Living a Sustainable Lifestyle with Sejal Nathu

In This Episode, You Will Learn: Sejal’s perspective blending eastern and western medicine. What Ayurveda is and how you can put it into practice in your life. How to tune into what you need more of, and less of in your life. The harms of plastics and benefits of living sustainably. To embrace the season of life and motherhood you are in.   Resources + Links:   Text PODCAST to 480-605-4814 to get VIP updates from Kara!   ………………………………….   Connect with Kara on Instagram | @kara_ayala   Check out how you can work with Kara | karaayala.com   Join Kara’s FREE Facebook group: https://kara-ayala.mykajabi.com/offers/aubrLymR/checkout Show Notes: Are you in tune with your body? What do you want vs what you NEED? Your health, environment, and relationships are so vital to the experience you have in your daily life. In this episode, I’m excited to chat with Sejal Nathu. Sejal and I connected when she and her husband joined our 2021 Next Level Couples mastermind and I have learned so much from her and the way she lives a healthy and sustainable life. We chat about the differences she has experienced from eastern and western medicine, and how to blend the two in order to take care of your body. Tune in as we talk about everything from sleep, listening to what your body needs, how to navigate different seasons of your career and being a stay-at-home-mom. Of course we talk about ways to keep your marriage strong too! As we start this fresh new year, I hope you are able to tune into what you need more of, less of, and find joy in the season you’re in.   02:00 Meet Sejal: wife, mom, Pharmacist, and so much more.  05:30 What is Ayurveda? How do you practice it in your life? 08:00 When you went into Pharmacy, is that when you noticed differences between how you were raised and western medicine? 11:15 Benefits of changing the way you eat during different seasons. 15:40 Outside of tuning into your body, do you do bloodwork or anything like that to check in to what your body needs? 18:30 Tips to live more sustainably throughout the holiday season and every day. 23:00 The impact plastics have on our hormones. 25:40 How can we tune into our body's needs and heal through crying? 30:15 What advice do you have for other women like you who are in a season of putting your career aside to focus on running your home and supporting your family in that way? 34:40 What is something you do in your marriage that makes your relationship great? 36:15 If your 15 year old self could see you now, what would she say? About Sejal: Sejal Nathu is a loving wife, and a mother to two vibrant toddlers and is building a sustainable lifestyle through conscious consumption and mindset. She is a doctor of pharmacy and studied at Purdue University and specialized as a geriatric managed care pharmacist. She has a strong knowledge and background in Ayurveda and natural preventative medicine and is working to build awareness about how we impact our bodies and the Earth with our daily consumptions of medicine, food and the products we use every day.   She has a very spiritual and traditional upbringing in her Gujarati culture. She uses this as a strong foundation as she interacts with modern day life. She values kindness, and focuses on living a joyful life full of family and contribution.