In today's episode, we are joined by Vanessa Grace.

Vanessa Grace is an expert in overcoming codependency both personally and professionally. She is a life coach and licensed social worker. Her expertise, kind heart and a dash of light humor help her clients heal the life experiences and trauma that created codependency to begin with.

Vanessa joins mental health, spiritual practices, and life aspirations to help women create the lives they really want for themselves. Her one on one coaching and group coaching courses help you truly transform from the inside. If you want to heal your soul to become a strong self, she’s got you covered!

She's also more recently dove deep into the female cycle and how to work with it rather than against it.

Excessive pain and debilitating symptoms are NOT necessary during menstruation. 

Vanessa shares:

• The four phases of the menstrual cycle and the different requirements of each one
• Why we often feel moody and have cravings right before our period (Hint: it's not JUST hormones)
• How our menstrual cycle can actually be used as a tool for self-healing and emotional release, and the actions steps to take to make this happen
• The intersection between the Divine Feminine, our menstrual cycle, and spirituality

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For anyone who has done people pleasing, not wanted to rock the boat and made choices to make others happy, but don't make YOU happy. The Codependent's Holiday Workbook is here to help you manage the holiday so YOU experience Bliss, rather than struggle, resentment or dissatisfaction.

To dive deeper into this topic, Vanessa Grace recommends these authors:

Alisa Vitti - More Science-Based

Lisa Lister - More Spirituality-Based

Today's amazing guest is Sabrina Rogers - licensed mental health counselor, intuitive eating and body image expert, and recovering perfectionist.

After healing her own disordered eating and body image issues, she's helping women make the shift to intuitive eating and body acceptance.  Sabrina is also the host of The Emotional Eating Therapist Show.

I loved this deep conversation where we covered:

• How to handle changes in one's body, especially after a big life event such as giving birth
• The importance of changing your thoughts and perspective in order to change your emotional state AND your results
• Why emotional eating is not a bad thing - LIGHTBULB moment for me!
• The two keys to healing your relationship with both food and body image

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Check Out The Emotional Eating Therapist Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-emotional-eating-therapist/id1574421928

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This week, we are joined by Michelle, The Coffee Fitness Unicorn.

Michelle shares her story of using fitness as a vehicle for healing and recovering from trauma. When she lost her late wife to cancer, she found herself in a dark place

She eventually began her fitness journey and found it was an outlet for the many emotions she was experiencing, a way to begin taking care of herself again, and a way to create not just a healthy relationship with food, but a joyful relationship with food.

We chat about:

• Valuable resources that helped Michelle move through trauma and loss
• How she used fitness to move through an incredibly painful period in her life
• How to cultivate a pleasurable, joyful relationship with food - one that is free from any food guilt, fear, or shame

Find out more about Michelle at her website: https://coffeefitnessunicorn.com/

Check out the Coffee Fitness Unicorn Podcast Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-fitness-unicorn-coffee-chats/id1598651420

Connect with Michelle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffeefitnessunicorn/

This week, we have a fascinating guest joining us on the Slay & Thrive podcast.

Howard Sambol is an author, recovering mathematician and master astrologer. He is also the creator of the Life-Crafting Program. This program helps people discover hidden core truths about themselves, tap into their deeper purpose, and turn that purpose into a passionate, abundant career.

In today's episode, we chat about:

• How living a life that is in alignment with your core truth makes achieving any goal - health, fitness, or otherwise - so much easier
• The only three elements you need to create transformation in any situation
• The one mindset shift you need to eliminate stress and accelerate growth and transformation

He also shares some of his amazing wisdom about astrology.

You can join Howard's Facebook Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifecrafting

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Toxic traits refer to habits, behaviors, and ongoing actions that harm others.

Most high achieving women have one or more of the 5 toxic traits we cover today.

The person most likely  to be harmed by these traits is the high achieving woman herself.

These toxic traits can lead to chronic stress and burnout.

Chronic stress and burnout lead to a lack of energy, a deep sense of unhappiness and frustration, binge eating, and inconsistency.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• 5 common toxic traits of high-performing women
• How to recognize them in yourself
• Solutions and strategies for transforming these toxic traits

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Today, we are joined by J. Malik - an author, spiritual teacher, coach, and business mentor.

J. Malik helps people make sense of spirituality. He also specializes in helping people come into energetic alignment. A big part of that is harnessing the power of both masculine and feminine energy.

In today's episode we talk about:

• The importance of healing childhood trauma, especially if we want to break through deeply imbedded patterns of self-sabotage
• The difference between a masculine operating system and a feminine one, and why you benefit from using both at different times
• Five actionable steps for clearing stuck energy, breaking through blocks, and becoming the highest version of yourself

We also talk about his future endeavors. I have no doubt that this man will become a future President of the United States. He talks about his desires to change the toxic political landscape and create a society that honours spirituality, family values, and the feminine.

Connect with J. Malik on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmaliktaughtme/

Connect with J. Malik on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JMalikTaughtMe

The right combination of masculine and feminine has the power to rapidly transform and accelerate your body transformation journey.

Why?

You're accessing all your resources.

The strength, structure, deep thinking, and science of the masculine.

The creativity, receptivity, intuition, and emotions of the feminine.

Many times, we over-celebrate and over-focus on the masculine while neglecting the feminine. This can lead to challenges like:

• An all or nothing mentality, which can lead to a weight loss rollercoaster
• Self-sabotage
• Overeating and binge eating
• Burnout and fatigue
• A chronic sense of dissatisfaction with your body, your health, and your rate of progress

If you're prone to any of these challenges, you'll want to tune in to learn how to harness both the feminine and masculine to create more consistent progress AND a deep fulfilment along the way.

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If you are a high performing women who hasn't quite figured out how to stay consistent with your eating habits and workout routines, this is for you.

It is incredibly common for driven, high performing women to crush it in every area of their life... except with their health and fitness goals.

They're crushing it with their career goals. They can achieve anything they set their minds to. They're amazing mothers, sisters, friends, partners.

And with all of this success... they can't seem to achieve their health and fitness goals.

They find themselves self-sabotaging.

They find themselves only able to stick to their routines and plans for a little while before going back to their old ways.

Then it starts to affect their relationships, their productivity, their jobs.

They have to work so hard to hide the internal battles they're struggling with every day. On the outside, it looks like they have everything together. On the inside, they're filled with frustration, distrust towards themselves, and a fear that they're always going to be this way.

There are reasons why these challenges hit so hard for the badass women of the world. Tune in to today's episode to discover the 4 reasons why high performing women struggle with weight loss and emotional eating.

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If you've struggled with binge eating for any length of time, I'm going to take a guess that you would do anything to make it go away.

I don't blame you. I 100% get it.

I know from so much personal experience what binge eating can do to a person.

It has stolen my energy. It has stolen my confidence. It has taken away my enthusiasm and zest for life. It's made me feel powerless, out of control. It also causes this beyond frustrating up-and-down yoyo with your weight and fitness goals.

It can feel like you undo an entire week or month of consistency and dedication after one or two nights of binge eating.

I see the thrall of wanting binge eating to go away forever and never come back.

However, binge eating actually has some surprisingly positive functions in our life. I'm sharing two of them on today's podcast.

You'll learn:

• What these two surprisingly positive functions of binge eating are
• How to work with yourself and eliminate the intense urges to binge... because you know what's truly going on here
• How to  create a positive experience of growth or self-discovery out of your compulsions to binge

In today's episode, I'm sharing the introduction to my upcoming book - Your Body Is Not A Weapon: Healing a Fractured Relationship With Food, Physique, & Sexuality.

This is the story of how I healed my own fractured relationship with food, my body, and my sexuality. In my own experience, all three are intricately connected.

We fear our appetites for food and our cravings in the same way we fear or judge our sexual desires.

We check out of our bodies, not really there when we eat or have sex or go through our days.

We chase perfection - the perfect diet, the perfect body composition, the perfect sexual partner that will validate our attractiveness.

We restrict, we over-exercise, we refuse to rest, we engage in sexual encounters that leave us feeling more empty and hollow than ever before.

We treat our body like a weapon.

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