The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Claire Grieve On Connecting With Your Mind & Body To Manage Stress, Anxiety, & Things That Are Holding You Back In Life

Episode Date: December 27, 2021

#421: Today we are joined by Claire Grieve. Claire is a highly sought after celebrity yoga teacher, stretch therapist, plant-based health coach and author. Claire joins the show to discuss how we can create a deeper connection with our mind and body so that we can manage the things that hold us back most in life.  To connect with Claire Grieve click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) Check Out Lauryn's NEW BOOK, Get The Fuck Out Of The Sun HERE This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential  The Hot Mess Ice Roller is here to help you contour, tighten, and de-puff your facial skin and It's paired alongside the Ice Queen Facial Oil which is packed with anti-oxidants that penetrates quickly to help hydrate, firm, and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, leaving skin soft and supple. To check them out visit www.shopskinnyconfidential.com now.  This episode is brought to you by Better Help We want you to start living a happier life today. Get connected online to licensed therapists at accessible prices to make sure yu are taking care of your mental health. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at www.BetterHelp.com/skinny This episode is brought to you by ARRAE Arrae was created to help women feel the best so they can be their best, through targeted products which are 100% natural, filler-free, organic, and formulated by a Naturopathic Doctor. For 10% off, go to arrae.com and use code ‘tsc’ at checkout. Produced by Dear Media 

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to The Skinny Confidential, him and her.

It's so hard to sit with so many thoughts and emotions in your head because you send yourself crazy. You just go out of your mind thinking, thinking, thinking. You can talk to your friends a million times, but the best thing that I find is just brain dump. Get everything out. Write out how you're feeling. Cry while you write. Let it go. Like nobody else has to hear it.

Every single thing you think about yourself, a situation, your fears, your worries, when you get them out, you can release it. Think about the worst case scenario. Like truly, what is the worst thing that could happen? What is your greatest fear? Write that out. Write out your biggest fear and then let that go. And then replace your biggest fear with what's the best case scenario.

Welcome. Happy holidays. We are back. We hope you guys had a relaxing low cortisol holiday. I don't know if that's possible with family sometimes. There's usually a lot of dynamics going on. It's not possible, Lauren. Let's just, it's not possible. Ours was low cortisol. It was literally just me, you, and our child. So that's why it was literally our same dynamic that we have every day.

Yeah, normally we're in San Diego and it can be a lot of different plot twists and turns. You know, we missed the family. I know someone we're going to tune in, missed everyone, but it was just, you know, first year in Texas, needed a little bit of a time

to celebrate in our own house. I'm sorry, everyone. Sorry, sorry. I will say shout out to all the parents out there because holy shit, having kids during the holidays is a lot of work. I almost had a fucking meltdown when I was building that princess house. Lauren made me build this princess house and the instructions that come with these things in the pictures, you can't figure these things out. How do you know about the instructions

if you didn't read them? I read part, I looked at the, it said, lay the fucking tent down like a hexagon. What is that? And then put some weird rods,

broad ABC. No, he was so insufferable building this pink tent. I gave you one task and you couldn't see it through. I did it, but it, God, it sucked. You did it and then I had to hear about how you did it and you couldn't see it through. I did it, but it kind

of sucked. You did it. And then I had to hear about how you did it. It was a whole fucking thing. Anyways. Anyways, this episode is so fitting because it's wellness and self-care based, which I feel like right now is the time of year when everyone's hibernating. Like everyone is indoors. They just want to like stay, be alone. They don't want to be bothered. They're not on Zoom. They're not on email. Everyone's chilling and hopefully taking care of themselves. We invited Claire Grieve on the podcast. We met her in Switzerland a long time ago through our friend, Nettie of Healthy with Nettie, who's been on this podcast and the blog. And today we really dove deep with Claire. Claire is a highly sought after yoga teacher,

a stretch therapist, plant-based health coach, and a wellness writer. She's an author. I read her book. I absolutely loved it. Rosie Huntington Wheatley wrote the beginning of it. She also is a very good friend of Claire's and raves about her. I personally have had an experience with Claire that changed my life. I was so desperate postpartum to find out what was going on with me that I had a couple of conversations with Claire and she convinced me to go get my thyroid tested. And not only did she convince me to get my thyroid tested, she told me to go to an endocrinologist hormone expert and really look under the bed. And that's what I did. And I found out that I had a, I think it's called a low thyroid, a low functioning thyroid.

And I got on thyroid medicine and literally felt so much better in a month. I lost 20 pounds of my baby weight immediately, let go of a lot of inflammation. She also introduced me to adding more matcha into my diet, more plants. I find her very inspirational. And the other thing she did for me that you've probably seen on my Instagram story, sorry, Michael, is introduced me to sound bowls. Michael thinks I'm not very good at playing them. No, I don't think, I know. No, I beg to differ. I think that it's great that you're into it, but maybe invest now in some lessons. You're actually good. Well, Lauren, I don't just go in there and bang them like a gum. I don't think it requires a

light touch. You have to get in with the vibration. You have to have, you have to be one with the balls. It's a whole thing. You'll figure it out. Okay. A light touch. You sound like you're like about to go down on me or something. Well, maybe that too. So Claire's on the podcast today. We're talking, like I said, about self-care. She herself suffered from chronic headaches and inflammation, joint pain, bad digestion, depression, and insomnia. And she grew this huge interest in wellness. And today she is going to teach you how to be well and stay well. With that, let's welcome Claire to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her.

We're good. Okay, go Claire. Do your thing. I love you. Ketua kota I love you. Okay. I am so glad that we started the podcast with those frequencies for multiple reasons. One, I want to use this podcast to manipulate my husband about sound bowls and frequencies and energy and spiritual healing and all the things. And you're the perfect person. Well, let me be honest, Lauren. That sounded a little bit different than when you play them. I was just going to say number two is that I clearly don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

No, Lauren's is more of a loud bang that really jars me and stresses me out. But three, and this is the most important thing. I feel energy like everyone does. And I feel like our world right now at this moment is in a low frequency and maybe it's high frequency. I don't know which side it is. It's in a weird frequency and it needs more of what you just did. Can you describe what I'm trying to say? I think you're absolutely right. And I think, you know, the more that all of us can come together in different ways and raise our frequencies, the better. We're going to help everybody. So whatever is drawing in a low

frequency, if we can balance that out by doing our meditations, doing our sound healing, bringing positive vibrations into the world, we can actually, you know, it sounds kind of cliche, but we can heal the world and we can change what's truly going on because it's all energy, right? It is all frequency. It's all vibrations. So what can we do to raise it? And there are so many people at the same time, you know, as there's these negative energies and vibrations and I can feel it. I walk around and I feel it. I go to certain places and I'm like, get me out of here. Like I'll be spraying my Palo Santo. I'll get home at night. Like I need to wash myself with milk. There's all these sorts of little things that you can do, but I also feel the good energy, you know, and I'm being drawn to all of these amazing people with these positive, you know, that I feel like are on the same level as me. So

there's this dichotomy of like, how do we get more of this good energy and this good frequency around us? So I think the more that we play this sound healing and meditate together as a collective and spread positive energy and love as well, the better the world is going to be. Can you pinpoint something in your childhood that put you on the trajectory that you're on? Is there something that happened when you were little or maybe a teenager where you're like, you had sort of like this epiphany and was like, oh my God, I need to like lean more into this. You know, I think I was really lucky as a little girl. I grew up on a beautiful farm

surrounded by nature. And I think just having that connection to the earth has always given me that kind of connection to energy, right? Because I was surrounded by so much nature, animals. So I had this open, loving view of the world that was somewhat protected in a way. And I'd get up in the morning, I'd be like, listen to the birds. You know, my mother still sends me every morning videos of the garden with the birds. And I've got to tell you, it makes, it wakes me up in such a good way. So to have that and to see the flowers and to see the trees, it's very simple, but it's the same thing. Getting out into nature will raise your vibration. So if you're feeling, if you have a crappy day, you feel awful, I go, I take my shoes off. Even

when I'm in a big city, I find a small park or even a nature strip, right? Take my shoes off, get my feet in the grass. I feel so much better because you're drawing in that natural, like mother nature grounding energy. And it actually takes out the negative, like the negative neurons from your body back into the earth and you're drawing out the negative, like the negative neurons from your body back into the earth and you're drawing out positive energy. So when you were little, you would get out in nature,

you were attracted to spirituality. Like what were some little things that you did? Subconsciously, I think, I mean, I thought I was a fairy back then. I ran around. I mean, with the sound bowls. I never wore shoes. I never wore shoes as a kid. I still hate wearing shoes. I mean, I'm in high heels today out of my sneakers, actually in some shoes, but I, I, I really do.

You know, I think that innocence we need to find again because we're so, you know, I choose not to watch the news or television because I think that that brings in a lot of negativity to us, which also lowers our vibration, right? It brings us down, you know, I was getting my nails done the other day and it was just negative after negative after negative. I'm like, hi, do you mind switching that off? And they're like, oh, I'm so happy you asked that because the people in there are like, everybody wants to watch it. I'm like, let's put on Disney, if anything, you know. I mean, obviously, I educate myself. I prefer to read things because you want to know what's going on in the world. But I think, yeah, like, live a little. What makes you happy, you know, getting outside? I loved doing that as a kid. I think I was a mermaid and a fairy. And, you know, sometimes it's nice to do those things again still.

That is so funny that you just said the nail salon because I do not watch the news. I don't want it in my ether. I don't scroll on Instagram, on Facebook. I deleted it off my phone. I don't want it anywhere around me. But there is one place that I cannot get rid of the news and I have to go or else I look like claws and that's the nail salon. What the hell are they doing in the nail salon? They play the news and my nail salon has 10 TVs. So you're surrounded by it. So I got, I got noise canceling

headphones, but you could still see it. I know. And it's the visual COVID. And every time I fucking go there, my cortisol is out of control. Oh, that's what was happening to me. I started to feel the stress, the anxiety, and I was switching off. I'm like, I can do this. I can switch off. I can switch off. I'm like, you know what? I can't. I'm like, turn this shit off. And I asked them and everybody else was happy too, because people are sick of it. You know, it's in our faces all day long. Where's the positive news? Because there's so many good things that are happening and we never hear about it. Nothing.

You never hear about anything positive. No, we need to celebrate this. I have a great nail girl that has amazing energy in LA that can come to your house. Amazing. So you can ground your feet. Let's share her. That's what I would do if I was in LA.

I mean, obviously Austin, I haven't found anyone. Shout out if anyone knows anyone. You should have Queenie come to your house. I would do if I was in LA. I mean, obviously, Austin, I haven't found anyone. Shout out if anyone knows anyone. You should have Queenie come to your house. Oh, I would love that. Put your feet on the grass. Put your meditation music on. Play your sound bowls and get a manicure. That sounds like a dream.

Play your sound bowls with your toe. Okay, so you obviously grew up in Australia. Yes. What are the differences? How could you tell, Lauren? Her beautiful accent and her energy. I love Australian's energy. What are the differences, the fundamental differences

between America and Australia when it comes to wellness? That's interesting. I haven't been home in a while. Excited to try and get home. I feel like in Australia- Wild over there right now. It's wild. I remember mom always said to me, you know, if the world gets crazy, you can always come home to Australia.

You know, in Australia, we were really lucky. I grew up so healthy. Like we had access to all of the fresh fruit, the vegetables. And then as I was starting to grow up, when I got to about 15, 16, the American market really hit us with McDonald's, KFC. And that's when you started to see the children, you know, obesity kicking in for us. Whereas you didn't see that when I was a kid at school, the kids were really, you know, they were healthy because we were given, I mean, I used to get sent to school with salad sandwiches, you know, healthy things that mum would make, fresh fruit, and then it shifted because we started to catch onto the American market. And I think we're influenced more and more, but the basis of

Australia still really is healthy. You know, we have good messages, especially with sunscreen as well. You know, it's such an important message to stay out of the sun for our skin, just getting outdoors, the environment there. And I see a lot of similarities between places like LA, Florida, you know, I've traveled quite a lot. And that's kind of what made me fall in love with California because it was very similar to Australia in many ways. But, you know, there are cultural differences too. I think everywhere you travel in the world, you embrace the things you love. And there's always going to be something different. So I think I'm still trying to figure it out. I've been here 15 years. I mean, I love it here, but it's everything's changing around the world.

My girlfriend Faith said the same thing. She said, California does have similarities. It feels, you know, I set foot in California 15 years ago on a two week holiday, no reason to stay, but I'm like, this feels like home. If you know me, you know, I am the queen of bloats. I get bloated easily and I feel like because of that, I'm a real practitioner. I have a couple tools in my toolbox. Obviously, you know the ice roller. It's very important. I love cold showers, cryotherapy, ice baths, and also I'm obsessed with Array. So Array has these bloat capsules and they're 100% natural, filler-free, organic and formulated by a doctor.

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was with some girlfriends. They were going home. I'm like, you know, I'm just going to stay for my 90 days. And then I was coming back and forth and back and forth. And my dad said to me, he's like, what are you doing? You need to like, come home and figure a life out. Or if you stay there, like, you're on your own. It's a different world out there. And I'm like, I'm going to figure it out. And I did, you know, and it was hard work. I mean, immigration, I'm a now US citizen, which is the proudest day of my life that I saw in, I'm going to figure it out. And I did, you know, and it was hard work. I mean, immigration, I'm a now a US citizen, which is the proudest day of my life that I saw in, I'm dual. And cut to 15 years later, I built a business, you know, wellness here. And I'm so proud to be American and Australian. How did your wellness journey start? What was the thing that started it

off and kicked it? Meaning like maybe educational? How did you get into it when you came to California? Did you start a business immediately? No, you know, it's so funny. In Australia, I was really healthy when I was little and then I discovered KFC, hot and spicy. And I was addicted. I mean, I got so into the junk food. I would wake and I have a sweet tooth. So I would literally eat candy for breakfast and just start living off like French fries, all those sorts of things, move to America. And I was the same. I was just like, give me anything that wasn't healthy for me, not real food. So I got on this kind of spiral, you know, same thing, going out, drinking, partying,

new city. Oh, this is fun. You know, we didn't have this. Just really. Really letting it go. And I remember everybody kept telling me, you need yoga, you need yoga. I'm like, oh, I couldn't think of anything worse than doing yoga, sitting still and meditating. It just wasn't me at the time. And a girlfriend took me up Runyon Canyon and I could not get up Runyon at the time I was I didn't look unhealthy but internally I was unhealthy I'm like like a cardiovascular yeah I was dying and I'm like wow this is not good I'm like early 20s you know so two friends actually got me to a

yoga class like come on it's really fun I'm like okay so I begrudgingly went to this yoga class and it was super cool they played hip-hop hip-hop like old rock and roll dance music I'm like this is yoga you thought it was going to be like a like it's very hippie yeah I'm like wow this is super fun so we moved our bodies we sweat and then at the end I found this stillness and I'm like, oh, this is yoga. This is kind of, I can do this, you know. So it was a facilitating way to still find that stillness of yoga. So I kind of got addicted then and there. And I started going once a day, twice a day. You know, when you get addicted to something like KFC, you get addicted, yoga.

So then, you know, I was going all the time and I decided I want to learn more. So I did a teacher training solely for myself and it really kicked off my journey. You know, once you start moving your body, you want to eat better. Everything just happens. And what I was doing on the mat came off the mat into everything I did. And then after I did my teacher training, people like, can you teach us for fun? My first class I taught was on a nightclub floor. I was a waitress at a club and I taught the busboys, the girls that were the waitresses, the managers of the club. It was literally yoga mats on a club floor. Like that was my first class. That is so proud of that.

And then you go from that to teaching Rosie Huntington, Wheatley, a ton of celebrities, influencers, all these different things. You got to start somewhere. Wild. You got to start somewhere. What do you think the importance of slowing down is right now? Like I feel like you're so good at that with yoga,

your intentions, your morning routine, your sound bowls. What is the importance of that? It is my ultimate. And I think more and more people are craving it now. You know, everybody used to be like Barry's bootcamp. What can we do to have more energy? Like nonstop. It was very aggressive. Now everyone's like, I'm just worn out. I'm tired. What can I do to love and care for myself? And I listen to myself, right? I'm intuitive. If I'm tired, I'm not going to work out. I'm going to like do something that makes me feel better. And that's stretch. And I'm not going to put on weight or, you know, lose muscle from skipping a couple of workouts. It's not like that. You know, everybody gets so hooked up on the, oh, if I miss this, if I miss that, you're going to benefit

yourself more by going to bed early, getting a couple of hours extra sleep by just sitting, reading a book, meditating, slowing down. It's mental health. You know, we've been on such a like wired pace for the past couple of years. I mean, for the past, who can remember when we slowed down? I don't think I've ever not been on a wired pace. Yeah, and that's the thing. I'm actually not joking. It's true.

It's true. Yeah. We finally found a time in our lives where we need to slow down, and we were forced to during COVID, right? And we're like, oh, okay, this is what it looks like, and this is what it feels like. And now you see the benefits. I think it's one of the reasons why so many people had such a rough time with COVID, right? Is because for the first time in many people's lives, you actually had to sit with yourself

and with your own thoughts, right? And there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. Right. And that can be really scary. No, I think it's terrifying. I think most people would rather go and face the world than face themselves. That's why we are nonstop, right? And I am, look, I can put my hand up and say I was one of the worst at this.

I throw myself into work. I love what I do, but I would stay up until 2 a.m., 3 a.m. working because I didn't want to face, you know, stresses or broken relationships or just things like that. So I'm like, I love my work. I'll just work, work, work, work, work, go to face, you know, stresses or broken relationships or just things like that. So I'm like, I love my work. I'll just work, work, work, work, work, go to bed, get up, work, work, work, or rearrange my house. You know, I'm notorious for like going through drawers. And one of my girlfriends is like, can't you just relax and watch a movie? I'm like, no. Now, yes. It's like my happy place is finding time for me to slow down. And, you know, it takes practice. You can't just get it at the click of a finger. It's not easy. It's not easy

to sit and meditate and you don't need to sit for an hour. And I think that's what people misunderstand with meditation and slowing down. Do what you can, five minutes, you know. I have days where I don't have time to get up in the morning and do my morning routine and I don't hold it against myself but maybe in the afternoon I'll find a couple of minutes and it's better than nothing. Don't be hard on yourself, don't hold things against yourself, just do what you can appreciate and respect what time you can give yourself. And then when you have more time, do that. It's so timely that you said that. I was listening to James Clear who wrote Atomic Habits on Ed

Milet's podcast, which is a great episode. And he said that the most successful people he's ever met in his entire life are the ones that create a habit that is two minutes. And they don't try to do this like, I'm going to go for a two-hour run and I'm going to start the habit tomorrow. There's this guy that lost 100 pounds. And what he did is he said, I'm going to commit to five minutes in the gym every single day. And so he would go to the gym for five minutes

every single day for three months because he was practicing the art of showing up. That's it. It wasn't even working out. It was showing up. And I think that we overwhelm ourselves. I do this too. I'll be like, I need to meditate for 30 minutes.

Like sometimes you could just say, I'm going to wake up tomorrow and I'm going to meditate for five minutes. I'm going to take a freezing cold shower for a minute instead of three minutes. You're so right about that. And you know, when we hold things against ourselves, we feel bad, right? And then that's an emotion thing. When we have bad emotions towards ourselves, we hold onto them. So you're holding onto these negative emotions in your body. It causes tension, stress. It causes a whole bunch of other

things. We don't want to do that. So like you say, five minutes, two minutes here and there. I don't, and I'm totally honest about it. I don't have a long meditation practice. I don't do yoga every day. I actually haven't done it a lot lately. You know what I have done? I did pigeon pose yesterday because I sat on a plane for a couple of hours. My back hurt. So I did a pigeon pose. Is I sat on a plane for a couple of hours. My back hurt. So I did a pigeon pose. Is pigeon pose like a sex move? I mean, you can make it a sex move if you want to.

What's a pigeon pose? Pigeon pose is that hip one where you can… So I did it in bed. But you lean forward, right? Can I multitask and have sex while I'm in pigeon pose doing it? A hundred percent. He can get in on the side. Great. But if I'm in pigeon.

I don't know about you in pigeon. You know what though? You got to leave her there for at least two to five minutes. So then you switch it out. Are you going to be able to last two to five minutes? I can stretch it out. I don't know. But you're so right.

I think like people make this mistake in every area of life where they set these huge goals. Right. Right. And then they miss the goal because it's so big and then they get down on themselves. And they give up.

Yeah, they give up. Right. It's like, you know, even in like people come like, like say take a podcast, for example, doing what we do here. Like I want to be,

you know, I want to have a million downloads. Like let's get to a thousand first. Let's get like to a hundred first. Like people set such, or like even in business, like I want to make a million dollars. Like let's get to like 50,000 first. Like people

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first order. Go to sundaysfordogs.com slash skinny or use code skinny at checkout. That's S-U-N-D-A-Y-S-F-O-R-D-O-G-S.com forward slash skinny. Switch to Sundays and feel good about what you're feeding your dog. So I've totally done that. You know, I have big goals, like massive goals. And I think that's okay. But if I don't make them, I'm like, okay, whatever, on to the next, right? Like, don't hold onto it that much. Like, it's good to have like massive intentions in life, but just kind of hold it with a grain of salt at the same time. And it's like a seesaw. It's not easy to do. Like put the energy there, but like be on to the next thing.

I think it's good to have big goals. I just, I think what people do is they just set the goal and then they don't set up the tactics to even. The backup. Yeah, they don't set the things to reach the goal, right? Everyone's got to have a backup. Yeah. You do do a really good job, Michael,

of doing little things for a short period of time. Like Michael will journal a minute a day, whereas I would be like, oh, if I'm in a journal, I need 15 minutes with a candle light with a little bit of five to eight frequency and maybe set the fuse going and I'd love the window open if I'm being honest

and everything to be quiet. Well, I think it's like- But I love that. It's beautiful. I think with routines routines it's like when you set up these like gnarly chains and if one of those pieces in the chain doesn't work then it shuts the whole like for example like if you don't have the candle then it's like it doesn't ruin the whole routine and you're screwed it's not the same but you know what you can visualize everything else right so visualize right visualization is the best thing that I've ever done ever I sit with my meditation I visualize everything I mean not everybody's visual some people are auditory like everybody some people like to talk but for me like I just sit and I

visualize like on my way here my uber was like well everyone every uber canceled everyone was like don't worry so so it's like that so I and I visualized like what this was going to be like, literally like us having the freaking best time of our life, you know, but you do that. You visualize what you want. And I think that, I mean, you can sit yourself. If you don't have anything, here's my candle. Here's my, actually I'm meditating right now on the most beautiful beach.

And you're sitting in your living room, right? You're going to feel it. It's actually a fact because I did a brain alpha training and visualization. When you visualize something, it raises your alpha, your endorphins and your happy feelings. So you don't even have to be somewhere to feel it. A lot of people just have a hard time, I think, visualizing because they don't actually believe themselves. Right? Like I can tell like you believe, like when you visualize. I got a good imagination. No, but you

believe that you're going to come here and have the greatest time. I think that's honestly like 95%. Like you can have the vision, but if you don't actually believe in yourself and believe in your vision, then it's not going to do any good. That's why we do work, right? That's why we sit and we put the work in and we do the self-work, the love. It takes time. Why do you think you have such a good attitude? Because you do. You have a great attitude. I put the work in. What's the work? Tell us the work. It's like, you know, there's days I wake up in a bad mood. There's days that I'm stressed, but I've taught myself tools and I consistently work on it. And the happier that like the more I talk to myself with love and do the things that make me feel good and surround myself with people that are high vibration and cut the shit, right?

That's a huge thing. Like cut out what doesn't make you feel good in your life like things become good and the energy that you have surrounding your life in every which way just makes me positive there's a lot of people who are listening Claire that are feeling a lot of emotion right now with everything that's going on a A lot. How would you recommend? I've talked to you on the phone. You helped me postpartum. How would you recommend that they process and reset? First of all, write it out because it's so hard to sit with so many thoughts and emotions in your head because you send yourself crazy. You just go out of your mind thinking, thinking, thinking. You can talk to your friends a million times, but the best thing that I find is just brain dump. Get everything out,

write out how you're feeling, cry while you write, let it go. Like nobody else has to hear it. Every single thing you think about yourself, a situation, your fears, your worries, when you get them out, you can release it. Second, after you get it out, there's a couple of ways, tips, you know, think about the worst case scenario. Like truly, what is the worst thing that could happen? What is your greatest fear? Write that out, write out your biggest fear and then let that go. And then replace your biggest fear with what's the best case scenario. And then write that out. What does that look like? Like, forget about all the bad stuff, but what's the good stuff that

could really happen? I know life's crap right now. Things aren't going right. But like, what could be great? What do we want? And then sit on that, right? Sit on it, manifest it, think about it. What actions can you do for that? The more you think about it, the more you leave yourself in a mental place thinking about that, the better you're going to feel. You've almost erased those negative emotions. You've got them out. You've got the worst case scenario, all your stress, all your worry. You've replaced it with the positive. So you're kind of rewiring your brain. You feel better because you've got it out. And then you move forward

and you take some sort of an action. If I walk into Michael's office tomorrow and he's playing sound bowls, crying it out over his journal, I might divorce him. But that's a great tip for me. Listen, it might happen. He's in pigeon pose.

He's naked. He's grounding his feet. I was going to say, one of the worst things that could happen is my wife could catch me playing sound balls crying. Can I just tell you something though? You might cry. And I'm going to tell you a story

because I have played sound balls for a lot of people, myself included. And I have had, you know, something happened to me recently that was, you know, a little traumatizing and scary. And I went to my sound bowls because I needed to get the emotion out. I couldn't cry. And I just played them and I bawled my eyes out. They drew the emotion out. And a friend of mine, you know, who had lost someone recent, like close, you know, I played sound bowls for them and the sound healing and same thing. It releases emotions. They truly connect to your chakras and it draws stuff out. And I also felt it.

They are so powerful. So let me play them on him. When you say you experienced trauma, do you mean like a death of a loved one? Do you mean like you had a hard day? Me? Yeah. Oh, I had, yeah, I had a rough day. I hit my head. I had, yeah.

So I've had a little bit of a history with concussion. So I had a kind of like scary sort of experience at work and I hit my head quite hard. And that brings back like trauma from an accident I had so it was all sort of built up so I'm like what can I do to help my healing you know did it actually it actually you felt it release that's funny because when you were just playing the sound bowls even though it was like a minute or two I felt myself like you it does bring up emotion oh yeah it does which is the perfect segue for my next question. Every single night I've been playing Zaza 528 HZ frequency, which was recommended to

me by Mimi Bogart who came on the podcast. And they're also sleep frequencies. For some reason, I'm attracted to 528 because I guess it heals trauma and anxiety within the body. Are you a believer in those frequencies? And if you are, can you educate us? Because it's not really music, right? So I'm learning, right? I'm always learning about that. I'm not as educated about the frequency specifically, but music is healing. A hundred percent music is healing on every level. I'm just listening to right now an app and it is music frequency waves, more sort of music that sounds like music. And it is tuned to alpha waves of your brain. And they're actually doing clinical studies that are proving that it is healing

anxiety. It is healing the body. You know, people go into hospitals and play music for people when they're sick. Yeah. It truly music. I mean, music will be classified as a medicine. So if maybe you could go into the benefits of sound bowl healing, what are some, I bought a book on sound healing. I have not read it yet. Right. What are some, so I had, my girlfriend had a sore back the other day. I laid her on her stomach and I put the bowl on her lower back and I, the big pink bowl, right? That's, that one's Pachamama. It's a very deep sounding, heavy vibration. So I put the bowl on her back and I light, lightly dinged it. You know, you want to play with intention and like feel the ball. So I was playing it and the vibrations, you know, shift energy. So it'll shift a blockage in the body,

whether it be a blockage in the muscles, a blockage in your chakra, it moves things about because we're all energy. Everything here is energy. So it was move that energy and she felt a release in her back. And she's like, my back feels better. I've done it on my stomach. You know, I ate something bad. I'm bloated. I'm gassy. I feel horrible.

And I had my girlfriend. I'm like, can you play ball on my belly? I kid you not. I felt better. So it does not surprise me after you just doing it. It's beautiful when you play it. You're lucky that I'm not at your house. I would be like, I have a, I broke a nail. I'm feeling tired. Hey, we can do it over the phone. Yeah, be careful.

But if you don't have sound bowls, there's so many things you can listen to, right? And so I listen to classical music. I love just regular classical. I grew up on it. I played piano when I was a kid for years, playing piano, guitar, clarinet, something I want to do again. Anything that you connect with, everybody's so different. So like Michael, you may hate soundballs. They may irritate you. It's just not what you resonate with.

I like soundballs. I like soundballs. We did that. I'm going to make you play them later. Besides when I play them. I don't know if you can call what you do playing them, but more of them. What's the app?

You mentioned an app earlier. Sonar. Sonar. Okay. Yes. Not Sonos. Sonar. Sonar. Okay. Yes. Not Sonos. Sonar. No. Sonar. Yes. Sonar. Music is medicine. It's very simple and it's just got for energized sleep, rest, relax. It's very simple. And they're working with Berkeley to actually, you know, it's going to be incredible. Heal. To heal. Yeah to heal the body. The world needs that right now. The world needs healing. All the people need healing. Like everybody needs it.

All of us. People are more open to it after this too. Yes they are. Or some people aren't. It's almost like people went black or white. Well that's the thing and that's where the low vibrations are the high vibrations. The people that are higher are open. They want to learn. It's like, we're coming together. What else can we do? How can we be better, help each other? And then there's people that are just like, fine, close book. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. If these last two years have taught us anything, it's that we can question all of our assumptions on how we thought things needed to be. One of my favorite developments over the pandemic is that we've realized that we don't need to be in person for everything. I think this opens up so many new

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This is the perfect podcast to do this. What is... And you're the perfect person. This is like the synergy of a lifetime. What is your perfect morning routine? You know, I ask this question to everyone and I cannot wait to hear yours. Yes. Perfect. In a dream world. You know, I have all these funny little things that I'm doing with sleep now. Tell us every little weird, creepy thing. So I love to experiment I'm like a guinea pig on myself I'm experimenting with all these new things so right now I'm typing my mouth when I sleep breathing I am because my

jaw has my teeth have gone out of line my jaw have gone my jaw's gone out of line dentist quoted me 25 grand I'm like uh-uh there's got to be other ways. So I tape my mouth. I'm like, you should see me when I go to sleep now. Are you getting deeper sleep? Oh my goodness. Will you post an Instagram story of this when this goes live of this? Yeah, of course. I'll totally do it for you. So I am sleeping better because I would wake up six, seven times a night, right? I'd wake up to pee. I'd wake up drooling on my pillow. Can you tape your baby's mouth? By the way, you probably should because, so this is what's actually really-

Child Protective Services. Do you know why? This is what's actually really, I wouldn't say baby, but this is what's interesting about it. There's pictures and I go in deep holes of research of kids that breathe through their mouth and kids that don't. And I saw a research study on twins. And one was a mouth breather and one wasn't. And the facial changes. I slept with my mouth open my whole life.

You're not. You're supposed to. I didn't used to. I had double jaw surgery. There you go. So I was looking into it because my jaw totally changed. And it's starting to go back. I mean, I'm doing other things as well,

but that is really like, I feel my teeth closing. Tongue was- Let me ask you this. When you first started doing it, did- I thought I was going to, I thought I was going to like- You felt like you were going to die in your sleep, right? For the first five minutes, I'm like, should I let someone know that I might not wake up?

But that your body won't let that happen. It naturally kicks in and starts breathing through the nose, right? 100%. So you feel better when you wake up? I feel amazing because the oxygen is breathing through the nose, right? 100%. So you feel better when you wake up? I feel amazing because the oxygen is going to your brain, right? Then it's called nitric oxide

is going to your brain instead of like out your mouth. Have you ever crossed paths with Ben Greenfield? Have you ever? No. He wrote about it

in his book. He did? I know because we can't be getting lines around the mouth. I know. And I was a little concerned about this, but it's perfectly fine. So I just bought it on Amazon.

I looked at the best rated review on Amazon. It's like a cross. It goes here, here, put it together. It's comfortable. Shit, I'm going to fucking tape your mouth shut whenever you're annoying. I'm going to get some tape. 24-7, be careful. Wrap it around your head. I'm going to tape my ears shut.

So what happens at night time your brain it's called brain washing right it's like your brain completely washes heals at that time and it's so important because think of like everyone's getting dementia everyone's getting brain fog all this sort of stuff so that's number one thing i'm doing also just found this thing it's a cap emf hat so i'm now wearing it like a shower cap to bed a shower cap to bed. You've got a headgear on. Oh yeah, I'm going head to toe. I'm just trying it also post-concussion, right? But think about I'm living in a townhouse apartment slash thing in a city. There is Wi-Fi, there are power lines, there's crap everywhere. It affects us. My girlfriend told me they just brought out

a research study that those ear pods are, you know, they're not good for us. And I always said every time I wear the ear pods, my right ear burns. Same with me. Yeah. My right ear and my brain feels weird. So I stopped wearing them. I wear the ones that you plug in. I don't even love these, but go on. I agree, right? We're going to see the effects of this stuff. So I sleep with this EMF thing. I'm sleeping like a cozy little baby now. So I have my mouth taped, cover my eyes because you should sleep in pitch black as well. I have my sonar, my white noise, either either.

And then when I wake up in the morning, first thing that I do, sunlight. So you want to open up your blinds. You want to get outside and get 10 minutes of sunlight because circadian rhythm. I don't know if you know about that, but you want to follow this system. Try to get up at the same time every day. Try to go to sleep. It's not really possible all the time, but if you can stick to it, it's so good for your health. It cures diseases. You feel like a different person. And I really have been trying to stick by it. Notice the difference. So get up, open up the blinds. Have to pause. What's the brand of the EMF cap and what's the brand of your eye cover? I'll get back to you on the EMF cap because my doctor gave it

to me. You have to tell us on Instagram. And the eye mask, I just use either a silk one, a slip one, just something soft and comfortable, right? Like slip has one, but whatever is comfy. I used to use the ones that had like the- No, that's bad for your eyes. Michael does that. That gives you circles. You look like a fly.

I don't like that. So I just use something really soft. Go ahead. Just so you know, I'm on board with all these things you're saying. I don't think any of this sounds crazy actually. No, Michael's pretty open about it. And sometimes some people come on here and say some wacky shit and I'm like,

I don't know. People are either gonna think I'm batshit crazy or not. I actually think that, no, so far I'm fully on board. Okay, so then I actually, you know, I like to drink my water, but I don't want to drink my water before I've tongue scraped. That's actually the first thing I do.

I tongue scrape first thing in the morning. Yeah, so I take off my tape. If you don't tongue scrape, go away. If everyone in the world needs to tongue scrape, I don't care. This is blanket advice. I never give blanket advice. Get a fucking tongue scraper. No one wants to smell your crusty ass tongue. Yeah, but why wash? Scrape your tongue. Everyone. And don't scrape it with plastic. That's BPA. Get a copper. I like the one from Wellness by Katie from Wellness Mama. Scrape your tongue. Sorry. I'm with you, girl.

I'm with you. I literally open my blinds. The producer's ordering one right now on Amazon. Open my blinds, scrape my tongue. And then I have my huge glass of water, like straight warm water. I put it next to my bed the night before. So it's there. Then go out, get some sun, you know, and then I like to make my matcha.

I have my matcha and then I'll sit and meditate. What's the brand of your matcha? How do you make it? Yes. There's a couple of matches I like. I love Sun Life. I love their matcha. My girlfriend has a matcha.

Shaina's matcha. Love her matcha. Yeah. I like her. She needs to come on too. Yeah, she's great. So I make my matcha and then you know start off journaling so what are you grateful for think of that think of affirmations i just sit or i'll free write i kind of got into free writing that turned into like weird poetry during covid i'm like this is fun i don't know how it happened i just put my thoughts out you know got a little more, some of us got a little more creative. Maybe it's a book,

your second book. I know. I've never asked anyone this. Yes. What are some gratefuls and affirmations? I know that's personal. If you will share some with us. I feel like you're the perfect person. What am I grateful for? Yeah. What's, no, give us examples of some gratefuls. Oh, okay. How specific are you going? Is it broad? Is it narrow is it no so it's different every single day it's different depending on what's going on in my life it can be as simple as I'm so grateful to have this comfortable safe bed with these soft sheets you know in a in a home that keeps me safe it can be something as simple as that. Or I'm so grateful to be sitting here today with Lauren and Michael, right? Coming to Austin, experience something new, being able to share like my love and passion. Like that's what I'll be writing about tonight. Like that's what I'm

really freaking grateful for right now, you know, to have this voice. It can be, I'm really grateful for my friends, my family, like they are my rock. I couldn't do it without them. You know, I'm really grateful for the smoothie I had this morning. It was bomb. Like it can be that simple affirmations. Like I love myself. I'm proud of myself today. I am, you know, I'm a strong woman. I'm confident. I believe in my values and power to do the best I can in this world. I just want to show the audience this because sometimes people get overwhelmed with that. Simple. I am kind. I am loving, you know, affirmations of things that you feel about yourself or things that you want to feel about yourself, you know, and maybe you're working on it. Maybe you don't truly know how to love yourself,

but the more you say it, the more you tell yourself, then you will. One of the most asked questions that I get in my DMs is what Michael does to his hair. It's seriously a question that guys ask me, but also girls. People want to know like what you're doing. And I've been telling them that you do three things. One of those things is you microneedle your scalp. One. I know that is one. He loves microneedling his scalp. That's going to stimulate. The other thing that he does is he doesn't wash his hair too much. I think over washing the hair, it's not the best. Strips it. Strips it. Yep. Michael knows that. And then the third thing is that he's been using hair masks. Strengthens it. Strengthens it. So the one that he's been using lately, it was actually sent to us by a brand

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That's honest. Yeah. And I feel better when I don't. I've got to be honest with you. I mean, either way. You have a big hang up about looking at the phone in the morning. Here's the thing though. I think because I sleep on up. No, because especially- I sleep on airplane mode.

I sleep on airplane. He wakes up and he's like, my eyes hurt. And I'm like, when you wake up like this with your fucking nose in the keyboard with Twitter, like, yeah, your eyes are gonna hurt. It's actually not a bad thing to look at that blue light in the morning. I'm going to go outside with Claire. Well, hold on. It kicks your circadian rhythm. You don't want to do it at night. But in the morning, if you going to go outside with Claire. Well, hold on. It kicks your circadian rhythm.

You don't want to do it at night, but in the morning, if you look at it, I think sunlight's better. You look at Twitter, I'll scrape my tongue. Sunlight is better. But if you need to,

like say you need to wake yourself up, it actually will. Right. Because think, okay, if we're in, you know, UK or somewhere that it's really, really dark in the morning, you know,

you have to use the fake light. You know, they have these lights that you can wake you up. I've been researching all this sort of stuff. So honestly, I look at my phone because that's where my alarm is. I need to get an alarm, one of those alarms that is separate to the phone because I actually don't want my phone in my room anymore. The only reason I bring the phone up, Lauren, is because we've had so many people on and some people swear by not doing it and some people don't mind. I think it's the people that have the relationship with the phone where they look at it and

it triggers something or it makes them feel like they have to respond to an ask. Those people should not look at the phone. But if you can look at it and unobjectively just be like, whatever, I'm looking at my phone. You have to get disconnected to having to respond to people right away and letting it kind of annoy you, right? Because

I used to open my phone and I'd see emails, work emails, and it would just tip me over the edge. And I'm just like, if I look, I'm like, okay, that's fine. But I can leave that for later because I've got stuff to do first. I had almost 800 unread text messages the other day. I have about 80,000 emails. I'm that person. Not good. And so the way I went about it, because like Lauren was like, I was stressing about it. So the way I went about it is because like Lauren was like, I was stressing her out. So the way I went about it is I went and scrolled all my text messages and delete all 800.

I have no idea what anyone said. You know what I did? Oh, wow. That's a boss move. No, this is a better hack than mine. And I figured that if they're important, they'll somehow get back to me somehow. I changed my phone number a month ago.

You did? I decided I had had my phone number since... Yeah, but that's not even... So you still... Excuse me. You should get on board with this. I don't need to. I just do the same number since sixth grade. I don't need to hear from Nancy in second grade asking me to like post her cousins. Oh, my gosh. Like whatever.

So I decided that I needed to clear my space and be intentional with who I gave my number to. So I reached out to about 50 of my close friends and family. I was like, here's my number. And then like it's situational. Like if I run into a friend that I haven't seen and I'm like, oh, I need to give my number or a work friend or something, I will be intentional about giving out my number. Here's the way I look at the phone and all the messages and emails. I honestly really feel this. I know it sounds crazy. I just delete it all. I really did delete those messages. But I figure if it actually really is important or something that I need to pay attention to, somehow it'll manifest up or somehow it'll get to me. Yeah, I agree. Because if it's just like, hey, you know, what are you up to? Like, that's not that big of a deal. I agree. Right.

Did we hit your morning routine? Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, we're still going. I want you to finish. Go ahead. Okay. So morning routine, where did we get to? We did the journaling. Definitely, you know, sitting with my matcha or my coffee, by the way, because I love super coffee as well. So it'll be one of the other. I didn't used to drink coffee and now I do. So I'm back on the like, and also not fully plant-based, like mixing up the diet. Were you plant-based?

I was for a long time. Yeah. I think just intuitively listening to everything a little more now. So, you know, sitting, meditating, like giving myself the time, playing my sound balls. Meditation is different every day. Maybe it's sitting, maybe it is playing the balls. Maybe it's more of a moving meditation, stretching. I love to walk. So getting outside and walking, that'd be like absolute morning routine, whether it's around the block or up hiking. I love to move my body. It doesn't have to be a workout. I'm not that into workouts.

I like more gentle things. The older I get, I like to be kinder on my body. You know, I've spent so many years being hard, lifting weights, trying to keep up with the boys, keep up with all these classes. My body just doesn't like it. So I think the softer, kinder I am, the happier I am. You kind of gave us a peek at this, but what's your nighttime wind down? Like what time do you put the phone away and say, it's time to wind down and this is how I'm going to do it? Yeah, it's different all the time. I mean, I try to, I'm trying to do a hard cut off with work. When you work for yourself, you know, you kind of, I didn't have limits. I'd be up until 2am and then I just find myself switched on all the time and then you can't sleep. So I'm like, I have to try to cut off by five or six with work stuff and keep normal people at like regular work job hours and enjoy off time.

I think it's so important to switch off and I was so guilty of not doing it for so long. So do that. You know, I love to cook. I think at home making my own food, it's so much better. It's so much fun having people over doing that and then just winding down with like tea I don't like to watch tv so I just kind of hang out I love peace and quiet so much like don't come to my house no but I but I love loudness with friends like hanging out with friends but I'm not like you're the loudest one in the house no i'm not we'll balance each other sometimes you know sometimes i just chill and like i like to potter i potter around so like maybe i'll run a bath just relax and like a little bed that sounds amazing i'm going to come stay with you at your house one day but it does wake up what was our

morning routine this morning? The baby screamed. Let me tell you my morning routine. She woke up at 3.30 in the morning. I'm a baby whisperer, by the way, guys. I used to be a school teacher. We have a guest room. We can put the baby to bed.

Can I bring her over to your house? She's killing me. She woke us up at 3.30, then 4.30, then 5.30 when she fell off the bed because I moved to the guest room because I couldn't take it anymore. She cut her lip open. They stormed in my room at 6.30. I stormed into my underpants with a bleeding baby,

not knowing what to do. The dog's screeching and yelling at me. Lauren tells me to get out. I'm running around. By the way, that's real life, guys. I didn't know what to do. I threw the Grinch on. I was like,

the Grinch will just watch the Grinch. The Grinch in Russia. We don't even know like what language she's listening to. Lauren, come to my house. I just had a bunch of girlfriends staying at my house because everyone's moving out of LA and to all other places. So they were taking turns at staying at my house,

transitioning on the move. They're like, it's like a mini spa here. So come and stay at Claire's mini spa. Baby was bleeding everywhere. But I said, hold on, I got to take, I got to tongue scrape. You should have had the tape. If you had my mouth tape, we could have taped her up. Did you actually tongue scrape?

Yeah, I was like, hey, go over there. Bleed in the corner for a minute. No, I'm just kidding. Speaking of, she was bleeding today. I need to get her a tongue scraper for herself. Oh my God. They probably have baby. You know what?

I missed those. We need to get her a baby yoga mat. I'm going to send you that for Christmas. Oh my God. They have baby yoga mats. That's cute. Yeah. Okay.

Start her young. I will start her young. I reached out to you at a time in my life where I was like literally 50 pounds overweight after having Zaza. I was so uncomfortable in my skin. I was like going to crawl out of my body and I did not know what to do. And I reached out to you and I was like, please help me. And you gave me a lot of tips and tricks. Yeah. Some that I still do. I'm drinking matcha right now. I never had drank matcha before talking to you. I would love for you to speak on food. Yes. And the relationship that you have with food, but also like what you eat, what your snacks are, what you're pulling for at lunch. I want to know

like all the little details with that. Yeah. So it's changed a lot. You know, I still believe I said to you, we changed, we followed your blood type diet. And I still really believe in that. I think everybody is so different. There's not, and I put this in commas diet because I don't believe in diets, right? There's not one sort of rule routine that anybody should follow. I think you need to be more intuitive. If you get tested for your allergies, things that inflame you, that's the number one thing. If you can do that, I think it's really important. I do think that the blood type diet is really interesting. And I follow that myself and with a lot of clients. So for example, your blood type.

We're the same blood type. So that's why I'm interested to hear. You were B. I was O. Oh, you were O, that's right. Yeah. You were O, okay. So you predominantly needed to eat meat. Yes. Yes.

Cut out gluten. No coffee. You helped me cut out gluten. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot about that too. I've been really careful with gluten. Still, you look amazing.

I still have 10 pounds, but I'm almost there. You look amazing. And you've got it, you know, with pregnancy as well. It's hormones. There's so many things that your body is balancing out. It takes time. And it's especially with women. You know, we go through so many changes.

Like I'm coming in 40 next year. So it's like everything, everything changes. You look young. So what are some healthy things that you reach for? Real food. Like give us straight up real food. I love fruit. I could eat fruit breakfast, lunch, dinner all day. I'll eat it before I go to bed. Everyone says don't eat fruit late in the day. I love fruit. I think it's great. It processes easy in

the body. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. If you're eating real food, whole food, organic, right? Where you can get organic, it's better. Obviously, it's more expensive. Just try to get good produce. If you can put something on the bench and it's going to go off, you know that it's good for you. It's like the hunter-gatherer, right? Try to eat less processed foods, less things out of a box. If that's the only thing that you do it's it's the best thing you know I try to stay away from fried foods for me salt because I have autoimmune I really try to reduce my salt and then just gluten gluten for a lot of people is a killer these days you know we all have gut issues so many people are finding that they have gut gut health issues guts your second brain we want to

protect our gut protect our brain so stay away gluten. Watch where your food is coming from. But if I want snacks, you know, I'm always going for fruit. I'll make a healthy smoothie. I love my sweet treats. So I'll find these places, you know, that have healthy treats. Like I'm not giving up my sugar. I still like it, but it's not white sugar. You know, it's dates, it's coconut sugar. It's healthier options. You've still got to enjoy life. I was just in Europe on the summer. I got to tell you, I ate everything. Pasta, pizza. I had a burger. Oh, easy. A great time, but the produce is different.

Right. And I was fine. And I didn't put on a pound. Like my gut was fine. But I can't eat that way in America. I have to be more aware of what I'm eating because of the way that things are made here. Can you maybe walk us through a day of your eating? Yeah. Like from breakfast to dinner, maybe you're having a glass of wine that night. Yeah. So I wake up in the morning. I have my water, my matcha. I have probably like three matches a day because I love it. I know breakfast. I tend to eat later because I just generally don't feel good eating in the morning. So I intermittent fast on and off. But lately, you know, if I'm hungry, I'll eat. I'm just being intuitive. If one morning, you know,

say I'm getting my period, I'll be hungry. I'll just eat breakfast earlier. So usually we'll have either a big bowl of fruit because it feels good for breakfast, smoothie, green smoothie. I've been having less smoothies because it's cold. So I'm trying to eat more in season. I'm obsessed with oatmeal right now. The fiber really helps you like going to the bathroom as well. So meaning a lot of oatmeal, I'll put some peanut butter on top of it. Sorry, almond butter on top of it, blueberries. So that's my sort of late morning lunch. I love salads, but also, you know, when it's cold, I try to put warmer things in them. So I'll put squash in it, quinoa, avocado, things like that. Dinner, I've been eating more fish because my body's craving a little more protein. So I might

have a piece of salmon, white fish, and then my veggies. So I'm sticking to veggies that are not bloating. So I'm having bok choy, spinach, lots of squashes, pumpkins, sweet potato, all of that sort of stuff. And then rice, grains, I love. What's your cocktail choice? Sushi. Oh, margarita. All day, every day. Margarita. Hold the salt. Kate, I just discovered this hack that I feel like you're going to love. Did you know that you can cook? This is an ad. This sounds like an ad. Did you know that you can cook oatmeal in a rice cooker? No. I have my rice cooker out. I put a cup of- You can cook like porridge and stuff. It's the same thing.

Cup of oatmeal, a cup of water, blueberries, a chopped up apple, cinnamon. Let it sit for 10 minutes. Get out of town. Chia seed, it's cooked and ready when I come downstairs. I'm coming over for breakfast. And my rice warmer just stays warm. So you could do it at night and it's just a warm oatmeal that I can feed the baby. That sounds amazing. Yeah, that's my one hack of the podcast. That sounds amazing. Where can everyone find you? Pimp yourself out. Tell us about your book. I read your book. I'm a huge fan. Tell us all the things you have going on. So you can find me Instagram, Claire underscore grief, G-R-I-E-V-E. And you can join me for on-demand workouts now because I was, you know, working with private clients for so long,

which I loved, but especially during COVID, you know, everything shifted. And I also wanted to be able to reach more people. It's fun doing one-on-one, but I want everyone to benefit from yoga meditation, being able to cook healthy. So I created an online platform called Eve by Claire Greve, and it's everything I do all day, every day, all of my yoga Pilates, some really fun recipes, yummy, yummy recipes on there. My sound bowls, plenty of sound bowls, meditations. So that is watchclaregrieve.com. You can find all of my classes there. Sign up for a year.

Actually, I was going to say, we should give away a bunch of memberships. Can we do that? Yeah. I'd love to do that. You tell us how many. What do you reckon? Five and 10, whatever. Let's do 20.

Okay, 20. Wow. No, let's do 20. Let's do 22 because we're going into 2022 and I think everyone should have some energy I think that everybody should be inspired to like get healthy for the new year we're going into the new it'll probably be the new year by the time we do it all you have to do is follow at Claire Grieve you told us how to spell it on Instagram and tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest post at Lauren Bostic. That's very, very nice of you. My pleasure. Very nice. Yeah.

I cannot wait to consume your online platform. I know I'm going to be a huge fan. I love your content. I think you're such a fresh perspective and exactly what the internet needs right now. Thank you for coming on. Michael met you in Switzerland for the first time in person. It's so cool to be in studio. I forgot about that. Yes. And we need to get you guys out to one of the retreats

as well. Yes. You've made some commitments here. You said you're going to come. You're going to put the baby to sleep so we can get that together. I'm telling you, I'm really good with children.

I have this. Do you want to breastfeed her and put her to bed and wake her up? You're going to play the bowls so that she doesn't rattle my brain around and does it the right way're going to play the bowls so that she doesn't rattle my brain around and does it the right way.

You know, the bowls, I work with my clients. It helps to calm the kids. You should play them. I do one hit and she looks, she stops.

You should have done that this morning when she was crying. Well, it's jarring. Everyone stops. Everyone goes, no, no, no. It's not true. Truly,

I should come over and play the bowls. Just don't come over when I'm upstairs crying and journaling and playing it myself. I need that. That's my time.

You've given us so many tips and tricks. You guys also check out her retreat. Yes. Is it on your site? Yes. Yeah. I'm going to put everything on the site. We have a lot of amazing retreats coming up this year.

Hawaii, Jambi Bay. I'm going to be doing projects in Europe, getting everyone together, creating bespoke, really amazing, fun, wellness, beautiful places, safe spaces to travel, private islands, gorgeous locations where we're doing yoga, blindfolded yoga. So if you imagine putting a blindfold on, getting on the ground, taking away your sight, really connecting to your body again.

Sound bowls under the stars purely magic incorporating cbd into our cocktails you would love that lauren that sounds amazing that sounds really relaxing really cool different curated experiences i might get more on board with yoga if everyone around me were a blind person then no one can see you right you guys claire is also on the blog, The Skinny Confidential. She's been on, I think, multiple times and she is in my book,

Get the Fuck Out of the Sun. I really respect her as a content creator. Go check her out. Thank you. Love you. Come back anytime. Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor.

I admire you. To win this giveaway with Claire, all you have to do is tell us who you want to hear next on The Skinny Confidential, him and her podcast on my latest instagram At lauren bostick and make sure you're following claire if you want more claire. I did a three-part series with her on the blog Check it out. There's a lot of fun content up for you. Have the best holiday season and thanks for your support