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Health Story: Emily Olsen

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Takeaway point

Talk to the people at the practice at which you are wanting to start receiving care.  If the doctor is not available for a direct interview, the office manager may be able to answer questions regarding the practitioners and their style of communicating with patients and their approach to care.

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You can contact Emily at WholeLifeWellness.co (CO not COM) – it is under construction.

You can find out information about the Whole Foods Nutrition Challenge on her Facebook page: facebook.com/wholelifewellness3.

Contact her at: https://www.facebook.com/wholelifewellness3

As promised – The 7-Day Whole Food Challenge – sign up for FREE!!!

***The next challenge starts January 9, 2017!***
***Time Sensitive****
She’s offering some AWESOME specials–good until November 30th!
Here are the details (but be sure to watch the video for further explanations!):
*One-on-one 6-month coaching program: $584.00 (a 41% discount from $990.00–in honor of my 41st birthday!)
*The ‘It’s About Time! Wellness for Work’ 60-Day course–a nitty-gritty and encouraging course focusing on being your best self for your best work and vocation (starting on Dec 5th): 194.00
*’Consistency ‘Til Christmas’–a 25-day engaging group accountability experience–focusing on water, steps, veggies, and sleep–in order to stay healthy and focused during the holiday season (starting on Dec 1): $25

 

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Pre-Pharmacy Existential Crisis

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Day 1

When I got accepted into college and declared my major as Pre-Pharmacy, the next step was to meet with an advisor and register for my classes. The typical advice for Pre-Pharmacy was to be assigned to the Biology department. It was also recommended to register for 18 credit hours per semester to complete the Pre-Pharmacy requirements in the coveted 2 years. So, there I was, a Pre-Pharmacy Biology student with 18 credit hours on her schedule. This included Bio 1101 plus lab, Chem 1101 plus lab, English Composition 1101, some freshman intro orientation course, World History, and Philosophy & Ethics. Awesome!
The year started off with a bang!  Chem 1101 was a little review from the high school chemistry I took, and then much more. Bio 1101 was a review of the Hierarchy of Life and then dove straight into evolutionary taxonomic Latin.  Literally, I was learning Latin!  The only other stunner was Philosophy & Ethics. Here I was, brought up in the Christian faith, and the best advice I got regarding my spiritual survival of university-level Evolution and Philosophy & Ethics was “learn just what you need for the test and ignore the rest”. Oh great!

Crisis Ensues

So, at 18 years old, I have my first major existential crisis.  A 2-pronged crisis regarding the battle between humans’ philosophy of life and my belief in spirituality, as well as the evolution of life and my belief in Creation. This results in several C’s on my transcript (which caused another, albeit slightly less severe crisis).
When I knew there was no recovering of my grades, I sat in my advisor’s office, distraught and holding my head in my hands. I remember saying “all of this taxonomy means nothing to me on the path to becoming a Pharmacist”. In the Biology department, this path was leading me to classes like Botany and Evolutionary Biology. He simply nodded, and said, “what if you moved to the chemistry department?” “What?! Change departments? Pre-Pharmacy Chemistry? That’s a thing?!?! Why did nobody tell me that was a thing?!?! Where do I have to sign????”. We filled out the “Change of Major” form to get me to the Chemistry department and he happily signed off as my former advisor.

A Clear Path

When 2nd-semester registration opened, I met with my new advisor – a Chemistry professor. I still had 16 hours of credit hours.  Bio 1102 plus lab, Chem 1102 plus lab, English Composition 1102, PE, and Spanish were ahead of me. The weight was lifted because I could finally finish Biology and “learn just what I needed for the test”. This semester’s transcript has many more A’s and B’s on it and my path to Pharmacy was much more clear.  I knew the future held stops by Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, and Physiology on the map.
Why did this change from Biology to Chemistry make such a big difference? Part of it was because my original plan was to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree before I went to Pharmacy School. (That plan changed, but that’s a story for a different day.) Another part of it was because Chemistry was the first science that allowed me to reconcile science with my faith on a scale that I was comfortable without another soap opera-worthy existential crisis.

So what’s the point of this story?

You have to find what works. What fits with your natural bent and the values and beliefs that are planted so deep inside of you that nothing that you can perceive could remove them from you. If you approach your health and your healthcare relationships and decisions in this way, you will find what works for you.

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Thrive with sleep [Show Notes]

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3 Areas Thrive When You Sleep

1. Productivity 

  • Memory
  • Attention span
  • Creativity

2. Health

  • Decreased risk for cardiac disease
  • Inflammatory chemicals are cleansed out
  • Weight management – certain metabolism processes only happen while you’re sleeping
  • Tissues heal and rebuild
  • Reaction time improves

3. Emotions

  • Stress hormones are removed from your system
  • Gives your serotonin production a break, so you get a fresh supply in the morning (Serotonin is your happy chemical)

The Bottom Line

The cells in your brain (neurons) run on electricity (aka the flow of positive and negative charges).  Sleep allows the electricity to reset, so it’s really to flow quickly and efficiently the next morning.  You live longer when you get enough sleep.

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Know your body, love yourself [Show Notes]

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Three ways to love yourself

1.  Know how your body works and how to know when something goes wrong

2.  If you have a chronic disease, know the ins and outs of it

2b.Finding friends or a community to support you

3.  Do research about the decisions that you make, don’t just trust ads and fads

4*. Choose a healthcare team that is willing to listen to you and work with you instead of just working on you.

*Bonus!

No matter what method you choose to enhance your health, my goal is for you to be empowered with knowledge and confidence to make a decision you’re happy with, and not be bullied into doing something you don’t want to do.

Just remember, we will not find you in a textbook!

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Yes, and I brag on @RachelCMayo – again!  Because, well, she’s AWESOME!

#BoPoTribe stands for Body Positivity, where we believe all bodies are beautiful bodies.  Founded by Susie @BeautyWithPlus

You can find the supportive community on Facebook, follow them on Twitter and Periscope, @bopotribe.

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