032 Janice Fairbairn "A Mother's Lyme Fight" Part 2 !

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So the brain doesn't have the ability to rationalize itself, I don't feel like, when the panic cloud is that thick. So I had to just add input. Anything that went into my eyes, ears, or heart had to be 1,000 times stronger than what I felt. And that's the only way that I made it. The only way. I had to replace the voices in my head with something stronger.

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Hey everybody, welcome to LionVoice. I'd like to start off by apologizing for the delay in releasing a new episode. It's been a rough month here at LionVoice. Things caught up with us. In fact, I'd like to share an analogy. Imagine, if you will, this is a light as a boat on the sea, and we've been in war, we've been washed up on the rocks, we're in bad shape. We need paint, we need maintenance, we need to bail some water, We need to fix some holes. We need some work. Well, when we started out on this journey, we started out with a boat that was in not great shape with the intention of fixing along the way. And we have done— this last year has been a huge year of growth and recovery and learning and healing. But we have a few holes, a few maintenance things that we need to repair. We need to get— we need to bail some water. We need to fix those holes. In order for us to really start sailing down this path and keep providing episodes and resources. So one of the things we're going to do in order— I believe Lion Voice has taken, has gotten a little bit of momentum. One of the things that we're going to do is just keep using that momentum and recycling some of our favorite episodes from the last year. I know these are going to be a blessing to you. I'm going to be listening because I want to revisit some of those topics and rethink on some of these amazing things we've learned this year. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy. We will be keeping in touch through Facebook, so if you haven't already, look us up at Lime Voice on Facebook and we'll be posting different updates. One of the updates you can keep looking out for is Sarah's book. This is one of the things that's going to really provide some wind for the sails of our boat And we just, you know, we need to cross a few T's and dot a few I's. So keep looking out for new things coming from LineVoice, and we'll post a few announcements here and there. So hope you guys enjoy this spring, and we'll see you probably in about August or July, somewhere midsummer. That's when we hope to come back full force with new sales, some new pitch on the boat and new paint on the guardrails, or whatever you want to call it. Anyway, God bless you all, have a good day, we'll talk to you soon. If you like what we're doing here at LionVoice, one thing you can do to help us is simply by going to iTunes or Stitcher and leaving your review. This really helps get the message of LionVoice out to others. Don't forget to go to our Facebook page, Lime Voice, and while you're there, give us your like. Also go to limenoice.com and you can find all sorts of information and past episodes. Also some of Sarah's blog posts. Don't forget to share while you're there. Talk to you soon.

Say that all the time, even to friends who I have in my local community who are getting diagnosed, and you know, you can just see it. Hey, you should probably to get tested for Lyme. It is so individual based on that person's resources, their drive, their, you know, their home environment. And that's, that's what makes it so hard, is each and every household really has to figure out what they can do, what they can implement, and then figure out strategies to implement, like props, like alarm phones. And, you know, I felt like I had so many props for so long. I don't feel like I have as many now. But it looks like I function normally, but it's because I have figured out all these methods to keep the chaos at bay.

Yes. No, I think we all do. And I want to touch on that too, because I think for families out there wondering, okay, so how do you figure out the next step? What you were just, you were just talking about, where do I find this area of my life is crazy and I need to fix that? You know, what is it in your day, you know, either with your own health or your kids' health, that is the thing that demands the most? You know, if you have a high-maintenance child and there is a behavior issue underneath the lime, I mean, usually that dictates the whole household, right? So how do you know what to do? So I mean, I literally had to ask a couple other moms that I know, like, this is kind of my day and these are my struggles. Like, is this normal? Is this not normal? I really had to get someone else's perspective because I can't look at my own deal.

Yeah.

Oh, I love that. And I don't know what normal is. You know, I don't know what that looks like. Is this typical or not typical? Because it's hard to discipline sick kids, right? I mean, it feels nearly impossible at times. So I had to have someone else kind of look at my deal. And then, you know, the thing— the process that I go through is I said before, I get on my face and I really pray for wisdom. Because I— in the world of Lyme research, you could chase it all day long. It's too much. You know, I don't know which direction to go. So I just really pray for God to open a door that I'm not looking at. So it easily, I can tell it's the right path. And without fail, and this is even before our Lyme battle, this is how I handled it with the kids' health before we knew what it was. Without fail for 11 years, he's been faithful. I mean, whether it's a book someone hands me the next day, or, you know, I happen to see a Facebook post with a link, it is always the one thing that ends up being the thing we needed right then. You know, my— when my son was about 3 and life was so chaotic, I call it the blackout year because it was the year that both of the kids were just like, we realized, complete madness. And, um, my dad brought me— my dad's in animal nutrition, so he's a giant biochemist guy, and he always, you know, he was one of my advocates, brought me all kinds of research, but like research that I couldn't understand because it was over my head. But we had been trying to research and figure out some things for my son And he brought me an article and he said, I think we need— I don't know if you've heard of Dr. Jonathan Wright. He's a medical doctor in California. He's just real natural. And he said, I think we need to examine your son's neurotransmitters.

Oh, yeah.

Neurotransmitters. I literally fell into a puddle on the kitchen floor. Like, I was so overwhelmed with the thought of doing one more thing. And so the message to everybody who's listening too is that it took me probably a couple weeks, but then I woke up one day and it was like that nudge, neurotransmitters. Okay, okay, all right. You know, I can do it today. I couldn't do it that day. But whatever, you know, whatever, you know, is delivered to your hand, even if you can't do it that day, just hold it. Just hold it. It might be the thing you're supposed to do, but you might have to wait until you can. Whether that's finances or physically able, or, you know, I have to wait till my mother-in-law comes to town to drive me or wait to get money at Christmas, whatever it is, but hold that thing and trust that knowledge was brought to you for a reason. The timing will happen. And it's okay to be overwhelmed by it in that moment. Because we all have felt that.

Yeah, one of the things we say is struggle is proof that you have not yet given up. And yes, and for me, I felt like the struggle of, you know, and for me, my— I had several years of what you call blackout years where we had no idea what was going on. I was totally disabled and we had kids who were sick and crazy and it required us to do everything differently. But I had to come to this place where I was like, okay, I don't know what's going on. But I'm not ashamed of it because I just started to feel foolish to be like, oh, I'm trying this. Oh, I'm going gluten-free and it worked for a year, but now it's not, you know, all these different variables. But it's okay to struggle because like you said, we're literally paving a road through that our pH, you know, our doctors are not able to help us do a lot of time. And so it's hard to even come to that place where you realize you're very frail, you're very weak, and yet so much depends on you thinking through things and you having the ability to implement. And that was one thing that we talked about is I said he didn't— and even my family, you know, my parents have been just a huge help and blessing to us for years and years, and nobody understood that I wasn't able to implement things anymore. Like, he would come home and be like, nothing got done. There's— because I used to manage our house. We homeschooled, I worked, you know, we ran all these multitasking things and then I couldn't do it. And so he would come home and it was in complete chaos. But they— what we should have done sooner with the household chores and just the basics is eliminated me from the picture. Because what I would do is I would be totally disabled on the couch for 2 or 3 days and then I'd get up and what would I do? Clean, pick up, do laundry. But then that used all my energy and I didn't have it to actually keep pushing forward medically. But you don't know that.

I would totally agree. It's those simple mundane tasks. I had an army of angels that helped me tremendously. I mean, they drove me everywhere for literally 18 months. I mean, I, you know, I tried to keep my kids I mean, they went to school. I don't remember how many activities that we kept them in. We took my daughter out of preschool for half a year because we just couldn't get there at all. But they drove me everywhere. They helped me with grocery shopping. I mean, I couldn't even stand on my own two feet in a store because the lights, I mean, just neurologically did a number on me. So I'm going in, even if someone drove me to the grocery store, it was too hard for me to get things accomplished. I had to turn over my gluten-free, everything weird that we ate grocery list to people who had never been to those sections of the grocery store. It was a matter of letting go, but that army kept me afloat. Then like I said before, everything else had to go. It didn't get done. We ate off paper plates for a long time and sometimes we didn't get laundry done.

We love paper plates.

Because life had to kind of go on and we had to boil, boil it down to what was important. You know, we wanted family time. We wanted anything that we could have that would build memories and erase the bad stuff. Yeah. And if I was caught up, like you said, doing mundane tasks, it wasn't— then my time wasn't being spent correctly.

Yeah. So we've already kind of seeped into the healing section as far as healing Healing involves so many choices, and you've talked about that— choosing to figure out where to get treated, choosing protocols, what you can implement. What are some of those choices? What are some of the key choices that you made within that healing process? And, and I know it continues to be, you know, healing. I think after you've gone through something like this and something that's turned your life upside down, I think the rest of your life is altered in, in ways, whether you have a different sense of character, a different sense of discipline. What have been those key choices for you that really enabled you to heal?

I would say for them, the biggest ones is recognizing toxicity in all its various forms. That has to be eradicated like with a bomb. I mean, just the fact that we— I just suspected that there was something going on in our environment, and when we found the mold in our house— so whether it's an office environment or you just put in new carpet or dental work, I mean, if someone has kind of said to you, oh, you should probably, you know, check into a biological dentist, and you kind of keep putting it off but you're not feeling better, I mean, those are things that I think hamper our ability to completely heal. I mean, if there are roadblocks in your environment, you're just not gonna make it. You can't fight it. There's too much of a dumping zone happening. And the same thing goes for your kids, whether it's school, the stress at school, learning environment, and the physical environment in the school building. I know people who have fought no-smell zones and different spectrum of lights. You know, whatever you have to do in the environment to make it safe, make the environment safe. Something that we just discovered this year— okay, backstory slightly— at the, at the Hansa Clinic, they have done classes on the bioresonance scanning, so I can energetically test my kids for basics. And for as long as I've been able to do it, they have had problems with geothermic and barometric disturbances. So if there's a full moon, if there's an If there's a meteor shower, if there's a barometric shift and a storm comes in, they go berserk. And so I was constantly throwing homeopathics and herbals and essential oils and wondering what on earth are the rest of our lives. It's like, it's worse than a menstrual cycle for kids. I mean, it's a full moon and a new moon, both of them they would cycle through. And we live in Kansas where we have giant storms. So there's always a barometric shift. So I was just, I was wondering how long we were gonna have to fight this thing. And, and again, lo and behold, like 2 people in 1 week started talking to me about safe space protectors. Yeah, and I wish I had one right here on the screen. If you've seen them, and we bought the— I think they're called GeoResonance, and there are 4 discs that come together in a package, and you bury them in the 4 corners of your property. So if there's any underground streams or any disturbances, you can quiet the energy fields. We did that. We got rid of coil spring mattresses. Got also, I think on the Safe Space website, there's one for the room that makes this— I can't think of the name of it. If you can look it up while we're talking. But we just decided that we had to get rid of all the electrical and energetic problems in their environment so that we could quiet it so they wouldn't be as sensitive. We had a lot of trouble falling asleep, going to sleep, and it has made a tremendous change. I mean, we're 4 years out and we're fully functional, but we still had these gaps. And it's that whole learning process that we said, constantly being open to something else. So making sure the environment is safe and non-toxic is huge. And you know, if based on money and process, it's baby steps. But that you can't get well if it's toxic. And so if you feel worse after you wake up in the morning, but you don't feel as bad being at work, then it's something at home. Yeah, sleep in a different room and see if it changes it. Maybe it is the mattress, maybe it's the room. Being inquisitive enough to find an answer.

And I'm resonating with everything you're saying. But for someone who's just starting out on this journey, it feels so foreign. And for me, like one of my issues, I don't have this sensitivity anymore. But Every time my refrigerated air would kick on, it would literally hurt my bones! Like this deep down pain! And I'm thinking, "How can you be allergic to air conditioning?" Like, but your body starts reacting when you don't have anything to fight with! Little things like noise or a cell phone on by your bed, or they start to just overwhelm your senses.

Yes, yes. And we become overly sensitive. I mean, that's the other thing that, that I've discovered in, in this process of learning is that the brain gets stuck. Yeah, the body wants to heal, but the brain's stuck. I mean, you know, we did a lot of therapies that helped reboot the autonomic nervous system, right, which is kind of like the software in your body so that the body can feel like it's really healing. But if the brain is still wired telling you that it's sick and it's in fight or flight constantly, then, you know, then you have to do a lot more brain work. I mean, that's the other discovery for us this year. And I don't think this is a beginning treatment because in the beginning you really do have to strengthen the cells. You really have to heal to the cellular level, heal your liver, detox, you know, work on your positive thoughts, your spiritual strength, your emotional strength, and your environment. But as you travel through it, you realize that it's it's got so many layers like an onion. And as you peel those off and peel those off, you think, okay, I could be 80% functioning or I could be 110. And you have to get to that place that you want 110, right? And the, the last 3 years after I became fully functioning have been just as challenging, but in a good way, because I have the energy to chase it more and I have the passion and the drive to. But the discovery process has to be a continual thing, you know, that need for healing. I'm not satisfied with 80% for us, you know, and these constant little things. I want 110. And so the brain healing has been a new discovery for us too, and how to, how to get our brains off of fight or flight, right? And to tell our bodies that we are healed.

And, you know, it's so interesting. I've gone through tons of training through— I used to work for an adoption agency and training on helping kids who have gone through trauma. And a big part of that is even just verbally telling your amygdala, which senses danger, it's okay, we're safe. And for me, these last 2 years, because we don't have the resources we once did, you know, to me, when, when you are chronically ill and you don't have money, it's your life is on the line. It's not like, oh, we're not going to Disneyland this year. It's like, no, this is, there's major implications for all of this. Stuff. But I want to talk about that, that sense of shutting off the panic, the crisis, because it's been so difficult for us. We are constantly telling ourselves, it's okay, we're not, we're not in crisis. We're not like, it's okay. But it's taking me, and I'm still not there, a full 2 years to stop processing in crisis. And, you know, a ton of people have post-traumatic stress. Issues. But I want to read another clip from your book and then let you, let you talk about it. Says, in post-Lyme, the instincts of the body are still recovering from Lyme, and they are also shrouded in fear and discouragement. The instruments of the body aren't registering the correct responses. Fake symptoms and fear will feed into each other and perpetuate another crash. This is what makes recovery so difficult and frustrating.

Yes.

Yeah.

I, I am constantly talking to people about this very thing. And I will tell you, I wish I would have had a cover that I could send to you by the time that you publish this broadcast. It might. But I've written another book and it's called The Panic Cloud. And it describes in much more grave detail what it's like to live in a panic cloud of oppression. Because in Lyme disease, it's not just depression or anxiety driven by mental stress or chemical imbalance. It is toxic. It is brain-altering. It is every level of scary spiritual oppression on top of physical oppression. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. And being able to think within it and realize how oppressed you are but have no tools that you can think of to get out of it. I mean, I did— I thought for a while there was something wrong with my faith. I couldn't pray it out. I couldn't pray out the fear. I couldn't pray out how scared I was. And my husband at times would say, you have to stop crying in front of the kids. And I'd say, I'd say, it feels like there's a 300-pound gorilla sitting on my panic button. Yeah, I, I don't— I— there's something unsettled in my spirit that I can't stop with any amount of faith. And I— and that's what compelled me to write about it, because I think all of us understand that panic cloud. Yeah, it literally steals your breath right out of your lungs.

I call it PTSD panic, where all of a sudden I'm like— and it usually triggers when I'm starting to get tired. And like, if I'm tired by 5 o'clock and the kids just got home and they need me to engage and cook dinner and do all these things, I start to shut down because I'm like, I can only do 2 things. I probably have 2 activities left. Should that be homework or should that be cooking? But it has been— I felt like once I got over the pain, once I wasn't in pain, I felt like, oh, okay, I can handle anything now that I'm not in pain. And in a sense I can, but in a sense it's just been incredibly difficult to wrestle through that emotion, that panic, that— because you are, you're— you have another quote in your book where you say, some are in denial and others are drawing up wills. Such a difficult place to be, to make plans and to not dwell on them. You're stuck in chaos emotionally, physically, and it's not like theoretical danger, it's real palatable danger. And your body knows that, and our bodies are so in tune to what goes on. What key— what keys did you develop for coping with that?

Probably the biggest, the single biggest, to try to convince my brain, God knows the number of our days. I don't get to control it. And even though I felt like every day might be my last day for a really long time, The truth is today can be everybody's last day. So just because you feel like death doesn't mean it's coming tomorrow. And frankly, that was one of the most unsettling aspects to discovery is that sometimes I wish it would be done.

Right.

You know, because going on in it with an unending cycle was just as scary as leaving at times. You know, but I wrote goodbye letters to my kids. And my husband. Because I didn't know, there were moments that I didn't know. But then God finally told me that it wasn't going to— that it wasn't my time. But he didn't release the pain and the struggle, right?

I still have to process through all that stuff.

Process it, but I don't get to control the number of my days. I don't get to control when the pain leaves. I don't get to control how much sleep I get at night. And so when my mind was racing and arguing with my heart over life and death, over making plans tomorrow or not, I had to quote scripture until my brain stopped. I had to input what my brain couldn't output, because there was no rational thought within me that could find strength. There was no rational tool, even though I knew I had them. My faith was shattered, even though I still believed. So the brain doesn't have the ability to rationalize itself, I don't feel like, when the panic cloud is that thick. So I had to just add input. Anything that went into my eyes, ears, or heart had to be a thousand times stronger than what I felt. And that's the only way that I made it. The only way. I had to replace the voices in my head with something stronger.

Hmm, I like that. And I had a similar thing. I listened to praise and worship music nonstop on both floors of our house. And, and, and sometimes 10 times a day, sometimes 100 times a day, I'd have to say, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. I For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. What has been interesting in like these last 2 years is I said those things to push myself day after day after day. Now I have to— now I have to say it to push myself to reengage because it just takes for me— I've been very social and outgoing and I am not that way anymore. And I don't— or actually, that's not true. That's my desire. But I don't have the strength to do that and take care of my kids and take care of myself. And so it's still like our world is small in a lot of ways.

Yeah, but I think every season has a purpose. And I think I have to accept that. But I sometimes I think, when's the last time we had anybody over for dinner? Or did anything kind? You know, we can't handle those things either. We have to live where we are and know that tomorrow can change. It's baby steps towards something better or toward, God places desires in our hearts for a reason. It's to live for them and they will get there. It's just knowing when. I mean, one of my favorite scriptures that I had to quote all the time was, "Surely I will know the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I will be strong and take heart and wait on the Lord." But he says wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord, wait on the Lord. And that's, that's the part that I still wrestle with, because I'm a Type A, take control, I have energy today, so I can rip a band-aid off and do something kind of person. So if we're functional today, and we've had a good week, maybe I could do 3 big things. No, I can't. You know, I have to still wait on the Lord. And let him tell me when we're ready for things. You know, my choices aren't always the best.

So as we steer into our conclusion, we say living is an outcome and you've already shared so much as far as living and taking control of things to the best of your ability. What advice would you give to people who are at this place where they have kind of control over their symptoms and they're headed into living again? Where you, you're living, but you still are wrestling with all that cell damage and all the brain, you know, our brains are maladaptive and they function in that fight or flight. What do you say to, to the people who really want to live again and want to expand their world? And yet the disease kind of still has a hold of so many choices.

That's a really good question. We can't be the disease. I mean, it's our life now, but it doesn't have us. You know, God wanted to use it to change us and make us into better character and better people and to help others. But we can't let it be our identity. You know, it can't frame me so much that I'm afraid to not be sick. And I think that we can all get stuck there. And one of the things that I'm doing right now, I just started the 21-day brain detox with Caroline Leaf, Dr. Caroline Leaf. Her book is called Switch on Your Brain, I think. I've probably read about 10 different brain books this year. I love that book. I'm also gonna plug Annie Hopper's Wired for Healing, fantastic book. And I read a book of Dr. Amen's too, and I can't remember the name of it right now. But I— even this far out from it, what has been astounding to me— I'm on like day 5 of the brain detox— is how much toxic thoughts of fear and anxiety— I would never call myself an anxiety-driven person, and I never was, I still am not. But I didn't realize how often those toxic thoughts were still floating across my screen, you know. That the moment that one of my kids comes to me and needs something, or we start to have an emotional meltdown, or we have a reaction, or I see something crop up that has had a history in our Lyme journey, and I grapple with, is it going to get big again? You know, I didn't realize how often that was changing my emotional reactions to life. So I think we have to just constantly be aware of allowing it to frame us into the wrong person. So whether or not you do it once a year or twice a year, but kind of taking stock as a couple or with a really good friend for reframing the positive aspects of Lyme, looking back at the gains so that you know you're benchmarking forward. If you're not benchmarking forward, why? And then just having a really good person in your life to hold you accountable to your spiritual walk and your emotional growth. You know, there were enough people talking about this that I was like, hmm, I wonder what this 21 Day Brain Detox is. When I read the book, I was like, you know, reading it more for research for one of my kids who's having a lot of brain struggle problems and emotional struggles. And I was like, oh, this has got me written all over it. How did I not know that this was going on under the surface? Because I was so happy to reengage with life in areas that I also wasn't thinking about how strong my platform was still, if that makes sense. So, um, you got to constantly make sure that your foundation remains strong because re-engaging is very tempting, um, and it's good to re-engage, but we're, we're never going to have the same normal that we had. And so my new normal still has to be deeply rooted in making sure that we stay strong. Because if we get over-busy, if I get overstressed, if I apparently have over-toxic thoughts, you know, it can tip the scale. I don't know what day, but you know, we're all living on the edge of going backward. Whether we move into a house with mold or take too stressful of a job or start eating the wrong food again, you know, our immune systems can only handle so much. Also, the thing I wanted to add is being willing and able to constantly learn. We talked about it a little bit. Spiritually, I have to constantly grow. One of the most important things that I did through— probably within the first few months of being sick and have carried it through is I started prayer walking with my— at the time she was 81 years old, one of my mentors. And talk about a humbling experience, she used to drive me to appointments. Right. When I couldn't drive, in her 80s.

I know.

But you know, it got me out exercising for as much as I could. And instead of focusing and getting her updated on how bad we were, we focused on Jesus and we prayed and we prayed for other people. And it became a very good habit of taking the self-focus away. Spiritually. So I mean, that has been an integral part of my journey, and that my kids have gotten to experience it also, you know, that I have a prayer board in my kitchen, and I have lists on my phone for the people I encounter, you know, through this Lyme thing. Hey, you know what, I'm functional, but you're not, I'm gonna pray for you. I'm gonna take the focus off me and make sure that we know this is a, bigger thing than we can imagine. So it's kind of a paying it forward type of situation, and it keeps me grounded in how far we've come. Yeah, you know, I could, I could easily try to forget because living today is easier than it was 4 years ago. Yeah. And I don't want to live in the past, but I don't want to forget the bounty of goodness and the blessing. And have a— I would lose my grateful attitude if I didn't remember Right. How far we've come.

Yeah. I was doing— our kids have been sick. I've had kids home for 10 days now and I've been doing about 6 loads of laundry a day to keep it from spreading and stuff. And I was just thinking like, I've never been so happy to do 6 loads of laundry. Like I never would have been happy to do that. And now I'm like, yeah, I can do 6 loads of laundry and it doesn't put me in bed. And that's huge, huge, huge.

You gotta celebrate all those things, little and big, because they matter. You know, Dr. Leaf talks about, you know, rebuilding that brain structure. I mean, when you're toxic and you're sick for that long and you're stuck in a quagmire of negative thoughts because you feel hopelessness, you have to unwire all of that. You know, just feeling good again doesn't rewire all of it. And so taking the time to stop and have a grateful attitude and say thankful, a thankful thought or out loud to your spouse or to another friend, I mean, verbally expressing our gratefulness rewires our brain. And so it's imperative. And what, like you said, even just playing praise music and singing along with it. But that verbal expression really is even different than thinking the thought or feeling the thought. It has to be extra for your brain to acknowledge it. Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, Janice, this has been an amazing time. I am so thankful to, to have had this opportunity to talk. Thank you so much for being on our show, and we hope to hear from you more as you keep going. Janice, if people want to find out more about you and to hear and see some of your books, um, Where is the best place for people to find more, more about you?

On my website, justlivinglikethiswithlime.com. Also on Amazon, you can find my books, ebooks or regular softcovers. And I also have a Facebook page, Just Living Like This with Lime, that you can find. And my hopefully new book will be out in a couple of months called The Panic Cloud. And I will have notifications on there. You can subscribe to my newsletter or my blog on my website, and I also just started doing a lot of video blogging and through a company, a website called connectpal.com/janicefairbairn, and so you can subscribe there. And I also have copies of my ebooks there for free. I also have a gluten-free cookbook listed there, and I'm gonna be video blogging a couple times a week. Sharing everything from, you know, the technical stuff to the emotional stuff. Because the more I type, sometimes I can't get everything out of my head fast enough, or when it hits me, and I feel like I need— I just need that verbal expression to be able to really connect with people that need to feel hope. Yeah, so I just started that. So thank you guys for what you do. I've loved meeting you and getting to know you too. Thank you.

Again, thank you so much for being part of our, our interview with Janice today. If you would like to find any of the links or show notes that we talked about, that can all be found at lionvoice.com. We will also have more information on, on some of Janice's adventures.

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