How to Reframe Menopause as a Spiritual Initiation with Vanessa Nixon
Menopause is often misunderstood as merely a physical transition. However, Vanessa Nixon invites us to see it as much more—a powerful spiritual initiation that holds transformative potential for every woman. Through her insights and holistic approach, Vanessa encourages us to honor this phase of life as a profound rite of passage, shifting our perspective from merely managing symptoms to embracing a journey of self-discovery and renewal.
Embracing Menopause as a Sacred Threshold
In our society, menopause is often approached with apprehension, focusing on the physical discomforts. Vanessa Nixon, however, teaches that menopause is a sacred threshold, one that signals a shift into a new, deeper phase of wisdom. She sees it as an invitation to explore our inner selves, reconnect with our intuition, and release what no longer serves us. This reframe allows women to approach menopause with a sense of reverence, acknowledging it as an important spiritual milestone.
Letting Go: The Power of Releasing Old Stories
One of the central themes in Vanessa’s approach to menopause is the concept of release. She encourages women to use this time to let go of societal expectations, limiting beliefs, and outdated narratives about their worth and identity. As we enter menopause, we are given a unique opportunity to shed the layers that have been holding us back. Vanessa guides women through this powerful process of release, helping them to emerge feeling more authentic, grounded, and aligned with their true selves.
Rediscovering Inner Wisdom and Intuition
Vanessa believes that menopause opens a doorway to our intuition and inner wisdom like no other time in life. Free from the biological cycles that have governed much of life until now, many women find themselves more attuned to their inner voice and spiritual insights. Vanessa helps women tap into this newfound awareness, teaching them to honor their instincts and recognize the spiritual guidance that naturally flows during this time. For her, menopause is a call to turn inward, allowing women to cultivate a deeper relationship with themselves.
Cultivating Self-Care and Spiritual Rituals
Navigating menopause as a spiritual initiation means creating rituals that nurture both body and soul. Vanessa emphasizes the importance of self-care practices that are intentional and spiritually enriching. She encourages women to incorporate rituals like meditation, journaling, herbal support, and quiet reflection to honor this phase as a time of healing and personal growth. Through these practices, women can celebrate menopause as a period of transformation, rather than seeing it as a loss.
Becoming a Wise Woman: Embracing the Crone Archetype
In many traditions, menopause marks the transition into the "wise woman" phase of life, often represented by the archetype of the Crone. Vanessa helps women see the beauty in embracing this archetype, as it symbolizes wisdom, insight, and inner strength. This perspective empowers women to step confidently into their role as mentors, guides, and leaders, sharing their wisdom with those around them. Rather than fearing aging, Vanessa inspires women to embrace the power, grace, and purpose that come with it.
Your Spiritual Journey Through Menopause
With Vanessa Nixon’s guidance, menopause becomes more than a physical change; it is a deeply spiritual initiation that reconnects women with their true selves. Her holistic approach to this transition reminds us that this time of life is one to be cherished, celebrated, and honored. For those who are ready to see menopause as a journey of transformation, Vanessa offers the wisdom, tools, and support to guide them through this sacred phase with grace and confidence.
Begin Your Journey of Spiritual Initiation with Vanessa Nixon
If you’re ready to reframe menopause as a spiritual initiation, Vanessa Nixon’s teachings can guide you. By shifting from a place of resistance to one of acceptance and empowerment, Vanessa shows us how to experience menopause as a transformative time of self-discovery and spiritual growth, leading to a life filled with renewed purpose and inner peace.
Vanessa Nixon - a Traditional Naturopath and Author, she loves helping empower women to thrive during mid-life, using nature as their guide, so they can make this the most vibrant, healthy and impactful phase of their lives, through natural health, natural movement and natural beauty. Here to share with us how to re frame menopause as a spiritual initiation.
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Transcript
Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Hi and welcome to the You world order, showcase. Podcast this, I'm your host, Jill Hart. And today we have with us Vanessa Nixon, traditional nature, path and author. She loves helping empower women to thrive during midlife, using nature as their guide so that they can make this most
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: important, vibrant, healthy and impactful phase of their lives through nature, natural health, natural movement, and natural beauty, here to share with us how to reframe menopause as a spiritual initiation. Welcome to the show, Vanessa. It's really great to have you here.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You, Jill. I'm really delighted to be here, and I'm excited about our conversation.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: how did you get started in all of this? Because
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I'm sure you didn't just wake up one day and decide. Oh, I'm just gonna help menopausal women.
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::Vanessa Nixon: That's a great question. And there's actually 2 parts
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::Vanessa Nixon: to that.
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::Vanessa Nixon: My
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::Vanessa Nixon: my path in natural healing began. When I was a young woman I was chronically ill for a number of years, through my late teens and early twenties.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and my health was degenerating. I was kind of caught in a downward spiral.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and I was following the, you know, conventional medical wisdom, seeing doctors taking a lot of antibiotics.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and toward the end of this period I had been put on daily antibiotics for about 2 years.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and so, as you probably know, that decimated my immune system.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so
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::Vanessa Nixon: one day a friend of mine noticed that I was taking antibiotics every day, and asked why.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and I told them the story
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::Vanessa Nixon: of my chronic illness, which by that time had been going on for about 7 years.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and
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::Vanessa Nixon: and he asked me a question that nobody in all of those years had ever asked me.
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::Vanessa Nixon: He asked me.
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::Vanessa Nixon: well, is it helping.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Yeah, right.
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::Vanessa Nixon: A simple question, but so important.
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::Vanessa Nixon: for in so many different situations for us to just stop
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::Vanessa Nixon: and ask ourselves, is it helping? I had never asked myself that question, and when I did I realized no, it was not helping. In fact, I felt.
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::Vanessa Nixon: even at that time when I didn't know anything about health or natural healing. I felt that it was making me worse.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and
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::Vanessa Nixon: he said, Well, when I when I get sick I go to see an herbalist, and I'd be happy to introduce you if you're interested.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I had never heard of herbalism.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I didn't know there were any other options other than conventional medical care at that time.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and so that conversation
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::Vanessa Nixon: was a huge turning point for me, because it opened my mind
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::Vanessa Nixon: to realizing that there were so many other options.
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::Vanessa Nixon: It wasn't just. There was one other option. There were many other options.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and so it was a just a huge moment of expansion for me
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::Vanessa Nixon: in realizing that
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::Vanessa Nixon: I had a lot more power in that situation than I had ever realized. I was a choice.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and up to that point, I'd always given the responsibility for my health to somebody else.
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::Vanessa Nixon: So that
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::Vanessa Nixon: moment really changed the trajectory of not only my life, but my career. I went to see the herbalist.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I was well in a quarter of the time
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::Vanessa Nixon: than I usually was whenever I was in about of this chronic illness.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and and I was hooked. It was like, Okay, not only is there another option.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and not only is it working, but it's working so much faster and so much better, and I can feel the difference in my body.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so I started studying herbalism, and that led me to study nutrition, and then homeopathy and flower instances, and eventually I got my degree in traditional naturopathy
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::Vanessa Nixon: as well as a master's in in herbal medicine. And
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::Vanessa Nixon: then the second part came. When I started going through perimenopause.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and by this time I had spent several decades
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::Vanessa Nixon: elevating my health to optimal levels
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::Vanessa Nixon: and
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::Vanessa Nixon: had healed myself of chronic illness.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Had been raising 3 daughters
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::Vanessa Nixon: completely with natural medicine.
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::Vanessa Nixon: still with the knowledge and experience that I had.
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::Vanessa Nixon: perimenopause crept up on me without my noticing, and suddenly I found myself at a time of life
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::Vanessa Nixon: where it seemed like everything was suddenly falling apart.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I was having erratic mood swings. I was
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::Vanessa Nixon: beyond stress.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I was in a marriage that was failing.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and I didn't know how to navigate that
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::Vanessa Nixon: My! My periods had started changing, and they had always been very regular, and it took me a while
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::Vanessa Nixon: because there were so many things going on at the same time. Also, my oldest daughter was was going off to college. So I was dealing with.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know, one of my children leaving the nest for the 1st time, so so many things going on on externally and internally that it took me a few months before I realized, oh.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I'm in the Menopausal journey. I'm in that phase.
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::Vanessa Nixon: once I realized that. And I took a step back.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And I realized, I have tools. I have tools to deal with this. I have techniques. I know what to do.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And I also realized that I had support. I had
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::Vanessa Nixon: cultivated this
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::Vanessa Nixon: beautiful network of amazing women around me.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and I could. I could lean back in that support
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::Vanessa Nixon: and
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::Vanessa Nixon: and ask for their support and their help in in navigating these very difficult situations. And it was those 2 things.
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::Vanessa Nixon: the support leaning back into that support.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and reaching out for for new support.
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::Vanessa Nixon: as well as
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::Vanessa Nixon: realizing that I had the tools.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I I had the knowledge, I had the wisdom
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::Vanessa Nixon: to know how to
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::Vanessa Nixon: deal with this initiation, this initiatory period of life which is
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::Vanessa Nixon: so similar for so many women.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And when I realized that we're all going through this. We all go through this period of life, and we all
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::Vanessa Nixon: suddenly feel like everything is changing.
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::Vanessa Nixon: whether things are breaking down or whether new things are happening, but it's a period of life for almost all women. Where
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::Vanessa Nixon: we come into a new space, there's a new energy, and
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::Vanessa Nixon: we're not prepared.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Our culture doesn't prepare us for this.
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::Vanessa Nixon: so many women
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::Vanessa Nixon: are not prepared in their health either.
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::Vanessa Nixon: They don't come into it, having 3 decades of working on their health like I did.
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::Vanessa Nixon: They don't have that advantage that I had.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so when they come into this and all of these things start happening.
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::Vanessa Nixon: It really feels like
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::Vanessa Nixon: for some women. They're losing their mind, or it feels like
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::Vanessa Nixon: their body. Just
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::Vanessa Nixon: they don't recognize it anymore. It feels very unfamiliar.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and they don't understand why, and they don't know what to do about it, and they might go to their doctor, and their doctor says just there's nothing we can do about. It's just the way it is, or.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Give you some antidepressants.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Yes, yes, let's put you on some medication.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Mess up your hormones with
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: hormone treatments.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Exactly exactly, and and they don't feel heard.
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::Vanessa Nixon: They don't feel like
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::Vanessa Nixon: their healthcare practitioners are actually listening to what they are saying. They need.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: No, they aren't.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Right, and they and they don't feel that support, and they don't know where to go to get that support. And because nobody's talking about it. Our medical professionals aren't taught
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::Vanessa Nixon: so they don't have. They don't know what to do.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And I've I've I've heard a lot of doctors say, you know, they they actually would love to know what to do. They just they're they're clueless
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::Vanessa Nixon: because their training was very deficient when it when it came to
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::Vanessa Nixon: how to support women through this period of life, and
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::Vanessa Nixon: what.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: If it doesn't start that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: even when your your 1st
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: beginning, your cycle, you're you're told to go to the doctor and he'll put you on Birth Control pills. And so that starts you down this path of medical interventions which you really don't need
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and then you have your babies in the hospital because God forbid you have them at home
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: like you're like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's not like you weren't equipped to have children
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: at home. Just give on with your life. You're not. You're not sick. You're just
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: doing what your body was designed to do. And then.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: as as your years go by, you're just like you hit menopause. And then, all of a sudden, you're like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Oh, oh, now, what do I do? So you've got all this experience of going and having these medical interventions that you think that. Okay? So I just go and get hormone replacement therapy, because obviously I'm broken
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: rather than
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: going to someone like you and getting actual help.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: moving.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Tina.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Process naturally.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And I love that you. You hit on something that that I really love speaking to, and that is that especially for women.
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::Vanessa Nixon: What we see is this pattern of the medical establishment pathologizing
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::Vanessa Nixon: the natural phases of womanhood from
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::Vanessa Nixon: 1st menarch through pregnancy, through the Menopausal journey.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and those phases of life are not a disease
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::Vanessa Nixon: there today.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Were created.
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::Vanessa Nixon: They're they're not
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::Vanessa Nixon: They are not
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::Vanessa Nixon: ailments.
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::Vanessa Nixon: they are life phases. And our medical establishment.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and almost all the research that has been done
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::Vanessa Nixon: They're done on male subjects.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and very little research has been done on women, and the natural cycles and rhythms and phases of life that we are supposed to go through.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so
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::Vanessa Nixon: doctors aren't taught
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::Vanessa Nixon: that. Yes, your your hormones are supposed to be different in different phases of life. They're not supposed to stay the same and and so we don't get that in our in our culture, we're conditioned to think that. Okay.
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::Vanessa Nixon: yes, we have puberty, and our bodies change, and because our culture
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::Vanessa Nixon: the the the youthful twenties, early thirties. Body of a woman.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Then, as we go through puberty, we look forward to those changes in our bodies, because that's what a woman is supposed to look like in our culture.
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::Vanessa Nixon: But then, when we get to the other side of the the reproductive phase of life.
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::Vanessa Nixon: our culture tells us, no, you're supposed to keep looking like that forever.
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::Vanessa Nixon: when, of course, naturally.
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::Vanessa Nixon: our bodies, when they are done with the reproductive phase of life our bodies are supposed to change, because our bodies. Our hormones
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::Vanessa Nixon: so that we could reproduce if we chose to.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You don't need the same levels of hormones.
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::Vanessa Nixon: We don't need the say our bodies to function in the same way in the space of life, and that's how it's supposed to be, and that is an opportunity for us. We were taught that.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know. It's something
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::Vanessa Nixon: that we're deficient in, you know. In fact, the medical establishment has
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::Vanessa Nixon: We're deficient in hormones, in menopause. It's actually framed as a state of disease.
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::Vanessa Nixon: So no wonder women are confused, and don't feel supported and feel invisible, and feel like there's some.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Broken.
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::Vanessa Nixon: They feel broke.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Getting.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Yeah. And that's so sad that it it really is heartbreaking
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::Vanessa Nixon: to to understand that that is what women are feeling.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Many women, if not most women during this phase of life.
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::Vanessa Nixon: When this is, this is natural, this is normal. This is what we're supposed to be going through. This is what we're supposed to look like.
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::Vanessa Nixon: This is what our hormones are supposed to be doing. And in some cultures, especially some of the more ancient matriarchal cultures.
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::Vanessa Nixon: women looked forward to this phase of life.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And they should.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's great.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I will. This is my favorite stage of life. I've had 5 kids.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I've been through the gamut
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and I could. It's just like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I can regulate my moods.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I'm not really dependent on you know where I am in my cycle
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: when I wake up in the morning, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: it's i i have so much more power at this point in my life. Part of it's because, you know, there's a certain give a
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: aspect to it when you reach this point.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: because you're done with the child bearing years, and and you're done with having to try to find that partner to to reproduce with. And you know we are human beings
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: we are. We do have some instincts for reproduction. We need them to like, continue on with
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: the
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: the species. But
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: you get to a point where
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: that was before. And now this is, that's opportunity. And it's really a great opportunity for women to just step into who they were really designed to be. It's not the end of your life. It's really the beginning, which I think is what you're all about. It's the initiation into chrome. Them.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Yes, yes, and you know there are, as I said, other cultures that really revere this period of life because they understand that.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You know, as women.
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::Vanessa Nixon: we have gone through so many things in our life. We have been
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::Vanessa Nixon: whether we had children, whether we were in a career. All of the experiences we've had. We're now in this position of of holding wisdom, of being the matriarchs.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and in some societies, you know.
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::Vanessa Nixon: young girls looked forward to this. They knew that they were going to be in a place of leadership, of wisdom. They were going to be the elders of the community, and those were the people who were looked up to in society. Those were the the people that
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::Vanessa Nixon: Because that doesn't quite fit with the patriarchal structure of our society, and I think it's time to change that it's time to start having the conversation. It's time to start the dialogue. And what you said about this being your favorite phase of your life. That's so true for so many women, once they
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::Vanessa Nixon: start to understand. This is this is an opportunity in traditional Chinese medicine. They call it the second spring.
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::Vanessa Nixon: which is that it's a rebirth. It's like this is the second.
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::Vanessa Nixon: 3, rd or for some woman the second half of your life you might have a whole other half of your life.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and for many women this is the 1st time in their lives that they are able to focus on themselves, and what they want to do with their life.
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::Vanessa Nixon: The 1st half was all about.
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::Vanessa Nixon: maybe education, maybe building a career, maybe having a family finding a partner. All of your energy was focused outward.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And for many women this is the very 1st time they can actually reflect
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::Vanessa Nixon: what gifts do I have that I want to bring to the world.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Now that I have done all of this nurturing and support. How can I nurture
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::Vanessa Nixon: How can I use this rebirth
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::Vanessa Nixon: this creative source energy that used to go into reproduction? Now we still have that same energy we still have that womb space, whether we have a physical womb anymore or not. Whether a woman has had a hysterectomy. She still has this, this womb space that is the seat of her creativity.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You know this can be such
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::Vanessa Nixon: And I think that is what this time of life is.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And how can we bring that into the world and make the world a better place with it?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Oh, I love that so much. It's just like it. It speaks to legacy building, which is just
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: whether you have children, and you leave a legacy through your children, or you don't have children. We are all here in in the creative process, where we are leaving a legacy of some sort, whether
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: people that we meet, that we interact with. They become
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and they carry on our message
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: in the future. I know you've written a book
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: metamorphosis, rituals, spells, and natural remedies for perimid and postmenopausal women.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: You want to talk about that a little bit. I love the name of the book just.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Thank you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Right off the bat. It speaks to me.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Well, and I wanted it to speak to that
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::Vanessa Nixon: going into the chrysalis and feeling like everything's breaking apart or turning into goo.
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::Vanessa Nixon: But it needs to do that in order to reform into this butterfly, into this beautiful new phase of life, and I think that when we understand that as women, it's a lot easier to navigate
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::Vanessa Nixon: and because this is a natural phase, because our body is meant to do this, our body knows what to do. Our body knows how to help us through this. If we can lean back into our own wisdom, into that innate body wisdom we all have, and into that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It makes you happy.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Happiness, element to to just
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: being able to be and and to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: to sit in the energy that is you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: You're not broken, you're enough.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: You're created perfectly.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Just allow it to be okay. And.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I. I have to comment on this. You probably already know this.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: but your name means butterfly, and when you start talking about metamorphosis and crystallis and stuff. It's like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: yes.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I do know. I do know that. In fact, when I was a little girl
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::Vanessa Nixon: and my mother had this really thick dictionary, and the front of it was a regular dictionary, and in the back it had different kinds of dictionaries, and one was a name dictionary.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: That a lot of them that did in the past. They were killed
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: because they had this innate wisdom
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: that threatened
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: the patriarchy, and so many women were incarcerated because of. They called them mentally ill, and they did all kinds of like torturous things to women.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: because when you reach a certain point in your life menopause you, you become somebody else.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's not even a choice. You you just
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: you. Your body just moves you into the next phase, just as a young girl is not a teenager
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: They they change
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: physically, they change, but
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: who they are, changes fundamentally, and as you get older you change some more. We are never the same being. From day to day. We change every day, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: it's just it's
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::Vanessa Nixon: Yes, yes, I love that. You're speaking to this. And I you know I think about this evolution as you're becoming more and more of yourself.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: You have so much to look forward to in your life.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: because, look.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: look what you can, which you have to look forward to. It's not. You're not just like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: okay. This is the pinnacle of my life. I better grab all the gusto while I got it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: You're gonna have so much more. And it's different from men
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: it doesn't get any better than that for them.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Everything else becomes a struggle. They they have different things, and they have different hormone cycles. And it's not that men are bad or anything. It's just. They're different.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and they will never understand or experience the the majesty
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: or the the cycle of life of a woman. It's it's
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: We are changing the world.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's it's happening.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: So
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: you work with people do, or women
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: in groups, one on one. How how does all that work.
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::Vanessa Nixon: One on one I have. I have 3 different branches of my business, the natural health.
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::Vanessa Nixon: mostly I work with women, one to one, and I help them to weave all of these things together, to create a really strong foundation for their health.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And then how can we use these other natural supports, whether they're herbs or homeopathic remedies, or energy practices or movement?
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::Vanessa Nixon: so you can hear what your soul and your spirit really wants to bring out to the world and have a healthy body to.
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::Vanessa Nixon: to fulfill it, to fulfill that that mission. You know we all have a dream. We all have a mission. We all have a purpose.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's really not as hard as it might sound. No matter when you're starting.
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::Vanessa Nixon: It can be easy, and it can be simple. I mean, the steps are simple.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know I I came from chronic illness where really my health had deteriorated to to a point that I had very little immune immune system that was functioning.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And in a very short period of time I was able to turn that around, taking a few simple steps. So yes, it can sound very complex.
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::Vanessa Nixon: that's 1 of the reasons I like to work with women, one to one, so that we can break it down and personalize it to exactly what's going on with that individual woman
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::Vanessa Nixon: and say, Okay, well, here's the 1st step. Let's just start here. Here's a second step, the 3rd step.
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::Vanessa Nixon: it it you need to? It needs to align.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And your body will tell you. Hey, this is working, or Hey, this isn't working. Instead of having to wait for somebody to come along and ask you, is it working.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Exactly exactly right. And that's why we need that connection to our intuition.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And.
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::Vanessa Nixon: no, that thing is not right. But this, this is this is the thing that's right. And
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::Vanessa Nixon: when we understand that
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::Vanessa Nixon: we know.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know, we have the answers.
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::Vanessa Nixon: It's it's helpful to have support
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::Vanessa Nixon: to be able to hear those answers when we are dealing with some challenging things, but it really comes from inside you.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Sometimes you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Somebody that says, yes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: what you're hearing from your body
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and you can't get that unless you go to someone else, because
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: we need community. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: you know you talk about an initiation and yes, butterflies go into their chrysalis, but it's
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: and they're by themselves.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: but
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: they're still in the world. They're not like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: going into something away from the environment. They they hang their things on trees, and you know they're still part of
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: of what's happening around them. But
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: when you're
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: when you're going through changes like this, it's so
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: much more
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: impactful and helpful
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: to have other women who are in the same situation, to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: to just sound as a sounding board. Because sometimes you think things when you're when your hormones are all changing, that you're not really sure is this
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: is this right?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Because I don't know. I haven't traveled this path before, am I on? Am I still on the path?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And just to have somebody say, Yeah, yeah, that's totally normal.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Community is so important, and that's 1 of the reasons that I, you know, bring up that the
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::Vanessa Nixon: It made.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: It's
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: sometimes it's just nice to have somebody say, No, you're not really crazy.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Oh, man!
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Because you can. You can start to think I'm going crazy.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: I'm having these thoughts, and I don't know where they're coming from. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: even if you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Done years of of
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::Vanessa Nixon: I've had women. Say I I feel like I'm losing my mind. I I like I am going crazy, and
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::Vanessa Nixon: we and we can feel like that if we don't, because we like you said we haven't been through this yet.
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::Vanessa Nixon: we don't talk about it. In our culture we don't know what to expect. And so yes, just having
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::Vanessa Nixon: to have the dialogue. Younger women need to know what to expect, so they can prepare themselves.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And women.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Who are going through it now need that support as they're going through it.
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::Vanessa Nixon: not only where they are now but to help them walk through their own journeys.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: For sure. I
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: yeah. I remember asking my mom about it when I 1st started into it. And she was like, Yeah, your aunt and I still have hot flashes, and she was in her, you know.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: early seventies, and like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Oh! And that was all the information she gave me about it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: This is like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: that was no help.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: And people weren't talking about it 15 years ago.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: But it's so refreshing to me to to come across people like you who are talking about it, and who are saying, You know, this is this, is
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: this is just the beginning of something really special. And because I really do embrace
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: this point in my life, and and to get the opportunity to to talk with people that are out there
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: beating the drum. And you know there's there's different Menopausal coaches for different
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::Vanessa Nixon: All different. We're very unique. And I love that that speaks to the fact that
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::Vanessa Nixon: oh, the only option is to take hormone replacement therapy, because this is a disease, as we mentioned earlier. And what I really want women to know is, there are so many options out there. If you're having symptoms. If you're if there are some challenges.
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::Vanessa Nixon: so many options, we're not limited to that, you know. I'm not one of those people who says, you know all conventional medical knowledge is wrong. I I'm much more integrated. I think that
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::Vanessa Nixon: conventional medicine is great at some things.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and very poor at other things.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and it's wonderful that we have so many options for all of all of those other things.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so we're not limited.
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::Vanessa Nixon: There might be some women in very extreme circumstances that really do need
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::Vanessa Nixon: replace hormone replacement therapy for a period of time.
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::Vanessa Nixon: But really.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know, if that's if that is, you
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know. Go ahead and do what is right for you, and then have an exit strategy. You know, how am I? Gonna move to the next phase, how am I going to navigate this? And then what can I do to get off medication to be able to live out this.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know, really important phase of my life.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and really
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::Vanessa Nixon: elevated vibrant.
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::Vanessa Nixon: vital health.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Let's look at all of the options that are out there.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and our bodies know how to navigate this.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: This kind of brings us to the the gift that you're offering our audience, which is 3 secrets to balance your homework naturally, which is an on demand, Masterclass. You want to speak to that for a minute.
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::Vanessa Nixon: I do, because there, there is a lot of kind of a groundswell around hormone balance.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You know, people are understanding that this is a really big thing, especially for women, because we go through very
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::Vanessa Nixon: so many different phases of our lives, and our culture is so unhealthy.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know.
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::Vanessa Nixon: not only just in in the way that we're conditioned to think about our bodies, but in the food that's that's out there, and the environmental pollution and all of those things affect our hormones.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And so it really is key to keeping us in balance when you understand what's going on with your hormones. But one of the things that
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::Vanessa Nixon: I see happening is that
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::Vanessa Nixon: there's such a focus on just estrogen and progesterone.
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::Vanessa Nixon: And we need to replace.
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::Vanessa Nixon: We need to replace these. If you know you're having symptoms in perimenopause or menopause, we need to keep those levels
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::Vanessa Nixon: where they were when you were in the reproductive phase of your life, and that's that's not a natural way to think about. Our bodies
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::Vanessa Nixon: is going backwards. You know. We need to think about going forwards where our hormones are supposed to decline, but they still need to be in balance.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and so our bodies are designed naturally to be in balance
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::Vanessa Nixon: through these cycles, and
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::Vanessa Nixon: this master class gives some in-depth information, not only around, you know, some of the more
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::Vanessa Nixon: scientific information of what's happening with our hormones.
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::Vanessa Nixon: but also what's really underneath? What's causing these hormone fluctuations? And how can we address those naturally, so that we don't have to be on medication
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::Vanessa Nixon: so that we don't have to rely on.
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::Vanessa Nixon: You know other people or other institutions
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::Vanessa Nixon: for our health, you know. How can we be in charge? How can we be responsible for our health
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::Vanessa Nixon: naturally.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and allow our bodies to to go through this natural phase of life and support it. You know, what do our bodies need?
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::Vanessa Nixon: How can we support our bodies so that they will in turn support us
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::Vanessa Nixon: through this really vital phase of life. That's what that masterclass is all about is
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::Vanessa Nixon: teasing out the information
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::Vanessa Nixon: around hormone imbalance, and how we really can
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::Vanessa Nixon: support ourselves, our hormone balance, and this phase of life
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::Vanessa Nixon: through all of these natural options that we have at our fingertips.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: So we'll put the link
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: for people to to get
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: into that master class in the show notes. This has been an amazing conversation, Vanessa. I've really enjoyed it. You've shared so much information with the audience.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: What's the one thing that you hope that they take away from the conversation? I know we've covered so much.
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::Vanessa Nixon: There's so many important things, but I think it really comes back to helping women have the confidence to take ownership over their own health
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::Vanessa Nixon: to feel empowered
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::Vanessa Nixon: to understand. I actually can be in charge
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::Vanessa Nixon: of my own health.
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::Vanessa Nixon: and have the knowledge
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::Vanessa Nixon: to live a really healthy life, for.
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::Vanessa Nixon: you know, however many years I'm blessed with.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist & Host of the You World Order Showcase Podcast: Yes, that's so important. Thank you for joining me today.
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::Vanessa Nixon: Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure to
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::Vanessa Nixon: talk about these really important things and have this conversation. Thank you, Jill.
