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You know we often hear the mind-body connection

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. I talk about the mind-body connection

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, but what does that even mean

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and what does that look

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like ? Well , today's guest

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is going to explain that and

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share her story on how

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real the mind-body

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connection is . Today's

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guest is Dr Skylar Hamilton

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and she is about to blow

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your mind . She specializes

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in helping people tap into the power

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of the mind to successfully

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treat inflammatory diseases

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, autoimmune and brain gut

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disorders , among other complex

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cases cases . A mind-body

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psychotherapist author , peer-reviewed

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published researcher and

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lecturer , she

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is an expert on the somatic effects of stress , trauma and anxiety . A product

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of her methods , dr Hamilton once suffered from multiple sclerosis and

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was bound to a wheelchair sclerosis

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and was bound to a wheelchair With MS in remission . She now spends

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her life empowering others to heal themselves , with or without medications

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. Dr Hamilton's research on treatment of

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brain-gut axis disorders with

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the use of clinical hypnosis is

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cited in numerous peer-reviewed journals

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. Dr Hamilton lectures

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on the mind-body connection

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and its impact on disease

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to Ella Go . My name is Lisa

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. Okay

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, so welcome Dr Skylar .

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Hello , I'm so happy to be here . So

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, dr , Skylar , why

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don't you introduce yourself to the listeners ? So

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I am a mind-body psychotherapist , a licensed psychotherapist , and what that

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is is I specialize in how stress , anxiety , trauma

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, unresolved anger , expression of emotions

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, how it manifests in the body . So if you

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have repressed anger and it comes out in migraines

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, that's my area . When the doctors can't quite figure

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it out , they get sent my way

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.

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Wow Okay , we're going to

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dig deeper into that . Wow

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, okay , we're going to dig deeper into that . But I wanted you to maybe share your

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personal story where you were suffering from MS and bound

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to a wheelchair . I'm going to back

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up a little bit . So I

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saw you on a podcast

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and I literally

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was like I couldn't

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even like I couldn't believe it , the

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story that you were saying , and

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I think that , if you don't mind sharing

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that to the listeners

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, I think it would be very

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impactful , because it definitely

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impacted me .

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Cool . So that is actually

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how I came to be specializing

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in mind-body connection . I'm going to get comfy for this

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story Because

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in 2002 , I was diagnosed

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with multiple sclerosis . I actually was a

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boxer back in the day , training to be

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professional . So I was training four or six

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hours a day . I was in Las Vegas actually it

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was legit trying to make my

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way in the boxing world , and

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what happened was I was pushing myself four , six hours

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a day . You're always trying to cut weight extreme

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, extreme stress on the body and then

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my father had just passed away shortly

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before that and I fell into

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convulsions and my husband

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at the time took me to the hospital and

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I ended up being very

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sick with multiple sclerosis , had to have three

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bags of blood put back in

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and I was losing my vision . It

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just went really , really quickly and

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told I could never have kids , I

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would be dead by 50 and I'm 51

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. I made it , but

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it was actually a very horrific

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ordeal for a long time . And

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, uh , one day this event happened

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and I decided I was done being sick and

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I was done . I was just done

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, I was just done being sick and I

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went and got an education . I

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started doing all these little methods that I teach people

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, uh , how to start changing the brain chemistry

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and the way we observe stress , how we handle

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our attachment styles . And then I went to a conference

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and said , hey , how do I prove this to the world ? And

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a colleague said get your PhD and prove it . So

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I got my PhD and , uh

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, but what I do is not with my degree

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, what I do is from my soul , because I've

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been to the darkest depths of humanity

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. So I just want to empower the people

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that it's possible .

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So , okay , that's

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a lot , okay . So do

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you think that the

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events that occurred in

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your personal life with your father passing

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, did you feel that that impacted

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your health ?

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Huge , and that's actually

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even a part of this formula I created

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. What is the mind-body connection and attachment

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style is so relevant

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to Z's progression . So , losing

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a primary caregiver and

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losing an attachment

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, a secure attachment , a securely attached parent

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to me , and

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then the physical stress , the mental stress of

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the death . It just was

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the perfect formula . Perfect formula

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.

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Wow , wow . And then

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when you said to yourself

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, I'm sick , I don't

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want to be sick anymore , can

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you just talk a little bit about

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like , what was that ? Like

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you know , when people I tell people those

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things , even from my experience , when you're just

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like , no , I'm done , I'm and this is what

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I'm going to do , I , what was one of the

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first things that you did

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when you made that decision

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that I'm done being sick ? Did , when you made that

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decision , that I'm done being sick .

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Yeah , this is actually kind of an intense story

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. I took a phase

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four clinical trial drug , fda

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approved , and I had a reaction to it and I actually stopped breathing . And I was working

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as a teacher back then , single parent , two babies , and I remember just saying

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no , don't take me , and this is get to the I'm done story

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. So I stopped breathing

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respiratory distress and I remember just saying no , don't take

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me . And this is get to the I'm done story . So I stopped breathing

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respiratory distress . I remember in the ambulance they just said

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bag

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her , we're losing her . I'm like what does bag mean ? And you're not losing me ? I'm arguing in my

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head and I'm seeing everyone panic . I must not be breathing . Long

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story short I stopped breathing , ended

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up . The man next to me was having a heart attack . As

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soon as the drug wore off , my respiration

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came back . So I

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was a single parent and my kid's

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dad fantastic man came to be

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with me at the hospital . He had to go back to

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Orlando to work . I lived in Tampa . So

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I actually called family members who were

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in town busy and I said hey , can you please come take

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care of the babies ? And the family

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member said sorry , I'm skydiving

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, I can't come help you . And

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I just realized at that moment I

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have to be done being sick , like I can't

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rely on anybody . I'm

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a single parent , I think like $30,000

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a teacher God bless the teachers out there it's barely

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above the poverty line . I've got two babies

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. I can't be sick . No one's

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coming . No

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one is coming . And I'm not trying to say like

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Mel Robbins , I was saying that long before and

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that day I was done . It

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was a defining moment where if

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I don't get this figured out

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, I'm going to die . If

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I don't get this figured out , I'm going to die . No one's going to help me , no one's helping

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with the babies . It was figure it out or die . And

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it got to the point where there was no other option . And

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when I made such a powerful decision

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, I just became so determined

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that nothing was going to stop me . And now

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I'm epitome

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of health .

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And now I'm epitome of health . Wow , Wow

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, that is amazing . So did you

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ever go back to I mean , you know

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people go see their doctors and

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you know you get

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your annual and all that Did you ever

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go back to get a physical with

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the same doctor , or any

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doctor for that matter , Because they're going to see your medical

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record ?

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Like what was their response to all this I did ? I finally

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went back to the neurologist and the first question she asked me is are you

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gluten-free ? And I remember just like why did she ask me if I'm gluten-free

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? I'm like , well , I am , but just

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because it hurts my tummy . It was no other reason than that

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. And they explain

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it as artifacts . The changes could be an artifact

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in the MRI , but she's like yeah , you don't have as many lesions

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as you had before . And the one on my optic

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nerve which was causing blindness , it's still

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there , but it's not an active lesion , it's

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just more of a scar . But the lesions

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I had , all in the back of my brain , my spine , they

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weren't showing up and

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I have been symptom free since

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, uh , 2015,

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. Uh , no numbness

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in the legs , no vision loss Actually , my vision

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is better in this eye now than the other eye and

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I just stopped going and I went to get life insurance

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policy and I named the neurologist

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and it'd been so long I didn't have any records

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even anymore . Just they couldn't even find me . So

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I don't even write down multiple sclerosis anywhere

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because you can't find

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it . I wonder . I've always kind of wondered , though , with

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a with a spinal tap . Could they find it again

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? Uh , but I

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don't need to know because

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my lifestyle is the

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epitome of health . Like I don't need

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to find that out .

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Um , yeah , wow

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, that is amazing . So

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let me ask you this Now

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that , because you're saying you're the

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epitome of health , what are some

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of the things that you are

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doing that you didn't

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do prior to your diagnosis

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?

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This is the question I probably get asked the most , and this is what

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I tell people . It's not in a cold water shower

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and all those things are great . I laid in bed

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and I imagined Mario

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brother , the Mario brother , the guy with the

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paint can like back back in my day . It was

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Donkey Kong . So the Donkey

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Kong guy , when I laid in bed every

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night , was painting my Milan sheath with paint

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. And I did it every night before I

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went to sleep and every morning when I woke up , before

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I came to a complete conscious state of awareness

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. And I use my imagination

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. This is before I knew anything about mindfulness . This is

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before internet , this is before

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dispenser , this is just before anything

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. I would just lay there and

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I asked myself this question if I can create

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disease , why can't I create wellness , why

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can't I make myself better ? And I challenged myself

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that question . So it wasn't

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this the gluten and the exercise

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and yoga , all that's fantastic and

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I agree with all of it . But what I really

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did was use my imagination on the cellular

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level to start imagining what optimal

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wellness looked like for me , based on what the medical

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community said needed to happen . So

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, like what do you need ? Like , ask physician , like what

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do you need ? I asked physician like what do you need ? Optimal outcome Well

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, if your myelin was to repair , all right , gotcha , that's

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what I'm going to go do . Wow , that's the secret sauce . All of it's fantastic

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, the yoga , all that's great . But your imagination can create wellness .

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So people are going to listen to this and say

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are you telling me that I can cure myself

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?

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as a PhD , I'm very mindful of the word cured

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because I really leave that to the

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MDs . But what I

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can say is I've worked with hundreds

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of pediatrics , hundreds of adults , and

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I have numerous accounts of physicians

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saying your remission , you are healed

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, your GI tract looks better , your

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inflammatory markers are down . I don't

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use the cured word . I've only

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heard one physician use it in all my patients

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, so I'm very mindful about that word

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. But can you achieve excellent

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, almost optimal , optimal wellness , unequivocally

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, a billion percent ? Every fiber of my being

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knows that's possible . I've done

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it . I see it every day

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at work . There's , there

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was someone that was on a

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stomach transplant list . She almost died . She's

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now a mother and a wife

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. She died seven times

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from sepsis , from GI disorders . She

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did exactly what I taught her and she's a mother and a wife

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right now , totally cured and healed

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. That's the one they call cured .

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I don't even know what to say . Dr

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Scarlett

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, you're giving me shivers down

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my spine . It's

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very powerful what you're saying , but

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my mind is definitely blown . So

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with that I could

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see where the mind-body

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being a mind-body psychotherapist

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kind of comes in . And I

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know that we talk about that and

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that's kind of like the buzzword right Mind

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and body connection . Everyone's talking about

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it . I talk about it , but from

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your perspective , based on what

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you do , what does

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the mind and body connection really

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mean to you and

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the work that you do ?

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That's my favorite question . The

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one main element that connects the mind

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to the body are emotions . Emotions

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are the glue that connect the

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mind to the body . We

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have roughly 60,000 thoughts

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a day . Women have roughly

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25 trillion cells For

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every thought that we have 60,000

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thoughts . Odds are some

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of the autoimmune or GI or anxiety or depression

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has up to 30,000 negative

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thoughts a day . Literally 30,000 negative

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thoughts a day . Literally Every

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one of those negative thoughts and

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automatic negative thoughts releases a cortisol

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or a stress response hormones

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, neurotransmitters

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, neurochemicals , peptides to the 25 , 27 trillion

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cells . That creates inflammation and disease in the cell . Over time . The dis-ease creates

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disease . So the one thing , if

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you were to narrow everything down is

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the glue that

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binds the mind to the body are emotions

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.

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That comes to mind our conversation

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when we first met . I mean , you

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blew my mind in that conversation

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because I said to you that

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I totally believe in the mind-body

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connection and I

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was talking about my own personal

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experience having

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gastroparesis , going through a horrible , terrible

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divorce , being in a horrific

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relationship , and I was explaining

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that to you and you said

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that's

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a frozen response . Yeah

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, and explain a little bit about

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what that is . What's the frozen response

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?

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All right . So we have the thoughts

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. Those thoughts create a limbic response

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. It's either fight , flight or frozen

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. We're all familiar with that . But what's

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really not recognized is anything

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below the diaphragm , like a gastroparesis

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or Crohn's or bloating or

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gas , not diarrhea , but those

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things is a frozen response . A

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frozen response happens after a prolonged

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fight or flight . The brain

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can no longer take . You're in

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the war zone for so long . It actually

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goes to complete immobilization and frozen

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, which also freezes up the

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biologics . So your default

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has now gone to a frozen response . Excessive

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fatigue , don't

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want to get out of bed , bloating

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gas those are all indications

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of a frozen response . And this is

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something else . An extreme case of it is

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psychogenic seizures , when people

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pass out or syncope and

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there's no medical reason . That is an extreme

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response of frozen . Celine Dion

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stiff person syndrome , frozen

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response . Wow

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, your symptoms tell me what

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your solution is , what limbic response you're in

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.

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Oh my God . So you said that

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to me and I'm like how does she know ? So

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how does she know

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? Like , honestly , I was

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like you literally woke

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me up . I was like how did she know that ? That

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was spot on . And then I

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was mentioning about . You

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know , I have some friends who were diagnosed with

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lupus and you mentioned

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Fight response .

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Yeah , yeah , so that's a prolonged fight

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response and usually autoimmune vacillates

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between all three but their primary

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is fight and I talk about this

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actually in other , actually in my

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podcast . I talk about this it's chronic invalidation

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. Chronic invalidation

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, where you're chronically invalidated , whether by a partner

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, a parent or a medical

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or even social media , can

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cause stuffed anger , stuffed

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rage . So many times I work with

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people of autoimmune . There's a lot of chronic invalidation

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, either through childhood or poor attachment

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style in childhood or a partner and

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this unresolved fight response , this inability

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to use the voice but wanting to use the voice

17:33

and stuffing and stuffing and stuffing

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and when any this is kind

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of a really fascinating when

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we stuff our emotions , we

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do will form a self abandonment . We

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don't use our voice and

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we don't use our voice , we abandon ourselves . We get

17:49

further from our truth . We don't use our voice , we abandon ourselves . We get further from our truth . We

17:51

get further from our truth . We start building

17:53

up resentment for the person that we can't tell our

17:55

truth to and our own resentment . I call

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it a double scoop of resentment that's

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all turned into self-loathing and anger

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. And the more we self-abandon , the more we feel

18:04

resentment . The more unexpressed anger

18:06

, the less we use our voice . Wow

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, make sense .

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Yeah yeah . That's just amazing

18:13

. As you were explaining

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that , I thought to myself when

18:18

you well , let me ask you this when you

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are seeing your clients

18:22

, when they start talking

18:24

about their

18:27

history and they start working on that

18:29

, how soon after do they start

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noticing a shift on

18:33

feeling better ?

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That's a great question . One of

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three things have to happen either

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one or all three . They recognize how

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much their thoughts are creating their disease . They

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recognize the attachment style whether it be a

18:47

toxic , unhealthy partner

18:49

or a parent is impacting their disease

18:52

. Because stress is contagious . Cortisol

18:54

goes up 40% by people who

18:56

have anxiety or wait

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. I said stress , attachment , thoughts

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, emotions , attachment

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style and secondary gains is the third one . So

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thoughts and emotions go in a category , attachment

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style is another category and then secondary

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gains . I

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will speak for myself . I definitely

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subconsciously had

19:19

a secondary gain the entire time I was sick

19:21

. It wasn't until I was done

19:23

with the secondary gain , this

19:25

need to feel important , this need to feel nurtured . I

19:28

was gaining something from being sick

19:30

. But on the deep subconscious level I'm not

19:32

thinking , oh , I want to get my mommy's love . It's

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not at all . You don't realize you're

19:36

doing it . Once people realize

19:38

, it's one of those three things , if not all three

19:40

instant , instant

19:43

, instant . Wow

19:47

Okay that's

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the power of the mind . It's unbelievable

20:03

.

20:03

Yeah , yes , unbelievable

20:06

. Um , my gosh

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. I normally am not specialist , but

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with you I am . Um , you

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know what it is it's like , cause

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I believe , I believe everything you're saying

20:19

because I lived it and

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, um , you know when

20:24

I , when I am not in

20:26

, just to be very , uh

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, vulnerable here and and transparent

20:30

, I should say being transparent

20:33

here , when I am a in

20:35

a toxic relationship

20:37

. I mean that , if that's not a great example

20:39

, okay . When anybody's in a toxic

20:42

relationship toxic job

20:44

you don't feel

20:46

good , your stomach is

20:48

tight , you don't sleep , you

20:51

feel sick . It is overwhelming

20:55

how bad you feel , all

20:57

the negativity that you feel . And

20:59

then the moment , literally the

21:01

moment you leave , feel

21:06

. And then the moment , literally the moment you leave , I mean

21:08

the moment , it's like you will

21:11

step out the door .

21:11

It's like it's gone . Yep Experienced that a couple of times

21:14

too .

21:15

It's amazing . So I mean I I'm

21:18

listening to you but I never

21:20

thought of it in that

21:22

realm , thinking of disease

21:25

in that realm , because it does

21:27

manifest . I mean , like I

21:29

said , I talk about having

21:31

that stomach issue that

21:33

manifests it , and it was a slow

21:35

manifest and I could tell you

21:37

the months that

21:39

it started becoming

21:42

to that point where I couldn't eat

21:44

anymore and then

21:46

, like I said , the moment it ended it

21:49

was just like what the

21:51

heck ? I think for some people

21:53

it's very hard to understand

21:55

that concept . But I want to ask

21:57

you this , because

22:00

you know we are seeing

22:02

a lot , a lot

22:04

of autoimmune diseases

22:06

. Like you know , it's

22:08

almost like wait a minute why

22:11

, all of a sudden , people are getting like

22:13

the stomach issues , not

22:16

being able to eat foods and all that

22:18

. I mean what

22:20

happened 10 years ago ? Why is

22:22

there such a increase

22:24

in these types of diseases

22:26

? What are your thoughts on that ?

22:29

Well , it's 80 million people have autoimmune

22:31

more than cancer , heart disease and diabetes

22:33

combined , and I think it's something

22:36

like over 80% females . Yeah

22:39

, wow , I know that's

22:42

actually a huge deal . I

22:44

leave that answer to the researchers . I really like

22:46

to stay in my lane . But COVID

22:48

had a really big part of it Seed

22:51

oils , toxins , metals , all

22:53

the environment . What we do

22:55

know is autoimmune

22:57

runs in my family and certain environments

23:00

can trigger it to happen . So what

23:02

we do know is that even if you have the environment

23:04

, heavy metals , toxins , covid , seed

23:08

oils all these things are linked to inflammation

23:10

. Now , but we do know that even

23:12

if your DNA , your

23:14

messenger RNA , gets expressed to express the disease

23:17

, you can actually unexpress it . So

23:20

what's causing it ? I

23:22

don't know . I've just

23:24

written in my book like back in my generation we didn't

23:26

have that . You're right Cause back in my generation we didn't

23:29

have that . But I also

23:31

knew . You know , when

23:33

the streetlights went on , you

23:35

went home . There wasn't 24

23:38

, seven media stress , response

23:40

, news outlets , constant

23:42

, chronic invalidation . Whether

23:46

you know you don't get liked on the social media , you feel a

23:48

sense of invalidation . This plethora of toxic

23:50

, abusive relationships out there . It's

23:53

just rather remarkable , almost epidemic

23:55

and parental attachment styles

23:58

. You grow up with an avoidant

24:00

, dismissive parent , parent and the pendulum swings

24:02

. You become this over helicopter parent

24:04

and that creates anxiety in the

24:07

child . So there's so many factors

24:09

. I do believe in environmental , but I also

24:11

believe that we are living in a day and age

24:14

when stress doesn't ever

24:16

leave us because our phone is right next to us . And

24:18

I always ask people , if you were a

24:20

patient who's in the chronic victim mode , if

24:23

I was to take you and put you in Papua New Guinea and

24:26

you had to go get your own food and water and build

24:28

, would you be sick ? Nope , I wouldn't be sick . Okay

24:31

, just puck you from the environment , yeah , but I don't want

24:33

to . I'm like all right .

24:38

Okay on this . When I was asking

24:40

you , when you see

24:42

the clients

24:44

, what does it look

24:47

like to work with you

24:49

? So you know you bring

24:51

in this person , I'm going

24:53

to have to say that this individual

24:56

has to be very open-minded , because

24:59

you're going to be talking about things

25:01

that they might not accept as a problem

25:04

. You're talking about attachment with

25:07

parents , talking about some trauma

25:10

that they have been stuffing for years

25:12

. What are

25:14

some of the things that you do at first

25:17

, or what does it look like to work with

25:19

you ?

25:21

I appreciate your question so much because

25:24

that , on so many levels , is so spot

25:26

on . Parents come

25:28

to me desperate , desperate

25:30

. Adults come to me , desperate , and

25:33

the first two questions I ask is do you want

25:35

to heal ? And people

25:37

think , oh , of course I want to heal , but actually not

25:39

really . And

25:41

do you believe you can heal ? And

25:45

when I asked , do you want to heal , I

25:47

wait to hear doubt . I wait to hear what automatic

25:49

negative thoughts they're going to have . I wait to hear what excuses

25:51

they're going to have . I wait for the parent to chime in

25:53

and interrupt and say why the kid can't heal . I

25:56

have my entire treatment plan answered

25:58

. Those two questions Tells

26:01

me everything I need to know in those two questions

26:03

. And do you believe you can heal ? Uh , no

26:05

, I don't , but I trust you . All right , cool

26:07

, I got that . Just give me one thread . Give me one

26:09

thread and I'll walk you . I'll walk you across the

26:11

bridge . Um , so what

26:13

it looks like is no , I'm very gentle , I

26:15

don't jump right in Like you're just functional

26:17

Tetris style . No , I roll

26:19

into it . I , the main thing is I want to

26:21

build a bond and I'm rather

26:23

self-deprecating , not in a self-loathing

26:25

way . I'm so in love with myself , finally , after

26:27

51 years . It took forever to get here

26:29

, but I'm just so comfortable being flawed

26:32

and it's

26:34

just being the authentically flawed that I am . Hey , this

26:36

is why I did this group as a parent . I screwed up this , I screwed

26:38

up this . My kid has an autoimmune disease too , which

26:42

she's better now . She was in a walk , had

26:44

a walker for a long time , but that's

26:47

how all this really came to be . So

26:49

, first of all , it's just really this genuine . Let's

26:51

just chill , let's just vibe , like , do we vibe

26:53

? Do we get along ? Do

27:00

I get the tingles ? When I talk to you , can you resonate on the same wavelength where I feel this

27:02

? Be quite frank with you all this divine feeling I get inside

27:04

and I just I know I got

27:06

it , I got it , I got it . Whether they've

27:08

got it or not , I've got it . Then

27:11

, once the rapport is built , we get into things

27:13

that are , hey , your 30,000

27:15

thoughts . You hate yourself not really helping

27:17

.

27:21

Oh my gosh . Okay . So I

27:23

asked you that question because

27:27

when you were talking about you

27:29

know , does

27:32

someone ? Well , going back

27:34

to what you said , when you said , you had that

27:36

point where you're like I'm done , I'm not

27:38

going to get sick anymore . I got to figure

27:40

this out . And that's

27:43

not just I

27:46

can't even , I don't even know how to explain it , because I

27:48

felt that it's this force , it's

27:51

the get out of my goddamn

27:53

way . I am getting like

27:55

you are like nope , nope

27:58

. I got to figure , I'm going to figure this out . And

28:00

that's exactly how I was . I was like

28:02

no , like I was determined

28:04

. There was no doubt in my mind

28:06

. I was like a force to be reckoned

28:09

with . So it's not just like , oh

28:11

, I'm just sick and tired of this , but

28:14

God , but I don't want to really do that

28:16

. You have to get to

28:18

that point where you're just like I

28:21

need to get this , I'll do anything

28:24

to get this .

28:27

That's it . That's

28:29

it . It's this determination , this

28:31

internal drive , just

28:35

to reach that point where , like , who

28:39

else is going to do it ? No

28:41

one's going to do it for you , and

28:44

I waited for many , many years

28:47

for some doctor , a partner

28:49

, a family member , someone not

28:52

going to happen . There's no answers .

28:55

Yeah .

28:56

Yeah , I a hundred percent agree with you , it is , and

28:58

you know when you know , when you know , know

29:00

when you know

29:02

.

29:02

Yeah , it's crazy because

29:04

it's like I never it's so hard

29:07

to like . I said it's

29:16

that determination , but , as I'm even telling you , my imagination is going

29:18

to like me , like rushing opening doors and just like I'm going to get

29:20

to the bottom of this . But

29:22

let's talk about your podcast

29:25

, because you also have a podcast . And

29:27

what's the name of the podcast

29:29

? What is it about ? What type of ? I mean , do

29:31

you have guests ? What type of guests will be

29:34

coming on to the podcast ?

29:35

Yeah , so I just started , I think I'm . I

29:37

got like five recorded and

29:40

it's called Heal your Mind , heal your Body . And

29:42

I did it because working 12 hour days

29:44

I love it I mean , I really do love my job but

29:47

I can't get the knowledge out there . I

29:50

feel like I just get in a dead end like every hour

29:52

and everyone's like everyone's lives are changing

29:54

. So I started the podcast to just disseminate

29:57

this . Really , these are

29:59

areas of the mind-body connection that no one's talking

30:01

about . That really is what matter

30:03

. Naturopath love

30:05

it . I

30:08

like to work in conjunction with naturopaths and medical doctors , but no one's talking about emotions

30:11

and attachment and chronic invalidation and secondary gains

30:13

and identification , all these

30:15

things . So it's heal your mind , heal your body

30:17

. Right now I'm just talking about laying

30:19

the groundwork of what are the components

30:22

in my arena that make up the mind body connection

30:24

. Uh , but I always like tell

30:26

people it's in conjunction with medical and naturopathic

30:29

. That's when it works the best . Um

30:31

, so , yeah , I'll have guests . I'll

30:33

have the physicians on who've seen the miracle patient

30:35

. I'll have a couple of them on . I'll have my

30:37

patients that have healed

30:39

and been cured , also by some of the physicians

30:41

A woman who's had mast cell activation

30:44

, which every time she ate food , she became anaphylactic

30:46

and had to go to the ER and stab herself in EpiPen

30:48

eat whatever she wants . Now Someone's

30:51

been vomited for two or three months straight . After

30:54

, I think , the third session she was done vomiting

30:56

. Yeah , lots of patients

30:58

on that will tell their stories and I really

31:00

applaud them because it takes a huge level

31:02

of vulnerability to come out and tell the world . Wow

31:05

. Okay , but that's how strongly they feel

31:07

about recognizing one

31:10

woman . She's going to come on and she has chronic

31:12

IBS . But IBS was from a life or death

31:14

trauma situation , a

31:17

car accident , and once she realized

31:19

her secondary gain , gone

31:22

. Wow , IBS gone .

31:24

What's the name of the podcast ?

31:26

Heal your Mind , Heal your Body .

31:28

Okay .

31:29

With Dr Schuyler .

31:30

Okay , and we can hear that everywhere

31:32

Any podcast

31:35

platform that people listen to their

31:37

podcast . Dr

31:39

Schuyler , what's coming

31:42

up for you in

31:44

the couple of months besides the podcast ? Any

31:47

new courses , new webinars

31:49

, any talks ? What's going on with you

31:51

?

31:51

I do have a book coming out . I'm

31:54

excited about this . It's

31:57

Empower your Child to Heal . But

32:00

my developing editor , David Jars , is my

32:02

right-hand human . It's

32:05

actually going to be two books because it's

32:07

not just about empowering your child . We're actually developing

32:09

a second book simultaneously and

32:11

empowering yourself to heal . So

32:14

that's going to roll out at the end of the year hopefully

32:16

both of them and it talks about

32:18

the eight ways for anxiety , Eight

32:21

ways that makes you the mind-body connection , the attachment

32:23

style , chronic invalidation , the things I've talked

32:25

about . So that's coming out the end

32:27

of the year . I do

32:29

have , if you go to drskylernet

32:32

you can click for newsletters and

32:34

every month I am doing free

32:36

tidbits , information , sneak peeks

32:38

in the book and things I don't talk about on

32:40

the podcast . That

32:42

are just tidbits , information like hey

32:44

, I learned this the hard way or this really helps

32:47

. So yeah

32:49

, drskylernet . And then the book

32:51

Empower your Child and Yourself to Heal

32:53

. I can't believe two books came out at once , but it was

32:55

so much knowledge , it

32:58

just kind of rolled out that way .

33:00

That's amazing . Well , I'm definitely invested

33:03

in that . And where can people

33:05

find you on social media ?

33:08

I just started Instagram

33:11

, it's Dr Skylar , and then , I think , two underscores

33:14

. And then on TikTok , I'm Dr Skylar

33:16

. I've been on that for a little bit . Linkedin

33:18

too , dr Skylar Hamilton . I

33:22

think that I'm not on Facebook yet

33:24

, but I have a media company setting me up for that

33:26

.

33:27

Oh , perfect , and if

33:29

you want to get a hold of or connect

33:32

with Dr Skylar , we're

33:39

going to put all her links on the Schuyler

33:41

. Again

33:44

, I'm so overwhelmed

33:46

by the goodness that

33:48

you are providing on

33:51

this episode and I'm

33:54

speechless because it's just such

33:56

good stuff that

33:58

you are doing , that you're doing good

34:01

work . I'm so

34:04

fortunate to have you on here on

34:06

the podcast the listeners

34:08

just an amazing

34:10

individual that you are and you're definitely

34:13

doing the good work . So thank you so much for

34:15

being a part of this .

34:16

Thank you so much for actually saying those words

34:19

and for having me Seriously

34:21

thank you .

34:22

You're welcome and until next time

34:24

. Everyone , Bye .