If you are just walking into the grocery store with this belief that, okay, can't get anything

frozen because that's bad, can't get anything canned because that's bad, you're writing off

things that actually are probably better for you in some cases, easier for you, more likely

to turn into a nourishing meal for you down the road.

You have to be willing to play the long game when you are talking about

metabolic restoration. You cannot have your eyes fixed on this short term of, I just want

everything to be better in the next three to six months. That's not how the body works. But I think

that sometimes there is more playing out in our bodies than just what our first-person narrative of the story that we have access to.

What does daily, real-life, actual nourishment look like for modern women?

This is the question that came up after my recent

episode, the epidemic of women undernourishing, with today's returning guest, Ashley Wilkin.

Ashley is a nutritionist, herbalist, clinical practitioner, and mother of a sweet little toddler. And our episode really

seemed to touch something that is very alive for women, as it is for me. I loved that

conversation and I loved this conversation today where we are answering your questions.

Biggest response I've gotten to an episode in a very long time. And both Ashley and I received

many questions. And we noticed the common theme was, how do we take what you all talked about in that episode and apply it to daily,

busy mom life or working life or burnt out woman life or perimenopausal chaos life.

So that's what we're here to talk about today.

We discussed the slippery edge that we're all walking

between not being consumed by food fear

and over-restricting, restricting it all,

while still having healthy discernment around what we put

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