Sponsor profile on Kyron's Way
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Summary
In this episode, I chat with Penny Hodgson who is the owner of Kyron's Way, a Calgary-based business that provides services for at a time when we really need it for people who are stressed, who are having challenges, and who can relate with that right now.
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okay well welcome to a local alberta business profile i'm talking with penny hodgson who is
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the owner of kyron's way it's uh an alberta-based business uh it provides services for at a time
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when we really need it for people who are stressed people who are having challenges and of course
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that everybody can relate with that right now with this terrible pandemic and economic stresses
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uh and it's a broad-based service for individuals so i found it best i just want to chat directly
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with penny and and lay out what uh what she offers and how uh we can help out some albertans here so
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uh thanks for joining me penny and uh well thank you for having me talk about what you guys do
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okay well what i do is a mind body spirit approach um basically
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the whole individual is how i look at it and um i've had to it's a accumulation of all the things
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that i've learned over the years in recovering from my own traumas um so i i've had a lot to deal with
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i was born um with a severe disability it's a thing called bilateral congenital um hip dysplasia so
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essentially i was born without hips so as a kid i walked really funny and uh so that of course led
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to years and years of bullying and teasing and i in order to keep walking i had to go through multiple
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very complicated orthopedic surgeries and some of those were worked well and some did not so over
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the course of the years i've had now 14 um so that kind of forced me to learn about how the body works
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and what the consequences of physiological stress are on the body and how that depletes things then of
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course there's emotional stress that goes uh with all of that as well um and as a child from the age
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of 10 to 14 i was sexually molested by a family member and um and i was raped when i was 13 while
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babysitting um the drunk father came home and that was the experience i had there so i've had a lot of
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things to learn how to overcome and i've just found over the years that a mind body spirit approach works
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the best oh i uh appreciate that and it's uh that holistic approach i mean our minds are connected to
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our bodies and we forget that uh as a graduate of a 12-step program myself i understand the amount of uh
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of time and and discussion and and therapy it takes for people when they've got challenges and what i like
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about with your approach too is it's it's not opiate uh involved even though it could be dealing with
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things where people are very uh dealing with physiological or or mental stresses where sometimes
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we seem to over medicate a heck of a lot so if it was to uh approach uh you you know you you for
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services and so on where do they begin and and what would you the process sort of be well i offer um
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two assessments that are free one is a as a stress assessment which is just a series of questions
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that gives me an indication of how well you're coping coping with stress so stress will manifest
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through eventually it accumulates enough that it manifests in symptoms and i kind of look at it like
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how many dominoes have fallen over so the stress questionnaire gives me an indication of that
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and i also offer a nutritional um stress assessment and that tells me how well is your body utilizing
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nutrients because one of the first thing that happens with stress is your digestion shuts down it's
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a natural thing it's what our bodies do but if we're in chronic stress then our body can't assimilate
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nutrients properly and it's like your your body runs on food is our fuel so if it's not utilizing
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the fuel properly then it can't send those nutrients to the organs that deal with stress
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our nervous system for example and then we don't have a sufficient supply so it's like
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yeah and uh the the physio again the physical uh aspects of stress and ongoing stress uh are really
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something that that don't get addressed i think nearly enough i mean you know if people remember if
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they've had a long stress period i mean that that clenched feeling in your stomach you're you're
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gonna not be feeling well you've got physical manifestations of that problem so if you can
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address the stress you can avoid some of the uh other issues absolutely and i also use a neural
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feedback system it's designed by the heart math institute um and what the heart math institute
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is found over decades of research is that by measuring what's called heart rate variability
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they can determine your body's again um neurologically your body's ability to
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asset to deal with stress and what is the state of resilience resiliency so the heart math system
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actually isn't is an unbiased a completely it's not my opinion it is your heart rate is the distance
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between the peaks and valleys in your heartbeat that tells me through their software um the state of
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your your health from a um from a neurological standpoint so there's a lot of tools in my
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in my little basket that i use to help to determine where should we start and how do we design a plan of
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action for you well it's good to see a means of measurable progress i mean if you've been spending
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weeks or months and perhaps along the wrong track you don't know that that to have some modern
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mechanisms to uh uh see how you're going is is is a good breakthrough i guess so and so you've been
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through some uh uh i want to put it schooling and some qualifications you wanted to talk a bit about on
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that where your background on this so i'm a i'm a certified heart math interventions practitioner which
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just means that i'm able to utilize their software and and be able to assess the what it's telling me
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i'm a certified holistic nutritionist through the canadian school of natural nutrition
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i also have certification and therapeutic counseling and
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uh recently i did the brain story certification which is widely known in kind of the addictions
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field although i think personally it really applies to more than that because it's um the brain story
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certification is put up by alberta wellness institute and um it talks about the the long-term consequences
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of emotional trauma and how wide it is in you know statistically one in three people one in three
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have suffered emotional trauma in their childhood and we take that trauma through into our adult lives
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and then it affects multiple areas in all of our relationships both personal and business
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yeah well and addiction is just one of the ways some of us uh cope with problems in a
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self-destructive and poor way but there's a lot of other uh compulsions and bad behaviors we can do
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that still can have the same healing uh applications i guess to try and get us out of those uh
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right right well it's just how do we cope and we can only cope by what we've learned how to cope and
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if we haven't learned if we've always taught us what to do how are we supposed to know you know like i
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often tell people if it was as simple as just choosing a happy thought there would not be any
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miserable people on the planet i mean it's just not that easy i mean we can if part of a solution
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we can learn how to reframe our thoughts but we can't just decide one day well i'm going to be
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happy and think that that will work for the rest of your life that's a very that's a band-aid solution
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because your subconscious mind will ultimately overpower so you have to learn how to how do i
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retrain that so that i can remain calm so a combination heart math has specific techniques
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that they that they use to help you learn to achieve what they call entrainment communication
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between your heart and your brain and if you can keep um that channel open then you can
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uh learn just through breathing techniques um how to manage stress that way um and also um i did a
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i have a program here that i wrote it's called mind files and um i use that to help you learn
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how you develop thoughts and how you get trapped in your thoughts and what to do to get yourself out of
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them well fantastic it's like i said it's refreshing to hear of uh you know a larger based program i mean
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different people have different needs some with the their conventional medical uh treatments and
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things do perfectly fine but some people will fall through the cracks and need something more or
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something different so for people considering your services uh maybe describe how they could reach you
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and and where to begin the the process of seeing if what you're offering is is what they need
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sure yeah uh my website there is is right up on the screen it's uh kyrensway.com you can reach me
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through email at penny at kyrensway.com um and all the services are outlined on the website on the
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consultation page and uh everybody who uh comes in for service gets a free copy of the mind files book so
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that they can take it home and learn how to how to work through your thoughts well i
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really appreciate that it's just good to see businesses that are out well i like to see
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businesses in general doing well it's been such a tough time but a business it's uh making a
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positive difference for people and helping things out is really appreciated so thanks for uh expanding
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on what you guys do and uh looking forward to hearing how you've been helping others out in these