Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 183. I am so excited for today's guest. We have one of the most inspiring people I have

ever had the pleasure of learning from here today to share with us. He has an incredible

story, he has so much to share, he's truly an inspiration. Wesley Chapman, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

I appreciate the kind words.

Absolutely.

You had a great TEDX talk.

You have been helping so many people and I'd love for you to start

though by sharing your story because you have a really powerful one.

Okay I'll try to keep it as condensed as possible and give kind of the 30,000 foot view and then we can dive into whatever parts you you feel inspired to talk about. My journey in life has really been full of a lot of trauma and traumatic events.

My childhood started immediately with trauma even before I was on the planet, you know, the

entire experience of being in the womb was filled with young parents who weren't really

ready to be parents and thus, you know, weren't really ready to be parents and thus you know weren't

taking some of the precautions and some of the things needed in you know prenatal

care I guess we could call it and so that that in itself was was crazy there was a lot of different things that they were putting into their bodies that were obviously you know now as we're learning with science definitely have effects on on on us as the the child being

created in the womb and once I came on to this planet that trauma and those

situations didn't stop. In fact, my first kind of diagnosis, if you will, was failure to thrive at three months old.

And for those of you that aren't familiar with what failure to

thrive is it's basically a human beings lack of the basic necessities that make

us up as as a species aka, you know, obviously the emotional side, love, nurturing all that,

but then on the physical side, hygiene, nutrition, you know, the things that are just kind of, I guess you could call

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