad that you had to heal all that other stuff before your body would release the weight, right? And we get so many women that come to us with so many adrenal issues. I'm like, you can't like your body doesn't feel safe, it is not gonna lose weight until it feels safe. So I do you see that, Lena? Like, do you are you able to correlate that like, okay, yeah, my once I did heal that stuff and I started feeling safe, that that's when I started losing weight. I literally had that thought like yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

I had the thought, like, oh yeah, your body feels safe now, so it can let go of some of the weight. And I think I mean, I've heard you talk about that, but like I I literally just had that thought. Like, that's exactly what I think happened. Yeah, yeah, it's powerful, so cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Yeah. So, as her coach, like what are your biggest takeaways from her story, Allison, or her transformation?

Advice To The Scared, Stuck Listener

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Well, I could go on and on about how proud I am of her, but I think the biggest thing, and I will come back to that. The biggest thing is just trusting the process. That is so hard to do. Um, especially, you know, Lena, she understood a lot of this stuff. Like she came in knowing her cortisol levels, knowing her blood mark. Like she had done this work before, but she still needed to surrender to the process and have and accept the help to get to where she is now. So I just think, you know, you decide to sign up for this, surrender to it, and trust the process, and trust that it may not be a couple of weeks, it might be a couple of months, but we will get there. And then, yeah, I'm just so proud of the work that Lena has put in. I mean, I Lena is not the type of person to half-ass anything, and she did go all in, like everything that we talked about, she did it 110%. And that's that's what you've got to do to be able to see results sometimes because this stuff is hard. I mean, it's not easy fixes, you've got to dive all in and be committed. And she was, and that's why she feels like a totally different person now.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Yeah, I think being a midlife woman is is hard. Um, and you think that you should be able to do it all on your own. Like, you should be able to be a super mom. You should be able to take care of your health, you should be able to, especially if you're a healthcare professional. Like, and I'll tell you, like, we're the worst at taking care of ourselves. So Lena, what would you say to someone who's listening, or what would you say to yourself six months ago that was like tired and scared? Like you were you were scared. Like, what would you say to that woman?

Caring Community And Clear Next Steps

SPEAKER_03 29:07

Yeah, I was scared. I mean, I felt like if if these things can happen, my my health is just gonna keep spiraling. Like, I was like, how bad can it get? I mean, yeah, I was scared. Um, I even um I have glaucoma. I was diagnosed with glaucoma several years ago, and my glaucoma had been like worsening, worsening, worsening, like to the point where like I have to see a specialist very frequently. And and then this summer, I don't know if I ever told you, this summer, right after um I started the program in July, I went to see my specialist and it was stable, and it's like almost like regressed a little bit, like it's really stable right now. So I mean, all like so stuff that I just didn't even think was possible. Um I think I would say, like, I don't know. I mean, I just was I just I think for me the hopelessness was so so much a part of what was kind of keeping me very paralyzed was like not even seeing the possibility for something to get better. Um and I think now I look back and I'm like, and it even when I look forward in my life from here, I'm like anything's possible, like things that I don't, I don't my brain can't make space for or understand because my mind is so limited, like anything is possible, and that I think I have learned to like like be connected to the things that I want and and believe that they can happen, you know, instead of like keeping my life and my world kind of small. Yeah, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

I love that. Well, I'm super proud of you, and it like I know we're gonna continue working together, we're not done yet, but I think that you're super brave to trust us, and I feel honored that you did trust us, so thank you for trusting us because it's hard.

SPEAKER_03 31:03

Yeah, it's been amazing. You guys have been amazing. I have felt very cared for. I remember one call with Allison. You you think you told me that Sarah, who had done my onboarding, had asked about me, and I like cried. Like I I because I felt so like um it felt so genuine. Like I felt like they really care about me. Like I they're not just like phoning it in, like they actually genuinely care about me. And I have felt that from the beginning, and it's very it feels good. So thank you.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Of course, of course. Well, we do care about you. We do, we care about all of our clients. Yeah. So thank you so much for sharing your journey. And Alison, thank you for seeing being like such a light to our clients. And if you're listening to this and you're ready to start your own transformation, whether it's physically, mentally, hormonally, whatever, um, hop over to our website, message us on Facebook, Instagram, whatever. But until next time, take care of your body, take care of your mind, and keep rejuvenating your soul, and we'll chat with you until next time.