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Our guest today is Lorin Smith of @goodglutenfreegrub 

In this episode she talks about her own crazy journey to diagnosis, and how she has found health in spite of her struggles. 

She also gives us amazing takeaways to help us improve our own health journey, regardless of the health situations we may have. They are: 

1. Educate yourself
2. Keep some sort of food journal
3. Create movement in your life
4. Set small, realistic goals that are possible to achieve

#createjoychallenge

Pay attention to how your body is feeling. Keeping a food journal would be ideal, but do what you need to do to figure out what your body is trying to tell you and how it is reacting to certain foods. You don’t have to have an autoimmune disease, or a chronic illness to have food impact the way your body is feeling. And wouldn’t it be amazing if you could feel amazing all the time?

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

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Our guest today is Lorin Smith of @goodglutenfreegrub 

In this episode she talks about her own crazy journey to diagnosis, and how she has found health in spite of her struggles. 

She also gives us amazing takeaways to help us improve our own health journey, regardless of the health situations we may have. They are: 

1. Educate yourself
2. Keep some sort of food journal
3. Create movement in your life
4. Set small, realistic goals that are possible to achieve

#createjoychallenge

Pay attention to how your body is feeling. Keeping a food journal would be ideal, but do what you need to do to figure out what your body is trying to tell you and how it is reacting to certain foods. You don’t have to have an autoimmune disease, or a chronic illness to have food impact the way your body is feeling. And wouldn’t it be amazing if you could feel amazing all the time?

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

To get the recipe from my favorite things this week, simply click on the link below. You won’t regret making them!

createjoypodcast.com/messymemories/the-best-gluten-free-chocolate-chip-cookies

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It can feel mind-blowing to think about the changes that take place for a caterpillar to become a butterfly. Do we realize that as women, we go through similar changes? Do we realize that we try our hardest to go back to being a caterpillar when we have already become a butterfly?

Sources

The Maternal Brain - Scientific American 

Tissue microchimerism - Oxford Academic

#createjoychallenge

Love your body and appreciate it for what it has done… and become.

Transcript

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This week we have my daughter, Grace Gandara on the podcast talking about how God can guide us. You can also find her on her podcast "Kids Change the World."

Podcast https://anchor.fm/kids-change-the-world

Instagram - @kidschangetheworld.podcast

#createjoychallenge

This week’s create joy challenge is to pay attention to how God is trying to guide you. 

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Melissa Fredric is a mental health advocate who is passionate about you taking care of yourself. In today’s episode she gives three ideas on how we can be mindful of our own physical and mental health so we can be prepared for what life throws at us.

Connect With Melissa!

Instagram - @timeout.for.cake

Power Of Moms Articles

“Try Resting Instead”

“Reconnecting With Yourself After Kids”

#createjoychallenge

Find 10 minutes in your day TODAY and do something you LOVE to do. Not a task on your list. Not for others. Just for you.

This can be anything. You can make it as complicated or as simple as you want. Melissa loves painting her nails. I love taking a bath. You can make a cup of tea, read a good book, dance all by yourself. Whatever it is that you feel will spark a little joy and make you feel like a human again… do that.

Quotes

"Depression, conflict, or negativism is often a message to us that we are not growing toward the full measure for what God has created us. Our pain, emotional pain is a demand that we stop and take time for change in our life because we may be getting off course.” - Patricia Holland

Resources Mentioned

To Mothers - Carrying the Torch of Faith and Family - Book by Patricia Holland

Happiness, Your Heritage - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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In this episode I share 3 free or cost effective ways to celebrate valentines day in a way that will truly make your family feel loved. The quick version is: 

1. Do a spin on the 12 days of Christmas 

2. Write Love letters

3. Heart Attack

Episode Resources

To find Cami's ideas on the love letters: 

Cami's Podcast

Cami's Instagram

Find Cami's Highlight Bubble

#createjoychallenge

This week’s create joy challenge is to think about a way to make valentines day meaningful and special and really show our loved ones how much we love them. 

Heart Hole Punch

Buy the 3 inch hole punch here. 

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Our bodies are amazing, wonderful creations, and they know exactly what they need! They usually start to tell us subtly, and if we don't listen, they get louder and louder.

In this episode, Julie helps us start to understand what our bodies are trying to tell us and how we can work with them, instead of against them.

Connect with Julie

Instagram - @posturemassage_ct

Website - posturemassage.net

#createjoychallenge

This week’s create joy challenge is to work on figuring out what your body is trying to tell you.

Julie shared an amazing tip of using kind of the Marie Kondo method with your body. Getting in tune with it and figuring out, does this feel good, or “spark joy”. Don’t get frustrated if it doesn’t feel like it is working at first. Like all good things, it is going to take some time and practice.

Forget about what all the experts are telling you, and focus on what your body needs. Involve it in your prayers, if that feels right to you. Ask, what does my body need from me today? In my own experience, sometimes it is drink a lot of water… sometimes it is yoga, and sometimes it is go for a run. The hope is that little by little we will become more in tune with what our bodies need and become better at drowning out the outside influences. This is going to be amazing!

Resources Shared on Podcast

Your Inner Physician and You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release

Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor

TED Talk by Shawn Achor

Quotes

I have learned that you need to be nice and say hi to your body and ask it where it wants to be and then just help direct it.

As soon as you can start to connect with what your body is saying to you, you really start to pick up on the small ways it is communicating with you daily.

The body is amazing when you give it what it needs, and it usually knows what it needs.

Everything that happens to us gets recorded in our bodies.

Our bodies are always trying to preserve themselves.

Pay attention to the patterns of when you are feeling your symptoms. Your body is crying out at that very moment.

Your body is going to change to the degree that you are ready. So if you are ready for big change, welcome to the journey.

The power of positivity really does change things in your body.

Positivity and gratitude change bodies.

Emotions are information. They are not good or bad. They are just information.

You can mold your children so that they do not take on the patterns of the generations past.

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There are industries worth millions and billions of dollars who are banking on the hope that you and I will think we are not good enough the way we are. When we feel bad about themselves, they make money. Let’s learn who they are, and how we can fight back.

#createjoychallenge

Find 5 people that we can compliment - on anything BUT their size.

Find something that is ACTUALLY important. I promise those compliments are going to mean so much more to them than anything about their shape. My favorite compliments are the really weird ones. Ask my husband. It literally makes me so happy inside when he gets creative with his compliments. If he can get in deep and compliment something that I could easily think was overlooked, it totally makes my day. Be creative, and you might just make someone’s day, which could have the coolest ripple effect. If you want to, you can also compliment someone publicly on social media!

I would love to hear about what you are learning with your challenge this week. If you have an amazing experience, I would love to hear about it! Just send me an email, send me a DM on instagram @createjoypodcast, or even better tag me in a share and use the hashtag so we can inspire others to compliment more creatively.

Quotes

“Many, if not most of the temptations that he puts in our paths cause us to abuse our bodies or the bodies of others. Because Satan is miserable without a body, he wants us to be miserable because of ours.” Russell M. Nelson

“Your value is not determined by a number on a tag or on a scale.”

“They can’t sell us things if we love ourselves.”

“Let’s use food as fuel - not as a moral compass.”

“Imagine how much good we could do if we used all the time we spend thinking about making our bodies smaller, and put it towards something actually meaningful.”

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Are you ever frustrated with your body and wish you could change it to be skinnier, stronger, healthier? Well, I have a message for you!  #createjoychallenge Find something to love about your body.  Even if it is just one little thing. Every time you catch yourself saying something negative about your body, whether it be about your size, athletic ability, health problems, etc. say 3 things that you love about it. It’s going to be hard at first! But I promise it gets easier. Quotes God didn’t give us bodies so we can be skinny. “Many, if not most of the temptations that he puts in our paths cause us to abuse our bodies or the bodies of others.” “Because Satan is miserable without a body, he wants us to be miserable because of ours.” Russell M. Nelson --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/createjoypodcast/message

This is the last episode of the season! Thank you so much for all your support. We will be back on the podcast with the very first episode of season 2 on January 13th, but until then I will still be hanging out on Instagram every so often.

In elementary school my teachers had this poster on the wall that said “Everything I need to know, I learned in Kindergarten.” I think I only got a tenth of the way through it, because there were just so many words on it, but today I applied that same message to episode 15 as I talked about how I applied 1st grade lessons to Christmas. Here is a spoiler: you deserve to enjoy Christmas too.

What’s it all about?

Here are the top 3 tips:

1. Edit Down to the Most important

Remember when you (or your kids) tried to learn how to write? This point is based on that (fun) experience.

2. There is a difference between a want and a need

Stick to the needs - appreciate the wants.

3. There is a difference between a fact and an opinion

Don’t let other’s opinions of what you “should” do control your happiness.

Create Joy Challenge

The Create Joy challenge for the next few weeks it to do what you need to do to have the best Holiday Season ever - your way.

Thank you

Thank you again for all of your support and love as we wrap up Season 1 of the podcast. It has been so fun to spend this time with you and to be a part of a growing community. I appreciate you more than I have the words to describe.

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