241. The Hidden Link Between Blood Sugar, Hormones, & Emotional Triggers With Carla Wainwright
241. The Hidden Link Between Blood Sugar, Hormones, & Emotional Triggers With Carla Wainwright
Midlife is often framed as a time of loss, confusion, and hormonal chaos. But what if it is actually one of the most powerful thresholds in a woman’s life?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla sits down with holistic wellness coach Carla to talk about perimenopause, menopause, nervous system health, blood sugar regulation, and sacred metabolism. Together, they explore how women can support both their physical bodies and their energetic bodies during midlife in a way that feels grounded, embodied, and sustainable.
What Is Sacred Metabolism?
Carla describes sacred metabolism as having two key components:
The first is physical metabolism, or how the body takes in and processes fuel and energy. This includes things like food quality, stress, movement, sleep, blood sugar regulation, and how well the body is functioning overall.
The second is energetic metabolism, which refers to how we process life on a deeper level. This includes intuition, emotional energy, embodiment, feminine wisdom, and our ability to feel connected to ourselves and nature.
Her point is powerful: many women are not just struggling physically. They are also metabolizing stress, pressure, disconnection, and overstimulation on an energetic level.
Why So Many Women Feel Dysregulated in Midlife
One of the strongest themes in the episode is that women are not failing. They are often trying to function in environments that work against their biology.
Carla explains that modern life places enormous strain on the body through:
processed foods and chemical exposure
chronic stress and overstimulation
constant screen time and lack of nature
disconnection from natural rhythms and cycles
pressure to perform while ignoring body signals
This is especially important in perimenopause and menopause, when estrogen and progesterone begin to fluctuate and decline. As Carla shares, this can reduce natural calming effects in the body, increase anxiety and hypervigilance, and make women more reactive to stress.
For women with past trauma, this can be even more intense. Hormonal shifts, nervous system activation, and blood sugar instability can all combine to create symptoms that feel emotional, mental, and deeply physical all at once.
The Importance of Attuning to the Body
Rather than starting with rigid rules or one-size-fits-all plans, Carla emphasizes the importance of meeting each woman where she is.
The first step is body attunement.
That means slowing down enough to ask:
How does my body actually feel?
What symptoms am I brushing past?
What is underneath the fatigue, brain fog, or irritability?
This kind of embodied check-in matters because the mind is not always the best leader. The mind can problem-solve, but the body carries wisdom the mind often overrides.
For many women, learning to listen to the body is not automatic. It may require support, nervous system work, small lifestyle changes, or somatic practices that make attunement feel safer and more accessible.
A Simple Morning Practice for Nervous System Regulation
One of the most practical and memorable parts of the episode is Carla’s 2 to 5 minute spinal movement practice.
She explains that the spine naturally moves in six directions, yet most people only spend time in one or two of them throughout the day. Gently moving the spine in all six directions can help release tension, improve mobility, and support the nervous system.
Her suggested sequence includes:
rolling up from bed heart-first instead of head-first
flexion and extension of the spine
side bending to both sides
gentle twists
Why does this matter?
Because spinal mobility supports the nervous system, including the long spinal column and the body’s signaling pathways. Carla also connects this to vagal toning, which supports the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of the body responsible for rest, restoration, and regulation.
This gives women a very doable way to begin the day more grounded and connected.
Blood Sugar, Trauma Responses, and Midlife Symptoms
Another major takeaway from the episode is Carla’s explanation of the connection between blood sugar dysregulation and trauma-like symptoms.
When blood sugar swings too high and then crashes, women may experience:
heart palpitations
irritability
anxiety
shakiness
brain fog
emotional reactivity
a stronger sense of being triggered
In midlife, when hormone levels are shifting, this can become even more amplified. Carla explains that the nervous system may interpret these sensations as threat states, especially if a woman already has trauma in her history.
This insight can be incredibly freeing. Instead of seeing yourself as weak, dramatic, or broken, you begin to understand that your body may be responding to very real physiological stress.
Supporting blood sugar through practices like:
eating more protein and healthy fats
reducing processed foods
choosing more whole-food carbohydrates
using time-restricted eating when appropriate
can have a major impact not just on physical health, but on emotional regulation and mental clarity too.
Why Celebration Matters More Than You Think
Toward the end of the conversation, Kayla and Carla talk about one of the simplest but most powerful habits women can build: celebration.
Carla shares that because the human brain is wired to notice problems and threats, celebration helps interrupt that default pattern and create new neural pathways. She references the idea that small celebrations can be as powerful as meditation when it comes to rewiring the brain.
That means taking even a few seconds to say:
I celebrate that I had protein at breakfast
I celebrate that I slowed down
I celebrate that I recommitted instead of giving up
I celebrate that I listened to my body today
This simple shift creates momentum. It helps women move away from shame, perfectionism, and all-or-nothing thinking, and into self-trust and embodied progress.
Midlife as a Threshold, Not a Breakdown
This episode is such a beautiful reminder that midlife is not the end of vitality. It is a threshold into a new relationship with the body, with feminine wisdom, and with what true wellness can look like.
If you have been feeling tired, disconnected, dysregulated, or confused by what your body is doing, this conversation offers both compassion and practical tools.
Midlife does not need to be navigated through force.
It can be navigated through attunement, nervous system support, metabolic care, and deep listening.
Links Mentioned:
Embodied Activations:
Embodied Activation 1: The 2-Minute Spinal Reset
Try Carla’s gentle morning nervous system practice tomorrow before you check your phone.
As you wake up:
Roll to your side and rise heart-first instead of head-first
Sit on the edge of your bed with both feet on the floor
Move through:
forward rounding and chest opening
side bend right and left
gentle twist right and left
Take a slow breath with each movement.
Prompt:
How does my body feel when I begin the day with presence instead of pressure?
Embodied Activation 2: Blood Sugar Awareness Without Shame
For one day, notice how your meals affect not just your hunger, but your mood, mental clarity, and nervous system.
After each meal, ask yourself:
Do I feel steady or shaky?
Calm or more emotionally reactive?
Clear or foggy?
Nourished or like I want more stimulation?
This is not about perfection. It’s about data, compassion, and deeper body literacy.
Prompt:
What does my body seem to need in order to feel safe, steady, and supported?
Embodied Activation 3: Recommit Without Drama
If you’ve been in all-or-nothing mode lately, practice Carla’s reminder:
Commitment means you get to recommit.
Take one area where you feel off track and complete this sentence:
Today, I recommit to…
Keep it small. Keep it loving. Keep it doable.
Examples:
Today, I recommit to eating breakfast with protein.
Today, I recommit to stepping outside for five minutes.
Today, I recommit to listening to my body before pushing harder.
Prompt:
What would change if I treated recommitment as strength instead of failure?
Embodied Activation 4: Celebration as Rewiring
Before bed tonight, write down three celebrations from your day.
They can be tiny.
Examples:
I celebrated that I drank water before coffee.
I celebrated that I paused instead of spiraling.
I celebrated that I stretched for two minutes.
I celebrated that I chose progress over perfection.
Then say out loud:
I celebrate myself for showing up today.
Prompt:
What becomes possible when I stop waiting to be perfect before I let myself feel proud?:
Transcript:
Kayla: Hello Carla and welcome to the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast.
Carla: Thank you. I'm just thrilled to be here. Kayla,
Kayla: I am thrilled to have you. So you are one of the first local people I have had the pleasure of meeting and connecting with. I actually saw you present at an event and I was like, oh my goodness.
She would be the best podcast guest. So why don't we start there? Why don't we share first with who you are and the work you do in the world, and then what you shared at this event that was. In my opinion, like so important for people to know about.
Carla: Okay, I'd love to. So, yes, my name's Carla and I am a holistic wellness coach.
I also call myself a midlife alchemist and my passion is supporting women. 40 plus navigate, perimenopause, the perimenopause and Meno pausal transition. So that they can really step into what I believe is the most powerful time of their lives and do that with as much ease and, feeling really great in their bodies as possible because it is a really challenging transition.
And so there's a lot of layers and pieces to that, and I do that through something I call the sacred metabolism, which is really supporting on the one hand. Metabolic health through lifestyle. All the choices that we make in our life, but also the energetic metabolism, which is more connected and into the deep listening of the body in the womb space and, and feminine, feminine embodiment.
So that's kind of, that's kind of what my jam is.
Kayla: Love that so much and I have had multiple people come into my world recently and talk about midlife as such a powerful threshold time, and that just really excites me that people are changing that narrative around it and helping to support what can be a challenging time.
With the changes that happen in the body. So why don't we start with the sacred metabolism piece and then move on to the energetic metabolism piece. Sure,
Carla: The sacred metabolism for me is comprised of two components of what we could call our metabolism. And our metabolism is really how the body takes in and processes energy and.
You know, of course there's physical energy in terms of, you know, the food, the fuel that we put in, and then that creates energy within ourselves. But we also have the energetic metabolism too, because there's a whole perhaps unseen, metabolism of Yeah, that relates to our energy body or etheric field, and.
We are really, I would say, in a state of crisis, around the world, particularly in the West, around metabolic health, a crisis of metabolic health. And I would say that it, it's both. It's both the physical and the energetic. And, you know, this is for a number of different reasons from a physical standpoint.
You know, there's just been such a huge assault on this incredible physical body that we have in terms of, all of the processed food, the chemicals in our food, the pesticides, the massive amount of stressors that we have from computers and cell phones, and we don't go outside enough. We've really disconnected from the biological, the innate biological design that we all have.
This body evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, if not more, to be very attuned to nature's rhythms and cycles, and very much in the past a hundred years, especially. We've really withdrawn from that and it's had a massive metabolic effect on our bodies. And you know, it said that, this is an American statistic, but I, I think it's probably pretty similar everywhere in the West, at least, that only about seven or eight per percent of people are metabolically healthy.
So that, that's like. Daggering, right? So that's like 92% of people, have some type of metabolic dysfunction, which leads to chronic disease, which leads to so much suffering in our bodies. So we really are at this, very critical juncture, I think in terms of human health. And even though we'd say we're living longer.
I wouldn't say our health span has increased, right? Our lifespans increased, but the quality of our life, for many, many people has definitely, I don't think improved. In fact, it's gotten a whole lot worse. So, so we have that On the one hand, in terms of. Of our physical metabolism. And then in terms of our, our energy metabolism, which is really how we connect with our deep wisdom and our inner knowing.
Connecting to the wisdom of nature, connecting to that very deep and powerful source of inner intuition. In many ways that's also been really blunted in our modern society. Women for centuries and centuries have, really been persecuted for connecting to that inner wisdom and being, very highly attuned to our surroundings and that deep inner knowing.
I think that our modern lifestyles. Pull us away in many regards from creating the presence and the spaciousness to actually feel into that, that part of our energetic metabolism, that deep inner wisdom. So, you know, we have this incredible capacity as human beings and I have so much, reverence for this body and this being that is, you know, the human, and.
I feel like at this critical point of, on the one hand, there's a desire to evolve our consciousness and expand and step into, greater levels of, connection and love and creation and all of those sorts of things. Yet at the same time, there's so many aspects to our modern lifestyle that, can create a lot of barriers and hindrances to that.
Kayla: There's so much you said there that it's. Hard to even know where to start. The first part is that I love that you've touched on all of the many odds that are actually stacked against us to be healthy and happy and thriving. When you get a lot of messages out there that are like, it's just willpower, it's just discipline, this and that.
Instead of going to that place of what you mentioned of like. The environment is to a large degree stacked against us. And as you said, we've come a long way with appreciating the feminine and appreciating that like intuition and that connection to nature. And sometimes it feels like it's more. Talked about that actually embodied.
Does that make sense? So you have the, you know, the people who talk about feminine energy and this connection to nature, and then there's still all of this hustle culture and performativity out there and all of these different things. So based on all this, when you work with your women, where do you even start when there's so many places you can go?
Carla: Oh yeah. Such a good question. Well, I, you know, and I'm, I'm sure it's the same in your work, you always meet someone where they're at and it's not prescriptive. And I think one of the beautiful things about really being guided by the feminine, feminine principles is it's not linear. Right? And so, although we may kind of say, okay, we're starting here and we have a vision of, of, you know, who I would like to step into and how I would like to feel. That may feel linear, but in fact it's not. It, it really isn't. Right. So, you know, always meeting a woman where she's at. And I think one of the, the most important things in the starting point is to attune into like.
Just how is my body feeling? And although, you know, we can all say, yeah, I feel tired, or I don't have energy, or I have brain fog, or all of those sorts of things. And there they are very huge in and of themselves, but often, there can be quite, it's like the, the, the top layer. So how do we go at least one layer deeper to actually just feel that and attune into that?
And when we're able to do that, through a variety of different practices, like some of them are lifestyle changes and some of them are deep inquiry, and some of it has to do with, you know, somatic healing. Then we get a lot more clarity about the next steps to take and we just keep checking in with the body because the body, the body wisdom is the ultimate wisdom.
The mind likes to think of course, because it's, you know, related to the ego and it likes to think it's in charge and it knows exactly what to do. And that's not to say that the mind isn't powerful. And of course it's extremely useful. We need our minds, but we don't want the mind to bypass the signal of the body.
So that is often the place that'll start. By also, like I said, using different techniques because it can be a really big jump for some women who've never actually had that attunement into their bodies. It's like, well, how do you do that? Well, sometimes if you just make a few tweaks in terms of you know, your environment or what you're putting in your body and those sorts of things, then that attunement becomes easier.
So, you know, every woman is an individual. Every person is an individual and needs an individually crafted journey, but it really does come down to, creating that attunement with the body to create that roadmap.
Kayla: I imagine a huge part of that is just being able to slow down wherever possible and then.
I imagine a lot of the work you do that is so valuable involves a nervous system itself. Is that, would you say that's correct?
Carla: Oh, oh, absolutely. You know, one of the great challenges, and I will be the first to admit that it is an ongoing challenge in my life and probably very much why I, I do this kind of work because, you know what, as healers we're, we're, we are drawn to the things that we need to do to heal ourselves and then we're inspired to.
To, you know, take that and support others. Yeah, like nervous system regulation in our modern era is enormously difficult. We are, it's really an assault on our nervous system daily. The sheer number of, small discreet events. Compounded by news and electronics and just the fast pace of our modern lifestyle, that it is a real challenge to even just have a, you know, few moments of feeling really resourced and regulated.
So the nervous system is such and such an important, , well it is the piece of that and, and helping, train. Women to understand like how they can respond and support their nervous systems is so key to that work.
Kayla: Absolutely. And one of the reasons I was so excited to have you on here was a really powerful practice that involves the nervous system that you've shared at this event.
So can you share a little bit about how. People can support their nervous system day to day in as little as five minutes.
Carla: Yes. And even it can be less than five minutes. 'cause sometimes people are like, five minutes, that's too long. So, yeah, it always needs to be doable. So the practice that I shared is a practice that I've done for many, many, many years. So I'm a long time, yoga instructor. And, one of the things that, you know, I really know how important it is to move your spine in what we'll call the six different directions.
Typically day to day we, we move our spine forward and that's called suction. And we do a lot of that and probably we do way too much of that in terms of just poor posture. But there are actually five other directions that the spine innately moves and is really necessary for the spinal column and the nerves, long spinal line column to stay toned and, really, just provide the body with.
Yeah, like, like support and ease at the same time. Do you, do you want me to talk through the practice or just describe it?
Kayla: Describing it is perfect. And then also explaining just a little bit more about how powerful that is for the nervous system itself.
Carla: Okay. So let, let me just start by explaining the practice.
So basically how I do this, I do this very first thing when I roll out of bed. So, the first part that I do is actually not part of the sixth part of the spine, but I'm gonna share it anyway. So instead of when you wake up, kind of like. Coming up head first, like sitting straight up. I always roll to the side and I roll myself up.
I imagine like the back of my heart leading up first, and my head comes up last. So why do I do that? I had someone point out to me many, many years ago that you want to start your day. Heart first rather than head first. 'cause the head is like running the show or trying to run the show.
And if you want to be more heart led in your day, then it's a very powerful affirmation to make your very first movement when you wake up. Heart led. So if you roll up like that and with the head coming up last, it's kind of like a slow movement. You're just affirming, you know, today I'm choosing to lead with my heart first.
Okay, so I do that, and then I put my feet on the ground. I'm sitting on the edge of the bed, and I'll just move into flexion and extension of the spine. So I just bend forward, rounding the spine, and then I open the chest. Sometimes I'll open my arms wide, like you're doing a little back bend, and I'll do several of those with the breath.
Then I'll move into side movement. So just one hand on the bed, the other hand comes over and you're like lengthening the spine side to side. And this movement is actually really important because it's the movement that we hardly ever do day to day. Like you wouldn't reach for something in the cupboard.
And do a side bend, you know, unless you were like a super yoga enthusiast. So it's a movement that we don't do a lot, but it's super important to create, spaciousness in the side ribs, from the Qigong perspective, we hold a lot of grief in the, in the chest, in the lungs, and so we wanna be able to liberate any kind of stuck emotions there.
And then the final movement is a twist side to side. So just rotating the spine, couple breaths, rotating the spine. So you said five minutes. Five minutes would be a luxury. If you did five minutes, your spine would be enormously happy, but even if you did two minutes. And so it is so important that day to day we move our spine in all six directions to maintain that suppleness, to ensure that, from a muscular per, per perspective, that like the sheaths around the nerves are toned.
That there's, , really. Unencumbered signaling in our nervous system. You're also helping to, from a, from per the perspective of the vagus nerve, which is really the central part of our parasympathetic nervous system. So the rest just relax system. You are supporting that vagal toning.
It's supporting, more capacity to come into that rest and relaxation response versus if there's a lot of tension in the spine, if there's a lot of tension in the belly, then that becomes harder and you're more in fight or flight mode. So what those movements do is they provide a bit of vagal toning and the muscular.
Opening so that you can imagine that superhighway of, of nerves along the spinal column and then everything that branches out is really, supported and also much more at ease because you're releasing tension from the body.
Kayla: So ever since hearing you talk about that, I've been very conscious about adding those six movements to my morning dance alchemy.
And what I love about that is it. Gives people an insight into why things like yoga or these gentle stretches actually help relax us instead of, you know, hearing yoga's relaxing. Okay. But why? There's actually like so much science behind it. And I just really appreciate you sharing that.
Carla: Yeah, I totally agree with you.
I think that's part of the beautiful aspect of the mind is the curiosity. It's like, well, why, you know, toddlers are always like, why, why? And I think as adults we may not express that as much, but I think that curiosity is there. It's like when we understand why something is beneficial, we're much more likely to actually do it.
Kayla: On that note, what are some other practices that you give to people that are really powerful? And then there's that like why behind it? And once you explain this to them, they're like, oh, I get it now. Like let's take blood sugar balancing, for example. 'cause I know that's another topic that you are very well versed in and you shared some things I've never heard before.
So can we go there?
Carla: Sure. So, what are some of the practices around balancing blood sugar?
Kayla: Practices and then also that like really important why behind it, especially in midlife.
Carla: Blood sugar regulation is so important in terms of, really. Helping us feel good in our bodies. So when our blood sugar swings high, and then it will go low because we've been eating too many sugary foods, too many, you know, carbohydrates and things like that, especially processed foods.
It leads to these highs and lows, not only in our blood sugar, but of course in our energy, in our cognitive capacity. And then of course, it, it, we become more insulin resistant and there's a whole kind of downstream effect. Of things that happen, which are really not good for us. And so many of the symptoms that we experience in midlife are affected actually to blood sugar, to glucose, levels within the body.
One of the things I, I think what you're alluding to that, is particularly interesting and I think very helpful is the why is that when we are struggling with managing our blood glucose levels, it triggers a very similar response to a trauma response, which the mind then interprets as past traumas resurfacing.
So when our blood sugar is not stable, we can have those heart palpitations. We can feel like the highs and lows of perhaps our nervous system being really dysregulated. We can feel, that we're really like becoming triggered by things that normally might not be such a big deal.
And part of the reason that this happens is once we start to hit perimenopause, of course our estrogen and progesterone are going down and we reduce our natural calming and the pain buffering. Effects. So we have less GABA support, we're gonna have more anxiety, more hypervigilance, more irritability, and the body memory start to get louder.
Like even hot flashes. From your nervous system's perspective, it might think that it's under threat. Even though the hot flash is something completely different, physiologically, the nervous system might perceive that as a threat. And if you have trauma in your past, which many, many of us do, it, it feels like past threat states and it creates a feedback loop.
And so when you're, and then maybe we'll self-soothe by eating. Processed food or whatever it is, and then our blood sugar starts to, you know, go up and down again and it, it just perpetuates this feedback loop. So, I mean, there are many strategies to create a more stable, glucose response in the body, which is of course eating lots of protein, fat in meals, limiting.
Carbohydrates to nature's based carbs, which are things that grow naturally, like fruits and vegetables and things like that. Some time restricted eating. There's lots of different things that you can do, but they actually have a huge impact, especially in midlife, because of these exacerbated, experiences that happen because our hormones are fluctuating so much.
Kayla: That was. A huge takeaway that I had and it's very interesting 'cause my husband and I both have our, like off and on struggles with carbohydrates and processed foods. And when I have a lot of them, I feel it in my emotions. I feel it in like my brain. Because I did have, you know, a lot of trauma as a younger.
Person and my husband can eat all of the things and not have those same like emotional, mental kind of responses. And I always wondered why that was the case. I'm like, is it 'cause he's a man. But I'm starting to think it has more to do with exactly what you just touched on, which is I think a powerful thing for more people to know so that instead of just, oh, I need to eat less carbs and have more protein because that's healthy, it's like mm-hmm.
Yes, it's healthy, but here's why it's healthy. Yes. So that you can genuinely feel better and not activate those past events that most people, if not every person would prefer not to relive. Right.
Carla: Yeah, absolutely. It is incredibly empowering to, to recognize that some of those shifts that you can make, which absolutely can be very difficult, at the beginning especially, and sometimes hard to maintain.
But when you actually experience the effect on the body and if you are really struggling with, you know, difficult symptoms when the symptoms begin to, you know, minimize in some way, that in itself becomes the positive feedback loop, right? So it's like, oh, actually, you know what? I feel more regulated.
I feel more in my body. I want to do this because I've just, I'm able to kind of cope with everything so much better than if I don't.
Kayla: Absolutely. And as you work with women and they're starting to notice these shifts, how do you keep them in that place of. Presence and celebration so that they keep wanting to do the journey.
Because as you mentioned, it can be difficult when there's all these distractions and opportunities to eat all the things. So how do you really support women on continuing to feel better and better?
Carla: So first of all. You know, we're human. And I think perfection is a myth, that, you know, we're, especially as women are, are sort of, encouraged to buy into and we are human and fallible and it's not going to be perfect.
So, one of the things I love about commitment is you always get to recommit, right? So you can make a commitment to something and then, Hey, you know what? Life happened and I deviated, and that's okay. I just gonna recommit again. And often we have to recommit over and over and over again. And one of the things that I really try to support women with is that.
One of the benefits of having a coach or working with somebody is that accountability piece that is hopefully held within a very loving and supportive container. We, as women, often have a lot of shame around not being perfect or, you know, falling off the wagon of whatever that is. And, shame just continues to perpetuate in silence.
If we can just be like, Hey, this happened. I get to recommit and then start to recreate momentum. So one of my teachers, Dr. Mindy PEs always says, it's not about motivation, it's about momentum. And momentum begins to build upon itself. And sometimes we get off track, but then we can rebuild that much easier again over and over and over again.
And you mentioned the word celebration, and I think that's also really important is that, we are. Biologically designed to focus on negative things, that is a survival strategy. If we didn't do that, we wouldn't have made it to 2026, without question. And so, that kept us safe. If we focus on negative things, then we would be sure that we wouldn't put ourselves in, in, you know, in dangerous situations.
The modern mind, it's not always so beneficial. So if we have about. I, you know, I've read that we have about 80,000 thoughts a day, 80,000 to a hundred thoughts a day, a hundred thousand thoughts a day, and 80% of those are negative, right? So we're, we're hardwired for that. And yet, as human beings, we have conscious choice so we can make a different choice.
And celebrations are really, really big part of that. So actually taking the time to acknowledge, use the words I celebrate. The really great things, large, small, minuscule whatever they are, starts to create new neural networks in the mind, starts to rewire the mind and begin to shift out of that like 80% negative thought, pattern.
And that is also a really huge part because as we begin to vocalize and create those new neural networks and patterns and, begin to gravitate towards those things that we really see are serving us in our highest good, then that creates more and more momentum as well. So there are all of these tools that, they are really powerful and they absolutely work.
I mean, there's a, Stanford researcher named BJ Fogg and he wrote a book called Tiny Habits. And so celebrations are a tiny habit and they are as powerful as meditation. In his research, he's shown that. So I'm not saying don't meditate. Meditation's awesome. But just to know that, you know, they know how powerful meditation is in terms of rewiring the brain well, so are celebrations in tiny habits.
Kayla: I knew celebrations were powerful. I didn't realize they were like meditation level. So
Carla: Yeah.
Kayla: And they're so simple. You can take, we're talking about things people can do one minute, two minute to be like, I celebrate XI mean, you could take 10 seconds and just do one. Right. And you can do them throughout the day, like, yeah, that's one of my like.
Most beloved habits and I love that you've like brought that. Why not just, oh, this is good to do, it's as good as meditation. It's not better. So thank you for that.
Carla: Yes. And so, you know, you can keep a celebration journal. One of my clients did that and then she looked back at it after six months or something, and she was blown away.
Like, it was so powerful to read that collection of celebrations, because we won't remember, you know, necessarily day to day. So that, that's a, a great practice. And also if you, if you have a person in your life, to bookend your day at the end. Like to, each share three celebrations from your day.
That's really, really powerful as well. Hmm,
Kayla: absolutely. So Carla, thank you so much for being here. This has been an incredible conversation and when people want to learn more about you, find out what you have to offer, where are the best places for them to go?
Carla: So I have a free guide that I would love your listeners to access.
It's called the Vibrancy Reset, and it is basically a collection of my five, favorite, practices that every woman can put into place in their life to feel great in their bodies. They're simple, they're stackable, they're totally doable. And you can just go to vibrancy reset.com and that takes you to my website, where you can find out more about me
if you want connect with me. I love having conversations with women, so, yeah, I would be really, really excited to speak to anybody who, who might be curious about what I do.
Kayla: Alright, amazing. And I will link that in the episode description. So thank you again, Carla. This has been awesome.
Carla: Yes, thank you so much.
