Hi, Katelyn Simmons. Welcome to the QVC podcast.
Katelyn Simmons:Hello. Thank you so much, Meredith. I'm so
Katelyn Simmons:excited to be here.
Meredith Oke:So am I. I've been following your story, you
Meredith Oke:know, since you took the certification a couple
Meredith Oke:years ago. You were, like, one of the OG early
Meredith Oke:adopters on that, and I've always wanted to chat
Meredith Oke:with you about. And it just kind of now, you
Meredith Oke:know, and then you were like, oh, she's having a
Meredith Oke:baby. I'll leave her alone. And now your baby's
Meredith Oke:one year old, so time to do a podcast.
Katelyn Simmons:I'm so excited. And you're the first podcast I've
Katelyn Simmons:ever been on, so this is, like, ultra special for
Katelyn Simmons:me.
Meredith Oke:Oh, well, I am honored, and I'm excited to tell
Meredith Oke:your story and hear your. Hear your journey and
Meredith Oke:share it with everyone, because it's a good one.
Meredith Oke:And I also just want to mention Caitlin's.
Meredith Oke:Katelyn's baby turned 1 on May 15, and my
Meredith Oke:youngest turned 11 on May 15. And Nico Kennedy,
Meredith Oke:who, many of you know, had her fifth baby on May
Meredith Oke:15th. So we're just gonna all celebrate the May
Meredith Oke:15th quantum babies. Okay, so you started your
Meredith Oke:career in wellness as a massage therapist, and
Meredith Oke:that took you through some experiences that led
Meredith Oke:you down other paths. So let's start there.
Katelyn Simmons:Okay. Well, 18, fresh out of high school. I knew
Katelyn Simmons:I wanted to be in the holistic health world, and
Katelyn Simmons:I didn't exactly know where that was going to
Katelyn Simmons:lead. I thought maybe acupuncture or maybe become
Katelyn Simmons:a naturopath or something. But I started with
Katelyn Simmons:massage therapy and the local holistic health
Katelyn Simmons:practitioner program near me, and then ended up
Katelyn Simmons:falling in love with massage and built my own
Katelyn Simmons:practice. After working for other people, I kind
Katelyn Simmons:of got that entrepreneurial itch and was like, I
Katelyn Simmons:gotta work for myself, and just started working
Katelyn Simmons:with people and loving, helping people, because
Katelyn Simmons:it's like, it was so tangible getting to put your
Katelyn Simmons:hands on someone and then they come in feeling
Katelyn Simmons:terrible and get up, and then they feel great.
Katelyn Simmons:But I started to see where it wasn't, like,
Katelyn Simmons:lasting. It was like, I could help them
Katelyn Simmons:temporarily. But so many people were coming to me
Katelyn Simmons:because they had chronic pain or chronic illness
Katelyn Simmons:or whatever was chronic. And I had. Had. I got
Katelyn Simmons:diagnosed with Lyme disease back when I was 13.
Katelyn Simmons:So that was also something in my story where I
Katelyn Simmons:was, like, also trying to figure out what was
Katelyn Simmons:going on with me and how I could get really
Katelyn Simmons:better all the way. So that led me to the
Katelyn Simmons:lymphatic system. Once I learned about how, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, why were people so puffy and why would why
Katelyn Simmons:would the inflammation go down when we would do
Katelyn Simmons:massage? And so I got trained in lymphatic
Katelyn Simmons:enhancement technology and bought this fancy
Katelyn Simmons:equipment for my office and then started seeing
Katelyn Simmons:better results with my clients. But still, it was
Katelyn Simmons:like, okay, well, why is their lymphatic system
Katelyn Simmons:not ever doing it on their own? Like, why is it
Katelyn Simmons:still stuck? And why are people feeling great
Katelyn Simmons:maybe for a week or two after they see me? And
Katelyn Simmons:then having this downhill slump? I need to come
Katelyn Simmons:back. Because it kind of felt like, wow, these
Katelyn Simmons:are lifelong clients. That's not. That didn't sit
Katelyn Simmons:right with me because that's what the Western
Katelyn Simmons:model felt like.
Meredith Oke:Right.
Katelyn Simmons:And I had already been through that rabbit hole.
Meredith Oke:You wanted to be part of something that was
Meredith Oke:actually helping them stay better.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Not just have a temporary and.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. Like, be empowered. So then that led me to
Katelyn Simmons:becoming an integrative health practitioner and
Katelyn Simmons:learning about supplements and getting trained in
Katelyn Simmons:all these different things and just certification
Katelyn Simmons:after certification searching. Meanwhile, I was
Katelyn Simmons:still not feeling my best. And I would go into
Katelyn Simmons:work and love my clients and help my clients and
Katelyn Simmons:then basically go home feeling terrible after and
Katelyn Simmons:picking up their energy, feeling drained, feeling
Katelyn Simmons:exhausted, and just. Just knew something was
Katelyn Simmons:missing. But I couldn't figure it out. Right.
Meredith Oke:Because you've done all the things. You had the
Meredith Oke:massage training, you had the lymphatic training,
Meredith Oke:you had integrative holistic supplement training.
Meredith Oke:And it.
Katelyn Simmons:It's.
Meredith Oke:That seems like all the things.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. And it did.
Meredith Oke:It feels like that should cover it.
Katelyn Simmons:It did.
Meredith Oke:When most people enter a holistic healing,
Meredith Oke:they're like, yeah, that sounds good. That's all
Meredith Oke:the things.
Katelyn Simmons:Exactly.
Meredith Oke:Right.
Katelyn Simmons:And, you know, I really didn't know there was
Katelyn Simmons:more. The only thing I knew I hadn't looked into
Katelyn Simmons:was energy. Right. But as my belief system as a
Katelyn Simmons:Christian growing up with this, you know, I guess
Katelyn Simmons:the paradigm is you stay away from that stuff.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, I remember feeling so uncomfortable in my
Katelyn Simmons:massage class just because people were talking
Katelyn Simmons:about crystals. Now I laugh, but it is something
Katelyn Simmons:that's real. People are really actually afraid of
Katelyn Simmons:a lot of this side of things that we're talking
Katelyn Simmons:about because they don't understand.
Meredith Oke:I would love to understand a little bit more
Meredith Oke:about that because I actually did not know that
Meredith Oke:until recently. Until, you know, we. I started
Meredith Oke:getting involved in this world and, you know,
Meredith Oke:switched from creating corporate consulting
Meredith Oke:programs to helping create quantum biology
Meredith Oke:programs. And this has come up several times with
Meredith Oke:different people. And I was raised in the
Meredith Oke:Anglican Church, which in the United States is
Meredith Oke:the Episcopalian church. We didn't really have
Meredith Oke:rules like that. It was a very kind of standard
Meredith Oke:religion where you went and you, you know, they
Meredith Oke:didn't really say much about what you did outside
Meredith Oke:of church. And I just, I didn't know that there
Meredith Oke:was this deep belief where. So if you could
Meredith Oke:explain it to me. Is it. My understanding is that
Meredith Oke:it's like seen as like a form of maybe witchcraft
Meredith Oke:or.
Katelyn Simmons:Yes.
Meredith Oke:Evil. Evil manipulation of things that we
Meredith Oke:shouldn't be messing around with.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah, it's.
Meredith Oke:Or how is it framed?
Katelyn Simmons:I think it's probably different each person and
Katelyn Simmons:what they were taught and what the environment
Katelyn Simmons:probably felt like as a child or what they were
Katelyn Simmons:taught in church. For me it was looked at like
Katelyn Simmons:it's New Age. New Age was just basically this far
Katelyn Simmons:off thing that you didn't even want to learn
Katelyn Simmons:about. Like it's evil, it's wrong, it's
Katelyn Simmons:witchcraft. And that was a whole. That was where
Katelyn Simmons:my paradigm started to shift was because I was
Katelyn Simmons:thrown right into it. I went from like sheltered
Katelyn Simmons:little Caitlyn Christian everything to massage
Katelyn Simmons:school where then I. Everything in my life,
Katelyn Simmons:everyone that came in was more New age than
Katelyn Simmons:anything I had learned. So. And it was just
Katelyn Simmons:something that you didn't know about or like
Katelyn Simmons:crystals, those were evil. You see a crystal
Katelyn Simmons:shop, you don't go in there. That's witchcraft.
Katelyn Simmons:There's only witches in there. Like it's. And
Katelyn Simmons:it's not really talked about a lot. It's just you
Katelyn Simmons:just know you, you're not supposed to do it and
Katelyn Simmons:you don't learn anything about it or. Does that
Katelyn Simmons:make sense?
Meredith Oke:Yes, it's just sort of like an off limits. Yeah,
Meredith Oke:an off limits topic. And yeah, like I could, I
Meredith Oke:can kind of understand because as with anything,
Meredith Oke:if you take it to its extreme or you do it
Meredith Oke:without ethics or, or grounding or, you know, you
Meredith Oke:have an experienced mentor or guide, like the New
Meredith Oke:Age movement could go way off the rails. So. Or
Meredith Oke:the, the things that are involved in it. So I do
Meredith Oke:understand from a certain perspective that you
Meredith Oke:would want to protect people from that.
Katelyn Simmons:And I think then as someone who is really like,
Katelyn Simmons:I'm really strong in my belief. I'm not. I didn't
Katelyn Simmons:like leave. I still love Jesus. I'm still a
Katelyn Simmons:Christian. Like it's just hard for me to want to
Katelyn Simmons:be connected to the religion side of it because
Katelyn Simmons:then I feel like it's this weird in between of
Katelyn Simmons:just trying to explain. Like this is just energy.
Katelyn Simmons:This is just how, if you believe in God, this is
Katelyn Simmons:how God made you. This is how you're Made like
Katelyn Simmons:it's what you're made of. Yeah, just simplifying
Katelyn Simmons:it and breaking it down. Like, I don't think
Katelyn Simmons:anyone needs to be afraid of this stuff. And, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, fear. We know fear is such a low frequency.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, that's like the worst frequency to be
Katelyn Simmons:vibrating at. And so helping people switch from
Katelyn Simmons:fear to actual discernment, where you're really
Katelyn Simmons:using critical thinking skills and actually
Katelyn Simmons:looking at things. And, you know, if you read the
Katelyn Simmons:Bible and you believe the Bible, the Bible just
Katelyn Simmons:clearly says what to do. And the Bible doesn't
Katelyn Simmons:say anything about, like, specifically New Age or
Katelyn Simmons:energy or frequency. And actually, as I've
Katelyn Simmons:learned more, it strengthened my faith, and it's
Katelyn Simmons:made me look at the things I've grown up with and
Katelyn Simmons:read in the Bible and made me realize, wow,
Katelyn Simmons:laying on of hands, taking every thought captive,
Katelyn Simmons:like distance walking on water. Like, all of the
Katelyn Simmons:miracles, they make sense. It's like, whoa, we
Katelyn Simmons:live in a quantum universe, and that's how we
Katelyn Simmons:were created. So I think everybody, if you've
Katelyn Simmons:struggled with that, you really just try to have
Katelyn Simmons:an open mind and look at the science, look at
Katelyn Simmons:the. Look at what everything on your podcast,
Katelyn Simmons:like, everything points back to strengthening
Katelyn Simmons:your faith. If that's where you come from, if.
Meredith Oke:That makes sense, that makes perfect sense. And,
Meredith Oke:Katelyn, you explain that really beautifully. So
Meredith Oke:I'm really glad you're doing this podcast, and I
Meredith Oke:hope you do a lot more because you have really
Meredith Oke:connected, I think, made a connection that is
Meredith Oke:going to be really profound and powerful for
Meredith Oke:people.
Katelyn Simmons:I hope so. I hope so, because I just see, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, I don't believe that anyone was put on this
Katelyn Simmons:Earth to have to live a painful life. I think
Katelyn Simmons:that everyone is worthy and capable and, like,
Katelyn Simmons:it's your birthright to be healthy and blessed
Katelyn Simmons:and abundant. And for some reason, a lot of stuff
Katelyn Simmons:in religion says otherwise. And I just want to
Katelyn Simmons:shed light on that. Like, and this, all. This all
Katelyn Simmons:points to that. That, like, we're energy, we can
Katelyn Simmons:raise our vibration, we can raise our frequency.
Katelyn Simmons:It's just. It's incredible.
Meredith Oke:It really is. And I love the word that you used
Meredith Oke:instead of fear. You didn't say faith, you didn't
Meredith Oke:say trust. You said discernment. And I think that
Meredith Oke:is a really good word choice and really profound
Meredith Oke:because nobody's saying, like, oh, just believe
Meredith Oke:everything we say. It's. Use your. Use your best
Meredith Oke:judgment at what makes sense. As you explore
Meredith Oke:these new paradigms, as you explore the available
Meredith Oke:research, as you connect to your own inner
Meredith Oke:wisdom, what feels true and what, what does the
Meredith Oke:evidence point to? And that's not just fully
Meredith Oke:rejecting something out of fear and not just
Meredith Oke:fully embracing something out of. Out of faith,
Meredith Oke:but moving toward it.
Katelyn Simmons:I mean, then you'd be watching TV and say, oh,
Katelyn Simmons:yeah, that's true, that's true. Everything. Like,
Katelyn Simmons:that's terrible. I tell people that all the time.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, don't take what I say for truth. Look it up
Katelyn Simmons:yourself. I even got a message recently, someone
Katelyn Simmons:saying, like, can you tell me? Like, she was
Katelyn Simmons:really intense about one of the products I share.
Katelyn Simmons:I shared about Sheilajit. And it was like, well,
Katelyn Simmons:what's this? What's that? I'm like, I don't know
Katelyn Simmons:all the specifics. You can look at all the brands
Katelyn Simmons:and make a decision for yourself. You don't have
Katelyn Simmons:to use what I use. So we have to use discernment
Katelyn Simmons:in everything? Yes, everything we buy. When you
Katelyn Simmons:go to the grocery store, use your critical
Katelyn Simmons:thinking and pick what works for you.
Meredith Oke:Yes, absolutely. And your discernment. When
Meredith Oke:listening to podcasts, I feel like sometimes
Meredith Oke:you'll have a favorite podcast host and they'll
Meredith Oke:be talking about a thing and you're like, oh, I
Meredith Oke:better take that or do it or order it. It's like,
Meredith Oke:maybe, maybe not. Again, your inner discernment
Meredith Oke:on it. Okay, so let's circle back to your
Meredith Oke:journey. So you had become very well educated in
Meredith Oke:the kind of baseline natural health modalities
Meredith Oke:that a lot of us know. Massage therapy, lymphatic
Meredith Oke:drainage, supplements. And it helped. But you
Meredith Oke:still, even though you felt intellectually like,
Meredith Oke:okay, these are all the things you felt inside.
Meredith Oke:Like, there's something, there's something more.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. And my, my body was screaming at me too.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, it. There was clear signs, like,
Katelyn Simmons:something's missing. Because I was still
Katelyn Simmons:struggling, not healing from trauma I had been
Katelyn Simmons:through. I'd been through a lot of trauma care.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, I had chronic lower back pain from an
Katelyn Simmons:accident I had been in. I had anxiety,
Katelyn Simmons:depression, ptsd. I couldn't drive my car to my
Katelyn Simmons:office without having to plan to literally be
Katelyn Simmons:able to pull over and work through a panic
Katelyn Simmons:attack. Like, I was holding it together with
Katelyn Simmons:trying to help my clients and trying to help
Katelyn Simmons:myself. And just literally by the end of the day,
Katelyn Simmons:it was like there were days I would crawl up the
Katelyn Simmons:stairs to my apartment. Like, it was just so
Katelyn Simmons:intense. Like, I knew something was wrong, but I
Katelyn Simmons:was like, how could something be wrong when I
Katelyn Simmons:have a sauna? I had a full size sauna in my tiny
Katelyn Simmons:apartment in Southern California. My poor husband
Katelyn Simmons:was like, everything is well. Like, I had
Katelyn Simmons:everything you could possibly imagine that you
Katelyn Simmons:know, of in the root cause community. And I. So
Katelyn Simmons:it got to a point where I just was like,
Katelyn Simmons:something has to change. I. And I made a
Katelyn Simmons:decision. I remember the day I was looking at my
Katelyn Simmons:life, like, something has to change. I have to
Katelyn Simmons:heal. I have to get better. I have to find what
Katelyn Simmons:I'm missing. And so I prayed, and it was like
Katelyn Simmons:this divine download that I can't even. I don't
Katelyn Simmons:even know how. It just was like, Search Energy
Katelyn Simmons:healing. Christian energy healing on Instagram.
Katelyn Simmons:It was so clear. It was like. And I never had
Katelyn Simmons:thought of that. I was like, christian energy.
Meredith Oke:Christian energy healing. I love how specific
Meredith Oke:these intuitive hits can be. Beautiful. Okay.
Katelyn Simmons:It was crazy. And so I did. And it's still. It
Katelyn Simmons:still just makes me laugh because it's like, wow.
Katelyn Simmons:It. It. And it's been there, like, so many. After
Katelyn Simmons:I, you know, told my parents about it and worked
Katelyn Simmons:through the certifications and all these things,
Katelyn Simmons:my mom was like, you know, how many people have
Katelyn Simmons:told us about this, like, over the years, like,
Katelyn Simmons:we've been.
Meredith Oke:So anyways, told them about Christian energy.
Katelyn Simmons:Healing, like, specifically the emotion code and,
Katelyn Simmons:like, energy work, like, releasing trapped
Katelyn Simmons:emotions. And, you know, none of us, like, like,
Katelyn Simmons:what is that? Who cares? So it took, like, really
Katelyn Simmons:getting to a breaking point and just being
Katelyn Simmons:desperate and praying and making that decision.
Katelyn Simmons:I'm gonna change. My life has to shift. And then
Katelyn Simmons:I came across on Instagram from that search
Katelyn Simmons:Christian, who did the emotion code. And so I
Katelyn Simmons:clicked on it and she was fully booked. And so I
Katelyn Simmons:thought, okay, I'm just gonna look up what is the
Katelyn Simmons:emotion code. If she thinks it's okay, I better
Katelyn Simmons:look into it because at this point, I have to
Katelyn Simmons:have an open mind. And, you know, I. I had
Katelyn Simmons:already been doing, like, bioresonance in my
Katelyn Simmons:practice. I had some of the frequency stuff.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, my lymphatic machine was frequency back
Katelyn Simmons:when I was 13, that one of the things that really
Katelyn Simmons:helped me from Lyme so that I could be well
Katelyn Simmons:enough to go to high school was pulsed
Katelyn Simmons:electromagnetic field therapy. And we knew about
Katelyn Simmons:red light. Like, we knew a lot of the frequency
Katelyn Simmons:stuff, but not to this extent. So anyways, I went
Katelyn Simmons:to the emotion code website and signed up for the
Katelyn Simmons:certification that day. I'm going to learn how to
Katelyn Simmons:do this and teach myself. I love it. And that,
Katelyn Simmons:that was the start because I started learning,
Katelyn Simmons:like, Dr. Bradley Nelson puts it into really
Katelyn Simmons:amazing. Like, just. He breaks it down so good.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, your energy, you're made of 99.99999%
Katelyn Simmons:energy. And you have emotions, and your organs
Katelyn Simmons:create emotions, and if you don't let them go and
Katelyn Simmons:they get trapped, they're going to block energy,
Katelyn Simmons:and so you're going to be in pain, and they can
Katelyn Simmons:affect everything in your life. So then I learned
Katelyn Simmons:how to muscle test, which I had been wanting to
Katelyn Simmons:learn muscle testing for so long because there
Katelyn Simmons:were chiropractors I went to who did it, And I'd
Katelyn Simmons:always ask them. I was like, how do you learn how
Katelyn Simmons:to muscle test? I want to know, how do you do
Katelyn Simmons:this? And they'd all tell me, oh, you have to go
Katelyn Simmons:to chiropractor school. Like, okay. So that's why
Katelyn Simmons:I made a muscle testing course.
Meredith Oke:I learned it out of the back of the Power vs
Meredith Oke:Force book, but.
Katelyn Simmons:I wish I had that one, too. Like, you can learn
Katelyn Simmons:it on YouTube. Like, it's so. Yeah, it's. It's
Katelyn Simmons:how our bodies were made, right? We're like.
Katelyn Simmons:We're drawn to truth, and we're repelled by
Katelyn Simmons:false, like, lies. So anyways, that was the
Katelyn Simmons:start, and so I got really obsessed with it. I
Katelyn Simmons:started using it on all my clients, and that
Katelyn Simmons:brought up the fear in my clients. And so from
Katelyn Simmons:right then, as I was starting to explain it to
Katelyn Simmons:these people in person, I realized I felt like I
Katelyn Simmons:had this mission. I need to demystify this and
Katelyn Simmons:help people see. Like, this is not evil. This is
Katelyn Simmons:how your body was made. Emotions are real. And
Katelyn Simmons:just talking about your emotions isn't always
Katelyn Simmons:going to be what works for me. That didn't work.
Katelyn Simmons:I went to therapy. It felt like it just made
Katelyn Simmons:things worse. So this was such an incredible
Katelyn Simmons:tool. And then I started seeing it transform my
Katelyn Simmons:clients. Right there, we'd feel energy move like
Katelyn Simmons:wind, and my client would look at me like, did
Katelyn Simmons:you feel that? Or someone would turn bright red
Katelyn Simmons:when an emotion left. And it was like, whoa, this
Katelyn Simmons:is real. This is tangible. Like, this is. This is
Katelyn Simmons:the next thing. Like, we have to do energy.
Katelyn Simmons:That's the missing piece. So then I was, like,
Katelyn Simmons:searching on YouTube and looking for things about
Katelyn Simmons:the emotion code and came across the AO scan,
Katelyn Simmons:which, if you're on my page, you know, I talk
Katelyn Simmons:about that all the time, which is just a
Katelyn Simmons:frequency. Another frequency tool.
Meredith Oke:Okay.
Katelyn Simmons:And that. That was the next thing. So between the
Katelyn Simmons:emotion code and the AO scan, within a couple of
Katelyn Simmons:months, I closed down my brick and mortar because
Katelyn Simmons:I realized I need to go virtual. I need to get
Katelyn Simmons:this word out to the masses. I need to go home
Katelyn Simmons:and Heal and let my body heal. And it was just
Katelyn Simmons:like I started having 180 after 180, after 180.
Katelyn Simmons:And there's been no looking back. It's just been.
Katelyn Simmons:And then I found you. And then I found the
Katelyn Simmons:Quantum Biology collective. And I was like, whoa,
Katelyn Simmons:this is also cool. So I've been geeking out ever
Katelyn Simmons:since and just cannot get enough. It's just. It's
Katelyn Simmons:like, it makes it all come together.
Meredith Oke:Beautiful. What an incredible journey. Okay, so
Meredith Oke:to walk us through a little bit, I mean, like, to
Meredith Oke:get super specific but high level. The emotion
Meredith Oke:code, how does that work?
Katelyn Simmons:So the emotion code is basically just using your
Katelyn Simmons:own body's subconscious and nervous system via
Katelyn Simmons:muscle testing. So, like, you can press on your
Katelyn Simmons:body and you'll hold strong if you get an answer
Katelyn Simmons:from your nervous system. Yes. Or your body will
Katelyn Simmons:go weak if it's a no. And so Dr. Bradley Nelson,
Katelyn Simmons:you can look him up and look, read his book. It's
Katelyn Simmons:like, I don't know, $15 book. And you can learn
Katelyn Simmons:how to do it yourself, which I love. I'm like,
Katelyn Simmons:anything you can give people. Like, that's what
Katelyn Simmons:the whole quantum biology is. It's like so many
Katelyn Simmons:free things people can do and totally transform
Katelyn Simmons:their life so fast. It's like, yeah, everyone
Katelyn Simmons:needs it anyway. So you identify a trapped
Katelyn Simmons:emotion. So we could go like, do I have a trapped
Katelyn Simmons:emotion? Yes. And then you can ask your body
Katelyn Simmons:questions, where is that trapped emotion? Your
Katelyn Simmons:liver? And then simply release it with, I guess
Katelyn Simmons:you could say, similar to acupuncture, you swipe
Katelyn Simmons:over your governing meridian three times and the
Katelyn Simmons:emotional energy leaves. Did that kind of wrap up
Katelyn Simmons:what it is?
Meredith Oke:Yes.
Katelyn Simmons:And so then he goes deeper into the body code and
Katelyn Simmons:the belief code. And it's really cool, but it's
Katelyn Simmons:like a tool I think everyone should know how to
Katelyn Simmons:do.
Meredith Oke:Yes. You know, there are so many, you know, as
Meredith Oke:you were just saying, like, keeping our circadian
Meredith Oke:rhythms regulated, like that is just. Should be
Meredith Oke:sort of a basic thing that everyone understands
Meredith Oke:coming out of the gate.
Katelyn Simmons:Right.
Meredith Oke:Like, you mostly, if you're at all health
Meredith Oke:focused, you mostly know, like, to eat healthy
Meredith Oke:food and, like, drink clean water. And there,
Meredith Oke:there are so many things that could just be
Meredith Oke:foundational pieces of information that we all
Meredith Oke:have, that we all do ourselves, that we don't
Meredith Oke:have to outsource to other people. We don't have
Meredith Oke:to hire if you have, if you do have us. I'm big
Meredith Oke:on working with practitioners for sure, but
Meredith Oke:there, there are so many things we can do just in
Meredith Oke:Our day to day lives that we're not, you know,
Meredith Oke:that we've been told are really complicated. And
Meredith Oke:I had a really good conversation with Eileen
Meredith Oke:McKusick about that where she does the bio. Like
Meredith Oke:her biofield tuning.
Katelyn Simmons:She was one of the ones that, like, once I read
Katelyn Simmons:her books, I was like, chakras, there's nothing
Katelyn Simmons:wrong with chakras. It's part of our body.
Katelyn Simmons:Because that was another big one in the Christian
Katelyn Simmons:community. I was like, oh, I love her so much.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, I've read her books so many times because
Katelyn Simmons:she's so incredible.
Meredith Oke:Oh, I love that. Yes. No, exactly. Well, I was
Meredith Oke:just going to say it's like we had this
Meredith Oke:conversation where we've sort of been led to
Meredith Oke:believe that trauma is like really embedded and
Meredith Oke:complex and you can't get rid of it. And
Meredith Oke:unresolved trauma absolutely has cascading
Meredith Oke:effects throughout our lives, but it doesn't have
Meredith Oke:to be unresolved.
Katelyn Simmons:Exactly, exactly. And I had been at. I was at
Katelyn Simmons:that point where I thought, because I had had
Katelyn Simmons:like a really scary thing happen to me and then
Katelyn Simmons:got rear ended on the freeway a couple weeks
Katelyn Simmons:later. And it felt like I was never gonna. It
Katelyn Simmons:took me years to heal from it because it. And it
Katelyn Simmons:felt like it was gonna live with me forever. But
Katelyn Simmons:then as soon as I started releasing trapped
Katelyn Simmons:emotions and I did biofield tuning eventually
Katelyn Simmons:too, once I found her, I was like, I bought her
Katelyn Simmons:tuning forks, I took her self course and like
Katelyn Simmons:started doing it all. But it was like, oh, the
Katelyn Simmons:memory is still there, but it's not creating this
Katelyn Simmons:physical reaction in my body anymore. I can drive
Katelyn Simmons:my car without shaking and having a panic attack.
Katelyn Simmons:I can think about what happened and not be
Katelyn Simmons:paranoid that someone's always chasing me or like
Katelyn Simmons:there can be things that used to be triggers and
Katelyn Simmons:it's not creating that physical response. And I
Katelyn Simmons:think that was a big piece to why, you know,
Katelyn Simmons:things weren't. Weren't healing. It was like
Katelyn Simmons:affecting. It affects your cells and it blocks
Katelyn Simmons:the meridians from flowing and like Eileen talks
Katelyn Simmons:about, it stays in your biofield, but it's like
Katelyn Simmons:you can just clear it out and have freedom and
Katelyn Simmons:it's transformative. Yeah.
Meredith Oke:And I feel like still to this day I feel a little
Meredith Oke:bit bad saying that. I feel like, oh, no, like,
Meredith Oke:don't make it sound so simple, Meredith. That's
Meredith Oke:not fair. But like, why not?
Katelyn Simmons:I mean, you know, it's a paradigm shift and
Katelyn Simmons:people, you know, you have to make a choice. I
Katelyn Simmons:had to make a choice to stop being in victim
Katelyn Simmons:mode. I think I feel so confident talking about
Katelyn Simmons:it, because I was there. I felt like, this is so
Katelyn Simmons:hard. How could anyone say anything to me
Katelyn Simmons:otherwise? How could you tell me to look at the
Katelyn Simmons:bright? Bright side? How could you? I remember
Katelyn Simmons:one of. I went. Used to go get colon
Katelyn Simmons:hydrotherapy, and I remember she'd tell me, she'd
Katelyn Simmons:be like, you know, sometimes we attract what we
Katelyn Simmons:are. Maybe you need. Like, she actually tried
Katelyn Simmons:saying that to me, and I was like, what? How
Katelyn Simmons:could you say? Like, I was mad afterwards, So I
Katelyn Simmons:get it. Like, but now, coming through it and
Katelyn Simmons:being on the other side, it's like, wow, we do
Katelyn Simmons:have to shift from victim to being triumphant.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, I am going to heal. I am going to change. I
Katelyn Simmons:am going to let this be in the past. Because
Katelyn Simmons:that's something I saw with my clients, too. I
Katelyn Simmons:built up my practice. I had all these people who
Katelyn Simmons:would come to see me for. Well, I went virtual,
Katelyn Simmons:but we do sessions, and a lot of people, not
Katelyn Simmons:everybody, but a good chunk of people, there was
Katelyn Simmons:a disconnect where they weren't really ready to
Katelyn Simmons:let it go. Like it was part of their identity.
Katelyn Simmons:And that's another thing I had to learn, too.
Katelyn Simmons:Lyme is not me. Lyme is just a thing. And I'm
Katelyn Simmons:gonna move forward from it. Like, so there's that
Katelyn Simmons:whole piece of. Yeah. Not being victim anymore.
Meredith Oke:Absolutely. And it's no small thing.
Katelyn Simmons:It is.
Meredith Oke:It is in the wider culture, I think, much safer
Meredith Oke:to feel like a victim than to feel like a
Meredith Oke:successful person and show up that way.
Katelyn Simmons:And it feels like our society's, like, made to
Katelyn Simmons:make that thrive. Like, it's. It's almost like
Katelyn Simmons:we're going against 99% of everybody to show up
Katelyn Simmons:as successful and healed and different.
Meredith Oke:Yes. And there's. There is currency in being
Meredith Oke:traumatized and damaged. And I'm gonna go. I'm
Meredith Oke:just gonna go all the way with it. And I'm
Meredith Oke:speaking of someone who has also healed a lot of
Meredith Oke:things. I haven't got into it on. On this
Meredith Oke:podcast, and I probably won't, but it was a lot.
Meredith Oke:It was a lot of things. And I think that in order
Meredith Oke:to fully let go of that victim mentality, in
Meredith Oke:order to fully let go of, like, oh, well, I have
Meredith Oke:this trauma, so I can't. It's. It's a way to have
Meredith Oke:low standards and low expectations for ourselves
Meredith Oke:and always give ourselves a way out.
Katelyn Simmons:Chills, mic drop, like, whoa, that needs to be a
Katelyn Simmons:quote. You need to put that in a quote and put it
Katelyn Simmons:on your Instagram. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. It's. It's
Katelyn Simmons:huge. That was really profound.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. And I say that not just from. That's what I
Meredith Oke:see as a coach and other people. That's what I
Meredith Oke:saw in myself.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah.
Meredith Oke:And then it's a continuous journey to move
Meredith Oke:through it. Every time we do something new, we
Meredith Oke:move through a version of it.
Katelyn Simmons:Yes. That's what, that's what came to mind was I
Katelyn Simmons:had to come to another version of it when I got
Katelyn Simmons:pregnant. And when I read, you know, I went. I'm
Katelyn Simmons:not going to go into all the birth stuff. That's
Katelyn Simmons:a whole other topic. But I read Yolanda Norris
Katelyn Simmons:Clark's book and I almost feel like that's a book
Katelyn Simmons:that, that everyone should read. Whether you want
Katelyn Simmons:to be a mom or not, or you've already had kids
Katelyn Simmons:and you're, you know, she just dives into that,
Katelyn Simmons:the whole victim mentality too, and she breaks it
Katelyn Simmons:down. And it helped me. I ended up having a free
Katelyn Simmons:birth, and that was my choice. And my husband and
Katelyn Simmons:I did that together. And I know everyone has
Katelyn Simmons:their opinions on that, but I felt so empowered.
Katelyn Simmons:And it was like the last. Well, I'm sure there's
Katelyn Simmons:more to work through, but another big chunk of
Katelyn Simmons:that victim of the negativity of it just, it
Katelyn Simmons:helped me shed that. Like, giving birth in that
Katelyn Simmons:way was so empowering. It was like I gave birth
Katelyn Simmons:to a new version of myself. And afterward, I
Katelyn Simmons:remember I just felt like, wow, I'm stepping into
Katelyn Simmons:my most authentic self now. And that's actually
Katelyn Simmons:something that really helped in every area of my
Katelyn Simmons:life. But it is a continual shedding. It's like
Katelyn Simmons:the onion, you gotta peel back all these layers
Katelyn Simmons:and it's kind of the never ending onion, but it.
Meredith Oke:Yes. And some days you're like, where is the
Meredith Oke:goddamn end of this onion?
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Sorry to swear. I just want everyone to know when
Meredith Oke:I swear, I have calibrated the words to resonate
Meredith Oke:at a very high frequency. It's not real swearing.
Meredith Oke:So I, I was reading some of your experience and I
Meredith Oke:wanted to talk about this a little bit more. You
Meredith Oke:mentioned it briefly, but when you were doing in
Meredith Oke:person work with people, you were seeing them in
Meredith Oke:your clinic. You were, you know, putting your
Meredith Oke:hands on them to do them, to do massage therapy.
Meredith Oke:You talked about, like, the energetic effects of
Meredith Oke:that and how you had to learn to shield yourself
Meredith Oke:and ground yourself and protect yourself in that
Meredith Oke:experience. So I know a lot of people who are
Meredith Oke:still. There are a lot of people who are still in
Meredith Oke:the. In person you ultimately chose to go
Meredith Oke:virtual. But while you were still in that space,
Meredith Oke:how did you come to understand how to stay
Meredith Oke:protected while working with other people?
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah, I remember one. As I was learning, I talked
Katelyn Simmons:to a few of my clients about it. I was like, man,
Katelyn Simmons:sometimes clients come in and I feel like. Like I
Katelyn Simmons:touch them, and if they're angry, I'm angry, and
Katelyn Simmons:they leave happy. And if I remember specifically,
Katelyn Simmons:like, there would be times when someone would
Katelyn Simmons:come in with something really severe, like cancer
Katelyn Simmons:or something, where they were just really down in
Katelyn Simmons:the dumps, low and in pain. And I would almost
Katelyn Simmons:feel. I would feel the pain in the exact same
Katelyn Simmons:spot that they were saying. And so I remember
Katelyn Simmons:just feeling like, what is this? This is so
Katelyn Simmons:weird. I don't want this. This feels icky, and it
Katelyn Simmons:just would feel heavy. Can you hear my baby
Katelyn Simmons:really loud in the back?
Meredith Oke:I can hear her very quietly, and.
Katelyn Simmons:It'S beautiful, so don't worry about it. It's so
Katelyn Simmons:weird to be away from her. Anyway, so I was
Katelyn Simmons:talking to some clients about it, and they were
Katelyn Simmons:like, well, just envision a white bubble around
Katelyn Simmons:you. I think, okay, that's cool. And I started
Katelyn Simmons:trying to do that, and I think it helped a
Katelyn Simmons:little, but I didn't totally understand, so that
Katelyn Simmons:was kind of the start. And then I started
Katelyn Simmons:learning more about grounding, and I started just
Katelyn Simmons:envisioning myself before I would go in to work
Katelyn Simmons:with a client. I'd envisioned myself having my
Katelyn Simmons:energy grounded deep into the earth. And that was
Katelyn Simmons:something that really helped me a lot. But it was
Katelyn Simmons:never really enough until that short period when
Katelyn Simmons:I learned about the emotion code and the AO scan.
Katelyn Simmons:And I was really seeing how, like, with muscle
Katelyn Simmons:testing, you can swipe, see if you can see your
Katelyn Simmons:governing meridian three times, the sweat, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, and clear energy off of you. And so now I
Katelyn Simmons:still do that to this day. If I walk past someone
Katelyn Simmons:and I feel something, I'm just like, get off of
Katelyn Simmons:me. And that really started helping. And then the
Katelyn Simmons:AO scan, there's frequencies you can run for
Katelyn Simmons:energetic clear and energetic shield. And those
Katelyn Simmons:made such a difference. It was, you know, those
Katelyn Simmons:last few months or couple months in my practice,
Katelyn Simmons:I started doing that every day, and it was just a
Katelyn Simmons:game changer. So.
Meredith Oke:So tell me a little more about the AO scan. I
Meredith Oke:don't know what that is.
Katelyn Simmons:Oh, okay. So the AO scan is a subscription that
Katelyn Simmons:you can have on your phone. You can log into it
Katelyn Simmons:from basically any device like, that connects to
Katelyn Simmons:the Internet, and it will transform your computer
Katelyn Simmons:or your phone into A frequency generator. So
Katelyn Simmons:you're familiar with bioresonance, Right. Where
Katelyn Simmons:you can get a scan. Like, I used to have a really
Katelyn Simmons:expensive one. You put your hand on it and it
Katelyn Simmons:would scan your whole body. And I'd have to be
Katelyn Simmons:with clients for like an hour and a half and to
Katelyn Simmons:see everything that's out of balance in your body
Katelyn Simmons:energetically. So it's not lab work. It's not.
Katelyn Simmons:It's like taking a picture in time, like a
Katelyn Simmons:snapshot in time to see where your body's
Katelyn Simmons:resonating at. So this goes from, you know, all
Katelyn Simmons:of your bones to your nerves, your mitochondria,
Katelyn Simmons:which I started geeking out about that once I was
Katelyn Simmons:in the course, the quantum course, because it was
Katelyn Simmons:like, whoa. Like, I can optimize my mitochondria
Katelyn Simmons:every day. So this is a little different from a
Katelyn Simmons:lot of bioresonance on the market, because you
Katelyn Simmons:can then optimize everything it scanned for that
Katelyn Simmons:was out of balance. So it's like, I don't pay
Katelyn Simmons:attention a whole lot to the reports. I just love
Katelyn Simmons:to put my body back into homeostasis every day.
Katelyn Simmons:And then on top of that, there's custom sound
Katelyn Simmons:therapy. So, like voice analysis. You can record
Katelyn Simmons:your voice and create sound therapy tailored to
Katelyn Simmons:exactly what emotions you need to release and
Katelyn Simmons:bring balance to which that was a huge piece.
Katelyn Simmons:That was like emotion code with. That was. I
Katelyn Simmons:mean, I felt like that's why I was clearing so
Katelyn Simmons:much so fast, because it was like, whoa, I'm. I'm
Katelyn Simmons:getting to the root of the emotions. And it's so
Katelyn Simmons:cool because it shows the physical connections
Katelyn Simmons:and the energetic connections to those emotions
Katelyn Simmons:that it found out of balance within your voice.
Katelyn Simmons:You know how people are so telling. Like you can
Katelyn Simmons:hear them talk and they're happy, or you can hear
Katelyn Simmons:them talk and you get depressed. You're like,
Katelyn Simmons:whoa. Like, I feel that this technology actually
Katelyn Simmons:picks up. It scans over 10,000 frequencies within
Katelyn Simmons:your voice to like, spit out these frequencies
Katelyn Simmons:for you every single day or however much you want
Katelyn Simmons:to do. So then there's the whole. You know,
Katelyn Simmons:there's so much. That's why I talk about it so
Katelyn Simmons:much on my page. And I have like hour long
Katelyn Simmons:YouTube videos on it. And, like, it's so in
Katelyn Simmons:depth. It's. It used to be a $38,000 practitioner
Katelyn Simmons:system. Like doctors and clinics have it.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Katelyn Simmons:But then I believe it was in 2021, Lauren
Katelyn Simmons:Swenson, who developed all of this, he had the
Katelyn Simmons:vision, and they had the vision to bring that
Katelyn Simmons:sound therapy part to everybody. Because, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, everyone was struggling in 2020.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Katelyn Simmons:And then they made it so now anyone can have
Katelyn Simmons:access to it. So there's so much more cool
Katelyn Simmons:subconscious reprogramming. There's a lot, but
Katelyn Simmons:that's what the EOS scan is.
Meredith Oke:That's really fun.
Katelyn Simmons:It is fun.
Meredith Oke:So that, yes, helped with your ability to stay
Meredith Oke:within your own energy and not take. Take on
Meredith Oke:whatever your clients were bringing in that day.
Katelyn Simmons:And I think shedding those layers of emotions
Katelyn Simmons:too, like just working on yourself, releasing
Katelyn Simmons:trapped emotions gives you the space where you're
Katelyn Simmons:actually, like, resilient. You're not, because,
Katelyn Simmons:you know, everything acts like a magnet. So if
Katelyn Simmons:you have, I don't know, 20 on the low side, 20
Katelyn Simmons:trapped emotions of fear, those are always going
Katelyn Simmons:to be attracting more emotions of fear or things
Katelyn Simmons:that vibrate at that same level. So if you have
Katelyn Simmons:all these trapped emotions of unworthiness,
Katelyn Simmons:sadness, depression, anxiety, like I had all of
Katelyn Simmons:these just bombarding me. And I remember working
Katelyn Simmons:through, I felt like I was like releasing
Katelyn Simmons:thousands of trapped emotions. It attracts more
Katelyn Simmons:of that into your life because you're. That's
Katelyn Simmons:where you're vibrating at. So as you raise your
Katelyn Simmons:frequency and you heal and just, you know, like,
Katelyn Simmons:we see people release parasites, right, when they
Katelyn Simmons:just. They just start doing the circadian stuff.
Katelyn Simmons:Like, just raising your frequency helps you shed
Katelyn Simmons:the negativity and the sickness and the disease
Katelyn Simmons:and the bad stuff, and you start to attract
Katelyn Simmons:different. And you. The stuff doesn't stick to
Katelyn Simmons:you.
Meredith Oke:It's so cool. It's also amazing. And it's, you
Meredith Oke:know, back to what we were saying earlier, right?
Meredith Oke:Like, if we had just some baseline understanding
Meredith Oke:of this, we could be clearing that stuff out as
Meredith Oke:we go. You know, it's like being like, oh, you
Meredith Oke:know, instead of like vacuuming once a year, it's
Meredith Oke:like, oh, I'm supposed to vacuum once a week.
Meredith Oke:Okay. Right. Like, you know, we, we allow these
Meredith Oke:things to build up because we can't see them. And
Meredith Oke:we, we've been left ignorant of. Of how to just
Meredith Oke:do maintenance that way. But it's. When I got
Meredith Oke:pregnant, it's not that complicated.
Katelyn Simmons:It's really not. But when I got pregnant, I was
Katelyn Simmons:like, I'm gonna start releasing all the inherited
Katelyn Simmons:trapped emotions this way. Because when you
Katelyn Simmons:release the inherited stuff, it releases in your
Katelyn Simmons:kids too, and your whole generational line and
Katelyn Simmons:started releasing them from my baby. I'm like,
Katelyn Simmons:once a week I just check, and there's really
Katelyn Simmons:nothing there. But it's just. It feels so cool to
Katelyn Simmons:be able to Set up a little human from the
Katelyn Simmons:beginning without coming in with all this baggage.
Meredith Oke:That's really beautiful. That's so beautiful. I
Meredith Oke:love that. So you brought up mitochondria. Talk
Meredith Oke:to me about, you know, like, let's sort of bring
Meredith Oke:it together with just daily habits and the
Meredith Oke:lights, you know, the light and dark cycles and
Meredith Oke:all of the circadian stuff. How have. How has it
Meredith Oke:all sort of come together for you? Because you
Meredith Oke:did. You did the deep dive. You studied, you got
Meredith Oke:certified, so you went all the way.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. So that was. That's. I think, what really
Katelyn Simmons:helped get my hormones. It just, like, tied it
Katelyn Simmons:all together. It was like, okay, these are the
Katelyn Simmons:things that are so foundational. It's like. It
Katelyn Simmons:brings you to the terrain theory. Like, if the
Katelyn Simmons:terrain is good and our hormones are, you know,
Katelyn Simmons:producing at the right times of the day, it just
Katelyn Simmons:all makes it, like. It's just cohesive. Your body
Katelyn Simmons:can now work. So. Learning about sun. The sun was
Katelyn Simmons:my favorite because, you know, Heather's program
Katelyn Simmons:on the sun. It was so. Because I've always loved
Katelyn Simmons:the sun. I've wanted to go bake in the sun for
Katelyn Simmons:hours on end, and I've, like, wanted to be out in
Katelyn Simmons:the morning. Like, it's just something I think
Katelyn Simmons:we're all born with intuitively. But then society
Katelyn Simmons:comes in and just kind of crushes it. Like,
Katelyn Simmons:you're. You get almost tuned into everything else
Katelyn Simmons:feeling good. Like, it feels good to sleep in and
Katelyn Simmons:feels good to look at your phone until it
Katelyn Simmons:doesn't. Until it, like, actually is wreaking
Katelyn Simmons:havoc on your health. So learning. I think the
Katelyn Simmons:first day I listened to that about sunrise, I
Katelyn Simmons:started going outside every morning, and it made
Katelyn Simmons:such a difference. It was like, whoa, I can feel
Katelyn Simmons:a difference. And I just craved to be outside
Katelyn Simmons:even more. And that was probably the biggest game
Katelyn Simmons:changer for me, was because I Learning about how
Katelyn Simmons:just that sunrise light, whether it's cloudy or
Katelyn Simmons:not or whatever the weather is, like, it sets you
Katelyn Simmons:up for the rest of the day where you're not
Katelyn Simmons:gonna. You know, you precondition your skin. You
Katelyn Simmons:build that solar callus. You set up cord, like,
Katelyn Simmons:cortisol. Like, I love talking about cortisol
Katelyn Simmons:because it's. We have these free tools you can
Katelyn Simmons:use to balance things. So I just started, like,
Katelyn Simmons:being out. I remember cold mornings. I'd bundle
Katelyn Simmons:up and sit outside with my coffee for, like,
Katelyn Simmons:three hours. Like, I'm gonna heal. I'm gonna heal
Katelyn Simmons:with sunlight even more. And that's just carried
Katelyn Simmons:through, like, the first couple days after my
Katelyn Simmons:baby was born, I would bring her outside, like,
Katelyn Simmons:every day. Like, we're getting sunlight, we're
Katelyn Simmons:getting. I still bring her out at sunrise. We go
Katelyn Simmons:out, like, every couple hours to get all the
Katelyn Simmons:white codes. And the only thing that's been hard
Katelyn Simmons:with a baby is wearing my blue light blockers.
Katelyn Simmons:That's been tough because she just wants them.
Meredith Oke:She just pulls them off your face. Yeah, that's
Meredith Oke:true.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. I still wear them at night, but when she's
Katelyn Simmons:asleep. Yeah, yeah. It's just. It's. It's. It's
Katelyn Simmons:life. And once you build the habit, it's a part
Katelyn Simmons:of your life. Like, it just. It's a part of your
Katelyn Simmons:life now. Like, you can't go any other way. And
Katelyn Simmons:grounding, like, every morning we go ground. It's
Katelyn Simmons:just turned into such a nice routine. And I think
Katelyn Simmons:that's actually really helpful for moms with
Katelyn Simmons:young kids is if you have this routine where you
Katelyn Simmons:get the sun, you ground, you go outside multiple
Katelyn Simmons:times, no matter what the weather is, or you
Katelyn Simmons:crack a window. Like, it really. I mean, maybe
Katelyn Simmons:it's just my baby's temperament, but she is so
Katelyn Simmons:happy all the time. And I can tell if we need
Katelyn Simmons:more sun or need to get outside or need to ground
Katelyn Simmons:if she starts to not be a little happy. And then
Katelyn Simmons:it's like, instant. We get in the grass, we get
Katelyn Simmons:in the sun, we go to the beach. Instantly, she's
Katelyn Simmons:just perfect again.
Meredith Oke:Wow, that's really interesting, because I know,
Meredith Oke:you know, for a lot of parents, it's like, oh,
Meredith Oke:I'll turn the TV on, or I'll give them a show.
Meredith Oke:Oh, they're a bit grumpy. Like, I'll just give
Meredith Oke:them a show to watch or.
Katelyn Simmons:I think that makes sense.
Meredith Oke:I definitely did that back in the day. But, yeah.
Meredith Oke:Oh, going outside a couple shows.
Katelyn Simmons:But the windows always open and the doors open in
Katelyn Simmons:short amounts of time. But I can see. I can see
Katelyn Simmons:that change her, too. So it's. I've almost, you
Katelyn Simmons:know, I go back and forth, like, should we watch
Katelyn Simmons:a little bit of something so I can drink my
Katelyn Simmons:coffee or. No, it's always better when we just go
Katelyn Simmons:outside. Yeah, but no judgment. It's there. It's
Katelyn Simmons:just. You can do these little things, like open
Katelyn Simmons:the window if it's on, or, you know, I want to
Katelyn Simmons:get a projector at some point, because that'll be
Katelyn Simmons:a little better, but.
Meredith Oke:Oh, that's a fun idea. Yes. And truly, no
Meredith Oke:judgment. My children all have screens, and, you
Meredith Oke:know, we live. We don't homeschool. We live in
Meredith Oke:the. In the prescribed prescription world of, you
Meredith Oke:know, normal society. And, you know, that's just
Meredith Oke:how we've chosen to do it.
Katelyn Simmons:And, yeah, it just shows how powerful it still
Katelyn Simmons:is, though. Like, you don't have to live some
Katelyn Simmons:hippie woo woo life for this to change your life.
Katelyn Simmons:And you don't have to, like, change your whole
Katelyn Simmons:identity and be a totally different. Like, that's
Katelyn Simmons:just who I am. I love being outside and I want to
Katelyn Simmons:homeschool. That's just me because I was
Katelyn Simmons:homeschooled when I was little. But no, not
Katelyn Simmons:everyone has to do that. It's so, like, just work
Katelyn Simmons:it into your schedule. Like, I loved when Carrie
Katelyn Simmons:would talk about just cracking the windows on her
Katelyn Simmons:way to school drop off or opening the sunroof
Katelyn Simmons:and, you know, popping on your blue light
Katelyn Simmons:blockers or wearing wired headsets instead of
Katelyn Simmons:Bluetooth and just all the simple little things
Katelyn Simmons:you can shift.
Meredith Oke:Yes. And when, you know, I think that's an
Meredith Oke:important message I always like to bring up is
Meredith Oke:every little thing matters. You know, going
Meredith Oke:outside in the morning for even five minutes,
Meredith Oke:even two minutes before other light hits your
Meredith Oke:eyes or, you know, not turning on those big
Meredith Oke:overhead lights after sunset. Like, just little
Meredith Oke:things. And one thing I hear a lot is people are
Meredith Oke:like, oh, I listen to your podcast, but I'm just
Meredith Oke:so overwhelmed at the thought of changing every
Meredith Oke:light bulb in my house. I don't think. I don't
Meredith Oke:think I can do this circadian thing. And I'm
Meredith Oke:like, oh, my gosh, if I left you with that
Meredith Oke:impression, the. My bad. Just don't turn them on.
Meredith Oke:It's very simple. You don't have to change
Meredith Oke:everything. Just have some lamps with
Meredith Oke:incandescent bulbs and don't turn on the big
Meredith Oke:lights. You don't have to because, you know,
Meredith Oke:we're all. We all have ceilings filled with those
Meredith Oke:LEDs that.
Katelyn Simmons:And a lot of us have husbands who think it's
Katelyn Simmons:really annoying for it to be dark. It's a fight
Katelyn Simmons:over here. So, you know, it's. It is what it. Not
Katelyn Simmons:all of our bulbs are changed. I've slowly changed
Katelyn Simmons:them. And he's like, why are these so dim? Did I
Katelyn Simmons:get any brighter? So it's. Just do what you can
Katelyn Simmons:and it's gonna help no matter what. Like, it's
Katelyn Simmons:not perfection. And that's like, it goes for
Katelyn Simmons:everything with health. It's not perfection. And
Katelyn Simmons:everything in your life, you cannot show up
Katelyn Simmons:perfect for anything. And if you try, you're just
Katelyn Simmons:gonna be depressed.
Meredith Oke:Right. It's another one of those traps that we
Meredith Oke:set for ourselves. Right. We're like, I am going
Meredith Oke:to play an unwinnable game, and I'm not allowed
Meredith Oke:to feel successful or happy until this unwinnable
Meredith Oke:game is won. But it's unwinnable.
Katelyn Simmons:And that's like. I don't know if you want to talk
Katelyn Simmons:about abundance at all, but, like, that's one of
Katelyn Simmons:the huge blocks to abundance. Like, we get so
Katelyn Simmons:caught up in what's next and what. What can I do
Katelyn Simmons:to, you know, if you're on social media, like, do
Katelyn Simmons:more posts and, like, all this perfection instead
Katelyn Simmons:of just enjoying where you're at now, doing what
Katelyn Simmons:you can now, knowing that it's good enough and
Katelyn Simmons:just, you know, everyone struggles with that. I
Katelyn Simmons:still struggle with that, but it's. It's so much
Katelyn Simmons:more enjoyable to go through life. And I think it
Katelyn Simmons:frees up your healing when you don't try to
Katelyn Simmons:control. Because it's like human nature is to
Katelyn Simmons:control everything and grip onto everything
Katelyn Simmons:really tightly. But as soon as you surrender,
Katelyn Simmons:it's like, the river can flow, everything can
Katelyn Simmons:work. And then, you know, I feel like the bad
Katelyn Simmons:stuff doesn't affect you as much.
Meredith Oke:Yes. And I find too, when you get in that flow,
Meredith Oke:then ideas come and we feel called to do things
Meredith Oke:that will require us to push ourselves a little
Meredith Oke:bit.
Katelyn Simmons:Yes.
Meredith Oke:But it's coming from this place of abundance, not
Meredith Oke:a place of, like, I have to do this.
Katelyn Simmons:Yes. And it's fulfilling and it's like your
Katelyn Simmons:passion. And it's like, it's so different. It's
Katelyn Simmons:so different. Like, it's. It is hard work to do
Katelyn Simmons:any of, you know, to change your life in any way.
Katelyn Simmons:It's hard work, but it's harder to stay where
Katelyn Simmons:you're at. In my opinion. It would have been a
Katelyn Simmons:lot harder if I would have just stayed where I
Katelyn Simmons:was at. I'd be. Yeah, it was hard work to get
Katelyn Simmons:where I am now, but so worth it. And not as hard.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah, yeah.
Meredith Oke:Not as painful.
Katelyn Simmons:And so rewarding.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, it's amazing. Life is really cool. And I
Meredith Oke:love, you know. Yeah, I love this chat, like, and
Meredith Oke:coming into the mitochondria, you know, and the
Meredith Oke:idea of, like, clearing our emotions, clearing
Meredith Oke:toxic light. Right. Like these. These are all the
Meredith Oke:frequencies and these, these little.
Katelyn Simmons:These, these.
Meredith Oke:I don't even know. I saw Martin Picard, who does
Meredith Oke:a lot of really interesting mitochondrial
Meredith Oke:research and bioenergetics, and he was. He did a
Meredith Oke:post recently. He's like, we gotta stop with the
Meredith Oke:powerhouse of the cell. It's been 60 years. It's
Meredith Oke:not accurate. And I thought, okay, so what are
Meredith Oke:we? What's the new catchphrase? And so now I call
Meredith Oke:on everyone if we're. If we're gonna upgrade from
Meredith Oke:powerhouse of the cell, like what should we call
Meredith Oke:it? Because it encompasses everything. Right. As
Meredith Oke:you were saying. Right. Like strengthening our
Meredith Oke:mitochondria from physical practices like
Meredith Oke:grounding and reducing toxic light.
Katelyn Simmons:Oh.
Meredith Oke:Gives us energy for emotional healing which may
Meredith Oke:come. Which may come next. And that. That idea of
Meredith Oke:the nonlinear healing and people. You know, I've
Meredith Oke:had people reach out to me lately who said they
Meredith Oke:started with the circadian stuff and like their
Meredith Oke:sleep is worse and they're like, yeah. And it
Meredith Oke:turned out I had all this emotional work to do.
Meredith Oke:So it's just so interesting how our bodies.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah, the whole layer thing. A layer cake. Yeah.
Katelyn Simmons:It's just I feel like too. People need to
Katelyn Simmons:remember as you heal, this is like a lifelong
Katelyn Simmons:journey. It's not a three week cleanse. It's not
Katelyn Simmons:a three month cleanse. This is lifelong. And we
Katelyn Simmons:weren't. It's not just our lifetime. We have to
Katelyn Simmons:look at everything that affected ourselves and
Katelyn Simmons:our mitochondria and our muscles and everything.
Katelyn Simmons:Our fascia, like the fascia is so complex. It's
Katelyn Simmons:like generational. It's multi. Generational
Katelyn Simmons:things that have affected us. And so we're
Katelyn Simmons:peeling back these layers. And sometimes when
Katelyn Simmons:your body gets that energy to actually be able to
Katelyn Simmons:address what's been underlying or hiding deep in
Katelyn Simmons:your tissues or in your organs, it's gonna be a
Katelyn Simmons:little painful and be a little frustrating
Katelyn Simmons:because now your body's like, oh, hey, I can
Katelyn Simmons:target this. I can clear this out. I can. You can
Katelyn Simmons:feel this emotion now, and it's just. It's just a
Katelyn Simmons:part of it.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. And I love what you just said. You can feel
Meredith Oke:this emotion now. Because I think so much of our
Meredith Oke:energy goes towards making sure we don't have to
Meredith Oke:feel certain things. And I've been really digging
Meredith Oke:in lately. I've been putting myself out there and
Meredith Oke:pushing myself to do things. And I'm like, oh,
Meredith Oke:but it's gonna make me feel. And I'm like, yep.
Meredith Oke:And it did. And you know what? It passes. It just
Meredith Oke:flows through. I think if I'm not trying to block
Meredith Oke:it or six seconds.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah. For an emotion to pass. Yeah. But it can.
Katelyn Simmons:You know, but then it can trigger. You know, the
Katelyn Simmons:cool thing about trapped emotions is they talk
Katelyn Simmons:about how they're really energetically the size
Katelyn Simmons:of your fist, but when they get triggered, they
Katelyn Simmons:can blow up to the size of a balloon or a beach
Katelyn Simmons:ball energetically. And then that can kind of
Katelyn Simmons:create this trigger effect through your whole
Katelyn Simmons:body, triggering the rest of them. And so it can
Katelyn Simmons:feel so overwhelming when you first start, but it
Katelyn Simmons:does get easier and easier and easier the more
Katelyn Simmons:you let yourself feel, because then you can
Katelyn Simmons:actually feel in the moment when something's
Katelyn Simmons:happening too. Because that's actually how
Katelyn Simmons:emotions get trapped. We stuff it down and we
Katelyn Simmons:don't feel it, and we, like, we want to avoid it.
Katelyn Simmons:And that creates this cycle of just stuffing it
Katelyn Simmons:down, stuffing and stuffing, and, you know.
Meredith Oke:Yeah.
Katelyn Simmons:Creates this whole problem.
Meredith Oke:And then the problems begin or continue or get
Meredith Oke:worse or whatever. Oh, my goodness, Caitlin, it's
Meredith Oke:been so delightful to talk to you. I'm so glad we
Meredith Oke:got to meet and have this conversation before I.
Meredith Oke:You share sort of how people can find you. Is
Meredith Oke:there anything that else that you'd like to say
Meredith Oke:before we wrap up?
Katelyn Simmons:I don't know. I just. It's just all so good. I
Katelyn Simmons:feel like we could talk for hours. Like, there's
Katelyn Simmons:just so many different rabbit holes you can go
Katelyn Simmons:down and just. It's all so good. And quantum
Katelyn Simmons:biology is just. It's life changing. And I didn't
Katelyn Simmons:think that the emotional side of it really fit in
Katelyn Simmons:to the quantum biology. You know, back when it
Katelyn Simmons:was the two part course and then the second part
Katelyn Simmons:came in and Carrie was talking about Eileen, I
Katelyn Simmons:was like, oh, they know about Eileen McKusick. I
Katelyn Simmons:was so excited. Like, it was like, this does fit
Katelyn Simmons:in. It's all together. So I was like, am I
Katelyn Simmons:talking about the same stuff? Does this fit in
Katelyn Simmons:together? And then that kind of led me to looking
Katelyn Simmons:for trapped emotions specifically affecting the
Katelyn Simmons:mitochondria in my clients. And, like, looking at
Katelyn Simmons:it from this whole new lens of, like, how are
Katelyn Simmons:emotions affecting the circadian side of it, the
Katelyn Simmons:quantum side of it? And it just kind of turned
Katelyn Simmons:into this whole new, like, it is connected and
Katelyn Simmons:it's all important and we need to focus on all of
Katelyn Simmons:it.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah, for sure. No, it is
Meredith Oke:because it's. I mean, we. I think light's a great
Meredith Oke:way in because it's so misunderstood and ignored.
Meredith Oke:And it's just such an easy fix once you
Meredith Oke:understand the basics of it. But at the end of
Meredith Oke:the day, light is. Is frequency. Emotions are
Meredith Oke:frequency. It's all frequency. And it's trapped
Meredith Oke:in the. In the structured water in our bodies,
Meredith Oke:and it's doing all the things. And there's sound
Meredith Oke:and light and the motion code and all of it works
Meredith Oke:with the energy of our body as you so beautifully
Meredith Oke:laid out.
Katelyn Simmons:Yeah, yeah. And so many ways to address all of
Katelyn Simmons:that, too. Like, there's, you know, emotion
Katelyn Simmons:code's not the only way. There's breath, there's
Katelyn Simmons:sound bowls, there's somatic work. There's, like,
Katelyn Simmons:so many different avenues people can go down to
Katelyn Simmons:just start healing. And all of it's raising our
Katelyn Simmons:vibration and raising our frequency. So it's all
Katelyn Simmons:connected.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, I love it. And so where can people find
Meredith Oke:you, Katelyn?
Katelyn Simmons:The best place is probably my Instagram.
Katelyn Simmons:Aitlinsimmonsofficial, and that's where I'm most
Katelyn Simmons:active, like, in my DMs. I am on my Facebook, but
Katelyn Simmons:everything from Instagram just gets uploaded to
Katelyn Simmons:Facebook, so I'm not super active over there. My
Katelyn Simmons:YouTube's really not consistent yet, but I'm
Katelyn Simmons:planning to do more YouTube, so probably
Katelyn Simmons:Instagram.
Meredith Oke:Okay, great. So that's at Caitlin Simmons,
Meredith Oke:official on Instagram. And Kaitlyn is spelled K,
Meredith Oke:A, T, E, L, Y, N Simmons. S, I, M. Thank you so
Meredith Oke:much. This was delightful, and we'll have to do
Meredith Oke:it again. Thank you, Meredith, and
Meredith Oke:congratulations on one full year of being a mama.
Katelyn Simmons:Thank you. It's been the best.