Energy Givers Vs Energy Takers

Most people don’t have an energy problem. They have an energy leak. We start with a funny, very real story about a dream classic car that shows up as a painted shell in the garage and why “enjoy the struggle” might be one of the healthiest mindsets we can practice when life feels unfinished, messy, or missing parts.

From there, we get practical and specific about energy takers and energy givers using our Wheel of Life approach. We talk about how focusing on the past, resentment, and negativity quietly drains your drive, how inconsistent sleep and shift-work schedules throw off your circadian rhythm, and why clutter and too much screen time can create mental overload and dopamine fatigue. We also challenge hustle mode and the “busy badge” mentality that fuels burnout, then connect the dots between junk food, ingredient lists, and the energy crash cycle so many people feel every day.

Then we flip the script to the habits that actually recharge you: sunlight and nature (plus grounding or earthing), resting without guilt, consistent sleep hygiene, gratitude practices, whole nourishing foods, and gentle, appropriate movement that builds energy instead of punishing your body. We wrap with a simple reset you can use anytime: pluck one weed that drains you and plant one flower that gives you life.

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Transcript

Welcome And Wheel Of Life

Debra 0:04

Welcome to the D Times 2 podcast, hosted by Sisters Denise and Deborah. We are all about finding balance in the various parts of life. Using the Wheel of Life as our guide, we explore how to keep each spoke rolling smoothly. We discuss health and wellness, education and spirituality, as well as mental and emotional growth. Join us for real conversations, practical tips, and a few laughs as we share stories, insights, and strategies to help you create a life that feels balanced, purposeful, and designed by you. Hi Deborah. Hi Denise. How are you? I'm well. Good. It's so nice to see you. The sky's blue, the birds are singing. Life is good. Life is so good. That alone makes life good. It sure does. What's been going on? Well, I I have a funny story to tell. Please tell me my husband bought a dream. He's been wanting an old classic car to fix up for years. His dream. He bought his dream. Yes. Yes. Okay. And it's a 1966 red convertible Corvette. He is so excited. But it's just a shell. It's a red painted shell in my garage. All the parts are out. All the parts are out. Does it have seats? No. All the parts are out. All the parts are out. It's just a skeleton. And he got, I mean, he bought it from somebody who's like the second owner. So it's been and hasn't traded hands a whole lot. And this person took it all apart to restore it and then never did. They had got busy with life. So my husband went through and categorized every single piece on a spreadsheet. Oh, it has a sticker and a number and it's named in the spreadsheet. And now he's finding that there's some parts missing and he doesn't know what some wires are, and there's like things that are just not making sense. And he gets frustrated. He was sharing his frustration with somebody at work who would love to have a classic card put together, and they said, You know what you need to do is to enjoy the struggle. Oh. And I was like, that's really good. Because it's a struggle sometimes. But I think that that's life, right? Life is not all put together in a nice shiny package for us. We kind of have bare bones sometimes and missing parts, and we're not sure how something fits with something else. But the the trick is to enjoy the struggle. Yeah. Enjoy the journey. Find joy in the process. Because that's what it is about. So it's not turning into a nightmare for him. He's trying to enjoy the struggle. Sometimes he comes and he says, I've been out there long enough, and I said, Enjoy the struggle. And he'd go get a diet Coke and say, Okay, I'll enjoy the struggle. Okay. So anyways, that's my story. Enjoy the struggle. Nice. It'll be super fun when it's done because it's not a show car, it's a driver car. So we can put the top down and drive it around. Sweet. I'm super excited. In like three years or something. Yeah. Tom has a dream car like that. He hasn't purchased it. But he has had a picture of it on the wall for 10 years. And he has the whole thing planned out. And I hate it. I hate it so much. I can't understand why he wants it. But he wants it because it's very rare. It's not pretty. I'm not gonna say what it is until the time comes. He doesn't have it. It's just the dream. It's the dream. Yeah. But he knows exactly what he wants and what he's gonna do when he gets it. Well, that's good that he does. Yeah. Know that. It's got it in his head. So in the meantime, he's enjoying the dream. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

unknown 4:13

Yeah.

Energy Takers And Energy Givers

Debra 4:13

That's good. Well, let me just tell you, the name of Brad's car is Jezebel. Did he name it? I was joking with him one time because he was out there in the garage for like most of the day and I was like, how's Jezebel? That's hilarious. So now that is the name. That's the car's name. The car's color is Denise Red. That's me. And its name is Jezebel. So if you don't know who Jezebel is, just go look it up. It's in the Bible. Yeah. You'll get the reference there. Yeah. So what are we talking about today, Deb? Today we're going to talk about energy, specifically energy takers and energy givers. The reason I thought about this was because in my one-on-one work, but also just in conversations I have with other people, so many people always talk about being tired all the time, tired. And we've done a whole episode on sleep. We've talked about sleep, how to optimize sleep, but there are things that go beyond sleep. For sure. So there are energy takers and there are energy givers.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Okay.

Debra 5:32

And so I wanted to go through some of those things that actually have to do with different spokes in our wheel of life that can potentially be energy takers or energy givers.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Okay.

Debra 5:47

Because it's not just one area. If you're not familiar with the wheel of life, go back to episode number four. We talked all about it. Yeah. And there's a free download, instructions, the worksheet. It's what our whole podcast is based on. So today it'll hit multiple spokes in that wheel, but all of it ultimately comes down to energy. So I made a list of six energy takers and six energy givers. Please note these are not comprehensive lists. They are just a light light sampling. They're an appetizer. Okay. There could be a whole lot more, but I wanted to get the thought process going where you can and we can like assess other areas that might be draining energy or that could be potentially giving us energy.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Okay.

Inconsistent Sleep And Night Shifts

Debra 6:46

So in the different areas. So number one on the list of energy takers is focusing on the past, living in the past, focusing on resentment, negativity. Even just you saying it drains the energy out of our closet. So the thing that comes, our closet. We recorded in the closet. Better acoustics for you. You're welcome. Yeah. So there's a saying that where your focus goes, energy flows. And so if you're focused on regrets or resentment or negativity or everything in the past was better or worse, rather than where am I going, that sends your focus and your energy there rather than to the good place. Yeah. I remember hearing an analogy of like driving a car, and the windshield is ginormous, right? You have a big windshield, you can see clearly where you're going. And the rear view mirror is teeny tiny. You can't get where you're going if you're looking in the rear view mirror. No matter, like you said, if it's the good things or the bad things from the past. Move forward. Yeah. So acknowledge the past, but it should be small and then a big focus on where you're going. Yeah. Yeah. It really is draining. Living in the past. Yeah. And then let the resentments go. Yeah. Or regrets. Yeah. Like it's done. It's over. It does drain your energy when you are focusing on those. Yeah. Yep. All right. Incistent sleep is number two. That is a recurring theme amongst all of our episodes. We talk about sleep a lot. In almost every one. And like you said, we did do an episode on sleep. Yep. The inconsistent sleep seriously drains your energy. Whether it's from a day-to-day basis, like I talk to people who I just love this book so much I couldn't put it down. So they stayed up until all hours of the night reading a book. It's not a bad thing. It's just the wrong time. And then they're trashed the next day. Yep. Or binge watching something on Netflix. Or scrolling or doom scrolling. Like, don't do that. Nope. Get consist inconsistent sleep. Going to bed at wacky times, getting up at wacky times. You think it's gonna help you, but it it really It doesn't. Sleeping in actually makes you more tired. So get up. So I want to point out a prime example of inconsistent sleep and how I see it manifested with my sweet husband Tom. Because he works nights and then he's off one or two days over the weekend. He sleeps, he goes to bed around the same time every morning, gets up around the same time every afternoon. But when it comes to Saturday, where he finishes work that morning, he will lay down to sleep for about four or five hours instead of a normal nighttime sleep amount so that he can transition to being on a daytime schedule and have time with me on the weekend. But then come either Sunday or Monday, whenever he's going back to work, he then has to go back to bed at a decent time to get enough sleep for that night. But he on one the ending day of his work week and the starting day of his work week, he normally gets about four hours of sleep. And that's not when he normally sleeps. And then the one or two days in between, he's sleeping at night rather than during the day. He's all messed up. He's all messed up, and it's every week. And every week he goes back to work and I say, Are you okay? And he says, I'm tired.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Yeah.

Debra 10:38

And it's like there's he's doing the best he can with where he is and our life situation. But it's something I see so clearly, and that inconsistent sleep really takes a toll. It it does, it sucks your energy. Yeah. But people just do it going to bed at weird times or staying on Facebook until weird times or yeah. Yeah. So don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

No.

Clutter In Your Home And Head

Screen Time And Dopamine Fatigue

Hustle Mode And The Busy Badge

Junk Food And The Energy Crash

Switching To Energy Givers

Sunlight Nature And Grounding

Rest Without Guilt

Debra 11:05

I want to talk to you about my ice cream I have almost every night for dessert. I started making it about six months ago with some of my very favorite protein powder. It's from Equip Foods Prime Protein, and it's one of the safest, cleanest, doctor-formulated protein powders that helps to build muscle and shred fat that won't leave you gassy or bloated. That's one of the problems I have with other kinds of proteins. Anyway, it's 100% grass-fed and finished. I make my protein out of their chocolate and their peanut butter. So it's my amazing peanut butter chocolate protein ice cream. It helps me meet my protein goals and taste amazing. To get a nice discount, go to equipfoods.com slash dx2 to get 30% off of a subscription order or a nice 15% discount off of a one-time order. You'll love it. What's number three? Number three is clutter. Oh. Clutter, whether it be physical clutter or mental clutter. Clean it up. How what does mental clutter look like to you? It can look like bad thought processes or your brain going in too many different directions. There's not organization to your life. So it your brain doesn't know where to focus. So it can feel like overwhelm or look like overwhelm. Or scatter. Yep. Yep. Okay. So write a list, make a plan, put it in a straight line. I said this to you the other day. I have all these ideas. I need to verbalize them and write them down so I can get it in a straight line. So pl planning things out really does help you utilize your energy better. Like plan out your day. Or even just doing a brain dump. Yes, planning your day, but just doing a brain dump and getting it out of your head so you've literally let go of some of that mental clutter. You free up space. Yeah. You're freeing up RAM. RAM, if you don't know, is what your computer works. Yeah. That's all I'm gonna say about that. I'm not good at that. But then we all know what physical clutter is, right? Yeah. Junk or just too much stuff or messy. I've been working on that in my kitchen, trying to get things off my counter. Mm-hmm. Like things don't need to be left on the counter in the kitchen. I don't need a pen box and and all these things that I need to remember to do, like just take them off or mail, mail, or when my kids are just homework and keys and bags and it's just cluttered. Clean it up. Everything should have a place. Put it where it goes. A place for everything and everything in its place. And if you don't really need it, you can let it go. It will be okay. Yes. We did an episode on that. We talked, yeah, we talked about that a little while ago. Answering one of our listener questions. Yeah. Sometimes we just need to do like a spring cleaning or a fall cleaning where you sort through some stuff and get rid of it. Free up some physical space, energy, mental energy. Yeah. Those are good. I like that. Yeah. So declutter. Mental, physical, emotional. Number four. Mm-hmm. Number four is too much screen time. It is an epidemic. It is. And it does suck your energy. It sucks your dopamine, so it makes you tired. And it's using up brain space. Like your brain is not focusing on something like number three we talked about, clutter. You're kind of cluttering your brain when you're on your phone too much. Scrolling through social media. I was gonna say, especially if you're scrolling through social media because you're seeing who's up to this, who's up to that, here's an ad. Whether you focus on focus on it or not, your brain registers all of it. It's too much for your brain. Yeah. If you're gonna look, look at something, look at like two, two or three posts and then, you know, get off. Or set a timer. Yeah. So same for the computer. I know me, when I get in the zone, I can stay focused working on something for too long. So I will tend to set a timer that will go off, that will get me off of my screen. I do that. I set a timer for about 50 minutes to an hour, depending on what I'm working on, to get up and walk around, go to the bathroom, get a drink of water. And then get back to it if you need to. Yeah. So same goes for TV screens. Don't just let one episode roll into the next episode, into the next episode, and get through the whole series. It's still gonna be there tomorrow. I promise it will. Back in the olden days, we had to wait a whole week between episodes. Have something to look forward to. Well, think of how good that was for our brains. And our mother said, Your brain will rot. Little did she know what we were headed for. Yeah, that actually makes me think of something funny. I saw the other day. Someone said, What was it like to grow up in the 80s? So I took away their phone and turned off their computer. Like it was not the screens. We weren't on the screens. Yes, there was the TV, but it was so different. Yeah, we had like five channels and we had to get up off our butts and go turn the channel. Turn the channel. Yeah. Mom would say, go outside and play. Yep, and we would go outside and play. Yep. So number five on our list of energy takers is being stuck in overworking mode or productivity mode. I sometimes also think of it as hustle mode. Some of us, not us, some people, this is not me. Some people, I feel like they wear a badge of busy. I'm so busy. I've got so much to do. I'm so important because I have all of this. My schedule's full. Yes. And that is not, that is not a bonus. Like it's not a it's not a win. It's an energy drain, an energy taker. Being stuck in that mode. Yes, there's a time to work and be productive and to hustle, but then there's the opposite to that, where we rejuvenate and focus on something more like play or education, like just do something different. That's what leads us to balance. It does. Our 16 hours of awaking time does not need to be just busy, busy, busy all the time. Yep. There are days, but there it's not, it shouldn't be every day. Yeah. Certainly shouldn't be seasons. No. Of constantly overworking, constantly overproducing. Never beat a dead horse. That saying has been around for a long time for a reason. People that are drinking energy drinks all day long just to stay functional, that's what they're doing. They are beating themselves up like they were a dead horse. We gotta stop doing that. The only energy drink that I recommend to my clients is update. It's clean energy without caffeine, so you don't have jitters and chaos and like the problems that caffeine causes in the body. And it also helps to give you focus and a clear mind. It's really the one I use and the one I recommend. To get a discount off of your order, go to drinkupdate.com and use the code DX2. That's D times two. That's us. So drinkupdate.com and then the code for your discount is DX2. Okay. Number six, our last last energy taker is junk food. Mm-hmm. Junk food. Junk food doesn't even fuel you. It might spike your taste buds. It might spite spike your energy very short term. And then you feel like garbage. And then you have more junk food so you can feel good again. And you feel more like garbage. Ultimately, it's a drain to all of your energy. Yep. Yes, it is. Makes your bro body work worse. It makes your brain work worse. If you look at the label of what you're eating and you can't pronounce the words because they're just chemicals, it's junk food. It's not real food. It's not gonna feed you. And it will just, it just costs your body so much energy to try to process that it just brains you. Yeah. So do you want to hear something funny that goes right along with that? On a regular basis, I have people text me pictures of the front of a package and the back of the package, showing me what it is, what the like macros are, but then also what the ingredients are. And they'll say, Is this okay? Part of me just wants to say, Do you know what any of those words mean? Do you know what that is? If you recognize it, sure, go ahead. I can't do that though, because there's too much nuance, right? But if you don't know what it is, if you can't say the words, it's probably not gonna help you. Don't do that. That's an energy taker. Junk food is an energy taker on a lot of levels. Okay, that's one through six of energy takers. Remember, it's not a comprehensive list. There are so many more things we could have put on there. But hopefully it gets you thinking about the things that are draining your energy. Take a few minutes and think about things in your life that drain you. But now let's think about or talk about the energy givers. Because there are energy-giving, life-giving things that we can do all the time. And this will take away the tired. The people who say I'm just always tired. Yes, sleep, but also focus on the things that give you life, give you energy. I love that. Will you go through Stardust? You betcha. Number one. My favorite. We love this one. It's sunlight and nature. Yes. Oh, sunlight. Getting sunlight in the morning helps your body regulate itself and it does give you energy for the rest of the day. But you can also get sunlight during the day. You should get sunlight during the day. Extra credit for in the morning. Yes. And extra credit for looking out the window at night when the sun is setting and getting that beautiful red light in your eyes. It was so pretty last night. Yes. So look outside. Just look outside. Or go outside. If you can't go outside during your workday, at least. Least look outside. Yeah. Going outside is better. And the nature part, and just I'm kind of excited for spring to come for a lot of reasons. But one is so that I can plant flowers in my garden and just be in the dirt. And also hike. So and going for a walk. Like I go for a walk in the morning. Pretty much every morning. You go outside. I go outside and I walk, whether it's freezing or not. And it gets me sunlight and it gets me some nature. Yeah. I'm walking around my neighborhood, but there's trees and grass and nature. See, I have some good nature around me, and I'm not that far from the river, the snake river, and there's some beautiful scenery, and I like to walk on different sections of the trail. But here's what I think is critical with number one it's sunlight and nature. It doesn't always have to be an and. Sometimes the sun isn't shining. It might be gray and gloomy, but you can still have nature. So it can be an either-or or an and. There's a lot of power in being outside and in nature. Grounding has been like my husband has seen people, like football players, walking out barefoot, and he's like, What are they doing? It's like they're grounding, they're doing what? Or earthing. Yeah, or earthing. Earthing is another name for it. And more and more athletes at the college level and the professional level are practicing barefoot, warming up barefoot, because it's you get energy from the earth. Like it has a magnetic field, and so do you. And so there is actual science that shows touching nature, being in nature, can be an energy giver. I had one of my clients asking, actually, my client's husband asking about this on their way out the other day. He said, I have a question for you about grounding. And I said, Yes. He said, I don't need to say anything more. Nope. The answer is yes. Touch it, walk on it, like do everything you can. And the her the wife said, I don't like to walk barefoot. And I said, Okay, then sit and put your bare feet on the earth. Like just touch it. Or touch a tree. Yeah. Or touch a plant. Yeah. Be a tree hugger. Please. Hop at it. You have our blessing. Yeah. Yeah. There is power in it. What's number two, Debbie? Number two is something that I have learned to implement and practice. It is an energy giver, and it is resting without guilt.

unknown 24:30

Uh-huh.

Debra 24:31

We don't have to earn our rest. This goes back to the energy taker of being busy. Yep. It's the flip side to that. Powerful things happen. Recovery happens when you're resting, whether it's sleep at night or if you're taking a pause during the day. It can be a 20-minute power nap, it can be a 15-minute, I'm gonna just like I like to get horizontal. Sometimes I'm awake, sometimes I'm asleep. But resting without guilt. Sometimes it's more than 20 minutes or 15 minutes, sometimes it's an hour and a half, depending on what's going on. But I think it's so important and it literally recharges your battery. I'm going to apply that to people that work full-time that might get like a half an hour lunch. Been there, done that. Take your lunch. Yep. Like if you're a school teacher, take your lunch. You don't need to be working during that time. Yep. You don't need to be scrolling your phone during that time. You can eat your lunch slowly. If there are people around you, you can have a conversation. And then when you go back to work, you're ready to work because you had a break from what from your work. Yeah, there are a lot of people who wear that busy badge and think they're contributing more because they're too busy to t go away from their desk. So they eat their lunch at their desk every day. No take a break. It doesn't, it doesn't, you're not more productive, you're not more valuable, you're just, I'm gonna say, going for some negative attention.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Yeah.

unknown 26:04

Yes.

Consistent Sleep And Circadian Rhythm

Gratitude As A Daily Generator

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Gentle Movement That Builds Energy

Debra 26:05

You're cry crying out for some of that negative attention, like it's attention, but it's in a negative way. So take a break. If you're a busy mom, I did this with my kids. If you're a busy mom, it's okay for the kids to play in their room by themselves with the door shut for a little while. It gives you a break, it gives you a little bit of a reset. So when they come out of their room after half an hour or whatever, you're all ready. You're happy smiley again. And so are they. They need that time by themselves too. So it doesn't matter how old you are. Even our parents, who are almost 80, take breaks. They do. Yep. Our mom likes to sew and quilt and do embroidery and knit and all kinds of things. She also takes breaks. Takes a nap, walks around, does something different. So it's good for you. So I'm gonna say when I did work more full-time away, like when I worked in the hospital or like different places I worked where I couldn't go home at lunch. I had either a half hour or an hour lunch. I would always go away from my desk and eat my lunch. Sometimes in solitude, sometimes outside, sometimes with people. And then if I had time, I would also take a rest. I would go to my car, lay the seat back, close my eyes, set a timer so I didn't so I wasn't late getting back to work. But it can be done. I mean, been there, done that, and you can do it. I sometimes my rest was I would eat lunch, eat lunch and then take a walk around the block. So your brain needs that rest during the day, right? We talked about people working constantly, keep going, going, going, going. But have you ever noticed that when you stop and take a break and go to something else, when you come back, you have fresh new ideas. Yep. You are literally more productive. Yeah. So take a break. There are so many like true scientific studies that prove that. Okay, along with resting without guilt. Jeff was ready for this one. No, I almost feel bad because we talk about it so much. We do. We talk about this all the time, but it really is important. It's consistent sleep. Like we talked about inconsistent sleep as an energy drainer, but consistent sleep is an energy giver. Yeah. When you go to bed at the same time and you wake up at the same time, within like 30 minutes or so. Your body gets in a rhythm. I was listening to and it's the rhythm, the like the circadian rhythm that the body wants to be in that it was designed to be in. Yes. So Huberman Labs. What's his first name? Dr. Andrew. Dr. Andrew Huberman. Thank you. I was listening to him this morning, and he was talking about how if you're not a mo morning person, you can become a morning person by giving your body some some consistent sleep, going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time. Yeah. So if you want to be a morning person, you want to get up at six o'clock in the morning or seven o'clock in the morning. Set your alarm, and when the alarm goes off, get up. It will take you, he said, three days to reset your circadian rhythm so that you now, your body is trained, okay, this is what I'm doing. This is who I am now. Yes. And it will be easier for you to get up. So sleep, good, consistent sleep, is a big deal. Yeah. And it can like I used to say I was not a morning person. I was a night owl, especially in college. Like I didn't want to go to bed until everyone was done with everything. I didn't want to miss anything. Right? So it was kind of the social aspect of things. But I have retrained my body. And I go to the same, go to bed the same time within about a 30-minute window. And then I wake up generally without an alarm clock within the same 30-minute window every day. And I am now proudly a morning person and I am so productive in the morning. It gives you really good energy. Yeah. It's great. So number four on our list of energy givers is gratitude. This is one of my favorite. It is. You talk talked talk about it. About gratitude? Yeah. Oh my gosh. There are so many things to be grateful for. So many. Does life have hard times? Yes, but there are so many things. I told you I go for a walk pretty much every morning and I do a little video. And tell something I'm grateful for. I've been doing it for months and I haven't run out of things to say that I'm grateful for. And you say a different thing you're grateful for every day. Every day. Yeah. Every day it's different. There are so many things to be grateful for, and it really, really does energize the energize you. It sets your mind, your s your heart, your spirit in a forward, upward trajectory. Yeah. It kind of sets the state, your state of being in a positive manner. You also have talked about how you do a couple of gratitudes in your mind before you go to sleep. I do. I every night when I lay down, lights are off, I tell my husband good night, and I say, and in my head, I do at least five things I'm grateful for that happened during the day. So specific to that day. Yeah. Yep, specific for that day. Yeah. See, I like to write mine. You don't have to. You can do it in your head. You can do it however you want. But I like to write at least three in the morning because it helps me literally start my day in the right mental frame. It it really does energize you. Yeah. I do try to do the no repeats too. So it keeps your brain looking for things to be grateful for. So you see more and more and more things to be grateful for rather than things to gripe and complain and moan and groan about. So the other day my husband had had kind of a rough day. And he came, he was it's bedtime, and he's just like telling me all the things that were bad. And I said, Okay, are you done? And he told me a couple more. I said, Okay, are you done? He said, Yeah. I said, Okay, now what are some good things that happened to you today? He's like, Oh, you are so good. And we talked about some things that were good that happened during the day, and he rolled over and he was in a little bit better mood. Yeah. Because he had focused on something that was good and he was grateful for it. That's interesting. You do it. I I do the same with Tom in a little bit different way. So he usually gets home from work in the morning when I'm starting my day, and I'll say, How was your night? And he will tell me. And normally it just depends on how long he was delayed, or you know, that determines how his night went. And I will always say, Did you hit traffic? How was the weather? And he'll say, Oh no, there was no traffic, it was smooth sailing, and no, there was no snow, there was no rain. I'm like, Oh, that's amazing. And it just like helps him shift a little bit before he goes to bed. That's good. Yeah. So I ask until there is something that lands right. Because some days are better than others. Yes, and the more you do it, the more your brain will look for those good things and the more energy you will have because you're focusing on those good things. Yep, it's just like an internal generator. It's awesome. One of the most toxic things that people do is color their hair. And my hand is up. I am guilty of this. I love to play with my hair color. I have for years, and now I love to cover my grays. The best non-toxic hair color that I have found is polar hair care. It is easy, it applies like a shampoo. You only have to leave it on for 10 minutes. It lasts for about six weeks, and it doesn't have any of the harsh chemicals and all the nasty stuff in it. Plus, it's infused with Rishi, macadamia, jojoba oil. So it leaves my hair feeling better and not dried out and abused. Use the code Deborah 6334. That's my name, D-E-B-R-A 6334. So if you go to polarhaircare.com slash Deborah 6334, you'll get an awesome discount off your order. Okay. Whole nourishing food is an energy giver. Junk food is a taker. Yes. Whole and nourishing food is a giver. During the Super Bowl, there was a commercial with Mike Tyson on it. Did you see it? He said, eat real food. Yeah. Eat real food. I've seen that several times recently, and there was a podcaster I used to listen to. He stopped his podcast, but his whole thing was jerf. Just eat real food. It matters. It matters. It totally matters. We talked about junk food is an energy vampire. It makes things work wrong. So eat those things. Yeah, so that whole nourishing food is usually food that comes from the earth, whether it's plants that have grown or it's animals that have eaten the plants that have grown that were fed by the sunlight that was our number one list on energy givers. That sunlight gives that energy to the food as well. And then you consume the food and you get the energy that way. It's a beautiful, beautiful chemical reaction. So a whole cycle. It's amazing. You cannot function well. You cannot feel well if you're not eating whole nourishing foods. No, do you have to eat salad at every meal? No. No, that's boring. But there's a lot of good food that you can eat. And do you have to eat calling? No. I had cake last night. I had cake last night too. Chocolate cake. It was delicious. But I'm not going to just eat cake all the time. No. Eat real food. It will nourish your body and nourish your soul, and you will feel so much better. Yeah. I had cake last night because I got a text from mom and she said, I made cherry chocolate cake. Would you like some? And I said, Of course. And she said, I also need to get your dad out of the house and take him for a drive in the sunshine. So I said, Come on over. So I got cake out of it. It has cherries in it. And eggs. And we grew up with cherry chocolate cake, and it is delicious, but it's every once in a while, most of the time it's whole, nourishing, real food. Okay, what's our last suggestion, Deb? Our last one is gentle and appropriate movement. We talked about this a time or time or two as well. Motion is lotion, movement is life. We want to have movement in our life, move our body. It needs to be appropriate for where you are in your physical capacity and your energetic capacity. But ultimately, movement gives you energy. It is again a generator. It's physics. Object in motion stays in motion. Yes, yes. So move, move. It doesn't have to be hard and punishing. Nope. Gentle, appropriate is great. Good stress on your body is great. It strengthens your body. Yeah. Regenerates. So I like to lift heavy weights. I will lift heavy weights two days, and then on the third day, I will do something that requires zero weights. Like it's kind of like Pilates. And then I will do two days of heavy weights, and then I will do gentle. And it re-energizes me. The gentle days re-energize me for hard work on the hard days. And it's a good for me, that's a great cycle. I couldn't do yoga every day. Well, I take that back. I could do nighttime yoga every day, but yoga for my exercise every day would not work for me. Some people it works great for their moving and breathing and stretching. Well, and they there they can do different kinds. So some days will be a power yoga, some days will be a flow yoga, sometimes some days will be a restorative yoga, but the power is more the weight and strength. And then the flow is the gentle, easy movement. But do what works for you. Yes, the goal is to create energy. Yes. Yep. And do it in a way that you like to do. We've talked before. Deb likes to dance.

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I don't get to dance that often, but it's one of my things I keep in there as movement. So are walks. So is Pilates. So is strength training. Like so is hiking. There's lots of things you can do. And again, it doesn't have to be punishing. We're never punishing our body. We're loving and supporting our body. Punishing your body is an energy taker.

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Correct. So we want appropriate movement to build energy, to keep that wheel moving. Because if you stop moving, then the wheel stops and you die. Yeah, we don't want the wheel to stop. It's a appropriate movement. So as you were talking about, you lift heavy for two days and then you do something gentle. To me, that sounds like balance. And balance is what we're after to have a smoothly rolling wheel. Yeah. It that wheel needs to be in balance. We don't want it clunky. No. Out of balance. No, no clunky wheels. Yeah. I think we've covered it. Okay. Our sample list, our appetizer list. Yeah. Take what we've talked about and and build on it. Like, what are some things that give you energy? That would be great. You know what? If you could share that with us on our social media posts, like what gives you energy? What excites you? What drives you? What do you do that you can so that you can keep going in a happy, upward, satisfied direction? What sucks your energy? What what just drains you? For Deborah, like she can't go to a store when it's super busy because it drains her energy. It drains me. And I don't care. Like it doesn't bother me at all. What drains you? What sucks your energy? Please share with us. We would love to know. So I think of it as find a weed. So find something that's an energy drain for you. Pluck the weed and plant a flower. Oh, don't leave a void. Don't leave a void. So what can I stop doing that's draining the energy? And what can I replace it with that will give me energy? We want lots of flowers. Fewer and fewer weeds. But weeds tend to pop up, so we have to constantly look at it. Thus the re-evaluation on the wheel from time to time. Yep. Hope that gave you life. Hope that gave you energy. If you heard anything you liked, or if you think someone else could benefit from it, please share it. Please also follow us or subscribe so that you get notification when we have new episodes. And follow us on social media too. We would love to engage with you there. We're on all the socials: Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, TikTok, YouTube, we're on them all. So come join the conversation, share with us. We'd love to hear from you. And in our show notes, we have free resources and discount codes for you on re on products that we love. And you can visit our website at dtimes2podcast.com. You spell that dx2podcast.com. Yep. We've got resources there for you as well. And then until next time. Keep your wheel rolling smoothly. Thanks for listening to the D Times2 Podcast with Denise and Deborah. We hope you enjoyed today's episode. Be sure to subscribe and share it with someone who's ready to roll toward a more balanced life. Your support means the world to us. And just a quick note we're sharing our own experiences and ideas, not professional advice. Always do your own research and talk to a qualified expert before making big decisions. Until next time, keep your wheel rolling strong.