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Some of the best advice I've ever heard about increasing motivation and follow-through came from one of my mentors, Elizabeth Benton. She recommended that, when pursuing a goal, you have many reason for achieving said goal and that you make these reasons as strong as possible.
This advice inspired today's episode.
This episode also creates a more spiritual, holistic lens for pursuing health and fitness goals.
When we're only focused on aesthetics - body size, weight, appearance - we're missing out on the opportunity to create much a much deeper sense of health and a more loving connection to our bodies.
In today's episode, I'm sharing 6 reasons to upgrade your fitness and nutrition habits that have nothing to do with the aesthetics.
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Today, we are joined by Jayne Dearborn - a dietician turned spiritual entrepreneur.
Jayne's spiritual awakening came during on the most heartbreaking experience a person can go through - the terminal illness and loss of her seven year-old son.
She found energy healing and spirituality as a way to heal and evolve through this difficult time.
In today's episode, you'll hear:
Learn more about Jayne's upcoming retreat at https://sacrablu.com/.
Connect With Jayne on Instagram: sacrablu
Today we are joined by Samantha Gladish - a women's weight loss and hormone health expert.
We did something we don't do often enough on the podcast - we dive into the fundamentals of living a healthy lifestyle, backed up with all the science behind it.
Sam shares:
Connect with Sam on Instagram at holisticwellnessswitch (Health Coaching Account) and samantha_gladish (Business Coaching Account).
In today's episode, we're highlighting the differences between the traditional path of health and fitness versus the spiritual path.
You'll learn:
You're also going to get a little bit of a Kayla rant in this episode, so get ready.
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How did two bestselling authors tell the exact same story about Michael Jordan and reach entirely different conclusions?
Perspective.
They were each trying to prove something entirely different with their books.
This lead them to different conclusions, and these conclusions drove home the points they were trying to make.
What does this mean for us and our own perspective?
Subconsciously, when we adopt a certain perspective, we're trying to prove something.
What if we're subconsciously trying to make a case for the reality we DON'T want.
In this episode, you'll learn:
If you're ready to take your mindset game to the next level, this episode is for you!
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Today, we are joined by Elan Zelenka - an intuitive sex and relationship coach who helps women connect more deeply with their body, express themselves with confidence and play in the pleasure of their sexual liberation.
In this juicy episode, we talk about:
Connect with Elan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/elan.zelenka/
Connect with Elan on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elan.zelenka
Worthy: Cultivating Enoughness From Within
I've been saving this episode of the podcast for the end of January, with good reason.
This is often the time when the shininess of the new year wears off and people start to lose momentum as they move towards their goals.
If you're experiencing this, you are not alone.
There is also a way to continue moving forwards.
In today's episode, I'm sharing a framework that can help you continue making consistent, steady progress towards your dreams, no matter how hard it may seem sometimes.
You can continue moving towards your goals all throughout the year.
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For many women, strategy alone is NOT the complete solution to their challenges with weight loss and emotional eating.
If strategy alone was the solution, then every diet and workout program would work.
This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. It probably means that you're struggling with something a huge majority of women struggle with: low self-worth.
In today's episode, we'll cover the five signs that your struggles with weight loss and emotional eating have nothing to do with a faulty way of eating, lack of discipline, or the inability to get the results you desire.
Instead, we'll cover the signs that the struggles you're having in this area are likely to stem from challenges with self-worth.
We'll also talk about how you can start to do the real work of cultivating self-worth FIRST, which is going to create more ease and flow as you move towards your health and fitness goals.
Click here to register for Worthy: Cultivating Enoughness From Within.
When we experience struggles or setbacks with our eating habits, there's one big thing that keeps us stuck in the struggle for longer than necessary.
That thing is a lack of clarity on what's actually happening.
Maybe you think the challenge you're having is with emotional eating?
So, you're trying to solve emotional eating and you're frustrated and confused when it's not working.
What if the problem isn't emotional eating at all? What if it's another type of eating challenge that isn't talked about nearly as much.
In today's episode, we're going to break down the distinctions between emotional eating and complacent eating.
We'll talk about how to know which type of eating you're currently struggling with and we'll cover strategies for you to use, regardless of which strategy you're struggling with.
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Can you believe we are here?! Episode 100!
As a way to celebrate this big milestone, we're going to be diving into the core pillars of joyful achieving.
We'll revisit some of the foundational concepts that can help you Slay & Thrive your way through 2023 and beyond.
You can also go back and listen to some old episodes based on these concepts if they resonate and you want to take a deeper dive.
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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.