Wildly Well with Kiele Jael Stanton (aka The Sensual Chef)
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We are thrilled to have certified health-supportive chef, culinary educator, and sensual nourishment guide, Kiele Jael Stanton, aka The Sensual Chef, share her wisdom here! Kiele’s philosophy honors ancient food wisdoms and focus on self-love and sensuality through nutrition, cooking, and lifestyle design. She had a calling to create a company that focuses on the sensual approach to food, cooking, healing, and living so teach women how to use sensual nourishment to heal for life. Follow along as we learn more about Kiele’s journey — and check out our IG chat for more.
Monica
Hello. Hello and happy Friday, everybody. Thanks for joining me for another episode of Wildly Well where I bring on people have wholeheartedly leaned into their journeys to help you enhance your relationship with food movement, self-care and holistic well-being so you can live the most joyfully nourished life possible for you. And today, I am so excited to bring on my friend Kiele Jael Stanton. She lives in Austin, Texas, and I fell in love with her. We met through Instagram. I found her account, a.k.a the sensual chef. And she, you know, teaches women how to fully embrace their sensuality, to live their most, you know, nourished lives. And she does through food and ancient food wisdom. And I'm going to bring her on here to tell you all about it. Oh, good morning, everybody. Good morning, chef Brian. All right. Let's see if I can bring. There you are, Kiele. Can you ask to join? She's actually in Holbox and Cancun in Mexico.
I'm so happy that you're joining me today. I think you have so much to offer people. And also, I love that you're getting so much more recognition for your work now. It's amazing.
Kiele
Yeah, me too. It's been so great working with my friend Lydia. She's my publicist, and there's a lot of interests around what I do. And so I'm very excited about that because it's like 40 years later, this is now blossoming and happening. So it takes a village and it takes a while to build some things. You can't wait to talk about it. And thank you for having me on.
Monica
Absolutely. I love what you're doing. And I think it's so important because so many times we go through life, just the hustle or just not really paying attention to necessarily what we're putting in the body, how we're putting in our body, and how all of our environment around us affects us.
Kiele
Yeah, absolutely. I think that was one of the key. I guess core values of my work is to talk about like, oh, it's not just what you eat, it's how you cook your food, it's how you nourish yourself and the thoughts and the feelings that you have while you do that. And there's so it's so much deeper than just, Oh, let me just eat this kind of food and that kind of food, you know?
Monica
Yeah, it's about the intention behind everything. Yeah.
Kiele
Yeah, for sure. For sure. Oh, I'm so excited. When I saw all of your questions, I can't wait to dove into them.
Monica
Awesome. So why don't we start? I'm going to start with the sensual chef. How did you come about that name? You know, like, it's. It's such a catchy thing, and it. It really embodies everything that your spirit, you're going for. The sensual chef.
Kiele
I think. Okay, so there's this. There is a back story behind it. But I really have always been a sensual person. And to be honest, I, I grew up in a culture where sensuality was really the undertone of the matriarchy and the femininity of my island and my island culture. But because of the Catholicism that I grew up with, it was really suppressed in a lot of ways, and I wasn't allowed to let that shine. Interesting. Yeah. So I just kind of grew up as an adolescent and into my early adulthood, sort of in this confusion that I'm not allowed in a way to to show that. But I always knew it was something that I possessed deep down. And then as I got older into an adult, I figured out how to express my sensuality and felt like a blossoming and felt it blooming as I got older and older. And then it actually came about. It was in 2014 or 15. I was sitting in class at the Natural Gourmet Institute, my culinary school, and it just came to mind because I realized I forget what class I was in, but I realized, okay, you know, as we were learning about whatever the heck it was that day, you know, things, something that had to do obviously with like food and cooking, I realized like, oh, where's the connection to this?
Monica
You know, in our soul and in our spirit. And there's really no sensuality behind that. And then as I started working in restaurants part time, I felt that a lot of the cooks and the chefs were so disconnected to the food I felt like. And that was what I didn't expect to experience. And I felt like, Oh, go, you are the people who are nourishing these other people in a restaurant. However, you're so disconnected to the food itself and you're so disconnected to your own nourishment. And I found that it was so surprising when I would sit down, you know, have some family meals at restaurants that I was working at. And I was like, this this food is absolute garbage. And it was just really interesting, you know, to kind of see and experience something that I trained for and then to be in the moment working in restaurants and seeing how disconnected cooks and chefs actually were. And that's what I found that was missing from what I was taught. And so that was kind of my goal to bring.
Kiele
Sensuality into the kitchen and to help people. People feel really connected to themselves and to their food and how they nourish themselves in deeper ways. And it's it's it's specific to everybody, right? We all are our own selves and individuals. So it really is so specific. You have specific ways that you nourish yourself sensually and in specific ways. But what I really like to do is help women gain that knowledge and understand what that means. And so, yeah, that's kind of how it all came about. I just had an epiphany one day and I was like, No, I think I'm going to start calling myself the sensual chef or just have it in my head. And it that didn't come about until like 2018.
Monica
Yeah, no, I love that story because it's so true, because so many years of me working in restaurants and in the industry, I mean, I felt like disconnected with the food. And it's not until. Or wasn't really until I realized, you know, I want to fully experience and immerse myself in in what I'm doing, sight, touch, intuition and that like I it was it was just a big disconnect. And that's also why I like I want to change how the restaurant industry approaches things because there's so many times that we're hospitable to everybody else but ourselves. Rush through family meal, I still eat standing up. A lot of the times we don't nourish ourselves properly. Most family meals are like heavy pasta, then what?
Kiele
Just like it was. It was just cheap to me. You know, I kind of love the European model where, you know, in most restaurants, at least in like Italy, they sit down before they open, you know, 30 minutes or 45 minutes before they open and everyone sits down and has a meal. And I think that that's really nice. You know, it just it it creates connection and community and culture. And I feel like that's what's missing in the hustle of the restaurant industry. So I love what you're doing and what you want to bring to the table and you totally have those connections. So I think it's fantastic.
Monica
Thank you. Yeah. And, you know, food is connection. Food is connection to so many things. Yourself, others, your culture. So. Was. And connection to nature. And I know a lot of the work that you do is based on ancient fu wisdom and traditional Chinese medicine. So how about we talk a little bit about that, why it's important to eat seasonally and like kind of energetically with what's going on in the environment around you?
Kiele
Yeah. Yeah. I really love to focus more on traditional Chinese medicine than you that I take kind of pick and choose. I really love to focus on traditional Chinese medicine versus ayurveda. I, like I said, I pick and choose from ayurveda a bit because I find that it can be really specific in telling people what to eat, which is why I love elemental energetics of traditional Chinese medicine and my methodologies. You know, I consider all of that ancient food wisdom and my methodologies really are surrounded by the healing properties of not just food, but cooking, because cooking also brings energetics to the body, right? There are so many different cooking methods that you can utilize to help you feel a certain kind of way and, you know, heal your emotions, your organs, like all of it. It's so cool to to teach women that and. In addition to that, how to use your senses and to bring about your intuition to really create beautiful, delicious, healthful meals. It's it's such a fun method. And so with traditional Chinese medicine, the things I love the most about it, it's so integrated with food.
And this is information that's been around for thousands and thousands of years, which is why it's so fascinating to me, because if you think about it, you know, how how did people heal themselves? That was, you know, a thousand years ago or 500 years ago. It was really, you know, 2000 years ago because traditional Chinese medicine has been around for 2300 years already. That has been around for like 5000, give or take. And so if you think about like, how did these people heal themselves, that he killed themselves through plants, herbs, trees, food. Right. And then also connecting to nature, which is why I love this. So in traditional Chinese medicine, we deal a lot with the five elements which correspond to a different season organs in your body, color, flavor, texture, action that you take in life. I mean, it's so fascinating to really understand the inner workings of traditional Chinese medicine in that way. And through these this education, I've been able to help women.
It's a two part thing, right? So I teach them ancient food wisdom from our debate in traditional Chinese medicine. And those are specific principles that I think apply. And then I get in the kitchen and teach them professional cooking skills, culinary skills, how to use their senses fully and how to note flavor. So in that way, all together, they really do start to understand the art of sensual cooking and what that means for them. And through that, it's just really a joy for me to see clients that I've had, like just start to reframe how they think about food and cooking. Because what I hear often is I don't have time for it, I don't love it. I'm not good at it. These are all beliefs that they say to themselves. And the problem with these beliefs is that they become your story and they become your reality. And so from the very beginning of my programs, I have a a program called Nourish from Within, and it's an animal program. It's a live online program that I have, you know, students and clients.
And and then I have my course, The Art of Sensual Cooking, and my mini course, as well as an intro to Sensual Cooking one on one. And in all of that, I like to really tap into the deep inner work first. So I talk about your belief systems because that's really where it starts. So people are already saying to themselves, I'm not good at this, I suck at cooking, I hate it. But they deep down have a desire to shift that and change that. It really starts first from in here and in here and actually declaring those beliefs, as, you know, false and then redefining that for themselves. And so I really love to start there and then get into the deep, ancient wisdom of food and cooking and healing and then teach, you know, culinary skills, knife skills, cooking skills, improvisational skills. And it's so interesting to see the evolution of these women and my clients, like, I just have their aha moment and it's been mind blowing for me to see them like heal themselves from diabetes.
Hashimoto's. Oh, my God. What else? Anxiety, depression. I have one of my clients. She's so they're not going to say her name. But she is older and her daughters gifted my program to her and her whole life she had been dealing with food scarcity because she was told when she was very little, we don't have enough money for food. You know, we can't eat certain things because it's too expensive. And so her whole life, she realized up until she was about 58 or so, she realized like, oh, my God, I'm worth it. I can eat that and I'm worth it. And so because of this and this is she told me that she experienced this when she was young. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. There's somebody there's a bunch of noise. Hopefully you don't hear that, but. Oh, it's so loud. But anyway, she she said that it wasn't until she was older she realized that she's actually worth it. And she just been telling herself these stories as a young girl, like, I can't eat certain things.
And so that's led her to eating disorders, you know, bulimia, anorexia and depression her whole life. And from working with me and just understanding these principles, she knew she didn't need quick and easy. She knew she needed something deeper. And so a lot of my work really goes deep in the beginnings. And so that's really how you tap into the soul and the. The spirit and the. Desire of what people are looking for in order to experience, like, deep, sensual feeling. You know what I mean? Anyway, that was a long tangent.
MOnica
No. Great. Like the soul of cooking and food.
Kiele
So. So, um, you know, just to kind of expand on ancient food wisdom, you know, I teach about typically just to get a little more specific about the energy system. I teach about the energy system and how the energy system rules all other systems. I mean, the nervous system, the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the reproductive system, the endocrine system, like all of those systems are ruled by the energy system and the energy.
Monica
Systems and how they work. So it's important to understand how they work in your body.
Kiele
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Because and Western medicine doesn't talk about the energy system. That's an Eastern medicine principle. And when you understand that, you really eat food to sustain energy, it's as simple as that. You once you understand that fact, you kind of eliminate that diet culture from your life. When you start to understand that every category of food is good for you, every food that was made on this earth and grown on this earth is good for you in some way or another. And I think it's about understanding why these certain foods are good and understanding that your body needs variety and variety, and you are able, as a human being, to heal yourself from pretty much anything. As long as you just get a bit curious and you stay in tune with yourself and you know, that's really it. And I and I love teaching about cooking because like I said earlier, you know, if you have these beliefs that you're not good at something, that becomes your barrier. And for a lot of people I've spoken to, cooking is the barrier because you can give someone a diet plan or a meal plan all day long and say, Oh, here you go, this is what it is, but no one will follow it if they don't feel motivated and comfortable in the kitchen to actually do it.
So, you know, it's a big distinction.
Monica
It's a big distinction. And that's why the the work that you do beforehand, the mindset work is so important. That's what we're what we tell ourselves and what we believe that you know and help. Change everything.
Kiele
It can. It can. It's so important. And I think it's also important for long term health and self-reliance. You know, self-reliance is super important, I think. You know, I always imagine myself. When I'm 70, 80 or 90, how do I want to feel? How mobile do I want to be? How do I want to move about life? These are the things that I constantly think about, and I think that it's so important that people start to kind of think that way. You know, what you do today dictates how your life is going to be tomorrow and ten years from now. And it's about keeping in tune with yourself and reading your body and understanding how to use all of your senses really to guide you. That's what I love about sensuality.
Monica
And treating treating your body like the temple that it is. You know, it does so much for us.
Kiele
You only have this one, you know, why not make the most of it and honor your body as much as possible? I think that so many of us and myself included, I mean, we all have our days where we just kind of let the negative and the top take over. You know, I have that moment, to be honest, like the other day, like, ooh, I'm feeling myself getting a bit fearful of whatever. But it's about understanding that, you know what? Today's a new day. Life is beautiful. We're all beautiful. Let's make the most of it, you know, enjoy and just enjoy.
Monica
And yes, JOY! You can still have those difficult, hard days, but it's you know, it's the mindset shift that can help you get through them.
Kiele
Totally. Totally.
Monica
And I always like to say that cooking is a form of self-love because, you know, everybody deserves to eat good food and to cook for themselves. And cooking for yourself shows yourself that you love. Putting good food into your body and paying attention to what you get is a form of self-love. And it's also a beautiful opportunity for us to pour into our own cups, make sure that we are full. Oh, yeah. How do you, in your programs and in your work, how do you help invite people into that like art or to invite that kind of nourishment into their lives?
Kiele
Well, what's interesting is that people need to decide that they want it. You know, once you decide that you want that this kind of education, then they go for it. I think a lot of people hesitated. The fact that because of the fact that, you know, oh, this is not something that I need or I can do this later. But with all of my clients, you know, because I have a very specific niche business, you know, it's not just your ordinary cooking class and it's not just your ordinary, you know, that's self-help, but self-improvement kind of course. It's so much deeper than that. And I think that people just need to decide that this is what I want for myself and all of my clients so far, you know, at least like the most recent ones have said, I've worked with you because I realized that I need to do this for myself and it's something that I'm doing to take a break away from, you know, my business. I work with a lot of entrepreneurs and so they're like, I want to take time away from my business and do something that's not business related, but it really is about self preservation and self-love and self-improvement.
And that's the that's the path they want to go on. And so, you know, with the people who I work with directly, they've already decided that they want this, you know, and I think really for the people who hesitate and who don't know and think, Oh, I can just do this later or whatever, my only job is to just share, you know, how this work actually works and share other people's experiences and share, you know, the beauty that they could actually experience from this. And that's really all that I can do is just share constantly about this magic because it really is so magical to experience, you know, sensuality and every single thing that you do to experience life. And I just like one of my clients recently. She's a mom. She's a part time baker. She's really awesome. And she was like, I had no idea that this existed, that I had access to this type of of knowledge and this this type of this way of living. Because what I really love to do is treat sensual nourishment as a way of life.
And yeah, that's the best way I can answer that question.
Monica
Is it's just you fully embody it. And I mean, it's kind of it's a good segue way into this, how there's so much noise in the wellness industry and just, you know, people trying to sell like gimmicks or fad diets or just things that aren't working. But your work is really to bring people back to the. Six on the route and just really understand their bodies and how even with the environment. Yes. What is great. Yeah. What is your take on that and all the noise out there.
Kiele
Yeah, I agree. There's so much noise and inauthenticity when it comes to the anything in the wellness world. Even the world wellness. I know there's there's a lot of noise here. I'm embracing it though. It's actually great noise. There's, there's yeah. There's so much noise and inauthenticity and people just want to sell just fake stuff all the time or like, you know, things that are quick and easy. And I think, you know, one of my my method is not about the quick and easy. My method is a lifelong journey, and it's about understanding how to, you know, adjust and see along the journey and be curious about your health and wellness along the way and be curious about yourself. So, yeah, it's it's hard to to swim through that. The noisy water, it really is. But, you know, I think with sensual cooking, I've been getting a lot more people curious about what that means. And what's interesting is that four years ago, when I first started this, I was actually told by some mentors and coaches that I was working with.
Like, you know, I don't think that you should actually pursue this route and, you know, blend sensuality and and cooking and nutrition altogether because people may get confused. And what they thought and told me was, you know, people aren't ready for it. But what I heard was it's the right thing to do and I just need to be patient. And now I'm getting a lot more curiosity about it. And a lot of publications are like, What does this mean? You know, how do we get our hands on this? And I'm it's the movement is starting. And so I'm really happy to be at the forefront of all of it. And I think with with creating a business like this, you just like even like yours, you know, we just have to really stay true to what our beliefs are. And, you know, I know my I know my, my work actually works and helps people because I've seen it like I've helped hundreds of women at this point. And so it's just really rewarding.
And yeah, as you just got to swim through that noise, you know, and to me, the truth always prevails. You know, there's a lot of bullshit out there and there's a lot of crap out there. And it's always the people who have integrity and who have really good core values in their work and intentions, you know, good intentions that will rise to the top no matter what. It may take some time, but they will. And that's kind of how I feel about that.
Monica
I fully agree and feel like I have to in there. And also, I guess a little bit about your back story, because I know that you were, you know, in the hustle culture yourselves, a high powered job designing courses in New York City. And then you went through a bit of a health crisis yourself that kind of flipped everything around. Do you want to talk about that pivotal moment and what?
Kiele
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. So I was gosh, I went to art school in New York, in Brooklyn at a school called Pratt Institute. And then I immediately got a job in the fashion industry randomly. And for 15 years I was design director and designing handbags in the subseries for many different brands, you name it. I probably design for them because it's a very small industry and yeah. So anyway, I did that for a long time and it was constantly like hustling and traveling. So I started this career at 22 and really thought that the way of being was to just hustle and work and just put that as my priority. And you know, I was still being healthy. I've always been an active person, but I think my thought process about health was very different, like skipping lunch was good or just having like salads with lemon juice and olive oil was good and green smoothies in the winter was good. Stuff like that, you know, not eating bread was good. And, you know, I wasn't really prioritizing myself in any way.
So anyway, in the middle of my career, I got sick with a nickel poisoning because I got metal braces in my mouth and didn't know that I was allergic to nickel and the brace system had nickel in it. I had no idea. So for 70 years.
Well, some systems do and don't. I just didn't know that number one that had nickel and number two, that I was actually allergic to it just had no idea. And that's that's taught me that sometimes things happen while you be you'll be like 28 or 30 or 40 or 50 and you'll realize something and have a health scare. And so, you know. This is it going back to self-reliance? How do we then heal ourselves and deal with that as an adult? Right. It's about seeking and adjusting along the journey. So anyway, I got if it was seven months, I've just been poisoned and with this stuff and I had like lesions and rashes from the tops of my head, like on my scalp to the bottoms of my feet and like my skin was, like, flaking off all over my body. I had gained weight from the steroids I was on. I had multiple biopsies taken at different parts of my bodies. And no doctor in New York could tell me what the heck was going on.
And they were like, Oh, you have an infection. Oh, there's something wrong. You have inflammation, blah, blah, blah. And so anyway, that was like tough for me. And I ended up figuring out that it was my braces when I was on a business trip in China. I was with Mike, my friend and colleague at the time. Melissa and both of her parents are research doctors and so she just took pictures of different parts of my body and emailed it to them. And back in 2008. You know, we don't have the Internet. The Internet was very different. There was like nothing on the Internet back then, really. And so I write. And so I sent the pictures to them and they just started like emailing me. Like, it looks like you have obviously an allergic reaction. There's something going on, some kind of metal poisoning or you're allergic to any metals. And that's when I figured it out. So I got the braces off and I just decided to stop all the protocol that the doctors in New York. I was going to NYU at the time, and I just said, you know, there's a different way. So that was the time where plant based living was starting to come out. And, you know, Michael Pollan was putting out his books and Dr.
Colin Campbell was putting out his books. And so it was just a transformative time in my life. And so I started reading about food and healing, and that's what led me to this whole path. And so it took me about a year to clean myself out, and that's a really short amount of time. And that got me really passionate about, you know, food and healing and cooking. And I found that cooking was really the barrier to creativity and enjoyment. And what I also realized through that process was, well, I'm not giving myself the time to heal. And so I just kind of pulled back from work a bit and started tapping into my senses and sensuality much more and really starting to lead with my body and my senses. And so I started pole dancing as a form of movement modality, and I did that for 14 years.
MOnica
Oh, wow.
Kiele
I just started I started, like, taking lunch breaks. I started taking walks around New York City, like, without any headphones, like anything I could do to ground myself during the day. I started doing that. And so then let me see 2008 and tell you until 35 years later, I then decided to go to the Natural Gourmet and to help support a culinary program, because I wanted to do health coaching, but I couldn't find any program that was for me. And so the natural for me really embodied that. And then after I graduated from there, I started studying more about Chinese medicine. And are you based in working with specific mentors and professionals in that field? And so now that's kind of what happened. That was my journey through the whole thing.
Monica
Yeah. So I mean, you turn something that could have been devastating into, you know, a thriving career where you're helping so many people through your experience. That's amazing.
Kiele
So what happens? I know you had a similar story, too.
Monica
Yeah. Yup. I want to help people because I didn't have that help when I was figuring everything out. But let's talk about some some of the ancient Chinese ancient Chinese medicine or the sorry, the traditional Chinese medicine elements. I want to hear more about that. I love like the fire, the water, the earth.
Kiele
Have you taken my quiz?
Monica
I have. And I am Fire.
Kiele
Okay. So in Chinese medicine, there's five elements. For people who don't know, I'll just break it down really simply. There is fire, earth, metal, water and wood. And all of them, like I said earlier, corresponds with a season, a color, an organ, a feeling, an emotion. There are so many different things. And so if you look at how all of these elements correspond with each other, it's cyclical. So fire feeds. Earth earthquakes metal metal feeds water, water feeds wood, wood feeds fire. And like I said, that's how they're all correspond with each season. And so if you really understand a little bit about each of the elements and understand it, just help you understand so much more about how to nourish yourself and connect to nature. So right now we are in the middle of almost summertime. So we're transitioning from the wood element into the fire elements. And so with the wood element, I'll talk about spring, since we're still in spring here in Mexico, here, it's like summertime. How hot is it over there where you're at?
Monica
Seventies. Today is a nice day. So it's like 60, 70, maybe over.
Kiele
That's really nice, though. Actually, let me talk about the fire element since we're getting into that. So with the fire element that corresponds with the summer season and so corresponds with like Heat's the dominant flavor of the fire element is bitter. So typically within the summertime, it's good to eat a lot of flavored foods, bitter foods like Aruba for day.
We're good. Okay. Okay. I don't know where I left out, but I was talking about the fire element. I'll just start over. So with the fire element, it is the element of the summer season and it corresponds with so many different things. So the dominant flavor of the fire element is bitter. So basically in the summertime, it's really good to eat more bitter foods because that promotes blood circulation and energy circulation within the body. If you think about what people like to do during the summertime, they like to be outside. They like to move more. There's a lot more energy and activity in the world, like everyone's out and about. And even when you cook, there's a lot more excitement and energy in how you cook. It's when people love to actually cook with fire a lot more like they're barbecuing. You know, there's a lot more like it's trip, right? Pepper and spice, things are just a lot more active. Flavors are brighter and adding bitter foods into your foods actually, like promote that flavor.
And so foods like arugula, crazy. Gosh, what else? Even like foods like chocolate and coffee. Carbonated soda. Radishes actually are more spicy and that's like metal element. But yes, radishes are really good to have because radishes are seasonal. Right? Like so they do grow more in the summertime, but they do have that like spicy, like fiery element to it. Let me see what else I can talk about. Oh, the dominant color for the summertime is red, easy to do. The action that people have in the summer and with the fire element is joy and laughter. There's a lot more of that coming out, you know? I mean, people just want to be, like, happy all the time. It's just so fascinating.
And so all of that, the joy, the laughter, the the bitter flavors, you know, they really do help nourish the heart and the small intestine. And so that's why working with the elements is so fun. And if you take the time to learn about all the elements, it's really cool to to understand, like, how each element flows within each other and what does that do? It helps promote balance, right? And so this.
Five element education is really about promoting balance in your life and then also helping you connect more to nature. So if you understand just what's happening seasonally, how you're feeling, what organs to nourish, I mean, it gets way more complex than how I'm talking about it right now, but it's it's super fun to learn about and. Take me so long to go through every element, to be honest.
Monica
Yeah, that's okay. No, I love reading about it. It's not it's not my forte, but like, I subscribe to it. I love, you know, eating seasonally because. Okay, that's your body, your mind, spirit. Yeah. And I it.
Kiele
Also, you know, if you think about, like, just the concept of using what.
Monica
Oh, you had frozen. But you're back now.
Kiele
I think the bandwidth here is is getting a little bit crowded, to be honest. You know, that's what I was kind of afraid of. But because it's people are really now waking up, but hopefully you can hear me because you keep going out to.
Monica
How far? Well, there I guess we can close out a little bit. Just we can do a little too much of what you're saying, but we can we can definitely go part two. Absolutely. But I guess to leave leave our listeners with a few pieces of advice or anything that you have on how they can get started on their wellness journey and journey to fully, you know, expressing themselves with their senses.
Kiele
Okay. I would say the one thing I recommend is to start now. Don't wait. Just start now with whatever you think is best for you. And I think if you want to learn about. How to leave more with your senses. First, to understand what the five senses are, the sight, sound, taste, feel and touch, and every day do something to nourish those that sense and tap into that. So just even something as simple as taking up, taking a sweet potato and just feeling it and even closing your eyes and feeling it and smelling a flower or, you know, just spending 3 minutes just looking at a tree and like listening to the wind, things like that. Just take the time to do that every single day because it's a form of meditation and it's a form of cleansing. And so that's what I would recommend to do if you want to just start very, very simply. And if you haven't already, take my quiz. What's your nourishment style? Because that will help you educate you.
It's on what your dominant element is for everyone. It's different. We all have a dominant element. I mean, mine is Earth, yours is fire. And so I think it's really fun for people to get curious about themselves and start that journey. And if, you know, I have my courses out there in the world if you want to take them as well. And so that's really what I can offer.
Monica
Yeah. Thank you so much, Kiele. I love talking to you and I love learning from you. And, you know, we're so aligned in so many different ways about how we respect our bodies, our food, and stay in the present moment as well. And yeah, I love I really admire what you're doing.
Kiele
I admire everything you're doing, too. And I love your work. And I love how you and I connected on this platform. It's so special and I love this relationship. And I think that you are part of the industry disruptors. You're one of the industry disruptors that is doing just magical things. And I'm so happy to be aligned with you in this world.
Monica
Thank you. And you have a wonderful day. I really thank you so much for being here.
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