53: Healing Starts with Clarity featuring Jennifer Franchak

You and I have been talking offline in conversation in some emails recently about the challenges of helping our clients navigate a world with more information than ever before.

Can you tell our listeners a little bit about what you're seeing in your practice in regards to this and what the women you work with really need?

Yeah.

And I think this is such an important conversation right now because, I mean, we have more health information at our fingertips than we've ever had before.

So you can go on Google or Instagram or, you know, insert social media platform here, you know, and then you have all of the AI right now, chat GPT, where we can look up almost anything we want and find some sort of advice telling us what we should be doing.

And on one hand, I think that's amazing because it's empowering to and people have access to information that they never had before.

But it's also a little bit of a double-edged sword because having more information doesn't necessarily mean that you know what to do with it or how to apply it to your situation.

And that's super important with autoimmune disease because there can be so much individual variation.

So like I said earlier, two women can have the same autoimmune diagnosis and have really different symptoms and different health histories and different things influencing how they're feeling.

So even if you read something online that might be really accurate, what you really need to ask is, is this actually relevant to me? And I think that's where a lot of women get stuck.

And what I see women trying really hard to do is take in all this information and put it into practice because at the end of the day, they desperately want to feel better.

They want their symptoms to kind of calm down.

And so they're trying different diets and supplements and lifestyle changes and whatever they've heard might help.

And sometimes they're doing a lot of really great things, but they still don't know which things actually matter for their body.

So they end up with more and more information, but not necessarily more clarity.

And so because of this, they're not getting the results that they were hoping for.

And I think that what women really need is help sorting through all that and helping help with understanding what's accurate.

What's relevant to me? What does my own history and my own pattern tell me? And then what deserves my attention first? Because the goal isn't to know everything there is to know about autoimmune disease.

It's to really understand your own health well enough so that you can make more informed decisions.

Yeah, absolutely.

And you, I know have talked about the women you coach as being the people that have tried all of the things, nutrition, gut health, supplements, medication, stress, sleep, lifestyle, all of it.

What have you come to realize about these women who have already tried all of the things?

Yeah.

So one of the things I talk about a lot is that there are many different pieces to your autoimmune puzzle.

I like to use that analogy.