wellness and animals as well in fact i met robin basically through animal health and she's a robin always has a dog with her and she always rescues dogs and she does something we had a prior show robin and senior care for and you have many experiences to take in sr dogs that only have a short time may be left in their life and have health issues and you bring them in a love and give them a home and after my i had a pack of three dogs and you know after fourteen years when the last one passed i really got into bringing in the seniors and it's just been the best experience ever it is but it's also i know a tough one it is a tough one you know it's funny with my clients i ask them questions like list of top five things that drain your life and the top five things that enhance your life and when i ask myself those questions you know bringing in the senior dogs enhanced your life but at the same time to change your life so there is that balance but very  rewarding and i say the same thing about my dogs i mean it even when they were when i first got them you know they enhance your life and i can't imagine life without exactly but the same time their responsibilities and your life sort of goes basically around them absolutely you know i know it's tucker being paralyzed i have to express his bladder so every four hours i have to make sure that i'm home because i can't let him go any longer right longer than for the other side of that of doing that is infection but infections a re a common paralyzed animals and people as well and in eight years of him being to almost nine years of him being paralyzed he's never had one bladder infection that's incredible so so you know when you have these situations and you have to deal with  that's just a matter of life a commitment it's a choice and it's a commitment to for me to bring an older dog in that's you know he has a couple years and has had a tough life his whole life or and he's lived with an animal owner their entire life and the owner passes and then they take them to the humane society those are the dogs that i try to bring in because i just want to give them some joy yeah and you do and i've met a few of your dogs who you've done and you have helped many of my dawgs robin in that interim and this was for me an interesting progression that i saw you you develop some training with and had some training and develop these techniques as a personal coach yes but you tell us about that means yes i i i feel that i'm i'm certified i'm a certified personal life coach i actually am a life wellness empowerment coach and that to me you know people come to coaching for a lot of different reasons but they all come for one thing and they all want change are they're all looking for clarity and for me that were coaches always been a little harsh i think i think of myself more as a guy so i kind of help my clients really clarify what it is that they want and for a lot of people that's really hard to do you know so there have been some ups and downs in their lives and they can sort it out correct you know they i help them center and i kind of say people say what do you really do and i go actually i don't do anything i simply shine a light on the wisdom with in each of my clients because you know honesty if we really get still the answers we seek are really in there just sometimes we need some help bringing them forth speaking our truth and then finding the next steps to bring us from where we are to where we want to be can you give us some examples of somebody comes to you with an issue and how you talk them through that yes absolutely and i have a lot of people because of my past a lot of people come to me for weight loss i'm actually also a certified weight loss coach i have to sort of occasions but if somebody comes you know and they want to lose weight and all are thinking about his weight you know what i really learned in my life in especially my past i went through thirty years of disorderly eating i mean i've been a compulsive eater i've been bullied make i really went through the gamut and what i love about what i do is that i'm very very transparent with all my coaches they know more about me than half my family knows so i think they have a knot in our own now but what they all know now you know i came out i came out and told my truth years ago  but you know basically it's helping people really and not for everybody for most people for me it was disorderly thinking more than disorderly eating because our thoughts create how we feel our feelings create what we do so when we really hone in on the power of our thoughts and a lot especially for me because i think that i mean i was sent to fat camp when i was nine years old i was a very heavy kid and but you know if you go through life never feeling that you can really speak your truth or stand through your truth we tend to stuff our truth and we stuff it in different ways people stuff in a lot of ways a lot of emotional eating because of how we feel if we can't don't think there's ever been in him an eating issue that hasn't had an emotion because we are full of emotions all the time but i think with emotional eating if we're feeling a need for comfort if we're feeling down and that's where that word comfort food comes from you know most people who are in a state of stress or they want some comfort and they turn to food because they're really not sure where to go with it i'd i've never met anybody who needs a salad that's  comfort food is an ice cream macaroni and cheese line and mine was pizza you know that was nothing for me to honest i mean i could sit any you know an extra large piece on a depressed friday night but i never stop to question what was i thinking you know we don't question our thoughts and i think what i really do is really have people just really stop question your thought is that true and you know when we speak just target still enough people who you know feel financially not abundant and they don't know you know where they're going to get the money to pay their bills or but a lot of it is it's frustration and i know you know as a physician and they've done studies that you know especially for women was my medical training now you know a little diverse and that concept but the making mechanism actually is you end up having quarters all in an adrenaline produce that's actually the medical mechanism of that the biological mechanism right but you know it's funny you made a comment earlier about this eating thing and everything we do is eating i never realized that and i really came to the realization when i had that five year period when i couldn't eat because of my medical situation and everybody well let's go to lunch let's have the dinner you know you'd go to a bank which is of course i couldn't eat in and go to these things because you have to interact exactly and you have some you know responsibility of that for fulfill and i came to the realization that everything centers around everything centers around it does but what i've learned especially because of what i'm going through the responsibility i have is to me you know i have a lot of clients you know that they have to clean my path because when i was raised like that you know i was raised with a mom you can't waste anything and i'm not a person who likes to waste but i do know that you know i'm not going to save a child who's hungry if i stop when i'm full i either put that food away or you know throw it out that i'm not the human garbage can again and to sacrifice myself and you know an interesting story and i've told a story many times that you this was years ago and you know about proactive wellness when you come to that place and i was at a buffet i was at a christmas party years ago sitting next to a lovely woman and the hostess came around and offer pie and i just said no thank you and this woman looked at me she goes well what's wrong with the pie oh you're one of those and i said there's nothing wrong with pie i said but i'm not hungry and she just laughed and said well what is hunger have to do with it so i kind of made a little  puno statement you're just kind of joking and i entered use myself and i said well my name is robin and you know just three things you need to know about me i said i don't eat sugar i don't do drugs and i don't date married men you know so she started to laugh and then i looked at her and i said well when they offered me the pie if i would have said to you i'm a diabetic and she goes well i would have understood that so i said well the fact that i'm not hungry and at this point i choose to be proactive about my health and my body that i choose not to have the pie is that an issue for you and this is what i talk about questioning our thoughts because she actually started to cry she looked at me and she was overweight and she started to cry and she simply said i never thought about it that way because nobody teaches we don't ever teach how to be proactive about do nothing wrong with pie if i wanted a piece of piety to piece of pie but the nice thing about that story she became a client she was out of town a lot of my clients are phone clients she lost ice cream you've gotta come if you will quality of well i've got to tell you so so i learned over the years and this was bad because i could turn down the best they can town for a tub of ice cream or cone of ice cream you know so i learned not to keep my skin in the house so it was it was an effort for me to have to go to get the ice cream you know and i'd go to an ice cream store and buy a scoop or two and then eat that and go back home that way it wasn't in the freezer and i wasn't consciously just taking a scoop all day long correct correct and then you know i didn't over eat ice cream but i could tell you almost every day i would have some ice cream not a problem i don't have a weight problem you know i don't eat cookies ok we're done with ice cream and i don't need it it's not i don't live feed ice cream exactly well and i think people do that with food they instead of living the eat to live absolutely i said that back with yes you know eating the liver not living the end is easier said than done you know so i don't make light of that being a person who went through that for thirty years it's not an easy process to do but the more we think about how difficult something will be the more difficult it is and i like to use that word with my client choose we forget we have a choice i'm not the food cop you know i don't go to people's houses i don't even tell people why they're out there i don't tell them what to eat i'm a nutrition information alist i'm not a nutritionist we do talk about nutrition when you talk about what food does to the body but let's face it we're all adults i'm not here to say you can't go to giant eagle but i teach them choice you can go home and look at a pack of cookies and i really encourage people to talk to your food if this is an issue pick up that that cookie and use the word choose you can look at that cookie and say ok here's the deal i have a choice i can choose the e u or i can choose to put you back i can choose to put you back and if i want you in ten minutes i can come back i can choose to put you pick you up and take you to the trash and throw you out or put you on the ground and step on you but make no mistake from this moment on i choose and i'm just saying that you can see a wonderful and i had from one to the usual commercial years ago it was a little jingle there but let's go out to the kitchen and get it every time this person heard that jingle hungry or not they get up and go to the kitchen and come back with a snack i mean we are programmed to eat so it's really just it's it's changing the thoughts being aware of the thoughts that's number one are you aware of what you think you do you like what you're thinking can you have a better if feeling fly in the moment so changing our thought you know wayne dyer said it best you know when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change so being present enough to do that is what i what i hope to bring to my clients and then i always look at it if you want to cookie that's fine years don't want ten copies of it and then i look at the ingredients because a lot of the the better facts aren't so much the cookie is the junk that the manufacturers are putting in the cookie correct and  i remember your chocolate cake it made it was incredible but it was healthy and yes i gluten free gluten free and you know although gluten isn't scary right there are people that have a problem with the truth so we ex pro people but i think everybody actually has a problem with it as we don't have a digestive enzymes are very down the glue correct i mean i'm not silly act but and you know going through all those years of pizza i owned a bakery i mean for fifteen years so you know and i love bread and but i don't digest it well so i choose i just don't eat it anymore but it is that places which you said you know about there's nothing wrong with the cookie and food is a noun we can power to food it's incredible how much power we give to food food isn't good food isn't bad i mean there's no cookie that lays awake at night and figuring out how i'm going to get her in the morning and there aren't any beansprouts there are there with halos on it's you know will this enhance me or will it take away from my health is this can growing with what i say that i want you know if i say i want to lose weight or i want to enhance my health but i choose to eat a package of oreos every single night will i really get the results i want so what you're talking about is taking charge yes because we forget we we have the power to take charge this is our life and we give our power away that's another question i asked my clients on their intake who do you give your power away to who are what we tend to give our power away i gave my power away to peter i gave my power you people but we can bring our power back and stand in our truth and i often use that take charge of your health that's partly what your you're you're actually empowering the people to empower themselves without your help you don't have a why do you know you this body that we have is the only vehicle we will ever have to get us the life we want to live we take better care of our cars and but it is not we do but it comes from we have to feel worthy we have to know we have a purpose here you have to have a deep enough why you know i have a six month old grandson i know he saw pictures of the day and you know i've been on this journey for so long but i can say you know when i am you know when i see him i want to be i mean i'm sixty five i intend to be here another sixty years i really do and hopefully will be here together and i want to be you know we always you know people talk about you have to do it for you every change you want you want to do it for you and although that is true but there are people around us who are affected by what we do i want to be here for that child and when i think about my son and my daughter in law you know things happen in life and there's you know there's not saying that they don't but i know in my heart that if something happened to me or if i became diabetic or i became a person who would need to be taking care of because i didn't choose to take care of myself something that i had control and i would have a hard time with that yeah absolutely you know over the past twenty years i've always when i consult with people about their health or their animals h i say my doctor said well you know i go through this little spill it's a lot to do now about explaining how your doctor's not doctor god and you take information from your doctor and you take advice from your doctor but he's not the decision maker correct you are yes and you empower yourself with knowledge and then you work out the plan right to make yourself well yeah learning the other side and that's what i really love about you know coming back to sunny bridge and and i you know it's kind of like a little you know and i don't mean this in a religion context at all but it's it's really like a it's a health ministry there i really feel that well we have such an educated staff and we have a lot of people coming in just like you said that you know they get a diagnosis from a doctor and we never tell anyone not to listen to your doctor but we do have an opportunity to educate people and talk to them about things or when we have a mom who comes through the door because she's just gotten a diagnosis of  autism with their child or silly ack and they've been told you know you need to go gluten free or sugar free they have no idea how to do that you know and they come and we have that opportunity sit down with them for a few minutes combat down number one it's a step by step process that they do have support and that's what i like about sunday bridge the most why we're different because we are a place people really trust us when people come through that door we want them to know that they're part of a family and that we are there to support them and guide them and sunny spot and they bring guests on the talk about health and you haven't you go some of these big box stores and they don't even know what's on the shelf you know and here when you come in to sign a bridge you get advice you write well you know this product will work better for you in this product you have people such as yourself that have knowledge and big on the knowledge of these products so it is important it isn't like i say we do have an incredibly trained staff but even with what i do  you know a lot of times with my clients who are you know it's not about overwhelming it's not about focus on what do i have to take out of my diet let's focus on what you need to bring in let's just change from the top just what you were saying about ice cream if i have a client  wants to eat ice cream they need the best ice cream you can make sure it's clean make sure there's no hype which is corn syrup in it make sure there's no carotene and exactly so coming into a store like that we're yes we have what you want but we have it in a way that you know yes or maybe sugar in it but because it's not chemicals it's going to enhance your health too much sugar is not good we know that correct but sugar is ok if  especially because i can't say that i never eat sugar but i've been off sugar for so long that i have found for me that any kind of sugar i really don't feel well on it i actually feel an effect in my body even in abundance of fruits like you know i eat high sugar absolutely you know and it's first house and that's really the worst sugar and yes it's full of minerals but depending crew you are and that's when i talk to my clients you know there are a lot of there are a lot of different paths to wellness but to me denominator of eating real food you know and i this little thing i tell people if you can pick it pluck it dig it shooter fish it eat it the more that you eat that doesn't have an ingredient of food is of an apple is an apple you know if i had a i had a client bring in a jar of nuts a while ago and she said this is really good i mean you know ahmed said that's great and we turned it over but she didn't read the label you know in those amens there was reading the labels and understanding understanding what what the damage can cause can cause in your body because a lot is not meant to process it is not you know as i have received an email from a friend of mine this morning and he had contacted one of the tuna companies the tuna company responded to his question he was talking about hidden m s g because they use froth in the water right that it is tuna and water they never and addressed it was really interesting they never addressed the m s g but they addressed g m o foods it's been accepted by the so they didn't even answer his question right but it told me a lot and it told me not only do anyway but you know and he's an example he had a health condition educated got educated took charge of it and now he's looking and everything that he has absolutely so absolutely you thought we mentioned thought the power of your thought so what is power of your thought in that well we forget that we can decide what we're going to think i mean you know if you get up in the morning and kind of not i get up in the morning every day with an intention and i encourage people set an intention for your day explain what and setting well setting an intention is what is the dominant feeling i'm going to feel today you know so my intention for every day is one of joy it's one of peace i'm setting an intention for healing and for that what that means for me is not only healing for myself that but anybody who comes into my presence may feel a sense of peace and healing but i get up every day asking myself the question you know i wonder who are me today what experiences were like you know experience today what will i see today that i love what can i learn today you know so when we when we get up every day and set an intention for what we want in our life instead of like you know if you get up in the morning you stub your toe and you know you're cursing and you're hopping around and you go through your whole day will be like that you know you're in it happens it's nothing happens to you it happens you know there's a difference but if i get up every day and before i get up you know i lay in bed and i just you know thank god for the day number one but i do i said that intention of you know this will be a day of joy and peace and happiness and when you bring that in no matter what situation comes in my life i ask myself that question you know how can i see peace here how can i bring happiness here but if we set our intention it will change your life kind of that that process kind of manifest yes it is for us your day throughout your life even i and i think that i'm going to get a spot right outside the door i'm going again and every time i think that i get it and i'm ok through the roof and i know the same thing when i started playing that game where i would think i'm going to get a spot outside the door or i'm not gonna get us you know i would wouldn't think about getting a spot outside the door and anecdotal than it does at les i would tell you that just about every time that i thought i was getting a spot outside that door i got a spot outside the door and you know what is that i don't know but it works it does work it does you know i really do believe in the law of attraction and i think a lot of people you know get a little you know missed with that that means but i do know you know what a man thinketh in his heart he  and so what we think about comes about it can happen either way if you are you know down or feeling negative or don't have gratitude for things and wonder why things aren't coming into your life there's a reason the fifteen years that i've known you or longer i seen a great transformation in you in and being peaceful i am thank you i am peaceful i'm not peaceful all the time oh that's hard by this world it's hard and hard to fi choice you know i i you know years ago decided you know i get up every day and you know i have to meditate you know i have to do some spiritual practice i have to do a little bit of exercise i have to set my day off i center  life in the morning you know and i go through that with if you have a sense of peace all the time do you realize how much control that you have and it really did come from questioning my thoughts yeah