285. Minerals, Emotions & Energy Healing: A Holistic Approach to Health with Hope Pedraza

What if the symptoms you’re battling aren’t just physical…but energetic?

In our latest episode, Hope Pedraza—a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Practitioner, Human Design guide, and founder of inBalance—shares how she helps female entrepreneurs and leaders optimize their energy and wellbeing through functional labs, subconscious reprogramming, and energetics.

Hope reveals how emotional blocks can manifest as physical symptoms, why mineral imbalances may be sabotaging your energy and thyroid health, and how aligning with your unique energetic blueprint can prevent burnout. 

Ignoring this side of health may keep you in a cycle of short-term fixes and recurring symptoms. But tuning into this episode could be the shift that finally moves the needle—not just for your body, but for your work and purpose too.

Get ready for an eye-opening, mind-expanding, and practical conversation that bridges science and soul. 🎧✨

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Transcript

Hey there and welcome back to another episode of the Reshape Your Health podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Nolte, and we have a fun conversation today with Hope Pedraza. She's a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, a certified holistic nutritionist, Reiki practitioner, human design guide, NLP practitioner, and hypnotherapist, as well as the founder of InBalance, a Pilates-based fitness franchise and the host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast.

So just from that brief bio, I'm sure that you can guess, we're gonna get into some of the strategic side of being healthy, but then also some of the energetic and probably some spiritual side of things as well, which will be fun. Hope helps female entrepreneurs and leaders leverage their holistic wellbeing as their number one asset, which I fully support. Optimizing their energy and wellness with functional labs, human design, subconscious reprogramming and energetics.

so they can thrive and create more impact in their business and life. And I feel like I've done a lot of that second paragraph work on my own and I know what murky waters it can be to try to just reprogram your mind and learn more about yourself. So I'm really excited for this conversation. We were talking a little bit offline about how we wanted this episode to flow and we thought mineral balancing would be a great place to start.

but hope I'd also love to talk about human design, because I think I'm hearing more and more about human design. And we've never talked about that on the podcast before. just, just a little note. I want to talk about that today, but before we get there, tell us just a little bit about yourself and how you got interested in such a holistic way of healing.

Hope (01:39)
Yes.

Yeah,

yeah. my background, I mean, I like to say it really started when I was a kid, right? My background is in dance. So I danced for 20 plus years and that got me into Pilates, which got me into starting my Pilates studio. And so when I started my Pilates studio, I wanted to this space, this like one stop shop place for everybody to come in and get everything they needed to be healthy. And so, you know, we had the fitness and the Pilates and all that. And I started out with just basic nutrition coaching. Like, you know, let me just give women.

It's mostly men and men do plotties too. I just want to say that, it's mostly women who come into the doors. So I just want to give them like basic accountability and support, nutrition. And after having multiple, multiple, multiple conversations with them, and I'm recognizing like, okay, these are deeper conversations than just talking about calories and macros, right? Like women, these women are dealing with things with their hormones and their gut and just deeper things.

So that kind of set me on the path to going into the functional route and becoming a functional practitioner and really being able to go deep layers into the body to figure out root cause, right? Really getting to the root cause. And so then kind of the next layer of that was recognizing also as kind of my own kind of spiritual journey throughout this whole process, recognizing that there's also this energetic spiritual piece to what's happening in the physical body and recognizing that like, yes,

seeing these gut things and these mineral things happening in the body causing these physical symptoms. But then also after talking with my clients and then also doing own work on myself, recognizing that there's thought patterns and there's trauma and there's things that have happened in people's lives where it's like, okay, this was the trigger point for all these other things that have happened in the body. So now I think we need to address that emotional energetic root cause. that kind of like...

puts you full circle and looking at things, know, the physical body, the energetic body, the spiritual body, all of these pieces and really taking a holistic look. And I firmly believe that everything happening on the physical body has some energetic emotional root cause. And I feel like this is a piece that so often gets left out and having so many clients come to me that have tried, you know, other modalities or they've been to other functional practitioners and the symptoms come back. For me, that's always the missing piece.

almost always the missing piece is this kind of energetic emotional piece of like really going under the layers and seeing kind of where all of those things started.

Morgan Nolte (04:16)
I'm so excited to dive in. feel like you're going to be the perfect person to talk about all of this stuff with. And I think most of the listeners know, you know, I come from a physical therapy background. And so the energetic side of stuff is very poo-pooed upon in PT school. Like chiropractors really get into it a lot. So I'm a newbie in this area. So I think I'm going to be able to ask very good newbie questions because I'm guessing a lot of the listeners are also newbies.

Hope (04:19)
you

Yeah.

Yeah, I love newbie questions.

Morgan Nolte (04:44)
But let's start with mineral balancing, something that maybe everyone's a little bit more familiar with. Can you just talk about why that's an important place to start someone's healing process?

Hope (04:54)
Yeah, yeah.

So the minerals, this is one of my favorite things to nerd out on because I just love all of it. I'm actually finishing this advanced mineral analysis training. I just love learning about it. So the minerals for me, this is kind of the foundational piece that I start with my clients. What minerals, and you've probably heard this, a lot of your listeners have probably heard this, minerals are considered the spark plugs in the body because every reaction in the body starts with minerals. we have to have minerals are the catalyst for everything else happening in the body.

So when you really get down to it, if we wanna figure out what's happening at that foundational cellular level, we really have to start with the minerals. Like that's what's happening at a cellular level. And so one of my favorite labs to run on my clients, the HTMA, which is the Hair, Tissue and Mineral Analysis for this exact reason. Like we can look at your hormones, we can look at your gut, we click at all these other things in the labs. But for me, if we don't...

address the mineral piece, none of the other stuff really matters, especially the hormone part. Like the hormones are always a side effect of something else going on in the body. And I find that so often, you know, like I was saying before, a lot of my clients have worked with other practitioners, they tried other modalities, they've even done other lab testing, but they've left this piece out. And this a lot of times is that missing link of the physical part, because they haven't really gotten down to that cellular level.

And so when we're looking at mineral balancing, I love the hair tissue and mineral analysis because it's giving us a deeper look at what's going on with the minerals. So yes, of course you can get a blood lab with your doctor to check minerals, but the mineral analysis, the HTMA is gonna look at it a little bit different because you're literally sitting at some of your hair as a tissue. So it's gonna be a better look at what's going on chronically over time. Whereas when you do a blood lab, it's like, what's going on right now, right? So you could do the same lab tomorrow and it might say something different. And I also find it interesting that

A lot of your minerals are intracellular, meaning they're in your cells. They're supposed to be in your cells. So for checking your blood labs, it's really not going to be an accurate look at what's going on with your minerals. You want to look at what's going on at a cellular level. So I love the HTMA for this reason, just giving a more accurate look of what's going on chronically over time, over a period of time with your minerals. And when we look at the minerals, we're looking at a couple dozen different minerals. It looks at heavy metals. looks at

toxic elements, and then it looks at ratios. And that's the other thing we're looking at minerals is the ratio. So it's how these minerals interact with each other. So it's one thing just to look at minerals at face value, but we want to know how they're interacting with each other so we can see what's happening with your adrenals and your thyroid and your blood sugar and your nervous system and your liver and all these other pieces of the puzzle of your body and how they're interacting because that's really where we get the good data to see.

what's happening at that cellular level. Like how is your blood sugar being affected by your minerals? How is your adrenals, your adrenals and your thyroid, how are all these things being affected by mineral balance?

Morgan Nolte (07:49)
Well, yeah, think people hear often vitamins and minerals, vitamins and minerals, but we often take it for granted and take the measurement of them for granted. So what are some signs or symptoms that might indicate something's off with your minerals?

Hope (07:51)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah.

mean, it's kind of a loaded question because it literally could be anything. And that's the thing with minerals is I'd say that some of the most common symptoms my clients come with are low energy for sure. Like chronic fatigue, low energy is always a big one. Brain fog, hormonal imbalances. So women who might have like erratic periods or super painful periods or like

really bad mood swings, irritability, trouble losing weight, inflammation, like whether it's like muscle pain, joint pain, just feeling kind of puffy in the body, feeling bloated, headaches, migraines, I mean, you name it, the list goes on. All of those have links to minerals in them. Like literally every physical symptom you could possibly imagine have links to mineral imbalances in the body. But some of the most common that I think we...

brush off and I had this conversation last week. I had this wellness event, this local wellness event that I did last week and I had the same conversation over and over again with women who were coming to my table because I had like this list of like, you know, common symptoms that, you know, I work with whatever and they're like low energy was one of the ones on there and they're like, like that's not normal. Like just struggling to get through the day. That's not normal. Like no, actually it doesn't have to be normal. So I think a lot of times these symptoms that I'm mentioning

We just kind of brush them off as normal. And it doesn't have to be normal. You don't have to struggle to get through the day with your energy. You don't have to struggle with your sleep every night. You don't have to struggle with brain fog and not being able to remember things, not being able to focus. Those don't have to be normal. But all of those can be addressed when we're at mineral balance, mineral balancing.

Morgan Nolte (09:39)
Now I have a couple of specific questions, like specifically for energy and then blood sugar regulation, what are some of the common mineral deficiencies or imbalances that might be contributing to low energy or high blood sugars, for example?

Hope (09:51)
Yeah, yeah. So

calcium, magnesium, this is the blood sugar ratio. So we're looking at the HTMA and analyzing the results. That's the one we're going to look at for blood sugar regulation. So we're looking at the balance between calcium and magnesium. We need both of these. Calcium helps release the insulin and magnesium are responsible for inhibiting the insulin release. So you want to have a good balance of both. The majority of the time, and I can say I've looked at at this point, I don't know, dozens and dozens and dozens of HTMA labs.

I would say 90 % of the time people are deficient in magnesium. And I we see the statistics of that a lot. You we hear that a lot. I see it. I see it on the daily. Like we really are. There really are that many of us that are deficient in magnesium. And this really does affect our blood sugar. And calcium is another one of those that is kind of hit or miss on the HTMA. So I find that just with the magnesium piece alone, we can have some blood sugar dysregulation because we're deficient in magnesium.

Magnesium is going to, I mean, there's some studies that say it's 200. Some studies say that it's 600 different reactions in the body that magnesium plays a part in. So we need it for a lot, which means that we're going to use it a lot, which means that it is going to be easily depleted, especially during times of stress. And so I find that this is one that I really hone in on with my clients. And we really play around with like dosing and the type of magnesium with my clients to help.

For the energy part too, to answer that question, for me, the magnesium is a huge piece of that. I'd say the other piece, as far as mineral balance for the energy part, sodium is another one, sodium and magnesium, this is the ratio we look at for your adrenals, it's your adrenal ratio. Your adrenals are gonna use more sodium and probably magnesium than any other part of the body, like I said, especially during times of stress, we're just gonna be depleting those stores, and so it's really important.

that we replenish those on a regular basis, like really intentionally. And yes, you can get magnesium from food, but the fact is that I really feel like one of the, besides us living in a stressful society, another reason that we're really deficient in magnesium is because our food sources really have become depleted in magnesium. Our soil is less magnesium rich than it was 50, 60 years ago. And so we're not getting as much from food as we were.

50, 60 years ago. So that's one of those, like I'm always food first, but that is one of those that I will recommend everybody should be supplementing with is magnesium.

Morgan Nolte (12:21)
And then do you think the water supply has changed too? Like minerals aren't as prevalent in water. Can you speak to that?

Hope (12:23)
absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, for

sure. I mean, I think it's like multi, there's like a multifaceted issue with the water. Like, hey, yes, it's depleted. And the other thing, there's a bunch of crap in our water. There's toxins and chemicals and you, yeah, that could go down a rabbit hole with that. But yeah, I think the water is a big part of that. And I think that, you know, like, yes, hydration is important. But I don't know, it's like, for me, it's kind of like,

That's a tough one. Yes, hydration is important, but filtered water is even more important and being able to filter out a lot of those chemicals. Because that's the other thing too. When we're putting toxins and chemicals in our body, and let's be honest, we're exposed to those on the daily. No matter how hard we try, we're going to come into contact with chemicals and toxins and all that. We can't avoid it. We can limit our exposure and do what we can to help our body detoxify optimally.

But that's another thing too, for me, in my opinion, that is also going to affect certain mineral stores in our body is just our body having to work through all the toxicity, the toxins that were exposed to us. think that's just kind of another thing that our body might have to work harder in helping, like affecting that mineral imbalance.

Morgan Nolte (13:40)
Yeah, that's interesting. Okay, so when we're talking about magnesium supplementation, you said you thought most people really should be on that. My first thought was, they just take a multivitamin, like a comprehensive multivitamin? What's your answer to that, I guess, starting out?

Hope (13:54)
Yeah, that's a great

question because, I'm glad you asked it because most people do think like, yeah, I for sure get that in my multivitamin. I can guarantee you, you don't get it in your multivitamin. Like some multivitamins might have some magnesium in there, but A, you want to make sure it's the right form because the form matters. If you're taking magnesium citrate, you're essentially taking laxatives. So it's really, your body is not absorbing much of that at all. A lot of studies say you absorb maybe only 30 to 40 % of that if you're taking magnesium citrate alone.

I will say, like for some of my clients who are dealing with constipation, like that's a good way to clean the old pipes out, but it's not something you want to do on a regular basis if you're wanting to actually absorb magnesium, right? So it's the form, but it's also the dosage. And I have yet to find a multivitamin that has anything more than like maybe 150 milligrams of magnesium, and that's rare. Some of them don't have magnesium at all. So to answer your question, no, multivitamin typically isn't enough to get the magnesium.

The ideal amount of supplementation is typically around five times your body weight. And so for an average sized person, it's like around 500 milligrams is typically what I recommend. Only because of all the things we're exposed to on a regular basis, you want to really optimize the stores of it. And it's not one of those that get stored in the body, like B12. We have to continuously replenish that in the body.

Morgan Nolte (15:03)
Cheers.

Hope (15:20)
So most of my clients take around 500. I have some clients that we've had to go all the way up to close to 1,000 milligrams for them to feel anything at all. sometimes you're to have to play around with it, but I would say start around there. look for the... My recommendation for form is magnesium glycinate or bisglycinate. You can do either one of those, but it's going to be the most bioavailable, so your body's going to absorb it the most, and it's not going to be a laxative like citrate. So that'll be my recommendation for form.

Morgan Nolte (15:50)
And then I've heard of magnesium oxide too, right?

Hope (15:53)
Yeah,

that one is typically okay. have found that, yes, and I will say this too. Sometimes, on the situation, I will recommend a blend of different magnesium malate, oxide, and glycinate, the mix of them, because they all kind of do different things in the body. So a blend of those could be good too.

Morgan Nolte (15:55)
without.

Okay, so that's good to know everyone. 500 milligrams of magnesium glycinate or what did the by glycine, what was that?

Hope (16:23)
This is the abaclison, yes,

BIS glycinate, so you can see it both ways.

Morgan Nolte (16:28)
Okay, cool. Thank you for sharing

that. What are some of the more... And then you mentioned sodium too. And I think sodium is kind of a hot topic right now, especially so many people are looking at electrolyte supplementation. That's kind of like what we're talking about here, people. So most electrolyte supplements will have some form of magnesium. It may or may not be the kind that she just recommended. They're also probably going to have some sodium, maybe some chlorine, maybe some calcium, like...

Hope (16:33)
Yes. Yes.

Okay.

Morgan Nolte (16:56)
Talk about sodium because many people listening have high blood pressure. So they hear sodium and they're like, well, is that still applicable to me or do I, I keep my sodium lower still?

Hope (17:05)
Right, yeah,

that's a great question. I have, and this is one of those I can stand in my soapbox and talk about all day because it's, think sodium or salt has been demonized, kind of like the carb talk, like everybody's like, carbs are bad, but it's like, okay, well, let's look at this like situationally, like let's not put a blanket statement over it. I think the same is true for sodium and salt specifically, because it's not, our bodies need sodium. And like I said, your adrenals use more sodium than any other part of the body. And especially living in,

stressful society. Our bodies use a lot of sodium and sodium needs to be replenished. The problem is not the sodium, it's where the salt or the sodium is coming from. So we're looking at, for me, it's the quality conversation. So if you look at table salt, table salt is just sodium chloride. Everything else has been stripped away from it. It's the equivalent of white sugar. Everything has been stripped away from it. There's nothing else in there except the sodium chloride.

If you look at an unrefined sea salt, like a good quality unrefined sea salt, it's got 80 to 90 other trace minerals in that little grain, right? So it's not just the sodium quarter. It has all these other trace minerals. So when your body takes that salt in, your body is getting all of these other trace minerals that are essentially telling the sodium where to go. So there's the whole like sodium retention thing conversation doesn't happen with this kind of salt because the minerals are telling the sodium where to go, where in the cells, out of the cells, it's telling it where to go.

So it's really not a sodium issue, it's a salt issue. It's like, where are we getting the salt from? And this is why like you see with the labels now, we talk about sea salt and know, made with sea salt. Like that's why it's important. There is a difference between using regular iodized salt or just plain table salt and using like a sea salt or a good quality sea salt. So to your point about like electrolytes and electrolyte powders or whatever, you really do wanna look for one with.

good quality salt, sodium, good quality salt that it's made with so that you get those other trace minerals along with, like you said, the potassium chloride or whatever else is in

Morgan Nolte (19:12)
The first thing I thought it was iodized table salt. So essentially they stripped all of the minerals out except for sodium chloride, correct? But then they added some iodine back in. Right. Okay. Cause that's an essential trace mineral. But if you just have sea salt, then that has iodine along with 79 other trace minerals. Okay. So I hope like a light bulb just went on for some people. So buy the sea salt.

Hope (19:17)
Right. Iodine. Correct.

Mm-hmm, yes.

A ton of other exactly.

Morgan Nolte (19:37)
What are your favorite kinds of salts? So what's your salt and then what's your electrolyte recommendations?

Hope (19:38)
Yes.

Yes, so

you've probably heard of Celtic sea salt. It's kind of like everybody's talking about the Celtic sea salt. So Celtic sea salt is a really good quality salt. I like Redmond. Redmond salt is the brand that I typically buy only because a lot of times the Celtic salt is out. Like you can search for it and it runs out. I think it's just very trendy right now. But Redmond comes from the Great Salt Lake. So it's still really good quality salt. It's ancient salt. It's full of all those good trace minerals.

And I love all, and I'm not getting paid to this by the way, I love all of their products because they have, you know, they have seasoned salt, they have electrolyte mixes. So to your question there, my favorite really is the Redmond Relight. They have electrolyte powders and blends that you can get. And it uses that good quality Redmond salt that's from the Great Salt Lake. There's others out there. mean, there's, you know, one of my clients is like, what about this blah, blah, blah volcanic salt? That sounds really great. Like, so there's fancy salts out there that you can find. But the point is you really want to find a good quality

unrefined seesaw. That's what you want. It's like from the source, from nature. It's got all those trace minerals intact.

Morgan Nolte (20:48)
That's great. Okay, so we've talked about magnesium. We've talked about a good quality salt with other trace minerals. If you had to like pick one more top mineral deficiency that you see in your practice, what would it be?

Hope (20:59)
Hmm.

I would say potassium is probably the other one. And so really the ones you've talked about so far consider the big four macrominerals. So it's calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium. And macro, because we need the most of those, we use the most of those. And those are typically the ones I see most imbalanced on a mineral analysis. Potassium is a really crucial one because, well, for a lot of my clients, it's affecting, well, I mean, for everybody, but I work with a lot of thyroid

clients with thyroid things going on, whether they're diagnosed hypothyroid or they just have sluggish thyroid stuff going on. But potassium is really important for the thyroid. potassium is a mineral that helps the thyroid get in. All of your cells have thyroid receptors. And so the potassium is what helps push, the thyroid hormone into the cells. And so I've so many, would say probably, man, it's definitely more than half, probably 75 to 80 % of the HTMAs that I've looked at, my clients,

Potassium is deficient and we wonder why we have low energy. We wonder why we can't lose weight. Like your thyroid is struggling. Like these are all the functions of our thyroid. So potassium is another really big one. And the crazy thing about potassium, like the RDA, the recommended daily mass for potassium is like 4,200 or 4,800. It's a lot. Milligrams of potassium. And it's really hard to get that from food. Like it's really hard to get that much in a day.

So that's another one of those, making sure, most multivitamins have potassium in them, so you're typically covered there, but you also wanna make sure you are still getting it from food, because there is kind of a threshold with how much your body is gonna absorb from a supplement. So you wanna make sure you're still including those high potassium foods. the big, the three foods that have the highest are gonna be avocados, magnesium, and coconut water. Now there's others, right? There's nuts and seeds and other fruits and vegetables, but.

Morgan Nolte (22:39)
Right.

Hope (22:51)
those three have the most. So, you know, if you're eating avocados, I think, go ahead.

Morgan Nolte (22:57)
All right, you said avocado, magnesium, and coconut water.

Hope (23:00)
did I say avocados,

bananas? was cinnamon bananas, avocados, bananas and coconut water.

Morgan Nolte (23:03)
Okay,

I don't think she means to say that potassium is in the Mad Museum's supplements. I just wanted to clarify.

Hope (23:09)
No, I did not. In my head, was thinking magnesium and potassium

are both high in the avocado, but bananas was the other one that I was going to. Yeah. So, avocados, bananas, and coconut water. Those would be the top three, the highest potassium.

Morgan Nolte (23:26)
Did you ever watch that movie growing up where that kid, what was that like shrink me? think Robin Williams was in it and like he had a potassium deficiency. And then they went and got him a banana and he was okay. Somebody on the podcast that one person is what I'm talking about right now. Because that's how I know bananas are high. It was a cute movie growing up. Okay, that is wonderful. So I want to go back to the thyroid gland. And we've had

Hope (23:36)
Yeah.

I know the movie you're talking about. That's awesome.

Morgan Nolte (23:52)
several people talk about the thyroid, but I wanted to kind tie it together, like tie minerals and energy and then energetics together here. So when somebody comes to you and they're like, I have a sluggish thyroid or I'm actually hypothyroid, I'm struggling to lose weight, you're looking at potassium, obviously, because that helps the thyroid hormone itself be actually active in the cells to stimulate that energy, stimulate the metabolism.

Now, what else are we looking at from a mineral standpoint for the thyroid?

Hope (24:22)
Yeah, yeah,

good question. So potassium and magnesium both are gonna be crucial there. We're also looking at selenium. Selenium and iodine are two really important minerals that are needed for T3 and T4. So both of those are what we're gonna look at and we'll look at those on an HTMA as well. Yeah, I think those would probably be the top four. So looking at selenium, iodine and looking at...

potassium and magnesium. We'll look at calcium too. There's potassium to calcium ratio that we look at and kind of how your thyroid is functioning. But those other ones are going to be telling too of just how optimally or not optimally your thyroid is functioning.

Morgan Nolte (25:07)
And so for selenium, do you do like Brazil nuts or do you do a supplement or what do recommend for that? And why is selenium?

Hope (25:11)
Brazil nuts? Yes,

yes. Brazil nuts to me are the number one. It's so easy. Like you can eat one nut and it's got like your whole day's work. So it's like the easiest way to get it. I mean, sure, you can get it in supplements and a lot of supplements do have selenium in it, like a multivitamin or whatever. But it's such an easy thing to get from food. Just popping in a brazil nut a day. That's always number one recommendation.

Morgan Nolte (25:34)
Okay, and why is selenium important for thyroid function?

Hope (25:36)
Yeah,

so we need selenium and iodine both help with that conversion, that T3DT4 conversion, and so we need both of those to be able to have that active form of that active thyroid hormone to be working in and out of the cells.

Morgan Nolte (25:50)
Okay. So that we need it. We need it. like Brazil nuts, for people that aren't familiar, think that you can get like a big bag of just Brazil nuts, because if you get mixed nuts, there's like five Brazil nuts, just like in whole thing. Yes. Okay. So how does that tie into the energetics? I think that was a really great overview for mineral stuff. I think that'll give people some good ideas for supplements, things to look at, things to investigate with their own health.

Hope (25:52)
Yeah, we need it.

Totally, yes. All the other, yes. Yes, it's true.

Morgan Nolte (26:20)
If we're talking about energetics, like let's kind of pivot the conversation into that now. How does like having a mineral deficiency affect the, like the energy centers of your body? I don't know how you want to word that or how you want to go, but I trust that you will lead us in the right direction.

Hope (26:31)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Yes.

So, okay. I'll give you a brief overview. So if you're familiar with the chakras, if that word, if you don't like that word, or if it's too woo, whatever, you could say energy centers. So in the body, there are seven main energy centers or chakras in the body. And these are also chakra and Sanskrit means wheel. So basically these wheels of energy. What I love about talking about this, the chakra, the chakras.

is because it really is this link between the energetic body and the physical body. Because each chakra is correlated to specific gland or organ in the body that emits specific hormones. And according to traditional Chinese medicine, the correct balance of yin and yang in the body starts with the endocrine system. It starts with the hormones. And so I love putting these pieces together because if we look at all of the chakras, like I said, they're all correlated to specific glands and organs. And for me,

that's where the minerals tie in together. Because then we can look at what are the right minerals that we need to support these specific lands and organs and the function of those.

Morgan Nolte (27:36)
Okay, let's start big picture overview. So what are the chakras? Like what are the centers for people that don't know such as myself?

Hope (27:38)
Yes. So starting, yeah,

starting at the bottom. if you're picturing like the human body, if you start at the bottom and work all the way to the top. So the bottom is your root chakra. Your root chakra is correlated with your adrenals. And so we talked about adrenals already. So right there, you can already tell like, okay, we're looking at soda, magnesium, we're going to be the two minerals that we would hone in on. So the root chakra is correlated with your adrenals. We go to the sacral chakra. Your sacral chakra is associated with your

reproductive organs. And so we're looking at for men and women, obviously it's going to look a little bit different, but we're looking at the minerals that are going to be supportive for all the reproductive organs. We look at the solar plexus. The solar plexus is associated with your pancreas. So this is we're talking about blood sugar regulation, right? The minerals are going to help with blood sugar regulation. We look at the heart chakra. It's associated with your spleen, which is correlates with your immune system. So we're at the minerals that are going to be supportive for your immune system.

move up the body to the throat center, the throat chakra. This one is associated with your thyroid. We've already talked about the thyroid. And then we move up to your crown chakra. This is your third eye chakra. It's in the middle of your forehead. And this one is associated with your pineal gland. So think like circadian rhythm, that kind of thing. And then the head or the crown at the very top, this is associated with your pituitary gland. Pituitary is like the master gland, right? It's like

orchestrating all the other glands and it's kind of giving orders to other parts of the body. And so that is just kind of like overall, like overall mineral balance with the pituitary gland.

Morgan Nolte (29:17)
Okay, and then for the skeptics out there, I just want to point out like how many times are you taking a hot shower and then an idea comes into your head or like you think of something that you hadn't thought of before. So can you explain that phenomenon to us so that the skeptics who are like, I don't believe in this energy stuff, just have a very practical example from their own life of like, yes, this is a real thing, even if it's new to you, even if you don't understand all the way, it's real.

Hope (29:35)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes, it's real. I

can tell you it's real. And I have story upon story of clients that I've worked with. I will tell you a specific story. There was a client, I love this story because it was like a, I can't believe this just happened. I have a client we're doing, so in my work I do, I have just the lab work, so I'm meeting people who just want to work on the labs and all that stuff. And then I have the people who are more like,

Spiritual curious who want to do more of the energetic stuff, right? So I have these sessions I call them quantum healing sessions and we're diving into the energetic body So I'm doing a session with a client and we're walking through the process and basically she's identifying Where she's feeling this kind of resistance in the body very specifically. She's telling me her left ovary like very specific I don't know if I've any anyone so specific her left ovary and she's explaining the sensation. It feels like a nail

It's driving into her left ovary. And so we go through this visualization. She ends up uncovering that it's shame, is the emotion that's attached there. So we work through the process. We work through the shame. Two days later, I get a text from her that she's in the hospital because she had a cyst rupture. I'll give you one guess where it was. It was in her left ovary. Literally when we had, she had this emotional release. We're talking about energetics here. She had a physical reaction in the body. Her body literally released something.

exactly where we had found that emotional piece that was stuck in our body. And I have so many stories like this. Like this stuff is, and I know it's very like, okay, it's on, know, but I can tell you that my clients who like really commit to the process and we work through these emotional pieces, the physical symptoms are so closely correlated, like they can't help but have these physical releases when they work through this stuff.

Morgan Nolte (31:28)
So how does that relate to like the crown chakra and the water like in the shower if people are like, they have a big insight, like how does all that work out?

Hope (31:34)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you're talking about,

right, so your head center and your Ajna. So your head center is the top, your Ajna or your third eye center is the one right between the eyes. So those are both where conceptualized ideas, it's where ideas come. So it's that stimulation, right? That stimulation from the water or whatever, stimulating that part of the, I mean, it's also just kind of, there's, if you like get really deep into like, it's kind of going another way.

water, our body is what like 70 % water. So there's a lot of beliefs too about the water and it's like us kind of getting back to our roots and the water is another thing that kind of stimulates that like free flow of energy in the body, that life force energy of the body, that prana, whatever word you want to use there, but also helps kind of free up the energy. And really that's what

When we're talking about the energy centers and we're talking about how the energy is affecting the physical body, it's all about free flow of energy through the body. And this is not woo, this is science. Science has proven our energy field, you can physically see the energy field. It's been measured before. There's an electromagnetic field around our body, there is an energy field. And so the fact is that when we're talking about how our energy and our bodies affecting our physical body, it's just the free flow of energy. It's the free flow of energy, how the energy is moving through your cells.

Morgan Nolte (32:36)
No, yeah.

Hope (32:54)
And so it's how the energy is moving up through those chakras from the root all the way up to the head. And that's what we're focusing on. it's how can we optimize how all of these chakras are functioning in the body to free up that free flow of energy? Because it's when it's not free flowing, we start to get the physical symptoms, right? There's a blockage somewhere, there's stagnation somewhere. So we have the issues with our sex hormones. We have the issues with our thyroid. We have the issues with our blood sugar, right?

there's some stagnation of Blackberry wanted work in multiple ways to be able to free up that flow of energy and allow it to move freely through the chakras.

Morgan Nolte (33:34)
Is this whole hands-on work? I'm kind of curious. Like if somebody goes to someone like yourself, a reiki, reiki, reiki, I say it wrong, practitioner, what is the process like? Because I've been curious about it, but I feel like there's probably a lot of whack jobs out there that like they haven't had your training. I mean, I trust you very, like a lot in this regard, because I think a big part of your credibility is like you have the scientific background. You have.

Hope (33:41)
Okay.

Ha ha ha.

Morgan Nolte (34:03)
you know, it's not like you're just doing this energetic healing and you can really tie the science with the energy. If someone was just talking about energy, I don't think that I would believe them as much. So first off, what is the process like to work with somebody like yourself for energy healing?

Hope (34:19)
So all of my stuff is virtual. All of my work is virtual. So like the session I was just explaining, the quantum healing session, like all of that is virtual. Like we're on Zoom and I'm walking them through the process. They're feeling things in the body or working through things. And the same with Reiki. Like, yes, you can go in person to do Reiki. But there's, the thing is, and this always trips people up with the energy part, but energy is not, there are no bounds to energy. Like it can travel through time and space. And so when you're talking about Reiki,

Morgan Nolte (34:23)
how interesting of it. Yeah.

Hope (34:47)
Like, yeah, some people do like the hands-on and some people just for like personal preference or whatever, they like the hands-on, which you can do with Reiki, but really and truly energy knows no bounds. So time and space do not confine energy. so energy, it's the idea of praying for someone. Like you don't have to be with someone to pray for someone, right? Your energy still gets there. And so it's the same concept with Reiki.

Morgan Nolte (35:05)
Yeah, that's true.

Hope (35:09)
And so there are lots of people who do virtual Reiki sessions. then, like I said, the Quantum Healing sessions, which I do, it incorporates a lot of different modalities. We do all of that virtually through, I mean, it's the joys of technology, right? But it's still just as powerful.

Morgan Nolte (35:25)
That's awesome. So what are the different modalities that you would take someone through virtually to kind of heal themself? Like it sounds like you're walking them through a self healing process here.

Hope (35:29)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah,

that's exactly it. So I'm using some emotional release techniques. I'm using some subconscious reprogramming. I'm a clinical hypnotherapist, so I might use some hypnotherapy. You might use NLP, which is neurolinguistic programming, which is just rewiring the brain. It's allowing yourself to move through like feelings and thoughts and emotions. And it's all about really that deep subconscious work that allows your subconscious to identify where we're holding on.

to emotions, energy that's blocking that free flow of energy that we were talking about.

Morgan Nolte (36:10)
Do people ever come to you like with just relational issues? Like I have a block in my relationship or is it mostly health related or do you feel like it's tied together a lot?

Hope (36:13)
totally. Yeah.

yeah, yes and yes. I do have people come to me who they just want to work through things in their business or a lot of times what happens, this is what's funny, a lot of times people come to me because it's like health things, right? But then we start talking through things and especially like we're tying in human design and like light bulbs and stuff start going off and then they're like, well I do recognize like this and this situation happens with my partner or my husband or whatever or like this and this situation shows up in my business. So we start to recognize like

Morgan Nolte (36:23)
you

Hope (36:49)
one pattern is never just one pattern in one area of your life. Like the patterns always cross over to all the areas of your life. And I think it's evident when you start to look at things in this like really truly holistic way with the energetic, except the physical, like you really start to see like, yeah, these patterns do show up in all these different areas.

Morgan Nolte (37:10)
That's so interesting. Okay, so you mentioned human design. This is something I'm very interested in, but I don't know. I Googled it briefly one day and I just didn't, I think I was being lazy and I didn't like look into it. I just.

Hope (37:18)
Well, it's also one of those you could go down the rabbit

hole and you're like, this is a lot.

Morgan Nolte (37:26)
my gosh, but I really, really like getting to know myself and getting to know other people on deeper levels, like either via strength finders test or their Enneagram or, you know, stuff like that. So what's, what is human design and like, how does that help you in your practice?

Hope (37:30)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Yes, yes.

This is another one of those things I love to nerd out on, because I love human design so much. So human design is essentially your energetic blueprint. So it's like the energetic blueprint of your soul. It's how you are here to be and move and act in this world. And it combines some ancient teachings of like the chakra system, which we've talked about, like the chakra system, astrology, the I Ching.

the copolatry of life and it puts it together with some more modern day sciences like neuroscience and quantum mechanics and quantum physics and it puts it together in this chart. And it's basically, and the other thing I like about, so for those of you who are already skeptics because I said the word astrology, there is a lot of science behind this too. And this is the other reason that I love this. So human design was channeled by this guy years and decades ago.

And there's some science behind it because if you've ever heard of the word neutrinos before, and I'm not making this word up, you can go Google it, but neutrinos are like the super smallest subatomic particle, like smaller than an electron, smaller, it's the super smallest, and it can pass through matter. And so the science behind human design is that when you were born, where things were in the cosmos, everything has energy, everything is emitting neutrinos, just like everything is made up of atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, all that.

So the neutrinos are basically these super small subatomic particles that affect your DNA. So they go through matters, they go through the body, they affect you at a DNA genetic level. And that's what happens when you were born. It's where things were in the cosmos and where how these neutrinos came from the cosmos and affected the DNA in your body that made you who you are energetically, which I think is really fascinating. So that's kind of the sciencey part behind that. so I love to tie it into human design or tied into my

Morgan Nolte (39:27)
It's, yeah.

Hope (39:33)
into wellness, kind of along the same lines we talked about the chakras, because the chakra system is part of human design, is really looking at kind of the spiritual side of why physical things are showing up in the body. And so when I'm looking at someone's human design, can see based on their human design chart. And by the way, you can go online. There's like dozens of websites you can go look at that church. Get your chart for free.

You can go I feel like the easiest one for beginners if you go to my human design calm and go It's Jenna Zoe is the girl. It's it's super easy. Here's a super easy to read and show and it just gives you like the basic information It doesn't you don't have to go into like the five million rabbit holes You could go down just getting the basic information is enough for you to be like, my gosh I'm like a new person because then you finally understand yourself But that's really that's really what I love about it tying it into the wellness piece

is because it's allowed, like you were saying, like I love learning about myself. Like it really does allow you to learn about yourself at a totally different level. And like for me, when I first found it four or five years ago, it was like this, biggest moment of validation I think ever, because there's these pieces where I'm looking at it I'm like, my gosh, like this is me. Like there's pieces of it where I would find like there's pieces that I had been trying to like, you know.

avoid or push away or like hide down and it's like no or push down and like no this is me like this who I was divinely designed to be and how is divinely designed to operate in life and it's you know people say it's like a permission slip but it really is it's like permission to be you and it's just this deep understanding of you and how you're meant to operate and so it allows you to really be able to work and move with the energy and life the environment people around you in a way that's supported for your own energy that's going to affect

how your physical body is operating.

Morgan Nolte (41:34)
Can you give just some examples? Cause I'm just not familiar with it at all. to like, to like how many types of human design are there? Like what goes into getting your human design? Like, is it your birthday or is it like a personality quiz or what is it like?

Hope (41:37)
Yeah.

Yes, yes.

Yeah. Yeah. So

you'll need your birth time, date and place. So sometimes people have to call mom or like dig up their birth certificate. So you do need to know the exact... Yeah. Yeah. So you do need to know your exact time and place of birth. Obviously you know your birthday, but time and place is important.

Morgan Nolte (42:01)
I'm so

yeah, that's kind of interesting.

Hope (42:11)
And so when you're looking at it, there's like, if you wanna know like the main aspects of your chart to look at, like just starting out. First is your type, there's five different types. So you'll wanna look at your type, there's five options for that. You wanna look at your authority, and it'll literally say authority on your chart. Your authority is how you best make decisions. This is a huge one, because so often we make decisions based on like so much conditioning, whether it's from the people around us or society, whatever.

And it's just not how our body is designed to make decisions. And it causes a lot of resistance and friction with that decision making process, which can cause a lot of anxiety and other things to go wrong in the physical body. So authority is the other one. And then your profile, which if you look at your chart, it looks like a fraction. It's gonna be two numbers. And this is how you're designed to show up in the world. So it's how you're here to show up for other people and how you're meant to see yourself as operating in life.

So those are probably the first three aspects I would look at at your chart. And if you go to the website I mentioned, myhumandesign.com, all of that's right there. So you can see it right there at face value. And that's the places where I would start.

Morgan Nolte (43:22)
Okay, I have a break like after this before a client call. So I'm definitely going to be doing this during this break. I'm just interested because I think that this is a way to like go deeper energetically. I just, I geek out on this stuff and it's like, I think that when we're talking about like evidence-based and science back to it's like, this is the kind of stuff that's like on the cusp of it, but.

Hope (43:26)
Yes! Yes! Yes.

Totally.

Morgan Nolte (43:49)
I still believe in it and I'm still very interested in it. So let me ask you this, how has it impacted your life? You said like there were parts of you that you were resisting. And then when you read more into your human design, you're like, okay, no, I'm going to accept these and I'm going to work with them. How did that play out in your life?

Hope (43:50)
Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so

my type is called a manifesting generator. That's my type. And basically this is the type where, which I am gonna guess, I'm gonna guess you're either a generator or a manifesting generator. I'm just gonna guess that. I think you're gonna be one of those two. So you're gonna have to tell me which one, because I think it's one of those two. So as a manifesting generator, you are, we are here to be, we're like the life force. So.

Morgan Nolte (44:23)
Okay.

Hope (44:30)
multifaceted, multi-passionate. I mean, you read my bio at the beginning. I do like 25 things. So like, that's like the definition of a managen. It's like, we do all the things. But the thing for me that got me was, and this is kind of the process too of working through human design is because there's this quote unquote deconditioning process that happens where you really have to dig into your design and uncover like, what is mine?

Morgan Nolte (44:35)
Yeah.

Hope (44:57)
And what does someone else's meaning like, what are my beliefs and values and yeah, energy. And what is someone else's, what have I taken on from my family conditioning, generational trauma, generations of DNA that are my body. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And so you really have to untangle those pieces and pull back those layers. And that's really some of the process that I'm doing in these quantum healing sessions with clients. It's like we're peeling back these layers of conditioning and

Morgan Nolte (45:12)
Absolutely.

Hope (45:26)
generational trauma and all these pieces getting down to like, no, this is me. So for me as a manifesting generator, I was finding at this time, it was the perfect timing really. was at the time in my life where I was like, I was trying to decide, like I had all these ideas in my head and I wanted to all these things and I wanted to start a podcast. This is when I started my podcast. I want to start a podcast. We'll do this and this and this. And in my head, I'm like, dude, like chill out. Just pick one thing, like stick to one thing, but I could not make myself stick to one thing, but I want to do all the things.

And then I was getting frustrated because I also found that I would start projects and I would never finish all of them. Like I'd have half worked projects just laying around or like on my desktop, whatever. When I learned about my type as a manifesting generator, that's literally who we are. We're not designed to do all, to finish things all the way through. We're meant to do what lights us up in the moment. And when it's no longer lighting us up, we move on to the next thing. It's when we keep doing the thing that doesn't light us up that we start to meet that resistance in our physical body.

is gonna start to feel the effects of that. And that's how we're meant to move through life. So like just even those few pieces for me, we're so liberating. It's like, okay, I can acknowledge the folder on my desktop of half-worked pod, because I might come back to it. And that's the thing with manifesting joiners, we also don't move in a linear fashion. We're like here and then we got like squirrel brain. But a lot of times we come back and finish the thing we started six months ago, right? We're just not meant to move in a linear fashion. And so just that piece alone was huge for me.

Morgan Nolte (46:34)
Interesting.

Interesting. think the piece I'm most interested in finding out about myself is why do I burn out during harvest? Like at the time of this recording, we're just finishing up harvest. Sometimes I do during planting, but it's a shorter season and there's usually more rain. So like more breaks for my husband. And it's like, I can come up with a lot of great strategies and we are to prepare for planting when our baby's coming and for next harvest. I'm going to start viewing those seasons as like,

Hope (46:58)
Mmm.

Thank

Morgan Nolte (47:22)
an open enrollment period for like our Zivoli program. Like there's gonna be a project plan, there's gonna be support systems in place, we're planning ahead now, and everyone's gonna have their roles and responsibilities instead of kind of winging it and then things falling back on kind of as a default. And that's not my husband's wonderful, like there's absolutely nothing to say about him, it's just he has a tough work schedule a couple times a year.

Hope (47:22)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yep. Yep. Yeah.

Morgan Nolte (47:47)
And so for me, it's like, I want to go deeper on that and deeper onto, okay, I have strategies, but like, it's an energetic thing. This is a mindset thing. Burnout happens in the mind and it happens in the spirit and it happens energetically. So that's kind of my big goal for like understanding my human design more is to help me cope, I think during those busy seasons and then figure out are there any other strategies or things that I'm not thinking about that can help.

Hope (47:55)
Yes. Yes.

That's it.

Yeah.

Morgan Nolte (48:16)
support me during these more difficult seasons.

Hope (48:18)
Yeah, no, I love

that. And I think that's why, because I work with mostly entrepreneurs and leaders or high performing women. And that's really, I think, the thing that serves them most too, because you made such a great point there, is burnout is, I think people think burnout is just doing too much, but it's just doing too much of the wrong thing. Because when you're doing too much of something you love, you don't burn out. It doesn't feel like work.

it's doing too much of the wrong thing. So it's understanding what is the right and wrong thing for me to be doing, right?

Morgan Nolte (48:55)
And not having guilt about that. Like this, I've experienced burnout both like with work and motherhood at the same time. And it's absolutely crushing. This was not work burnout. Like kudos to me for putting the strategies and the people and the systems in place. This was just mom burnout. And I have to recognize like I am not a superhuman. have, I have my own limitations. And so recognizing how am I built? How am I designed to mom? And how can I develop?

Hope (48:56)
Exactly.

Sure. Totally.

Mm-hmm.

You're a human.

Morgan Nolte (49:23)
like supports and my environment to support that instead of like burn out predictably every year. Because that's not fair to me or the kids or my husband.

Hope (49:29)
Yes, 100%. Yeah, for anybody,

yeah.

Morgan Nolte (49:35)
practical example of how I'm going to be using this. hope people are thinking as they're listening how they might want to dig into their own human design and to understand themselves on a deeper level so that they can have a better outcome or better relationship or better health. So hope I could talk to you all day. It'd be awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the show and just sharing some really practical stuff about minerals, but also being very clear and practical and how we can use human design and some energetic work.

Hope (49:37)
love it.

Yeah.

Morgan Nolte (50:03)
and tying it all together. So if somebody wants to work with you or just learn more about you, can they go?

Hope (50:07)
Yes, you

can find me on Instagram. I'm at The Hope Pedraza on Instagram. You can go to my podcast. It's called Hopeful and Wholesome, and then my website is the same, HopefulandWholesome.com.

Morgan Nolte (50:18)
I love it. Thank you so much for sharing your time and expertise. I know you've done a ton of research into this stuff and have a lot of personal and professional experience here. So I really appreciate your time today.

Hope (50:29)
Thank you so much

Dr. Morgan. Thanks for having me.

Morgan Nolte (50:33)
Yep. Okay. Great. That was awesome. I'm stop that.