52: A Surprising Diagnosis: My Current Health and Healing Journey
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This year has presented many of us with unique struggles. Whether you’ve realized it or not, 2020 put many stressors and obstacles in daily life that may not have been there before.
In this week's episode, Robin is sharing some of the struggles she’s been facing over this past year and how she’s now overcoming them. Robin dives into a deep look at her own health, the challenges and diagnosis she has faced, and ways she’s moving forward. Join Robin in this personal and explorative episode to hear more about her health journey.
Show Highlights:
- How pregnancy + the postpartum season impacted Robin’s health
- The consistent symptoms Robin was experiencing
- Why Robin chose to invest in a holistic practitioner
- What is the Epstein Barr Virus and why Robin got tested for it
- How Robin is dealing with mold toxicity and adrenal burnout
- Ways stress impacts the body
- The difference between acute stress and chronic stress
- What is HPA Access
- Ways The Balanced Life + Pilates has kept Robin afloat through her diagnosis
- How the stress of 2020 weighed on Robin
- What we all need to do to make sure we’re taking care of ourselves
- The struggles of maintaining balance and health with a busy schedule
- Ways Robin is working to detoxify her body
- Getting our bodies back to a place of balance naturally
- Small steps you can take to make progress on your health goals
Links:
Pilates Strong: a FREE 5-Day Pilates Challenge
The Balanced Life on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pallotti's instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.1 | Here on the balanced life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:21.8 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you |
| 0:28.0 | create your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, |
| 0:33.2 | inside and out. |
| 0:35.5 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome back to the podcast. I am excited for today's episode. It's a little |
| 0:41.8 | different. I'm going to actually just be connecting with you and sharing a little personal |
| 0:47.1 | behind the scenes update. I've been working through some things in my personal life and I've been |
| 0:52.8 | trying to figure out like when is the right time to share and I ultimately decided there's never really a perfect time to share. |
| 0:59.5 | So that's what I'm going to do on today's episode. So I just wanted to get on the mic. |
| 1:03.8 | I have some notes in front of me, but really just openly share what I've been navigating. |
| 1:09.5 | Basically, we'll just dive right into it, I have a new |
| 1:12.4 | diagnosis at a new health challenge that I've been navigating. And I've been trying to get an |
| 1:18.3 | understanding of what's going on before I shared because I had a lot of questions myself and |
| 1:23.4 | didn't really have any answers. And now I finally have some clarity. And I really just am committed |
| 1:30.4 | to bringing you along on the journey with me. I've always wanted to show up authentically here |
| 1:35.3 | at the balanced life. And so while I'm still in the midst of navigating this, I wanted to just |
| 1:40.5 | share it with you because you've been here for me through so many seasons of life |
| 1:45.5 | and it's my goal to support you through your seasons of life as well. And so I'm going to dive in |
| 1:51.6 | and share a little bit about that today. So don't worry. I want to say right from the beginning, |
| 1:55.7 | it's treatable. It's not extremely serious. Nothing to be like alarmed about. Instead, it's actually probably |
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