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In today's episode, Dr. Isabel Sharkar shares her journey as a Naturopathic doctor and integrative medical practitioner. In a world that is structured for masculine success, to be a conscious creatress you must live in alignment with your intuition and structure your business around your lifestyle. Dr. Isabel encourages you to seek balance in your daily life. Success, as it is defined today, inevitably leads to burnout. Self care is not a luxury. Dr. Isabel will guide you on how you can evaluate your life to create a work-life balance that aligns with your values.

Be sure to tune into this empowering episode.

Key Takeaways:

[8:00] Learning the truth about nutrition and naturopathic medicine

[10:50] Making decisions from your intuition instead of denying your truth

[12:30] Living in flow: Follow your instinct by not forcing the patriarchal model

[13:50] The false definition of success: Structuring your schedule around your values

[16:00] Self care is a necessity not a luxury

[17:40] Does this landscape work for all contributing members of society?

[20:50] On any given month we are four different women

[27:00] You have no idea how incredibly powerful you are

[28:00] A creatress is in communication with her body

[30:00] How you can move into a place of sovereignty

[34:00] Purpose is about outward contribution

[37:30] Detoxing your thoughts and body

Resources:

IG: @Izzyindigo

Conscious Creatress Program: https://solo.to/consciouscreatress

Memorable Quotes:

"When I get a full body yes I am a full body yes and I just get the logic out."

- Dr. Isabel Sharkar

"We only know how to run our businesses based off of like the patriarchy and so we are following the steps of men in how we run our businesses but that's not really what's best for our femenine bodies."

- Dr. Isabel Sharkar

"It's not a luxury to take care of yourself, it's not a luxury to sleep, it's not a luxury to get a massage. It's a necessity!"

- Dr. Isabel Sharkar

"That we have different needs! That we could set our day up differently! That the entire world has evolved into a structure that predominantly works well for men."

- Meghan Walker

"As I look at more leaders and how they manage their time, it is less about the daily to-dos which is like a never ending energy, it's actually energetically really challenging, and their whole to-do list is just chunks of action that need to be taking place in different areas of their life."

- Meghan Walker

"There are consequences to not giving yourself what you are truly desiring."

- Dr. Isabel Sharkar

"We have this world of possibilities that we live in and we get the choice of which side we're looking at."

- Dr. Isabel Sharkar

Cynthia Garcia shares her story and how she rewrote the story to become the inspiring woman she is today! Your brain accepts whatever story you tell yourself, but you can change that story and move into a new identity. Cynthia will show you how to empower yourself by questioning your beliefs about yourself in order to get through imposter syndrome. Life and your experience is what qualifies you to share your story!

Be sure to tune in!

Key Takeaways:

[7:20] Trauma Response: Removing yourself out of the chaos

[9:00] No matter where you are your problems follow

[11:30] Being stuck in your story: we are the only ones who make them true

[14:45] Imposter Syndrome: Standing in your truth and knowing what happened to you.

[19:00] Looping: Your brain believes whatever story you tell it

[24:00] Empower yourself by asking, what else could it mean and what else?

[27:00] Identity: You cannot craft a new future without rewriting your story of the past

[31:00] There is a difference between wanting to change and deciding

[34:00] Be conscious of the language you choose to use

[38:10] Be clear on your vision: Wake up and choose to remember who you are

Resources:

https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/stuckstory

Memorable Quotes:

"If you do not see yourself as this healthy, powerful, contributing person then it is so challenging to make the decisions today that inform its creation."

– Meghan Walker

"Those are just events, they have no meaning by default, but we're humans and we have these wild and crazy brains and we find it necessary for our survival to give meaning to things that happen, in other words, we tell stories."

– Cynthia Garcia

"Our brains believe everything we tell it, it doesn't know the difference between something that's really happening right in front of you and something that you're just making up in your head."

– Cynthia Garcia

"You don't have to know how, because once you make that decision, the brain will start to come up with new ideas.It will start to challenge you."

– Cynthia Garcia

In today's episode, Dr. Titus Chiu gives his insight into brain optimization. After suffering from a concussion after a car accident, Dr. Titus slowly began to experience the reality of long term trauma to the brain. What he learned not only can help survivors of various traumas but can help you optimize your own brain for peak performance.

He reviews the many tools available today that enhance brain function. In addition, Dr. Titus teaches you how to naturally sooth your vagus nerve using simple techniques you can perform at home.

Finding balance is a key point of today's discussion. Dr.Titus guides us through his perspective on everything from biohacking to simple daily habits to promote balance on your journey to brain optimization.

Be sure to tune in to this week's episode.

Key Takeaways:

[6:40] Concussed: Developing Brain Fog and Excessive worry

[9:17] Inflammation: Long term effects of brain trauma

[13:44]Leaky blood brain barrier

[17:30] Mental Emotional stress can trigger Leaky Blood Brain Barrier

[20:00] Habits that can lead can negatively affect our brain health

[23:30] Entrepreneurs and ADHD

[29:00] Working out to gain more focus

[31:00] Emerging Consciousness of nootropics: Brain - Body - Being

[34:45] Brain Optimization Tips: Vagus nerve, activating the default mode network

[43:15] Daily Habits:Gratitude, Hormetic Stressors and Finding Balance...

[46:05] Bio-Hacking tools

[48:36] Making sure my health is a priority

Resources:

Activate your Vagus Nerve

https://www.brainsave.com/vagus

Memorable Quotes:

"There's that physical trauma that happens and, like I said, it doesn't even have to be to your head, but that triggers a secondary insult we call a chemical trauma." [9:53]

– Dr.Titus Chiu

"Even things like gut or digestive imbalance can lead to a leaky brain." [16:06]

– Dr.Titus Chiu

"Our number one purpose of our brain is to help us navigate the physical world." [28:15]

– Dr.Titus Chiu

"When you create that space where we're not focused on goal-oriented behaviors, that's where a lot of the insights and a lot of things start to fall into place." [37:01] – Dr. Titus Chiu

In this week's episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with Dr. Lauren Lee Stone. Dr. Lauren is a Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), Holistic Health Practitioner, and Integrative Health Practitioner. Today, she is here to talk to us about how to treat autism and other chronic diseases.

Dr. Lauren discusses how her son's autism diagnosis led her to switch her field of study from Italian and French literature to holistic and integrative health, how long it took to start seeing positive results when healing his autism, commonalities she sees in treating kids with chronic illnesses, and more. We also speak about how foods have lost nutritional value throughout the decades and how infections run in biofilms. It always comes down to starting with the gut. The food we eat is essential to curing our body's illness.

Dr. Lauren was let down by the doctors at the Yale Child Study Center, so she took matters into her own hands and managed to heal her child with holistic and homeopathic medicine. Now he is a flourishing, handsome young man, on his way to getting his doctorate. It just goes to show that nothing is impossible in the world of natural medicine and healing.

Tune in, absorb, and take notes to take control of your child's health!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[5:40] How Dr. Lauren became involved with integrative health because of her child's autism diagnosis

[13:05] How long it took Dr. Lauren to start to see better results for her son

[16:00] The cohort of chronic disease with which Dr. Lauren mostly deals

​​[25:52] Commonalities in kids with chronic illness

[30:28] Process to uncover what's happening at a root cause level

HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST

Website: https://altheahealthandwellness.com/

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"Where I live in Connecticut, it's super beautiful, but they've done studies and they found that we have a high level of mercury contamination in the air… I had no idea because we live out in the woods but he was being poisoned."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"My journey was what I needed to do to clean up his life and to detox his body. And the first step was obviously food. I think that we all are unfortunately in a really compromised place because of the food in the United States. The standard American diet is horrific… our soils are incredibly depleted."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"It's very interesting. The second we started to give him amino acids, which I realized it was just bypassing his faulty and leaky gut, his brain started changing and he started connecting, and it was amazing."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"We were giving him amino acids, we gave him fatty acids, and heavy-duty mitochondrial support. It was a life changing event for him to actually get nutrients in there. And then second to that, it was learning about homeopathic detoxes."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"The unfortunate truth is that we have to, in most cases, at least the kids that I deal with, you have to supplement. And really just giving that energetic boost to the cell. Once you have that extra energy, the body can choose to use it where it will and part of that is obviously to clean house."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"The thing for me that is the most troubling is that kids come into my office, young kids who are on 5-6 medications. They're all chasing symptoms and not really addressing any of the foundational pieces. I see this particularly with kids who have emotional expressions of disease, either who have focus issues, rage issues, or depression."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"I would say that the most basic commonality is food and the piece that we need to change right now is glyphosate. And thankfully, there have been a few great rulings on glyphosate in the United States just pass in the last two weeks."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"In truth, everything is part of a unified system. You can't speak of one without speaking of the whole. So that's what homotoxicology does, it looks at the whole being. It also looks at the being in terms of essential foundations which really is, it's light and vibration."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"We are light beings, we are all made up of vibrations. If you think back to basic chemistry, our bodies are made up of cells which can be broken down into molecules then atoms. We have electrons which circle the atom and the electrons vibrate."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"Everything in the universe has its own electromagnetic vibrational signature. And that includes all living and nonliving things, it includes things that are healthy for us and not healthy for us. It also includes things like healthy tissues and disease tissues."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

"In my experience, infections like Lyme, strep, and whatever else, live often in biofilms, which means they have this little happy family of heavy metals that are with them, fungus that's with them, and they're out sort of together, hiding out in the body."

–Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

In this week's episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with the inspirational Dr. Elisa Song. Dr. Song is an integrative pediatrician and a pediatric functional medicine expert. She has been doing this for over two decades now and it's safe to assume that she is a powerful force in the integrative pediatric community. Today, she is here to talk to us about how to raise our children to grow up to live healthy and meaningful lives.

Dr. Song discusses how she became involved with integrative pediatric care, how Swanson's TV dinners changed the way we view food, the rising sugar epidemic, and more. Dr. Song also speaks about everything we need to know about the gut microbiome, what vitamins most kids are deficient in, and suggests vital elements to maintain immune health.

As we start to pick up the pieces after a long pandemic and the catastrophe it has left in its wake, we must begin to think about the psychological toll it has had on our children. And continuing to feed them foods with artificial colors and ingredients will only worsen things. Make sure to make time for cooking healthy home-cooked meals and monitor what your kids' minds are consuming as well.

Tune in, take notes, and begin taking charge of your family's well-being!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[4:39] Dr. Song's introduction to integrative pediatric care

[8:09] Proper education for physicians in school regarding nutrition

[11:14] In 1953 Swanson invented the TV dinner that changed the way we view food

[13:57] Addressing the issue of rising global sugar intake

[22:46] Everything to know about the microbiome

[33:37] Vitamin and nutrient deficiencies in kids

[44:26] Key elements of immune health

[52:51] Entrepreneurs are born and made

HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST

• Website: https://healthykidshappykids.com/
• IG: @healthykids_happykids
• Facebook: Dr. Elisa Song MD

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"There are so many pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural forces that are making it so challenging to change how we eat and how we think about food."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"From the 1950s on, there was a huge rise in diabetes, heart disease, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic disease in adults and kids. Well what happened in 1953? That was when Swanson invented the TV dinner. That changed history."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"The #1 thing that can make a huge difference for kids and parents is if everybody knew how to read a food label. If everybody knew how to read a food label from a child-friendly, gut-microbiome-brain standpoint. Not just calories and fat."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"If we train our taste buds to go back to understanding what real food is and also understanding the huge rise in the sugar intake… Now, the average human eats about 17 teaspoons of sugar a day."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"90% of all of our neurotransmitters are made by our gut microbiome. Serotonin makes us feel happy, calm, and relaxed. Dopamine. How many of us parents have kids who can't sit still?... Don't just look at their behavioral issues, look at their gut."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"Even in Indigenous cultures where we're losing a lot of native crops and wisdom, the four crops that feed most of us are corn, rice, wheat, and sugar cane. That's the majority of plants that most people in the world are eating."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"One of the most common deficiencies is going to be Vitamin D… A lot of us are indoors, not getting enough outdoor time so almost all kids, I do believe, need a Vitamin D supplement to maintain optimal immune resilience."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

"Many kids actually benefit from a high-quality multivitamin. In fact, a study with kids with ADD found that the use of a very high quality multi-vitamin, across the board, had major benefits for their behaviors and their tension."

– Dr. Elisa Song, MD

On this week's episode of IMPACT, we had a tremendously important conversation with Dr. Roseann Capana-Hodge. Dr. Roseann is a mental health clinician, author, and founder of the Global Institute of Children's Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC. She is definitely "Changing the way we view and treat children's mental health," and she is here today to give us her secrets to raising healthy kids.

Dr. Roseann speaks about how she became involved with treating children's mental health, how we are in a crisis state when it comes to mental health, why parents should be managing their own stress before assessing their child's stress, and more. With the pandemic, mass shootings, and other tragedies happening all across the world, and now with those tragedies being more accessible than ever through social media, our children are bound to feel sad and frustrated.

Kids and parents need to have something that comforts and calms them because if they don't, that stressor will keep on coming back and it will bring friends. Make sure to foster strong communication with your child before outsourcing because sometimes they just want someone that'll listen without judgment.

Make sure to tune in, take notes, and apply the knowledge that this very powerful woman is spilling over onto us, today.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[7:44] How Dr. Roseann became involved with children's mental health

[9:57] What "crisis state" looks like in Roseann's office

[16:22] How to get kids to open up

[28:10] Stress management as parents to provide a good role model for our children

[40:02] Mental health problems are evident across the world

HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST

Website: https://drroseann.com/

IG: @drroseann

Facebook: Dr. Roseann Capana-Hodge

TikTok: @drroseann

YouTube

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"We are in a crisis state, even before the pandemic happened, which is why in January of 2020, I started the Global Institute of Children's Mental Health. And here we are in 2022, and it's pretty bad out there."

–Dr. Roseann

"Parents should be the CEO of their kids' physical and mental health."

–Dr. Roseann

"We are in a world of Facebook and Instagram where everything has to look a certain way, there's filters for everything and all of this other stuff. And our kids have a tremendous amount of pressure on them, even when parents don't put pressure on their kids."

–Dr. Roseann

"If you're not having regular conversations about how to deal with stressors, and we'll get into that, you're not going to jump into a hot situation."

–Dr. Roseann

"Start being a detective and look at your child and go, 'Wow, they really have a low frustration tolerance'. I talk about a resiliency mindset; you want to be resilient."

–Dr. Roseann

"The best people, in terms of how they handle stress, is how they view it. So if you don't even view things as a stressor in the same way… we know that there's better life outcomes."

–Dr. Roseann

"I call this bubble wrap parenting. We are bubble wrapping our kids and we are not allowing them to tolerate uncomfortableness. And when you learn to be uncomfortable, little bits of uncomfortableness is how your kids self-regulate."

–Dr. Roseann

"That stress management, that calming the brain, is something you have to do everyday. It doesn't have to be a massage everyday, but it has to be 10 minutes of dedicated time powering your brain and body down… Gratitude practices, prayer, biofeedback, neurofeedback, yoga, there has to be quietness to it."

–Dr. Roseann

"14% of people aged 10-18 have a mental health problem. That's across the globe."

–Dr. Roseann

On this week's episode of IMPACT, we did not have a guest but we still had an impactful and meaningful conversation. Raising our children to be responsible, successful, and meaningful is something that needs to have the utmost attention as parents. What I wanted to talk about are the 7 core categories that will help kids grow to be healthy and resilient beings.

As parents, we may think that having our children grow up with the same customs and traditions that we had is acceptable because we did it and we turned out fine but did we really? About 1/3 of adults in North America take antidepressants. We need to examine ourselves before we embed our cultural misconceptions and habits onto them because they live in a whole new time, a whole new world than we did.

Tune in to find out more!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[7:40] Food

[10:30] Mental health and resilience

[12:54] Failure

[15:09] Physical health

[16:29] Getting kids to love learning

[17:57] Conversations about money

[20:27] Finding their purpose

CONNECT WITH ME

Website

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"I am not concerned with what you are feeding my kids at a sleepover because when I do have control and I do get to have ownership, which is 90% of the meals that they eat, I'm really conscious about how and what I feed my kids."

–Meghan Walker

"I used to say to my patients that I'm not concerned with what you do once a year, I'm more concerned about what you do every single day."

–Meghan Walker

"So many of us (apologies to my parents) who raised their kids in the 80s, fall into, 'Oh, we did it when we were kids and we are fine'… And the truth is, we're not really fine. Over 1/3 of adults in North America are taking antidepressants."

–Meghan Walker

"I want my kids to understand how they are feeling emotionally, how they are feeling physically, and the role that food can have in that place."

–Meghan Walker

"Resilience is one of our goals. And we, my husband and I, as two adults who had divorced parents, we talk about resilience all the time. How do we make our kids more resilient in the absence of getting divorced?"

–Meghan Walker

"I want my kids to know how to fail and be rejected with grace. I want them to feel that feeling and also know that they come out of the other side. I do not want to be so protective as a parent that I prevent them from having access to that feeling and to that situation until they are adults."

"Not teaching your kids how to love the complete capacity of their body and how to move it; that to me is punishment."

–Meghan Walker

"I want to be responsible for cultivating that positive relationship with money because I want them to value it enough that they do the same for their children. That it isn't something to be feared, it isn't something that is evil, that it is something that it is, that it is a tool for creation."

–Meghan Walker

On this week's episode of IMPACT, we had an enlightening conversation with resilience master, Jess Sherman. Jess is a Family Health Educator, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Author, and host of the Feeding Families Podcast. In this show, we talk about what got her into the art of resilience for kids and how we can better our situation when it comes to overcoming anxiety and other mental health issues.

There are many issues that we are facing as a modern civilization when it comes to fortifying our minds but Jess makes it evident that what we feed ourselves and our children will have the biggest effect. Sugar consumption levels as well as screen time is causing kids to be more anxious and suicidal. Cutting back on these things as well as consuming more nutritious whole food can have significant outcomes when it comes to our mental stability.

As if our minds weren't fragile enough, the pandemic hit and things got much worse. Jess even says that the effects of the pandemic can affect us for decades to come. That is why it's very important to find ways to cope with our emotions when adversity hits so that we don't keep repeating the same dysfunctional patterns that do not serve us. For those who are intrigued by this conversation with Jess, make sure to tune in to her podcast, Feeding Families, and also pick up her book, Raising Resilience, available on Amazon!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[4:54] How Jess became passionate about raising resilient kids

[10:52] What is derailing the kids' resilience

[15:45] We have been programmed to think that life is just stressful

[18:33] Sugar and screens are causing more stress for kids

[22:56] What's going on with kids is worldwide

[24:00] Effects of the pandemic on kids and society overall

HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST

Website: https://www.jesssherman.com/

IG: jess.sherman_raisingresilience

Book on Amazon: Raising Resilience

Podcast: Feeding Families

Free Seminar: Biology of Behaviour

Blog post: Does my child have anxiety?

Strategy sheet for getting started

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"I have always been interested in resilience which is our capacity to grow in the face of stress, in the face of life… just grow into our best sense of self."

-Jess Sherman

"Our capacity to manage stress is totally run by nutrients. When you look at the HPA axis, when you look at hormones and neurotransmitters, all of those chemicals that make us feel the way we feel, those are all driven by nutrition, so there's work to do there."

-Jess Sherman

"Another thing we've normalized is, life is just stressful. Life is just stressful so take a yoga class, breathe your way through it, and what I'm telling people is yes that is true but we have this huge toolbox of nutrition to actually improve our stress tolerance that is often left untapped."

-Jess Sherman

"What's going on with kids is worldwide. Anxiety is way up, depression is way up, suicide attempts are way up, emerge visits for suicide attempts… just anxiety itself, we've gone up from about 20% to 30-40%-ish."

-Jess Sherman

"I think as a species, we went into this pandemic not so resilient. Things were already not great with our health. We were not very healthy… then this thing hit and everything got worse, emotionally and physically. And I think we're going to see the fallout from this for decades."

-Jess Sherman

"Patterns are your nervous system keeping you status quo. It takes a massive amount of energy to shift out of a pattern. It is much easier to just stay in the pattern even if it's a self-destructive pattern."

-Jess Sherman

On this episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with the wonderful Dr. Aimie Apigian. Dr. Aimie is a Board Certified Preventative Medicine Physician with a Masters in Biochemistry and Public Health. She is also an author, speaker, and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated, LLC. The topic of discussion for this week is understanding the complexity behind trauma and how to properly address it in order to heal from it.

There are many factors that play into trauma but many of us don't know what those factors are, let alone what trauma actually is and how it deeply affects us. In this episode, Dr. Aimie dives deep into how she became involved with healing trauma through her own personal experiences and how she has harnessed the pain and turned it into an art and practice that helps many people in their healing journeys.

Of course, we discuss many topics in this episode, but the one statement that Dr. Aimie could not emphasize enough is "less talking, more doing". Quite frequently, she notices that people tend to stay in the act of expressing their feelings about their trauma and not enough on taking action to diminish it. She asserts that everyone has trauma; everyone in this world is going to endure it at some point. In this episode, she recommends how one should approach their road to emotional wellness and stability. Make sure to have your notepad on hand when you tune in!

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

[5:50] How Dr. Aimie Apigian got started in the world healing trauma

​​[12:21] The tools needed to rewire the nervous system

[13:14] How trauma affects our minds and bodies through the years

[22:01] Breaking down the process of fight-or-flight-or-freeze

[24:29] Love and affection can be scary for some traumatized people

[35:11] How trauma is stored in the body

[36:38] Gender bias to being able to manage and integrate trauma

[39:40] Pandemic of insecure attachment

[46:37] The relationship between resilience and trauma

WHERE TO FIND THE GUEST:

Biology of Trauma Summit 2.0

Trauma Healing Accelerated Website

MEMORABLE QUOTES:

"Trauma is anything that, for any reason, at that time, overwhelmed your system. And that's why it's so individual. And that's why it's also very much related to what is the state of your nervous system."

-Dr. Aimie Apigian

"We've lumped fight, flight, or freeze all in the same category, and that's not true. Those are very different physiological states."

-Dr. Aimie Apigian

"If we just take that moment to pause and sit, and let whatever comes up, come up, what we would find is that our body would start to shake and tremble because it's releasing all this adrenaline."

-Dr. Aimie Apigian

"Let's not talk, let's just do. Where many people get hurt in the process of their healing journey around trauma is talking about it."

-Dr. Aimie Apigian

"When we experience trauma, those are very uncomfortable sensations that happen in the body. And so, our nervous system, unconsciously but intentionally, disconnects us from those uncomfortable sensations it sees as a threat to our survival."

-Dr. Aimie Apigian

On this week's episode of IMPACT, there are no guests, it's just you and me. The topic of discussion for this episode is resilience. I wanted to unpack this very complex term because there are many layers to resilience and I think that it is something that every entrepreneur, every employee, every parent, every kid… everybody should have.

I discuss the factors that lead to substantial and robust resilience, most of which is developed at an early age. When my parents divorced, I flew back and forth between their homes since the age of 11. As if flying wasn't nerve-wrecking enough, I had to fly by myself and those experiences helped me build a tremendously strong emotional and mental resilience because that 'goodbye' hurt every single time. It is the experiences we face when we're younger that shape us into the people we are today. But we have to address our traumas instead of masking them.

Though some of us have had the privilege of having a home, a nice family, good friends, a full fridge, not everyone has those privileges. It is very important to be aware that people act a certain way based on their life's circumstances. Empathy is something that we can and should develop in ourselves because not everyone has developed their resilience enough to endure their unfortunate circumstances.

Tune in, share with a friend, and leave a 'like' if you enjoyed this episode!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:35] Resilience is not simply the mental health piece

[7:38] Meghan's own journey dealing with resilience

[12:20] Meghan hated being flown from one parent to another

[15:25] My resilience is my privilege

[18:23] We don't know what happens behind closed doors to those around us

HOW TO CONNECT ME

Visit www.meghanwalker.com

Instagram: @drmeghanwalker

MEMORABLE QUOTES:

"Resilience is not simply the mental health piece, it is a spectrum; it's how we set our physiology and our psychology up for success. And that means we challenge the system."

– Meghan Walker

"If your physiology doesn't have your back, it doesn't matter how much positive psychology you throw at the table. The system cannot support the event."

– Meghan Walker

"Developing resilience is not something we are necessarily born with. We may have a genetic predisposition to not fly off the physiological handle in the face of anxiety and stress. But that is simply a predisposition."

– Meghan Walker

"I also know that this pattern of turning and walking forward and being able to move on to the next thing, that was part of my coping mechanism, and it's part of the coping mechanism that I've carried to adulthood."

– Meghan Walker

"I acknowledge that I have had access to things in my life that have afforded me a tremendous amount of privilege. But nothing has afforded me more privilege than accessing, experiencing, and witnessing evidence of my own capacity at a young age."

– Meghan Walker

"The one thing I can share with you as a clinician, and I think it's one of the most powerful lessons I took away from the clinical era of my career, is that lots of people, most people, have lots of shit you don't know about."

– Meghan Walker

"My question and call to action to you is: what and where in your life do you need to lean in on that resilience piece… On that physiological resilience… On that psychological resilience? What trauma would you benefit from unpacking?"

– Meghan Walker