Episode 61

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Published on:

9th Apr 2022

‘Wheels to Heels’ – She Refused Her Prognosis And Healed Herself!

Tonya Joyce refused to believe her doctor’s when they said she’d never walk again, she’d never talk without a stutter, never recover from a second horrific car crash.  She didn’t take on that diagnosis, she instead chose to prove them wrong.  She shifted her mindset and looked for others who had done just that, to prove to herself that she could too and to act as her inspiration, on her journey to recovery.  Now she shares her story with the world in order to inspire others, that anything is possible, you can heal your body when you choose that as a possibility and focus on what you CAN do instead of what you CAN’T do. It wasn’t easy, but her desire to walk again was stronger than the pain of those first small steps as she started her healing journey.  Tune in to be inspired and please share this episode with anyone in your life that needs to hear it. 

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About the Guest:

Tonya Joyce: 

I am a mother of 5 beautiful children and two young granddaughters. They are my world, and I am so grateful to be here with them and for them, as I have experienced not one, but two horrendous car crashes. I went from being my children’s parents to being their patient for most of their childhood. Getting through the pain and hardship these accidents caused myself and my family has taught me how truly powerful the mind is. The journey of recovery has given me extensive knowledge and experience practicing the healing arts benefiting the body and the soul. Today is a gift, and I am here to share my knowledge with others.

Not only did I survive these car accidents, but I also survived childhood sexual abuse and human trafficking as a young adult. These experiences have made me a strong advocate for women survivors in several areas. 

The doctors said I would never walk again, talk again, return to work or university. I have proved them all wrong as I painstakingly went from a wheelchair to walking in heels and even walked on fire! I have returned to university and full-time work with the Province of BC and have started my own company to help others build their toolbox to wellness. Yes, we can define our wellness together on our terms with the right tools. 

Instagram is @guidedpathwellness

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A gift to listeners is $20 off the first session by stating that they heard me on your show! 

Credentials:

  • Kwantlen Polytechnic University - BA Social Sciences – Criminology
  • Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Diploma Social Sciences – Psychology
  • Currently at Simon Fraser University - completing my Restorative Justice Certification
  • Robbins – Madanes – Certified Life Coach
  • Tony Robbins - Unleash The Power Within - Firewalker
  • Pain Management Specialist – Pain BC Certificate
  • Energy Healer
  • Guided Meditation Specialist
  • Mindfulness Coach – MBSR
  • EFT Specialist
  • Vision Board Facilitator
  • Author – “Wheels to Heels” and “Poetic City”
  • Author – Create the Ripple Magazine – April 2021 Issue
  • Poet
  • Songwriter
  • Vocalist
  • Drummer

 

I have also completed:

·       Pain Foundation with Pain BC

·       Pain Foundations for Allied Health Professionals with Pain BC

·       Am a member of the Community for the ECHO series with Pain BC

·       I am a Crisis Line Volunteer with Chemo Community Services and have accumulated over 500 volunteer hours

·       I have a certificate in Trauma-Informed Practices

·       160 Hours of Mediation Training


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Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  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. 

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Transcript
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wakeup call.

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Welcome back to another edition of don't wait for your wake up

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call. I am Melissa dealey your host and excited to bring you an

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incredible guest today to share her story of inspiration because

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of course, my theme this month is inspiration. So welcome,

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Tanya, I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you for joining me.

Tonya Joyce:

Oh, thank you so much, Melissa, it's so great to

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be here. And I I think you're a great inspiration to our

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community of women as well, to our whole community, whether you

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be woman or man and everything in between. So thank you for

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having me.

Melissa Deally:

Well, thank you so much. And I'm just going to

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share a tiny snippet of your story because I really want the

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audience to hear it in your own words. But Tanya is a mother of

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five beautiful children and two young granddaughters and looking

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her like you would never know that looked at her. They are her

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world and she is so grateful to be here with them. And for them

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today as she has experienced not one but two horrendous car

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crashes. Which that just sounds absolutely horrendous, as you've

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said, and but here you are smiling, thriving, don't look

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nearly old enough to have you know, two granddaughters. So

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you've you've clearly done a lot of healing in that time. And I

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would love you to share this story of inspiration with the

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audience. So please take us back to where this started and what

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you've done.

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Thank you. So, to begin, I really would love to

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step forward and say that life is a journey. And we're all on

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this journey of healing from the day we're born, we learn and we

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start in our environment, coming into this world with a blank

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slate. And what you know, some people say what doesn't kill you

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makes you stronger. So I come from a background of trauma

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after trauma from childhood. So in 2012, I had had one previous

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accident in 2010, which put me off work for three months. And

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you know, that was okay, a little bit life changing. I had

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just graduated from university. And I had to walk with a cane go

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to the chiropractor. So I learned a little bit of healing

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from there. But it wasn't completely devastating. I still

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had a job to go back to. But after five and a half years of

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university, I did have to use a cane to go across the stage. It

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was painful to get to go to convocation with that kind of

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injury. But I did it, you know, and I was grateful that I earned

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that degree, but I wish I was walking across the stage and

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dancing across a bit. You know, just like

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wow, and celebrating it right?

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to it. I really wanted to fully celebrated it, but I did it in

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pain. But you know, life happens. So get over that

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hurdle. And I healed from that pretty, pretty good. You know, I

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was still experiencing some pain. And then just as I thought

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things were getting better in 2012 I was back at work,

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thriving, five children, you know, life was going really good

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for me. And I was on my way to becoming a lawyer. I had

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graduated as a criminologist and and I was like, Wow, I'm going

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to go to UBC law, which is in Vancouver, BC. They're a really

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prominent law school, not like the ones back I used. I was

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still on my way there with five children. I was like, wow, life

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is really happening. I was struck by a drunk driver. At

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that moment, I died and came back to life with a completely

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different trajectory. And so it life changed. I spent 18 days in

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the hospital with Multiple musculoskeletal injuries. Pain,

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like I never knew it, I became my children's patient instead of

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their parent. I didn't know how to maneuver in the world as a

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completely broken person, mother, sister, daughter, all of

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these things, I didn't know how to operate in the world, as an

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educated woman. And now as completely reliant on everyone

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around me, I was the one taking care of everyone. And now

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everyone around me was taking care of me. I was advised by the

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doctors, I'd never walk again, I was in a wheelchair. I never

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taught properly again, I had a stutter, I would never return to

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university. All of the goals and dreams that I had for myself,

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were no longer. So what do you do in that situation? You What

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do you do? What does that do to your mindset to

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even hear that kind of prognosis?

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Yeah. And all my life, I had to fight for everything I

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had. I was a single mom before I was married to a man who would

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not participate in the family. He refused. He refused to

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contribute financially, emotionally parentally. He was

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in the house, but he was just a warm body. And the children had

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to step up and take care of everything. So as a mother, what

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do you do? You're injured, and you're watching the world around

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you fall apart. We as women, and I've given this talk before, for

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some who might know me might be listening to this, because I

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will certainly share it on my page. But we as women, we fight

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with every fiber of our being we fight. And when I heard that

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prognosis, I'm like, oh, no, you don't know who you're dealing

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with. Watch me. Know, I got through five years of

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university, five and a half years with five children while

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working full time. Nothing can stop me. But this accident

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stopped me in my tracks. And I had to reevaluate. So honestly,

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your your life changes. And you reevaluate. So that's what I had

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to do. I just want to stop there for a second,

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though, because I'm hearing you saying, and I'm unstoppable. And

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I'm not going to accept this prognosis. And I'm sure that was

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part of you being able to be on this podcast and talk to me

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without a stutter and not be in a wheelchair anymore. Because

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you had a different belief, from what you were being told you

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refuse to take on what you're being told.

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Absolutely. So my whole life, people told me I couldn't

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do this, because I was raised in a trailer park. I couldn't do

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that. Because I was a woman. I wasn't allowed to go to

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university. No one in my family had graduated. University. It

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was all limitation after limitation. I had a baby at 17.

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Oh, you're never going to go anywhere. And you're going to

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remain on income assistance your whole life because you had a

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baby as a teenager. Well, what that did for me, was this power

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rose up inside me. When someone says I can't do something. I get

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this feeling inside me that says, oh, now I'm going to show

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you. And I look for examples of women who have done it before me

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and succeeded. To show me proof that it's possible. Yep. And so

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I live by that value system. If someone has gone through it, and

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succeeded, I too can succeed. So I start looking, it's what we

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call the reticular activation system. Yes. If you put your

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mind to something, and you look for proof and examples of that,

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all of a sudden, you'll start seeing it everywhere, and it'll

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become possible for you. Mm hmm. It's just like,

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like, you know, as on a really basic level. I'd

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never paid attention to Subaru cars before. And then I go and

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buy a new car three years ago, and I went to Toyota that I'd

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had I went to Honda that I'd had and in the same mall was Subaru,

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and I'd never owned a Subaru never paid attention, but I

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ended up buying that car. And then of course, every other car

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on the road is now a Subaru, right? I just saw them

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everywhere. That's exactly what you're talking about here on a

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very simplistic level on him or her You know, spiritual level,

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what I'm hearing you talk about is you were looking for that

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inspiration yourself. And how often is it that we don't think

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we can do something ourselves until we seen that someone else

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can do it? Right? It even came down to, you know, in the

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Olympics and running the mile and whatever it was under

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however many minutes and it was, you know, deemed to be humanly

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impossible, until someone did it. And then all of a sudden,

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everybody else started doing it too, because we saw it was

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possible. So I love that you were looking to others for that

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validation that it could be done, and then challenging

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yourself to say, well, if they can do it, I can do it too. And

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again, stepping into that unstoppable mindset.

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That is exactly what we need to do. Why I became a

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public speaker, because I want to share that with everyone.

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Because if we can come into that mindset, at a younger age in our

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lives, we will start stepping into our power into our gifts

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that were given, thinking of, where's your proof? If you start

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to doubt yourself? Where is your proof that that's not possible

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for you? And go for look for the proof that it is possible. So,

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you know, athletes have it? Do you know when they when they

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practice, like you said the Olympics, you know, who says I

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can't do that? Who told me I can't? Oh, well, I'm going to

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show you that I can.

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But it's very funny that you say that, because

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you know, even with Olympians as people might be thinking, Well,

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I'm not an Olympian. So how is that relevant, but I want to

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share a story of my daughter when she was two or three. And

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she's the January baby, right. So a lot of her friends were

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actually from September, October, November, December the

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year before, so just slightly older grade ahead at school. But

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when I put my, when I put her into swimming lessons by

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herself, she didn't want to jump into the pool from the edge,

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right. But then I put her into the same class with her friend

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that's literally two months older, and they do swimming

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lessons together. And she sees her friend jump in, she just

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takes one look at her go and jumps in. Right. And so for

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quite a few years, I always put her with one of her friends that

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was just slightly older, who was already doing it. And then all

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of a sudden, she could do it too. Right. And it's just proof

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that even in that little two year old, three year old even

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learning to ski, etc. That young, young mind, I think it's

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innately there that we can recognize, oh, what if they can

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do it, I can do it. And somewhere along the way, you

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know, through life, we will beat ourselves up and squash

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ourselves down and start to believe that we can't do things

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just because others can, that we're not good enough, etc. But

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that's all BS. We're all human beings. And we Yes, we all have

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our innate special talents. But if someone else can do it, we

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can do it might take a little bit more practice to get there.

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But we can absolutely do it.

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Yeah. And and one thing I stress like, is to clients to

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people around me, is that when they say I'm not a good singer?

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Well, do you want to be a singer? If they don't want to be

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a singer, okay, it's a moot point. But if you want to be a

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good singer, take lessons. Mm hmm. It is possible for you to

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be a good singer. Do you want to be a singer on stage? Do you

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want to be a recording artists? How good of a singer Do you want

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to be? Anything's possible with practice with intention, with

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dedication. Be the best you can be at anything you put your

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efforts into. Nobody has to be something someone else's dream

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is it's your dream on your terms, by your standards. seek

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out someone who's doing it and follow their example.

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And don't listen to someone who tells you that

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you can't. So on that story, I am guilty of saying I'm not a

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good thing. Because I've heard all of my life. And I love to

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sing. And so I don't really care if I'm not a good singer because

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I'll sing in the car, I'll sing in the shower, or I'll sing

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while I'm doing my workouts because it just brings me joy.

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Right? And, you know, I married my husband after we drove all

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the way across Canada and he let me sing in the car in the

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hallway. He didn't. But but when I was in middle school, every

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year, we had our Christmas concert right and you either

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were in the play or in the choir. And so I didn't want to

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be in in the play I wanted to sing. But the choir teacher

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would always tell me you're not a good enough singer to be in

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the choir. And so I just kept hearing that I wasn't a good

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singer. I didn't want to be a famous singer. But choir was one

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way to be a better singer maybe right? And anyway, somehow,

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every year, I talked myself into the choir because I wanted that

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more than the acting. And so I was in the choir, and I did get

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to sing, but I came away with thinking, I'm not a good singer,

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to your point. And is it my dream? No. So I don't pursue it.

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But how many times have we stopped our dreams, because

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somebody told us we're not good at it, or we can't. And that's

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hard to overcome as well. So I have experience with that, too.

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I do. For example, like when I said, the doctor said, I

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wouldn't walk, I wouldn't talk, I wouldn't even be able to fit

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because I had a brain injury. And still I deal with post

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concussion syndrome, and seizure disorder, and all of these

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things that the labels the diagnoses, because someone's

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wearing a white coat. And because they're a physician,

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it's a prognosis, or a diagnosis of the label of permanent

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disability. These can really weigh on us like a cloak, or

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like an metal armor that is so heavy that we carry it around

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every day. What I challenge people to do is take that armor

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off and say, Okay, I'm going to get a second opinion, I might

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even look in the mirror and take opinion, and challenge myself to

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say, you said I, again, I'm going to do everything I can do

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to be my best self. And challenge myself to see how far

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I can walk. challenge myself to see how many books I can read,

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even if I have to start at watch Jain run it I don't have to own

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that diagnosis, or that prognosis. I can take myself as

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far as I personally can. With what ever I'm dealing with,

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whether it be health, weight, education, occupation, anything

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along, like your science has behind you your guided health

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journey. It's your journey, your health on your terms. So yes, I

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got rid of the wheelchair. I got rid of the walker.

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I love that.

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I started to talk without a stutter. Because I

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practiced every day just like singing. I read my books out

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loud. I exercised the neurons in my brain, which is

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neuroplasticity, to create new synapses. Yeah, to be able to

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challenge myself to get to a point where I could return to

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school. I could return to work, but it takes effort and

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dedication. It's not an easy journey. No. But I now walk in

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heels. I went to Tony Robbins in California to attend Unleash the

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Power Within which crushes your belief systems, which is what

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we're really talking about here. Is, is really getting to the

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heart of why do we believe what we believe in? Who told me that

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it wasn't possible? So I like to call it making the impossible

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possible. Yes, finding examples of who told me it wasn't

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possible. And why should I believe their source? Consider

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the source always? And how can I make it possible for me, in my

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circumstance, so I walked on fire when I was there, and I

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didn't get burned? And I'm like, how is that? For 10,000 people

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that have at the same time as me 10,000 People that get burned?

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How is that possible? And that you think that that was

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phenomenal, but people have been doing it for 1000s of years. It

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is not something outrageous to think about because your mind

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controls the body.

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And your mind is so so powerful. And so I love

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all that you're sharing here because when I work with

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clients, they might come to me with a diagnosis. I may not even

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know what that diagnosis means because I'm not a doctor. And

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the reality is, is that diagnosis doesn't actually

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matter to me in my work, because what I'm looking for is what's

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going on inside the body where the imbalances are so that we

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can rebalance the body because at that point it will heal

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itself. And what I don't love about diagnosis is so often

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people like well, I want a diagnosis. So I finally know

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what's wrong with me. But the diagnosis is actually that label

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and when we focus on the label, we get more of that label.

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Unless we shift our mindset into not taking that diagnosis on

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like you did.

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Thank you That's so beautiful of a statement.

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Refusing to own the diagnosis. How about we talk about what's

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right with you? Yes. Do you know when you are balanced,

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nutritionally, psychologically, holistic, holistically. You feel

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better you feel joy, like you're saying says I am enough. Because

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you are enough and health is everything. So when you look at

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health, like, I am a pain educator, I teach bio

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psychosocial pain management, because we want to tune down the

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pain signals that go from your mind to your body. Chronic pain

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does not have to control you, you can control your chronic

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pain, by looking at things in your environment, that

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contribute to what's making your pain scream at you. You don't

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necessarily need a pill, you need a purpose. That's my

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mantra. So when I'm thinking about when I couldn't walk, yes,

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it was painful to walk. But I wanted to walk more than I

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wanted to be in pain. Right Movement is not going to hurt

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you more movement will ease the pain in the long run. So whether

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it be swimming, or going on a bike, or even walking in the

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park with your bare feet on getting that nice nature walk

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and the grounding, benefiting and ground Yes. Whatever it is,

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people think exercising means going to a gym and working out

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next to someone who's running on the treadmill at 120. minute or

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what? Yeah, that's not it. It's on your terms. Absolutely. By my

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business bestie she says there was a lady on the internet, who

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movement to her meant just getting out of bed and moving

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her hand to start with any movement is good movement. Mm

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hmm. When I first had the accident and broke my neck, all

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I could move was my eyes. And it hurt the back of my neck soul

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that. But the physiotherapist told me just move your eyes side

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to side for two minutes at a time. And what it did was it

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exercise the muscles of the back of my neck, we'd be surprised at

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how gentle specific movements create change. And you got to

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start somewhere.

Melissa Deally:

Absolutely. And it's always the baby steps, you

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don't want to just start with something massive, because that

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can cause further damage or further pain. And then that gets

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you stuck again. But if you start with a little baby steps,

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even if there's a little bit of pain, that's a baby step that

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you can tolerate. That allows you to build strength and build

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that muscle so that you can do more.

Unknown:

Absolutely. And that's so beautiful. Like life will

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tell us when we're on the right track. Just like you said, with

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balancing your health, your body will tell you if you're eating

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the wrong, wrong nutritional things for your body. It

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actually screams at you as heartburn. If you get

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gastrointestinal pain, gallbladder attacks, you listen

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to your body say I wonder what my body's trying to tell me. And

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actually listen,

Melissa Deally:

I'm always sharing that, right? Because

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we're rushing through life. And so often we just don't slow down

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to listen just because of societal norms of do more, do

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more and these expectations and we're raising families and, you

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know, but look at you, you were had five children and going to

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university and everything else, right? When we slow down and

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listen to what our body's telling us. We can actually hear

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it, and then know what to do. And the other thing is to know

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that these symptoms are our body asking us to do something

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differently. They're not simply just, hey, I'm getting old. Hey,

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I've got seasonal allergies, hey, I've got bad genes, and

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we'll just ignore it. Right? They're actually our body asking

Melissa Deally:

us to do something differently and take different action.

Unknown:

Absolutely. And that is the benefit of incorporating a

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health educator into your life and incorporating other voices

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that are going to show you to help you grow. self care is so

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important in our lives today that a lot of people go go go,

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and then they get that wake up call. You know, and they're

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wondering, what happened. I was doing everything right. I don't

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know where this is coming from. But if you actually stop and

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listen and say, Actually, I do know where this is coming. And

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you can see it like a red flag waving over your whole entire

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universe. If I was only listening, if I only stopped and

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slowed down, when's the last time I sat at my table, and

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allowed my body to digest a meal? When is the last time I

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dipped my toes in the sand, and spent some time enjoying my own

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company? Do you know these things are so important, I'm 53

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years old. And people say, Oh, you look like you're in your

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early 40s. Or no, I have respect for my body. I have respect for

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my environment, I have respect for the relationships I have. I

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have respect for the people I choose to associate with.

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Because you are who you keep company with you are, who you

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feed your mind. You are who you feed your body, you are who you

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put into every realm of your environment. And when you pay

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attention to that, your body doesn't go into dis ease.

Melissa Deally:

I agree 100%. And I'm also 53 years old. So

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there you go. I wouldn't have known that.

Melissa Deally:

Same thing. People say that to me all the

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time. And I tell my clients that I feel as good or better than I

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did in my 30s or 20s. Because I've learned how to do this,

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I've learned how to take care of my body, how to create a body

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that's inhospitable to disease. And now that I know that I want

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to share it with the world too, because why not? I didn't grow

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up learning it. I when I was in the corporate world, I didn't

Melissa Deally:

know it. It wasn't until I had that shift in my life of being

Melissa Deally:

let go. And then figuring out what am I going to do next. And

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finding my way into health coaching, that I started to

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learn this, and how powerful it is when we choose to take

Melissa Deally:

proactive action in our health, and how quickly the body

Melissa Deally:

responds when we create an environment for it to heal, and

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how amazing you feel. And I love to ask my clients, just how good

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are you willing to allow yourself to

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feel? Will that look for you? Mm hmm. If you can walk

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upstairs without running out of breath? Yes, you can stand and

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cook a meal and sit and enjoy it. Yes. When when you don't

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have to rush to grab a meal on your way. When you get up on the

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first alarm of your phone, or better yet, when you get up

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without setting an alarm, because your body is so

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responsive to the messages, you feed it. Those things are really

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important, because then you are in total control of your life.

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Things happen that are out of your control. like car

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accidents, like Ill like, I think illness A lot of times is

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within our control to certain extent of what we can do. I

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agree. Yeah. And there are some things that arguably are out of

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our control, you know, things going on around the world and

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things like that. But things we can't change we should not busy

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our minds with exactly,

Melissa Deally:

you know, dress because it's out of our control.

Melissa Deally:

And when we feel out of control that just adds to our stress. So

Melissa Deally:

those are the times when we really need to choose to focus

Melissa Deally:

on what we can control and bring ourselves down to that place so

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we can release that stress.

Unknown:

Absolutely. And that is a real, it takes practice. It

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really does to unbusy your mind, one of one of my mentors and the

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authors that I I have read a lot of his material. Jon Kabat Zinn

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is really good with that teaching that the art of doing

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nothing. mindfulness strategies that that helped me with because

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my mind was always racing, and oh my gosh, I've got to do this.

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I've got to do that. I've got it. Who said so? Who said I

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choose? Right? Yes, I have to show up at work on time. Yes, I

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have to keep my commitments because I have integrity. But

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really do a value check with yourself. When I book this, how

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important is it to me? Am I overextending myself? Do Am I

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surrounding myself with people that I choose to be associating

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with, and really book yourself wisely so that you can have the

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integrity to be there. Those things are important.

Melissa Deally:

They are and it comes back to two little words

Melissa Deally:

that we so often use the wrong way. And that's yes and no. And

Melissa Deally:

when we ask ourselves those questions, we might feel a whole

Melissa Deally:

lot more comfortable saying no. When we say no to others, we're

Melissa Deally:

saying yes to ourselves. And that's learned too because so

Melissa Deally:

many of us are raised to say yes and help everyone else all the

Melissa Deally:

time. And that was definitely me. And learning to say no To

Melissa Deally:

others allows us to say yes to ourselves and be in integrity,

Melissa Deally:

and be able to find the time to create a self care routine

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for ourselves. I agree wholeheartedly, like I go

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through this little checklist, why am I doing this? Do do my

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values align with the person I'm meeting with? You know, I never

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do anything based on money. That's my first response. Yeah.

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Am I meeting with this person? Like, I even do this with

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clients? Am I meeting with this person, because I truly believe

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that my skills, attributes and values align with what they're

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seeking, or should I recommend them to another coach,

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psychologist or otherwise? Because when we do that, we're

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in alignment with our authenticity. And that is so

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important to me. And so I really go through a checklist, when I'm

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going to make a decision, it's the decision making matrix. Do

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you know, and that is part of self care. It's like when I show

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up for work every day, because I do work as a financial aid

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worker with the Ministry of Social Development during the

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day, because I choose to be there for people in a way that I

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can assist them during the day. And I do speaking on my days

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off, because I have days off as well, I show up for others in

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the community, because pain education is important to me. So

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that I can maybe offer something that someone hasn't considered

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for them to be their best selves, and build their toolbox

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to wellness. And so it's important for me to share my

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journey to be there for others so that they can see

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possibility.

Melissa Deally:

Exactly, I was just gonna say, because you

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become their inspiration, just as you sought to find someone

Melissa Deally:

else who done it as your inspiration. You can now do that

Melissa Deally:

for others. And everything happens for a reason. Right? And

Melissa Deally:

the fact that you've been able to go from wheels to heels,

Melissa Deally:

which I absolutely love. And, you know, we hear of these

Melissa Deally:

stories, but there's so few and far between, right, that for

Melissa Deally:

some people, they might feel like, well, you know, there's

Melissa Deally:

only a few people that have ever done that. And that's not me.

Melissa Deally:

But the reality is, is if you're going to have that attitude that

Melissa Deally:

that's not me, then no, you're not going to be able to achieve

Melissa Deally:

that. But if you instead step into really understanding your

Melissa Deally:

story, and being inspired by it, and knowing that, well, if she

Melissa Deally:

can do it, I can do it, too. That's where you can do it.

Unknown:

That's what I hope for others.

Melissa Deally:

I love that you're sharing it, because it is

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so so powerful.

Unknown:

I really appreciate that. It is important to show up

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for others. That is my purpose. That is my passion. And it's

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truly why I started doing what I do rather than becoming a

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lawyer. Yeah. Because I thought, hmm, enter into an adversarial

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system, where it's whoever can argue better. Or, or teach

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people through my journey. Mm hmm. And, you know, what, it

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wasn't that hard of a decision.

Melissa Deally:

is truly which is more powerful, right? Yes.

Melissa Deally:

Which serves humanity more, which is more, you know, brings

Melissa Deally:

you more joy, which is more fulfilling for you, right? That

Melissa Deally:

adversarial arguments situation, you know, that can create a lot

Melissa Deally:

of, you know, angst in your body, which can actually lead to

Melissa Deally:

further health issues, right. Whereas sharing something that

Melissa Deally:

you love, and that you're passionate about, in that place

Melissa Deally:

of giving to others. There's no angst that doesn't cause disease

Melissa Deally:

in your body that allows for continued healing and continued

Melissa Deally:

self care and being able to live in that place of love and joy.

Melissa Deally:

Absolutely.

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I love that I was able to reach them to work in a

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position that I love doing. Mm hmm. I love showing up with

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compassion, or people that are considered dispensable. Yeah,

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you know, and I feel like I was put in that position for a

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reason. Because I've seen what it's like to be discarded. I

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grew up in a trailer park in Kamloops. My parents struggled

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my whole life. And I wanted to break the generational groups.

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So I did. And now I'm on this side of the counter, but I can

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relate to the other side. Yes. And I'm blessed to be in that

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position. I'm blessed to be a pain educator.

Melissa Deally:

Again in that position you're showing Showing

Melissa Deally:

them, it's possible. And they don't have to accept the way

Melissa Deally:

they were raised as being all they can ever achieve, that

Melissa Deally:

there's so much more, because you've, you're showing them that

Melissa Deally:

every day.

Unknown:

Yes, and thank you. It's, we can go from the

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corporate world. But I also understand that when your life

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is in the hands of someone else, you can be let go at any time.

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Like I said, you know, and then what. So I choose to be an

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entrepreneur, and an employee, and volunteer in my community.

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Because my children have started their own lives now, my youngest

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is 18, they don't need me as much. So I can have good work

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business life balance on my terms. So now I get to do the

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things that I really, truly love to do in life, enjoy my

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grandchildren, enjoy education, enjoy work. And when you're

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living in your power, and by your choice on your terms, life

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is joyful, life is beautiful. And I can control my pain by

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just living in power. Mm hmm.

Melissa Deally:

And when you're living in power, whatever you're

Melissa Deally:

doing as your work, doesn't feel like work in that negative sense

Melissa Deally:

of work, right? It's like, Yay, I get to show up and do this

Melissa Deally:

every day, further, allowing you to live in that place of joy.

Melissa Deally:

But how many people out there today are disengaged in their

Melissa Deally:

work and hate their job and are, you know, counting down the

Melissa Deally:

hours and days and months to retirement? Too many. And you

Melissa Deally:

know, through this pandemic, we're kind of at that place of

Melissa Deally:

the great resignation. And so many people that, you know,

Melissa Deally:

build a life working at home and improve their life as a result

Melissa Deally:

of it, you know, going for walks in the middle of the day with

Melissa Deally:

their husband, or having more time with their children,

Melissa Deally:

because they don't have to commute two hours a day. And now

Melissa Deally:

saying, I don't want to go back to work, and quitting their jobs

Melissa Deally:

to find jobs that allow them to still work from home or starting

Melissa Deally:

businesses, etc, etc. Because people have had that experience

Melissa Deally:

shift forced upon them for long enough that they figured out a

Melissa Deally:

way to make it a better life. And I'm actually really enjoying

Melissa Deally:

seeing that happen. And I'm really proud of the companies

Melissa Deally:

that are adapting to that and recognizing that if they have

Melissa Deally:

happy employees, that their business is going to thrive,

Melissa Deally:

versus the companies that say, Nope, it's over, you have to

Melissa Deally:

come back to work. Right? They're not going to thrive.

Unknown:

I wholeheartedly agree with, you know, Richard Branson,

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who runs the Virgin empire? He says employees first, yes, it

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should be, and you'll have better customer service, you

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will have better retention, you know, if your labor force is

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your biggest expense, it makes sense to invest in? Yes. Do you

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know I? Oh, my goodness, we could, I could literally talk to

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you all day, because I have the same value system.

Melissa Deally:

And that statement that you've just said,

Melissa Deally:

so perfectly relates to our health as well, right? If you

Melissa Deally:

see your health as your greatest asset, it makes sense to invest

Melissa Deally:

in it. Right? You know, our house, people think of their

Melissa Deally:

houses their greatest asset or their car, well, we invest in

Melissa Deally:

our house, we vacuum and clean and fix things when they're

Melissa Deally:

broken and renovate. And we take our car for oil changes and

Melissa Deally:

services on a regular basis, so it doesn't break down. But what

Melissa Deally:

are we doing to be proactive in the same way in our health? Not

Melissa Deally:

enough in most cases, because we don't have a mindset that our

Melissa Deally:

health is our greatest asset yet. Because we've been raised

Melissa Deally:

to believe we don't have to worry about our health. If we

Melissa Deally:

get sick, we'll just go to the doctor and they'll make us

Melissa Deally:

better. And that's their problem, not ours. But our

Melissa Deally:

health truly is our responsibility. And as you've

Melissa Deally:

learned that the decisions we make around our health will

Melissa Deally:

drive our health outcomes.

Unknown:

Most definitely. And, you know, a pan BC, which is

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nonprofit organization, and you see the education series that

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they're putting out there is really engaging patients to be

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their primary caregiver. I love that your house? Yes, exactly.

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Take care of your house. You don't know how to repair your

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house. Call an expert. Yes, exactly. Oh, an educator. Yes,

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yes. specialists call them call the plumber. Follow the roofer

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over whatever you need to do but educate yourself. You will save

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yourself in the long run. Not necessarily what is

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prescriptions are so expensive. But this is why, you know, I

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really strongly, strongly suggest to choose purpose over

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appeal. Yes. Because when you have a purpose and joy, you

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really start to make changes through pursuing that

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fulfillment. And you make changes and you start to pay

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attention to when you feel your best self. Mm hmm. You know, and

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the more that we can get that message out there through your

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podcast, through through education through public

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speaking through awareness through the Wake Up Calls, one

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of my friend calls it the feather the brick the semi.

Melissa Deally:

Yep, that's Jessica. I learned that from

Melissa Deally:

Jessica. And I guess all I use, I use the feather the brick and

Melissa Deally:

the wrecking ball. But yes,

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my friend Remar Remar, Rasmus, she, she taught that to

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me, and then I taught it to Jessica, and it just spreads

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through the, our community. Yeah, the universe will give you

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a little feather, you might get a little cough. And then if

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you're still not listening to the habits that you have, it'll

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give you a break. And then in my case, that hit me with a

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LinkedIn.

Melissa Deally:

That's the wrecking wall, right?

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It'll tell you, you're on the wrong path. Listen,

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listen, listen, your body's gonna tell you you're, it's

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screaming at you. Do you know, if you constantly have digestive

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issues? I recommend that they call you or call me or call

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Jessica, you know, like, seriously, reach out to someone

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who has done the research or has the lived experience. If you

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don't think it's possible for you reach out to one of us in

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your community that has really done the work to show you that

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it's possible for you. Yep. Because we made we all have made

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the impossible possible. Career wise, health wise, recovery

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wise, life wise, when trauma hits you? How long are you going

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to drink the poison expecting someone else to die? Yep.

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Healing is possible. It doesn't change what happened. You know,

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I was hit by a drunk driver. They're like, Oh, my gosh, do

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you hate him? Now? I'm like, No. Do you think he got in that car

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and then intentionally just grabbed his car and threw it at

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me? No, I choose to be joyful. I choose to walk in heels, I

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choose to not let my past dictate my present or my future.

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I choose to share my story, period.

Melissa Deally:

And choosing to be joyful, allows your body and

Melissa Deally:

cells to be vibrating at a higher level and allows for

Melissa Deally:

health versus choosing to be hateful and bitter. That brings

Melissa Deally:

you down and again keeps that angst inside you that causes

Melissa Deally:

disease down the path. Right? And, you know, on this health

Melissa Deally:

journey, I also want to share exactly what you said at the

Melissa Deally:

very beginning, get a second opinion. Right, you are your you

Melissa Deally:

know, you said primary practice, you know, be your own primary

Melissa Deally:

practitioner, I love to say your own best doctor, because you've

Melissa Deally:

lived in your body your whole life. So if you think

Melissa Deally:

something's wrong, if you're trying to listen to the symptoms

Melissa Deally:

and trying to understand them, and somebody is telling you,

Melissa Deally:

there's nothing wrong with you, where they've given you a

Melissa Deally:

diagnosis that you don't think is right. Again, you don't have

Melissa Deally:

to take that on, you can get a second opinion. You can find

Melissa Deally:

other people that can support you in this journey.

Unknown:

Most definitely. And I love that we're all have the

Unknown:

same mindset. Because like you said, You've lived in your body

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your whole life. But I will say if you look for something,

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you'll find something.

Melissa Deally:

Yes. And that's where Dr. Google is terrible.

Melissa Deally:

And I tell people to stay off it. Don't self diagnose, because

Melissa Deally:

anybody can self diagnose on Dr. Google that they're going to die

Melissa Deally:

in the next 36 hours. Yes, right. And wake up. I've had

Melissa Deally:

clients call me in a panic, right? Because they've started a

Melissa Deally:

protocol and their bodies, you know, had a reaction to it, and

Melissa Deally:

then they're freaking out. And they're all you know, on on Dr.

Melissa Deally:

Google, and now they're gonna die in 36 hours. And I have to

Melissa Deally:

talk them down and calm them down and ask them not to go

Melissa Deally:

looking on the internet again. And and you know, they're still

Melissa Deally:

here, months, a month later. Right. And all we had to do was

Melissa Deally:

just adjust a few things. Right? And, yeah, so self diagnosis is

Melissa Deally:

never a great idea. Definitely seek help of practitioners and

Melissa Deally:

people that are, you know, trained that can guide you and

Melissa Deally:

help you. But it's a journey and it's in partnership, because you

Melissa Deally:

still are your own best doctor, and you know what's best for

Melissa Deally:

you. When you have the guidance of someone that can kind of show

Melissa Deally:

you this particular path because you haven't been on it before so

Melissa Deally:

you don't know that part. But once you get started, you know

Melissa Deally:

it's best for you.

Unknown:

I will say learn to say no. If you Meet someone that

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doesn't resonate with you. Absolutely. Thank you. But no.

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If there's no problem in saying no, say yes to you, because it's

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your health journey. Yeah, if someone doesn't resonate with

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you choose someone else.

Melissa Deally:

Absolutely, I 100% agree. So as we wrap up

Melissa Deally:

here, I've loved this conversation, as you said, we

Melissa Deally:

could talk for hours, we could do a whole other episode. But

Melissa Deally:

you've mentioned this a few times, of course, the episode,

Melissa Deally:

the podcast name is don't wait for your wake up call. So what

Melissa Deally:

does that mean to you here? Now, in this moment,

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you don't change what you're doing today. I want you

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to think about, for me, I thought about where will I be in

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a year, if I stay the same in the wheelchair? Where will I be

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where my wherever my children be, more importantly, if I

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didn't do the work, so I really had to evaluate. So my wake up

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call was, I'm not going to be stuck in this bed. For me, it

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was, I'm going to use every thing in my toolbox. And look at

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everything possible to prove the doctors wrong. So my wake up

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call was the universe, my Creator, didn't want me to be a

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lawyer. I was on the wrong trajectory. So I am a healer, in

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the sense of, I'm my own healer. And I'm here to guide people

Unknown:

down the path to becoming their own healer. Because I think none

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of us are healers in that sense of the word. I don't like the

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word, but we are our own healers, when we listen to our

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bodies. So my wake up call was, I wasn't supposed to be a

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lawyer. And this whole experience I hold nothing better

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because it was meant to be. And I am so blessed that I gained

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the gifts that I did through it, because it showed me just how

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strong I can be and other people will learn from my journey of

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wheels to heels. I love it.

Melissa Deally:

And you have a book with that title as well. So

Melissa Deally:

how can people get hold of your book and learn, you know, go

Melissa Deally:

deeper into your story and be further inspired? Because we're

Melissa Deally:

just touching the surface here? And how can they get hold of you

Melissa Deally:

as well? Okay,

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so I'm not quite finished writing the book

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because I keep revising it. Actually, she didn't want me to

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write it because she was very proud. And she thought that my

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story would just traumatize people. And so trigger morning

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when you read the book, but I do put that in the foreword. So by

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the summer, we should have it released on Amazon. And so but

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people can get a hold of me on my website, which is www dot

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guided path wellness.com. Or you can email me at Tanya teal and

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ya at guided path wellness calm. And I am so open to conversation

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about pain management, about education, I have been trained

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by pain, VC. And I'm also a Tony Robbins Madonna's coach, a lot

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of education there, but also lived experience. And I'm always

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willing to conversate with people who have chronic pain. So

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those two avenues are the best to get a hold of me. We also

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have wellness Wednesdays which is tonight where we talk about

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chronic pain, joy, how to bring more joy into your life, Jessica

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Coulthard and I hold those meetings every Wednesday night,

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just to have a conversation with you about your health. So and

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what matters to you, and your health journey. So that's about

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Thank you so much for sharing that gift with

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the audience. And I'll make sure all of that is in the show

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notes. And you do have a long list of credentials from all of

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your ongoing studies, etc, etc. So all of that's in the show

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notes for everyone to see as well. And yeah, anybody that's

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this has been amazing. Just before we leave, please share

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one tip with the audience on helping them actually get

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started and take action today.

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No matter what you're going through, it doesn't

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Well, thank you so much, Tanya, thank you to the

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audience for listening. I hope you found this podcast super

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inspiring. It is the theme of the month of April 2022. And

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thanks for listening and look forward to having you join me

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again next time.

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About the Podcast

Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!
with Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner
As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you can then make the right choices for you and your family. The choices you make today impact your future 1 year, 5 years, 10 years + from now. It is never too early to start looking after your health, as Health is your TRUE wealth....without it what do you have?

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Melissa Deally

Melissa is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issue. 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.