Ana Howe 0:04

Welcome to Vitality by Design, the podcast where we explore what it really means to live longer and better.

Carey Howe 0:13

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Ana Howe 0:24

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Carey Howe 0:51

Alright, so welcome to another episode of Vitality by Design. Today we have a great guest, Jodi Parker, and I'm gonna let her explain all about herself because I like to have people explain everything about themselves. So help us better understand, Jodi. Uh Jodi is, I'll just tell you she's from HigherLivingjourney.com. If you want to check out her website, and uh you can find out all about her and health and wellness consultants uh things, and there's a more to it. So I'm gonna go ahead and let you explain. How are you doing, Jodi?

Jodi Parker 1:25

I am great today, Carrie. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

Carey Howe 1:29

Cool. Great. So let's start like uh the big question, I guess, would be how did the because one of the things you say in in on your website, Mona, is you're a medical freedom activist. And I like that term. Like a that's like a I want to find out about that. You know what I mean? And so I then it as I read into your story, and I kind of get a feeling of how that all began, but why don't you explain to us how that started and what was the event that was that had you turn your whole career around and you're gonna be surprised by this actually.

Jodi Parker 2:08

So back in 1998, I was doing a master's degree in early childhood development. And um, I had a class on the environmental and genetic causes of childhood chronic illness. And in that class, my professor brought four vaccine injured injured children and their families to our class. And that was the first time I ever questioned the safe and effective narrative.

Carey Howe 2:34

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 2:35

And that made me look at everything. And then when I had my own child in 2004, I didn't have enough information. It was very hard to find information. And at three months old, he started getting eczema. And I get on the internet and I start researching it's his food allergy. So I dig and I dig, and we we take him to the pediatrician at four months old, and something's really wrong. He's got eczema all over, and he's not having regular bowel movements anymore. And he strains and he strains, but nothing's coming out. And I'm really worried. And the pediatrician tries to convince me for a half an hour to give him, you know, I think at the time this was 2004, so it must have been like four or five vaccines at once. And I was like, clearly something's wrong. You're not supposed to do it when they're sick. Oh, it'll be fine. I argued with him for half an hour and I won, thankfully. And it was all based on mama's intuition. I didn't have the research I needed at the time. And my son continued to get sicker. And about a month later, I found a doctor who does electrodermal screening. It's almost a type of biofeedback. He's a chiropractor by training. And my son was swollen from esophagus terectum and was in early liver failure. And the pediatrician was trying to give him Xantac and laxatives. And that moment was so horrifying. And about it took us about a little over a year to get him regular and to get his bowel movements all cleared up, to get his liver calmed down, to get his entire all the inflammation down. And we did homeopathy and chiropractic, and I took herbs and he was breastfed. So if he couldn't eat it, I didn't eat it. And it was pretty stressful. And after a year, I said to the doc, I'm like, what would have what would have happened if I had vaccinated him that day? And he said, Jody, Joshua is the sickest baby I've ever seen. If you had vaccinated him that day, there's no doubt in my mind he would have had learning disabilities, but there's a very high probability that he would have died of SIDS.

Carey Howe 4:39

Wow.

Jodi Parker 4:40

And I was like stunned. And suddenly a medical freedom activist was born. And is that one?

Speaker 2 4:49

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 4:50

And so I became the mama who wanted to help all the other mamas and save all the babies because that it was at that point that I realized that conventional medicine is great for emergencies. If I break my femur, I'm going to the emergency room.

Speaker 2 5:04

Correct.

Jodi Parker 5:05

But something chronic, they don't even know what they're talking about. He tried to give me stuff for acid reflux and Miralax is what they give babies. It's not even approved for use in children.

Carey Howe 5:17

Yeah, I mean, I I agree with everything you're saying. I could see how that would happen. You know, but in all reality, modern medicine is just that medicine. It's nothing else. There's nothing preventive in it. There's nothing beyond applying a medicine to a symptom, right? And they and a lot of it is guesswork. It's not really, they didn't, you know, just by you said, they didn't like diagnose something or anything. They were just guessing and and going for it, right? Hypothesis, basically, right? And so what was your career like at this time and and how did that change? Because you were in the medical field at this time. No.

Jodi Parker 5:56

No, I wasn't. I was never.

Carey Howe 5:58

What were you doing at this time?

Jodi Parker 6:00

Like what was what were you by the time he was born, I was a stay-at-home mom. Before that, I was an event coordinator for Up With People for a couple years. Traveled all over North America and parts of Europe. And then I became a television news segment producer because I was a guest on the TV show talking about Up With People. And on my way out, they said, Do you need anything further? And I said, Not unless you have a job for me. And two weeks later, I was a television news producer. So yeah, that was pretty interesting. And I had I left that position when I got married and got pregnant. And so at that point, thank thank goodness, I was home with him because it was a mess. It was not an easy time.

Carey Howe 6:40

Traumatic though. So a lot of times people change course of lives or anything, you know, with these traumatic events, right? I know for my wife, for sure, when her mom died, you know, it changed her whole outlook and how we look at health and and the trust in the American medical, you know, uh system. And it's not really suited for anything but assigning another prescription and hopefully you live till the next time they're gonna prescribe you with something more, right? And so tell me a little bit about uh tell me a little bit about the the embodiment coach, health and wellness consultant, and the trauma relief specialist. Because that sounds interesting to me, because a lot of times, you know, you know, coming back from any traumatic event needs work or doesn't get taken care of, right? And so explain a little bit of that to me.

Jodi Parker 7:35

Well, so my son is 22 years old. So this is this has been a long time of coming. I've been in the healing space really since uh 99 is when I kind of went into the metaphysical world, and 2001 is when I went into the holistic world. I had there was a guest on the TV news show that that I was producing, and she was an herbalist, and she taught me all about conventional farming versus organic farming and animal care and all of that. And I went home and I packed my entire kitchen and started for organic. And so I'm kind of a grasshopper when it comes to that. And so with every new modality and every new thing that I'm up against, I'm convinced that there's always a solution. I just have to find it. And so that led me down a path of j learning just about every iteration of holistic care, whether it was in like shamanic training or homeopathy and nutrition. And it's a it's a long story that got me here. But I had complex PTSD. I was abused as a child, and I was very good at managing it, like really, really good. People would have no idea that I was a constant hyper-vigilant mess all the time. I was good at profoundly breathing, I meditated every day, I shielded myself, all the practices. And about two and a half years ago, I found the Institute for the Study of Peak States. And they have a trauma release model and modality protocols that are unlike anything I've ever seen in my almost 30 years of being in the healing space. It's fast, it's effective, it's permanent, and it is the broadest model I've ever seen of how trauma affects you at the cellular level. It's called, I'll even hold the book up for people who are visually seeing this. It's called subcellular psychobiology. And it's literally the interaction of how trauma affects you inside your primary cell. And so to give you sort of an idea of what that means, you're familiar with Eastern medicine and kind of the concept of in acupuncture, your ear has like a corresponding spot for all the body parts, right?

Speaker 2 9:49

Correct.

Jodi Parker 9:50

So this is a similar concept in the sense that it's holographic. So you have a primary cell that holds your consciousness and all of your trauma. And that cell is, in essence, a hologram over the rest of your body. So you're not actually treating the physical body like your shoulder. You're treating the primary cell where it's overlaid over your shoulder. And so I can treat everything from chronic pain and injury to panic attacks and depression and anxiety to relationship issues, to limiting beliefs, to trouble moving forward on your path, to allergies, to being attracted to the wrong kind of people, like and on and on. And it has changed my entire healing paradigm because it's so much more complete. I had to take all my old paradigms and put it into this model versus trying to fit this model into my original paradigms.

Carey Howe 10:46

And so what does that look like for someone that's saying yeah, I've had a traumatic event, I'm getting by, I'm good at coveting it and whatnot, or I might not be, and I don't even know it, right? And I come to you and how does it work? Like I step in the door or I call you, and then how does it start?

Jodi Parker 11:04

How does it start? So initially we need to determine what it is we're working on and what the results are that we're trying to achieve because it's a pay for results modality. It's not a pay for time modality because it's that effective. And so we we come up with a contract. What what is it that we're trying to heal that protects both the client and me as the practitioner? It has to be something that is measurable that we can actually achieve, right? Like people are like, can you solve my money problems? I can shift your quantum field, I can help you shift your quantum field so that you can move forward, but I can't make you publish the website or send a newsletter. Right? Like I can I can help you remove the blockages and the emotional angst that's in the way of moving forward, but your choice to move forward is yours.

Carey Howe 11:58

You gotta make the steps on your own.

Jodi Parker 12:01

You know, and like an easy, an easy contract. I had a woman who tore her calf muscle and limped in here, was at about eight to nine levels of pain, could hardly walk. And her husband had referred me because my son is a jujitsu prodigy, and this guy at the gym hurt his back, and I worked with him at the gym. And so he sends his wife to me. She has no idea what she's walking into. And I said, So, you want to walk out of here totally fine and out of pain? She looked at me kind of stunned and was like, I'd be amazing. And 90 minutes later, she walked out of here completely free of the trauma of the actual accident, the injury. And it wasn't completely at a zero for pain. She still had a little stiffness. Like she was like a one in 90 minutes. That's a very obvious output.

Carey Howe 12:46

But you had said something, limiting beliefs, and that like stuck with me. And so, um, because we deal with this a lot of times in the business and more than I, you know, people who have limiting beliefs, and it's hard to get over it, right? So what are some of the therapies in holistic medicine that you go to to sort of reframe these uh these things that you have to do for people? Like some people use NLP or some people use uh frequency training, uh, sulfigios and different frequencies, which is I you know I'm very much into. And so how what are some of the what are some of the things you would do for someone in this situation to help relieve them from limiting beliefs? Let's just use that one.

Jodi Parker 13:28

So uh so do you have a limiting belief that you recognize I could, yeah, yeah.

Carey Howe 13:35

I I typically do very well, like you know, I have in business because I don't really have like a money meter that says, oh, that's something I'm not I shouldn't have more than that, or I, you know, I don't really have a lot of those limiting beliefs, but I do train people and managers and and and stuff that I believe that they have it. And so it's hard for me to to it's hard for me to get them to live in the moment when they're future tripping about some money they might make or or or past experiences that are limiting them just in today, you know what I mean? Living in today, right? And and I always have a saying I say, just work hard, have a great attitude, and be grateful. And I guarantee you that something good's gonna happen, right? And so that's my work in the moment. But how would you treat limiting belief?

Jodi Parker 14:22

So a limiting we'll we would define what the limiting belief is. Okay. And then I would put somebody, so in order to do this modality, it it sounds a little like science fiction because it's so simple. You have to be completely in your body. So when I say that, all of your awareness inside your skin. Um, we use either a trigger phrase or a trigger moment. So a trigger phrase would be like, I just can't get ahead, right? That's a limiting belief. Or a triggering moment might be the moment that your credit card got rejected when you were trying to pay for something. Like I'm just pulling, I'm just pulling random stuff out right now.

Carey Howe 15:00

Good point. No, that's really good.

Jodi Parker 15:01

And so you put yourself either in that phrase or in that moment in time. And trauma in this model is defined by an out-of-body experience that is a single moment in time that has a reaction that is bigger than it should be for the circumstances. So, in order to feel it, you have to be in your body, feel whatever emotion it is you escaped your body to avoid feeling all the way through to its completion. And what that does at the cellular level, think of it inside the cell when you have an emotion, you make protein, right? You make like a some kind of protein in the brain or the gut or whatever. And if you don't feel that emotion all the way through, the protein gets stuck in essence. Like I'm really simplifying it, but it gets stuck and it doesn't release. And so now every time you feel that emotion, you just get another stuck emotion and it sticks and it sticks and it sticks and it sticks. We call it a trauma string. And what we do is we complete the feeling and the experience and it releases. And now the next time an emotion like that comes to the surface, the protein can be made correctly. That's why it is a permanent shift. And there's other things. About 70% of the time, that's what we see. And that is why in all trauma healing, you will hear you have to feel it to heal it. Absolutely true. And that's in this model, 70% of the time, if you just feel the intense emotion all the way through to its completion, that should release it. However, 30% of the time, you have what's called a subcellular case that doesn't fit that model. And so we have all these protocols around if it's something different than that. So for instance, people will say, but I processed that, I processed that, and they're feeling a certain emotion. I'll use myself as an example. I grew up in a situation where anger, anger meant not being safe. And so every time somebody was angry at me, I'd get scared. And so when I went to clear my own trauma, when the emotion that I needed to clear was anger, I would start to feel anger, but I'd instantly go into fear. And then I'd clear the fear and the trauma wouldn't go away because I wasn't, I was feeling my reaction to the emotion, not the emotion that was stuck itself. And that happens a lot, that people are actually reacting versus actually processing the actual emotion.

Carey Howe 17:27

Yeah, I get that's the importance of the feeling. And I'll now I understand when you say that because you know I've done breath work and things like that. And in breath work, you really are into feeling what's happening in your body, and you can get into different spots in your body, like with your mind, right? And and and go all over the place. Like, do you train people to do that or or how do or how do you get them to so feel abominable?

Jodi Parker 17:54

At the very core of it, we put them in the trauma moment, and I say, okay, where is it in your body? And sometimes it's just one place, and sometimes it's in multiple places. Well, I feel tense in my head, my stomach is tight, and my knee has a sharp pain, for instance. And then we go place by place. I ask a bunch of very strange questions to determine what kind of trauma it is. The first question is okay, is it inside, outside, or half in, half out your body? And the reason why it feels like it might be outside is because it might be something on the outside of that primary cell that's that's interacting with the cell. And if it's half in, half out, it's something that is interacting. If it's inside, it's probably something oftentimes it's generational trauma. But we determine inside, outside, half in, half out. And then once we determine that, I will ask questions like, okay, is it hard or like a fluffy cloud or a jelly mass or some kind of damage? And then they either some people have sight, about a third of the people have that internal sight, that sort of third eye intuition where they can visualize it. And then there are people who can feel it. It feels like it's hard, it feels like it's rough, it feels like there's smoke around me. And sometimes the descriptions get really interesting and I have to like narrow it down to figure out what kind of trauma is this. But those different things tell me what kind of trauma it is. And then based on that, there are different protocols. But almost always it involves tapping on the gamut point between the pinky and the ring finger and identifying whatever the emotion is and feeling it until it's complete. And by complete, I mean calm, peace, and light. No more sensation, no more emotion, and a lightweight feeling. Okay. And about 70% of the time, that's what it looks like. And then there are times when there's regression involved because you can't access the emotion, or it happened so long ago. A lot of these events happen prenatally or perenatally. And then they just stack throughout life every time you're in a situation that resembles something that happened then. It just stacks. And so there are situations and with generational trauma where we have to regress and just experience the sensations. There's no emotion there to feel, it's all sensation. And there's a couple other protocols that are really unusual. But overall, that's what it looks like. It takes, I can make a gigantic difference in somebody's life in three sessions. I can make a gigantic difference in one. But I typically don't have people come back to me for the same thing. We don't need more than three sessions unless it's complex PTSD. If it's layered and layered and layered, then that takes more because there's just lots of layers to get through. But my personal experience was I'm like the canary in the coal mine, and my kids are too. Like we're super sensitive uh individuals. And so I all the rare stuff. And so I walked the journey personally, so I know how to get people there faster because I ran into all the walls because my instructor would give would would help me and then give me homework and I'd go home and try and figure it out. And that's how I figured out that I kept clearing my reaction instead of my emotion instead of the trauma emotion. Took me six weeks to figure that out. Like somebody who worked with me wouldn't have to go through that, but it was very good training for me.

Carey Howe 21:25

Yeah. Because speaking of the training, in my mind, I'm thinking, like, well, how did you learn this? Like, because you must have had to awaken the trauma in someone, and this is gonna break out some emotional times and people are gonna break down and and that's gonna come to light. Because if you're in the field and you're gonna, this is coming out. And then, like, how did you how did you like find the ways to like make that all good? Because like that would scare the bejeebies out of me, like awakening this giant for someone and going, well, I I hope I can. Tame the monster.

Jodi Parker 22:01

Tame the monster. You know, people come to you when they're ready. So it's completely client-led and they tell you what they want to work. And sometimes they'll say, you know, there's three different things that if if it changed in their life would make a really big difference. And then we decide which one of those things to work with first. And after we and I we're really careful about making sure we get to completion with one issue before we go to the next. Because sometimes, especially in complex PTSD, people jump from trauma to trauma and clear nothing because they just jump around. So we're very good at saying, no, we're doing this first. We'll get there, I promise. But we're doing this first until that's gone. And then we'll go to the next one. And so it's my job to hold that container so that they can feel it. The times I've had people who couldn't do it, their nervous system was so dysregulated they couldn't stay in their body. And so I would give them exercises to help them get in their body before they worked with me because it wouldn't work. That's rare. That's very rare. Most people have no problem at all. Limiting beliefs are easy. I had a client who was in the airborne in the army and his parachute didn't open and he landed in a tree and broke his back and had memory problems for years and nervous system and PTSD and chronic pain. And that clearing that took us somewhere between 16 and 18 hours total to clear all of it. Like, because you, if you think about it, when it's a trauma, it's a moment in time. So for instance, going through his particular case, it was this is the smell of the jet fuel that I'm reacting to. And this is the feeling of the lead rope in my hand. And this is the feeling of my tailbone hitting the tree and breaking. And this is the feeling of it according up my spine. And then like it, you had we had to do it bit by bit to completely clear that. But that was, I mean, that was a massive. That's what we call big T trauma. That wasn't little T trauma, that was big T trauma. Little T trauma clears very, very fast. PTSD, like classic PTSD, like had a friend who almost drowned, scared to get in the pool. One session, we only had an hour. Most sessions tend to be 90 minutes to two hours, but we only had an hour that day. And in that one session, his anxiety went from a 10 to a four. And the next day, he got in the pool to do with his children and his wife. And for the first time in his adult life, he didn't hold on to the side of the pool.

Carey Howe 24:34

Wow. And it and do are these sessions in person only, or you do it via Zoom or I do all over the world.

Jodi Parker 24:42

Last two weeks ago, I worked with somebody in Denmark, somebody in Ireland. I'm in Colorado. I worked with somebody in Phoenix, two people in Canada, and then I had two in-person clients. Wow. Yeah. My instructor's in Australia.

Carey Howe 24:58

Okay, gotcha. And uh so if somebody listening or wants to delve into the civil more, they would go to HireLivingJourney.com and they could schedule uh a consultation.

Jodi Parker 25:12

Absolutely. Wow, okay, good. Yeah, it's that simple. And you asked me about the embodiment coaching. What does that mean? Well, a healer waits for somebody to come to them and be ready, right? People only heal when they're ready. Like I don't even like the word healer because I don't heal you, you heal you. I just hold the space and I act like the tour guide. It's where higher living journey came from. I'm the tour guide, right? Yeah. And but sometimes people need coaching. And a coach doesn't wait for you to be ready. A coach tells you what to do. Like you need to change your diet. You need to, you know, you need to practice this gratitude. We do something called the 15-minute miracle that is a gratitude practice. Or, you know, and they they hold the boundaries in the container for you, but they push you. Whereas a healer waits for you to come to them. So an embodiment coach is the combination of the two. We heal the trauma so that you can be in your body fully embodied, so you can be coached in order to take the next step on your higher living journey. See what I did there?

Carey Howe 26:19

Yeah, very good. Here in Costa Rica, everybody comes here to heal, right? So it has all these different meanings. Like, you mean you just want to go do ayahuasca or like is it like real healing or something like that here? So we see a lot of that here, you know. But it's very interesting to me the whole trauma thing, right? Because this is like people will will cut will cover like their their fears, right? And so they'll hide like even some of the ways where you're trying to get to these things for people and find the parts. Like I'm sure their own defense system is preventing them from getting there too. Like and sure. How to get there, right? Yeah, it's very interesting to me.

Jodi Parker 27:02

It's that's called a guarding trauma. Like we actually have a term for it. And you'll be trying to clear something and it just won't clear. It just won't. And oftentimes, and one of the keynotes of a guarding trauma is you're trying to clear it, and all of a sudden you're like, I have to go feed the cat. Or like they just all of a sudden shut down.

Carey Howe 27:19

You're like, that would be me, by the way. I would be that.

Jodi Parker 27:23

And so how you find it is you say, okay, let's pretend this issue we're trying to clear was gone. It's not there anymore. What does that mean? And then you usually can find what it's protecting you from. And so you clear the trauma you're protecting yourself from first. And then you treat the original trauma that they actually came to you for.

Carey Howe 27:43

I feel almost everybody has some kind of traumatic event that might affect them in some way, shape, or form. Maybe it's not a capital T, I guess what you say, or like the vape T or a little T. Right. There's some T's in there, right? For sure.

Jodi Parker 27:58

Everybody does. Like there's there's a generational trauma. Okay, this is where we get into the fun prenatal stuff. You ready for this?

Carey Howe 28:05

Yeah, let's hear it.

Jodi Parker 28:06

This is kind of cool. So there is a trauma that in our model we call the abyss. And it is when people are trying to move forward in their best life and they just can't. And they feel like if they move forward, they might die or they might fall off a cliff. Like there's a feeling of I'm gonna fall off a cliff. And it is the trauma of the egg drop, because the consciousness is in the egg and the sperm before it's ever a whole fetus, okay? Or a whole zygote. And so the consciousness that is in the egg falls out of the fallopian tube and it's a drop. And that's scary. And I might die doing that. And so everybody, almost everybody has it.

Carey Howe 28:53

Okay.

Jodi Parker 28:54

And it's very easy to clear. But that's one of those little things that you don't think about. And the other thing that's really cool about this particular model that I've I haven't seen in any other. And believe me, with with my trauma, like I tried everything. You name it. I did it. And I was the one that just couldn't heal. And I managed really, really well. But managing takes a lot of energy. And this modality takes away the trigger altogether. So there's no more managing. And uh I totally lost my train of thought because what was my point here with this story? That was it.

Carey Howe 29:27

So what's you were talking about the dropping of the philopiah.

Jodi Parker 29:31

The dropping. But what's really cool about this is that's a generational trauma because everybody has it. So it just sort of gets down. But when you clear it in you, and if your wife clears it in herself, it clears it in all of your kids and it clears half of it from your parents. So, because it comes one from the father's side and one from the mother's side. But when you clear it in you, any generational trauma that's been epigenetically passed, it also clears it in anybody else in the line who has it. It is literally the ultimate in being the generational curse breaker.

Carey Howe 30:06

Very nice. So that explains that quantum field. Yeah, on your website it says helping you and your family thrive. Now I can see like it's all making sense to me now, right? I'm like, okay. So I get it. And uh wow, that's really interesting. And how long have you been doing this now?

Jodi Parker 30:22

Like so I've been in the healing space for since '99. And so that's what, 28 and a half, almost 29 years. And uh no, almost 28 years, I can math. I homeschool. My kids are actually doing well in math. Okay. I learned this, I found this modality in early 2024, and it changed things so drastically and so quickly for me that I was like, I have to learn this right this minute. And classes had already started. So I jumped in and caught up. And so I've been working with people for about 26 months with this modality, and I am in the final stages, like literally the final stages of the full certification. So there's about 2,000 people worldwide who've trained in it. There are only roughly 80 certified therapists who have gone through every hoop, every jump, done all of it. And I, once I get the full certification, which will be about the time that this podcast airs, as a matter of fact. Um, because we're doing this in September, but uh my certification is early November. And I will be the fourth person in the United States who has the complete certification.

Carey Howe 31:30

Wow. Yeah. I feel honored. Our guests listeners feel honored. Super cool, right? So I'm I imagine you've uh you know help, you know, hundreds of people, you know, through these traumatic events. There's gotta be some you know, great sense of accomplishment for that for sure. But how what do you do on a daily basis that kind of helps you sort of keep it together and you know not bring the other people's traumas into your life and how to separate yourself from these traumatic stories, I imagine, right? Like it's you know, it's like a uh it's like emergency room nurse, you know, like you got all these bodies coming in broken, and like how do you separate and I'll the reason I say that is because my daughter's a nurse and like I ask her those questions. I can so I wonder for you, like, how do you go about your daily root routine to sort of stay healthy, keep your mind in the right spot? You know, what is it? Prayer in the morning, wake up early, good sleep.

Jodi Parker 32:34

Like what what is it's a combination of things. So I meditate every morning.

Carey Howe 32:39

Okay.

Jodi Parker 32:40

I we have thousands of traumas, so inevitably I'll find something that I need to clear myself and I'll clear it.

Speaker 2 32:46

Okay.

Jodi Parker 32:46

I do gratitude a gratitude practice every day. I eat all organic and super healthy and I intermittent fast as a lifestyle, and I make sure I get, you know, outside and get sunlight in my eyes. I wear blue light glasses, like all the health hacks that you and I both know about. And I'm sure your listeners know most of those things too. I do all of them. So I really walk my talk. But the key with this training is they give us a list of things that we have to clear before we can have the certification. Because if I have the same trauma as you, you won't clear it. So I have to be clear of it in order to hold the space for somebody else to do it. And uh there's actually been some accomplishments there because somebody came to me with my own story. Like, this is what I want to work on, and started basically telling me my own story. And I didn't react at all. And how I mean reaction is there was no physical sensation in my body. My stomach didn't get tight, my shoulders didn't tense up. Like my body stayed calm. And that person did, in fact, clear the trauma that was up for her that day, which told me that I had also cleared that trauma because she wouldn't have cleared, because I wouldn't have been calm enough to hold the space for her. And I know, like my first six months, all I did was clear terror for six months. Like it wasn't very much fun. But I knew I had to do it because once it was gone, it was gone. And and I do mean gone. Like it was gone. And so I don't react in the same way to other people's trauma because I know for certain that if I can get them through the panic or the terror or whatever, this the rage or whatever extreme emotion that they're feeling. And it it only takes most people clear in about two minutes per emotion. People who really have trouble staying present kind of come in and out of their body because it's an intense emotion. Sometimes it can take five, 10 minutes. I think the longest I've seen is 15. So you can do anything for 15 minutes. And I know if I get you there, I know how much better you're going to feel. So it doesn't stress me out to hold the space for people to get there. It's an honor and a privilege because I know that they can then go out into the world and be their best self and show up in that soul-aligned, embodied path that is meant for them because the trauma's not in the way anymore.

Carey Howe 35:10

Yeah, interesting. There's a lot to that. You know, I've my mind's just racing like it. I'm like, well, but what if you clear the trauma for someone and they realize they're in the wrong relationship for the wrong reasons. Now you gotta deal with this. And like, do you feel responsible for that? And like, hey, I don't know.

Jodi Parker 35:31

Yeah. That happened to me. I cleared the trauma between someone and her. She was in her mid-20s, and I I knew it was a toxic relationship. I didn't tell her that though.

unknown 35:43

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 35:43

Um, and she came to me and wanted to clear it. Like, I wouldn't have forced it on her, but it was her choice. I want to clear this. And he broke up with her that night after we cleared the trauma. And she called me and I said, Are you okay? She's like, I'm a little weepy, but yeah, actually, I'm okay. And I I do check-ins to make sure that nothing because sometimes you go, it's like a nine out of out of 10, and you you think that they're at a zero and it comes back up to a two. Like there's still a little cleanup to do as far as their ratings go. So I called her a week later. How are you doing? And she said, I'm confused. And I said, Why are you confused? And she said, Well, I should be really upset. Like I should be crying and really sad, and I'm just not. And I said, Well, your relationship was based on trauma, and the trauma's not there anymore. So there's nothing to react to. And she went, Oh my God, that's the coolest thing ever. And then about two weeks ago, she referred somebody to me and I asked her how she was doing. She's like, Oh my gosh, Jody, I'm so good. And I have a new boyfriend and a new job and a new like her entire life changed.

Carey Howe 36:48

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 36:48

And so you know, if you're in a relationship that's based on trauma, that's not authenticity. Right. And authenticity is the highest vibration. And so do I feel guilty about that? No, I mean it's my job to help people through that. Right? If that happens, then it's my job to help you clear the trauma trigger so you aren't a hot mess.

Speaker 2 37:11

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 37:12

But do I feel bad that somebody's healing? Of course I don't.

Carey Howe 37:17

No. No, and and we I see a little bit of, you know, well, a lot of this too in the people who quit drinking and quit cover, you know, covering all their their feelings, and then they come into a more enlightened state, and they're like, man, everything I do is based around this problem. And yeah, they gotta change their life. I I you're changing people's lives, and things happen when you change people's lives, right?

Jodi Parker 37:46

Yeah, it's it's happened in my life and a lot of people around me. And that doesn't mean it's easy. So your optimal life path, we actually have a protocol to help you make the best decision for yourself. Optimal decision making, we call it. And there's a peak state. So this is this training comes from the from the Institute for the Study of Peak States. So they have identified about at least 40 different peak states that humans should be in, but are not because of trauma. And one of those peak states is called optimum life path, being able to know this is the right choice for me because this is my highest timeline in essence. And I have that, I have that peak state. And so I know where I'm supposed to go, and it is not the easiest path for me at all. Um, but I wouldn't be walking my talk if I didn't take on the challenge, right?

Speaker 2 38:36

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 38:38

So your optimum life path isn't always the easy choice or the simple choice. There will be flow, there will be synchronicity and all of those things, but our souls are demanding us to grow.

Carey Howe 38:50

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 38:50

And growing isn't, you know, and that's why they call it growing pains.

Carey Howe 38:54

It's uncomfortable.

Jodi Parker 38:55

Right. Yeah.

Carey Howe 38:56

Growth is typically in uncomfortability. Like I certainly have noticed that, right? And uh but change always begins with some kind of growth, you know what I mean? And and with growth comes change. They go into they're entwined, right? Very interesting. And now okay. I I want to go back to another lecture you had mentioned. A medical activist. What do we how does that fall into this healing and everything? So I I understand with as a mom and vaccines, as a dad in vaccines myself, I like they drove me crazy. Like the this vaccine schedule that my daughter had, who's 29 now, is way different than it is today. And it's like super I mean, I don't know what the parents do today. Like, how do you how do you not have your kid take all those vaccines but still have them go to a school or be able to to get proficient in sort of in community and and having friends and little fights and arguments and dealing with life, you know, like how do you still have your kids grow but not subject them to that vaccine schedule? It's gotta be hard.

Jodi Parker 40:09

I think it depends on your commitment. So for there's always a way through. Always. And the only place that doesn't have the ability to opt out, California and New York only have medical exemptions, but they're not even really medical exemptions because they're so ridiculously hard to get that it it isn't actually a thing. So if you're in California or New York, you have to homeschool if you don't want your kids to and and that's the whole schedule. Like, so even if you only want to partially vaccinate.

Speaker 2 40:41

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 40:42

In those two states, you do have to homeschool. I homeschooled anyway, all three of my kids. Well, I've graduated two of them, but I still have an eighth grader. And um, there are so there are ways around it. Even, you know, people say, Well, how do you do that? How do you homeschool and are you set up for that? And it's a lot easier than people think it is. There's resources coming out of your ears if you choose to do that. But if you want to send them into a school, most states have some kind of exemption form. In Colorado, it is a medical exemption or a non-medical exemption. And they make you watch a video and and agree that you're you might be putting your kid in danger or they have to have a doctor sign off on it. In other states, you can just write a letter, but there are exemptions almost everywhere, except New York and California are not kind about it. Um, and they're gonna keep going after those exemptions. The the pharma lobby, it's the biggest lobby in the world.

Carey Howe 41:44

Yes.

Jodi Parker 41:44

And vaccines are a huge cash cow.

Carey Howe 41:47

Yes.

Jodi Parker 41:48

I mean, because there's no liability, there's no true placebo testing, there's, you know, and the more you learn about it and the deeper you get into it, it it's like tobacco science on steroids. It's it's absurd once you finally actually look at the science because it's not science. But yes, there are definite ways out. And and how did I get into it? I had a good friend who, when they were fighting in California, was one of the leaders that was fighting those bills, and I supported her from afar, and then it came to Colorado, and I got involved with the health freedom community here in Colorado. And because of my television news experience and my event coordinating experience, like I've done a ton of television and radio and press releases and and newspaper and all of that stuff. And so they pulled me in to help with that aspect of things.

Speaker 2 42:38

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 42:39

And I wrote, uh, I don't know, like half of the testimonies. I I did a write a lot of writing for the testimonies. I did a lot of research. My kid went viral on the high wire. His his testimony went viral. Okay. So for me, it was about we had a medical exemption. My kid went into liver failure, right? And the bill in Colorado took away his medical exemption because he didn't fit into the very, very, very narrow parameters of what they will allow for a medical exemption, because you have to be injured before they will give you the medical exemption. They don't base it on genetics. They don't but they don't base it. Even if you have a sibling who had a bad reaction, you can't have a medical exemption.

unknown 43:26

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 43:27

Like it's the the rules are so narrow that it basically you can't get it out. You know.

Carey Howe 43:34

I know here.

Jodi Parker 43:34

So that's why I got super passionate all in my mama bear energy.

Carey Howe 43:39

Yeah, I know here in Costa Rica, the homeschooling is very popular because of the vaccine schedule. And and Americans might not know this, but the rest of the world kind of follows in suit, whatever the FDA says, right? And so it's more than just the rules for the United States. When the FDA says something or approves something or Make something lawlike. Literally everybody in the medical community in the world, in the Western world, follows suit, right?

Jodi Parker 44:07

It's interesting because the American schedule was far bigger than any other country. Like it it like almost double the size of how many shots kids. They were getting over 72 shots by age eight. No, 72 doses by age 18. And when I say a dose, so MMR is three doses but one shot. Okay, because it's measles, mom's rubella. So 72 is doses, not number of shots. The number of shots was around 50, I think. And just recently, in the last, I think, I want to say six weeks. So we're recording this in September, they changed their an executive order went through to change the vaccine schedule to be more like Europe. So Americans were the only one who who gave Het B vaccine on the first day of life. No other country did that. So they don't do that anymore. So they have pulled back on it. And that's been a big fight. And we'll see if that lasts after this presidency is over and somebody else comes in and changes the executive order. And they have changed the people who are on the committee who approve vaccines at the CDC because it was just a rubber stamp thing for years and years. And that has been shifted. So things have moved forward. But I say that in the same sentence, knowing that the Supreme Court protected Monsanto and glyphosate, you can't sue them. So now vaccines don't have immunity from liability. And now so does Monsanto bear over glyphosate in the United States. So that was a huge leap backwards.

Carey Howe 45:40

Crazy to me. Like, I mean, I I don't know how a governing body like the FDA can have such a horrible track record and still be so highly regarded. I don't know. It's like a it's a phenomenon, right? They bring on the opioid crisis. They bring there's so much of a long list of things, right? But yet whatever they say seems to worldwide be the gospel, right? And it's crazy.

Jodi Parker 46:07

If it's the money, follow the money, right? It's not really about health. If it was about health, I mean, what where we started to come back around to where we started this conversation, conventional medicine is sick care. It's not health care.

Speaker 2 46:20

Yes.

Jodi Parker 46:21

It's management of sick symptoms. Health care is all the stuff I mentioned a few minutes ago. Going outside and getting vitamin D and exercising and breathing profoundly and clear and drinking clean water and eating real food that's not full of chemicals and pesticides and herbicides and GMOs and all of those things. That's health care.

Carey Howe 46:41

Yes.

Jodi Parker 46:42

But our doctors aren't even trained in nutrition, at least not in the States and not in Canada. I don't know about Europe as far as nutrition training. They're a little more open-minded in Europe. I don't know about Costa Rica.

Carey Howe 46:56

It's starting to change a little bit, but but there's the worldwide thing, right? Where doctors are sort of, they're they start out good people, they go to school, they're all jazzed on, yeah, I'm gonna help the world and I'm gonna cure this, I'm gonna do this and that, and everything's gonna be great. And they work somewhere for five, six, seven years, and they realize that they're sort of trapped in a system that if they step one foot out of the insurance or big pharma playbook, that you risk that diploma coming off your wall, right? And so they're trapped in it. They didn't get into medicine to be in that position, but then they're like, well, I, you know, I can't do anything else. I got we got a bottom line. And it's more about a bottom line than it ever was about your health, you know, like you just said.

Jodi Parker 47:40

And so that's that's a there's a quite a few doctors in the States who stood up during COVID and lost, lost their licenses, or you know, the boards came after them and and they have found ways around it.

Carey Howe 47:54

Yeah.

Jodi Parker 47:55

But that's that goes back to that whole optimum life path. Like, are you in alignment with with your soul and your values? And that's not always the easy road.

Carey Howe 48:05

Yeah. And and so my wife and I talk about this all the time. We're like, hey, do you think like AI is gonna change a lot of this? And it'll just be a lot easier to get your own blood work, your own diag your own things diagnosed with your own little prompts you do with AI and whatnot. And a lot of them.

Jodi Parker 48:27

Like that natural news guy Mike Adams has his own AI that's uploading like green med info into it, whereas ChatGPT is gonna have the Mayo Clinic, you know, and those are not gonna look the same.

Carey Howe 48:42

So exactly. And I talked to the there's a really good group of quantum mathematics and physics guys here in Costa Rica that I'm friends with, and they are they're into AI and all these things. And they're they're they're talking about, you know, there are true AI LLMs, large language models that don't have the guardrails that we have, you know, with ChatGPT or, you know, they they're governed by somebody or something, right? They can't speak against the medical establishment. The, you know, you make a prompt that does that, they're gonna tell you, sorry, I can't do this, right? They can't do nudity, they can't do all these things. But there are language models out there that don't have those guardrails. And that I feel that the future will have like, you know, it'll be more about the truth than somebody else's truth, like and what's provable and non-provable. Yeah. So it gets into this, you know, who owns the truth kind of thing, right? With the with the AI and I don't know, we don't know where it's gone, but we it's good for conversation. We talk about it all the time.

Jodi Parker 49:46

And science is not like has to be up for discussion, or it's not science. Correct. Like, you know, we'd still be in the land of leeches as medicine if we didn't question. And I think one of the most powerful things that will get us through this this new AI era is the quality of discernment and being able to change our mind with new information.

Carey Howe 50:12

Yeah. This is yeah, this is something, right? And so you know, I'm hoping that it really sort of helps bring the cost down, number one, for medicine. I think that AI is certainly going to help in those areas. A lot of medicine is protocols in the hospital setting and whatnot. And so a lot of these things can be AI automated. And we already trust AI for you know trillion-dollar transactions in Wall Street and and landing planes at the airport and all these things. You know, medicine is next. It's not it's not if, it's when, right? And I I think it's coming. And I hope it's for the good. We we talk about and we think, wow, this is really gonna cut costs and everything. Like someone in the middle of the Amazon can like step into a little cube and get really good health care and and you know, like that's kind of cool, right? If that could happen. And you know, these are happening in remote areas in China. They're doing this with these little cubes that are taking vital signs and diagnosing people, you know, in the middle of the jungle, right? So I'm not sure.

Jodi Parker 51:16

You have to wonder what their health is like to begin with, because I, you know, Costa Rica is a little more pure than North America as far as all the chemicals and herbicides and all of that stuff. And there are other parts of the world where they're not quite as poisoned. So it's probably not quite as sick.

Carey Howe 51:32

Correct, right? And so yeah, it just becomes all very interesting, like where it's going, like where in health, what's gonna change, and and and and I feel that um, you know, as you talked about, the best things for for health or preventative measures, get some good sleep, get go walk in the morning, have some meditation or pray, prayer, get some sunlight, eat whole foods, grow as much as you can on your own, make you know, make buying food a thing, you know, like so you know where you're getting everything. Probably don't eat out as much. We don't eat out hardly ever, you know. I don't know. If I don't see the kitchen or what they're cooking with, I'm like, yeah, right. So you get to the point where like good food gives you energy and you feel that and you eat bad food, you're like, man, I have feels horrible, right?

Jodi Parker 52:24

So And then it doesn't taste good anymore because if you know that that's gonna be the reaction, like people go, how do you do it? Well, A, when I think of it as poison, it's not appealing. And B, if I think about how it's going to make me feel, why would I want to feel that way? So it's it's when you put it in those parameters, it's not hard to avoid.

Carey Howe 52:46

Correct. Yeah. The only thing that I let slide past everything is ice cream. I I do ice cream once a week.

Jodi Parker 52:52

We go, I'm not screaming that, but I know I think we have a dairy allergy, and so which I actually should treat because I can treat that with this with this protocol with the trauma release. I can actually treat allergies. But we get the coconut milk ice cream.

Speaker 2 53:09

Okay.

Jodi Parker 53:13

You know, 80-20.

Carey Howe 53:15

Yeah, right. Yeah. I and even I when I talk to people about, you know, healthy eating and healthy practices and whatnot, I'm like, well, even if you just do it one day a week, it's better than no days a week, right? So then you get to two days, then you get to three days, eventually, hopefully, you change your habits, right? But cool. Well, it's been really a great chat, Jody. Very, very interesting. I feel that like I need to come, you know, get online and book a session with you, like see where we're at with my own personal traumas. I'm sure everybody feels that way at some, you know. At some level, you have something limiting belief, or you know, I want to find it, right? Everybody wants to be quieter, and you know, this is one of the ways.

Speaker 2 53:57

Yes.

Carey Howe 53:58

Contact Jody through her website and help her help you and your family for that matter, right?

Jodi Parker 54:05

And so I won't argue. There's something about seeing somebody win after a long time of being stuck and seeing them be able to move forward, like it's a really amazing feeling.

Carey Howe 54:19

Yeah, and and like we've been talking about healthy practice and stuff like that. Once you were you're in that sort of frequency of of like understanding all of that, you know, you you you want to be at your greatest potential. People do. And so how do you get there? And and this what you do is definitely, I think, a step to reach you know a higher potential, right?

Jodi Parker 54:41

That's the goal.

Carey Howe 54:43

Yeah, that's good. Well, great. Jody, I'm gonna put the links for everything that that you're talking about into our our podcast, and people can come visit you. Hopefully, it won't only be me, right? But I'm coming. Well, I'm I'd be honest. My wife's gonna listen to this and she's gonna go, oh, I wanna do that. And so really cool, really good stuff. And you know, I wish you and your family the best, and we'll chat down the road, okay?

Jodi Parker 55:11

Great, Carrie. Thanks so much.

Carey Howe 55:13

Thank you. Thanks for doing this, Judy. I appreciate it.

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