Through reading the book Atomic Habits I’ve taken a deep dive into habits and the role of them in day to day living. From eating disorders to work, relationships and more, habits play a major part! Understanding the impact of habits that no longer serve your life is key to building new ones and moving forward. 

In this episode I discuss:

• The essence of habits
• Habits that no longer serve me
• Recovery based habits
• Raising awarness of them
• Creating habitual thinking
• Making mindset shifts stick
• Tips that have helped me

To connect: @emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast

Trauma can occur in so many different ways with various lengths of lasting impact. Emmy Marie struggled through her own experience with an abusive relationship that traumatized her for years to come. After doing the work to understand the lasting impact of this trauma on her life, Emmy decided to make a change and now helps others do the same. Her work is focused on transforming toxic shame into self compassion to create an empowered and joyful life. With the support and resources needed to grow through the experience, Emmy’s mission to help others bloom from their own experiences is truly impactful. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Emmy’s own experience with trauma
• Red flags in relationships
• The lasting impact of trauma
• Habits and behaviors we develop to cope
• Learning to trust again
• Self compassion
• Healing from within

To connect with Emmy: @bloomingwithemmy

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast 

As a holistic hormone expert, Krista King works with women struggling to find balance and harmony with hormonal health. Her work focuses on the connection between lifestyle, gut, and hormone health since they each impact the other. As she shares in today’s episode, imbalanced hormones are quite common and can produce many of the symptoms or conditions that women struggle with. Everything from PMS to PCOS, acne to gut issues, imbalanced hormones play a big role in overall health.

In this episode we discuss:

• HPA Axis dysfunction
• The role of hormones in the menstrual cycle 
• How hormones become imbalanced 
• The truth behind PMS
• Understanding birth control + how it works
• Healing imbalanaced hormones
• Lifestyle changes that make an impact

To connect with Krista: @composednutrition

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast 

Experiencing burnout is all too common nowadays and today’s guest, Chelsea Glaser, has experienced the hard impact of it firsthand. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur and creative, Chelsea has turned her life from stressed and burned out to efficient and thriving by learning some very important lessons. Between her two businesses, Launch It Girl and Fredi, Chelsea has the experience and wisdom needed to remind us all that hustle culture is not our friend! And while we can “do it all”, we can’t “do it all … all the time”. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Burnout and the impact of it on health + work
• Finding clarity and vision for our life
• Feelings of overwhelm that hold us back
• The focused blend by Fredi to support mental wellness
• Understanding nootropics + how Fredi works
• Lifestyle changes to improve efficiency 
• Creating space and having grace for ourselves

To connect with Chelsea: @chelseaglaser and Launch It Girls

To connect with Fredi: @wearefredi and wearefredi.com

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls

Far too often we see the impact of diet culture through disordered relationships with food and body image. Today’s guest, Nicole Modic, is sharing her journey from first time she became aware of her body and how that led to an eating disorder. Nicole first experienced diet culture as a child and her relationship to it would eventually morph into binge eating disorder and bulimia. After several life transitions and big events, Nicole found the strength to embark on the recovery journey and shares that process. Now as a content creator, Nicole uses her platforms to spread intentional and positive awareness of diet culture through tasty recipes, personal notes, and snippets of the daily life. 

In this epiosde we discuss: 

• Binge eating disorder & bulimia
• The impact of diet culture on mental health
• Body image and shifting mindsets
• Starting the recovery process
• Redefining food labels

To connect with Nicole: @kalejunkie and www.kalejunkie.com

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls and @letsthrivepodcast

Creating your ‘dream’ reality can seem like a far fetch if you don’t have the vision to dream it. Today’s guest, Kelsey Chapman, knows firsthand that your present reality can be the ‘dream’ if you simply know where to look. Her work centers around the impact of mentorship in envisioning and building the life or business you desire. We all know that what you see and what you think influence the life you build and that’s exactly what Kelsey shares in this episode. Her book, What They Taught Me, dives into the essence of true mentorship and how to find the people in your life that will propel you along the way. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Hurdles and how to overcome them
• The mindset shift for forward thinking
• Mentorship and what this means
• Finding the mentors in your everyday life
• Expanding the mind and envisioning your ideals
• Asking for help versus ‘toughing’ it out 

Connect with Kelsey: @kelschapman and her website www.kelseychapman.com

Connect with me: @emilyfeikls and @letsthrivepodcast

Binge eating is an all too common struggle that many don’t truly understand. Today’s guest, Marissa Kai Miluk, is here to share the real deal information on binge eating and binge eating disorder from years of experience and education in the field. As a registered dietician with a passion for educating and empowering others, Marissa works to support others in their healing journey towards recovery. Through 1-on-1 work with clients and by sharing openly on her instagram, Marissa is redefining what it means to be “healthy” in a world full of diet culture.

In today’s episode we discuss: 

• The difference between binge eating, binge eating disorder, and overeating 
• How to identify and break the restrict > binge cycle
• Physical and mental triggers for binges 
• How diet culture and the modern world promote this lifestyle
• Emotional eating and coping mechanisms 
• Preventative actions for binge struggles 

To connect with Marissa: @binge.nutritionist 

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls

Learning to better understand ourselves is often the first step towards growth. Today’s guest, Vrin Rao, has spent years learning, practicing, and implementing the healing tools of the enneagram, meditation, and ego work to become her most expanded self. Through self analysis, asking questions, and allowing space for reflection, Vrin has been able to grow in all aspects of life. And now she helps others to do the same! Her work is centered around understanding the ego and the core motivations through the enneagram. This leads to identity, labels, creating space, and focusing on the ego, mind, and intelligence within us.

In this episode we discuss:

• Listening to the inner critic in order to heal
• Becoming less reactive
• The core motivations behind enneagram types 
• Understanding the ego and working with it
• The many identities we take on
• Creating space for pause
• The mind, ego, and intelligence 

To connect with Vrin: @illuminate.nyc. and through email [email protected]

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls

If you are interested in learning more about how the Enneagram can shed greater insights into your relationships with yourself and others, Vrin offers Enneagram Consultations and ongoing coaching. The consultation is a 1:1 opportunity to dive deeper into understanding your core motivations, better understand your unique gifts and learn how to work with the shadows we each battle within You can reach out to her at: [email protected] or on IG @illuminate.nyc

As a therapist in training and eating disorder recovery advocate, Mimi Cole is here to share reflections on unlearning and becoming. Her work is meant to inspire thought, empower action, and bring about change in the everyday life. With a speciality in OCD and it’s patterns, Mimi explains how OCD impacts the mind and specifically the mind of anyone experiencing disordered eating. Through personal lessons and professional education, Mimi’s work explores mental health, eating disorders, and the power of change.

In this episode we discuss:

• What OCD is and how it impacts the mind
• The connection between compulsion and eating disorders
• How anxiety pairs with other mental health patterns 
• Opposite action and the power of exposure therapy
• Choosing to accept versus run away
• Character traits that impact mental health

Connect with Mimi: @the.lovelybecoming and the Lovely Becoming Podcast

Connect with me: @emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast

Joining me for a special birthday edition podcast episode is Renee Taylor of @killinitwithcrohns. We get very candid while discussing past and present struggles as well as wins along the way. This is an episode sprinkled with laughter as well as tidbits of wisdom and life advice for anyone on a similar path. Renee truly embodies the queen energy and hopes to share that with anyone struggling to remember their worth. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Body appreciation is all aspects
• Weight gain + body change
• Independence and relationships
• Capricorn energy and more astrology fun
• Vulnerability and letting people in

To connect with Renee: @killinitwithcrohns

To connect with me: @emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast