Ep. 38 Aimee Raupp – Law of Attraction

Meet Aimee:

Aimee Raupp, MS, LAc, is a renowned women’s health & wellness expert and the best- selling author of the books Chill Out & Get Healthy, Yes, You Can Get Pregnant, and Body Belief. A licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in private practice in New York, she holds a Master of Science degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University. Aimee is also the founder of the Aimee Raupp Beauty line of hand-crafted, organic skincare products. She has appeared on The View, and has been featured in Glamour, Allure, Well + Good, GOOP, Shape, and Redbook, and has received endorsements from Deepak Chopra, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Arianna Huffington, and Gabby Bernstein for her work in helping thousands of women to improve their vitality, celebrate their beauty, and reconnect to the presence of their optimal health. Aimee is also the Head of Chinese Medicine at The Well, an active columnist for media outlets such as Thrive Global, Well + Good, MindBodyGreen and is a frequent speaker at women’s health & wellness conferences across the nation. She engages her large community worldwide through her online programs and with her website, www.aimeeraupp.com.

Show Notes:

ABOUT AIMEE

• By training, I am an acupuncturist and a practitioner of Chinese medicine
• I have been in clinical practice for 15 years mainly in the New York regions
• I have also written 3 books. My first book came out in 2009 and all the books are for women and how to optimize their health
• I wrote a book, “Yes, You Can Get Pregnant” which is about optimizing health and fertility and my most recent book is called, “Body Belief”
• Before I became an acupuncturist, I was a research scientist – I was a neuroscience researcher
• Now, in my currently life, I love to mash both worlds, but I am really fascinated about how our beliefs impact our health and our ability to thrive
• This isn’t just a theory. There’s a lot of scientific data that supports this and I get into that
• As I evolved as a practitioner and as a human, I started to really see that when we work on our energy and the beliefs from which we live our lives,  that’s when we can will have the most lasting changes
• If 90% of our thoughts are the same everyday, then what we need to figure out is what are those thoughts? What are we believing about our everyday interactions, from the food we eat to what we think about our body, to what we say when we look at ourselves in the mirror, to our relationships, to our money, to every aspect in our life. And we need to see where those beliefs are actually manifesting into physicality
• The best thing about beliefs is that, they are tangible and I always encourage people to ask themselves, “how can I say this better?” I got this from Abraham 
• It is not about going from black to white. It is about how can you say it better like, “If I support my body and nourish myself on every level, then it should come to equilibrium” or “I love my body the way that it is” and you start to soften this conversation. Then soften the beliefs which will shift the trajectory of your life and your health
• You have to first identify it. I call it, The Art of Shifting Your Beliefs
• The acronym is ART, A is for acknowledge, R is for renew or reform and T is for transform
• The first is, you have to acknowledge. You have to spend time reconnecting with yourself
• And I believe that until we do this part, we can only achieve a small amount of what we want
• A good exercise to reconnect is looking at yourself in the mirror and what are some of the things you hear yourself say to yourself? Those will reveal your beliefs to you
• You have to sit with those acknowledgements first and from there, I recommend writing them down to really identify these beliefs
• In the renewal or reform space, sit with these beliefs and all you do is say, “how could I say this better?”
• This way is like looking at yourself with curiosity, compassion or understanding versus, this rigid and critical thoughts/beliefs
• Then, you will just start to live in there and start to see things transform on their own
• The transformation happens on its own as you start to hear the beliefs
• I feel like in today’s society, we are so easy to judge ourselves especially in the world of social media
• The grass always looks greener, we are never doing it as good as someone else on Instagram and it is easy to be harder on ourselves
• Comparison is the root of all suffering
• In that awareness, my hope is that we just learn how to love ourselves
• I have worked with a thousand people at this point and behind closed doors, they really share their deep dark secrets, both physical and emotional
• And most everyone I come across is their own worse critic and we could all use a little more self-love, self-compassion and self-friendliness and when we do that, we just kind of soften. We start to understand that maybe we are not exactly where we want to be, but that we are exactly where we are supposed to be
• Even for us who has been on a spiritual path longer than others, it is always going to be being loving and kind to ourselves
• You need the hiccups in your life to get clearer on what it is that you want, and it is not to say that you deserve problems or trauma or bad experiences, but more like looking at those events as learning opportunities
• Sometimes, I will go to the “F it” mode and I’ll beat myself up later
• Now, it’s witnessing when I get that urge and I will ask myself, “how does this support you?”
• Another thing I will do a lot is in my meditation or after, I ask myself “how can I better support you? How can I better nourish you?” and I really listen to that answer
• Life has its challengers and sh*t happens
• It is not about avoiding that, it is about how do you roll with that and how do you respond versus, react
• Part of the whole fertility thing that I do in helping women improve their fertility, is not really helping them get pregnant, it is about making the world a better place because so much of what I do is teach women to reconnect
• So, if we can soften the way we respond to ourselves and our interactions in the world, we just start to be a little kinder and a little bit more compassionate. I do feel that, that’s the root of it
• When I am in the clinic treating clients, I am practicing Qi Gong in the means of the energy I am transmitting to them and the energy I am taking from them and transmitting back to the Earth
• You have the power to change your life
• Instead of disliking where we are or resisting it so much, the second you accept it and just own it, the easier it’s going to get
• You let go of that resistance and good things will begin to follow
• Everybody’s going to go through their own life the way they need to, but when you have this level of acceptance and you’ll just laugh at yourself
• It’s not about perfection, it is about accepting and being easy on yourself
• There was a study on diabetes, where they gave half of the participants a pill to regulate their blood sugar and the other half a placebo. They did blood work before and after
• Everyone of them, had their blood sugar come down
• So, all the people that took the placebo pill had lower blood sugar and it’s fascinating
• I talk about placebo effect and nocebo effect quite a bit in body beliefs and the research is mind blowing
• The more care you get from your practitioner, the more impact placebo is because it becomes more an emotional relationship since you will feel supported
• Women in support groups get pregnant twice as fast as women who are not
• The power of the mind is something you can’t argue with
• It is really listening and reconnecting in body beliefs. In that reconnection, it is the acknowledgement and getting on the same page of your body and mind figuring out how they can work together instead of battling each other all day long
• My special program is called, “Reboot Your Health and Rewire Your Brain.” It is a 30-day mind and body transformation
• I have a free 5-hour digital course of body belief and that is for anyone who purchase body belief. Just go to aimeeraupp.com/bookgift/
• If you love the book we have a Facebook group and we run mind body programs, 4 times a year, where you will get daily email support from me, menus, recipes, meal plans and we work on food and feelings every single day – it’s a complete mind and body reset

HOW DO YOU HELP WOMEN GET PREGNANT VIA NUTRITION

• Generally speaking, I believe food is our first approach
• From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, which is my training, we are meant to eat food as close to its natural state as possible and cooked food more than raw. Also eat animal protein
• I tend to recommend diets with a lot of vegetables, a good amount of healthy fats and a few ounces of protein – keep it really simple
• Avoid any processed food. If it sits on your counter and it does not go bad, you should not consume it
• Bone broth has always been the basis to us in Chinese medicine as it restores life. So for any woman who wants to conceive, we need an abundance to overflow, to grow another life, and having bone broth is a big part of that
• You can go to my website to get the bone broth and you can use the promo code reboot10 and you get a percentage off of your order
• Eating raw is harder for your body to digest. It takes longer to break it down
• Your greens should be slightly wilted or if you are eating a salad, it should have a cooked protein in it or the dressing should have ginger, garlic or clove to heat it up
• Too much cold raw, can make the uterus cold
• The uterus really craves warmth, which will improve fertility

WORDS OF WISDOM

• Be easy on yourself
• If there is one thing that you can start doing now is just tuning in to how you treat and how you talk to yourself
• Find a way to be your own friend again or for the first time because you deserve that

HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: aimeeraupp.com
• Instagram: @aimeeraupp
• Facebook: Aimee E. Raupp

Aimee’s 5-hour FREE digital course of body belief.
CLICK HERE  to join her 30-day program, “Reboot Your Health and Rewire Your Brain.”

Get the bone broth HERE and enter the promo code reboot10 to get a discount!

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