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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Spark Faith with me, doctor Chris Sargent. This

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<v Speaker 1>show is about renewed health, rooted in truth and restored

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<v Speaker 1>by grace. What does finding health look like for you?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you have a vision for your future self and

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<v Speaker 1>a way to get there. I'm doctor Chris and after

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<v Speaker 1>thirty three years in functional medicine and a lifelong journey

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<v Speaker 1>through brain health, weight loss, hormones, mindset, and faith, I

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<v Speaker 1>know that real transformation doesn't come from willpower or white

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<v Speaker 1>knuckling your way to wellness. It comes from gratitude.

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<v Speaker 2>Honoring your body as the temple that God created.

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<v Speaker 1>This show is about body stewardship, not shame.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about rewiring your mindset, your metabolism, and your spirit

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<v Speaker 2>to find lasting health without the grind. I'll help you

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<v Speaker 2>cut through the noise, see opportunities instead of obstacles, and

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<v Speaker 2>finally live a.

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<v Speaker 1>Healthy, purposeful life you were created for. Let's spark faith

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<v Speaker 1>and transformation together. Spark Faith starts now. Hey Hey everyone,

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<v Speaker 1>I am doctor Chris Sargent. Welcome back to the Spark

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<v Speaker 1>Faith Show. And if you haven't joined us in the past, welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Today,

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<v Speaker 1>I am going to share a little bit more about

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<v Speaker 1>my own experience like I did last week, and we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about regulation and dysregulation and how the

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<v Speaker 1>heck did I get here? Right? How many times have

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<v Speaker 1>you asked yourself that, whether it's something emotional or physical

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<v Speaker 1>or spiritual, like you ask yourself like, how did I

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<v Speaker 1>get here? And it can be in a good way, right,

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<v Speaker 1>but it could also be in a way that you're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>the question sounds more like, oh, how did I get here? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>So we're going to talk a little bit more about

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<v Speaker 1>physically how do we get here? But you know, functional

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<v Speaker 1>medicine incorporates all those big pieces in parts of our

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<v Speaker 1>emotions and our environment and you know, just our circumstances,

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<v Speaker 1>our spiritual life, all of those our mental and emotional health, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>all of those pieces get rolled into this thing, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So if we focus mostly on how we feel today,

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<v Speaker 1>that's it's going to encompass a lot more than just that, though,

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<v Speaker 1>when you really step back and take a look at it.

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<v Speaker 1>And so really the core idea today is that the

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<v Speaker 1>body gradually adapts to the environment that we repeatedly give it.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know that I have said this before. We're

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<v Speaker 1>going to take a little different turn on this and

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<v Speaker 1>that is because this regulation rarely happens overnight. Right, It's

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<v Speaker 1>just one small adaptation at a time, and we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>end on like this really big place of hope because

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<v Speaker 1>the same body that adapted towards dysfunction can adapt back

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<v Speaker 1>towards good regulation and health. Right. So I'm gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>ahead and ask you that a question, and maybe not

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<v Speaker 1>the question that you think, but if you'll just stop

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<v Speaker 1>for sec right, when was the last time you felt

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely amazing? Like, get up in the morning, not really achy,

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<v Speaker 1>You get out of bed pretty easily, right, like, don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to have that cup of coffee? Right, So just

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<v Speaker 1>stop for a second and take inventory of how you

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<v Speaker 1>really feel. Right? Are your shoulders all tight? Right? Are

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<v Speaker 1>your joints achy? Are you hungry? Right? Are you actually

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<v Speaker 1>really tired and can't or won't admit it? Does life

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<v Speaker 1>feel like ladies? Does life feel like all you do

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<v Speaker 1>is get up? Can't get to your coffee fast enough

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<v Speaker 1>so you can wake up, get the kids out the door,

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<v Speaker 1>go to work, work all day, run around with the kids,

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<v Speaker 1>have dinner, and finally, like sink into the couch trying

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<v Speaker 1>to watch your show, and you just crash out right,

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<v Speaker 1>only to wake up and do it again the next day.

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<v Speaker 1>Or maybe you're a guy and you're in that same cycle, right,

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<v Speaker 1>you just get up, have your coffee, go to work,

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<v Speaker 1>like see your kids, but you're not really present, or

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<v Speaker 1>just sort of like walking through life looking at it

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<v Speaker 1>like you're just seeing a movie of your life, right,

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<v Speaker 1>kind of brain foggy, not all together. Right, So when

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<v Speaker 1>I ask you, when was the last time you absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>felt amazing? Not like, oh, I'm okay, right, or I've

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<v Speaker 1>felt worse right, not like, well, I guess this just

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<v Speaker 1>feels like what getting older feels like. I mean, when

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<v Speaker 1>was the last time when you really woke up rested

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<v Speaker 1>and had energy, and your head was clear and you

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<v Speaker 1>felt strong and you felt excited about your day and

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<v Speaker 1>your body just felt good, not like you had to

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<v Speaker 1>push through mud. Right, So, can you remember or has

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<v Speaker 1>it been so long that you've kind of forgotten what

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<v Speaker 1>it even feels like to feel good. So one of

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<v Speaker 1>the things I've noticed after more than thirty years of

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<v Speaker 1>caring for y'all patients clients, is that very few people

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<v Speaker 1>can actually tell me when they stopped feeling well. They'll say, well,

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<v Speaker 1>it just seemed like it just happened, or I don't

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<v Speaker 1>really know, or one day I just woke up and

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<v Speaker 1>I just didn't feel like myself. Here's this fascinating, right,

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<v Speaker 1>when we begin to talk through their story. Right, when

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<v Speaker 1>I take a history as a functional medicine doctor, I

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<v Speaker 1>like to make a timeline. And so when we began

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<v Speaker 1>going through their story decade by decade by decade, it

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<v Speaker 1>almost never happened in one day. It happened over years. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that one stressful season where you compromised yourself and

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<v Speaker 1>ended up with having poor sleep, or drive through dinners

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<v Speaker 1>longer than the season maybe required, or skipped workouts. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe addiction became part of your story, or some poor

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<v Speaker 1>choices that just basically turned into a habit, the path

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<v Speaker 1>of least resistance. Right. And again, this is not about

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<v Speaker 1>feeling bad about yourself. This is not to shame anyone ever, right,

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<v Speaker 1>not ever. This is an exercise in becoming more aware

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<v Speaker 1>of how you got to where you are right now

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<v Speaker 1>in your health. Right. Maybe it was just one hard pregnancy,

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<v Speaker 1>or one really challenging promotion at work, or a season

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<v Speaker 1>of caregiving. Right, that's when mine really started to have

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<v Speaker 1>been where yes, I was going to the gym. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I was eating healthy, but I was doing the same

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<v Speaker 1>things that I had been doing in my early fifties,

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<v Speaker 1>like carrying all those things through whether they were working

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<v Speaker 1>or not, because I wasn't paying attention to my health.

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<v Speaker 1>I was taking care of my mom who had dementia

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<v Speaker 1>at my house, so and you know, she was always

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<v Speaker 1>there and she needed care and she needed somebody with her,

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<v Speaker 1>and all those pieces. If you've ever been through it,

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<v Speaker 1>or know somebody who's been through it, it was just

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<v Speaker 1>one adaptation after another, building on other adaptations over time,

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<v Speaker 1>right until I just really realized that I was not

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<v Speaker 1>feeling my best right, and that not feeling my best

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<v Speaker 1>became my new normal, right. It just becomes our new normal,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we just don't see it anymore. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>when you drive to your kid's school or the gym

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<v Speaker 1>or the grocery store, right, you don't even know how

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<v Speaker 1>you got there, right, because you've laid down this track

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<v Speaker 1>in your brain and you don't even realize, like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just that's how we got there. It's normal. So

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<v Speaker 1>our health declines so slowly that this new normal is

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<v Speaker 1>down here instead of where it used to be. So

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<v Speaker 1>today we're going to talk about a little bit about

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<v Speaker 1>how that happens, and because understanding how we got here

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<v Speaker 1>might be that first step to that a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>more awareness around what's going on in your world and

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<v Speaker 1>waking up to that first step of getting somewhere that's

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<v Speaker 1>better than where you are right now. Right, So call

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<v Speaker 1>this the slow drift. Right, that makes complete sense. We

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<v Speaker 1>just start kind of drifting off our path. And we

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of us think of illness as a lightning strike. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>It just happens, And that's for the most of us.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how how health happens or doesn't happen. Right. We

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<v Speaker 1>get a cold, or we get the flu, or you know,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you get cancer or you have a heart attack,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's just this acute happened right now. But in reality,

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<v Speaker 1>seventy percent or more, maybe eighty to ninety percent of

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<v Speaker 1>the diseases that particularly Americans have right now are chronic.

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<v Speaker 1>These really are more like the tide coming in from

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<v Speaker 1>low tide. Right, you don't really notice it until right

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<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, it's all the way up the shore,

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<v Speaker 1>and your body works much the same way. Right, You

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<v Speaker 1>don't just wake up one morning and you're insulin resistant, right,

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<v Speaker 1>or you don't just well, you might just wake up

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<v Speaker 1>one morning and have hot flashes. That's true, but anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>and you probably saw it coming. Honestly, if we're really

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<v Speaker 1>honest with ourselves, right, we probably saw it coming. So

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<v Speaker 1>what about the inflammation? Right, You might not even feel inflammation.

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<v Speaker 1>You might not even realize that you have inflammation. You

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<v Speaker 1>might not realize how exhausted you are, or that you

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<v Speaker 1>have high blood pressure. It's a silent killer, right. Instead,

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<v Speaker 1>you just adapt to how you feel. And every day,

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<v Speaker 1>your body is going to ask you one question, right,

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<v Speaker 1>given the environment that you've placed me in, right, your

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<v Speaker 1>body talking to you, what do I need to do

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<v Speaker 1>to help you survive today? And y'all we've talked about

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<v Speaker 1>survival and thriving and all those things. So I don't

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<v Speaker 1>really want to I don't want to dive into that

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<v Speaker 1>like that. I want to have this episode be more like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't realize that thing XYZ was part of what's

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<v Speaker 1>happening with me or what happened to me. Right, Because

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<v Speaker 1>you have one night of poor sleep, that's fine, you'll compensate, right,

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<v Speaker 1>short period of high stress, you'll compensate too little movement

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<v Speaker 1>for a couple of weeks, you'll compensate ultra process food

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<v Speaker 1>for one meal a week. Not a problem, too little recovery,

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<v Speaker 1>You can compensate for that short periods of time. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>The bigger problem comes in where now you have too

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<v Speaker 1>little muscle, right, and your metabolism is being run by

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<v Speaker 1>the habits that have been slowly but surely eroded away

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<v Speaker 1>into different habits that don't support a healthy body. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>and that compensation is starting to break down, And now

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<v Speaker 1>you have symptoms and you may or may not even

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<v Speaker 1>realize that you have those symptoms, like falling asleep at

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<v Speaker 1>six thirty or seven o'clock on the couch, even if

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<v Speaker 1>you're getting up super early. You eat and you just

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<v Speaker 1>crash out, like that's that's not that's not healthy, right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's not healthy. It's this is where I think we

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<v Speaker 1>can justify things. Right. Your body doesn't wake up every

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<v Speaker 1>morning going wow, how can I make life harder for

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<v Speaker 1>my human? Right? It wakes like up like again, given

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<v Speaker 1>what we've got here, how can I help you survive? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>And so the body isn't just trying to stay the same,

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<v Speaker 1>it's really just trying to stay alive. So and that

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<v Speaker 1>distinction can shift some things. Right, your symptoms that you

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<v Speaker 1>don't even realize you might be having right now, because

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<v Speaker 1>you're not aware that these are symptoms. It's like your

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<v Speaker 1>body is taking notes, right, y'all know I'm in seminary, right,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to take notes, take notes, take notes, but

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<v Speaker 1>eventually I have to create a paper out of that, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And so your body's been taking notes, and eventually it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to hand you a report. Right. So anyway, this

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<v Speaker 1>is where we get into a lot of disregulation justification, right,

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<v Speaker 1>dysregulation justification. And this is the part that, y'all, this

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<v Speaker 1>is the part that breaks my heart for my clients

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<v Speaker 1>because after a while, we stop noticing. I stopped noticing, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And that new normal that's down here is dysregulation justice notification.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the collection of all the stories. Here's what this

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<v Speaker 1>mental and emotional health comes in. It's a collection of

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<v Speaker 1>all the stories we've told ourselves to explain to ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>why we don't feel well anymore. Right, and we're believing lies.

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<v Speaker 1>And we talked about the lies that I believed around

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<v Speaker 1>under eating and losing weight and becoming smaller and all

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<v Speaker 1>of those things that were literally terrifying, right, but they

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<v Speaker 1>were lies. And so you know what, lie are you believing?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just getting older? I'm just a mom stop y'all right,

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<v Speaker 1>You're not just anybody, right. You are a child of

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone is tired, right, Oh, that it's my menopause. It's menopause. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>my whole family was overweight, right I have. I've always

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<v Speaker 1>that is not a key thing. It probably is, and

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<v Speaker 1>getting to the root of it may shift your whole life. Right. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I've just never slept. Well, that's the biggest excuse I

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<v Speaker 1>hear is Well, that's just how I am. And here's

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<v Speaker 1>the danger. Right, those statements begin as explanations, but eventually

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<v Speaker 1>they become your identity. So let me say that again,

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<v Speaker 1>that whole dysregulation. Justification begins as explanations, but they eventually

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<v Speaker 1>become your identity, and identity determines behavior. If I believe

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<v Speaker 1>this is simply who I am, why would I expect

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<v Speaker 1>anything else to change? Right? Our brain loves efficiency when

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<v Speaker 1>it becomes familiar it's like this well worn path. Think

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<v Speaker 1>is well worn. Right, you don't have to pay attention,

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<v Speaker 1>there's not any roots in the way. You can just

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<v Speaker 1>get there. Everything's fine. And so once something becomes familiar,

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<v Speaker 1>And it's true with our emotions, and it's true with

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<v Speaker 1>our physical symptoms. We don't just normalize dysfunction. Eventually, we

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<v Speaker 1>defend it. Right, We don't just normalize dysfunction. Eventually, we

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<v Speaker 1>defend it. You know, our our body really whispers before

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<v Speaker 1>it screams. And this is one of my favorite things

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<v Speaker 1>about the human body. But it's also one of the

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<v Speaker 1>reasons why we ignore it, is because it doesn't talk loud. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>it whispers a long time before it screams. And maybe again,

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<v Speaker 1>it starts with some digestive thing or sleep or afternoon fatigue,

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<v Speaker 1>or you don't recover well, and you just ignore it

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<v Speaker 1>and you work out harder. Maybe those workouts are feeling harder,

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<v Speaker 1>just like don't want to do things, you're unmotivated. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you started avoiding stares because your knees heard, or this

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<v Speaker 1>happened or that happened, and none of those little things

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<v Speaker 1>seem like emergencies. But each one of those is a

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<v Speaker 1>piece of information, right, So let's not ignore that. The

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<v Speaker 1>body is going to communicate through symptoms. But they're not enemies,

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<v Speaker 1>they're just messengers. So we don't want to silence the

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<v Speaker 1>messenger without asking why did you? Why are you here?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you trying to tell me?

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<v Speaker 2>Right?

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<v Speaker 1>And if we try to silence all the symptoms, then

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to miss what the body has been trying

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<v Speaker 1>to tell you all along. So our beautiful God designed

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<v Speaker 1>our body to communicate, and part of stewardship is paying

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<v Speaker 1>attention to the communication. Right if your kid or your

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<v Speaker 1>favorite person felled it out and skinned their knee and

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<v Speaker 1>you're like, you just ignore it, right, Like, you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>do that, So stewardship means paying attention. So here's the

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<v Speaker 1>key though, Right, I'm not going to leave you down

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<v Speaker 1>here feeling crappy about all this stuff today, and shame

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<v Speaker 1>and guilt have no place in this conversation. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you've already all of a sudden been like, oh my goodness,

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<v Speaker 1>I did not realize that that's what was happening and

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<v Speaker 1>how I got here. This is not to make you

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<v Speaker 1>feel bad about your choices. This is to say, we

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<v Speaker 1>can you can make I made, We can make different choices, right,

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<v Speaker 1>We can make different choices. Your body can learn from

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<v Speaker 1>you every single day. Regulation or disregulation isn't one big

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<v Speaker 1>decision usually, right, It's an accumulation of small decisions over

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<v Speaker 1>the over time. And here's the part I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>you to miss. Again. Everything that I've described can sound

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<v Speaker 1>really discouraging, but it can actually give you a tremendous

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<v Speaker 1>amount of hope because that adaptation works both ways. If

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<v Speaker 1>it adapted to dysfunction, it can adapt towards how not overnight,

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<v Speaker 1>because dysregulation didn't happen overnight either, right, but consistently, Right, consistently,

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<v Speaker 1>we did things and we ended up very disregulated. Now

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<v Speaker 1>consistently we need to you know, that well worn trail,

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<v Speaker 1>we need to take a sharp right turn and grab

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<v Speaker 1>some new tools and forge a new trail. Literally, right,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna have to cut down some trees. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have to wear waiters. So that we don't get poison

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<v Speaker 1>ivy and we're gonna have to like move through some

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<v Speaker 1>challenges that we might not have seen to forge that

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<v Speaker 1>new trail, and it's gonna feel uncomfortable and you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>want to turn around and go back to the comfy trail. Right, However,

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<v Speaker 1>you know where that and where the end of that

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<v Speaker 1>trail is, right, So this is not happen overnight. It

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<v Speaker 1>happens with consistency, and progress is so much more impressive

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<v Speaker 1>than perfection. Right, So every workout can teach a new adaptation.

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<v Speaker 1>Every healthy meal teaches adaptation, Every good night's sleep teaches adaptation.

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<v Speaker 1>Every walk protein for breakfast, stress management like taking a

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<v Speaker 1>five minute like breathing break in the middle of your day.

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<v Speaker 1>Every act of stewardship gives your body some new information.

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<v Speaker 1>And really the coolest, most remarkable thing is your body

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<v Speaker 1>will listen to that too. It's never too late. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's not going to listen to one perfect day.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh I did great yesterday, so today I deserve or

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<v Speaker 1>it's not going to listen to that one perfect day.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to listen to the repeated patterns. So what

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<v Speaker 1>are you repeating? What are you repeating My change didn't

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<v Speaker 1>happen overnight, y'all. I had to trust the process. I

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<v Speaker 1>talked about that last week. You can go listen to

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<v Speaker 1>my episode from last week about the new foundation that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm having to tredge out right, a new path

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<v Speaker 1>for myself. The confidence about that didn't change overnight. My

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<v Speaker 1>strength definitely has not changed overnight. It has been three

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<v Speaker 1>to four times a week in the gym for the

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<v Speaker 1>last eighteen or twenty weeks. This is not something that's

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<v Speaker 1>going to happen in a moment. My metabolism is shifting,

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<v Speaker 1>that's it is in process. Right, Little by little, my

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<v Speaker 1>body's adapting to a healthier environment, and so will yours.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sixty two. Most of y'all are probably younger than me.

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<v Speaker 1>So if I can, you can so your future, your

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<v Speaker 1>health is being built on the patterns that you repeat today,

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty years down the road you will read whatever

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<v Speaker 1>you sew today. And if you're realizing that, Wow, I

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<v Speaker 1>have definitely fallen into this spiral and I want to

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<v Speaker 1>get out of it. Hey, give me a shout on

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<v Speaker 1>out on Instagram or Facebook, you know hit you can

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<v Speaker 1>grab a free session with me and we can talk

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<v Speaker 1>about it, right, And that's one way to start pulling

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<v Speaker 1>out of some of these things. And the cool thing

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<v Speaker 1>about scripture is that stewardship is found almost every time

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<v Speaker 1>in ordinary stuff. Right. It's daily, consistent, faithful in the

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<v Speaker 1>little things. And our health is so much like that,

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<v Speaker 1>you think that God designed it right. And it's not

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<v Speaker 1>about earning God's love. We're responding to it like, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>God did give me this body, and maybe I haven't

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<v Speaker 1>taken care of it the way I need to, or

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<v Speaker 1>maybe I didn't realize that this is a way to

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<v Speaker 1>gently worship Him and respect what He's given, this gift

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<v Speaker 1>of our health and gift of our body, right by

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<v Speaker 1>faithfully caring for this great gift that He entrusted to us.

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<v Speaker 1>So just one little decision at a time. So if

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<v Speaker 1>today you realize that you've slowly drifted right, the slow

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<v Speaker 1>drift again, you do not need to feel guilty about this.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to encourage you because your story isn't over.

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<v Speaker 1>That same incredible body that has spent years adapting to

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<v Speaker 1>survival can begin to adapt towards thriving right, a new

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<v Speaker 1>life of thriving and not one giant aha, not any

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<v Speaker 1>of that, but hundreds of small, faithful decisions every day,

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<v Speaker 1>and honestly, living fresh is always about that, right. This

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<v Speaker 1>is progress is more impressive than perfection, not quick fixes.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, I know that you all rarely notice the

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<v Speaker 1>slow drift into dysregulation because our bodies are designed to adapt.

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<v Speaker 1>But that same adaptive capacity that carried you into dysfunction

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<v Speaker 1>can carry you back towards health through consistent and faithful stewardship. Right, So,

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