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Katie: Hi there and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com and I actually beloved this episode that’s all about breathe and permission to relaxation. And also you’ll discover a lot of correlations to components of my journey that I’ve shared with some actually essential, relevant and sensible ideas that I feel are particularly wanted for girls and mothers.
I’m right here with Ashley Neese, who’s a famend breath work instructor and the writer of Learn how to Breathe and Permission to Relaxation. She has spent over a decade working on the intersections of embodiment, transformation and renewal. And she or he’s additionally the host of The Deeper Name publication and podcast the place she shares her private reflections and restorative conversations on therapeutic and regeneration. And we get to go deep on loads of elements of this dialog in the present day on this podcast. We began off speaking in a enjoyable manner about her expertise as an beginner beekeeper and the way she bought into it. And as a beekeeper as effectively, I appreciated that half, nevertheless it was really an ideal springboard into our deeper dialog. as a result of being round bees, it seems, can really assist us to downshift into parasympathetic. And that was a standard thread of this dialog the place we talked in regards to the understanding and significance of relaxation and the precise definition, which is usually confused in trendy society.
We talked about how relaxation can really assist our capability to do onerous issues and enhance different areas of life, although it’s typically so easy it’s ignored. We talked in regards to the distinction between sleep and relaxation and the way whereas they’ll share some commonalities, they’re distinctly totally different as effectively. We additionally talked rather a lot about her trauma restoration and mine as effectively, and the way that turned a part of her therapeutic journey. We discuss easy practices to study relaxation and hook up with the physique, how nature helps with this, what the stress response cycle is, and full that to have the ability to downshift right into a relaxation cycle, and methods to interrupt the stress response cycle, what a physique finances is and the way that may assist us relaxation.
We go into the somatic parts of relaxation and therapeutic and restorative time, and a lot extra. I really feel like this dialog actually ties collectively loads of issues that I’ve talked about in different podcasts, and can be a very good useful resource and power for any of you who’re doing that inside work and having hassle with that inside emotional, religious, psychological facet, and the way that’s referring to your bodily well being. So with none additional wait, let’s be a part of Ashley. Ashley, welcome. Thanks a lot for being right here.
Ashley: Thanks a lot for having me, Katie. I’m actually trying ahead to this.
Katie: I’m deeply excited for this dialog. I feel we’re going to get to the touch on some extraordinarily related components of well being that aren’t as typically talked about, however that appear particularly related to ladies and to mothers. And I’m very excited to get to dive deep with you on that. Earlier than we do although, I even have a word out of your bio that you’re additionally an beginner beekeeper. And it is a interest I’ve had since I used to be a youngster. So I’d love to listen to your expertise with that and the way you bought into it. I’m at all times up for any time I get to plug folks being beekeepers as a result of I feel that’s so useful. The extra those who preserve bees and perceive bees and even simply plant issues that may profit the bees, I’m all about that. So how did you get into it?
Ashley: I bought into it, so we moved to the Sierra’s from after dwelling within the Bay Space for some time. And one of many causes we moved out to the Sierras was to be nearer to the land and to have a unique sort of tempo of life. And our first spring right here was really on Earth Day two years in the past. We had simply completed our home and we had been simply driving to the property. And one of many gents who was engaged on our home was like, hey, there’s a swarm over there. Do you guys need this swarm? And my associate and I had been like, oh my God, there’s this swarm. That is so thrilling. We’re so into bees. We knew that we wished bees on the land, however we had no concept get began. And Josh, who’s such a candy man, was like, why don’t I am going make it easier to get the swarm after which I can convey you a hive and you will get began. And it simply occurred. They had been on the land. So he came visiting, bought a noticed, bought one of many branches down off the tree. We bought the swarm right into a field and I transferred it into the hive two days later. And we’ve had bees ever since. And we simply caught one other swarm a few months in the past, only a week after Earth Day right here, too. In order that appears to be the time they have an inclination to interrupt off. And wish to go discover a new residence.
Katie: I really like that we have now beehives as effectively and we’ve had a few swarms this 12 months and now a few our neighbors even have bees due to the swarm. So I really like that you simply’re doing that as effectively. And like I mentioned, only a plug for any of you guys who’ve ever been curious, I extremely encourage beekeeping as a interest and interesting, I noticed a research a few weeks in the past really that the type of like resonant sound {that a} beehive makes is outwardly extraordinarily therapeutic to the physique they usually’re doing experimental therapies now with folks simply being in proximity to the sound of a beehive and the way that may assist them of their parasympathetic. So should you wanted a well being cause to think about it. I discovered that fascinating that they only launched that research and really that springboards completely I feel into our dialog, which I discussed goes to be particularly related for mothers with that bees with the ability to assist with the shift to parasympathetic.
We’re going to get to speak rather a lot about relaxation and I feel it is a massively ignored and infrequently ignored factor for girls in in the present day’s society and particularly for mothers due to the busyness that tends to come back with motherhood. I do know you discuss rather a lot about this and far more eloquently than I might, however to start out off broad, possibly give us some background on what you imply if you say relaxation and the way relaxation pertains to our capability to truly have the ability to do the onerous issues as effectively.
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such an amazing query. So relaxation, the very first thing I wanna say is that I feel there’s a lot confusion, there was positively loads of confusion for me. I at all times thought relaxation was the identical as sleeping. And as soon as I began this apply, particularly as a brand new mom, not getting any sleep and having a very sick little child, folks would at all times say, effectively, oh, identical to relaxation when the child rests or do that. And it’s like, okay, effectively, I’ve a complete home to wash and all these items. However I used to be actually curious. It’s like, okay, if I’m not sleeping at night time, if I’m getting up each hour with child, what can I do throughout my day that can give me just a bit micro second of restoration or just a bit option to shift my nervous system and shift my state.
And since I’d been a breathwork instructor for thus a few years and been in that world, that was the primary instrument that I gravitated in the direction of. I used to be like, okay, I can take 5 actually lengthy inhales, actually sluggish exhales and simply give myself a second to recenter and refocus. After which I began extending these practices in addition to in search of different ways in which I might discover little moments of respite all through the day.
So I write within the e-book that this has been a apply, sort of been working in the direction of relaxation for a few years, nevertheless it actually wasn’t till I turned a mother or father and I had that lack of sleep that all the pieces modified. I used to be like, oh, this will’t simply be this factor that I do each now and again. This needs to be one thing that I’m tapping into all through the day. In order that on the finish of the day, I’m not simply fully out of types.
And so far as doing the onerous issues, I imply, we’ve bought three children underneath 5 at residence now. And one of many greatest, I feel sides of my therapeutic journey has been recovering from trauma, actually taking a look at sort of elements of myself from after I grew up that had been averted, that had been ignored, that had been sort of belittled. And there wasn’t actually anybody in my life after I was little who was exhibiting up for me after I was having a tough time. I’ll simply say that. I’m an enormous feeler, proper? I’m empathic, I really feel all of the issues on a regular basis. And that’s rather a lot. And I’ve mother or father empaths now and my children are massive feelers as Dr. Becky would say, they’re deeply feeling children. I bought loads of deeply feeling children. And as a deeply feeling child myself, I used to be by no means proven like, hey, that is how you’re with any individual’s emotions, proper? As a result of my mother and father didn’t know be with their very own emotions, after all.
And in order a mother or father, doing this relaxation work has really given me the capability to be with myself. So I’ve been capable of sort of tune in and go, oh, I simply want a second. Let me pause, let me take a relaxation. Let me simply have a couple of minutes in order that I can are inclined to myself and my little ones who’re freaking out, proper? After which flip to my children and go, hey, what do you want from me proper now? And that has been such, it’s been so therapeutic for myself and for my household and for my lineage on so many ranges as a result of it’s simply that attunement and that resonance. And I can’t get to attunement and resonance after I’m going tremendous quick, after I’m hustling, after I’m avoiding, after I’m testing, it requires presence. And for me, the best way that I get current is thru slowing down and resting.
Katie: You simply introduced up so many good factors. I feel to start with, the concept relaxation and sleep typically type of are used synonymously, however I feel to your level, these are fully separate classes. They’re each crucial they usually do overlap. But when we simply assume they’re the identical factor, we really miss out on loads of potential to benefit from relaxation that isn’t sleep and the methods to try this. And such as you, my trauma therapeutic was massively impactful to my interactions with folks and in addition to even my bodily well being in a very excessive manner. And it was a really sluggish realized lesson for me. And ever since sharing that story, I’ve had many listeners and readers ask, like, what particularly did you do? How can I try this too? And I spotted that there’s an individualized facet right here in determining for every of us what that relaxation goes to seem like. There’s not, sadly, a simply guidelines blueprint, which additionally speaks to our type of mentality right here that we would like a guidelines. We wish a to-do record even for therapeutic and relaxation.
And so I really like that it is a extra of a journey and an inside course of that has that individualization to it, however that additionally there appear to be some sort of core issues that may assistance on that journey or like practices we are able to study that can assist us work out our personal response and our personal relaxation and our personal stress ranges and our personal trauma. I additionally love that you simply introduced up your children as a result of the older I get, the extra I actually come to firmly consider that one of the best present we can provide our youngsters as their mother and father is to our personal self-regulation, our personal trauma therapeutic, and our personal capability to exist presently in a peaceful state.
And I do know that could be a lifelong journey, definitely, however I’d love to listen to a few of your examples or practices, possibly that you simply realized alongside the best way for with the ability to faucet into that relaxation all through the day. As a result of I’d guess for among the mothers listening possibly, even the concept of that’s probably a brand new idea. The flexibility to simply take type of like micro moments all through the day to recenter and the way to try this. So I’d love so that you can give extra element on the way you’ve built-in that.
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such a stupendous query. And one of many first practices within the e-book is known as Orienting. And that is really a apply that I realized by all of the trauma work that I’ve achieved. And orienting is so lovely as a result of you are able to do it wherever. It doesn’t require something particular, and it’s actually fast. And so what orienting is, it’s an invite to take a second if you discover, like, oh, I’m getting actually indignant, or I’m actually annoyed, or I’m completely overwhelmed, and I’m beginning to take a look at, or I simply want a second. As a result of it actually simply takes a number of seconds. And then you definitely simply take a second. After which the very first thing you do is you simply go searching, simply along with your eyes. You simply go searching your area, and also you begin to title. What do you see? So after I go searching my area proper now, I am going, oh, there’s a yellow e-book over there. Okay, I look out the window. There’s a tree. Oh, there’s a lightweight coming in from overhead. Simply that already begins to shift my nervous system. And it brings me into presence. It brings me into contact with the sensations which can be occurring in my physique. It brings me into contact with my breath.
After which if I wish to take it additional, I can go, okay, what do I hear? What am I listening to proper now? Okay, what am I smelling proper now? It’s like we simply actually get into our senses. And so orientation is a superb option to get into our senses. And I discover that by this work, moving into our senses is one other manner that we are able to begin to downshift into parasympathetic and discover that second of relaxation . In order that’s a very lovely one.
One other one is nature. So I’ve a complete chapter within the e-book simply particularly devoted to nature as a result of it’s so enormous. And we talked about bees at first. I really like being in my backyard and simply tooling round in there and listening to the hum of the bees. We’ve our hive actually near the backyard. It’s simply such a stupendous sound. All of the hummingbirds, all the pieces else that’s occurring on the market. So any entry to nature, proper? That might be getting your toes on the grass. That might be tending to a bit plant in your home. It doesn’t should be a 60 foot backyard. You’ll be able to actually make this accessible. It may possibly even be the best way that we join with our meals. And I do know meals is such an enormous factor to your listeners and for the present too. It’s like, how are we connecting to the greens that we’re consuming, to the greens that we’re reducing up? All these issues are a very good option to begin to nourish and simply begin to discover, to start with, there’s connection, proper? I’m not alone. I’m linked to this complete extensive net of the world. It isn’t that unimaginable. And that proper right here, that inherent reciprocity and connection is already main us into restoration, proper? As a result of once more, such as you mentioned, relaxation has all these deeper connotations that’s remembering and reclaiming our interconnectedness, which for me has been an enormous a part of this course of. And simply that slowing down sufficient to go, oh wait, proper? There’s all of the assist proper right here. Though there’s all these actually onerous issues occurring and I didn’t get sufficient sleep and I’m burdened and all these items, there’s additionally this different factor occurring that’s true too. And that’s a part of the trauma knowledgeable. It’s like, what else can we usher in? We’re not attempting to get away. We’re not attempting to love, you understand, drive ourselves into something. We’re going, all that is occurring, however what else is feasible?
Katie: And I do know within the e-book, you additionally discuss one thing you name finishing the stress response cycle. And I’d love so that you can clarify what that’s and the way that pertains to downshifting into relaxation. And I really feel like many individuals, for me a minimum of, it was simple to get caught in that stress cycle. So I’d love so that you can clarify what you imply by that and sort of the levels and perceive that.
Ashley: For certain. So the stress response cycle is one thing that I’m intimately accustomed to as somebody who lived a lot of my life in a power state of stress. And I didn’t even know there was a such factor as a stress response cycle. I used to be simply at all times on that uptick. I used to be at all times in battle or flight. Typically I used to be in freeze too, however I used to be, my nervous system was simply at all times actually jacked up and I used to be going actually quick. I’ve felt a lot of my life, the sense of urgency, proper? The sense of urgency is sort of woven into my nervous system and it reveals up in all these alternative ways. It reveals up in how I discuss. It reveals up in how I feel. It reveals up in my, you understand, feeling like I’m undeserving if I’m not producing sufficient. Like I simply should go, go, go on a regular basis. And in order that stress response cycle is all a part of that. It’s simply that how our, like our stress physiology shapes us, proper? It actually shapes our brains. It shapes our our bodies. It impacts our well being, all these issues.
And so what we wish to do is have sufficient consciousness to go, Whoa, my nervous system is in a stress response cycle. I’m in that proper now. I have to downshift as a result of what occurs if we don’t downshift and break that cycle, they only begin to stack, proper? And the extra the stress response cycles. one another, then we’re left with every kind of well being points and every kind of different psychological points. So that is one thing that I struggled with too. My stress was stacking a lot. Guess what? My again went out. Guess what? I used to be laid up in mattress for nearly a 12 months, identical to actually struggling to even placed on my garments and get myself dressed and bathe. And this was when our son was a 12 months and a half. It was so brutal. And it was additionally partly whereas I used to be scripting this e-book, it’s at all times that factor like we sort of create the drugs that we’d like on this planet.
And as I used to be scripting this e-book and as I used to be going by this course of, my again was out and I used to be like, okay, I’ve bought to truly study this in a deeper manner now. So what does that imply? We have to downshift the stress response cycle. So there’s loads of actually true, like scientifically confirmed methods to do that which can be really fairly enjoyable. So one among them is hugging. So that’s simply so lovely. Like we can provide ourselves a hug. We are able to hug our family members. That’s a good way to downshift the nervous system.
One other manner is to do one thing inventive. In order that might be draw an image. That might be one thing actually fantastic for your loved ones or for your self that you simply wish to be. That might be write any individual a letter. That might be make a cellphone name. One other manner is thru respiratory. So I do know that simply that lengthy, sluggish exhale helps to go forward and begin to downshift the nervous system in a very lovely manner. After which yeah, so create, hug. Um, one other manner to try this is transfer and transfer is one other one which we use rather a lot in our household when issues that power begins to get actually intense or like, okay, let’s activate the music, let’s dance it out. Let’s get our our bodies transferring. Let’s have some enjoyable. Let’s launch that power. Let’s shift that cycle. After which after we dance, it’s like that good deep exhale on the finish, you go, okay, we transfer that cycle.
The factor I wish to say right here is that it’s, it’s okay. If you happen to begin to discover issues stacking, like I at all times wish to give loads of mission and the work and loads of selection and loads of area and loads of grace as a result of we’re not going to do that completely. Like I’m nonetheless going to get caught in my stress response cycles, though I’m educating this work, however I’m dwelling it. And it’s the moments on the finish of the day after I’m like, Whoa, I’m so wired. I can not get myself down to fall asleep at night time. Like, what do I have to do? I would like to finish my stress response cycles. And so these are the instances that I would lean right into a apply on the finish of the day in order that I can then downshift into sleep.
Katie: And also you additionally discuss one thing known as trauma-informed relaxation. And I feel this may also be related. I do know I’ve talked about I’ve talked about my trauma story, and it does look like there could also be a unique strategy or a minimum of like some added issues that may be useful if somebody is aware of that they’re conscious of trauma and that they notice that’s a component of their lack of ability to downshift simply. So are you able to clarify what you imply by trauma-informed relaxation?
Ashley: Yeah, I’m so glad that you simply requested this query as a result of at the beginning, trauma-informed relaxation is absolutely taking a look at our particular person historical past, proper? It’s trying collectively for certain too, nevertheless it’s actually taking a look at our particular person histories. And as somebody who’s been in trauma coaching and is trauma-informed and trauma-certified, that is private to me and in addition in all of the work that I’ve achieved with shoppers through the years is likely one of the issues that I seen for myself was that after I began to relaxation, I used to be terrified. I used to be so scared to decelerate. I used to be like, if I decelerate, unhealthy issues are gonna occur. If I’m not going full blast on a regular basis, if I’m not pushing, if I’m not grinding, one thing unhealthy’s gonna occur. And so studying , by the trauma-informed lens, go, okay, what in my historical past is exhibiting me this? After which what do I have to do now? Hey, the recommendation that you simply would possibly hear on Instagram or someplace out on this planet, it’s like, hey, simply take a relaxation. It’s like, effectively, I can’t, I’m too scared. I don’t wanna take a relaxation. I don’t wanna take a look at the grief that I’ve or the ache that I’m carrying or all of the regrets that I’ve or no matter it’s. Like, I’m too afraid. And so what will we do?
And within the e-book, I discuss rather a lot in regards to the totally different instruments that I’ve used from somatic experiencing, which is a very lovely trauma mannequin. And one of many instruments is titration. And titration was developed by Peter Levine. And it’s actually, actually lovely as a result of what it affords is only a micro dose. It’s like, okay, you don’t should relaxation for half-hour. Simply do 30 seconds. Are you able to only for 30 seconds, simply observe your breath and simply put your toes on the bottom. Perhaps put your fingers in your thighs and simply observe your breath 30 seconds. 30 seconds is an excessive amount of. Okay, let’s do 10 seconds. It’s simply actually taking it in order that your nervous system can deal with it and so that you’ve the capability. As a result of so typically with trauma, we get into overwhelm actually rapidly or we’re going to close down, proper? Every thing’s completely overwhelming. After which we shut down. And so with relaxation, it’s like, effectively, I’m too scared to relaxation. I can’t try this. There’s no manner I can like open myself as much as that or let down what I have to let down. It’s like, okay, effectively, you are able to do that for 5 seconds or for 10 seconds. I’m gonna seize some water actually fast. And that’s. That’s so potent as a result of we are able to construct on that, proper? That’s one thing that we are able to construct on in that 5 seconds and that 10 seconds of titration can then go into one thing greater. And thru the trauma-informed lens, we’re actually taking a look at our personal capability.
And that’s actually what I’m saying. Like not everybody has the capability to enter a relaxation apply for 20 minutes. And that’s okay. You already know, all of us have our personal histories that we’re exhibiting up with. We’ve various things occurring in our our bodies and in our brains and in our lives. It’s like, what can we try this works for us? And so it’s actually taking that individualized and that personalized strategy to go, hey, there isn’t a one dimension matches all. Similar to you mentioned at first, there’s so many various methods to relaxation. And we have now to seek out those that work for us proper now on this season of our lives. Additionally with the caveat that like our lives are gonna change and our practices are gonna change they usually’re gonna ebb and stream as we develop our capability, as we study to really feel secure in our our bodies, you understand, sort of one second of relaxation at a time, one breath at a time, as a result of security is a large piece in that trauma-informed dialog. And I’m taking a look at capability and I’m taking a look at security. Like how a lot capability do we have now and the way secure will we really feel?
Katie: Yeah, I feel that feeling of security in our personal our bodies is so key. And likewise I spotted for me a minimum of was a journey. It didn’t occur in a single day by any means, nevertheless it’s been a stupendous journey. And it looks as if after I realized a bit bit to hearken to my physique, particularly in that trauma restoration part that I used to be in, I felt that my physique was demanding much more relaxation than I had been giving it. And so for an extended time period throughout that, I actually minimized excessive depth exercises. I actually simply centered on light motion exterior, which these tie in with the options you’ve given, however issues like light walks, light swimming within the water, simply time exterior in nature and let myself sleep greater than I had been sleeping. Let myself have the ability to say no to issues and never simply have as a lot on my plate as a lot as attainable throughout that point.
And I felt like that was my physique and my soul sort of demanding that relaxation so as to have the ability to heal. And now that I’ve gotten right into a a lot calmer area and have therapeutic, I really feel like I now even have a lot extra power that I don’t want as a lot of the day after day sleep and relaxation as I used to. And I’ve a lot extra power to have the ability to use for initiatives, however I don’t assume I’d have been capable of get there definitely not as rapidly had I not listened to my physique’s want for relaxation in that part. And so I really like that you simply talked about it’s continually altering. This doesn’t imply that without end I used to be going to want that a lot relaxation and without end I used to be going to want 9 and a half hours of sleep. However I do assume that basically helped the therapeutic part. And I really feel like this pertains to one other idea that you simply discuss known as the physique finances. So are you able to clarify what that’s and the way it relates?
Ashley: Yeah, so our brains are sort of these superb organizers they usually’re at all times sort of budgeting like how a lot salt do we’d like? How a lot water do we’d like? What are our stress hormones? What’s occurring with our stress hormones? And so they’re sort of budgeting our power all day lengthy. And so after we can take a look at one thing just like the physique finances, it may be actually useful to know, okay, after I’m getting in for this actually powerful dialog or when I’ve to go, you understand, to this occasion with my children or no matter it’s, these items are going to require a specific amount of power. Do I’ve that power proper now? I do know to your level, they’re so like, I’ve my very own private sort of historical past with burnout and scuffling with burnout in many various elements of my life for a lot of totally different causes. Proper. And I discover that the deeper I am going on this journey, the sort of, I’m attempting to assume the easiest way to say this.
Basically what we’re in search of with the physique finances is to essentially put together ourselves for sort of the longer term. So let’s say we’re heading into one thing anxious. Our physique’s going to already begin to be stressed. So all these hormones are going to be going off, cortisol goes to be going up, our adrenaline goes to be going off earlier than we even get to the occasion or earlier than we even have the dialog. So figuring out that about our our bodies, what do we’d like to take action that we are able to sort of shore ourselves up in these conditions? And somebody I actually admire talks about this rather a lot. She talks about in the beginning of the week, she appears at her calendar and he or she goes, okay, that is what I’ve scheduled for the week. Do I’ve the capability for that this week? Do I’ve the power for that this week? Have I blocked off sufficient instances of relaxation? Have I blocked off naps? Have I blocked off like time with my household sufficient to essentially get by what I have to get by? And if I haven’t, I’m going to cancel some stuff.
And that goes to your level round saying no and actually having boundaries round our personal power. And so I feel the physique finances is a very fabulous instrument for beginning to have a look at a few of these issues and go, oh, and should you’re unsure what that’s, go do an exercise and simply see how do you’re feeling afterwards? Do you’re feeling refreshed? Do you’re feeling replenished? Do you’re feeling depleted? If you happen to’re feeling depleted, that’s info that’s actually essential. So subsequent time you need to go to an analogous exercise, what I’d say is sort of bracket that like what are you able to do earlier than to present your self a bit little bit of a buffer? Do you want a bit bit additional sleep? Do you’ll want to do a relaxation apply? Do you’ll want to just remember to’re hydrated? After which after examine in and see what occurs. And so this generally is a actually enjoyable manner for us to begin to gauge like what’s working, what’s not working and never as a option to stress ourselves out much more. You already know, I’ll have shoppers will likely be like, okay, so does that imply I would like to trace in a journal like each single factor I do in a day after which do some relaxation apply to counter that factor? I’m like, no, no, no, that’s manner an excessive amount of. It’s simply noticing. And it’s noticing after a dialog, after occasion, these sorts of issues. How am I feeling? What’s my power like? okay, subsequent time, what can I do otherwise? What can I weave in to present myself that assist?
Katie: Yeah, you talked about hydration and I very a lot consider that is an space the place there’s both going to be a constructive suggestions loop or a detrimental suggestions loop anytime we’re speaking about relaxation and stress and the physique and the thoughts working collectively. And I feel the fantastic thing about that’s understanding it. We are able to then hopefully do the issues that assist that shift right into a constructive suggestions loop. And for me, a kind of was definitely hydration and in addition taking a look at like my minerals. I wasn’t getting sufficient minerals and after we’re in a state of stress, we’re burning by loads of additional magnesium and we’re depleting minerals extra quickly than we’d be if we weren’t burdened. And so for me in that part, I additionally paid consideration to essentially supporting my physique by intentional hydration but additionally ensuring I used to be getting sufficient minerals, hint minerals, electrolytes, all of the issues that I had depleted with out realizing it for lots of years.
And I feel that there’s many issues in that class that assist the physique and that creates additionally a constructive change for the thoughts and for the feelings. After which additionally these adjustments we make mentally and emotionally then additionally can provide us extra power within the physique such as you’re explaining as effectively. And I feel additionally this touches on one thing that… I feel this half specifically is probably the most tough possibly for mothers as a result of it’s really easy to place everyone else first and we are able to get that mother guilt if we take time to relaxation. And so I wished to talk on to that for a minute as a result of I additionally assume as mothers, among the best presents we can provide our youngsters is to mannequin the power to relaxation and the power to take a second and recenter.
I discover this for example, even with my children, if there’s stress occurring within the family, somewhat than put them in timeout or inform them to go away and isolate, I’ll mannequin it by I have to go in my room and breathe for a few minutes after which I’d love to come back again and have a dialog with you and I could be extra current and extra peaceable. And hopefully by doing that, give them the permission to have that habits as effectively. However are you able to converse particularly to possibly the mother guilt facet should you encounter that with folks that you simply work with and any ideas for getting previous that internally after we really feel unhealthy for type of that analogy of placing on our personal masks first?
Ashley: Yeah, I really like that a lot, Katie, and that’s simply what you mentioned is a apply that we do in our residence to my associate, and I try this as effectively, simply going. Okay, we’re noticing it’s there’s methods wherein it nearly appears simpler simply to place our youngsters like, it’s like, okay, are you able to simply go away? And it’s like, no, I’m the one who must take a minute. I’m the one who must be modeling this and to present no matter, give myself no matter I’m needing in that second. And in order that’s positively a apply that we do. I spend loads of time exterior. That’s actually, actually essential to me. It helps me floor. It helps me really feel linked. And it simply helps to shift my perspective so rapidly. Like actually all I have to do is step exterior and sort of look across the timber and see the backyard and see some flowers and even simply take a look at the grass and one thing has simply modified already. So there’s a lot magic and a lot potential in that.
And by way of the guilt, you understand, for me, one of many issues that I typically do after I’m feeling responsible is simply attempt to get beneath that and attempt to get into, okay, the place’s that program coming from? The place’s that story loop working? Do I would like that proper now? Is that needed? Is that going to assist me transfer ahead? And sometimes it’s not. And sometimes for me, my guilt packages are, you understand, come from my historical past they usually come from my household of origin they usually don’t actually have relevance for me in that second. And so that is, I’m saying that, nevertheless it’s onerous. You already know, it’s not like I simply get up at some point and do that. This has been years of remedy and making and years of doing this work. So should you’re new and also you’re scuffling with that mother guilt and also you’re like, okay, I don’t even know what you’re saying. How do I get beneath that? Simply give your self a second. The extra moments that you simply take for your self, the simpler it’s going to be sooner or later to sort of get beneath that and ask these questions, these deeper questions of, oh, do I actually have to be feeling this proper now? Is that this really serving to me proper now? Is it serving me? Is it not serving me? Why am I really feeling responsible? And I feel as soon as we begin to unpack that, the guilt really begins to shift fairly rapidly. And that’s positively been my expertise. As soon as I’ve been capable of get beneath it and begin to sort of shine some mild on it, I discovered that I don’t want it as a lot as I as soon as did.
Katie: And I really feel like this additionally springboards into one other actually essential key, which is that reference to self-worth and self-trust. And I do know these had been very tough issues for me to study and I needed to take a, it was a technique of studying to type of audit my inside language and are available into like discovering a spot of peace inside myself. And also you touched on this a bit bit about making peace with our physique, however how do these concepts of self-worth and self-trust tie into this and the way can we nurture these?
Ashley: Yeah, that’s such an amazing query. Self, and this has all sort of come out of this work for me as a result of I didn’t, you understand, after I began engaged on relaxation and sort of making relaxation extra of a degree in my life, I didn’t even know the way linked it was to my self-worth and my self-trust. And, you understand, traditionally my self-worth has been fairly low and simply getting up to now the place I acknowledge, hey, I’m price taking good care of, my physique is price taking good care of, my coronary heart is price taking good care of, I’ve worth and never due to what I’m making or what I’m creating, however simply because I’m a human on this planet, and that’s nonetheless one thing that reveals up for me generally. I imply, in preparation for this podcast, I used to be going over all the pieces final night time with my associate. He will get these downloads and he’ll simply cease himself. After which his physique will get actually nonetheless and his eyes sort of shut. And I’m like, oh, Nick’s getting a obtain. That is gonna be good. And I’m ready like with bated breath. What’s he gonna say, you understand? Inform me reply this query. After which he simply appears at me and he goes. You don’t have to elucidate your self. He’s like, you already need to be right here. You’ve got a proper to be right here, you need to be right here. You don’t have to elucidate your self. And it tears, proper? And it’s simply that second of, oh, proper, there’s nonetheless these locations the place that low self-worth reveals up, as a result of there’s this toddler, you understand, this youthful a part of myself that also desires to love do a very good job and show myself and present everybody how good I’m or no matter it’s, you understand?
And after I can take a look at her and actually be together with her and say, hey, toddler, I see you. I see that you simply’re actually eager to show your self and like work so onerous proper now. You don’t have to. You’ll be able to take a relaxation. You’ll be able to take a nap. You’ll be able to have a snack. You’ll be able to identical to do what you’ll want to do. Then that gives me the area and time for grownup Ashley to indicate up and go, hey, like, let’s have enjoyable with this as an alternative of constructing or not it’s a anxious state of affairs. And that’s so linked to my self-worth as a result of my self-worth is so, was at all times a lot, like I mentioned earlier than, about hustling, about proving, about striving, and it’s by no means sufficient. You already know, and I’m certain so many different folks relate to this. It’s like, we are able to lastly get the job or the factor or no matter it’s that we would like. And it’s nonetheless not gonna be sufficient. And so at that second in my life, it’s like, oh, I’ve to look inside myself. What’s it that I’m needing? What’s it that I’m working from?
And that was at all times a query for me with the remainder. It’s like, why am I working so onerous? And why am I working so quick? And so what do I have to do to decelerate and cease working and actually take that breath and be with myself and be with the ache and the therapeutic and simply that complete journey? And in order that’s actually what it’s been. And studying belief myself has been an enormous a part of that. And it actually ties into the Self-worth as a result of after I know and I’ve these moments after I really feel like, okay, I’m price resting, then I belief myself to take the following proper motion on behalf of myself in a while in that day or that week.
And I simply additionally wanna say one thing too, as a result of that is arising for me rather a lot. It’s like, we reside on this tradition that basically prioritizes like our exterior life, proper? It actually prioritizes like how a lot we are able to accomplish, how briskly we are able to accomplish it, what number of like prizes and accolades we have now. However actually, after we decelerate, I’ll simply reframe this, after I decelerate and I get quiet and I’ve a second of relaxation with myself that then I can have with my associate or that then I can have with my children or that then I can share with folks in my group, that’s productive. And never solely is it productive, it’s generative. And I’ve actually been trying on the distinction between productiveness and like what we generate. And being generative is absolutely on the facet of relaxation. It’s actually on the facet of revolution. It’s actually on the facet of regenerating and one thing that provides again. And so after I take into consideration resting too, it’s this like deeply private expertise, nevertheless it’s additionally a private expertise that then connects me outward into the remainder of the world.
Katie: I really like that distinction. I’m so glad you introduced that up. And I additionally love that you simply talked about the inside little one. This was an element that I did in remedy rather a lot, was studying to type of reintegrate and make peace and make associates with my inside little one and nourish them. And I even did visualizations the place I… visualized my inside little one and gave it a hug within the instances when it wanted a hug and didn’t get it. And I really feel like that’s so useful.
And I additionally love that you simply touched on. after we’re capable of entry that self-love and self-worth, it makes really all the choices that result in higher well being, whether or not it’s bodily, mentally, emotionally, a lot simpler as a result of it’s coming from a spot of affection and nourishment and never punishment or deprivation or even when it’s one thing so simple as like bodily well being and weight-reduction plan, it’s a lot simpler to decide on the meals that nourish us from a spot of affection than a spot of deprivation and framing that issues are unhealthy or that we’re afraid of it or we’re attempting to shed some pounds. It’s simply such a extra highly effective mindset.
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Additionally, what you touched on with being with the happiness angle, it made me consider a quote from my buddy Naval that mentioned, wishes after we make a contract with ourselves to be sad till we get what we would like. And I spotted I had tales in my head of, oh, I’ll be blissful after I’m this dimension or I’ll be blissful when this occurs or I’ll be blissful after I get by all these initiatives. And I needed to study really happiness is the factor I can select now and nurture now. And people issues can nonetheless occur, however I don’t have to make a contract with myself to be sad till they do. I can really nurture that proper now.
I really feel like one other a part of this that’s tremendous useful, and I’ve talked a bit bit about on right here, however I feel you’re gonna have so a lot better perspective for is the somatic facet. And I first was launched to this after I learn the e-book, The Physique Retains the Rating. After which I had my very own journey of discovering simply how intricately the physique and the thoughts are linked and the way that course of unraveled for me. However I’d love to listen to you converse to the somatic facet and something we are able to do from a somatic perspective to course of that stress response, to get into a greater place somatically, and in addition how that pertains to our interactions with different folks and boundary setting and any practices which can be useful there.
Ashley: There’s a lot in what you mentioned. I wish to reply to all the pieces. However by way of the somatic piece, that’s been an enormous, enormous piece for me, particularly with the noting a lot trauma work myself personally has been actually taking a look at like what’s exhibiting up in my physique. And it’s been an fascinating journey for me. I imply, I grew up as a dancer. So I had loads of like early introduction to somatic motion, to being in my physique, to all these various things. However then I grew up doing classical ballet, which may be very, very formal and it’s very strict. And there’s a lot about overriding. There’s a lot about pushing, like get your physique into this form, proper? There’s no like, oh, you’re not gonna try this. So it’s not like, there’s simply, you’re doing it. The instructor’s yelling at you, you understand, and he or she’s like, it’s intense, it’s hardcore. That was my expertise with ballet as a child. And I beloved it. And it wasn’t till a few years later as an grownup, I used to be like, really, I don’t wanna push my physique that tough. I don’t wish to override a sensation that I’m having in my foot. After which I’m taking my pointy footwear off and my toes are bleeding from dancing for 3 hours. It’s like, that wasn’t really wholesome for me, nevertheless it taught me a lot. And as an grownup and the way that reveals up in my life now with the somatic work that I do, I take these moments to examine in.
And that instance that I gave earlier of even simply taking a look at my week forward, it’s like I examine in with my physique, not simply taking a look at my calendar and taking a look at it from this extra sort of psychological, cognitive place, I am going, how does that really feel in my physique? or somebody calls and invitations me out someplace, I am going, yeah, give me a second. What am I noticing in my physique? Am I feeling tight? Am I feeling restricted? Is my tummy doing one thing unusual? Or am I feeling open? Is my chest open? Or are my shoulders relaxed? Like what are the cues for me? And the cool factor about this work, the thematic piece is all of us have these particular person cues that mark like, hey, I’m in a stress response. Hey, I’m beginning to disassociate. I’m feeling confused. My imaginative and prescient is blurry, proper? Or, oh, I’m beginning to really feel relaxed. My tummy is grumbling in that manner that it does when it’s like that sort of digestive parasympathetic response. Or my jaw is softening, proper? Or my tongue is just not pressed up on the roof of my mouth. So there’s all these totally different physique markers and somatic alerts for us to know what sort of state we’re in.
Nevertheless it’s as much as us to concentrate to them. And that’s its personal apply and its personal journey, as you so fantastically shared. And particularly for these of us like myself who’ve spent a lot of their lives both overriding, pushing my physique previous its limits, or fully testing. It’s like, I’m in an excessive camp. I’m like one or the opposite. I’m both like completely not right here, or I’m so right here. I’m like driving myself into the bottom, doing one thing that’s actually tough for my physique. As a result of that’s acquainted to me, proper? It’s like, now I can put myself into this factor.
And what I’ve realized by this apply of relaxation and the way it connects is simply the softening. If I put on my physique, am I keen to melt? The place do I really feel secure sufficient to melt? If I don’t really feel secure, what do I would like on this second proper now to assist myself even really feel 1% safer? I feel typically by way of trauma, the place we’re in search of these massive experiences, proper? We’re like, okay, I need the ayahuasca sort expertise with relaxation. What’s the massive peak second that I can have? And sometimes the height moments are available these little tiny micro shifts. It’s like, oh, if I simply launch my shoulder 1% and simply stick with that, oh, wow, there’s some unhappiness there. Oh, there’s some grief there. Okay, let’s stick with that versus simply attempting to override it and get my shoulder down as quick as attainable. So the somatic work is available in that manner too.
After which the way it reveals up in {our relationships}. And it is a piece that I’ve needed to work by for thus a few years. I’m somebody who typically would say sure after I meant no, you understand, I didn’t know say no, it wasn’t, you understand, in my vocabulary, it wasn’t one thing I used to be allowed to say rising up. And it wasn’t till, you understand, in these previous couple of years, particularly having children, and I’ve been capable of discover ways to say no. And up to now, I’d say no from this place of being actually disembodied. And so my no wasn’t anchored in something. It wasn’t stable. It wasn’t a agency. And so folks would simply blow previous my no. And I’m like, I’m saying no, I’m doing what I’m imagined to do. I learn all of the remedy books and all of the boundary setting books. And I’ve this script proper right here. It’s like, you higher not discuss to me like that or no matter it’s. It’s like, nobody would even pay attention. My boundaries didn’t land with anybody.
And it wasn’t till I began doing the somatic piece that I used to be like, oh, I’m saying no, however my physique’s saying one thing completely totally different. How do I combine these items? How do I discover coherence? How do I get my mind and my physique on the identical web page? And it was by paying consideration and going to remedy. And my therapist would say, the place does that, the place do you’re feeling that no in your physique? And I must sit and go, Oh, I really wish to push. Oh, I really wish to kick. Oh, I really wish to do these different issues with my physique. And that’s the place the actual therapeutic got here in. As a result of as soon as I began letting my physique have the sort of finishing again to that dialog, actually finishing that stress response cycle, finishing these trauma response cycles, then now after I say no, it’s clear, there’s no confusion about my no persons are like, Oh, she’s severe. She mentioned, no, okay, transfer transferring on. Proper. They’re not nonetheless attempting to get in there and get me to say sure. In order that’s actually like, for me, just like the somatic piece round boundaries and relaxation comes into the mixing. It’s like, are we saying no with our full physique? And if we’re not, how can we transfer in the direction of that?
Katie: You clarify that so, so effectively and such as you, I used to be… very habitually would say sure after I meant no, even I’d verbally say sure after I met no. And I additionally had, I feel, a wound from childhood and from sure experiences the place I felt most secure if everyone was blissful. So I’d go to even like nice lengths to maintain everybody blissful even on the expense of myself. And I needed to study slowly that… boundaries and kindness should exist collectively, and that features kindness towards your self. And that was the piece I had to determine. After which from there, I used to be capable of really construct boundaries as effectively. And I do nonetheless assume they not solely can exist collectively, they really should exist collectively, boundaries and kindness.
It looks as if for girls, particularly, this generally is a tougher a part of the journey actually because we usually tend to be keen to love give of ourselves to the purpose of exhaustion. and never replenish ourselves sufficient. And so I really like that we’ve bought to convey that into the dialog as effectively. I’d additionally love to speak a bit extra deeply in regards to the respiratory facet and any breath work practices that folks might use as child steps into studying these relaxation practices. As a result of I feel after we give it some thought from a logical standpoint, we are able to go weeks with out meals, we are able to go days with out water, we are able to solely go minutes with out air. And so we breathe far more any given day than we do another enter into our biology. Nevertheless it’s typically probably the most ignored, once more, as a result of typically the only issues are the simplest to miss, or probably the most computerized issues are the simplest to miss. However I’ve seen, for me, how profoundly simply making time for intentional breath work at totally different instances of the day, not even a very long time, not even loads of this, can have such a profound influence on even the physiology.
So even when somebody’s engaged on a bodily well being downside or a sleep problem, I’ve seen breath work drastically change my sleep and different folks’s sleep. And I feel that. our nervous programs really study to reply. Like with all these belongings you’re speaking about with with the ability to get right into a state of relaxation extra, that pays dividends to our nervous system and the way we’re in our sleep and the way we’re, even our coronary heart charge variability throughout the day, we even have the metrics now to see that this has a useful influence on the physique. So I’d love so that you can stroll us by any child steps into breath work practices that may be useful. You talked about some which can be useful pre-sleep possibly, and even simply all through the day to type of reset that stress response.
Ashley: And that’s lovely, Katie, and yeah, linked to a lot of that. And sometimes the best way I discuss relaxation is that it’s a bridge to sleep. And so at first of the dialog, we had been sort of distinguishing like what’s relaxation, what’s sleep? These issues are totally different, they’re their very own practices. They’re each very, very, crucial, however a lot in our tradition now could be centered on sleep appropriately. You already know, there’s so many statistics on the market. Like most of us aren’t getting sufficient sleep. And so due to that, particularly as mother and father, what can we do all through the day?
And I really like that you simply’re bringing in breath. You already know, somebody who’s been learning breath and, you understand, written a e-book about breath work, it is a matter that’s actually, actually near me in a apply that I’ve been doing for a few years. And I at all times counsel at first, simply begin actually small. And I say, begin with 5 breaths. So 5 rounds, you’re simply going to inhale by your nostril for so long as attainable. You’re not going to push it. You’re not going to drive it, however simply take that deep inhale by the nostril. all the best way to the highest. After which there’s be a slight pause on the high. Then you definitely’re gonna exhale by your nostril, simply for so long as you may. Proper, so we wanna assume sluggish, light, ease. These are the phrases that we wanna sort of be excited about as we’re respiratory, simply 5 instances. And I’m gonna have you ever try this all through your day. So if you get up within the morning, after you drop the youngsters off or no matter your sort of like mid-morning day is, lunchtime, afternoon, earlier than mattress, proper? So try this 5 instances throughout the day, the 5 by 5.
And it’s actually, actually, actually useful as a result of it’s useful for thus many causes, nevertheless it begins to construct in that apply. And so typically we’ll hear from folks, oh, I did breath work one time. It didn’t work. Or similar with meditation. I attempted meditating like twice. It didn’t work. It’s like, no, no, we have now to love construct this into our routine and make it tremendous simple. You already know, I’m certain, I do know you’ve learn the e-book and I’m certain lots of people have the Atomic Habits, however James Clear actually talks about it. It’s like, okay, should you’re attempting to construct a brand new behavior, the place are you able to add that in to one thing that you simply’re already doing? So he calls it behavior stacking. And I feel it’s genius. So I’ll say to shoppers, okay, if you’re brushing your enamel, after that do your breath work, proper? You drop the youngsters off from college. They get out of the automotive, shut the door, do 5 minutes or do 5 breaths. It’s simply actually, actually easy. And so the place are you able to weave it in? After which so far as the precise apply, begin there. These 5 inhales, maintain on the high after which exhale out of the nostril. That’s gonna be the only place to start out.
After which should you’re wanting so as to add onto that, the following factor I’d counsel is begin to prolong your exhalation by your nostril for so long as you may. Once more, we wanna have loads of gentleness and loads of selection with this. This isn’t a forceful apply. It’s meant to be nourishing. It’s meant to be restorative. It’s meant to be replenishing to the system. And it’s additionally meant to be simple sufficient that you are able to do it sufficient instances to begin to construct that behavior. And the extra you do it, the behavior will get stronger and stronger. And then you definitely actually begin to see the advantages, identical to you spoke of so fantastically, Katie. It’s like then we get the actual advantages of the work, that are unimaginable. I imply, there’s a lot science behind breath work now that it’s simply superb. And such as you mentioned, it’s one thing that’s really easy to miss or be like, oh, that’s simply, should you’re scrolling on Instagram, you’ve bought time to do 5 breaths. You are able to do it.
Katie: Yeah. And to talk to your level of how effectively that may work, I feel it’s like a nervous system coaching factor that the extra that you simply try this apply, the extra your nervous system learns to breathe that manner with out you having to consciously give it some thought. And in order that improves your respiration charge whilst you’re sleeping. That improves, you typically see advantages in train, even simply from these little tiny micro breathwork classes such as you’re speaking about. And I additionally know should you do battle with sleep, I’ve seen for me, if I try this sort of breathwork or one thing related like a 4, seven, eight breathwork, any sort of breathwork earlier than mattress. After which that tip you talked about about type of scanning the physique and enjoyable any locations that you simply really feel tight. I’ll begin at my head and attempt to loosen up all the best way right down to my toes. And I nearly by no means make all of it the best way right down to my toes earlier than falling asleep as a result of it’s so enjoyable and it brings consciousness to these spots within the physique that really feel sticky or tight. After which when you launch them, it’s just like the nervous system is prepared for sleep. In order that’s a tip I really like to present folks. If you happen to do battle with the falling asleep half, that’s been actually, actually useful for me.
And I do know you have got, you’ve talked about your e-book. I’ll make sure that after all that’s linked within the present notes as a result of there’s a lot extra that it goes into than we are able to cowl in a one hour podcast episode. Although I really like that we’ve gotten into so many each sensible and foundational elements of this. And I do know, like I mentioned, there’s a lot extra that you simply’ve written about. I’ll make sure that it’s linked. You guys test it out. It’s superior. That’ll be within the present notes at wellnessmama.fm. However on that word, a number of questions I like to ask towards the tip of interviews. The primary is that if there’s a e-book or variety of books which have profoundly impacted you and in that case, what they’re and why.
Ashley: Yeah, so I used to be excited about that. And the primary e-book that got here to thoughts was the massive e-book of Alcoholics Nameless. And I bought sober after I was 21, which was fairly some time in the past. And although I’m not at the moment collaborating in AA, that e-book had a profound influence on my life. I give loads of credit score to that e-book for actually exhibiting me a unique option to reside, proper? And now what’s so fascinating is like with all the brand new analysis out and what we find out about trauma and alcoholism and habit, there’s a lot of that that doesn’t land with me in the identical manner that it did, nevertheless it modified the course of my life. So I can’t not point out it or can’t not take into consideration that e-book.
One other e-book that I simply love and return to so typically is Untethered Soul. I feel that e-book is simply so unimaginable. It’s a option to actually like increase my thoughts and open me as much as chance. And that e-book, when it first got here into my life, it’s a kind of books, once more, I’ve so many books that I’ve have been on my cabinets for many years and that’s one among them, nevertheless it actually confirmed me what was attainable with even my considering thoughts and with my ego and simply gave me one other language and one other option to look and reframe issues and go, oh wait, after I’m having a thought, who’s considering that thought? I imply, that’s such a potent query. And it actually took me on this unimaginable journey of self-discovery and of simply extra consciousness and deeper consciousness.
Katie: I like it. These will each be linked within the present notes as effectively. For all of you guys listening, all that’s at all times at wellnessmama.fm. The place can folks discover you on-line? Clearly, I’m certain your e-book is wherever books are bought, however the place can folks discover you and continue learning from you?
Ashley: So one of the best place to study from me proper now could be on my Substack and you’ll find it at AshleyNeese Substack or thedeepercall.substack.com and that’s the place I’m hanging out. I write letters each week. I share ideas, insights, every kind of stuff. We’ve loads of enjoyable hanging out over there. I’m loving Substack as a result of it looks like, and I do know you in all probability relate to this, it’s just like the outdated days of running a blog. It’s identical to, looks like such a enjoyable group. There’s so many feedback and options and questions and there’s simply loads of connection over there. In order that’s the place I’m hanging out. It’s the Deeper Name at Substack.
Katie: I’ll embody that hyperlink as effectively. And lastly, any parting recommendation for the listeners that might be associated to one thing we’ve talked about or fully unrelated life recommendation that you’ve discovered useful.
Ashley: The factor that involves thoughts and I feel this was simply one thing that I wanted to listen to a lot at first of my relaxation apply was that you simply’re worthy of resting. And this ties into the Self-worth piece that we talked about. And it has taken me a very long time to essentially get to a spot the place I do know that I’m price resting. Prefer it’s okay for me to decelerate and to the touch, you understand, sort of tie again into the mother guilt. Even when my children are having a meltdown or one thing else is occurring, I can nonetheless take 30 seconds. I can nonetheless take a minute for myself to sort of refill my cup and provides myself that reset. And I’m price it. And so are you.
Katie: I feel that’s an ideal place to place a pin in it for in the present day. Like I mentioned, you have got a lot extra within the e-book that folks can proceed to study from you. However this has been such a stupendous dialog. I’m so grateful to your time. I’ve beloved the path that this bought to go. Thanks a lot for being right here.
Ashley: Thanks a lot, Katie. It was actually fantastic to be in dialog with you in the present day.
Katie: And thanks as at all times to all of you for listening and for sharing your most beneficial assets, your time, your power, and your consideration with us in the present day. We’re each so grateful that you simply did, and I hope that you’ll be a part of me once more on the following episode of the Wellness Mama Podcast.
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