Full Transcript Opening: The Body Knows 0:00 I want to tell you something about that moment though. 0:03 Something I couldn't see then, but I can see clearly now. 0:07 That wasn't failure. 0:08 That was the last page of the old story. 0:12 The body has a wisdom that goes far beyond what the mind can manage. 0:16 And sometimes, especially in the most gifted people, the most determined people, The body has to get undeniably loud before the real answer can be heard. 0:25 And my body was about to get very loud. 0:27 Welcome to The Resiliency Method, the truth about healing. 0:30 I'm Dr. 0:31 Erica and we are here to uncover the root causes keeping you stuck. 0:35 Together we'll restore your energy, your focus and your resiliency so you can finally heal, regenerate and feel truly alive again. 0:48 After 40,000 patient visits and my own 30-year health battle with seizures, thyroid dysfunction, endometriosis, scleroderma, 0:58 and gastroparesis, I was told by both conventional and alternative medicine to manage it, accept it, and live with it. 1:08 And I never did. 1:08 And at nearly age 50, every single one of those conditions is gone. 1:14 Without drugs, without hormone replacement, without shortcuts. 1:18 and what change wasn't a new protocol. 1:21 It was learning to ask a completely different question. 1:26 Welcome to the resiliency method, the truth about healing podcast. 1:30 I'm Dr. 1:30 Erica Schultz. 1:32 And this show is going to be disruptive because I'm here to help you think more critically about your own health than any system ever has. 1:44 Because you were designed to heal and the answers have never been in white coats or the research labs. 1:50 They've been inside you all along. 1:53 Every episode ends with what I call the better question. 1:56 And here's today's. 1:58 Am I being offered a real answer or just a more comfortable way to stay stuck? 2:04 Stay with me. 2:05 This is where real healing begins. 2:07 Welcome to the Resiliency Method, the Truth About Healing podcast. 2:11 I'm Dr. 2:12 Erica Schultz. 2:13 And if you're listening to this right now, some part of you already knows that what you've been told isn't the whole story. 2:24 And here's what I know to be true. 2:27 Your body has been working for you every single moment of your life. 2:35 Even now, as you hear these words, billions of processes are happening beneath your awareness, restoring, regulating, and reaching toward wholeness. 2:46 That has never stopped. 2:49 Today's episode is different because today I'm going to share the story I don't usually tell in full. 2:55 Not because it's painful, but because buried inside of it is really something extraordinary.
From Childhood Illness to Chronic Symptoms 3:02 A discovery that both conventional and alternative medicine have been slow to acknowledge. 3:09 That when you address what's actually broken at the deepest level, the body doesn't just cope, it actually heals. 3:20 Now you may have already sensed this. 3:23 Maybe there's been a quiet knowing inside of you, a voice beneath the diagnosis, beneath the protocols, beneath the management plans. 3:36 That said, this isn't the end of the road. 3:40 That voice was always right. 3:43 Think of your body the way you'd think of a river that has been dammed. 3:50 The water hasn't disappeared. 3:52 The capacity to flow hasn't gone anywhere. 3:56 It was just simply blocked. 3:58 And the moment you begin removing what's in the way, the current will rush forward on its own. 4:04 That's not hope. 4:05 That's actual biology. 4:08 So I'm sharing my complete journey today because I know many of you are standing at exactly the crossroads I once stood at, 4:15 where you've been offered a lifetime of symptom management and told in so many words to make peace with your limitations. 4:23 But I want you to feel something shift as you listen. 4:27 Because if your body is still sending signals, still speaking to you through symptoms, that means the conversation isn't over. 4:38 It means your body is still asking for something and you're about to learn what that something is. 4:47 You have always had more capacity than you were led to believe. 4:51 And by the time you're done today, you're going to feel that, not just understand it. 4:58 So let's begin. 5:01 Act one, the ordinary world. 5:05 So my health journey started when I was just 10 years old. 5:08 I had stepped on a rusty nail in my backyard. 5:11 It was a standard childhood injury. 5:14 And so I got a tetanus shot. 5:17 That was also standard protocol. 5:20 But what happened next was anything but standard. 5:24 Within weeks, I developed shingles on my face. 5:28 At age 10, a disease or an issue that most commonly is seen in elderly people with compromised immune systems was appearing on the face of a perfectly 5:40 healthy child. 5:42 The case was so unusual, they photographed me for medical textbooks. 5:48 And here's what I want you to really sit with for a moment. 5:53 A child receives a vaccine and within weeks her immune system becomes so dysregulated that her body produces a disease it was never supposed to produce 6:02 at that age. 6:05 Those two weeks were a kind of torture that I couldn't quite yet understand. 6:10 The pain was relentless. 6:12 I missed weeks of school. 6:15 I remember my mom would wring out a washcloth over my face because even the gentlest touch was agony. 6:24 But your body, my body, even a 10-year-old's body, is doing something brilliant in moments like this. 6:34 Because when your body encounters something it cannot immediately eliminate, whether that's an infection, a vaccine adjuvant, 6:41 or an environmental toxin, it does exactly what a wise architect would do. 6:47 It builds a wall around it. 6:50 It encapsulates it. 6:52 It protects your vital organs, your glands, your tissues from what it cannot yet process. 6:59 Now, in that moment, my body was not failing. 7:01 My body was actually protecting me. 7:03 I just didn't know it then. 7:06 And nobody really connected that for me. 7:08 It was not then and not for decades really, truly afterward. 7:14 But that moment, that seemingly ordinary childhood injury and its standard medical response was truly the beginning of a conversation my body had been 7:24 trying to have with me for more than 30 years. 7:30 Act two, the call to adventure. 7:34 So the seizure started in my adolescence and at first they were infrequent enough to explain away. 7:40 but they follow a pattern and somewhere inside me I knew patterns mean something. 7:46 The medical professionals had a clear message, here's a medication, you'll probably have these for the rest of your life. 7:53 Not let's investigate why this is happening, not let's find where this is coming from, just management. 8:02 Acceptance, a lifetime prescription for a symptom that really nobody was willing to trace its source. 8:11 Now here's something I want you to notice, because you may recognize this feeling in your own body. 8:18 I knew there was more to this than meets the eye. 8:22 I knew there was more to the story. 8:25 Not intellectually, but I felt it. 8:29 And that deep, quiet cellular knowing that says, this isn't random. 8:35 Something's causing this. 8:38 But conventional medicine wasn't really interested in that why, just the what, just the management. 8:47 Then came the thyroid dysfunction, the hormone chaos, the periods that were irregular and brutal and relentless. 8:55 And so I made a choice that changed the trajectory of everything. 8:59 I started looking somewhere else, natural medicine, functional medicine, Alternative practitioners, this is where things should have gotten better.
Conventional Medicine and Lifelong Management 9:11 And in some ways, really a lot of ways they did, but not in the ways that I needed most. 9:20 Act three, the alternative path and a different kind of gaslighting. 9:28 Here's what almost nobody talks about. 9:31 And I'm going to talk about it because I know it's one of the most important things you'll hear today. 9:37 I left conventional medicine because they offered me lifelong management instead of answers. 9:43 But what I found in natural medicine wasn't always better. 9:47 It was just a different kind of dismissal, wearing different clothes. 9:52 And when the natural protocols didn't work, when I tried the supplements, the cleanses, the dietary overhauls, and I still struggled, 10:03 The message shifted. 10:05 Instead of take this pill forever, it became you're holding on to stress. 10:09 You need to work on your mindset. 10:11 Have you considered this is spiritual? 10:15 One practitioner went so far as to suggest my seizures were the mnemonic possession, that I needed to repent more effectively, 10:24 and I needed to pray. 10:27 Well, if you've never experienced a seizure before, one of the most terrifying things you can do is fall down, lose consciousness and lose control of your 10:38 body and talk about vulnerability in that moment. 10:43 So the experience that maybe I needed to pray more or handle my emotions better or my stress better was really frustrating to me. 10:56 And still that knowing inside of me was such that I knew that there was more to the story on a physiological level. 11:08 So let that land for a moment. 11:09 I had just left a system that said, accept lifelong illness. 11:14 I came to a system promising root causes. 11:17 And when their protocols couldn't reach deep enough, they turned the failure into my fault. 11:24 I was no longer a patient, I was a project that hadn't done her inner work, and I want to say something directly to anyone who has been told that. 11:32 Their body's symptoms are a reflection of their emotional inadequacy or their spiritual inadequacy or their spiritual failing, 11:40 their unresolved trauma. 11:42 Your body has never been wrong about what it needs. 11:47 The systems failed to find it. 11:50 This is the invisible trap. 11:53 the gap between two worlds. 11:56 Conventional medicine says manage it forever. 11:59 Alternative medicine says if you're not healing, you're not believing enough, processing enough, surrendering enough. 12:07 Both systems were missing the same thing, the actual physiology. 12:13 And here's what I know that I couldn't articulate then. 12:17 Your body doesn't gaslight you. 12:19 Your body is always in every moment doing its level best with the resources it has available. 12:28 And the question was never, is my body capable of healing? 12:32 The question was, what does it actually need to do so? 12:41 Act four, crossing the first threshold, graduate school. 12:46 So I entered graduate school to study Chinese medicine and acupuncture and functional nutrition on the weekends. 12:53 And something began to shift because for the first time I was learning about real detoxification, not the trendy two-week cleanse version of detox, 13:02 the actual physiological reality of how your body eliminates waste. 13:06 and how elimination pathways get blocked, and how to support liver function, lymphatic drainage, cellular cleanup. 13:13 I learned it and I applied it to myself immediately, and something remarkable happened. 13:19 For the first time in my adult life, I got better. 13:22 The seizures reduced dramatically. 13:24 I came off the seizure medication for a short while. 13:26 My energy returned. 13:28 My skin cleared. 13:29 And the weight, it fell away. 13:30 For the first time in my life, I was living a body that felt like it was working with me instead of against me. 13:36 And I thought, I found it. 13:38 I've cracked the code. 13:40 I was so close. 13:41 And I was also missing something I couldn't yet see. 13:44 Because what I didn't understand then, and what took me years more to learn, is that there are layers to this. 13:51 Like an archaeologist who brushes away the surface sediment and thinks they've found the artifact, I had only really reached the first layer of healing. 14:01 And the deepest layers were still waiting. 14:04 And my body was patient enough to keep telling me so. 14:08 Act Five. 14:10 The False Victory. 14:12 About a year into my healing, everything fell apart. 14:15 The seizures came back, and they came back harder, more frequent, more intense, as though they'd been gathering strength while I thought I was winning. 14:24 And then I discovered the truth about my weight loss. 14:27 It wasn't really health. 14:28 It was my thyroid misfiring. 14:30 It was an imbalanced diet created in my attempt to clean up my eating. 14:34 I was eating no carbs. 14:37 I had pushed my thyroid into overdrive. 14:39 The weight I lost wasn't from healing. 14:41 It was from dysfunction by the techniques that were supposed to be helping me. 14:46 So I did what any determined portion would do. 14:48 I just kept going. 14:49 More protocols, more cleanses, different supplements, different approaches. 14:55 I didn't give up because I knew there really was no going back to the conventional medicine.
The Alternative Medicine Detour 15:01 And I know many of you listening probably haven't either. 15:04 You're still seeking and you know inside that there's more to know. 15:09 I really want you to feel what this is like, because so many of you know this experience from the inside. 15:16 The relentless cycle, try something, feel better, crash, try something else, feel better, crash again. 15:22 The temporary lift, the inevitable descent, the question that starts to haunt you, is this just how it is for me? 15:31 I kept managing, I kept at it, I kept cycling, I kept researching for the next answer, but here's what I understand now that I didn't understand then. 15:40 I wasn't failing. 15:42 I wasn't broken. 15:44 I wasn't missing some crucial piece of willpower or belief. 15:48 It wasn't my poor spiritual behavior or my lack of emotional resilience that others projected upon me. 15:54 I was addressing the surface brilliantly, diligently, consistently, while the deeper cause remained untouched. 16:03 The river was still dammed, and I just had been clearing debris from the banks of it, and I kept clearing and clearing. 16:09 Act Six, The Descent. 16:14 Quote, then the descent began in earnest. 16:19 The weight came back rapidly. 16:23 Despite doing everything right, my lymph backed up throughout my body. 16:27 I was bloated in flame, barely recognizable to myself in the mirror. 16:33 The scleroderma appeared hardened patches of skin on my shoulders and under my arms. 16:38 My body was changing at a tissue level, visibly, undeniably. 16:42 Gastroparesis developed, my stomach stopped emptying properly, eating one of the most basic fundamental human experiences became painful. 16:52 The kyphosis became visible as I entered perimenopause, my spine curving forward. 16:59 My posture changing, rashes, body odor, brain fog, digestive distress that seemed to have no bottom. 17:05 And here's the part of the story that carries a particular kind of weight. 17:09 Because I was a practitioner at this point, I was seeing clients. 17:12 I was helping other people heal. 17:15 I was seeing some of the most gifted experienced genuinely brilliant practitioners myself and people with extraordinary techniques and remarkable track records. 17:23 And even their best work wasn't reaching deep enough for what was happening inside of me. 17:29 Then came the moment that should have been a triumph. 17:31 I was invited on stage to accept an award for being an outstanding practitioner. 17:36 And the day before that ceremony, I had a massive seizure and sprained my ankle very badly. 17:42 I stood on that stage nonetheless, though, the next day and accepted the award and smiled for the photographers and felt like a complete fraud. 17:53 Here I was, recognized for excellence and healing while privately cycling through the same protocols, getting the same temporary results, 18:01 experiencing the same crashes, carrying the same conversation with my body, getting the same non-answer. 18:10 I want to tell you something about that moment though. 18:13 Something I couldn't see then, but I can see clearly now. 18:17 That wasn't failure. 18:19 That was the last page of the old story. 18:22 The body has a wisdom that goes far beyond what the mind can manage. 18:26 And sometimes, especially in the most gifted people, the most determined people, the body has to get undeniably loud before the real answer can be heard. 18:37 And my body was about to get very loud. 18:41 Act 7, The Breaking Point. 18:45 So the real breaking point came at an annual conference with my colleagues. 18:50 I had walking pneumonia, not the kind that puts you in bed, the kind where you're sick enough to be walking stiffly, sick enough to feel terrible, 18:57 but not sick enough to stop. 18:59 So you keep going and you keep functioning, you keep showing up, you keep pretending. 19:03 I sat in that conference hall surrounded by some of the most brilliant minds in natural medicine and something dropped into place that I hadn't been able 19:09 to articulate before. 19:12 The relationship I had with my body was like a couple who'd been together for years, having the same exact argument over and over again, 19:20 same words, same pattern, same outcome, same unresolved tension. 19:24 I would detox, feel better, crash, detox again, feel better, crash. 19:28 Parasite cleanse after parasite cleanse, just kept cycling over the same things. 19:32 My body had been sending the same signal for decades and I had been responding the same way for decades. 19:39 Not because I wasn't trying, because I wasn't listening to what the signal was actually saying. 19:47 And then sitting in that room with walking pneumonia surrounded by brilliance that wasn't quite reaching the root, I looked around at my own clients in 19:55 my mind's eye. 19:56 These were people who had come to me after being told by conventional medicine that their symptoms were all in their head. 20:05 That they needed anti-depressants, medications, that stress management was the answer. 20:10 The next, the perfect diet or more exercise was the answer. 20:16 And then they came to natural medicine seeking root causes. 20:19 Many of them get better, genuinely better, but so many were also stuck in exactly the cycle I was. 20:25 Protocols that have worked, then stopped working, good weeks followed by crashes. 20:30 And in that moment, I understood something that changed everything. 20:35 The protocols and approaches weren't wrong. 20:39 They just weren't deep enough. 20:42 We were all, every gifted practitioner I knew, including myself, addressing the surface layers of toxicity, doing it brilliantly, 20:51 doing it with tremendous skill and care. 20:54 But the encapsulated toxicity, the stuff stored in fat cells and fascia and tissue since childhood, quite frankly, maybe even birth,
Graduate School and Early Healing 21:05 we were barely touching that. 21:08 And nobody had a map to that layer. 21:12 And until someone did, we would all keep having the same conversation, the same cycle, the same temporary victories followed by the same confusing crashes. 21:21 The body had been waiting patiently, persistently loudly for someone to finally listen at the level where the real message was being sent. 21:30 Are you tied to treatments, protocols, and gurus who promise results but don't deliver? 21:34 You're not alone. 21:35 For years, I struggled with my own long-term illness and I know how frustrating it feels when nothing seems to work. 21:42 That's why I developed the resiliency method. 21:44 It's a science-backed approach to combine the best of Western and ancient medicines to restore your body's natural intelligence. 21:51 Patient after patient has discovered what's possible, living stronger, brighter, and more spiritually connected than ever before. 21:59 Whether you're facing autoimmune issues, hormonal imbalances, weight struggles, or just feeling stuck, you don't need another quick fix. 22:06 You need a clear path forward. 22:08 Take the first step with a discovery call at drericaonline.com forward slash discovery. 22:14 That's D-R-E-R-I-K-A online.com forward slash discovery. 22:21 Or dive deeper with a full initial consultation at drericaonline.com forward slash Initial dash consultation, because your health, 22:32 your clarity, and your freedom cannot wait. 22:49 At date, meeting the true mentor. 22:53 That's when everything changed. 22:55 That's when I found the missing piece, the vagus nerve. 22:59 Now I want you to imagine something as I explain this. 23:02 Imagine you've been living in a house for years and there's a fuse box in the basement and every circuit in the house runs through it. 23:11 The lights, the heating, the refrigerator, the alarm system, everything. 23:15 And for years, you've been replacing the light bulbs, adjusting the thermostats, resetting individual appliances, getting partial temporary results. 23:25 Nobody told you there was a fuse box. 23:28 Well, in your body, the vagus nerve is the fuse box. 23:33 It's the longest cranial nerve in your body. 23:36 It runs from the brain stem through your face, your throat, your heart, your lungs, and all the way down through your digestive organs. 23:43 It's the master conductor of your parasympathetic nervous system, your rest, digest, and ability to heal system. 23:53 And here's what I suddenly saw with absolute clarity. 23:57 The vagus nerve connects and controls or directly influences virtually every symptom I had ever experienced. 24:06 And I want to tell you that the vagus nerve probably affects virtually every symptom you've ever experienced. 24:15 But let's get back to me. 24:16 The seizures, for sure vagal nerve dysfunction. 24:21 In fact, we're using now vagus nerve stimulators and planting them inside chronic seizure patients. 24:29 So for sure that was involved in that condition. 24:33 The vagal nerve dysfunction also affected my digestion. 24:38 The gastroparesis, well, the vagus nerve literally controls how your stomach empties. 24:42 When it's compromised or hasn't fully healed, the digestion stalls. 24:47 Thyroid dysfunction, hello, vagal nerve connection through the cervical spine, the back of your neck. 24:54 Hormone imbalances, the entire hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cascade, vagal nerve influence. 25:00 Immune dysregulation leading to scleroderma and autoimmune conditions. 25:04 The vagus nerve is the primary regulator of inflammation and immune response. 25:10 Lymphatic congestion, bagel tone directly affects lymphatic flow. 25:14 The kyphosis, the postural changes, the vagus nerve influences muscle tone and spinal control, every single symptom. 25:21 Not random, not emotional, not unrelated, not mysterious. 25:26 Connected through one master system that nobody had really thoroughly examined. 25:32 But the question that cracked everything open wasn't what does the vagus nerve do? 25:36 It was what compromises it? 25:39 And the answer arrived like a key turning in a lock that had been stuck for 30 years. 25:44 Deep encapsulated toxicity. 25:47 Not the kind you address with a two-week cleanse or even a few months or even several years at surface level toxicity protocols. 25:55 We're talking about the toxicity that's stored in your tissues, your fascia, your cells, sometimes since childhood.
The Relapse and Deeper Search 26:05 The toxicity your brilliant protective body had walled off because it lacked the resources to eliminate it. 26:13 The childhood shingles episode after the tetanus shot That wasn't where my story started going wrong. 26:21 That's where my body started its most heroic decades-long act of protection. 26:26 And as that encapsulated toxic burden grew over 30 years, and as it slowly progressively compromised bagel nerve function even more, 26:34 every symptom followed as naturally as night follows day. 26:38 This wasn't failure, this was physiology. 26:40 And this understanding whispered something I want you to hear right now. 26:44 Wherever you are, whatever you've been told, You are not broken. 26:49 You are not emotionally blocked. 26:51 You are not failing. 26:53 You just haven't been given a map that goes deep enough. 26:57 Until now. 27:00 Act nine, crossing the real threshold. 27:04 Crossing this threshold meant committing to something I had never done before. 27:09 Not another cleanse, not another six week protocol, not another supplement stack. 27:14 a complete physiological reset, properly sequenced, deep enough to actually reach what had been stored for decades. 27:22 And I want to be honest with you about this, the way I wish someone had been honest with me, because this honesty is a form of respect. 27:31 The journey to deep detoxification is physiologically challenging. 27:35 Things can get more intense before they ease because when you finally give your body the support it needs to release what it's been storing for protection, 27:42 it begins to release it. 27:44 And this isn't a side effect. 27:45 This isn't failure. 27:46 This is your body finally doing what it has always wanted to do and couldn't. 27:50 Heal. 27:51 That is to heal. 27:53 Think of it like a river that's been dammed for decades. 27:56 When you finally remove the obstruction, the water doesn't trickle out gently. 27:59 It rushes, it surges. 28:01 There's turbulence before there's flow. 28:04 But on the other side of that turbulence is flow. 28:08 What this reset required was precision. 28:12 It required supporting every detoxification pathway, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, skin, lungs, so they could handle what was about to be released. 28:20 Using proper whole food supplements so that toxins as they are released would be captured and escorted out rather than recirculating and redepositing. 28:28 working at the fascia level, the cellular level, the mitochondrial level, where the encapsulation actually lived. 28:35 Simultaneously restoring bagel nerve tone so that my body's master regulatory system could guide the process. 28:43 And doing all of this in the right sequence because your body is not just capable of healing, it's elegant in how it heals. 28:50 When given the right conditions in the right order and at the right time, this is where the real journey begins. 28:57 Not the journey of management, not the journey of blame, not the journey of root cause resolution. 29:05 Act 10, tests and allies. 29:07 So when you genuinely detoxify at a deep cellular level, when your body finally begins releasing what has been encapsulating for protection, 29:17 things intensify before they ease. 29:20 I mean intensify. 29:21 The rashes became a little bit more pronounced. 29:23 My skin was a little bit working overtime to deal with what the liver couldn't process fast enough at times. 29:30 There was fatigue at times. 29:31 There was swelling at times. 29:34 Because your body is extraordinarily intelligent in a resource allocation and deep detoxification commands really enormous energy. 29:42 Energy that has previously been diverted to management was now being directed to resolution. 29:48 The brain fog worsened temporarily as neurotoxins stored in fatty tissues released into circulation. 29:53 Old symptoms resurfaced briefly, purposefully, as the body processed the original sources. 30:00 And here's what made this fundamentally different from every crash I've ever experienced before. 30:04 This time, I understood what was happening. 30:07 Every symptom had a mechanism. 30:10 Every intensification had an explanation rooted in pure physiology. 30:14 It was managed through my practitioner, who was a strong resource for me, walking side by side with me. 30:24 Thank you Lyric Turner. 30:25 My body wasn't betraying, my body was actually working. 30:29 And I was seeing my clients who were diligently trusting my leadership in this new territory, repeating similar patterns in their healing process, 30:38 despite having different in their own symptom picture or history. 30:43 I had allies now, not in the form of practitioners telling me what to do, but in the form of understanding. 30:49 I knew about biofoil. 30:50 I knew about all the toxins get packaged in the bile and require proper biofoil to exit, et cetera, et cetera, about how our ancestors detox without the 30:58 use of fancy binders and chelators, because at this level, my own body and my client's bodies were responding with a new level of intelligence, 31:07 one that was deeply programmed inside of each of us. 31:10 And that because of the exposure and the levels of toxins we've encountered in the last century plus, wasn't really enough to keep their bodies clean and functioning. 31:19 We were detoxing simply through whole foods by adding increasing B vitamins, fatty acids, minerals. 31:28 We were doing this just the same way our ancestors did, which was amazing to see and such a progression forward. 31:36 Chinese medicine had opened a door, graduate school had given me a language, functional medicine gave me the tools to communicate better with my clients. 31:43 But now I was going deeper than any map I had been handed. 31:47 I was drawing a new one and one built not on symptom management, natural or otherwise, but on actual physiological resolution. 31:56 One that answered the question both systems had been unable to answer.
The Breaking Point and Vagus Nerve Discovery 32:01 Why? 32:04 Act 11, the ordeal. 32:06 The ordeal lasted months. 32:08 There were some days I couldn't function the way I was used to functioning, as my body was overcoming its deepest burdens. 32:13 But my body is also brilliant, so it was never to an extent that I couldn't function, because my body was letting go gradiently, 32:20 and I was sleeping more deeply than I had ever in my life. 32:24 But there were some bad nights of sleep sprinkled in at times. 32:27 But I knew instinctively, even when my body was more fatigued, that this is not damage, this is release. 32:33 and slowly, at first almost imperceptibly, things began to shift. 32:38 The seizures became less frequent, then rare, then they stopped completely. 32:44 After decades of being told by conventional medicine that I would have them for the rest of my life, after years of natural practitioners suggesting the 32:53 problem was spiritual or emotional, the seizures resolved. 32:58 When I finally reached the actual physiological cause, which was vagus nerve dysfunction, driven by deep encapsulated toxicity, 33:07 the gastroparesis resolved, my stomach healed, vagal tone restored, my stomach began emptying again, eating became what it was always meant to be, 33:16 nourishment, the lymphatic swelling began to reduce, my body could finally move what it had been forced to store. 33:24 The scleroderma, those hardened patches of skin that had been my body's tissue-level response to toxic encapsulation, had begun to soften. 33:34 And as the toxins released, the tissue normalized. 33:37 The thyroid stabilized, the hormones balanced on their own in the middle of perimenopause. 33:43 Not through replacement, not through suppression, through restoration. 33:48 And the way it shifted, not from diet restriction, food avoidance and elimination, or GLP-1 drugs or peptides, not from a thyroid and overdrive this time. 33:58 but from genuine metabolic restoration, from dealing and treating and resolving a fatty liver, which many of you have. 34:08 This is the root of your metabolic dysfunction. 34:10 From a body that no longer was allocating its resources to containment, I want you to really take this in. 34:18 None of this happened because I finally resolved my emotional blocks. 34:22 None of this happened because I found the right affirmation. 34:25 None of this happened because I found the magic pill, the magic biohack. 34:31 This happened because my body was given what it needed to do, what it has always known how to do. 34:38 It happened because I honored the process and I gave it time to heal. 34:43 It was like a shift happened. 34:45 My body and I were not speaking the same language. 34:49 But now they are. 34:52 Your body has never forgotten how to heal. 34:54 It has been waiting for the right conditions to heal. 34:58 Act 12, seizing the reward, perimenopause without symptoms. 35:04 The real test, the one I hadn't anticipated came when I entered perimenopause really. 35:09 This is the threshold that so many women approach with dread. 35:13 So many stories about how this is normal. 35:15 It's not normal, ladies. 35:17 The hot flashes, the mood swings, the brain fog, the insomnia, the waking, the sense that your body is changing beneath you in ways you can't control. 35:24 I have been conditioned to expect all of it, and so have you. 35:27 And it's crap. 35:30 What I experienced instead was something I could not have predicted, even as I was doing the work. 35:35 Nothing. 35:37 No hot flashes, no mood swings, no brain fog, no insomnia. 35:42 No unexplained weight gain, instead improvement. 35:46 Continued measurable, visible improvement. 35:48 My kyphosis stopped progressing. 35:51 Then it began to reverse. 35:52 My spine straightened as inflammation reduced and proper nerve signaling returned to postural muscles. 35:59 My skin became clearer and more supple than it had been in my 30s and with fewer age spots. 36:05 Not more. 36:06 My energy increased, my mental clarity, the kind that lets you think in full sentences, follow complex threads, hold spaces for other people, 36:15 surpass what I've been in my 20s. 36:18 And people who hadn't seen me in a few years started saying, you look 10 years younger than you did five years ago. 36:23 And they were right. 36:25 Because here's what I now understand to be true. 36:29 physiology, not philosophically. 36:33 When you remove the toxic burden that has been accelerating premature aging, when you restore the vagus nerve function that regulates everything, 36:43 when you optimize your immune system, your body does what it has always been designed to do. 36:48 It thrives. 36:50 This wasn't luck. 36:51 This wasn't exceptional genetics. 36:52 Oh my, the worst genetics. 36:54 This wasn't a mindset transformation. 36:56 This was the result of finally giving a brilliantly intelligent body the physiological conditions it needed, supporting the innate intelligence of it. 37:07 And what happened to me is possible for you, not as a promise, as a physiological reality available to any body that receives the right support at the 37:20 right depth. 37:22 Act 13, Resurrection. 37:26 I'm not the same person who stood on that stage accepting an award while privately feeling like a fraud. 37:33 That version of me was caught between two systems, both of which were doing their best and both of which were missing the same piece. 37:42 The resurrected version of me understands something I want to offer you now as clearly as I can say it. 37:49 Most conditions that have been labeled chronic are not inherently chronic. 37:55 They are unaddressed at the proper depth. 37:58 The label chronic often means we have not found the root. 38:03 Not the root doesn't exist. 38:06 Not your body can't heal. 38:08 Simply, we haven't looked deep enough yet. 38:12 An emotional, when it's used to explain why a protocol isn't working, is often just a polite way of saying, we've run out of physiological explanations. 38:23 It transfers the responsibility of the system's limitations onto the person who came seeking help. 38:29 You came to the right place. 38:30 You asked the right questions. 38:32 You tried the right things. 38:33 The systems just weren't offering maps that went deep enough. 38:39 I'm in my late 40s now. 38:41 I'm actually almost 50. I want to be 50 in two months. 38:45 I feel better than I did at 25. The seizures are gone. 38:48 My thyroid healed. 38:49 My hormones moved through perimenopause without incident. 38:53 My digestion is effortless and my lymph flows better now than ever has. 38:57 My energy is consistent. 38:58 My spine is straight. 38:59 My skin is clear and youthful.
Deep Detox and Physiological Reset 39:00 And all these conditions are such without synthetic chemicals being used to achieve them. 39:06 No botox, no fillers, no hormone replacement, no hacking, just plain old healing. 39:13 Healing. 39:14 H-E-A-L-I-N-G. 39:17 And what I want you to carry with you from this story is this. 39:21 I tried everything. 39:23 I saw remarkable practitioners. 39:25 I did the cleanses, the protocols, the elimination diets, the supplement regimens. 39:29 I worked with very gifted healers. 39:32 None of it was wrong. 39:35 It just wasn't deep enough. 39:38 And what changed everything was accessing the layer that had never been reached and restoring the master regulatory system that had been quietly compromised 39:48 for decades as a result. 39:50 And that is what your body is waiting for. 39:54 Not more management, not more emotional investigation into your childhood drama. 40:00 the right support, at the right depth, in the right sequence. 40:08 Act 14, return with the elixir. 40:12 The elixir I bring back, the thing I went through, all of that defined is the resiliency method. 40:18 And I built it for two very specific people. 40:24 The first is you. 40:27 If you recognize yourself anywhere in my story, if you've been caught between a system that offers you lifelong management and a system that offers you 40:34 lifelong blame, if you've been cycling through protocols, experiencing temporary results and crashing again, if you feel like you've been having the same 40:43 conversation with your body, the same argument, the same unresolved tension for months or years or decades, you're not broken. 40:50 You've just been working with incomplete maps. 40:54 And the second is practitioners, people like I was, who have genuinely powerful techniques, real skill, and most of all, 41:03 authentic care for their clients, but are watching those clients at a ceiling they can't explain, who know something is missing but haven't been able to 41:14 name it. 41:15 The resiliency method is built on a truth that changes everything. 41:20 Once you fully receive it, When you address encapsulated toxicity of the proper depth and you restore the thymus gland and the vagal nerve function through 41:31 systematically sequenced detoxification followed by nourishing, the body can heal from conditions that both conventional and natural medicine have labeled chronic. 41:42 Not as an exception, as a predictable physiological outcome. 41:49 This isn't another cleanse, this isn't another protocol you cycle through for six weeks. 41:54 This is not emotional work dressed up in physiological language. 41:59 This is a systematic sequence physiological precise approach to releasing what has been stored since childhood. 42:07 The toxicity of your body encapsulated out of sheer intelligence, waiting for the day you could finally give it the support to let go. 42:17 Restoring the pathways that have been overwhelmed, not by bypassing them, not managing, actually restoring them. 42:27 Returning your vagal tone so that your body's master regulatory system can do what it has always been designed to do. 42:36 And doing all of this in the right order. 42:39 Because your body is not just capable of healing, it's capable of orchestrating its own healing. 42:46 given the right conditions. 42:48 And here's what I want you to understand and what I wish someone had told me 30 years ago, that childhood exposure is still in there and your body has 42:57 been working around it ever since. 43:00 Those symptoms that seem unrelated are not unrelated. 43:03 They are connected through a system nobody thought to examine. 43:07 Surface level detox is not enough for deep encapsulation. 43:11 You deserve to go deeper. 43:14 My conditions, my symptoms were the result of deeper encapsulations, and with good certainty, so are yours. 43:21 And even symptoms that you aren't experiencing yet that you will age into, specifically in the area of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions. 43:31 Perimenopause is not inevitable decline. 43:34 It is a transition from your body that can navigate with clarity and vitality if its regulatory systems are functioning well. 43:41 And aging poorly is not written to your IDNA. 43:45 It is accumulated toxic burden that can be addressed. 43:50 And if natural protocols aren't working for you, you're not the problem. 43:55 They are just not going deep enough yet. 43:57 This is what the resiliency method was built to do.
Healing, Perimenopause, and Renewal 44:00 This is what your body has been waiting for. 44:03 This is what I now teach practitioners who are seeing the same limitations that I saw. 44:09 So if you've been listening to this today and something in you has been quietly saying yes to parts of the story, I want you to trust that. 44:18 That quiet knowing, that recognition, that sense of finally someone's describing what I have been experiencing. 44:25 That's not wishful thinking. 44:26 That's your body's intelligence recognizing something true. 44:31 If conventional medicine has told you to manage it forever, if natural practitioners have suggested that your unresolved symptoms reflect your unresolved 44:39 emotions or spiritual inadequacies, if you've done the cleanses, the supplements, the dietary overhauls, if you get better for a while and then you crash, 44:48 if you feel like you've been having the same conversation with your body on repeat, Let me tell you what I know now with absolute certainty. 44:57 You are not broken. 44:59 You are not emotionally blocked or spiritually inadequate. 45:02 You are not failing. 45:03 You are not too complicated, too far gone, or too chronic to heal. 45:08 You are just not going deep enough yet. 45:11 The surface level work you've done has not been wasted. 45:15 Every step you've taken has been your body moving toward this moment, this understanding, this deeper map. 45:24 The journey into deep detoxification is physiologically real. 45:31 You may experience retracing. 45:33 You will need to properly support pathways that have been compromised, perhaps for years. 45:38 The work is not always comfortably comfortable. 45:42 The work is not always comfortable or blissful, but the reward, and I want you to feel this, not just hear it, is not another good week before the next crash. 45:52 The reward is breaking the cycle. 45:55 It's having a different conversation with your body, one where it can finally release what it's been holding, one where it can finally move toward resolution 46:05 rather than management. 46:07 The reward is entering perimenopause, menopause, any decade and beyond, whatever it is for you, as you age with vitality rather than decline. 46:20 The reward is looking back at the version of yourself who felt caught, who felt blamed, who felt like a fraud or sitting in a waiting room or quietly Googling 46:35 symptoms at midnight and knowing that was the last chapter of the old story. 46:40 This is the beginning of the new one. 46:42 And you don't have to accept lifelong management. 46:45 You don't have to accept that it's all emotional. 46:47 You don't have to keep cycling through the same protocols and wondering what's wrong with you. 46:52 Nothing is wrong with you. 46:55 Your body has an extraordinary innate physiologically grounded capacity to fully heal.
The Resiliency Method and Final Invitation 47:02 When it finally receives the support it needs at the depth it actually requires. 47:08 This is the resiliency method. 47:11 And your journey into that deeper healing begins the moment you decide the old conversation is over. 47:19 Thank you for being here today. 47:20 If any part of this story lived in yours, please share it with someone who needs to hear it. 47:26 And if you're ready to go deeper than you've ever gone before, visit paramount.well to take the next step. 47:33 Until next time. 47:35 Remember, you're not failing. 47:36 You're not blocked. 47:37 You're not broken. 47:40 You just haven't gone deep enough yet. 47:43 I'm Dr. 47:43 Erica Schultz. 47:44 This is The Resiliency Method. 47:46 Thanks for tuning into The Resiliency Method, the truth about healing podcasts. 47:51 If this episode spoke to you, follow, share, and leave us a review. 47:55 Are you ready to go deeper? 47:56 Book your discovery call now at drericaonline.com forward slash discovery and take your first step today.
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