I’m joined by Monica Paz, a Certified Nutritionist and Functional Nutrition Lifestyle Practitioner, to discuss anxiety and holistic techniques to make peace with it.
This week, I’m joined by Monica Paz, a Certified Nutritionist and Functional Nutrition Lifestyle Practitioner with a Master's in Human Nutrition. She guides her clients on how to use food as medicine to help them get to the root causes of their pain, so they can get back to living a full life.
Monica shares how her own health journey inspired her to reimagine what true nourishment means. Between her deep-rooted fear of flying and the extensive travel that was required by her job, Monica was in a constant state of anxiety. After ending up in the hospital due to her irregular heartbeat, Monica turned to a naturopath. One simple question opened up a world of answers: What’s making you anxious?
When we think about anxiety, we often think of it as just an emotion, but it actually becomes a part of the tissues and often results in a physiological reaction. There’s so much power in speaking your anxiety out loud and getting support from your community. It’s in embracing that kindness and compassion that we realize how loved we are and fear dissipates.
Two tools that both Monica and I have found instrumental in our healing are HeartMath breathing and LifeWave patches. A low vibration emotion can trigger cortisol and adrenaline to take over, but consistently using HeartMath techniques and wearing LifeWave patches helps the nervous system move from fight and flight to rest and heal. Listen in to hear our conversation about the role that human connection plays in making peace with anxiety.
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[00:00:00] Dana Frost: Welcome to Vitally You, a podcast created to introduce you to the tools that will be your roadmap for feeling younger while growing older. I'm your host, Dana Frost, a wellness expert, life coach and energy medicine practitioner. Here's what you can expect: conversations about vitality from the inside out with guests experts in the field of health, culture, and spirituality.
And solo episodes along the way from me, where I do deep dives into the topics of aging, heart intelligence, energy medicine, and your innate capacity to heal. If you want to feel younger while growing older, this is the place for you.
Welcome to this week's episode of the vital you podcast. This is Dana. I am your host, and I'm joined this week by my functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner colleague. Who's become a very dear friend, Monica. Monica is masters as a dietician did not provide her the tools she needed when she was faced with crippling anxiety, but she did find her way.
And she's here to share her story. Interestingly, our conversation flows where the energy takes them. Originally. We were going to talk about growth through all stages of life, but as our conversation unfolded, it was clear that we needed to allow anxiety to be. By the end of today's episode, I hope you'll have a fresh perspective on anxiety and how to heal it or make peace with it.
It won't be surprising that connection with others is the key Monica. Welcome to the vitally you podcast. I am really just so honored to have you as a guest.
[00:01:41] Monica Paz: I am so happy to be here then I think is so much for inviting me.
[00:01:46] Dana Frost: So for all of you listeners out there, Monica is. A really unbelievable practitioner who helps women uncover the root causes of their symptoms.
And she's really in her personal life and in her professional life, she has helped herself to feel younger while growing older, really digging into the root causes of her symptoms. Her mission is to help women with that same goal of really looking at what are the symptoms and how can I feel better? How can I understand the symptoms, heal the symptoms and feel better at the root cause level.
So Monica is going to talk to us today and really first Monica, I would love for you to share with the listeners about your own health journey, because I know it's through your health journey that you got into the functional nutrition as a profession.
[00:02:42] Monica Paz: Absolutely. Thank you so much for asking that question.
I did not even know that I was going through a health journey or a health crisis. I started out as a dietician right out of school. And I thought I had my dream job working in hospitals in the St. Louis area. Then we moved to the Northwest because my husband and I decided that. His family is in the Northwest.
We're going to come here. And I had a job opportunity with a medical sales company. We were selling TPN or total parental nutrition, Ivy nutrition for hospitalized patients. The catch was that I had to travel to five different states. And I hated flying. And so I pushed myself, just push myself, left my babies for the first time in my life, because I thought this was a job that was going to help us get our feet on the ground in the Seattle area.
And six months later I was going to quit and I was going to go back to being a, that. Well, things did not turn out that way because the cost of living in Seattle is so much higher. And so one, six month period turned into a year, two years, 23 years later, I was still in the, in that position. And. Anxiety had gripped me it over the years.
I just kept pushing it aside. And I know a lot of us do that. We just don't pay attention to the symptoms. Don't even know what to look for, things that are happening in our bodies. And we just roll with it, keep going and keep going and keep going. I had this anxiety, every time I flew, I felt like I was going to die.
And so this up and down and my emotional system. Yeah, it started taking a toll, but I was a runner. So I kept thinking, I'll just run it off. I'm anxious. I'll run it off. It passes, it passes, it passes. And here I was a dietician. I had a master's degree. Nobody had ever taught me anything about the immune system and the nervous system being connected in, you know, hormonal issues.
Nothing. I was just focused on eight. Well, everything in moderation, that was the model for that Titian's and, um, lo and behold, I was running one day and I came home and I had this huge PVC pre ventricle for even tricolor contraction. I didn't even know what that was, but it's like, when you feel like you have this heartbeat, that is like an extra hard.
And that's due to anxiety, uh, adrenaline in your body. I didn't know that I thought it was dying. I thought I was going to die. The next moment I walked or I ran, or I did any activity I was in, of course, this fear and this anxiety field, this anxiety, which made me have even more PVC. I went to the ER, several times I had heart monitors.
Everybody could say, oh, you just, you're just anxious. You're just anxious. And I lived that way for years until I was falling apart, I literally was falling apart. Having anxiety attacks, panic attacks. I didn't even know what a panic attack was. And one thing led to another. I ended up going to a natural.
And just going there several times, one day, she finally asked me, which is such an insightful question. What is it that is making you anxious? And all of a sudden I looked around and I thought, I feel trapped. I feel like I need to support my husband, support my family and I can't quit my job, but it is my job that it's keeping these anxious.
And she had a wonderful solution. She invited me to come work for them. So that's how my journey started. I went to work for these natural paths and I took this course with Andrea because I'm all about learning. Like all of a sudden I realize I can learn enough about this condition that I could actually not only heal myself, but help others.
It was when I turned. My attention from myself to helping others, that things kinda started opening up for me.
[00:07:15] Dana Frost: You know, Monica from beginning to end, it's such a story that is common to so many women. And when we realize these decisions, we make have such deep impact in terms of what we experience in life.
So you make a decision and I know listeners can relate to. Decisions that they've made, or they're making that you make a decision to uproot to go to a different part of the world, different part of the country. And you think you're doing a good thing. You think this is an opportunity and you have the sign, you have the seed, it's this mustard seed that maybe something's not quite right.
I don't really like flying. And yet you push through and then the money's really good. And you keep going. And that C becomes fully bloomed in a way that is causing a lot of destruction in your life or in, in our lives. You know, we've all experienced this. And then, and then before, you know, it, a decade has passed, two decades have passed and that seed is so gripping and eventually you have to confront.
I can remember Monica being in some Paulo and having do distress. I didn't know that at the time, but I was having a coughing condition that sent me to the emergency room on several occasions. And I was just given coding to calm it down and they didn't know why. And those are little signs that something's not quite right.
And I never really, it was years, maybe a decade later or less than a decade later that I had to really, I was confronted with really looking at the Kauflin away, but other symptoms came. And so for our listeners who really pay attention to the. Symptoms that are, if you know, when we think about anxiety, that's emotional, but it becomes a part of the tissues.
This is what happened for you, right? Monica, you had the anxiety and an actually, if we let the emotional experience, that's depleting, when we let it take hold, it takes root in the tissues. And then we have physiological situation. Like for you, it was your heart condition.
[00:09:38] Monica Paz: Absolutely. And I had no idea that everything had the one thing had something to do with another, you know, I, I'm thinking of my heart condition.
I'm thinking of, am I going to have a heart attack? And then I stopped running, which was the worst thing I could have done. You know, I stopped exercising because I was so afraid of being out on the road and passing out, or, you know, you always think that you're going to pass out or you're going to die.
Yeah.
[00:10:05] Dana Frost: Well, so tell me this, because when you are talking about having the anxiety and you just kept running, I was super curious about that because that is also your body was stressed because of the anxiety and like the unconscious way that you felt about your job with flying and whatever the complexities of that was that that placed in your life.
And then you're running. We know that running the body also reads at a stress, even though we might get endorphins from it, it has positive benefits. Then you're also stressing the body with the running. And so then I guess when you hide your actual heart condition, you stopped running. Is that right?
[00:10:47] Monica Paz: Yes.
And I, I thought I had a heart condition. I didn't have a heart condition. It represented itself or expressed itself as, you know, irregular heartbeat and I stopped running. And then I became super self-aware. I was just went inside and I just became very, I, if it had been up to me, I would have become.
Agoraphobic. I would have stayed home and not gone outside. I didn't want to be outside. I want to new to new situations where I had to be hypervigilant and looking for danger everywhere. I wanted only familiar situations with familiar. Preferably in my own home, the work clothes don't go anywhere going into the grocery store was a big deal.
And it just feels so unstable. You feel kind of dizzy, kinda wobbly, kinda, you know, like things are not right. And nobody can relate to that. That's the thing that you don't have a support system because it's not an injury. It's not a broken arm or broken leg where people say, oh, let me help you with that.
Those groceries or whatever. It's all in your head, it's all inside. And so you go inside and you don't have enough energy to tend to others. You don't have enough energy to give, to give happiness, to give joy, to give peace, to have a nice conversation with a friend, because you're so focused on what's happening to me.
And no one to talk to because no one. I can figure it out. You go to the ER, you go to your doctor, they put you on antidepressant, which by the way I tried and it gives me a terrible reaction. I felt worse than I was feeling before the anxiety just, it was out of control. And so I knew I couldn't take antidepressants.
And so now what, who do you turn to? And that's how. I got into the work that I do, because I know the feeling for your listeners. I'm talking to you. I say, whatever is going on for you is real. And it's a representation of what's going on inside. What has happened to you in the past? What has gotten you to where you are and not knowing who to turn to makes that condition?
You remember? Not knowing what questions to ask.
[00:13:07] Dana Frost: You know, Monica, I can really relate to that feeling alone because when I had my health crisis in 2011 and that year, you know, for a year, trying to figure out, even though with the pacemaker, my heart started pacing. And so that wasn't no, that was no longer a danger, but I was still just as tired.
And, and as I went to different, uh, different cardiologist and different practitioners to figure out what, why was I still so fatigue? Why was my sleep still off? It was a lonely journey I was alone. And that, that really is what propelled me to want to help people heal in community. Because when we have a health crisis, it, it can be a lonely journey
[00:13:49] Monica Paz: and we want to isolate.
Because we can't imagine that anybody could understand it. They can't. I mean, w what do you do? Go talk to your husband, unless her husband's a doctor that specializes in whatever condition you have, they're at a loss, just like you are, and you, you just realize. You're alone. And, and like you said, they not being in community, talking to our friends.
One thing I found in struggling with anxiety is that when you speak it out loud and you say, I don't want to go to the mall because it makes me anxious. There's something that happens. Speak that out loud. It takes the energy out that negative energy out because you get compassion from the other person.
And when you get compassion and you receive that all of a sudden you're in community, and there's a bond that grows between the two of you. And that person says, how can I help you humankind? Right? It's like, people want to help you. And that's the thing that we don't
[00:14:53] Dana Frost: Monica. I don't know if you've had a chance to listen to my recent solo episode where I talk about how do we heal humanity through connection.
And I shared that I was leaving Miami to come back to Chicago after being there for seven months. And I. Feeling very anxious. I was feeling worried, not worried, anxious, fearful, you know, that I'd had this routine and I was coming back and I thought I know how to get underneath us. And it is to be open with my husband and to say, really, Hey, I'm feeling really anxious about this.
It was building, you can feel it building in your body. And it was building in my body. The moment I just called him. Uh, he was in a meeting. I need to talk to you. I'm feeling this way. I just need to let you know, this is how I'm feeling. And he met me with that compassion and I know exactly what you're saying.
That was my experience. It deflated the power it had over me. Just deflated.
[00:15:58] Monica Paz: Yes. And when you receive, uh, giving it, handing it to someone, they receive it with kindness and compassion, and then you receive it back. As a new gift and that gift, this connection and that connection grows because you realize how loved you are.
And when you realize how loved you are fear disappears because the power of love is so much greater than fear.
[00:16:29] Dana Frost: Yes. And that, that was the point in my, in my soul episode, Monica, and I think it's so. Synchronistic that we, our conversation has gone down this way of how do we heal? How do we heal? What's happening with the human right now, after coming out of two years of isolation, the human heals through connection and bonding with other humans being together.
I appreciate the digital world. I CA I appreciate that. You know, we're recording a podcast. We're not in the same location. There's a lot of value to that, but nothing substitutes for being in person with other humans.
[00:17:13] Monica Paz: Absolutely. And the touch, the power of touch. I know that the people who know me, my clients and my friends and family, I always tell them, I always share with them how the two things that have helped me the most.
Besides praying and being in connection and being in community and all these things. But lately the two things is the power of the heart, heart math breathing that I know you teach and you really appreciate. And the second one is these patches that we have started using these energy patches. So for a long time, I have felt very even and very balanced and I praise God for that.
And I didn't even know that. Until my son pointed it out. My son, uh, lifts with us for a moment, for a period of a season he's living with us. And he said to me, mom, you're no longer triggered what's up with you because he suffers from anxiety and he's like, I want what you have. And, um, the other day, just recently I woke up and I had.
Old feeling of anxiety, that feeling that grips you, your muscles are contracted and you don't really know why. And you're just fearful. Like your body physiologically is feeling the power of adrenaline and cortisol. And I got up, I went to the kitchen. I immediately, my husband says good morning. And I immediately said, I'm anxious.
I feel the way I used to, and I need a hug. And so he hugged me tight for like 20 seconds straight. And I'm here to tell you that's the other weapon is all bringing it all together. Is that connection. And the power of human touch and love it. Just like it changes that cortisol adrenaline to oxytocin, which is that hormone, that love hormone that you feel when you're breastfeeding your baby, or when you're given birth that you don't feel any pain anymore because you're pushing so hard that it's like a miraculous hormone, uh, or neurotransmitter that helps you just relax.
And it just floods. And that's the thing that. I think that we don't realize is that an emotion can create so many chemicals running through your body at all times. That we don't even understand what's going on. So I want to encourage everybody to acknowledge their feelings, to acknowledge the feelings and to consciously know what is happening to you, breathe through it and seek that connection with someone, call a friend, talk to someone journaling.
Say it out loud and acknowledge it because it's when we put an aside, we shove it down, we power through it. All of those things that have been taught to us, that's when we start going down the spiral.
[00:20:25] Dana Frost: Yeah. I think that everyone can relate to that. And we're when we look at our emotions to be human is to have.
The full landscape of the emotional experience. And it really is when we allow any emotion that is depleting, like anxiety, grief, depression, rage. For me, it was really rage. That was the emotion that really broke down and became, you know, in my tissues. And I had to really work through for you. It was anxiety when we have any emotion that we.
Allow an essence to take up residence. It depletes the system. And as you say, Monica, each emotion has a cascade of hormones that get released. It's just what happens, that that emotions are connected with the chemicals in our body. And when it's over flooded over a period of time with a depleting emotion, the system begins to break down.
Our immunity breaks down. Our resilience diminishes our coherence diminishes. And the beauty is we can turn that around. And that's, that's my story. I know that your story, you alluded a heart math that's HeartMath has been a part of both of our stories. So for our listeners, I know I've mentioned HeartMath before, but let's just share with the listeners the very simple we'll go to inner battle.
We'll share that. So your heart map is a visualization. So we know that physically, we want the breath to be deep, slow, quiet, and regular and heart math. You visualize the inhale and exhale to flow from the heart center. That's, heart-focused breathing. And then inner ease. You bring in the feeling of inner ease with your heart focused breathing, and you allow that.
The feeling of injuries to flow with the inhale and XL to, and from the heart center that can neutralize a depleting emotion just as for Monica, that 22nd hug. That is what neutralize that Oxy, Towson that got released when you had that hug from your husband. When we feel that connection, it's the connection I felt when I.
Ask for support and said, Hey, I feel anxious. Those actions will neutralize those depleting emotions.
[00:22:56] Monica Paz: And I think that one really key component of all that is to remember that anything that we speak about, anything that like, let's say we have an arguing with a friend and we go over the argument over and over again.
In this negative way of I'll say this, or she said that, and you're stirring up all of these negative emotions, all that is creating all this cascade of chemicals. Even me telling you the story about my anxiety, I started feeling myself anxious, and we have the power to go inside, to focus on the hard, slow down a breath.
Anybody can do. And then think of that place or that time or that situation or that person with care, compassion, love, you know, even holding your child or holding your pet or holding your mother's hand, just going there has the same effect that you would have when you're telling a story that upset you and you start crying.
We do that, you know, we're telling the story and we go there and we start getting teary-eyed. We have the same power to turn that around and go, wait a second. I'm going to slow down my breathing. You can do it for one minute. You don't have to do it is, this is not something that you have to get a degree in and just go to the sun on your skin.
You know, the moment when the birds were flying and the, you know, that moment in your garden where you just. Piece, you can go there. Anybody can go there. They're just memories. And our brain does not know what is real and what is not. You can just imagine it and you'll have it.
[00:24:45] Dana Frost: That is so true. Monica. So from the research of heart map, it's 20 seconds that you need to hold on to that you need to recall the memory or an exp, like you said, the sun on your skin, you need to recall something and hold it with heart focused breathing or the feeling of Venery is for 26.
That's what they came up with our research. And I love that you brought up that as we're telling stories where there is trauma, or we felt triggered, we are reliving it every time we tell that. And I had to learn that because it's easy, especially for women. We want to tell our stories to our female friends.
We want to have them identify with. It can tend to go into gossip. And my doctor, Martha Beck, who trained me in life coaching, she calls it story fondling, and we love story fondling. We love to tell our trauma stories and where I like to take my clients in a coaching session. Your story needs to be seen and heard, but it doesn't need to be fondled your story.
You need. Tell your story, have someone see it, you need to feel it metabolize it, and then you need to be set free from it so that you no longer have to tell it. The more we talk about it, the more our, the cells in our body relive it. Your cells are continually regenerating themselves, renewing themselves, replacing themselves, you know, whatever you're doing today will become the cells that you have.
So be mindful what you're thinking, how you're feeling, the stories you're telling, where you, you know, that's creating your future cells. So if we talk about feeling younger, growing older, guess what you have to make peace with your past. So you no longer have to tell the story for validation. This is a very important part of healing trauma and feeling younger while growing older, many times.
We gain attention. We tell the story because we want attention. And so when we're telling the story, be really curious, what am I gaining by telling the story? Do I really need to be seen and heard again? Or am I just wanting attention? Do I really need to soothe? What am I really seeking? As I tell the story this time, I think that's a really important principle to learn.
When we talk about feeling younger, rock growing older and healing. And making peace with our past.
[00:27:19] Monica Paz: That's absolutely right. And the other part of that is forgiveness. I think that we really tend to ignore forgiveness because we are getting something out of that when we hold the grudge against somebody, but we don't realize how hurtful.
I have a chiropractor whom I love, I call him my woe chiropractor because he is an energy healer. And that's one of the first things that he says. He says, people heal in groups. He says, you just tend to see people in the same family healing at the same time or getting sick at the same time. And then in the communities also.
And, uh, he says, I can tell how long it's going to take someone to heal by their ability to let go of unforgiveness. And he always addresses that with people who are you not forgiving. If you're not healing, who are you not forgiving? And why can't you let go? What are you getting from that?
[00:28:23] Dana Frost: Yeah, thank you for bringing that up because I've seen that in my own life.
It's a very powerful, necessary process in our healing journey is the forgiveness it's energetically. It ma it would be really interesting to know, but I know that gratitude is one of the highest vibrational emotions. And I would be very curious to know where forgiveness is on the vibrational scale, because I've experienced it to be very powerful.
And, and what I, what I've experienced is that there are deeper layers of forgiveness. You know, when you have something traumatic that's happened, you know, you make peace with it and you forgive different layers. Does that make sense? Yes. Sometimes it can be a real process and really it's just a matter of being open, keeping ourselves open.
When a hurt comes up or trauma comes up, keeping ourselves open to what's the next layer. And is there a layer of forgiveness that I'm I'm ready for right now, but I can see with fresh eyes
[00:29:35] Monica Paz: and it doesn't require having to go ask for forgiveness or talk to the person or anything like that. We can forgive and.
By letting go, just letting go little by little. It may not happen right away, but it is an act of it's a process, like you
[00:29:52] Dana Frost: said. Yes. We don't always have to go back to that person. I think that that's really wise advice, Monica. So I want to just touch on Monica. You said the package. And so I just want to touch on this so that our listeners, they may hear what, you know, they may go back and go, what, what is the patches?
What is she talking about? And when she mentioned the patches, it is a company called Lifeway. And they have round patches that look like a bandaid. I have a couple of episodes. I'll reference them in the show notes where I talk about the patches, but it's light. It's using light therapy. Your body is the energy source.
They look like round band-aids. They're not transdermal. There's nothing in the patch, but liquid organic crystals, you put them on your body, the heat in your body activates the patch to create biological shifts. And there are both Monica and I are involved with this company. There are patches that really help neutralize triggering emotions because they, the biological shift energetically that they made.
Moves the nervous system to fight and flight to rest and heal. Yes. I'm assuming that's what you were referencing Monica.
[00:31:10] Monica Paz: Absolutely. And I was very skeptical until I saw you using them. And you posted something about your mother healing from COVID and then from arthritis. And I was blown away and I know how thorough you are at looking at things scientifically and looking at things at work.
And I thought, okay, I need that. As part of my. Healing kit. And, uh, that's when I tried them. And like I said, I have not gone back because I'm not fond of medications. I will only take a medication. And if I absolutely absolutely have to, because I believe that the body heals itself. And so this therapy has really worked for me because it's not a medication that doesn't have side effects and I can take it or leave it.
And, um, it works very well with my lifestyle. I have never seen anything like it before. It's really, really. And
[00:32:10] Dana Frost: when you mentioned the patches, Monica, it was in the context of your son, recognizing that you were not, he was seeing you as not being triggered. Do you feel like the patches were a part of that, like wearing the patches really helped.
With that with you not being triggered, is that, can you just
[00:32:28] Monica Paz: clarify the net? We just sold our home this weekend and it was a whirlwind of, you know, crazy cleaning the house and getting the yard ready and everything that it entails, packing things that you don't need. All that making it look the best.
That's where I'm at my worst. When I, because I'm one of these people who is affected by what I think other people think about me, expectations of others. It's like, I want to make sure that I don't disappoint. I don't disappoint you. I don't disappoint my family out of this point. My, you know, especially others.
And so for people to come see my home, that is like a big trigger. I want everybody to. Clean up and stay in the rooms. Don't come out. And my real estate agents, Cindy, she has, um, been my friend for like 25. She goes, Monica, I do not recognize you because she knows me from before way before I got anxiety during and now after.
And Cindy has also used the patches and she's done wonderfully with them, uh, for inflammation and pain, but she said to me, Monica, you have been a superstar. So calm, cool and collected. Nothing bothers you. You are just, and I take care of my mother. She's 90 years old. Our son, like I said, is living here.
He's 32 and he's not really interested in cleaning up or doing anything like that. It, everything was so smooth. And I honestly, she had to point it out. Like I said, people have pointed it out to me. What happened to you? And I'm going, all I can say is these patches really ground me. I feel very balanced. I have no side effects and I love living and feeling like a normal person, because for 18 years, I did not feel normal.
I felt like I would look at people and go, oh, how nice for that person that can go do this or do that and try new things because I could never do that. And now I don't even think about it. And that's, that's how subtle it is that other people notice. And you don't even notice that yourself and
[00:34:47] Dana Frost: that I believe is the beauty of the patches, because it's not putting anything into your system.
It's working to create the shifts internally. The body mind system seeks homeostasis. It knows how to heal and what the patches are doing is working internally. Just support us. And to bring that homeostasis to the system. And I think that, that, I mean, I've definitely experienced that with the patches. I know my mom has.
I mean, we've got, there are many different testimonials, but it's really nice to hear your specific testimony. And it's nice when other people can reflect that back to us. And we know don't we Monica that it's never just one thing. You know, you have incorporated your, the lifestyle, you know, from the functional lens you've been working on your health from the lifestyle perspective, from using food as medicine.
I know that's what you do in your practice. And the patches really come alongside as a, what I love about it. It's the, it's the prop that we need in our modern world. The stresses are acute. And, you know, even the stresses, we don't see if we look at the electromagnetic field and what we're exposed to living in the digital world and having information at us all the time, continual changes the Patras come in and they're just working behind the scenes, you know, underneath the skin, the working behind the scenes to create the.
Gentle cradle of support. Um, that's why I really love the patches, but yeah, I did want to say it's not, it's never just one thing. I mean, you couldn't just use the patches and have not deal with your emotional situation or not deal with the lifestyle. That's way out of balance. You know, it's. It's creating it's another tool.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, Monica, we are nearing the end of our podcast episode and you do such tremendous work with women. Monica. You're really working at the root causes. Level, and I know people can hear in your voice, you're very gentle and compassionate and you really see your clients. You really see them.
You're not just looking at a health condition. You're seeing that woman that you're, you know, in a client relationship with. And so tell us, you know, where can people find you? Is there a program that you're going to be offering soon? What, what would you like people to know about your work?
[00:37:28] Monica Paz: I don't think you, uh, people can find me@nourishedfunctionalnutrition.com and that's nourished with an ed at the end.
I have a course that is called from fatigue to fabulous. And that course will start again on September 12th. So I'll be promoting that. I'm on Instagram at Monica at that pause that nourished. I do reels there at least weekly, and I have a lot of free resources on my web. But people can download recipes and just different things about adrenal fatigue and anxiety or eating whole foods and where to start, especially if I'm big on balancing blood sugar.
Because I know that I now nine out of 10 people in the us have some kind of glucose metabolism issue where they cannot metabolize sugar and we don't even know it. And so that's one of the things that I'm big on, but I also have a course that is just four sessions on man. And that course is very easy to do.
I just guide you through a heart map so that you can be on your own. And that's what I'm big on. I really like to provide the tools so that people can walk away with their own tools and their own ability to take care of themselves.
[00:38:51] Dana Frost: That's wonderful. And Monica does, I mean her content, she has a ton of content, as you said, there's there so many things that they can access for free.
If they've, you know, go to your website or go to your Instagram profile. So, Monica, thank you so much. I have one question. I ask all of my guests and that is what does feeling younger while going older mean to you?
[00:39:14] Monica Paz: Oh my goodness. I think that feeling younger while growing older means having the ability to be at your best, to be active, to be a contributing member of society, to help others and to know that you have lived well and you have done the best to take care of the body and mind that God gave you and that you used it well, and you taught others how to do the same thing.
That's lovely.
[00:39:46] Dana Frost: Monica, thank you so much for being our guest on the Vidalia podcast. I
[00:39:50] Monica Paz: love your day now. Thank you so much for having me. It was fun. I
[00:39:54] Dana Frost: love you too, Monica. Bye everybody. Thank you for joining me on the vitally you podcast. If you're enjoying these conversations, please hit subscribe and download.
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