• Living WOW Out Loud: Thriving With Autoimmune Diseases

  • By: CallyRae Stone
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Living WOW Out Loud: Thriving With Autoimmune Diseases

By: CallyRae Stone
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  • Summary

  • The next generation of lifestyle awareness that will transform your life significantly. Living WOW Outloud is a safe space of inspiration and hope, giving you a voice in thriving with autoimmune diseases. This is a place where you can come as you are with no label or judgment needed. You'll find a mixed format of variety across physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of lifestyle all intended to empower you as the expert in your body with a counter-culture to SAD living. This is a new narrative designed to help you thrive!
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  • Thriving with the Seasons

    Thriving with the Seasons
    Jun 27 2024
    Living WOW and Honoring the Seasons Today in the northern hemisphere it is the first day of summer and season change is something that is foundational in living WOW. Living WOW is a lifestyle of intention and choice and part of that is honoring the seasons. I was first introduced to season change back when I was doing Ama Bodywork and Chinese Medicine. She introduced me to a book called Staying Healthy with the Seasons by Elson M Haas MD. Each season change I pull out the book and flip to the chapter about the season that’s coming up. Even though, at this point, I have a seasonal rhythm and I’m in tune to the change that’s happening, I love to go back and look at what are the elements associated with this season? How does this season manifest in the organ function? I find it fascinating and I’m not yet a master of that so I still like to go back and review and learn more. The Importance of Recognizing and Respecting Season Change We have listeners all over the world and those in the southern hemisphere are going into winter so I’ll address all of the seasons as I introduce why honoring the seasons is foundational to Living WOW. First, I want to point out to you why it matters. In our culture of SAD, the Standard American Diet and Lifestyle, we have forgotten about season change. Depending on where you live, if you live in a more temperate climate, you may not have a true four seasons with your climate so it looks different. Regardless of the temperatures, and they certainly do affect our activity, in our SAD life…it doesn’t. We just turn on the air conditioner in the summer and turn on the furnace in the winter. We don’t recognize, we don’t acknowledge and respect the season changes the way our ancestors did. The way historically our bodies are created to do. I found this pattern early on in my transformation. This was key when I realized, every single fall between September and October I would get bronchitis and then it would linger on through the entire year. I would then have a deep bronchial cough that I couldn’t shake. I started to recognize that my body needs something different in the fall, in the winter, in the spring, and in the summer. Our rhythm is different. The foods we eat are different. The days are longer or shorter. Ignoring that and just working day in and day out and not even giving a nod to the fact that we’ve changed seasons is part of why I had the kind of breakdown I would have. I’m a spring birthday. I think there’s a real reason that I feel like I’m dying in the winter and then in the spring I feel like I’m waking up and coming alive. Summer is full throttle and I like to run at full throttle. Summer is my time and then I forget to put the brakes on in the fall and change my rhythm. So, I crash. My body would shut itself down historically because I didn’t catch the messages. I wasn’t listening to nature. I wasn’t following the cues. Now it’s become a critical part of thriving with autoimmune diseases. It’s relevant whether you have autoimmune diseases or not! My autoimmune diseases are what cracked the case for me and helped me to understand the importance of the seasons, but it’s relevant to everyone. I don’t care who you are, seasons matter. If you can learn to embrace them and celebrate them, instead of ignore or bemoan them it matters. Regardless of where you are, I hope that you come away from this episode today with A: an awareness, B: an appreciation, and C: maybe some action plans of ways that you can optimize this season change. It’s either the 20th, 21st, or 22nd and as I get closer to it, I look it up and start planning. I usually start about a week ahead of the season change in preparation and getting ready. Then the week of season change I usually will have some sort of cleanse. This season change I did a 24 hour fast, then a three-day juice cleanse, to get things lighter and ready for more fresh and lighter foods. Then I’ll go into my Supercharge, which I usually do the 1st to the 10th of the month, but at season change I scooch it back and do it around the season change. With Supercharge I cut out dairy, gluten, sugar, caffeine, and alcohol. It’s just really clean light foods so that my body can get ready and be optimal thriving in the summer season. It’s not too much of a change from my normal routine, but it’s enough to give a nod to the fact that we go from warmer transition foods like casseroles and soups to lighter, fresher, cooler foods which for me tends to be lots of smoothies, salads with fresh fruits and vegetables being the majority of my diet. If you are in the southern hemisphere, you’re doing the opposite going into root vegetables, warmer foods, more meat, more dairy, more grains, because you’re warming your body. I tend to have a much more dramatic season change between summer and fall and winter and spring because we are going from lots of energy and huge growth to taking it in and ...
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    41 mins
  • I'm Baaaccckkk!

    I'm Baaaccckkk!
    Jun 13 2024

    Introduction and Changes in the Podcast

    Welcome back to Living WOW Out Loud. I am your host, CallyRae! It has been a long time since I’ve downloaded a new episode or recorded a new episode, and I am back. I’m super excited but there have been many changes that have happened since I took what I thought was going to be a 3 month pause from the podcast so that I could get through that senior year of high school with my last daughter at home and it turned into a year and a half.

    Transitioning from Surviving to Thriving

    I’ll review some of the changes that have happened while I’ve been away and lay out the new season structure and purpose. Some announcements are made regarding new content coming this season as I move from transformation coach with 8 Lessons Lupus Taught Me: From Surviving to Thriving with Autoimmune Diseases and the Change Your Story Presentation. This season I function as a lifestyle engineer having created the framework to thrive with autoimmune diseases Living WOW and serving as your guide to become the expert in your body.

    The Power of Lifestyle Choices in Autoimmune Health

    I’m not alone and we now have scientific research coming out that’s actually giving the “why” I had the experience that I’ve had and that I’m not just a one-off, I’m not an anomaly, but that it is lifestyle and that our lifestyle really does affect our health and can change things. Yes, we have a genetic predisposition but that doesn’t mean that it’s set in stone. We are now starting to really understand why.

    I’m talking about a lifestyle. I’m not talking about how much wealth you have or your fashion. I’m talking about the choices you make day in and day out for what you put in your mind, what you put in your mouth, what you put in your heart.

    Right? Those choices you make. How you spend your time, the choices you make have an absolute direct impact on your health. Your lifestyle has a 100% impact on your health.

    Building A Supportive Community

    There is a second book coming but this is kind of a sneak peek here on the podcast. This will be more interactive, I hope. I really want to engage the community.

    As I look around and listen to different narratives and different conversations, I think you need me too. Because I feel like you need the information and inspiration. You need to know that you are enough. You need to know that you’re not broken and in disrepair. Our bodies are designed to heal if we give them the environment to do so.

    Inviting Stories and Questions from Listeners

    I know that you feel alone. I know that you feel scared. I know that you feel frustrated. I know that you feel tired. I know that you probably have pain. I know that you’re probably saying, “whose body is this”? What is happening in my body because I don’t recognize it or I don’t like it?

    All of those different narratives have run rampant throughout my autoimmune journey. You are not alone. That’s why I’m here.

    Shout out to Jenna Rae my youngest daughter and previous assistant for all of the Change Your Story book tour and presentations. She is the product of Living WOW and I couldn’t be prouder as she releases her debut single “Life Inside My Head” as an indie pop artist on June 30, 2024. Follow her on Instagram and TikTok to see her amazing talent.

    Don’t forget to follow, subscribe, get notifications, and share the podcast so we can rise above the noise of living SAD and bring the hope of Living WOW thriving with autoimmune disease.

    The LivingWOWCenter.com website from season 1 has been replaced by CallyRae.com going forward so come subscribe and follow along for all the latest updates and content on thriving.
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    34 mins
  • Top 8 Interpreters for Body Language

    Top 8 Interpreters for Body Language
    Dec 29 2022

    Last week I promised you that I would introduce you to some interpreters for Body Language. The crazy thing is that you are innately equipped to speak fluent Body Language but just like any language you need to learn, practice, and refine your communication skills.

    Living in the modern world with access to information and technology on a continual basis has in many ways stunted our development and understanding of Body Language. Continuous and often loud or conflicting messages can be overwhelming to tune out and go within to hear and feel what your body is speaking to you.

    The conversation starter questions I introduced last week can be paired with these interpreters to plug in, practice, and develop fluency in Body Language.

    Recognize that this is an ongoing process and resist the urge to get frustrated or feel like you are not “doing it right”. Remember that you are innately designed for this language. Just like you learned your native language in your home rapidly in the first 5 years of your life you have continued to refine and learn throughout your life.

    If you don’t understand all of the nuances of Body Language immediately that’s normal. It’s not that you can’t. Find the modality that works best for you and build on it. You will likely find that as you become more fluent, opportunities will present themselves for you to go deeper and learn more and heal more. Life has a funny way of providing opportunities for you to learn Body Language. Recognizing and showing up in class to learn is the hard part.

    I guarantee if you show up, your body will reciprocate and you will thrive as the expert in your body.

    Although this list is not comprehensive, it is foundational and powerful. I specifically chose the modalities that are powerful, easy, accessible, and possibly already familiar to you. Again, don’t feel like you have to use all of them. Start with one or two and explore to see how it connects for you. Just like you had a favorite teacher in school you will likely find that you will find a favorite interpreter. As your skills or communication needs change you may choose a different interpreter that you aren’t ready for today.

    Here are my top 8 Body Language Interpreters!

    1~Breathwork

    2~Meditation

    3~Tapping/EFT

    4~Massage

    5~Yoga

    6~Qigong/Tai Chi

    7~Energy Work

    8~Ama Bodywork/Reflexology

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    19 mins
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