Do you have one? Does it support you in living your best life? Developing a supportive morning routine was one of the biggest game changers for me. It was part of the reason I started being able to lose excess weight, after years of trying, with very little success. The morning routine I started with was super simple... Lay in bed and listen to hypnotherapy or guided relaxation for 30-45 minutes. Allow myself to relax completely. That was it. This simple routine put me in a good head space for the rest of the day. It set me up with a positive mindset, gratitude, and openness to the blessings of life. Because it felt so good, I started incorporating guided relaxation at the end of the day too, and sometimes even in the middle of the day, if time allowed. I often incorporated prayer during this time too, since that's an important part of my day. This relaxing morning practice supported me in having balanced cortisol throughout the day. Little did I know that balancing my cortisol would help excess fat drop away from my body, with ease and little effort. I had never experienced this before! I started at 220 pounds. My goal weight was 160. I never weighed myself at home, since we didn't have a scale. A few months after I started my simple morning routine (and intermittent fasting), I weighed myself at the gym and almost fell off when I saw the number...it said 146. I thought the scale must be broken! It wasn't. I do weigh myself weekly now, because I appreciate the information I get from doing that. I share this story as inspiration about how quickly things can change for you when you get your cortisol in balance. Intermittent fasting helped me get my insulin in balance. Balancing these two hormones, insulin and cortisol, is KEY for good health and weight loss, and we talk about them quite a lot in the Release the Weight course, in the Classroom. A good morning routine can go a long way in helping us balance both insulin and cortisol!

This is probably really obvious to most of you, but I wanted to make it super clear, thanks to prompting by @Charles Fielder that nothing in this group is replacement for medical advice. If you have any questions or concerns about your personal health conditions, make sure to reach out to a trusted medical, psychological, or natural health provider. In this group, we share our experiences and talk about various best practices for releasing excess weight, supporting mental and emotional health, living a life of health and vitality, etc. You are welcome to try things and do whatever you want with the information here. This also applies to Group Coaching and Individual Coaching. None of this is a replacement for medical advice, and anything you try or experiment with, you do this on your own volition, and you take full responsibility for your experiments and your results. Sound good? When you’ve read this, please comment below with, “Got it,”or “I understand,” or something along those lines. With all that said, I also wanted to mention that we have some amazing providers in this very group! Looking for a naturopath, contact Dr @Abigail Seaver , Ayurvedic practitioner-call @Gwendolynn Diaz , psychotherapist-contact @Mary Rose or @Nancy Candea, professional mental health provider-call @Ryan Peters , Dietitian-see @Lucy Hutchings . Personal trainer or Sleep Sensei, @Joshua Haag is your guy! Herbalist/personal trainer? @Vincenzo Fanfarillo has you covered. If I missed you and you have a mental health or physical health practice, feel free to share below in the comments! Now, back to our regular programming :)

Welcome to the Thrive! Community. New and Old Members are welcome to introduce themselves in the comments below! It is WONDERFUL to have you here. We are here to live a life of health and vitality. If you’re a Health and Wellness Professional, or a Business Coach who can help our amazing H&W Pros, Message me to set up a Masterclass and send me your bio/pic/links so i can add you to the Wellness Directory! Topics that we have been exploring... -optimal nutrition for energy, health, and breast cancer prevention -intermittent fasting for healing and metabolic flexibility, -how to create a Thriving Gut -healing the nervous system, -developing emotional resilience and rewiring the brain for joy, -learning how to focus better and eat more frogs to attain our goals in any area of life. We know that optimal health and fitness help us to show up in a bigger, bolder way in our business. We also know that doing well in our business helps us to be our healthiest, fittest selves. Both of these aspects of our lives feed into each other. We support each other in being the healthiest, fittest, most vibrant, abundant, wealthy version of ourselves. We are committed to overcoming addictive behaviors like stress eating, excessive scrolling, overworking, and other behaviors that derail us and hold us back. You will not find long lists of what to do and what not to do in here. What you will find are tools, useful information, meditations, live meetings, and conversations to support you as you craft your own path to health, wellness, vitality, and abundance.

It's always been a passion of mine to connect people for mutual THRIVING. It's been fun doing that in the realm of health and wellness, in this community. I'm leaning into connections more as I rebrand this community and create a bigger platform for all the amazing health and wellness professionals who have gravitated towards this space. There will still be posts about fasting and stress eating, and weekly support groups to navigate all of it, and I'm absolutely available for one-on-one coaching for anyone needing support in those areas. That's my jam, and none of that is going away! If you need support with any of that, direct message me today, I'm here for you :) My hope is that this transition creates more VALUE for all of us... Those of us seeking support with health and wellness, we get to learn more about the resources and opportunities available here. Those of us working in health and wellness, we get more of a platform to share knowledge/expertise and support others. It's a bit of an experiment...we will do it for 1-3 months and see how it goes. In that spirit, this is actually going to be the last Move and Market Monday. You're of course welcome to post something today if you'd like! After today, this category morphs into Value Posts. From now on, you will actually be able to post your offerings or your community DAILY in THRIVE, as many times as you'd like. There are a few guidelines... 1.) Anytime you share your biz, you can create a Value Post with the Value Post tab. You can share your biz when posting in other categories/tabs too, but it's important that you're adding value to the group with any post that you share, not just dropping a link. Your post can be a question, conversation starter, or tip/trick/experience to help people up level their health and wellness. As part of the post, you can link to your community or other offerings. I suggest changing it up, so you're not always including a link with every single post. For example, the following would NOT be a value post...posts like this would get deleted.