Holistic Harmony: The Journey to Vibrant Health with Randy Rolfe

Want to know the secret to achieving vibrant health? Best-selling author and nutrition coach Randy Rolfe takes you beyond food myths into a world of mindful eating. Explore how traditional cooking is the holistic way to feed your body and soul. Show Notes | Transcript "We need to believe that our body is meant to work. We're not getting sick because we're living longer. There is nothing wrong with living longer." - Randy Rolfe In this podcast episode, we welcome Randy Rolfe, an expert in parenting, nutrition, and family, to discuss the intertwining of health and spirituality. Randy shares her insights on the importance of natural foods and the spiritual connection to our diet. We debunk myths about aging and health, advocate for a "single ingredient diet," and stress the significance of traditional cooking. The conversation also explores the spiritual aspects of well-being, including meditation and nurturing the soul. Randy's curiosity about empowering people to recognize their own strength is highlighted, along with her book "The Single Ingredient Diet." We also talk about the importance of choosing whole foods and reducing worry for a healthier life. In this episode, you'll learn: Importance of connecting with physical bodies Debunking false beliefs about health and diet Spiritual component of maintaining vibrant health Randy's personal journey of learning about nutrition Misconceptions about aging and health Impact of diet on overall health Shifting towards a "single ingredient diet" Embracing traditional and cultural dietary practices Adopting a holistic approach to health Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network Transform Your Relationship to Food in Just 21 Days with Randy's free resource Connect with Randy Rolfe: Website: Randy Rolfe Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand - I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of The L.O.V.E. Method and author of the number one Amazon bestseller Live Love Engage how to Stop Doubting Yourself and Start Being Yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence and income. Welcome to live, love. Engage. Namaste. Would you like to create a vibrant, healthier body, mind and soul? Well, if so, you are in the right place because that's what we're going to be talking about with our guest, Randy Rolfe, who is I'm going to tell you about in just a moment, and she'll be joining us shortly. But first, if this is your first time joining live, love, engage and welcome. I am Gloria Grace, the Light messenger, and I support women business owners and strengthening their spiritual connections so you can create a life and business that's not only prosperous, but also really fulfilling and gratifying. But let's get to it. I want to talk to you about our guest today. Her name is Randy Rolfe, and she is a bestselling author, speaker, educator, and coach on parenting, nutrition, and family. And she's got a long and illustrious career that includes a degree in international relations, a law degree, a legal practice, certification in nutrition, and master's in theology. I don't know when this woman has time to like, you know, relax it, or because she's also spent 50 years talking and teaching about vibrant health. And she is also a returning guest to the podcast. We actually had her on the show a couple of years ago to talk about spiritual parenting, but I am super excited now to have her back to talk about health. So without further ado, I'm going to bring on miss Randy Ralph to live, love, engage and welcome you officially back to the program. Randy Rolfe - Thank you so much, Gloria Grace, it's great to have you to be back here. Gloria Grace Rand - Yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm I'm delighted to have you. And, especially talking about our health, because that's certainly something that has been on people's minds even more over the past four years. And I know that this is certainly you've spent practically a lifetime talking about vibrant health. So why does that mean so much to you? Randy Rolfe - Well, a lot of different reasons. One is I learned to look up and and research nutrition because I just didn't know what I should eat. I was a doctor's daughter, but I was very academically focused. And when I went out on my own, I just didn't know what to eat. And I was making my husband's food, and I'm like, what do I do? So I started researching and I had was amazed by all the confusion. And so I decided to dig deeper. And so what I learned, I started applying right away, and friends started asking me, well, why don't you write about this? Because you explain it so simply. So I got excited about that, and I was actually, helping my fellow lawyers when I was practicing law and my first career to prepare for their trials by eating correctly and keeping their their staying awake and keeping their minds clear and that kind of thing. And then when I had great success with my kids, my friends would ask me, why is this working so well? So in my first parenting book, I explained that getting the child's body working was the first,, duty of a parent was to feed the child right? And breastfeed if you can, and then go on to natural foods. So it's been a life voyage, really, of educating people. What an important part of our lives to diet is. And I do think there's a very strong spiritual side because this is the main way, other than breathing and touching the ground, that we relate to nature. Gloria Grace Rand - Wow. So many things are coming to mind as, as you're talking about this. And I'm trying to figure out where is the best place to go. So maybe I'll just go with some of the talking points that you suggested we talk about today. Because I think they're, they're so good. But but I love how you do relate it back to, you know, parenting that's our first job is to nurture our children. But but we also need to start with ourselves. Really, because we can't we're not going to be able to take care of them very well if we don't take care of ourselves. So you you've talked about something about that we need to connect with our physical body in a new way, to feel whole. So why do you say that? And then how do we go about doing that? Randy Rolfe - Well, yeah, that's a really important point, Grace, because the,, we are being kind of brainwashed that our bodies break down as we age and that we need to fix them all the time. And yet they're designed to work. We're designed to be healthy for a hundred years. And it's really important to give our body what body, what it needs and what what we've eaten the last 2 million years is real food, not man made additives, not refined foods where all the vitamins and minerals and fiber has been removed. So it's it's about nourishing our own bodies and, and having confidence in them that they know how to digest and how to breathe and how to sleep. If we just give them what it needs, what it needs, what our body needs to maintain health. And so I really try to change people's way they relate rather than, oh, darn, you know, I have these extra pounds I can't get rid of, or my stomach hurts when I eat this or that and I have to take a pill to fix it., rather than thinking now, okay, what should I change in my lifestyle? I'm not getting any walking in. I'm not drinking enough water. I'm not getting enough fiber. I'm not feeding the microbes that are balancing my gut., so thinking about working with your body instead of against it is still the way I like to say it. Gloria Grace Rand - And that's so important because there's so much number one, so much misinformation out there about food. There's also in in our strive strivings over the years, I guess, to, you know, have convenience. And, you know, I remember watching a couple of years ago there was a documentary, I think, on the History Channel about sort of the history of some of the food makers and how, like, frozen foods, you know, came about and how you know that this was a revolution back in the day. And at the same time, we seem to be a lot more prone to sickness and to,, conditions that. Maybe we didn't necessarily have 100 years ago or something when we were eating more natural foods. So how do you and I don't know why I'm having an echo today, but. Oh, well, we're just going to go with it. How do you go across communicating to people that it is more important, or I guess maybe number one, that it's important to really pay attention to what it is we are eating? Randy Rolfe - Yes. I think that's the key is to to educate people how there is a direct relationship between our health and our diet. And if we're not eating the best foods for our body, we are more susceptible to disease. We're more susceptible to infection from outside sources. We're more susceptible to reacting to environmental toxins, to allergies,, to,, problems with our blood getting too much fat building up. And it's not from eating fat, it's from eating refined foods., just all the problems that are troubling us today at younger and younger ages even are due to the poor diet. And I want to say that what we're finding now is that 58% of American adults diet is ultra processed foods, and for kids, it's actually 67%,, you know, some of the cereals are half sugar and the snacks and the sodas,, and, and then everything has added seed oil, which is very hard for the body to deal with and is actually carcinogenic. So,, it and emphasizing that there's a direct relationship between how good you feel, how healthy you are and your diet, that director election a relationship. ...