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Hey, welcome back to another episode of let's Just Talk About it podcast.
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I'm your host, chuck, and if you're here for the first time, this platform was created to give genuine people just like you an opportunity to share a portion of your life's journey.
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So, with that being said, today I have Sherita Parks on with me today, well, we have a great conversation about her passion as a health and wellness coach, where she helps to encourage leaders to seek fulfillment in all aspects of their lives, from their physical health to their emotional well-being and spiritual growth.
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So, hey, you don't want to miss this amazing conversation today.
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As a matter of fact, do me a favor Go and grab your husband, your wife, your children, or even call a friend and gather around to listen to my conversation with Sherita on let's Just Talk About it podcast.
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Hey, let's jump right in.
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Welcome back to another episode of let's Just Talk About it podcast, and on this episode, I have Dr Sherita Parks on with me today.
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How are you doing today, sherita?
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Hi, I'm doing great.
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How are you doing today?
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Doing good, doing good.
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Thanks for being on Good.
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Thank you for having me.
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I really appreciate it.
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Absolutely.
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You're welcome, sherita.
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I love to jump right into my interviews to have those genuine conversations with genuine people just like yourself, and I love to start off with this question when are you from?
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I am from P-Town and everybody in this area knows that P-Town is Portsmouth, virginia.
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I grew up there and went to school there most of my life and then moved to Chesapeake at one time and now I'm out in the Carrollton Virginia area near Smithfield.
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Wow, wow, wow.
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Yeah, so you don't remember me right, but I lived on Alcindor Road and you stayed on North Carenton, north Carenton, yep.
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Absolutely.
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Yes, if you weren't in my grade, then it's probably out of my brain.
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Yeah, yeah, you were a neighbor.
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I was a neighbor.
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Yes, definitely.
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Absolutely so.
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When you think about Cavalier Manor P-Town, how was that for you?
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Because we all grew up in different eras and saw it from a different perspective.
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So how was P-Town to you growing up?
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It was a place, it was home.
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You know it from a different perspective.
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So how was P-Town to you growing up.
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It was a place.
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It was home.
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You know it felt like a safe place.
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I grew up in a pretty stable family environment.
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We had lots of kids in the neighborhood to play with and even the neighbors the adult neighbors that were friends with our parents.
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It was like everybody was kind of connected as a family.
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So when you hear people say it takes a village, you know, that was kind of the way it was back in the day.
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You know, if somebody was getting out of line, you could expect anybody's parent to call you out and call your mama.
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So yeah, but it was a place of safety and home and growing and I loved it.
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You're absolutely right.
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It was that.
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And you had a next door neighbor.
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Yes, her dad had a peach tree.
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If she hears this, she knows who I'm talking about?
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I know right.
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Are you talking about the Uries?
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Absolutely, grover had his little garden and his peach tree.
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Yes, and me and my cousin used to sneak back then and take some off the tree.
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Oh, she's going to hear this, she's going to get you Absolutely.
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It was fun.
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It was fun you saw a lot of kids and, yeah, it was full of kids growing up.
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And we had the neighborhood pool.
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So I don't know if you and your sister was.
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You know, all the kids came over to our house because we had pool.
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So at some point everybody came through our yard.
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Yes, yep, you're right, so it was good times it was good yeah, so full circle.
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You know, coming together to do a episode together is major to me.
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So, yeah, I appreciate you being a part of this episode, you know.
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You're welcome.
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So, growing up in Portsmouth, all of us get to a place where we get grown and we feel like you know it's time to leave the house.
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I don't know if you went to college.
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I don't know how was that for you when you finally left from under your parents' roof?
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The tutelage of pastor reverend alvin r knight and mom margaret knight.
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Wow so, because my dad became a pastor later in life, but they were all.
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We were always very involved with church activities and, you know, had a good christ Christian foundation in our home and when I went away for college I wanted to get as far away as possible.
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I can say this now because God bless them.
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Rest in peace.
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They are no longer here to beat up on me if they hear this.
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But yeah, I think they knew that and the weird thing is I was the really shy, quiet kid but I wanted to be far away from home because I just felt I felt this need to spread my wings right and to come from under the tutelage and influence of my family and just kind of figure out who I was, because I, even from an early age, I kind of had an identity crisis, so to speak, and you'll hear more about that wow, wow.
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So you felt like you had to get for money that you know, wow so being being, I guess what we call being a preacher's kid yeah yeah, I got you, I got you, so I got you.
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So you leave home and do you go to college.
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You say I went to college, um up in Radford, virginia, right, um, and you know, even then, you know I was kind of searching, trying to figure out what I was supposed to do in the world and, um, I always, from childhood, struggle with kind of a undiagnosed ADHD, which kind of shows up a little differently for females.
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I know that now, I didn't know it then, but I always kind of had this feeling like I'm so different from everybody else.
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I would hear other kids and young adults speaking.
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I'm like I don't think like that, I don't move like that.
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I'm not wired that way.
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There's got to be something wrong with me.
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Why does it take me so long to get certain things done?
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You know, and I couldn't figure it all out at that age, but when I went to college there was a continuation of that that age, but when I went to college there was a continuation of that.
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Now I'm at school alone and I'm having to navigate some of those challenges that you know.
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And it wasn't I wouldn't say it was a lack of cognitive ability, like a lot of people think I literally could hyper-focus on things that I was interested in, and like I mean, I'm still that way.
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But you know a lot of the executive functioning skills and just socialization.
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All of that kind of stuff was a challenge for me.
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So that led me down a path of seeking for acceptance and community.
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I joined a sorority, not even realizing the spiritual implications of that until much later in life, you know, just always trying to be accepted and viewed as being quote unquote normal that's deep.
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You know.
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I always say you never know who's listening, who's dealing with the same type of thing and don't know, why we seek acceptance from our peers, you know what I mean why we go so hard now.
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You know, what I mean.
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So that's deep.
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And when you grow up in a family that's, they're pillars in the community, they're pillars in the church, they're leaders in the community and they have all of these high expectations of you.
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Then that creates this another level of that insecurity and identity crisis, where you're striving for perfection.
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You know you're always trying to go for these grandiose things, not even realize why you're chasing after the stuff, and it's just layer after layer of dysfunction from operating like that for years.
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And then all of a sudden you know you have that moment in your life when you're like I'm not well, what's going on here?
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Talk about that.
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Why am I in this place?
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You know, yeah, so that's kind of part of my story.
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Most people don't even know it, not even my good friends.
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I have two friends, I think that know it, but a lot of my friends don't even realize that that's a part of my story.
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Wow.
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So sometimes people do so much and we're not satisfied within ourselves, and then we hit that brick wall, yes.
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And then we have that moment where why am I doing this?
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What am I doing?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Right, yeah, right, wow, that's deep.
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Yeah, that's deep Coming through that and like deep yeah, it's deep coming through that and like I say you never know who's listening, who's going through that right now.
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What would you say to a person that you see yourself in them?
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Now, you know what would you say to that person?
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I would tell that young man, a young woman who is in that similar place, that they are absolutely loved and accepted just the way they are, you know, by God.
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He doesn't have any expectations of you having to become perfect for you to come to him.
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He accepts and loves you just the way you are and he, absolutely.
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He created us in his image and we have his mind.
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So even when the world tells you you got, you know, adhd or you have autism or you have whatever the label, is that the world places on people that tells them you're not well in some area of your life, you're obese, you're not well, you're emotional, you're too sensitive, you are not well.
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You know it's so many messages that we hear just looking at TV, you get those, all those messages Right but that you're loved and accepted by God, no matter what Like, even if nobody in the world tells you that I like it.
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That's what I would tell them.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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It's so many layers that you have to break through sometimes to get to that place to really accept the fact that God loves you just the way you are.
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Because sometimes we go through so much trauma in life.
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You know you got to break through layers and layers to get to that place where you say OK, I am loved and that trauma is big.
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Yeah absolutely.
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A lot of people think trauma is you're the girl who was raped at the age of seven, or you're the person who was bullied in school every day, or you know you whatever you know.
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We think of the big things but, depending on the person, trauma can be just about anything and things affect people differently.
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Yeah, about anything and things affect people differently.
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But it still can be trauma because it's an area of dysfunction or an absence of wholeness and well-being that is within you, and the only person who can fix that is God.
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And we run after all these.
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You know, do this and do yoga and do you know meditation, and you know I'm not saying that all of those things are.
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You know, some of those things I wouldn't practice myself personally, but we chase after the stuff, the things that we call wellness, and it really the foundation of it all is Christ and your relationship with him.
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Wow, wow.
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So those things fix the outside of a person yep, they sure do.
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Yep, I learned that last year real quick.
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I went through my um tumor scare and was told, you know, with 98 chance that it was cancer by multiple doctors and you know, we just gonna get the tumor out and then we'll talk about what kind of you know immunotherapy or whatever you need.
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And that was all you know.
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They were very matter of fact about all of it.
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And that was last year, even before I got the diagnosis was when God really really started to deal with me and show me more of who he was making me into.
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He had already kind of begun, I had already started the journey of wellness, but it's been really, really slow and I don't like that.
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But you know, maybe it's the ADHD, but I like to get things done quick.
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And I'm like, lord, I got my doctorate in 2020.
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I see all these people doing all these things, yada, yada, yada, and everybody in their mama is a wellness coach now and I'm like, okay, all right, lord, what are we going to do now?
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And he was like, look, your journey is a journey.
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I didn't call you to this to just teach it or coach people based on a textbook model of coaching.
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I want you to be well and I want to take you through this journey and show you some nuggets about well-being that you're not going to get from the world's definition of wellness.
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Right, and that's what he's been doing.
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Wow.
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So it's like kind of experiencing it yourself.
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So it's just a lot of stuff yourself.
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So it just means a lot of stuff you say, but it's a lot of stuff you've lived and experienced.
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Yes, absolutely.
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You know.
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It started with the physical fitness and really into exercise and doing all those things.
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And I wasn't.
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I was obese at one time in my life as well, and back in 2004, I got diabetes.
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My father had just died of diabetic complications.
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I was terrified, I'm not going to lie to you, and at that point I decided to have gastric bypass surgery because I had read that some French doctors had done these studies and it showed that 85% of the people in their studies were cured of their diabetes or greatly reduced their medications just by having the Rue and Y gastric bypass, because they're taking out a part of your intestines.
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So I said, is this real?
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Like they haven't lost any weight yet?
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And so I kept reading and I'm a researcher by nature.
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I think that's why I did well in the doctoral program, despite my challenges.
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But I had the surgery in 2005.
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The day of surgery, when I got back to the room in recovery, mind you, I was taking a lot of insulin and I was on metformin before surgery, and from the time the surgery was completed, I haven't had to have any medication since, and that's been since 2005.
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So God is God, used that to bring healing to my body in that area.
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But since then I've developed a real love and a passion for health and being grateful for the gift that he gave me and not taking it for granted.
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I will not, lord Jesus, please, I will not be one of those people who, you know, get the surgery and then just continue with the bad habits and gain all the weight back.
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But I know that that is something a lot of people struggle with gain all the weight back.
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But I know that that is something a lot of people struggle with.
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But for me, you know, he's had me walk through this journey so I could maybe bless and help other people.
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So how do you see yourself now?
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Like you feel like you're past where you were, you're growing.
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Yeah, I am, I am, I am renewed, I am free, I feel.
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Last year I went through a lot of different layers of deliverance.
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Um, I had to kind of renounce some things then, pledges and things that I had made in my life that um didn't honor god, because, you know, his word tells us that you should have no other god before me.
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And then that that goes across the board any kind of idols in our life, um, you know, and you know an idol can be social media, you know it can be anything.
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So he just kind of idols in our life, and you know an idol can be social media, you know it can be anything.
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So he just kind of peeled back the layers of all of that and I just fell in love with his word, like I had never, ever done before.
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And I think, because I was able to lay down those things that were idols and remove those things from my life, that the Lord was like okay, now I've got something, I've got good soil, I can work through all of these things that you have been trying to figure out all your life, and it just happened with ease, you know.
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So I praise God for that too.
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Wow, I love that because again, you never know who's listening and you give somebody, somebody's hope.
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So when you talk about your journey and you coming out, you give other people hope that may be listening and you're like, hey, I can't get out of this, I'm depressed, I'm going through so much because of my past, but you're growing, you're steady.
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Get into a place where you're happy.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, and it's a journey for anybody you know, and you know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, and it's a journey for anybody you know and you know so many people are.
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You know we've got this cancel culture and everybody is telling the truth no love there whatsoever.
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And um, I I have been hesitant about sharing some details in a public platform, so to speak, about some of the deliverance work, because I never want people to feel like I'm coming from a place of judgment, because I was once there myself and the Lord had to show me these things.
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It wasn't somebody telling me, you know, he revealed it.
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So I think we as Christians sometimes try to fix people and tell them what they should be doing, and I just that approach.
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For me God doesn't do that.
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I mean, we have his word as a guy, but he never forces us into anything.
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So that's what I love about coaching so much You're not telling people what to do, You're helping them come to the revelation of themselves, what their issues are, what their challenges are, why they have an extra hundred pounds.
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You know they usually come in starting off with some health goal and then halfway into it, they recognize that, wow, I can't even begin to address this until I get all these other things addressed.
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You know their eyes are open.
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It's a beautiful thing to see too.
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Wow, you talk about wholeness.
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You have your LLC, the Be Well Leadership LLC.
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Talk about that.
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That's a great segue.
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Yes, yes, okay, so that is my company Initially.
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It's funny, when I first came up with the name Be Well Leadership, it wasn't a coaching business, it was more of a leadership consultation workshops.
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I do still do those things and I'm passionate about helping small businesses and nonprofits.
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Look at the domain in which they work.
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So you know you may be working towards ending human trafficking or homelessness, but being able to show them how their work is tied up into this whole system of things.
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You know community organizations, government.
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You know people that have things going on that are helping the homeless and that they cannot continue to work in silos because when they do that they hinder the level of great outcomes that they can have.
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They hinder the level of great outcomes that they can have.
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So when people begin to see that, oh, what I'm doing over here is affecting this group and what they're doing affects me, and we can't be in competition with one another, we need to see how all of these things are connected and tied together and then we can really see true change.
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So that's the systems dynamics.
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Part of my doctorate was in strategic leadership, but I had a focus in systems dynamics and healthcare as well.
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So I like to show organizations, especially nonprofits, how their work impacts and can be a leverage for change in people's lives, not just a band-aid.
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You know, two years ago I kept saying I want to coach, I want to coach, I want to coach.
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And I said I can coach, I don't have to get any special training for it.
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I've got my doctorate.
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Everybody's all impressed by titles and letters behind or in front of your name.
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So I was like I can do it without that.
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And I kept hearing Laura say you need to, you need to get some training in this because it's different from what you think.
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And so I went and I got my well coaches, health and wellness certification.
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And then I got the additional layer of certification for lifestyle medicine and lifestyle management.
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So that enabled me to really learn about the psychology of behavior change and what things we do naturally, especially in how we communicate, that prevent people from actually changing.
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And I was like, wow, I don't even know if I know anybody that doesn't do this, you know.
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So I had to really learn how to alter my way of communicating, because I'm a nerd, I know a little bit about everything.
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Anybody that knows me would tell you Lord Jesus, she'll talk your head off if you get her on a topic that she's interested in and learn how to not be a teller but to listen and to learn how to ask.
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Got you.
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I say Holy spirit led questions.
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Okay, the questions are everything got you and that's what gets people to see their stuff.
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You know wow, wow.
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I love your passion, I love what you're doing.
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You know, helping others become absolutely, you're welcome, become whole and giving them hope.
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Giving them hope letting them know there's a brighter day.
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So, the things you do.
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That's the things you do in terms of your work, right, yeah, okay, I love this quote by Dr Howard Thurman.
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Since you're a doctor, I love this quote.
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It says don't ask what the world needs.
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Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who come alive.
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What makes you come?
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alive outside of that routine that you do every day.
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What makes me come alive is family, and I don't say that from a place of having the perfect family.
