HH554: Lymphatic Love
Today I want to talk to you about lymphatic love. This is one of the most overlooked systems in our body, and it is your built in cleanup crew.
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her on children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks. I am Melissa Deally, your host, and today I want to talk to you about lymphatic love. This is one of the most overlooked systems in our body, and it is your built in cleanup crew. People who know my work, know that I am a big proponent of detoxification, because we live in a toxic world, and our lymphatic system is working 24/7 to clear out our toxins, our metabolic waste and even infections. However, it doesn't have a pump like your heart does, it relies on you to keep things flowing. So if you're feeling puffy, sluggish, foggy or just off, maybe it's because your lymph is a little stagnant. And the good news is it's really easy to support. So here's a few quick ways to show your limb some love. First off, start your day with one minute of movement. You've been lying down all night. You need to get up and start moving in just one minute. Think of jumping jacks, rebounding, if you have a rebounder, or even dancing to your favorite song. It doesn't need to be fancy. Just get things moving, and doing that also has another benefit of boosting your mood, because, you know, especially when you dance to a favorite song, you can't help to and feel anything except happy, right? Another option is dry brushing before your shower in gentle strokes towards the heart, and it stimulates lymph and boosts circulation. And there's videos that you can find on YouTube that teach you how to do this, and I have a couple as well. If you want to reach out to me, just DM me, and I'm happy to share those links with you. And that is another great way that you can stimulate your lymphatic system. Another one is a light collarbone massage, because this is where a lot of lymph drains, and just a few circular motions right at the base of your neck can make a big difference. And also detox baths. I love my Epsom salt baths. Epsom salts help soak up and release the toxins through your skin, and that, of course, is one of your largest detox organs as well. So a beautiful, relaxing way to end your day and then get into a lovely, deep, restorative sleep. Now these tiny habits can help you feel clearer, lighter and more energized. And when your lymph is flowing, your immune system is stronger, your skin glows and your body simply detoxes more efficiently, which is what we all want right now if you want to dive deeper into lymphatic healing, I actually had a powerful conversation with a colleague and friend named Olia, and her last name starts with a Z. It's Russian. I can't pronounce it, so we'll just call her Olia here, and that was on my don't wait for your wake up call podcast episode 199 and she and I had a fabulous conversation about lymphatic drainage. She teaches more in more detail around the movement around the collarbone, etc, and we talk about how physical blockages and energetic stagnation all negatively impact our lymphatic system and what you can do about it. So tell me what's one way that you will support your lymph this week? Tag me. Send me a DM, or simply start with one minute of jumping jacks or dancing to your favorite song to feel the shift your body will thank you.
