Transcript:

Episode 29: From Pain to Purpose

Dr. Pompa:

All right, well, Warren Phillips is not here today, but I have the most special guest of all. That’s my wife, Merily. Say hello to the folks.

Merily:

Hi, everybody. Good morning.

Dr. Pompa:

Look, we’ve done some past shows on hormone health and just recently, as a matter of fact, so I brought the expert in. Ladies, you are going to be in for a treat. We are going to talk about Merily’s story because it led to a lot of what I teach today. From pain to purpose is actually the mantra that we speak that my wife started. You’re going to hear a little bit more about our story as well today, so it is a special show. From pain to purpose physically—yeah, we’ll talk about the hormone stuff, and it’ll piggyback on some other shows that you might want to go listen to. However, we’re going to talk about some of the emotional stuff too. When I got very sick, Merily went through a lot like many of the spouses listening or other family members and loved ones, so it affects everybody.

It’s even more than that. As a matter of fact, my wife is starting her own podcast, which she’ll talk to you about, ladies. It is for ladies so Women 2 Purpose. That is the name with the number two, Women 2 Purpose. That really came out, again, of what God did in our life through our battle. Healing us physically, no doubt, but also emotionally and spiritually, I can tell you. When that’s all lined up, life gets really good and much more fun, so let’s talk about that. We’ve got a lot to talk about.

All right, Mer, we’ve done shows on hormones before, and I’ve often times held you up as the example of this. We have a lot of people, men and women, who are hormonally not right today. I mean, hormone dysregulation is an epidemic of people. Folks, when I say that, if you haven’t listened to past shows, that could be those of you who struggle to lose weight despite eating perfect, exercising. I call it weight loss resistance, or those who struggle even to stay on a diet because you can’t control your cravings, yeah, that’s hormonal too. Brain fog, lack of energy, anxiety, sleep problems, just don’t feel well, bloating, I mean, I can keep going on a different litany of different symptoms, so if you have any of those, this show’s for you. Actually, this show’s for you goes beyond that because we are going to go into some of the, I don’t know, maybe more important things, and that is the emotional health.

All right, Mer, let’s tell your story.  I think we have a lot of people this may be the first time. We get a lot of new people every show. I don’t know. It started back when?

Merily:

Unbeknownst to me, it started when you started figuring out your challenges, right?

Dr. Pompa:

It started when I said it started. I love that. I don’t know. That’s a great answer. Okay. Therefore, it started when I said it started. All right, look, let’s face it. Okay. We’ll just summarize this.

Merily:

When it started is when we realized what my heavy metal test looked like. When I took the test, only because you obviously took the test…

Dr. Pompa:

Let’s back up further. She was vegetarian at one point.

Merily:

Right. Yeah. We can go back to the hour even.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. I remember walking in her home and what was in her closet. This is actually when we first met. I didn’t plan on going here.

Merily:

This could take a while.

Dr. Pompa:

It had oodles of noodles and Snyder’s Hard Pretzels.

Merily:

Snyder’s Hard Pretzels.

Dr. Pompa:

I’m like where’s your food? Okay. You have to understand. I grew up in an Italian family, okay? Dad was a bricklayer, didn’t have money. When I was in college, I was cooking every meal, me and my roommates, and that’s just what we did.

Merily:

Okay. Pause. When I was in college…

Dr. Pompa:

She cooked nothing.

Merily:

All my boyfriends were taking me out to dinner every night.

Dr. Pompa:

It’s all right, so now you know where we came from. All right, so I’m looking at oodles of noodles in the closet…

Merily:
I ate them.

Dr. Pompa:

Going, really, where is your food? What is going on here?

Merily:
Those were my snacks.

Dr. Pompa:

I’m thinking right away this relationship is not going anywhere.

Merily:

Hey, there were potatoes in a box too. You forgot that.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah.

Merily:

Remember, potatoes in box?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. I do.

Merily:

Gosh, those were good. I miss those.

Dr. Pompa:

We got to rewrite that on here. Anyway, she still wants Snyder’s pretzels, but that’s another story. All right, anyways, was there peanut butter involved in that too?

Merily:

I think so, but I’m not sure what that was for. I’m trying to think of what I put the peanut butter on.

Dr. Pompa:

The pretzel, no.

Merily:

I did see a jar of peanut butter in my brain. I just don’t know.

Dr. Pompa:

Me too.

Merily:

Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:

Anyway, okay. I don’t know how I got there. Here’s how I got there. She also, as we progressed in this relationship—and I won’t spare the details in between but…

Merily:

You won’t spare the details?

Dr. Pompa:

I will spare the details. Oh, my God! She will not spare the details. I’ll have to knock her off the mike, anyways. However, we did end up dating, and then she would be laying in bed with towels on her head because of allergies.

Merily:

Okay. That’s over two years, three years to Atlanta, Georgia and Life College, right?

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah.

Merily:

Yep.

Dr. Pompa:

Then it was Motrin, these big pills she took around her period. I’m like what? Who takes pills? I didn’t even take pills.

Merily:

Eight hundred milligrams.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, so hormone dysregulation out of the gate.

Merily:

I didn’t even know it. That was the best part about it.

Dr. Pompa:

No. That’s so many people listening.

Merily:

Right, absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:

It’s so normal today that it’s—well, hold on. No. No. It’s so common today that it’s perceived as normal.

Merily:
It’s not normal. It’s common, right.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. That’s the problem. That’s not normal. You don’t need those things. I mean, every spring and fall the eyes would just close up, I mean, because of the allergies so allergies, hormone dysregulation. Then she says okay. She ends up eating better, but back then many of us gravitated to a vegetarian diet.

Merily:

Okay. We can fast forward now probably seven years to when I fasted.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. That is true. Okay. That was one of the things. We’ve done past shows on fasting, and she fasted. Out of that fast, actually, most of your allergies went away.

Merily:

Yeah. They did.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. Definitely, hormone things got better, but then she’s on the vegetarian diet for too long. A short-term vegetarian diet is not a problem but too long. Anyways, needless to say, she starts getting symptoms. We didn’t know it at that time but methylation symptoms where the body starts depleting itself of these methylation methyl groups, and part of their job is to adapt to stress. Another part of their job is to get rid of toxins like toxic estrogen, and unbeknownst to us, she was building up toxic estrogen. You have to know this part of the story because her mom died. Tell your mom’s story because she was heading to be just like her mom.

Merily:

Yeah, so whenever Danny had—my husband had found out that…

Dr. Pompa:

That’s me.

Merily:

Yeah. Dr. Pompa had found out that he—what was truly the cause of his problems, which was three and a half years into searching for answers, I just wanted to do the test that he did just to see. That was a test I hadn’t done yet, so when I did it and all of—and my lead was so high. It was so high. I thought, oh, my gosh, I would’ve never suspected, but anyway, long story short…

Dr. Pompa:

I would’ve of.

Merily:

Yeah. In this season of life, my mom had developed breast cancer when she was 50. Then, ten years later, she developed—she ended up with uterine cancer, inoperable uterine cancer, and she died two years later. It was interesting because, obviously, it was a reflection of—as the more he learned, the more, obviously, I was realizing that everything that was in my mom just by—just because I was in her womb was ultimately in me to some significant degree and combined with other environmental factors from that day and age of being raised. I was born in ’67, so there was lead paint. There were gas lines. There were a lot of things that increased our exposures. I lived in an old house growing up.

Dr. Pompa:

When we come back, we’re going to hear the rest of the story, and this applies to many of us. Unknowingly, we are being poisoned, and it’s affecting our hormones, when we come back.

[Break 00:09:43 – 00:09:49]

Dr. Pompa:

One of the things that she didn’t tell you was the fact that, all of a sudden, she starts getting these just bizarre—she described them often times as out of body experiences. We’re not getting weird.

Merily:

I said I was a spectator in my own body.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. We’re not getting weird here, but it was an odd feeling, obviously driven from some hormone issues. Things were trickling down. Things were being affected, and she was in and out of these weird times.

Merily:

I was in a compromised state just having—I had Daniel at the time, so I had a baby. I was nursing. I was a vegetarian, as he mentioned, which was certainly just adding to the strain on my body with little reserves and a lot of other things going on that I wasn’t yet connected to.

Dr. Pompa:

There’s a timeline here that’s a little off, but she ended up with cervical dysplasia, one step away from cancer. They were saying, basically, there were cancer cells there, and they wanted to do a treatment. Of course, I didn’t want to do it. Matter of fact, a lot of that time in my life—I was actually studying fasting at that time. She says, well, what I do? I said you’re going to fast, and so that’s what she did.

Merily:

So she did.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, 12 days later. She did a pure water fast for 12 days just like she did for her allergies that helped her so much. The doctor said, well, you’ll be back. Guess what? We weren’t back. It took care of itself, and she did many Pap smears later and different tests.

Merily:

I did one every three months and progressively—it took a year, but progressively each one improved until it was normal.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. That’s one of the powers of fasting, obviously.

Merily:

It’s not like you get the—you do the fast and you immediately get the result, necessarily, but your body is now in motion to heal and to deal through autophagy of eating those bad cells. That was really encouraging, and I think that’s also a testimony to just how we have to perceive just our journey in life. When we’re doing the right things, it’s not that you’re—it’s the opposite of the system that we have become accustomed to expecting where you have a symptom, you do something, and you get relief. If you want relief that is long-term and it’s truly healing the body at the cellular level, you do the work. You keep doing the work, and over time, there’s the result shows up. It’s not a quick fix. You have to be committed, but you’re committed to a process that isn’t bringing consequences that are further taking you down a road that you aren’t expecting. That’s what is so important.

I think people have to remember it’s looking long-term, and that’s so true of so many things that we commit to in our lives. We have to look long-term. We put the right things in. We keep looking back, and you see the results in the progress. Too many people get disconnected from that paradigm.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. It takes that to look upstream. Look, she could’ve done the fast, fixed that. Ultimately, what was causing her hormone dysregulation? What was causing the odd symptoms? What causing it? As it turned out, it was massive amounts of lead. Under 2 is normal; at that time, under 5. They’ve lowered the amount that they consider normal, but she was—110 was her lead level, so you can imagine.

Okay. Now, you’d be saying, well, where did she get that? First of all, we’ve all grown up in the lead generation. It wasn’t until 1978 that they actually outlawed lead in most products, paint, gasoline, etc., but it took years after that. It was still in the environment. Our parents were exposed to it even more than we were, and that is the number one source of lead is moms. She got the lead from her mom. By the way, our children who ended up with certain problems, constipation, gut issues, neurological stuff—we called our one son the banshee because he was just colicky. We ended up testing them, and their lead was off the chart. Where did they get it from (mom, in this case my wife)? This is four generations of inheriting not just lead but mercury as well because we grew up in the mercury and the lead generation. That became the problem.

The point is this, though, is when we were doing these hormone tests on her, her methylation was in fact depleted and her toxic hormones were building up. She was going to end up just like her mom who ended up first with breast cancer, and then she treated that, was called a success. The chemo, the radiation considered a success, so if you’re doing research on your cancer, she is part of the statistics that would say, hey, this works. Look at these amazing statistics. What they don’t tell you is those are typically three to five year statistics, and they call that cure. The problem is is it’s typically ten years down the road where another estrogen, toxic estrogen, estrogen dominant cancer appears, and sure enough, almost ten years to the day it did. It ended up in her uterus, which of course the doctor said wasn’t related, and two years later, unfortunately, she died.

The moral of that story is she never went upstream. My wife, on the other hand, with the grace of God and the knowledge that we had did go upstream. Once we got rid of the lead, then, lo and behold, every hormone test got better and better.

Merily:

We’re still getting rid of the lead, by the way. It’s four generations.

Dr. Pompa:

It comes out of the bone. You get rid of it, and then, all of a sudden, you enter a new phase of life. My wife’s 50 now. Your body starts adjusting, going through menopause. Guess what you lose? You lose bone. It’s completely normal. Just like pregnancy, by the way. That’s why it ends up in the children in utero because, pregnancy, you lose bone, but out comes the lead.

Fast forward to menopause and there’s other times of life where the same thing. You get the bone regenerating. The hormones are changing. You lose some bone, and out comes the lead. We have to revisit it. Our son, we got rid of their lead when they were babies, and lo and behold, when he was going through puberty, out came the lead. That’s normal to lose bone at that time. The point is is, yeah, I mean, obviously, this is something I teach doctors around the world how to get rid of these, not just lead but mercury, out of the tissues properly and appropriately .

Merily:
All metals.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, all metals. I mean, most of it’s done wrong, by the way. On my website, D-R-pompa.com, I wrote three articles, and there’s videos with them as well. “When Detox is Dangerous,” please read those. Many of you have done this. Many of you are looking, and those articles will save your life. I promise you. That’s years, years of knowledge there and research just in those articles so “When Detox is Dangerous.” I actually interview you in one of those videos, anyway, and I talk about your story in the article.

Okay. That was the hormonal side of things. That was the healing. By the way, again, I went through my story, and most of you know my story with my mercury and then having going through this with the lead with her and my children. When I was getting my life back, adopting two children who lost their parents, so there’s seven of us now.

Merily:

We’re a crew.

Dr. Pompa:

Three of our biological all affected by mom and then we inherit two that were affected differently. Our son Dylan, they were 7 when we got them. He ended up on the autism spectrum because of vaccines, and our daughter was affected later from the same thing. We’re going to talk more about the emotional side of this when we come back, maybe the most important part of the show, so stay tuned.

[Break 00:18:03 – 00:18:09]

Dr. Pompa:

All right, we are back. Just to finish up that story that I was saying, Dylan was and with each vaccine getting worse. He ended up Asperger sensory integration on the autism spectrum. By the way, if things keep accelerating at the rate they are, it is estimated by 2032, the year of 2032, that one in two boys will be on the autism spectrum. I mean, that sounds almost hard to believe until you understand what I’m saying, that they’re born with lead, mercury. By the way, ladies, the number of fillings in your mouth, those silver—they’re called amalgam fillings. Contain 50% mercury. The number you have in your mouth or at least when you had your babies is proportional to how much they find in the baby’s brains on autopsy.

You give them lead. We give them mercury, and dad’s, you play a role too. You’re not off the hook. Then not to mention what they end up with in vaccines and all these other potential exposures.  Mercury is still in vaccines. It’s still in flu shots, as well as aluminum, which you put mercury and aluminum and lead together and it’s—this is a deadly mix that has a higher lethal dose of value smaller amounts together than it does massive amounts individually, metal, individual metal. This is a massive issue.

When you understand something else that’s happened today, we’re spraying our food with a chemical called glyphosate that a 2012 study showed—out of MIT showed that this glyphosate chemical that’s on all of our food—it’s the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup—is allowing these metals and toxins to penetrate deeper into the brain nerve tissue. It’s destroying our gut, our blood-brain barrier, our gut barrier, driving autoimmune. I can go down the list. It’s adding to this autism epidemic. We experienced it firsthand. The good news is, if you met Dylan today, you would never absolutely know he had a problem. He’s definitely our most shy child, but he just developed an online business, a really cool kid. No doubt about it.

Olivia, the twin, she didn’t have a problems when she was younger, but when she got older, she started getting sensory issues, increase in pain, different things going on. She too ended up doing cellular detox and does to this day. All seven of us cellular detox, and what I teach applied to all of us. There you go from the physical side of pain to purpose, but let’s move in to the emotional component. Honestly, I would have to say my wife is more of the expert here than I am and only because there’s no doubt…

Merily:

She had more stuff to deal with, more humans.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. No doubt she did. I mean, even growing up, I mean, I had my dyslexia, which I couldn’t read until sixth grade. Set me up with wounds and things that, hey, I needed some counseling later in life, massive insecurities there. I still have dyslexia, but now I clear my mind.

Merily:

Still working through it.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, still working. I still throw down my phone once a day, grrr, this darn dyslexia. Now I do realize it’s part of my brilliance. Okay. We all have wounds. That’s the point. Merily, her father left her at age what, 1?

Merily:

My mom left him. Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:

Okay. He left, out of the scene.

Merily:

Yeah. Uh-huh. Never knew my real father.

Dr. Pompa:

Abandonment issues, regardless of that, grew up in an abusive home. She was raised by—because her mom had to work all the time. There was abandonment, right? She would wait for her to come back, sitting at the window, from work. She didn’t see her all day, and pap-pap and grandma were throwing pots and pans at each other.

Merily:

On occasion. I mean, interestingly enough, when you go through that stuff, you don’t know much about it, and I wouldn’t say they were abusive people at all. It’s just the circumstance of…

Dr. Pompa:

To each other, anyway.

Merily:

Right, the circumstances of life, how it unfolds, how there’s just…

Dr. Pompa:

We all go through it.

Merily:

Right. Everybody has their stuff. When you look back, you realize, okay, that wasn’t the way it was supposed to be, but for most people, most people don’t live a life that is supposed to be that, the way it is. Then when they get older—and if they did live a life the way it was supposed to be and then they have to deal with more of the challenges—which is your situation, growing up in a normal home, loving family, all of that. Then life starts throwing things at you. It’s harder to adapt to. When you go through chaos when you’re younger, it probably in some ways—I believe it did for me. It just prepared me for going—just learning how to roll with chaos more easily. In our dynamic of our marriage, I can thrive somehow miraculously in chaos, and thank God because we’ve had a lot of it.

Dr. Pompa:

Oh, yeah. I couldn’t deal with it at all. For me, it was cartoons. I was like what is going on?

Merily:

He gets angry that that is something that I can manage. It’s a difference of—so anyway, life is that, right? That is life.

Dr. Pompa:

The greater adversity makes a stronger person. She is definitely stronger than I, but I mean, with more emotional stuff to work through.

Merily:

Right, right, absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:

My sickness really was traumatizing one way for me. Actually, after I got better, I stored memories. We store memories in our brain. There’s a place in the brain called the hippocampus and the amygdala system, and it creates memories of traumas, physical, chemical, or emotional. I had chemical traumas, and when I would even sniff a small amount of a chemical, perfume, cologne, I would go—my brain would send this inflammation signal up. I would go from feeling completely normal to feeling like I would rather jump off the next bridge. I mean, literally, emotionally and physically, I would turn into a train wreck.

This became a new reality for me. Because of stored memories, that I had to basically change the way I thought about these chemicals. Therefore, it would change—it’s called neuroplasty, and it changed the way my brain processed. That became my emotional battle that I had to deal with, and I had to change all my thinking to change these patterns. By the way, it’s called chemical sensitivity, and it is no doubt a physical and real problem. You have to fix it by taking the toxins out that drive it, but you also have to change the way you think about the toxins.

Merily:

I think for the—even from the emotional standpoint, we learned also with having the twins how they were raised and their amygdala development versus our three biological children that had a very different experience when they were infants and toddlers, and we learned just how—we learned later when they really were nearly grown, honestly, about how this worked. We were essentially having to—we couldn’t expect those two to have the same reaction to life that our three boys were having. I mean, it just—it opened up a new level of awareness for us. It also created a lot of challenges in wishing that we had understood this better earlier, but that’s life, right? We can look at…

Dr. Pompa:

What we learn from where we came from.

Merily:

For Danny, it was the connection to his triggers from his sickness. For the kids, it was a different…

Dr. Pompa:

That’s my point, though. Okay. Mine was this chemical pathway that I set up. The problem was is Merily, although she was tough going through it, unbeknownst to me was storing pathways and setting up triggers for my reactions to things, my bad behavior in it, the kids. By the way, we adopted those kids. I mean, I just was getting my life better, but I was still chemically sensitive and reactive. She had all these wounds and pathways from it that didn’t come out until later. It was destroying our marriage.

I mean, it was—because I didn’t get it. I’m thinking I’m the one that was injured. We’re through that now. Why are you going back there? Why are you saying that now? It’s like I’m not doing that.

Merily:

It was stressing our marriage.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. The bottom line was is then we literally ended up having to go through counseling and uproot the emotional side of that.

Merily:

Accept that we were two different people within it, and that’s okay. We have to learn how to, obviously, become more constructive within the things that triggered both of us.

Dr. Pompa:
I want you to talk about—in this show, we can’t talk about that journey you went through and I went through and our whole family, but you’re going to deal with more of that. You really did become the expert. You got far more. She dug deeper in this emotional healing than I did. That’s for sure. She no doubt learned a lot in it, and that’s really what stemmed the start of our new—we’re going to talk about when her show’s coming up, her podcast. When we come back, we’re going to talk more about.

Merily:

Okay.

[Break 00:27:19 – 00:27:24]

Dr. Pompa:

All right, we are back officially, and the time goes so dang fast. On this segment, I always like to save the best for last. I do want Merily to share with you why she’s starting Women 2 Purpose, and it really did come out of this. Again, in one show, she can’t walk you down the healing that God really did in her, but I know that this show—we just actually took 25—over 25 hundred people through a 5-day water fast. Can you believe that, on my Facebook? If you haven’t seen that, go to dr.danielpompa, and that’ll bring you to my Facebook, my fan page. All those videos, I—we, Merily and I, shot a video every day of the fast, even a couple days before and then a couple days after, few days after, actually. We just shot one last night or night before.

Merily:
Two night ago.

Dr. Pompa:

Two nights ago about a lot of this topic, about the emotional component of fasting.

Merily:

There’s a Facebook page for that, Fasting for a Purpose, and you can go look. Join the group. You can read other people’s experiences, the challenges they’ve had, the things they’re doing. Some people are within the group organizing fasts randomly according to their schedules. It’s been really a neat—it’s a neat community. I mean, it’s become a little community of people. Obviously, we are Christians. Some are not.

In all things, it’s a principle that works in life, and it’s been just so encouraging for us to see the people that have come together. They’re kind and compassionate and encouraging. It just happened. I mean, it did.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. It happened. It just happened.

Merily:

It did just happen, so in any event, I think—and by the way, so my—I’ve been thinking and knowing that there’s something I have to contribute. Just because I realized I’ve known this for a while; our pain is never just for us. Yet, I didn’t know what to do. My husband is an expert in what he does, and I have as much value for what he knows and shares as you do.

I think there’s probably been a little bit of that resistance because I don’t want—I’m not him. I don’t want to be him. I don’t want to be the one that people come to and want to know about cellular healing at the level that he can communicate it. That is not who I am, and so I was waiting, really, for God to just show me what I can offer and what I can contribute. Where my why comes from, where it begins is that I’ve been very—the one thing I’m perhaps naturally gifted at is—gifted in is my faith, to a degree.

Dr. Pompa:

Oh, yeah.

Merily:

I’ve certainly had a lot of opportunities to test it, and try it, and learn in it.

Dr. Pompa:

Let me chime in there. When I was sick, she would say to me God is not only going to get you well, but He’s going to take a message to the world for you. Man, would I get mad. To me, it was like you’re putting one more thing on me. Take a message to the world? I can’t even get…

Merily:

Fight my way out of a paper bag.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. I can’t even get out of bed. I mean, it’s like—so don’t tell me that. I just want to get well. That was her faith. She saw something that I didn’t see.

Merily:

God told me that. Anyway, one of my challenges with, obviously, just because of the way I’m wired is that I really feel that I don’t see enough evidence of especially Christians really believing God for what He is capable of. It is above all we can ask or think. I mean, it just—and it frustrates me, quite honestly. Again, the more that you have need of, the more that you can rely on God to figure it out. Lead the way. Trust Him in the pain and in the valley, and know that what you learn there is going to lead you to a richness of your faith and an investment for your life that you can’t learn anywhere else.

While I don’t feel responsible, obviously, and I had to learn this too to help everyone that comes with a please help me, I realized that it’s God that provides. It’s God that allows in His sovereignty the journey. I mean, again, we didn’t really discuss what we have been through personally beyond Danny’s sickness or what you can possibly just conclude naturally with getting two new kids that didn’t want new parents, that lost theirs tragically.

Dr. Pompa:

There was a whole trust that ended up court for three years, threatening to be put in jail. Long story but it ruined our life for many years.

Merily:

Yet, within that, we still managed to keep our wits about us, to enjoy to the best of our ability the life that God gave us, even though there was a heaviness within it, even though there was challenges connected to it, even though there has been, obviously, what our kids have—what they’ve had to process and manage and overcome and insecurities created from it. All of that is true, but we had to keep our faith strong. We had to rely on God. My part is to give more people, women, hope that in their battle, in their pain there is purpose. By the way, there is also promise on the other side of that, and that is what people need to anchor to. Women need to anchor to what—who their God is. If that becomes the overarching reminder to them as they’re going through things and they’re taking the cries of their heart to God, He is not going to disappoint you. His timeline is not our timeline. Who He is in His sovereignty is not what we can even imagine and nor should we, but we have to keep petitioning Him. We have to keep reminding Him, and so that is where and how—so through the fast.

Anyway, that’s another story. Right now, I have not started the podcast. I’ve ordered some things that I need. I’m learning as I go too, but I plan to begin it very soon. The Facebook page right now is—it will be and it is. It’s Women and the number 2 Purpose. You can go and join that and even begin to see the interaction that is already occurring.

It’s been really a—just like the fasting page, an experience and little tribe that’s developed. The same is happening here, and it’s just been such a—it’s so evident of knowing that God already has things in motion in our life for a reason. It’s a reason that we can never obviously necessarily see, but we just have to trust Him in that.

That is what the confirmation of the response of even this too that I’m seeing. It’s just again confirming that this is what God has been up to in my life for a purpose, and I just have to follow His lead. One of my fears is missing out on what God has for me for the benefit of others. I know if I miss that, then I will have regret, and I have a fear of having regret.

Dr. Pompa:

By the way, that Women 2 Purpose was birthed out of that fast. We fasted for five days. One of the things that we had said in the videos is—look, yeah, I mean, we know all these amazing physical things happen, but expect God to do things for you. I would lay out exactly why you fast.

Merily:

Make your list.

Dr. Pompa:

Make a list. We challenged everyone to do that.

Merily:

We did it.

Dr. Pompa:

You wouldn’t believe the miracles that came out of that fast. I was thinking that day or that evening before—this was day five. We were eating the next day, day six. Oh, God really didn’t do much for me there, but you know what? That’s okay because I was leading them, and He did it for so many people. That next day, we had the revelation of a year trying to think about her podcast, and it all came crystal clear, which happens during fast often.

Merily:

In two minutes over coffee.

Dr. Pompa:

Two minutes. Then we had something else happen with our son who was on that prayer list during that fast, remarkable, and then we just fasted 42 hours this week. We said you know what? I gave an example of how Israel fasted 24 hours, and God came to their rescue, and the fast is what stimulated that. I said you know what? Let’s do this for our other son. Sure enough, God opened up another thing, and that just happened. Amazing stuff comes out of fasting. Not just physical healing but emotional and spiritual breakthrough and even just things that you’re thinking about. Something happens that the brain just sees things completely different, and people use fasting even for mental breakthroughs, intellectual breakthroughs. However you want to put it.

Merily, that has become our mantra, from pain to purpose. One of the things that we had just said is what God has taught us is, number one, in these situations, whether it’s our children, whatever it is, the big stuff in life, we have to let go and let God. We’re learning that ourselves. I mean, just even better and better that we learn just give it to Him, and that’s why we fast when things happen now. We completely give it over to Him, and then He completely transforms it. The other thing that we learned that Merily said is we’ve learned to look at our circumstances differently. We’ve learned to look at them as an opportunity for God to move, and that was Merily’s point as well.

We’re at the end of the show. Hey, listen, share this show. Many people need to hear these very words. Tell your friends. Come join us at Health Hunters, and join Merily on Women 2 Purpose. Look for that. Look for her on her Facebook.

Merily:

Yeah. It was great talking with you all. Take care.