How to Think and Grow Younger

[00:00:00] Autumn Carter: This is episode 1 75 today we're gonna be talking about how to think and grow young.

[00:00:07] Welcome to Wellness In Every Season, the podcast where we explore the rich tapestry of wellness in all of its forms. I'm your host, autumn Carter, a certified life coach, turn wellness coach, as well as a certified parenting coach dedicated to empowering others to rediscover their identity in their current season of life.

[00:00:27] My goal is to help you thrive, both as an individual and as a parent.

[00:00:30] Today I have with me jody she is a certified health coach, homeopath energy medicine practitioner.

[00:00:40] She is written a book and the cover looks beautiful to begin with and she has been an editor, she's been everywhere, done everything it sounds like. So I am very excited to have her on. And today we're gonna talk about humans and pets and [00:01:00] how to reverse aging. And I know for me, my mom always said I'm an old lady.

[00:01:08] She had me super young. And she said that. From as early as I can remember and that never sat right with me because a lot of it is up here and what are we really thinking and feeling about ourselves? So I am very excited you're here. Thank you for being on. Thank you for having me, autumn. Yeah, I'm very excited for today and just the connections that we had just before we hit record, I had to keep saying, okay, we'll talk about that later.

[00:01:37] We'll talk about that later because. It feels very aligned that you're on today of all days. Yeah. Where would you like to start with this conversation?

[00:01:49] Jody L. Teiche: You said something about your mom. And, the first thing that comes up for me, which is one of the pillars in my book, is we become what we think about [00:02:00] all day.

[00:02:01] So if you're constantly telling yourself, I'm an old lady. I'm an old lady, I'm an old lady, then biologically, mentally, emotionally, you. Plug into that idea and it becomes constant repetition is how we get things to sink into the subconscious, so it becomes part of your subconscious belief system.

[00:02:29] And that's not something I want as part of my subconscious belief system. I just turned 70. Wow. And I am living my message. I, feel more vibrant, more brain sharp, more energetic than many days. In my forties when I was running around New York City, like a crazy person as a publicist in the entertainment industry.[00:03:00] 

[00:03:00] Burnout after burnout. It is very possible to plug into ways to trigger your body to heal, trigger our pet's bodies to heal, to slow and even reverse aging. It's a really exciting time when it comes to health and longevity.

[00:03:26] Autumn Carter: I feel younger in my own thinking to begin with. Than I ever did because I don't have that trauma going on all the time.

[00:03:38] Childhood trauma, those people aren't around me. They're on the other side of the country where they belong, and I feel so much peace. And I have four kids, so not in that area of my life. I do in my own wellness and my own thinking, [00:04:00] and it's been a huge. Growth impact, and it's allowed me that time thinking of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

[00:04:09] Now that my basic needs are met, my next need is how do I take care of myself knowing that I'm turning 40 this year and I wanna make it until my nineties. I don't know that I wanna make it to a hundred and beyond because I, wanna be the feisty, spry great grandma, and I wanna be able to be still doing things if I'm not.

[00:04:30] Let's just call it. Yeah.

[00:04:32] Jody L. Teiche: Yeah.

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[00:05:42] And quality of life is very important to me, so I love that we are talking about this because there's so many of us that are. The old version of you that went from one burnout to another doing, doesn't [00:06:00] know how to relax, how to take care of themselves, and I know tons of people who are my age and stage in life who now things are falling apart.

[00:06:12] What are your thoughts related to that? Just you're at this point where. Everything that you have neglected is caught up with you. What do you have to say to those people?

[00:06:23] Jody L. Teiche: Yeah, so my thoughts on why people younger and pets younger and younger are getting sick is twofold. One is nutrition.

[00:06:47] I think you'll find, first, let me preface what I'm about to say with this. Everyone has leaky gut, everyone, and probably every [00:07:00] pet has leaky gut too. So just for your listeners that don't know what leaky gut is, it's when the junctions in our gut mucosal lining. That keep everything that your, digestive system has digested inside the digestive system where it belongs till it can be excreted, the waste can be excreted and the nutrients can be used.

[00:07:29] But when you have leaky gut, there are microscopic tears in that mucosal lining, those junctions. And so those things that don't belong in your bloodstream leak out. Hence the term leaky gut. And those things that are leaking out are inflammatory, and when they leak out into your bloodstream, they create chronic inflammation.

[00:07:55] And we know now that chronic inflammation equals [00:08:00] disease over time. So my couple of reasons why I think younger and younger people and animals are getting sick is number one, nutrition. I think you'll find that the people getting sick, younger aren't necessarily on a regular basis giving their gut microbiome the foods, the kinds of foods that it needs to thrive, and the gut microbiome is.

[00:08:33] Fascinating. Oh my God. It totally gets me going, which might sound weird, but, and that's no pun intended over there, but it's such an intricate, beautiful, delicate balance and so intelligent in what it tells the body to do, to prepare for what its senses is incoming. It's just incredible. And it [00:09:00] requires certain types of foods to, number one, extract the nutrients the body needs, and number two, create the environment where your friendly bacteria are in the right abundance and diversity to keep your unfriendly bacteria in check and that your body is digesting properly.

[00:09:21] So that's one. Two is we live in a toxic soup. Environmental toxins are in a way different place today than they were even a decade ago. So our bodies are battling incoming all the time. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the grass we walk on. It's like everywhere the products we use.

[00:09:49] We keep seeing articles now about microplastics and everything. And that stays in your body. So if our bodies are already experiencing an [00:10:00] onslaught of environmental toxins that they have to deal with, and we're not providing the nutrients needed for the body to thrive, this combination alone, forget pharmaceuticals.

[00:10:14] Forget. Certain toxic things. Toxic thinking that might enter into the equation, but the body already has a lot on its plate. And when the scales are tipped where the body no longer has the wherewithal to self-heal, which is what it's designed to do, then it starts to. Create disease attack itself.

[00:10:46] And I believe by shifting nutrition, creating practices that tap [00:11:00] into our parasympathetic nervous system, that rest, restore, repair, nervous system. Most of us are running around like I was in my forties and still am many days today in that sympathetic nervous system of fight or flight.

[00:11:15] But when we can tap more and more into that parasympathetic nervous system through practices that we have control over and can do every day. We give our bodies a chance to heal. We lower our cortisol, so that's also chronic inflammation when the cortisol is constantly spiked. So there are ways to balance the imbalances and create healing in the body for people and pets.

[00:11:45] But this is why, a long answer to why I think people younger and younger are getting sick.

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[00:15:00] Totally makes sense. And so many different thoughts came through my head of, oh, that connects with this and that connects with this in here and okay.

[00:15:06] It was, yeah, so great to just experience that and see the different connections forming for me and I'm gonna get vulnerable and not cry.

[00:15:18] I was telling her right before this recording that our dog was diagnosed with cancer yesterday, she's eight, so I. Yeah, it's hard.

[00:15:28] Jody L. Teiche: Yeah.

[00:15:29] Autumn Carter: And nutrition is something that is very important to us. And I just had somebody a month ago, so maybe just is not the right word, but I had somebody on a month ago who was talking about pet wellness.

[00:15:42] She had a pet food store, and it just became the thing that now she has her own podcast and talking about holistic foods for pets. That was the next thing that I was going to work on, and it's maybe not soon enough. And we are, our dogs do [00:16:00] sports. We're a very active family. We high energy dogs.

[00:16:04] We've always had high energy dogs. Our kids are high energy. It just, it goes with us. It works with us. So it was super obvious that something was wrong because she is on the thinner, very muscular end, and it's crazy to me. Her leg right now with the inflammation, she looks like a fat dog just on that leg.

[00:16:29] So knowing that we exercise 'em well and that they aren't an unhealthy weight, we already felt like we were safe just through that. And I made sure that she was on the cleanest dog food that my husband was also in agreement on. It's the whole thing of making sure you agree, and if I'm really adamant about something, he'll give in. So that was the next thing that I was going to work on. But [00:17:00] it's interesting that you were talking about inflammation and that's where cancers can come in and so many other chronic diseases.

[00:17:12] Jody L. Teiche: I, I. First of all, I said this to you before we started recording today, but I'll say it again.

[00:17:20] I am so sorry. It's so hard. I have experienced this with other pet parents and I'm a lifelong animal lover and pet parents, so I, know. that they're just a part of our hearts and family. So I'm putting, it's hard, good healing energy out there. And I told you I'm happy to have a conversation with you after it's actually a really great thing that your family's really active. Your dogs are really active, they're sports [00:18:00] dogs because that means that their life force is high. And when the life force is high, the body has the best abilities to heal putting the pieces in place, nutrition and other pieces and modalities in place to trigger your dog's body to heal is very possible.

[00:18:33] I do not know what kind of cancer she has. I do not know how far along it is. We can never guarantee anything in this life

[00:18:42] it absolutely can only help to implement the right nutrition and certain supplements and healing modalities to help trigger her body because we're all made up of energy. Every cell vibrates on its own [00:19:00] frequency. That's why things like. Homeopathy, which is such an elegant and powerful, yet gentle form of

[00:19:09] medicine is so fascinating to me because it works directly by connecting with the energy of any given illness. Specifically how that individual being is expressing that illness. So two people with the same thing could get two completely different remedies because the symptoms that they're expressing that illness with can be different.

[00:19:42] So finding ways to tap into a person or animal's energy. To balance imbalances, triggers the healing response and then the nutrition and key [00:20:00] supplements and other modalities around homeopathy. Not only homeopathy can absolutely do wonders really help. So I'm putting out there to you that you have options.

[00:20:18] You have options. Once you find out more, you have options.

[00:20:22] Autumn Carter: For me, it's whenever I'm in that limbo and I was telling my son this last week when we were at the emergency vet that my thing that I struggle with the most is when I don't see the options. When I can't have the plan and then have several contingency plans.

[00:20:40] My husband and I very much both love to do contingency plans, and as soon as I started leaning into that, realizing he does well with that, I realized, wow, this feels really good. So now I am more pro contingency plan that I think he is at this point. We married young, so it's been interesting to see like [00:21:00] how much of this is me versus you at this point in our lives, 16 years later.

[00:21:05] Okay. Yeah. But what came to me was remembering our previous two dogs. We tend to have two dogs together. 'cause then they can, they're not less needy, they can entertain each other a little more. Yeah. They play with each other. Yes. And our previous two, I adopted Daisy the weekend that I turned 19.

[00:21:30] So a while ago, and how much did I know? That was my first pet that I ever had. I had some growing up, but for very short periods of time, something would happen. Mental health with my parents, blah, blah, blah. So this was my first I'm an adult, I'm getting my own dog. And it was amazing. She fell in love with my husband before I fell in love with him.

[00:21:59] Jody L. Teiche: I may have

[00:21:59] Autumn Carter: brought [00:22:00] him to meet her, but she very much was like, yep, you're the one for me and for my mom and I know how much growth I had as a pet parent with her and then having our other dog and rescuing her. And I don't know how many of you guys listening or watching have seen the Problem Child, that movie, but she was that in a dog form.

[00:22:25] Wow. I always thought I was going to foster and adopt a human being after her. We decided if we were going to do that, we would wait till our children were old enough that they would not be affected because. Wow. She had some kind of mental health something, this dog. And she would do well for a while and then all of a sudden she would just be back crazy.

[00:22:47] Just Wow. And there was a lot of learning there, and she definitely prepared us for having children and. [00:23:00] We struggled to understand her and had to put a lot of puzzle pieces in for her, and it just reminded, reminds me of the when you know better you do better and that learning along the way and how much better we did for this set that we currently have compared to this set and how I'm learning things.

[00:23:22] I can do better with the dogs that I currently have, and I will be even better pet, and parent for when it's time to have our next set of dogs and other animals because knowing our children will have more than dogs eventually. My daughter is very interested in veterinary science or just anything animals, and I was trying to share with her, here's the career path, like here are all the options.

[00:23:49] It's not just veterinary medicine. You can do so many other things in there. So we've definitely had her be more available and come to vet [00:24:00] appointments with us and stuff like that. And it's that reminder that. We are all, animals. And we all have the same very fundamental needs of being loved, feeling safety, and getting the right nutrients.

[00:24:18] And one of the videos that I was showing her on YouTube, just she's seven, so trying to help her understand through video is so much easier than like for mom of, okay, here are the different things you can do. And. One of 'em was a zookeeper and going over dietary needs of animals. So that definitely was brought up for me of animals need their specific diet.

[00:24:47] You can't do take, okay, this diet for a bird is gonna work for a dog and have that work for very long at all. Exactly. So it needs to be specific for where is that animal [00:25:00] supposed to. Grow up, like where's a native to? And there's so many other things in there. Oh, it totally makes sense.

[00:25:08] Jody L. Teiche: Species appropriate is very important. And when we look at dogs and cats, their digestive systems have not changed since they were wolves and the big cats. Yeah, we've domesticated them. They have beds and sleep in our beds and all of that fun stuff of being part of our family.

[00:25:38] And their digestive systems haven't changed. So raw diets are really the species appropriate diets for dogs and cats. When you think about a kill, they would make a kill. The first thing they would eat would be the organs, because they are the most [00:26:00] nutrient dense. Then they'd eat muscle meat. They eat skin and fur, fiber eyeballs, brains, everything.

[00:26:13] The last thing they would eat is the stomach contents, which were the vegetables. From the kinds of beings that they would kill. So that just shows you that nature gave them the desire to feed themselves the things that were most important to their bodies and survival first, right in, in.

[00:26:46] Descending order of importance. Yeah, it's it being able to feed that kind of a diet [00:27:00] that they're gonna get all the nutrition they need. If they've got their muscle meat, they have their organs, especially beef, liver, pork, liver. Those are the most nutrient dense you don't want a lot.

[00:27:13] There's a breakdown. And that's important. Other secreting organs are important, some sort of fiber. So if it's not, they're not gonna be eating fur, which you can get from places today. Then some vegetables are a great idea, but maybe you throw those raw vegetables. The cruciferous ones that have sulforaphane that are anti-cancer, vegetables and other nutritious vegetables.

[00:27:42] Maybe you throw them with water in a food processor and you puree them, and that's what you give your animal. Because anytime you add heat, you're killing nutrients, right? So you wanna break the cellulose down. They don't have the ability to [00:28:00] digest that. And the food processor will take care of that for you.

[00:28:05] So having the right kind of balanced, raw, meaty bones also a super important part of a balanced diet, especially for a dog nutrition, natural toothbrush and natural entertainer. It's, there's just a system that's tried and true for. Generations, right? Hundreds of years. So yeah, that's the foundation.

[00:28:39] There's definitely species appropriate, foundation pieces that are super important to every type of animal. Yeah.

[00:28:49] Autumn Carter: And there's that reminder, and it's something that I've been thinking about for several months that. Dogs would not be eating [00:29:00] vegetables or fruits unless the meat was not around.

[00:29:04] If you think back to watching Nature documentaries that I enjoy watching I know something's wrong with me or something's right with me, depending on which side of the scale you're on.

[00:29:13] Jody L. Teiche: Nature is very cool.

[00:29:14] Autumn Carter: Yeah. Discovery Channel, animal Channel, those were my channels when we had cable when I was a kid and.

[00:29:24] Looking at we'll even look at lions. They are. Or hyenas. Or if you see dingoes, our dogs are, were originally bred with dingoes. So one of these days I'm gonna go to Australia and sneak back in dingo. I keep telling my husband that he is I don't think so anyway. I don't think you're gonna wanna live with a dingo.

[00:29:45] Probably not.

[00:29:46] Jody L. Teiche: Yeah,

[00:29:46] Autumn Carter: we have a local zoo and I love going and watching them. I, am very upset if my children throw a fit and I can't go and see them like ping upset, not like upset. I just pout to my husband about it. But [00:30:00] they are scavengers. If main food, source of meat is not around, then they'll scavenge for other things.

[00:30:09] So let's switch this to humans now. And let's think about that because talking about liver, when we hear we're gonna have liver for dinner, all of us are ew. It was not my thing either, but let's think about how healthy that is and how bone broth became super popular again. And how those things are healthy for us and important and.

[00:30:39] To make this more personal. I don't like green beans, so I had my husband stick them in smoothie for me. So I find a way to stick it in food. So it's not like the main source. Yeah. What do you have to say for the human side of things? We talked about dogs in particular because that's [00:31:00] where my heart is at right now.

[00:31:01] Jody L. Teiche: Yeah. But

[00:31:01] Autumn Carter: what is that like for humans? And then let's go a step further and what about. How do we undo the generational? They have not been eating correctly for generations type of food, trauma. I don't know what you'd even call that.

[00:31:19] Jody L. Teiche: Okay. So those are two big questions. So let's start with diet, nutrition and humans first.

[00:31:30] Different than dogs and cats

[00:31:33] Autumn Carter: for sure.

[00:31:34] Jody L. Teiche: For sure. I didn't eat meat for years. Meat or poult, red meat or poultry. I ate fish. I went back to eating meat about within a year of moving to Texas. Go figure. That's what I was thinking. And and I felt better. And the last year [00:32:00] I was eating a lot of meat, a lot of red meat.

[00:32:04] In my annual physicals, I went from a minute amount of plaque in my carotid artery to a couple of 0.3 over the line of where you have to start addressing it in one year. So what am I doing? I'm cutting back on red meat. I've done some, I do a lot of continuing ed because I wanna be, I wanna show up as the best health coach and educator and resource person that I can for my clients and whoever hears me.

[00:32:42] Where my message lands like today? I went to a lecture by a board certified. Neuro microbiologist doctor [00:33:00] brilliant who all he does is help people with cancer heal, and he does it through nutrition and he emphasized with several exclamation points what I knew, but to an nth degree, which is that fiber.

[00:33:22] All kinds soluble and insoluble. Fiber is critical for good health. So your vegetables, your healthy grains, oatmeal and RINs and millet and chi quinan chia seeds. Figs high sugar, so you're not gonna wanna be pounding away a bag of figs, but you can Google healthy fiber foods, healthy soluble fiber foods, healthy insoluble fiber foods.[00:34:00] 

[00:34:00] The difference is the soluble fibers when they're digesting, they turn into this sort of gelatinous substance that is like a bit of a whisk broom through your colon. Very good. Everybody needs the cleaners to come in every now and then, right? The insoluble fiber, and it also helps regulate keep you more regular.

[00:34:24] The insoluble fibers are slowing down digestion and. Just enough so that things get assimilated properly. And it's also really good to help clean your colon and keep you regular. So fiber is an incredibly important part that people who are on the carnivore diet or other diets where they are not eating that.[00:35:00] 

[00:35:00] Are doing injustice to their bodies. Red meat has incredible vitamins and minerals, especially your B vitamins and your iron and all that great stuff. And finding a place for everything is important.

[00:35:18] Now, the other thing that is really important to good human health is fermented foods. The gut loves fermentation.

[00:35:29] So whether it's choosing Kafi or Keifer, like they like to say it here in Texas or kimchi or sauerkraut or truly fermented pickles or fermented vegetables, you can ferment almost anything. But having something fermented every day, gut loves it. So that's really important. Plenty of fiber [00:36:00] fermented food.

[00:36:01] And then the third thing that I always tell people is intermittent fasting. If you can work up to that sweet spot of 16 to 18 hours of no food between dinner and breakfast, the next day, you are giving your body not only a chance to rest, restore, heal. Also to go into a place called or, a process called autophagy.

[00:36:36] And autophagy is where your body gets rid of or repairs cells that are broken. I'm not gonna go too deep here, but this is I totally geek out over this stuff. It's one of the hallmarks of aging. Is senescent cells, they're cells that are either not working at all anymore, [00:37:00] like dead cells, ghost cells, or working only to part capacity, and they muck up the works.

[00:37:08] And the creepy thing is if you have a senescent cell and you have a healthy cell next door, it can make it senescent just by proximity. So we wanna be clearing those out. Autophagy helps with that. It helps either repair when possible or get rid of senescent cells, that are not functioning properly, and that would be intermittent fasting and probably sleep.

[00:37:39] Sleep is great too. Sleep is super important. How much time do we have today? We can't cover all of it, but yes, sleep is five hours later. We're still talking healing and rest, restore, repair. Absolutely. But this nutrition piece is really important. So those are the [00:38:00] three things that I.

[00:38:01] I teach my clients and I talk about in terms of what the gut loves and will help to repair the body. The intermittent fasting, the fermented foods, and fiber. So very different from dogs and cats. Yet. We both share a lot when it comes to the needs of the body.

[00:38:26] Supplements we can share, that's a whole other podcast, but that's also something that being one of the very few people, pet health coaches out there when I am coaching a pet parent or sometimes I'm coaching a person for themselves and for their pet.

[00:38:47] I find sometimes that pets and people have the same issues, which is wild 'cause we're so connected with our animals, like gastro issues, et cetera. I will talk to them about the things [00:39:00] that I think bio individually would benefit their pet and them that they could share chair. There's definitely similarities when it comes to diet.

[00:39:14] There are definitely differences in our pets and us, and for people. You want variety. All the different colors of the rainbow, right? And plenty of fiber. And then the other things that we talked about are really important, and you wanna do small portions of animal protein, maybe not every single day. It is important and sourcing is key for everything.

[00:39:47] You wanna do your best and we have to meet people where they are too, right? Not everyone can afford to buy everything organic. Not everyone can afford to, get every [00:40:00] supplement that might benefit them. It's not cheap. Taking good care of ourselves, our medical system is totally flip flopped.

[00:40:08] We've got the government paying for pharmaceuticals, subsidizing right, subsidizing pharmaceuticals, but yet supplements and being able to buy organic.

[00:40:27] So sourcing is really important when it comes to. Meats and fish because if you're eating meat from the factory farming system, you are eating meats that have in their meat, that's going right into you or your animal.

[00:40:39] Pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones. And they all, that's a whole other podcast. What that does in the body over time, with fish, farmed fish as opposed to wild caught fish, which has heavy metals. But we can't get around everything today. But [00:41:00] in farmed fish, you got a whole lot more, the kinds of things that they're fed, which are very subpar the drugs they're given.

[00:41:10] To keep them healthy and healthy with quotation marks around them. Maybe make them grow faster like they do with cows, chickens. It's got a lot of things in farmed fish that you definitely don't want in your body. So sourcing is very important. And the same with vegetables. I really love to shop at farmer's markets.

[00:41:35] I feel like when I can talk to the farmer. I can know at the source what they're doing as best, as they'll be honest with me. But here in Austin the farmer's markets it's a crunchy city. So the farmer's markets are very much of the mindset of organic no pesticides, no [00:42:00] herbicides free pasture raised and finished and all of that.

[00:42:07] Autumn Carter: Watching a David Achenbach video documentary and it was interesting. He was showing a video that just, it still gets me. They were scraping up the bottom of the ocean floor and just showing how it kills everything. And they're scraping up all of that, getting all this stuff from the ocean to throw most of it back.

[00:42:33] And once they do, it's dead. There's no going back just to get one type of fish or one type of whatever. It gets to that point of, okay, which is better farming or natural caught, and it goes back to how was it sourced? Was it sustainably sourced as well? Yeah. So I wanted to put that caveat in there because Yeah.

[00:42:55] Every once in a while I'll be doing something totally different and it will just pop into my head and just, oh, [00:43:00] what do I do to help in this?

[00:43:03] Jody L. Teiche: Area. This is such an important point and why I said the fish will have heavy metals as well as other plastics and other toxins that are sick.

[00:43:15] Oceans sadly now contain, there's no getting around. You can't eat a hundred percent clean. It doesn't exist on our planet sadly, unless maybe you go to a part of the world. Maybe in one of the blue zones where things are more pristine and managed, I still think it would still be tainted in some way.

[00:43:39] The oceans, because Yeah, the oceans aren't continent specific, so we have to mitigate. We mitigate in a couple of ways. We mitigate with high antioxidant foods, antioxidant stimulating [00:44:00] supplements, like NAC stimulates more glutathione production in the body, which is our greatest antioxidant internally.

[00:44:08] Autumn Carter: That's a vitamin I take every day.

[00:44:10] Jody L. Teiche: Things like Carbon 60, which is an external way to. Get rid of free radicals. It has more antioxidant power by 172 to 270 times in vitamin C or vitamin E. Wow. No toxicity level for people or pets. Things like zeolite in the body. It's a natural form of clay in the body.

[00:44:42] It draws and traps in a cage like molecular structure, heavy metals, and other environmental toxins. It's mostly known for heavy metals and safely carries it outta the body. DCE Earth is another great one. There are things that we can do to [00:45:00] mitigate and get that stuff out of us on a regular basis because you can't avoid it.

[00:45:07] You really can't. And it's a very deep sadness of what we've done to our planet and the world in which we live today.

[00:45:19] Autumn Carter: And it really shows that so much of it starts with us. What are we doing to ourselves? Yeah. And then that's our surroundings. And it just goes in layers out. Thinking of environmental wellness here.

[00:45:30] Jody L. Teiche: Yes.

[00:45:30] Autumn Carter: And that. It very much has reflected what we're doing here on the continents in our ocean, vice versa, and just in our atmosphere.

[00:45:41] Jody L. Teiche: Yes,

[00:45:41] Autumn Carter: we did not have, when you were a child, did you hear about ozone issues? I did when I was a child because I was a child. The

[00:45:51] Jody L. Teiche: sixties, it just and early sixties, and.

[00:45:56] First of all, we didn't have as many issues, environmental [00:46:00] issues as we do today. But we were gung-ho in the industrial age still. And the world was cleaner. The world was definitely cleaner than it is now by a long shot. And we didn't have as much awareness. Climate control wasn't a thing.

[00:46:21] Climate was climate, it just was part of everyday living, seasonal living. So a lot has changed. We've learned a lot more and we have more tools which is great.

[00:46:42] But really when you get down to the core, in my humble opinion, you just said something that, triggered this for me, which is that, it comes down to us, right? In terms of what we do out in the world, that affects our oceans, nature, the environment, everything. And that really stems from what we think about and how we think, right? So if we are me thinkers, and if we come from a place of fear, lack. We are going to operate in the world in a way to protect ourselves and get the most that we can as fast as we can, so we don't suffer if we come from a place of being connected to everyone and everything on the planet.

[00:47:49] In the solar system. In the universe then our, the way we show up in the world is more expansive, [00:48:00] right? So we are thinking about how we show up the interactions we have with others and what we are doing that is affecting others, the planet, et cetera. Those are two polar points and most people are somewhere in the middle in varying places.

[00:48:28] So really doing like pillar two in Think and Grow Young is mind mastery. We become what we think about all day, and it is not only going into the science of this, but also tools. That we can incorporate into our lives every day. That over time of doing them gives us, connects us more with ourselves, our authentic selves and [00:49:00] everything around us, the universe, and

[00:49:07] taps into an inner knowing confidence. That helps one show up in the world in a more grounded, expansive way. So these are the kinds of things, everything is connected. Just like when you go to a conventional doctor and they look at a body part and they give you a drug for it, for your symptom, for that body part is not going to heal.

[00:49:35] Being holistic healing, we are not body parts, we are holistic. Mind, body, spirit being same thing with the planet. And its people.

[00:49:51] Autumn Carter: I love that.

[00:49:52] And I think you still answered my other big question of what do we do for the generational part? When we are taking care of ourselves, we can undo so many things.

[00:50:05] And what I think about it for my own life is that instead of pouring into a cup, I am pouring into a strainer and it's pouring out to other people as well. So when I'm taking care of myself. I can take care of the stress of what's happening to my dog. I can take care of my, the feelings of my other children.

[00:50:28] And remembering that I'm not just holding space for them, but they're holding space for me as well. Yeah, that's beautiful. That just, ugh. I was driving and I thought about that. I was like, okay, tears stop. I need to focus on the road. Yeah.

[00:50:41] Jody L. Teiche: Which is one of those moments, but that's beautiful. Yeah. And one more little caveat to that is the energy that you bring, the frequency that you show up within for your dog, your children, your husband, your friends, your family [00:51:00] absolutely makes a difference.

[00:51:04] And. Affects the frequencies that they operate from. And frequencies, energy, it's triggers, biological processes. We know this scientifically, it's quantum physics, so it makes a huge difference. Yeah.

[00:51:28] Autumn Carter: And it makes sense because our spirit is so much bigger. We give credit for or we think that we're just whatever our height is and our weight and No, it's bigger than that.

[00:51:39] Oh yeah. Especially you'll know this if you have little children and Wow, there are some little children out there where their spirits are ginormous. If you see that personalities that everything else,

[00:51:51] Jody L. Teiche: that was my daughter. Was because she's 39 now. She's your age. Yeah. She's turning 40 next year.[00:52:00] 

[00:52:00] She's a long time adult, but I remember her as a little girl. Big spirit, big personality. So

[00:52:09] Autumn Carter: yeah, and I think part of that is if we are allowing ourselves to still have this big spirit and hold space for that, instead of shoving it down as the world sometimes wants us to do that. If we're not repressing those parts of ourselves, then.

[00:52:29] We're allowing that space within our body as well. And that feels so much better. And that deals with the whole positive intelligence thing. And you also talked about NAC, which I love and take. You talked about free radicals and how to combat that. And you talked about colon health, which is huge.

[00:52:48] And I know so many people when they get to my age, that's the struggle. They've gone through 40 years of not taking good enough care of their colon health, of having enough fiber, how many [00:53:00] children is it such a battle with trying to get them to eat their vegetables? I love when my children say, I don't eat that.

[00:53:06] I don't like that. My husband are like, oh, it's in your smoothie. Every day jokes on you. There are things that you can do and it still goes with if you're starting to feel guilt over this, when you know better, you can do better. And don't get stuck. I've been stuck here before where it's like, nothing I do is going to help the earth, blah, blah, blah, and thinking about that with your own health, you can take that whole thinking and apply it anywhere.

[00:53:34] Remember that it's taking steps and learning and growing and staying curious because once you get into the shoulds and the shame and the guilt, you're stuck. So go back to curious. Keep switching gears to curious and try new things and find what works. And remember that you are such a unique individual.

[00:53:58] Your life [00:54:00] experience, you're everything that's been through the generations to bring you here. You are very unique when you tap into yourself, you will know your own needs better, and that goes with your own dietary needs. That goes with a lot of other things, and you can really tune into your intuition and really have that space to check in with yourself.

[00:54:21] You will know what you need, what steps you need to take, who you need to connect with, and it comes with that synchronicity. Just like how I was talking to Jody earlier and she was asking. Is today a good day for you because of what's going on? I told her, you know what? It's obvious that this needs to happen now and that we received the news that we did yesterday because this is aligned with where I'm at in life.

[00:54:49] Allow space for that and know that the things will come into your life to help you have your own healing and what she talked about with things can be very [00:55:00] expensive and you wanna try and do all the things and remember that all of this is an investment and this is somewhere that I'm really at in my own personal life,

[00:55:09] when looking at our financial future and retirement and what we wanna do in our life, there's the financial part of it, of course. What about what are we doing health wise? Because we can say organic's too expensive, or Farmer's market's too expensive, or this is too expensive to do, and then you end up at Jody's age and you are falling apart because you weren't taking care of yourself.

[00:55:37] At my age and younger. It, matters. And remember that all of this is an investment because you want to roll to the end of your life, still having your mental capacity and all of your faculties in place. Hopefully not wearing a diaper like you began this life. You don't want to leave this life as a baby where you have to rely on [00:56:00] everybody else.

[00:56:00] 'cause that's not quality of life. So think about. What you want your quality of life to be later? So that's my really big soapbox for

[00:56:07] Jody L. Teiche: you that, wow, that was really beautifully said autumn. And so important because a lot of people, and I see this all the time they do think very short term and lead with, I can't, so it's really important what you said that.

[00:56:29] 30,000 foot view. Where do you want to be as you age when you get to that place?

[00:56:39] So yeah, show us really quick before we go. You have your

[00:56:44] Autumn Carter: book right next to you.

[00:56:45] Jody L. Teiche: I do. Show us what it looks like. It's called Think and Grow Young, the Life-Changing Program to Reverse Aging, live Vibrantly and Reclaim Your Youth.

[00:56:56] And you can get it on Amazon. And [00:57:00] it's got my three pillar approach in there and tools and resources, and it seems to be resonating. So if it resonates for you too, that'll make my heart happy. And yeah. And it's just a happy

[00:57:17] Autumn Carter: cover.

[00:57:18] Jody L. Teiche: It's a

[00:57:18] Autumn Carter: bright, vibrant yellow, the right shade of yellow too. Sun shine,

[00:57:22] Jody L. Teiche: sun yellow.

[00:57:25] It's happy, it's health. It's, yeah.

[00:57:28] Autumn Carter: My favorite color blue, like it makes you yay. And the pillars, it looks like the sun, so it makes you think of a bright, sunny day. I just, I really like it.

[00:57:37] Jody L. Teiche: Nice. I'm so happy that you feel that way. Autumn.

[00:57:40] Autumn Carter: Yeah. That's a book where, looking at the cover, I would pick it up.

[00:57:44] Thanks. Appreciate that. Yeah. So where can people find the book on Amazon? Barnes and Noble? Wherever. Everywhere.

[00:57:52] Jody L. Teiche: You have links under your. Podcast or whatever. I'll send you a link so people for ease. People can find it if they'd like. And then what about for

[00:57:59] Autumn Carter: [00:58:00] following you?

[00:58:02] Jody L. Teiche: Yes, I'll give you all my links.

[00:58:04] LinkedIn. I'm everywhere. LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok.

[00:58:11] Autumn Carter: Facebook. Where do you want people to most find you?

[00:58:14] Jody L. Teiche: Where's the best place? Probably Instagram. Okay, perfect. Yeah, I have a beautiful tribe on LinkedIn, but for the people that listen to your podcast, probably Instagram. If people are already on LinkedIn business, people listening, you can absolutely find me on there.

[00:58:34] I would love to connect with you there. But I'll send you my links and people can choose their best platform.

[00:58:40] Autumn Carter: Perfect. And please share this if you are going through anything like I am with my pet. If you have children that you're wanting to, hi, child better, take care of taking care of yourself. I started this originally for [00:59:00] moms because we are the worst at taking care of ourselves.

[00:59:03] And then I was coaching plenty of other males and had that realization that we all need this. So my focus has really expanded since then, but we all know people who are struggling with these things. So please show this episode. We really want to bring healing to the world. And to have that reminder that when you take care of yourself, it creates a ripple effect and it will help you better take care of those around you.

[00:59:37] And when they're taking care of it takes care of other people and it just keeps going out from there. So please share this episode.

[00:59:44] Jody L. Teiche: Thank you, Autumn. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.

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