The Energy Fix Episode 136 - FINAL.mp3
2025-08-25
Transcript
0:00:13 Tansy Rodgers: Welcome back to the Energy Fix, a podcast dedicated to help you balance your energetic body by diving deep into the sweet world of all things health and spirituality. My name’s Tansy and and I’m an intuitive crystal Reiki energy healer, energetic nutrition and holistic health practitioner, and a crystal jewelry designer. It’s time to talk all things energy. Let’s dive in. Sometimes healing isn’t about just one moment. It’s actually about a wake up call.
0:00:47 Tansy Rodgers: It’s not always just those one or two little health changes that you make, but actually that big shift that you don’t even realize is happening until wham. You look back days, months, weeks later, and you realize that was when everything changed. That’s when I started to really heal. It’s a moment where you realize that your body isn’t just asking for a break, it’s issuing. You is issuing an ultimatum.
0:01:23 Tansy Rodgers: And for today’s guest, well, that message came through loud and clear. But before we dive in, here is what’s coming up on my end. Just a few quick announcements. I have one spot left for Enlightened Day at Reiki by Ricky’s in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this coming Thursday, August 28th. So if you’re listening to this in real time, it’s coming up real soon. And so if this interesting you, then you can contact me directly and I will get you on the books. If you’ve been feeling energetically heavy or emotionally scattered, then this is a really great chance for you to ground and recharge and realign.
0:02:06 Tansy Rodgers: Reach out to me and we can get you scheduled on that calendar. My next in person event is coming up. I, you know, it’s so funny. I’ve been on a very short hiatus of doing shows just because there hasn’t been anything going on. And when I say short, I’m literally talking like two weeks because I’ve been doing so many over the past months that this has felt like a hiatus.
0:02:31 Tansy Rodgers: So yeah, I’ve been on a little.
0:02:33 Tansy Rodgers: Hiatus and it’s been nice, but at the same time I am really excited for the next one Coming up, I will be at the Greater Wellness Holistic Expo in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 7th. It is gonna be a gorgeous day filled with healing energy and high five vendors and soul nourishing community. Oh, all the good stuff that I like about doing shows and being in those environments. Come out and say hi, get your hands on some of the new jewelry and soak up in that magic of holistic wellness and everything going on around you. This is gonna be my first time at that event. So I’m really excited to see what, what all is offered and who’s going to be there and what kind of new faces I can meet.
0:03:21 Tansy Rodgers: And then I am going to be bringing back another Crystal series. You know, for anybody who’s been in my world over the course of how long I’ve been doing this work, I have really shifted and evolved and I don’t want to say shifted in the sense that I don’t do the things that I used to do because I do. But I’ve added on. That’s a better word. I’ve added on. And I have just been so, so passionate about crystal healing and energy healing and that work that I’ve been giving and bringing into my clientele and into the holistic wellness space that I want to keep talking about it. I want to open up more hearts and minds and souls to the possibility of this energy healing world that we are surrounded in each and every day.
0:04:11 Tansy Rodgers: So another Crystal series is going to be coming back, but I need your help. Is there is a crystal or a.
0:04:20 Tansy Rodgers: Chakra or an energetic pattern that you.
0:04:24 Tansy Rodgers: Want to explore where I can bring crystals in? I want to hear your ideas. I want to know what you want to hear. The last one that I did was so fun. If you haven’t listened to it, make sure you jump on back and see that eight, I should say listen to that eight part series of where I really talked about the chakras and crystal work and how to combine them. I want to know what you want to hear. That was something I needed to get out of my soul to get onto the airwaves coming from my own body and my own voice and my own experience.
0:05:01 Tansy Rodgers: But now I really want to hear what you want to hear. I’m accepting listener requests through September 15th, so head on down to the show notes. You can click the link down there or simply go on over to your email and type in infoansyrogers.com and shoot me your thoughts of what you want to hear. Infoansy rogers.com or like I said, head down to the show notes and click that link. I’m going to cut requests off at by September 15th because I would like to start that series coming up soon.
0:05:39 Tansy Rodgers: All right, let’s talk about this week’s guest, Christina Moros. She’s a functional medicine advocate, medical freedom fighter, stand up paddle racer and author of Get Healthy or Get Dead, her new book and workbook that’s both a call to personal responsibility and a practical map for reclaiming your health. Christina has worked with the flccc, stood on the front lines of patient advocacy and now coaches others through the hard but liber process of becoming their own best healer.
0:06:20 Tansy Rodgers: Her work fuses science and movement and a fierce love for self sovereignty. And her approach is as real and raw as the title of her book suggests. In this episode you’re really going to hear how passionate she is, but also how real and raw every single piece of this work is. How she comes through through. In this episode we’re going to talk about what it really means to become responsible for your own health, why stand up paddle racing has become a non negotiable part of her healing.
0:06:58 Tansy Rodgers: How movement and mindset work together to shift the nervous system and why we need to rethink health, freedom and trust, truly trust our bodies more than ever right now. This isn’t about perfection. It’s really about presence, action and fierce self awareness. This is also book number three in the end of the summer book tour. Here’s Christina Moros. Let’s dive in.
0:07:33 Tansy Rodgers: Welcome to the Energy Fix podcast. Christina, thank you so much for being here.
0:07:38 Kristina Morros: Thank you for inviting me, Tansy. I’m really excited to be here.
0:07:40 Tansy Rodgers: You know, we were talking off air before we hit record and we have so much in common and we have so much of the same thought process in the passions that we’re going to talk about today. I really can’t wait to get into this conversation. I feel like it’s going to be a pretty deep, passionate, explosive kind of conversation.
0:08:04 Kristina Morros: Welcome to my world, Tansy.
0:08:07 Tansy Rodgers: All right, well, before we really get into it all, let’s talk about you and where you’re at right now. You have had an incredible shift. You have had so many things that you’ve been working through. Some traumas, some. Some obstacles, some. Yeah, some big stuff. And so I’m really curious where you’re at now. Is there a word or a phrase that you’re really embodying at this point in your life?
0:08:34 Kristina Morros: Yeah, I think a great word to describe where I’m at is rebellion. There’s just, I wake up every day, I look at the status of what’s going on and the news, the messaging and I’m just like, wow, like you really have to get a handle on what’s going on and stake your claim in the world and find your balance and find your truth and exist in that truth to support your mental health.
0:09:02 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah. And so I’m really curious then, because there is a lot that can cause the rebellious side to either be empowered or it can Cause the rebellious side to be disempowered and just angry. And so I would love to know how you are embracing that and moving more towards the empowered side so that it can be. Your expression can be in a healthier, more productive way.
0:09:31 Kristina Morros: Yeah, well, I think the foundation of that is I have made some extremely valuable community connections. And then in the oddest way, through like signal groups and, you know, other groups, electronic groups, where you don’t actually have people that live near you, but it’s people who you connect with. And actually just found out yesterday, there’s like five people in my group that live near me. And we’re going to have like a real life meeting soon. But finding those connections is super important. And having gratitude, like even in the chaos, taking the moment every day to reflect on your daily and then looking at the small wins and the big wins and even the things that are trials and tribulations are also teachers. And the difficult people are teachers. So. And every patient that I encounter is a teacher. And so you know, what I’ve been doing since.
0:10:24 Kristina Morros: So my journey, this book, this book was born out of the pandemic. So since the beginning, which I was following it closely, I’ve gone through different career path changes. I was living abroad at the time in the Netherlands, so I was actually working in the hospital during the pandemic. And I had a yoga business, yoga paddleboard business, which actually thrived during COVID because people could go outside and play.
0:10:49 Kristina Morros: But since then, I was working for a nonprofit for a while that had Covid treatment protocols, other sorts of treatment protocols for Covid related issues and immune dysfunction. And then I came out of that and like, kind of explored marketing and branding with my. With a business partner that I met through the nonprofit. So we were doing that full time for about a year, but we both had our side projects and her side projects started taking off. And then I decided to start kind of exploring taking over the book more. And so the book was then finalized and my coaching business was born.
0:11:26 Kristina Morros: So all these different paths have taken all of that frustration and anger from mainstream medicine, lying to people, and also the wellness industry not necessarily being transparent about their intentions all the time and turn it into basically a patient counseling coaching service and in a sort of an advocacy service that the book is more. It’s like a. It is like a patient advocate book, actually. It’s basically teaching, you know, how to avoid stepping into landmines and how to actually become empowered with your own health.
0:12:04 Tansy Rodgers: I love that. And, you know, as we’re Going to really expand into traditional medical care system and the wellness industry and talking deep about that and, and the trials and tribulation that you have had to bring you to where you’re at now. I want to start off with the book. Since you mentioned that right off the bat, the name of your book is called Get Healthy or Get Dead, which, let’s be honest, it’s not exactly whispering wellness.
0:12:30 Kristina Morros: Yeah.
0:12:32 Tansy Rodgers: It is more like this bold slap in the face that we probably all really need. What was the exact moment that this title came to you and what truth are you really just done sugarcoating?
0:12:49 Kristina Morros: You know, my business partner and I started doing this book together and she is a communications and PR specialist and a journalist and she and I brainstorm the title together, but our journey was together. So the moment the book title was born was like I had an inspiration from another coach consulting Aaron Clary and his brand voice is very like non coddling, like in your face. Like, you know, shut up and let’s go. And so when I was talking to Zara, I was like, I really am inspired by Aaron. I just want this book to be, I don’t want it to be the typical wellness book where it’s like woo woo and frufu. I want it to be like, hey, like wake up and get your together and let’s go. If you want to come on board on the truth train, let’s go. I’ll lead you on the path. You have to do the work though, and, and I’ll show you what the reality is of what’s going on and the reality of why you’re experiencing your inflammation issues and let’s work together to target it. So the, the title is like a choice. It’s your choice. It’s like I’m basically like putting the choice on the table for someone.
0:14:03 Kristina Morros: Do you want to get healthy or do you want to go ahead on your path, you know, with a downward spiral down to chronic illness? So that’s kind of what, what was the inspiration behind it and the color scheme and everything. It was like, you know, when you walk in the bookstore and you see all the blues and the greens and you know, the, you know, the feel good stuff. Well, this is like, it’s like, no, we’re not your typical wellness book. We’re here to like tell you the truth. We’re going to get a big dose of truth serum and let’s get to work about it.
0:14:32 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah. And so as you started writing this book, what was that inspiration? Like? What were you just done sugarcoating and done and done. Being soft about with the medical system or the wellness system, you know, being.
0:14:47 Kristina Morros: In the medical system because my background is nurse anesthesia. And so it was so frustrating being in a situation, trying to take care of people in a crisis. And because I read research and I do the work, learning about pathologies and inflammation. And so when I had the keys to the formula to actually cure people and get people out of the hospital, I’m bringing that information to colleagues, and they’re ignoring me and telling me that we don’t do those things in our hospital.
0:15:17 Kristina Morros: We don’t follow those protocols. Like, that is when the anger and the frustration started. So it wasn’t necessarily with the patients or people who aren’t doing the work. It’s more with the industry not being transparent about how to help lead people on the path of health. As, as I know that you talking before we got started, you have that same experience. Like when you’re in the system, they’re following the protocols dictated by the insurance systems. And pharma. Pharma owns everything. Pharma owns the schools, the hospitals, the ads on tv.
0:15:52 Kristina Morros: I mean, everything. And they will block you every single way along the way, because if they. If you get your messaging out, it affects their bottom line. They don’t care about people. People are lab rats. They just want to perpetuate the sickness cycle so they can sell more drugs to treat the symptoms and not look at the underlying cause. And that. That is what just lit me on fire, because it’s just not.
0:16:20 Kristina Morros: Morally and ethically, it’s wrong. As a healthcare provider, as a nurse, I made a vow to help patients and to heal people. I’m a healer, not someone’s doer to, you know, make their company grow. I’m here to help people find peace and balance in their life. That’s what healers do. And so on the flip side of that, being involved in the. In the medical freedom movement, and I’m not sure if you and the listeners are aware of that whole thing that happened during the pandemic. There was a group of us that stood up, trying to basically push back, but finding out, coming out the backside of that, that a lot of those people were either infiltrates or they had their own agenda fueled by ego and money, or they fell in and were bought out by pharma in disguise. Whether it’s in the form of other companies that are basically nutraceutical companies that pharma has bought out, because that is happening. Pharma is coming in and buying out these companies. So you, you have to be very aware of what you’re putting in your body, especially nutraceuticals. You have to look at the ingredients, make sure everything’s clean and pure.
0:17:34 Kristina Morros: So this book serves as like basically a starting point to help lead people in a cost effective manner. Just to get them open, like get their eyes open and then help them become aware of where they may have an imbalance and then trying to address those issues. And then I’m here to offer support if people want it, if they want to go, you know, get into a personal coaching session, I’ll be all in to help treat and heal someone because that’s what I love doing, is helping people, you know, find balance and happiness.
0:18:11 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, well, and I want to reiterate, you have been in this world for over 20 years. You’ve been in ICUs, trauma centers, Covid units, anesthesia, like you’ve been in the game. And you said something that I think is really key and I just want to go a little deeper. And you said, this system is not designed to save us. You saw it with your own two eyes. So if that’s the case, where do we even begin reclaiming our own power.
0:18:41 Kristina Morros: Shutting off social media and stop going to Dr. Google and Reddit. It’s like my first recommendation. I know, it’s, it’s so hard to navigate all of the information, the information overload that is coming through. You have to develop a truth meter and you have to do your own research. It’s a lot of work and commitment to becoming someone who is aware and awake and who really values health. It takes energy to read food labels and to research what’s in your products and to question what your health care providers, you know, prescribe to you because it may not actually be what is the thing that’s going to treat the issue.
0:19:25 Kristina Morros: I actually just spent probably 20 hours combing over old lab work and a patient history to help this poor girl who’s vaccine injured. But she has like long standing parasite infections that have gone untreated. She’s had mold exposure, so she’s, she’s, her whole immune system is just dysregulated, including her gut. And she’s been told like forever that, you know, it’s this or that she’s got like some masses on her ovaries. She, she’s like a young woman, she’s in her 30s, she’s had her, had a hysterectomy already. Like all these things, like if they were addressed correctly in the first place. She probably could have avoided surgery, and she wouldn’t be where she is presently in this state of inflammation. So I’m grateful that she. She and I have crossed paths, and I’m, you know, it’s been a pleasure to. To look through her case study. But, like, that is so gratifying to be able to actually, you know, help people find, like, they’ve been suffering for years, like, with stuff that’s just because it’s not meaning a protocol or because the medical schools are not teaching you what they want you to learn because they don’t want you to think. They want you to be a protocol machine. They don’t want you to.
0:20:39 Kristina Morros: To look at the root cause of problems. You know, it’s gratifying when you are able to do that on your own and devote the time to the patients. It’s a beautiful thing.
0:20:50 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah.
0:20:51 Kristina Morros: And I.
0:20:52 Tansy Rodgers: As we were talking prior to hitting record, I was telling you that I totally understand. I’ve been there, too. I’ve seen so much that it is really disheartening when, you know, when you know, at the depth of your soul, because not only have you experienced it, but you’ve also helped people experience the. The level of root cause healing, the. And how it can literally shift somebody’s life. But then know that you’re stuck in a system that doesn’t support that.
0:21:24 Kristina Morros: Yeah.
0:21:25 Tansy Rodgers: Christina, what do you wish or what do you think most people don’t understand about their own health until it’s just too late?
0:21:36 Kristina Morros: You know, it’s just we are so overloaded with stimulation all the time. And, you know, over the years, since the birth of the Internet and cell phones, there’s been a constant decline of overstimulation, of contaminants, of, you know, you have big food, you have big ag, you have big pharma, and then you have the government and defense entities that all work together. And it’s not just a US Issue. It is a worldwide issue.
0:22:07 Kristina Morros: All these combinations together confuse people. And so they think they’re doing the right thing. They think they’re eating healthy. Like, the lies with cholesterol and fat for years, like has been. And it’s hard to try to reprogram people. I’m looking at your face. I know you know what I’m talking about. I’m so tired of people talking about fat being bad and high fat and high cholesterol. I’m like, no, it’s not that. Like, cholesterol inflamed is a. Is a. Is a symptom of.
0:22:33 Kristina Morros: Of your body saying hey, like, we’re inflamed. Please address the underlying issue. It’s not because you’re eating bacon. It’s because of a whole other pathology that’s causing your cholesterol to be raised up. But not. I’m going off on a tangent as an example, but what I’m trying to basically frame here is that, you know, greenwashing of products, probiotic gummies or probiotic yogurt bites or whatever. Like, I saw that two get two days ago. I’m like, y’, all, this has like 15 ingredients, and this is not healthy.
0:23:07 Kristina Morros: They’re like, really? I’m like, yeah, no, don’t eat it. Go grab a piece of cantaloupe instead. Or go, you know, whatever. But, you know, it’s just people need a complete re education on what health is and finding balance again and setting boundaries. Like, the people that I know who are, like, the. Who are still leading the fight on all this and trying to make, you know, political changes. Like, they’re such, yes, yes pleasers, yes to this, yes to that, and they always put themselves in last place, and then they start experiencing symptoms of burnout. It’s just like, here’s your problem. Like, you can’t do everything.
0:23:44 Kristina Morros: You have to be realistic about your goals and, you know, set your schedule things. You know, schedule time and to unwind or to meditate or to do breath work or to get outside and play. And I know it’s hard when. When people have nine to fives. Like, I get it. I’ve done it. I’ve worked multiple jobs at once. So I. Believe me, I do understand. I’m not living in some fanciful world because I am a business owner. I’m not, you know, in a 9 to 5 anymore. But I do understand it’s hard, but there are tricks and tips to be able to navigate that as well. Especially when I was a nurse working shifts, I mean, I managed to actually eat healthy during work and, you know, prioritize sleep as well. So there.
0:24:25 Kristina Morros: It’s just reprogramming people, basically.
0:24:29 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah. When I was in nutritional school, I. And because the nutritional school that I went to was all about root cause healing and ancestral nutrition and. And, you know, the functional cause. And when I was going through lessons and teaching and learning, I just. I remember there were points where I’m like, yeah, this is going to be really challenging to get this through to some people. So you’re really challenging because there’s been this narrative for so long, and it’s so deeply ingrained in absolutely Everything that we do. Not just the messaging, not just the memories of what we were told, but also the advertising, the cultural influence that it’s had. Like, there’s just us.
0:25:15 Tansy Rodgers: So much conditioning.
0:25:18 Kristina Morros: Yeah, very much so. It’s. And literally what you just said is conditioning. It is basically, I don’t want to say Pavlovian, because it’s not necessarily Pavlovian, but the world has been basically the recipients of a psychological experience experiment on several levels over different things, and there’s been brainwashing, and that is honestly a real fact. And it goes so complex. Like, I could really go down a rabbit hole here, but I don’t want to freak out your audience, but, like, we are at an.
0:25:54 Kristina Morros: We’re at an information war. It’s a new level of. Of fighting. And this is probably the most impactful way to cause destruction and chaos and to conquer people and. And enslave people and to sort of like a. A drone mindset where you don’t care to do the research, where you’re just, like, where you accept everything. It’s like you just accept have being obese or accept being tired. It’s part of aging. Oh, yes.
0:26:26 Kristina Morros: My mom was like this, and her mom was like that. And it’s normal to be tired when you’re 50 and feel burned out. It’s just menopause. Don’t worry about it. You’ll get over it. And it’s like, no, you don’t have to live that way. Like, I’m 50 and I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been, you know, because I routinely check my biomarkers. I don’t want to go into that death trap of a hospital and have them try to. To. To take me out. Like, I’m not going down anyway. They don’t want me as a patient. But I’m just saying, like, I am staying out of that place, and they better watch out. If someone hires me in to be an advocate for them, they better watch out. I’m going in with guns ablaze, and I will.
0:27:00 Kristina Morros: They’ll be sorry. Not the patient, the hospital. The hospital. The patient below me.
0:27:07 Tansy Rodgers: Well, you talked earlier about the nervous system, and so I love that you integrate nervous system work, functional medicine, and movement, and you bring it all together. Why do you believe that the nervous system is that missing link in most healing journeys?
0:27:23 Kristina Morros: I love. I love, love, love this question. Because I’m a big fan of mindfulness, especially my tool is sound healing. I work with bowls and tuning forks. I learned from Shanda Best. She Is my teacher. She, she just left Key West. She was. Namaste. Key Yoga. She’s transitioning into like she’s building a retreat in Andalusia, Alabama. But the, the western medicine overlooks energy, healing and anything that has to do with like radiation or EMF exposure or all of that stuff causes disharmony in the body.
0:28:03 Kristina Morros: Like in all this noise. When you don’t actually prioritize balancing and taking a moment out to do breathing, breath work and just practicing some sort of mindfulness, it causes your body to, to just. The frequencies are just like disorganized and it causes stress, it causes disease. We’re made of water. So you know, our, our cells are controlled by electrical impulses. So it’s logical to me that frequency and vibration and, and to in like reducing vagal tone would, would just be the thing to create the other level of harmony in the body. In addition to nourishing the body correctly and training the body correctly.
0:28:52 Kristina Morros: It’s, you know, when you, when you stop and you take moments to practice gratitude, then you slow down. Like having that spiritual component breaks you away from the rat race and helps you appreciate the gifts of daily life because that’s what we’re really, we’re being divorced from the human aspect of living. You know what I mean? So having that spiritual component and addressing trauma work through using spiritual components and you know, breath work, energy, healing frequency and vibration, that often helps break the cycle and breaks the disease and the inflammation. It’s just one part. You know what I mean? You have to have it all working together to really create, I guess a, a revalidation that sticks. But it takes work to continue the progress. You have to have a growth mindset too. I have to offer that as well. If you aren’t open to learning and experiencing and trying things out, you’re going to be stuck in the same cycle of chaos.
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0:31:48 Tansy Rodgers: So let’s reference over to your book. What kind of things do you emphasize teach guide in the book to help with nervous system regulation.
0:31:57 Kristina Morros: So sleep is a huge component that I think it’s a big piece that people miss. Prioritizing sleep, getting all the distractions out of the bedroom, getting to bed at a certain time, waking up at a certain time, making sure that you have your circadian with or you nurture and nourish the circadian rhythm. So prioritizing sleep is huge. So that’s like one of the things. Like if you don’t get enough sleep, it will cause you to be depressed or be anxious.
0:32:23 Kristina Morros: It’ll cause you to become an inflamed state. We repair when we sleep. Like our muscles, our brain, everything, you know, the spinal cord and the brain are bathed in fluid and that fluid has elements in it to decrease the inflammation. The muscles revalidate and build while we sleep. You need certain amounts of the sleep cycle to be able to go and ex, you know, your body to find that balanced state in those different stages.
0:32:52 Kristina Morros: Mindfulness, I, I know I just keep generally saying mindfulness, but you know, there’s different forms. It doesn’t mean sitting on the floor and, you know, cross legged and saying with your fingers in a mantra. It could be going out fishing or playing golf or going for a hike or, you know, doing anything that you love to do. Getting out, watching the sunset or watching the sunrise, which also by the way, is very important.
0:33:17 Kristina Morros: Getting natural light at the right times in your body, it helps with the brain and inflammation. Having a flexibility routine in your sport routine, you know, when you’re constantly going. And I’m going to take CrossFit for an example, although I have no issues with CrossFit, but I find that the program doesn’t prioritize the correct balance and days off and then flexibility unless you have maybe a CrossFit instructor that prioritizes that.
0:33:49 Kristina Morros: They mention it a little bit in their teaching material, but they mainly focus on building muscle and getting lean. So it’s important to rebalance the nervous system when you’re having all those activities. And I’m trying to think also foods. You know, when you’re eating processed foods and you’re eating sugar, that’s going to hype up your, your nervous system again. I believe a lot of issues with adhd, with autism and other neurologic diseases such as Parkinson S and Alzheimer’s, there’s a huge nutrition component in those. A lot of it is vitamin D deficiency. I’m.
0:34:28 Kristina Morros: People probably get sick of me talking about vitamin C, but vitamin C is so vital for everything. I love Dr. Thomas Leary Levy. Sorry, Dr. Thomas Levy. He is amazing. He’s written many books on it and he’s been such a mentor to me. So, so I’ve, I’ve learned so much about the appropriate doses of vitamin C. And high dose vitamin C is like, is like 25,000 milligrams. It’s not even what we think might be high dose. So having all your nutrients in order is another way to keep, make sure that your nervous system is in balance.
0:35:03 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, well, let’s dive even a little bit deeper into that. You know, there is people with really serious trauma. Military veterans, first responders, caregivers, listen, people working in the hospitals during COVID time. Right. Like there is massive trauma that is making it challenging for some people to get out of living in survival mode, which that is just really taxing the nervous system. What would you say to someone who feels like they’re living in survival mode or maybe they know they have some PTSD or some major trauma that they’re trying to work through and how can they start to shift and get away from just living and surviving into actually rebuilding their life?
0:35:52 Kristina Morros: Yeah, I, I love the military and vets are my passion population actually. And pilots, Pilots need a lot of help too, so. And offer military discounts too, with my services. I do want to mention that, but it’s, it’s hard because PTSD is often the result of moral injury. So when you are doing something that you may not morally agree with, but maybe you’ve been programmed to do, it’s part of the job and you have a, a spiritual conflict and clash with it, or a victim of abuse even, you know, they, they don’t have moral injury, but they, they, their body knows it wasn’t right. So they suffer with the trauma from the abuse from the Abuser.
0:36:46 Kristina Morros: So those people have so many levels of issues and it’s overwhelming for them to even know where to begin. So it’s important with people who do have trauma or PTSD to break things down and figure out what is the most important thing to tackle first and tackle it in stages. Because honestly, when you find out you have imbalance and you look at the root cause, you’re like, oh my God, I have so much work to do. Where, where do I start? Even my book is like, I’m like, this might be overwhelming and I broke up the book in just different sections. Maybe skip a section and go to the one that speaks to you the most and let’s work on that first.
0:37:24 Kristina Morros: That’s what I would do with a client. Fundamentally though, before even starting the psychological healing, getting the nutrition and sleep straight is priority in my professional opinion. Because if you’re putting junk in your body, it’s just making the situation worse. And often, you know, people who are suffering from trauma are in survival mode. So they’re often trying to do so many things all at once. And so they may be going to get gas and running in there because they’re hungry and getting some, you know, processed snack or fried food from the gas station and then grabbing an energy drink because they’re tired and they’re like, oh, you know, and then they’re, they’re asleep, they’re getting maybe four hours of sleep a night and their cortisol is out of whack, their hormones are out of whack. So you know, they’re just like, oh, well, I don’t, you know, it’s, I don’t know where to start.
0:38:14 Kristina Morros: So I think it’s also hard to lump people with trauma into one group because every person is different and their trauma is different, their level of trauma is different. So like having the time to actually do a proper intake with someone and figuring out where to begin is key. But for instance, I haven’t had time lately this past year, but I was going on every Tuesday to a veterans golfing group where and community is important, by the way, for people who do have PTSD to find others who are suffering in the same type of mental state.
0:38:50 Kristina Morros: Be able to connect with people and talk about their trauma is important. But they, they would meet and then we would golf together and I would go and just literally offer a three minute nugget of health information. Like it was so basic, is like hydration and vitamin D. Those are actually like two topics that went over with them and their wheels would actually Turn on that. They were like, what about Gatorade? Like, no, no Gatorade. Let me give you a natural hydration drink. That would be so much better, you know, and they’re like, oh, I’m getting my. What about this vitamin D? I’m like, no, it comes from cvs. It’s got contaminants in it. We need to source you something better. Like, and what, by the way, what are you eating every day? Are you eating nutritious foods before you start supplementing with cvs, vitamin D and you know, grabbing your Gatorade? Like, let’s, let’s talk about it. We like would start having the conversation over coffee and breakfast. Then we would continue the conversation at the driving range. So, you know, and that, that every, every group’s different.
0:39:44 Kristina Morros: You just have to, you have to figure out. It’s almost like doing marketing as well. You have to find your target audience and find the right language and communication style. It’s the same with patients and with people with trauma. You have to figure out, you know, how to relate to them to, to kind of break the cycle.
0:39:59 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, well, and speaking of relating, like, you’ve had a lot of trauma that you worked through, especially with. Why don’t you just talk about it? Let’s talk a little bit about some of the trauma that maybe you had to become more resilient with as you’ve work and got yourself healthier to get to where you’re at now. Because I would love to know what your body has taught you about resilience and what were some of those hardest lessons that you had to learn through in order to get on the other side or at least to even get yourself moving in the right direction.
0:40:35 Kristina Morros: Yeah, that’s a really good question and it’s probably going to be a long answer, so I’ll try to keep it as short as I can. But as a healthcare worker in the system during the pandemic, and I know I keep referencing that, but that really has been a life changing thing for me and I knew the medical system was messed up before that, but like actually being in a unit watching families being denied access to their sick and dying loved one and then the hospital continuing to offer treatments that were making people sicker and not actually doing like full in services on updates on the science because they didn’t want to, by the way. They didn’t want to show what was actually healing people because it went against the Ram deserve protocols and the intubation protocols. It was making the hospitals money and the patients and the Families were the expense of that. And the healthcare workers, our shifts, oh my gosh, like every place was different. But my experience was in the Netherlands and my. Every hospital in the Netherlands also had different protocols with how they dealt with the COVID units. But you would go in, you know, and have your shifts and you would be covered in isolation gear for hours.
0:41:48 Kristina Morros: Like hours and hot, sweaty clothes, often in hot units, completely covered from head to toe, double gloved with, with plastic gloves and those stupid non rebreather masks which in, in hindsight, when you look at the studies, which I knew anyway, but we had to follow the stupid hospital policies. After a certain period, after like three to five days after the inflammation process of the disease, when you actually go into cytokine storm, when people were dying and going into organ failure, you weren’t contagious anymore. So all this with isolation gear, it was completely useless. Like we didn’t have to be doing all that. And if we would have just been treating ourselves preventively with repurposed drugs and natural remedies, we wouldn’t even have to worry about getting sick.
0:42:34 Kristina Morros: So. But that they didn’t want us, they didn’t want anyone to know that they wanted to continue the six cycle. So having to do that and witness people dying and suffering was incredibly disturbing on a mental health level. And at the beginning of all this, my parents became ill with COVID and I was already following, you know, various news stories and I became aware of a man named Pierre Corey, Dr. Peter Corey, who had testified three times in the Senate over the use of steroids in treating Covid, using Ivermectin to treat Covid and then discussing repurposed drugs in general and the treatment protocols that his organization have put together, he and his colleagues put together.
0:43:21 Kristina Morros: And when my parents became sick, I utilized his data that he was using, which was coming from worldwide sources where if you looked in various countries around the world, they were having success at treating Covid without having the high amounts of death. And so I ended up flying back to the United States and helping treat my parents. And we had to pull my dad out of the hospital because they’re trying to kill him with remdesivir.
0:43:44 Kristina Morros: And the people who were taking care of him, they actually went to church with my parents and they’re like, oh, don’t worry, we’re going to give them room desert the next day. And I found out after, after the fact that he was actually treating his family with Ivermectin. And he knew better, but he was carrying out the, the bidding of the hospital and a pharma that’s. I’m really pissed off still about that to this day. Like that’s still traumatizing to me that he would even consider sacrificing the life of my parents over a hospital protocol. But that’s the crux of the situation which led to, you know, the, the, I think all the trauma that all of us experienced so that as a health care worker and then just basically being ostracized when you knew better and no one else was willing to look at your data.
0:44:27 Kristina Morros: Like too lazy to look at. I, I mean lazy. Like I had basically a website with data like meta analysis of different repurposed drugs that were used to treat the virus. And they would, they wouldn’t even entertain it. They were basically brainwashed. Everything was a lie. And that the, the things that were being used were dangerous and that vitamin C doesn’t work and vitamin D levels don’t matter. And so it was that constant, you know, sort of atmosphere, living, living and working in that every day will drive you absolutely nuts. And then on an interpersonal level, as you know, this whole thing was politicized. So it starts dividing people.
0:45:11 Kristina Morros: That’s the intention was to divide and conquer. So you find that your friendships start dwindling away, you start finding who your real, real true support system is. And. But it’s traumatizing losing lifelong friends or losing people that you think that you have a deep connection with. And you know, that didn’t only happen once. That happened again when I found out that the nonprofit that I was working for was also compromised. And I learned the people that I thought were in the same game with me to go save humanity were actually not in it for the right reasons. And they started changing their mission and like learning those, that all those people were not actually your support system anymore was like going through the pandemic all over again.
0:45:53 Kristina Morros: So I don’t know how you are wherever you live, but I know it’s isolating still. People are not aware of what happened over the last five years and they’ve forgotten and they think it’s lies still because they’re programmed with the media. So all of that is traumatizing. And then you factor in the moral injury from that basically being forced to carry out protocols that you don’t agree with. I mean, I couldn’t, I left. I was done.
0:46:17 Kristina Morros: I was like, y’, all, good luck killing people. I’m out. I’m gonna save people with my work through this non profit and, and go actually Treat people who are suffering, you know, with various chronic illnesses now, thanks to the pandemic response. So going through all of that and facing those uncomfortable, unpleasant feelings and thoughts and actually crying and, you know, really going deep within, you really have to look at yourself and, you know, examine your decisions and what you did during that time period. And then just constantly being in a growth mindset and prioritizing.
0:46:57 Kristina Morros: For me, prioritizing, mindfulness, journaling, yoga, breath work, that’s been a huge shifter. And during that time, I was doing intermittent fasting, learned it through my organization. And that was also life changing. That got me super healthy and lean. It has corrected what I didn’t know was imbalanced because, I mean, you know, obviously when you’re inflamed and not actually exercising and eating appropriately, you end up gaining weight.
0:47:24 Kristina Morros: I think I, I was a size 10 boarding on a size 12 during the pandemic. I’ve been a size 10 my whole entire life. And I never really thought of myself as overweight. And I wasn’t necessarily. I mean, I looked healthy enough. But after going through the journey and doing the fasting and learning more about functional medicine, I realized, wow, you know, like this, this new lifestyle is much healthier. And my body just responded on its own. Like, I don’t, I don’t gain weight anymore. Like for a period, I was having a problem keeping weight on because I, you know, I race paddle boards competitively.
0:47:57 Kristina Morros: That’s one of my hobbies. Next to all this other stuff, I’m a little obsessed with surfing and paddleboarding and skateboarding. But that those lifestyle changes really made me healthy and made me stronger, leaner, and my mind is stronger as well. And my faith in having a connection with greater purpose. So I know that was a very long winded answer to your question.
0:48:20 Tansy Rodgers: That was perfect. It was perfect. You know, I, I kept thinking this whole, like, yes, everything that you just said. You know, I think regardless of what side you’re sitting on and what your thought processes are about what had happened, what, what transpired, where you were during that time and where you’re at now or whatever, regardless of any of that, I feel like the biggest, the biggest issue that really came out of all of this was the division that it placed on us as a community to be able to stand together and to move forward with support, with healing, with keeping our nervous system regulated. Like the fact that you had to be in a state of pure anxiety and maybe guilt or shame or whatever emotion you were feeling because maybe your best friend thinks the opposite of what you do. And now all of a sudden you don’t have that support system anymore. Right.
0:49:26 Tansy Rodgers: There’s just so much there that can get unpacked. I feel like that was that.
0:49:35 Kristina Morros: I.
0:49:35 Tansy Rodgers: Have my own opinions. I feel like that. That hurting mentality of just getting people divided was so incredibly harmful for us as human beings and for our forward movement.
0:49:54 Kristina Morros: Well, this is a destruction of humanity. This is a. This is actual spiritual warfare. Whether you’re Christian, Jewish, whatever you are, I don’t really care what you’re, what drives and moves you to believe into a bigger purpose. But this is literally the point of all this, was to divide and conquer and to isolate people and make people unhealthy. And this is just the star. It’s coming again. It’ll come in a different form.
0:50:18 Kristina Morros: So let us, Let us all learn from this and realize to recognize the signs and signals when the next thing is coming. Because. And I don’t want to sound like doom and gloom, but having the nervous system regulation and being aware of your body and of the, the messaging empowers you more and makes you stronger. To be undefeated, because I can’t stress how important it is to be healthy, especially when there is this level of spiritual warfare. If you do not take care of yourself, you will take yourself out. I mean, the strongest warriors and soldiers will be the ones who commit to the internal work to be the resilient ones to protect themselves and protect their communities and their families. Like, you know, I don’t know if we’ll be able to change policy and procedure and change governments, but we sure can be effective in making sure that we don’t destroy ourselves and our, the ones we love in our support systems. And as far as the people who don’t agree and the people who are just completely lost, I mean, they know, they know what happened now.
0:51:29 Kristina Morros: It’s all out there. They’re. They have shame and guilt and they probably feel foolish. I’m not out to say I told you so, and I know I will never get an apology for how I’ve been treated, and I’m okay with that. Like, it’s. You just said let it go. Move on and worry about something more important than, than your, you know, your, Your ego. Their egos are also. They’re struggling with their own egos. So what we can do is as a community now, is to, you know, have, have a little compassion for each other and stop shutting down when someone’s curious about you and like, ask.
0:52:10 Kristina Morros: Ask people questions and listen. And we’ve lost the Art of conversation. I think my daughter, I have a 20 year old, her generation has been in a. They, they see it and they, I think they’re gonna maybe flip things around. But being able to have a conversation where you don’t always agree, it’s okay not to agree and it’s okay to hear different viewpoints and be open to it and, and leave a conversation not being in agreement but not hating each other. Like what? That’s the stupidest thing in the whole entire world. Like it’s completely anti. Philosophical too.
0:52:44 Kristina Morros: Like how can you solve anything if you don’t hear different viewpoints? And how can you come together as a community if you don’t hear where someone’s coming from? So yes, like what you said is, was the point. It’s the, it’s the weapon, you know, the isolation weapon. So in isolation and sickness were the weakest and easiest to control. I won’t, I won’t be going down. I’m fighting till the very end so they can come after me and come take me. I’m ready to go.
0:53:14 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah. I think more than ever people are craving that connection again because of almost rebounding from what was before, you know, but you know, as you were talking, I started thinking to myself, I wonder if, is there any place in your book, any moments or passages in your book that you were really scared to publish but you knew that you needed, needed to say what needed to be said?
0:53:42 Kristina Morros: You know what? Like I really, I wanted to expand more on the story behind my parents in the hospital, but I had to kind of censor that because I, they’re worried about people where they live, you know, saying something about that. I wanted to basically name every single person that tried to murder my father. And I really wanted to name person by person, every single person in that non profit that that turned, you know, because I want to call them out on their cowardice. I couldn’t say that. I couldn’t really go into detail about what I saw and what I, what I know and all the corruption that I know behind the medical freedom movement. I mean there’s bad stuff. I’m talking about the evil list of the evil in the realm of child sex trafficking connections. Like it’s, it’s pretty bad. Like, and I’m not making this up, there’s actual proof of that.
0:54:35 Kristina Morros: But like, you know, saying things like that, being completely honest about those types of things. As far as other things mentioned in the book, I feel like that I was pretty much straightforward about what I feel like works and what doesn’t work. I didn’t spend any time talking about psychedelic therapy, which I think is important. It’s not for everybody, but especially for trauma, it has its place as well.
0:54:59 Kristina Morros: You have to be careful about talking about those types of things because you don’t want to alienate your. Your audience, you know. So I would actually like to cover that more. But again, that’s a delicate subject because that whole. That whole discussion is farmers, farmers watching that. And they’re going to try to get their evil claws into that and manipulate people through treatment programs and through those therapies. So.
0:55:29 Kristina Morros: But there’s definitely a use for plant medicine and healing. And that’s why it’s here on. On this earth. And that’s why we are one is to be. Be one with nature and to utilize the tools that were made for us by creator to find the balance that we need, but not rely on those things as the thing to heal you, using those things as a tool to help with the work. But you have to do the foundational work within yourself, the meditation, the going within the.
0:56:00 Kristina Morros: The. The discipline to get it done, to do the work yourself, to confront all of those hard feelings. Like people are afraid to cry and afraid to feel like that’s what addiction is a c. The fear to feel those feelings, whatever those feelings are. So it would be interesting to write another book just dedicated to that kind of thing. And maybe that will be one of my next books. I think my next book is going to be about dating in the post Covid world and how. How much of a show that is because like, you’re talking about people not connecting. Well, let’s talk about.
0:56:38 Kristina Morros: I can write a whole book about how those. Those dating apps do that to people. So. But that is definitely another story and a great life example of how people are disconnected nowadays and can’t communicate and bond.
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0:58:25 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, plant medicine is real. There’s a lot of studies out there that are showing it is a very valuable tool for trauma, especially with ptsd and especially if we’re talking, you know, veterans and military and first responders. Lots of, lots of connection and research around that. And I would just say at this point, you know, for anybody who is interested in that, just explain.
0:58:50 Kristina Morros: Explore.
0:58:50 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, just explore. Do some, do some googling, do some looking and just, you know, decide. Decide for yourself if that’s something that you find interesting. But I, I have seen much more that there’s lots of research out there that is showing some great benefits and healing power.
0:59:08 Kristina Morros: Yeah, for sure. I think it’s changed a lot of people’s lives. You know, really, it’s, it’s been, it’s been interesting to, to hear people’s stories after they go through like a, a treatment experience. So I definitely feel like it’s an option for people. I just want, I want people to be aware of their options. You know, people should know, even the drug, even drug therapy, people should be aware of their options, of the risk versus benefits. And then the patient, the client, should have the right to decide what to do. And that’s been my thing with this whole, this whole entire discussion with injections and therapies. Like, no one should ever be put into a position where they’re mandated a therapy and not explain risk versus benefit. It’s not, it’s. That is like, it’s our right to choose what we put in our bodies and we should be given all the facts. A health care provider should be doing their job and addressing those issues. And so that’s been, that’s been the kind of like the crux of this whole issue for me is the patient’s not getting that, like, and then whatever they decide is their choice, you know, like, they want to have a therapy, then go get it. If that’s what you think is the right thing for your body. I’m not going to judge you. It may not be what I necessarily decide for myself, but here’s all the facts. And, you know, and you know, you. You be an adult and do what feels right.
1:00:29 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah. Yeah. Well, Christina, if somebody is inflamed, anxious, exhausted, feeling lost in a system that just doesn’t really see them, what maybe one or two things that somebody can start to do right now to be able to get them to move forward, to be seen to. To feel better in their body. Whatever you feel is the most important. First steps. Where would you start? Somebody out at.
1:00:59 Kristina Morros: God, that’s such a hard question, but a good one. People have to question everything. And I know that’s a lot, and I’ll. And so it’s important to find a trustworthy guide in your journey, whoever that is. It may be a doctor, a nurse. It might be a health coach. It might be a podcaster. It might be an interesting, informative article with b. With facts based behind it that you can research yourself because you have to do the work.
1:01:28 Kristina Morros: If something doesn’t feel right, it’s probably not right. So my first step would be, if you are faced with some sort of health decision or some life decision and you’re getting something that doesn’t seem right, then you should look at it and you should find someone. If you can’t figure it out on your own, then find someone to help guide you along the way. Nurse advocates are amazing. Coaches are great. Like, I feel like they’re both underutilized and, you know, people probably have some sort of, you know, image of a life coach, like, oh, a life coach, you know, but like, coaching really has its.
1:02:07 Kristina Morros: If you have a good one that, you know, is educated and knows what they’re doing. I think functional medicine, it should be the main medicine. So I think patients and clients who are faced with inflammation, I think finding someone who is skilled in that area, like, in your area as well, with nutrition, that was your. Your start. That is really important to explore with someone who has that knowledge. And then getting up and moving and getting outside, like, I know we’re all busy, but it’s so important to get fresh air and sunlight and get some sort of movement. And even if you are, you know, disabled or obese or elderly and you have difficulty moving, like my father, just like taking the time of the day just to do, like, hand weights or whatever you can do just to get the movement and try to build up strength.
1:02:59 Kristina Morros: But also you have to take in the right nutrients. So, you know, it always comes back to the same thing. For Me questioning a plan, making sure it seems like it’s logical. Prioritizing health promoting behavior. Sleep would be number one. Nutrition and hydration are a number two together because they kind of go hand in hand and movement and spirituality, you know, mindfulness and finding the discipline and the day to do that. That’s a lot. I know that’s not really, that’s, that’s more than just a start, but it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s a choice to make the life change.
1:03:41 Kristina Morros: Do you want to stay in the state or do you really want to change yourself like that? I guess that’s the first question. Like, are you serious about wanting to do something or are you accepting your current state of being? Because it’s, it’s your choice, right? Like, if you want to feel better. So, yeah, I, I think coaching is, and, and following health related information from reputable sources is a really good start.
1:04:08 Kristina Morros: So like, staying away from TV and like, you got to really be careful about what you see on social media too. A lot of it’s trash. Like, you just need to, you know, ask someone, you know, maybe for a few good references. And that’s also tricky, of course, to navigate that stuff. But I mean, you know, you just have to find some good sources to start with and then do your own investigative journey.
1:04:29 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, well, and I’m assuming too, in your book you have your own protocols that you have within that to help people really noodle in and find what works best for them.
1:04:41 Kristina Morros: Yeah, but the book has a workbook component. So the book, the book is broken down into different sections which basically address all the issues we’ve been talking about. And so the workbook, it’s. I’m just gonna pick it up here. It’s this. And it’s got like different. I’m just gonna open up a page. It’s got like different activities in it. Like there’s a journaling activity and they’re just like step by step, simple things to do just to help inspire people to take a small step. And like the first activity in the, in the workbook is like basically a checklist. Like, where is your imbalance the worst or do you have one?
1:05:16 Kristina Morros: And so it’ll say here, you need to focus on this part of the book. So it’ll say go to, you know, the nutrition chapter to find out about how to eat healthier. There’s an activity in the workbook about looking at what’s in your house, like looking at your pantry and your refrigerator. I’m like, that’s small stuff and figuring out what needs to go and how to shop. And there’s actually a QR code for a link for healthy recipes in there. There’s movement in the workbook. So there’s a link to just like basic yoga poses, basic strength training poses. And you can open up that section of the workbook and you scan a QR code. It takes you to a video that shows you how to do those movements.
1:05:57 Kristina Morros: There’s actually some basic mindfulness activities in there. I have two sound sessions and a yoga nidra in the workbook that you can scan and go to on a video channel. So, you know, it is. I think it’s more effective to have the book and the workbook. I know some people, like, I don’t want to do a stupid workbook. But, like, it’s cute. It’s fun. It’s like, it, like, remember we were. I don’t know how old you are, but I’m 50. So when I was in elementary school, we had workbooks and I used to love.
1:06:24 Kristina Morros: Okay, so it’s like one of those.
1:06:26 Tansy Rodgers: I’m 47. So, yeah.
1:06:30 Kristina Morros: Whatever class that was that how the workbook didn’t do your little things. Perforated pages. Like, I want to do perforated pages. Like, literally, like an old workbook so you can hear them out and, you know, whatever, put them on your refrigerator. But, like, it’s literally trying to make it a game so people can have some fun with it. Because, yes, the book is stern and it’s like, quit being lazy and do your stuff. But it’s also, I try to be playful and kind of make it make the activities somewhat stimulating and challenging. You know, there’s even the last activity in the.
1:07:03 Kristina Morros: In the workbook is a. A journaling inspiration. Like a bingo. So it, like, gives you, like, topics to write about in a journal. Because, like, journaling is great. Like, I love it. I do it every day before I go to bed, usually, and just do a brain dump and talk about whatever, you know, talk about whatever’s in my day. But, like, just doing stuff like that is just a start. It’s a mindful activity, so. And it’s also neuroplastic plastic. It helps build the new nerve connections in the brain to help revalidate depression, ptsd, and any other types of imbalances. Alzheimer’s. It’s great for kids who have ADHD if they can sit down long enough to work on doing that, as long as they address their diet first. And you know what I mean? Like, so that Those are some simple things when you read the book that you’ll encounter.
1:07:54 Kristina Morros: So, I mean, of course I wrote it. I would love for everyone to buy the book in the workbook, but I do highly recommend that you buy the workbook to go with the book to have a little fun and trying to change your life.
1:08:03 Tansy Rodgers: Yeah, yeah. Well, speaking of that, where can everybody find the book? Where can people find you? Where can they get into your world more and just learn more about you and this paddle boarding competition that you’re going to be in? Yeah, let’s. Yeah, let’s talk about where you’re hanging out and what’s going on.
1:08:23 Kristina Morros: So the book can be found@get healthiergetdead.com. i also have a substack with same name, but if you go to that website, you can basically find both. My coaching business is Christina morris.com. they’re all linked together, so you’ll find one if you go to the other. And as far as the paddle boarding goes, I. Well, it’s like my thing. I just love it so much. So people aren’t aware of this and I would love for people to become aware of paddle boarding because it’s a great movement. Sport it and you don’t have to compete. You can just go out and chill and paddle in any body of water, river, lake, creek, you know, bay, ocean, whatever.
1:09:00 Kristina Morros: And just like, you take a moment just to be grateful of your surroundings and, you know, feel the air and the water and see the nature around you. The trees and the flowers and the creatures and. But what I do mostly is I compete in races. So this past year I kind of surprised myself. I went to the world championship, which was in Sarasota, Florida, with like, just not even really knowing what was going on. I purposely did not research anything. So I was just. I knew some of my friends from the Netherlands were going, so I was excited about seeing them. I was excited about meeting people from other countries that were elite paddlers and just kind of hanging out and being in the moment.
1:09:37 Kristina Morros: But I ended up qualifying in every single event. I. You know what I did? I packed my guns with me to go to the shooting range. So when I was done, when I got kicked off, like, I’d have a couple days free, so I was gonna go shoot guns and practice that and just like go see Sarasota and do whatever, but I kept qualifying. So I got into the semifinals and the quarter, semi, finals and all that stuff. I’m ranked in all activities. I’m in the top 20 in my age. Group in the world until next year when the next person takes my place. But, but we’ve competed in 100 meter sprint, 800 meter technical 5k and a 10k. And I placed like under the top 20 in all those events. So I was pretty proud of that.
1:10:19 Kristina Morros: Kind of blew myself away. But it was great though. Besides all that, the thing that was the most fun about that experience was community. Like I made new friends from all over the place, from Sweden and Copenhagen and Canada and met more people from the Netherlands and other places. And the thing about that sport, it, it’s a shame because a lot of people don’t even know that there are paddleboard races. But. And it’s existed for 10 years, it just kind of fell away I believe because they didn’t really do the marketing appropriately to the sport and it didn’t get qualified in the Olympics, which it should be an Olympic sport. The people who compete are excellent athletes.
1:10:54 Kristina Morros: But there are races all over the world, all over the United States, all over the world, all year round. And even in my local community we like. Tonight I have my weekly paddle race. It’s like less than a mile. It’s just a bunch of us to get together there. We do a course and it’s not for anything, it’s for points. But it’s more just to hang out and have fun and just like practice and train for real races. But you have that sense of community and connection with people, you know, and that’s the important thing whether you’re doing a team sport or an individual sport. It’s a great way to get to move.
1:11:27 Kristina Morros: And I just want people to be aware that it is actually an option for movement. So in my practice, my movement component of coaching is actually paddleboard training. So I am a certified paddle board teacher. I also do sup yoga. I’m a certified yoga teacher as well. But I love to like expose people to the sport and teach people technique. And when you learn how to do it correctly, it’s a really good workout. It’s a full body workout like core arms, legs, everything.
1:11:56 Kristina Morros: It’s a good mindful workout. Especially if you’re doing endurance paddling like you, you know, you have to make a choice to keep going or stop and turn around. So. But yeah there’s. I’m doing this one race in December called Last Paddler Standing. It is a 48 hour race, non stop, 49 laps. Every lap is 3.3 miles to the last one. You have to make the lap in under an hour. So I’ve been training for that, I don’t know how far I’m gonna get, but I also don’t really care. I’m just gonna show up and do it and have fun. We’ll see what happens.
1:12:27 Kristina Morros: A lot of my friends are paddling chat ajack in Tennessee. It’s a 32 mile race. I did that already once. But if you do that race five times, you get a cowboy belt buckle, which I want that. But I’ll that signing up for that thing is such a drama. You have to be up at midnight and right online and it’s. They have limited, like whatever sign up. I don’t feel like dealing with all that drama. So I just did last paddler standing this year because you just sign up and you’re done with it. And I’m doing some other minor races in Florida coming up in the next few weeks.
1:12:54 Kristina Morros: But yeah, it’s super fun, so. And I have. I have to mention the brand board that I just bought, it’s amazing. It looks like the American flag. It’s a brand out of Stuart, Florida, called Flying fish board company. John is an amazing board shaper and he really cares about his boards and his business and they are extremely incredible pieces of equipment. So I think everyone should own one. They placed like in the top of all the.
1:13:21 Kristina Morros: All the races they’re in. There’s always a flying fishboard and at the top. So I have a custom board that John made for me and I really love it. I just. He also makes regular boards. So if anyone’s interested in getting a really great paddle board, they should check out flyingfishboardco.com and have a little convo with my friend John and check out. Check out that. So yeah, I could talk about paddleboarding for forever.
1:13:48 Tansy Rodgers: Well, and all of those links will be down in the show notes so that you can get in touch with Christina. You can grab a paddle board if that is on your radar as well. Christine, as we finish up today, are there any last words that you want to lay on the hearts of the listeners?
1:14:05 Kristina Morros: Yeah. Just don’t lose faith in your health journey. And we all have setbacks. Don’t self loathe yourself if you have a moment of defeat. I mean, I have them too. Being in growth mindset is the way to win. And so find something new to learn every day and, you know, buy my book and learn how you can, you know, find some pretty simple, inexpensive ways to. To get your life in order.
1:14:40 Tansy Rodgers: Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for sharing your heart and your passion and really just taking that rebellious side of that rebellion that is coming forward and using it to make a movement.
1:14:55 Kristina Morros: Thank you for having me. I really appreciate you allowing me to speak today.
1:15:01 Tansy Rodgers: So here’s the thing. And you probably realize this after today’s interview. No one is coming to save your health but you. You can. Christina’s story is a reminder that there’s always a moment to choose differently, to reclaim your power, question the narrative, and to start doing things that your body will actually thank you for. So this week, I want you to ask yourself, where have I handed over my healing?
1:15:32 Tansy Rodgers: And what would it look like to take even just 5% of it back? How can I bring more movement into my life, not to punish my body, but to celebrate it? And. And what belief about health or healing am I ready to rewrite? And if this episode lit something up in you, share it out, screenshot it, text it to a friend, leave a quick review so that we can keep growing this space. We’re in this together, and that is why you’re right here and why I am doing this show, so that we can come together and make real movement.
1:16:16 Tansy Rodgers: Until next time, keep spreading that beautiful energy you were born to share.
