Episode 75
Episode #72 - Holistic Healing On Our Own Research & Terms: An Interview With Adele Cole
Imagine being diagnosed as a child with a host of different types of different issues, only to find out later on in life that they were all wrong. Today's guest, Adele Cole, shares her story of how Lyme Disease, a tick-borne illness, led to a world of healthcare that eventually led to coaching clients that experience similar issues. Learn through her story how these obstacles, despite how physically, emotionally, and socially draining that they have been, led to an ultimate success story in how a whole world of clients have been able to change their lifestyles, and how she has been able to be influenced positively by those stories.
WARNING: This episode discusses suicide and depression. Although these are very heavy subject matters that require great care and attention when discussing, these subjects are pivotal to the important understanding of our guest's way of navigating through any sort of unique challenge. Consult authorities, particularly when you know someone that is going through this, to seek out assistance and help with navigating through these very difficult conversations.
Guest Bio
Adele Cole is a registered nurse and founder of Wellness with Adele Cole, living in Central Pennsylvania with her husband, Cameron, and four children - 3 girls and 1 boy. Both her husband and Adele run separate businesses, but also homeschool and do a lot of "homesteading in suburbia", as they call it. She is also a Lyme warrior, offering holistic Lyme coaching and Zyto scanning services to help clients achieve and sustain healing goals. Adele's passion is helping others embrace and even ENJOY the healing journey, with the goal of saving time, energy, and money along the way. One main way she approaches this as a coach is by looking into how clients develop individual health resiliency to allow them to live the life of their dreams. Oftentimes, this is the life of freedom clients always wanted but thought was out of reach due to tick borne illnesses or difficult, ongoing health issues. She can help others meet those goals, one step at a time.
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Transcript
Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and
Intro:determination, all converge into an amazing, heartfelt experience.
Intro:This is Speaking From The Heart.
Joshua:Welcome back to episode number 72 of Speaking from the Heart.
Joshua:Today we have Adele Cole.
Joshua:She's a registered nurse and founder of Wellness With Adele
Joshua:Cole, living in Central Pennsylvania with her husband, Cameron, and four
Joshua:children, three girls and one boy.
Joshua:Both her husband and Adele run separate businesses, but also
Joshua:homeschool and do a lot of homesteading in suburbia, as they call it.
Joshua:She's also a Lyme Warrior, which offers holistic lime coaching and
Joshua:Zito scanning services to help clients achieve and sustain healing goals.
Joshua:Adele's passion is helping others embrace and even enjoy the healing
Joshua:journey with the goal of saving time, energy, and money along the way.
Joshua:One of the main ways she approaches this as a coach is by looking into
Joshua:how clients develop individual health resiliency to allow them
Joshua:to live the life of their dreams.
Joshua:Oftentimes, this is the life of freedom clients always wanted, but thought was
Joshua:outta reach due to tick-borne illnesses or difficult ongoing health issues.
Joshua:She can help others meet those goals one step at a time, and I think for her
Joshua:story, having a tick related illness that had happened to her early on in her
Joshua:life, I think that it will definitely tell a lot about her own story, which I
Joshua:must warn you when we do talk about that story, she'll talk a little bit about
Joshua:suicide, so I will encourage all of my listeners as a warning to not only stop
Joshua:listening to this episode if you do not want to approach that subject, but the
Joshua:most important thing to consider is that there's always help for those that are
Joshua:going through those sort of experiences, especially a traumatic experience.
Joshua:If you ever need somebody to help, always consider dialing 988, which again, I'll
Joshua:put that in the episode notes if you ever need somebody to reach out to.
Joshua:There's also plenty of resources with the National Institutes of Health that can
Joshua:provide different types of information as it relates to dealing with individuals
Joshua:that are going through that, but I highly encourage you to listen to this episode
Joshua:because it really provides not only a traditional understanding of really what's
Joshua:evolved with this sort of situation, especially as it's gotten to be known more
Joshua:prevalently with the types of things that ticks can provide to people, but I think
Joshua:that we can all understand a little bit more about how something like this can
Joshua:profoundly change our whole path in life.
Joshua:But with that, let's go to the episode.
Joshua:All right.
Joshua:We're here with Adele Cole.
Joshua:Adele, thanks for sharing your heart with us today.
Adele:Aw.
Adele:Thanks for having me, Josh.
Adele:I'm glad to be here.
Joshua:I am too.
Joshua:Thank you so much for being part of the show and just sharing a little bit about
Joshua:yourself before we even got started too, because I'm always thankful for the people
Joshua:that have been part of this and really thankful for your time as well, so Adele,
Joshua:I've already let the audience know a lot about you, but what really intrigued
Joshua:me more than anything else is that you went through something that my mom has
Joshua:gone through, which is Lyme Disease in itself, and since that's a big part
Joshua:of who you are, I was wondering if you could start off by talking a little bit
Joshua:about how this came to be where you found out or maybe didn't find out, because
Joshua:I also saw a little bit of that as well when I was reading through your bio,
Joshua:but I'm just curious if you could share that with the audience to start us off.
Adele:You bet I will try to do the condensed version for the sake of this
Adele:show, but it was quite a journey for over most of my life, and unfortunately
Adele:I don't have exact answers still to this day, but I've learned along the way.
Adele:That's okay too.
Adele:You don't have to have all the answers to still make progress, right, but it
Adele:all started when I was a child with some obscure symptoms after a hike
Adele:where I had some tick bites and I was around 11 years old at the time.
Adele:Could I have had Lyme before that?
Adele:Possibly.
Adele:I had had other tick bites in my childhood too, so this is
Adele:where it gets a little nebulous.
Adele:We don't know exact things except that a few weeks after this hike, where I
Adele:had to remove some ticks from myself afterwards, I developed a high grade
Adele:fever and a bullseye rash all over my body, and a few other symptoms,
Adele:migratory joint pain, pretty much like the equivalent of a pretty bad flu.
Adele:The fevers, the aches and pains bedridden, just really felt crummy,
Adele:really unusual for me as well.
Adele:I was very healthy, athletic kid, really active, but my parents
Adele:investigated obviously that was pretty concerning, especially with this
Adele:like full body rash all over me, and back then, I mean we're talking the
Adele:nineties, not to date myself, but I will eagerly do that for a timeframe.
Joshua:Nineties kid here as well, so it's okay.
Adele:Yay.
Adele:Nineties.
Adele:I mean, I knew no one that had Lyme.
Adele:Lyme was just this obscure thing that was really random and most people didn't
Adele:get, and I'm from Central Pennsylvania.
Adele:It's very high volume tick population, and no one knew Lyme
Adele:was actually a thing back then.
Adele:Even my doctors misdiagnosed me unintentionally.
Adele:They tried their best, but I was pretty much diagnosed with equivalents of
Adele:childhood illnesses like fifth's disease and other things that were viral and they
Adele:said it would run its course, even with the bullseye rash and everything, that's
Adele:how uninformed people were about Lyme back then, and the more you know, the more you
Adele:grow or whatever you want to say, but I did in fact improve over time right about
Adele:what they said; about a month or two of being pretty much bedridden as a kid.
Adele:I finally started to get back functionality, and the only problem
Adele:was I never really fully recovered, but we didn't really realize it.
Adele:I was functional and I was living like a good childhood again, and
Adele:back to my sports and my athletics and my extracurriculars and doing
Adele:well in school, but then when I was a teenager, for whatever reason, we
Adele:don't exactly know again, I got hit with illness again, and it was at that
Adele:time the doctors had to run more labs.
Adele:It was again, like a relapse of the flu type stuff.
Adele:No rash again and nothing like that, but just sick for no reason.
Adele:For people that know autoimmune diseases, it presented like a bunch of very common
Adele:autoimmune diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia and arthritis,
Adele:and the doctors ran more lab work at that time and that's when they found the Lyme
Adele:on just a basic western blot; typical everyday type labs, not a specialty Lyme
Adele:lab, and it was already chronic by the antibodies at that lab time as a teenager.
Adele:We actually went back and asked for evidence of my lab testing when I
Adele:was 11 and sick, and the labs were lost by the lab company itself.
Joshua:How convenient.
Adele:So we've never, yeah, so I was tested when I was 11 for Lyme and had
Adele:the bullseye and everything, but I was told everything was negative and
Adele:it actually, now I know it might have been too soon to test actually, and we
Adele:didn't know that, but regardless, it was a misdiagnosis and then mistreatment
Adele:when I was diagnosed as a teenager, I was given a month of antibiotics.
Adele:I was offered more if they helped.
Adele:My doctor was trying to do the best he could.
Adele:It was just my PCP, and the antibiotics ended up making me so sick and so
Adele:toxic, feeling that I declined further medical intervention after that month
Adele:because I didn't know any better, and again, a lot of looking back now, a
Adele:lot of learning new things would lead me to make different choices, but here
Adele:I am because of it, so I pretty much managed the rest of my teenage years with
Adele:like, after that month of antibiotics, it helped again a little bit, but I
Adele:had to quit my high school athletics.
Adele:I had to back way off my extracurriculars.
Adele:I made it through school with good grades only because that's all I focused on
Adele:and also I was homeschooled, so I had a little bit of flexibility to finish
Adele:high school or else I probably wouldn't have even finished high school on time
Adele:to be honest with you, just because of how sick I was and I managed to get
Adele:through high school and even college with the help of some alternative
Adele:medical options, like changing my diet.
Adele:Basically I exhausted traditional medicine community help.
Adele:My rheumatologist could only offer so much.
Adele:I did see an infectious disease doc.
Adele:He could only offer so much.
Adele:No one really knew what to do with me and I was just building up autoimmune
Adele:diagnoses, instead of actually treating the Lyme component, which I was told
Adele:wasn't an issue anymore, and so I accumulated, I don't know, around seven
Adele:different autoimmune diagnoses into my young adult years and I was set up
Adele:for a few more that they were working me up for even than that and they were
Adele:only escalating, and I was again, into adulthood, facing chemotherapy to manage
Adele:my autoimmune symptoms, so I managed mostly through holistic tools, honestly,
Adele:just to get by, thinking that I had all kinds of autoimmune problems all along,
Adele:and into my adult years and what has brought me here today in my mid thirties.
Adele:There we said it, but what has brought me here today to actually be
Adele:the healthiest I've been since I was 11 years old before I got my tick
Adele:bites that caused all this ruckus.
Adele:What got me here has been learning about Lyme literate treatment, getting
Adele:actual proper Lyme literate treatment and taking the time because it's
Adele:taken time over 10 years now, to completely hone in on and revamp my
Adele:health where nothing is off limits.
Adele:I looked at it as a holistic whole person perspective of healing with multiple
Adele:different modalities involved in that and that is finally what has done the
Adele:trick for the ultimate healing I've been able to experience and sustain,
Adele:instead of having relapses and the ups and downs and the battle that come with
Adele:that, and I'm still on that journey.
Adele:I'm still not fully in remission of Lyme.
Adele:I actually, turns out, have other co-infections from ticks as well,
Adele:but I'm knocking them out one by one.
Adele:It's like whack-a-mole and despite not being fully in remission, I'm still
Adele:living the life I was dreamed I would live, but thought at one point in time
Adele:I would never see manifest because I thought I'd be dead by now, honestly.
Adele:I was so sick as a teenager that I never dreamed I'd live into my thirties.
Adele:I didn't see how it was possible.
Adele:I felt like I was dying.
Joshua:I want to say a few things.
Joshua:First off, wow to the fact that you have just overcome that, but yet you're still
Joshua:fighting that even in your mid thirties.
Joshua:Thank you for disclosing, but the other thing with what you said too
Joshua:is that Lyme disease, just like some things that we've learned about even
Joshua:as kids in the nineties growing up, a lot of things were also misdiagnosed.
Joshua:My audience has already known that I was misdiagnosed even as a kid too.
Joshua:I was told I was mentally retarded from the doctors that my mom was saying, and
Joshua:now here, it turns out I only found out earlier this year that I'm autistic.
Joshua:It was actually a completely different sort of situation happening, and I was
Joshua:tested over and over again and there's a lot of blame that can go around,
Joshua:but instead of that, I'm hearing a lot more of, "Yeah, I've been able to do
Joshua:that", and just overcome that, but I was wondering, when you were going through
Joshua:this, even in the earlier years when you were still kind of wafering on, "Well,
Joshua:what is it that actually is going on?"
Joshua:Your mom and even the doctors were trying to figure out what was happening.
Adele:Yeah.
Joshua:What kind of feelings were associated with that, because I can only
Joshua:imagine that being a kid that could be pretty traumatic, that you're not able
Joshua:to do the same things as other kids your age, so can you talk about that for a bit?
Adele:Yeah, absolutely.
Adele:Funny you say that too about just now realizing what you've
Adele:actually gone through your whole life in an accurate way.
Adele:Similarly, to tie into your question, my therapist currently, which, hey
Adele:everyone, go get a therapist, by the way-
Joshua:I have one.
Adele:And top healing recommendation, no matter what you face, but I have a
Adele:really good trauma-informed therapist currently, and one of the first things
Adele:we discussed upon meeting her was how I've been through medical trauma my
Adele:whole life and I never realized that.
Adele:I'm not too proud to say it.
Adele:I feel kind of dumb saying it, but the whole point being, you're right.
Adele:I was walking through this very traumatic situation in my life medically, nevermind
Adele:other stuff that was part of life too, outside of just your medical, physical
Adele:wellbeing and mental wellbeing, and yeah, I went through a very dark place
Adele:as a teenager and subsequent occasional dark spots or dark nights of the soul,
Adele:if you will, even into my adult years for various reasons, often slightly
Adele:medically or very much medically related, but it started right around the time of
Adele:my diagnosis before we had a good handle on my health that I felt even stable.
Adele:I was very depressed.
Adele:I was very much suicidal, and doctors were not, and psychologists; I did get safe, I
Adele:got help; saw a psychologist, got on meds to acutely manage that and keep me safe.
Adele:While all of that helped to a degree, the disservice it did me, despite that, and
Adele:again, everyone doing the best with what they knew at the time, was that no one,
Adele:at any point in time until I was 36 years old, identified that this was largely
Adele:related to medical trauma and some other personal factors too from life and being a
Adele:teenage girl and all the things, but that the root of this, to a large degree, was
Adele:rooted in medical trauma and things that I needed to walk through in that regard,
Adele:and so when we misdiagnose, I mean, humans, doctors included, are only human.
Adele:They're going to make mistakes, but when humans do make mistakes, the
Adele:impact can be very devastating and so knowing better isn't better until
Adele:you do better too, and getting out of that dark place was really hard and it
Adele:involved a lot of, honestly, one of my pillars of healing that I promote now
Adele:in my business, and that is community.
Adele:It really took the power of my community, which was very small at that point
Adele:because I couldn't be socially active like I would want to have been, and
Adele:I lost a lot of friends and a lot of relationships through that, and I had
Adele:a lot of rocky relationships through that because of my capacity, but the
Adele:power of community is, besides the medical factors of medicating, getting
Adele:a therapist, doing safety measures, besides that, community was one of the
Adele:biggest factors to helping me survive.
Joshua:Yeah, and I say to even people as well that are going through even my
Joshua:coaching, it's about building that safety net for yourself, but it's also about
Joshua:realizing that there are people that you let into the safety net that are not safe
Joshua:whatsoever, so you got to purge that out too, and I'm sure that there was a lot
Joshua:of that, especially when you're talking about the medical trauma that you're
Joshua:working through to kind of realize that.
Joshua:I'm guessing, and I don't know, this might be a "Captain Obvious" sort of
Joshua:question, but you essentially became a nurse because of all these things, right?
Adele:Yeah, you know, ironically, right?
Adele:Doesn't that always happen?
Adele:It works out for you, not to you.
Adele:It's not against you in life if you choose to let it happen for you.
Adele:If you choose to look at it that way oftentimes.
Adele:Yeah, it was bad.
Adele:It was trauma, what I went through, but you're right, it led me to the
Adele:medical field in the end of it all.
Adele:I actually was going to school to become a physical therapist and
Adele:at the end, an athletic trainer.
Adele:I was going to dual major, but it was, honestly, ended up being too much, yes.
Adele:I was getting through it, but I realized the long haul of that was going to be
Adele:seven years of school, maybe a career that would be hard on me, like think
Adele:about athletic training at sporting events, evenings, weekends, long hours,
Adele:so I actually switched majors in college to nursing, because I knew at least
Adele:that I wanted to stick in the health and human sciences field, and that was
Adele:definitely the right fit for me to be in that field, and nursing turned out
Adele:to be, of course, the right fit for me too at the end of it all, but I
Adele:had never honestly entertained being a nurse before that moment in my life.
Adele:It was very clear my direction needed to pivot, and I went with it.
Adele:That was like really scary as a young adult, but my parents supported me.
Adele:It didn't mean I missed any time in school actually.
Adele:I was able to stay on track for graduation.
Adele:It worked out and it's been a beautiful journey to be able
Adele:to take my nursing career.
Adele:I was a critical care nurse in an ICU for many years, and then other management
Adele:capacity, transfer center capacity for a while, and now I have my own business
Adele:as a nurse, based around Lyme disease, education and coaching because of
Adele:exactly what I went through, and it took a little bit of a spiral roundabout to
Adele:get there, but I got there, and this is exactly where I'm meant to be and the
Adele:best way I can serve and use what I've been through trauma and otherwise to
Adele:make the biggest impact in the world.
Joshua:I love the fact that you are using that to make a big impact,
Joshua:because for myself, when I was reading your bio and was thinking, "Man, this
Joshua:is really specific, a real big niche for you to be able to focus not only
Joshua:on Lyme disease, but some of the things that are surrounding that."
Joshua:Now, I have to be honest.
Joshua:I've had people that are sales strategist coaches.
Joshua:I've had people that are fitness coaches.
Joshua:I've had people that do Reiki, which we were talking about
Joshua:earlier before we started.
Joshua:I have been in the business of doing life coaching and business coaching,
Joshua:things like that for over a year.
Joshua:I've talked to successful public speakers.
Joshua:I've had world champions come on the show as well, that have talked about
Joshua:their experiences of doing that sort of tournament style, but for you, this is
Joshua:something quite unique in itself, so when I go to recruit someone like you, which
Joshua:your business Wellness With Adele Cole, what should I expect, especially someone
Joshua:that might be suffering from Lyme disease.
Joshua:I noticed that you do Zyto scanning as well.
Joshua:I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about that as well.
Adele:Sure.
Adele:The main things I offer are individual coaching, one-on-one coaching, Zyto
Adele:scanning, and I have some online virtual courses that, some of which, have a
Adele:group coaching component to them as well, so I have a few different options
Adele:for people that want to work with me.
Adele:I mostly do coach those with Lyme or tick-borne illnesses.
Adele:However, I have coached outside that realm as well because there's a lot of general
Adele:health related topics that apply across the board whether you have Lyme or not,
Adele:and at the end of the day, it's not your diagnosis that specifically defines you
Adele:or your path, and there's a lot of ways to get to healing, so I approach it all
Adele:from a empowered, holistic perspective.
Adele:I like to say it's a lot of what you talked about, Josh, about having and
Adele:finding your voice and using that.
Adele:One of the biggest things about being a nurse is being
Adele:an advocate for your patients.
Joshua:Mm-hmm.
Adele:And I've had to be an advocate for myself my entire life.
Adele:I literally was the one coming to my doctor with research about what
Adele:I thought was wrong with me, because they didn't know at 15 years old.
Adele:I remember printing off articles on our old Mac computer, and taking them to
Adele:my doctor, trepidatiously, in the hopes that he would collaborate with me on
Adele:some thought and I feel like this is just an expansion of that, so yeah, I
Adele:offer services to discuss people's path and with the goal and the hope of saving
Adele:them time, energy, and money along their journey because my journey is now over
Adele:20 years in the making and ongoing, but I've made the most progress in the last
Adele:decade and I've learned enough along the way to be able to help people avoid
Adele:some of the pitfalls and the disruption to the actual meat and potatoes of their
Adele:healing that will, in the end, save them the time, energy, and money to get
Adele:there, all well empowering them along the way to take ownership of their journey.
Adele:No one else is responsible.
Adele:No doctor, no other person, no coach.
Adele:No one is any more responsible for your journey than actually you are
Adele:at the end of the day, and how you approach it is how others will start to
Adele:approach it, and what will really make or break your success in the end of
Adele:it all, so that's the coaching aspect.
Adele:I have some courses.
Adele:I'm actually in the middle of rolling out my signature course, which is
Adele:Designing Your Holistic Line Healing Blueprint, and it's me literally taking
Adele:all the pieces and walking you through.
Adele:It's self-directed for people that are struggling with their brain function
Adele:a little from Lyme and whatnot.
Adele:You can do it at your own pace, and it's all video recorded access forever, so
Adele:you can revisit what you didn't catch the first time; designed by a "Lymey
Adele:for a Lymey", and so you can walk through those step-by-step program.
Adele:Basically, you start to finish of how to get to your next healing goal
Adele:wherever you are on the journey, whether you're just starting out, or
Adele:whether you're close to remission and wanna achieve and sustain remission.
Adele:The course applies to anyone where they're at and you put in the pieces
Adele:that you need as you need them, and it builds the foundation, the blueprint
Adele:of your healing and sustainability for it, and then the Zyto scanning is
Adele:the newest addition to my services.
Adele:It's actually a tool that my family started using a couple years ago for
Adele:myself and my kiddos, some of whom also have Lyme and tick-borne illnesses,
Adele:which is another piece of my journey.
Joshua:Wow.
Adele:We're a family affair here.
Adele:Yeah, and then I actually got my husband even on board with Zyto scanning, which is
Adele:saying a lot when you get a dude on board with holistic healing, actually, right?
Joshua:Yeah.
Joshua:I'm a skeptic myself, so there, if you get me on board, there
Joshua:must be something good about it.
Adele:Right, right.
Adele:Well, he has his own like persistent health issues to a degree that even I
Adele:was having trouble figuring out exactly what direction to approach them from,
Adele:even with my knowledge base, and so Zyto scanning is bioenergetic testing
Adele:for those that know that terminology.
Adele:I mostly say this part for the dudes, but ladies like me and us nerds like it too.
Adele:It's galvanic skin response testing, which is the same technology.
Adele:I know.
Adele:It gets exciting here.
Adele:It's the same technology that lie detector testing uses.
Joshua:Oh man.
Adele:Yeah.
Joshua:Didn't expect that coming that way.
Adele:But I don't.
Adele:Surprise, but in a good way in that it's not going to necessarily lie detect
Adele:you, but it is the technology that allows the software; it's non-invasive.
Adele:It allows the software through a hand cradle to analyze your body's individual
Adele:response to different stressors.
Adele:That is a term from the Zyto software stressors are like the bad guys that
Adele:our body faces at any point in time.
Adele:It could be chemicals.
Adele:It can be foods we're eating, or food additives; food chemicals too.
Adele:It could be stress in our environment.
Adele:It could be emotional stress, hormones, toxins, whatever.
Adele:You name it.
Adele:It could be any stressor that you might face that it analyzes your body's response
Adele:to, spits out that information for you so you can kind of see where you're at,
Adele:and it could be viruses and bacteria that show up, or it could be that you
Adele:are staying sick, not necessarily so much because of Lyme or something else
Adele:of virus bacteria, but more because of mold or parasites or chemical exposure
Adele:or a food that you're sensitive to or whatever, and then the software
Adele:doesn't end with like what's wrong.
Adele:It actually offers a list of holistic solutions customized to
Adele:your body and customized to you.
Adele:That's the best part of it.
Adele:It's like the most customized, holistic tool that is really available.
Adele:Bioenergetic testing in general, and this is one company's version
Adele:of that, and I really like using it.
Adele:It's super user friendly and super client friendly.
Adele:You're not going to be like overwhelmed with all this
Adele:science and medical, whatever.
Adele:It gives you a lovely graphic report and a list of what you help choose
Adele:as your balancers, another Zyto term, for the good things for you right
Adele:now, it could be, again, examples of balancers are affirmations, essential
Adele:oils, if you're open to that, you don't have to choose those; foods.
Adele:The easiest medicine is food.
Adele:It could be stuff like services, like massage therapy or music therapy.
Adele:It could even be frequencies, if that interests you, again, and herbal
Adele:remedies, vitamins, teas, tinctures, so it's all, any holistic category could
Adele:be on there to help support your body.
Adele:Now, the big caveat is this is not diagnostic.
Adele:It doesn't mean that if something shows up as a stressor, that you have
Adele:it in your body; you could, you might.
Adele:Sometimes it correlates.
Adele:When I had strep throat once it showed up as a stressor on my Zyto scan
Adele:actually, so that can happen, but it's not a guarantee and it's not to be used.
Adele:They say it on their website, Zyto.
Adele:Z Y T O.com.
Adele:It's not to be used as a diagnostic tool, however, it's a tool for the purposes of
Adele:healing and providing insight to your body so you're not just, as they say, throwing
Adele:spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
Adele:If you're not sure what's wrong, or you're not sure what your next steps are for
Adele:whatever your healing journey looks like, this is not specific to Lymey warriors
Adele:only, you can get a whole bunch of information quickly from a scan like this.
Adele:My family became very obsessed with it, I will say because it was actually
Adele:helping us level up our healing in addition to our Lyme treatment, and we
Adele:weren't requiring much else in our lives.
Adele:No sick visits at the doctor.
Adele:I mean, emergency care was there if a kid breaks a bone of course or something,
Adele:but this was pretty much a way for us to stay on top of our health without
Adele:a guessing game, and we just apply the balancers that we choose for ourselves
Adele:and walk through those for a few weeks, re-scan, reevaluate, and we're getting
Adele:through layers of healing, one at a time.
Adele:They bubble up as you deal with them, basically.
Adele:I became trained as a Zyto practitioner then myself to offer that service
Adele:through my mentor and my holistic health coach that was giving me the service.
Adele:She offered to bring me in as part of her team, and so, like I said, now a service
Adele:I can provide as well, and the best part is, Zyto included, everything I do can
Adele:be done in person and remotely, even Zyto scanning has an option for remote
Adele:scanning, so you don't have to be present beside me to get it done, which is great.
Joshua:Yeah, and I was actually going to ask you how that impacted your
Joshua:family, but you answered that question for me, so thank you for reading my
Joshua:mind and answering that because the other part of it is, what has that
Joshua:done for your clients, and I don't mean specifically the testimonies
Joshua:that you have received from them.
Joshua:What I'm really saying is, as a result of what they have gone through with your
Joshua:coaching, has it changed you, has it impacted who you are today, especially,
Joshua:as you've said earlier about going through this yet, has it given you a
Joshua:new appreciation of the journey that you've been on and that you've been
Joshua:able to share with those same people?
Adele:Absolutely.
Adele:I think it is accomplishing what I set out to accomplish even better to have
Adele:an additional tool like Zyto scanning, because like I said, I love to pull from
Adele:tools that are actually valuable and going to be worthwhile with the intention
Adele:of saving client's time, energy, and money, and so if Zyto scanning helps
Adele:them get through layers of healing that are never just about Lyme, it's
Adele:never just about the tick bite, there's always other components, whether it's
Adele:medical trauma and emotional stuff and mental health stuff, or actual other
Adele:physical conditions or components.
Adele:Zyto, in particular, has been the perfect addition to what I set out to do and
Adele:what my goal is as a health coach, so it fulfills me because I see my patients
Adele:making progress faster when they're able to utilize coaching and Zyto, or there
Adele:is a coaching component with Zyto by itself because I'm coaching you as the
Adele:scans going on and afterwards as well so you don't have to do both things.
Adele:You can pick and choose, but my goal is to coach people out of coaching.
Adele:In other words, to coach people away from needing me, to coach them into
Adele:empowerment and the ability to know their body and understand what they need and
Adele:what direction to head without necessarily always needing a coach by their side.
Adele:There's nothing wrong with that.
Adele:I still need coaching and mentorship in my own life, by all means, but I
Adele:don't want to see clients that I have to continually coach in illness that
Adele:aren't seeing the goals and progress made that they want to see made.
Adele:If I don't see that, I'm not doing my job.
Joshua:Yeah, no, we are not doing our job-
Adele:Right.
Joshua:And I say we, because, for me, especially, I say the same thing.
Joshua:I say, "Look.
Joshua:I can help you with getting to where it is and keep you organized with
Joshua:that, but really your job is to hold yourself accountable with that", and
Joshua:we talk about why you couldn't hold yourself accountable so that you can
Joshua:try again, because sometimes that can be so whimsical of nature sometimes
Joshua:when we are not able to do that or even just put us in that depressive state,
Joshua:which you have talked about as well.
Joshua:Adele, we're almost out of time, but before I go into having you just talk a
Joshua:little bit about your business, I have one final question and it's relating
Joshua:to something that you wrote in a blog on your website that I wanted to point
Joshua:out, and you say this exactly verbatim, which I'm going to read for the audience.
Joshua:You can certainly fact check me, audience if you think I said it wrong
Joshua:too, but Adele doesn't have that chance because I'm saying it to her.
Joshua:She can fact check later.
Adele:Sure.
JoshuaBut you say this::" My story shows that healing is possible.
JoshuaBut you say this::It may take time, and that's okay.
JoshuaBut you say this::It's not one size fits all, and there's power in moving forward,
JoshuaBut you say this::whether scared, anxious, or unsure."
JoshuaBut you say this::with that said, I think that is so true in that we sometimes are
JoshuaBut you say this::afraid of the narrative that we want to create in our own lives.
JoshuaBut you say this::For you, this is a very deep question, but I think that from everything
JoshuaBut you say this::that you've shared today, I think this is really important for me
JoshuaBut you say this::to hear and also my audience.
Adele:Mm-hmm.
Joshua:Do you feel that you're writing your best story today as a result of
Joshua:everything that you've been through and everything that you have accomplished,
Joshua:given the fact that you've had these big trials that you're still, even
Joshua:admitted, that you're going through, are you satisfied with that and why?
Adele:Absolutely.
Adele:That's an easy answer.
Joshua:Mm-hmm.
Adele:The why?
Adele:Hmm.
Adele:I feel like there's a lot of why's, and I'm trying to discern, real quick here,
Adele:like the biggest piece of that for me.
Joshua:And maybe it's not the biggest piece for you, but maybe for somebody
Joshua:else too that is hearing this.
Adele:True, true I think because it's not original to me to say this,
Adele:I know, but there's true courage in facing the unknown, along with the
Adele:picture of fear and anxiety, and possibly your whole world changing,
Adele:and I think I'm exactly where I'm meant to be because there's no other way.
Adele:There's no other path than to be exactly where you're meant to be, and that's hard
Adele:to hear when you're in the worst place.
Adele:I'm meant to be here, but that's not your forever story unless you claim that as
Adele:your forever story, but you don't have to.
Adele:I think the tricky part is people want it to be a quick fix.
Adele:Of course, I wish it didn't take me 10 years of treatment to get here and
Adele:20 years plus of unknowns to get here.
Adele:I wish it was faster, and that's why I'm trying to make it faster for people, but
Adele:I can't, at the end of the day, control that, and I can't guarantee a timeframe
Adele:and no one can, but if you are satisfied knowing that you're on the journey meant
Adele:for you, and that your courage manifests in showing up regardless of the fear, and
Adele:working along with that, you can learn to embrace, excel in, and enjoy your journey,
Adele:which I also say a lot in my own marketing and as a kind of a little tagline for
Adele:what I do as well, because it's all about your perspective and you can impact
Adele:your healing with your mindset as well.
Adele:It's another piece of it, so yeah, I am an example to others, to my own
Adele:children, more than most of all, as a mom, you can't deny that, but I want
Adele:them and my clients to see and know that you can have your best life now.
Adele:You can have your best life now.
Joshua:That is the genuine article in itself is to just be able to have
Joshua:whatever you wish for it to be out of life, and you don't necessarily have
Joshua:to settle for less especially, and it can be settled for less, especially if
Joshua:you think that you have these medical issues that, yeah, they're legitimate
Joshua:and they should be taken care of.
Joshua:There should be no deniable plausibility with that, but there is a way through
Joshua:that to navigate, and I think that you provide that from what I hear.
Joshua:Adele, I'm sure that people are really interested in checking you out, especially
Joshua:if they knew if they know somebody or they know themselves that they're going through
Joshua:Lyme disease or something of that nature.
Joshua:Why don't you go ahead for the last few minutes, tell us a little bit
Joshua:about not only how we can access your website, how we can get in contact
Joshua:with you, anything else in terms of services that we should know about?
Joshua:I'm going to give you the last few minutes.
Adele:Thanks.
Adele:Awesome.
Adele:Yeah.
Adele:You're exactly right, even if you don't think you're impacted, that's
Adele:great, I'm glad you're not, but you probably know someone that is nowadays
Adele:it's so common to deal with tick-borne illnesses or even to be unsure.
Adele:I can coach you through what to do if you're unsure, so yeah.
Adele:One of the easiest ways to reach me, I think that sticks in people's
Adele:memory is my name is my website, adelecole.com, to keep it easy for you.
Adele:A D E L E C O L E.
Adele:My name's like the singer, but don't expect me to sing.
Adele:That's not my gifting.
Joshua:I'm not singing either.
Joshua:I was never going to make that joke and I'm glad that I didn't.
Joshua:You said it, not me.
Adele:I know I'm calling out the elephant in the room because everyone
Adele:always asks, but I'm the OG Adele.
Adele:I'm older than her, so, but yeah, ade cole.com is my website where my blog is
Adele:linked, my services are linked, and my story is linked there too for you as well.
Adele:I have a YouTube channel as well through that website, so any access to me there
Adele:you can find to your heart's desire.
Adele:You also are welcome to email me.
Adele:My email is oilswithadele@gmail.com, and I'm happy to just connect with people
Adele:and meet you where you're at, and if you have specific concerns we can talk about.
Adele:I do love, I guess the term these days is a good discovery call, we don't have to
Adele:call it that, but for the sake of people understanding what it is, I love a good
Adele:phone call or even an email chat back and forth or whatever you prefer to talk about
Adele:if I'm the right fit for you before you even decide what to do with my services,
Adele:but yeah, I have a few other things on my website too you might like to check out.
Adele:For example, I have a virtual kombucha brewing course which is a piece of our
Adele:healing journey, so I turned it into a short little, again, self-guided,
Adele:self-directed, hands-on way to brew your own kombucha at home as a part, if
Adele:that applies, to your healing journey.
Adele:I realize not everyone's into that drink beverage of choice, but we love it in our
Adele:family and it tastes so much better at home and it's way cheaper too, so if you
Adele:poke around on my website, you might find a few other little tidbits that I offer.
Adele:I actually have a Lime Planner Journal combo that I created that because I
Adele:couldn't find one on the market to suit my healing needs, so I made my own, and
Adele:that's on there too because when you have a disease that is impacting every
Adele:area of your life, you have to track all these things and keep track of your
Adele:supplements and your appointments and take notes from your doctor, and then
Adele:if you're really working on healing your mental health like I've been
Adele:through, you're also trying to journal effectively or process effectively.
Adele:I've put pieces of that in there too for emotional healing as well, so
Adele:when you can't find what you need, you sometimes make it yourself, so
Adele:again, I encourage you to poke around on my website and see what's out there
Adele:because there might be something there that's fit for you in an unusual way.
Joshua:Yeah, no I love it, and yeah, it is serious, but I'm laughing a
Joshua:little bit because I'm like, "Ooh, that's actually not a bad idea.
Joshua:Maybe combine all these things because their all inter-connected", so definitely,
Joshua:really appreciate you having those resources and I will put all that in
Joshua:the episode notes for those that want to access it as well, including even
Joshua:the YouTube channel too, but Adele, I do want to say that for people like
Joshua:you, it can be a very tough journey to get to where you are and you definitely
Joshua:have demonstrated to me, especially in just the last 30 seconds, that you are
Joshua:a very multi-talented lady that has so many different gifts to offer, and
Joshua:thank goodness that someone said, "Hey.
Joshua:Let's just do this basic test and just see what turns out", to find out what has
Joshua:been plaguing you so that you have been really a warrior on this earth, helping
Joshua:people get to where they need to be, especially if they have something like
Joshua:this, and for all those reasons and so much more, adele, I want to thank you so
Joshua:much for being on Speaking From The Heart, and this was an awesome conversation to
Joshua:have with you, and I really appreciate you being so open with us today.
Adele:Aw.
Adele:Thank you, Josh.
Adele:I appreciate it.
Adele:It's my pleasure to be here, and I appreciate the chance to share
Adele:my message too and my journey.
Joshua:Do you have a plan when something might happen if tragedy strikes?
Joshua:What are you going to do to overcome the unexpected in your life?
Joshua:Are you ready with that plan of action?
Joshua:Are you ready with something where you thought you might be willing
Joshua:to do, turns a complete 180 degree direction, and you have to move
Joshua:in that way in order to survive?
Joshua:I have to thank Adele for bringing those set of questions into mind,
Joshua:especially as it relates to the different types of things that we go through
Joshua:in our lives that create not just the illnesses, but also the solutions
Joshua:that we derive from those illnesses.
Joshua:Let's be real.
Joshua:Illness can create the different concerns and questions that we have in our lives
Joshua:overall as to really how much we can fully function, not only in the physical sense,
Joshua:but also the mental sense, and this goes back hundreds of years to even the dawn of
Joshua:time when we had medical plants and even tools to our disposal, which certainly
Joshua:have evolutionized the world of medicine in the last hundred years to get to where
Joshua:we are today, having a full range of diagnostic tools to help provide some of
Joshua:the best solutions when things come up.
Joshua:I have to say that it would help so many other people if these tools would've
Joshua:been around even when I was growing up, literally just only 30 years ago, and
Joshua:I have to say that because even with some of the things that I've shared
Joshua:about my autism diagnosis, I wish that there was more of an understanding about
Joshua:how the brain works and how there's different spectrums to the ways in which
Joshua:we interact with different people, but I think that for Adele, she really was
Joshua:able to move through the different types of things that were happening, despite
Joshua:the fact that her mom, and even herself, were given misdiagnoses along the way.
Joshua:She found her own solution, which is why she does what she does now, which
Joshua:is a sense, helping to create health and wellness coaching for a wide variety of
Joshua:different people, especially in Central Pennsylvania, which has a large population
Joshua:of ticks, mind you, Especially being one of those kids growing up on a farm,
Joshua:always picking them off and having my mom light a match to them, because that
Joshua:was one of the sure fine ways of making sure that they never crawled back on
Joshua:you, but what if we went outside the traditional ways of which we did medicine?
Joshua:In which we did something completely different?
Joshua:In other words, why always do the same things that everyone else is
Joshua:doing to achieve the same results, because are we really achieving
Joshua:the same amount of results?
Joshua:Full disclosure, I have two master's degrees, one in Business Administration
Joshua:from Alvernia University, and then a second one, Public Administration
Joshua:from Shippensburg University, both located in Pennsylvania.
Joshua:Do I really need to have those degrees in order to get to where I am today?
Joshua:More than likely not.
Joshua:Did it provide more of a worldview for me so that I would understand the
Joshua:different types of solutions that might be available, especially as I run a business?
Joshua:Absolutely.
Joshua:Do I think though, that in the overall grand scheme of things, I would've been
Joshua:able to figure that out myself if I had the sheer willpower and determination
Joshua:to go through all the different types of things that need to be done in order to
Joshua:have that sort of solution in my hands?
Joshua:Sure.
Joshua:I think the question really becomes a matter of: how much time are we willing
Joshua:to put, especially if time is the most precious thing that we have in our lives?
Joshua:What kind of trauma might be going through our lives, even now, that might
Joshua:be causing all kinds of time being lost?
Joshua:Now I know that's a very touchy subject because for many of us, we would say that
Joshua:our families are the most important thing, and I would not dispute that whatsoever.
Joshua:I've been one of those people for now a few years, realizing the
Joshua:true importance of having a family, especially when somebody else is
Joshua:really close to you that you really care about, but family isn't by blood.
Joshua:It's about the people that we connect with and we create some of the best
Joshua:bonds in order for us to help through all the different types of obstacles
Joshua:that are in our lives, and I can think of numerous people in my life that have
Joshua:been substantial enough to influence me.
Joshua:As a matter of fact, just last month, we were featuring some of those
Joshua:Toastmasters that definitely have made that positive contribution as a whole,
Joshua:but when we work with community, and we work on that opportunity to grow,
Joshua:we start to build safety through the numbers and the experience that we garner
Joshua:through that, and I think for Adele, especially being a registered nurse,
Joshua:she had that intention starting out.
Joshua:She wanted to find that niche in order for herself to create that success, which
Joshua:I think for many of us, we need to do in order to have not only the ability to
Joshua:sell ourselves, but to distinguish amongst others why we bring value to the table.
Joshua:Time, energy, and money.
Joshua:Those are the things that we all hold precious, but out of all of them, I
Joshua:would say time are the things that could make us fall into those pitfalls.
Joshua:There are things in our lives that we can take as journey moments.
Joshua:The very things that when we are standing in front of the fork in the
Joshua:road and we decide whether we go left or right, or we go backward or forward,
Joshua:we have to decide, what are the best ways in which we can move in the
Joshua:direction that is being yielded to us?
Joshua:Essentially, what is life telling us to do in order to move in that right direction,
Joshua:and for some people it is not easy to do.
Joshua:For this person talking to you right now, your podcast host, it was not very
Joshua:easy to do as well, and we were literally just talking, in episode number 70,
Joshua:about the importance of understanding where we can go, especially when we
Joshua:have that niche that we want to find.
Joshua:Bill, in that episode, talked a lot about those different aspects,
Joshua:but I think that it goes much more than just the professional realm.
Joshua:Now, in this episode, we're talking about the personal aspects.
Joshua:There's true courage about changing our story in which we want to claim.
Joshua:What is the fix that we really want to have in our lives that will give us
Joshua:that moment of, "Yes, I have done it."?
Joshua:Sometimes we don't get that moment.
Joshua:Sometimes tragedy strikes and then we're robbed of those opportunities, and I've,
Joshua:unfortunately, I've heard so many stories in my life that relate to just that
Joshua:experience, but even with all the trauma of all the different things that we go
Joshua:through as trials in our lives, it defines who we can be, and who we want to be, as
Joshua:a result of all those experiences, all those moments in which we were tested,
Joshua:and I think that's what is so important is that traditionally we're told that we need
Joshua:to do X, Y, Z; A, B, C; 1, 2, 3, in order to do what we want, but sometimes doing
Joshua:what we really want is not necessarily what really yields from those experiences.
What I mean is:you have to realize that sometimes, when moving in those
What I mean is:directions, you have to be ready to pivot, so it means not just having the real plan,
What I mean is:but what would happen if that real plan has to go to the secondary plan or the
What I mean is:third plan, maybe even the fourth plan?
What I mean is:I never thought in a million years that I would be sitting here recording
What I mean is:episodes and talking about my experiences in such a personal level, especially
What I mean is:with some of the guests that I've had some of the most interesting, amazing
What I mean is:conversations to date, but I think for many of us, realizing to open
What I mean is:ourselves to that forum of opportunity of engagement, by creating those growth
What I mean is:measures, by breaking down the safety that we build amongst each other, can
What I mean is:help us to make advances to the future.
What I mean is:That is the sole reason why the medical profession has been so successful in being
What I mean is:able to make some of the best advances, whether you disagree with them or not,
What I mean is:especially in the world of vaccines, it has certainly saved millions of lives.
What I mean is:There is evidence to prove that, but I think it's about finding not just our
What I mean is:niche, not just avoiding the pitfalls: time, energy, and money, but it's about
What I mean is:understanding that we have many tools that we can use to accomplish that task.
What I mean is:You don't have to be like me with all the degrees I have,
What I mean is:and that's not to just brag.
What I mean is:I am very proud of them, but what I think you should be proud of is that you're
What I mean is:listening to this very podcast in which you're listening to great stories like
What I mean is:Adele's that are inspiring others to realize that maybe, just maybe, you don't
What I mean is:always have to be stuck in that same level of trust that you've always been
What I mean is:in, because let's face it, the traditional path doesn't always spell success.
What I mean is:You have to have the courage to fix and claim what you truly deserve in life,
What I mean is:and when you do that, not only are you going to be successful, you're going
What I mean is:to be fulfilled, and fulfillment is the ultimate success story in itself.
What I mean is:Thanks for listening to episode number 72 of Speaking From The
What I mean is:Heart, and I look forward to hearing from your heart very soon.
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