DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOU’VE BEEN GIFTED WITH THIS INCREDIBLE AMBITION, BUT YOU DON’T HAVE THE PHYSICAL ENERGY TO MATCH?
In today’s world, with all the pressures and all the exposures, and all the things we’re walking through, it’s so common to be drained, to not have energy. So, today we’re talking about some strategies to support you in your times of low energy and a perspective shift that might just be the answer you’ve been looking for.
You don’t have to fight through the exhaustion. You don’t need another cup of coffee. You need this, and I’m gonna tell you exactly what that is!
IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:
[2:13] This Is the Path for You
I knew I was on the brink of a spiral recently, because I started to notice myself looking for ways things could go wrong.
It was one of those days, I was sitting in front of a computer screen and I felt like I was going cross-eyed. I had this whiteboard mapped out of all these things that I’m so fired up to do. I know this is the work I’m supposed to do, but when it came to actually doing the work I felt like my brain was just powering down. Before, when that would happen I would just grit my way through it. I would keep staring cross-eyed at the computer screen and type out five words per minute and just do in three hours what normally would take me three minutes, because I had to get the work done. I have since learned that this does not serve me, my mission or my healing and it doesn’t ultimately get me the result I want anyway.
So, I hit pause on everything, curled up in a ball in my closet and pleaded with God. Why do I feel like I’m under attack? Why can’t I come up for air? Why does this keep happening to me? I’m saying yes to the mission that you’ve placed on my heart. Why aren’t you clearing a path for me? And I heard it, clear as day. This is the path for you.
It was like a calm came over me, so I pulled up my journal and I just started writing what’s coming to me and it was so clear. I’m not asking you to go faster. I’m preparing you. Every struggle is shining a light on the gaps that you need to fill, the ways that you need to grow. You are not ready yet for what you’re working towards, so that you can become who you need to be to carry out this mission.
Sometimes when we want things to happen fast, we are given the roadblocks. We are given those roadblocks to slow us down and make us better drivers. So that we don’t just get to our destination faster, but we arrive prepared.
Disclaimer: what you hear today is not medical advice. This is a wake up call for you to advocate for yourself and do your own digging. No one’s coming to save you. No doctor is going to care as much as you should care. You have to figure out what is right for you.
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.[13:24] Getting Under the Hood
Step one is getting under the hood.
Do not wait to be told. You have to make this a priority. You are someone who feels called to really big things in your life and if you were trying to operate from a broken machine, it’s going to be a lot harder.
Honoring your health has to be a continual priority for you.
This is why, on my health journey, I’ve worked with functional integrative medicine doctors who look at the whole picture, all the factors and they want to get to the root. They don’t want a band aid. They want to support you in your healing. In that process some of the tests that have been very helpful are:
- The DUTCH test (Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones). This hormone test is so important because your hormones affect everything: how your brain works, how you feel, your energy levels, your libido, etc.
- A neurotransmitter test. It was very insightful to see how little my brain was actually working.
- A hair analysis test. This one was great because it’s looking at the tissue, not just what’s happening in this current moment, but it’s giving you a history of what’s been going on in your body. Do you have heavy metals in your system that you need to get out, have you been exposed to mold, etc.?
- Store-bought supplements. If you take supplements from places like CVS, I can almost guarantee you they should be thrown in the garbage. Again, you’re going to want to talk to a functional or an integrative medicine or a holistic doctor to get a better sense of what that looks like. But a lot of times those are shortcuts. Those are marketed well and they do nothing for healing. They do nothing for your body and in many ways sometimes they’re more detrimental than they are good and can be leading to and aggravating some of your symptoms.
- Caffeine. Ah, this is a tough one because you’re so tired and you need caffeine to function. But it is a band aid. It is not addressing the root cause and it’s probably aggravating the actual problem
- Processed food
- Sugar
- Alcohol
- Sodas
- Adrenal cocktails that support your adrenals throughout the day. I take one at 10am and one at 2pm. I use fresh squeezed orange juice for vitamin C, organic coconut water for potassium and salt for electrolytes. This helps to give a natural boost versus caffeine which leads to a crash.
- Limiting my exposure to EMFs. We’re being hit with EMF (electromagnetic frequencies) from everything. Our cell phones, our laptops, it all emits radiation all day long. There are tools you can use to reduce EMFs. There are also tools you can use to read them to get a sense of how much you’re getting. I wear a necklace, it’s absolutely hideous, but it is an EMF blocker, so it tones it down a little bit.
- Toxin-free. We’ve been working for years to have a toxin-free home. For example, we don’t have candles because they don’t have to disclose the chemicals that are in them; cleaning supplies we either make on our own or buy from companies that we trust; skin products, like lotions or makeup we buy from toxin free brands that are trustworthy
- Epsom salt baths, infrared sauna, meditation, prayer. I use all of these to help detox my body and my mind. You’d be amazed by the power of these tools and what they can do for your brain, which ultimately serves your body
- Having more whitespace in my days. This might sound trivial, but if you’re stacked in your work all day and then you go into being stacked with kids, that is just not how we’re designed to live. There has to be space for you to just relax, think, process and just be.
- Changing my work schedule. In Episode 68, I talked about one shift I made that has been so powerful and that is optimizing your energy zones. I tend to have what we call a green zone, usually in the morning and I use that for the tasks that need most focus.
- Getting the right minerals. One of the minerals I recommend the most is magnesium because we’re all way deficient in magnesium and magnesium is responsible for so many functions in the body. So just getting a good source of magnesium is really powerful.
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- Episode 68: This Small Tweak Changed Everything in my Business
- Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own Paperback by Morley Robbins
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