How Your Mind and Body Shape Your Total Wellness with Dr. Pat Boulogne

In our modern world, it's undeniable that we're exposed to various toxins. Over recent decades, we've witnessed a surge in physical ailments like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. But what about diseases of the mind? Are the diseases of the body and mind interconnected in ways we're only beginning to understand? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Pat Boulogne, a renowned consultant and coach specializing in health, wellness, and mindset. We delve into the essential 5 pillars of health, stressing the significance of accurate medical assessments. Dr. Pat explains how optimizing brain function and the role of boundaries contribute to the success of high achievers. Tune in for expert insights to enhance your overall well-being and productivity. --- Listen to the podcast here: How Your Mind and Body Shape Your Total Wellness with Dr. Pat Boulogne Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. There’s no doubt that, today, we live in a toxic world. Instances of diseases of the body, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, have gone up in recent decades and so have instances of diseases of the mind, things such as ADHD as well as anxiety and depression. My guest today, Dr. Pat Boulogne, is one of the people out there trying to help people overcome some of these challenges that we have in our modern world to create a healthier existence, both physically and mentally. --- Dr. Pat, welcome to the program. Thank you so much. I am so thrilled to be here with you and share time. Thank you so much for taking your time out. And, first, I want to start out by talking a little bit about what it is that you do in your practice. Well, I really don’t have a practice, per se. I am a consultant and I’m a coach and what I do is I help people in their health goals, in their wellness goals, in their mindset goals so that they can go from point A to point C in the quickest way possible that’s safer and also with simpler solutions that are not harmful. So, there’s ways to do that and understanding where somebody’s at to get them to that point, I do and I help people organize that thought process and like simplified steps so that they have the checklist. I love seeing people thrive and I bend over backwards to do it. That’s part of the reason I started this podcast, hope to inspire people to look into what they can do to thrive. One of the questions I have is do you encounter more of the physical or more of the mental challenges or do you see them as going hand in hand? Well, my premise for when I talk about what health is and what health isn’t, because it’s not merely the absence of disease and I agree with the World Health Organization on that part of the definition, the health part of it is much more integrated with our daily lives. How do you perform every day in order to go from point A to point C? And when you start lagging and you start going like, “Oh, I’d rather do something else,” or you’re like, “I gotta take a nap, I’m depleted by noontime, can’t even wait ’til five o’clock and you got to take a nap,” because you have to take a look at what kind of foods that you’re eating. So when you ask about mindset, I talk about five pillars of health and the first part of the health that I talk about is food, exercise, I talk about sleep, I talk about positive mindset and positive mental attitude, and I talk about structured function, which is basically proper posture, but the key component to make all those other four pieces successful is the mindset and the positive mental attitude because if you go in saying like, “I’m gonna try this diet,” you automatically are going to have an issue with it. There’s something that’s going to make you struggle and it clicks off this thing in your head that tells you that you’re like, “Oh, you’re not gonna be successful,” even though you don’t say it to yourself. But if you can find out where that mindset came, that paradigm shift came from, then you can go back to where that happened and you can ease how that information proceeds in your head. And I talk about that when I help my clients and when I’m consulting to understand how the three brains work and how you can function and make them work better for you. So it’s safe to say that the mindset is where it all begins because I think the way most people approach something is along the lines of, “I’ll go on a diet and I’m going to stop eating sugar,” to reference something we were discussing before we started recording, but there has to be a mindset before someone’s actually going to stick to something such as, instead of --- I used to drink a lot of Coca-Cola, which has a lot of sugar in it, and I oftentimes now replace it with tea, which I have in front of me right now, instead of just saying like, “I’m gonna replace this with that,” you have to do something to adjust your mindset first in order to make that behavior replacement successful. Well, there’s two questions I ask and one is are you willing to do what it takes to be healthy? Yeah. And I don’t talk after that, I always wait for someone to answer that question because what it does is it really makes them check in with their subconscious and in their primitive brain. Am I willing to do what it takes to be healthy? And the second thing is I always ask them what their biggest health goal is and then they tell me, or top three, and then I ask them how bad you want another one to ten, so that’s how I select clients that I work with or not. And if I don’t get that ten or that nine or if they say eight, then I say what would make it a ten for you. If you know what the objection is, sometimes, those objections are mindset. A doctor told me years ago that I was always going to be fat. Every time you eat, you’re thinking that Whatever you’re eating, I’m going to be fat so why bother? You already gave up before you started. So it’s like if you can shift that, if you can change that for yourself, you can change so many other things in your life, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially, and even financially, you can make much better financial decisions. So it kind of covers your life holistically. I put eight categories myself and I know a lot of other people have different systems of four, six categories and they usually encompass the same general ideas that you have, your mental, physical, and spiritual health as well as your life’s purpose or alignment of some kind as well as your career, your community, your finance, and then possibly something else. I actually have a category in my life assessment that I call, I just simply call it spice, which is just those really interesting, off-the-beaten-path, crazy things such as even travel or coming up with a random game or just coming up with a new idea or having something witty to say but I know that’s not important to everyone. But what you’re saying is that, holistically, the mindset is kind of the base, the foundation for every single one of these components, the way we usually kind of compartmentalize our lives, For people who compartmentalize, sometimes that’s good, and other times, that’s bad. And there’s kind of like not an in between part because when --- there’s a healthy way to compartmentalize, because then you know what’s in your box. But what is unhealthy, when you keep on compartmentalizing and when the solution is outside your box. So it’s like Einstein’s definition of insanity that you keep on doing the same thing over and over and over again and you don’t get any better results. I’ll try this or I’ll try that, and sometimes in like the DIY thing, I had a client one time that called me up panicking and he goes, “Pat, Pat, what do you think this is?” and I got on a Zoom with him and his eye was like swollen like a football and I asked, I go, “What did you do?” and he did this DIY thing and he had an allergic reaction to it and he wanted to know, I said, “How long is that going on?” and I said, “Did it start small? Did it all of a sudden coming?” I asked him a lot of those medical questions to ascertain and funnel down to what my thought process was, I think it was a staph infection, and I said, “Go to your doctor,” and he goes, “You can do things for staph on your own, can’t you?” Yeah, but if it’s MRSA, you don’t want MRSA on your eye, you’re going to go blind, I said, I go, “You really wanna go to your physician and have them give you an assessment.” I can tell you kind of what I think on Zoom but I can’t --- you don’t have --- if you have a crappy camera, I can’t tell you what your eye, like that texture that I’m looking for. And there’s things that you can do by the time you get there, you can always put cloth, wet cloth and ice over the top of it to see if you can get some of the swelling down before you even go to see them but take a picture of it now and so you have it. So, two days later, he comes back, he goes, “Wow,” he goes, “Anytime I’ve ever asked you a question,” he goes, “You’re always on the market and you’re on target for that,” and I said, “Was it staph?” and he’s going like, “Well, my eyes are getting better. I have major astigmatism,” So I’m looking at something with my glasses, it’s a coin toss sometimes but I was really glad to see that he got it taken care of but he’s treated it before and each time that he treated it, it kept on getting worse. That interjection of Western medicine, traditional medicine has got to be handled in an appropriate way so that you stay on target, because when you do that --- we all need coaches. People who are coaches have coaches. Two heads are better than one.Share on X And when you got two heads that are better than one and they’re functioning the way they’re supposed to, then you can lead down a path of better communication, better health, better mental, and you think sometimes,...