Ashley Drummonds

Why do bad things happen if we are on the “right track”? Why do “bad things” happen to good people? How do you know if you are making the right or wrong decision?

Any time life starts to shift and change it can put us in a place of feeling like life is happening to us instead of for us. It also can cause us to be paralyzed by fear of making the wrong choice, scared that if we make a mistake or don’t make the “right” choice then we will ruin not just our life, but the life of others so we stay stuck and in a constant state of stress, fear and worry.

As you’ve heard me talk about before, our bodies are a house for our emotional experiences. When we are in a constant state of stress and worry…or resisting what “is” our bodies will start to experience mis-alignments as well letting us know that maybe our lives are a little out of alignment, maybe we are resisting our truth, or maybe we are denying our emotional experiences. We end up so wrapped up in trying to avoid what we don’t want in life that we end up creating that exact thing then wondering how we got there in the first place.

In this episode, we are going to talk about why bad things may be happening, how to make the right decision, and how to get clarity and peace of mind with which direction in your life to take. 

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Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Do big emotions sometimes feel overwhelming? Have you ever been through big heart break, had a loved one passed away, lost a friend you never thought you’d have to lose?

No one gets through life without experiencing big emotions like this, but we all have different ways of processing these emotions. 

Sometimes heart break leads us to opening up to a whole new life and version of ourselves and sometimes grief peels away the masks we’ve been wearing to our truest core self.

We are never taught how to properly feel and heal through life experiences so sometimes when something big happens we try to control or block ourselves from feeling these emotions out of fear that we will lose ourselves and fall so deeply that we never come back out. 

In today’s episode, we are going to get personal and deep talking about how to feel big overwhelming emotions like grief, heart break, and loss and to warm your heart and soul we are going to learn how to make one of the classic heart-warming recipes of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but with a simple healthy twist so you can enjoy this when you need a little comfort or just when you are craving your cookies, but want to stick to your nutrition too!

Links Mentioned in Show:

Get My Weekly Emails: https://AshleyDrummonds.com

Watch this on YouTube: https://youtube.com/AshleyDrummondstv

Connect with me on Instagram: @AshleyDrummonds

Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Have you ever felt like an outsider in your own life or ever struggled to find real connection? Perhaps you have people all around you, but there’s a part of you that still feels disconnected from it all. We live in a society where we all are craving more and more the things that are real, but the way most of us go about getting those things that are real to fill that need for connection involve constantly looking outside of ourself. 

I also am bringing this week’s Phoenix Rising Podcast episode to my kitchen! Why? Because one of the ways I love to connect with others is over food. So not only where I share with you ways you can find the real connection that you are craving, but I also am going to show you how to make Delicate Squash with just a few simple ingredients and only 20:00. Delicata squash is a great starchy vegetable that is packed full of vitamins and nutrients, but I also love to roast delicate squash and make it a particular way that makes me for a great healthy recipe substitute for french fries!

So come join me in my kitchen and let’s talk all about real connection, and we can whip up some delicious delicate squash!

Links Mentioned in Show:

Get My Weekly Emails: https://AshleyDrummonds.com

Watch this on YouTube: https://youtube.com/AshleyDrummondstv

Connect with me on Instagram: @AshleyDrummonds

Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Self Worth - People Pleasing, Settling and Staying Stuck in Fear

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Work with me as Your Personal Nutrition & Mindset Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here: https://ashleydrummonds.com

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Ever been in a place in life where you just feel stuck? Nothing seems to be going right and no matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to get things to move forward?

Life is constantly working in our favor. A lot of times the Universe is giving us exactly what we need, but it may not be exactly what we want. Most of our suffering comes from us thinking of how things should be instead of opening up to how they actually are in the present moment. 

There’s a great part in some of the Law of Attraction books that states that when we ask the Universe for something it also will deliver to us the lessons and experiences we need to help us grow into becoming the person we need to become in order to receive the things it is that we asked for. So a lot of times we place our request to this higher power and then the response we get is obstacles, painful experiences, confusion and all this crap that comes up thinking that maybe our order got misunderstood because this is wasn’t what we asked for. 

When the reality is you are and will get what you asked for, but you also will receive all the things that need to come into your life to help you grow to be in alignment with that specific thing. When you are forcing, chasing, or searching, you are resisting where you currently are at because where you are at is uncomfortable and you haven’t learned the lessons that your present reality is trying to give you. 

In today’s podcast episode, we are going to talk about how to trust the process and timing of your life especially when you are looking for direction or feel like you are stuck!

Links:

Work with me as Your Personal Nutrition & Mindset Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here: https://ashleydrummonds.com

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." -Mark Twain

Has this ever happened to you? 

You're feeling pretty good throughout the day...you feel clear, focused, and energized...then the afternoon rolls around and you totally just crash!

You can't think, you have no energy to finish the day, you can't focus, and you feel exhausted...

Or, have you ever done "all the right things", but can't seem to drop any weight? 

You're counting calories, eating organic, consuming lots of fruits, vegetables and "healthy" carbs, but no matter what your weight just will not budge!

Either of these sound familiar?

Meet your Blood Sugar!

Our blood sugar effects everything from our ability to lose weight and have energy to our overall mood and even our hormonal balance.

Blood sugar (aka glucose) comes from the food we consume and is the main energy source used in the body...BUT it can also easily get thrown out of balance from things like:

• Stress
• Alcohol
• Poor sleep
• Eating too many processed carbs

When this happens it can completely throw off our entire system which is what gives us that feeling of our energy being all over the place or that feeling of just constantly hungry all the time no matter how much you eat.

It's all a blood sugar game.

So today, we are going to talk all about:

• High Blood Sugar signs and symptoms
• Low Blood Sugar Signs and symptoms
• Causes of Blood Sugar Imbalances
• Natural Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Correct Yours for Optimal Blood Sugar Balance

Links:

Work with me as Your Personal Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here: https://ashleydrummonds.com

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances. That determines what you become.” - Unknown

What is Intermittent Fasting? IF is essentially going long periods of time without eating. The point behind this and why its become so popular is because for some people it can help regular blood sugar, manage body weight, and help control triglycerides. Here’s the thing and the simple truth…any time you’re skipping meals and in an extreme calorie deficit…you will lose weight. 

Does it work? Some people can do well with IF. Some. Most of the people who seem to respond to IF better than others are men….not all men, but mostly men. For women, there have been numerous studies on how IF actually can disrupt female hormones causing early menopause, stopping periods, lowering libido, metabolism disruptions, and even mood. 

It’s not just women though, men have also experienced issues with IF disrupting the male hormones. 

While men tend to do better with Intermittent Fasting, I still am not a fan of ever skipping meals or under fueling your body because of the additional stress it places on your body which besides the HP Axis starts to get into issues with blood sugar balance and cortisol imbalances too…P.s. Adding extra stress can also cause early aging too…so stop.

We then get into fasted cardio….here’s the thing with fasted cardio….take everything I told you about what fasting can do to your body by adding extra stress on to it and then now take additional stress (yes exercise is stress….the body doesn’t recognize good or bad it just sees extra stress or work load on the body) and now you’ve not only are depriving your body of the nutrients it needs to get through a workout, but you’re also requiring it to increase production of cortisol to give you enough energy to get through the workout…which cortisol increases fat storage. 

Ok, Ashley so then what is the best way to lose fat without losing lean muscle? 

Well, its balanced deficits based on your macros and daily expenditure. Go find any fit, lean, athletic looking man or woman anywhere and ask them how many meals they skip or how often they fast….and I would bet money they say none. They are eating all the time fueling their body. Ask people who look the way you want to look what they are doing. This goes for anything in life….ask people who are where you want to be what they are doing and how to get there…quit taking advice from people who’s life doesn’t look at all like how you want yours to look.

That means you’re still consuming adequate amounts of protein, fats, and carbs, but reducing your caloric intake slightly so that the energy you take in is slightly lower then the energy you are burning. Slightly by the way is maybe 300-ish calories less than what you should be consuming. So if you should be consuming around 2,300/day it means you may be around 1900-2,000ish to be in a slight deficit, but not so much of a deficit that you are at risk of causing too much stress on your body or your body having to burn up lean muscle in order to stay fueled. There is a whole podcast episode I did on helping you figure out what your daily macronutrient needs are that you can listen to to figure out your daily protein, fat and carb needs. 

If you want to work with me 1:1 to come up with a specific nutrition plan that works for your goals then head to my website Ashleydrummonds.com and schedule a short intro call where we will talk about how coaching works, talk about your goals and see if we are a good fit. 

Links:

Work with me as Your Personal Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here: https://ashleydrummonds.com

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Curious if a Food Sensitivity or Hormonal Imbalance is Impacting Your Health & Well Being? Get the At Home Everlywell test kit where you can choose from food sensitivity, hormones, and vitamin test right in your own home. Each kit is mailed to you then you just sent it right back and your lab results arrive in your inbox within days. Get the test here: https://refer.everlywell.com/ashleydrummondsfitness+e0a44b6c19!a

“Perhaps the greatest risk any of us will ever take is to be seen as we really are.”

― Cinderella

Are you blocking the exact things you want in life? Sounds crazy, but the truth is we do this quite often. It’s usually because in order to receive something we usually have to let go of something else and sometimes we end up blocking the thing we say we want from coming in because we are too afraid to let go of everything that is not it. The interesting thing about letting go and letting in is that it’s usually what we are most afraid of that is actually the thing we most deeply desire. It’s the old quote/saying that everything you want is on the other side of fear. It’s so true. Letting go is scary for everyone because letting go requires such intense vulnerability. Vulnerability in not knowing what will happen if you let go, not knowing if its safe, not knowing what is on the other side and totally surrendering to that unknown. At the same time, the only way to let in the life that is waiting for you and the life that you want is through the process of letting go and creating space. The beautiful thing is that what you want also wants you, but the only way to experience it is to be brave enough in vulnerability to let go and allow it to come in. 

Surrender requires you to trust and call on something much greater than yourself. It’s being willing to open yourself up to other possibilities in life that may look totally different than you expect. One of the reasons a lot of people stay “stuck” in life and never truly reach their full potential is the unwillingness to let go of what is no longer serving them so to help you in your own letting go and letting in process, In this podcast episode we will discuss:

-How to actually let go

-How to ask for help in your own process of surrendering and letting go

-Then how to shift of all of your focus on what you are gaining, not what you are losing in order to move forward into your new life.

Links:

Work with me as Your Personal Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here: https://ashleydrummonds.com

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

Curious if a Food Sensitivity or Hormonal Imbalance is Impacting Your Health & Well Being? Get the At Home Everlywell test kit where you can choose from food sensitivity, hormones, and vitamin test right in your own home. Each kit is mailed to you then you just sent it right back and your lab results arrive in your inbox within days. Get the test here: https://refer.everlywell.com/ashleydrummondsfitness+e0a44b6c19!a

Summary: 

 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?"As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. "There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine…Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task. We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Choose to be brave enough to open yourself to live fully in each present moment. " -Marianne Williamson

Your mental health and self care is one of the most loving and important thing you can give to yourself and to others. There is so much emphasis out there on meditation, mindset, and reprogramming your thoughts to help alleviate things like anxiety and depression, but did you know that there are actual ways you can make sure your nutrition is also supporting your mental health? Some of the things we are going to talk about in this episode will be centered around helping alleviate anxiety, low mood, energy crashes, and the feeling of burn out by making sure that you are eating the right nutrition for blood sugar balance, the right macros to make sure you are getting enough carbohydrates for important neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, but also making sure you are getting the right micronutrients to support your mood as well. The benefit to doing your personal blood work and getting nutrition based off of that is that we can identify any specific nutrition deficiencies that may be going on in your body that can contribute to things like anxiety, depression, low mood, energy crashes and sleep disturbances. It’s great to start out by focusing on getting the right daily caloric intake and the right macros, but if you aren’t looking deeper than that you may be missing out on some key things that can make a massive difference in your emotional and mental health and well being. 

Links:

Work with me as Your Coach: Schedule a Free 15:00 Consultation to Learn About Working with Me As Your Nutrition, Fitness & Mindset Coach to take your fitness and life to the next level Here.

Connect with me on Instagram @AshleyDrummonds

Links & Resources:

Get Your Personal Lab Based Nutrition: Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level? Get your custom lab work done with over 40+ biomarkers for optimal health using my partners at Inside Tracker Link: http://shrsl.com/22uo2-20z6-vw28 discount code for 25% off: DrummondsPro25

Get My 8 Week Strong Body & Strong Mind Program: 8 Weeks of Strength training workouts to boost fat loss while building lean muscle that takes less than 20 minutes and a pair of dumbbells. Over 40+ workout tutorial videos to show you exactly how to do each workout. 8 Weeks of Guided Meditation and Mindset Coaching Videos to help you reprogram your mindset to become your strongest and most empowered self. Get the 8 Week Program here: https://www.ashleydrummonds.com/ebooks

In this episode, we are going to talk about the things that hold you back from having the life you want, how to get clear on your vision and the life you want to create, the mindset tools you need to take action, and how to consistently stay on track with your goals.

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