Today I'm talking with Tammy Trayer at Faith Led Healing. You can follow on Facebook as well. If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 This is Mary Lewis at A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm really excited to be talking with Tammy Trayer at Faith Led Healing. Good morning, Tammy, how are you? I am wonderful. Thank you, Mary, for having me on here this morning. 00:26 Oh, I'm so thrilled to have you. I've been wanting to do this for a while. And when you said yes, I was like, yay. So tell me about yourself, please. Hey, well, I, I put God first in my life. And as a result of that, I feel like I am living the world's best adventure. My family and I. 00:54 embarked on an off-grid lifestyle going on. 15 years, May this coming year will be 15 years that we've been living off-grid. And we embarked on that when off-grid living wasn't very glamorous. Matter of fact, we had family members and friends betting against us, but we embarked on that. Landed on raw wilderness land, lived in a wall tent for eight and a half months as we built our home. 01:23 And that was the beginning of a really amazing journey. A deep dive for me personally, I believe my family too, but a lot of things have transpired over the years and over those 15 years. And honestly, I believe that my message has morphed out of this lifestyle. And we are right now embarking on going 01:53 a whole lot deeper. We live in North Idaho and now we are expanding to be a community. So, I'm going to take this off-grid journey just so much deeper and family just thrives on simple living detachment. 02:14 and just sharing the message of trying to encourage others to learn how to live a life worth living. Okay, you're fading out just a little bit, Tammy. Can you get closer to the mic? Actually, yeah, let me see if I can do that. And worst case scenario, I can relocate. I am outside and it's a little windy this morning. So is that better? Yeah, it's better and I can still hear the wind. So if you want to move inside, that would be great. 02:41 I will do that and it'll take me two seconds and we can just continue this conversation. Sorry about that. That's okay. Okay. I'm inside. Sorry about that. That's better. Thank you. At least it's not the winds that Georgia's getting right now. Actually it is. Oh, is it? It is. I am visiting right now. Oh. So we are actually getting there. Well no wonder it's so windy. I thought you were in Idaho. 03:10 Not at the moment, but I will be in a day. Okay. So you were saying that you're in Idaho, you're living in Idaho now and you're moving. Is that correct? We are Lord willing, we are embarking on a life dream. 15 years ago, we would have hit the interior of Alaska, but we weren't sure if our son at the time who was 13 would have been ready for such a deep dive. We were. 03:38 but we weren't sure if he was ready for that seclusion. So we hit Idaho first and have been there 15 years. It's just, it nurtures my soul. So I'm, like I said, I'm a very outdoor girl and living as we do, where we do, and then having the opportunity, Lord willing, to step into this deeper space of just being enthralled by the wilderness and God's country. I can't even begin to. 04:08 express what that's going to feel like. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, my biggest question, I guess, is why did you get into the off-grid living in the first place? Well, my husband and I both had an extreme and have an extreme passion for the outdoors. We've met our match. We really feel our best selves when we are in the wilderness. And... 04:38 I was living on 150 acre farm in Pennsylvania at the time when I met him and we just felt this pull to detach in ways that we weren't reliant on the world, its systems and just to be able to more or less live a life by our own terms. We were seeing that, you know, to raise. 05:08 our son, you know, it would be so different than how we were raised. And we wanted to be able to give him that same setting that we had and the opportunity to explore and to be a kid and not be just experiencing the things that kids today do. And that was 15 years ago, you know. So 05:36 things are so different today, but that was the pool, just to be able to embrace a life that by our terms. And we successfully did that. It was, it's been amazing. Awesome. I have to tell you, I'm so glad that you're still in the world because I know you went through some health issues a few years back and it was rough for you for a little bit. Yes, very. I actually had life-saving surgery in 2016. 06:05 I am very open about this. I had lifesaving surgery from breast implant illness and I share very openly because, you know, I had previous surgeries ...
