Hey friends! Happy Thursday!
This week’s focus is going to be on mental health. There are SO MANY THINGS affecting our mental health! Just one pulse check of this hit me today. I was reviewing the applications for my clinical trial I’m about to begin, and the number one medical diagnosis reported of folks beginning my trial is anxiety!
Has this always been the case? If not, what has changed?
Well, you know I’m going to argue that unnatural additives have created gut imbalances, affecting our serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol levels, ALL affecting our mental health, nutritional and sleep patterns.
This is one theory, that things have also worsened drastically over the last several years due to the prolonged isolation of folks during the pandemic. Social isolation has been linked to cognitive impairment, reduced immunity, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and ultimately mortality. Human beings are simply not designed to manage segregation for a long time. We are social animals. We always have been. We were created that way. Here is a fascinating article about the affects of social isolation on our mental health.
This week’s focus is going to be on mental health. There are SO MANY THINGS affecting our mental health! Just one pulse check of this hit me today. I was reviewing the applications for my clinical trial I’m about to begin, and the number one medical diagnosis reported of folks beginning my trial is anxiety!
Has this always been the case? If not, what has changed?
Well, you know I’m going to argue that unnatural additives have created gut imbalances, affecting our serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol levels, ALL affecting our mental health, nutritional and sleep patterns.
This is one theory, that things have also worsened drastically over the last several years due to the prolonged isolation of folks during the pandemic. Social isolation has been linked to cognitive impairment, reduced immunity, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and ultimately mortality. Human beings are simply not designed to manage segregation for a long time. We are social animals. We always have been. We were created that way. Here is a fascinating article about the affects of social isolation on our mental health.
Psychological Consequences of Social Isolation
I know that even I—who loves people—had social tolerance issues when we got back to “normal.” I found myself more irritated in social situations than I have ever been. It’s as if I was “out of practice.” I forced myself back into in person church, small groups, women’s events, live music—and now I feel fine in all of these situations. And my social intolerance had nothing to do with fear. It had everything to do with anxiety and a reduced patience level from what I ever had. I am convinced this was related to being able to hunker down and avoid people for so long. Ours may have even been intensified, because right as people were emerging, my husband and I had to isolate ourselves due to his dangerously low white blood cell count when he was being treated for cancer.
So, what can you do to improve this?
Eat clean natural anti-inflammatory foods
Intermittent Fasting minimum 12 hours nightly to allow for a proper rebalance of your hormone levels.
Prayer/meditation in the first and last 30 minutes of your day.
Get back to volunteering! It has been proven, according to a study at the Cleveland Clinic, that volunteering decreases stress levels, depression, anxiety, and boosts our overall health and satisfaction with life!
Get back to fun community activities! Your social media community IS NOT ENOUGH! If ANYTHING, social media increases stress, anxiety and depression. Even if you keep in touch with great friends and family who you love on social media, you are flooded with overstimulation, negative news, and negative opinions about everything going on in the world.
Get in person with your tribe! Need a fun event to plan for? This is exactly why my “SoulTwin” Wendy Flournoy and I created our new WOW Retreats! Info below… it will be so uplifting and life changing!!!
Client Spotlight:
I got one of the BEST emails from one of my clients today. This is what she said: “Wendy, I just wanted you to know, it dawned on me this week that I had not needed my anxiety medication since January. I would take it PRN, but celebrating that I did not need to take the Buspar while eating clean.”
HOW FITTING FOR TODAY’S IMPROVEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH THEME!!!
Monthly Meal Prep Club:
Our MONTHLY MEAL PREP CLUB is LIFE GIVING! We show you EVERY SINGLE MONTH how to fill your home with HEALTHY foods, SAVE MONEY, and GIVE YOU BACK an average of 24 hours each month to devote to your family, ministry, relaxing, or whatever is important to you!
THIS PAST WEEKEND my daughter and I went live to share with the Monthly Meal Prep Club how we completed all of the recipes for her family to feed them an entire month’s worth of food in EXACTLY FOUR HOURS! The segmented video of what we accomplished will be posted today, and you can still download the March and April resources, as the May resources haven’t quite been posted yet. ENROLL WITH THE COUPON CODE FREE30 so you can try it for free for the first 30 days!
Monthly Meal Prep Club Info & Enrollment Links Here
NEW CLINICAL TRIAL:
I AM TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR A CLINICAL TRIAL I AM BEGINNING ON SMOOTHIE FASTING! This groundbreaking research I’m conducting is for my PhD Thesis and Dissertation, as well as the topic of my next book! There have been smoothie fasts done for different reasons — weight loss, improved cortisol levels — but one thing I found that all of the studies lacked was to have a proper macro-balanced high fiber approach to the smoothie fast. I am SO EXCITED to have created a plan that I believe this research will show tremendous health and weight loss/weight maintenance benefits. If you are interested in how you can help by volunteering for a minimum of 4 consecutive weeks of this trial, check out this live video I did yesterday to explain what my research is about, and what your level of commitment would need to be:
Clinical Trial Information Video
After watching the video, if you decide you are interested in joining us in this Clinical Trial, please fill out this interest form:
Clinical Trial Interest Form
Upcoming Events:
May 8 – FIRST WELLNESS WARRIOR CLASS BEGINS!!! Want info about what a Wellness Warrior is/does/becomes? It’s QUITE EXCITING!!! I need folks who LOVE AND BELIEVE IN this clean lifestyle to help me mentor others. We work on YOUR health first, while I train you to mentor others. Scroll down on the following page (Wellness Warrior Info button) to the “Wellness Warrior” information.
Wellness Warrior Info
For a limited time, all past 16 Week Clients are getting an $800 discount for this SIX MONTH PROGRAM, and I have longer term payment options available (beyond standard 6 months) for past 16 week clients only. If you are a past client and want more detailed payment options, please respond to this email.:
May 15 – Clinical Trial BEGINS!
May 27 – Next Monthly Meal Prep Club “Cook With Me” Webinar – This month’s special guest is my husband… if you know him, you know this will be quite the comedic event! 😉
June 17 – Evermore Farm Health Conference Westminster, MD
Weekly Scripture:
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”
Hebrews 12:1 NLT
Have an amazing week, friends!
Wendy Massey, BHS, RN