This is one of my favorite solo episodes, and I wanted to bring it back for anyone who missed it the first time—or anyone who needs a reminder that feeling disconnected or “numb” is often a sign of a nervous system doing its best to protect you.

In this episode, I share a bit of my own story of living for years feeling flat and disconnected, why that happens, and what it can look like to slowly come back to yourself.

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We often hear about healing the nervous system, finding calm through breathwork, or shifting into a regulated state. But what about when those practices don’t seem to work - when they don’t bring peace, and sometimes even highlight what isn’t working in our lives?

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why calming tools can’t fix situations that aren’t right for us
• How regulation can reveal where change is needed
• What it really means to “come home” to ourselves

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In this solo episode, I’m sharing some of my own story: like years of rigid routines, juice fasts, and trying to follow every “right” ritual to become someone who finally felt free, healed, and whole. 

But what I found was that all the "being good" didn’t actually leave me feeling at home in myself.

You'll hear me talk about:

 - How "self-improvement" can sometimes be a subtle form of self-rejection

 - Why rushing or “shoulds” on our healing or growth path tends to keep us looping 

- The difference between trying to fix ourselves vs. tending to ourselves 

I’ll also share a bit about my new mini program, Rituals for a Free Spirit - a no-fluff collection of short, supportive practices to help you come back to yourself in real-life moments of overwhelm, anxiety, or disconnection. It's $19, simple, and there when you need it.

Sign up to hear when Rituals for a Free Spirit is released (and get a free practice!)

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If you’ve been listening for any length of time, you know I believe that food struggles are never just about food. 

They’re often symptoms of something deeper - like trying to feel some sense of control after trauma or long-term stress, trying to survive in a culture that profits off us hating our bodies, or simply trying to make living inside ourselves bearable.

This episode touches on:

- My 15+ year struggle with food control and binge eating.

- The impact of religious trauma, diet, and wellness culture, and untrue beliefs about myself.

- The tricky intersection of chronic health symptoms and eating disorders.

- Why food challenges aren't just a "willpower issue."

If any of this resonates, know you’re not broken - and you’re not alone.

🌿 The Free Spirit Academy membership is open this month! For $25/month, you’ll get access to every course inside. Inside you'll find my 30-day Binge Freedom course, as well as Coming Home to Your Body (a personal favorite) - and more. 

Read more about Free Spirit Academy Membership here. 

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If you’ve ever felt the lingering impact of religious trauma - especially from high-control, fear-based systems - this episode is for you. I’m sharing from my personal experience growing up in the Seventh-Day Adventist church, and exploring seven common factors that can create deep disconnection from your body, your needs, and your sense of self.

This episode touches on:
 • Why trauma isn’t just about what happened, but how it lives in the body
 • How messages like “you’re born sinful” or “don’t trust yourself” can shape self-worth
 • The overlap between purity culture and disordered eating
 • The importance of reconnecting with your body in healing

If any of this resonates, know you’re not broken - and you’re not alone.

🌿 The Free Spirit Academy membership is open this month! For $25/month, you’ll get access to every course inside. I recommend starting with Coming Home to Your Body - a 30-day exploration of trauma, the nervous system, and what it really means to feel safe being fully yourself.

Read more about Free Spirit Academy Membership here. 

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Today I have something a little different for you.

Last year, I went to my 20th high school reunion. I attended a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school, and going back felt like stepping into another lifetime. If I’d thought about religious trauma before that experience, I’ve been thinking about it a lot more since.

You’ll hear me talk about that today, but what’s different is that this episode is actually from a brand new podcast I co-host called Ask Me a Question.

I created this podcast with my best friend—and high school sweetheart. Years after our time in church and school, we came out to each other as queer and have spent years supporting each other’s growth and just enjoying being friends.

Cedric came to me with the idea for this show because our story is unique, and we wanted a space to unpack what it was like to grow up inside a fundamentalist faith. Together, we revisit the questions that shaped and challenged our worldview, explore how we made sense of life after leaving the Adventist church, and share what it’s been like to build a life rooted in curiosity, joy, and chosen family.

I hope you enjoy this first episode of Ask Me a Question.

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THE TOP 10 MISTAKES I’VE MADE ON MY HEALING JOURNEY:

Honestly, I cringe a bit using the words "healing" OR "journey" because the internet is so oversaturated with wellness or spiritual teachers. I'm not interested in making "healing" my whole personality, but simultaneously I have always had this deep interest in why things hurt. What any kind of pain, emotional, mental, or physical, is saying. and coming from a background of religious and family trauma, being queer and undiagnosed neurodivergent, and all of the ways those pains spiraled out - into years of an eating disorder, self-harm, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic health symptoms...I became fixated at some point on what it would take to feel free. 

So whether I like the term or not, I found myself on a "healing journey" that I would say began when I got fired from my door to door missionary job and started removing myself from my church and toxic family patterns. I was in the thick of struggling with food and my body and had sooooo much accumulated trauma that it was just my "normal"...but taking those steps felt incredible. In fact, something I wish I could have told myself at various points is that there's no "heaven". There's no one point where all the things on all the levels are healed and you live happily ever after. Simultaneously, you don't have to WAIT until all the things on all the levels are healed to feel better. 

Life, my body, my general state of being being better than they ever have been. As I thought back, I got to thinking about all the missteps and misunderstandings up until this point and I want to share them with you.

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I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian home. we used homeopathy and natural remedies and drank carrot juice and ate homemade bread. To this day I LOVE the taste of barley green powder because I have early memories of drinking it as something that would support my health. I wanted to know about all the supplements in the kitchen cupboard and what they would do for me. I wanted to be strong so I ate spinach straight out of the can. There was an early connection with the fact that what you eat has an impact on how you feel. 

Simultaneously alongside all this, my relationship with food was kinda weird...

(Listen to this episode for more)

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Today I'm talking about the ways that shame lived in my body and fed into the cycle of binge eating and disembodied practices with food. I'll also talk about making my body safe enough to finally feel the shamed parts of me so that they could be understood and come to a more whole and free place.
 

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Today I'm speaking with Holistic Health and Root Cause Practitioner Sarah Hook. Sarah and I have been connected online since our early wellness blogging days when we were certain we had it all figured out. Some years ago Sarah was bit by a tick and developed severe Lyme disease, causing her to question what she knew about wellness.

We talk about what it's like to need food restrictions after healing from an eating disorder as well as the ways in which we can get in our own way with our attempts at healing.

I hope you enjoy and feel supported by this episode.

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