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Episode 25: The Body Knows: A Sacred Pause for Inner Healing
26 Plays11 months ago
I share the journey I’m currently walking—a sacred pause as I prepare to take a healing pilgrimage to Avalon. After receiving a recent diagnosis related to my liver, I’ve been called to slow down and truly listen—not to the noise of the latest wellness trends, but to the quiet wisdom within my body and soul.
I open up about the intuitive steps I’ve taken to reclaim my health, the practices that are supporting me, and the importance of trusting your own inner knowing when it comes to healing. This is a reminder that true medicine often comes from the unseen realms, from the land, and from our own sacred connection to Source.
Let this episode be an invitation to honor your own rhythms, pause when needed, and remember that your body holds ancient intelligence.
Connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/iamvalerie.vazquez/
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Transcript
Introduction and Personal Health Journey
00:00:01
Valerie Vazquez
Aloha and welcome to Sacred Self-Love. I'm your host and guide, Valerie Vasquez. Today i'm going to be sharing about a recent diagnosis that I received.
00:00:11
Valerie Vazquez
And i really feel like this episode can pertain to everyone, especially women. Those of us that have been thinking that we're perimenopause or menopause or not just thinking but having all these symptoms.
Farm Life Updates
00:00:31
Valerie Vazquez
Before I go on, a little pharma update. We're still waiting for our you frappy to have her baby. So that is what every day we are waiting and waiting and waiting. She is so large and pregnant.
00:00:47
Valerie Vazquez
And I honestly think she's going to have twins. So we'll see. And now we know for sure that Faith is pregnant too. So we have two pregnant ewes that are due to be having their lambs anytime now. And we're so excited. And other than that, we are...
Health Shock and Lifestyle Reflections
00:01:05
Valerie Vazquez
just living on this beautiful piece of land on the big island and we're just so grateful to be stewards and to be surrounded by nature every day there's been so much healing so many lessons and just again a massive amount of gratitude for this beautiful aina so i recently got diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
00:01:39
Valerie Vazquez
And honestly, i was shocked. Even though, yes, it runs in my family, I've done things differently.
00:01:51
Valerie Vazquez
i do not consume fast food, sugary drinks, all of the things that you hear contribute to this disease. Y'all, I don't even wear deodorant.
00:02:05
Valerie Vazquez
I don't even use products on my skin that have toxins in them. very cognizant about the ways in which I take care of my body.
Skepticism of Traditional Medicine
00:02:19
Valerie Vazquez
And so i want to explain to you now that I have sat with this, the events leading up to and then what I am going to do to change my health.
00:02:35
Valerie Vazquez
I am very grateful for the ability to go to a doctor and utilize the tests like blood work and ultrasounds to get information.
00:02:51
Valerie Vazquez
But over the years, so many times, I have not trusted all of what a doctor's advice would be for myself, for my daughter, and I have been able to, at the age of, I'll be 48, I'm i am not on any medications, and I'm honestly very proud of that.
00:03:13
Valerie Vazquez
i
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Valerie Vazquez
have been able to heal a lot of the the things that have gone into or gone on with my body through natural, holistic ways.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
00:03:29
Valerie Vazquez
And over the last couple of years, after I had my explant, I noticed that And especially in the last year, i really started having some digestive issues.
00:03:46
Valerie Vazquez
And then I started having, you know, getting really hot at night. And i started having extreme fatigue and mood swings and all of these symptoms that,
00:04:03
Valerie Vazquez
The only thing that I could come up with is that I was going into perimenopause. And I've even spoken about this on previous episodes.
00:04:15
Valerie Vazquez
Even though when I, you know, talked with certain naturopathic doctors or doctors, they were like, well, you're still young. and that part inside me that was like, yeah, but how else do you explain all these symptoms? And how do I have other friends my age that are going through the same exact thing? I mean, this has to be what's going on with me.
00:04:39
Valerie Vazquez
This has to be perimenopause. All of these things that I'm going through, this has to be what it is.
00:04:48
Valerie Vazquez
And then
00:04:51
Valerie Vazquez
I got blood work done and my liver enzymes were elevated. And i had also been realizing that during some of my breath work, I was having a harder and harder time doing breath holds, which I had never had ah hard time with because i you know, I've been doing breath work for years and, know,
00:05:18
Valerie Vazquez
I've been able to hold my breath up to three minutes during some sessions and I was starting to have a hard time holding my breath for even like 45 seconds and just feeling such a fullness in my upper abdomen.
00:05:35
Valerie Vazquez
And so I had this abdominal scan, an ultrasound, and my liver is enlarged and it is in the beginning stages of fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, because I do not drink alcohol and I haven't, you know, the last time i did drink, I had some wine when I was in France and that was like a year ago.
00:06:02
Valerie Vazquez
and I really haven't, it's been years since I would say I've been a drinker. So I was having all of these things go on and then now I have this enlarged liver. And I'm like, okay, well, here we go. um This is starting to give me some understanding of why I'm having some digestive issues.
00:06:27
Valerie Vazquez
And then here's where the really interesting things come up.
Intuition and Holistic Health
00:06:31
Valerie Vazquez
For me, when you are really open to listening to your internal guidance in your intuition, the field, this energetic field that surrounds us, if you want to call it universe or source energy or whatever, some people say God, God is, there will start to be things that are placed in in your field for you as an opportunity to heal yourself.
00:07:05
Valerie Vazquez
And
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Valerie Vazquez
I went to ah friend's house and she had this book and I saw it and it said liver health on it. And I was like, wow.
00:07:21
Valerie Vazquez
Um, do you have something going on with your liver? And she was like, uh, yeah, I do. i got diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And I was like, ah, so did I.
00:07:34
Valerie Vazquez
and um So this book, it's Medical Medium, Liver Health, and i will put it in the episode description because right now i don't have the author's name. I just started listening to it, and it is really blowing my mind.
00:07:55
Valerie Vazquez
So I was noticing when I was sleeping at night that I was waking up at the same times every night between 1 and 3. And if you know anything about Chinese medicine,
Questioning Scientific Authority
00:08:11
Valerie Vazquez
our organs at night while we're sleeping, that when we're sleeping, which sleeping is so incredibly important for us,
00:08:20
Valerie Vazquez
our There are different time frames that our organs are cleansing themselves. And i was noticing that from one to three, i was waking up really hot every night.
00:08:34
Valerie Vazquez
And guess what is from one to three? It's your liver. the And there was just all of these things that were happening that kept pointing to the liver. So getting back to this book, there is so much I haven't...
00:08:50
Valerie Vazquez
read the whole book yet, but I can already tell you right now, you need to listen to this book or read this book. So many times we trust current trends with what is going on with our body.
00:09:05
Valerie Vazquez
We think that we can just take a pill or drink a mushroom coffee or go to the doctor and get on hormones or whatever it is that we do We trust scientific research.
00:09:24
Valerie Vazquez
we We just believe all of these things outside of us and we don't really tap into our body's wisdom. We don't trust.
00:09:35
Valerie Vazquez
We go into a state of fear. We think that the doctor is going to heal us. And so many times that's not true.
00:09:49
Valerie Vazquez
It's not true. i mean, think about scientific research. The majority of scientific research that happens gets overturned with new advancements all the time. Or we know that lobbyists or there are certain agendas that go behind the scientific research that goes out.
00:10:12
Valerie Vazquez
I mean, look at past health trends where we know now we're not healthy for us. It's been proven. The food pyramid, the used to be the... um low-fat, low-carb diet or whatever ah you know whatever it is. It's paleo. It's ketogenic. It's vegan. It's vegetarian. It's like all of these different ways and everyone has all of their belief systems around them.
00:10:42
Valerie Vazquez
And maybe it really works out for the body. lot of times when we're looking at people and they're like super in shape and everything, we're like, oh, well, I got to do what they're doing.
00:10:53
Valerie Vazquez
But they don't really know how it's affecting our livers. Our livers are so extremely important. They filter everything.
00:11:05
Valerie Vazquez
They're filtering like 100, 250 gallons of our blood a day. They are the starting point for all diseases. diabetes, heart disease, eczema, acne, all of these different things that we get diagnosed with, it starts in the liver, but we're not educated on the liver and what it actually does.
00:11:28
Valerie Vazquez
We've been educated a lot on the heart and the brain and how important it is to take care of those organs. But our liver, it literally helps us heat up if we're too cold or cool down when we're too hot.
00:11:42
Valerie Vazquez
It is such an advocate for our body, but we don't know a lot about it We just know that we absolutely need it. It's like this sponge in our body that just filters and and keeps us safe and it can take
Liver Health Awareness
00:12:00
Valerie Vazquez
a lot until it can't take anymore and then it starts showing up.
00:12:07
Valerie Vazquez
Right now, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the
00:12:13
Valerie Vazquez
most widespread diagnoses that is happening right now. And we just don't know enough.
00:12:24
Valerie Vazquez
So I can't recommend this book enough to you.
Parasite Cleanse and Advocacy
00:12:28
Valerie Vazquez
i don't, I'm not an expert on this, but I do know that when we listen to our bodies, it will give us the answers that we need.
00:12:39
Valerie Vazquez
It will also have things that show up in our lives. And I'm going to share this story with you because I know that I have parasites in my body and um you probably do too, but I know for sure that I have parasites in my body. Ew, I even hate saying that, but it's, it's, um, I recently had,
00:13:09
Valerie Vazquez
The craziest experience. i went to go eat at one of the local restaurants. And as I was sitting there,
00:13:26
Valerie Vazquez
it was like, do you not remember that you ate here over a year ago? and you got food poisoning, you got so sick that you ended up having to go to the emergency room after a week of having loose bowels all of these things that were going on You got parasites from that fish you ate and you're about to eat fish right now.
00:14:04
Valerie Vazquez
And all of a sudden, i've I've never had this happening happen. I do not have a weak constitution.
00:14:14
Valerie Vazquez
i got so nauseated that I had to go to the restroom and I started dry heaving. And I was like, oh my gosh, okay, like this is obviously like something, tell you know, giving me like a hello.
00:14:34
Valerie Vazquez
You got to wake up to this. And then it really freaked me out. I wasn't able to finish my food.
00:14:44
Valerie Vazquez
And then the next day, i tried to eat and I got sick and i vomited my food up.
00:14:58
Valerie Vazquez
And i was like, okay, I'm going to
00:15:04
Valerie Vazquez
i I'm ordering a parasite cleanse right this freaking minute because I'm not going to ignore that this message came through to me and I'm not going to ignore that the further research I do and some of the other things that I've experienced with my body that maybe I don't want to go into right now because I'm not going to share every private experience I have, but I i know I have.
00:15:34
Valerie Vazquez
what you would call it liver flukes. And so all of these things that are going on with my body, I'm sharing these things with you because, wow,
00:15:49
Valerie Vazquez
we just have to be advocates for ourselves and we have to listen to this wisdom within our bodies.
00:16:05
Valerie Vazquez
And not just go along with it, oh, well, it's normal for me at my age to gain weight. It's normal to have hot flashes. It's normal for me to have these digestive issues. It's normal for me to be tired. It's normal, normal, normal, normal because so many other people are going through it.
00:16:26
Valerie Vazquez
And I am not discounting the symptoms of perimenopause or menopause. Please don't take it that way because I'm not. But like if you feel there's something deeper going on, listen to your gut.
00:16:41
Valerie Vazquez
Listen. So I just wanted to share all of that. I'm still in the beginning phases, but it is so important to listen to our, or learn more about our livers and the functions that it really does for our body.
00:16:58
Valerie Vazquez
And it's so important to
00:17:03
Valerie Vazquez
Honor your experience of what you're going through. And if you're not getting the right answers from a doctor that you're going to, go to another or go to a naturopath or a holistic healer.
00:17:17
Valerie Vazquez
You have to be your own advocate. And there's so many things online that are telling you. to drink this thing, take this pill. And i I also want to share that I have done that.
00:17:31
Valerie Vazquez
I did this company that took my blood, my stool, and my saliva and formulated these vitamins for me. And I've tried biohacking things. There's all of these different trendy things that you can try But it really comes down to, i believe, your liver health and looking into the possibility of parasites. You can get parasites from raw fish.
00:18:01
Valerie Vazquez
You can get parasites from animals. If you have animals that go outside and come inside or, I mean, hello, we live on a farm. You can get parasites from soil. You can get parasites from all kinds of things. And it's very common.
00:18:17
Valerie Vazquez
And while it's disgusting to like even admit to you all, like I am, if you didn't know but me by now, I really want to be an open book to what I'm experiencing because we're experiencing all this together. And also on this podcast, I'm usually talking a lot about emotional and spiritual healing, but this is part of it, honoring our temples, our bodies, our temples of wisdom.
00:18:50
Valerie Vazquez
but we have to cut through the ways that we have been separated from the wisdom it holds and the ways that we have to advocate and really truly fight for ourselves and for our health in a world that is so full whole of toxins and so full of things that are causing our bodies to break down when fight
00:19:19
Valerie Vazquez
when we're when they're not ready to. You know, wanna talk about the fear factor that comes in it And I know how scary it can be when you're like, oh, my gosh, we have seed oils in all of our foods and there's fluoride in our water. And, they're you know, it's like they're purposely poisonising poisoning us with our food.
00:19:40
Valerie Vazquez
What do we eat? What do we, you know, all of these things. You do the best you can. Do the best you for yourself. for yourself Learn more than just from scientific studies.
00:19:54
Valerie Vazquez
Learn more from just content creators who have lots of followers and lots of fancy words and lots of, you know, products that promise things. Learn more, but also trust yourself more that you can figure these things out by trusting your body, by managing your stress and connecting in and ah and allowing guidance to come through. it can it can be from a friend that has a book. It can be from
00:20:34
Valerie Vazquez
a podcast you listen to or a book or a friend, but just listen to these things. If some things keep coming up, I mean, like, honestly, i'm not going to lie.
00:20:45
Valerie Vazquez
This, this parasite thing has been coming up for so long and I've kept like not wanting to believe it, not wanting to believe it, not wanting to believe it until I freaking hundred percent now know And today I'm starting a parasite cleanse.
00:21:01
Valerie Vazquez
So I'll let you all know how that goes. Thank you
Upcoming Travels and Episode Pause
00:21:04
Valerie Vazquez
for listening. i I also want to let you know i am taking a sacred pause on putting out any more episodes on In two weeks, I am leaving to go to Los Angeles to visit my beautiful daughter, Chloe. I'm so excited to see her for a few days. And then from there, I am going to the UK.
00:21:28
Valerie Vazquez
I'm going to go on a pilgrimage in Avalon for about 10 days with these beautiful, beautiful sisters of the rose. And I'm just looking so forward to continuing to remember to continue to connect deeper into mother Gaia, into all of the wonderful and and beautiful mysteries.
00:21:55
Valerie Vazquez
And so and want to leave you all with that. I'm going to, again, put the link in the description or at least put the book about your liver health from the medical medium.
00:22:08
Valerie Vazquez
ah highly recommend it.
00:22:12
Valerie Vazquez
We need our bodies to be able to heal all the other aspects. When I say the body is a temple, it is the gateway from the earth to the cosmos.
00:22:30
Valerie Vazquez
We have the ability to tap into both that the earthly wisdom the higher wisdom, all of it.
00:22:43
Valerie Vazquez
We are this channel when we are open through the center line in our bodies. But our bodies, our temples have to be clean too.
00:22:56
Valerie Vazquez
So take care of yourselves. You know, Venus is is focalized in the throat chakra right now. And so speaking our truth, listening,
00:23:10
Valerie Vazquez
having discernment is so important right now.
00:23:17
Valerie Vazquez
There's a lot going on astrologically and we're in cancer season and tears are coming through and just remember life is both pleasure and pain.
00:23:29
Valerie Vazquez
We cannot have one without the other.
00:23:35
Valerie Vazquez
So take care of yourselves. Nourish yourselves. Listen to your bodies. Love on yourself. Love on one another. Take breaks from social media.
00:23:47
Valerie Vazquez
Go into nature. Breathe. Dance. Take some time for yourself to just pause And remember who you are. And until next time, I'm sending so much love, roses, and aloha.