whygetfat on Nostr: Irene Lyon: "Tell everyone where you started in this journey of helping people. And ...
Irene Lyon: "Tell everyone where you started in this journey of helping people. And we have a very similar story, so I can't wait to have you share it."
Carrie Bennett: "I started off as just a science nerd, right in high school. I wanted to take every science class possible. I just loved it. That led me to college. I chose a small liberal arts college where I could play sports. I was a college athlete and they had a really good science program.
"I remember being close to graduation, and going into my volleyball coach's office and saying [in a tearful voice], "I don't want to be a doctor. I don't wanna go to these PhD programs." It just didn't feel right. As much as I loved studying pre-med and studying microbiology and things like that, that wasn't the path that I just felt was right for me.
"I don't know what drew me to this but I said, 'Okay, mom and dad, I think I'm gonna go to massage therapy school.' And they were like, "?????"
"But they were so cool, because they were like, 'Okay, that's great. Follow what you feel you need to do. By the way, get a job, put yourself through massage therapy school. We'll support you as as best as we can emotionally.' That's completely fair.
"Having been a college athlete, what I knew was training my body. So I became a personal trainer, pilates instructor, like all of those really cool things you know: balance training, kickboxing. I really got into that the early 2000s fitness scene. And in this town that I live in called Kalamazoo I opened up the first little personal training studio. It was great. I was going through massage therapy school, and I was training people.
"And I thought at the time the end-all be-all was exercise. I was always thinking like, 'What was the foundation of health? It was exercise. Right? You gotta lift like this, you gotta sprint like this, you gotta stretch like this, your core work has to look like this.'
"And massage therapy really changed that, shifted things a little. It was like, 'Oh, there's this whole other side to the body. There's stress that's stored in tissue. There's trauma that's stored in tissue. There's energy flow that can be released and felt.'
"So I lived a happy little life going back and forth between teaching and helping people with massage, helping people with personal training. My clients were happy and they were content.
"But I still wasn't at that foundational level. My curious science brain was like, There's more, you know.'
"Fast forward to when I had my first child 10 years ago. His sleep was horrible. My sleep was horrible. I mean, beyond newborn horrible. My digestion was a disaster. I got joint pain. I had just like stretched out joints. Everything about me felt grimy.
"For a long time it was, 'Oh, this is what new moms are supposed to feel like. Right? This is what we're supposed to feel like.' Then there came that point where I was like, 'Wait, this can't be right.' So I nerded it up and went back to get my masters in in clinical nutrition.
"It's like, 'Okay, nutrition! It's the foundation! I'm gonna do elimination diets and get rid of gluten!' And you know, it was great. It helped too. But I still wasn't feeling amazing.
"That's when I stumbled upon the work of Dr. Kruse. If anyone's familiar with his work, if you open up one of his blogs, it takes 17 hours to read, and that's just to read all the words, not necessarily to understand anything. So I kind of got to this point where I was just like, 'Well, I think that this guy kind of knows what he's talking about.'
"And I started to apply some of the things, the sunlight, the circadian rhythm, and I was like, 'Okay, now my nerd brain needs to know absolutely everything there is to know about this field that we call quantum biology.' So approximately seven years ago I dove into it and I have not left. I love everything about it, and I'm excited to share anything that people are willing to hear when it comes to taking care of their body at that quantum level."
Carrie Bennett with Irene Lyon @ 06:45–11:04 https://youtu.be/_rGxeExQYjs&t=405
Carrie Bennett: "I started off as just a science nerd, right in high school. I wanted to take every science class possible. I just loved it. That led me to college. I chose a small liberal arts college where I could play sports. I was a college athlete and they had a really good science program.
"I remember being close to graduation, and going into my volleyball coach's office and saying [in a tearful voice], "I don't want to be a doctor. I don't wanna go to these PhD programs." It just didn't feel right. As much as I loved studying pre-med and studying microbiology and things like that, that wasn't the path that I just felt was right for me.
"I don't know what drew me to this but I said, 'Okay, mom and dad, I think I'm gonna go to massage therapy school.' And they were like, "?????"
"But they were so cool, because they were like, 'Okay, that's great. Follow what you feel you need to do. By the way, get a job, put yourself through massage therapy school. We'll support you as as best as we can emotionally.' That's completely fair.
"Having been a college athlete, what I knew was training my body. So I became a personal trainer, pilates instructor, like all of those really cool things you know: balance training, kickboxing. I really got into that the early 2000s fitness scene. And in this town that I live in called Kalamazoo I opened up the first little personal training studio. It was great. I was going through massage therapy school, and I was training people.
"And I thought at the time the end-all be-all was exercise. I was always thinking like, 'What was the foundation of health? It was exercise. Right? You gotta lift like this, you gotta sprint like this, you gotta stretch like this, your core work has to look like this.'
"And massage therapy really changed that, shifted things a little. It was like, 'Oh, there's this whole other side to the body. There's stress that's stored in tissue. There's trauma that's stored in tissue. There's energy flow that can be released and felt.'
"So I lived a happy little life going back and forth between teaching and helping people with massage, helping people with personal training. My clients were happy and they were content.
"But I still wasn't at that foundational level. My curious science brain was like, There's more, you know.'
"Fast forward to when I had my first child 10 years ago. His sleep was horrible. My sleep was horrible. I mean, beyond newborn horrible. My digestion was a disaster. I got joint pain. I had just like stretched out joints. Everything about me felt grimy.
"For a long time it was, 'Oh, this is what new moms are supposed to feel like. Right? This is what we're supposed to feel like.' Then there came that point where I was like, 'Wait, this can't be right.' So I nerded it up and went back to get my masters in in clinical nutrition.
"It's like, 'Okay, nutrition! It's the foundation! I'm gonna do elimination diets and get rid of gluten!' And you know, it was great. It helped too. But I still wasn't feeling amazing.
"That's when I stumbled upon the work of Dr. Kruse. If anyone's familiar with his work, if you open up one of his blogs, it takes 17 hours to read, and that's just to read all the words, not necessarily to understand anything. So I kind of got to this point where I was just like, 'Well, I think that this guy kind of knows what he's talking about.'
"And I started to apply some of the things, the sunlight, the circadian rhythm, and I was like, 'Okay, now my nerd brain needs to know absolutely everything there is to know about this field that we call quantum biology.' So approximately seven years ago I dove into it and I have not left. I love everything about it, and I'm excited to share anything that people are willing to hear when it comes to taking care of their body at that quantum level."
Carrie Bennett with Irene Lyon @ 06:45–11:04 https://youtu.be/_rGxeExQYjs&t=405