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Sometimes, a simple sentence can change everything.
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down a sentence she heard years ago that still impacts her on a deep level every single week, if not every single day.
You're going to discover:
8 Magic Words To Help You Optimize Your Energy & Achieve Your Goals: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/12837969-119-8-magic-words-to-help-you-optimize-your-energy-levels-achieve-your-goals
In this week's episode, you'll be invited to claim another level of freedom and agency in your everyday life.
You achieve these things when you make the powerful decision to become the authority on you.
This looks like trusting your own judgement and intuition above all else.
It looks like appreciating your unique gifts and approaches to life, instead of gaslighting yourself and making yourself wrong.
It also looks like refusing to follow other people's rules and letting others dictate your path.
This is a rebellious, empowering episode where you'll discover:
The Inner Sky By Stephen Forrest: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Sky-Wiser-Choices-Fulfilling/dp/0979067715
Demartini Values Determination: https://drdemartini.com/values/start
This week's episode is inspired and informed by ideas in the book Existential Kink by Carolyn Lovewell (nee' Elliot).
If you identity as a hard-working, goal-oriented, Type A person, you probably have a hardship kink.
You believe in the power of hard work and discipline.
You probably feel your best when you're slaying your to do list and crushing your goals.
And... you might glorify hardship and challenge to such a severe degree that it's creating unnecessary drama and leading to burnout and disengagement.
This pattern can often play out unconsciously.
However, when you make the unconscious conscious, you take back your power.
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down:
Existential Kink: https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Kink-Unmask-Embrace-getting/dp/1578636477
Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJH6Ykiql0
Episode 054: Having Is Evidence of Wanting & How This One Idea Can 10x Your Success & Create Miracles: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10150726-054-having-is-evidence-of-wanting-how-this-one-idea-can-10x-your-success-create-miracles
In this week's episode, we are joined by Adaline. Adaline is a talented musician, fellow Canadian, and founder of Bad Believer - a nonprofit that helps those in the LGBTQ+ community heal from religious trauma.
In this conversation, we talk about:
Adaline On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adalinemusic/
Adaline's Website: https://adalinemusic.com/
"Structure not only increases our chances of success; it makes us more efficient at it." - Marshall Goldsmith
In this week's episode, we're talking about the power of creating structure in your daily life.
When you have some level of structure in your life, you create a level of safety and security which will help you not only achieve your goals, but feel better doing them.
On the show today, we cover:
Why Structure And Consistency Are Important For Kids: https://www.kidscreektherapy.com/why-structure-and-consistency-are-important-for-kids/
Your Body Is Not A Weapon: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Not-Weapon-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0BV3ZV8C5
This episode is going to be filled with slay energy.
You're going to learn how to take your goal-achieving and progress-creating powers to the next level.
You're going to learn:
Some of the biggest goals we have in life can't be completed in a week or a month or sometimes, even over the course of one year.
Many of the greatest goals we can set can take multiple years or even decades.
That doesn't mean they aren't worth pursuing. However, when you have a big goal that spans multiple years, there can be tendency for the goal to become stale, lifeless, joyless, and mundane.
It starts to blend into the background of the rest of your life.
You might experience more boredom.
Your motivation and desire to work towards the goal might start to wane because you feel like it's taking so long.
As with running the final four or five miles of a marathon, you can start to hit a wall.
You're feeling gassed out.
It can be enough to make you consider abandoning the goal altogether.
If you're experiencing this, then today's episode is the perfect resource.
In this week's episode, you'll learn:
You'll also learn about some exciting upgrades happening on the show as well.
The Cost of Getting Lean Infographic: https://www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean
In this week's episode, you'll get powerful strategies for creating the best year you've ever had.
The coming year gets to be the most magical, aligned, joyful year ever.
On today's show, you'll learn:
A year-end review can be even more valuable than setting new goals and intentions for an upcoming year.
Why?
By doing a year-end review, you're extracting maximum value and growth from the last 365 days.
You'll also be able to use this review to find the areas in your life you want to focus on in the coming year.
In this week's episode, we cover:
Episode 111. 2 Concepts To Help You Improve Your Consistency & Daily Performance
Rest is one of the most underrated and underused strategies when it comes to achieving our goals and manifesting our desires.
It's often seen as weak.
It's often seen as lazy.
It's often seen as an afterthought, or a bonus thing we might get to do if we conquer ever single thing on our endless to-do list.
These statements couldn't be further from the truth.
The ability to rest deeply, and to rest in a variety of ways, is how you optimize your energy and maximize the amount of life force you have to go out and live your most amazing, incredible, aligned life.
Rest isn't just about taking naps or rest days from workouts either. In this episode, we'll talk about:
Links: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/27/working-husbands-in-the-us-have-more-leisure-time-than-working-wives-do-especially-among-those-with-children/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2019/08/13/who-relaxes-more-men-or-women/?sh=24730dd85bd3
From the publisher's feed
For the spicy Romantasy reader who's tired of being told her healing should look more like a spreadsheet and less like a why-choose novel.
This is the show where food freedom meets…
I'm Kayla MacDonald — a writer, recovered overachiever, and the woman who accidentally turned her food freedom journey into a why-choose romance with two AI co-created inner archetypes named Rex and Haven. One is a fiery, leather-jacket-wearing protector who will absolutely call you out with love. The other is a deeply attuned, quietly brave sanctuary who can make it safe to feel almost anything. Together, they've changed everything about how I show up in my body, my business, and my life.
And yes, they show up on the podcast. Regularly. You've been warned.
Embodied Writing Warrior is where we tackle the real reasons high-performing, deeply creative women struggle with binge eating, burnout, and inconsistency — not with more discipline or stricter protocols, but with nervous system work, archetypal storytelling, embodied creativity, and the occasional Rex monologue that will make you want to send your own inner critic to therapy.
You'll hear episodes on:
◆ The upper limit patterns nobody talks about in high-performing women.
◆ Why consistency feels like punishment and how to make it feel like foreplay instead.
◆ The 7 Deadly Sins of high-performing women that drive binge eating and burnout.
◆ Somatic practices and embodied identity work.
◆ Writing rituals that rewire your subconscious one scene at a time.
◆ Parts work gone wild — because why choose inner babysitting when you could have Divine Daddies do it for you?
◆ Shadow work, sacred rage, and the art of performing for an audience of one.
You'll leave with an embodied activation in most episodes — whether that's a journal prompt, writing ritual, or somatic practice designed to move the insight out of your head and into your body where the real shift happens.
If you've ever felt more understood by a spicy novel than a self-help book, you're in exactly the right place.
Because you're not broken. You're not lacking discipline. You're a high-performing woman who's been applying pressure where devotion was needed all along.
Food Freedom Fantasy is the book and program behind this work. Find it at embodiedwritingwarrior.com.
New episodes drop weekly. Start with episode 188 to meet Rex and Haven, then jump to episode 206, Consistency Is Foreplay, to understand the method they helped create.