Life Update
Hello, and welcome to my podcast, Empowered to Thrive. I'm your host, Corinne Powell. I'm an intuitive guide, and I absolutely love helping people to heal from within so that they can create a life that they love, a life that they enjoy. We weren't meant to just tolerate and get through life. We were meant to thrive and enjoy the life we're living.
Of course, we will have seasons and moments that are difficult and challenging. And the beauty of it is that we can be supported in those moments.
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Hello, friends. It's been a long minute, and I am glad to be back with you. I needed to take a break. As some of you are aware, I'm in the middle of a pregnancy that has been challenging. There's no complications. I just don't feel well a lot of the days. I've had a lot of portions of days, and I've needed to cut back on what I could. And the podcast was one of those things that I felt like I needed to take a break from.
And there could even be an episode all about that because pivoting, making changes, learning to adjust to the seasons we're in, and having compassion on ourselves along the way is so vital to health and wellness. But that is not what today's episode is about. I actually just wanted to be personal and open up and share and catch you up on a bit of my life right now.
And we'll continue on to other more meaty topics as we go from here. So for those of you that follow along weekly, you're probably very aware that me and my family moved. We stayed in Connecticut. But we moved to another town back the end of April, I believe it was.
And this home probably is the first home to me that really feels homey. We have awesome neighbors. The home itself is a very different style than the last one we lived in. It's smaller. It's smaller. Lower ceilings. Everything about it has a different feel, but it's very homey. And for that, I'm really glad.
And I think there will always be things I miss about where I came from, like our in-ground pool. But then there's things that I have here that I wouldn't have otherwise had that I'm grateful for. And that is something we all experience in life.
Anytime we're willing to transition, we're willing to take a risk, open up the possibility for change, there's going to be things we leave behind that we miss.
And there's going to be things that we receive and we gain as we move forward. So you know, you know I'm all about change.
I'm all about being willing to take the risk because what's on the other side is probably really worth it. It's going to be satisfying.
That's how I live. That's what I believe. And it's what I often experience. And so we moved. We are much closer to the school we recently enrolled our kids in. So that's been great. We're actually very central in the state. So we're closer to several things. We're a little bit further from some things that we were close to before. But as far as our state is concerned, we're now in… kind of the most central part of it.
And then summer. I've been pregnant. I have not felt well most of my pregnancy. I would say it got a little bit easier as I went along, the further I got along. But there was no magical first trimesters over and I feel great. Nope. Not for me. Not this time. And actually not… for the pregnancies I had with my girls either. The one with my son was the easiest. And I felt the greatest. So we're going to wait and be surprised to find out what we're having. But I'm kind of thinking it might be a girl.
If I go off of how I feel, how my body feels, and the sickness, then I'd say it might be a girl. But we will wait and find out. I am due... early in December.
So looking forward to that as it gets closer and closer. And as I shared in my stories this past... I don't know when it was. Sometime in the last couple months. Because I didn't publicly share on the podcast. But I had a miscarriage before this pregnancy.
And we had purposely taken a long break from having kids so my body could recover. I did a lot of different things to help my body out. One of those things was doing the inner work and learning that I had to stop racing through life. My days used to be jam-packed. From morning till night. One thing to the next, to the next, to the next. If I ran late to one thing, then I bumped… Everything was going to be late. Because I gave myself no wiggle room in between. And now I am the type of person who plans many... much fewer things.
And I live a slower-paced life. And it's very purposeful. And it's how I want my kids to experience life. If they're enrolled in something extracurricular, it is not something that's going to be super time-consuming for us.
And that is, again, intentional. I want them to be able to come home. Relax. Rest. Connect with us as a family. Have time at home. And not always have something going on. Because let's face it. Now that they're in school and not homeschooled, they're gone as it is a lot of the day. And if every one of our evenings is filled up with things, or most of our evenings, that is not going to align with how I want to do life. And with what I place value on.
So, you know, part of restoring my health was doing the inner work and changing the pace of my life. Another part of it was just understanding, going to, walking the holistic approach and understanding what my body needed, what it was depleted of.
I used to donate blood. My hemoglobin levels were fine. I was able to donate. And then at some point, it became harder. It was like my body, didn't want to donate the blood. And so the last couple of times I went, I wasn't able to do it. I remember one time I went to donate platelets and they said, it's just not working. You know, we tried. And what I found out a few years ago is that my ferritin levels were completely depleted.
So the iron stores, which if we hadn't specifically tested for that, the other levels were coming back okay. Excuse me. And so I've been working to bring those up and I felt so much more energized as I have brought them up. I used to literally feel like there was a cloud of exhaustion hanging over me.
It felt exactly like that picture. It just felt like that. When it lifted, my guess is that my ferritin levels were high enough that I no longer felt that extreme fatigue. So I still get tired. It's not the extreme fatigue that I lived with for years.
And then I started intermittent fasting. That was another way that I found health. It balanced my blood sugars and it doesn't work for everyone. It works wonderfully for me and my body right now. Well, I can't say right now because I'm pregnant, so I have to eat more frequently.
But I used to not feel hunger satiation, but I would know that I needed to eat because I would feel shaky, weak. I would get a headache. I would kind of be that hangry person, super irritable because I was hungry. And there are probably a few other symptoms. And that would be my indicator. I would know I needed to eat because of these ways my body responded.
But now doing the intermittent fasting, it just felt like it balanced out my body and my blood sugar. And I feel hunger satiation. I don't get shaky. I don't feel, I don't get the headaches. I don't feel weak. I don't have those same symptoms that I lived with for years on end. I lived with that.
I'm interrupting the episode because there's something I want to tell you about. I'm starting up another round of group coaching. It'll begin September 27th. And I will host four meetings. We'll end October 25th. They will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7h15 Eastern time. Now this is for you if you're looking to create internal or external change. And yes, that sounds broad. So let me help you understand what we'll be talking about during those meetings.
We'll be touching on mindset, why you think the way you do, why you function the way you do. We'll touch on how you view yourself, what do you think of your body? Are you taking care of yourself in the way you need to? Are you compassionate enough towards yourself?
We will also talk about your inner child. How did your experiences as a kid and how are those experiences impacting you even to this present day? But we will not just talk. I will give you actionable steps that you can run with to create change in your life. And I will speak to your inner self so that you find healing and transformation at a deep level.
And this is not me trying to promise you something that you're not going to get. This is me speaking from a place of experiencing it myself and observing those that I work with experiencing it as well. So I hope that you'll reach out and connect with me or go to my website, changeradically.com and sign yourself up.
This is going to be a fabulous opportunity and I am so excited to be able to talk to you about it. And I'm looking forward to having each one of you join me on those Tuesday evenings. Now, back to the episode.
That was my normal. So typically I'll go anywhere from 12 to 14 hours from night till the next morning.
And that's, you know, what I was doing for my intermittent fasting and it worked. It was working very well for me. And in between the miscarriage and getting pregnant again, I went right back to it because my body does so well with it. That's why I went back to it. Not because I feel like I need to, not at all because I was doing it for weight loss. Not at all.
I literally feel well when I do that. So those are a few of the ways that I restored my health. And my husband changing his work schedule, being more available as a parent. I mean, he was always a good father, but I'm talking about us parenting our kids more, maybe not equally because he still brings in much more money than me. He still spends more time working than I do.
But as far as, you know, dropping our kids off at school, picking them up, we share the load. He does one way, I do the other. There are things we spread out equally. Even this summer, for example, I knew I needed time to work and time for myself while my kids are home. And they're not home, all of them every day. What I did this summer, because it was the first time they were ever enrolled in school last year, summer has a bit of a different vibe. It feels different to us this year. And they were more interested in going to camps also.
So I enrolled one of the kids in camp most weeks. There's a few weeks of the summer, nobody's enrolled in the camp. And that just changes up that dynamic. The other two can play and hang out.
We can do fun things, you know, together. And there's not as much of the fighting going on when I just pull somebody out of the mix. So some weeks, you know, Ella's in gymnastics camp or both the girls are in gymnastics camp. One week, Vivian went to basketball camp. There's two weeks out of the summer, this being one of them, where all three of the kids are in a day camp together. Other than that, AJ wasn't interested in any of the camps. So just the girls are enrolled here and there. But that's helped. It's definitely helped.
But what Evan and I worked out was he was going to take the kids one day so I could really, you know, sit down and get work done. Not just client sessions because I mix those into the everyday, but really get the behind the scenes work done. And there was going to be another at least half a day where he had the kids just so I had downtime so I could do whatever I wanted, take a walk, take a nap, get a pedicure, whatever it might be, meet up with a friend.
And we haven't been super consistent. We've been consistent, but not like, it's my fault. I slip back into codependent tendencies and say, oh, he needs more time to work. He needs time for himself. I can add, I can do things that I thought maybe I shouldn't do before.
But that bites me in the butt because I really shouldn't be overextending myself. And in the end, it doesn't serve me. So that though, that is an example of how we share the parenting load. So yes, I'm with the kids much more this summer. then him, if you look at the big picture, but he is helping out in the ways I need. If I asked for more than one and a half days, he would make it happen.
And so we do a lot of life together. We do a lot of parenting together. And I think, honestly, I don't think it just works well for us. I personally think it should be what more of us do because parenting is, it's so hard. It is a hard job.
And I think it makes it harder because there's just more or less a constant demand. You know, you're still on call at nighttime. Like yesterday, one of my kids woke up during the night from a disturbing dream. And then she was hungry. And that's not an every night thing, but once in a while, if my kid wakes up and they're hungry and hey, I just had a snack myself because I had to. So I said, sure, here's some nuts.
But, it meant even my night was disturbed, which right now, my nights are disturbed all the time. I don't sleep very great being pregnant, but I'm just saying as an example, we as parents or caregivers, we're on call. And that puts a pressure on us. Even just the idea that at any point in the day, even if they're being cared for by someone else, if there's a problem, we're going to be called. Subconsciously, we feel the pressure of that. And that affects us.
So I think sharing the load, whether it's with your partner or just other support systems is so vital. But, I got off on a little bit of a tangent there, which is fine, but going back. So this summer, we've been really enjoying the summer, having a great time doing fun things together. It's had the different vibe because like I said, kids were in school.
So now it's like we have time together. Whereas when we homeschooled, we always had time together. So it's been really nice. And the summer has not felt like it's flying by. We still have a solid month. And I planned a little family getaway for the end of the summer. Really excited about that. Looking forward to it.
And just enjoying this time we have. So there are, there are all these different facets to what's been going on in my life.
And I know each of us have things going on in our lives. I'm sure you have plenty of things, some hard, some easy things that, you know, you're probably struggling with and things that feel beautiful to you. And I'm just bringing you up to speed on what's been going on with me because I have been on the quieter side, more so just because I can't keep up with everything.
And excuse me. And I think, you know, it's important to just be compassionate towards ourselves and recognize different seasons allow for different things. And right now I had to slow down, but I'm really glad to be back with you to be starting up the podcast again and looking forward to what's ahead for us.
So as always, if there's any topic you're really interested in, in hearing me share about, please let me know. You can always send me an email. You can reach out to me on social media and let's connect. And I would love to start, you know, talking about things that are of interest specifically to you. So until next week, I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine and getting the rest that you need.
[Ending] We've come to the end. What did you think about what you heard? I hope that there's something you pull from today's episode and start implementing it into your life.
Create the change that you want to see the change that you hear about. You have the opportunity to transform your life and I'm ready to link arms with you and to help and guide you to the life that you want to live.
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It would mean so much to me. I hope that we'll connect whether it's for a session or just to connect because I enjoy meeting new people. You can find me on Instagram, @corinne_changeradically or on Facebook Change Radically. You can also always email me corinne@changeradically.com. If you have thoughts, questions, or anything that you just want to talk about, send me an email.
I hope that you have a wonderful week, but no matter what your week is like in the moments that are quiet, maybe it's when you pillow your head at night or when you're driving in the car or taking a walk, or maybe it's going to be in the midst of the chaos with your children or with the craziness of work.
I hope that you'll remember how significant you are, that there is meaning and value to your life. And, that I for one am so glad that you're alive.
Catch you again next week.
For more information or to connect with Corinne, email her at corinne@changeradically.com.
