This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines of the fascinating

worlds of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom.

I'm your host Terry Cole, which you already know. I'm super psyched that you're taking some time out of your day to spend it with me and I have a really interesting topic. I don't know if it's interesting. Maybe it's even could be embarrassing for some people, but we're going to talk about gut health today on the show.

And I find that there's this thing that women especially don't talk about which is that even though I'm in the

well in this community and I have lots and lots of friends who are super healthy

most women have trouble eliminating waste.

So are you nodding your head? Yes, are you one of those women?

Because I feel you, trust me.

I used to have a therapist who would say if I was constipated,

literally she would say, what are you holding on to? You're like everything for

dear life, this is probably part of the problem, but there is more to it than that, right?

There really is more to it than psychological.

The thing is there is an element of psychological in everything that happens with our physical health.

So for years and years and years I always looked for answers of what is going to help me move

my bowels in a healthy way?

What is missing in my diet? I was a vegetarian since I was the age of 20.

And I thought, well obviously that will do it.

All of the things, all the assumptions that we have

about if you're healthy then everything should be moving right with ease and

grace exactly the way you want it to be that never really happened until later in my life and part of what has

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