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Cause of Fatigue and Depression

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Anne from Westerville, OH, asked:

Hi Julie,

I discovered you a few years ago, and have listened to all 430 episodes, sometimes more than once! I love your interviews with your amazing guests and have learned so much.

Here is my question: I live a pretty clean lifestyle, spend time each day working out with weights, cardio, walking in nature or yoga. I eat well, pray, and spend time with family and friends.

Some days I feel full of energy and have motivation to get things done. BUT, there are more days that I feel low and unmotivated and feel like I’m on the struggle bus.

I know you say our vibrations are low when we are on the “I feel crappy channel” so I’m wondering if there is something else going on.

Although I never give in to my yukky feelings, I get up and move hoping to turn my day around, but the entire day feels like I am carrying around the weight of the world.

Would you be able to scan me and provide some insight on any changes I can make. I am 62 with 4 amazing kids, 2 sweet granddaughters, and a loving husband. I am so lucky and have no reason for these feelings of dread!

I appreciate you and someday I hope to share how I discovered you after my mom passed! It’s a great story! No coincidences, I was meant to find you!

Thank you,

A Loyal Follower, Anne

Hi Anne,

Thanks for your kind comments and for listening to my show. I’m honored.

As you probably know, I grew up in Worthington, right next to Westerville, both suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. What you may not know, however, is, I worked as a cashier at Roush Sporting Goods in Westerville for six years (2 in high school and 4 in college). That job was one of three I worked to pay for my degree from Ohio State. Small World!

As for your fatigue and feelings of dread and to get some answers for you, I energetically connected to you and “saw” (in my mind’s eye), you looked like a wilted plant. That’s how a woman appears when she’s in need of hormones. I believe your fatigue and depression are being caused by a lack of hormones.

As we age, our hormone levels decrease and Mother Nature doesn’t think she needs us anymore because we’re no longer having babies and populating the planet.

Well, it’s possible to fool Mother Nature and make her think we’re much younger than our biological age with bioidentical hormones.

My dear friend and women’s health expert Christiane Northrup, MD, says, “Bioidentical hormones duplicate the structure of our hormones exactly as they are found in our bodies”.

To help you feel better, I added some bioidentical estrogen energy to your body and you perked right up.

To find a practitioner near you, please call a couple compounding pharmacies in your area and ask them which physicians are prescribing hormone replacement through them.

My personal preference is to use a gynecologist if possible. After all, they’re female anatomy specialists.

The best news, is, with bioidentical hormones, you’ll quickly be feeling like yourself again.

Hugs and Happy Holidays!

P.S. – I’d love to hear how we got introduced when your mom passed.

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Eradicate Stress and Anxiety

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Sofia from Raleigh, NC, asked:

Hi Julie,

Thank you for this space to ask about my current body fatigue & pain.

What can I do to heal myself and feel energetic, youthful, vital, whole, pain free, joyful, have a luscious head of hair and express my beauty again?

Since my husband’s passing in 2019, I have taken on a lot of things that were not my choice and have felt anxious, overwhelmed, and put-upon by them.

I just want to feel even more alive and joyful than I did before his transition.

Please give me guidance.

Thank you so very much.

Sofia 

Hi Sofia,

My sincere condolences on the passing of your husband.

All thoughts and emotions that feel bad are based in fear. Anger, grief, jealously, boredom, actual fear, etc., are all great examples of this concept.

Now, it’s important to remember that humans are hardwired for fear. It’s what keeps us alive.

The only challenge is, our bodies don’t know the difference between something that will actually harm us and something that’s just a stressful situation.

Whenever we feel fear, our bodies go into fight or flight, release cortisol and other stress hormones, and lose clarity. These chemicals also create inflammation, the root cause of any type of pain.

So, the next time you feel bad, just ask yourself the following question, “Will this kill me in the next two minutes”? It’ll be a yes or no answer.

If the answer is yes, that’ll be a rational (real) fear. Change the conditions before you’re hurt or even killed.

If however, the answer is no (and it will be 99% of the time), you know your emotions are based in an irrational fear and it’s false. You’re just using your imagination to envision something you don’t want.

Implement the Two-Minute Rule® and make it a habit. It’ll decrease your anxiety and stress levels and will help you live a life of abundance and joy.

For more information about and examples of this technique, please check out my new book, The Two-Minute Rule: The Key to an Amazing Life.

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Child’s Past Life

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Logan from Reno, NV, asked:

Hi Julie,

I have a five-year-old son who is angered very easily and is often telling me how sad he is.

He’s also told my husband and me since he could talk, that he didn’t want to be born, that he wanted to stay in the stars, and that he is scared to die.

There are times he says out of the blue, that he is a bad person and it just breaks my heart.

I fear something awful happened to him in a past life and he is fearful of repeating it again in this lifetime.

We have a very close and loving family and we support him as much as we can but there are times I am at a loss of words for what his sweet little soul is expressing to me.

Would you be willing to scan his body for anything that might be agitating him with his health and/or anything he might be carrying over from a past life? I want to help and support him as much as I can.

Thank you for the beautiful work that you do. I so enjoy reading your blogs and hearing about all the healing and love you share with the world.

Love,

Logan

Hi Logan,

Thanks for your question and kind comments about my work.

I can only imagine how frightening your young son’s words must be to you and your family.

In order to get some information for you, I energetically connected to you and from you to your son.

After gaining his permission to scan him, I noticed he is full of toxins, in particular, mold.

Have you had a water leak or a mold issue in your home? Perhaps a past home? How about his school?

In Mold Toxicity: A Common Cause of Psychiatric Symptoms, Psychology Today states, “Toxic mold-based illness is a very prevalent and under diagnosed condition that can manifest in many different ways, including with symptoms that are exclusively psychiatric, such as depression, anxiety, attentional problems, brain fog and insomnia.”

The article goes on to say, “Vulnerability to mold toxicity is only present in 25% of the population, who in most cases, have a genetic predisposition which inhibits their clearance of biotoxins. A family can all be living in the same house with mold growth, but only one family member will become ill. This is because that person is the only one with the genetic vulnerability.”

First and foremost, I believe your son’s anger and emotional issues are caused by depression and anxiety from mold toxicity.

Second, while doing a past life scan on your son, I learned he’s had many past lives in which depression was an issue. These lifetimes include both male and female experiences, different locations, and at different times in history. This round, his spirit is experiencing the opportunity to find the cause of his depression and to heal it.

Lastly, we’re all born with intuitive abilities and small children often talk about past lives, seeing and/or communicating with deceased loved ones and can sometimes predict future events.

Children’s intuitive skills often begin to wane around the age of seven. By this time, the child has usually been told by parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends that the psychic phenomena they’re witnessing isn’t real, rather, it’s just their imagination. The child then learns to disregard their intuitive thoughts.

A few suggestions:

1) Find a functional medicine physician at ifm.org who can treat mold exposure

2)  Engage a mold specialist with remediation skills like We Inspect

3) Get an air purifier and run it in your son’s bedroom

4) Consider feeding him a high (good) fat, low carbohydrate diet. In a study of more than 13,000 kids titled Association Between Junk Food Consumption and Mental Health , researchers found, “Junk food consumption may increase the risk for psychiatric distress and violent behaviors in children and adolescents. Improvement of eating habits toward healthier diets may be an effective approach for improving mental health.”

5) Use my children’s books (Angel Messages Series) to explain and begin a conversation validating your son’s comments about previous lives, etc. This will help him learn how special he is.

Hope this information helps your son, you, and your family.

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Elderly Behavior Challenges

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Tonya from Greensboro, NC, asked:

Hi Julie,

I am dealing with what one might call a frivolous problem, but it is causing me a lot of pain.

My husband, son, and I moved in with my in-laws because their health began to decline. My mother-in-law had a stroke in 2014, broke her ankle a year later, and broke her pelvis the year after that.

Anyway, she has been terribly mean to me. She is hateful to everyone, but the worst to our son and me. She is manipulative and self-centered. She says I don’t keep her house clean enough and she looks for things to pick at me about. Everyone who visits comments about our clean house and she disagrees with them.

She didn’t want to move to an assisted living facility so we rented our home. The rental income has helped us financially, but I don’t know what to do about her. Why does she act this way?

Now granted, she has always been snooty and self-centered, but this is to the 100th power! Does she have a demon?

Julie, please give me some advice. Please.

Thank you,

Tonya

Hi Tonya,

With the holidays quickly approaching, yours is a timely question, one that looks like it applies year-round to you.

Not only do many of us care for elderly relatives, it seems like during the holidays, unpleasant behavior can be exacerbated with activities, additional visitors and the stress of all that comes with trying to make everything perfect for our families.

First and foremost, your mother-in-law isn’t possessed by a demon. Since all spirits are pure love, I don’t believe demonic possessions exist.

Please remember, no one can create in another person’s reality because no one can control another person’s thoughts. Keep that in mind as you go through your daily activities around her. Do your best to create whatever story you need to make yourself feel better. Change your perspective to see her as a person who is hurting. Wonder what caused her to act this way and what has happened to her to make her so fearful? Is she in pain and if so what can be done to minimize her pain?

In the meantime, here are a few suggestions you might find helpful. They come from Daniel Amen, MD, a double board-certified psychiatrist and pertain to the holidays and all year:

1) Keep Your Cool – Stay calm and others are more likely to model your behavior.

2) Build A Bridge – Do your best to look at the situation from the other person’s perspective. This can head off an argument before one has the chance to happen.

3) Distract Yourself – Hum a tune, think of happy thoughts, do whatever you need to do to avoid being drawn into the drama.

4) Take A Time-Out – Go to a separate part of the house for 10-15 minutes to cool off and not engage in the argument or discussion.

5) Try Whispering – The dramatic change in the decibel level of your voice will make everyone pay attention to what you’re saying as you attempt to diffuse the situation.

6) Take It Outside – When things get tough, either remove yourself or try to get everyone to go outside for some fresh air and exercise.

At the end of the day, as previously mentioned, the only thing we can control is our thoughts which means we all have the ability to keep anyone from ruining our experience.

Good luck!

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Sunshine State Blues

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Sunnie from Palm Beach, FL, asked:

Hi Julie,

I’m 64 years-old, cry often, feel lonely and don’t know why.

My family moved to Oregon about a year ago but that shouldn’t affect me this much.

I’ve always had a lot of friends and acquaintances. I stay busy all day pursuing my passions … photography, art and writing however, it’s the night, that long night, that’s so hard for me. I lie in bed and think how alone I am.

It seems like I have lost a lust for life. My health is fairly good and the only time I don’t feel depressed is when I am hugging or even thinking about Lancelot, my 5-pound Cocker Spaniel. I truly believe he is my angel.

Can you please give me some insight about what’s happening to me? I love God and say the Rosary every morning to try to get me out of this funk.

Thank you.

Sunnie

Hi Sunnie,

Sorry to hear you’re feeling so lonely.

In order to get some information for you, I connected to you in Florida and got you on my radar.

The first thing that became apparent to me was how depleted your hormones were. You looked like a post-menopausal woman who hadn’t seen estrogen in decades. This situation can absolutely cause depression issues.

To help you feel better in the short run, I added energetic estrogen to your body and you perked right up.

Please consider exploring bioidentical hormones. They’re what our bodies manufacture when we’re young and fertile and they can keep our bones, brains, hearts and whole body healthy.

A great place to start is by reading The Wisdom of Menopause by Christiane Northrup, MD. As a board certified OB/GYN, I believe Dr. Northrup is the “fairy godmother” of women’s health and we can all learn a lot from her. You can also find more information from her website drnorthrup.com.

To find a practitioner in your area, please go to The Institute For Functional Medicine or the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

Hope this information helps and hope you’re feeling better soon.

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Stalks of Wheat

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Cherie from Mobara, Chiba, Japan, asked:

Hi Julie,

My daughter Reina (age 16) has had fatigue since she was around 13, about the time she started having cystic acne.

She also went through a period of intense anxiety and depression as well and had a year of weekly therapy, which helped quite a bit.

We moved her out of the Japanese school system into an international school where she is finishing her first year of high school.

She has done better than I could have imagined but still has some social issues and the chronic fatigue is still a problem for her. Reina has been tested for various obvious causes by a neurologist and pediatric cardiologist.

No one has any idea what’s causing her symptoms although the cardiologist basically told me it was all psychological.  Any ideas about what is going on?

Thank you!

Hi Cherie,

Sounds like Reina is a special young lady and sounds like she’s fortunate to have you as her mother.

In order to gather information, I energetically connected to you then through you to Reina. After explaining who I was, Reina gave me permission to scan her.

First and foremost, Reina has lots of inflammation in her body. Once I got the inflammation calmed down, I was shown a field of wheat. That tells me she has a wheat/gluten allergy. Try removing all foods containing wheat for a couple of weeks and see if it makes a difference. My guess is it will.

In addition, Reina is full of Candida yeast. It looks just like the white powder used to make bread. She has a whopping case of Candida overgrowth and it has caused irritation and tiny tears in the lining of Reina’s intestines. These tears are allowing toxins from the yeast to get into Reina’s blood stream and cause the symptoms you describe as well as others not mentioned.

As part of the healing, I watched the yeast get blown out of Reina’s system, the tiny lacerations get energetically sutured, and a white cream get applied to calm her tender tissues.

Now, here are some suggestions that will help Reina feel better:

1) Remember, food is medicine. Go to bulletproofexec.com/diet and download the food chart. It’s free. Have her eat what’s on it and dramatically increase her healthy fat (olive oil, coconut oil, avocados, grass fed butter) intake.

Diet alone will help with Reina’s fatigue, depression, anxiety and inflammation issues.

2) Check out the following books:

– The Bullet Proof Diet by Dave Asprey

– Eat Fat, Get Thin by Mark Hyman, MD

– Fat for Fuel by Joseph Mercola, MD

All three books address Candida, cystic acne, chronic fatigue, etc.

3) Find a functional medicine doctor. He/she will be trained to reverse engineer Reina’s symptoms to find the cause and will treat her body as a whole system. Go to the Institute for Functional Medicine, put in your city, prefecture and country then choose from the list of physicians in your area.

The best part of all is, I believe Reina can and will completely heal from these issues.

Hope this information helps.

P.S. Regarding Reina’s cardiologist saying her symptoms were psychological … doctors say nonsense like that when they don’t know the cause of or how to treat symptoms. Steer clear of medical providers who say such ridiculous things.

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Postpartum Spirits

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Sheridan from Hayward, CA, asked:

Hi Julie,

I just had a baby 3 months ago and have been suffering from horrible postpartum anxiety. I have fluctuating thoughts of deep sadness and grief. I feel lost and alone. I keep having thoughts and fears of dying in a car accident as well as seeing/feeling spirits in my house. I can’t see faces, but will often turn my head because I see and feel someone by me.

Are these thoughts of dying just something that’s a part of my postpartum or is it more? And who is visiting me? Thank you!

Hi Sheridan,

First, congrats on your new baby. So sorry you’re having to deal with postpartum issues.

In order to investigate what’s going on with you I established a connection between us and shot energy from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. Once we were linked, I could see the depression you’re feeling. It looks like a brownish dry fog and is over your whole body.

After removing the depression energy from your energy field, I could see what I believe is the root cause of your symptoms. It looks like you have a big case of adrenal fatigue that’s affecting all of the other hormones in your body, especially your thyroid.  Psychiatrist Daniel Amen, MD says 80-90% of postpartum depression is associated with thyroid abnormalities.

So, in order to help you feel better, I watched an energetic hormone cocktail fill your body. It looked like clear IV fluid with lots of iridescent sparkles in it. Once it was administered, you looked healthy and happy.

The spirits you’re sensing and seeing are all deceased loved ones and friends there to support you. They’re always around you (and all of us for that matter). You’re just able to perceive them in your current state of feeling vulnerable. Appreciate them and thank them for their love.

Here are my suggestions:

– The fastest, easiest way to begin to feel better is to focus on eating healthy, whole, foods (organic if possible). Do your best to stay away from processed foods, sugar, and alcohol. Increase healthy fats like olive oil, coconut oil, avocados, and grass fed butter. You can find Kerry Gold butter in most grocery stores. Go to bulletproofexec.com/diet and download the food chart. Eat what’s on it.

– Find a functional medicine doctor in your area who can figure out the cause of your symptoms and help you fix them. Go to the Institute for Functional Medicine website and enter your zip code. You’ll be shown a list of physicians close by.

– Consider visiting the Northern California Amen Clinic. It’s in Walnut Creek close to where you live in Hayward. They specialize in brain issues. The doctors and staff will be able to assist you by doing blood work to check for vitamin, mineral, hormone and other deficiencies and imbalances, perform brain scans, and design an action plan to quickly make you feel better. Go to amenclinics.com for more information.

The best news is, I believe you can and will heal from this condition and will be able to enjoy your new baby.

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Help For Depression

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Patti from Denver, CO, asked:

Hi Julie,

I’ve been dealing on and off with depression since I was a teenager. It always seems to come back. I have such a hard time getting anything accomplished in my life. I seem to go through cycles of trying, then giving up and retreating from the world. 

Will things ever change for me? Is there anything I need to know? Thanks!

Hi Patti,

Thanks for your question.

When I connected with you, I could see your whole body was inflamed. After applying anti-inflammatory energy, I could see lots of Candida yeast in your stomach and intestines. I also saw the brain fog of depression in your head.

Once I energetically sucked out the Candida and got your inflammation calmed down, your brain fog (depression energy) was eliminated.

I believe the Candida is most likely causing your inflammation, GI symptoms and depression.

Please get a copy of A Mind of Your Own – The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives, by Kelly Brogan, MD.

Dr. Brogan is a board certified psychiatrist with a neuroscience degree from MIT and an MD from Cornell. In addition, she is a former professor at the NYU School of Medicine and has too many published articles and affiliations to mention here.

In her book, Dr. Brogan cites a multitude of peer-reviewed studies showing that depression is not caused by low serotonin levels but rather is a symptom of inflammation oftentimes originating in the gut. She claims, “In six decades, not a single study has proven that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.”

Reading this book will be a great place for you to start educating yourself on how best to treat your depression.

Based on what I saw when scanning you, I truly believe armed with this new knowledge, you can and will heal once and for all.

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