350. Nourish Your Body, Mind, and Soul: High Vibration Foods with Chef Whitney Aronoff

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Chef Whitney, so excited to have you on my show today.

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How's it going?

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It's great, thank you for connecting with me, Sandy.

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Yeah, I'm so excited.

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So for the audience, Chef Whitney is a personal chef where she crafts custom meal plans
for clients, guiding them towards their best lives and is the founder of High Vibration

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Foods.

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And you also healed yourself of an autoimmune disease and chronic digestive issues with
food by attending the culinary school at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City.

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I love that you study Eastern and Western philosophies of healing food.

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because you were able to uncover the root causes to your suffering.

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This is so amazing.

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I wanna hear your story.

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So let's go back to you were having all these issues and yeah, tell us the rest.

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Well, I think I actually am just like so many people that are having challenges today with
their physical or their mental health is just 20 years ago, I was having that issue and I

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spent years going to different doctors in LA, in New York City, spending thousands of
dollars that I didn't have as a young single woman and never getting any answers, know,

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telling somebody about my stomach aches that were happening that night and them telling me
that I needed to eat more broccoli before they even asked me first what I ate and like

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steamed broccoli.

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has always been one of my favorite foods.

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It's always been like a staple vegetable on my plate at dinner time.

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And I just kind of hit this point when I was in my early 30s where I just thought, you
know what, I'm in my body.

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I know how I feel.

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I know how I feel when I look good and feel good.

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And I know the opposite end of the spectrum.

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And what I'm just trying to create is more balance in my life and to be on the better end
most of the time.

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And if I'm spending all this money going to all these people that aren't able

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to give me any answers and they're supposed to be the experts, well, maybe I can just do
this myself.

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Maybe there is just information that I need to get in order to be able to manage my body
throughout the rest of my life.

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So I found a health supportive culinary school that taught just as many classes in a
classroom with registered dietitians as it did in a kitchen with chefs that are teaching

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me traditional.

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techniques of properly preparing food.

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And when I say properly preparing food, that means like wash your rice, wash your quinoa.

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If you're following chefs on, or any influencers on social media that are just having me
pour your quinoa into a pot with ingredients or rice, and you aren't washing it first,

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you're not preparing your food properly.

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So you're setting yourself up to have digestive issues.

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And so when I learned how to properly...

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food, to eat with the seasons, to better source all my ingredients.

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A lot of my issues fell away, but then what was still there, what I was able to uncover,
was all the emotional layers, you know, in our emotional health, in our physical,

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emotional, spiritual, and mental body.

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And so I find that when you improve the quality of your diet, you improve the ingredients
that you use, what you're eating.

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that then allows you to go deeper within to then work on the other stuff, the other layers
that need to fall away in order for you to come back to just a more balanced, happier

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being.

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I love that.

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So I want to come back.

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just wrote a note and we'll come back to that because I want to talk about Eat With The
Seasons.

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You mentioned that and I was like, let's come back to that.

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So is there anything that you can determine in your life, maybe from your childhood, how
you were raised that would have led to any of these digestive issues?

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Because, you know, I've read, I don't know if you're familiar with Donna Gates,

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body ecology diet, it's for autoimmune diseases and things like that.

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And she talks about how a lot of times, I mean, she's very old school, like she's from
decades ago, but she's still out there.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But she talks about how a lot of the foods that we're eating can cause some of these
issues from a very young age.

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Do you have any of those?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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gut.

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So I grew up getting to travel all over the world.

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And I, you know, ate in China and Japan in the 80s.

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You know, like I...

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And they have foods that they don't even refrigerate.

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I remember being in Taiwan.

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I had a great gut all growing up and it wasn't until I was in high school and we had moved
and I was going through things with friends and things with coaches and sports and it was

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just a lot of emotional stuff.

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But the odd thing was my gut issues would only happen at night right before bed.

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So I was trying to figure out...

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You know, and I was also having a lot of past life regressions when I'd go to bed.

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So was it physical?

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Was it something that I was eating?

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Probably because I was also living at a time where a lot of processed foods were being
pushed.

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Like I wasn't eating butter, I was eating margarine.

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I was eating, you know, pasta and rice packets out of a box.

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So the rice was definitely not being washed, you know, and a lot of people are still
buying those things.

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And that stuff that just isn't good for you.

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You know, I was eating like meals from Costco.

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I was eating microwaved food.

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So the quality of the food that I was eating, not great, but still not as bad compared to
other people.

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And then I know I was dealing with emotional stuff and changes in my family and changes in
my life and friends in school.

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And then I know just I'm a spiritual being, right?

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So all of us have the ability to tap into past lives, tap into a variety of our realities.

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And some of us are just more sensitive to others.

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So I think my physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental bodies were all going through
transformations.

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And the way I was feeling it the most was in my gut.

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And obviously, a lot of that can be a lot lighter for people when they go through those
transitions, if the food is better.

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And if I had known better,

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as a teenager or college student or someone in my early 20s, you know, I wouldn't have
bought a soup in a box off a shelf and, you know, heated it up and thought that was a

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meal.

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You know, that's lifeless food.

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There's no life force energy there.

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It's not food.

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That's emergency situation food.

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So I think we all have to like really look at food right now and figure out what is
nourishing, what's full of life force energy, what's going to

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you know, bring me the energy that I need, but also the pleasure and satisfaction that I
crave as a human when I sit down and have a meal.

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And like, what is there for emergency food?

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What needs to just pass me by?

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I have a great spiritual teacher who always says, you know, when you see everyone jumping
on a trend, like when back, you know, 10 years ago, when everyone was becoming a yoga

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teacher, she was always like, just because everyone's doing it doesn't mean it's for you.

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Let that cup pass your lips, you know?

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Don't take a sip if it's not for you.

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And I feel like a lot of people need to start doing that when they're walking the grocery
store is just because it's there doesn't mean it's food and doesn't mean it's for you.

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Yeah, for sure.

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So do you think that, cause here, know, I'm very spiritual as well.

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And I really believe that everything happens for a reason.

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Do you feel like maybe when you were going through this transition that this needed to
happen to get to where you are today?

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absolutely.

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Like I reflect on that a lot.

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I just wish I would have known more than right.

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So because when we have stomach issues, when we don't feel good in our body, and when we
aren't confident, whether you're a man or women, women in your skin, you miss out on a lot

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of things in life.

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So I felt feel like you know, I missed out on

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so many beach days with friends.

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I missed out in going to certain parties or meeting friends for dinner or for lunch or
doing a workout with a friend or just different events in life or showing up as a

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confident version of myself because I was so insecure and uncomfortable with how I looked
or how I felt in my body because of my gut or because I wasn't digesting my food properly

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or because of the food that I was eating that wasn't right for me.

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So that's what kind of makes me sad when I look back that I just didn't have that
knowledge because I missed out I feel like on experiences.

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But I feel like now I know when those things come up because it still does sometimes.

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How to just better navigate life and give more respect to my body and how I'm feeling.

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Yeah, well, this clearly happened for you, right?

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It happened for you, not to you.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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And I love that.

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mean, you one of my dear, dear friends, she found out that she had celiac disease and it
took 10 years to diagnose.

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10, and it's been 10 years since she's been diagnosed.

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So we're talking, this goes back 20 years.

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She literally had one doctor, cause she's very thin.

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And just always had, she was at the time, she was a cycle teacher, aerobics instructor.

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I think she did just those two.

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And she was just very, very thin because she was very fit, you know?

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But she actually had a doctor hand her a card for a food addiction, anorexic, like eating
disorder clinic, and just said, you don't need to see me, you need to go here.

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interesting.

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Yeah, and she's like, I don't have an eating disorder.

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Like there's something wrong with me.

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They finally diagnosed her and because it took so long to diagnose, now she has lupus on
top of it.

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Because that's what happens with celiac.

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If it goes undiagnosed, it can transmute into lupus.

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So interestingly enough, and I brought that question up because I was just curious as your
thoughts, she found yoga and yoga.

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because now she teaches yoga.

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And I introduced her to yoga 10 years before she got certified, or she became a yoga
instructor and she hated it.

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It was too slow, right?

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She's now a 500 hour yoga instructor, but it saved her and it brought her to the spiritual
part aspect of life.

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And now she has zero symptoms of lupus because...

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you can heal absolutely everything, because everything is just a symptom of what you're
willing to not look at.

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So anytime anything flares up, you have to look at the physical, emotional, spiritual and
mental reason for it.

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So if my knee hurts, if my hips are tight, if my feet are aching at the end of the day, if
something else is going on in or on my body, it's never it's

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a multi dimensional way that you need to approach why it's happening.

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All right, what were my activities during the day that maybe would cause me to have my
feet hurting?

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Well, I was standing for 14 hours.

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So that's pretty obvious.

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But if the issue continues for a longer period of time, then you have to start looking in
what's like the spiritual message from foot pain.

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You know, what am I

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holding onto, not willing to move from, like, why am I holding back in life?

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Where am I feeling stuck or stagnant?

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Maybe what foods am I eating that's causing inflammation in my body?

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You have to look at physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental every time, and then clean
up what you can in your life and let go of what you can.

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It's a really interesting...

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approach to kind of everything is that you're never the big victim, there's always a
solution.

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Doesn't mean you have to keep moving all the time, like we're all allowed to kind of slow
down and be in it for a little bit when we need to be in it.

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And then when we're ready, you know, learn the lesson, let go and move on.

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I love that, I love that.

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All right, so before we talk about some of the other things that you have going on, what
is, what do you mean by, and I kind of have an idea, because I have, this is not totally

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new to me, but I haven't thought about it in a very long time, eating with the seasons.

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yeah, absolutely.

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just means certain foods available only in a season.

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And that's when we should be enjoying it because that is when nature intended us to eat
it.

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And there's a reason behind why we're supposed to eat it right now.

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So let's think of summer.

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Like in the summertime, there's melons and melons are so full of moisture and water,
right?

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So if we think of a watermelon, we think of a cantaloupe and we think of a honeydew melon,
there's so much water in it.

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and it's super cooling.

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And so we're supposed to eat melons in the summertime because they fill us with hydration
and they cool our body down.

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It's not meant for us to eat in the middle of winter because in the winter we need warming
food.

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So that's why there's all these traditional recipes where apples that are falling in the
winter time, know, the final apples that are on the tree, you know, that aren't good

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enough to pick up and just take a bite of and enjoy.

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but those are the ones that come out really nice when you stew them with a little cinnamon
in a pot and you make homemade applesauce.

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Those are the ones that we bake and we make into cobblers and pies.

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like nature has set us up to have all these beautiful, delicious meals that help us adjust
to the season that are gonna cool us down when we're hot or warm us up when we're cold.

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All we have to do is lean in.

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So, you know, when it's time for all the winter squashes, all the butternut squashes, the
kabocha squash, the acorn squash, you know, now's the time to eat it.

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So it's just learning that certain foods are supposed to only be available at certain
times of year.

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So you hear a lot of people that complain about fluctuating prices at the grocery store.

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you know, my asparagus was $2 .99 a few months ago, and now it's $6 .99.

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Well, that's because your asparagus isn't in season, and it's coming from Mexico.

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So someone has to pay the shipping fees, and the taxes, and the import fees, and that's
you.

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So if you just eat the food when it's available, and enjoy it, and know that you're
getting better flavor,

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more nutritional density, and it is syncing your body with the season and you're going to
benefit from that.

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You know, and then knowing that there's other things to look forward to when we move into
another season.

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So what about for those that don't have the Four Seasons?

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I mean, are you still in New York?

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No, I live in Laguna Beach, California, my hometown, and every place has seasons.

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So Laguna Beach has four seasons.

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Every part of the world has four seasons.

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Some parts of the world, yeah, some parts of the world, it's just more dramatic than
others.

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But if you are a true California native like I am, you can see the four seasons.

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You see the light change, you feel the temperature change, you see how the trees change
and all the plants change.

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You know that there's certain things that only grow and bloom certain times of year.

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There, it's a thousand percent the Four Seasons here, but it all depends on whether or not
you're willing to open up your eyes and your consciousness to see it.

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You know, if you're someone that requires dramatic shifts and changes, you want to be
slapped in the face with the Four Seasons, then you need to go and live in a place that

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has more dramatic Four Seasons, but you can even see the seasons change if you live in the
desert.

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whether you live in Palm Springs or Arizona or New Mexico, know, there are seas, that's
the way the planet works.

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You know, I find that some people just aren't paying attention.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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I love Laguna Beach.

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Lucky you.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, you know, I just, I've lived on the East Coast in the Washington, DC metro area my
entire life.

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And I travel, obviously I've done a lot of travel, but I've never lived anywhere.

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So I'm just completely clueless.

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And I just think that the four seasons are, you know, the extreme, you know, winter,
spring, summer, fall.

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And yeah.

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Yeah, it's everywhere.

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Nobody misses out on it.

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You only miss out on it if you aren't paying attention, you know, and that can happen, you
know, to anyone really anywhere.

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It all depends on your consciousness.

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I had a client once that told me they were complaining.

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They had just moved to Laguna Beach and they told me that they don't they don't hear any
birds.

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And when you drive into Laguna Beach, there's a giant sign that says Laguna Beach is a
bird sanctuary and you have to be mindful of the birds.

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And so that was just someone showing me that they just aren't.

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paying attention, you know, maybe they aren't going outside, maybe their thoughts are just
all consumed in something else that they aren't pausing for a moment to hear or see.

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So it's, you know, it's like all of us when we're like stuck in a certain mindset about
something, we can't see out the other side.

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We can get that way about food.

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We can get that way about our emotions.

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We can get that way about our life.

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And sometimes we need to listen to a podcast or we need to dial a friend to kind of snap
us out of whatever little vortex we're in so we can just see more.

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can get beyond our limiting beliefs.

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Yeah, for sure.

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All right, so you talked about or you have, let's see here, I'm looking at your, through
your blog Star Seed Kitchen, you share seasonal high vibration recipes and you have a line

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of organic spice blends, the high vibration foods.

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So what are the difference between high vibration foods and the regular foods?

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So everything has an energy, right?

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So you carry a vibration right now, I carry a vibration, your couch carries a vibration,
my chair does, the trees outside, the plants, all the food.

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So everything has a vibrational frequency.

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And so what we wanna do when we eat is we're eating for energy.

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As you know, since you've been doing yoga for so long, you can pull in energy into your
body by doing yoga, by doing breath work.

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by meditating, with prayer.

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There's a variety of ways to pull in prana, or life force energy.

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The one that we as humans enjoy doing the most is pulling it in by eating food.

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So we know that there's breathitarians out there, people that don't eat very much because
they don't need that much transfer of energy, but most of us prefer to get it through food

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and we need a lot of it.

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So when we eat,

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We are eating for nutritional density, right?

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To nourish all the cells of our body and for the transfer of energy and just for sheer
pleasure because eating is fun and delicious and joyful.

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So it's all those things.

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And what we've gotten away from is real food that provides us all those experiences in
one.

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So high vibration foods are real foods.

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So those are your fruits, your vegetables, your nuts, your grains, your seeds, your real
oils and fats.

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So olive oil, ghee, butter, lard, tallow, is, know, high quality real meats.

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It's just, it's real whole food.

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What is low vibration food or nutrient, nutrient low food or lifeless food is boxed and
preserved food.

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A frozen meal that requires you to microwave it is a low vibration food because that's a
low vibration frequency and energy.

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Any food that can sit on the shelf for years at a time is void of life force energy.

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There's there's nothing in there anymore.

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That stuff's great for emergency situation, you know, but that's not going to

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give you life.

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That's not going to give you energy, you know, and that's different from pickled food,
fermented food, you know, traditional home glass canned food.

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There's, there's a different there difference there and preservation.

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But that's what we're talking about.

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And a lot of people struggle to understand that, right?

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Because you really have to depends on where your grocery shopping these days.

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You know, and it's more than just walking the perimeter of the grocery store because
there's stuff in the middle of the grocery store that is health food, you know, buying

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dried beans, buying dried beans, pinto beans, black beans, washing them, soaking them
overnight, preparing them properly.

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That is great energy and great grounding food.

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But if you're going to open up a can, that is not high, high vibration food.

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that is lifeless food, but it's great for an emergency situation.

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So if you live in a place where you're susceptible to some sort of threat, might be nice
to have it there in case of an emergency or a power outage, but that's not food that's

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gonna be fuel for you every day.

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And so it's helping people understand that and rethinking why they're eating food, know,
for pleasure, for joy, for hunger, for energy transfer, for...

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nutrient density, you know, there's so much more going on.

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And I feel like people can think about that.

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Maybe they'll be a little more hesitant to go through the drive through, because the drive
through isn't giving you high vibration food, you know, and that was a big part of why I

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went to culinary school and why I became a chef is because I want to know how my food's
being made, like show me how the sausage is being made.

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I want to know like, how are they able to prepare these meals so quickly and wrap them up
and put them through a window?

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That's because it's all processed food that's prepared in the factory, know, months,
weeks, years ago, it's frozen and they're just heating it up through a microwave or on a

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skillet with a soybean oil and then serving it to you.

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You know, I like to remind people when they look at prices of things and if it looks like
a deal, you know, then you're being tricked, you know.

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If food prices are low somewhere and you think you're getting a deal, you have to ask why.

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Because real food requires a lot of energy to go into it, right?

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If you think of 100 % grass -fed grass -finished beef, that's gonna require a lot more
energy and care to those animals than something that's been fed corn and soy that's

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genetically modified.

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price, know, always question the deal.

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when it comes to food and always ask, you know, how much transfer of energy am I getting?

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Because you want the biggest bang for your buck.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Okay, you brought a microwave a few times.

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And what do you think about that?

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Even if it's high vibration foods, you're heating it up.

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What is your thought process on that, on using a microwave?

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Yeah, I don't have a microwave.

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Anyplace I've ever moved into, I have it unplugged and removed from the home.

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Because even when the microwave is plugged in, you don't use it.

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It's off gassing and energy.

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So everything that's plugged into your house is on 24 seven and it's creating a magnetic
EMF.

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field in your home.

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So that's why I always encourage people when they're cooking to open a window, open a
door, get fresh air in.

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Because sometimes people kind of get tired or lazy or sluggish when they're cooking.

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And that's just because of the heat in the kitchen, and all the electromagnetic smog that
is in the air.

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So I can't recommend microwaves.

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I've had a lot of experts on my podcast, the High Vibration Living podcast to talk about
microwaves.

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The challenge is you will never get anyone to pay to do a study to prove how dangerous
microwaves are because every study that exists on this planet has to be funded by

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somebody, right?

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And so the funding that's done for many of these studies has to be in the favor of the
person who's funding it.

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That's why they're doing it, to prove that their business model or their product is gonna
be good for you and you should buy it.

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No one can find any proof that a microwave is good for you.

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Microwave is sending out a negative frequency into the food and into the surrounding area
and into your body.

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You know, if you're standing anywhere near the microwave, which you probably are, it
doesn't matter if you're microwaving water or you're microwaving food.

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but the frequency that's going in there is negative and it's gonna hurt your body over
time and it's killing any life force energy in there.

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And it's not even a supportive heating system because it's a microwave.

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So it sends a wave of heat through the food.

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And so only where the wave hits, does it heat up the food.

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And so you're never gonna get a consistent heat anyway.

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And then why are you heating up your food in plastic?

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You know, that's not good for you.

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You know, so, and then why are you constantly heating your up, your food up in a vehicle
that's dirty?

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Like that's not good for you either.

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Most people aren't cleaning out their microwaves.

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So there's so many layers and reasons behind why a microwave isn't good for you.

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But I really encourage people that are listening to this conversation is you can test all
this on your own.

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Like that's the beautiful thing is you can start eating food in season.

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and see if you feel better.

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You can start microwaving your food and eat microwave meals for breakfast, lunch, and
dinner and see how you feel, and then go a week without eating anything microwavable and

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see how you feel.

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You can microwave your water and make a cup of tea and see how that tastes, and you can
boil your water on the stove and enjoy a cup of tea that way and see how that tastes.

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And I can swear to you that you will taste a difference in all of it, and you will feel
the difference too.

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And so like why engage in activities that aren't making you feel good and that aren't
tasting good?

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It's like when we recognize that certain people that were around don't make us feel good,
but we keep hanging out with them.

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Or, know, we recognize that there's certain places that we go in our day or in our life.

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And we're like, why do I keep doing that activity?

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Why do I keep showing up at that place?

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I don't feel good when I walk away from it.

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Apply that to your kitchen and apply that to your food as well.

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If you're eating that dish because you used to love it and now when you eat it, it doesn't
make you feel good afterwards.

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Question it and figure out why.

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Is it the quality of the ingredients?

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Is it something that's in the dish?

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Is it the source where the ingredients are coming from?

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Is it how you're heating it up?

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And make edits and changes.

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love it.

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Yeah, that my whole microwave conversation is just an interesting one, right?

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Because we live in a society of instant gratification.

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You know, people want it now.

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They're busy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no, I know.

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year old single woman and I don't have a microwave.

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I don't use one and I haven't used a microwave since I was.

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20 or 21 years old in my sorority house in Dallas, Texas.

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That's the last time I used a microwave because my sorority house wouldn't allow me to go
into the kitchen and heat up my food.

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They would only give us access to a microwave.

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And as soon as I moved out of that sorority house, I never used a microwave again.

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And somehow I've been able to feed myself three meals a day for over 20 years.

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So I know that if I can do it, everybody else can.

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And I had Darren Olean on my podcast and you know, he's

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most well known for his Netflix show, Down to Earth, which is an Emmy award winning show
with Zac Efron.

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And he hasn't used a microwave since the 80s.

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So there are lots of us out there surviving and thriving without a microwave.

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And I think it's possible for everyone.

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So when I see recipes on websites and in cookbooks that tell me to microwave the butter or
to microwave the chocolate chips,

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for a particular recipe, that just lets me know that I should no longer be getting recipes
from that author or from that chef because they aren't conscious of how this food is

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affecting my body.

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So they aren't even a great guide for me for recipes because they're not understanding
that there is a connection between food and health.

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yeah, yeah, for sure.

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What about an air fryer?

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So it's really interesting, your oven is an air fryer if you have the convection setting.

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So a lot of ovens these days have an option for convection.

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And so what that convection means is, so you have the option of turning your oven on at
400 degrees and pressing bake or pressing convection.

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And what happens when you choose convection over bake is there's a fan in the back of your
oven that'll start turning.

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And it's just gonna move around the hot air.

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And the movement of the hot air is gonna allow things to crisp up and brown faster.

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it's the same thing?

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So when people are buying these contraptions to put on their counter that are, most of
them are plastic, it's the same thing.

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And everyone complains that their oven takes too long to heat up, an oven heats up in
about 15 minutes.

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And really, if you want to, you know, I'm a working chef, you know, I'm tired too, I come
home starving.

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I put my food in the oven when I turn it on.

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you know, and let it start, you know, I don't waste those 15 minutes.

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It can heat up during that time too.

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so, you know, I don't get it.

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I don't, I don't understand air fryers because your oven does that for you.

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But if you were someone living in a sorority house or in, in some sort of apartment that
doesn't have a full kitchen, you know, or an Airbnb, or if there was some sort of, you

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know,

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living situation that didn't give you access to being able to heat up your food with an
oven or a stove top.

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I think it's a great convenience, but I don't think it's, I don't think it's how, you
know, family should be eating their meals every night when they have an oven.

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Right, okay, got it.

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Thank you for the permission to turn my oven on and put the food in while it's heating up.

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I am such a rule follower that, you know, and I'm like, like I'm a really good cook as
long as I have a recipe because I know how to follow directions, right?

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But you also know how to learn to you, you you use your gut, you follow your intuition and
you look into the sign and the pings.

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And so like, I really encourage people to like learn to use your intuition in the kitchen.

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So you know, I may set an alarm, but I never hear the alarm go off.

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I always get to the food before the alarm goes off.

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And it's perfect because my gut knows my gut has a feeling and I lean into the feeling.

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I think for me, it's like learning and you know, I know the feelings in the kitchen.

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I know the feelings when it comes to my job.

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It's learning to trust those feelings when they come up in other areas of your life.

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So I think the great place to develop your intuition and your ability to feel your gut,
you know, hear your higher self, a great place to play with that is in the kitchen.

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It's a safe place.

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Like what's the worst that's gonna happen is you're gonna burn your food.

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You can always make more food.

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but I feel like you practice it in the kitchen and then you can apply it when you're out
in real life.

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love it.

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So before we hit record, we started talking about how, you know, our mindset and food,
there's a direct correlation between the two.

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Can you address that?

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Because I don't think that people really, and I know I don't even think about it sometimes
either, but of course what you put in your body is going to affect, let me think about

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when you have a glass of wine.

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Like, what does that do?

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It changes your mindset, right?

402
00:33:10,051 --> 00:33:13,067
So can you just explain that for the audience?

403
00:33:13,067 --> 00:33:13,948
Yeah, that's a great point.

404
00:33:13,948 --> 00:33:21,662
I'm glad you brought up alcohol because I think most people know that there's like certain
alcohol that they eat that makes them more emotional or makes them angry.

405
00:33:21,722 --> 00:33:32,728
people know that like beer, tequila, wine, vodka, different spirits make them, you know,
emotional in different ways.

406
00:33:32,728 --> 00:33:33,689
Yeah.

407
00:33:34,750 --> 00:33:37,761
It's, there's a spirit or energy.

408
00:33:37,761 --> 00:33:42,848
Yeah, there's a spirit or energy in every one of those beverages.

409
00:33:42,848 --> 00:33:45,700
that brings out a different side of somebody.

410
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:47,962
And most people are aware of that.

411
00:33:47,962 --> 00:33:51,294
And so the same thing's gonna happen with food.

412
00:33:51,294 --> 00:33:55,116
If you eat food from scratch, you're gonna feel a certain way.

413
00:33:55,116 --> 00:34:01,571
If you eat food from fast food, you're gonna feel heavier, you're gonna feel lethargic.

414
00:34:01,571 --> 00:34:08,356
But that's not just in your physical body, it's in your mind too, because you basically
have three centers.

415
00:34:08,356 --> 00:34:10,397
Most people are aware of the chakra system.

416
00:34:10,397 --> 00:34:12,342
Whether you wanna believe it or not,

417
00:34:12,342 --> 00:34:16,045
It's there, it's happening, it's supporting you every day.

418
00:34:16,045 --> 00:34:23,151
But most people can really grasp that they have their brain, they have their heart, they
have their stomach.

419
00:34:23,171 --> 00:34:31,438
And those are the three key drivers in maneuvering in this body and having connections in
our life.

420
00:34:31,438 --> 00:34:36,562
And those three center points are getting nourished by the food that you eat.

421
00:34:36,562 --> 00:34:41,396
And what you put in is sending messages to all three of them.

422
00:34:41,728 --> 00:34:51,861
So if you're putting in foods that are telling the body that you don't love yourself, then
you're gonna mentally, physically feel that.

423
00:34:51,941 --> 00:35:06,245
If you start putting food in your body that you know you love the taste, you love how you
feel when you eat it, it is like super seasonal and warm and cozy, you know, it's gonna

424
00:35:06,245 --> 00:35:10,056
send a different message to your stomach, to your heart.

425
00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:10,881
to your mind.

426
00:35:10,881 --> 00:35:17,535
I think we can all like take time and pause and reflect back on a time where we were
really happy.

427
00:35:17,535 --> 00:35:21,528
Like we all have those moments where we're like, God, there was that time.

428
00:35:21,528 --> 00:35:24,720
I was so happy in that season.

429
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:26,351
I felt so good in my body.

430
00:35:26,351 --> 00:35:27,672
I looked so good.

431
00:35:27,672 --> 00:35:29,524
I loved my relationships.

432
00:35:29,524 --> 00:35:31,175
I loved what was going on with my career.

433
00:35:31,175 --> 00:35:33,366
That was such a good time.

434
00:35:33,452 --> 00:35:38,834
And if you reflect on that, you can think about, okay, how was I taking care of myself
during that time?

435
00:35:38,834 --> 00:35:40,765
What was I eating?

436
00:35:40,765 --> 00:35:42,526
What was my mindset?

437
00:35:42,526 --> 00:35:47,388
And you'll see that they're all kind of synced up in a positive, more health supportive
way.

438
00:35:47,388 --> 00:36:01,453
No one ever looks back and reflects on a time where they were like super happy and joyful
and they were eating microwave meals and food from a drive -in and really bad leftovers

439
00:36:01,453 --> 00:36:03,064
they weren't excited about.

440
00:36:03,064 --> 00:36:06,066
you know, that wasn't leading to a joyful life.

441
00:36:07,274 --> 00:36:17,408
Yeah, I mean, so often, you you hear people with any sort of digestive issues and yet I'm
like, well, what are you doing?

442
00:36:17,408 --> 00:36:19,829
And you see them, they just eat whatever.

443
00:36:20,409 --> 00:36:22,390
And my son has some digestive issues.

444
00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:24,861
And I knew, you he just graduated from college in May.

445
00:36:24,861 --> 00:36:27,252
And so I knew that eventually this is going to hit him.

446
00:36:27,252 --> 00:36:35,595
And it finally is now that he's finally starting to take responsibility for his food.

447
00:36:35,766 --> 00:36:36,671
Yeah.

448
00:36:36,948 --> 00:36:39,589
It's like his face looks different.

449
00:36:39,589 --> 00:36:42,049
Like it's helping his mindset.

450
00:36:42,970 --> 00:36:44,610
It's incredible.

451
00:36:44,610 --> 00:36:46,971
And I don't understand, you know what?

452
00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:50,652
I guess I'm preaching to the choir, Whitney, because I go through this just with food.

453
00:36:50,652 --> 00:36:55,234
Just with like with food, I'm the same way with my, I'm like, just pay attention to your
thoughts.

454
00:36:55,234 --> 00:36:56,914
know, we all have these negative thoughts.

455
00:36:56,914 --> 00:36:58,795
It's, you have a choice.

456
00:36:59,235 --> 00:37:01,266
You know, this didn't happen to you.

457
00:37:01,266 --> 00:37:02,916
It happened for you, right?

458
00:37:02,943 --> 00:37:04,844
It is hard.

459
00:37:04,844 --> 00:37:11,166
I'm in a season where it's hard for me, and this is my job and this is my career.

460
00:37:11,166 --> 00:37:13,837
And so this is just a hard season.

461
00:37:13,837 --> 00:37:16,728
I'm struggling to snap out of my low.

462
00:37:16,728 --> 00:37:20,840
And so I have my tool belt of tools to help me.

463
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:21,490
So.

464
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:24,731
I go for walks and I don't take my cell phone.

465
00:37:24,731 --> 00:37:26,252
So I'm not listening to music.

466
00:37:26,252 --> 00:37:28,013
I'm not listening to podcasts.

467
00:37:28,013 --> 00:37:31,534
I'm not allowing anything in my field.

468
00:37:31,834 --> 00:37:36,716
So I can just feel lighter and just hear the birds or hear the waves and just be in
nature.

469
00:37:36,716 --> 00:37:37,536
Yes.

470
00:37:37,536 --> 00:37:45,080
And like, you know, sometimes I really want the food that I make to be high vibrational
food, to be uplifting, nourishing food.

471
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:50,101
So to change my thoughts, so my thoughts, my negative thoughts don't go into the food.

472
00:37:50,282 --> 00:37:51,542
I play music.

473
00:37:51,542 --> 00:37:57,708
So usually Kundalini mantras, something by David Halperin, something by Dr.

474
00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:03,674
Joseph Levery, frequency music that I know is gonna shift the cells in my body.

475
00:38:03,674 --> 00:38:05,455
You know, don't have to believe.

476
00:38:05,455 --> 00:38:15,825
You don't have to believe, but the science is there that shows that these certain
frequencies are going to shift the cells in your body in a positive way that at some point

477
00:38:15,825 --> 00:38:17,546
your microbiome,

478
00:38:17,618 --> 00:38:22,639
and your brain will respond to the frequency that's being sent out by this music.

479
00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:28,021
And so that's the joy with these frequencies in this music is you don't have to do
anything.

480
00:38:28,021 --> 00:38:31,622
It'll work on you in those moments when you're down, you know.

481
00:38:31,622 --> 00:38:44,905
So I also mean you book a sound bath, you go to a yoga class, you know, you just allow
some time to like, relax and rest, you, you know, make some grounding food.

482
00:38:45,386 --> 00:38:47,406
But you find ways

483
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:52,745
to be supportive because I understand that sometimes you just can't shift your mind.

484
00:38:52,745 --> 00:38:54,956
You need help in getting there.

485
00:38:54,956 --> 00:38:58,287
And it's like, you need someone to provide the healthy meals.

486
00:38:58,287 --> 00:38:59,808
You need the mindset shift.

487
00:38:59,808 --> 00:39:03,119
You need the physical practices in your life to change.

488
00:39:03,119 --> 00:39:09,171
need the meditation, but it's, it's how do you get there when you know you need to make
all these changes?

489
00:39:09,171 --> 00:39:14,082
And I find sometimes the music helps, you know.

490
00:39:14,274 --> 00:39:18,588
The music can help in the kitchen, the music can help in other places in your life.

491
00:39:18,636 --> 00:39:20,879
Yeah, for sure, I love that.

492
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:27,701
All right, is there anything else that we haven't talked about that you wanna share today?

493
00:39:27,701 --> 00:39:30,895
Because you know a lot more about this than I do, that's obvious.

494
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,411
Well, you know, I think like we were talking about, there's four seasons.

495
00:39:36,411 --> 00:39:41,113
I think we all go through seasons, you know, on our own, right?

496
00:39:41,113 --> 00:39:45,344
And so we're happy, we're sad, we're stable.

497
00:39:45,344 --> 00:39:47,514
We're happy, we're sad, we're stable, you know.

498
00:39:47,514 --> 00:39:51,375
Life is always moving like the microwave.

499
00:39:51,495 --> 00:40:00,278
And I think we just all need to just develop kind of tools for our tool belt to help us
navigate those shifts along the way.

500
00:40:01,282 --> 00:40:12,655
And I think if we, if the listener can really start to make sure that what you have in
your tool belt is a few recipes to really nourish you for the good times and the low

501
00:40:12,655 --> 00:40:17,096
times, you know, that you're going to be a step ahead of the game.

502
00:40:17,096 --> 00:40:23,208
So find one, two or three recipes that you really love making for yourself from scratch.

503
00:40:23,208 --> 00:40:24,378
And it can be for breakfast.

504
00:40:24,378 --> 00:40:25,099
can be for lunch.

505
00:40:25,099 --> 00:40:30,570
It can be for dinner, whatever, whatever time you really love eating at home, but

506
00:40:30,956 --> 00:40:41,635
You know, you can hire a personal chef, you can do a food delivery service, you can have
like your go to, you know, high end healthy organic grocery store you go to, but the

507
00:40:41,635 --> 00:40:45,198
healthiest meal you can eat will always be the one that you make at home.

508
00:40:45,198 --> 00:40:53,804
And if you can learn to do a few meals on your own and be like really proud of them that,
you know, if someone needed to come over last minute, you'd be proud to serve that to

509
00:40:53,804 --> 00:40:54,365
them.

510
00:40:54,365 --> 00:40:55,956
You know, like learn that skill.

511
00:40:55,956 --> 00:41:01,090
I think at this day and age is the one thing we shouldn't avoid.

512
00:41:02,037 --> 00:41:05,813
And I think that'll help you in all times in your life.

513
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,321
I love that.

514
00:41:07,321 --> 00:41:14,204
There is one thing that I forgot to ask you about because we're talking about frequency
and high vibration.

515
00:41:15,104 --> 00:41:17,345
What about blessing your food?

516
00:41:17,345 --> 00:41:21,327
Because, I grew up in a Catholic family.

517
00:41:21,327 --> 00:41:28,291
I joke that I'm a recovering Catholic and we always held our hands and we would say grace
and bless the food.

518
00:41:28,291 --> 00:41:30,932
And then when I got into

519
00:41:31,132 --> 00:41:36,895
know, clean living and I started doing meditation and yoga and I went to meditation
retreats.

520
00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:43,379
I learned about, you know, putting your hands over your food and sending it love.

521
00:41:43,959 --> 00:41:45,300
What are your thoughts on that?

522
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:51,023
And is that why people were blessing the food for thousands of years when they were in say
grace at dinner?

523
00:41:51,023 --> 00:41:52,671
that, is it related?

524
00:41:52,671 --> 00:41:54,002
Yes, it's all related.

525
00:41:54,002 --> 00:41:56,595
It's all the same and all does the same thing.

526
00:41:56,595 --> 00:42:00,037
So and there's so many steps along the way that you can do it.

527
00:42:00,037 --> 00:42:07,663
So when I'm slicing vegetables for my clients, when I'm making cookies, when I stirring
the soup, I just have different words that I say.

528
00:42:07,663 --> 00:42:12,487
So I'll just start saying love, love, love, love, love, love, love as I'm stirring the
soup.

529
00:42:12,487 --> 00:42:16,216
Or I think about how do I want the person to feel

530
00:42:16,216 --> 00:42:17,907
who I'm making this dish for.

531
00:42:17,907 --> 00:42:23,190
Especially if I'm having friends over, I'm doing a dinner party, I'm taking a meal to
someone who's sick.

532
00:42:23,190 --> 00:42:27,712
I think about how I want them to feel at the end of the meal.

533
00:42:27,712 --> 00:42:31,995
And so I say that over and over as I cook the food.

534
00:42:31,995 --> 00:42:36,958
So that energy, that intention goes into the food.

535
00:42:36,958 --> 00:42:38,018
You know, if...

536
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,411
You don't want to do that.

537
00:42:39,411 --> 00:42:48,485
you just want to, you if you live in Los Angeles and you just want to run over to Arowan
and you want to pick up some healthy items to go put it on your plate, you know, when you

538
00:42:48,485 --> 00:42:58,570
put it on your plate at home, you can just simply as you hold your plate and walk it from
your kitchen to your kitchen table, wherever you're going to sit and eat and just give

539
00:42:58,570 --> 00:43:03,724
gratitude for the meal or just picture a heart over your food.

540
00:43:03,724 --> 00:43:12,046
Or just imagine that your hands are the color of gold and that light is going into the
plate and into the food.

541
00:43:12,046 --> 00:43:21,798
Or you can be traditional and you can sit down and you can give a prayer and give
gratitude for the people that prepared the meal, give gratitude for where the food came

542
00:43:21,798 --> 00:43:32,950
from, how it got to you, just get gratitude for just getting to enjoy this nourishing meal
and that you hope that it blesses you and fills your body with beauty and joy and.

543
00:43:32,950 --> 00:43:39,414
and energy, whatever it is, there's so many ways to pray and bless our food.

544
00:43:39,414 --> 00:43:44,237
And there's so many studies that are out there that shows that it really does make a
difference.

545
00:43:44,237 --> 00:43:47,509
And so that's something I actually love to do when I travel.

546
00:43:47,509 --> 00:43:55,624
You sometimes when you travel, you end up in sticky situations where you're having to eat
food that you definitely wouldn't have in normal circumstances.

547
00:43:55,624 --> 00:44:00,044
Even sometimes it's just more processed than you would like and there's just nothing else
available.

548
00:44:00,044 --> 00:44:12,173
That's when I definitely bless my food and I just give gratitude and I try to tell my body
and the food to just like nourish me, know, be easy on my digestive system, make me feel

549
00:44:12,173 --> 00:44:13,124
good.

550
00:44:13,665 --> 00:44:18,368
I feel like, you know, it's a tool that people have always used.

551
00:44:18,809 --> 00:44:21,140
And I hope we all get back into doing it.

552
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,341
Yeah, for sure, for sure.

553
00:44:23,341 --> 00:44:27,342
Because we're busy and we forget sometimes, but it's just like getting back to...

554
00:44:27,342 --> 00:44:29,473
So I'm gonna summarize this whole conversation.

555
00:44:29,473 --> 00:44:32,463
It's just get back to basics.

556
00:44:33,664 --> 00:44:38,185
say your prayers when you're eating your food, your blessings, your whatever.

557
00:44:38,465 --> 00:44:44,887
Cook at home, buy clean food, and yeah, stop using that microwave.

558
00:44:46,248 --> 00:44:46,782
Right?

559
00:44:46,782 --> 00:44:47,323
doing it.

560
00:44:47,323 --> 00:44:50,828
And if you're struggling to have fun doing it, put on some music.

561
00:44:50,828 --> 00:44:55,179
and put on intentional music that you know is gonna make you feel good.

562
00:44:55,179 --> 00:44:57,480
Don't put on something that's sad.

563
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,281
Don't put on something that's a down spiral.

564
00:45:00,281 --> 00:45:04,252
You want up spiral energy because you wanna feel up spiral when you eat your food.

565
00:45:04,252 --> 00:45:05,963
So I think that's really important.

566
00:45:05,963 --> 00:45:08,254
But right, it's all kinda simple.

567
00:45:08,254 --> 00:45:14,406
And I think that's what like health and wellness and happiness and joy and like all of
that is really just simple.

568
00:45:15,714 --> 00:45:21,281
And it's nice that we have opportunities like this to like tune in and get their reminder.

569
00:45:21,852 --> 00:45:22,554
sure.

570
00:45:22,554 --> 00:45:23,996
Whitney, thank you so much.

571
00:45:23,996 --> 00:45:25,868
This has been such a great conversation.

572
00:45:25,868 --> 00:45:32,451
I'm excited to hopefully have you on my new podcast and TV show, Down the Road.

573
00:45:32,451 --> 00:45:34,355
And thank you for what you're doing.

574
00:45:34,355 --> 00:45:35,532
It's really incredible.

575
00:45:35,532 --> 00:45:37,297
Well, I had so much fun chatting with you.

576
00:45:37,297 --> 00:45:39,222
feel like we could go on for another few hours.

577
00:45:39,222 --> 00:45:41,396
So thank you for connecting with me today.

578
00:45:42,162 --> 00:45:42,963
Absolutely.

579
00:45:42,963 --> 00:45:48,208
Thank you Whitney and thank you everyone and I hope that you and your family stay happy
and safe.

580
00:45:48,208 --> 00:45:49,649
Take care everyone.