Are you willing to do simple lifestyle tweaks in the name of health and happiness? In this episode of Your SuperPowered Mind, host Kristin Maxwell and guest Allison Samon talk about life transformation tools and strategies to attain optimum health and happiness. Allison Samon is a functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner and a certified holistic health coach. She helps busy women and men to get fit, energized in easy, fun, and sustainable pain-free ways. Tune in with Kristin and Allison as they allow you to tweak your life to attain the best version of yourself.
Kristin Maxwell:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m Kristin Maxwell; and in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today, I am super excited to be talking to Allison Samon about simple tweaks for health and happiness. Allison Samon is a functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner and also a certified holistic health coach who helps busy women and men to get fit, energized, and pain-free in ways that are easy, fun, and sustainable.
I have to mention that Allison is actually a friend of mine, but I wanted to bring her on the show because physical health impacts how we show up in the world in every way. I love the way Allison frames the health journey from the perspective of simple and easy tweaks that you can make because it doesn’t sound so overwhelming. It sounds doable; and it is, especially with support from somebody who is also fun. Anyway, Allison, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Allison Samon:
Thank you so much. I’m so honored to be here.
Kristin Maxwell:
It’s very exciting to share people’s work. My first question is always, what superpower did you uncover as the result of mastering your mind?
Allison Samon:
I love this question because it’s definitely something that I think was revealed to me. It was a superpower, so it’s the perfect way to describe it. I would say that it was the power of sharing my story. I think for so long I was afraid to be heard or when you are struggling with a chronic illness, which I did for over 10 years, I had unexplained chronic pain; and people stop wanting to hear about it when you just are miserable all the time and complaining all the time. When it’s chronic pain, not the result of an injury where you have a broken bone or a big scar or burn or something that’s visible, people can’t see it. You’re in so much pain, but you look “normal.” You look “fine.”
I learned to shrink and be quiet until I finally went on getting control of my mind and changing my mindset to realize, wait a minute. I was looking for something external to fix me, and actually, the impetus to fix things actually came from inside me. That’s how it became a superpower, and I learned that what was happening for me and what my experience was, the grief around it, the physical pain, the psychological pain, was actually quite relatable to others.
When I started standing up and speaking out and sharing, not only my pain, but what I was doing to mitigate it, and how I completely transformed my body and my life without medical intervention, because for 10 years none of that worked. When I finally did that, it became a superpower, and I learned to be able to share and connect with others who thank me for making it okay and letting them feel seen and heard because I didn’t feel seen and heard for 10 years.
Kristin Maxwell:
There’s so much that I love that you’re saying in there, and part of what I can see that I’m already picking up on is how real your journey was and how that helps you to see other people where they are.
Allison Samon:
Yes.
Kristin Maxwell:
I guess, I always want to ask, what did you do? What changes did you make that actually started? I mean, you said the mindset changed, which is great because that’s always a precursor. We’ll get into that later. But were there actual, specific changes in behavior and diet that allowed you to find your health?
Allison Samon:
Yes. This is the funniest thing. After 10 years of seeing the top specialists in New York City and New Jersey; and, I mean, these are the people that the celebrity athletes go to. That’s who I was seeing and nobody could help me, and so I thought I’m doomed. I’m old, and my body is falling apart. I’m going to die. Because something in me was like, “No, this doesn’t make sense. They want to do exploratory surgery because they can’t figure out what’s wrong, and the meds aren’t. ” Well, the meds actually did work.
But around that time is when one of the medications was recalled because it was causing heart attacks, and my dad had recently died of heart disease. It really was not something I should have been taking, but it made my body not hurt. I really didn’t want to give it up. That’s how bad it was. I’m on this journey of going to see every different person, and it was finally a health coach who introduced me to this crazy newfangled concept. I’m not sure if your listeners have heard of this, but it’s called nutrition.
Kristin Maxwell:
You’re so funny. Yes.
Allison Samon:
I always considered myself to be a healthy, active person, and I didn’t realize that I was devoid of a lot of nutrition. I was not maximizing my nutrition. I was eating more for calories’ sake and looking at low-calorie, low-fat. That’s the mindset because I didn’t want to be fat, and that was the conventional wisdom at the time. I didn’t realize how many things that I was doing thinking I was being healthy, that was actually contributing to my body hurting so much and so much dysfunction in my body. The hormonal imbalance, the bloating, the puffiness, the migraines I had, the physical joint pain, the fatigue, the trouble sleeping, all of it had to do with the lack of nutrition I had in my body.
It wasn’t a particular diet that I embarked on. It was just maximizing my nutrition.
Kristin Maxwell:
Okay. We have to take a break right now; and when we come back, we’re going to actually talk about some of the actual, simple tweaks which are going to help maximize health and happiness and how you do things like maximizing your nutrition. But before we go, where can people learn about you and your business and how you help people?
Allison Samon:
I would love it. If they wanted to join, I have a fast-growing community on Facebook. It’s called Healthy Your Way, and we’d love to have you join and share in this community of health-conscious, like-minded people who are looking to ameliorate painful conditions like weight and chronic pain, and also share and receive from others. It’s a really fun place to be. And also my website, allisonsamon.com. You can get lots of info there, recipes, freebies, group programs, fun stuff.
Kristin Maxwell:
Great. Good. I’ll, of course, put the link in the show notes. Hang on everybody. We’ll be right back and talk some more with Allison Samon.
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