Single, Sovereign, and Over the Moon
Single, Sovereign, and Over the Moon is the podcast for women 50+ who are ready to reclaim their independence, rewrite the rules, and rise into a life that feels deeply, deliciously their own. Hosted by Angela Winks — Holistic Life Coach, Sovereignty Strategist, and proud single woman for over 15 years — this show is your weekly invitation to step into your power with clarity, confidence, and joy.
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Each episode explores the emotional, practical, and spiritual dimensions of midlife singlehood — from rebuilding your identity after divorce, to cultivating unshakeable self‑trust, to designing a life that feels expansive, sovereign, and over‑the‑moon fulfilling.
Whether you’re newly single, long‑time solo, or somewhere in between, you’ll find conversations, coaching insights, and real‑life stories that remind you of one truth:
Your next chapter isn’t just possible — it’s powerful.
If you’re ready to rise, reclaim, and revel in the freedom of this season, you’re in the right place.
Single, Sovereign, and Over the Moon
Episode #16 - A Conversation with Registered Dietitian Angela Jenkins on Nutrition, the Mind–Body Connection, and Local Produce
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In this episode, I sit down with Registered Dietitian Angela Jenkins to explore how nutrition and locally grown produce support the mind–body connection in our middle years. Angela shares her holistic approach to fueling wellbeing and why local food can be a powerful part of building strength, clarity, and vitality as a sovereign, single woman.
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Welcome to Single, Sovereign and Over the Moon, the podcast for women celebrating the freedom of singlehood after 50. I'm your host, Angela Winx, holistic life coach and sovereignty strategist. To be sovereign means owning your power and claiming the authority to be the director of your life, your choices, and your future. And when divorced or the end of any long-term relationship has you single in midlife, it's a beautiful opportunity to realign and write your healthiest, happiest, most fulfilling chapters yet. Because becoming single after 50 isn't a setback into it. Here we get to reimagine what it means to emerge in this life. Join me to build a strong community of women who embrace their independence, support one another, and both reconfinding what it means to be single, sovereign, and away in love with the rest of your life. Hello, Sovereign Sisters. I hope you're all having a wonderful week and enjoying these last few weeks of summer. Currently in 2026, as I record this, it is September. So welcome to September and welcome to the show today. I have a special episode for you that I believe will be of great value as you seek to build a life of peace and strength and well-being. We're in a season of life here in our middle years where we have the opportunity and perhaps even a special obligation to ourselves to set the stage for the quality of life that we will have in our later years. And I know it can be a little uncomfortable or scary to talk about or think about, but if we really want to live fully throughout our lives with the energy and mobility and vitality to enjoy and to endure what's to come, we must be actively involved in our physical health and our mental well-being. One of the many beautiful things about becoming single again in this middle season of life is that it's already a time that you're naturally changing in very noticeably physical ways and mental ways as well. So as you realize and acknowledge that your body needs extra love and attention, if you want it to keep up with your desire to experience life to the fullest, you now have a special chance to put your health, your own health, front and center. And the beauty of being single again is that you no longer have potentially a partner's negative influence. You don't have to accommodate somebody else's bad habits. Your menu is yours to create. So here in this community and in the space of this podcast, I'll be addressing physical health quite a bit because your body holds many midlife superpowers, even though sometimes it may feel as if it's only holding inflammation or pain or stiffness and fatigue. Those things can be very real. And some of it fluctuates with hormone changes, but and other uh things that come up in our health. But that doesn't mean there's nothing you can do about it. We always have options to improve how we feel. And with some love and intention, your body can become one of the strongest parts of you and one of the greatest sources of energy, peace, and pleasure that you never have to search outside of yourself for. On today's episode, I'm very excited to welcome you into a conversation with registered dietitian Angela Jenkins. Angela has over 30 years of experience in the world of nutrition, and I think you'll appreciate her candor as well as her holistic approach to health and the way she honors the mind-body connection and explains it scientifically, placing an emphasis on the value of complete nutrition. You know, by now we have all heard many takes on the mind-body-spirit connection, and just as with many other topics in the world of health and well-being that get mentioned quite frequently, I fear the truth of this connection is sometimes easily dismissed. But as you will hear, Angela mentioned in this conversation, our gut health undeniably affects our brain function. And the food we put in our bodies has everything to do with whether or not the relationship between the body and the brain is a healthy one. She shares beautiful, very important information about our food supply system and the importance of growing our own food where possible and of finding access to local produce through local farms. I think you'll gain a lot from this conversation, so please feel free to sit back and enjoy this conversation with dietitian Angela Jenkins. Angela, I want to thank you so much for reaching out and offering to be on the show and share your wisdom and expertise as a registered dietitian. So before we get into the conversation, would you please share whatever you're comfortable sharing about you and your story and what it's like for you as a woman over 50 and experiencing life and just yeah, some of your expertise as a dietitian and whatever else you'd like to share about your story?
SPEAKER_02Well, I spent 35 years, uh 35 years as a registered and licensed dietitian. Uh up until about a year and a half ago, I had one foot in conventional care and then one foot in holistic care. So I've always kind of believed in the holistic approach. Uh, but it wasn't until a year and a half ago that I just thought, you know, I I'm not gonna do it the other way anymore. Um and there's, you know, there's a place for it. So it's not like conventional care is a bad thing, but it's a it's a sick care system, it's not a health care system. And so for those of us who are really striving to get better and figure out what the root cause of our health concerns are, it's not the place to go. It's it's just not. Now, if you break a foot, great, it's emergent care, let's let's go get some help, sort of thing. Um so my my personal story about why it is that I came to this place is that I mean, for most of my life, uh I dealt with fatigue, brain fog, uh, and I'll just be honest, constipation, even as a dietitian, on and off for my entire career. So I know that it wasn't you know the classic approach of making sure you're getting plenty of fluid, fiber, probiotics, because it didn't work. What is going on? But then it wasn't until uh about around the time I turned 50, actually, which is one of the one of the reasons I reached out, uh, that I realized my kidneys were failing. And so uh my GFR, and ironically, I was working in the hospital setting as a kidney dietitian at the time. Oh believed that whether you believe in God or the universe or whatever, there's a sense of humor there. Yeah. Um and I and you know, I I went to my nephrologist that I actually worked with him. I said, Hey, would you be concerned about this? He goes, because it was it wasn't just kind of bad. My GFR, which is a glamogular filtration rate, which is one of the diagnostic criteria for kidney failure, was actually at a stage four. So it was in the 40s, in the low 40s. And he goes, Well, look at you, you're pretty healthy, let's just watch it. And I I looked at him and I was like, Well, okay, you can watch it and I'll figure it out. And I did. And so that's why I'm wanting to excuse me, share more of my story so that um, well, so people that people understand that even if you're handed uh a diagnosis or hey, let's just watch this sort of um scenario from your physician, that there there are people out there that are willing to go and try to help figure out what the what the root cause is and what the answers are. So that's what it drives me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, wonderful. And I'm sorry you've had to go through that, but also happy that um you have been able to use it to find your answers and to get healthy. And then the amazing thing is helping others doing it too. So thank you for sharing that story and thank you for having the desire to help others in a deep in a deeper way than our typical health or yeah, sick or sick care system. I agree with that. So could you also now please share with us your philosophy as a dietitian? And what yeah, what wisdom have you found? What is your philosophy?
SPEAKER_02I as a dietitian, you know, even with the the transition that's occurred uh for me with my practice, I believe that nutrition is still the foundation for overall health. Nutrition and lifestyle that's not going to ever change because nutrition doesn't happen in a vacuum. Um, but we have to understand that there's a lot of things that go on with our food supply that we're not aware of.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I always start with my clients with nutrition and lifestyle. And oftentimes we can get them better with just that because some people don't have the same sorts of exposure, say, for instance, like what I did. But so we're whereby the foundation for what I was doing was sound, but yet yet it wasn't working, sort of thing. Um so I like to teach people more about what's going on with our food supply so that they can understand that yes, if you're eating right and you're exercising, you're doing all the right things, and you're not seeing that needle budge in any way, whatever your metric is for your overall health, that there's there's other things that are going on with our food supply. And so that's where actually my business was was born from was the lack of transparency around what goes on with our food supply. And I did that in 2011. I've just taken it to a totally different place, is what's happened. Again, after 50.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So the environmental exposures are a big concern. Are are uh the ultra foster ultra high processed food products that you hear in the media now? That has been a major concern for a long time. Yeah. The lack of transparency, even with food labeling, is a very big deal. I did a social media post here recently. I mean, there's there's fodder for this understanding out in the media every single day. Yeah if you just look at it under this lens of do we actually know what we're eating? Right. And uh the most recent example is with a product called Primal Kitchen that they they well intentioned at the outset. We're making a lot of food products with avocado oil instead of the industrialized food system seed oils or other oils that are highly oxidized and very inflammatory. Um but they got bought out in 2019 by Kraft. And at that point in time there was a lifting of the labeling laws, too, which I'm sure played into it at that time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But uh for the last basically potentially six or seven years, nobody really knows when the switch happened on for the substitutions of the seed oils. But the study, there was a study that was done recently, a third-party review of avocado-based food products that said it's not it's not avocado oil. So here we are well-intentioned with trying to improve our overall health, but there's there's one more example. I mean, and and those examples come hard and fast a lot, you know, the cryptosporidium and the food supply, that's the most recent thing that with eating fresh fruits and vegetables, it's crazy. I mean, I could go down through a list of them right now. Yeah, the struggle is real. And the the American consumer, if we're really trying to improve our overall health, we're at a disadvantage unless we're growing our own food.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I go back to that pretty consistently because we can try to improve our overall health, we can address the issues with inflammation, like eating an anti-inflammatory diet as the foundation, but it doesn't mean we're gonna budge the needle.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And a lot of people are asking, like, why? What's going on? And our thyroid health is probably the first thing that goes. So I call it the gatekeeper for our endocrine health.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02So, because it is, it's usually the first thing that goes, and almost everybody, I say almost everybody, almost everybody that comes in a clinic is struggling with thyroid problems. I mean, put it that way.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_02It's usually only about 10% of the population, supposedly.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I I think it's this is a message that is coming to me over and over and over again. You need to grow your own food food, you need to grow your own food. And you know, at the current moment in my little life, I'm in an apartment. And so, like, wow, how do I grow my own food? I mean, I have a balcony, there's probably some lettuce or kale or something, tomatoes. I not get enough light for tomatoes, but um there are local, I'm in Seattle, so there's a pretty fair amount of pea patches and little community gardens that I just haven't, you know, dived into or explored yet. But what is your advice for somebody like me who has just a tiny balcony or even somebody who doesn't have a balcony at all or doesn't have their own space to grow food?
SPEAKER_02You know, and your situation is not unique. Uh, so I really love that question. Uh you can you can put things in pots on the back deck, absolutely. You can grow some rosemary, which is a very detoxifying uh herb. Yeah, and I always tell people, you know, if you have a desire and you want to start working with a particular food product or if you like, like I'll use again, I'll use rosemary as an example. Um, just just get started. You know, just put something in a pot and on the back deck. Now, obviously, you're not going to be able to produce a large volume of food that way. Yeah. But then looking to exactly what you just mentioned, which is look to your community. Are there opportunities for for uh volunteering at community gardens in exchange for produce? Sometimes there's options for CSAs, which is community-supported agriculture, whereby you go and you instead of just doing a plot yourself, you volunteer some time and they do actually give you some food back. Um there are like in Springfield here where I am, they do you can actually rent a plot at one of the local uh parks and produce food on it if you want to do that. And then the other option is to just go to your local farmer and support them. So even if you yourself can't grow it, you're going to have a higher level of assertiveness associated with uh your food products if you can put a face to the person that's actually growing it, because they're more likely to be honest with you because it's face forward, so to speak. It's not foolproof. I'm not gonna not going to say that there haven't been examples of local farmers creating some some problems uh on the transparency front, but on the whole, you're going to know more about how your food is produced. And I can't tell you how how important that is from the transparency side of things. So there's there's a lot more literature coming out now. I had to I had to go digging for it when I was writing my book, but uh there's a lot more literature coming out that speaks to the quality of the food product associated with even regenerative agriculture. So if you have uh I tell people Google Google regenerative farms in your area, and you're gonna find that there are several different websites that actually help support these folks in order to make sure that people have the option to choose wherever their location is. So that that sort of thing goes a long, long way. So even if you can't do it specifically yourself, which which truly does give you a different sense of connection with your food, but you can connect in other ways, absolutely. Yeah. Those relationships are just as important, especially as we age, Angela, you know, those relationships with people, with farmers become significantly more important. At least it has for me, it's age so.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Well, and I think it's part of the, you know, so on this podcast, um it I my goal is to support single women over 50 because I feel like um it's such a powerful time in our lives, and being single gives us an advantage. And married people might not feel that way, but this isn't for them. This is for the single people and particularly women who are newly single. So they've been in a relationship, they're newly single, and they're trying to find their footing, they're trying to find like who am I now without a partner? What is life like unpartnered and solo? And how do I really get myself on the best uh launch pad, I guess, for the rest of my life? And I think that getting your physical health and your mental health are tied together, making that the priority is number one. I mean, yes, you need to look at your finances now, legal stuff, um, any loose ends that need to be tied up there. But even with that, if you can start with nutrition and physical health, which again builds mental health and feeds into that, then you are at another advantage with a clearer mind, a healthier body, more energy, because something that I have experienced. Um, I'm officially one year past my menopause celebration mark. So I love that, yeah, and feeling so good, but this time of life, there is brain fog, there is for me fatigue so much, fatigue takes over. And I think that nutrition, or maybe I'll ask you, how does nutrition help with our energy and our mental fog? And what can we do nutritionally to support a better experience mentally and physically?
SPEAKER_02All of those things are interrelated, they absolutely are. Um, you know, a lot of times what happens is that we gravitate to things like hormone replacement as opposed to looking at the nutrition and dietary intervention component of it. So I'm really appreciating this question because this is near and dear to my heart being 57 years old and also in menopause for several years, uh, officially at this point in time. Um nutrition is foundational. So anti-inflammatory diets go a long way. Making sure that we're actively managing any sort of uh inflammatory component of our overall health. So if we have a diagnosis that leads that direction, trying to figure out what's causing it is absolutely essential, whether it's food, whether it's the environment that we're living in, um, you know, whether it's a toxic exposures that our body is still actively trying to manage. Um those sorts of things are quite real and they translate into symptoms associated with menopause, um, which also, again, from the gut inflammation side of things, can translate into whatever's going on in our gut is going to influence our brain because there is something called a gut brain access, and that gut brain axis is functioning every single minute of every day. So if you feel some fatigue, well, fatigue is more mitochondrial, but um, if you feel brain fog creep in, it's there's some potential that your body's recirculating, some toxins even. And just being again, I try to teach people to start looking at it under that lens because you can begin to feel a lot better just by by paying attention to it from that perspective. So the fatigue part is mitochondrial function. Your ATP is generated in your mitochondria, and it all goes back to the same thing. It all goes back to cellular inflammation in my mind. And so if we can actively manage the inflammation on the cellular level, we can then get to the get to what's causing the problems with the ATP production and the overall fatigue, which often gets blamed on hormone imbalances associated with aging as opposed to cellular function. And so that's that's the lens that I put it under, and it does it makes a difference. It makes a big difference. So you don't develop the same sort of symptoms. Um, and I'll just give you an example too. Like I had uh I had a mold ex pretty severe mold mold exposure, which is something that my body is challenged to actively manage. And I was going house hunting with a girlfriend of mine, set up some time with a realtor, and I went over to this house, and uh as soon the the realtor had it aired out before we got in there, and I could still smell it. I was like, no, this place is full of mold. And she she goes, Well, we don't see any. I said, This place is full of mold. And then I figured out where the concentration of it was, but it took me two full days to feel better after that because I that's one of my my overall exposures that my body just doesn't handle well. Yeah. And so I I advocate for women over over 50 in particular because that's where you're really going to see see it play out. It's going to feel like hormone imbalances, but our hormones naturally begin to diminish as we age. But if we start paying attention to the other things that are potentially causing uh this the symptoms component of it, and we relate to those symptoms as signs that our body is struggling with something, as opposed to my hormones are just off. Yeah, it makes a world of difference. Oh my goodness, I can't even tell you.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02So I wouldn't have known if I if I wasn't in tune with mold exposures, I wouldn't have known what was going on. But but it took two days because I'm in a perpetual, you know, basically trying to make sure that I'm paying attention to these things. And this is what I teach otherwise. So I was like, oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It was it was bad too. I sweat through, I can't even tell you, not to be too raw, but I'm fine sharing these things because I feel like if you share them, then you can be real about it. I mean, it took me two solid nights of sweating through my pajamas. I don't know how many times before my body just finally got rid of it all. But again, if I hadn't known that, I would have been like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I knew it was a mold exposure. I knew it was going on. And so I was able to pay attention in that way. And all of these things, because our hormones are protective on some level, as they diminish as we age, we blame it on the hormones. It's not the hormones' fault, though.
SPEAKER_01Well, this brings me to such an important topic anyway, of just paying attention to how you feel. And that's something that I say a lot on the podcast. And a lot and most of the time so far, when I've talked about it here, I talk about it in terms of pay attention to how you feel emotionally. How are you feeling if you my last episode was about um replays in your head that can start bringing you down, you know, things from your past that you replay, and how if you just notice how you feel and you care about how you're feeling, you can catch the thought that's creating this bad feeling. And the same is very true, caring about how you're feeling physically to catch the mold or the food or whatever is happening in your environment or that you're putting into your body that is making you feel unwell. And I think that is such a beautiful, um, but I'm but painful example of just, you know, the I think having an awareness, knowledge about yourself, knowing yourself well enough to know that when you are feeling bad, something's up. It's not just something that's happening to you from beyond, you know, your control. It's usually something that you've been exposed to, um, whether you've eaten it or thought about it or whatever. So, or walked into a moldy house. Um, yeah, I think we love that. We have to pay attention to how we feel and we have to care about how we feel and not just let yourself feel bad, but say, no, I care about how I feel. I want to feel good, I want to feel energized. What's going on?
SPEAKER_02Right. And honoring that is is the biggest deal. And I feel like after 50, we're a little bit at least a little bit better about it. But um I I love your awareness around like thoughts. I mean, thoughts become things, right?
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I don't I don't know if uh you've heard of, I think it's Wayne Dyer or there's I mean, there's a there's a variety of people who talk about this. I think out there right now, Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about it a lot. I've actually been to a uh full uh retreat of his to try to take charge of my thoughts, but when my kidneys were failing, so just to extend that story, uh supposedly from the energetic side of things, uh we hold fear in our kidneys. And at that time that my kidneys were failing, I was going through a lot of emotional stress also. And then we had COVID that was at the we were at the beginning of COVID. I had a divorce that I was going through at the same time, and I was like, I have got to get this figured out, or I'm not gonna survive this sort of thing. So even the problems that arise in our lives can often be the opportunities that we go, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna take charge of this. I got there's no downside to taking charge of our thoughts, right?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02No downside to it. And I actually teach that in detoxification because that negative feedback cycle that happens with our thought process actually can, and they can prove this, can cause some additional cellular inflammation. So, so our stressors are physical, chemical, and emotional. So I love that you brought that up. It's so such a beautiful part of this conversation that I think oftentimes gets neglected.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or or tossed aside as being, you know, when you hear mind-body connection, tossed aside as being, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, mind-body, whatever. I've heard that a thousand times, or maybe it's kind of woo-woo or whatever. Um, but it's not. It is a thing, and it's a very serious thing that can have a huge impact on your well-being.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. Absolutely. And the the more that we pay attention to our thought process, uh, you know, one of the things that I have my people do, which I'll and I'll just share this just because I think it has value across the board to anybody that's that's listening, and that is that um uh gratitude, gratitude journaling first thing in the morning, and making sure that we are uh expressing gratitude for whatever it is that's going on in our lives, which sometimes can be challenging when things are not going well. Yeah, but that keeps us the thought process uh in the right space, which is okay, uh, and sometimes it's what am I supposed to be learning from this experience?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It changes the internal conversation and it also changes the outcome because we ask different questions.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. And then a great follow-up, I think, to the gratitude sometimes is to ask yourself and write that, you know, write it down while you've got your pen and paper is how can what can I do to thrive today? Like if there are things that I'm struggling to find the silver lining to, how can I thrive? And just that I think gratitude puts you in such a good, like it just raises everything, raises your energy, raises your thoughts, your vibration, so that you do just realize, okay, I'm everything is seems out of control around me, but it's not, because I recognize the things that are good, and that's empowering. In in a strange way, it's it's empowering in a beautiful way, it's empowering. So I love that you do that as part of your nutrition focus and work. That's really wise. I love it.
SPEAKER_02Well, without the mindset that we can, in fact, get better, the sun's coming through the whole backside here to screen.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02Yes. You're you're you're shining.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh my goodness. Oh, listeners, if you could see what was happening now. The sunlight is behind me.
SPEAKER_00And I just look, yeah, like I'm stepping out of the sun.
SPEAKER_02The um the the mindset piece is perhaps the most difficult part because I can tell people you need to get up in the morning and you need to walk, you need to move your body every day, you need to get outside, you need, you know, I can tell people well the the all that you need to. Um, but the mindset piece is so important because if we don't believe that we can get better, then we're not going to. I mean, so subconsciously, so even if it's going on on a subconscious level, so if somebody's going comes into my space, so to speak, and they say, I want to do a program with you, I I will vet them for whether their mindset is in the right place or not, because I won't take I won't take the money.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I won't do it because I don't see the point in that, because until we are we're there. And it doesn't mean there's not going to be uh what I call part of the the the dance, so to speak, because you know, then we second guess ourselves, can I really can I really do this, you know, even after we get started. But that's that's why the coaching part of this is perhaps the most involved, because you know, it's it's teaching the mindset and bringing it back forward and saying, well, you can do this, and yeah, and actually, you know, even pointing out a lot of times that that they have. But what we do as human beings is we find something to be critical of and evaluate instead of celebrating the wins, which I also feel like as we get older we get better at. We do, we get better at it so because we're like, well, wait a minute, and a lot of that is the mindset piece. Yes. No, it's the positive self-talk, it's the and it's not ignoring things that are going on, it's still honoring the sign or the symptom. But it's saying, No, I can get better, I will get better, I'm gonna stay present with the process, and I'm going to get through this. Yes, which is quite different than yeah, than just saying it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, and I love that so much. I think it's also a way to build sometimes when people don't act, I they have lost their self-trust and they don't believe it's really gonna work, or they don't believe they're gonna follow through, you know. Well, this is I've tried stuff like this before, and I don't, you know, I just don't really, but in even in that little self-conversation, you're losing your self-trust. You don't have, you don't really think you're gonna do it anymore. So when somebody can just make the decision and take the steps, then they are building that self-trust. And that's very, very important throughout your entire life, but um so important even now as we age to maintain that and be able to pass it on and and teach others to do it. Um and I want to talk a little bit about nutrition in terms of how well, how does nutrition support strong mental health and clarity? So what goes on in the brain when we are nutritionally supported?
SPEAKER_02I go back to the gut brain axis for that. So your microbiome dictates quite literally the majority of your neurotransmitters, your immune health, and um being aware of that is so important for understanding how it impacts mental health because um we can't we can't go to McDonald's and get even if it's a you know kids' hamburger and fries and a coke and expect our gut brain access to be okay. You know, well, what your what you put in your body literally feeds that microbiome, which then translates to what the quality of the neurotransmitters, the things that get produced in your body, that that's a straight-line transition, okay. And so when we understand that's what happens, so any sort of inflammation and gut dysbiosis is going to affect your your mental health. I I can't I can't emphasize that enough. So the anti-inflammatory diet I go back to over and over and over again, uh the quality of the foods that you're eating, meaning if you're sourcing from regenerative sources versus uh again the industrialized food system, which is laden with uh pesticide residues, antibiotics, as well as um, you know, a lot of the animals are immunized, which can also influence the overall quality of the the end food product. You know, what we put in our bodies and being mindful of that is it's I call it foundational. In fact, I call it my foundational nutrition and lifestyle uh information that I provide because without that piece of it, we're we're building off a broken foundation. That's what's happening. Right. And it's just not possible to be to feel healthy if we're if what we're putting in our bodies is translating to gut, what we call gut dysbiosis or nurturing the wrong GI bugs and thinking and thinking we're gonna get ahead. It just doesn't work. So so honoring that relationship with food is a big part of what we have to do in order to feel better. So again, we go back to taking as much charge of that as we can, having that sense of I'm doing this for me because I want to be the best version of me, yeah, instead of um, oh well, this happened again, and so I'm just gonna, you know, and and then what we do is we give up thing land of decision making that just doesn't serve us. And so I often bring that to my clients because they start talking about some of the things that are going on in their personal lives because well, because it ultimately goes there because this is what's influencing their decision making.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02Well, my son did this yesterday, and so I just didn't eat right today. You see what I'm saying? We all do it.
SPEAKER_01Yep, yep, we do.
SPEAKER_02We do. It's like, well, hold on, where did that relate?
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, yeah. How did that give you permission to eat the cookies?
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SPEAKER_00And somehow magically it just seems to.
SPEAKER_02Right. I had one lady yesterday tell me, she goes, Well, I often get up in the middle of the night and eat cookies. And I was like, oh I hadn't heard that in a while.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02You know, we all we all have our things that we struggle with, everyone else. Yeah, yeah. I don't say that in judgment, but I have to mention that maybe we need to do at least a 12-hour fast overnight in order for our body to reset itself.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, I love that tip. Well, Angela, I appreciate you being here so much and really value the information that you gave to us and the reason why nutrition is so important. Um, could you please share with the audience how they can work with you? If people think, oh my gosh, this is exactly what I need. How can they find you and how can they work with you?
SPEAKER_02You can find me on on my website, which is www.health is local.com. There's uh a button for discovery calls. Um, I can also send you, Angela, a link for discovery calls for your show notes. Yes. So that you they people can have access to that. And so all they'd have to do would be to click on that and just set up a 30-minute appointment to just visit and see if it's if it's a good fit for us to work together. Um uh perfect. Just that simple.
SPEAKER_01So thank you. And thank you so much for coming on the show and talking to us. I hope that you have inspired women to care about how they feel physically enough to get some prioritization in their lives about their nutrition. So we really, really, truly appreciate HU coming on and um yeah, thank you so very much.
SPEAKER_02It's been my pleasure. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Well, I hope you enjoy this conversation today. I so very much appreciate Angela and her willingness to share her wisdom and expertise with us. And I was later thinking about the topic of growing our own food and how finding a local pea patch is a great option for those of us who don't have the space at home to grow much food. And I wanted to add to what Angela and I discussed by pointing out that local shared growing patches in your community might have an added benefit of becoming a fun way to find and build connections and friendships with like-minded people. Um, I know that you can also sometimes share a patch. So if this is something that interests you, please look into it in your own community. And if you would like to work with Angela Jenkins, please find her information in the show notes and visit her beautiful website at healthislocal.com. That's healthislocal.com. Until next time, stay wild and wise, and may you experience as many over-the-moon moments as your heart desires. Thank you for listening to today's show. I truly hope you found some value in the conversation, and if so, please subscribe so you don't miss a thing. Also, if you know someone who's going through a midlife divorce and feeling worried about what's next, please share this podcast with her. Let's build a community of strong single women who are ready to create our best phase of life yet. To support you on this journey, I've also put together a 12-week pathway called Single and Over Democrat. It's how you and I will work together, one-on-one, for 12 impactful weeks, so that you can go deep about what it is you truly desire for yourself now and explore how claiming your power is the wise and sovereign woman you are will help you shift to a trajectory that will land you where you want to be. It all begins with a complimentary strategy session, which you can book at overthemoon.life. That's overthemoon.life. I cannot wait to meet you. So until next time, remember becoming single after 50 is not a sidebar. It's an absolute superpower that you can claim to create a life that has you over the moon.