WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.960 It's not uncommon when I meet someone new and 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:04.980 I tell them that I am a homeschooling mother 00:00:04.980 --> 00:00:07.500 of six children And I run my own business that 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:10.960 they very often stop with perhaps a mouth open 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.740 and say How do you juggle all of that? That's 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:18.140 what I want to unpack on today's episode Welcome 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.440 to health and hormones I am Rita Johnson your 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.059 host and here we talk about all things health 00:00:23.059 --> 00:00:25.539 hormones Natural living and how to take care 00:00:25.539 --> 00:00:28.980 of that amazing body God has given you So the 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:31.019 first thing I want to say when somebody asks 00:00:31.019 --> 00:00:33.679 me how in the world do you juggle all that is 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.420 to just simply say I don't Truly and honestly, 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:40.299 I don't. I have a whole lot of help and a whole 00:00:40.299 --> 00:00:43.500 lot goes into running this crazy mess of a life 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:46.880 that I call mine and I absolutely love it. It 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.560 fuels me, it does not deplete me, but I really 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.020 want to kind of unpack this because I think especially 00:00:52.020 --> 00:00:55.740 as women we can look to each other and see, you 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:57.439 know, whether it's your neighbor across the street 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:59.719 or somebody you've just met and look at all that 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.000 they're doing in their life and be very overwhelmed. 00:01:02.539 --> 00:01:04.480 Oftentimes we feel so overwhelmed in our own 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.959 season and stage of life. that instead of picturing 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.180 the things that the person in front of us doesn't 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:13.939 have to deal with that we do, instead we kind 00:01:13.939 --> 00:01:17.060 of amass what they are doing and put it on top 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:19.799 of what we're already doing. And so because this 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.060 is our tendency, I just want to take some time 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:26.219 to talk about how I do juggle the many things 00:01:26.219 --> 00:01:29.340 on my plate and how this may look different from 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.219 what you have on your plate. I think this is 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:34.620 really important to kind of shed some light on 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:38.719 this and to help us run from this attitude of 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.480 competition instead of collaboration, right? 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:46.420 So in the entrepreneurial world that I am in, 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.310 there's a lot of talk of how we need to really 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:51.810 work on helping each other, build each other 00:01:51.810 --> 00:01:55.150 up, as opposed to just viewing each other as 00:01:55.150 --> 00:01:59.370 competitors, right? Particularly in the Christian 00:01:59.370 --> 00:02:01.230 entrepreneurial world, and then the Catholic 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:03.189 entrepreneurial world, and then you're looking 00:02:03.189 --> 00:02:05.549 at moms that are really called to business in 00:02:05.549 --> 00:02:09.210 the midst of raising our families. It's a very 00:02:09.210 --> 00:02:12.009 niche upon niche group of women, and yet there 00:02:12.009 --> 00:02:16.230 still is this tendency for competition. over 00:02:16.230 --> 00:02:17.909 collaboration and I think the more that we can 00:02:17.909 --> 00:02:19.449 be transparent with each other the more that 00:02:19.449 --> 00:02:21.909 can help. Whether you are homeschooling or you 00:02:21.909 --> 00:02:23.909 have your own business or not, I just really 00:02:23.909 --> 00:02:26.490 want to give you a little glimpse into my life 00:02:26.490 --> 00:02:28.569 and how I handle things because I think that 00:02:28.569 --> 00:02:31.770 that can be so very insightful. So the first 00:02:31.770 --> 00:02:34.069 thing I want to start off by saying and I see 00:02:34.069 --> 00:02:35.969 this time and time again as I'm working with 00:02:35.969 --> 00:02:41.490 women is that my level of ability to handle different 00:02:41.490 --> 00:02:44.310 things on my plate is going to be totally different 00:02:44.310 --> 00:02:48.069 than yours. We can kind of, I like to actually 00:02:48.069 --> 00:02:51.250 visualize a plate and the things on the plate 00:02:51.250 --> 00:02:54.169 as the different jobs we have as opposed to multiple 00:02:54.169 --> 00:02:56.270 plates in the air or multiple hats on our head 00:02:56.270 --> 00:02:59.069 because a plate we can very easily see that there's 00:02:59.069 --> 00:03:01.870 only room for so much, right? When we think about 00:03:01.870 --> 00:03:05.590 wearing multiple hats or having multiple plates, 00:03:05.770 --> 00:03:09.210 it's a little more vague in terms of how can 00:03:09.210 --> 00:03:11.710 we juggle multiple things. So if we look at a 00:03:11.710 --> 00:03:13.770 plate, and I would say a big fat dinner plate, 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:18.939 For me, a large -sized dinner plate is good and 00:03:18.939 --> 00:03:21.699 I can fill that up with different things, obviously. 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.699 You know, if I have 10 things on my dinner plate, 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.319 like a Thanksgiving meal, I'm not going to be 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.599 able to have as much of those 10 things as if 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.659 I had four things on my plate. And I think that 00:03:34.659 --> 00:03:37.039 kind of feeds into the, you know, if we do, we 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.800 might be able to do less better than doing a 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.500 myriad of things. But that's really kind of not 00:03:42.500 --> 00:03:45.919 my point on this. What I want to say is that 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.699 different women have different sized plates. 00:03:49.099 --> 00:03:51.259 And there may be different things that contribute 00:03:51.259 --> 00:03:55.639 to larger plate size. For me personally I know 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.800 that my marriage increased my plate size if you 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.159 will. Having a supportive encouraging husband 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.659 that is my biggest fan is really really powerful 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:10.719 for me to increase that but also There's a lot 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.560 of my journey to this place that has grown that 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.360 plate size as well. So for me personally, I've 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.720 done a lot of spiritual healing. I've done a 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.480 lot of mindset work. I've done a lot of physical 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.959 healing. I'm really dialed into foods that help 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:29.560 me to feel good and run at optimal energy and 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.980 foods that do not and I avoid those. I'm really 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:35.240 disciplined about getting in my workout but also 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.879 knowing when I need to have rest day even if 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.980 it's not something I planned. but just really 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:43.600 listening to my body and learning how it needs 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.560 to be supported even in this busy season of my 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.860 life. Right now I have an almost four month old 00:04:48.860 --> 00:04:52.819 baby and my oldest is 16 and there's a lot of 00:04:52.819 --> 00:04:55.399 monkey wrenches in my day right now that I definitely 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.319 did not have even a couple years ago. A couple 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.899 years ago my youngest was two at the time and 00:05:01.899 --> 00:05:04.240 my oldest was 14. He wasn't working outside of 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.779 the house. I was only homeschooling one in high 00:05:06.779 --> 00:05:09.360 school. there was multiple things that were a 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.000 lot less on my plate, even though my husband 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.259 still worked a lot of hours. So that's a big 00:05:15.259 --> 00:05:19.600 factor for me as well. So looking at the different 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.439 size plates and remembering that we all have 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:24.579 a different size plate, I wanna talk a little 00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:27.899 more about that. So how can we juggle that, right? 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.240 How do we work on supporting our mind, body, 00:05:31.379 --> 00:05:34.480 and soul health when... Truly just taking care 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.060 of myself some days feels like a lot of work. 00:05:37.259 --> 00:05:40.360 And I will say that the longer you've put off 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.519 taking care of yourself, the more work it's going 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.800 to feel like, especially as you get started. 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:49.459 It tends to be the clients that have neglected 00:05:49.459 --> 00:05:52.300 themselves the most have the hardest time adapting 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:54.800 their life to add things in that are going to 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.939 fuel and help them. Like working out, like taking 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:00.240 time to have spiritual reading or prayer time 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.360 in the morning, like time to do something that 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.980 is leisurely that just fills their soul. So really 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:10.860 when we're looking at this, how am I going to 00:06:10.860 --> 00:06:14.660 balance adding something else in? The first thing 00:06:14.660 --> 00:06:17.600 I encourage women to do is to pray about it. 00:06:17.899 --> 00:06:20.639 Ask the Lord, is there something that I'm carrying 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.139 right now that you're calling me to lay down? 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.759 Sometimes it is the stress of being a perfectionist 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.879 in the kitchen trying to only feed our people 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.800 the most perfect, amazing food. Sometimes it's 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.620 cooking every single thing from scratch. Sometimes 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:39.899 it's a need to control to a point where we don't 00:06:39.899 --> 00:06:41.920 let our husband help us or our children help 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.660 us. Whatever that is for you, it may also be 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:47.920 something more intangible. It might be grief 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.319 that you haven't processed through. It might 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.790 be unforgiveness you're holding. onto in your 00:06:53.790 --> 00:06:58.689 heart. And then the next step I think is to reframe 00:06:58.689 --> 00:07:01.350 whatever is the hardest thing for you to imagine 00:07:01.350 --> 00:07:04.889 in somebody else's life. So often what we can 00:07:04.889 --> 00:07:07.790 do is we'll look again looking at our neighbor 00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:10.889 looking at a woman we just met and we think to 00:07:10.889 --> 00:07:13.850 ourselves well I could never and there is something 00:07:13.850 --> 00:07:17.290 usually really specific that we feel like I could 00:07:17.290 --> 00:07:21.009 never and when we get to that place we oftentimes 00:07:22.009 --> 00:07:24.709 we almost see that person as someone we can no 00:07:24.709 --> 00:07:29.829 longer relate to, right? So for example, I have 00:07:29.829 --> 00:07:34.290 a dear friend who lives most of her year out 00:07:34.290 --> 00:07:37.649 of the country. And so I could very easily think 00:07:37.649 --> 00:07:41.730 to myself, well gosh, I could never, and something 00:07:41.730 --> 00:07:43.790 about her lifestyle, something about the way 00:07:43.790 --> 00:07:47.170 they've chosen to raise their family, as if it 00:07:47.170 --> 00:07:51.990 is unsurmountable. And then I... change her ever 00:07:51.990 --> 00:07:55.689 so slightly from being a human that I can learn 00:07:55.689 --> 00:07:58.649 and grow with to somebody that does something 00:07:58.649 --> 00:08:03.470 that is so beyond possible in my thoughts that 00:08:03.470 --> 00:08:06.790 we can no longer connect. We can no longer collaborate 00:08:06.790 --> 00:08:09.769 and grow from each other and listen to each other 00:08:09.769 --> 00:08:13.529 even if I'm at a different place in life than 00:08:13.529 --> 00:08:18.370 she is. I think often times when we think how 00:08:18.370 --> 00:08:21.110 does somebody do something or how do you juggle 00:08:21.110 --> 00:08:23.730 it all, we look at the very tangible things. 00:08:24.089 --> 00:08:28.250 We look at their day -to -day, how are they homeschooling, 00:08:28.430 --> 00:08:31.230 running a business, having time to work out, 00:08:31.949 --> 00:08:35.289 cultivating a faith life in a family, which is 00:08:35.289 --> 00:08:39.149 a big stress on its own. And how do they get 00:08:39.149 --> 00:08:41.509 dinner on the table? How do they do these things 00:08:41.509 --> 00:08:45.169 in their everyday life? And when you get to that 00:08:45.169 --> 00:08:47.830 place, I just want you to pause and take a deep 00:08:47.830 --> 00:08:50.409 breath. Anytime we feel overwhelmed, we feel 00:08:50.409 --> 00:08:52.830 anxious, worried, worked up, or that competitive 00:08:52.830 --> 00:08:55.750 spirit starts to sink in. Just take a deep breath. 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.740 Invite the Lord's grace into that moment and 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:02.179 ask him what he's calling you to learn from that 00:09:02.179 --> 00:09:05.320 experience of encountering another human being 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.159 that's so overwhelming to you. Because oftentimes 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:11.600 what I see is that's his invitation to us to 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.440 really double down on our own healing journey. 00:09:15.179 --> 00:09:19.379 It may be in the way of incorporating exercise 00:09:19.379 --> 00:09:23.710 into your every week. It may be learning how 00:09:23.710 --> 00:09:26.090 to get a little bit better at getting dinner 00:09:26.090 --> 00:09:28.629 on the table instead of buying it from somewhere. 00:09:29.429 --> 00:09:32.570 It may be just being a little more mindful of 00:09:32.570 --> 00:09:34.450 those thoughts that you need to hold captive 00:09:34.450 --> 00:09:39.070 that are really causing you to or allowing you 00:09:39.070 --> 00:09:42.529 to sabotage your own health journey. Wherever 00:09:42.529 --> 00:09:45.330 you are right now friend. I just invite you to 00:09:45.330 --> 00:09:47.909 not be overwhelmed by the women in your life 00:09:47.909 --> 00:09:49.970 that are doing what the Lord has called them 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:52.750 to because the Amazing incredible thing is the 00:09:52.750 --> 00:09:55.649 Lord has called you too much as well And the 00:09:55.649 --> 00:09:58.649 more that we can really focus on healing mind 00:09:58.649 --> 00:10:01.769 body and soul the more the Lord can speak into 00:10:01.769 --> 00:10:05.610 us in that season So I just really invite you 00:10:05.610 --> 00:10:09.200 when you Get overwhelmed by somebody else's schedule 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:12.259 or day. Take a deep breath and say, come Holy 00:10:12.259 --> 00:10:16.000 Spirit and ask the Lord to show you what it is 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.840 about this person's life that is convicting you 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.639 in your own journey. Be mindful friend that you 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:24.600 don't have to do this alone. If you'd like to 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.980 walk alongside of someone that can help you to 00:10:26.980 --> 00:10:29.360 identify what are those next steps in your health 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.840 journey that can really help move you forward 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.059 in this pursuit of mind body and soul health, 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.580 I invite you to schedule a free discovery call 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:39.539 with me. I would love to chat about what's been 00:10:39.539 --> 00:10:42.000 going on with you and how we can support you 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:48.360 in your health journey. Always remember that 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.559 your health is a balancing act. Health is really 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.259 made up of all these small choices we are making 00:10:54.259 --> 00:10:57.600 every day. If we don't start here with these 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.059 small intentional steps, the rest doesn't matter. 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:03.379 I want you to remember that health is your body's 00:11:03.379 --> 00:11:06.000 way of saying thank you for how you're treating 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.570 me. Thank you so much. It causes us to slow down 00:11:10.570 --> 00:11:13.230 and listen if things are not working well. And 00:11:13.230 --> 00:11:15.950 if we don't listen, it will start to yell. And 00:11:15.950 --> 00:11:17.950 that's when we really start to get closer to 00:11:17.950 --> 00:11:21.230 advanced disease. For some of this, it can happen 00:11:21.230 --> 00:11:23.649 when our hormones are off or we can't take it 00:11:23.649 --> 00:11:26.240 anymore. Others, it happens when we're trying 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.480 to conceive and we just hit a wall and we're 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.539 so frustrated that this is continuing to be where 00:11:31.539 --> 00:11:34.639 we are at. For other people, it might be through 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.919 excess weight gain or chronic pain. All of these 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.460 things are ways that our body is saying, enough, 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.179 I need some help. I need some support.