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The ArT of Having it all

Christy Whitman’s

intervieW WithDr. Sara

GottfrieD


Christy Whitman, The Acclaimed New York Times Best-Selling Author

A Woman’s Guide to Unlimited abundance

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Having it all is not about striving for perfection, or about living our lives according to someone else’s standards

or expectations (we’ve done that for far too long).

It’s not about working ourselves to a state of exhaustion, spreading ourselves too thin, or trading inner peace and

contentment for outer trinkets of success.

Been there. Done that too.

Having it all simply means having access to all of yourself, in any moment you choose it, and in every

aspect of life that is important to you.

Go here to learn exactly how you too, can “Have it All”’

www.theartofhavingitall.com






4 QueStionS with ChriSty whitman

C: how do you define your it and your all in your life?

Dr. Sara Gottfried: I thought a lot about this question especially over the last few years, I am in my late 40s and I think there is something about this time

of life that gets women to reflect on meaning and purpose. When I was in my 20s I think having it all had more to do with having a career that I absolutely loved and doing it all with having children and a great marriage and now I would define it in a different way. I would actually say that having it all has to do with hormone balance and maybe not for the reason that you think because I believe having it all should be defined individually. I have some women who go through my detox for instant that I have twice a year and they would define having it all is really feeling back home in their body eating clean food cleaning up the food addiction. They would define it differently than another woman who has joint pain and having it all in terms of her health has to do with reducing inflammation. So I would say the outcome is hormonal balance. When you have your stress hormones in their rightful place not to not tomorrow when you have estrogen really serving you so that when you walk into the room you remember why is you walked in the. When you have your thyroid working so you are not gaining weight or losing hair or not depressed and have mood swings. I think that is one of the ways of defining it Christy. One thing I would suggest is if you don’t have a sense of where your homework are I have a free quiz that people can take. You can go to hormonecurebook.com/quiz and you can get immediate feedback on which hormones are totally on and which ones be more attention.





C: What is your core belief about yourself or the universe that allows you to have the experience of having it all?

Dr. Sara Gottfried: I think the core belief comes down to trust. I say that because I have been taking care of women for 20 years I take care of some men

now to but mostly women and I really noticed that for many women they lose that trust whether it’s a struggle with their weight or struggle with getting pregnant or maybe they’ve had a couple of missed carriages or even one miscarriage and they feel like they are not on the same team they are in this mind-body disconnection. So I think it comes down to trust. The bonus core belief, once you really have grounded in the body that sense of trust the next level is grace. So really feeling like you are receiving the abundance of the life of what life has to offer grace is one of those things I think it’s hard to define and many of us need to figure out what it means. For me I know what grace feels like it’s kind of like the jokes about I know it when I see it. It’s when I’m connected to my true self, it’s when I’m not making decisions from a place of fear or insecurity I am making choices from a place of trust and really knowing that grace is our birthright. It’s not a destination, it’s not like oh I choose grace today I’m good, no it’s like this is one of those things like taking a shower or bath every morning where you have to do this cleansing process and connect to a higher power whatever that is for you and tap into that sense of grace because it’s always there. Sometimes we just have obstacles in place.

C: When you are in a place of having it all what is that bottom line essence feeling for you?

Dr. Sara Gottfried: The feeling is all is well. It’s like the song love the one you’re with it’s a sense of my life is full of meaning and purpose I am able to

work at my gift and being of service. Service is a big part of that embodied feeling. And just that all is well is my mantra is I start future tripping or have this new trip tomorrow and I have been traveling too much I have two young daughters and a husband who is high need and every time I travel it’s a little bit painful like all I have to travel tomorrow when I start future tripping it doesn’t work. But if I can totally be in the moment and say all is well about this. That really helps me show up to that present moment especially to the people I love the most and that’s one of the most important things on the planet.





C: Can you offer one piece of advice to help them to get into that space of having it all?

Dr. Sara Gottfried: It’s hard for me to give one tip I have to say because in my book I have about 97 tips but I can tell you what I am working with right

now because I’m constantly figuring out how I can take this to the next level. What I believe that’s important is a pattern interrupt like to recognize when you are in the pattern of fear and fear shows up in sneaky ways. It can show up as your inner saboteur what I was saying about traveling tomorrow and all my gosh you are going to be neglecting your family you should feel guilty it could show up that way but it can show up in other ways to, it could show up as don’t you want to eat and never swear of chocolate. You don’t want to go exercise why do you want to go walking why don’t you watch the next episode of mad men or something. I feel like it shows up in these subsidiaries ways in the trick is to recognize it and do a pattern interrupt. What I like to do is to take a deep the deepest lowest breath into the lower belly and we can do that right now. I have my hand on my lower belly. When you take a deep breath into your lower belly it expand and as women we tend not to let belly expand but let your lower belly expand that triggers the ragas nerve and flip through out of the sympathetic nervous system which is fight or flight and it turns on the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest and digest, all is well, life is good, you got this. It’s the sense of grace and where all the healing happens. I would say it’s as simple as that and I have my iPhone here every time I put my passcode into my iPhone I take a deep breath into my lower belly so that would be my tip today. I think when you have urban triggers or live in and rural area you have stop signs around you I think it’s great to build those into your day so it’s not a big thing you are having on its integration and really I am glad you brought that up because integration is another through line here of having it all is not just external factors. I would even say mind body spirit in my 30s I thought that was having it all and now I feel it’s more about integration. It’s not just me this is accessible to everyone who is listening to us today. I have to say when I was in my 20s I was a lot more arrogant and I thought and knew it all. I thought I knew what it was I wanted to have it all. I think as you get older you get more curious you get more open you get more clear about that sense of meaning and importance of grace so thank goodness for that.





Dr. Sara gottfriedDr. Sara Gottfried M.D. is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker, teacher, yoga teacher, wife, mom of two daughters, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2014). She’s also a board-certified gynecologist who practices functional medicine, co-host of the #1 rated podcast on iTunes, The Health Bridge, and the creator of an awesome online detox program at www.drsarasdetox.com. For the past 20 years, Dr. Gottfried has been dedicated to helping women (and the men who love them) feel back home in their bodies.

After graduating from the physician-scientist training program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, Dr. Gottfried completed her residency at the University of California at San Francisco, where she still teaches medical students. Although she’s on sabbatical and not seeing patients currently, you can work with her online in her novel group health coaching courses on the issues that plague you most – low energy, weight gain, sugar cravings, slow metabolism, low sex drive, and moodiness – find those at www.saragottfriedmd.com.

Right at this moment, no matter how you are feeling, no matter how in debt you might be, no matter how old you are or how much you weigh, and no matter what the condition of your relationships might be, you have the power to re-create yourself and your life exactly the way you desire it to be – and quite frankly, the way you deserve it to be.

Regardless of how big a gap exists between what you want and what you currently have, within you is the ability to effortlessly and joyfully bridge that gap in virtually every aspect of your life.

You can have it all, how you define it, how you want it. You do have the power to create it.

Go here to learn exactly how you can start having it all today!


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