Podcast: E10 - Thanksgiving Gratitude

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Hey there, friends. I want to welcome you to episode 10 of the Public Podcast and a great of Mental Health Therapy with Dr. Tiffany. And this podcast is about the holiday energy and focus that you are going to need to be successful. So it's Thanksgiving gratitude, and I hope it shows up for you just in time for the holidays here.

And I want to remind you that I have a three-leg stool of treatment, right? So it's neurological, psychological, physiological. So it's the brain, the mind, the body. And I really find, I get asked this question all the time when I do a brain health assessment or a natural health workout with somebody who then opts into the brain health assessment. And they ask all the time, are you sure I'm really supposed to do all of this at the same time? You know, like if I'm in an environment that's still toxic, whether that's physically or psychologically toxic.

So, you know me, I work with environmental illness. I have many clients that come to me for mycotoxin illness. The environment that they're in is toxic from some sort of chemical or their water was, you know, toxic for some reason. So they're literally in a toxic environment physically, or maybe they're still around something psychologically that's toxic.

And they'll ask me, should I really be working on brain balancing or should I really be working on detox strategies while I'm still in this unhealthy environment? And I wanna remind you, because my answer's always yes, I wanna remind you that we're looking for a one degree shift to get like long long-term serious change. A one degree shift. A one percent change to get like long-term sustainable shift. Okay?

And people will kind of look at me crazy when I say that. And I want you to think about if you're mapping somewhere and you're about one degree or one percent off over time, that off, that mapping off or being off of the mapping, that one degree, that one percent would land you someplace completely different than you were intending to go. And that is the thinking.

Over time, that shift accumulates. And it's always way more than 1% or 1 degree, right? And so if you are in an environment that is unhealthy, you can be working on changing your brain, changing your body, changing your mind at all times to get healthier.

And then more importantly, My Three Legs Stool is about not seeing life in this vacuum of like, okay, there's a silo, like my system works in a silo of this just impacted my psychology. Absolutely not. If something stressful happened and it impacted your psychology, it absolutely impacted your nervous system. That is what the neuroscience proves now is that you've got to rewire your nervous system. Absolutely brain and nervous system were impacted. Your physiology.

I as someone who has struggled with digestive issues, absolutely. The stress and trauma, it impacted my digestive tract. It impacted the inflammation in my body. It impacted the cortisol levels. So then why would we heal in a silo? Why would you do one thing at one time? So I'm ranting.

So anywho, for your Thanksgiving gratitude, I want you to think about that three leg stool. I want you to think as you go into Thanksgiving. And if you're an international client and you're like, we don't do Thanksgiving or like, I know some of my Canadian friends, like it's a different time of year and all of that, I think I might've even missed it already.

If there is a shared holiday or a holiday that I don't share, but is a holiday that is coming up for you, please apply this to your experience, right? So looking at this from a psychological perspective, what do you need to be telling your brain as you go into the holidays? What do you need to be saying to yourself?

If there's typically a triggering experience for you during the holidays, if there's someone that can activate your system, say things that are triggering, can you anticipate the part of you that tends to get triggered showing up and have a conversation with that part? If there is an inner child that tends to get wounded, or if your inner critic tends to show up, If there's a part that tends to get ruffled by the holidays and would interfere with self being fully in that grateful place, that gratitude place, can you take time to work with that part in advance?

Can you tune into, can you listen to that part? Can you tell me about it in session or can you journal? Can you do something to work with that part of you in advance? Can you pull up those thoughts that show up? Can you figure out where that part is in your body and send grace and send light and send healing to that part of your body to help process through those emotions?

This is a beautiful time of year to be doing your tapping work. Can you use the outside of the hand as your setup statement? And even though I know that this person tends to say things that can trigger my system, even though I have historically been anxious and I'm worried about being anxious, I completely love and accept myself as a child of God. Can you use that setup statement on the outside of your hand? Whatever it is that you need, whatever it is you need to say for you.

So can you go into this holiday holding on to that gratitude by working psychologically with your system? Physically, physiologically. I get a lot of questions about what you should eat or, and I hate to use that word should, you know, what would you be best served by eating? What do you do about the high allergen food? that you're supposed to be avoiding due to your food sensitivity lab, right? Because you did a food map with me and you know you can't eat.

You can if you want to, but you would not benefit from eating dairy or like one of my clients, we just, their sugar is highly reactive. Now it's reactive for most people, but it's actually showing up on the test is very reactive for the client. Eggs, like what do you do with that? And I really look at the holidays. I know everyone wants to take a break from their health, from the rigors of

 exercise. It's like a break from taking care of yourself.

And you know me, I don't ever see that there's a great time to take a break from loving on yourself, caring for yourself, nurturing yourself. And I really don't think a time when we're around old historical patterns and things that could psychologically trigger us is a great time to be inflamed. And I think we have to remind ourselves that we are removing these foods because they're inflammatory.

And so then they make our brains a little glitchier and they make our energy lower and they make our digestion unhappy and they make our joints inflamed. We have to tell the truth. We have to tell the story. And so that's another psychological construct, right? And so this is a time where you try to find lateral shifts and you lean into like gratitude for this food that is nourishing and healing, that doesn't cause inflammation, that doesn't cause brain fog, that doesn't cause focus issues and find the foods that make us up level and feel better.

So yes, I encourage you to box out foods that do not serve you right now, absolutely and honor those that do and that choice to continue to be your best, highest self during this holiday season. You don't have to get sick at this time of year when you're choosing foods that are low allergen and not so inflammatory, and you're taking all the appropriate steps.

And so then from a brain perspective, from a nervous system perspective, Maintain your rhythms, maintain your sleep rhythms that keep your brain happy, maintain your exercise that keeps the cerebellum happy. Make sure you're using your binaural beats and listening to your music while you're exercising to keep the temporal lobes happy, temporal lobes, temperament.

Make sure you're doing things that, like we'll play some board games during Thanksgiving with my family and there will probably be a puzzle and Legos going and all these different things. prefrontal cortex is engaged, you know, don't just veg out on the couch, try to keep that brain happy, engage with people and be grateful for the opportunity to have connectedness in relationship and family around as best you can, as best you can.

But remember it is a great time, the holiday break, to do things that are fun for the brain but that keep it online as well. Keep your routines, keep your schedule. The brain really craves schedule. Make sure you're going to bed within an hour of your normal bedtime and getting up within an hour of your normal bedtime. Make sure your rhythms are the same. That's a happy brain, right? Just like we keep the dog on a schedule, the brain likes to be on a predictable schedule.

And remember that the tapping, behaving, all the tools that y'all have in your toolbox. Gosh, the heavening, the somatic work that you know how to do, those of you who use the NeuroFit app with me, your aura rings, all of the things that we use in my practice, keep all of those rhythms going. And that is how you go through this holiday continuing to feel, there you go, that sense of gratitude. That sense of gratitude.

It's amazing to feel your best. And don't forget that. There's this FOMO because you're not having the alcohol, you're not eating all the sugar, you're not doing this thing, and it doesn't have to be because there is so much to be grateful for when your health and your brain is where you want it to be.

So I hope this message hit home, landed right when we needed to, and definitely always reply back to the email and let me know how it showed up for you. Remember the Three Lakes stool and how it hangs together. Our system is not a silo. And until next time, be well.