Your Journey to Vibrant Health with Dr Deb Harrell – Episode 57

Unlock the secrets to holistic wellness with the inspiring Dr. Deb Harrell, a wellness expert with 30 years of experience, as she shares the deeply personal journey that led her to write “Heal – Your Journey to Thriving.” Motivated by her daughter’s health struggles and her own upbringing in Kentucky, Dr. Harrell emphasizes the transformative power of self-love and how it steered her from a career in accounting toward becoming a passionate advocate for holistic wellness.

Learn how incorporating colorful fruits and vegetables can enhance your gut microbiome and overall health, and why shopping the perimeter of the grocery store favors a whole food diet over processed options. Our guest also shares practical hydration advice, including a refreshing homemade electrolyte drink recipe, and introduces a revolutionary health product that promises to help reverse aging, complementing a nutritious lifestyle.

Hear about the groundbreaking benefits of LifeWave patches, with a focus on the X39 patch that boosts copper peptides and reactivates dormant stem cells from both Aideen and Dr Deb. They showcase the transformative impact of these patches on overall health from improved sleep quality to normalized blood pressure.

Tune in to gain insights from Dr. Harrell and start your journey to a vibrant, healthy life today.

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Website: www.purelighthealth.com

Aideen Ni Riada: 0:03

Welcome. This is the Resonate podcast with Aideen. I’m Aideen Nereida. My guest today is Dr Deb Harrell. Welcome, deb. Thank you so much for having me, aideen, I’m so excited for this conversation. Let me tell my listeners a little bit about you, deb, before we get into our conversation.

Aideen Ni Riada: 0:22

Dr Deb Harrell is a passionate wellness warrior with 30 years of experience teaching people how to reclaim their health, body, soul and spirit. Her inspirational workshops, retreats and coaching have equipped people to live lives of vitality, passion and purpose. She is the author of an amazing book called Heal your Journey to Thriving, which is available on Amazon. I have a copy right in front of me and I’ve really enjoyed reading this book.

Aideen Ni Riada: 0:54

For the listeners who don’t know me very well, it might be good to mention that I also have a background in health. I worked in health shops for about eight years. I have a qualification in holistic dietetics and key massage, which is an energy healing massage, and I didn’t feel fully fulfilled in that I needed to go into the music side to that connection I have with health and understanding the value of that, because it is a form of self-love to look after yourself, and I think that that’s something that we should allow and embrace. So right, yeah. So, deb, tell me a little bit about your journey to writing this book, because a book is very, it’s a, it’s a big thing, it’s a huge creative endeavor. It can often be something that we can have a lot of mental blocks to seeing ourselves in that light and it takes a huge commitment. Tell us a little bit about that journey for you.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 2:04

Well, I will tell you that it took multiple years to do that project, and it was something that I kind of knew I wanted to do for quite a lot of years. When I would meet with people to have a consult, you know, I would try to download all of this information to them in an hour and a half, which was really challenging. And my real goal with writing the book was to have sort of a curriculum, so to speak, or just all of that that I was downloading to people in one space for them, and so that was really my goal with that book, and I, you know, just procrastinated on it for a long time, but finally it was like I have to do this and get this done, you know. And so finally I did it and published it in late December 21.

Aideen Ni Riada: 2:55

It’s so beautifully written, I have to say, because it’s very it’s very personable, it’s very relatable. It’s very personable, it’s very relatable and you talk a lot about your own journey to recognizing that health was so important and I believe it relates to your daughter initially was one of the reasons that you started to become more aware that health needed to be more of a priority.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 3:22

Yeah, I would say the experience with my daughter actually launched me into the holistic health world. I actually, you know, I mean, I grew up in Kentucky and you know food choices weren’t always great, however, you know, my parents were. You know they were born in 1915 and 1921 and fast food was never a part of our lives Number one, we couldn’t afford it, and back then you just didn’t have fast food restaurants really pop up until probably my teenage years, and so I I, at 18, I actually became a vegetarian and it was really all about becoming really loving animals and just not wanting to, you know, eat them or be a part of that system. But I was a junk food vegetarian and I had my own form of self-sabotage going, and I think a lot of times with people, bad eating and abusive habits are really a form of self-sabotage and that really, at the root, is a situation of not valuing yourself and not loving yourself. And so I kind of, when I had children and my daughter is my first child I thought, gosh, you know, when I was pregnant I decided I should really eat well, and then, you know, I wanted to raise my kids to be healthy and so I really was motivated to clean up my diet and get rid of the junk and really make it whole food, plant-based, which is so much more important than vegetarian or vegan and so.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 4:57

But when my daughter was in the first grade she did have chronic upper respiratory infections, those kinds of things. We would go to the doctor, they’d give her antibiotics and then a couple of weeks later we were right back. And so at the end of her first grade year they asked they wanted to take her tonsils and adenoids out. And I was like, eh, screech, screeched on the brakes and went. I think those things are in there for a reason and that kind of launched me into really seeking out, you know more holistic things like homeopathy and chiropractic. And I actually got her off dairy, which was one of the keys to her getting well. And you know she’s 40 now and she still has her tonsil as an adenoid. So Yay, that was yeah, cause there’s such a key component to the immune system.

Aideen Ni Riada: 5:48

So and I know that that that journey then led you to go on a journey of learning, um, you know, really diving very deeply into things. Um, were you always someone who was very curious about life?

Dr. Deb Harrell: 6:07

I really was. I was always a reader, you know. I started as soon as I could read. I was constantly at the library reading books and of course back then it was just novels and stuff. But I’ve always been an avid reader and I kind of became a personal growth junkie when I my first job out of college, my first career was in accounting. I was an accountant and my first job out of college was with Seagram and of course that’s an alcohol company and but it was a great job.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 6:37

And my boss I was really petrified of speaking in public and my boss I mean even speaking at a staff meeting of people that I worked with every day. I was nervous and so my boss, you know, spent a lot of money even back then to send me to the Dale Carnegie course of in human relations and public speaking and I graduated that class, you know, after 13 weeks as the most improved. I still had a long way to go, but that kind of really got me into the personal growth space and really always working on myself, and I still do to this day. I’m, you know, almost 67 years old and I’m constantly in a place of growth, and really from a spiritual, emotional standpoint, really from a spiritual, emotional standpoint, and I had a lot of things to overcome from childhood and and really this really helped me to get to that place where I could love myself.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 7:31

I was really digging deep and finding out what those, those barriers were to, to being able to take care of myself well, I think we have this in common.

Aideen Ni Riada: 7:40

I was really lucky my my mother. I was, I’m Irish, I brought up in Ireland, but my mother is American and moved from America to Ireland to marry my dad and brought with her books that most maybe Irish kids didn’t have on the shelf. I was reading, you know. I think there was books by Carl Jung on the shelf and I had a big interest in reading and I got to do that as a teenager and study psychology and there was a huge this willingness to find out more.

Aideen Ni Riada: 8:12

I felt very lost in some ways, like as if I didn’t know myself very well and I was looking outside of myself and learning a lot and it’s all stood me in good stead. But it’s such a, it’s such a blessing when you know you don’t know something.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 8:31

Right, yeah, and you kind of stay in that perpetual state of learning and I there’s more that I can learn and that can help me.

Aideen Ni Riada: 8:40

Yeah, to stay teachable in that way, because I think we’re, we’re all, and I think, especially as we get a little bit older, sometimes there’s a tendency to go okay, well, this is what I believe and I’m not changing now, um, but there’s so much, uh, so much more possible when we open up our mind to new ways, and so I have a little story for you that I thought was cute to share.

Aideen Ni Riada: 9:04

I’ve been. I was reading your book and they have a little section there on hydration and I read it and I was like, oh my gosh, I wish my mother-in-law would read this and she was visiting and I left the book out and you know, because if I tell her to read it, she won’t read it um.

Aideen Ni Riada: 9:20

I left it out. She didn’t take a look at it, but she was here on Friday and she was flicking through it and she was really. She loved the little um. You have some little uh time to smile little joke stories. And she was really.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 9:29

She loved the little um you have some little uh time to smile little joke stories in there she was.

Aideen Ni Riada: 9:32

She was reading them out to me for some. She just picked it up cause I had left it where she likes to sit and, um, I said, mom read the read the piece on dehydration, and so she read that. And so I really, really I’m so pleased that I had this book that I could share with her, because the way you’ve written it is so accessible, it’s so personable, it’s so easy to relate to and I think that makes it a really, you know, a really positive book, because there’s lots of books on what to eat and what not to eat. But you can feel your energy in this, deb, you can feel your heart coming through the book.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 10:09

Well, thank you your energy in this, Deb. You can feel your heart coming through the book. Well, thank you.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 10:12

One of the things I wanted to make sure I did was not make people feel guilty.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 10:16

And I’ll be honest, in my early journey when I was helping people in this space, I was a little judgmental and a little impatient with people, and because I’m one of these people that when I make a decision to do something, I literally draw a line in the sand and I do it, Boom, I don’t go back, and so you know I.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 10:42

So I expected everybody to be that way, but part of my personal growth journey really was learning that not everybody’s like me, you know people. People adapt and change in different ways. Some people it’s little baby steps at a time, and so I really wanted to make sure that I was not judgmental in the book and really meeting people where they were at. And the reality is, if I can inspire one change out of people reading that book, I’ve accomplished my goal. You know, Would I love for people to apply every single aspect of that? Yes, but that’s not reality, and so I really that was really. I appreciate your comments because that was really one of my main goals is I just wanted people to feel like they’re having sitting and having a friendly conversation with me.

Aideen Ni Riada: 11:21

Yeah, and it’s so true. I’ve actually recently been reading one of Brené Brown’s books on shame and how she got into this. You know, study of vulnerability and shame, and one of the things that was said to her as a young you know young person before she finished college was that shame is not a good way to create change. People don’t change if they’re shamed, and she went about her whole career then testing that is this actually true? And she came to a very, very strong conclusion that shame does not help people to change. You know judgment, and this comes back to that idea of self-love and allowing yourself to, like my husband calls it give yourself a permission slip. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Aideen Ni Riada: 12:08

So, tell us a little bit about, like, if I don’t have a lot of guests on here talking about health, you’re probably the first. But tell us what you think is your top. You know maybe one or two tips for someone that maybe hasn’t really looked into what is really healthy for them? What do them? What’s the first priority for people, do you think?

Dr. Deb Harrell: 12:34

Well, and I would say that there’s a lot of confusion out there. I have a cartoon in my book that says a patient talking to the doctor saying I want you to follow a healthy lifestyle, whatever the experts say. That is this week. That really is.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 12:48

There’s so much health information out there that’s very confusing to people, and so I would say the very number one thing that you can do to improve your health is to power up your produce, and so that means to eat a lot of plant foods, a lot of fruits and vegetables. The darker the color, the better, to really eat a colorful diet with multiple colors a day. You know there’s a lot of research showing. You know one of the things that’s really important is our gut microbiome, and even with the brain, you know there’s a lot of. You know there’s a gut brain connection, and you know we live in a world where a lot of people are having issues with, you know, depression, anxiety, all that kind of stuff and it’s really important to have a really good gut microbiome.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 13:36

And there’s a really good book called Fiber Fueled, and it’s by this brilliant doctor and his name is Dr B. I forget his last name, but it’s a long last name. But what they found is that the more variety you eat in the plant kingdom, the healthier gut microbiome you’re going to have. Fruits and vegetables also have, you know, lots of vitamins and minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants, all these things that you really have to get from the plant kingdom. So power up your produce is the very number one thing, and then the other would be you know to really and when you power up your produce you’re going to get a lot more fiber and probably the second thing is to you know, it’s not just about what you add, but it’s always to really go to a whole food diet.

Aideen Ni Riada: 14:32

So you mean? A non-packaged diet.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 14:36

Yes, non-processed food diet, because processed foods have zero life in them. They have very, very little nutrition, if any, and we have become. You know, we live in a very fast-paced world and people are just grabbing whatever’s convenient and it’s. You know, we have an obesity crisis in America. I don’t think so in Ireland, but for sure we do have an obesity crisis here, and it’s happening at younger, younger ages. And so if you, if you really just eat whole foods, which is shopping the outside perimeter of the grocery store not that there aren’t some whole foods in inside, like rice or something like that but but you really want to just make sure you eat whole food as much as possible, and that doesn’t mean that you don’t occasionally have a treat. You know I’m really big on. You know the 80-20 rule. If you do the right things 80% of the time, what you do the other 20% is not going to matter as much. And so, really focusing on whole foods, power up your produce and focus on whole foods.

Aideen Ni Riada: 15:35

I love it. Well, one of my I was lucky to study nutrition and that kind of thing in my later twenties and um, so I had the chance to really dive deep into that and I have to say one of my favorite things is blueberries. I’m just like I think I have blueberries every day and if anyone, asks me what my secret is.

Aideen Ni Riada: 15:57

I tell them eat blueberries, you know. And so there’s, there’s. There’s so many good things, and I loved in your book when you were talking about hydration. You mentioned how a great way to get your electrolytes is to squeeze an orange, a lemon and a lime into a gallon of water and drink, and drink about a gallon of water a day. Is that what you cause? We don’t talk in gallons in.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 16:18

In ireland we’re talking liters, so we’ll have to do both yeah, I, I can’t convert to liters for you, but I’m sure you can. Um, no, I, that’s just. You know the measurements to get a good electrolyte, but you want to. You want to drink half your body weight in ounces per day. So let’s just say you weigh 100 pounds, you want to drink 50 ounces of water. Now you need to add that. Add some to that If you’re, you know, in places like Florida where you sweat a lot, or if you drink caffeine or alcohol, you’ll need more hydration. So, half of your body weight in ounces. But that’s just a good way to make a good electrolyte drink that you can have ready and and tasty too Very tasty yes.

Aideen Ni Riada: 16:58

Yes, have ready and tasty too, very tasty, yes, yes. So I know that that um, we actually met through one of my aunts and Eileen, and she had recommended that I speak to you. After um, I became interested in a health product that you promote and she promotes that helps you to get younger. So I was wondering if that’s something that you would like to talk about today. Is this something that, when I saw this um, this revolutionary kind of product, I was like, hmm, okay, I can eat everything and I can do everything well, but this is something that I don’t think is? And I can do everything well, but this is something that I don’t think is. You can’t hack it with nutrition fully. You can do, obviously, when we eat the blueberries and we’re protecting ourselves and we’re actually staying younger when we eat well, but this actually seems to reverse aging. Would you say that that is true of this?

Dr. Deb Harrell: 17:54

I would say, that’s true. And, yes, you’re right, eating and I eat blueberries every. And, yes, you’re right, eating at night blueberries every day too, by the way. But eating right and, you know, dealing with your stress, hydrating, all those things are help. They are anti-aging, for sure, but there’s not anything that I have found until this that reverses aging. And so, you know, I’m almost 67 years old and I’m very interested in that. You know, the older I get, the more I’m interested in it. And it’s called the LifeWave patches. One of them, the main one, is called X39. And what it does is they, and they’ve, they’ve researched these patches. They’re not making claims, there’s actually research behind it.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 18:36

I actually resisted getting on the patches for about two years because I just kind of didn’t believe I didn’t look at the research, I was kind of, you know, acting like I know it all. But a lot of people talked to me about them and I was just like, you know, I just can’t believe that that really is, you know, going to make that do that. But then when I, you know, finally, after two years, I thought you know what, I had a friend that really kept bugging me about it and I thought, well, let me at least, you know, look into this. I actually look at some of the research versus just ignore it, and I was pretty impressed because what the research has shown is that I had already learned, you know, in the last I started the patches in last September of 23,. But for the couple of years prior to that, I had really learned the benefits of of really, um, like the copper peptide and actually peptides, and I had actually done a round of peptide most peptides you have to inject and so I’d already done a round of a specific peptide that’s supposed to help with inflammation and you know I did a round of injecting it every day into my body, twice a day, and it’s really expensive and I saw no results.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 19:51

Well, what the patches do? The X39? For sure it causes your body to boost production of the copper peptide. For sure it causes your body to boost production of the copper peptide. And what they found that does? It does a lot of different things. You can research, you know the benefits of copper peptides, but what it does is it causes your stem cells to be reactivated, and the stem cells are really one of the reasons we age is, as we age, our stem cells become inactive and you know a baby is just bursting. You know the stem cells are very active and available, but as we age they become more like dormant and so these kind of reactivate the copper peptide is known to help reactivate stem cells you know a lot of people are going to other countries because you can’t do it I don’t believe in this country to get stem cell transplants and all that kind of stuff and it’s extremely expensive.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 20:44

So I thought, well, if there’s a way that I don’t have to inject myself because I was contemplating, you know, to help my clients I was contemplating, you know, really kind of recommending peptides, but it was just like, you know, most people are not going to inject themselves and they’re very expensive. So I thought, well, if I can find a way that does the same thing without that. And so that’s really what motivated me to really check into the LifeWave patches. And you know I’ve seen personally seen some really great benefits. My, you know, family’s seen great benefits, people I’ve recommended them to have seen great benefits. And it’s super easy. It’s like a little round bandaid that you put on every day and it’s been shown some really good stuff.

Aideen Ni Riada: 21:27

I was fascinated by this because I’ve always been interested in in beauty and um, you know, anti-aging I am. It’s all started with Cosmopolitan Magazine I was reading oh, there you go.

Aideen Ni Riada: 21:40

They said, put on sunscreen, it’s the key thing for anti-aging. And I did that. So you know people were asking me my secret because I had a very big birthday recently. Oh, you did, yeah, the big five zero. And I thought, oh my gosh, probably just like staying out of the sun and putting on sunscreen was one of the big things.

Aideen Ni Riada: 22:00

And then having this, you know, knowledge about nutrition in my later twenties and getting fitter, and you know, eating more blueberries and and what I would call, you know, really nutrient rich foods and whole foods, as you say, not processed foods. And I stopped eating sugar because I worked for a company called Perricone MD. You’re probably familiar, and they’re an American company that does very sciencey skincare, but his whole foundation is the food, and he would say that Dr Perricone would say that, you know, sugars create glycation, which isa a way that stiffens the skin. So I always say to people when I worked for him actually for a while as well um, that your skin is like silk, and when we eat sugar it’s like spraying the silk with a starch and it kind of just clumps it all up.

Aideen Ni Riada: 22:58

So I was lucky to know that early on and I mean I eat my little piece of dark chocolate. I had a dessert for our wedding anniversary last week. I’m not like being right. So I mean I was very careful for a year I didn’t have any sugar, um, but I I learned my balance in that. But when I found out about the life wave patches, it just made so much sense to me because I thankfully I’d had some education around. You know nutrition and you know I always love biology.

Aideen Ni Riada: 23:29

Actually, so it does seem completely incredulous like that’s something that you could stick on your body. That doesn’t even put anything into you. That’s just reflecting your own body heat, and your ultraviolet light back can stimulate the cells to work in a more youthful way. I think what’s a good idea to mention is it works in a similar way to how, when sunlight hits your skin, your body will automatically convert cholesterol in your skin into vitamin D. So our bodies are naturally designed to respond to light and to work better with certain light waves. So this was really an eye-opener for me, and so I’m very glad that you decided to try them eventually, because I believe, because you, you tried them. My aunt Eileen tried them with her husband, who has dementia and had had a stroke and very serious issues, and he’s improved dramatically, and I’ve been able to recommend them for my husband, who his uh, his scar from his heart surgery has started to heal up and that’s awesome. His mind is much clearer.

Aideen Ni Riada: 24:39

My mom is taking them. So, um, you know, I think it’s really interesting how you know we just are living our best lives, we’re just trying our best as people. But one person taking a stand on something and, you know, being willing to share what they know can transform many, many other lives. It’s like that little light. You know you light everyone else around you.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 25:03

Or I like the ripple effect. You know when you throw that water in the pond, you know, yes, yeah. Who would have ever thought some beautiful Irish woman, because I decided to get on board with patches, would now get to experience the benefits? I love that.

Aideen Ni Riada: 25:18

Yeah, yeah, they’re that. Yeah yeah, uh, they’re really very, very good. So the um just in case anybody is curious about that, I, um, I have a um website you can go to to learn about it and you can talk to myself or Dr Deb about this Um. But they have a number of other patches for for various other things as well, but the X39 is probably the first one that I’m sure that you would recommend to people Is that right A hundred percent.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 25:45

The other patch that I’ve seen amazing results with is the Eon, which is for inflammation. I start when I started. I started with both the X39 and Eon and I was having I. I was just waking up every day and I didn’t feel refreshed, and that was one of the. When I have a consult with somebody, I’ll ask them do you wake refreshed? Cause that’s really important, and I kept you know for months. I was going, why am I not? I must. I thought I was sleeping well, but I must not be because I’m not waking refreshed. It was really bugging me and literally within one day on the patch and I started with X39 neon. Next morning I woke up refreshed, and it’s been that way. And then also I was having a weird heart vibrational thing. It wasn’t flutters, it wasn’t, you know, palpitations or anything like that, it was just this weird vibration.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 26:34

I’m very in tune with my body. A lot of people become very out of tune with their body, but our bodies constantly tell us a story and I’m not one of these people that go off and run to a doctor. I just don’t do it. And so you know, I’ve been having for a couple of months this really weird vibrational thing and within three days that was gone, hasn’t returned. My father-in-law, who’s 96 and a half, lives with us. He uh with.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 26:57

With those two patches he was able to normalize his blood pressure and I don’t say that anybody’s going to have these same results, but I’m just telling you what my results were. So, yeah, I love the Eon patch. I have to say, if you can do both, I recommend both of those. If someone had like with David Eileen’s husband, because it involves the brain, we have him doing the carnosine patch, which is really good for the brain. We’ve got a glutathione patch that elevates glutathione in the body, which is a master antioxidant. So, yeah, there’s other patches, but for sure X39, many, many people see dramatic results with that.

Aideen Ni Riada: 27:39

Yeah, it was interesting because I was trying it out. I don’t think I wasn’t like I didn’t have a health issue. I was like, okay, I’ll just, I’ll put on the X39 for a few hours here and a few hours there and I’ll skip days. But within the first few days I started to want to wear the X39 the same way as I might want to drink a glass of water. So that was my version of my body. Is telling me something about this, you know. So, if anybody’s curious about it, there’s lots of great information out there. There’s clinical research studies I think there is, is it? 80 clinical research studies, 130 patents for the patches, and they’ve been proven to regulate your brain, regulate your heart, improve your skin, boost collagen. So there’s lots like that that I can say is phenomenal and worth looking into, particularly if you have a health issue. But even if you’re just a little bit vain, like I am, I’ll tell you that’s part of my reason, that’s for sure, yeah.

Aideen Ni Riada: 28:40

So, look, look, it’s been absolutely amazing speaking to you, and I know that you are still working at this. You know you’re a naturopathic doctor. You um have a lot to teach and you do teach classes, so, um, I know that your website is where most people can connect with you. Do you want to invite people to to sign up for anything in particular?

Dr. Deb Harrell: 29:03

Yeah, so my website is purelighthealthcom P-U-R-E-L-I-G-H-T healthcom and, yes, sign up on there. You can become a part of my tribe. Uh, I would definitely recommend getting my book. I am actually currently republishing it. I think there’s still a few copies on Amazon, but, uh, hopefully that will be finished this week where I can get that new one up there. It’s just got a few little tweaks. It hasn’t changed a lot, but I wanted to basically kind of take it back from from where it was being published and, um, yeah, sign up if you’d love to to learn about classes or you know any, any of that kind of kind of stuff, coaching, all of those kind of things.

Aideen Ni Riada: 29:48

Well, I’m so excited this book is standalone. Anybody can access it. This will be around after you’re not around as well, deb. This is something that people can have in their home, pick up whenever they feel like it. Hand it. Hand it to a family member, like. Your words are going to reach a lot of people with this book.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 30:07

Um, it’s called.

Aideen Ni Riada: 30:08

Heal your Journey to Thriving. By Dr Deb Harrell. Um, thank you so much, deb, for being here. It’s been an absolute pleasure. Before we finish up, is there anything that you’d like to say to the listeners? Is there anything, any final words of wisdom, that you’d like to say to those listening to us today?

Dr. Deb Harrell: 30:26

Um, I would, I would really like to say to I encourage you to make yourself a priority. Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today, because tomorrow may be too late. You know that’s so many, so many people I’ve lost to cancer and things like that, and you know, by the time they got the diagnosis it was so far gone that they really couldn’t stop the progress. And so I just really encourage you to do whatever it takes to take good care of yourself, to put your own oxygen mask on first, because you can’t be good to anybody else unless you take care of you. And so please make yourself a priority. That’s not ego, that is actually love. And it also, you know, my favorite quote is example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing.

Aideen Ni Riada: 31:18

Say that again, say that one again, because it went by so fast that I didn’t even catch it Okay.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 31:22

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing. Say that again, Say that one again, because it went by so fast that I didn’t even catch it. Okay. Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing. So the only way we influence others is through our example.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 31:33

And so you know, I encourage people, don’t you want to be a good example to your family? Because the reality is, if you look at the statistics of where we are, especially in America I’m not familiar with the statistics in Ireland, but when I went there and visited Irish, people look a lot healthier. I just you know, really you know we have a health crisis of epic proportions in our nation and be an example, because other people are going to be inspired by your example. Take care of yourself. If you’re one baby step at a time person. Take one baby step at a time. At the end of each chapter of my book, I have an action plan, and so it’s meant to help you kind of make some changes gradually and and you’ll feel better, You’ll be able to do more things, You’ll be able to really live your purpose, which is so important.

Aideen Ni Riada: 32:23

Because when you feel good, you do good and you can offer more of what you have to the world. It’s beautiful, yes, so appreciate you being here, deb. My pleasure, absolutely beautiful, and if anybody has any questions, dr Deb would be happy to hear from you. I would be happy to hear from you and we would love to to hear from you. I would be happy to hear from you and we would love to share what we know. Please find this book, heal your journey to thriving and read it and give it to friends and family, because I can highly recommend this book. There’s even a lot in here about your, about faith, about, you know, personal growth, about how to make better choices. Like what is that? That? You know how do we get our mind aligned to making those better choices? So it isn’t just about what to do, it’s also about how to do it, and there’s recipes in the back. That was one thing my mother-in-law was very excited to see.

Dr. Deb Harrell: 33:18

Actually, yes, yeah, some of my favorite recipes are in there. So, yes, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, aideen. It’s been fun. I’m actually glad I get to see you and have a face, to connect with the beautiful Irish accent and voice, and such a pleasure to meet you and be on your show. Thank you so much.

Aideen Ni Riada: 33:40

Dr Deb, take care and thank you all for listening. Goodbye from the Resonate podcast. We’ll so much. Dr Deb, take care and thank you all for listening. Goodbye from the Resonate podcast. We’ll see you next time.