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Not your Mama's Self Care
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Mama's - taking care of yourself is not selfish, and self care is SO much more than "self care".
Join the conversation of taking care of ourselves in motherhood, peri-menopause and beyond in a way that will actually help you feel better, have more energy and be calmer so your family can flourish and thrive.
Montserrat Corsino, L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist and functional medicine health coach with over 14 years of experience in integrative medicine. Specializing in maternal exhaustion, she is passionate about helping mothers reclaim their vitality, empowering them to thrive both at home and in the world. With her expertise, Montserrat is dedicated to guiding moms on their journey to renewed energy, so they can continue to nurture their families and share their light with the world.
Masterclass registration link: https://pages.montsehealth.net/webinar-registration
Website: Manaintegrativehealth.com
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Transcript
Introduction to Montserrat Corsino's Work
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smandere1
Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Mom Tabulous. I am Charla Mandare, your host, and with me today is Montserrat Corsino. She is a licensed acupuncturist and functional medicine health coach with over 14 years of experience in integrative medicine, specializing in maternal exhaustion. I don't know what mom hearing that doesn't go, hi, me, maternal exhaustion. She's passionate about helping mothers reclaim their vitality empowering them to thrive both at home in the world. With her expertise, Montserrat is dedicated to guiding moms on their journey to renewed energy so they can continue to nurture their families and share their light with the world. Welcome Montserrat.
00:00:45
Montserrat
Thank you, so happy to be here.
00:00:48
smandere1
And we're on totally different time zones.
00:00:50
Montserrat
That's fine.
00:00:51
smandere1
You're like, nine hours ahead of me?
00:00:54
Montserrat
Mm-hmm, yep, it's dark and cold right now.
00:00:59
smandere1
And it will remind me where you where you're located again.
00:01:01
Montserrat
I'm in Spain on the coast of Brava, yeah, just north of Barcelona.
00:01:07
smandere1
I want to go to Spain. I want to go to Spain. Now I have a friend in Spain, so.
00:01:10
Montserrat
Boy, come on by.
00:01:13
smandere1
Yeah.
Journey into Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
00:01:14
smandere1
Okay. So tell us about yourself and how you, how you, you know, started helping working with mom, aga the acupuncture and I love acupuncture. It's one of my favorite things.
00:01:23
Montserrat
Yeah, it's great. Um, yeah, I, so I got into Chinese medicine and acupuncture back in college. Uh, I went to UC Santa Cruz and in California and I was an athlete, I was a tennis player, slug tennis player, and I got a few injuries. I had like some repetitive stress stuff going on, but then I, I got a few injuries, um, along with chronic bronchitis and if you've lived in Santa Cruz, you know how damp it can be there. And it's just, I just like was getting chronic stuff. And so, um, you know, I was repeatedly going to the clinic at school and they were giving me antibiotics and I was like, no way, I'm not going to do this anymore. Cause it didn't feel right to me. It wasn't an alignment with, um, how I wanted to feel. Um, being an athlete, I was very in tune with my body.
00:02:18
Montserrat
And so um I had a friend at the time going to, Aki booked her school in Santa Cruz and I mentioned it to her and I said, I have this cough and it's like kind of chronic and it's like this. And I described it to her and I coughed and she just like, i immediately it was like, oh, you got, you have damp, you know, damp heat or damp cold. I can't remember what it was at the time. of Oh, you should take this herb.
00:02:41
Montserrat
Uh, and just like super quick and everything kind of lit up in my brain, um, the way that she was describing it. And I was just like, yes, that's, that's how it feels. That's exactly it. And so, um, that was when I first got the like bug, so to speak, like just like caught it and was like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing medicine. Not only because of her description, but because I took her advice and I started taking the herbs and I noticed such a huge difference.
00:03:11
Montserrat
I just kept doing it for like, I don't know, six months to a year or something.
Integrating Functional Medicine
00:03:16
Montserrat
And I never, I hadn't, I stopped coughing. I didn't get that cough again after, you know, still living in Santa Cruz after that. And then on another occasion, I had the needles, I had acupuncture and for a pinched nerve in my back.
00:03:30
Montserrat
And I tried so many different things and nothing was touching it. And I got one acupuncture session and I was like, Oh my gosh, like I can bend fully. My range of motion is back. And so I was a believer and I was like, I gotta do this thing. Like gotta, you know, go deep into it. So then I came back to it years later after some world travel that I had to get done. Um, and then, yeah, went back to, to California and did acupuncture school and,
00:04:00
Montserrat
I've been doing it ever since and added the functional medicine part in 2020. And that really boosted my practice because it is the missing kind of, it is a bridge between Western medicine and Eastern medicine. So I love that. I love just like using all the tools available to us, you know, in modern times, but there's so much wisdom in the ancient medicine.
00:04:24
Montserrat
So integrat you know integrating the new and the old is basically what functional medicine is. And so that's where I'm at now. And I just use all the tools that I can ah to help my patients.
00:04:39
smandere1
Yeah. I'm all about that into like the new and the old, right? Like I love it because we do have modern medicine for a reason, but there are things that, you know, a lot of people are moving to like, I want to be more holistic. I want, but I don't know what to do. And so I love that. Um, and you know, as a, as a mom, like acupuncture is my, like, like I nap, I nap. It's my nap time.
00:05:06
smandere1
I go with some needles in me and I will fall asleep and then I wake
Societal Expectations and Self-care for Moms
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smandere1
up and I'm rested. I feel better. And like it's helped me with regulating hormones in perimenopause too, which is cool.
00:05:16
Montserrat
It's amazing for that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a deep nap, right? It's not like a normal nap. It's like transported to other dimensions. That's how I feel about it.
00:05:28
smandere1
Yeah. And I don't nap like.
00:05:28
Montserrat
ands
00:05:30
smandere1
I don't nap. I wake up feeling groggy. No matter how tired I am, I'm like, just give me some caffeine because if I nap, I'm going to wake up feeling worse. so But acupuncture nap, I don't.
00:05:38
Montserrat
Perfect.
00:05:41
smandere1
I wake up feeling so good. So moms, if you want to nap, go get some acupuncture done. um So yeah, you know, there's a lot of, we were talking about the expectations on moms, right?
00:05:55
smandere1
To be the super mom and hold all the things and We were talking about like what, at what cost is neglecting yourself, right? Come to not just you, but to your family too. So this, the self-care season two here at mom tabulous, right? It's all about our health and our self-care and our mental, physical, emotional, spiritual health. And so part of this, right? Is letting go of the guilt of putting you first, right? Being able to take care of you,
00:06:31
smandere1
guilt-free.
00:06:33
Montserrat
Yeah, that's a, that's a great start. And it's deeper than just self care, right? Like we hear a bit this like catch phrase, like self care, self care. And it's, I think it goes beyond that. I'm all about self care, but it's not just like a bubble bath or something, you know, it's like, how am I really doing and really checking in? You know, there's a lot of moms that, you know, are going,
00:06:58
Montserrat
their health is declining and they don't even know it because they're not checking in. They're giving and giving, right? Whether it's at work or with the kids. Um, they're just giving so much and, and they they are super moms, you know, like the fact that you're raising children and doing everything that you do these days, a lot of us are managing some, we're wearing many hats, right? It's not just like,
00:07:27
Montserrat
Even if you're a stay-at-home mom, you're managing a lot, right? Like you're managing all the schedules and um making sure everyone gets fed and taking, you know, everyone to their appointments and things like that. So it really comes down to knowing your body and really checking in and listening. And I think that's kind of beyond self-care, right? Like be beyond that superficial care. It's like, how is my mental health? How is my body like physical health?
00:07:58
Montserrat
How's my spirit? Am I on you know am i doing my connected to me? Because you know from the time your child is born, it's almost like you let go of yourself. right You let go of your who you used to be. You're a new person. That's a huge transition right as moms. We're letting go of the maiden, the the the woman that we used to be. And we're going into a very selfless time. And that can continue for many, many years.
00:08:26
Montserrat
so You know, at some point it's important to like really check in and, and, you know, a lot of our, a lot of moms these days are a little, you know, we're starting to have kids older in our late thirties or forties, even.
00:08:40
Montserrat
That takes us into our perimenopausal years, which is like, you know, those can be pretty rocky for a lot of us and you're managing your careers. A lot of women are at the top of their career at that time and kids. And so it just kind of compounds. Um, so do you know, addressing your health is, should be the priority so that you can really hold everything together for a long time. Right. The goal is sustainability too.
00:09:08
smandere1
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And I, you know, it's an, I was getting together a talk for another thing that I'm doing yesterday. And I was literally in this talk saying like, we are the first generations of moms to parent in the way that we are parenting now. There's, so with social media, with, you know, the news is all doom and gloom. The pressure is on moms and You know, I grew up in the eighties and early nineties. And at that point in the seventies and eighties and nineties, the moms, they they parented, but they didn't have to parent. I think as much we are parenting more because in the eighties, like my mom could say, go outside and play and come home by the time the streetlights come on. Right. And now you see a kid outside the 10 year old riding his bike outside.
00:10:03
smandere1
And you're like, where's your mother? but Why are they alone? Oh my God, they shouldn't be there. and And it's like two in the afternoon on a Saturday. They should absolutely be outside. And their parent probably most definitely knows where they are. right And even then, we my mom, they could take the Atari away and and go ride your bike. right Now if we send them outside, they still have their cell phones.
00:10:27
smandere1
so If you're, they're like, might they're probably filming a TikTok. you know like They're still on the device, right? We're the first generation of parents to have these devices in their pockets that you know if you take it away and they go outside, then there's the anxiety of, oh my God, now I can't get ahold of them. I can't track them on the app if something, I need to know where they are. I need to know they're okay. And where there's a whole, we're in the eighties, I'm sure my mom was like, are they okay?
00:10:54
smandere1
okay, it was calling neighbors like, do you see them down the street? They're there. Okay, cool. Hang up and went on with her whatever business, whatever she was doing, right?
00:11:03
Montserrat
Hmm.
00:11:04
smandere1
ah We have we have constant access. And it's, I think it's starting to drive moms a little crazy. I know it is me.
00:11:14
Montserrat
Yeah.
00:11:14
smandere1
like he said We have way less alone time.
00:11:17
Montserrat
Mm hmm.
00:11:18
smandere1
is You can't send them out. side at all in godly hours, at least not here in Southern California. Someone will call CPS, right? ah you know and and then and then and And it's never where's your father, right? Where's your mother? Does your mom know you're outside? Not does your dad know where you are. Does your mom know? There's no expectation on the dad to know or give two flying Fs where the kids are.
00:11:48
Montserrat
Wow. Yeah. There's the, there's always that like, yeah, those are the, um, double standard, right? For moms in our society that we have to live up to.
00:11:59
Montserrat
And we have that ah on ourselves too. We put it on ourselves, right? Like we can do it better.
00:12:03
smandere1
Yeah.
00:12:05
Montserrat
So we don't expect or help ask for help.
00:12:05
smandere1
Yeah.
00:12:08
Montserrat
You know, there's.
00:12:09
smandere1
Yeah.
00:12:11
Montserrat
Yeah, it sounds ah really overwhelming. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm in a different country and my kids are in a different age. Like they don't have devices. Fortunately, um they're five in one.
00:12:22
Montserrat
So I could totally, printed you know, see that being a problem and it's overwhelming.
00:12:23
smandere1
Yeah.
00:12:29
Montserrat
And yeah, that's another, yet another big stressor and it's the unknown too. It's like, it's a big experiment. So, There's just not a lot of kind of support for that, I don't think, um you know for moms to like go through what they're going through, and maybe there are like community wise but
00:12:44
smandere1
Yeah.
00:12:52
Montserrat
You know, we're it's very isolating to be living in this time where people are on devices, kids and
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00:13:01
Montserrat
parents. I mean, I see it.
00:13:03
Montserrat
I used to see it a lot at restaurants in the States, like a mom on her phone and you know the kids also on their devices at the table, not even making eye contact.
00:13:06
smandere1
Yeah.
00:13:14
Montserrat
so it's It's a pretty tricky thing to navigate, and I don't have the answers to that, but I could i just know how it how much it can weigh on the moms.
00:13:27
smandere1
Yeah. And so it's extra important, right? To give to ourself, to take some of that stress, lower the cortisol levels, take that, not necessarily take the pressure off? Well, ah yeah, like, right, that the acupuncture and holistic medicine, and, you know, this deep old self care, right, where it is a self care, but a deeper self care can help to take that stress away, maybe some of the worries. And just even, just like I said, if when you're like, never alone, to have that moment of like, the acupuncturist walks out of the room, and I lay on the table, and and and I'm alone.
00:14:06
smandere1
For nobody nobody's coming to me with needles all over me like can I get a glass of water can I.
00:14:13
Montserrat
Totally. No. is' a moment out of time, like when you can just lay there and be with the needles and your own energy. Really. That's what it's doing.
00:14:24
Montserrat
That's what acupuncture is. It's working with your own chi. Um, but yeah, the, you know, knowing, knowing again, just coming back to moms that are, might be overwhelmed or distracted or,
00:14:27
smandere1
yeah
00:14:39
Montserrat
just juggling so much. It's really important to pay attention to your body and your symptoms. Like I said, if you're 40 plus and sometimes as early as 30, because perimenopause starts as early as 30, you could be having these symptoms that you don't really give two minutes to think about.
00:15:03
Montserrat
they will progress and they can go on to cause a really rocky menopausal time or, you know,
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00:15:11
Montserrat
pyramidopausal time. So that's, that's where I really encourage moms to, you know, go to acupuncture, go to a functional medicine practitioner, naturopath, an energy worker, anyone that's going to be in, you know, kind of responsive to the energy and the sort of the, the.
00:15:31
Montserrat
preventative um preventative methods that exist and just like maintenance, you know? Like unit you get your car tuned up, you make sure your kids get their checkups and all of that.
00:15:37
smandere1
Yeah.
00:15:43
Montserrat
You go to the dentist, like you need that as well. um And you know, it doesn't, you don't have to wait till it's like hot flashes or something. Like so many people are just like, oh, I'm fine. I don't have any, you know, I don't think I'm going through perimenopause or, you know, I'm not near that.
00:15:58
Montserrat
I don't have any hot flashes. and It's like, wait, theres there's so many more things to look out for. And, you know, like when moms tell me like, oh yeah, I just have mom brain or I just have, you know, no libido or like lost, yeah, I just skipped my period. Like this is normal stuff, you know, or they're just like suffering from weight gain, like forever. And they can't, whatever they do, they can't lose it. I'm like, these are all things you should get. You know, they're not, they're not normal. They're normal.
00:16:30
Montserrat
They're like common, but they're not normal, like in terms of health. So my suggestion is always like, you know, or suggestion or thought or perspective is that these are all signs that your body is giving you. And as women, we have so many more signs than men do. So we need to listen. We have our periods to kind of track or to pay attention to.
00:16:56
Montserrat
That is like a God, you know, big gift that we have to like, be like, if there's anything off in my cycle, I know there's something wrong, right? We know that when we're under stress, things will happen. Things will change. You'll have more PMS or whatever. If you're not, if you're not losing the weight, like, yeah, there's something going on. Sure. You're aging, but we want to age gracefully. If we want to age, you know, live into our nineties and even hundreds, like,
00:17:24
Montserrat
It's all about health span, right? Not just life span. We want good health into till the very last day. So we can't leave this till the end.
00:17:32
smandere1
Yeah.
00:17:34
Montserrat
We can't wait till our kids go to leave the house or we can't, you know, like, or till retirement. It's like now's the time. What we do in our forties is going to totally influence us in our 60s, 70s and 80s.
00:17:47
Montserrat
Disease doesn't just start when you're like old, you know?
00:17:51
smandere1
Yeah, for sure. Women live longer than men, but women also live the later years in poorer health than men.
00:17:58
Montserrat
And then.
00:17:59
smandere1
And so, yeah, it's important. You got to set that foundation now. I just shared a post recently on Instagram about the perimenopause about like, I had my second child like three days before my 36th birthday.
00:18:15
smandere1
And knowing that perimenopause can start as early as like 3035,
00:18:20
Montserrat
no
00:18:21
smandere1
It's kind of maddening that you could be having babies and hitting perimenopause. Potentially, either at the same time or so close together. right There are things posed to my children that I go, was it postpartum anxiety or was it perimenopause related? Was I there already? i I don't know. I can't go back and write figure it out. but like There's so many, there's things that I think you're right. Like moms go, well, this is just because this, this is because I'm sleep deprived. This is, and maybe it is right. But also maybe there's more things we can do about it. You know, sleep is, is important. Moms need sleep. it And it's something that feels like it's out of our control a lot of the time, right? Like.
00:19:06
smandere1
When the kids wake up, they've got to be fed in the middle of the night with their babies, right? They, or they need water. They just had a nightmare. They wet the bed or their potty training or whatever. And even I have teenagers that still I'm like, can you please, please go to sleep.
00:19:25
Montserrat
Yeah. lunch Especially when they're on devices, right? ah Like it keeps stimulating their brains. Yeah.
00:19:33
smandere1
Yeah.
00:19:34
Montserrat
It's, I mean, and just to kind of talk about perimenopause a little more, it's, um, I think it's like one in three women, uh, in perimenopause report that their symptoms are significant.
00:19:49
Montserrat
They significantly interfere with their lives and they impact their ability to be a good parent and maintain relationships. So if we were to kind of go backwards or like kind of rewind and find the root cause of like problems at work, problems with relationships, trump problems with parenting, and not to say that it's our fault, but if we can get to the root of it, it is in our health. Like that's the bottom line, whether we're in menopause or perimenopause or postmenopausal or, you know, still menstruating, but our hormones are off.
00:20:25
Montserrat
The point is like, let's get back to the root.
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Montserrat
And the root is really the mom of, you know, the mom's like the foundation of the family. And if we can get to the, to the root of our health issues, um, our family will flourish, right? Like we will have a strong foundation and it's super important. Um, that's why it's so important, you know, and it's not a selfish, selfish act to
00:20:53
smandere1
Right.
00:20:53
Montserrat
prioritize ourselves. And a lot of us, I mean, I even have believed that, you know, I'm not going to go get a massage because that's selfish and my babies need me at home. And you know, and at the end of the day, it's like, no, wait a minute. I'm not going to, I'm going to be a way better mom. If I have that time off, if I feel good in my body, I will appreciate the moments and I will like take those those in if I have the health to do so. And so really like hormones, um,
00:21:23
Montserrat
They tend to take like a big ah you know center stage, um but they're often like the branch um also like of the problem. So sometimes, and a lot of times it's the chronic stress that leads to hormonal imbalance or fluctuations. And that's like truly my kind of like specialty is dealing with stress hormones and chronic stress and fatigue in women and moms.
00:21:52
Montserrat
And, you know, but we can say mom is synonymous with fatigue and exhaustion. um Like how many moms do you know that aren't tired? It's it's really like they go hand in hand. So the reason is because of chronic stress or, you know, we often don't consider it our lives to be chronically stressed. But when you're watching after kids and you're raising kids and trying to keep them alive and working,
00:22:20
Montserrat
and doing all the things you are chronically stressed. And so you're depleting your stress hormones and your stress hormones are depleting your sex hormones. So you can go into perimenopause earlier, or you can have these like really intense, um, menopausal symptoms because of that, those stress hormones that have been slowly, you know, depleting over the course of 10 years, you know,
00:22:48
Montserrat
15 years, things like that. So as soon as you know that you're stressed, that's like you know ah knowing you have a problem is the first step and then and you know addressing that and really getting getting the nourishment and the help that you need to kind of bring yourself back from that chronic depletion state.
00:22:50
smandere1
yeah
00:23:11
smandere1
Yeah. Yeah. 100%, right? Yeah. I joke around and say like, I've been sleep deprived for 15 years.
00:23:18
Montserrat
Yeah.
00:23:18
smandere1
I mean, i mean I have slept a little, right? But yeah, I mean, and I feel like even as they get older, when I make, when my kids were little, I remember being like, Oh, when they're like older, I'll, no, you, you, I feel like the worries just change. They're at a party, a high school party. And you're like, Oh God.
00:23:44
smandere1
what are they experiencing there? I know what I experienced at high school parties, right? But now it's way worse and there's people are recording things. So, you know, um it's it's so like, you've got to trust your own parenting and and values that you put in them, but also, you know, it's like, I need to know your home and you're safe before I can rest, right?
00:24:07
Montserrat
Yeah, jeez, yeah, I haven't even. Yeah, like I said, I'm not there yet, but yeah, it can be really stressful to
00:24:12
smandere1
Yeah.
00:24:18
Montserrat
to not be able to turn it off. you know like and that's I hear that so much as moms going through their baby not sleeping and you know turning into years of like disrupted sleep, even after their baby's sleeping well.
00:24:35
smandere1
Yeah.
00:24:35
Montserrat
And and that's that's a problem. you know like If you're waking up at all, it's a problem.
00:24:42
smandere1
Yeah.
00:24:42
Montserrat
you
00:24:42
smandere1
You just get used to, you get used to being woken up, right? So then the first time they sleep through the night, it's like, Oh God, that was great.
00:24:46
Montserrat
yeah
00:24:50
smandere1
Is that a fluke? Is it going to happen more? Are we waking up tonight three times? Like, right? Like, what? Ah, and then you, I would lay awake in anticipation of being woken up.
00:25:00
Montserrat
was contain in There you go. Yeah. That's your nervous, um, an overdrive. Yeah.
00:25:07
smandere1
Yeah.
00:25:07
Montserrat
It's kind of, you can't, oh, you can't ever turn it off because what if you don't hear them or what if you miss something, you know?
00:25:14
smandere1
Well, or for me, it was like, what if I'm just, you know, in that space just where you're just falling asleep and then you hear mom and you're like, i I was so right.
00:25:15
Montserrat
um
00:25:21
Montserrat
Yeah.
00:25:24
smandere1
So I'm like, I don't want to, I don't want to be like so close and then get woken up.
00:25:24
Montserrat
Yeah.
00:25:29
smandere1
So I might as well just stay awake. That was the thing because getting woken up was worse than just staying awake to me.
00:25:33
Montserrat
Yeah. Totally.
00:25:38
smandere1
be more more I'd be more like, I think it jump started that cortisol, right? Where it was like, oh and then it was like, I was so close. yeah ah Why? you know So just staying awake was my way of I think maybe like controlling the stress.
00:25:48
Montserrat
Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's like, oh my gosh, it's... Unfortunately, it's more common than not. I mean, and even just like being tired is like normal, you know, like you, and I know that from my own personal experience, like, you know, after wait, you know, having my baby waking up nightly for feeding, you know, nursing and, you know, it's been, I don't know, maybe six or seven months or less, actually, because with travel and stuff.
00:26:24
Montserrat
that she's been able to sleep through the night without waking up, but I still get up from like, you know, somebody moving upstairs or like a sound outside or dog barking, like every little thing, right? It's like your, your body is still in a pattern of waking and, um, and nature, you know, biology does it for us in the, in the first few years, our babies really need us to be, you know, their protectors and
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00:26:52
Montserrat
keep them safe. So.
00:26:53
Montserrat
our bodies are just and on high alert. But um when it goes up beyond those years is is when it can become really depleting and problematic and that can lead to other issues like depression, and anxiety and, um, gut issues and hormonal issues. And, you know, a lot of women don't connect the two. They just think this is a separate issue. And often one of the questions I ask is when did it start? And they can kind of go back and so many moms are just like, Oh, after I had my baby, you know, like it's like a realization to them. Well, when I had my baby, like they, you know, they think,
00:27:34
Montserrat
that was the start to something, but they don't think of it as a continuation, like their symptoms now. But, you know, postpartum, postpartum, you always be postpartum. Like you've had a baby, you're postpartum. But that's how I always like, I like to think of it that way or like put that in people, women's head, because really, your body went through a big transformation. And if you didn't nourish it right after you had the baby or like soon after,
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Montserrat
those symptoms will, that depletion will continue to be drained or continue to, you know, deplete your body of everything if you haven't been filling up your tank, you know, consistently.
00:28:18
Montserrat
So.
00:28:18
smandere1
Yeah. And so ways to fill our tank, right? That deeper self care, checking in, we've got acupuncture, you have, you have a monthly masterclass. You leave it's Thursday, Thursday evenings. Is that Thursday evening, Spain?
00:28:36
Montserrat
Um, it's yeah, so it's Thursday evening here. So it's Thursday morning this week, this month, um, in October, it's on Thursday, um, in a couple of days, actually on the 17th.
00:28:47
Montserrat
And it's going to be, um, at eight, uh, sorry, 11 30 Pacific, uh, 11 30 AM. And, um, I, in this masterclass it's called, um, from exhausted to expansive, um, three evidence-based strategies for
00:28:55
smandere1
Okay.
00:29:06
Montserrat
tired moms to radically reduce fatigue. And I share the root cause of exhaustion. And I share my story on there as well, healing myself through adrenal fatigue um and sort of like strategies to get you kind of out of the exhaustion.
00:29:28
Montserrat
um And I also offer, I have a course, an online course that I'm really proud of. Um, and it's a 12 week, uh, course and it, it's called the monte method and it helps you get out of your exhaustion. And it really addresses, uh, every aspect of your life. Um, from your relationships to your sleep habits, to your breathing, to your nutrition, of course.
00:29:55
Montserrat
All these pillars of health that are so like crucial right that we don't give a lot of attention to. um And in that in that course, every week we have live coaching. And that's like my favorite time because it's ah in a group. um it's an a It's in a group. It's a group coaching call. So we have all the moms.
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Montserrat
ah get on together. It's a very intimate space and we get to talk about all the things that come up around the different modules. And and that's something that a lot of us need, right? We need we need the tribe and the ah group to the you know to have accountability, but also to have to connect with and to go through these years with.
00:30:41
Montserrat
um And it can be really transformational to have that support and the ears, right? Like other women listening and relating and you just get so much out of listening to all the moms and their experiences.
00:30:55
smandere1
You amazing. I love, I love that you're supporting moms in that way. I think I'm going to show up to the masterclass Thursday. Um, and so that's on, on your website.
00:31:07
smandere1
And it's spelled M M A N A I N. Oh, M A N a Mona integrated.
00:31:16
Montserrat
and mother help dot com yeah
00:31:19
smandere1
Yeah.
00:31:19
Montserrat
Mona is a link to book to register for the the master class on my homepage.
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smandere1
and
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Montserrat
um I just I love working with moms and I just feel like that's my work in the world to support and uplift moms because they
00:31:42
Montserrat
They just, they they're so important, right, to society and they contribute so much and they're the future and they're the present and they are, you know, we're raising the future. So we need all the support we can get. And, and you know, I didn't talk about nutrition, but that's also something that I feel super passionate about. And a lot of what I um support moms with is like,
00:32:08
Montserrat
getting proper nutrition. and And sometimes it's really basic and easy and sometimes it's really hard because obviously obviously we don't all have lots of time to prepare meal, you know, do all the meal planning and prep and all of that. um So um I do make it really easy in my program. And I also, you know, customize things when I work one on one with clients. So nutrition is a big part of working with me.
00:32:38
Montserrat
But yeah, we with moms, i and just I think it's super important to to emphasize nutrient-dense diets. And that's how that is your medicine every day. And yeah, it's very cliche to say food is your medicine, but especially as moms who have given birth, if you've ever given birth or you know had a baby,
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Montserrat
you need to eat nutrient dense food. Like everybody should have some kind of nutritional, um, you know, benefit to you.
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Montserrat
Um, sure you can have the treats, but like in any given day you need nutrient dense food. And I would push it, push even further and say every single meal needs to be nutrient dense. You know, I don't like to take away so much, but I like to add, and that makes things,
00:33:27
Montserrat
much easier, right? Like mentally, emotionally, it's like, let's add these nutrient dense, like golden foods in your diet and see how you feel because our bodies respond so well to foods.
00:33:29
smandere1
Yeah.
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smandere1
For sure.
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Montserrat
So.
00:33:43
smandere1
Yeah. Especially if you're nursing a baby, if you're in perimenopause or menopause, like Adding things a lot of people like to take away. I'm with you on the adding. I look at to what do we add?
00:33:55
smandere1
To make sure that we're getting what we need to sustain us throughout the day and Right and it helped us to reach those goals, you know that we want like maybe but right It's about adding it is for sure so people can go to your website and they can look at that course and they can do that master class and
00:34:01
Montserrat
yeah
00:34:16
smandere1
And I've appreciated having you on so much and you know one thing that I one thing one small thing that I took away from this is this is this is worldly right moms it doesn't this is not just that you're not just a sleep deprived American mom you're not a stressed out American mom.
00:34:21
Montserrat
Exactly.
00:34:29
Montserrat
Yeah.
00:34:34
smandere1
this is in Spain, they are too. If this is moms universally, it's it's ah it's a global epidemic.
00:34:39
Montserrat
and huh
00:34:42
smandere1
It's a global thing that moms need to take care of themselves no matter where you are.
00:34:43
Montserrat
yeah
00:34:47
smandere1
So I i feel a little better because I'm always like, oh, I bet in like France or Spain or you know Europe, they're so well rested and not stressed.
00:34:59
smandere1
what
00:34:59
Montserrat
i have to say Yeah, my stress level is definitely less here, but we still have the same worries, right? We're still trying to raise kids and you know keep keep food on the table and earn a living and all of that. So you know it's it's definitely like you know learning how to manage stress is a big one as well. That's ah another point that I stress or emphasize um with with my patients and They definitely have it down a lot more here, I think, like the man-in-a-balance, you know, that like work-life balance and social balance and family time and, you know, this part of the world, I feel, doesn't live to work. They work to live. And so that's a big difference that I found in the U.S. where, you know, we identify a lot with our work and our, you know, um our status in the workplace.
00:35:54
Montserrat
which is there's nothing wrong with that and it's great to be proud but but it does cause extra stress on top of just parenting so yes as moms we do we need we need all the support we can get so yeah
00:36:10
smandere1
and No matter where you go, kids are going to kid. They're going to wake up. They're going to tantrum.
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Montserrat
you
00:36:15
smandere1
They're going to cry. They've all got cell phones. They've got
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smandere1
teenagers. you know they The kids kids are going to kid, so moms need to take care of themselves so you can be the best mom you can be.
00:36:28
smandere1
This has been so great. I'm so grateful to have met you and had you on.
00:36:30
Montserrat
yeah
00:36:32
smandere1
Thank you for taking your time.
00:36:34
Montserrat
my pleasure
00:36:35
smandere1
And I hope people i hope people join the master class and not master classes and and and grab that grab that course.
00:36:43
Montserrat
Thank you so much and hope to see you there for having me.
00:36:43
smandere1
I love it.
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smandere1
Yes, all right.
00:36:49
Montserrat
It's been great.
00:36:51
smandere1
Yeah, it has been. And we'll see you in the next episode.
00:36:53
Montserrat
All right.