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In this episode, I’m sharing Part 2 of my healing crisis and the story of how I unintentionally trashed my hormones. A few years after the skin and energy issues I talked about in Part 1, I started noticing a different set of symptoms: puffiness, shakiness between meals, energy crashes, irritability, and stress patterns that were slowly burning out my adrenals and thyroid. What makes this tricky is that many of these symptoms are easy to normalize when life is busy.

I walk through the symptoms that were building, how intermittent fasting and undernourishment played a role, and what actually helped me rebuild my energy and resilience. I also share how testing eventually confirmed what my body had been signaling for a long time: burned out stress hormones and sluggish thyroid function, and why supplements alone cannot fix stress physiology without addressing the nervous system.

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• Signs of adrenal and thyroid stress
• How undernourishment and fasting impact hormones
• Why labs can look normal when you feel terrible
• Why supplements alone can’t fix stress physiology
• The role nervous system work plays in healing

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TRANSCRIPT:

[00:00:00] Christa Biegler, RD: I'm your host Christa Biegler, and I'm going to guess we have at least one thing in common that we're both in pursuit of a less stressed life. On the show, I'll be interviewing experts and sharing clinical pearls from my years of practice to support high performing health savvy women in pursuit of abundance and a less stressed life.

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This episode has been a long time coming. It is part two of my own healing crisis, how I trashed my hormones and what it actually took to fix them. Now, I teased this a year ago of last year in March, 2025, I did episode. 3 93 lessons from my health crisis with eczema and energy and food sensitivities.

That was part one. And I said I would do this one, but they say that sometimes you should not share about something, or I don't know if this is the right word, give advice, but share about something if you haven't gone, if you're not all the way through it, right? If you're still in that wounded part. And I think that there is.

Another part of this. There's a part three as well, the inner healing journey that I went on this year as well. But I've sat with this one for quite a while, for a lot of different reasons. Speaking of not being all the way through something, I do have a little bit of a personal update.

Last week I was scheduled to go on I think it's our like 15th or 17th annual family ski trip with aunts and uncles and cousins to Montana and my middle child is an adrenaline junkie. She is mostly my husband, so she races dirt bikes and so I have been stressed about her having these races.

They're once a month. Indoor and I've been stressed that something's gonna happen. The day before we, this is our second ski trip of the winter. This is my husband's favorite hobby. This is something we do as a family. I've been stressed because stress comes in all forms, right?

And I've been stressed that, oh, she's gonna get injured and it's going to, impact the plans that are there, et cetera. And instead, my husband got into an accident on Saturday, so I spent Saturday in the er, half the day getting x-rays, finding out whether he had a torn ACL, et cetera. He actually rallied like a champ, and we still went on the trip.

He. Sat around during the trip, but he he trooper through it and he was able to, and he did a lot of, and I only share this because as when we get to the other side of it, I'll share some of the things that we did and I'll just briefly mention now. Because there was some positives, I live in a pretty small place, so where the accident happened was a much larger place.

And then where we went for the ski trip was an even larger place. It was in Bozeman, Montana. And so he was able to do hyperbaric oxygen treatment the days we were there. He had some cryotherapy done. He basically just had anything he could find done iv nutrients as well. And then on the way home.

He actually did a stem cell injection, so I can't share about it too much because we're waiting to find out how that impacts things. And we actually don't know completely what's wrong because you can't get an MRI until the swelling goes down, unless there's some contingencies you can get it done within a few days.

If it's a, you have certain symptoms, but otherwise they wait until the inflammation comes down, to be able to see that. So when we get to the other side, if we're having beautiful experiences with healing and I've got like a handheld red light we're using, he's got a TENS unit. Oh, I wanna mention something.

Our good friend is a pt. I mentioned it in a recent. Episode and he has no problem calling her on a Sunday and asking her for help. And she is incredibly gracious. And so he has an emergency PT done the day before we left, and that was so big. I wish that was easier to do for most people. So I just share that because what I have learned from having a friend as a PT, that instead of immobilizing, typically you do wanna mobilize that injury.

So hopefully sometimes she'll come on and. Share some post-injury. I feel like I have a lot I could learn about injury prevention and what to do, and that's become more and more obvious to me as pretty much all of my members of my family have had something in the last couple of months. Go on. Okay, let's get into part two of my healing crisis.

How I trashed my hormones and what it took to fix them. So last year I shared about. Part one, we talked about the skin crisis, the energy crisis that happened in 2015 ish. That took a while to heal, but once that was had healed, I was moving forward. Now, there's still some context in life we're about. 10 years ago almost, right?

There's small children. I was building a private practice around that time. I was transitioning between a few different contract things. It was a busy season. It's always a full life, full season, right? So what happened was in 2018 or 2019, I had started to work for a famous. Health influencer in a program related to intermittent fasting.

This was at the forefront of the intermittent fasting boom. I think in my opinion, I was on a team of dieticians that was helping to develop education, et cetera. And just like most things, I always say, this is like such a human thing to start off with very good intentions, and before you know it, you are.

Having coffee for breakfast and lunch. And so what's happening there is an undernourishment and your hormones do not like to be undernourished as a woman. So in 20 18, 20 19, this had started and things were going okay at the beginning and then there was a crash. And I don't know if it wasn't as dramatic or as visual as the skin stuff.

And this is, to be honest, this is like where my heart really goes out to people with these sets of symptoms and signals and situations with these hormone issues because I think that they get. Loss between the cracks pretty much everywhere, and I think you'll understand that by the end of the episode and why that happens.

Our testing isn't great, it's not visual, right? It's more how you're feeling around something. There are some visual cues but we are very motivated by things we can actually see. And so that's why often when people gain weight, you can. Potentially see that it affects multiple areas of life, right?

With skin, same story. I always joke that skin is like the weight loss of the skin. It's becomes this visual thing. And so you start to approach things differently. Very often you can have many other signs or symptoms that things are going on with your body before, but that are, they're much more easy to ignore.

And so I'll share this list. Somewhat easy to ignore things that I think were showing up for me during this time. So this first one is one that not too many people say, but enough people have said it over the years. I wanna share it with you. And it was feeling puffy. It wasn't in a weight terms, my weight was not changing.

And I do think that inflammation can look like water retention. That fluctuates more than five pounds within a couple of days. That is water inflammatory water weight, and not weight. But this was like a puffiness, like a rounder face. And sometimes pans were tighter at different. So it was like feeling this weird puffiness.

And I would consider that being a subclinical thyroid and adrenal thing. I was getting shaky when I didn't eat, which became more and more apparent 'cause with intermittent fasting. I think I trailed off saying this earlier, but you can start with good intentions. It's like some people who become vegetarian they start off with good intentions, but before, this is my joke about this, but before you know it, you're just eating buttered noodles at a restaurant because there's not enough good options.

And that can happen with intermittent fasting. Like in general, we already undernourished ourselves so darn. Often and so easily. You can imagine like someone working really hard. It's I'm not hungry, so I'm gonna skip lunch. And then before you know it, you're like, why am I like not having an energy?

Why am I not able to focus? It's it's actually crazy how highly intelligent people, including myself need to be forced to eat right. And having a plan around that can be really important. So what happens with anything is when there is not a plan. The kind of the bottom falls out in general.

And so things that start off with health intentions can backfire and become problematic. And actually, I had a lot of clients that came from an in a different intermittent fasting. Influencer over the last five years, and I would say that they would agree is that initially they liked it because they saw improvements in their skin.

But ultimately, when I see people in these very restrictive patterns, what can happen is like what happens next is their stress hormones are completely compromised, and actually we have to get those back online before we can even help everything else work, essentially. The easiest way to describe it is like when you're a completely depleted state, your body's in a completely depleted state.

You have to put nutrients back before you can even heal and restore function to the systems. And if I need to underline something right here, like that is literally the crux of my work at this time is restoring function to systems to eliminate and reduce symptoms. And when we oversimplify to that, it makes everything more beautiful, everything easier.

It's the answer to everything in my opinion. It's oh, why don't we just help your body work properly again seems reasonable, seems like something we should all learn and understand. Anyway, the symptoms that were whispering to me, but I was ignoring maybe shakiness when I didn't eat after three to four hours energy crash after lunch, just reaching for more stimulants in the afternoon.

Sometimes like after a full week, like just feeling like an exhaustion, like almost there was like something, I don't know how else to describe it, but I remember feeling it at the time. It was like somebody was sitting on my chest. It wasn't that I couldn't breathe. And of course, you're. Breath does shift and change, like because of the stress, you can have tension in the fascia.

Like your body has all these pretty cool things to try to help you survive all the time under stress. But I would sometimes feel like this heavy weight on me, almost eyeball twitching. I've mentioned that one before. Low libido. When things are pretty severe, you can get a little bit lightheaded from sitting to standing really quickly.

Something that most people don't talk about that I was experiencing was having this dull, lower back pain. Now, you could accidentally think this is a physical issue. I call it my adrenals crying. Especially after a long period of stress. Other things that would happen with long periods of stress, what I would see a little bit of increase of sluggish thyroid symptoms.

Like maybe I would've lose a little bit more hair. Maybe my hands and feet were a little more cold. Maybe energy was lower, but for me, thyroid symptoms looked a little bit different. They were definitely like more predisposition to dry skin, needing carbs or coffee for bowel movements. The, my worst ones were feeling like I have really scattered focus.

Were all brain A DH, D symptoms. Other ones that were really frustrating. For me it was any recurrent gut and fungal symptoms. When you have sluggish thyroid, you're gonna have a lower basal body temperature. Gut motility slows down, which is why I brought up the needing carbs or coffee for bowel moments.

Pretty good. Sneaky symptom that the thyroid is slowed down a little bit. But having recurrent gut and fungal issues is frustrating because I had. What I thought resolved those a couple of years before. But when your stress hormones are stressed, when the adrenal and thyroid is stressed, then your motility slows down and then you're at greater predisposition for relapse and when the basal body temperature low, greater predisposition for fungal overgrowth.

So I think that's pretty important 'cause I see that in a lot of really great humans. And I think that from working so closely with people for so long. This has become pretty obvious to me, but is absolutely not mainstream whatsoever. The other thing from like more stress and emotional wise, I had more reactivity toward my family and just like less capacity to do anything after work.

Like my life was filled with work and there wasn't a lot of other stuff, and it was like stressful to even try to plan enjoyment. So in case that resonates with anyone. The thing is that as I list out all these symptoms, all of these are pretty easy to normalize, ignore when you have small kids, a busy life, just, I don't care what the thing is, but that's why they fly under the radar and I think that generally.

People don't get support that they need until it it becomes a serious crash, right? Where they're like, wow, I gained 30 pounds this year, or over two years, or whatnot. So the next thing happened for me, these symptoms were building up for sure the intermittent fast year. The undernourishment was like kind of the nail in the coffin as well.

Some of the other stressors on the body. Was when I had eight or nine appointments back to back. I dunno if you've ever picked up on this, but I can be a fast talker. That is something that was, we have mirror neurons, right? And so the environment we grow up in is sometimes. Some of the habits that we form, and so when we do things quickly, speak quickly, et cetera, like that was very normal to me.

That was not like people would joke. We all joked about it, about me talking fast, but over time, and hopefully I've dropped this enough times over time on the podcast, for me that was a pretty big. Stressor or it was communicating stress on the body because when you talk fast, your heart rate is up, the cortisol is pumping, et cetera.

So that was just like adding insult to injury. All the things riding insult to injury, right? It's always, it's not usually one thing, it's the perfect storm, which is why I think learning how to support multiple of these core systems from stress chemistry to gotten immune function to drainage and detoxification is really valuable.

Okay, after at least a year into this stuff with the intermittent fasting, I was on a trip with some dietician girlfriends, and we got into, I've mentioned this before, we got into talking about her tissue mineral analysis. And the short story is that over a period of time I had both a Dutch test, which actually just got one done.

I'm gonna record an episode going over those results and what we can take from that over the next week or two. And I'll compare and contrast some things. I wanna talk a little bit about testing pros and cons, et cetera, and when and why you might do something and what you're gonna get from it.

Because people often say should I test my hormones? And it's just not that simple. You're welcome to go do but I think you'll. Be frustrated if you don't understand what you're going to do. So anyway, the funny thing was, is I had done both of these types of tests that both give you indications of how your hormones are doing, and both of them confirmed that my adrenals were totally fried and that I had a sluggish thyroid.

And I remember thinking after the second one I like feel Okay. I think I'm fine. But I was like, that's funny. Both of them had said that. And the important nuance here that I've talked about, I did an encore episode specifically about when your labs are fine, but you don't feel fine.

And how we're missing sluggish the heart rate in episode three. 32. We actually published it twice 'cause we did an encore December of 2024. So it's episode 3 32. But what I will tell you, one of the quick bottom lines to it is that sluggish thyroid often doesn't show up in standard blood work. So I will just mention that, and I think that the beauty of the hair tissue mineral analysis is that it shows you what you were already feeling and confirms and can be more validating than any other test I've seen hormone wise.

And it's inexpensive overall. It's not something you, I think that we can interpret easily. I think it, you need to have a someone interpret it for you. And I don't think it's an instant fix. I think you can feel validated by it, but I think as you'll tell by my. Story, it can take years to correct these particular things.

You can feel really good though. In a month or two you can feel really good. But as far as actually resolving, I think takes some real, on layering, which is why there's a part three of this healing journey as well. So I did what many of my clients tried to do or have tried or do. This is normal.

It's Hey, I finally found a test that validates me and so I'm going to take action. That is what? Most of us do, right? We take action to what we need to do. We take our supplements, we take minerals, et cetera, and we do feel better. I have this specific profile of a client and it's a specific, I see it every once in a while. It's like I tell a client exactly what minerals to get in food form and how much to get, and somehow she goes and buys a pill form, not recommended by me or my team or anything, but she goes and buys a pill form. And when I'm reviewing her stuff, it's oh, this one again.

Oh, I was just actioning my way through it. And so we can't always supplement our way out of a stress physiology problem. There's a reason this happens. We do need to unlayer the stress with it. So what the realization here is even though my undernourishment.

Was the nail in the coffin around my stress hormones being totally crashed. It was already like in process by the messages I was sending my stress hormones, my stress chemistry, right when I was talking fast, eight or nine hours a day. Teaching clients again and again. That was the all day, right?

It's like when you wear a shoe with a really high heel, that's the communication to the lower back all day long before you know it, your lower back's aching and you don't know why. There's been a big old curve unnaturally placed in it all day long. Much like my fast talking. Was communicating to my stress hormones.

It was increasing my cortisol, et cetera, my stress about being ready to go for all of those client appointments, for taking their results as my own. All of those were not nutrition problems, right? They created physical Manifestations in my body cause physical symptoms, but it was more, I could do a lot from the nutrition and physiological angle.

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So one of the challenges for me with this whole thing was I had a realization, but I was just so busy doing that. I was unconscious of my stress. And I dunno if you've heard me mention this often on the show, but I think one of the most toxic things that can happen for all of us is unconsciousness of our stress.

I think unconscious stress is the hardest one. It's oh, I think I'm okay. And I think for me, the reason I. Consider it so damaging and dangerous is because I've been there and I've seen it. I see. Like how do you get someone to realize something that their eyes are completely closed to? It's tricky, right?

So I talked about the fast talker ness from childhood, right? I was mirroring my environment. I didn't really know any different, Cardinals said. Number two, I was a really fast eater communicating more issues and akin that could be a reason for the gut relapse issues too. I talked about these eight or nine hours of back-to-back appointments.

I would've said I enjoy my work, but even good, like even though I'm enjoying it and going from thing to thing and not recentering after each one or slowing myself down during that can be read as a stressor. So it's these unconscious stressors that seem to really pile up and become the most powerful ones.

And so my question to you is like, how do we bring this unconscious to the conscious? For me, I found my answer with this in some coaching modalities where we talk through things and start to realize like our thought narrative is not true. We all think our thoughts are facts, but often they're not.

They're truly just thoughts and they become our results. And i'll talk about that in a moment. You know what, how I had to change things not only for myself as I started to learn this for myself and started to unwind it. It was something I like could not stop seeing for clients as well. And so it was something I wanted to offer.

So first I just wanna be honest about timelines. When adrenals and thyroid are compromised, you can feel significantly better in the first month if you go in and put back nutrients and aggressively support them and give yourself some nourishment. But so like the absolute shortest timeline around it in general for healing is three to six months of wanting to put in support, but when we're constantly like taking away from ourselves through stress.

It's hard to make giant gains. And so for me, even though I could feel a lot better and I knew what things, what levers to pull and how to feel a lot better, pretty quickly using nutrition chemical interventions, if I really wanted to feel really good, to feel really fulfilled, to feel less reactive, less irritable, less impatient.

'cause those were real things that were manifesting as well. I really had to examine my other relationship with stress. 'cause often relationships with ourself, with work, with other people. Just other things are our causes of stress. So I had to learn that slowing down, I could create the same output, but I could do it in one x speed instead of two x speed, which mean I don't listen to things on two x speed just means like I have to stop and catch myself when I'm running from thing to thing.

Take a deep exhale, right? Sometimes take some things that actually calm me down if I need to. I had to catch myself often for years, for this ongoing rewiring, right? Because, I was in my thirties like I had been this way. Forever, right? So to expect it's always like funny, right? To expect that we're going to undo 10 plus years of stuff in a couple of months.

And so I had to catch myself quite a lot. What I've found is that the older I get, the less I often need to say, right? I didn't need to shove 150 pounds into a 50 pound bag in a client session. And speaking of like just our energetics of work, since I work with humans, I learned that I can walk with a client.

I can hold their hand, I can walk next to them, but I can't carry them up the hill. In fact, I actually do them a bigger disservice when I am doing more than them. And that can apply to me as well. Like we, what we often, are putting out is something we need to, is a lesson we need to look at for ourselves as well.

So what else actually helped? So it was eating enough, digesting enough, getting minerals from food pacing myself, watching how I was breathing, how I was talking, how my heart was beating, et cetera. I think so often, like we wanna add these tools, and it's what does it feel like to be still and is that uncomfortable?

And if that's uncomfortable, that's step number one toward consciousness. It's oh. I am uncomfortable in stillness and I would've said a hundred percent I was uncomfortable in stillness. And if you are great. That's a perfect place to start. That's a perfect place to start. So figuring out what is pushing on the stress chemistry, what is activating it, which depletes our nutrients, is going to give us more long-term gains than to just put supplements in, even though it'll make us feel good in that first month.

I. Sort of meandering. I think it was just like people I knew. I started, and I mentioned this before, I was doing different coaching over the years, and the more I've invested in coaching for myself and like process through thoughts, emotions, et cetera just like verbally process through things allowed me to bring more of my stress to consciousness and to start to change my narratives.

Just today. One of our Airbnbs. First time ever, we had a mouse scenario, and depending on the type of person there, like they could induce a lot of stress, low stress, high stress. Anyway, I bring this up because I was texting one of my cleaners and she's oh, I'm so sorry. This is such a crappy situation.

I was like, it is crappy, but it's like a good, crappy situation. It's like I have a whole amazing people to help me. The guest was kind. I gave them, partial refund. I would rather have this it was a high quality problem. And I only share this story because these are my thoughts around it.

I could be like, oh my gosh, this is the end of the world, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Normally what our brain wants to do, but something I've spent like the last several years retraining my thoughts and my brain. And I'm not saying I'm perfect at any way. I like have to consistently engage in this type of coaching and expose myself to it to upgrade this because this is the entire soundtrack of my life.

And this soundtrack in the back of my brain talks to my entire stress chemistry system and creates physical manifestations and symptoms as well. And anyway, I have the choice. you have the choice. You have so much control over. What's happening, and this is something that as I started to see, like the major, like leaps ahead that this type of coaching gave me, as well as breath work was beautiful somatic thing.

As I started to see those, I was like, oh, I have to bring that into my work and into my client stuff, my client program, my client work, and it has been honestly my favorite thing. Ever, because so often clients would bring in a question and they would think it's a nutrition question. It's oh girl, that is not a nutrition question.

Like your literal fear that you are gonna get an autoimmune disease because your father had one, is not a nutrition question. We need to clean up like how that. Energy and stress is like coursing through your body as well. Like we can answer it from both the physiological perspective, but it's also an emotional, energetic thing.

Like your fear about having any skin issues at your wedding in six months is first. Let us clean up the soundtrack about that first and then we, the physiology will follow for sure. I'm not saying it's one or the other, it's both. It's actually hard to find that together, but ever since I integrated those together, I am personally as a practitioner, so much happier because my clients have what everything they need to deal with this from both angles overall.

So it's been a really beautiful thing. I had to start to bring this into client work because I just couldn't unsee that. Like I needed to have an answer for them. Like I wanted it so much. And I've automatically added this into practice, which has been really profound and really supportive.

Okay, so what is the summary here? The summary is. I don't think any of us are immune to any of this. Now, this is where I am. I am a woman who is approaching perimenopause age, and as we do that, this part of life will start to highlight our past. Issues with these areas.

And so as we get older, technically from a physiological perspective, our ovaries start to check out making hormones and our adrenals have to come in and be the backup. Dancers be the backup support. And so if chronic stress has been a big part of your life and you've ignored it, it will show, it will manifest in a lot of physiological ways and a lot of physical ways.

As you approach this age, it may look like weight gain. It may look like, I think there's something wrong with my hormones. Like it will definitely show up in this way. And we'll talk about that more in the next couple of weeks. I'll go over my Dutch test, which is a type of hormone test with you. Maybe I'll pull my most recent HTMA and I'll go over the highlights, the sections of that overall.

So part two, healing crisis. How I trash my Hormones. I undernourished and overstressed my body through the name of health in intermittent fasting. I. Ignored it until my labs just slap me in the face. Which is nice because so often you can go get blood work and it will not slap you in the face. And again, I actually don't think, I think if you can be really tuned into symptoms, you don't necessarily always have to have labs.

In fact, it's a huge part of the shift in my work is that I think that we need to put less value on labs and more on how we feel. And if we're ignoring how we feel or if we're unconscious of some of the things we're feeling it's not gonna be as easy to heal in the first place.

We have to have some awareness. I think awareness is the first step. Always. If you heard my episode a couple weeks ago, awareness is always the first step. So we can do that through a lot of symptom inventory and you have so many options to feel good. have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing life. You are not stuck with symptoms.

Symptoms are simply signals from your body trying to help you, trying to communicate in the only way it knows how. I hope that this story has helped you in some way. Maybe you saw a little tiny part of yourself. Part three will come sooner than a year from now. Might, I might wait until I finish. I'm in a two year.

Program where I'm doing inner healing work. And so I may wait until that is finished in May before I share that part three of inner healing work that has been quite profound. And I have some resources for you that I'll throw into the show notes. So first of all, if you have questions, you can submit those at krista bigler.com/questions.

I even have a fun idea about doing lab results reviews on the podcast. If you are interested in my cliff notes of testing over the last 10 years talked about testing really lightly, but I've got like a short, I've got a training that. It's buried somewhere. It's $11.

That gives you the cliff notes of my last 10 years of functional medicine testing. If you want that, I'm gonna put that link in the show notes. The episode for Subclinical thyroid stuff is episode 3 22. I'll put that in the show notes, and we'll also link part one, my first Healing crisis with skin energy issues, et cetera.

That's episode 3 93. That'll be in the show notes as well. Finally, something I have been sitting on for a long time is. Coming closer to fruition. And maybe that's another reason I waited to publish this particular episode, because the more I understood this, the more I was like, this is something you've got to work on.

Stress chemistry, to access healing, to accelerate healing. And to maintain healing. And I think this is the rate limiting, like the longer you do this work, the more you realize that stress is the rate limiting factor on your health. And so I was like, I feel like this is the work I'm called to. I feel like this is the legacy.

And I am getting closer to opening this very accessible option to work together. It's called the Recharge Room, and so I'm gonna put that wait list in the show notes as well. If you have any interest in just being able to show up and feel better on demand and to work through , and have these very simple,

low lift things to help you, transform your life. Basically a culmination of the modalities that help me the most. And I don't know, like no one combines these. If you're at all possibly, maybe just a little bit interested, get on that wait list because that helps me understand. That there's interest for this, and this is just something that's been so deeply on my heart for the last year.

Okay. I think that is all for today. I will just say that even though you can feel a lot better in a couple of months unpacking, layering our stress chemistry and going to essentially the gym for the nervous system is ongoing work and it's ongoing work. Exclamation point, not ongoing work. This sucks.

It's wow, once I know better and I do better. And so this episode is all about knowing better and catching things before they become the full stop. That so often our body gives us. And I will tell you there is a lot more full stop happening in the last five to six years than I've probably ever seen.

Before. So anyway, have a beautiful day. You are so awesome. Check out the show notes for all these resources. I can't wait to talk to you again next week.