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Filly
Hello? It's Filly here. Just a quick announcement before we jump into today's episode. Natural Medicine Week, hosted by a Australian traditional medicine society, is coming up on the 22nd to the 28th of May. I'm a proud ambassador for Natural Medicine Week, which showcases all the many ways natural medicine can restore the body and mind with live online events run by qualified practitioners across Australia.
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Filly
You can check out the link in the show notes to find your way to Natural Medicine Week as part of the event. I'll be holding a special free root cause of emotional eating masterclass, which you can sign up for via the Natural Medicine Week website. During the Masterclass, I'll be digging into emotional eating, food addictions, sugar cravings and the hidden imbalance is in the body that caused this behaviour, as well as the metaphysical imbalances that are at the deepest root cause of emotional eating.
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Filly
Hope you can make it okay. Unto today’s Episode.
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Chris
Hello and welcome to the ending Body Burn Out Show, where your hosts Chris and Filly co-founders of multi award winning Functional Medicine Practice, serving busy people with energy mood and got issues.
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Filly
Well, busyness, overworking, addictive doing and perfectionism might be the norm. It's not normal and it's a major contributor to health issues.
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Chris
Our goal with this show is to give you a holistic root, root cause approach to healing your body so that you don't have to continue doctor or diet hopping or popping a gazillion supplements hoping something might stick.
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Filly
So get ready to heal your body, get your spark back deeply, connect with yourself and step into the life of your dreams. Let's dive in.
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Chris
Get great, guys. Welcome to the ending body Burnout show. Chris here and with me I've got Filly and Sam, one of our clients. We're super excited to have Sam in here to share a story, to go over some some really interesting things that we think that you perhaps might find interesting, too. So in a moment, we'll turn the time over to Sam and we'll find out a little bit more about her.
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Chris
But we really appreciate all your comments or your questions coming in. Really excited, too, to get our podcast going with this episode. So stay tuned. And yeah, turning over to Filly, how you feel.
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Filly
Hello. So excited to talk to Sam. She's awesome. But before we like jump in and chat to Sam, I just want to talk about story. So the reason why we love having clients and other people come on to share the ending body burn out stories is because it's super healing. Like it's healing to share it with others for the person sharing the story, but also for others to hear that story and to have evidence that it's possible to heal in different types of ways.
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Filly
So Sam,
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Sam
Hi.
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Filly
Hello. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Let's just let's just.
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Filly
Dive in to before you started working with us. How do you how are you feeling? Like maybe we chat about symptoms and how it was showing up in your life. Like what were the big things that you were struggling with?
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Sam
Biggest symptoms was fatigue, definitely gallstone issues. That was a big problem back then as well.
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Filly
Yeah. All right. Yeah. So. So chronic fatigue. I remember you were exhausted. Like you were really struggling to get through a day of work. You still love exercising. Hey. And even was it even like going for a 40 minute walk would kind of. Yeah.
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Sam
Do anything physical work, exercise And just daily getting through the day really was an exhausting time for me.
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Filly
Yeah. Yeah. So that's what that's what I would call chronic fatigue. It wasn't just like, oh, just a little bit low in energy today. That's when that real physical can't get through the day. The extra physical movement that causes you to feel worse.
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Sam
And it was every single day as well. It wasn't just like when it's nearly the end of the week and you run down and you know, it's nearly Friday. It was like it was every single day. And even on my days off and when I had a few days off, it was still there all the time. Yeah.
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Filly
So and a symptom that's really common with chronic fatigue is brain fog.
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Sam
Yes, brain.
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Filly
Fog. How is that? How did you experience that?
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Sam
That was a lot of time. Just blank moments. I can't think of what I'm trying to say. I can't think of what I'm trying to do. And it work. It affected me a lot, especially when speaking to customers on the phone and things like that. So it impacted my life in a big way. Bad way too.
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Filly
So yeah, I mean, we use our brain to.
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Sam
Exactly.
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Filly
Get through life. So if you have brain fog, it's pretty crap. It gallstones severe it interesting. Can you tell people like the.
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Filly
Pattern of the gallstones and the attacks that you had?
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Sam
Yeah. So a facade is a gallstone attack is very, very painful. You usually start it off with a few days leading up to it. It would be an odd part in my back, would start feeling tension and then basically from my back through my chest would just intense pain and then basically feels like you've been run over by a truck.
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Filly
So not fun. Not fun at all.
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Sam
No. And I'd be lying on the floor flat on my back, just in agony. I couldn't really move much. I'd been stuck in bed for three or four days in that pain sometimes, and it was just terrible.
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Filly
Yeah, that's crazy. Crazy. And you had this pattern, too, where you had a big gallstone attack after your birthday.
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Sam
Yes.
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Filly
Right.
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Sam
That didn't happen from the start because it was called gallstone attacks very randomly. Yeah. All the time. Like maybe two a week, then maybe one next month or a month or two later. And it was just very random and then might have been after I started trying to treat it with diet and exercise and then and then it sort of balanced out to only certain times.
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Sam
Like I think it ended up being like every couple of months I'd have an attack and then they wouldn't be as bad. And then it got to a point where I'd only have them about a week or two before my birthday. Yeah, which was very odd.
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Filly
But everything's connected.
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Filly
Everything's connected. And what about mental health as well? You were struggling quite a lot. Yes. Abnormal stress response and worrying thoughts and catastrophizing anxiety based.
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Sam
Yeah, exactly. So everything was always stressful and worrying about things and. Yeah, yeah.
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Filly
Cool. Okay, so before you came to Chris Filly Functional Medicine, was there anything you did to try and, like, solve the issue? What sort of things were you trying?
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Sam
I had tried, so I went to a psychologist for a while. That was when I was a lot younger and that was sort of just getting it off my chest rather than actually solving any problems or digging into anything. What was wrong? It was more like an empathy episode, I guess. Yeah, you know. Yeah. And then there was another psychologist I saw many years later and she was very helpful.
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Sam
She was great. It helped me with just getting my mind in a better place and just rethinking the way I'm thinking and doing things. So she gave me a lot of good strategies, but that still didn't feel like enough because there was so much more wrong with other parts of my body systems. So as much as that did actually help a lot, there was so many other underlying issues that I didn't know about.
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Filly
Yeah.
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Sam
That actually needed looking at as well.
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Filly
Yeah. And I would imagine too, although my mind feeling a bit better if you chronically exhausted all the time and your brain fog is going crazy and all that got issues and the pain then like that, like the body of mine, it connected the gut in the brain. It connected as well. So it's almost like we'll talk about your journey.
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Filly
But at the end of the day, it was taking a whole holistic approach to really get on top of everything that was going on. Yeah, exactly. And you also tried different supplements as well. Yeah, Didn't get much.
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Sam
No benefit.
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Filly
From that. Okay. All right. So we have a big moderate test, not guess.
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Sam
Yes. I love.
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Filly
This. Yeah, we love I love lab tests.
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Filly
And so this is a thing that I say to a lot of people who come to us have tried stuff or, you know, even if we're talking about supplements, it's like, oh, yeah, Google said they so maybe they saw another practitioner and the practitioner didn't necessarily do any testing, but they just like, Oh, just try this. Occasionally it works, but often it doesn't.
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Filly
So in functional medicine, we really want to get to the bottom of what body systems are out of balance and then treat those specifically. And you have to share some of the stuff that came up in your lab testing.
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Sam
Yeah, we can share it.
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Filly
Okay, well, we start with the adrenals because you were pretty surprised by your drain, which.
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Filly
Has definitely what happened. I was expecting.
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Sam
That to be the problem. Yeah. Like I felt like going through all the symptoms for adrenal fatigue and the symptoms I was feeling, I was like, I definitely have adrenal fatigue here. And then you finally got the test results back for me and I was perfectly fine.
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Filly
That adrenal. There was nothing wrong. And I'm like, Why do I feel so crappy then?
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Filly
Which is great though, because I could have. That's the way I used to practice. It's just like, Oh, you take all the symptoms for adrenal fatigue, let's do this protocol. But it wouldn't have helped my anxiety sustain.
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Sam
It would have been a waste of time and money and energy and just trying something that's not working. So that's what I love about you. Testing. Yeah, because we know that's definitely not what the problem is. And then it's like, well, my next question was, well, what do we do now?
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Filly
Yeah, so we did a bit more testing. Yes. And we did a, we test the organic acid test. Do you remember what showed up on that one. Oh I've got it all written down in case you forget.
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Filly
Yeah. Go say your brain.
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Filly
So it showed that your dose of being and your adrenaline neurotransmitters get really depleted, which makes sense because a lot of the symptoms in adrenal fatigue often are the same when your neurotransmitters are really depleted mitochondria. So you do remember doing mitochondria? Yeah. So there's a little organelles just to the listeners, little organelles in your muscle tissue that convert food into energy.
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Filly
So Sams were really damaged and retracted. They there wasn't much going on in mitochondrial action, which would then of course cause fatigue because you're not able to produce enough energy. Yeah, you also had the detox and bile issues, which wasn't surprising considering the goal steering and there was some stuff going on in your gut. So dysbiosis where you had a bit of pathogenic bacteria overgrowing beneficial bacteria flung down a bit.
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Filly
Do you want to add anything like when you got those other test results back? What did you.
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Sam
Feel? I was actually relieved. Like there was there was actual answers to what was wrong with me. And it's like I'm not crazy.
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Filly
It's not really it's like sitting.
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Sam
There every day feeling exhausted and tired, like, just chronically tired. It's like, this is not normal. I shouldn't be feeling this way. There must be something wrong. And people just know everyone's tired. We're all tired. I'm like, Yeah, but I shouldn't be this tired. And then when seeing those results, it's like a big sense of relief that now we know what's wrong, We can actually work on fixing it.
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Sam
Yeah, yeah. That was just one of the best feelings ever.
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Filly
Yes. Awesome. And so then we got stuck into some and really targeted supplement support. Maybe we'll talk about root causes. So the first process is to get answers and figure out what body systems are imbalanced. And then it's like, big question is why did that happen in the first place? And is there anything still going on in your life that could be contributing to these body systems burning out?
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Filly
So maybe we're talk about stress this because with the neurotransmitters, they do for meaning adrenaline, one of the main causes of depletion of your brain chemicals is stress. Do you have anything to share about that? I'm like, maybe like in your present life at that moment, you had a lot going on. Just share what's comfortable, but also life.
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Filly
Even going back to as a kid teenager Patterns of restless or abnormal stress response and where that was potentially coming from.
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Sam
Yeah, so I think back then at the time, so I did have work related stress going on. I had family dramas going on and a bad relationship. So every aspect of my life was unhappy and stressful. Yep. And that that alone didn't put me in a good mental state. Yeah. For starters. Yeah. So it was.
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Filly
Cool digging into all that stuff with you too, though, because we have a saying you're not broken. You're not broken. What if you created this? This? So sometimes are they consciously? We don't want to be in circumstances where, you know, like at work there was kind of bullying and toxic relationships and dramas and all that sort of stuff.
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Filly
But if we kind of looked we kind of looked at patents to it's like, Sam.
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Filly
This seems to be a pattern of like getting into these circumstances.
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Filly
And so then it's yes, there's external stresses going on, but it's, it's why you end up in that situation or even how, how you experience that stress as well, which is often like a lot of internal stuff. Happy to share a little bit about childhood and yeah.
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Sam
So I did grow up more isolated and I didn't go to school. So this has recently real. I have recently realised that this has taken a big impact on my life because I didn't get to socialise and I didn't get to go to school and learn a lot and then going out into the world and everything was so confusing.
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Sam
It's like there's so much I didn't get to learn growing up and then seeing people reading really well and managers at work as well. Like it confuses me that people know what they're doing. And I was going through having no idea. And it was only, I think about maybe 12 months or so ago that I actually realised how bad the education that I got was.
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Sam
And I've known that a long time ago I would have understood things a bit more. But since realising that I've actually like it's sort of a sense of more relaxed and learning things a lot easier, like just being aware of it was enough to help and make those improvements where I need to. And like even at my new job, I'm learning everything so quickly and picking things up so well and like things are, I'm remembering things a lot better as well.
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Filly
So that's awesome. I think too. I mean, when we first started working with you, there was a lot of like, Oh, because I didn't get education and this is why. And then we kind of helped to break it down even further that it's like, well, it's not necessarily what happened to you or around you. It was how it made you feel about yourself, which then causes those responses of, Oh, you know, when you were older and you're like, Oh, I don't think or do you the same as all these other people who have gone to school.
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Filly
It's not necessarily that because you were homeschooled or not very well homeschooled. It was more like how it how it was making you feel about yourself and then having that awareness too, and then reframing that. Yeah, exactly. Because I remember even like, the smallest things freak you out, like in terms of like, I don't know what to do now.
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Filly
Everyone hates me.
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Filly
I was doing that. And so now you're like, what are your what's your guess is like your the anxiety and how what what's happening in your mind now? Like, are you feeling like you're, you said before a lot more relaxed understanding your self more. I would say.
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Sam
To make it.
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Filly
Easier to respond to stresses when they come And you've had a pretty intense last few months as well and building a house and lots of work and bit coping with the.
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Sam
Situation. So much different now as well. Like my mindset in the way I'm thinking, like just being aware of it and what I'm doing and what other people are saying. And when people are talking, remembering to actually listen and learn from what they're saying as well, especially at work when when someone's teaching me how to do something and I'm actually listening more and paying attention and even watching when they're teaching someone else something and just learning that way.
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Sam
And now that I know how to learn and like I'm picking so much up a lot easier.
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Filly
And not taking it personally as well, because way back in the day it would have been like, Oh, there's something wrong with me, I'm broken. Whereas now it's just like, Oh, this is this is the experience that I had and now this is how I, you know, the strategies that I have to improve myself in my life.
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Sam
Yeah, that's, that's how it, that's you said exactly how I would have said it.
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Filly
Awesome.
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Filly
I'm just touching on like root causes around the mitochondria, the gut stuff, the detox stuff. So a lot of like stress is a major impact on every single body system. But just picking out some other things too, like toxins is a huge cause of the mitochondria to become really damaged. So when you're exposed to toxins that could be environmental toxins, alcohol, junk food, skincare, smoking thing, all that sort of stuff can cause a big impact.
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Filly
And even from an early in life, you are quite exposed to a lot of smoking.
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Sam
Yeah, yeah.
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Filly
Secondary sites.
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Sam
Yeah. My parents did smoke a lot when I was younger and yeah, as long as I can remember that I've always smoked. And I think even while my mom was pregnant with me, she could have even been drinking as well when she was pregnant with me. So yeah. Yeah. That's probably caused her a lot of damage there. Some.
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Filly
Yeah, well, it just is. It sets people up. Like, if that's the environment that you've grown up in, even if even if someone grew up in a like a toxin free environment, which is still so exposed to so many toxins in our environment now and so that toxic load over time accumulates, which is why I feel like you had the gall stones and all the attacks detox pathways just weren't clearing toxins effectively or just got built up into your system, which is probably why you went.
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Filly
Although you managed or reduce the symptoms with the goal, it started tax with diet and exercise. It wasn't quite getting to the bottom of the fatigue and the ongoing attacks until we really did some restoration work around there.
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Sam
Yeah. So I only end up having gallstone attacks around once or twice a year instead of every couple of weeks or couple of months. And very randomly it did just the diet and exercise did manage it quite well. But since being on your program and going through all this supplements and and health and everything, it's definitely, definitely made a big difference.
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Sam
I just feeling how because I get tension around my gallbladder area like if I know I've eaten the wrong foods or something or I'm stressing I do feel that tension and I can feel when a gallstone attack is coming close or if I'm at risk of having one. And then I got to watch what I'm eating and stuff.
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Sam
But even the last few months, I've I've been stressed with work and everything, not in a really bad way, but just managing my life, managing my life and juggling what I've got at the moment. And yeah, just keeping an eye on how my body is functioning as well while I'm so busy and just making sure I'm not running myself into the ground or going to have a gallstone attack and there's not those signs there that they used to be so that.
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Filly
Things are improving.
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Sam
Definitely.
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Filly
We'll talk about maybe we'll talk about them improvements that you saw along the way. So we were chatting earlier around the Gold Star and because I just thought it was fascinating and like every time after your birthday, you get two weeks.
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Sam
Before.
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Filly
Before bed. Okay. So there's some like emotional mental kind of like stuff going on there, I reckon as well. But you said you haven't had any attacks in the last two or three, two or three years. Yeah. Yeah. Which is.
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Filly
Off and.
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Filly
Cycle. You haven't had it scanned again have you. Not had a little stuff.
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Sam
For a while at.
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Filly
Least. Okay. That'd be interesting. Just to see like if they dissolved now because it is possible that, that.
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Sam
Not since we went on the supplements for it.
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Filly
Yeah. What about, like with when did you start seeing an increase in energy? Like are there any stories or moments that you remember where you like. Oh I couldn't I used to not be able to do that, but now I can do this.
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Sam
I think there was a few times when I did my morning workout and I had a day where I had gone out and went for a hike or something. And and then I got back and I'm like, I don't feel exhausted. I was actually like my energy was there, but it wasn't like that hyped up over the top.
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Sam
It was more calm and relaxed and like a happy body kind of feeling and, and then, yeah, getting back into a good exercise routine. And I was as happy because my body was doing what I wanted to be doing. And then I wasn't run down and tired afterwards. So that was I think I do remember some of the moments when I'm not realising it until I do realise and then I'm like, Oh, look how amazing I'm feeling.
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Filly
I'm doing something, I'm doing something and I'm not tired. Because then like.
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Sam
After having the fatigue for so long and like whenever I go for a hike with my friends and then I come back and I'm just dead to the world exhausted. And that put a little fear in my head because I love going places. And then every time I thought about going somewhere, the thought of how exhausted I'm going to feel afterwards.
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Sam
And I'm still trying to get rid of that fear, sometimes it's like it still pops in sometimes. And I'm like, I could go for a hike. I hope I don't feel really tired the next day or something or at the end of it, like.
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Filly
Which is interesting because when someone's had a chronic health issue, which is what we would call body burn out, it's like it's trauma. It is trauma. It's waking up every day. Like for you, your experience was exhausted and brain fog when your mind constantly worrying and then having these gallstone and got issues like that, that chronic pain is trauma.
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Filly
So it's not uncommon. Like it's pretty normal once you actually physically heal, to then have these little thoughts pop up like.
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Filly
Oh, can I do it?
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Filly
And then, you know, and then you can kind of work do you work through that? So like when you have say, okay, do I choose to believe this now? Or is there a new there's a new version of me.
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Sam
Yeah, there's definitely new versions like these thoughts do pop pop up sometimes and more with the going for walks. Like I know it was a struggle getting up in the morning for work. My alarm would go off and I'd be grumbling and rolling over and hitting snooze a couple of times. And and now I don't mind. My alarm goes off and I'm just awake and I'm like, okay, turn the alarm off.
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Sam
I will sit in bed for a little bit and check my phone and see who's messaged me overnight and stuff and then get out of bed and get dressed and everything. But like it's, it's not hard like it used to be. It was it was such a difficult process just to get out of bed in the morning. Yeah.
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Sam
And then now it's like there's no worry or fear. And even at Night-Time before I go to bed, when I know I've got to get up at 530 in the morning, there's not that anxiety and stress. Like I have to go to bed at a specific time in order to be okay. When I wake up, it's like I've had a few nights where I've been up quite late and I'm still like, okay, I know I'm probably going to be a bit more tired in the morning, but then my alarm goes off and I'm okay.
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Sam
Yeah.
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Filly
Whereas before it way more resilient.
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Sam
More stressed about, I'm mind conscious about what time I'm going to bed and oh, I have to go to bed early tonight because I've got an early morning and I'm not as worried about.
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Filly
That. I'm just a normal human now.
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Sam
Exactly.
00;25;28;02 - 00;25;38;18
Filly
And also brain fog, because it was interesting too. And I feel like this is important for people to understand that healing isn't linear. Like it's not like doing this follow this program or this protocol and.
00;25;38;18 - 00;25;40;03
Filly
You will get better in.
00;25;40;03 - 00;25;53;05
Filly
A steep like a linear way. So you started experiencing improvements with brain fog. It was kind of like slow too. It wasn't sort of like after one month, no brain fog, it was month by month. Instead. Okay.
00;25;53;05 - 00;26;11;10
Sam
But it said slowly, and then it did take a little while for me to start noticing with the brain fog. And I'm like, Oh, I'm actually functioning better at work now. And like, yeah, it did take a little bit of time for it to start working and start coming in. But yeah, and then once I start noticing, I'm like, This is really good.
00;26;11;20 - 00;26;19;08
Sam
I can actually think better and I don't feel my term for it. I felt like a zombie every day, like just brain dead. Yeah. The thing.
00;26;19;08 - 00;26;23;24
Filly
And then what happened? The big C came. Sorry, that big C COVID?
00;26;23;26 - 00;26;28;05
Sam
Oh, yes, yes. That. Reverse the brain fog.
00;26;28;05 - 00;26;29;05
Filly
Definitely it did.
00;26;29;05 - 00;26;52;20
Filly
I don't think it was as bad, though. I think it definitely reversed it. And then we need to do a little bit more TLC work to get it back up to, you know, brain fog free. Yeah, but I feel like, well, actually, just from a clinical perspective, so many people like whether it was a reaction to a vaccine or they got COVID and things went a bit pear shaped and that's kind of life as well.
00;26;52;20 - 00;27;14;13
Filly
And the healing journey is that stuff pops up where you go back a bit, but you had the motivation and the big vision and also you knew what was possible for you to get back on the bike and keep going. Yeah, I'm Allison. Say, how like, how does life look different for you? You've talked about, like, how your body feels that.
00;27;14;13 - 00;27;22;26
Filly
Have you had any cool changes in your life too off to doing this holistic healing?
00;27;22;26 - 00;27;35;24
Sam
So I've just bought a house that's really exciting. So been a big journey though, and there's been a lot of stresses involved with it. So I finally moved in and is fantastic. I'm not unpacked yet.
00;27;36;28 - 00;27;38;24
Filly
Probably give it a year, maybe.
00;27;39;14 - 00;27;41;26
Filly
Another away and we moved in almost a year ago.
00;27;42;09 - 00;28;06;01
Sam
Exactly. You know, so that's been a big thing and exciting and stressful all at the same time. But yeah, and I'm working two jobs, so I am a little bit overworking myself just to make sure I'm comfortable with making these repayments and everything. And yeah, it's a little bit on top of me, but I'm still like, I'm not exhausted the way I used to be.
00;28;06;01 - 00;28;10;26
Sam
I'm, I'm with the right words pushing through like.
00;28;11;22 - 00;28;14;05
Filly
Happily normal, tired to juggling all.
00;28;15;08 - 00;28;29;21
Sam
The the tired I feel like I should have been feeling back when I was more really tired and like, chronically fatigued. I was like, that's not right to be feeling that way and like how I'm feeling now. That made more. That would have made more sense back then.
00;28;30;21 - 00;28;51;21
Filly
And we were saying when we were chatting earlier that it just would not have been possible. Like you would not have a house right now. You would not be able to be working the way that you are. And you also got out of some not great relationship. Yeah, our relationship as well. And what did you say earlier? I'm feeling awesome just being independent.
00;28;51;21 - 00;28;58;20
Filly
Yeah. Like not feeling like you needed to. For example, with a relationship that was kind of important. I don't need a relationship.
00;28;59;01 - 00;29;02;02
Sam
I don't, I. I need more money, but.
00;29;03;06 - 00;29;11;02
Filly
I really don't want to trade. I don't want a boyfriend. I want a better job. So I'm happy being this. It's like being.
00;29;11;02 - 00;29;12;16
Filly
Yourself. Yeah.
00;29;12;22 - 00;29;29;12
Sam
Comfortable. Happy in myself, in my independence. And yeah, I've got a lot of work to do around my house with my garden and everything, and I'm happy to work on that and figure out a relationship later on if it comes in and it's like, I'm just happy where I am with myself. Yeah.
00;29;29;21 - 00;29;52;19
Filly
I love that. I feel like what we are super passionate about is not just not just like dosing you out with like supplements and diets that really helping you to connect to yourself. Because often people get sick because they've broken some like a relationship with themself, they've broken rapport, and now it's like really becoming connected and in tune to who you are, to the signals from your body.
00;29;52;19 - 00;29;59;13
Filly
And then when all that happens, like, yeah, you are, you are enough, you are also you don't need anyone else to like.
00;30;00;04 - 00;30;05;23
Filly
Tell you that they love you because you love you. Exactly. I love it so good.
00;30;06;02 - 00;30;23;23
Filly
Okay. I think that this is our last question. So if anyone currently listening is struggling with body burnout and they have been trying or maybe not even trying and they feel like there's no hope, what would you say to that person if you came across them on the beach?
00;30;25;18 - 00;30;51;23
Sam
Definitely stick with taking the supplements and the programming and everything. Like I'm one of those people that when I get told by my doctors or medical practitioners, this is what you need to do in order to heal. I take it very seriously and I will put it into my routine and I'm a very routine based person. So if there's supplements I've got to take with breakfast, I'll take those supplements.
00;30;51;23 - 00;31;14;10
Sam
If the supplements with lunch, I'll take those and some with dinner, I'll take those. And what mindful meditation things are in there too. I will always make time for them and that's the key, is making sure you keep up to date with everything, because that's what I need. Yes, I'm not perfect. I did miss some supplements I was meant to take and here and there, and it was mostly when I had a day out.
00;31;14;10 - 00;31;22;13
Sam
And it's like it's difficult to take supplements when you're going out for dinner. It's a bit awkward sitting there at the table and kind of scoff down like ten pills or something.
00;31;23;01 - 00;31;47;05
Filly
Yeah, I feel like that pattern wasn't just weed shops as well. It was like you was showing up to drink cause you're showing up to your appointments. You were implementing things even when you didn't get it as well. You continued asking the questions. It's like especially with the the inner work and the stories that were floating around in your head, it was like you really took the whole holistic approach, which was.
00;31;47;17 - 00;32;04;14
Sam
If you can't even if you can't manage to fit all of it in, at least take on the bits that you know are going to help you feel like you can make a difference with these. So yeah, there were days when I did that as well, like, I can't do this whole lot today. Yeah, but I'm going to do this little thing and then that gives me that peace of mind.
00;32;04;14 - 00;32;08;21
Sam
I did something and every little step counts. Yeah.
00;32;09;07 - 00;32;13;01
Filly
And Chris always says 1% better every day.
00;32;13;06 - 00;32;16;22
Filly
Something bad every day. I am like, when I've had a bad.
00;32;16;22 - 00;32;30;10
Sam
Day, I'm like, I'm going to be 1% better when I get up the next day. It's like I'm going to be 1% better today than I was yesterday. Yes, every time after a bad day. Yeah. And it's like I'm going to be 1% better today. And sometimes I think I'm going to be 10%.
00;32;30;10 - 00;32;33;25
Filly
Ooh, I'm feeling good today. All right. 10%.
00;32;35;16 - 00;32;43;17
Filly
That is so good. And that's what makes it sustainable as well, because actually, I didn't even I probably should have looked at it to see how long this journey has taken you.
00;32;43;27 - 00;32;45;28
Sam
I think it's been over 12 months. Yeah.
00;32;45;29 - 00;32;48;29
Filly
Yeah. Like it wasn't kind of like a one month thing and done and so.
00;32;49;13 - 00;33;05;19
Sam
Quick fix is like it's a long journey and even sort of a fair few months in. I'm like, Is this a thinking? Is this supposed to take this long? Like when we were doing the focus calls, like there was some people that were on there for a while and then they disappeared. And I'm like, Have they already finished their journey?
00;33;05;19 - 00;33;14;04
Sam
And then it's like, Am I still here? And I'm like, I feel like people come and go and I'm still here, and I'm like, Am I extra and do I need extra care?
00;33;15;07 - 00;33;15;28
Filly
No, you.
00;33;15;28 - 00;33;28;16
Filly
Were just showing out for yourself. Yeah, right. And I think that's the thing, like regularly, even if it wasn't perfect and that was sustainable for you, and then that's what got you the results. Yeah. So, so good.
00;33;28;25 - 00;33;30;23
Filly
Yeah. Well done. You do it and.
00;33;30;23 - 00;33;31;25
Sam
You get the results.
00;33;31;26 - 00;33;33;12
Filly
Yes. So good.
00;33;33;12 - 00;33;36;25
Filly
Thank you so much. Sam, do you have anything else that you want to add?
00;33;37;13 - 00;33;37;29
Sam
I don't think.
00;33;37;29 - 00;33;38;08
Filly
So.
00;33;38;09 - 00;33;42;27
Filly
Okay. Thank you. We've loved working with you. You're awesome.
00;33;42;27 - 00;33;47;16
Sam
And I've loved being here. It's been an amazing journey. And you are beautiful people.
00;33;47;16 - 00;33;48;11
Filly
Thank you.
00;33;49;02 - 00;33;59;20
Filly
So much. Love. So much love in this room right now.
00;33;59;20 - 00;34;09;00
Filly
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Chris
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