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3 Tips to Reduce Stress for Busy Moms | The Positively Healthy Mom Podcast with with Becca Kyle
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In this episode of The Positively Healthy Mom, host Laura Ollinger sits down with Becca Kyle, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, to explore what’s really behind chronic stress, anxiety, fatigue, and mood swings—for both moms and teens.
Becca breaks down how to support the nervous system naturally using simple yet powerful lifestyle changes, functional lab testing, and a root-cause approach to wellness. From blood sugar crashes to cortisol imbalances, and why play is just as important as sleep, this conversation is packed with practical advice for moms who want to feel better and raise healthier, more resilient kids.
🎧 Topics We Cover:
- What is Functional Diagnostic Nutrition?
- Why you're tired, anxious, or wired at night
- Nervous system stress explained
- Cortisol, hormones, and gut health
- Why play and rest are essential—not optional
- Actionable tips: sunlight, sleep, food, and movement
- How to start healing for both you and your teen
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Introduction to Positively Healthy Mom Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Positively Healthy Mom podcast, where positive parenting meets well-being.
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Positively Healthy Mom. I'm your host, Laura Olinger, and I'm so excited to introduce you to my friend, Becca Kyle, who happens to be another mom with ah at my kid's school, who I know, but I have been fascinated from the moment I met you, Becca, because of your background and your education, and your title is just so cool. Functional, I wrote it down, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, yeah and I am so excited officially meet with you today and podcast with you.
Role of a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
00:00:42
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So tell us, what is a functional not diagnostic nutrition practitioner?
00:00:47
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ah Great question. It's a lot of words, isn't it? and it It really just describes the ah detective work behind what I do. um I believe that there is a root cause for your symptoms, that your symptoms, you know, when it comes to health. So that could be, it could be fatigue, it could be pain, it could be bloating, it could be insomnia, anxiety, brain fog, whatever it may be.
00:01:09
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that the symptoms aren't the problem. They're the results of the problem. So what's the actual problem? And in traditional modern medicine, most of the time, um it's really focused on that symptom management, you know diagnosing a disease or treating a disease with medication.
00:01:27
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um i don't diagnose, I don't treat. What I do is I look for things like toxins, pathogens, nutrient deficiencies. Are you digesting and absorbing the food you eat? Because it's not you are what you eat, it's you are what you absorb.
00:01:41
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um Do you have genetics that are playing a role in nutrient conversion? you know, all of these things um create what we call metabolic chaos in the body. Whereas one symptom over here might be actually driven by some dysfunction down here.
00:01:56
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And so it's about connecting dots. It's about finding puzzle pieces and understanding that everything in the body is connected and that diet, lifestyle, rest, play, movement, sunlight, nature, stress reduction, all of these lifestyle components really make a huge difference on your symptoms and what's driving them. So you can kind think of me like a little health detective.
Detective Approach to Health Issues
00:02:23
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And I use functional lab work, you know, think stool sample, urine sample, sample hair, saliva, um sometimes blood to really figure out what's driving your symptoms, right? Like, so your insomnia is not the problem. Like what's going on do you have high cortisol?
00:02:39
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Do you have pathogens that love to party at night? Do you have mineral deficiencies? So where your but your nervous system's not like relaxing at night? Do you have an imbalanced sleep-wake cycle, right? So instead of saying, oh, I'm an insomniac, I guess I should try medication for that. It's, well, why are you not sleeping? Why is my favorite question?
00:02:58
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Why are you not sleeping? And we can assess those issues on lab work and that's where kind of the magic happens. um And then you also have to address people, body, mind, spirit. you can't just address the physical body, right? So, um you know, really thinking about there's that that saying, your your biology becomes your biography.
00:03:18
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And, you know, everything you've experienced in life, whether it's the food you ate or trauma or, um you know, but the beautiful nature you saw in travels or, you know good and bad.
00:03:29
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it It creates your biology at the cellular level. And so it's just, it's a lot of fun. I'm a giant nerd, basically. Me too.
Virtual Practice and Client Empowerment
00:03:38
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Yeah. And so I work with clients all over the country. and I work 100% virtually. So that's a lot of fun to get to work with women. I've i've worked, i have clients in Canada. I've had a client and you know in England and Switzerland and Antigua. So that's a lot of fun just to get to work with all types of people um and really empower them.
00:03:57
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you know, for a lifetime. It's not about a three month, nine month, 12 month protocol. It's, it's sometimes it's a short intensive thing to to really address some issues, but then it's, what do you do for a lifetime to, you know, return to balance, to keep that balance? and And so, yeah, I have a lot of fun with it.
00:04:15
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Yes, I love it. And as you're describing it, well, first of all, I wanted to share, which I think you know about me, that my original background was functional medicine and health coaching, which led me to the life coaching now. And I combine the two together for teenagers, because a lot of times like those modifiable lifestyle factors that you're talking about, teenagers, you think they're so smart because they're almost like doing this really high level of like academic work at school. And in some ways they're, you know,
00:04:43
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um cognitively faster than an adult, right? because yeah Because they don't have a lot of the bog and fog, like slowing them down. In the other ways, they don't have that prefrontal cortex. So they don't necessarily have that rational decision making. And that is where a lot of times it's the obvious where it feels like sometimes we're going back to like, oh my gosh, are you two years old? Are you three years old? Because they forget about sleep. They forget about, um they don't have the outdoor play, like recess to like relax and let their body kind of um shake the stress off like a dog does. Right.
00:05:15
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And so sometimes when I'm working with a teenager, I, I, some of the questions I have to ask are, when did you last eat? What did you, what in the past 24 hours have you eaten? Like, oh how much sleep have you gotten? Like the basics. And so I think it's so important for the moms listening today from both their own perspective as moms and taking care of their own health and remembering that their teenagers sometimes forget to take care of themselves because we get they get busy.
00:05:39
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We all know that they're in their activities and their sports and working really hard to make great grades to plan for their future. And sometimes just that very basic daily care gets kind of thrown out the window.
Health Routines for Teenagers
00:05:50
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um So how- Absolutely. I call it the low hanging fruit. Yeah, exactly. The low hanging fruit, like the obvious, the basics. Yes. But I love also what you're describing because it almost reminds me of, I was thinking either like tree rings, you know, how you like see the tree rings or like a rock formation, Where you can tell what was going on you know, millions of years ago based off the layers and what it was. And that's, and that's almost like you, like you're the detective and you can like figure out what's going on with a person based off of the testing that you do.
00:06:20
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And then identify any tweaks that need to be made so that people can feel better. Because the truth is we don't have to feel bad. Like we're moms. No, we do not. You and I both have now you have a a rising freshman for high school and I have several high schoolers.
00:06:34
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um I've got a middle schooler and we're at the age where we are really busy, but in a different way than when we had the little ones. But that doesn't mean we need to slow down in in a bad way by because of our body. So.
Understanding Stress and Its Impacts
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Talk to me about kind of like the, the nervous system health, because I think for you that that's an important topic, because as we go through our days, we are kind of like burning the candle at both ends. And we do have a lot of responsibility and we do get stressed and we do get overwhelmed. And so talk to us about that. Like, what is that process?
00:07:07
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Yeah. So, um you know, the nervous system, it it impacts everything. It impacts cognition and impacts sleep. It impacts mood. It impacts gut health. And it's not a one way arrow.
00:07:18
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It goes both ways. The gut impacts the nervous system the nervous system impacts the gut, right? Same with hormones. Um, you know, when I have a a female client who either just has a really, um really difficult menstrual cycle, or maybe they're having a really crazy perimenopause, you know, whatever, or maybe they're having infertility, right? So some things off.
00:07:38
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It's almost always one of the variables is the nervous system and being in fight or flight, which is, I call it stress mode. It's really fight, flight, or freeze. Well, technically it's fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Now we're getting complicated. That's that little, yeah, one that always gets forgotten. Stress mode or yeah rest and digest, which is relaxation mode.
00:07:57
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So, you know, the body even can't really tell the difference between a really a real stressor and a perceived stressor. So if you're someone that's always waiting for the other shoe to drop or you're freaking out about the future or whatever, your body is going to almost react as if that thing has happened.
00:08:16
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um So, you know, when we think about positive thinking, right, that's really important. um But so I like to put stress into three categories. So there's social, like emotional relational stressors. When most people say, I'm so stressed out, that's usually what they're talking about. Like a kid, ah you know, a family member, a job, the world, the news, you know, whatever's happening at the time.
00:08:39
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um And then we have physical stressors. So that could be you, you sprain your ankle, you sit too much, your spine's out of alignment. ah My specialty is the biochemical stressors. So that could be toxins, pathogens, nutrient deficiencies, gut issues,
00:08:52
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um high or low cortisol, all of that type of of thing. And all of those can cause your stress bucket to overflow. So i I get clients that are like, I don't feel that stressed out. like Like, I don't have a lot of emotional stressors. Well, then we do lab work and like, oh, but you have a parasite and you have mold and you have...
00:09:11
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crazy environmental toxins and you you're not digesting,
Categories of Stress and Health Effects
00:09:14
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absorbing your nutrients, right? So some people like me, I've had all three kinds of stressors. Some people kind of maybe fill their bucket up with one more more the other, but either way, when you are in stress mode, the body prioritizes survival over hormone balance, survival over digestion, survival over, you know, short-term memory, because you're literally going you know, trying to outrun that proverbial tiger of like, yeah like, you know, back in, back in the day. Right. And so, um, addressing stress is wildly important. Um, and as far as all three types, um, and what, can I stop you for one second? is Yeah.
00:09:55
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I got the social and relational stress and then I got the physical stress and I kind of, you kind of lost me on the third time. So the biochemical, so that's, that's the inner workings of the body. So that's like, you know, what's your nutrient status? What's your hormone balance? What are your neurotransmitters doing? What toxins do you have? What pathogens do you have? So that's what shows up on all the functional lab work is that. And so, you know, under times of stress, the body prioritizes cortisol, your stress hormone, instead of progesterone, which helps with menstrual cycles and sleep and fertility and perimenopause, right?
00:10:30
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So stress can have a direct impact on your hormones. In fact, if the body feels like it's not safe, it will literally say, oh, it's not a good time to make a baby. Now, maybe you're not wanting to make a baby, but what I'm talking about is hormones are for more than just making babies. But You know, it'll, it'll throw it off. And that's also your thyroid stress impacts your thyroid.
00:10:52
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And your thyroid function impacts the clearance of cortisol. So everything here is connected. And then when we think about estrogen and testosterone, well, in your adrenal glands, part of your stress response system, that's where cortisol is made.
00:11:07
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That's also where DHEA is made, which is the counterbalance to cortisol. DHEA is the parent hormone for estrogen and testosterone. So your adrenal function has a direct impact on your gut health, are yeah on your hormones and gut health. So high cortisol depletes your gut immune system.
00:11:25
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So if you're like, oh, I'm like i'm sick all the time. I'm getting virus after virus or how my stomach is just messed up. i don't know what's going on. Well, chronically high cortisol can equal. a weak gut immune system, and then you're catching everything under the sun.
00:11:39
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um Cortisol impacts sleep. It impacts, you can feel like you have like, even sometimes like early onset Alzheimer's, you're like, I cannot retain a thought because of that stress response system in the body. So, you know, the goal is to activate that rest and digest and, you know, stay out of stress mode.
Balancing Stress with Rest and Play
00:12:00
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You know, our bodies were designed to Really deal with an acute stressor. So think, you know, something bigger, you know, like car accident or job loss or, you know, something, something significant and cortisol should rise to meet the need. It helps us be resilient in that moment.
00:12:17
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And then DHEA should rise to to counterbalance that cortisol is very catabolic, meaning it breaks the body down. DHEA is anabolic, to builds the body up. So like collegiate athletes can't supplement with it because it's very building.
00:12:30
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um And so then they both go back to normal, right? Rise, rise, go back to normal. That's acute stressors. That's like a one-time here and there situation. Well, in our modern age, we all have those and we have chronic stress, which our bodies were not designed to to have.
00:12:48
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um And so over time, it causes our stress response system to just go out of balance. And then we're like, then any little thing, we're like, <unk>ve I've had this conversation with other moms, I'm just so irritable all the time.
00:12:59
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like it Like anything, make like heard the word mom one more time, right? Like it's because it's because your stress response system is out of balance. And the kicker to this is the The two things that get us out of stress mode and into relaxation mode, two of the main most important things, that is it's not the only two.
00:13:20
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um One is rest and one is play. Our bodies force us to rest sometimes. I've got to, i've got to let I can't, I'm not functioning, right? I got to go lay down. I got to go to bed. I got to take a nap, right?
00:13:33
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But play is just as much, if not more important. So when we get in like stress mode, it's this kind of ah stress-based tunnel vision. We're like a racehorse with blinders on, you know, we're just da dot da right.
00:13:46
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And we can't see simple solutions to our problems because they're in our peripheral vision and we're just going, going, going, going. And the first thing to go typically when you get stressed out and exhausted and overwhelmed is play.
00:14:01
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It's, yeah it's whatever used to delight you bring you joy, make you feel lit up inside. That was just fun. and it's the first thing to go, don't for that. i don't I don't have time for that. I'm stressed out. I'm overwhelmed. I'm busy. Right.
00:14:12
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But it's the very thing that will get you out of stress mode. So when I have someone come to me in stress mode and when we're actively seeking out those ah biochemical stressors, we also work.
00:14:23
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on all of this other stuff because that I consider that to be low hanging fruit, right? I'm like, go play. When is the last time you did something? Whether it's, you know, reading, you know, you know, some, some fantasy fairy book that's so popular right now, or, you know, maybe it's, a dance party with the kids or i used to paint all the time for fun. I'm terrible at painting like canvases, but I and loved it at the time. It was, it was soothing for me.
00:14:46
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Or maybe it's just good getting outside and going on a hike, right? There's no wrong way to play, but right like I teach people to make a ah list like of um low energy activities, medium energy activities and high energy activities.
00:15:01
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And so every day should pick one and they could be 10 minutes. It could be five minutes. It could be two hours, right? There's no right or wrong here and check in with yourself. It's kind of like when you, um, you're, you can think of restaurants, you're like, Oh, I want to eat there. I want to eat there. And someone's like, Hey, where do you want to go eat? You're like, well i don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. Right. yeah So when you're in stress mode, having that pre-written list is so helpful. You can check in with yourself in the morning and say, Hey, you know, what,
00:15:24
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do I have, I have low energy? Do have moderate energy? you high energy? What would be a great, um, de-stressor activity for me today? That's just for fun. And it is wild to see how bringing black back in play positively impacts the nervous system so much.
00:15:41
Speaker
Do you see that on your end? That play kind of just goes. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. In fact, you're, you're totally inspiring me to make sure Get more play because um yeah, I feel like the busier I get, that it that is the first thing that tends to go. And um one of the other fun things about play with women is that a lot of times we do it as a social activity. So you're kind of combining two things together. Like I used to do a lot of tennis activities I've had some injuries. then I was doing a little bit of the pickleball, but now a lot of people are doing Mahjong, but whatever it is, whatever activity it is, a lot of times as women, we do it together, which makes it even, so you're kind of like checking two boxes there.
00:16:17
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um But yeah, I just, I love that concept. And I think honestly that I should even assign that for my teenage clients is- as well because you know they do have their social life but a lot of times the social life is actually adding to the stress and they're not and so maybe just like adding that play gap category for them is really important too so a lot of their social life is digital right So it's like, okay, when was the last time you went out away from the house, away from the phone, away from the Xbox, whatever it is, right? And did something like physical, you know, like like like get out and do something, you know, kind of like our childhood.
00:16:53
Speaker
We didn't have the digital age, right? So we were- We were outside. We were meeting people at the mall or the movies or or something, right? like And I feel like it's been really interesting to me to see with my 14-year-old over the last couple of years, like, that just like, I don't, he doesn't have this big drive to always, like, be with his buddies. Like, when I was a teenager, it was like, you are with your buddies all the time. Like, that's what you do. That's what you wanted.
00:17:18
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But now they're, like, group texting and group video gaming. And, like, and I'm just, it's it's been a weird thing for me to watch of, like, huh, the social interaction is so different for teenagers these days than it used to be.
00:17:32
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But being in person with people is it's so important as far as like the true social interaction, I think. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, i I mean, I don't really even count the um digital stuff as social, even though, you know, gaming, they're communicating or whatever. But yeah, it's for me, it has to be like that, that physical interaction. And it does vary from one kid to another, because I have two boys, and one of them loves to be with his friends 24 seven, and the other one's more of an introvert. So he likes to have, a you know, a night or two off in the summer where he's just home and chilling. So yeah, i can kind of vary. But yeah, the idea is that
00:18:08
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um having those relationships and getting out, doing the things is kind of, is what's making them healthy in so many ways. so So we were not melt for built for isolation, right? were, we were made for community. We were made for fellowship, but also when you get stressed out, you kind of start to to isolate.
Community and Mental Well-being
00:18:26
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Have you, have you, have you, have you found that to be true? Like, I'm like, call it hermiting. I'm like, I'm hermiting. I'm like, I'm hermiting. I'm like, I'm hermiting. I'm just this giant hermit right now. I don't want to talk to anybody. don't want to, but it's, it's when you actually make a purposeful strategic effort to get out of your hermitage that you're like, oh, so needed that. Right. Yes.
00:18:45
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Yes. And that's hard too, because I do have a couple teenage clients right now who that's what they're struggling with. Like it feels better for them to be in the room, but they know they should be going out. So then that's like this vicious cycle of like, when they're out, it's causing them a lot of stress and pressure and they want to get back to the room. But then when the room, they want to go out and then it's like, they can't win. So it's kind of like, we're just doing baby steps and maybe like making these shorter connections instead of it being like, Oh, let's spend three hours together. Let's know make it a shorter, like quicker thing.
00:19:14
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So back to the moms, you know, cause this is like, I think so helpful for moms to have this awareness for both themselves and for
Tips for Balancing the Nervous System
00:19:22
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their kids. So just with the time that we have left, like what would be your top three tips?
00:19:27
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You know, we've got the play. I think that one is like, got it. That that one's a winner. but Put that one on the list. What are the other tips that you have? um You know, as far as nervous system balancing goes, there's a couple what I would consider like ah mandatory low hanging fruit.
00:19:41
Speaker
You know, I mean, there's there's all kind of we could we could talk about this for for for days. Right. You know, but as far as like, what do I do with my clients when they come to me in stress mode? You know, it's early morning sunlight.
00:19:53
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Yeah. It's that there are certain spectrums of light in the sunrise that are incredibly healing for your nervous system and your hormones. And so that's without glasses, without contacts.
00:20:04
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That's literally getting outside for 10 minutes at a minimum. And the closer to sunrise, the better. And that also really, really supports sleep.
00:20:15
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So good quality sleep actually starts in the morning. So it's getting that early morning sunlight. So I get my weighted vest on and I go outside for a sunrise walk. Not every morning, but, you know, three or four mornings a week.
00:20:26
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And for me, it is so incredible how it impacts my mental health. I can be like the most stressed out. I wake up, I'm like, ah, the kids and da, da, da, da. And I go out for that morning sunlight walk. I'm like, whew.
00:20:39
Speaker
I am like chill. I am calm. um And the morning walk also checks the box of being out in nature or being outside. You know, it's it's, you know, and and not everyone has wants to do a morning walk. You have to maybe get like nicely dressed and go to work, right? So you might want want to get out to but go have your breakfast or a cup of coffee on the porch, right? You know, um one of my biggest hacks is because I don't actually need my glasses to drive. So that's helpful. It's more like the close up um is you can crack your windows on your way to work.
00:21:06
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um Sunlight bounces, right? So if you have your hair nice, you don't want to mess it up, crank up that AC, especially if you're in Texas right now, and crack your windows an inch and that sunlight's going to bounce. So that's like a little hack. um And then, so early morning sunlight, if you can combine it with a walk, phenomenal.
00:21:22
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um Eating breakfast within 60 minutes of waking. So fasting's all the rage, right? For women, especially midlife women, eating breakfast within 60 minutes of waking is one of the most important ways you can teach your body that it is safe.
00:21:38
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um And so again, it's about balancing out that stress response, balancing out that nervous system. And it should ideally be a protein, fat, and fiber focused breakfast. you know, a smoothie with like bananas and mango and, you know, a few almonds sprinkled in is going to like completely trash your blood sugar.
00:21:55
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um And so protein protein, fat and fiber focused within 60 minutes of waking for my clients that were like waiting two hours to eat breakfast and drinking coffee and on empty stomach, they would have these massive energy crashes in the afternoon and they would be anxious and eating breakfast game changer.
00:22:13
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Energy picks up. um The mood balances, you know, it is it is wild how something so simple can be so effective. And I've heard it be like, this just feels too easy. I'm like, it shouldn't be hard.
00:22:24
Speaker
Not everything about health should be hard, but I hear it that just feels too easy. And then two weeks later they're like, I feel so much better. i'm like I know that's why we, you can't out supplement lack of sunlight. You can't out supplement, you know, lack of nature and lack of play. It's like we have to, and supplements have a time and place. Absolutely.
00:22:42
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But like, we have to like get on board with some of these, um some of these other things. So the morning sunlight ah movement, ideally outside would be great. um Eating a protein, fat and fiber breakfast, and then protecting your sleep. Like your life depends upon it.
00:22:57
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um there are certain hours of sleep that are the main hours of healing for your nervous system and your adrenals. So that's 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. m So if you are one of those moms who are like, you know, 10 to midnight the only time I get for myself to decompress, to do this, to do that,
00:23:19
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And you're missing out on 10 p.m. to midnight. You are missing out on two incredibly healing hours of sleep for your nervous system. um And so you don't have to jump from midnight to 10 overnight into about 10 minutes, you know, at a time.
00:23:31
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um And maybe it's not every night. Maybe it's five nights a week. You know, you want to go out with your girlfriends on a Friday night. I totally get that. But um if you are not sleeping, you are not healing.
00:23:42
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Period. End of story. And then that the beautiful thing about that early morning sunlight, it's going to help you get better sleep. Right. So, um you know, those are kind of my like initial four um steps beyond just like the rest of the play, um which is also so important.
00:24:00
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I can't hear you.
00:24:10
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ah Am I with Yeah, there we are. You're back. Yeah. So for my regular listeners, they know that um I cannot stop talking about the book, Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker. feel like I'm talking about it all the time, but that's such an important lesson that most of us overlook the importance of sleep. So I love that. So i like thank you for your recap.
00:24:28
Speaker
So play was kind of like the big one. And then we did the the morning walk, if we can, or at least sunlight, 10 minutes. um eating the breakfast protein, fat and fiber, and then the sleep. So those are fantastic. And um i encourage people to just maybe even keep a little log or a joint of those things and like see how much they impact.
00:24:46
Speaker
um Okay, last question before we go, what would be that example of the protein, fat and fiber? Oh, yeah, absolutely. So, um you know, it I like breakfast scrambles. So that could be, you know, if you do eggs, you know, it could be, you know, eggs um with some like chicken sausage chopped with avocado, right? Like that'd be perfect.
00:25:04
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um It could be a ah like a protein shake or a smoothie. Just don't fill it up with like sugary, like a ton of like super like five types of sugary fruit, right? because and Because blood sugar imbalance is one of the biggest biochemical stressors.
00:25:18
Speaker
So stabilizing your blood sugar first thing in the morning, super, super helpful there. um You can do like chia, overnight chia seed pudding. That's a great one. So it doesn't have to take like a super like like long time. You can batch cook certain things.
00:25:32
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But so think like think a protein could be, um you know, if you're if you eat meat, you know, it could be some sort of, um you know, sausage or I don't do a lot of bacon. My favorite actual breakfast, because I am weird and I don't care about putting foods in a box like a breakfast food.
00:25:48
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I get, I eat a, I'll batch cook like grass fed hamburger patties. um And then I'll top it with um some sliced avocado and have some berries. And it literally, so the berries has got the fiber, some some phytonutrients, avocados got that healthy fat and fiber. And then of course we have the protein and some healthy fats and the grass fed beef, right? And it keeps me going all morning long, right? So if you start your day with protein, fat and fiber,
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It's going to stabilize your blood sugar, your mood, your energy levels. If you start your your breakfast your day off with like super high carb, it's going to it's going to cause us fluctuations and cause a lot of problems you know downstream.
00:26:25
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And i'm not like I'm not like anti-carb. Women need carbs for stress response. We need carbs for our hormones. But it's like about kind of biohacking your day. When do you put those carbs in and starting your day just like and and and the berries have carbs, you know, it's not like it's, it's like totally carnivore or something.
00:26:41
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Um, yeah but you know, think and like oatmeal garbage, throw it out. Like but when I hear someone eating oatmeal, like you are just destroying your blood sugar and your hormones by eating oatmeal. So something like oatmeal or cereal or like a super fruit forward smoothie with no protein to balance out. Right. Like, um,
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I was talking to a client or a new client the other day. I was like, what are you eating for breakfast? She's like a smoothie. i'm like, what are you putting in your smoothie? She's like berries and banana and spinach. And I was like, okay.
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So you, there's no protein in there. um There's no healthy fats, which also keep you satiated and keep your blood sugar balanced. It slows the absorption of that carbohydrate intake.
00:27:23
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um And you're just completely wrecking your blood sugar with that. Right. So, and, and I love fruit. Fruit's great. But again, we got to place it in the right spot. Okay. That was awesome. Okay. Thank you for filling in that missing pieces. What's get what's what is your recommendation on that? Absolutely.
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Introduction to Holistic Obsession Brand
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love it. Okay. Well, where can people find you going forward if they want to get more information from you? Yeah. So my brand is Holistic Obsession. So you can go to holisticobsession.com. I realized when I was trying to create my my brand years ago, i was just, I'm always percolating. I'm simmering, you know? And I was like, when I was standing in my kitchen, I'm like, I had, I talked to myself all the time.
00:27:57
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was like, man, Becca, you are obsessed. And I thought, oh, that's it So I am obsessed. I'm so fascinated by all of this stuff. And so um there are buttons all over my website that says book a free connection call.
00:28:09
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I love free connection calls because they're just a chance for my clients or potential clients, people to feel safe, seen, heard and valued in the wellness world sometimes for the first time. um So it's a chance to tell your story, have a conversation about your health goals, your health challenges, what you've tried that hasn't worked and how, you know, I might be able to help.
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And you always walk away from that um feeling heard, feeling believed, which happens ah a lot of women come It's like, nobody believes me. They say it's all in my head. I'm like, I believe you.
00:28:39
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not in your head. And we're going to find answers, right? So if you're interested in just having a chat, book that free connection call at holisticobsession.com. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for your time today, Becca. really And this was such a great conversation. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. All right.
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Take care.