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Empowering Midlife Wellness Through Holistic Practices - Lynn Wordsworth
Discover the transformative potential of midlife wellness with our special guest, Lynn Wordsworth, a certified holistic health practitioner and founder of Holistic Health and Wellness LLC. Together, we challenge the myth that midlife means decline. Lynn unveils her inspiring journey of overcoming health struggles through holistic practices and discusses how women can harness this period for personal growth and vitality. Learn the secrets to maintaining energy during perimenopause and menopause, and why reducing processed foods and sugars can be your ticket to feeling revitalized.
We'll guide you to Lynn's incredible resources that offer free tools to help you seamlessly navigate midlife transitions. Her holistic health and wellness website is your gateway to a more vibrant, energetic lifestyle, emphasizing the importance of pleasure in your health journey. By the end of this episode, you'll feel empowered to prioritize your well-being and see midlife as the start of a thrilling new chapter filled with passion and joy. Join us for practical strategies and a fresh perspective that will leave you inspired to embrace this transformative time in your life.
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Speaker 2:Hey everyone, welcome to Pleasure Principles, the show where we talk about living life to the fullest, no matter your age or the stage. I'm your host, avik, and today we are diving into a topic that's especially important for all the incredible women navigating the midlife transitions. So joining us is Lynn Wordsworth, so welcome to the show, lynn.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I really appreciate you inviting me.
Speaker 2:Lovely, lovely. So, lynn, like before we start our conversation, I'd quickly love to introduce you to all of our listeners. Dear listeners, lynn is the vibrant founder of Holistic Health and Wellness LLC and creator of the Energized, healthy Women's Club. So she is an AADP certified holistic health practitioner, wellness cooking instructor and expert in helping women transform their energy, manage stress and reclaim their health during perimenopause and menopause. So her approach is practical, empowering and rooted in her own experiences overcoming the health challenges. So get ready to learn simple, effective ways to bring vitality back to your midlife. So why to wait? Let's jump in. Welcome to the show again, lynn.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Great, great. So, Lynn, to start with, I mean what inspired you to focus on the holistic health for women in the midlife?
Speaker 3:Right. Well, I trained as a holistic health practitioner. So over the years things have changed. As we age we get to experience some of these things. And I remember going through menopause and I was so unhappy and I had no idea exactly what was going on. So I looked into the holistic approach to midlife and it really kind of changed my experiences. It changed my mindset, and I love to just help women realize how valuable they are and how much wisdom they have at this time in their lives. And that is not a time when we kind of give up and think well, you know, pretty soon life's over. I believe when we get to midlife that our life's just beginning. It's time when we can enjoy ourselves, we can live life to the fullest. So I just really like to encourage women to grab a hold of that mindset so that they can go through midlife and really enjoy it that's awesome and also like why do you think that so many women struggle with the energy and health during the pre-perimenopause?
Speaker 3:well, I think that this is just one of the symptoms. For one thing, we don't have good sleep, we may not be eating the foods that we need. We're also very stressed at this time in life, and also one of the things that happens to women in this stage is they tend to be a little bit more anxious and a little bit maybe depressed, and all of these things are energy drainers. So if we're aware of them and we can tackle them in a way that's easy to implement, we can go back to being energized. I actually find, when I started my holistic practices, that I was more energized than I'd been my entire life and I got rid of that 3 pm slump, and I think that that's not just something for me. I think it's something all of us out there not just women, but men as well can experience in this midlife phase.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I understood and okay, also like if you can share one simple strategy for boosting energy that listeners can try today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the biggest thing is to really cut down on your processed foods and your sugars, because they drain us of energy, and if you start eating a more whole food, plant-based diet, you'll notice a tremendous change. Just that one thing getting rid of processed foods with all their fake sugars in yeah okay are you there?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:So I was saying, like some people believe that midlife means inevitable decline. So how do you challenge that notion?
Speaker 3:So I can go by what I've seen in my life and I can go by what I've seen in my clients' lives, and I think a lot of this is like. What I would like to say is old-fashioned thinking. We were never really taught much as we were getting into this stage of life from our parents, and especially women whose mothers did not like to talk about menopause. But so much advertisement has gone on that's really grabbed hold of us, where we kind of think that you hit midlife and it's downhill from there and that really just is not true. I have seen it so many times to where, if you looked at it from the fact of our life, can be just beginning.
Speaker 3:If we think midlife starts at 40, for example, with the date ranges that are now in place, people are living to their 80s and 90s. So if you think about it, you're only halfway through your life. So do you want to go halfway the next halfway through your life feeling miserable, feeling that life's over for you? It really isn't. To me, it's an exciting time of life If we change our perspective and we think about the fact that children are leaving home. Things are changing for us. If we don't like the jobs that we have. It's a perfect time to really reassess and evaluate where we're at so that we can do something we're passionate about.
Speaker 3:But the biggest thing is that what we're beginning to see more is that men and women are learning different ways of becoming healthier. In these end 40 years, or whatever we have left, and we can live it with vitality, vibrancy and with energy, just in making some changes, with a healthy lifestyle, learning how to manage stress, learning how to live in the present moment, as opposed to looking toward the end of your life but really being grateful for every day that you've got. So. I recently had a health scare when I was on vacation in july and ended up being medevaced back to the States and I almost died, actually. So it was a very, very profound experience for me, where it put things into perspective as to what's important my doctor had told me when I got back that if?
Speaker 3:I hadn't been overall healthy, I would never have made it through. I had pneumonia and sepsis, and sepsis tends to be deadly. So to me, it just shows me that the way that we eat, the way that we live, can really have a tremendous impact on us.
Speaker 3:And I've been trying this year to live in the present moment and not letting tomorrow get me worried or the end of the week being stressed with what I know I have to do, but trying to live in the present moment and enjoying my family and enjoying nature and enjoying and having gratitude for being able to get up every day, for having breath in my lungs, for just the smallest things that we can find to be grateful for.
Speaker 3:And I think that if we carry on with a positive mindset, we can just really have a brilliant time in our life. From age 40 onwards, and I think that a lot of the demands and pressures that we've had in our earlier years, as we've had children or maybe there have been other stresses from a busy corporate job it's a great time to reevaluate and just really find something you love to do, find ways that you can take care of yourself, find ways that you can take care of yourself and not put you at the bottom of the list but you know, put us at the top of the list because we can't take care of others if we're not taking care of it, taking care of ourselves. So I think it's a shift in priority at this time when we can think a little bit more about ourselves and do more to keep ourselves healthy.
Speaker 2:Wow. So for the listeners who think that diet is the only factor in the health, so what would you say to broaden that perspective?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so health is just one what I call pillar of health. So, as a holistic health coach, we look at the whole person. If you think about a circle and you've got in there, um, ratioed off food, sleep, stress management, relationships, your job, um, your emotions, your wellbeing there's, there's a you sleep, there's a plethora of things that go toward having that health and wellness. It's not just about food. Food, I would say, is the most important, coming up next. The next two, I would think is the most important, is sleep and movement.
Speaker 3:Sometimes, as we age, we tend to think well, I can't move in the same way that I used to. Well, actually, that might be a good thing. We really should be out walking, enjoying, tend to think well, I can't move in the same way that I used to. Well, actually, that might be a good thing. We really should be out walking, enjoying the fresh air and doing some of the simplest things. There are definitely other factors beside the diet. Think about your relationships. If they're not what you want them to be, it drains you of energy. If your spirituality is not where you want it to be, that can be draining. If you're not sleeping properly, we know that that sets us up for a bad day. We feel lethargic all day. So, um you know, walking, sleeping, stress management, relationships all of these are very, very important.
Speaker 2:It's lifestyle changes that we want to be making, as well as dietary changes got it, got it and like, uh, what's the one common mistake that you see women make when trying to improve their health and their midlife?
Speaker 3:Sometimes one of the biggest things is that they don't start with the right mindset. And if you don't start with that right, positive mindset, you're setting yourself up for failure, because so many of us have been taught, as I said, we hit 40 or 50, and you might as well give it up. What's the point? But if you can really change your mindset and change your perspective, practice some gratitude so that you're waking up every day with a positive mental attitude that will affect your emotions, your physical body, every part of you. It's a big piece of how to handle midlife. I remember for some of my friends they hit 40, and it was just like they went into a deep depression. I didn't like 50 so well, but as I passed that and I thought back to it, I thought you know that really wasn't a bad thing.
Speaker 3:Remember what we bring to the table as we hit midlife, and that is the wisdom we have learned so much over the years and we need to be imparting the wisdom that we have learned to those around us.
Speaker 3:Around us, that can be just uplifting when you realize that you've helped somebody else to maybe grab a hold of something that will make them have a healthier, longer life, because the whole thing is at this point in life, as I said, that the biggest downfall is that we tend to think life is over. I can't say it enough Life begins at 40. I put it that way because we can enjoy these latter years of our lives in a way that we couldn't when we were maybe raising our children. I realize at this age, for some of us we're taking care of parents, which is a whole other thing, but for for the most part, if you can learn to really accept where you're at and begin to love where you're at and love yourself, it's just life-changing exactly perfect word and um, like, from the listener's perspective, like uh, I mean how, how they can stay consistent with the healthy habits when life throws unexpected curveballs?
Speaker 3:and that's what happens in life. And, uh, the only thing I would say is, when we think about consistency, we have to remember that nothing in our lives is perfect, and some of us tend to think, oh my gosh, so what I could have done with my illness, because it's really taken me three months to get to feeling normal again. You know, you've got to allow yourself grace when these unexpected things happen. Life throws us lemons, so to speak, but we need to learn to see it from a positive perspective. If we have a week, that's really bad.
Speaker 3:People do this when they're trying to change their food habits, and maybe you've gone out and you've binged a bit. So you think, well, what's the point? Because I've already messed up, but what I've learned is that you get back up on the horse, so to speak, and you keep on going. So, just because we want consistency, you've got to also allow yourself a lot of grace. So if we had a friend come to us and say, oh my gosh, I've really messed up, this happened to me and I just totally have gone off the path. You encourage them, you tell them that, hey, this isn't where your life ends, or it hasn't stopped your healthy lifestyle, you just started back up again and realize that these things are going to happen. And how quickly are you going to get back to your normal lifestyle when these curveballs have been thrown at us?
Speaker 2:Exactly Great, great, great. So thank you, lynn, for your wonderful insights and practical advice on revitalizing the health during midlife. So definitely, your expertise shows that midlife isn't the end of the road, it's just the beginning of a vibrant chapter. Yes, so yeah. And then for the listeners I'd love to mention, like, remember that every small and consistent changes that can lead to a big transformations. So do not let the hustle of your life hold you back from living with the vitality and the joy. So, uh, if you feel, if you are feeling inspired, check out lynn's resources and get started on your journey to health and the energy. So what I'll do? I'll quickly, uh, uh, share all the details and the and the links, uh, into the show notes for that, uh, it will be much easier for you to reach out to lynn and lynn, like, if you want to mention something, uh, how they can connect with you.
Speaker 3:so, yeah, yeah, the easiest way to connect is through my website um holistic hyphen, health and wellness, and in there there are some free resources to help you on your journey in midlife.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's lovely, Great, Great. So thanks, dear listeners. Until next time, keep prioritizing your well-being and embracing your pleasure principles. So this is your host Avik signing off. Thank you so much.
