Spiritual Health with Corbin Chase
Honest talk about spiritual health, conscious living, and building a whole self and life.
Spiritual Health with Corbin Chase
Okay, But Spiritually… Episode 2: 2025 Holiday Gift Ideas
A practical, grounded look at holistic and conscious gifting for 2025: local goods, energetic tools, ancestral touches, intimate offerings. Gifts that support health, home, and connection.
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Okay, but spiritually, can we just admit that the holidays are a growth portal? Like, how can I stay spiritually centered when my family asks why I'm still single?
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. I'm Corbin Chase, a professional intuitive and mom of two toddlers who's dedicated to living a holistic life.
SPEAKER_02:And I'm Lindsay Fisher, your newly spiritual, curious, in-process mirror working in the corporate world. Welcome to Okay, but spiritually.
SPEAKER_01:All right, how was your Thanksgiving? What disruption did you try? All right, so the disruption I tried was uh what's good. So my mom and I made a pact before Thanksgiving that we were both gonna ask all of our family members what's good instead of like, hey, what's up? How's it going? Because people are always like, not much, or you know, whatever. Yeah. But when you ask what's good, you like have to really think about what's good in your life. Interesting. It's a question, yeah, yeah. I think we like ended up annoying all the family members because they all got asked what's good like twice. Yeah. And they were like, You guys have to something.
SPEAKER_02:It makes them really think about what is good though. Maybe they changed their answer for you versus your mom.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. And set it off, it set the tone off really nice. So perfect. What about you?
SPEAKER_02:I disrupted the green bean casserole, I changed up the ingredients. So usually the recipe calls for, you know, canned soup, a lot of store-bought things, and I wanted to intentionally make it healthier, more wholesome. And I made the sauce from scratch. I was chopping up my mushrooms, fried up some onions. So each part of it had love and intention behind it. I I thought it was good. You know, no one really said, oh, we missed the we missed the store-bought version of it. So I think it was good.
SPEAKER_01:It was nice. How does your family usually cook for Thanksgiving, like growing up?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, so we usually go over to my uncle's house and he does a huge spread, and it's always very, very good. A lot of homemade dishes, big turkey. Usually there's 20 people around there. So yeah, we have a lot of food. It's it's really cool.
SPEAKER_01:That's the best. Sounds very wholesome, which is actually a great segue. And so, what we want to talk about on today's episode, because today's episode is about this year's your holistic gift guide. Yes. How do you give with intention and holism in mind? Um, going against like the consumerism that exists all around the holidays. Um, and now's the perfect time to be preparing and thinking about what gift you want to give that makes like a positive impact for your family and for the planet. So, why holistic? And what is holistic? Holistic and holism is the concept that everything is intertwined. So there's not one thing that you can do ever that is standalone. Any decision that you make, anything that you buy, anything that's going on with your body or in any part of your life affects every other. Um, so within ourselves, but then also in the greater community of everybody in the planet. Okay. So we are all one kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. Like we're all one, and it's a it's truly a way to live and a lifestyle that I've been exploring within myself and now within my family, and now it's branching out into like my friends and community. I love it. So we apply this concept to shopping. So, what is holistic shopping? It's it's essentially conscious shopping, it's not falling into the trap of like what the big stores are trying to sell you. Oh, yeah. I got comments on that. Yep. The mass production that happens. Um, so trying to buy local and trying to buy things that were made with love and intention and from someone's gifts, um, homemade things. Um, and at first I think this is a pretty big adjustment because we're so used to just going out and buying what we think somebody would like versus what would actually give back to someone's health and the community's health. You've some experience in this department.
SPEAKER_02:I sure do. I have had many different jobs, one might even call careers, in retail. I worked at Gap for five years, so I saw all kinds of consumerism in the clothing industry, right? So holiday comes and they release the same thing over and over again. It's the same sweater, just a little bit of tweaked of colors, and then people buy them and they buy them and they buy them. And I just got to a point where I was like, who is wearing all these sweaters? Where are they going? You know? So yeah, there's a lot of consumerism in that. I think we've all seen the the renaissance of thrifting coming about, which is awesome. Um, I know sometimes you need to go to the store and buy something new, right? Like you need a specific thing, so go get it. But it's so fun to be able to find something unique in a thrift store and like let it find you too.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I love it.
SPEAKER_02:And I also, my current job, so I work for a Chinese company that makes furniture. So they make stuff mass scale for big box retail. And I've seen a lot of crazy eye-opening things that I feel it's it's not all bad, right? I don't think we need to vilify one side or the other. But if people really knew exactly what went into the actual making of all of this stuff, they would have a much different relationship and make different choices with with what they're buying, or at least have a different appreciation, which kind of goes still back to the holism thing, right? Like, yes, you might buy something and you just have this picture in your head of a machine or a factory that made it. There's people that work in those factories. Yeah. Yeah. You visited those factories? Oh, yeah. What are they like? They are difficult. They are, I would say, anywhere from like 500, 800, even you know, 1600 people working and they're very much assembly line. Um, it's hot over there. The uh the people are getting the work done, but it's really difficult to think about like the quality of life that they have. Um, but that is a product of consumerism. Yeah. Americans are the consumer, and those are the people that make the things that we buy.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, there's I think there's definitely an argument for um those people have jobs that support their families. Yes. But we can't limit ourselves to believing that if those jobs were to go away, that God or the universe wouldn't find another way to support them. Right. Because it would be a positive shift. Right. So I just want to be there's a lot of like blockages there that come up in conversations around this topic. True. And that's just a good reminder to have like strong spiritual health around it and trust that if we do collectively make the shift and those people do happen to lose their jobs, they will absolutely be supported. Yes. Yeah, get thrifting, babe. I love it. I love it. I I pulled some quotes on consumption because I think I think this grounds the seriousness of how much we consume. So I'm gonna run through the list, and these are the ones that really touched me. The first is from the circulatory gaps report from 2024. From 2016 to 2021, we globally consumed over 75% of what we did for the entire 20th century. Wow. That's scary. This one's from the British Fashion Council. We currently have enough clothing on the planet to dress the next six generations together. That's crazy. Yes. That's crazy. Oh my gosh. This one's from Ramsey. Impulse purchases have increased 72% since 2020. That's a lot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Big percentage increase in five years.
SPEAKER_01:And we're we're being the suckers. We're the ones that are impulse buying. We need to like check ourselves deeply. This one's from the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion. The average consumer now buys 60% more clothing items than they did 15 years ago, but also keeps them for only half as long. Interesting. Yeah. And I think like we've, I mean, I've noticed um a decrease in quality of clothing, as were like in the olden days, you would get, you would literally hand make a wool sweater and have it your whole life.
SPEAKER_00:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:And not only is that healthier for you energetically and your whole body and the environment, um, but it's special. It's something you pass down. Yes. And now we have like kind of crappy clothing that's mass-produced.
SPEAKER_02:And I think it's also difficult when you have a lot of stuff, you have a mental inventory that you have to manage. And that uses a lot of your energy. It it taxes your system. Yeah. So, yes, it's maybe a dopamine hit and fun to buy stuff, but if it just kind of goes into your collection and it's one more thing you have to remember you have, it does can take a toll over time. I try to be cleaning out my my collection of clothes because I'm I have a lot of clothes. I'm not gonna lie. And they do bring me joy. So yeah, there is benefit to it, but I think having the mindset of what am I bringing into my home? How much stuff do I have in my home? Is it starting to make me feel like overwhelmed to have to keep up with all of this? And then when I start recognizing that, I'm like, okay, we gotta, we gotta let some stuff go. We gotta get back to a good good inventory level.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. You know, negative energy also dwells around like clutter, stagnant, filth. Yeah. So like a lot of times in like the corner of people's houses is where like you'll find entities or just like negative frequencies kind of stuck there if you don't clear it out, or so the better hygiene you have overall, the higher frequency you are. So the last one I have here is from uh UNEP. Since 1970, our global population has doubled, but our global resources extraction has tripled. Wow. Which is wild. So I think I think we're just overall taking advantage. Um and it's affecting our health and the next generations in negative ways.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. I think that there is more awareness, and part of that thrifting trend has become risen from the younger generations. So that's very hopeful. I I really applaud that. I also, whenever I go shopping, I know sometimes I'm just going to have something to do and try and create an emotional experience because I might be a little sad or it might be a little this or that. And so if I know that going into it, I try and I call it like the 30-minute role. So if I see something in a store and I'm like, oh, I think I really want this, but then something in my head says, Do you really need it? I try to make myself wait 30 minutes, go around, do something else, and then in 30 minutes, if I come back to it or remember it, because sometimes you just forget about it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And if you don't even remember it, you didn't need it. You were just trying to kind of soothe a little bit of an emotion there.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Sprinkling some patience on that.
SPEAKER_02:That helps with the temptation to buy things and keep things out of your house that you were trying to have a different energetic solution for than actually making a purchase.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I love it. That's a good one to take, like keep in your pocket as you're shopping. Or just go to the farmer's market because then what are you really going to regret buying?
SPEAKER_03:True.
SPEAKER_01:Up next, so we're going to get into the gift guide. Um, but before that, I just want to ground us in what a conscious holiday is, specifically around Christmas. It's we we think it's about like the consuming things, the dressing up, and like the food and the feasts, which which part of you know, all of that is beautiful, but it's empty without intention or understanding, or like it's kind of like the spiritual thing to do to navigate your way into like, well, what is the truth and what this really is about?
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_01:And so Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, right, and the idea of God dwelling with us again. And so that's really important. And I think that if your family already doesn't um practice intentionality around Christmas, and it might be too big of a deal to bring it to like the the the dinner table, right? Um, you can at least do it for yourself and connect with like the truth because we don't we don't want to just celebrate something with emptiness, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, it doesn't feel good, yeah. And you can tell, yeah, and that's part of spiritual maturity. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. Let's dive into the guide.
SPEAKER_02:How can we give spiritually aware gifts? Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so our 2025 holistic gift guide number one. Okay. Quickles. What? Quickles. Quickles? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Please explain.
SPEAKER_01:So quickles, this was inspired by Megan Markle or the Duchess of Sussex, right? Is that what she prefers? Um, she she has a show on Netflix that came out that I found to be quite entertaining. Um so she she makes these things called quickles that she gives as gifts. Okay. And I was like, oh my gosh, that would be a great holistic gift. And so if you're in a place where cucumbers are in abundance during the winter months, it makes it even better. But you you pretty much just cut up the cucumbers and put it in a jar of warm vinegar with some spices and like a cute little mason jar with a little bow around it. That's something that's homemade, super fun, kind of quirky, um, and will only like enhance someone's life. Yeah. Quickles. Quickles. Quick pickles. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, quick pickles. Okay, number two is all right. Did you know that most commercial salt today contains a lot of microplastics, oh dear. Um, fillers and anti-caking agents. That's doesn't sound good. It's mostly like chemicals. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so especially at restaurants. So um, I found a brand called Varisalt that's really, really clean.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, and we use salt on everything. So I think this matters like pretty tremendously. So Varasalt, uh, they use traditional harvesting methods, okay, which I think is really cool, and they source their salt from ancient underground springs in the foothills of Spain, which is just so cool. Yeah, yeah. Biblically, salt, like a covenant of salt. Okay. You know, that's that terminology is used pretty frequently. And salt is a symbolism of purity, preservation, truth, and wisdom. So it's also symbolic.
SPEAKER_02:Would it be and highly practical? And you could write a little card explaining all of that. Yeah, the benefits and the beauty of the salt.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Dear Lindsay. I would love that. You are the salt of the earth.
unknown:Oh.
SPEAKER_01:If you wanted to get a little cheesy with it, bring it. I love it. But that's super practical and something that you know someone will use. Uh-huh. You know? Yeah. Um, and you might not like necessarily taste the difference, but your body will feel the difference because when we eat a lot of microplastics and fillers, that's not like nothing. Your body takes the hit and has to spend a lot of time like processing filtering out all of that stuff, which like you could be using that energy in lots of other places in like the consciousness area. Uh-huh. Yeah. All right. Number three, hmm. Flower sprinkles.
SPEAKER_02:Flower sprinkles.
SPEAKER_01:Flower sprinkles. Okay. Well, they're edible flowers. Okay. Um, and this is a way to bring like nature inside. And for someone who like just maybe like an older generation, and they the idea of like holism and like homesteading isn't isn't quite like, you know, in their dictionary.
SPEAKER_02:So much for them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, I think a lot of uh people can get on board with flower sprinkles because you can put them on like uh cakes. You can also like put them on top of um if you have like a like a vegetable roast, it's really pretty on there too. I love it. So it's like one step of like, oh yeah, you can eat flowers, and there are actually medicinal benefits, and it's just really pretty and cute. Anything to make anything more beautiful, yeah, okay by me. All right. Number four, nice piece of wood. So I'm recycling this recommendation from my Valentine's Day gift guide on my first season of my podcast because it was a big hit. And we have this in our own house. So um we our our friends who own a wood furniture business gifted us a really beautiful piece of wood. And so what we did was um, okay, you know how people have height charts in their house, but they usually do it like on the actual like structure, yeah, on the door frame of the house. But um, you know, we might move.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you're not moving the door with you.
SPEAKER_01:That's right. So we put this piece of wood like in our kitchen, and it's a beautiful piece of wood, and we can easily like take it off. I was wondering what that was. And we record, yeah, and so we record people's heights, like not people's, like my family's heights on it. But that way, if we ever move, we can bring it with us, or like I can give it to my children when they get older for like a lot of people.
SPEAKER_02:This portable chart height wood block. Yeah, yeah. I love that. Yeah, and that's that piece of wood is very beautiful too. Isn't it beautiful? It's kind of an artistic, yeah, and then semi-functional, and then just yeah, holistic, good energy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and it'd be really funny to watch someone unwrap a board of wood and be like, what is this? Well, what would I do? Yeah. All right, number five. Okay, propose again. Oh, yes. So, like, who says you only can propose once? Like, that's no fun. Maybe, like with my partner and I, we are like, I was like, Well, wouldn't it be nice to be proposed to like a bunch of times? And it doesn't mean you have to have like a whole other wedding or a ceremony or anything, right? It can just mean like we have transitioned from this like phase of life into like a whole new chapter, and or we're like different versions of ourselves now, or we just, you know, our kids are off to college, or whatever it might be. I'm gonna propose again and kind of like restate my new vows, or maybe you become more spiritual and you want to include um God or a higher purpose in your partnership, and um, you can have like multiple rings or pieces of jewelry to to put on through different times throughout your life, and that's really it's just such a happy time. Why not? You who says you have to just do it once.
SPEAKER_02:You could write a letter of intention with it, yeah, and then that's part of the keepsake, and it kind of documents the different stages of where you're at when you renewed and re-proposed. I love that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and it would certainly be like an element of surprise if you just got done on one knee on Christmas and you took someone special, you'd be like, What? You'd be like, I just love you so much, I just wanted to do it again. Fun. All right, number six. Guilty as charged, caught myself decorating the fridge. Okay, okay. So this is about so before Christmas, start collecting, like if you have children, their drawings from school, um, maybe like special special pieces of mail. If you like have special pictures or like there's a candy wrapper that you guys open together and it means something. Just like make a little pile of things that you can put like magnets that you can stick up on the fridge at night before you'd celebrate your holiday. Okay, come down and just decorate the fridge. You can put like flowers on there, pictures. Whatever it might be, and everyone would come down in the morning and see like a collage. It's like a scrapbook of like everyone and all the people you love on the fridge.
SPEAKER_02:That is so clever. And it'd be so fun. And then like you could take a picture every year of the picture of the fridge. Oh my gosh. And then that becomes part of the fridge of next year.
SPEAKER_01:I that's so cute. Oh my gosh. Yes. That's so fun. It's not going to cost you any money, but it brings so much joy. Yeah. Yeah. Good way to document memories too. Yeah. Yeah. That's a cute one. Okay. Number seven. Holistic hairbrushing train. A train? Yeah. A hairbrush train? Yeah. Tell me more. Okay. So you can probably find one almost anywhere, but you want to buy a holistic hairbrush for each person in your family, which means like you want handmade natural wood, um bore bristle, plant fibers that are included, something that like actually massages the scalp and spreads the oils around that's better for the planet. Like we're not just buying plastic.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:So invest in everyone having a nice, holistic, earthly hairbrush, which is nice. Beautiful. And then you can do like a family hairbrushing train, which is just like it's just it's not invasive. It's beautiful. It feels good. It's like childhood memories, you know. I love it. It's kind of weird, but everyone's gonna be giggling and loving it.
SPEAKER_02:Hairbrush train. I get it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I like it.
SPEAKER_02:What kind of hairbrush do you have? I don't. I don't brush my hair.
SPEAKER_01:I don't really brush my hair that much either.
SPEAKER_02:I have wavy hair, and I usually just let it do its thing. And if you brush it, you know, a poof happens. So I know about that. I don't really brush it.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Number eight. This is an oldie but a goodie, and it really just packs a punch each time. Okay. It's family video or a slideshow of pictures. Like it just sounds like, oh, we've been talking about that for years. But oh my gosh, there's just nothing like someone spending the time to put together something special of like the family from that year. It really like you're laughing and crying at the same time, kind of gift.
SPEAKER_02:I got a gift of actual printed out photos. My mom put all these photos together, and it just made me realize we live in such a digital photo age, right? Which is nice because you take more pictures and they're readily available. But something about having a printed photo just is so meaningful. Yeah. So that's one thing that I want to get better about doing more on a regular basis, printing out an album's worth of photos. Because I have them from my childhood, yeah. When that was all that was available. Am I giving away my age? No, but the um the beauty of it is you can flip through these at family gatherings as like a conversation topic. And you know, you reminisce and you kind of have to go around and be like, who's that in that picture? I don't know, but yeah, you have such a different connection to something when it's printed out. So I love that.
SPEAKER_01:I like that too. Um, for my uh wedding with my ex-husband, we did uh RSVPs to the wedding had to be a video of that person dancing, and then our best man like put them together in a collage, and that video is still on YouTube. And while we're not married anymore, that video still means so much to me because it's it's still like all the people that I love. Yes, yeah, it's just yeah, ideals. Okay. Number nine ladies, one of the most romantic things a man can give you is understanding your cycle. Okay. And so this is for men. When you learn her rhythms, her phases, and her needs, you become a safer partner, a more supportive partner, and a spiritually attuned partner. So I I have I have I've I've recently become very passionate about this because as I've like been embracing holism, I've I started off by first like embracing my menstrual cycle, like as part of me and my experience and my body and as part of like the vessel I am in. And I've taken the time to actually educate myself about my menstrual cycle. And it's like a huge part of who I am. And I was, I know that if my partner, who is a man, if he had a menstrual cycle, like I would definitely want to know about it because it's a part of his experience. And so I was like, well, I've like never heard of a man being educated about a menstrual cycle. And so now like one of my dating requirements, not that I'm dating anymore, but it would be on my dating profile. Because if you do are not educated about the menstrual cycle, like this is not gonna work out because you have to be interested in all of me. Um so what it's called, I did a bit a little bit of research and I found some interesting things about this. It's called menstrual immaturity, and this is not about shaming your man or your partner that does not have a period. Um, it's just calling out the lack of development. So a couple of the terms that I found online about this are menstrual shame, which is like the umbrella term. When a man reacts with disgust, he's participating in menstrual shame. Another term is um internalized purity culture, which if his reaction comes from learned beliefs that women's bodies are unclean. Um, misogynistic conditioning, when men are taught either explicitly or subtly to see women's natural functions as dirty.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Mental disgust response, which I have witnessed this pretty much throughout my entire life. Right. Period fragility, modern slang. A light, culturally relevant way to say he can't emotionally handle a total normal female experience. And so, like, this is not just like we're not calling out men's and partners who don't men straight. That's not that's not the point. It's truly we need to hold our entire society accountable for not educating everyone, both men and women, all people about the menstrual cycle. Right. So it's it's not it's really not to like bash men. Um they didn't get the language, the biology, and the emotional landscape.
SPEAKER_02:That's right, to have the education that would benefit both partners.
SPEAKER_01:That's right. They didn't get any of it. So this would truly really be a gift to see your partner and understand them fully because if you know that maybe it's their pre-period time and they're feeling a little, you know, uh fragile, you you would know how to support them the best through each phase.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. I think that there's a lot of truth in that. I think that it's also a mental comfort to you just seeing that this person has this knowledge with care. Yeah. And they're gonna be there for you to take care of you and not see you as a burden or something to be standoff of from when you're going through that. Yeah. And I think us as women are also needing to be more comfortable talking about it too. Because some of these topics, because the men don't have the education, we're gonna have to lead the way, lead into these conversations. And the more strength and conviction than we have and talking about it comfort comfortably, the better they will feel when these things come up and they'll feel more empowered to learn.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. It can really be like a partnership elevation. Yes. That would just make everything run smoother. So we need a period PowerPoint. Yeah, we do. It's not a calling out, it's a calling in. There are apps, there's an app I use called Flow, and I can invite my partner to it. So he also gets updates about where I am. Cool and like tips, and that's been really helpful for us. So that's like just that's really nice. Number 10. Eucalyptus. Get some bundle of eucalyptus. Do you know where I'm going with this?
SPEAKER_02:No, I'm just stuck on eucalyptus. I know you smell it. I would be so happy to get a bunch of that.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:I never thank you. I'll just sit with it. Yeah. So this is cool because you can put it in your shower. Have you ever done that before? Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:What I was envisioning. Yes. A little mini spa in your house. Yes, it's the best.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it lasts a while, so you tie it to your shower head, and when you take a shower and the steam like really starts to fill the room, it it like enhances the smell of the eucalyptus, and it's like a eucalyptus forest.
SPEAKER_02:It's so good. Yeah, it's so good.
SPEAKER_01:And that's a really nice inexpensive one. Yeah. Which pairs which pairs really well with the next one. Okay. Local honey or maple syrup. Yes. Yeah. Delicious. It's so good. It's like you think it's a pantry staple, but I think it's actually really luxurious. Yes. Yeah, like those trees and those bees, they're working hard to produce nectar.
SPEAKER_02:You can taste the difference and you can feel how much better it is for your body when you're doing those pure honeys and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. It's medicine. Mm-hmm. It is. It's good. It's so good. Next one. Non-toxic sheets.
SPEAKER_02:Ooh, hoo hoo hoo.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it might sound boring, but maybe you're giving this to someone who hasn't really been able to dive into like the frequency of fabrics or energetics yet. Yeah. And maybe this is like a really beautiful planting of a seed for them to go educate themselves. And then once they educate themselves and they realize that you gave them really nice non-toxic sheets, like high vibe sheets, they're gonna be like, oh my gosh, that was a really amazing gift. Dr. Heidi Yellen is where I first started learning about the frequency of fabrics. And I wrote an article about this on my website. So she did a study based off a reference in the Torah that explicitly says not to wear wool and linen together, which tells us that ancient cultures knew without science the frequency of fabrics and that they mattered and how they contributed to like their health.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:So here's here's what we do know, and here's what is backed up by science. The human body has a frequency of 100 hertz, which is the same as organic cotton. When we get sick, our frequency drops below 50 Hertz, and for people nearly dying, it's around 15 Hertz. Oh my goodness. So if we wear materials that have a frequency higher than 100 hertz, then it will benefit ourselves holistically. So it's a natural boost. Exactly, like our physical body and our energetic body. Now, polyester has a frequency of about 10 hertz, which is like super yikes. Meanwhile, both wool and linen have a frequency of about 5,000 hertz. Oh my gosh. I know. Yes, please. So if you wear fabrics that are lower than 70 hertz, you're more likely not to feel great and it'll work against your health.
SPEAKER_02:I love science. Me too. I love really being able to put concrete numbers to these concepts because it makes it that much easier when you're making decisions. Check the tag. Look what the what the fabrics are on what you're buying.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it really matters so much. I recently went through all of my clothes and read every single tag and made like a holistic pile. And like some pieces were really hard to put in the non-holistic pile. Like it was like I was like, and all of like allululemon pants are so toxic.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:There's like quite a few studies about that out there. So when you're shopping, here's what to look for: the natural fibers are leather, silk, cotton, ideally 100% organic cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo, wool, and cashmere. Got it. And then the toxic fibers are spandex, polyester, viscose, nylon, polymade, acrylic, and rayon. All plastics, derivatives. Yeah. So you just want to be careful. And the companies that use the natural fibers, the clothing is going to be more expensive, but then those are the pieces that you have kind of like forever. They last longer. And they're better. They'll wash better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we I recently transitioned my whole family sheets into like they were they were pricey. I really like Days but Amazed. Okay. It's a woman-owned company out of Australia, and they're all linen and hand-dyed from like natural dyes. So um they're beautiful, but I think it makes a really big difference. Um within our sleep.
SPEAKER_02:And I do want to say all of these things that we're talking about are not necessarily something that you need to like switch day to night and immediately transition to a holistic lifestyle. Yeah. If you're interested in this, take one step in that direction. Yeah. You don't need to get rid of everything and restart, but say, okay, from today forward, I'm gonna be more aware of what I'm wearing on my body. And that is the enough for a first step. Yeah. And then when you go to the store, just look at it. Even if you still buy the polyester, you're still taking a step towards the awareness, the consciousness. And as that continues to build in your mind and your spirit, then you will get to a point where you're not really even attracted to these unnatural fibers.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Your energy will know. It'll be like, I don't want that. I like that. It's kind of like when you're sick, you you crave certain things. Your body will tell you. Yeah. I think that's a great point. Like it takes, it's taken me years to get where I am. And now I now that I have the education, I can slowly build. But giving gifts like this, yes, it it helps edu subtly educate others, express your spiritual maturity.
SPEAKER_02:And that was gonna be my next thing. If you are in a position to put a wish list together of gifts that you would like to receive, tell them why. Yeah. So you're sharing this knowledge, get people curious. That's what it takes. It's a small spark and then fires, holistic fires. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, a chain reaction. Yeah. So the last one on my list is an intimacy blanket. Oh. So either for yourself or for couples. Okay. This is like uh for a body positivity environment. Okay. And it supports um a movement that I recently have been educated on, which is a free bleeding movement. Oh, okay. Which is where, because we know that like uh tampons in particular and pads are highly toxic. Full of chemicals, cool. Full of chemicals. Yep, love the truth. Yes. And just having being able to bleed freely without any blockages is like so healthy for our body. So this is a blanket. Um, and this will be on my guide if you want to link to it. But so this blanket is uh waterproof, it's very soft, and you can sleep in it or on it. Um, it's also for like intimacy pleasure. So when things get wet, it's a way to like keep the bed clean. Okay. Um it's uh, so yeah, it's they call it on their website your go-to period sex and splash blanket. And it's just meant for messy intimacy. Yeah. Yeah, but that's like that's something sweet and thoughtful and um prep couples. Yeah, yeah, or just for yourself. Cool.
SPEAKER_02:All right, Lindsay, what ideas do you have? My gift guide ideas. Yes. So I have been trying to really give experiences as gifts as opposed to stuff. Yep. Because I come from a family that already has a lot of stuff. I have cleaned out houses of stuff, and it changes your mindset on giving more stuff. So I have been giving experiences like concert tickets, been giving experiences like a cooking class, pottery class. I took my dad to a glass blowing class. Oh, we made a wine class. I made, I think, a wine glass and he made a tumbler. Oh great experience, father-daughter bonding. We got a little souvenir out of it. Um, my I don't know if this is just in my area, but there's skill pop, which is all different types of classes that are like watercolor writing or you know, crafty things that I would love to do with a friend, family member as a gift experience. Um, road trips, anything that's like that quality time, it's possible to give that as a gift, right? Yes. Yeah. Um, I also have done in the past this company called Story Worthy, Story Worth, but it sends a prompt every day, and I give this to my parents, and it's just a way to have them write, and then the stories are recorded, and it publishes it as a book at the end of a year. Oh my gosh, that is so great. Yeah. So you have a gift that you give to them, but then it turns actually into a gift for you, your family to record history because there's so many stories that you have as a family, but if you don't write them down and these details, and then some of the questions are really poignant, and you might be able to get a new perspective on a family member because they're writing about it versus feeling more comfortable having a conversation.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, especially in a world where we don't have that multi-generational living and that wisdom being passed down. Exactly. It's really important.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and they have the ability to add photos into it, so that's awesome. Create a really cool thing. Um, and I also love the idea of handmade jewelry and crystals. Yes, so jewelry I know can be somewhat of a tricky one just depending on personal taste and color and everything like that. So know the person you're giving a gift to, but you know, if the local vendor or whatever has a gift card, that is also a beautiful way to still give a gift, but then let them make sure they like what they're getting.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Gift cards also I think can be an interesting way to curate an experience because you're still spending that time with the person and not giving them stuff. And it's a really cool way to give a gift.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Oh my gosh, we have so many ideas for everyone. Yeah. Okay, so your homework as a listener is to pick one, at least one, and report back. Yeah. Let us know which one you pick. What inspired you? You know what's hot?
SPEAKER_02:What's hot?
SPEAKER_01:Being a really good gift opener and receiver. I like when I see someone who's a really good gift opener, I'm like, that was good. That was really nice. Like, like, because I feel like I sometimes get really nervous when I open gifts and I'm like, I just like shut down a little bit, you know? Yeah. But someone who like can have like that humility and like open heart, like all of it is just like just like a flutter feeling.
SPEAKER_02:Show the emotion and the appreciation.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So like, yes, we're giving, but also being a good receiver is something to work on.
SPEAKER_02:That is so true. That is so true.
SPEAKER_01:Should we talk about next week? Our next our next episode?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Well, I have one of my favorite holistic gifts that I've ever received. Ooh, yeah. So this also might be an idea. My brother and sister-in-law asked me a couple Christmases ago if I had any handwritten notes or anything like that of my grandparents' handwriting. Because Jonathan said he was like working on a scrapbook or something like that. And so I sent all these pictures of it. Christmas comes and I open a cutting board that has been engraved with my grandmother's handwriting of a recipe for peanut brittle.
SPEAKER_00:Oh sweet.
SPEAKER_02:It was the best gift because it was from them, but then also handwriting of my grandmother. I don't use it for a cutting board, it just sits on my counter because it's too pretty and beautiful. But that kind of thing, that little like sentimental touches. I don't know if they got that like local, or I'm sure somebody on Etsy could help you with that, but that was a really cool gift.
SPEAKER_01:Aww. I love that. What a way to like weave in like ancestral people. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So there you go. Even more fun.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh.
unknown:All right.
SPEAKER_01:Is there anything else you want to mention before we close?
SPEAKER_02:No, I mean, 'tis the season of gift giving, you know, gift giving is tricky, but it's all about the intention, the love, and the thought that you put behind it, just as much, if not more so, than the stuff that you're actually giving. So gift with thought and it'll be a beautiful gift.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And um, as we prepare for our next episode, which is centered around, we can give gifts and have that like short burst of joy. But how what happens when you are lonely over the holidays? Yes. And what happens when um you have like deep feelings of sadness around this time? How do you balance both? Can both exist at the same time? Um, Lindsay and I both have our own experiences in very different ways in loneliness around the holidays. Um, and we are going to give you some really um honest experience, uh, feedback and um just spiritual guidance on how to be.
SPEAKER_02:The holidays are an emotional time, whether we like it or not, can bring out the best and the worst. And we just gotta roll through it. So we're gonna talk about how we've navigated it, some ideas, some things that are helpful, some things that really sucked. Because sometimes you just gotta put your head down and plow through. So I love it.
SPEAKER_01:Um, follow me on Instagram at hole with Corbin and uh look at my shop my for all of my holistic product recommendations and follow Lindsay at simple underscore spirituality underscore on Instagram. All right, thanks for listening.
unknown:Bye.