Hi, Dorothy. I'm Abby. I am curious what your advice would be for jumping kind of back on the bandwagon of healthy, non-toxic, but grace-based living. I had a traumatic birth of my daughter and following that very much just like fell off the bandwagon of healthy eating and living. And that just felt like way too much for me in the season

that I was in. And taking care of my body and my health and that of my families was like the

least priority on my list, it felt like. But now I'm standing like at the bottom of this mountain

that I've climbed before and really just like not sure where to start or to find motivation for the climb

because I feel like I've already done this and it feels like a lot of work and I'm just not sure

how to even start when you already know the steps to take. So I'm just curious if you had any

motivation or advice or could address that.

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Gosh, I believe with this question so much.

What do you do when a big life event, like having a baby or a traumatic birth or something else, a loss of a loved one?

Something really throws you off track. You're, you know, chugging along, doing the things, making changes, trying to live a healthier lifestyle.

And then, for lack of a better word, ish hits the fan, okay? And you're like, wait a second, I don't have time to be thinking about seed oils and avoiding plastic. So I've just got to, I'm like in survival mode. The amount that I relate to that is difficult to even articulate because I really found myself in a similar situation. And I think a lot of us have been there in one way or another. Maybe it's not a traumatic birth for you, but maybe something else happened in your life from a professional standpoint, from a financial standpoint, from a family standpoint, that really, you know, kind of made focusing on your own health or cleaning up your lifestyle or whatever, kind of, it went down the totem pole in order in terms of priority or priorities. And suddenly like survival or

healing or crisis management or, you know, getting out of debt or whatever, it became

the top priority that suddenly took precedent over everything else. And I think this is

something that's worth talking about. And I don't think we talk about it a lot because sometimes when

we hear about low talk swaps or we hear about, you know, better ingredients or we hear about the

problems with our food or big food systems or whatever, it can seem like that is like the number one most

important thing. And while our health is absolutely important and the health of our family is

absolutely important and, you know, should be a priority in our life. It's a lot easier to make

that a priority and to keep our focus and to stay motivated on that, when there aren't other massive things

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