The Jill Cruz Podcast

107. Good Habits for Weight Loss & Health

Jill Cruz — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0400

We can’t rely on punishing popular health practices to offer us the gentle healing we need.

Dr. Stephanie Zgraggen is a chiropractor and a nutritionist who focuses on the clinical nutrition side of her practice and helps women heal naturally.

Many women suffer from a variety of health issues and can’t get the help they need from standardized healthcare practices or commercialized products. Extreme dieting, intense training, fasting, and pills can be more detrimental to the body than helpful, but self-care practices that reduce stress and increase your positive mindset can do wonders.

If you are having trouble making progress on your self-care journey, a certified nutritionist may be able to help you discover the root cause of your problems and put you on the path to success. Getting healthy isn’t a quick-fix, so stay positive and research the kind and gentle help that you need.

🩸 Dr. Stephanie is a chiropractor that focuses on clinical nutrition and helps women with hormone balance, adrenal fatigue, digestive disorders, and others: she had her own crazy hormonal story. 02:01
🤷‍♀️ So many different parts of your body are talking to each other: when you take birth control, you tell your whole system to shut up. 07:09
💅 The body always triages: it doesn't care about your weight or what your hair and nails look like. 10:29
✅ The more cortisol you produce, the more nutrients you need to regenerate your gut: stress is not just coming at you from one place. 12:23
💊 Many products we see on the market aren't even at therapeutic doses: treat the cause, not the symptoms. 16:20
💚 When you fast too much and too long without having proper nutrients stored, you can start having negative effects: choose nourishment over punishment. 17:41
🪫 If you barely have the energy to get through the day, you don't have it for workout routines either. 20:35
🤩 Looking for progress, not perfection: when your body works better, anything you take will be more effectively utilized. 23:30
🍵 Drug absorption can vary depending on the type of therapy: we store a lot of estrogen and toxins in our fat cells - a true metabolic detox is helpful with balancing hormones and releasing toxins. 26:12
🌸 If you're looking for a clinician, do the research and find somebody kind: hormones are important for osteoporosis and dementia. 33:35
❤️ You can have the help and support to heal from the inside out. 37:21

Links:

Connect with Dr Stephanie: https://drzgraggen.com

Detox your morning routine: https://drzgraggen.com/morning-detox-ebook

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

106. “How much protein do I need?”

Jill Cruz — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0400

There is a lot of confusion out there about how much protein you need in a day.

That is why I really enjoyed this conversation with Beth Lipton. Beth is a food and wellness writer and shares her tips on why it is important to have meat-centric meals. Eating is all about self-care and giving the body what it needs, so the most important eating habit we can practice is listening to our body.

Our body requires a lot of energy to keep up with all of life’s demands, and the older we get, the more we need to maintain our physical health and muscle mass. Protein is an excellent source of what the body needs, and when paired with other self-care exercises, it can lead to a healthy and less stressful way of living. Making meat and fish a regular part of your diet can potentially elevate your health, energy, and muscles!

Shownotes:
🍖 Beth is a food and wellness writer, recipe developer, and the co-author of a cookbook called Carnivore-ish: the concept of the book is that we should be centering animal protein on our plates. 02:09
🏋️‍♀️ Beth's friend and co-author Ashleigh has a strong background in muscle building, especially for women. 06:33
⚡ We need energy for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual demands: energy is a thing that you build through your habits. 09:03
🧘‍♀️ Meditation practice is not about clearing your mind: Jill is on a journey of getting out of being a hyper person. 13:20
🤔 When we become more aware of the negotiations in our heads, we become more disciplined: meditation helps with discipline and keeps us from worrying about the future too much. 17:10
👠 Women don't expect anyone else but themselves to be perfect, and we need to work on that: I'm the master of my own universe. 22:53
✅ You need all 9 amino acids to have a complete protein intake: animal proteins are superior, but that doesn't mean you can't get enough on a vegetarian or vegan diet. 29:30
👩‍⚕️ The protein you take in today affects your energy over 24 hours: our bodies are exquisitely designed to handle anything we put in them because we are omnivores. 34:55
🥩 Carnivore-ish has 125 recipes and a ton of variety. 38:58

Links:

Connect with Beth: www.instagram.com/cookiepie0402

Carnivore-ish: www.amazon.com/Carnivore-ish-Protein-Rich-Recipes-Health-Muscle/dp/1628601477

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

105. Liz Johnson - Getting Sick Is A Part Of Life

Jill Cruz — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Take care of yourself to ensure you have the mindset needed to serve others.

Liz Johnson is the owner and Care Planning Consultant for Seniors at Always Best Care Bergen & Passaic. She shares critical healthcare information and resources for seniors.

When family members become ill, guilt and heavy emotional burdens can make handling the situation problematic.

The key is to practice self-care during these challenging times so we can show up as our best selves and take on the responsibility of being there to serve our family members in need.

Understanding the nuances of the healthcare system and how it applies to helping our aging loved ones can be a difficult and emotional journey, so we must seek professional help and resources.

Take care of yourself to be the hero your aging loved ones need!

🧓 Liz is a care planning consultant for seniors: we attract whatever is happening, but not everything is our fault. 02:44
🌸 Getting sick is part of life - nothing ever stays the same: take care of yourself to help others: there's nothing to feel guilty about. 06:38
❤️ In the end, you want to say to yourself: "I did everything possible to make things well for my parent": don't wait for someone to pass away to be good to one another. 13:03
🧑 Play the hero instead of the victim: we can go back to those wonderful moments that we had with our parents to give us the fortitude to deal with what is at present. 20:47
🌺 There's a difference between skilled nursing and long-term care: Lisa offers help and advice to anybody who contacts her. 25:26
💔 Even for a nurse or doctor, it can be too emotional to take care of a loved one. 28:36
🌼 Self-care is health care. 31:11
🌎 The world won't end if we go to the gym, meditate, eat, or sleep - make it a priority. 33:50

Links:

Connect with Liz: www.linkedin.com/in/lizajohnson1

Always Best Care: https://alwaysbestcare.com

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

104. Beth Ramer - Work-Life Balance Is an Illusion

Jill Cruz — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0400

The key to balancing work and life is to take more time for self-care.

Beth Ramer is a career counselor and professional coach who helps women balance the alignment of work and life by prioritizing their well-being.

The unfortunate truth is that the concept of work/life balance is often an illusion because being a high achiever can push us into a state of trying to constantly manage unrealistic schedules.

Being in a chronic state of hyper-mode and dealing with persistent stress will compound over time, eventually leading to dangerous burnout.

To avoid damaging ourselves, we must take time for self-care, find moments to calm ourselves, and shift our energy to a relaxed state to recharge properly.

Prevention is easier than recovery, so make sure you are taking time to love yourself!

🔸 Beth works in the pharmaceutical industry and has a private practice: work-life balance is an illusion in many ways because we somehow always put ourselves last. 02:30
💮 Pushing to do everything at work or home makes us stuck in a masculine energy: there's a way to do it all in a more feminine flow state and open up our creativity. 06:40
🔥 Striving for that end achievement is perfect in small doses, but we shouldn't keep ourselves in constant overdrive: the pandemic had an enormous effect on health and nutrition because, for many of us, our bodies got used to overdrive, so we constantly looked for that rush. 12:50
🟢 Emotional resilience makes us self-aware and shifts away from reaction mode: that control can help us stay calm and have a moment of choice. 20:26
🌺 It's really about the holistic approach to our well-being: find something that you can add in today that's going take your energy up a notch and make you feel supported, cared for, and nurtured. 26:01
🧡 Set boundaries within yourself, and not just at your workplace: prevention is much easier than recovery. 29:29

Links:

Connect with Beth: www.linkedin.com/in/beth-ramer-8685a2a

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

103. Dr. Beverly Tchang - Better Understanding of Obesity

Jill Cruz — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:00:00 -0400

The healthcare system needs to view obesity through a more compassionate lens. Dr. Beverly Tchang is an endocrinologist who works with a medical team to help support patients seeking obesity management in a holistic and individualized way. Weight issues have historically been viewed by society and medicine as a problem that is centered on lifestyle and reflect an individual’s poor choices. Modern medical research proves that the inability to lose weight is a multifaceted issue linked to hormonal problems that require individualized treatments. We must stop identifying obesity as an external physical issue and have compassion for the mental and hormonal issues that impact people suffering from the disease. Let’s end the stigma around obesity!

Show notes:
👩‍⚕️ Dr. Beverly is an obesity medicine physician who says obesity is a medical disease, not a morality issue: only 1% of people eligible for obesity medicine medications are offered medications. 04:35
❌ Media is pushing a false dichotomy that people with obesity are taking away the medications from people with diabetes. 11:15
📈 "Calories in - calories out" is a description of our current weight, but it doesn't give us an explanation as to why the body continues to gain weight. 14:02
🍔 A study showed that given the same meal with the same amount of calories and fiber, people who were given an ultra-processed meal ate 300-500 kcal more. 18:02
✅ If you're overweight, you have a higher risk of developing obesity in the next 10 years: BMI doesn't count for body composition, ethnicity, or comorbidities. 21:29
🧠 US statistics from 2015 show that 60% of people have overweight or obesity: most people have obesity because their hormones are out of whack, but that's not always possible to prove. 25:01
👍 Dr. Beverly works as an endocrinologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. 31:11
💊 Medications are not for everyone - the approach has to be holistic and individualized: there are options to help mitigate the damage our modern environment imposes on us. 33:44
🟢 Obesity is a neuro-hormonal disease, and we should treat it like that. 36:07
❣️ Female physical appearance doesn't determine female worth: it's a struggle that has lasted centuries. 38:53

Links:

American Board of obesity medicine: www.abom.org

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

102. Samrah Kazmi - Find Your True Passion And Identity In The Workplace

Jill Cruz — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:57:00 -0400

It’s time to stop putting our ambitions on the back burner and find our true passions.

Samrah Kazmi is an entrepreneur, trend hunter, and startup advisor in the fintech industry and shares her thoughts on staying true to yourself and your passions in your professional life. It’s so easy for us to lose our true nature in the working world, and we often lose focus while climbing the corporate ladder instead of pursuing who we really want to be.

The key to building the confidence to chase our dreams is disentangling our identities from our work accomplishments. You must change your mindset and appreciate who you are outside of your titles and professional milestones so you can learn to live with passion and enthusiasm. No corporate labels can trump your own badass identity!

Show Notes:
⬆️ Samrah’s career path: we sometimes go up the corporate ladder or a particular path at the detriment of our ambitions and aspirations. 03:27
👔 Women often lack confidence and audacity and tend to be more people-pleasing, while men are more straightforward. 07:08
🔶 Samrah lacked female mentors so now she makes sure to be one for others: sometimes you need to go through a particular process to understand what you're capable of and understand your passions. 10:06
❣️ It's an unhealthy mindset if you're not impassioned to be who you are: you don't necessarily have to be passionate every day, but you should have a general level of enthusiasm on an ongoing basis. 13:18
🟡 Be open-minded during the early part of your career so you can become your own person and disentangle your identity. 16:50
📊 Samrah went through multiple layoffs: you should constantly think ahead - be a trend hunter. 21:26
✅ Identifying future trends takes away an enormous element of uncertainty and anxiety. 25:22
🤗 Appreciate yourself: Reflecting back on our wins and accomplishments helps us to continue to be even moderately productive. 27:49
🌷 Samrah quit corporate and does things on her own because she is confident that no corporate identity could trump her identity. 30:09

Links:

👉 Connect with Samrah: https://samrahkazmi.com

🎯 Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

🌼 "With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

😍 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

101. Bette Vargas - Post-Menopause With The Right Mindset, Meals & Movement

Jill Cruz — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:40:05 -0400

Menopause can be challenging for many women, but there are ways to make it easier. Bette Vargas is a certified holistic health coach and the creator of Crazy, Sexy Menopause, and she helps post-menopausal women improve their well-being and live more gracefully and vibrantly. First and foremost, regular exercise and healthy eating are essential for alleviating menopausal symptoms. Your body constantly gives you feedback on what activities and foods are helpful and harmful, so listening to your body is the key to improving your experience. Keep a positive mindset, live in a state of gratitude, and accept the changes you are going through. Embrace menopause as a re-awakening and not a burden!

🌸 Menopause is a spectrum that includes many stages in a woman’s life. 02:31
💛 Hormone replacement therapy mimics natural hormonal effects: no woman deserves to go through these processes alone - we should have support. 06:59
🟣 Certain cultures experience menopause differently, and some women experience symptoms even in their 70s: it can be a bumpy ride - know your body and listen to it. 12:07
❗ African American women are left out of the conversation: most medical studies only include young men. 19:14
🌷 Menopause is a natural transition - move forward with ease and grace: do some physical activity because endorphins can help with brain fog and anxiety. 24:47
🌻 Bette is a personal trainer who doesn't necessarily like to exercise: you need to be challenged to learn something new. 28:38
🏓 Start your day with something that feels good and be in gratitude: you can breathe, walk, play ping pong, or do anything you like. 31:23

Links:

Connect with Bette: www.crazysexymenopause.com

Lose Weight for the Last Time: https://wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/lose-weight-for-the-last-time

"With Your Nature" Wellness & Weight Loss Blog: https://wynweightloss.com/blog

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

100. Low Motivation is Not the Problem

Jill Cruz — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:24:08 -0500

If you are waxing and waning with your motivation, there is a strong reason for that. While it is perfectly normal to have drops in motivation during your health journey, we need to ask ourselves why we feel this way. There is a lesson in our negative mindsets, and if we stop blaming ourselves and become curious about why we think the way we do, we can learn to shift and control our thoughts. It may not be easy, but you can break habitual negativity with even the smallest of changes. Take the time to be curious about yourself, and you can take control and grow in a positive direction!

🤷‍♀️ Losing motivation on your health journey: what is wrong with me? 00:09
🎯 Within the ebb and flow lies the solution: shift your focus and your blaming mentality. 01:15
🤓 The reasons behind losing motivation: analyze your unconscious beliefs. 03:18
⏳ Recognizing what you can and can't control: your thoughts have become habitual and it takes time to change them. 06:38
⚠️ How to change your habitual thoughts: yes, you have control - you are the boss. 09:02
😇 Negative thoughts can be short-lived or last for a long time, but there is a lesson and reminder behind each of them. 11:52
🤩 What is the truth: you deserve love and you are worthy - start with that. 15:05
🌸 The foundation of love and exploration, discovery, forgiveness, compassion, pleasure, and science: WYN network

Links

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🤝 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💓 Join our loving community: https://members.wynweightloss.com

99. How Do You Accept But Not Give Up?

Jill Cruz — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:42:00 -0500

We need to stop denying reality and start practicing acceptance. Stop putting everything else in your life ahead of yourself and take responsibility for your health because you can’t look after your loved ones or enjoy your hobbies as much if you are unhealthy and stressed.

If you are practicing self-care but thinking negatively about yourself in the process, you will never realize all the benefits of your actions because negativity puts our bodies in a state of stress, and we do not perform properly in this state.

To truly prioritize your health, you must learn to accept the current shape you are in, forgive yourself for your past, and see your work toward self-improvement as a powerful act of self-love. Feel the power and confidence of self-acceptance and love yourself enough to better yourself!

Show Notes:
🌸 We confuse acceptance with giving up: acceptance makes you feel better, and when you feel better, your brain works better. 00:09
⚠️ Our bodies don't perform well under chronic stress. 02:38
🧠 Stress causes our brain to function differently, which is good in acute situations when instinctual reaction helps. 05:10
💭 The thought "it's not enough" is a source of stress and an example of how we sabotage ourselves: don't deny reality - face it. 07:27
👍 Take responsibility instead of blaming yourself: you control your life, and like every other human being, you make mistakes. 10:47
1️⃣ Your number 1 priority should be health - take care of the machine. 13:00
🟢 Learn to accept correctly, with forgiveness, compassion, and responsibility - it opens up possibilities: when you hate your body, you block weight loss by creating stress. 15:06
🥰 When you are in a high-stress situation, your creative thinking is compromised: you can love yourself unconditionally and change yourself for the better. 18:05
💓 The electrical signals responding positively throughout your body feel fucking good: you have to accept where your body is right now in this very moment. 21:16
💪 You're only as powerful as you think and nobody can give that to you, and nobody can take it away from you: you can't fight reality because you will always lose. 23:43
❣️ When we deny our emotions, we deny reality. 26:47
🎉 Acceptance is opening up the possibility to step into your power and live a fucking fantastic life, which is the opposite of giving up. 28:12
🤝 Take the right action for the right reasons and hang out with people who believe in that and who can help you do that. 28:47
🌷 Acceptance is with your nature. 32:14

Links:

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🤝 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

👍 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💓 Join our loving community: https://members.wynweightloss.com

98. Mindie Barnett - Balancing Burnout And Teamwork

Jill Cruz — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:00:00 -0500

👩 Mindie is getting her master's in marriage & family counseling and is doing research on burnout syndrome: everybody needs recovery time so we don't become a depleted nation. 02:25
🤳 Make your body a leaner, meaner machine by taking time to unwind: the phone is often the main work-home interference. 10:24
🥱 Sleep compromises are not good, but we all have them sometimes. 13:52
🌸 Lead with empathy but know the difference between a mistake and a misstep: don't hover over your employees but have a check-in. 15:58
🏇 If you're pulling the reins too hard you're going to cause damage - be gentle with your employees. 19:03
🤝 Mindie shares an incident from her company and how it was resolved: we have to align with our team because our team is really us. 21:05
✔️ Poor behavior is almost always a result of being hurt or fearful: clients have to also do their part. 25:37
👩‍💼 Stand by your team: let your employees know when you make a mistake and don't try to cover it up. 26:34
📢 Get your name out there in the media. 28:39
✅ You can be successful in your career and not compromise your health. 32:03

Links:

Connect with Mindie: www.mindiebarnett.com

Mindie's company: www.mbandassociatespr.com

Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

97. Shannon Black: Trauma Lives In The Body. Luckily, We Can Change The Template

Jill Cruz — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:53:50 -0500

🧠 Trauma is stored in the body: our brain is built on our experiences and relationships. 03:23
✅ When the vagus nerve is toned, we are in a safe and connected physiological state. 06:50
👪 Why creating a strong vagal tone is important: how trauma gets stored in us. 09:58
🤗 It takes a lot of energy to self-regulate but zero energy to be naturally regulated with a trusted loved one. 15:02
💞 Our nervous system is attenuated when we are playful with people we trust: all people are trying to move towards safety or connection. 19:15
🍔 Being in a state of fight or flight causes us to seek reward unconsciously - the movement toward the fridge happens below our level of thinking. 23:04
3️⃣ Three pillars of how our memory gets created: our memories are changeable - we always download the latest version. 32:15
📿 If you have a spiritual practice, there's no reason that shouldn't be part of your therapy. 37:05
🌬️ A quick way to engage the vagal brake is to exhale longer than inhale. 38:54
👉 Trauma can be anything that happens that's too much too soon, too much for too long, or too little for too long, without a safe and secure attachment. 41:12

Links:

Connect with Shannon: www.healbravehearts.com

Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

96. Yvette Sims - Women's Health, Stress, & Hormones

Jill Cruz — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:46:47 -0500

Women need to have their voices heard in the medical care system. Yvette Sims is a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s health and talks about the decline of femininity in the healthcare system.

One of the biggest problems of the modern healthcare system is the shift towards prioritizing the business model of making money over focusing on patients’ needs. This change incentivizes doctors to see the maximum number of patients and offers extremely limited time for the individual, which results in women not feeling heard during their visits.

There are so many complex hormonal systems and balances in a woman’s body, it is crucial for women’s health that we provide enough time to properly listen to their concerns in order to understand and diagnose their needs.

Help advocate for change and bring care and femininity back to the medical care system!

Show Notes:
👉 The allopathic health care model is focused on quantity, not quality, and women feel like: "You did not hear a word I just said." 02:45
🌸 Yvette's vision is to get this science of caring back into medical education. 05:48
✔️ Yvette can't work full-time and be present at every moment, so she chooses to work less. 07:54
💞 A capitalistic society, when it comes to giving and humanity, cannot be based on productivity: it's necessary to bring more femininity into the system. 09:52
✅ Doctors don't heal anybody - people heal themselves. 13:04
🧠 When the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) is off, our system can get very taxed: teaching the body to respond differently to stress. 16:30
👁️ Four pillars of stress are glucose, external factors, sleep disturbances, and inflammation. 22:52
🧘‍♀️ The only way the change can happen is if you have actionable things to do: Jill added the fifth pillar - thoughts - treat them with meditation, not Prozac. 25:45
❤️ The system is really good right now on sick care, but not well-care: you can go through menopause and peri-menopause smoothly - women heal together. 28:03
🌎 You move through the world with confidence and ease by taking care of yourself and prioritizing your self-care and needs. 33:01

Links:

🍀 Connect with Yvette: www.yvettesimsfnp.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

95. Time To Start Telling A Story That Serves You

Jill Cruz — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:39:13 -0500

✅ We have inner dialogues around our goals all the time: you can be in the exact same situation as someone else but feel completely different. 00:22
👉 The only person who can make a change is you - not medication, diet change, or exercise, but being proactive: it's all about perspective, and you have control to change it - get to the root story first and build up on that. 02:40
💙 One of the most pervasive and damaging stories we tell ourselves is that we are not enough: change internal dialog and tell yourself what's believable. 05:55
🤗 You are worthy of it and don't have to prove anything to anybody: appreciation should always be part of your feel-good story. 10:07
💟 You can forgive yourself and learn big beautiful lessons along the way. 12:05
🧘‍♀️ Mantras are the opposite of your negative stories, whatever feels good to you, and it's not too long: practice helps you create a new identity. 14:15
🥰 Don't let those thoughts slip in, and when they do, forgive yourself, allow it to happen, and move on. 16:47

Links:

🍀 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎙️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

94. How To Be Fabulously Successful - And It’s Not What You Think!

Jill Cruz — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:36:53 -0500

✅ You want to be fabulously successful and have great relationships and you can have it!: our worth is not tied to how we look. 00:26
💯 Establish what's important to you so you can have it all: don't listen to people who didn't do it themselves - success is an internal job. 02:32
💛 Relax to tune yourself like a beautiful Orchestra: you don't need to be perfect, it is all within your reach. 04:24
🎯 Your creative genius is within you: when your nervous system is calm, everything works better. 07:09

Links

🍀 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

93. Dr. Bonnie Gasquet - Overly stressed? Mood unbalanced!? - Get your hormones checked!

Jill Cruz — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:00:00 -0500

🧬 Bioidentical hormones exactly match human DNA hormones: synthetic estrogen can be harmful, but that's not the whole story. 02:44
🤦‍♀️ Some women get a hysterectomy and nobody tells them anything about their hormones. 05:59
❗ When some hormones start to dip: lower progesterone causes your body to want to hold on to fat like a survival mechanism. 07:45
✅ If your mom is getting forgetful, check her estrogen-circulating estrogen that keeps the amygdala active. 10:21
📋 Reasons to go to an anti-aging doctor: the tests that Dr. G does. 13:07
🎯 There's no age limit for receiving bioidentical hormones: women need adequate hormonal therapy after a hysterectomy. 16:54
👩‍❤️‍👨 A story of when progesterone saved a marriage. 19:26
📊 You can get your life back: cortisol is a stress hormone that we shouldn’t forget about. 21:31
💊 Semaglutide helps you lose weight that won’t come back: the misuse and overuse of Semaglutide. 23:33
🧑‍⚕️ Doctors have to play friendly, get their egos down, and accept that we all need to do this together. 28:42
✅ I don't have to settle because I'm 45 and post-hysterectomy: give yourself permission to feel human again. 31:20
👉 We can expand our potential: seek out the care you deserve. 34:04
❤️ Do it from a place of love. 38:53

Links:

👉 Connect with Dr. Bonnie: www.studiohealth.net

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✅ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

92. Linda Clarkson, MS LPC - Help Your Brain Create Healthy Neural Pathways

Jill Cruz — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:00 -0500

💡 Linda used her weight loss issue as an excuse not to love herself: discovering a connection with inner narratives/self-talk. 02:57
🧒 It's a fool's errand to be searching for worthiness externally or in your physical appearance: it all goes back to our childhood history. 09:20
🎓 Linda explored her inner child over several years of cognitive work and reiki: becoming a master of mental health counseling in her 60s. 10:22
🧠 From a young age, our brain is recording everything and creates neural pathways that become patterned and automatic: that's why we bring our childhood history into our adult lives. 13:15
🥳 Neuroplasticity allows us to change negative self-talk to healthy, positive ones: we can't make new pathways in a week, but fear and guilt shouldn't stop us. 17:55
⏳ Procrastination is a way of sidetracking us from what is significant and timely to do. 22:12
🕰️ We need radical acceptance to be able to change: you can develop new neural pathways through a structured process. 23:59
✅ Process realizing that you are worthy of it: the 2 approaches you can try on this path. 27:37
❤️ Practice gratitude, at least toward nature and stuff you like. 31:04
🥰 We're all worthy of living a happy, healthy life: take any small step. 35:06

Links:

👉 Connect with Linda: www.lindaclarksonlpc.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🤩 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✨ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

91. How and Why To Befriend Your Body

Jill Cruz — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:00:00 -0500

🤱 It's easier to connect with nature than with our own body: observe how we're taught unconsciously to disconnect, to look outward. 00:32
🥰 To have a deep sustainable level of health, you need to befriend your body: our body is a source of everything we need. 03:58
⛪ We source everything from within ourselves - we can read the Bible, but we connect with God inwardly, and creativity comes from within you: body, mind, and soul are all one - if you hurt your body, you hurt your whole self. 06:01
✅ The only reason you wouldn’t want to be your best is if you think you can't, and that is the lie: if you don't befriend your body, that hurts you and slows you down. 09:41
❤️ Spend time with yourself every day: your mind has an infinite capacity to love your body. 11:17
🏆 Pull in a mantra and use the words that feel good to you: loving and nurturing yourself is a path to achievement. 13:40
💜 Nobody has to give me validation - it's coming from me. 15:49
🥳 It's not hard to do this - you can join our community, interact with other women and develop your skills for free. 17:48
👭 It's all you-based, and we're here to hold hands and give inspiration and empowerment: food needs to be simple and whole. 19:17
🤗 You can do it on your own with all the free stuff or take things to another, more intimate level. 21:22

Links:

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

90. Dr. Renu Mansukhani - Obesity as a Medical Condition

Jill Cruz — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:15:56 -0500

👩‍⚕️ Why Dr. Renu, an endocrinologist, chose to be an obesity medicine physician. 03:25
❗ Obesity is not an intrinsic characteristic: we don't say somebody is cancer, yet, we say somebody is obese - it's not a personality flaw! 10:51
✅ The weight problem is multifactorial - it has genetic, biological, psychological, lifestyle, and environmental components. 14:07
👉 "If I had $1 for every time someone told me to eat less and move more..." - it's not people's fault that they’re dealing with obesity. 19:57
🎯 Dr. Renu's medical history form is 15 pages long - it's essential to listen and know what to focus on. 23:16
✔️ Sometimes it's more about improving health and feeling better than losing weight. 27:47
💊 A little bit about drugs - there are many meds people can use to lose weight if they qualify. 31:37
💸 It's ideal to go to a physician who specializes in your illness, or a primary care physician that you trust: the Hollywood approach is the scariest part. 35:09
🤑 A greedy industry victimizes people: for some people using meds can make lifestyle changes easier. 40:45
❤️ Dealing with obesity and being overweight is a holistic process that can be a source of growth. 43:35

Links:

👉 Connect with Dr. Renu: www.pcweight.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🤩 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✨ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com

89. The Mental & Emotional Journey of Fertility Issues

Jill Cruz — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:28:03 -0500

🤗 It's important how we approach infertility mentally and physically: this shouldn't be an isolating journey - the more you talk, the less isolated you feel. 03:19
🎯 Challenge your core beliefs that there's something wrong with you or you're not enough. 09:05
💭 Helpful and nonhelpful core beliefs come from a compilation of everything in our lives, and we're usually unaware of them: it takes a lot of work to be aware and pick them apart. 11:17
❤️ Mantras help manage uncertainties and discomfort: everything is an opportunity - shift towards learning and gratitude. 16:32
✅ Find mantras that resonate with you: it’s hard for the mind and body to accept false positivity - build a relationship with it. 23:05
🧘‍♀️ Meditation is a key practice that gives you some distance from your thoughts and feelings and helps us stop feeling trapped: it helps in our relationships with other people as well. 26:41

Links:

Connect with Emily: www.jurriescounseling.com

Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/

88. Robin Wilson - All You Have Is Now, Use It Wisely!

Jill Cruz — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:19:43 -0500

😮 Robin had a stroke even though she led a healthy life. 02:03
💤 Sleep is a time of healing. 06:28
💔 Living with a stroke and all risks: it's hard having speech problems and emotionally overwhelming moments. 08:15
💙 Robin couldn't teach in a physical classroom anymore: adopt a positive view and don't forget to recover emotionally, not just physically. 16:21
✅ Be kind because you don't know what someone else is going through. 19:52
⏳ Go for the experience, not the fear: we don't know how much time we have. 21:40
⏱️ The ongoing discovery of an entrepreneur is how to be more efficient and effective with time. 24:43
⏰ We just have the moment we are in, and we should use it in the best way possible: prioritize what truly matters at the end of the day. 27:29
☑️ Your health is your responsibility: slow down and take care of yourself. 32:37
🤹‍♀️ All the hats of entrepreneurship: networking, making breaks, and delegating. 37:29
🎯 Do what you want but also manage your health along the way. 40:18
🥰 Take care of your body so you can do all the things you enjoy. 42:18
Links:

✌️ Connect with Robin: https://linktr.ee/heritagehomeandgarden

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

👉 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

87. Are You Humming in All Areas of Your Life?

Jill Cruz — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:18:15 -0500

✅ We can have it all. 00:29
👉 The upper limit problem explains how we sabotage ourselves: it's not about perfection, it’s about things going well and doing better. 02:38
❗ When something is recurring in your life, there's a reason - a beautiful lesson. 04:53
✌️ Flip the script, and ask yourself the right questions: two questions to focus on. 06:51
☑️ We move everything for our priorities. 08:53
💪 Make it happen with a very strong WHY: know you deserve this. 10:20
🎯 You can have it all: but you set the bar for yourself. 12:25
🪞 Am I improving?: be realistic, so when you get that evidence, you get confidence. 14:54
🥳 Success is an internal job - what am I thinking all day?: meditate and have fun with the lessons. 17:00
🧗‍♀️You define what you want to have: a little self-sabotage is a part of climbing that mountain. 19:00
🥰 Be nice to yourself - you deserve that. 21:09

Links:

✨ Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💡 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

86. Karen Taylor Bass - Give Yourself Permission To Be You

Jill Cruz — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:08:21 -0500

❤️ Allowing yourself to feel seen - you have permission to just be: Karen's three words for living authentically in 2023. 02:39
🌬️ Allow yourself to not feel good: we can breathe our way into shit! 05:19
💪 Freedom is rewriting the information we put in our brains - we have a choice. 10:32
🧘‍♀️ Life is stressful, but you have to choose yourself first: disappointments can be yummy & meditation starts with me. 15:46
🥰 The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you - love the skin that you're in: take the time to work through your stuff. 19:01
👩‍🎤 We deserve to be healthy and have it all: we should talk to ourselves with colorful words - some days we're rockstars & some days we're an extra. 23:38
✅ It's all about perspective and choosing a growth mindset: healing is sharing and movement. 28:16
💆‍♀️ Our mental health is under attack - take the time to be still: what separates us from the nonliving is breath. 31:42
💃 We need to change our inner dialog and let emotions out: there's only one version of you - why not make it amazing? 35:29

Links:

👉 Connect with Karen: www.karentaylorbass.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎙️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

85. Madeline Schwarz - Communication Builds Confidence

Jill Cruz — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:31:21 -0500

📢 Getting more comfortable communicating: Madeline was terrified of public speaking, which negatively affected her well-being. 02:02
💪 Overworking is not a way to prove yourself: "I'm going to speak up, even if it makes other people uncomfortable" = revealing rather than concealing. 05:11
🫦 Anticipation is worse than doing the work: communication is just a series of experiments. 08:24
✅ The three big things to focus on in communication: communication is not a series of skills, it’s a mindset - change how you think about yourself. 10:20
🛋️ Shame, guilt, and regret hold people back in communication: mindset is like rearranging your furniture. 14:03
💯 Being nervous isn't a problem. 18:00
🌬️ Breathwork practice helps, but everybody needs different tools. 20:27
🎭 Roleplay is a great practice: improving communication improves creativity in all areas of life. 24:04
💃 Do the mindset work and feel like you belong on the stage! 27:05
🎤 Making small changes can have a huge ripple effect - experiment and don't give up. 29:09

Links:

👉 Connect with Madeline: www.madelineschwarzcoaching.com

✅ Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

✨ Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

84. Source Your Own Love, You Are Worth It!

Jill Cruz — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:53:14 -0500

❗ You are worthy of everything you desire: let's not confuse deserving love and taking from others. 00:20
🥰 Endogenously love yourself - value yourself, don't just go to the spa: we are looking for exogenous support because of guilt and shame. 02:57
💙 Source your love & safety from yourself: you can't source somebody else's love, but you can relax into appreciating yourself. 05:43
💆‍♀️ Will power is a limited resource: when you source your own needs, you take some downtime and you move and eat better. 08:30
💭 You are at peace if you appreciate yourself - you need this to be able to commit: create energy within yourself to fuel an inner world of calm and acceptance. 10:09
🏋️‍♀️ Exercise is a stress, not a source of peace. 12:52
💡 To consistently have a desire for self-care, there has to be peacefulness: a calm state needs commitment - that's when you get great ideas. 14:31
🥊 Fighting is often a downfall - it's about deep underlying beliefs combined with the nervous system. 16:43
✅ You can have it all - lean into it & feel curious: rewire the nervous system. 19:03
❤️ We all have a birthright to be happy, healthy & wealthy: stop comparing yourself with others. 21:30

Links:

🍀 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✌️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

83. Andi Locke Mears - Germanic Healing Knowledge

Jill Cruz — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:29:20 -0500

🇩🇪 German New Medicine is a native cultural tradition: people with the same traumas have the same diseases. 02:23
🤧 All living beings have this circadian rhythm: we have the sick phase that comes after the conflict-active phase and then we have a scaring phase. 09:52
🏥 We have an entire system of medicine based on fear: use the aliphatic system smartly. 13:15
🦠 Few biological laws - all diseases begin with a conflict shock; there are 2 phases of every disease. 15:07
❓ Are emotions a part of healing or a track? 18:50
💡 Practice fear management instead of pain management: downgrading fear & making a connection to the cause:20:16
🤯 Metastases don't exist - shock starts new programs: we're brainwashed to accept invasive and archaic procedures. 23:22
🤰 Jill's mom lead a birth education class - question the status quo. 25:57
🍼 Trust your body: formula feeding is the beginning of the end of trust in our bodies. 27:50
✅ Find a conflict shock and resolve the biological process: it's fine to not be ready. 30:05
👉 The fundamental law & practice of nutrition is that whole food is superior to processed: pay attention to your body. 32:03
❤️ Find your path & learn the knowledge. 34:02

Links:

👉 Connect with Andi: www.ghk-pilharacademy.com

✅ Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎙️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

82. Svetlana Chamoun - Tackling The Business Of Burnout

Jill Cruz — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:49:25 -0500

👩‍⚕️ From cardiology to lifestyle medicine: healthy lifestyle changes can prevent 85% of chronic diseases. 02:50
🔥 Before covid, 50% of healthcare workers had burnout: the upcoming potential shortage of physicians is in the hundreds of 1000s. 08:37
💀 Beware Karoshi syndrome - death by overworking and the societal effects of burnout. 13:14
💲 Physicians are employees of the for-profit system. 17:15
🤹 Physicians are stuck between healing models & business models. 21:30
❤️ About Svetlana's work: be empathetic to your physician, and tell them about this! 24:24
🥼 Mental health is stigmatized in the medical profession - they are trained to neglect their needs, and resilience doesn't help, but empathy can. 27:23
✅ Svetlana educates medical workers and healthcare administrators about burnout, practical solutions, and monitoring & reducing burnout in real time. 30:38
❗ You can test for burnout with questionnaires: it's important to recognize the type of burnout, react in time, and restructure a person's immediate surroundings. 32:52
💆‍♀️ Unload yourself with mindfulness & meditation in complete isolation: live your life according to your values. 36:22
🤔 It's tough to change your thinking in a stressful state. 38:21
👮‍♀️ People in high-stress professions should develop calming techniques using breath and brain stimulations. 40:24

Links:

👉 Connect with Svetlana: www.cardioseeds.com/podcast

🍀 Dancing with Vegetables: www.dancingwithvegetables.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

81. Why Dieting Makes Us Miserable & What You Can Do Instead

Jill Cruz — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 07:10:00 -0500

❌ Dieting feels restrictive to us, it's against our nature. 00:36
😮‍💨 Negative judgment about bad food leads to a bad relationship with food - we start obsessing. 02:40
✅ The drama around food often comes from our beliefs: it's not serving you if it's not making you happy. 06:30
🏋️‍♀️ Exercise, sleep & meditation help the relationship with food: it may take a year or two. 08:58
🔆 Rather than feeling black & white about food, come at it with ease. 10:48
👮‍♀️ Write down the first thought you have about diet & food: believing that it's hard doesn't serve you - be your own thought police. 13:30
🥰 I can do this with ease, and nothing is stopping me. 15:39
🗻 We are killing ourselves to be happy one day, but it doesn't work: hike the mountain. 17:08
💆‍♀️ There are strategies that focus on adding rather than taking away: enjoy the process. 19:48
👍 You don't have to suffer to lose weight & you can make mistakes. 20:57
❤️ Replace constriction, restriction, deprivation, suffering, and misery with expansiveness. 21:35

Links:

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

👉 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/

80. Robin Maynard Dobbs - A Feminine Approach To Weight Loss & Health

Jill Cruz — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:40:34 -0500

🙈 Counting calories, carbs & fats is shame-based.. 02:49
❗ Secrecy + Hard on yourself + Analysis + Must be something wrong with me + Emergency = SHAME 04:58
👩 Women feel guilt 80% more than men: don't fight against the system, just step out! 06:39
3️⃣ Shame, lack, and isolation are the 3 main barriers for women: diets are the antithesis of what works. 08:27
👭 There are a vast variety of beautiful female body types. 11:29
🥰 The transition from the masculine to the feminine: let's appreciate fertility. 13:11
🖼️ Your body is not the problem, it’s your disconnection from the life force: Robin's paintings celebrate women. 20:19
🥬 Plant food is a gift from the earth: listen to your body and go from restrictive to expansive. 24:46
🤸‍♀️ Looking for relief through weight loss: the system runs better when we eat the right food. 29:38
🌬️ Breathe a few deep, full breaths before you eat - the miracle of digestion. 33:28
❤️ Let's look for something we appreciate: you don't have to be a perfect relaxer but develop habits over time. 37:48
🔆 Do you want to count calories in your 70s or live in a place of discovery?: gentleness through the process of getting lighter. 39:32

Links:

👉 Connect with Robin: www.becominglighter.com

🍀 Dancing with Vegetables: dancingwithvegetables.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🤩 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

79. Kate McKay - Claim Your Best Self

Jill Cruz — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:05:37 -0500

🍾 Release self-sabotage & reclaim vitality - be in the process of celebration, not self-degradation. 01:36
6️⃣ Work on the 6 areas & have a badass, kickass life: Kate's meaning shifted when she lost her child. 04:38
🥰 Women have a very disrupted cultural view of men & competitive vibe between each other - let's embrace our inner hottie. 11:53
✅ Get over the shame - we have the power to choose: confidence comes from action - you are worthy. 17:29
🤗 Be perfectly honest about why you resist: have the tenacity, grit & grace to choose the light. 21:11
🏋️‍♀️ Kate had acute ADHD & lifting weights helped her - it helps with your muscles, joints, brain, skin, confidence, sleep & sex life. 26:42
👼 Kate dreamed of her son & discovered the word claim. 31:37

Links:

👉 Connect with Kate: www.kate-mckay.com/books

🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✅ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

78. Dr. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa - Exploring Choices & Freedom With Fertility Preservation

Jill Cruz — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0500

⏳ The quality and quantity of eggs decline with the years. 02:22
🤰 In your early 30s, eggs are mature & best to freeze (20 eggs!). 07:13
👩‍⚕️ You can test your ovarian reserve: female doctors are particularly vulnerable to fertility issues. 12:13
🏃‍♀️ In your 40s it's easier to get pregnant with frozen eggs from your 30s: don't make choices because circumstances force you, keep your options open & plan ahead: it's useful for professional athletes as well. 16:49
🧠 Healthy body = healthy eggs: healthy eggs & healthy brain require the same lifestyle. 20:29
🥗 Weight loss is very integral to success in fertility treatment: team effort & wholesome effort is important. 23:13
🤕 There will likely be complications after your 50s: cancer patients often freeze their eggs. 25:39
👼 Tech is getting better every day - we have options & our kids will have even more: women shouldn't feel the need to get into a relationship worrying they won't be able to have kids later. 29:14
🧔‍♂️ Men should consider freezing sperm as well: fertility rates are declining. 31:20

Links:

👉 Connect with Dr. Oluyemisi: www.montgomeryfertilitycenter.com

🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

77. Tami Murphy - The Dishonest Marketing Around Holistic Approach

Jill Cruz — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🟡 Holistic means using alternative, natural methods that can be easily obtained to improve health. 02:22
💊 Tami had severe digestive issues, and medications made it worse, but dietary change helped her. 07:09
🐟 Plant-based, vegetarianism, pesco-vegetarianism, or loose veganism: pay attention to what's on your plate. 08:45
🥕 Make food that's not just nutritious, but tastes great: eat your chocolate: try something different like a carrot hotdog. 13:31
🥗 Tami's salad: Jill's ingredients for the ultimate salad. 16:45
🍲 Big ‘ol salad night: don’t forget soups, especially in the winter. 19:34
🥬 Mixed salad greens and juices are great: the meal planning & having cooked food in the fridge. 21:37
🕑 Training without a focus on nutrition doesn't give the right results: holistic means it'll take some time. 24:35
🥰 If you don't eat enough, you'll be angry: your scale number means nothing - give yourself grace. 27:27
✅ Nobody's perfect - we all have difficulties with food and media conditioning: replace judgment with curiosity. 30:00

Links:

👉 Connect with Tami: www.instagram.com/redjasper_wellness

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🍀 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✅ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

76. Is Food Your Only Indulgence?

Jill Cruz — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🥧 Food makes us feel good. 00:18
❔ Is food your main indulgence, or do you provide yourself with satisfaction & pleasure from other sources? 01:43
👠 It's not about what you eat but your relationship with food: how to feel indulgent & expansive in your life. 04:13
🍗 Go back to the basics - eat whole foods & protein: we go for food when we lack satiety in other areas. 06:00
👍 Empowered health for women is about taking a holistic perspective in life & realizing you can choose something different. 08:25
✌️ There are 2 main things we can control - our thoughts & actions. 10:00
🧠 Your body doesn't like losing weight rapidly. 12:50
🥰 It all starts with your thoughts - indulge in the idea that you are perfect: come over here with us to the easy world. 14:52
👧 Indulge in love & have fun like kids do: it's ok to indulge in food when there is no shame and guilt. 16:19
💃 The more you indulge in worldly pleasures, the less likely you'll rely on that one thing. 18:17
✅ Make a list, especially if you have a craving. 20:00

Links:

🥑 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

✌️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

💗 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/spaces/9174757/content

75. Matha Figaro - Delicious Cakes That Have Extra Benefits

Jill Cruz — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🍰 Helping people feel better by making butter cakes infused with cannabis. 01:31
🚬 Cannabis butter cakes and why Matha started making them: Jill uses CBD and edibles recreationally. 03:48
🧘‍♀️ Matha uses privately sourced organic flour: weed & yoga helped Matha deal with three herniated discs. 05:51
🏞️ Natural substance vs. opioids and steroids. 09:21
❗ Be super careful when using delta 8. 12:24
💥 Entrepreneurship is hard as hell but self-care and learning to say no make it easier. 14:12
👠 There's nothing on this planet as powerful as a girl's power. 16:05
🗳️ Support for local business is an outward manifestation of our values that can positively affect the world. 18:27
✌️ The highest form of self-care is to remain authentic to what works for you: preserve energy & protect your peace. 22:20
🎂 Matha feeds people's minds, souls & spirits with or without cannabis. 26:35

Links:

🧁 ButACake shop: www.butacake.shop

🍀 ButaACake wellness: www.butacakewellness.com

😍 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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74. Christina Veselak - Feeding the Recovering Brain

Jill Cruz — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

✅ Integrating mental health nutrition into psychotherapy can bring quicker recovery results. 02:46
🍗 When our blood sugar drops adrenaline kicks in: when did you last eat protein? 04:24
🐟 Protein helps people with chronic relapse: premenstrual women should eat 20g of protein every 3 hours. 06:07
🥨 People switch addictions in the early phases of recovery: Jill ate ice cream every night & later replaced it with pretzels. 09:29
🧠 When we can’t seem to shift negative behavior or thinking patterns, we should look at the brain: give your brain nutrients, not drugs. 11:49
🐎 Animal proteins contain vitamin B12, biotin, zinc & amino acids: what are other sources of amino acids? 16:43
🥘 Eat your protein, fats & fiber: more protein means fewer cravings. 18:12
💀 Eating protein saves life and improves overall health: people with poor eating habits can eat themselves to death. 20:26
🍨 Example of a recovering 64-year-old woman: hunger vs. craving. 23:07
💤 Not having enough protein at lunch can cause cravings at night: anybody can do it! 25:57
💊 Sometimes we need to go for “purified food”: it can turn cravings and even suicidal impulses off in just 20min. 28:07
🚫 Don't take supplements on your own, there can be side effects! 30:07
✅ The supplement helped when Jill's daughter went through a breakup. 31:48

Links:

👉 Connect with Christina: www.aminoacidtherapy.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

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73. Heather Keyworth Conley - Bring Your Full Self to Work (living with ADHD)

Jill Cruz — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:20:11 -0500

🔔 Imposter syndrome: ADHD presents itself differently in girls and can go undiagnosed. 02:18
💭 What could happen if mental health wasn't taboo? 08:54
🤗 Diversity, equity, and inclusion - helping people bring their full selves: Heather focuses on racial equity. 11:56
🤯 Hard time focusing, forgetting, excessive attention to detail, and time management problems are signs of ADHD: Heather developed coping strategies. 15:12
💼 Heather had depression and felt she was not good enough even though she had an amazing career: imagine what we could do if mental health was prioritized. 18:50
✅ Prioritize your to-do list by focusing on removing barriers from tasks - get that dopamine rush: plan a calendar based on your energy. 22:11
🤝 Laziness doesn't exist: we need stillness to be productive: we can all be productive if we bring our full selves to work. 26:08

Links:

👉 Connect with Heather: www.linkedin.com/in/heather-keyworth-conley

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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72. Shivi Goyal: Breathe Your Way to a Second Life

Jill Cruz — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:43:00 -0500

🧍‍♀️ The prolonged effects of not taking care of our mental and physical health severely impact our life: a healthy body & a healthy mind are a healthy human being. 02:45
🌬️ A breath regulates the body from top to bottom: the body & mind sync using yoga and meditation. 04:44
🌌 Law of balance - using the breath to connect your vibrations with the vibrations of the universe. 07:15
🥰 We feel more love when connected with greater power: when you understand yourself, you take better care of yourself - mental happiness helps physical happiness. 10:30
✅ Shivi's trigger to start her journey was a divorce and taking care of her 2-year-old daughter: people have problems worldwide: work for yourself: it's my responsibility to take care of me. 13:08
📚 Shivi's business: slight guilt can strongly affect mental health. 18:45
🤝 Support each other, not only for money but for good. 22:26

Links:

👉 Connect with Shivi: https://spiritedblogger.com

📙 Shivi’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Guilt-Right-Wrong-Decides-Decide-ebook/dp/B09L8Y34WF

🎨 Adult Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Me-Fearless-compassion-workbook/dp/B09SL632PR

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

71. Edna White - Higher Health & Happiness is an Inside Job

Jill Cruz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:56:10 -0500

🤝 Even people with great jobs need help to find their purpose: desperation puts people where they are. 02:06
📼 If there's an unconscious replay in your head to work hard to have money - don't play the old tape: Edna's Vogue modeling experience. 07:18
🥰 Be mindful of internal stories about your physical body. 11:30
👍 Start from ground zero every time you sabotage yourself. 14:02
👩‍👧 Reparent yourself: acknowledge the sort of things that you didn't get as an adult and give it back to yourself as a child. 15:35
👧 We have tantrums as kids: know who you are & what you want. 17:39
🎯 When living outside of our purpose we make decisions that are not right for us. 19:43
🛠️ We already have a tool belt, but often turn to other people when we don't know our purpose & get stuck. 22:29
❗ Resentments build up when we take everybody's word at face value. 26:50
🛏️ Adults are yearning for understanding, but don't go for the answer and later beat themself to bits: there's always a physical manifestation of discomfort. 29:19
🌼 We want growth, but we don't allow it: ego affects everyone around us: inner work is hard but worth it. 32:01
👁️ You don't have to ask someone, just look at your life to know yourself. 34:20
🌺 Deliberately create a wonderful life: you cannot abuse yourself and expect to show up in the world the way you want to. 35:37
⚡ The energy doesn't come from people being perfect but from going through hell. 37:41

Links:

👉 Connect with Edna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednajwhite/recent-activity/posts/

🎦 Keeping it real with Edna: https://www.youtube.com/@EJWCoachingforLife/playlists
🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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70. Maria Gavriel - Battling Burnout for Women in Businesses

Jill Cruz — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🔥 Women have different responsibilities and carry more in their personal life: burnout is an official disease that kills 1000s of people a year. 02:17
⚠️ Perfectionism led Maria to burnout, marriage problems, and Hashimotos: compensating is a crutch we use when everything is falling apart. 04:13
👩‍👦‍👦 Maria felt triggered, fatigued, and depleted, which led to a lack of presence with her kids. 08:08
✅ Why people that come out of corporate don't have organizational skills for business and how to fix it? 10:36
🤹‍♀️ Maria had trust and communication issues delegating work and home activities: are you asking for help or complaining? 15:11
🌼 Work on your inner game and self-care with piece processing: replenish the tank, and take your breaks. 18:30
📋 How to make your to-do lists without being overwhelmed. 22:32

Links:

👉 Connect with Maria: www.mariagavriel.com
⌛Time Freedom Formula: www.mariagavriel.com/time-freedom-fb/?
🍏 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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69. When Food is Your Reward

Jill Cruz — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0500

🤝 We've been trained to receive transactionally: kids receive actively and purely. 00:50
🍨 When Jill had a baby, her unconscious receiving was eating ice cream: nourish yourself first. 03:29
💞 Jill's work is nourishing and transactional simultaneously: we go into relationships with certain expectations. 05:52
🥄 Struggling with food often comes from giving all day long and then using eating as a way to receive something for ourselves. 09:57
💆‍♀️ We need to stop filling the void with food. 12:20
👩‍❤️‍👩 Women are specially trained to be transactional: receive the f*cking compliment. 14:20
✨ Make a list of what you want to receive: don't lose the magic chasing perfection. 16:30
👍 What's happening is exactly what's supposed to happen: just be & recognize signals. 17:09
❤️ Jill's story about knowing what's important and how to treat yourself when you do something wrong. 18:43
🤗 Remind yourself that you deserve to receive, and you're worthy of it. 21:30

Links:

🍏 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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68. Rachel Bents - FUNctional fitness

Jill Cruz — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🌸 Health & wellness should be fun and enjoyable: faith, family, and fun are Rachel's 3 values. 02:06
🤸‍♀️ Build up from super small habits: do nothing and stay in the same place or have fun, take the risk and see what happens. 04:52
😞 Women between 40 & 60 often feel incapable of working out on their own. 09:41
✨ It's FUN when it's playful, has some flow, and creates a connection. 11:07
👟 It helps to pair up with someone who's on the same level or has more experience: we identify with our habits and mantras (decisions). 14:25
🆕 Put up motivational stickers and change them once in a while: fun is a choice. 19:59
💡 Identity is a really powerful tool: when feeling exercise inertia, do something for just 60 seconds. 21:19
👍 When you're done with your workout, you should feel better than when you started. 23:17
💃 Jill dances to motivate herself for a workout: Rachel dances to a random song every morning. 25:51
🥳Celebrate even the smallest body movements. 29:13

Links:

👉 Connect with Rachel: www.enjoymyeveryday.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

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67. Alex Van Tol - What's Love Got To Do With Health?

Jill Cruz — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:26:00 -0500

❤️ Self-love is at the root of all our healing: inner work is a bit of a faith game, invisible and mood dependent. 03:14
💐 Focusing context vs. content: even flowers grow more fully surrounded by the context of love. 07:11
🤸‍♀️ Acceptance is where change can happen: our bodies are a very underused source of wisdom and knowledge in our society. 10:39
🥰 Speak words of love to yourself: draw the cosmic energy towards yourself 13:31
👧 A disordered eating pattern can be connected to having felt deprived of love as a little person. 16:17
💆‍♀️ How to logically say you are enough and 100% worthy of unconditional self-love and acceptance?: it takes 100 reps to talk yourself into something but drops to 10 reps when you get your body involved. 19:41
🌬️ Bring the body and the breath in: breath is the excuse to bring attention somewhere. 22:26
🎇 Would you be willing to do this imperfectly and still have fun? 26:19
💞 Self-love may feel silly at the beginning, but the fruit from the love garden is so juicy. 28:05

Links:

👉 Connect with Alex: www.alexvantol.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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66. The Tsunami of Negativity

Jill Cruz — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0500

🍧 We're surrounded by a culture that undermines our success: As women, in our 20s we learn that our value in society is based on how we look. 00:26
🤷‍♀️ Acknowledge and be aware of what's happening: it's inevitable. 03:00
👍 Don't see yourself as a victim: commit to taking action. 04:15
🥰 Give yourself the grace you would give to your loved ones: it's all part of the process. 07:09
💃 Stop the "I have to be perfect" idea & feel expanded and free. 09:08
🤗 Make the feeling bigger: letting go is crucial for moving forward and improving life. 11:50

Links:

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

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🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

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65. Dr. Shaniece Criss - The 5 Layers of a Healthy Society

Jill Cruz — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:29:21 -0500

5️⃣ The five layers of public health: how to make the healthy choice an easy choice. 02:20
🤝 It's important to recognize individual power and partnership: townships & communities organize great events that are good for health & socializing. 06:16
4️⃣ Nutrition, physical activity, social support, and staying mentally stimulated are important for health and longevity: boredom can get you into “trouble.”. 09:19
📱 Dr. Shaniece studies societal impacts on health & creates and shares fun health tips on Instagram. 11:43
💙 You are not alone, there are people who care: “blue spaces” are good for overall well-being. 12:45
🏙️ Public health is connected with developing cities: more financially mixed cities can lead to better health for everybody.. 15:35
❌ Racism impacts health - Dr. Shaniece searches for policies that cause inequality and works to change them: the problem is on a cultural level. 19:08
🤰 How pregnancy and birthing can be affected by racism. 22:27
🏛️ Talk to your elected officials: there are different ways to volunteer in the local government 24:35
🌷 Curiosity is a powerful tool in individual health, unlike blaming yourself. 26:45
🚶‍♀️ Invite someone to walk with you. 28:14

Links:

👉 Connect with Dr. Shaniece: www.linkedin.com/in/shaniececriss
✌️ Follow Dr. Shaniece at: www.instagram.com/drshaniece

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64. Here is What to Eat

Jill Cruz — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:08:12 -0500

✅ We just need guidance: start with the basics. 01:25
❗ Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes. 04:43
🥬 Put away all the fancy diets and eat whole foods. 05:47
🛒 If you shop in the periphery of the supermarket, you'll see whole foods. 07:49
❌ If it is in a box or a bag and has a long list of ingredients, it's highly processed, so stay away from it. 09:46
🥗 40 Plant food challenge - 40 different whole foods each week: eat healthily and be ahead of most people on crazy diets. 12:18
🧀 Minimize ultra-processed dairy and stick to the more artisanal types of cheese. 13:32
🥒 Get your probiotics from naturally fermented veggies: if you eat 90% whole foods you'll see a shift in your body.15:21
🧘 Simple changes can be the “real deal stuff.” 17:50
🥙 Have some expansiveness around food: experience gastronomical excitement. 19:08
🥰 Practice the skill of self-love. 20:26

Links:

🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌺 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
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63. Bianca Grant: Fight Autoimmune Disease by Listening to Your Body

Jill Cruz — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:55:09 -0500

😴 Bianca started napping on work breaks and had jerks: after a car wreck, she lost all control of her body. 02:27
📚 Nobody knew the root of the problem: Bianca researched on her own. 08:20
👩‍⚕️ Getting a sarcoidosis diagnosis and fighting different symptoms: Bianca sometimes still has symptoms. 11:01
🌿 Herbal regimen, avoiding the sun, and managing symptoms of autoimmune disease. 15:06
🌸 Autoimmune diseases can be combated by lifestyle change: Jill cured her Hashimoto's. 17:35
💼 Bianca’s new career. 19:54
🤗 Listen to your body: advocate for yourself. 21:13
🏥 Advocacy in the medical system: If you don't do it, no one will do it for you. 22:30

Links:

✌️ Connect with Bianca: www.linkedin.com/in/biancagrant-iboss
🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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62. Allyson McQuinn - Curing All Layers of Illnesses

Jill Cruz — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:06:42 -0500

❤️ 'Heil' means whole art and science + 'kunst' is healing and curing: Allyson's son’s autism was successfully treated. 01:33
🎯 What’s the difference between a Heilkunst doctor and a regular one?: you gotta do things in order, or you won't get the “full monty” of the resolution you expect. 06:31
👩‍⚕️ Homeopathy and allopathy systems: Heilkunst treatment. 11:20
💊 Antibiotic means against life: be careful with those.17:11
🧬 Jill's daughter's experience with Lyme: an emotional aspect of every illness. 20:33
🤰 Natural birth is a different way of birthing: we did it for centuries. 23:27
❌ Birth is not illness: C-sections can create problems for future generations. 27:56
👩‍👧‍👦 Allyson's experience with her children and antibiotics: we didn't have the right education. 29:08

Links:

✌️ Connect with Allyson: https://arcanum.ca/faq/
🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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61. Louisa Hext - Forgiveness as a Self-Care Exercise

Jill Cruz — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:35:32 -0500

🎁 Can forgiveness help us have a better time during the holidays? 02:49
💭 Does reframing lead to forgiveness? 04:07
🍗 It takes a deep muscle for forgiveness: food is a way of “stuffing feelings”: we have to face temporary pain. 05:22
💸 Louisa had to forgive her mother for paying her to lose weight. 09:25
🤗 Forgiveness is a journey without a destination: allow yourself to falter, reframe and make mistakes. 11:48
❤️ “To forgive is not just to be altruistic - it's the best form of self-interest”: acting out the emotion leads to an inability to relinquish a grievance. 15:17
🥰 You have to give something up to let go: these processes don’t have to be terrible, they can be a little bit of play and pleasure. 21:07
🤷‍♀️ It's our choice to hold on to pain: what is forgiveness? 26:36

Links:
👉 Connect with Louisa: www.consultantshext.com
🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🌺 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
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60. What Does Grief Have to Do With Food

Jill Cruz — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:00:00 -0500

😔 Changing our diet can cause emotions of loss. 00:15
🚬 Dieting can be like quitting smoking. 01:27
🏄‍♀️ Urge surfing - ride the wave of the urge. 03:49
🥺 We need to allow ourselves to grieve the loss of the food we can’t eat anymore. 06:20
🤗 Grief acts in strange ways, so find someone who understands. 09:36
✅ Give your grief the honor and attention it deserves. 11:43
🥰 Getting over the hump. 13:56

Links:

🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

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59. Control Cravings with This One Rule

Jill Cruz — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0500

🦸🏼‍♀️There is no need to be a Superwoman. 00:56
👀 Learn what you are lacking. 01:50
▶️ Start with the physical body. 04:27
😇 Turn your attention towards your emotions. 07:21
🧠 Stimulate your intellect. 09:36
🌸 Connect to your soul. 10:29
🤩 Start the journey today. 11:34
✌️ Take inspired actions. 13:38

Links

🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
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58. Anusha Batra - Processing Emotions with Creative Writing

Jill Cruz — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:10:38 -0500

✍️ Process a story out of everything that happens in life: writing down your emotions is a good way to process them. 02:31
💻 Blog as a go-to place for when you feel overwhelmed and need to process emotions. 04:17
🇮🇳 Parents in India are very protective but they've learned to embrace Anusha’s blog writing. 05:23
🥰 When Anusha found her love of writing. 07:08
⏩ There is still some stigma attached to getting therapy in India but thankfully they are moving away from it. 08:36
😇 Writing helps when overwhelmed by a lot of emotions and it can definitely help improve writing. 10:10
✌️ Anusha’s team creates marketing content for school programs. 11:27
🌍 Anusha wants to do travel writing and to write a book. 14:05
🐕 The story of the journey through helping rescue and rehabilitate stray animals. 14:46
🎯 Words are the perfect medium for expressing our thoughts or our reception of what we are seeing. 16:10
✅ Storing exciting travel adventures in blog posts while they are still fresh in your mind. 17:51
🌜 Anusha shares a powerful and touching dream about all her deceased grandparents visiting her together. 19:31
⚠️ Be aware of your problems, don’t bottle them: forgive yourself and others, and allow yourself to feel. 24:36

Links

👉 Connect with Anusha: www,anushabatra4.wordpress.com

🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌺 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
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57. Alison Haase: Love Your Self Through Consistency and Support

Jill Cruz — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:31:26 -0500

💉 Alison lost her little brother to an overdose a year ago: she is sober for 19 years because of her consistency and habits. 02:14
✅ When life happens, keeping consistency is incredible. 06:42
👣 Sometimes it's necessary to borrow someone else's experience to have hope: go step by step. 08:44
📏 Perfectionists' demands on ourselves are insidious. 11:00
🥳 We need cheerleaders, mirrors, and confidence. 14:01
🤝 It's scary to develop relationships, but it's worse not to: be aware when you flee forward. 15:48
📖 ‘The Addict In Aisle 7’ - Alison's book about fighting with bulimia, drugs, and alcohol. 19:10
🏇 Alison's experience with professional sports and perfectionism: changing relationship with the body. 20:57
❤️ A part of us that complains about our bodies comes from a place of something we desire: befriend the enemy. 27:02

Links:

👉 Connect with Alison: www.iseektruths.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
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56. Anne Asher - A Holistic Approach to Pain

Jill Cruz — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0500

❤️ Non-violent communication is giving from the heart, but let the jackal out first. 03:08
🧒 The jackal is like a wounded child expressing itself. 08:24
🤸 If we don't use our physical and emotional abilities, they decrease and affect each other. 10:44
🧍‍♀️ Posture is not just about sitting straight, but rather it is awareness of oneself. Anne helps people creatively, along with science. 13:38
👌 We need a mindset shift. People don't always need surgery to cure their pain and we should see a doctor only 20% of the time. 15:37
🥇 The body has certain limitations, but some people are pushing their limits. 18:40
🥘 The placebo effect and experiments with food. 21:08
💪 Human growth hormones and strength training. There's always potential and a possibility to improve. 23:19
😊 There are so many wonderful ways to feel better. Deciding to stay in pain is the jackal speaking. 25:22
🐺 If you can not face your jackal, find a good professional. 28:46
🦒 Being a giraffe is a skill. Breathing practice can help overcome COVID. 30:41
🚶‍♀️80% of people with lower back pain go through unnecessary surgery. Jill's experience with back pain. 33:17
🏥 The medical system is designed to look at you in pieces instead of a whole-body approach. 36:43

Links

👉 Pain free @ the desk - 5min workouts: www.posturally.com/f/painfree-desk-5

🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

55. Natalia Naila - Antiaging and Health Improvement With the Help of Biohacking

Jill Cruz — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0500

👩‍🔬 Biohacking is testing the whole body to get to know it: you can do it even at home. 02:06
🧪 Everyone should do a huge lab comprehensive test every three years: therapy is individual. 05:24
🌹 It's not a medical treatment, but improving overall health and antiaging: body state affects life drastically. 07:51
😊 It takes 6-12 months to heal the gut and eliminate toxins as much as possible: there's no right diet for everyone. 13:26
🚶‍♀️ Natalia is interested in meditation, visualization, and energy work: walking and gratefulness help her be in feminine energy and lower stress. 16:01
💡 There's a lot in personalizing it for yourself: it's about caring for your body and curiosity. 19:44
🤗 Don't be scared to ask for help. 22:46

Links:
👉 Connect with Natalia: www.instagram.com/natalianaila

🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌺 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: www.wynweightloss.kartra.com/page/the-love-challenge

54. This is What Really Causes Belly Fat

Jill Cruz — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:49:00 -0500

🧠 Belly fat is not what you eat, how you exercise, or your hormones, all of those things are downstream effects of your nervous system state. 01:00
💯 Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems affect adrenaline and creativity. 03:00
🌷 The more you can be in a state of ease and flow, the easier it's going to be to stay healthy. 05:00
🏃 Our nervous system responds well to a burst of stress: chronic stress affects decision-making and health practices. 05:44
💆 Prolonged stress can cause adrenaline resistance and other health problems: a calm brain helps cultivate good decisions and creativity. 11:57
🏋 Habits and practice can ensure good results when stressed. 14:55
💡 Awareness and acceptance are necessary for inspired action: "I have to lose weight" is adrenaline-inspired. 17:03
🌅 Taking inspired action from a place of ease and flow makes your brain work better and helps you make better decisions. 19:48

Links:

🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

53. Anita Kopacz - Zero F’s Given

Jill Cruz — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:10:00 -0500

🦠 Anita's experience with long Covid - intense attacks and food problems. 02:22
🇲🇽 Anita’s healing experience in Mexico: healing ceremonies. 06:25
🥰 Surround yourself with people who believe in you, especially when you do not believe in yourself. 09:55
😰 Jill's and Anita's intense experiences with covid. 11:51
👠 Jill's book recommendation: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly. 15:06
🏥 If there are any latent diseases in the body, COVID can wake them up. 17:48
📕 Anita's book Shallow Waters has historic elements we need to know about: a love letter for black women. 21:07
🗺️ Black history and culture are falsely demonized: Anita’s book helps us to realize it. 21:47
🏫 Anita originally wrote her book for high schoolers, but the book is also for adults. 26:30
🌹 Zero F's Given raises awareness and helps abused people, especially women of color, giving them a safe place to heal. 29:16
🚨 Center for Safety and Change in Rockland helps people who have suffered from any form of criminal activity. 33:21
⚠️ Trafficking is everywhere around us. 34:48

Links:

👉 Connect with Anita: www.beacons.ai/anitakopacz

📘 Book: www.amazon.com/Shallow-Waters-Novel-Anita-Kopacz/dp/198217966X

🎯 Zero F’s Given: www.zerofsgiven.online

🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

52. Wonder With Me For a Moment

Jill Cruz — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:00:00 -0500

🎯 There's a root cause of unhappiness with ourselves. 00:40
🌺 We are worthy and beautiful, but our culture taught us differently. 02:42
🤗 Not knowing we're safe causes fear: but maybe we actually “know” that we are safe and our souls create fear to remind us? Can we welcome the fear? 04:38
📋 Pay attention to how much you feel fear in a day: create a little mantra for yourself. 11:10
🤔 Do your own exploration. 13:15

Links:

🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

51. Michele Yasuda - Living in Alignment

Jill Cruz — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:43:54 -0500

❔ What integrity and essence mean to Michele: being in our wholeness. 03:16
🧒 Michele’s “Jersey Girl” persona. 04:28
🎭 Relationship between persona and the essence through example. 06:19
👼 When the rude persona comes out vs. the overly nice persona. 09:38
🌸 To live with integrity, you have to know yourself. 11:09
🤷 How do I know what is the essence, true self, and persona? 12:39
🔁 If I'm not present at the moment, I'm out of sync. 15:03
😌 Moving in my essence pace gives me a sense of ease. 18:21
🌌 “I live in a friendly universe”: welcome to the easy world! 21:49
🧠 Sitting in silence is incredible for our brains: the ability to have the power of choice. 23:13
🤝 Moving, Eating, Purpose: using body intelligence. The body tells us so much. 25:04
🌷 It's okay to be out of alignment - be kind to yourself. 28:29
💭 If we don't allow negative thoughts, they can take over: welcome your thoughts and say the truth. 30:41
📣 Feel the body’s signals - give attention to them. 32:46
🏋️‍♀️ “I'm gonna find a partner who's gonna love my too muchness”. 34:50
☺️ If you are aligned with yourself, you can joyously lose weight. 35:49
🍔 Alignment and problems with overeating. 37:05
👫 Being in alignment is contagious - it's awesome for couples. 41:39
✨ No drug can compete with feeling in alignment. 43:53

Links:

✌️ Connect with Michele: www.micheleanddean.com

🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

50. Breanne Ward - The Burden We Carry Through Generational Trauma

Jill Cruz — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:33:00 -0500

🩸 Breanne's experience with iron deficiency and anemia. 02:05
👌 Getting therapy: when Breanne's motivation increased a ton. 07:40
🔋 Nutritional deficiency affects your mood and energy levels. 08:20
⏸️ We have to navigate our stop and reset buttons - get to know ourselves. 09:59
🧘 The difference in work and life when balancing mind-body-spirit. 12:50
🙇 Higher power orchestrates things we don't have to. 13:35
⚖️ What I can control and what is out of my control: don't put the weight of the world on your shoulders. 16:30
🥌 Emotional laundry sorting. 17:52
🧬 Inheriting trauma: what is family epigenetics? 19:00
👵 Grandma - the silent strongest woman. 23:39
🧠 Stress affects our brains and eating habits. 24:28
😟 Women have so much shame, guilt, and judgment: nobody wants to suffer and make bad decisions. 26:22
👭 Know what you want to start with and find a clinician or a friend for support. 30:05
🎭 It's not easy: let's stop pretending. 32:35
✌️ Breanne helps with cultural and societal norm clashes that manifest in the professional space. 33:36

Links:

👉 Connect with Breanne: www.linkedin.com/in/breanne-ward-a5a862200/
⏩ Move Forward: www.moveforward2day.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

49. Positive at All Costs: Why This Doesn't Work

Jill Cruz — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:44:30 -0500

👧 The ways we are raised 00:41
💐 Facing reality leads to a better life. Why is that? 02:02
🍔 What does it mean to face reality? Overeating example. 03:19
❌ Making yourself wrong only leads to bad behavior. 05:00
✍️ Journaling helps. 05:22
🫥 There's going to be short-term discomfort. 06:00?
🌙 Stay up late - detailed example about facing reality. 07:00
💡 What happens long-term when facing reality? You can see new opportunities. 08:55
💤 There is an opportunity in facing the reality of late sleep. 09:44
🪤 Denying will catch up with you. 11:51
✨ Facing the truth will manifest positive reality 12:24
❤️ You're not wrong, you want to be happy and care for your body. 13:32

Links:

🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com
Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual

48. Emotions: Good or Bad, We Can't Deny Them

Jill Cruz — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:18:09 -0500

🧘‍♀️ Allow your emotions to flow even though you were taught the opposite. 00:40
😊 Core emotions: anger, sadness, fear, happiness, and sexual feelings. 02:17
🤸‍♀️ Emotions are physical sensations. They are connected with our physical reactions. 03:40
👧 Relearn the process of embracing emotions. 04:18
👩‍⚕️ Choose someone to help you explore your emotions: the process starts with awareness. 04:50
🛑 Unaware emotions can block progress: we need to go into them. 05:35
🗒️ Rant on paper when you get an urge to suppress emotions. 06:45
🤷‍♀️ There's a reason for laziness. 08:15
🌟 Don't blame yourself, go into problem-solving mode. 08:40
✍️ Your body is giving you the signals: take notes of what is going on in your body. 09:35
📚 It is a long holistic process: come in with curiosity. 09:47

Links:

✅ Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

47. Romy Carlson - Building Connection and Empowering Each Other for Success

Jill Cruz — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0500

🤹‍♀️ How does Romy manage everything? 01:49
✋ Why boundaries are important. 02:20
👩‍🎓 Worries about having college-aged kids: everything has its good and bad sides. 05:00
🔢 Discipline and self-respect through daily prioritization helped Romy use her 24 hours the best way possible. 08:20
😇 Her parents were amazing role models: let's build each other up, let's make it easier to be more successful. 12:08
👩‍⚕️ Puritanism approach in our society: being humble is great, but it hurts our mental and physical health. 14:48
✅ Get out of your comfort zone and really connect with other women: stop comparing and competing. 19:53
💆‍♀️ Self-care is important to be able to lift people up. 22:00
🤗 One of the best ways to lower stress is to help someone and make connections. 24:00
👠 Women are thought to be perfect: give yourself space for the journey of life. 28:20
✌️ We will make mistakes and different things will happen and that's ok. 33:00
🥳 We should get messier. We have too high of expectations for ourselves. 34:25
🥰 Have deep connections instead of perfectionism: people that are real are the most loveable. 35:00
🌸 "Tend to the flowers in your own garden" vs. growing everyone's garden, including your own. 37:30
🎯 The only thing I can change is me: get focused on the right place. 40:30
🧘‍♀️ Internal dialog is not easy: it takes willpower and time to learn it. 40:35

Links:

✅ Connect with Romy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romycarlson

🍎 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌺 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

46. How You Can Be Happier by Leaning in to Your Emotions

Jill Cruz — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:00:00 -0500

🌊 Emotions are not bad - they’re just feelings. 00:35
🤷‍♀️ How do we deal with fear, anger, and sadness? 03:18
👉 We want to avoid feelings but they persist. 04:42
👊 What to do when something hits you - this trick really works. 05:08
🗣️ Public speaking nervousness Jill has and how she deals with it. 05:58
🌅 Monday morning dread wave that comes for Jill. 08:08
🤗 Savor all your emotions: emotion is a signal. 09:51
💥 Attention in combination with happiness and fear. 11:48
🛑 We are suppressing even happy emotions: the thought that comes to destroy your joy. 12:58
☺️ Sweetness in feeling emotions: build on emotions. 13:51
💪 A greater degree of emotion control is empowering. 15:25
🧩 Weight loss is a byproduct of improving health. 16:46

Links:

🌻 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🙌 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

45. Kelli Wingo - The Superpower of Ownership

Jill Cruz — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:04:44 -0500

🤸‍♀️ A body is a living, breathing miracle – a cadaver is proof. 01:46
💡 Kelli is interested in and inspired by the human body. 03:19
🚘 We take better care of our cars than our bodies. 4:58
✨ Everyone has a mind, body, and spirit, but the combination of these three makes us unique. 06:05
🎆 If you don't understand the unique makeup of your mind, body, and spirit, there's a place in the universe that is missing you. 07:40
📋 How to harness uniqueness: superpower audit. 09:05
🚫 One of the rules: don’t take compliments away from yourself! 10:46
🎯 Have an ownership mindset in your personal and professional life by focusing on things you can control. 13:45
🎡 Influence, like life, is a journey. 16:27
👩‍👦 Toddler learning independency and parents’ ownership superpower. 18:00
😇 Perfection is an illusion: build resistance to find your strengths. 19:12
🌈 You have to train your mind to see opportunities. Use your kaleidoscope. 22:50
🤝 Owners should start with employees for better business and bigger revenue. 28:00

Links:

🤝 Connect with Kelli: www.kmwcatalyst.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

44. What Are You ACTUALLY Committed To?

Jill Cruz — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:48:14 -0500

🛺 Annoying slow drivers and our consciousness. 00:30
🥇 Desire to be good enough as a source of self-sabotaging. 03:06
🤔 The best question to ask when irritated: What is my unconscious belief about myself? 05:56
📋 Recognizing personal behavior patterns. 06:36
⭕ A vicious cycle: women believe they are not enough. 07:38
❔ If we can’t fix the problem, we should check unconscious beliefs that drive us in the opposite direction. 11:00
🤷 How do I know what my unconscious commitments are about my health? 13:13
👍 We can’t control everything, and that is OK. 14:57
✅ What are the actions to take? 16:05
⚠️ Don`t get into a zone you’re not comfortable with: seek support, especially if you have trauma. 16:34
😇 Every human being on the earth has unconscious beliefs: no shame and blame in it. 17:49
🥰 Know you are enough: mantras can help. 19:50

Links:

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

43. Marcia Roberts Mikels - The Lasting Physical Effects of Trauma

Jill Cruz — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:55:00 -0400

🤰 Marcia left her husband after an assault: a sad event that affected her health. 02:55
😢 The miscarriages, gaining weight, elevated blood pressure: massive blood loss and emergency D&C. 05:43
😮 Marcia’s huge fibroids were treated with a new procedure: a uterine embolization cuts the blood supply to fibroids. 08:34
⚠️ Victims of domestic violence in some states have to ‘dig’ to find a social worker while in other states, they come in immediately with the police. 12:04
🛣️ The recovery process for a single mom of five: the waiting list for counseling was huge and dealing with the system and schooling. 12:55
⚡ Huge gaps in victim services: Marcia went through training herself to help her kids and later opened a consultant agency. 14:35
👉 Being an intermediary in cases and helping victims take back their voices: why do women go back to their abuser? 16:35
🎯 After experiencing trauma, there are a lot of residual effects on your psychology and your neurobiology: learning coping mechanisms. 18:37
👩‍⚕️ Heart issues, autoimmune disorders, and cancer risks increase after experiencing trauma. 19:35
✅ Why men are more confident to leave abusive relationships. 24:01
🌸 Issues with waiting lists in emergency housing: building coping mechanisms and resilience is very important when you can’t leave. 25:00
🎅 List of Marcia’s healthy coping mechanisms and some tricks we all can benefit from. 26:27
‼️ Kids need coping mechanisms too: family traditions can help in building happy memories so much. 31:48

Links:

👉 Connect with Marcia www.linkedin.com/in/marcia-roberts-mikels-589a262a
🍏 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

42. Punam Saxena - Teach Your Children to Advocate For Themselves in Schools

Jill Cruz — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 07:45:19 -0400

📗 Parent Power book: A parent’s guide for children from 0 -18: from social media to self-care to empty nesting. 03:12
📱 How to set parameters around social media for your children. 06:25
⚠️ Difference between parent involvement and parent engagement in schools: parents are the advocates of their kids at school. 12:23
🦺 Children are people carrying so much on their shoulders: they need a safety net to fail.18:00
✅ From six through twelve is when your child needs you the most for healthy lifestyle support. 21:23
👩‍💼 How do we stay engaged when our kids are in school and in college? Advocating for yourself. 23:34
▶️ Parents, start early: let the child ask their teachers questions - it will mean a lot in college. 25:45
⚡ Women usually go along with systems: be unapologetic about the skills and strengths you bring to the table. 32:25
👨 Men play a pivotal role in the mental health of women and how women feel about themselves: they are protectors. 35:59

Links:
👉 Connect with Punam: www.edu-me.net

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

41. Kelly Moore and the Importance of Exploring and Expressing Your Emotions

Jill Cruz — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🥰 In Kelly’s hardest times, a social worker at school stepped in to help: I want to be like her. 01:55
🩹 Processing the trauma with a professional: a wound can't heal if we just stick a bandaid on it. 02:57
🌸 Jill realized the importance of not letting emotions be hidden and locked down. 03:48
⚠️ There’s no such thing as a “bad emotion”. 05:30
😤 Understand where that anger is coming from: see what is below the tip of the iceberg. 07:03
🤔 The trauma we don’t recognize: it doesn’t have to be the stereotypical trauma to be a traumatic experience. 09:31
🧁 Food can be a specific way of addiction: addressing your emotions around eating. 11:27
❓ Are we feeding our body or our soul: is an issue still there after the meal? 13:02
🤗 Defeated mindest challenges: are you depriving yourself or just reintroducing and exploring alternatives?
🤓 Kelly loves boundary work with her clients: setting boundaries for yourself and others is essential. 17:17
🙃 Kelly is working with nonprofits, families, and kids: why she loves the cartoon Inside Out18:19
🙅‍♀️ The default mode of expressing emotions: dieting and shame game. 19:41
😍 Let's forget about dieting: create a new way of eating that cares for your body. 21:55

Links

🌟 Connect with Kelly: www.smithbhw.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

40. Mary I. O’Connor, M.D & Kanwal L. Haq, M.S. - How To Become Better Self Advocates

Jill Cruz — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:29:20 -0400

📕 Book Taking Care of You is a powerful tool women can use to be more empowered in their health. 02:00
👙 Stop talking just about the ‘bikini medicine’: the book focuses on different clinical conditions because those impact women differently than men. 03:44
💊 Be well prepared when going to clinicians: a lot of drugs are pulled from the market because they are not working for or designed for women. 08:44
⚠️ There is no woman who should feel helpless: be in charge of your body and change your healthcare professionals if needed. 14:02
👩‍🦰 Women are assertive for others’ health but not so much for themselves: ‘Tiger Mom’ mode vs Single patient mode. 20:12
🤯 Kanwal is a medical anthropologist: their research shows the very bad experiences women have had in the healthcare system. 21:49
🌊 The power of one pebble in the pond: we all have the ability, regardless of our socioeconomic status, to improve our health through our personal decisions. 27:26
🌟 Shared decision-making vs informed consent: taking into account the values and preferences of your patient is essential. 31:18
😳 50% of low back surgeries and a third of knee replacement surgeries are inappropriate: there are different solutions. 36:02
👠 Women in the lower socio-economic status are not being empowered to ask the right questions: don’t kid yourselves, all women have this issue. 39:31
⚕️ Getting surgeries you don’t need: the importance of being informed and properly communicating before having surgeries. 40:30

Links

📖 Taking Care of You Book: www.takingcareofyoubook.com

👩‍⚕️ Meet Dr. Mary: www.linkedin.com/in/maryoconnormd

👩‍💼 Meet Kanwal: www.linkedin.com/in/kanwalhaq

Getting better without an operation with Vori Health: www.vorihealth.com
🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

39. What You NEED to Know About Hormones

Jill Cruz — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:34:52 -0400

🥰 Sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone: from age 35 women's bodies produce less progesterone and that causes some issues. 00:29

🌟 Transfer your life at ‘50 and ‘60: get a bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. 03:16

🦥 Low sex drive, can’t build muscles, low motivation: the answer is testosterone. 03:51

💪 When insulin is elevated in the blood, fat burning is turned off: there is a solution. 05:35

😩 When our brain feels stressed it elevates the cortisol and blood sugar too: go for complex carbs. 07:23

😋 Leptin is a hunger hormone: balancing it out with these few tips. 08:36

😇 Take your action from the context of self-love, self-compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and self-acceptance. 10:13

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

38. Li'Ana Michelle - Dealing with Personal Trauma by Helping Others

Jill Cruz — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:18:13 -0400

👗 Li’Ana is a Miss Voluptuous Pageant finalist: I can do this, I am worthy. I am of value. 02:00
🤩 Being a part of an effective change for people in her community: behavioral health and wellness for the whole community. 05:44
🤗 Everyone goes through traumatic experiences differently: don't shame but give grace to others. 08:05
👧🏽 Li’Ana’s trauma: don't wear the shame on your shoulders. 11:07
⚠️ Traumatic experience offsets your behaviors: if we don't understand the trauma, then we don't understand the response. 15:28
🔎 There are so many reasons why people repeat self-sabotage behaviors: eating our feelings and causing ourselves illnesses have deeper roots. 16:55
🌸 Get professional help to guide you through your feelings: therapy, meditation, and affirmations. 20:41
😎 Li’Ana wanted to be like Matlock when she was young, but now she is helping autistic children. 24:30
🦸🏽‍♀️ Put yourself out there to somebody else: this helps with the healing process and keeps you moving forward. 27:32
💎 Li’Ana’s powerful tip for all of her clients and everyone who has experienced trauma. 32:33
✂️ We pick up the behavioral patterns from our parents and upbringing: breaking the cycle. 34:35
👩🏽‍🍼 Li’Ana’s relationship with her mom and son: identify the problem, so you can break the chain. 36:02
❗ Parents instilling their fears in kids: when you hear your mom’s voice from your mouth and decide not to pass the generational fears to your child. 38:51
🤕 Harboring anger towards others is not going to help you heal: practicing forgiveness. 44:02
🌟 Make your kids aware of the world that they're living in - you can't keep them from living in the world. 45:48
🥰 Give what you want to receive and return. 47:57

Links

🤩Connect with Li'Ana Michelle: www.faithfullyherllc.net

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

❗ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

37. Jane Baudelaire - Medical Gaslighting

Jill Cruz — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:12:36 -0400

🙋 Being an advocate for yourself in the medical world: battles and gaslighting experience. 02:39
🌟 Jane advocating for herself in the medical system started when she was 16: when you are asking questions for a reason. 03:39
🤕 We fractured the healthcare system: healthcare is a money-making business, and it is hard to navigate that. 06:13
🤰 Your birth plan is a joke for nurses in birthing units. 09:41
❗ How the system works and how to work the system: some meds are not good to use. 11:51
🤩 Caught off guard in the hospital office: What if we could have a patient -advocate be available to patients? 16:41
🙁 Discrimination that Jane experienced with care: the difference between tolerance and acceptance. 20:05
ℹ️ We can’t solve problems overnight: we can much more easily arm ourselves with information. 23:35
👧 Her parents were told that she was going to be blind and intellectually disabled: Jane’s diagnosis and lack of patient education about her immune system. 28:36
🦆 We have to take responsibility for our own health. We’re not sitting ducks. 32:00
🤦‍♀️ Alcohol, psychedelics, and sugar in our society. 34:55
😇 The power of hearing other people’s stories: Jane is an end-of-life doula, but it would be great to have a medical doula in our system. 37:00

Links

👉 Connect with Jane: www.linkedin.com/in/jbaudelaire

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

36. Conflict as a Positive Tool for Deeper Connections in Relationships

Jill Cruz — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

😇 No relationship is free of conflict: conflict is what leads us to intimacy. 02:31
🤓 Relationships without conflict: re-learning how to actually disagree and engage with each other. 03:51
💣 What is conflict? A mismatch can set off fireworks. 04:48
🌟 “There is no relationship without a voice and no voice without a relationship.” 07:14
❗ Undoing the patriarchy one couple at a time: patriarchy doesn't help men very much either. 09:19
💚 There are fewer cardiovascular issues among happy couples: we are social beings. 12:23
6️⃣ The 6 elements of doing conflict well are self-esteem, boundaries, accountability, vulnerability, empathy, and connection or repair. 13:22
🤩 Conflict creates the opportunity for growth: understanding yourself and others better. 17:03
😍 Mistakes are so important in the health journey: the messiness of being human. 17:20
🤹‍♀️ Practicing relationship skills: learning any skill is awkward, uncomfortable and it takes practice. 19:21
✅ We all deserve to be loved and to have healthy, functioning relationships because we will be happier, and healthier and future generations will benefit from that. 21:38

Links

👉 Connect with Risa: www.relationshipintelligencecoaching.com
🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

35. Haylee Breitinger - End Mental Health Stigma Now

Jill Cruz — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🌟 It should be natural to seek out mental health counseling. 00:30
🧠 Mental health has been stigmatized: a lot of things are going on in our world, and we can't take it on all by ourselves. 02:20
😷 Trauma from the pandemic: everyone purchased home gyms, but no one thought about mental health. 04:10
🤓 You don’t have to have depression or anxiety to recognize that you need help. 07:45
🙌 The benefits of working with an expert in mental health or any other field. 10:09
🏋️‍♀️ Kaylee’s story: body dysmorphia, an eating disorder, and excessive exercising. 12:53
❓ What is body dysmorphia? Viewing any component of your body and seeing something different than what is actually there. 14:43
🤔 Do I have disordered eating? See a professional, go deep, and ask yourself these questions. 18:30
⚖️ Women’s weight reflects how we are valued: the shame and blame game is so sad. 21:35
👉 When fashion norms pull your mental issues to another level: I can’t win. 24:13
📃 Work with professionals with a degree: weight loss journey flows so much easier if a therapist is involved. 26:04
😇 Recognizing what's in your scope of practice: relationship with clients is most important and why having a therapist is like dating. 28:54
🗣️ Don’t be afraid to speak your mind: give your feedback to professionals and find a suitable professional. 33:52
👌 Breaking up with your therapist. 35:54
👦 Teenagers are going through rough times: help them. 37:05

Links

👉 Haylee www.linkedin.com/in/haylee-breitinger

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
🤩 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

34. The Self-Love Context is the BEST

Jill Cruz — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

✨ Jill is a Big Leap coach: She’s been certified by the Hendricks Institute. 00:10
🤦‍♀️ Differentiating between content and context: The diet industry has created an entire context in which we have been trained to operate. 01:00
❤️ Jill suggests an entirely different context we can operate: when content becomes looser and more flexible. 03:17
😰 I gotta get it right, what is proper: the fear about will my tribe accept me if I look like this? 04:12
🥰 Let's all lift ourselves up and move over to a better context, a better paradigm, a better world: unconditional self-love. 08:28
⏫ Intuitive Eating is this whole industry that has risen up as a reactionary measure against the diet culture: but go one step further. 11:23
💎 Coming from the place of self-love: fall off the wagon for a year and love yourself anyway. 13:27

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

33. Fabienne Jacquet - Embracing Feminine Energy for Innovation

Jill Cruz — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🎆 Anyone can be an innovator: it means creating something new that creates value. 02:51
👩‍🍼 Being an innovator as a housewife and a stay-home-mom. 06:19
🤔 We tend to overcomplicate things: innovation is coming from your emotions, from your guts, and it’s serving the world. 06:55
🧠 Feminine and masculine energy in the innovation process: the secret is in the balance of two energies and intuition that comes from within. 08:35
⚖️ We're all on the spectrum between masculine and feminine: why being centered is good. 14:17
🤓 What are some traits that are more feminine or masculine? Our brains can rewire and change. 17:23
✅ Importance of diversity and inclusivity in innovation and teams: gray and white matter in our brains. 19:43
❗ The movement of Conscious Capitalism: we are hurting the world and ourselves by not allowing more people to have access to innovation. 21:53
🍨 What is happening when you lose weight? Looking at food from a different perspective is innovation. 24:49
🥖 You have to love yourself and choose your mindset: eating habits in France. 29:53
💡 Weight loss programs are written from a masculine perspective: where is self love? 31:20
👁️ Putting the focus on your own health and how you feel: getting away from stress. 34:35
🛌 The importance of sleep and sleeping well in losing weight: if you feel beautiful, people will see you as beautiful. 35:53

Links

👉 Fabienne Jacquet www.innoveve.com

📕 Venus Genius: The Female Prescription for Innovation: www./innoveve.com/book

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

32. Michela Parisi - Is Trauma Unconsciously Affecting Your Day-to-Day Life?

Jill Cruz — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🙋‍♀️ Michela is a therapist who is incorporating Neurofeedback into her counseling sessions: primarily helping women who’ve experienced trauma. 02:08
🤷‍♀️ What does it mean to “experience trauma”? Minimizing the way that we feel leads to all sorts of diagnoses. 04:14
👉 Weight loss is a byproduct of improved health: trauma might affect human behavior without us knowing it. 06:35
🔁 When patterns of behavior are still recurring in the weight loss process: somewhere deep underneath, trauma might provoke this. 09:28
🧐 We're not looking at external factors that probably impacted our inner dialogue: do we really hate our legs or did someone tell us to do that? 11:26
🤩 The cathartic process of sitting with your emotions: the cyclical pattern of chicken and egg is a lot less negative. 14:07
😤 Physical and mental health diseases are related to suppressed rage: you don't really know it's there until it bubbles over and comes out.16:47
🧠 Neurofeedback teaches the brain to re-regulate and let go of old patterns to be able actually to change the behavior. 21:47
📌 QEEG Brain Map measures the activity on the surface of the skull: forty sessions are needed to track changes in the brain. 23:11
🤯 Neurofeedback sessions: The brain naturally feels good and wants to stay in that mode but illnesses, events, and trauma change it. 25:09
💊 The pill should not be the first solution: 80% of adults are on at least one medication. 27:07
❗ Depression can’t be fixed with antidepressants: it can be genetic, but for most people, it is a reaction to their environment. 29:39
🩺 All options should be laid out for the patient to choose from: when you need to find a new doctor. 32:07
😇 The best predictor of you getting what you want is liking your therapist and feeling close to them. 34:23

Links

👉 Connect with Michela www.connectedbraincounseling.com

📘 Book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger: https://tinyurl.com/rage-book

🛋️ Hendrix’s therapy: www.hendricks.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

31. Lauren Hooper - Choreographing Life

Jill Cruz — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:01:55 -0400

✨ Getting back to herself and self-care: being a mom of two small kids and navigating so many things. 02:18
👩🏽‍🎤 Lauren is a performer in musicals, film, and TV: building back the strength and stamina to be able to do the things she loves. 03:47
🧘🏽‍♀️ Anatomy associated with singing benefits from yoga and running. After pregnancy, she needs to work daily on her abs just to be able to sing and perform. 06:05
🤰🏽 Diastasis recti and postpartum recovery: you don’t have to lose weight, but you have to re-knit abs together. 09:37
😍 Settling and grounding for mental health: meditation, connecting with family, tracking her time, and having an accountability friend. 11:45
⏰ How tracking time is helping Lauren: the process of tracking time and tracking emotions on a daily basis to get structure and create a more realistic schedule. 14:07
❗ Try to apply time audits in your life. 20:42
🎭 Moments of a performer’s job can be glamorous, but most of the time it is hard work and unpaid preparation for auditions. 21:33
😫 Being a recovering perfectionist and having issues with procrastinating: getting burned out and tired. 23:06
👉 Thinking about what are the things that are giving the greatest impact in the least amount of time is the perfect baseline to change your patterns of behavior and life. 26:30
🦾 Think about your body as a beautiful machine: choreographing life to run smoothly, but we are humans with emotions, not machines. 27:21
😇 Therapy has been amazing for Lauren: rationalize how to work through the problem and chase your base emotion to see what is lacking in your life. 30:33
🤩 Emotions are helpful guides of where to go and acknowledge that: trust your intuition. 35:41
🗣️ We have been trained over time to be disconnected from our body and internal wisdom: nine out of ten times, intuition is your body trying to speak to you. 37:25

Links

👉 Connect with Lauren: www.laurenhooper.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

30. Heather Zoccali - Finding Beauty in the Trauma of Life

Jill Cruz — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🧜‍♀️ Rainbow-colored scales are kind of her armor: Heather is not taking someone else's trauma. 02:37
👧 Caregiving and forgiveness as two pillars of her life: Heather was a caregiver from the age of nine. 03:17
🛌 Being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and POTS at 30: life completely changed for her. 04:51
🥊 Having a chronic condition is an ongoing fight: accepting your new normal and giving yourself time to grieve. 07:44
🤗 The importance of self-compassion and forgiveness: treat ourselves just like you would a friend. 09:28
🌟 Life is beautifully brutal: all the good that came out of the traumatic events in Heather’s life. 10:48
✨ Really knowing and trusting yourself and your voice: showing your vulnerability opens other people towards you. 14:50
😁 When you can joke about yourself it shows that acceptance occurred. 16:37
🎯 Asking ourselves why something bad happened to us is not serving us at all: accept, release and move on. 17:31

Links

👉 Caregivers connect with Heather: www.linkedin.com/in/heather-zoccali-015a3b18a

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

29. How Do You Love Yourself And Still Make Change?

Jill Cruz — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:28:56 -0400

🤷‍♀️ How do I reconcile the concept of radical acceptance with the idea that I need to lose weight or fix something in my body? 00:10
⚠️ Nothing good comes from a black-and-white way of thinking. 01:28
🥅 The goal is not to practice self-love all day every day but to be aware we want to practice it more. 03:18
🧚‍♀️ It is a challenging journey, not a fairy tale with a final destination. 04:45
🎯 If you approach weight loss with this new perspective, that’s the opposite of giving up. 05:54
🌟 How do you reconcile the idea of loving yourself with the idea that you are flawed: squishy, messy, fluffy, beautiful gray zone is your spot! 06:48
💚 Almost every diet program out there asks you to do things that you don't want to do: we merge science and love. 08:49

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

28. Nicole Bazaco - Getting Away From the Vicious Cycle of Self-judgment and Falling Into Curiousness

Jill Cruz — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

😫 Nicole struggled with anxiety, disordered eating, and relationship issues: judgmental voice vs. curiosity. 01:51
🧁 We want to comfort ourselves to escape other feelings: when food becomes a problem. 05:48
🧘‍♀️ Internal Family Systems by Dr. Richard Schwartz: meditation helped Nicole to pay more attention to the reasons behind her behaviors. 06:59
☮️ We need judgment, but sometimes it crosses the line and turns into shame: feeling peaceful when judgmental feelings are quieting down. 08:57
🎯 Running away from feeling the negative feelings has to stop: catching yourself on time. 12:25
🌸 Be a little tender towards yourself: delicate balance that we have to strive for. 16:35
💎 Being kind to myself isn't giving in to what I always want: doing it from a place of compassion instead of a place of control. 18:07

Links

👉 Connect with Nicole https://www.empowered-counseling.com/nicole-bazaco

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

27. Cait Donovan - Understanding the Link Between Resentment, Burnout, and Your Boundaries

Jill Cruz — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

2️⃣ Two things Cait thinks can change peoples’ lives: resentment and boundaries. 03:05
🤯 Underneath resentment is a feeling of unfairness; either because you're over-giving or because you're under-recognized. 06:23
⚠️ Resentment is a powerful tool: The most important question you need to learn to ask yourself. 07:00
🎯 Sometimes, we are resentful because somebody is crossing our boundaries: internal and external boundaries people don’t talk about. 09:13
✍️ #1 Find out what all of the unspoken expectations are: start a resentment journal. 11:02
🚪 Nobody talks about boundaries as being something that allows you to invite in 13:59
🧠 The integration and segmentation continuum: what's happening there? 18:05
👉 Boundaries are so intertwined with our values and our families. 20:34
😇 Everyone struggles with boundaries: they are ever-changing and depend on the people surrounding us. 24:11
🤕 When resentment builds up, it will turn into burnout and manifest as physical diseases. 28:17
🍕 When you are segmented for pleasure: what happens when we allow ourselves pleasure in food? 29:19
🌸 Find some space for grace for yourself. 32:16

Links

👉 Connect with Cait and start Resentment Journal: www.caitdonovan.com/resentment-journal

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

26. Lyndsey Martin - Power of Cannabis in Healing PTSD, Insomnia, and Anxiety

Jill Cruz — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

👍 Lyndsey is getting her master's in nutrition and working in the cannabis industry. 02:15
😮‍💨 Missouri is a state in which using cannabis is allowed for medical purposes, but it might be legalized for recreational use as well. 02:47
🤯 Cannabis is dangerous, but alcohol is ok? 03:11
🤕 A big stigma around cannabis is unfair: the plant helps huge numbers of people with various mental and medical issues. 04:45
👠 Successful cannabis companies are being run by women: Lindsey held a panel to connect women in her industry. 07:50
😇 Spiritual perspective of marijuana: she is a special plant. 11:21
😩 Lyndsey’s issues with insomnia escalated: CBD and THC together really helped with her trauma, PTSD, and anxiety. 12:56
😎 Nutritionists have an obligation to help people without hurting them: marijuana tinctures and edibles have no side effects. 17:57
💧 Lyndsey tried so many things but nothing helped: beware not to smoke marijuana but find other ways to receive that medicine.19:59
🤩 Cannabis companies are creating vaginal suppositories for PMS symptoms. 21:00
😴 Jill's story about CBD: how the quality product changed her sleeping almost overnight. 22:20
✌️ Getting full spectrum CBD with a tiny amount of THC will work on all receptors: blood tests and concerns people are having. 24:44
👉 Two levels of expertise while getting a receipt for cannabis: How do you get a medical card in Missouri? 30:30
🥃 Are you getting tested at your work for traces of alcohol? 32:20
🌟 If you explore it and remove the stigma, you can find healing. 33:26

Links

👉 Connect with Lyndsey: www.instagram.com/lynzrose144
💧 Pure Bloom CBD: www.getpurebloom.com/shop

🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

25. Kathleen Curtis Wolf - Purpose, Strength, and Values as a Foundation for Good Health and Career Life

Jill Cruz — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

👉 You need to be prepared for what is next: Kathleen watched her mom struggle. 01:48
👩‍💼 Kathleen left corporate and wanted to do more: serving and helping others because she was prepared and had a choice. 05:01
🙅 “If we lack confidence, we're not standing up for ourselves.” 06:56
😇 Jill is a Big Leap coach: identifying your genius. 08:43
🧭 Defining your purpose: it will become your compass and guardrails for decision-making. 09:48
🤓 Bringing passion and emotion to the work: purpose, strength, and value. 13:05
🌟 Personal trainers are not cheap but worth it: willing to invest in things that are important to you. 13:50
🎯 If you don’t have your health, you don’t have confidence and can’t take care of others. 15:34
😎 How to be prepared and resilient in difficult situations. 18:32
🤔 Why having a purpose is so important for your health. 19:48
💰 Women don’t invest in themselves, but that is the best investment: it stays with you forever. 21:01

Links

🍀 Connect with Kathleen Curtis Wolf: www.thepurposepartners.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

24. Trapped by Your Desire?

Jill Cruz — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:00:00 -0400

🤷‍♀️ Having a deep desire to lose weight but results are not looking good enough? 00:26
😩 When we constantly question ourselves and look to find our blocking factors: what does it mean to be trapped by our own desire? 02:03
🚧 Thinking only about the outcome creates an obstacle. 03:38
🤔 Can I free myself of this attachment to the outcome? 04:36
🌟 When the delicate balance comes: letting go of the attachment while still caring for your body. 07:06
👀 Focus on the process rather than the outcome. 08:39
🎯 You can’t control the outcome, but you can control your actions and habits.10:02
😇 Slipping back but still being kind to yourself. 12:02

Links:

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

23. Finding More Sustainability on Your Health and Weight Loss Journey

Jill Cruz — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:59:00 -0400

🥬 Issues with weight loss and yo-yo dieting: Maureen wanted something more sustainable. 02:12
😩 Health comes first: She would climb the stairs and be out of breath. 04:52
👀 Series of small habits: paying attention to the reactions of her body to certain foods and drinks was the beginning. 06:01
⚠️ The important thing is to really be ready to change, so be gentle to yourself and ask yourself some important questions. 07:31
🥳 Why do we need to pause and appreciate ourselves and our efforts? 10:24
🤩 Maureen’s short-term goals vs. long-term goals in losing weight and getting her health back. 13:13
😇 You feeling better is much more gratifying than some random number on the scale. 17:21
🕵🏽‍♀️ Maureen’s next focus is creating consistency with exercising, but she gets really itchy while walking.19:59
🌟 Find a buddy and celebrate your small victories together. 26:45

Links

🧠 Connect with Maureen: www.maureenchiana.com

👉 Maureen’s Masterclass: www.maureenchiana.uk/leaders-weapon1

🍀 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

👉 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

22. Betsy Salkind - Using Humor to Facilitate Healing

Jill Cruz — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

🤣 Betsy feels the absolute necessity to laugh throughout her life and health journey. 01:29
🧠 Comedy can teach us to shift towards new perspectives in very serious situations and soften the sympathetic nervous system. 04:11
😉 Finding the place of joy and release: there is no prescription for humor. 06:47
😁 Our mirror neurons will do one part for you: try watching kids, animals, and comedies. 07:49
🤩 Relief opens our minds to new possibilities and to new ideas. 08:56
🍀 Making a behavioral change is easy if you're enjoying it: tapping into creativity and finding what works for each person. 09:49
👍 Jill and Betsy both love an irreverent approach to things. 12:06
✌️ Comedian Tig Notaro made a whole series of jokes about cancer. 13:43

Links

👉 Connect with Betsy: www.heretichealthadvocates.org
🤓 BNA mentor coaching: www.bnamentorcoaching.com/improv-for-coaches

🍏 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

👍 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

21. Aundrea Leven - Benefits Of Childlike Wellness For Any Age

Jill Cruz — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤸‍♀️ We as adults need to be more like kids and have a little bit more fun eating.01:14
▶️ Seeing 7000 people a month as a clinic nutritionist: it was time for something more fun and efficient for families. 02:19
🧠 How nutrition affects teenagers’ mindset, feelings, and positive thinking. 05:10
😇 When healthy eating becomes a normal, habitual thing for kids. 06:31
🥣 Bridging issues and creating a balance between eating fast and healthy. 08:36
🗝️ Planning is the key and getting family involved in the experience is important. 11:17
🥦 Tip on how to incorporate broccoli into a toddler’s diet with a smile. 12:35
😍 Empowering children is something we are missing from our society.14:21
🌟 Prevention of childhood obesity through fun and healthy eating. 16:03
☀️ Letting kids have a say in their dinner options: repetition and celebration. 17:22
🍪 You have to be the example in the family: kids will find all the hidden sweets you have. 21:39
🤱 What mom eats gets into her breast milk: babies that love garlic. 23:06
🧒 Kids know themselves and they listen to their bodies so much better than adults. 25:46
😓 Adults don’t know when we're hungry and we're full: Clean the plate club issues. 26:05
✨ Let's go back and have child-like movement, mindset, eating, and belief. 27:25
🥳 Bringing empowerment, consciousness, and a little bit more curiosity to the meals. 28:36
👆 All nutrition should be personalized: Jill doesn’t like dogma and the prescription stuff. 30:13
👧 Reorienting relationships with food with young teenagers. 31:04

Links

🍏 Connect with Aundrea: www.aundrealeven.wixsite.com/familyfirstwellness

🥗 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com

🙌 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎙️ Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

20. Monisha Kapur - Keeping the Promise to Myself for Myself

Jill Cruz — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🦸‍♀️ Monisha is a supermom: her pivotal moment in life is right now. 01:24
👩‍👧 Gut health affects her mental and physical health: Monisha put her own needs aside due to issues her daughter had. 02:44
🥘 Food allergies in the family: Monisha doesn't like cooking. 04:51
😟 Jill’s daughter was sick for 10 months: having a child with health issues means constantly worrying. 06:11
🙅‍♀️ Realizing when enough is enough. 07:21
🧘‍♀️ Slowing down and keeping your promises to yourself: enjoying yoga. 09:01
✌️ Letting go of that guilt about not doing the things that you're “supposed” to do. 10:38
✨ Associating exercising with things she doesn't like: Moshina found her thing. 11:38
📝 Monisha is a creative doer: starting a food journal was essential for her. 13:21
😓 People with GI issues usually take the weight of other people on their shoulders and internalize a lot of their stress. 15:57
🔨 Lesson Jill learned: Life lessons start with a feather and end with a sledgehammer. 19:30
🗽 New Yorker living in Seattle: this is too slow, I can’t live here anymore! 21:39

Links

👉 Connect with Monisha Kapura: www.344pm.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

19. The Difference Between Healthy Responsibility and Blame

Jill Cruz — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:03:31 -0400

😓 We often get into the mindset of blame on our journeys of losing weight and regaining health. 00:10
👆 When we blame someone, it’s coming from a place of fear, not love. 02:20
▶️ Start the practice of taking healthy responsibility: tips and steps on how to do it. 04:25
😇 Emotions are like water and we can’t always control them: Take responsibility for things you can control. 06:19

Links
🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

18. Elizabeth Sandler - The Positive Impact on Health When You Live with Purpose

Jill Cruz — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

👠 Having a huge international corporate career: fatigue and not having control of her life. 01:58
👩‍💼 Living a movie of her life vs living a life: having it all but not having it all. 04:38
🔇 When you stop the noise of the outside world, you have a voice inside. 06:20
✨ Starting to nurture her body and epiphany about her new work path. 08:01
👺 When cortisol is ‘eating’ your body and you are not aware of trauma: young bodies mask the issues. 09:55
2️⃣ Two groups of women: one keeps going and another group realizes something is happening. 11:49
😇 Finding yourself an excuse for what you're really looking for: taking the hard path and feeling amazing. 13:08
⚠️ When you are stressed, you don’t have time to be creative: you can’t be in touch with yourself. 14:21
😍 Stories are the most powerful way to help other women. 15:39

Links

👉 Connect with Elizabeth: www.echojuliette.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

🌟 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

17. Linda Greene - Enjoying Traveling and Foods for Healthy Aging

Jill Cruz — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:01:39 -0400

🤗 Seeing her mom’s issues pushed Linda to do everything to look, feel, and be healthy as possible. 01:17
🧘‍♀️ Working with Jill, having a personal trainer, doing Pongo: 03:31
😇 Structural issues and pain: knowing that her whole future depends on being mobile and healthy. 04:46
🍝 A life-long love affair with food: Linda loves interesting food, and she gets to try it all out during her travels. 06:43
🥐 Keeping the weight loss during cruising is hard: implementing intermittent fasting when she is home. 08:47
😋 Food pictures Linda shares: strategy of eating delicious food but in smaller portions. 10:58
🧆 The session about flavors taught Linda so much: learning about yourself and food changes through time. 13:57
😍 Healthy aging is closely related to healthy eating: Linda loves Jill’s non-judgmental weight loss program. 16:01
🚰 Constant reminders to eat better and to drink water: Linda was raised to be a nighttime snacker. 18:41
🍛 Sashimi and poke bowls: adding in different types of cuisines from around the world to keep healthy eating. 19:59

Links:

👉 Connect with Linda: www.thewisetraveler.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

16. Dr. Sandra Lewis - Overcoming Burnout

Jill Cruz — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

😟 Sandra’s worst burnout episode: when your body says ‘Enough’. 01:49
🤯 Being in the Get It Done mode: pushing the anxiety back. 03:52
😩 Eating well and doing yoga but her self-care was just a checklist. 06:22
👩🏽‍🦱 Feeling like you are alone, and there is no one to help: commitment one problem solver takes on her shoulders. 08:45
🤕 Sandra learned how to survive from her childhood: survival while ignoring the pain. 12:04
🤷🏽‍♀️ Social patterns: “Women have this sense that we are the ones who are responsible for other people's well being”. 13:06
⚠️ Adrenaline rushing all the time dampens creativity. 15:17
🎯 Getting back in touch with her own purpose: Sandra asked herself two seriously deep questions. 16:04
🤗 Sandra never had learned to grant herself grace until her body said: ‘This is enough.’ 19:04
💎 Your body never lies. and it will always speak the truth to you 20:32
😍 We need a new definition of perfect. 22:23

Links

☑️ Connect with Sandra: www.lifein4partharmony.com

📋 Big Relief Guide: www.thelivingsource.lpages.co/exhausted-to-energized/

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

😇 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

15. Elisse Barnes - The Importance of Prioritizing Yourself While Caregiving

Jill Cruz — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤔 Figuring out how to take care of herself while being a caregiver. 01:41
😍 Taking advantage of time windows and focusing on her weight: Elisses’s strongest motivations. 02:57
💃🏽 Elisse is a night exerciser: making adjustments and scheduling her time to make room for movement that makes her happy. 05:12
⚠️ About some of the excuses we have: Just start! 07:13
😩 Falling off the wagon: when caregiving supersedes goals you set for yourself. 08:46
✍🏽 Power of writing things into a diary: stripping away the excuses and accepting reality. 09:27
😇 Controlling her calorie intake with food delivery service. 10:32
😟 When Elisse is not prioritizing herself, she starts avoiding looking at mirrors and scales. 14:03
🥅 Elisse is enjoying working with Jill and being accountable to herself: losing 15 more pounds. 16:20
😘 Life is not linear; things happen, so be kind to yourself. 17:51
👙 Elisse plans to have her Helen Mirren red bikini moment and feel amazing on the beach. 19:04

😊 Connect with Elisse: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissewbarnesjdphd/

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

14. How to Build Your Motivation for Healthy Habits

Jill Cruz — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🧮 Motivation is a big issue: low willpower equals low motivation - the quick calculation that's occurring in our brains. 02:12
🧠 Experiencing the consequences of eating certain things: the ‘fight’ between lower and higher brain. 04:13
😇 Your prefrontal cortex - conscious mind determines your actions: convince it that healthy food is important for you. 06:32
⏩ Get your compelling reason but with a quick return: examples of positive and negative feedback loops you can use. 08:19
🤓 The combination of different tools: consistent commitment and strong reasons are building motivation. 09:43
⚠️ Don’t always rely on willpower: set up the environment for success and remove barriers for yourself. 10:59
📋 Write it down: make a list of your reasons and create artificial positive feedback loops. 12:23
🔁 Recommit after messing up - recommitment is your friend you can always go back to. 14:08

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

13. Eileen - Redefining Health as We Age - What Energizes You?

Jill Cruz — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0400

😇 Starting to think about aging in our 40s: different perspectives about aging. 02:13
🥳 Celebrating 75th birthday and feeling comfortable about it: having simple goals comes with years. 02:51
🥰 Supporting health with diet, movement, experiences, and communicating: the power of community and friendships. 04:19
🎯 Different perspectives on life, food, and an increased capacity for appreciation: having time to feel everything on more deeper level. 06:31
👩‍💻 Working and not having time for so many things: I want to be retired now and appreciate life more - now. 08:13
🤩 Perfect life recipe: “I don't do anything that does not make me happy unless it's absolutely necessary.” 10:42
🎨 Sense of being overscheduled vs retirement: having time to be creative and doing things you want to do when you want to do it. 12:32
🆚 Adrenaline-based energy versus creative energy: what is stopping our creativity and enjoyment. 16:37
🗝️ The keys to the fountain of youth. 18:06
😎 Having a good time and enjoying being ‘invisible’. 18:36

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

12. Kim Leonard - Words About Healing from a Three-Time Cancer Survivor

Jill Cruz — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:26:00 -0400

🤯 When the doctor said to Kim she will be in bed for the rest of her life: “I don’t accept that!” 01:56
🛌 We don’t know the answer: chemo brain, pain, fatigue, and living as a bedridden mom. 03:50
🤒 Health issues Kim’s children had: the healing power of foods. 05:00
🚰 Changes in her diet: becoming a gut health specialist and realizing the importance of hydration. 07:20
😲 Taking 35-45 medications and experiencing many side effects. 09:30
🍫 Kim’s biggest thing is eating too much chocolate: sugar imbalance, digestive issues, and gut health. 10:39
⚠️ The biochemistry of the body: not feeling well is a sign, don’t ignore it. 14:00
😇 Grief Kim had to live with: spreading hope with her healing journey. 16:32
☯️ Healing is an emotional and spiritual journey too: every health issue brings some dose of grief. 18:00

Links

✅ Connect with Kim: www.wellnesssimplifiedllc.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

🎯 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

11. Krista Sande-Kerback - Simple Practices for Self Care

Jill Cruz — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0400

👠 Krista and Jill met through global professional women's network. 01:38
🧘‍♀️ As a senior product marketing manager with a very active life Krista starts her day with meditation, gratitude practice, walking, and few more rituals. 02:59
✅ Self-care as a group of small, easy practices that brings you joy: different and applicable concept. 05:00
🌺 Getting inspiration from her community and curiosity: showing up the best way she can. 07:20
🎯 Respecting your body where it’s at and not beating yourself up over imperfection. 08:38
👉 People are programmed what they're led to see: replace overwhelming thoughts with this. 09:52
😇 Taking responsibility is empowering: Jill’s diet modifications and challenges for her community. 13:00
🚶‍♀️ Jill is promoting walking because walking improves creative thinking. 15:34
🥅 Rules and regulations in dieting: Let’s start simple and plan better. 16:31
🧠 Krista is very interested in neuroplasticity: eating brain-boosting food and doing games for the brain. 17:25
🤓 Sweet spot for physical activity: ping pong and ballroom dancing for brain health. 19:20

Links

👉 Connect with Krista: www.linkedin.com/in/kristasande

🌺 Natural Weight Loss:www.wynweightloss.com

✅ Connect with Jill:www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak:www.jillcruz.com

10. Angelica Rodriguez - Taking Baby Steps Towards More Movement and Better Health

Jill Cruz — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:00:00 -0400

🚶‍♀️ Challenges of moving her body and negative relationship with comfort foods. 01:36
👣 Physical therapy and moving her body gradually: Angelica’s multiple injuries and overcoming pain. 05:26
⚡ Judging in the gym mindset: nobody is looking at you, you are judging yourself. 07:51
🚦 I want to feel good in my body: honoring the body when it sends you signals. 08:48
🗣️ Little insidious voices we have inside that take the main stage so fast in our life. 11:39
🧠 Thoughts are also habitual as are our outside activities: the process should be gradual because brains don’t like big changes. 15:46
🎯 Try what feeds you and try to see what energizes you, we are all different. 16:57
💃 Fun art and play: it doesn't have to be this huge, hard thing - do what feels good. 18:24
🥗 Creative processes in the kitchen: small steps and testing out new ideas. 22:17

Links:

Natural Weight Loss:www.wynweightloss.com

Connect with Jill:www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

Book Jill to speak:www.jillcruz.com

09. Start Telling a Different Story Today

Jill Cruz — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

😲 Stories in our heads are not always our stories and many of them are disempowering. 00:42
😰 Jill’s story she is telling herself: feeling guilt and blame. 01:58
🥅 The purpose is to learn, grow, and love yourself no matter what. 03:02
🤷‍♀️ I love myself, but I have to look a certain way: the story that is not necessarily yours. 03:35
🛑 We were taught that our value is based on our looks: a biological imperative done wrong. 04:47
👆 The tribalistic definition of beauty mixed with survival: we only want to be included. 06:32
👧 Struggling with body image since a very young age: inner saboteur is so dangerous. 07:36
😢 Women are still struggling with the internalized message: I need to look a certain way to survive and be accepted. 09:43
▶️ Start telling a different story: this is how my body is and I'm going to love myself anyway. 10:26
💊 When you open a capability for healing: start practicing the mantra and change the story. 14:34

Links
Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com
Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

08. Tami Parker - Getting Smoothly Through Perimenopause

Jill Cruz — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤩 Tammi’s favorite theme besides food is perimenopause: people are eager to learn more. 01:21
🤓 Difference between perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. 02:03
🤯 Tammi’s experience and symptoms: Why do nutritionists learn so little about this? 05:09
🎢 Women experience so many biological changes: buckle up for perimenopause - puberty 2.0. 09:03
😲 I have to go through puberty again?! 10:25
🌸 Steps to make this period easy: stress reduction, eat a diet specifically for you. 11:30
⚡ Pathways of hormones are important: Dutch test, cortisol test, and knowing your symptoms. 15:02
🙃 Having a sense of humor helps so much: you are on a transition to your next phase of amazingness as a human being. 18:01

Links

🤓 Connect with Tami: www.getplantedinhealth.com

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

🙌 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

07. Betsy - Fighting Against Your Old Programming Through Inner Work

Jill Cruz — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤗 Counseling and inner work as primary methods of regaining health. 01:54
🤓 Losing 30 pounds without doing anything! 02:31
🤯 Mom would take Betsy to Weight Watcher meetings: recording her weight from the age of eight. 06:39
😤 Hatred within mother-daughter relationships. 11:17
✨ Betsy’s epiphany about her body image. 14:38
👉 Reframing of the old programming: "You look so horrible". 16:11
🤦‍♀️ We are approaching obesity from a medical and health perspective absolutely wrong. 17:39
👆 Losing 100 pounds and still feeling terrible - fundamental changes are not in pounds. 19:34
👩‍👧 People in our country are so focused on appearance: don’t pass on those scripts to your children. 22:32
🛑 Fashion images, social media, and false safety issues: put the responsibility off of women onto the sexual perpetrators. 26:41
🙌 People want to be loved and included: sharing makes us different from other animals. 28:56
🤩 Steps to accepting yourself and seeing yourself in other people’s flaws. 33:01
🎯 Take as many small steps as possible to get to that deep inner work. 39:47
⚡ Women are piling judgment on judgment: radical acceptance opens space for healing. 42:03

Links:

🌺 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

🙌 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

06. Donna McPherson - Reshaping Your Health Trajectory

Jill Cruz — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0400

🤗 Don’t take your health for granted: your body is supposed to function a certain way. 01:28
😢 Donna’s mom passed away at 48, her sister at 49, and she lost three brothers due to cardiac issues. 02:00
🚶🏽‍♀️ Donna decided to stay on the ‘light side of food’ and change her life path: we have to move. 03:40
💃🏽 When exercise doesn't feel like exercise: sports, fun, and finding what works for you. 04:50
🍛 Caribbean people eat heavy food but also walk a lot. 06:38
🥥 American food is very processed: food tradition in Guyana. 08:03
✨ Donna’s choices in dieting and shopping. 09:58
💎 Family history is not Donna’s only motivator: give yourself THIS gift. 12:25
😎 Go day-by-day: “If I had done whatever I wanted to do, I probably wouldn't be around today.” 14:14
😇 The best point of view and Donna’s wisdom. 15:06

Links
👉 Connect with Donna: https://donnamcphersoncpa.com/

🌸 Natural Weight Loss:www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

05. Cheryl Whitelaw - Building an Identity About Yourself

Jill Cruz — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🤩 Cheryl’s new normal: Personal acts of self-care become her awareness choices, choices that matter. 01:25
😇 ‘Should’ culture and restrictive dieting were never Cheryl’s motivators: finding her personal drivers. 03:32
🎯 Living life with more presence: somatic intelligence, being responsible, and choosing things that make us feel good. 05:57
🌟 We recreate ourselves all the time: the power in choosing for ourselves. 08:50
🙁 Being an invulnerable authority figure in your own life and your own self is not possible: the shame and blame we attach to ourselves. 12:00
🧠 Fake it before you make it: how neuroplasticity really works in reaching our goals. 13:05
👉 Retraining the brain: changing your nervous system through movement and awareness. 15:30
☯️ Cheryl focuses on Feldenkrais Method, Aikido, and Tai Chi: honoring the whole person and the connection between mind and body. 17:19

Connect with Cheryl: www.kindpower.ca/movemore

🌸 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

04. Jill’s Thoughts - The Power in Acceptance and Feeling Your Feelings

Jill Cruz — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🤒 Jill’s morning fatigue after COVID infection: acceptance is an important step. 00:30
‼️ Feeling our feelings is scary but essential: the perfect eater and the perfect workout guru don’t exist - it is fake. 01:42
🧘‍♀️ Jill feels blessed about her ‘default’ state in life: what is real life about? 03:35
🤕 When your body's not doing what you think it should is frustrating. 05:55
✨ Feelings are a Flow concept: let yourself feel the emotions - ALL feelings, and don’t deny them. 07:17
🎢 Life goes up and down: no one is perfect even if we are fed with a movie-version of health. 08:08
🧠 Wondering what is important to you, but don’t overthink it. 09:36

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✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

03. Committing to Being Healthier Instead of Thinner

Jill Cruz — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🧠 Carla’s mind shifted toward the new ultimate goal - being healthier. 01:43
🙃 Falling off the wagon while having only weight loss in mind becomes too much to bear. 02:41
🎯 It is easier to build good habits with more attainable goals. 04:19
🤔 Procrastination and internal blockages in caring for your health: they'll always be a reason why you can't do it now. 06:02
🤗 The pursuit of health and building habits is easier when you are kind to yourself. 08:38
‼️ Putting yourself first before other people and obligations: Carla’s internal battle. 11:23
🛌 Jill built her sleeping habits: honoring the body and giving it love and care. 14:40
🤩 The trust relationship between Carla and Jill. 17:30
✨ Making a commitment with yourself works like magic: writing it down and saying it to others gives you power.
🥰 Fear is a great motivator only in the short spurts: gather inspiration from a place of self-care and self-love. 21:20

Connect with Jill and Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

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✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

02. Patty Blakesly - Changing the Beliefs and Language Around Food and Your Body

Jill Cruz — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🥋 Health is in our control: a massive change of mindset happened to Patty when she become a karate practitioner. 01:29
⛽ Food as a source of comfort vs food as fuel for your body: appreciation of food and conscious eating. 04:01
🧠 3 elements that influence your state of mind: language, physiology, and belief. 07:21
💎 We are influencing our body through our mindset: change your beliefs. 09:09
👀 Awareness first: look at your beliefs and find what is opposite. 10:46
⚖️ A dichotomous way of thinking promotes binging and overeating. 11:34
😟 Over the years, people start feeling guilt and shame around food. 12:22
🤓 Inner coaching: motivation plus accountability creates results. 14:45
🖤 It is never late: Patty will soon have a 5th-degree black belt. 16:07
🎯 Making Monday the best day of the week. 17:38

Connect with Patty: https://innerbusinesscoach.com/

🌸 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

01. Rev. Dr. Deb Walters - The Habit of Prioritizing Others Over Self

Jill Cruz — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0400

🗃️ We tend to compartmentalize our life but all is interconnected.
🤷‍♀️ When she felt sad, Deb was not eating: neglected her body too much.
🛑 Eating disorders run in Deb’s family, but she realized it is time to respect her body. 03:27
😒 In our society, women are blamed for having an eating disorder. 05:43
🤰 Not gaining enough weight in pregnancy: Deb understood her body is her temple, but she still needs to pay attention to all the details on a daily basis. 06:56
🌹 The punishing vs. tenderness way of thinking.11:33
🤹‍♀️ Over-functioning as a way of life: being a good girl that holds all the plates in the air. 12:23
👩‍🦳 Getting older and not taking care of your body: how to age better with nutrition and hydration. 16:16
✨ Focusing on context and then content: kindness, appreciation, and self-love first, then multivitamins, enzymes, and proteins. 19:49
🧘‍♀️ Emotional, mental, and spiritual care for the body: “I can have all the vegetables and all the fruits I need by eating this gummy.” 23:36
🤯 Jill’s advice on too much junk and marketing without science: Eat foods first, take digestive enzymes, but be wary about supplementation. 25:25

Connect with Dr. Deb: www.drdebministries.com

🌸 Natural Weight Loss: www.wynweightloss.com

✨ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss

🙌 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com