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one the only Jett hey everyone welcome back to onp purpose the place you come to become happier healthier and more healed now I love turning my offline relationships people I'm a fan of bringing them on to the show and having the conversations where I'm speaking to a trusted expert today's guest is someone that I've followed on social media for a few years now and anytime I have a question about a new supplement a vitamin A Product this is the person that I go to to pick her brain to find out what she has to say about it and considering I trust her so much offline I thought I'd love to introduce you all to her online I'm speaking about Alyssa Goodman who's an integrative holistic nutritionist Alysa had issues with her health for her entire life from cancer to autoimmune issues and Hashimoto in her 30s which inspired her to take control of her own health and the lives of people around the world alysa's created her own delivered EG kitchen cleanse in La alysa's EG kitchen cleanse allows people to have nourishing vibrant healing food delivered right to their doorstep Alysa has been seeing clients for a decade now and is part of the healing Journey for thousands of people around the world if you don't already follow social media you definitely will after this if you're someone who wants to work on your health if you're someone who wants to get more connected with your body and if you're someone who wants to know how to cleanse and detox this episode is for you welcome to the show Alyssa Goodman thank you what an introduction that was so beautiful oh well I have so much more I could say but I stuck to the professional introduction but we obviously have a wonderful personal connection too I know and I just I love what I do so it comes easy as you can imagine you know I just I absolutely am obsessed with helping people get better I can see that I mean anyone who follows you on social media will see it immediately like it's so radiant so vibrant so true to who you are and I think our audience is really going to find this fascinating because I don't think we've ever had a cleanse expert on the show before and I wanted to start there like what is a cleanse expert I know that's a great question because cleansing gets a bad connotation I mean detox cleanse is all about deprivation starvation and I would say that you know after I went to school integrative holistic school I became a cleanse person for Cafe Gratitude M Cafe aroan and I didn't know what it was but I actually created these cleanses for these restaurants and handheld the cleansers throughout the 5 days or 3 days however long they were doing it and found out their ailments what worked for them what didn't work for them one was vegan and one was you know macrobiotic from M Cafe and it was a beautiful thing because I saw in five days people can restore their body reset their body get better brain you know retention better digestion just weight loss in 5 days like crazy so feel better energy mood all of it so it was really fascinating I'm like hm there's something to this cleansing and so I decided that it was those were a little bit more deprivation starvation so I created a cleanse 9 years ago that wasn't about that it's all it's there's a lot of food on it it's very anti-inflammatory and it's giving you a lot of like 50 different vegetables in over five days so it's super nurturing nourishing and that's what I'm trying to do for people is really introduce them to vegetables and plants and foods that are grown from the earth and taking away the inflammation so that's what my cleanse is all about why why do people need to go on a cleanse it's because most people eat unhealthy you know they eat way too much processed food they eat bad seed oils that are out there we're eating out a lot you know we're stressed so we're not even thinking about what we're eating we're eating on the Run there's just like a lot there's just the foods out there are have chemicals in them and are toxic so I think that you know everybody's like not feeling well they're not energized brain fog is huge digestive issues are on the rise autoimmune issues like we talked about cancer you know all of it diabetes um and so they need to be reset they need to have you know someone kind of help guide them and when you can deliver it to them so they don't have to cook it and don't have to meal prep it it's the ultimate M how often do we need to go on a cleanse and how long does it need to be how does that impact it's that's also great question because you can do my cleans weekly so so because if you're it's mostly plant-based there is a bone broth but if you're vegan you can do a vegan broth but people have had a client on there for a year and a half and couldn't get off of it loved it until she moved to London so she just like it's just really healthy food so it's really cleansing is it's not about you know the detox and like like deprivation it's about just feeding the body and nourishing it and giving your microbiome what it needs the prebiotics the probiotics you know giving the cells what it needs plant-based food is as you know being what you know how you eat it like it it really absorbs quickly into the system animal protein takes a long time to digest and I do eat some animal protein but plant-based food goes through the system absorbs really quickly um and can give you energy really fast it's fascinating to me isn't it because I think a lot of us are walking around you said not feeling well not feeling good and we start to think that's normal and I remember feeling that way where I just thought it was normal to get a headache or I thought it was normal to have have cough pain or I thought it was normal that my gut wasn't healthy like I was just like oh that's normal I'm getting older and I'm not even that old and it's like you just keep thinking oh this is normal it's okay yeah and you almost don't realize how good you can feel and over the last couple of years I've changed a lot about my diet about my sleep about my well-being routine and I feel better than I've ever felt even better than five six years ago when I was younger and you're someone that I think inspires so many of us in seeing how uh and I know you're working on a new book too called pro-aging hacks and the ability to stay healthy for longer talk to us about the moments in your life as I was talking about in the introduction you've gone through so much personal struggle and pain which has shifted you in this direction so does that mean before that you didn't eat healthy and that you didn't care walk us through that Alissa Goodman that we don't know yeah it was you know when I was born I was born with this low white blood cell count so that was I'm going to be 64 in two weeks so congratulations that's amazing that was 60 years ago and no one knew about how to build the immune system so like Fast Forward I was sick all the time you know I had two parents that were really type A and as a teenager and a young 20-year-old adult they were running circles around me so not only not only did I physically feel bad so I was eating a lot of sugar caffeine you know just trying to keep my energy up but also emotionally I was a little distraught because I'm like how are these older you know parents running circles around me and I can't even keep up with them mentally it did a number on me and so I kind of just like you know tried to keep up with everyone and I was living the fast track I was you know I that's what I grew up with making money you know being successful move from Arizona to New York you know worked in the advertising business was just working around the clock no sleep and really eating really poor um alcohol entertaining all of that and I just felt crappy all the time and at one point when I met my husband and we got married I said to him we're moving West and basically he was like New Jersey like no I go no we're going to California I need sunshine I need a slower way of life cuz I grew up in Arizona and thank God for that cuz when I landed in California and I got this fantastic job with Vogue magazine I was diagnosed with hodkin lymphoma so I got all the accumulation of all my stress and not feeling well and eating really poorly was the cancer and how old were you I was 32 wow I know so I was I was getting a massage I like you were saying I felt crappy all the time so I didn't know what you know feeling good felt like and I'm sitting there getting a massage with like sitting upright the masseuse felt a lymph node on my collar bone and she's like that's not okay you're not supposed to have a swollen lymph node there and so basically next thing I knew it was cancer and I got really lucky the masseuse was fantastic to find it early and then I found this doctor who I went to a radiologist who said sat me down and was staged by that time and he said you know are you happy do you love what you do for a living do you love your life do you love yourself you know what's your stress like what's your sleep like that was 30 years ago doctors still don't say that today which blows my mind cuz cancer is on the rise and all of these things so like he he made me feel at peace like he goes we got to get your emotional well-being back in control and like get you to a better place which I did I dove into all of that and then I dove I became a vegan and I was really lucky I was in California and there was Mrs gc's before whole food so the food you know there was a grocery store that was beautiful and organic organic Meats everything was like healthy farmed to table and then I went and Juiced all the time I Juiced every single day and did all the modalities here yoga you know self-help um went to see a therapist and I got my [ __ ] together thank god um and then I went on to have you know two really healthy girls and but after I did do some radiation I chose not to do the chemo because of my immune system and I knew my instincts told me that that was going to take me down so I did half of the radiation my oncologist fired me because he said you're not doing what I'm supposed to what what I'm trying to tell you to do and so I found someone to do half the radiation and the radiation gave me hyptis gave me Hashimoto Celiac all these other illnesses anxiety things that I hadn't had before um insomnia uh so I basically like the radiation was awful but but I Bas went on to have the girls and then 11 and 1 half years later I my husband was diagnosed with cancer so it's a crazy time I mean I got really healthy for that period after the cancer and for a while and then I kind of went back into the unhealthy World a bit more I didn't stay on that track and so when he got cancer you know I realized oh my God two parents who have cancer and watching him pass away in a year and a half that's when I like really took it seriously after he passed away at 45 I'm like this has to be serious and that's like basically when I realized you know I have to really get healthy because I didn't have any energy I was like my stamina was low because life with him was really crazy for a year and a half in and out of the hospital so and I watched him go from a healthy man to a very unhealthy you know and pass away a fungal pneumonia so it the cancer didn't get him it was his immune system and I followed the protocols of like healthier eating and all those modalities when I was sick but he didn't do that as much he really was scared and that he just did what other what the doctor said so it was like a very different story um so thank God like then that's when I took it a step further and I really started getting healthy and so ever since now you know years later almost 18 years later um I feel better than I did when I was in my 20s wow all the modalities yeah thank you thank you for sharing that because I I can't even begin to imagine what a challenging Journey that is personally and then in a relationship as well what what have you found and what have you discovered as you've been studying because I think you know a lot of people will say well no I need to get the radiation I need to do what my doctors are saying you obviously had a different confidence and an intuition around how you wanted to heal yourself and I think ultimately it comes down to how people want heal themselves what have you found works at different stages what have you seen across other patients uh who are struggling with cancer like what what have you seen what have you witnessed and observed it's been fascinating Jay because I have seen stage four heal can cancer heal without using Western modalities and it really is a mindset as you tuned into you know it's de-stressing it's like releasing trauma it's really getting in into your subconscious and rewiring it is believing in yourself and having the confidence that you can heal from anything I do believe you can heal from anything almost so I feel like you we got to believe it and most people don't believe they can and most people don't believe that they love themselves they don't admire who they are they don't love themselves their self-esteem is low so I would say that is the biggest thing when I ask clients all the time you you know when they have cancer do you love the yourself and they're like o no one's asked me that question and I'm like you know that's something we really got to work on you know do you have peace in your life those are the things that totally changed my life all of those things finding love finding peace you know you not labeling myself a sick kid because I had labeled myself and all the people around me as a you know young adult I was a sick kid because I was always getting sick so we label ourselves you know when we have trauma in those early years or we're just not in a good place you know growing up we do label ourselves and those are the things we've got to rewire I have found that to be number one you know one of my favorite books radical remission radical hope um by Kelly Turner you know the heel documentary all those things are beautiful in terms of like talking about that and also just then I would say it comes to the food food is medicine as we know so people you know eating nourishing you know vegetables plants you know foods that are grown from the earth that's where you know from the sunshine like energy wise that's a beautiful thing um I've always been a big juicer for 30 years and I've been juicing ever since I've taken some breaks but I almost can't live without it and so juicing greens has been like I think a lifesaver for me you know cuz I feel like that's my multivitamin so let's break this down for people now so that they can practice it so you've been a juicer for so long walk us through how to juice what to juice why to juice and what the benefits are I know forner I know cuz there's a lot of like controversy about juicing it's like all the nutrients are taken out of it you know corre I'm hearing that a lot yeah and the fiber and all of that but you know I was a purist so I would juice and drink it right away so I feel like you know I was able and I would do a cold pressed juice I wouldn't do heat so that's also it the nutrients stay intact with the cold press so I love that nowadays I'm just throwing them in a blender cuz I do love the fiber um so that you know doesn't take out that also the nutrients as fast and I love having all that fiber so I think people just don't eat enough vegetables I'm trying to get clients to eat 10 to cup 10 to8 to 10 cups of vegetables a day and that is they their eyes glaze over like how the hell do I do that and youen you can get four to five easily throwing them in and I do cucumber celery lemon ginger spinach super easy things and sometimes not so expensive you know people think it's like very arduous and got to have all those vegetables and you know it could be easy celery is huge in terms of the minerals cucumbers super hydrating cleansing for the kidneys celery cleanses your gut cleanses your liver I mean you know spinach is full of iron so ginger is you know antibacterial lemon I mean they're just beautiful things and I think it just wakes me up every day and like gives and also helps skin and digestion and all of that so I think it's a beautiful way to start the day and you're having that first in the morning that's that's what you have on an empty stomach right and you've just done that for years and found years yeah I found that too I remember when celery juice became you know it had its wave which was a few years ago now I feel and I remember trying it out and I've still not found something better than celery juice so you just do Straight celery juice still generally well I'll probably do like celery with a bit of Apple in it just to give it a bit of sweetness just to make it like easy to do yes exactly for me to enjoy it usually I would just stick to celery in the beginning but then I was like okay I need to enjoy this a little bit and so a little bit of Apple in it would be perfect but just enough just enough not too much and and to me that's been one of my favorite things that has helped my gut heal so much and and I find it to be such a powerful practice so it resonates well who brought the celery juice craze on was the medical medium right we've had him on the show yes yes and years ago I was working with with him as well and he was the one who really did help me get past my autoimmune issues so I started the celery juice like four or five years ago when it all just started and you know I was wondering like why is this celery juice so powerful and I started clients on it as well and I realized there was a like a like a little bit of a trick to it in terms of it's super hydrating and I find that hydration is like really an epidemic right now dehydration is crazy and celery has is full of minerals you know and also like is great with prebiotics and things like that but the mineral content in celery is huge so people are drinking the celery juice wondering like how am I feeling so good but it's hydrating them so people just don't get up in the morning and I always say it kind of blows my mind I say people like have to have a mandatory of two cups of water just 16 ounces of water before their coffee or their tea or anything Cafe caffeinated and they're like well that that's easy but I don't do it and then they call me back and go well that was life-changing just two cups of water I'm like you paid me to tell you to drink two cups of water that's crazy but the celery juice is the same thing it's super hydrating when you're dehydrated nothing works right you know your adrenals aren't working your cortisol and your adrenaline are rising you know you're not going to the bathroom regularly your brain can't work you think you're hungry like it really is like an epidemic and we have all this beautiful water at our fingertips but we just don't have minerals you know what I have not actually thought about that I don't think we've ever heard anyone say that so clearly because it again like you said it sounds so obvious right but most of us are not drinking close to enough water no and like you're saying the V the minerals that actually come from the earth grown vegetables that naturally are filled with it and packed with it yeah the plants and like gos complex carbs too people are kind of anti- carbs when they want to lose weight but they're full of minerals so and they also calm the central nervous system down what what are some examples of those those are legumes and beans you know and also like I'd say some really good Rices quinoa sweet potatoes squash all of those things you know wild rice black rice I mean those are beautiful complex carbs also great for the gut as well so yeah yeah yeah what have you seen about because what we're really talking about here like you said the client that calls you up after doing it and says I can't believe it works and I I can't believe I paid you for that Etc that that idea it seems like and even for you like you know you went through this terrible experience yourself you know the radiation caused more challenges you know you go through the the tragic loss of a partner like who's you know also suffering from this and and you say that's what wake woke you up and I think a lot of us it's it's hard to think that a lot of us and I guess that's why you do what you do is you don't want people wait for personal loss in order to get serious about their health and well-being but it I find that as humans we're so bad at changing our habits and we're so quick to forget even pain and I remember this like not in an not in an close to the extremes that you have had but I've had different reminders in my health where my body's slowed down or Fallen apart or I've needed a surgery or whatever it may be and it's so quick like you know a couple of months later you're eating all the stuff again and you're just happy that you're back to being normal and you just let yourself go again and then again you get another wakeup call and for me I think what was really got me serious was last year I sat down with my doctor who I've had on the show Daran sha and when we looked at all my Bloods and everything he said to me Jay this is not your fault because your diet seems to be good but because of your genetic makeup you're predisposed diabetes and cholesterol and so even though you don't eat fried food and oily food and you don't eat uh that much sugar comparatively you're just more predisposed to it and when I heard that I was like all right got it like I need to now be serious about my health and I feel like that was towards the end of last year where I just really got dialed in but it's almost like a lot of us wait for pain in order to get proactive and I guess the reason you do what you do is to not let people wait for pain because that's just so painful and challenging yeah what have you learned about habit change when you're working with your clients what is it that really helps people change what are some of the hacks what are some of the habits that have transformed people's lives I that's so good I know because I think since covid people are now starting to take their health more serious AG thank God for that and also you're right like the diabetes is on the rise like blood sugar issues are crazy out of control so like when I work with my clients I would say like you what you were saying earlier you know with NEX health and all of that is like I'm now doing blood work with my every client I do blood work on I'm doing really thorough blood work I'm even doing heavy metals all the metabolic you know thyroid all the hormones even if they're young and I'm seeing such fascinating things everybody's blood sugar is too high it's not PRI pre-diabetic yet but it's very close their thyroids out of whack their insulin levels are too high their cortisol is too high you know it's wild they got heavy metals so um they're heading towards health issues and I feel like that has been the coolest thing lately for me to be in the last year doing that because I'm catching these things before they get unhealthy I know they don't feel good and they're lethargic and they're not sleeping well and they have hormone issues but there's something behind it if they are eating healthy you know like there is something physical like you found um and that has been gamechanging like to be able to you know get their blood sugar under control to get their thyroid working again to also get their hormones working better before they even go into menopause has been huge so I feel like those you know those things have been life-changing the blood work stuff and doing it once a year amazing um and and great for the clients like it's not expensive to do with me um also then it's about you know really one thing at a time so like we talked about like maybe getting them hydrated the first week secondly you know maybe getting them eating more plant-based Foods um of course the sleep is crucial like people aren't sleeping enough um and also getting them sleeping better and helping them sleep better you know there's a lot of modalities you know in terms of getting healthy but I don't want to overwhelm them so I try desperately not to overwhelm them you know with giving them too much off the bat I mean I am a supplement junkie I've been like dabbling with supplements since I had cancer um now it's a billion dollar business and there's too many out there and there's a lot of crappy supplements out there so I do feel really lucky that I've dabbled in it a long time so I know what's good and what isn't and I had to also deal with it myself so I take a lot of supplements and I figure out what works for me and what doesn't and I muscle test them on myself and all of that um and I try to teach my clients to muscle test the supplements on them what's a muscle test okay so this is fascinating you have never heard of this I don't know I'm not sure maybe it's called something else I feel like I thought at next they do that maybe not but you actually stick a supplement like on your gut or you can hold it um and actually it's kind of like Eastern medicine you know either you hold your hand out and somebody pushes your hand down if you're with somebody okay that's muscle testing how you do it on yourself is you put it on your gut and you stand like kind of like try to balance yourself and stand upright and then you say hey is this B complex right for me and then your body moves forward if yes and back if no and then you say should I take one should I take two and your body tells you everything it's so in tune you know we were born with these incredible instincts and we lose touch with them right like we lose touch all like along the way with all the things that have gone on in our life and it's the same thing with food with supplements with what we need to do to heal ourselves and where we want to be in our lives is all instinctual so the instincts are huge so I try to teach them that as well it's so interesting isn't it because I feel like we've become so distrusting of our bodies yeah because we've been told to trust someone or something else and of course we do need guides we need experts we need doctors you know and I'm not discouraging anyone from any of those things I'm just saying that I think claiming back some of that in the same way as when you eat something you know whether your body is accepting or rejecting it based on how it's feeling and of course if your digestion is strong then it gives you the best sense sometimes of your digestion is weak it may not give you the best marker but when you're talking about vitamins and supplements walk us through in a practical sense how does someone make a choice what do they need to read on the back of a a box or a bottle with vitamins and supplements like what should they be looking for and what should they be looking at to make sense of it from a technical standpoint not just the intuition standpoint yeah that's a great question um because you want to have as least fillers and attit in that supplement is possible and what's a filler and an so filler is like something that just fills up the supplement you know it's like a you know crystalline cellulose is a is a filler um not all the supplement is going to be the B complex but they need other things you know to bind the bees you know for the for you to be able to digest them so a lot of times you know or like it's expensive to have the supplement be all you know liposomal C or B or whatever or vitamin D so a lot of times they add the the additives so that it isn't as costly so it really is a struggle because a lot of people don't do well with these additives and they don't know that so microcrystalline cellulose is one that's in a lot of supplements and it gives you digestive issues if you're taking too many so you could see a lot of people's supplements and they can all have Micro microcrystalline cellulose I mean it's wild so it or soy lesian you know or just these attit just like Foods you know it kind of maintains the shelf life of the supplement as well so it's hard to find supplements without that cuz they're costly and a lot of people can't afford that right so that's why you know I try to go more like with the food and that you know lead with the food and then supplements come second right but there are some supplements out there that we absolutely do need you know vitamin D is one of them I mean since Co the studies that have been done on vitamin D and especially liposomal because liposomal is a phospholipid outside of a you know supplement and basically is better to absorb easier to absorb like liposomal C and liposomal glutathion and all those things and so basically you know D when you raise your D levels you can lower your cholesterol actually you raise your D levels it's better for immune system it's better for cognitive function people don't realize that there's a vitamin D cell receptor in every cell in your body so you know there's that it's Omega-3 it's you know it's magnesium like there's certain things out there be be complex for stress yeah I don't one thing I definitely didn't realize until I really got on a good regime of supplements and vitamins was just how much harder I was working to feel good right like it was I I just thought it was a mental battle and so I was fighting the mental battle every day with meditation and mindfulness and everything else and then I realized I was like actually I would have been a much better meditator if I just took supplements and vitamins early on because then your body's actually helping you with that focus and with the physical activity or movement and exercise right whether it's hiking or sport or whatever it may be and it's so funny now that you're naming all these things I'm like I've seen all these things on the backs and never known what that means and it's so easy to just feel so uneducated and I've definitely felt that way in this space you know without having good people around you it's so hard to really know whether what you're doing is good for you or not walk us through like if we took a random stack of snacks right now and I don't want to pick on any brands or anything like that in any way but if you were to teach someone how to read the back of a snack pack what should they be looking out for because this is something that I believe has changed the way I snack and I generally I'd say my diet is like maybe I don't know at this point like 5% Pro or packaged Foods in any if if that probably when I'm traveling I'll have like a protein bar that I travel with or something like that but generally it's it's not I'm I'm on the Whole Foods diet and everything else but it wasn't that way before I used to think that if I ate healthy snacks then that was okay so I would eat packaged goods and then 50% of my diet was packaged Goods or or maybe 30% walk us through what we should be looking out for because I think so much is hidden on these well it's the same thing as the supplements know there's a laundry list of things on the back of the snack you know box or bag or whatever that you don't even recognize right like it's just I mean there are like you know certain dyes that are bad for us and like again going back to the soy leian like soy Le is really bad for us see that everywhere it's so funny I've pronounced that wrong for my whole life now that you've told me I mean I love soy whole soy products but you know when it's processed down to that it's bad it's like the bad seed oil oils that's Omega sixes and nines and like really causing inflammation so again if it's a laundry list of things that you don't recognize like that kind of is a no-go I mean you know we let's talk about some of the things we know like plant milks you know they're they've been huge for years right um now there's thank God there's better healthier plant milks out there they're just almonds and sea salt um and water like those are the things to look for something that's just simple the cheeses you know I I do love some of the plant-based foods and cheeses and some of the fake Meats but again they could have a lot of bad stuff in them so it's like you know I sometime you just got to go for the less is more even the protein bars too you know every so often it's not bad to have some of these things that do have these you know all these things and them because you're kind not going to be perfect but I would say 75% of the time 80% of the time to try to look for you know those things on the back and just try to do things with less additives because your system doesn't know how to process it doesn't know how to digest it and the more you add these additives into your body I think more toxic you become and also the digestive system like the digestive issues are crazy out of control like I created a digestive cleanse because it's been like everybody has digestive issues everybody calls me like my D every time I eat I get bloated I you know I can't eat anything now or I can't go to the bathroom like the constipation for days on end like it's really crazy or the other side of it where they're going in the bathroom too much um that's an epidemic like the hydration yeah so you're saying when you're looking at if you're outside you're looking for snacks and products it's like less ingredients simple ingredients and real ingredients basically things that you actually know what they are if you don't know what they are right that's probably assigned that and the problem is it doesn't taste as good though no it doesn't like I had a protein bar the other day cuz I was at Expo and I had a protein bar and I was like oh great like this literally had three ingredients on it I was so excited to eat it and I tried it and it was so bad compared to the one that I've been programmed to love which has all the other 30 things that you'd say I shouldn't eat and are not good for me and it's so frustrating because I'm like I wish I was trained to believe that whole natural food Foods were tasty and healthy whereas because I've been so spoiled by my taste buds have been ruined by all of this other stuff that now feels captivating and exciting and tasty yeah most of America has you know right I mean the sugar in these things like you know there's a lot of Sugar In These Bars and in these milks and cheeses or whatever it is because things don't taste so great when they are on that simple side you know there's a lot of salt there's a lot of sodium so to make them taste better walk us through so walk us through the core needs that people come to you with so that you said they do there's a gut cleanse walk us through the different cleanses that people need in their life um so the regular cleanse is really I'll tell you a little bit about what's on it um there's a detox tonic on it with coconut cafir which is a probiotic drink I love coconut good a big fan of probiotics and I love coconut cfir cocoyo and there's a lot of great products out there on the market then it has chlorophyll apple cider vinegar lemon ginger and there and then there's my homemade super seed bar um then you basically get a bone broth or vegan broth um our bone broth is really gelatinous and so there's a lot of collagen which I love and then we get you get different salads for the week different salad dressings fermented vegetables you get different soups for the for the nighttime and then you get lattes for the evening then you also get digestive enzymes and you get magnesium so to make sure that everything's working properly cuz people going from an animal protein diet into a plant-based legumes and beans can disrupt their stomach and also a lot of vegetables can as well so there's that one there's a three-day so with that one how walk us through so are you encouraging people to not have dinners in that is that like soup is dinner or they could have soup for lunch and do the salad for dinner so it's not super strict um a lot of people who exercise a ton will add a little bit of an animal protein you know to the meal potentially and it doesn't take you away from the cleanse so again you're just getting tons of vegetables you're getting anti-inflammatory you know nourishing nurturing Foods so um that you know that one is like my regular one that has been going on for nine years sometimes it blows my mind because the tonic's been on there for nine years the bar's been on there like it's crazy that things are still popular um people buy the tonics and the bars separately and then the gut cleanse has um activated charcoal on there so w c through that what activated charcoal so I love activated charcoal because it lowers bacteria loads in your gut wait how do you eat activated charcoal you take a pill right you can you can put it in a drink and you know you can to put it in the detox tonic um or in water or whatever but you take it's a pill it's a very strong pill um and I have found when I had insulin resistant clients who couldn't lose weight you know weight resistant clients their insulin was high their gut bacteria was too high so I would put them on 5 days of activated charcoal and lower their insulin levels which was like fantastic so that's how the gut cleanse came about so they get activated charcoal they still get the enzymes they get the Magnesium um but they get chia pudding they get sauerkraut they still get the um detox tonic they don't get the bar cuz a little too much sugar um I don't want sugar for them because of the bacteria and then they get everything else that's pretty similar and the nighttime is a tulsy tea um you know that holy basil is one of my favorites it's anti-inflammatory and great for the gut great for Sleep um so that's my that's the other cleanse that I love and so what I'm trying to do for people is really clean them out um my those clients are the ones that have a little bit of constipation issues like aren't going to the bathroom regularly um and they're by the end of the week they're going two and three times a day wow like it that's another crazy thing cuz people go yeah once a day they that's consider constipated these days it's crazy so walk us through that because that's always like an uncomfortable topic for people it's something that people don't talk about but I mean I don't think we've even we're getting to the point of understanding how important the the digestive system is yeah and how often should be people going to the restroom what what what should be the healthy way of um going about that area of their life well you know once a day is good twice is great three is perfect so we really because we don't get enough fiber because we don't get enough hydration because we're stressed because when we're stressed our digestive system completely shuts down um we are not being able to digest our food so Al and also we're eating a lot of animal protein so it takes you know 14 hours to get through the small intestine cow and and animal protein and 90 minutes for plant-based food which is crazy so we're say that difference again so for plant-based food it takes 90 minutes to get through the small intestine for cow and animal protein it takes 14 hours so we're you know we're eating eggs for breakfast and chicken for lunch and salmon for dinner like so we're just like not that it's bad for you but we're just we're not getting hydration we're not getting fiber you know we're stressed all the other we're not doing the other things we're not sleeping sleeping is very detoxifying and helping us with our digestive system so um yeah so we're we're supposed to be kind of like an animal and going after every meal and people are a little bit like oh please don't tell me that yeah wow wow I know it's it's interesting how interconnected it all is though like you talked about hydration earlier we're talking about the gut now like it's it's fascinating because it's almost like even for me I was talking to a friend about it this morning and we were just talking about how like we're like okay we want to get proteins but then if I'm eating this cuz as a plant-based person to get proteins harder it's also that way around right so you're trying to get enough protein in your Di but then it's like well maybe that particular item doesn't sit well with my gut and doesn't make me feel good and so you're also finding that as well right like it's it's not as simple as like well this is really great for everyone right it's so individual it's not a one siiz fits all right and I do believe in you know if you're vegan I can help someone get enough protein or vegetarian or you know animal protein for me I grew up eating animal protein so I you know I feel like I need that and I feel like as I've aged I feel like I need more amino acids um but sometimes it certain animal proteins don't agree with me so I do take digestive enzymes before I eat animal protein so I can digest it so I mean what form do you take your digestive I love this enzymatica digest gold at Pro is one of my favorites it's on the cleanse um but you can also get it from apple cider vinegar you could also get it from bitter greens like danine greens arugula um Andi Rico so sometimes I'll just take a handful of arugula before I eat a meal it's really crazy and it'll wake up your enzymes really yeah that's incredible I didn't know that or after a meal if you kind of have a digestive issue you could take some arugula and eat it I know it sounds very strange but or have some apple cider vinegar or take an enzyme after the meal it doesn't have to be before the meal so there are a lot of tricks that people sometimes don't know because digestion can be an issue um and I also don't overdo the animal protein like I'm not having like 8 to 10 to 12 ounces of something you know I'm having like 3 to 4 ounces so that's like you know 30 40 gram of protein so I feel like um nowadays protein is the Hot Topic like you know some people feel like you need to get a gram per body weight but I'm really someone who feels like you know 70 75 grams for women is great so that's kind of easy to do of course it impacts based on your workouts exactly and everything else that are going on yeah and hoping that you do Digest you know what you're eating that's important i' I've found that adding in the beginning adding protein to my diet felt heavy on my digestion but actually it's now led to better digestion but it took it took this like transition point where I was like God that's really heavy like it's harder to digest in the beginning yeah even though it should be helping me but then I feel like it's it's just staying committed to it my digestions got used to it is that natural do you find that or that's the same with legumes and beans cuz people will go on the cleanse and be like I can't eat legumes and beans they're not used to that cuz they're animal protein eaters and most of us have been animal protein eaters I feel like most people I talk to they just don't they feel like B beans and legumes are gassy and are hard to digest but the more you eat them the easier they are in the system right yeah your digestive system gets you know used to it right it is kind of wild what what are some of the biggest mistakes you see people making when it comes to their health and wellbeing that you've kind of noticed as Trends over the years that these seem to just be the things that trip people up that's such a great question because there's so many um but I would say you know a lot of people are overs supplementing oh interesting yeah they are like on social media Tik Tok or Instagram and they're seeing all these influencers who are great at what they do but they're promoting all these different products and they have no idea if that product is right for them so they're buying it so I'll I'll like see cupboards and like suitcases of people who have all these supplements and they're taking them and they don't feel good they're not really making them feel better um so but the but the person who's promoting and said this is going to this is going to change your life right so that's huge also like what's also hard is um basically like following the protot like gluten-free you know or um not everybody needs to be gluten-free or like dairyfree or all of those things so you know or they're not gluten-free the other side of it you know they're just not like eating like they're not taking gluten out of the diet because it's inflammatory or dairy um or sugar sugar is a huge one so um people really feel that um sugar you know they can have a little sugar some people can't so I think foodwise it's like there's so many misconceptions of what they should or shouldn't be doing and they should be gluten-free or not or dairy free or maybe like you know should they be could they have some sugar or not just it depends on like what their blood sugar is what their gut is happening I'm seeing a lot of that the supplements I also see that um people are over exercising wow too like they're like doing Barry's boot camp and spin classes and their cortisol and adrenaline is so high and they're so stressed and their adrenals are fatigued and it's just making them more tired that's why you have to be observing the 360 and that's what's so hard about it because you could look great right and then still feel terrible and be super stressed out because you it's kind of like I mean we were having this conversation offline which you know last night I played pickleball for two hours it was super physical I think everyone's uh you know everyone's fitness trackers said that we burnt like 1,100 calories last night playing for 2 hours but I came back and my body temperature was really high and so when I got into bed and as I was telling you my AC unit wasn't working so I couldn't lower the temperature in the bedroom and my house gets quite hot so I had a high body temperature and the temperature of the room was probably like 78 which is super high and so then now it was so hard for me to sleep and I remember while I was struggling to sleep I just started researching body temperature and why it was hard to sleep and all the rest of it and and that's all it was saying and I was thinking this is so interesting because I could be thinking oh it's because I'm stressed about something or I've got loads on and it's like well no it's just body temperature and the temperature of my room right and and it's it's challenging because I think that you know food is such a source of Joy it's such a source of excitement for so many people and yet now when you start really getting into it it can become such a source of stress and such a source of pressure like oh my God I'm eating too much this I'm eating too little this like oh no I didn't meal prep this week and oh no now like I didn't get it oh I forgot to take my vitamin it's like I think we're so stressed about being healthy how have you made sense of that because I can find when I'm you know when I'm having this conversation there's a part of me I've been through the ups and downs of that where I've been like God I hate dealing with my health right because it's so stressful and now I'm in a better place with it but that's taken a long long long long long time to even recognize that healing journey of realizing I'm doing this because I love myself I'm doing this because I in myself I'm doing this because I love my body I love my heart I love myself which is why I get to do this but that has taken a long time even for me so walk us through how people can balance that stress to be healthy when it should be making us less stressed I no that's another good one it's just like this over supplementing and like you know you walk into Awan and you like talk about stress there's all this you know healthy beautiful food and you don't know what to choose right it's like oh my God like there's so much out there it's just overwhelm and I feel like you know you've just got to get back in tune with yourself and you've you know you can't overdo anything I think you got to go back to the basics you know you just got to go back to eating real food try to do that you've got to you know if the supplements are disturbing you just do less just do the basics of what you need you know multivitamin vitamin D magnesium just simple things you've got to hydrate you know you got to sleep like um just like you can't like get all worked up over these things because you're right you're not going to do them you're just like not going to do them like I find people just being like this is way too much you want it to be simple you want them to feel better you want them to see results so less is more and I feel like you know we have become a society where we're doing way too much and we just we got to pull back we got to just we got to believe in ourselves I think you know with the meditation like I'm a huge meditator and that's so helpful for me because I'm a type A personality and I'm always like go go go and I got to get [ __ ] done um but when I pull back and I meditate and I do yoga and I chill out like then every my my mind tells me what I need you know cuz I could do that too I can overs supplement I can you know be really like tight about wow I went to this restaurant and they didn't have gluten-free pizza or you know or wild salmon I remember ordering that stuff and my whole family be like oh my God we can't eat with you because you're such a pain in the ass but now I'm just like okay who cares you know but I do you do have to kind of like get back in touch with and reconnect your mind with your body and be like okay what works for me you know I can't like you can't you can't go crazy about this stuff how have you allowed yourself to fall in love with yourself and your body and your heart and your mind again and again and again when the body gets older it changes it transitions it shifts like what what have what has been like your what has been your your inner practice to to keep that do you really it's I'm asking really deep I'm ask deep question yeah yeah this is um this is fascinating um but uh you know when I did figure it out like at 58 years old um I did plant medicine so I did psilocybon and a journey and I really did see what my subconscious was doing to me my subconscious was you know still labeling me as sick kid always fearful I was looking over my shoulder that another illness was going to come along the way I was never going to be healthy I didn't even know what calm or self-love felt like you know so that really I saw what I was doing to myself and I also felt a sense of peace and calm with that so once I was able to release all of those you know subconscious feelings that weren't working for me anymore I grabbed on to the ones that I was like okay I want that calm I want that self-love more and um that's what really got me in touch with it and then that's when when I meditate I can go back to that place where I was when I did some plant medicine to get me past that hump I had done a lot of therapy I had done a lot of raiki a lot of meditation a lot of energy healing crystals all this stuff but uh that was really the the place that put me over the edge to really get me to a place where I could recapture you know and really find that calmness and happiness and like that felt so incredible that feeling so I journal A you know I do have to journal and and talk about what frustrates me during the day to let go of it and then I talk about what I'm gra grateful for that's huge the meditation is huge the yoga is huge just like also getting out in nature is absolutely huge I mean we haven't talked about this at all but you know and you probably do this you know getting out in Morning Sun is a practice that is just incredible like it boosts your mood it actually helps with depression you know it helps with the immune system it helps lower blood sugar and blood pressure and it's like a beautiful way to start your day the sun is so incredible so that those are and then I just feel like so hopeful because the sun comes up every day right you know it goes down it comes up it's like okay everything's going to be okay I want to go back to the prom medicine point because I I love hearing that and and I want to dive into that with you I didn't know if that was something I could talk about 100% 100% of course it is uh for someone who doesn't know what a plant medicine Journey looks like like walk us through what that Journey looks like so um it is psilocybon mushrooms and I've done iasa psilocybon bunch of plant medicine um and I did it with a shaman a one-on-one which was beautiful because I recommend that um because there's a lot of things you want to manifest and like let go of um where did you go to do this I did it at home actually the shaman came to me and um and sah was a friend of mine and there was just a lot of stuff I was dealing with and some insomnia at the time and so he came and we kind of manifested what I wanted to release and when I was on the journey with the with the mushrooms um he would talk to me and say hey how are you feeling you know what do you think of this you know when you were sick or when you had cancer or your husband died I mean and I was like you know wow that was a really difficult time that I haven't let go of those thought patterns and the fear I haven't let go of that so it was so he was like okay what does it feel like if you were to let go of that and I'm like can I let go of that is that like possible and he's like absolutely you can get to the other side of this because you know the first seven years of our life our subconscious is fully downloaded and then you know those thought patterns keep repeating themselves in our in our subconscious and we operate 95% out of our subc conscious which always blows my mind Jay Cuz 5% conscious that's crazy so I mean that's that's what it did he would write down you know things I said and just how I was able to release them um and once I was able to release them Jay they didn't come back like it was like the the things that came back was the feeling of the peace and the love and like not wanting to beat myself up and like be hard on myself and be I was a perfectionist too that was part of the protocol I think that got me sick and so that perfectionism you know F somewhat left me probably not 100% but a lot of it did you're taking the plot medicine someone's guiding you almost like in a therapy session a coaching s guiding you through questions and helping you become aware of where some of these blocks may be where some of these challenges may be I'm breaking it down for everyone who may may be unaware and then what does releasing in that session look like like what what is that is that a feeling is it a visualization is it is it you trying to let go like what does that what does that look like in the session and then we'll talk about after yeah that's a good question too because um it it could be a like it could be it's a purging it's you know you could hysterically cry um because it's like it's an emotion that you've hung on to for many many years and you know repeated these thought patterns so it could be crying it could be screaming it could be you know just like this feeling of wow I can't believe I've done this to myself and I would say that you know it's more like the just the feeling of sadness and and the crying and the like some maybe yelling like God damn I can't believe like how was I so hard on myself like I don't need to be that hard on myself myself you know I didn't need to do that to myself so it was like you know and then he was he's amazing he was there to like hold me and support me and just really like you know add just love and help me breathe through it and once you kind of like are able to be like okay I don't want that anymore in my life and then you breathe through it and you're able to breath work is like you know I'm sure you've done breath work is incredible you can actually in breath work you can feel like you're on plant medicine a lot of times so you know breathing through it and releasing it through breath work is a beautiful thing so that's kind of how it goes yeah and are you feeling or seeing both you could see yourself in a distance like what you do you know it's almost like an all you know another you're looking at yourself yeah you're feeling it and you're seeing yourself in a distance you know how you're reacting and interacting and even if you're interacting with other people you know even people in your family or things that have gone on you can actually see it it's kind of wild I know it's not for everybody no no no no for sure I've I've known many clients who've worked with it and and found it to be useful as well I think it's important to share because I want to ask when you come out of it like when when the when the when the session is is over how much have you found that you're able to what are you holding on to what do you take with you and what still stays the same because as we know it's you know no change is ever miraculous or immediate so so what do you take with you and what still exists and is a process that that's beautiful too because what I took with me was that sense of calm and like selflove and what I wanted to have more in my life but I did also take away you know the part of how much I was beating myself up and you know how hard I was on myself and what I had and why I think I had gotten all these illnesses and why I had gotten the cancer and just why I was at the place I was in my life where I wasn't getting what I really wanted ultimately whether it also was with relationships or you know intimately like all those things were really important to me to find and you know there was blockages so I realized like it was really cool to be able to journal about those blockages later like oh my God I want to release that and I kind of had to do that and I still have to do that it's not a miracle cure I still in my life have to be like okay I need to release you know that thought pattern I still kind of walk around a little bit with it but not to the same extent when I did the journey I was unconscious about it now I'm conscious that's a beautiful thing absolutely it's that awareness of yeah you know where something came from what was it for you don't mind sharing what was it that you found when you asked like that's why I believe I'm going to get sick again or that's why I got sick in the first place where was that coming from that was coming from like growing up because when I was I was sick all the time and my mom you know labeled me a sick kid and she would always be like H There She is again sick you know like well we got to be really sensitive with her cuz you know she might get sick um and so I kind of just you know followed that you know what she said and i b that's where that's really where it came from it was those years those early years of always being you know not feeling well and then and you're saying that also helps you then deal with challenges that come today yeah like that awareness helps you make sense of different things that come up now and also with my clients um not only for myself it's changed my life completely but my clients I can see that happening for them you know because because I've been through all these health issues and because I was you know in the subconscious thoughts of these repeated messages that weren't working for me we talk about that you know I'm like okay what is going on with you that's blocking you because there's something blocking you from getting healthy or wanting to heal or a lot of the cancer ones you know we talk about those things and also they're also like no one's asked me that you know no one's asked me what my blockages are or you know what's going on with me like did any anything happened in those first seven early years of your life that maybe was traumatic Jay all of them had like death divorce you know or someone was mean to them you know they didn't and then they lost trust and faith in the universe sort of you know I know it's a little woo woo but they did they lost faith in like you know that they didn't have what's in them to be able to overcome it and I think like that has been like a beautiful thing for me working with clients and helping them heal I can't I'm not trained to get them past it you know someone like you can get them past it to some degree um but you know it's like that work of you know diving into the subconscious and I also I work with a hypnotist that's beautiful and some energy healers that are wonderful too and I'll send them to them as well if they need to like do the extra work and most of them do what do you find those modalities support and and by the way I agree I think I mean you know what we're really talking about today and I encourage people to follow their own intuition and guide as to what speaks to them because as it's almost like as you grow and learn more you realize how much there is still to explore and how everyone's so different and you know everyone needs a different way to become aware and a different way to become conscious like I found a lot of my personal Awakening in Consciousness in meditation and being with my teachers and listening for hours and study and practice and then I meet people who needed a you know moment of Revelation through plot medicine or I meet people who found it another way and I just realized everyone is so different and everyone's trauma is so different and everyone's healing Journey looks so different that we can't close the door on any of these modalities because and and I always say that like sometimes people ask me like would you be open to this and I like if I needed something if I was trying to unblock something I'd be open to anything because I should be like why should I close off from any opportunity for healing that I need just because it may not be as common or or is uh or is marketed or whatever whatever the right word is but but for you I guess the question I was asking is when you're we we're talking about this like 360 degree approach when you talked about hypnotism and what was the other modality you just mentioned Just Energy healing energy healing so specifically with hypnotism like where does that modality play into everything we've talked about today like what is because again I think it sounds so mysterious and maybe like you said Woo Woo but like what is the point of that modality is I guess the question I'm asking so I feel like some hypnotists that are really good are able to tap into your subconscious as well so a little bit like therapy but you know it goes much deeper than talk therapy um the hypnotist that I work with she's able like I'll talk to her about something that is bothering me or I can't sleep about out and she's like oh this is what's like at the root of your issue and I'm like how did you know that she can like dive in and see like this is what's bothering you um so that's what I find is really helpful and then she'll do a meditation specifically for me so I've had tremendous amount of clients go to her or to a hypnotist that's really good who don't eat healthy who don't exercise who don't sleep well so then they go and she's able to get them to sleep well with you know she's able to find out what is causing them not to sleep well and she's able to get them to eat healthy like it's kind of crazy they'll wake up the next day and automatically start thinking about eating healthy now I have to tell you that this doesn't last so you have to listen to her meditations again or see her again or you know again it's like a practice well because basically what you're saying here is that we're re every decision thought choice we make is simply a programming of our subconscious and we've created a subconscious pattern since we were born that has led us to where we are now and if we don't like where we are and we want to shift it we have to reprogram our subconscious mind and that requires understanding your thoughts self-awareness journaling meditating reflection and then if you need it plant medicine hypnotism what you know just just the plethora of of options there because I think what we get stuck with is we believe that our current set of habits are who we are right we think that the way we eat now is who we are and what we need and what it needs to be not realizing that it is simply a programmed pattern that you adopted at one point in your life and you started to believe it was you oh right yeah absolutely absolutely like that's what that's what's so fascinating I think about what I get to do cuz I do find that you know people do feel like you know this is where I'm going to be this is what I know this is you know I'm not going to ever get past here um I might get a little better but I might not get great yes and I'm like what's with this little better you need to be great like I feel that way with my life like at 64 I feel great I feel better than I did when I was in my 20s um so I want people to like know that you know when I say how are you I want them to say great not I'm just okay so yeah that you know all of those patterns that they learn some are luckier than others that have better patterning and you know better upbringings in terms of just like healthier Lifestyles um and maybe not so you know they were more secure and you know self-awareness earlier on in their life which is lucky for them but a lot of people that I work with weren't and like you it's never too late to change you know I feel like you know we're there's a lot of years to live right I mean my mom is 94 I know so like she's going strong and I'm like I hope I'm 94 and going strong like that you know but it takes work to get there and to do that and I Fe that's really just all of this I want you know the modalities are endless out there as you know you know like anti-aging and just all of the new stuff in the stem cells and the you know NAD and just everything cunge and just all of it is a beautiful thing infrared just getting us healthier and healthier so I mean it's a lot to like learn but it's kind of cool that you know we're on the precipice of all these beautiful things that can really turn back the clck absolutely have you ever talked to your mother about the sick kid label yes yes yeah and you know it was beautiful because she did apologize she's like you know um I didn't know any different and which she didn't you know she didn't know and I think that um you know a lot of us like taking care of people too and she loved being able to take care of me when I was sick too and I felt I felt nurtured in those times as well so I got a little something out of it wasn't all bad yeah yeah yeah absolutely Alissa it has been such a joy to talk to you today and honestly your personal Journey that's led to so much Professional Service and love and support for so many people and the amount of insight that you've given today I think everyone's going to be able to take away and this is what I would encourage everyone to do is Alyssa shared so much great advice today find just one thing that you want to practice for the next seven days it may be to eat more Whole Foods it may be to cut out sugar it may be to research a bit more about information and learn about like I think just pick one thing that resonates with you that you want to try and uplevel your life with it could be getting your vitamin D right it could be sun exposure whatever else it may be and start there and just feel the confidence shift from doing one thing per week and then keep adding more uh and a lot can happen Alyssa we end every episode of the podcast with a final five these Fast Five have to be answered in one word to one sentence maximum oh God and so they C that way so Alysa Goodman these are your final five the first question is what is the best advice you've ever heard or received To Love Yourself to Learn To Love Yourself beautiful uh second question what is the worst advice you've ever had or received that you're never going to get better you're not going to heal uh question number three what's something that you used to believe was true about good health but you don't think so anymore I used to believe that just sleeping was going to get me healthy you know good sleep was going to get me healthy talk to me a bit better and it's not just that anything right it's not just one thing it's a combination of things yeah and we're always looking for that one thing like we all want that one miracle drug like what's that one thing I need to do that's going to change my life and yeah it's 360 there is no one yeah that makes sense question number four what's the first thing you do every morning and the last thing you do every night the first thing I do every morning is probably journal and uh Journal about how I want my day to look like and the same thing at night beautiful to release the stress wonderful and Fifth and final question if you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow what would it be I would say just be kind kind to yourself and others you know um really understand try to understand that people are going through a lot in their life and to not judge right away you know to have some self-compassion for yourself and the others you're with yeah I I mean I couldn't agree with you I really be I really believe that the reason we judge others so harshly is because we're so harsh on ourselves and we have haven't found the ability to show ourselves that selflove that compassion that empathy and so it's so difficult to show it externally to people we've never met or don't know and yeah I love that Alysa is there anything that I haven't asked you that was on your heart and mind that you really want to share that you really feel like is your called to right now or feel intuitively is is important um and you don't have to have anything yeah I mean I think we did touch on you know just ending with the fact you know that you you know life can get better in every way emotionally physically spiritually you know don't give up on yourself is probably my biggest you know don't ever ever give up on yourself I love that I mean you're a great you're a great spokesperson for that for sure and I I love that energy I think it's so easy to be like oh my best days are behind me it's all going in the wrong direction now or you know whatever it may be and I mean just sitting with you and hearing from you today I can tell just how real the opposite of that is for you and it's aspirational inspiring for me for sure because yeah you you continue to live an exciting life and know that there's so much more life to live as opposed to accepting that this is the end or or this may not be and I think it's really interesting I was talking to a friend about this this idea of how we often think we manifest bad things kind of like your sick kid approach like we often think like oh my God I did this to myself and I was talking to a friend about this and this idea of like well if we can do that to ourself then we surely can do the opposite what I just want to get your sense on that absolutely I know that that's a big that's a big thing happening out there I mean you know um I'll just I can I need to plug my two girls who are my inspiration in my life and um you know I feel like man I like manifested the relationship with them like I can't live without them and I look up to them and I admire them and you know I want to uh be here to be a spokesperson for them so that when they have bad days and they say maybe something like that hey I think I manifested this bad stuff to happen I'm like no you can change that you know you can manifest the good stuff in your life and that's really drives me every day is to be able to like hopefully be there for them to help them manifest the good stuff yes I know that a lot of people feel like they manifest the bad things but you're right you can totally change it around and you know I and they're young and I definitely didn't have the awareness they have in their 20s I wish I did I'm really bummed about that um because I am really in awe of how they function and operate and you know how quickly they can turn things around for themselves um and I think they've been through a lot probably that's why but um yeah the manifesting the good stuff I want them and you know when I'm not here later in my life you know I want them to be able to be able to do that easily I love that well I think you set them up for amazing success uh and they set me up yeah and I and I didn't start talking about them because I could have spend the whole epis talking about Jordan so I don't know know true but yeah but thank you so much Alysa for coming on to on purpose everyone who's been listening and watching make sure you share your favorite insights moments I mean today was a full 360 degree conversation we went from gut health to detoxing to Cleansing to plant medicine I mean it's it's beautiful when this happens and I hope that you're introduced to new modalities I hope that you allow yourself to be open to new approaches again we're not recommending that there's one right approach or a wrong approach or however the point is to give you a menu of options and ideas and opportunities because the biggest loss in life is feeling like you only have one way to do something and when that way doesn't work or you've tried it a lot and it still doesn't benefit you that's when we mostly give up and I think recognizing that there's a whole variety of options ideas insights expertise out there actually fills you with more confidence that you'll find your way exactly thank you so much for having me what an honor such a joy thank you if you love this episode you will enjoy my interview with Dr Daniel aan on how to change your life by changing your brain if we want a healthy mind it actually starts with a healthy brain you know I've had the blessing or the curse to scan over a thousand convicted felons and over a 100 murderers and their brains are very damaged