238: Tara Mackey - WILD Habits • Natural Ways To Calm Your Anxiety • Approaching Gratitude Differently
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tara Mackey (IG: @taraamackey) is a widely recognized social media personality. Her followers love her natural health suggestions and remedies - all of which actually come from Tara's personal journey of overcoming her dependence on 14 prescription drugs through an organic lifestyle, which ultimately saved her life.
Tara's new book, WILD Habits shares all of the specific mental practices and natural home remedies Tara uses in her own life for a healthy spirit, mind, and body. She's also written Cured by Nature.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Tara was born on hard drugs
- Her grandparents got custody of Tara when she was 7
- Tara's first diagnosis and medication
- The influence Oprah and Tony Robbins had on Tara
- Being on 14 prescription drugs by the age of 24
- Hitting rock bottom
- The most empowering moment of Tara's life
- Tara's most toxic relationship
- Harmful habits
- Every single moment of our life adds up
- WILD Habits
- Small things happening day after day can lead to something BIG
- The WILD Method
- Intuition is trusting yourself
- Who you surround yourself with is who you become
- Change your life by making meditation a daily habit
- Natural ways to calm your anxiety
- We learn a lot more from our failures compared to our successes
- A different way of approaching gratitude
- A supplement that eliminated Tara's acne
- The impact of a shower filter on Tara's skin and hair
- Don't start the day in chaos
- Drinking ice water in the morning
- Just go for a walk
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Related links:
Tara Mackey - WILD Habits (book)
Tara Mackey - Cured by Nature (book)
Tara Mackey - The Organic Life Blog
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Enlightened Golden Chai – Easy Caffeine Free, Vegan Recipe (Tara's blog)
Tony Robbins - Awaken the Giant Within (book)
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (book)
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (book)
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| 0:00.0 | when I looked down and realized my decision and the weight of it and when I had done, I didn't want to die. |
| 0:07.0 | What I wanted to do was I wanted to live the best possible life that I could imagine. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 238. |
| 0:17.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman, and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:27.0 | This week our featured guest is Tara Mackie. |
| 0:29.2 | She's a widely recognized social media personality. |
| 0:32.0 | Her followers love her natural health suggestions |
| 0:34.1 | and remedies all of which actually come from Tara's personal journey of overcoming |
| 0:38.6 | her dependence on 14 prescription drugs through an organic lifestyle which ultimately saved her life. |
| 0:45.2 | Tara's new book, Wild Habit shares all the specific mental practices and natural home |
| 0:50.0 | remedy she uses in her own life for a healthy spirit mind and body. She's also the |
| 0:55.1 | author a cured by nature. It was super inspiring hearing all about Tara's story. |
| 0:59.4 | She was actually born on hard drugs and had a very traumatic childhood and she will tell her story. |
| 1:04.8 | And she also talks about what it was like hitting rock bottom, what the harmful |
| 1:09.2 | habits were that she was involved in and how she changed them over into wild habits and she shares with us her wild method. |
| 1:15.7 | Tara talks about natural ways she has calmed her anxiety over the years and something really awesome |
| 1:21.2 | she talks about how she healed her cystic acne totally naturally. |
| 1:25.0 | She is so about natural skin care. |
| 1:27.0 | We also get into a different way of approaching gratitude. |
| 1:30.0 | So much goodness in this episode. |
| 1:32.0 | So excited for you guys to hear everything we talk about with Tara. Here we go with Tara Mackie. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi Tara, how are you? Welcome to the show. I'm doing wonderful. How are you? We are great. We're super excited to have you on the show. You have a new book out Wild Habits and congratulations. It's a fantastic read. |
| 1:48.0 | Thank you so so much. |
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