Fast to Faith: Christian Women's Health, Hormones & Menopause

Fatigue you can't explain. Brain fog. Weight that won't budge no matter what you try. Dr. Tabatha and functional medicine practitioner Amy Henderson connect the dots on toxic burden - the accumulation of everyday toxins your body is quietly storing, and why your fat cells might be protecting you rather than betraying you.

Amy breaks down where toxins actually come from (hint: it's not just "dirty" environments - newer homes and golf-course neighborhoods carry real risk too), how your liver processes them in phases, and the simple, seasonal habit that helps your body finally let go of what it's been holding onto.

In this episode

Why your fat cells might be protecting you from toxins, not betraying you

The golf course example: why affluent neighborhoods aren't automatically "clean"

Mold and mycotoxins - why newer, tightly-sealed homes are often more at risk

The three phases of liver detoxification, and why order matters

A real client testimonial from the 3-2-1 Liver Detox Kit

Simple, everyday swaps that lower your toxic load without fear or overwhelm

Scripture referenced

Jeremiah 30:17 - "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord."

Mentioned in this episode

3-2-1 Liver Detox Kit - shop.fasttofaith.com (code PODCAST for 20% off your first order)

EWG.org Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists

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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

Dr. Tabatha sits down with functional medicine doctor Dr. Alexandra MacKillop to unpack the postpartum symptoms nobody warned you about - the ones that started after your babies and never left. Thyroid issues, insulin resistance, mood shifts, autoimmune flares - if you've been told "of course you're tired, you just had a baby," this episode is your permission to dig deeper.

Whether your babies are newborns or grown, this episode is for you. Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee talk with Dr. Alexandra MacKillop, author of The Postpartum Check-In, about the hormone shifts pregnancy and childbirth leave behind - thyroid disorders, insulin resistance, nutritional gaps, and mood changes that get written off as "normal" and never actually resolve. You'll learn what to ask your doctor for, why the postpartum period is a medical blind spot, and how to finally connect the dots on symptoms you gave up trying to explain.

In this episode

Why postpartum hormone shifts can predispose you to health issues decades later

The thyroid testing most women never get - and why it matters

Gestational diabetes, insulin resistance, and the follow-up that rarely happens

A testosterone story that saved a marriage

Why pregnancy is basically a stress test for your future health

A rapid-fire round: normal, common but deserves attention, or needs evaluation?

Scripture referenced

Psalm 139:13-14 - "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

Mentioned in this episode

The Postpartum Check-In by Dr. Alexandra MacKillop

Dr. Alexandra's newsletter / free resource - dralexandramackillop.kit.com/622e1f5985

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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

Are you a perfectionist, a dabbler, or a denier? Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee sit down with FTF coach Marilyn, who traded perfection for obedience and found more peace in her mid-50s than ever before. A real talk on surrender, identity in Christ, and why God is calling you now, not once you feel ready.

Perfectionist. Dabbler. Denier. Dr. Tabatha names the three ways women avoid the truth about their health - and their faith. Then she and Ashlee sit down with Fast to Faith coach Marilyn Bright, a recently retired New Jersey school administrator turned faith-based health coach, who spent decades doing faith "in isolation" - a checklist of prayer and exercise she performed and then shelved before the stress of the day undid it.

Marilyn shares what changed when she stopped trying to earn her way to perfect before letting God in, and started bringing Him all of her instead - her work, her marriage, her body, her mess. She walks through her path from the $5 Challenge to the 40-Day Program to the Coaching Academy, why the weekly Monday calls became "sacred" to her, and how surrender in obedience means moving before she feels ready, not after.

In Marilyn's own words: "I came to Fast to Faith to lose weight; but what I found was and continues to be a transformation - learning to love my whole self instead of trying to punish my body into weight loss."

In this episode

●      The three ways women avoid the truth: perfectionist, dabbler, denier

●      Why "it's easier to perform for God than to sit still for God"

●      How Marilyn moved from a faith checklist to giving God all of her

●      The lie that you must be perfect before God will bless you

●      Martha and Mary - producing vs. being present with Jesus

●      What weekly coaching and community accountability actually does

●      The power of praying for one another in the Fast to Faith sisterhood

●      This week's charge: be still and know that He is God

Scripture referenced

●      Psalm 46:10 - "Be still, and know that I am God."

●      John 10:10 - "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

●      Luke 15 - The Prodigal Son

●      Luke 10:38-42 - Martha and Mary

About Marilyn

Marilyn Bright is a wife, mom, recently retired school administrator, and now a faith-based health coach from Berlin, New Jersey. She serves on her church's worship team, leads the women's ministry, and sits on the church board. She also mentors novice school principals for the state of New Jersey. Off the clock, she loves personal and spiritual growth through reading and online courses, practicing yoga, traveling with her family, and spending time with her beagle and chocolate lab.

●      Follow Marilyn: instagram.com/marilyn.faithwellness/

●      Start with Marilyn's 5-Day Challenge: ftf.fasttofaith.com/empoweredbyfaithdiy-559443?am_id=marilyn5950

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
Join the 5-Day Empowered by Faith Challenge and get your own certified coach.

Healed, and feeling called to walk alongside other women?
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Shop Dr. Tabatha's supplement line (use code PODCAST for 20% off your first order)
Get the book: Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee pull back the curtain on their coaching calls, rapid-firing real questions from Fast to Faith coaches: childhood wounds behind emotional eating, the truth about protein and hair loss, the vagus nerve and cortisol, and how to spot when you are underfueled. Plus one simple prayer practice for a better night's sleep, starting tonight. 

In This Episode: 

●       A coaching academy rapid-fire: real questions Fast to Faith coaches are hearing on their weekly calls, answered live.

●       How childhood wounds and attachment injuries show up as emotional eating, FOMO around food, and old hurt surfacing mid-program.

●       Why your subconscious actually lives in your heart, not just your brain, and how to ask God to rewrite the programming running your food choices.

●       The right way to journal versus venting into a diary, and why gratitude shifts what your brain starts looking for.

●       What protein actually does for weight loss, and why 150 grams a day does nothing if you are sedentary.

●       The truth about protein and hair loss (hint: it is probably not your protein intake).

●       One thing to do tonight for better sleep: handing your worry list to God before your head hits the pillow.

●       Mid-roll: Mag Lift — magnesium support for sleep, blood sugar, and mood.

●       Red flags for underfueling: poor workout recovery, the 2 to 3pm crash, falling asleep on the couch after dinner.

Closing scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6 

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
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Healed, and feeling called to walk alongside other women?
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Get the book: Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

You feel closer to God than you've ever been. Your faith is sturdy. And your body is falling apart anyway.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing. Your body keeps the score.

Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee sit down with Lindsey Welch - wife of entrepreneur and podcast host Taylor Welch, mother, business owner, woman of deep faith - for a conversation about immovable faith. Not faith that never feels fear. Faith that gets tested and keeps choosing God anyway.

Lindsey held her family together while her husband's business faced public scrutiny and an FTC investigation. She prayed. She worked. She stayed calm on the outside.

Then a biofeedback test came back with nine autoimmune markers. Her estrogen and progesterone - the hormones that regulate mood, energy, and her cycle - were gone. Her serotonin, the brain chemical that stabilizes mood, was burned through completely.

In the middle of it, she heard God speak. Clearly. "Remember when you built this house? I had you write scripture on the walls. If you keep going, your daughter is watching, and she is going to fall the way you learned it in your family line. You need to break this cycle."

She broke it. It took eight months.

This episode is for the woman in the car who can't make herself go inside yet. For the one holding her family together and wondering who's holding her. For anyone who has believed God is good and still felt afraid.

Closing scripture: 1 John 4:18 - "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear."

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

 300 episodes ago, Dr. Tabatha started with one idea: your body is not broken. Today she and Ashlee open up about six years of change, the problem with the word "awakening," and the Awaken, Restore, Rise framework carrying Fast to Faith forward. You are not broken. You can heal. You're in the right place.

In this Episode:  

●        300 episodes in, Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee pull back the curtain on the story underneath every conversation: you are not broken, and you can heal. 

●        Six years of evolution — from The Functional Gynecologist to The Gutsy Gynecologist to Fast to Faith — and what changed when they stopped working for God and started working with Him. 

●        The real story behind the first 50 episodes: Garage Band, hours of editing out nervous "ums," and showing up scared anyway. 

●        Dr. Tabatha is joining Candace Cameron Bure on an 8-city tour — the next chapter of using her voice. 

●        The problem with the word "awakening" — why the aha moment isn't the finish line, and what happens when the momentum runs out. 

●        Unpacking the three-act story of Fast to Faith: Awaken, Restore, Rise — and why you don't move through all three at once. 

●        What "Rise" actually looks like, and why the Coaching Academy isn't just for women building a business. 

●        Why you'll never feel ready, and why that's not the sign to wait. 

●        Closing scripture: Joel 2:25. 

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

We're pausing new episodes for six weeks - not because we ran out of things to say, but because integration matters more than information. This is Between Movements: why rest isn't quitting, what to do while we're away, and when we're back. New episodes return September 7 with our 300th show.

 New episodes return September 7 - and it's a big one. Episode 300. 

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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

Your hormones aren't broken — but if nobody's told you about the conductor running the whole show, you'll keep chasing your tail. In this episode, Dr. Tabatha and Ashlee unpack the Symphony Framework: the orchestra (your organs), the conductor (your nervous system), the sheet music (what's shaping your thoughts), and the Composer who wrote it all.

●        Why the original Hormone Guide got a full overhaul — and what was missing

●        The Symphony Framework: orchestra, conductor, sheet music, and Composer

●        Why your internal dialogue can be a bigger stressor than a staph infection

●        Why labs come back "normal" while you still feel awful

●        Renewing your mind: Paul's 2,000-year-old protocol, backed by science

●        The two wolves, the shopping-cart test, and what it means to actually abide

 | "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, declares the Lord... so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." — Isaiah 55:8-9

Grab the brand-new Hormone Guide (completely rebuilt — grab it even if you have the original): https://drtabatha.com/free-hormone-guide/

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

Dr. Anna Marie Frank — The Mindset Doctor™ — is a Doctor of Traditional Naturopathy with a PhD in Natural Medicine, a Certified Brain Health Professional, and founder of Happy Whole You in Bakersfield, California. She's the author of Stop Bullying Yourself! and Activate Your Extraordinary, and host of The Happy Whole You™ Podcast.

In this episode, Dr. Tabatha, Ashlee, and Dr. Anna Marie talk about the detours (nostalgia, regret, anxiety) that pull women off the path God has for them, what your tongue, fingernails, and skin are already telling you about your health, why full transparency with your practitioner matters, and why letting your ego die may be the most spiritually healthy thing you ever do.

Topics covered:

●        Why nostalgia, regret, and anxiety are detours — and how to recognize when you're in one

●        What your tongue, fingernails, and skin are trying to tell you about what's going on inside your body

●        Why functional medicine requires full transparency — and why so many women hold back

●        The "inner pharmacy" — how your thoughts and choices shape your body's own chemistry

●        Why letting your ego die is the doorway to the calling God has for you

●        Breaking the people-pleasing pattern and reconnecting with what you actually want

●        Dr. Anna Marie's free brain-type assessment: Take my FREE Quantum Alignment Assessment

Scripture referenced: Psalm 139:13-14

Find Dr. Anna Marie: happywholeyou.com | Instagram: @dr.anna.marie and @happywholeyou | Book, Stop Bullying Yourself!: amzn.to/4fp7aKY

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
Join the 5-Day Empowered by Faith Challenge and get your own certified coach.

Healed, and feeling called to walk alongside other women?
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Shop Dr. Tabatha's supplement line (use code PODCAST for 20% off your first order)
Get the book: Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening
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Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.

You've tracked your hormones. You've eaten clean. You've done the fasting. And you're still exhausted, bloated, and stuck.

What if the missing piece isn't your hormones at all - but the system that's supposed to be clearing them?

Dr. Tabatha sits down with Liz Roman - Board Certified Functional Nutritional Practitioner, Master Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and co-founder of FITMOM - to pull back the curtain on the gut-liver axis. This is the 24/7 communication highway your body is running whether you support it or not. And when it breaks down, nothing downstream works.

In This Episode

-        Why hormones are a downstream issue - and what's upstream

-        The bile connection most doctors (even GI specialists) completely miss

-        What happens to your metabolic health after gallbladder removal - and why 'you don't need it' is not the whole story

-        Estrogen dominance, SIBO, insulin resistance, and weight loss resistance: one root, many symptoms

-        How to read your poop like a daily report card (Bristol Stool Chart breakdown)

-        Why Miralax is not a solution - and what the research and lawsuits say

-        The morning routine that actually restarts your digestion

-        Dr. Tabatha's 3-2-1 Liver Detox Kit: why you have to work backwards

Resources Mentioned

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thepoopqueen/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@fitmomco
Free Consult Call - fitmom.co/liz
Free Constipation Cure - https://fitmom.co/ccg
Kids Happy Tummies Guide (Free for your audience) 

Closing Scripture

Proverbs 24:3 - "By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established."

Your body is God's design. Learn how it works. That understanding is the foundation of healing.

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?
Join the 5-Day Empowered by Faith Challenge and get your own certified coach.

Healed, and feeling called to walk alongside other women?
Learn about becoming a certified Fast to Faith coach.

Shop Dr. Tabatha's supplement line (use code PODCAST for 20% off your first order)
Get the book: Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening
Join Dr. Tabatha LIVE

Fast to Faith is hosted by Dr. Tabatha Barber — OB/GYN, functional medicine physician, and founder of the Fast to Faith Sisterhood and Coaching Academy.