Jodi: Hi, I’m your host Jodi Cohen and I’m so honored to be joined by Doctor Elena Villanueva. Doctor V as she’s known to many of her followers is the Founder and Chief Health Coach of Modern Holistic Health and the creator of the Body Health Restoration System and Balance Your Brain Program. After her own debilitating health. Doctor V became an expert in chronic illness and brain chemistry imbalances, healing, gut issues, epigenetics, and a holistic medicine. Welcome Doctor V.
Dr. Villanueva: Thank you. It’s so good to be here, Jodi.
Jodi: It’s great to have you. And I want to ask, I ask everyone, how do you define resilience?
Dr. Villanueva: Resilience, it’s optimal performance. It’s your a body being able to recalibrate and express itself the way that it was designed to. It’s being free of disease in the body.
Jodi: Exactly. And one thing that I love about you and your program, so many people don’t really start to build their resilience until life knocks them down, which is a little bit like trying to swim while you’re drowning. And so many of the things that you teach people can do proactively and preventively. So can you speak a little bit about resilience and brain chemistry and some of the things that you teach people to do to just bolster themselves?
Dr. Villanueva: You said it. Being proactive is the only way that people can heal. Our current medical model that is broken, and I think people around the world can see that and for those of you who are looking, who are watching today, watch what I’m doing. This is our current medical model. For those of you who are just listening, I’ve got one hand above the other. There’s not equality. There’s lack of equality. The doctor is up here, the patient is down here. The doctor knows all and is empowered and says and teaches you that healing comes from the outside.
So the patient is disempowered. They really don’t know anything about their body or how it works and they believe that all healing comes from something outside, i.e. like drugs or surgery. This model is broken, it’s corrupted. And this model is what has led the United States in leading the rest of the world in being the sickest modernized nation in the world. Every other country around the world follows our lead, so we’re all sicker than we’ve ever been. This model doesn’t work. Our goal is to teach people a new model, which is like this.
And for those of you who are just listening and not watching, I’m bringing my hands where they’re equal. The doctor empowers the patient or the coach or the health practitioner empowers their client. We’re just further down the road than you. We are not better. We don’t know more, and we’re not going to teach you that healing comes from without. We’re going to teach you and help you understand and become aware that healing comes from within. We’re further down the road from you, so we’re just guiding you and we’re teaching you that you’re not broken. There are answers and solutions.
Your body can recalibrate and it can heal and it wants to. We’re going to show you what the barriers to healing are for you, so that you can then learn how to. And then we’re going to teach you how to remove those barriers to healing and how to support your body so that it can recalibrate and come back into a state of resilience.
Jodi: I love that. That was perfect. So let’s talk about some of the barriers to healing.
Dr. Villanueva: What we see clinically through working with thousands of people, is that the barriers to healing, there are a lot of common denominators. So in a nutshell, the barriers to healing can be from the foods that you’re eating and the water that you’re drinking. They can be contaminated with very harsh and dangerous toxins in your body, or certain foods can just cause a lot of inflammation. And they’re actually known to create neurological changes in your brain, certain foods like gluten and dairy.
A lot of us, we don’t want to hear it, but the come to Jesus for people is that, you know, now testing can be done, very specific testing that will show you is that gluten, that you’re eating attacking your brain? Is it causing an antigenic or an immune response where you’re system attacks your brain every time you eat gluten? That’s why you’re having bipolar episodes. That’s why you’re having episodes of psychosis. It’s the bread you’re eating, it’s the gluten that you’re eating. And so, it’s not just something that a holistic doctor is being hippy about and telling you, you shouldn’t eat gluten. We can test for that now.
And the same thing with dairy, those things can really affect your opioid receptors and cause a lot of neurological changes. So food and water, then you’ve got your environmental, chemical toxins of which there are many. They’re found in your personal care products. They’re found in the air, the water, the soil. They’re found in your foods if you’re not eating organic, in your perfumes. They’re in your food packaging, in your children’s toys. They’re found in these things and they’re killing people. And we have a lot of data to show people that have been non-verbal, people that have been in wheelchairs.
People that have been diagnosed with diseases that their doctor told them they were going to die from, who are now totally healed and totally healthy. Because we found that chemical toxins was the culprit of what was making them sick and what made them fall into disease. And that includes heavy metals as well. And then you’ve got mycotoxins which are mold toxins that can make people very, very sick. And then you have what some people might call infections. And then you have trauma. And I hope we get to talk about that today.
Underlying traumas or heightened emotional experiences that can lead people into disease and literally keep them from being able to heal. Even if you address all the biological stuff, even if you do all the things like getting rid of the toxins and eating clean and getting purified water. If you’re still sick and you haven’t addressed the heightened emotional experiences or traumas in your lifetime. Or what could possibly be generational traumas or even past life trauma, that can be a major underlying culprit that you can’t test for, but that also needs to be addressed when it comes to disease or the inability to heal.
Jodi: I would love to delve into trauma and help people understand. It’s funny, when Max died, I was aware of that. I’m like, wow, this could really the beginning of the end. And so can you explain to people why trauma is so pertinent to your physical health?
Dr. Villanueva: Absolutely. So whenever we have a heightened emotional experience that happens, and it doesn’t have to be something that was like assault. A lot of us can say easily, yeah, an assault would be considered traumatic. It can be anything that happens in your lifetime that causes any type of emotion in your body that you don’t allow yourself to express. Most of the time we will express the emotions that we call good emotions like happiness, joy, giddiness, gratitude. We are taught that it’s okay to express those, but it’s not okay to express rage, anger, shame, fear, all of those.
We call those negative emotions and we’re taught to suppress those emotions. So if we have some sort of experience in our lifetime that’s even something that some people might call something small, like somebody in third grade pulls on your pigtails and calls you fat. That’s not an assault, but that can be traumatic. Because what kind of emotion comes up when someone invades your space pulls on your hair, tells you you’re fat or that you’re ugly, or that you’re dumb? Which that happens to kids all the time. How did that make you feel? Can you remember a time when that happened to you? How did it make you feel?
For example, I remember my first grade teacher telling me that I wasn’t doing a good enough job making my figure eight, when I was learning how to write my numbers. And she wouldn’t give me an A because my eights were not good enough.
That translated to me that I wasn’t good enough. I literally remember feeling a lot of distress over not being able to get those eights right. I felt like I was dumb. She didn’t tell me I was dumb, but she was always telling me that it wasn’t good enough. So I started developing this pattern of I’m not good enough that went all the way back to my first grade teacher that told me that my figure eights were not good. They weren’t good enough.
And so it can be anything like that. So what happens is, you get an emotion and even a visceral reaction, for example, I’ll use me as the example. I remember not feeling good. I felt a little bit depressed. I felt like I let her down. And then I felt like my dad wasn’t going to be proud of me. And then I was mad at myself and I would get so angry. I would get teary eyed. I would write those eights over and over and over with tears and frustration, trying to make those eights right. What was happening during that time was I was experiencing emotion, did not know how to move through the emotion to allow it to flow through me.
And every time I would sit down to write those eights, I re-experienced that same emotion and that same trauma over and over again. And I was building new neurology in my brain. I was building new pathways that I wasn’t good enough and that my eights weren’t good enough and something was wrong with my writing. And I wrote with my left hand, so something must be wrong with me because everybody else was doing okay in my class. I was creating a story. And in that process of creating a new story, I literally changed my neurology and changed my perception of how I viewed myself and the world around me. Which then caused a quantum shift in my reality, that carried on for years well into my early 40s. I turned 50 this week.
Jodi: Congratulations.
Dr. Villanueva: So it’s like, if you can look at a timeline, how many years did I have to go through all the way till my early 40s, until I realized, my gosh, this pattern of me not feeling like I was good enough started in first grade. I changed my neurology. And so this where trauma work is so important to do. And we’re known around the world for how we collect data and look at data and data doesn’t lie. And most of the time data doesn’t lie
Jodi: But it doesn’t include all the variables.
Dr. Villanueva: But it doesn’t include all those variables. And so you have to look at trauma or heightened emotional experiences. And also, maybe an individual doesn’t have a lot of those types of experiences in their lifetime, which is hard. It’s hard to believe that a person wouldn’t because when you live the human experience, it’s a part of life to go through these. And it’s a big realization for people to understand that all emotions are good, it’s a part of the human experience.
It’s okay to express emotions of shame, anger, fear, disappointment, loss, betrayal. They’re all simply emotions. And if we can learn a new level of emotional intelligence and learn how to move through those emotions, we’re not going to have the health problems that we have now.
Jodi: No, exactly. For me it was, I wanted to play flute. So in fourth grade I tried out and they told me I was tone deaf, so I didn’t sing for decades.
Dr. Villanueva: It changed your perception. You started to create a belief around your ability to be able to sing because somebody else told you that you are tone deaf. So that rewired your neurology and made you think that not only were you tone deaf, that because of that, you couldn’t sing or play an instrument. And as you grew up and maybe as you started learning how people who are musically talented, also have the same neurology to be mathematically talented. Maybe you started creating a belief around yourself, maybe, I’m not good at math. This could be why, blah, blah, blah.
Jodi: No, I was really good at math actually.
Dr. Villanueva: Were you?
Jodi: Yeah, was shockingly good. But what what’s interesting wasn’t until I think I had kids and someone said you’re not tone deaf. I was like, wait what? It’s I thought I was allergic to bees my whole life until I got stung in Central Park and realized … I finally flagged down a cop and they said, “If you were allergic, you’d be dead by now.” I guess I’m not allergic.
Dr. Villanueva: Interesting, right? The point is that, usually the story will grow over time. This would be fun to do outside of this call, but to go back to that time, when you were told you were tone deaf and really go back and remember all the subsequent parts of your life after that. And how that story grew and with it, your neurology grew.
Jodi: For me, it manifests like, I love theater. I love musicals. I never performed because I assumed I was toned up and I might have to sing, so I held back.
Dr. Villanueva: Yeah. So trauma can really create a lot of problems and when we don’t learn how to express our emotion and when we grow up with the false construct that some emotions are not good, so what do we do? We manage them. We hold them in.
Those emotions can show up as disease in the body, leading to disease and all these different conditions. Sometimes it will start out as, like I just got off a call with someone who says, “Yeah, you know what? In the morning, I’ll get these twitching in my legs. I get this twitching and I think it’s like a restless leg and I’m not really sure what that’s about. And I feel like I have to move around.”
And she said, “The other thing that happens to me is that I have these OCD tendencies.” And I’m like, “How is your OCD showing up?” And she started talking about how her OCD was showing up as consciously having to think about her breathing when she’s stressed out. And like moving things around in the kitchen when she feels stressed, she starts organizing. And she does it feeling very agitated, like moving stuff around, moving around the house. And so I started talking to her about how, when these emotions are trying to come up, because they’re still there, they’re just knocking at the doors then, hello, please let us out.
We need to come out and you don’t allow it to. It starts to show up as like a twitch in your body, a twitch in your leg. Or you start getting these OCD tendencies that you’re doing this and doing that. It’s like you’re selfmedicating because you’re not allowing the emotion to come up. And the longer you go holding that in, it may start out showing up as, that you got to rearrange things and it shows up as agitation and it shows up as leg twitching. But it may end up later showing up as pancreatic failure or liver failure or heart disease or Alzheimer’s.
Because it’s literally affecting the biochemistry in your body and it’s changing your genetic expression and your genes are responsible for driving a lot of your biology in your body. And so that’s why you ended up with disease. But if you stay in the current Western medicine model, they’re never going to look for the underlying causes of what made you sick. They’re going to continue to just manage the symptoms with pharmaceuticals. And short-term, that can be a lifesaver. Long-term, it’s just going to allow you to continue on with your disease until you die from your disease state.
Jodi: And I know you have a whole program about this, but can you just walk people through how you unpack this trauma, how you help people become aware of it, how you help people move through it.
Dr. Villanueva: That’s a really great question. There are a lot of really amazing modalities that you can use now. You have like EMDR therapy and you’ve got all these different types of things that you can do.
Jodi: I did EMDR. Do you want to explain what that is and why that works?
Dr. Villanueva: I want to talk about something different because MDR therapy, that can be helpful. But the thing about that is that you’re not necessarily consciously aware of your patterns. You don’t become consciously aware of the patterns that cause you to get there, nor do you get the consciously the learnings from it so that you can heal from it.
Jodi: It’s the eye tracking and it basically just kind of calms the emotional state.
Dr. Villanueva: Exactly. So it’s more of a managing a symptom really. What we do is, is we don’t manage the symptoms. We get to the root cause and we get your body to both consciously and unconsciously unpack it, get the learnings from it and release the emotion out of your body. And that’s super empowering when you learn how to do that. And we use different modalities that are based in neurolinguistics programming, NLP work. And so we can use different types of modalities like some people call it quantum time therapy.
There are different names for it, but where we can actually get your conscious and unconscious mind synced up together. And you go back into your timeline, even as far back as previous lives or pre-birth. And you can find the root causes of these traumas, of these heightened emotional experiences or the root causes of these diseases that are rooted in some heightened emotional experience. And you drop down into the event into the event and you see it and you allow yourself to feel the emotion and then you back out of the event so that the event is at a distance so that you can.
Jodi: More objectivity.
Dr. Villanueva: Yeah, so that then you can look at it like a movie, so it’s not as intense. It’s like, you’re not in it anymore. You’re just watching it and then you get the learnings from it. And you have a guide, you have a coach helping you move through it. What are the learnings from this? And how does that make you feel? You get the learning of knowing that your mom, for example, was doing the best that she could because she had been abused. And watching her and knowing how she was feeling on the inside and why that came out towards you as like yelling at you all the time.
Knowing that, how does that make you feel? And then you’re able to forgive the person and get the learnings from that. And what did it teach you? Because there was a reason why God or the universe put you through that. What’s the learnings? What did you get from that? How does that empower you? And we take you through that, allow the emotion and we help you feel.
Where are you feeling it? You’re feeling it in your leg. You’re feeling it as knee pain? You’re feeling it as a bowling ball in your stomach? What color does it look like? How does it feel? What does it sound like? Okay, let’s let it flow through your body. What are the learnings that you’re getting as this is moving through your body? And so we use modalities like quantum time technique.
Jodi: I was going to ask if that was hypnosis.
Dr. Villanueva: It’s different. Hypnosis is great to use after you’ve already gone through all the work.
Hypnosis is great to seal in all the new neurology, all the new repatterning. You can do that and then you can do conflict resolution. A lot of us live in conflict. We live in conflict. Like we really want to be an artist. We’ve always wanted to be working with clay our entire life. But our parents told us and for our own security that I needed to be a nurse instead. But I’m miserable doing this work, but it gives me security. Security is just a false sense of safety. It’s not even real.
It’s something that we conjure up. It’s a total construct. There’s no such thing. And so when we can have conflict resolution, where we can live according to what we were born to do. And we can have the confidence to know that if we just do what we’re really good at and what we really want to do, where our passion is, we’re going to be successful no matter what. And we can learn how to drop those constructs and live in congruence with our mind, body and spirit. That helps a lot too. So you break down the trauma, then you get congruent with mind, body, spirit.
Then you seal in all that new neurology with hypnotherapy. Before you seal in the new neurology with the hypnotherapy, you can even do things like anchor repatterning. For example, people might have an addiction to cigarettes and so you can collapse that anchor. How do you feel every time that you light up? My God, just the thought of the cigarette, I feel really good. It calms me down. And then when I light it up and I smell the first burn of the cigarette, I kind of get this high even before I smoke it. And then as I smoke it, I get this head rush. And then I of sink into my chair and I can feel my body relaxing. That’s an anchor.
That’s what makes them have that addiction, quote/unquote. You can collapse the anchor in five minutes. You can collapse the anchor and build a new anchor on top of it, so that every time they think a cigarette, they want to throw up and they can’t stand it anymore. And instead they go for the electrolyte water because the electrolyte water makes them feel the same way that the cigarette used to make them feel. And so, you can do all these different steps. Take people through this one day intensive, that’s like six hours long.
You go through all these steps and then you do the final sealing of the new neurology with the hypnotherapy. And you literally see people, their biology changes. And one of the things that we’re doing right now is we are doing pre and post-lab work, just doing this trauma work so that we can watch how the neurology and how the biology changes after the trauma work. Not even taking the toxins out, not even working on the gut, not even doing any of that other stuff.
Jodi: You’re changing the brain chemistry, so you’re changing the signals and that changes the biology.
Dr. Villanueva: We’re literally repattering all the neurology within six hours. It’s amazing.
Jodi: Do you do that virtually or do people come to you?
Dr. Villanueva: Either or. We’ll have people fly in from around the world and they’re doing it. And then we also have people that will do it online as well.
Jodi: Awesome. That’s amazing.
Dr. Villanueva: It’s amazing work. And so, right now we’re just working on creating data or gathering data on that. And then we’re also gathering data on people who we do the trauma work with in the first month of their 12-month program and will retest them constantly. But we have to do the work on getting the mycotoxins out and the chemical toxins and all the other things because we’ve got to allow the physical body to heal. All that trauma work works on the subconscious level and brings the subconscious in congruence with the conscious mind.
That right there can start making a lot of changes. We still need to get out the glyphosate levels. We still need to get out all the mold toxins. We still need to get out all the other chemical toxins out of the body, so we’ll work on that at the same time. So we’re collecting a lot of different data points on people right now to show how this stuff works.
Jodi: That’s really amazing. One of the things that you wrote down that I wanted to ask you is brain chemistry imbalance, and how that throws off resilience. If we can talk a little bit about, like trauma obviously plays into it, toxins play into it, but just to help people understand what can be going on with their brain chemistry.
Dr. Villanueva: That’s a great question. Brain chemistry imbalance, if you have that, you typically have symptomatology or symptomology. You typically have it. If your brain chemistry is out of balance, you’re typically going to have some sort of symptom whether it’s anxiety, depression, you can’t sleep, brain fog, mind racing, or the symptoms are really bad. Like you’re falling into dementia or Alzheimer’s or whatever. But those are symptoms. It’s the check engine light coming on in the car, telling you that there’s something going on.
If you have brain chemistry imbalances or signs or patterns of brain chemistry imbalance, the answer is not to jump on some amino acid therapy to rebalance the brain chemistry. Now that can be great to help support it, but you got to figure out what caused the problem. You’re not just going to have a brain chemistry imbalance for no reason. What caused it? And we talked about that, right Jodi? At the beginning, we talked about the most common underlying causes of disease, however that shows up in the body.
Whether it’s brain related, whether it’s autoimmune disease related, whether it’s cancer related, whatever. You’ve got to look for the underlying causes, so you got to lift up the hood and you got to start looking inside of there, to see what’s going on.
Jodi: And some of the symptoms, like before it gets to cancer, like fatigue, sugar cravings. Listeners might be like, thank God I don’t have cancer. That’s not me. But it could just be that you’re anxious or depressed.
Dr. Villanueva: Exactly. You know what? If you’re anxious or depressed, what else is happening in your body that you don’t realize? Or may realize, but you think it’s not connected. Are you having any type of constipation? Are you having irritable bowel? Are your stools loose all the time? Are you having undigested food in your stools? Are you having rashes or eczema or this athlete foot that won’t go away? Are you having weird periods? Can you not sustain an erection? Have you lost your libido? Is your hair falling out?
What else is going on in your body? Because I guarantee you, if you’re having brain fog, there are other things going on in your body too, but you may be so disconnected from your own body that you don’t even really realize what’s going on. And if you’re having any kind of symptom, no matter how it’s showing up for you, that’s your body trying to tell you, hello, there’s something going on here and we need to address it. And what is that something? Some people are always saying, well, it’s the gut. You got to go back to the gut. It’s the leaky gut.
All your neurotransmitters are made in your gut. Your immune system comes from your gut, but what caused the gut issues? Was it an emotional trauma in your lifetime, past life or general? Was it the antibiotics that you took? Is it all the corticosteroids that you’ve been taking for your asthma or your skin condition? Is it chemical toxins from your shampoos and your household cleaning products or your air or your water? Is it mycotoxins? Is it a combination of an infections that are living in your body or is it all of those things?
And until you look under the hood and start dissecting what it is, and usually it’s a combination of things, it’s never one thing. Until you start looking and identifying what it is, you’re never going to get rid of the symptoms no matter what the symptoms are.
Jodi: This has been so helpful. And so interesting. Is there anything related to resilience that we haven’t touched on that you’d like to share about?
Dr. Villanueva: Learning to love ourselves.
Jodi: Receiving love, that’s very hard.
Dr. Villanueva: Learning to receive love from others and from ourselves. This is another construct that is killing societies around the world. We’ve been taught that we need to sacrifice. We need to sacrifice for our family. We need to sacrifice for our marriage. We need to sacrifice for the corporation that we’re working for. We need to sacrifice for our government. We need to sacrifice for everybody. Bulls***. You need to sacrifice for yourself. You need to love yourself so your Jodi comes out because you bring out my passion. We need to sacrifice for ourself by not sacrificing.
We need to stop the sacrificial BS. We need to love ourselves. We need to put ourselves first because until realize your own self-worth and until you start feeling your own cup, you are never going to be fulfilled in your life. You’re never going to have fulfilling relationships. You’re never going to have the relationship that you want with your children. And ultimately on your death bed, you’re going to realize you never had the relationship you wanted with yourself. And then guess what? Then you get to come back and do it all over again because you didn’t learn your lessons the first time.
So put yourself first and learn to love yourself. And a really great exercise that you can do just to get a glimpse of what it might feel like to love yourself is first connect with somebody in your mind, in your heart, who you have loved in your life. Somebody that just brings up all the visceral emotions of love and connection. For me, it was my son. I love that guy. He’s 28, he turns 29 this year. For me, it was my son.
And I connected to all the feelings that I had. The feelings of joy, the feelings of disappointment, the feelings of fear over when I thought he died when he was really little. The feelings of connection that I had with my kid.
The feelings that would come up if I thought of the thought of ever losing my kid, that’s how much I love him. Talk about love like that, I was like, oh my child. Then I closed my eyes. And this was with someone guiding me, teaching me the first steps of how to love myself. Then I closed my eyes after thinking about my son. And I went back to his little, like two year old, three year old self. Then I closed my eyes and I went back to my little two or three year old self as far back as I could remember. I can remember my three year old self. I remember.
And I could remember what she looked like. And I stood there and looked at her, not as if I were her, as if I were her mom. I stood and looked at her and I saw her looking back at me. And I started talking to her, that little three year old Elena. And I started telling her, “Sweetie, I’m here for you. Thank you for waiting for me.” And she looked at me, she smiled back at me and she said, “I’ve been waiting for you.” And I said, “Baby, I’m back. I’ve been through a crazy wild-ass ride in my life, but I’m back for you. And I love you.’’ Tears just started streaming down my face.
And the emotion of love that I’ve never felt for myself, I didn’t even know what that was, I could feel it because I was looking at the little girl. And I hugged her and I picked her up and I started holding her and telling her, “I am so sorry that you were waiting there by yourself under that table while mom and dad were screaming. I’m so sorry. You’ve been sitting under there for 40 years waiting for me. I’m here now. I am here.” And I picked her up and I held her and I could cry right now thinking about it because that’s how much I love that little girl. And that taught me to start loving myself.
Then I did the exercise the next day and I went and found my little first grade self, the little one trying to write the figure eights and pulling her hair out and crying because she was trying to do it right. And I said, “Elena, your figure eights are perfect, baby. It’s okay. And you know what? As you get older, it’s not even going to matter anymore. It’s okay. I love your figure eights. And let me show you what you did with your life. You became a doctor and you’re helping thousands of people around the world.
And you know what your handwriting’s worse than ever and it’s hilarious. Come on over here and take a look and I love you.” And then I did that with my third grade self. And I did that with my sixth grade self when I started getting bullied in sixth grade. And I learned how to love myself by going through this process. And so, if there’s one thing I could tell people to take away, is love yourself. Because if you learn to love yourself, you’re going to see that you’re worth more than that car.
You’re worth more than that house. You’re worth every penny that it takes to heal self, mind, body, and spirit. So start thinking about loving yourself and putting yourself first.
Jodi: What’s funny, the word selfish, it is meant to undermine self-love.
Dr. Villanueva: It’s a construct. You know what? The easiest way to control people is through shame. So we teach people to shame. We are in a society where we shame each other. You’re selfish. If you put yourself first, you should be putting your family first. You should be putting your child first. No, put yourself first. That’s a construct and it’s a lie and it’s damaging
Jodi: Yeah. I used to hire a babysitter when my kids were little, so I could go to yoga because that helped my resilience. If I could calm my nervous system, I could be a better mom throughout the day. A lot of people criticize me as selfish for doing that.
Dr. Villanueva: And look at you now. You’re an amazing mom. You and I have had many conversations together and you have a beautiful life and you’re able to be not in conflict with yourself. And when you are, you’re aware of that. And you know that if you feel your cup first and then when cup overflows, that’s when you have enough to give and really make an impact on the world.
Jodi: What I started doing, I started with five minutes, then I worked up to 10, then 15. Now I schedule 20 minutes of just me time and it could be reading a book. It could be taking a walk. I think in the shower, just take me a shower, just like giving myself space and it’s amazing. I really would encourage everyone who’s listening to do that. So if people want to continue the journey with you, can you tell them where to find you and how you work with people?
Dr. Villanueva: Yeah, absolutely. You can find us at modernholistichealth.com. We’re virtual. So we’re based out of Austin, Texas. We work with people all around the world. It doesn’t matter where you are, you can get help. As long as you got internet or a phone, we can work with you. So go to modernistic health.com if you want to get a better understanding of the work we do. We’re actually in the process of revamping our entire website to talk more about the trauma side of it. But we have a very allencompassing approach to the work we do. We work with mind, body, spirit.
We are leading the world in the change of the medical model and really starting to incorporate science with spirituality, and teaching people how to address the whole person, mind, body, and spirit.
Jodi: Thank you. It’s always a pleasure and an honor to connect with you. This is great. Thank you.
Dr. Villanueva: Thank you, Jodi. It’s so good to talk to you again.