221: Caroline Potter on Adrenal Fatigue, Type 1 Diabetes, and Motherhood as a Military Spouse
Multidimensional with Christina The Channel
Christina Rice
4.6 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm chatting with Caroline Potter, wife, mama and the voice behind the brand Flourish (www.flourish-living.com) where she encourages women to cultivate conscious living, balance grace with gumption and make small changes to have a big impact on their health, joy and energy! Caroline is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and author of the cookbook, All American Paleo Table.
In this episode, Caroline shares more about her personal health journey and what it was like being diagnosed with both Hashimoto's and Type 1 Diabetes. Caroline discusses the diet and lifestyle changes she made to manage her autoimmune diseases and how she emotionally handled her late diabetes diagnosis. She also shares more about how she balances everything as a new mother, what it's like being a military spouse, and how she manages being a mother when she is in a long-distance relationship half the time. We also discuss carbohydrate intake, signs you might have adrenal fatigue, ways to support your adrenal health naturally, and more.
Connect with Caroline more on her website (www.flourish-living.com) and Instagram (caroline__potter).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wellness Realness with Christina Rice. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, Christina. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm a nutritional therapy practitioner, holistic health coach, rakey practitioner, |
| 0:16.3 | and the creator of ChristinaRice Wellness.com, where you can find my blog, recipes, services, |
| 0:22.9 | programs, and e-books. |
| 0:24.9 | In this podcast, I'll be discussing all things related to health and wellness, and I promise |
| 0:29.3 | to always keep it very real. |
| 0:32.1 | Remember my disclaimer. |
| 0:33.7 | The information in this podcast is general health and nutrition advice and is not a replacement for medical advice, diagnosis, or true. |
| 0:41.4 | If you'd like to submit a question or a topic for me to discuss, submit it on the podcast page at ChristinaRice Wellness.com. |
| 0:48.8 | Don't forget to subscribe, leave a rating and a review on iTunes, join our Facebook group Wellness Wellness Podcast Tribe. |
| 1:00.0 | I am currently at my friend Jesse Coleman's house. |
| 1:08.2 | You guys might be familiar with Jesse. She's been on the podcast multiple |
| 1:12.5 | times. I'm in her bedroom on the floor. Her bedroom is in the shape of a circle, which is |
| 1:20.0 | interesting. I really like it. I feel like I'm in a castle when I'm in a circular room. Maybe that's |
| 1:26.2 | just me. But I am in West Hollywood. I'm in L.A. |
| 1:30.4 | For the weekend, have some work things to do, going to go to some events. It's going to be so much fun. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm actually really happy to be back. I drove up late last night and as it was driving into |
| 1:47.4 | L.A. I was just thinking L.A. reminds me of that bad boy that you love and you want to date, but you |
| 1:56.3 | know, it's just not good for you. It's like how I feel about living in L.A. I, you know, I loved it. It's so much fun. |
| 2:02.6 | When you come here, you think it's what you want. But then you stay here for a while and you deal |
| 2:07.0 | with the traffic and adrenal fatigue sets in and you realize maybe not the best for you, long term. |
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