Healing wasn't a part of my plan. My goal in nutrition was to prevent anything that would require healing by preventing disease and injury. I believed I could control myself from needing to heal by living healthy forever, not knowing that health is a daily healing, not the prevention of it.

When I crashed, I was forced into healing. The only other option was to live stuck in my illness.

Before getting sick, I had spent so much time trying to prevent health problems by securing the arrival at a destination I thought would bring me permanent health that I completely misunderstood what it meant to live healthy. Health is not the absence of disease or injury (although limiting this is ideal). It's not the prevention of a place that requires healing.

Health is learning how to heal.

It's daily action that supports healing. And when you learn to heal and practice healing, your body will become far healthier.

But getting there means changing your view of what healing means. It's changing your view of what health means. Moving away from the external chase and into the internal healing by building a new story of health that leans into daily healing.

Inside the first podcast in this eight-part series called How You Heal, I help you understand the story your current life revolves around and how that is changing your biology. In the process, you will learn to shift that story, opening up to an internal approach to healing.

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Most people want to live healthy. The question isn't about desire. It's how do you achieve it?

I got into the health space to save people from their health struggles (namely weight loss). I thought if I could help you lose weight, I could make you happy, and this passion fueled my work.

But five years in, I realized many people are fighting through health, doing all of the 'right things' and not getting results. These same people have poured their lives into something that has never given back to them. A problem so large that it left me questioning the method of chasing health. I realized there had to be something different.

I realized we are missing health because we're neglecting the only thing that creates change within your biology, your level of safety. No matter how many "right things" you do, if your body isn't safe, it won't change.

The outcome you experience is directly related to your level of safety.

It's the untold truth about health and the very thing you need to understand to change. Inside this podcast, we dive into how to create safety inside your body and produce the outcomes you desire. Stop being your own worst enemy and create the lasting change you've been looking for.

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Change is hard, but it doesn't have to be impossible. Learn the secrets to making change happen in this podcast episode. Discover the five ways to guarantee success, including self-discipline, consistency, and pleasure. Find out how to think abundantly and live confidently to achieve your goals to guarantee health success.

Change is hard. Even good change can feel impossible. But on some level, don't we all want to change? The question is how? How do you do the things you know you should?

Spoiler alert: Willpower or good intentions won't create change. They're needed but not essential.

The essentials to change, and the only way you'll do it, is by making change safe and pleasurable. The two metrics we often disregard for a metric of change that looks like deprivation, starvation, and restriction. The path of change I thought was required to make it happen.

I had spent the better part of six years beating my body into submission while believing subconsciously that my self-hate would force me to be healthy. In reality, hate and health do not go together because hate and change conflict. They work against each other, leaving you running for your old patterns, the ones you desperately want to change.

But that doesn't make change impossible. It just makes the way we've been trying to change impossible.

Inside this podcast, I share the secrets of change that guarantee success. Plus, I challenge you to engage with something hard. Because your body craves hard things. It was made for hard things. But only when you balance that with pleasure and desire. Learn the secrets inside.

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The connection between our body, mind, and soul is wildly understudied. Yet understanding the connection and communication between the three is vital in changing your life. Inside all of us is a specific language that directs your outcome.

This doesn't mean your body is speaking a foreign language, but the language of health is what you speak about yourself and how you speak about the world around you. Think of your language as your perception. That perception creates your reality.

Take the language of body fat. If you repeatedly tell yourself, "I'm so fat," that becomes your perception, creating your reality.

It seems crazy, perhaps because we don't want to believe our words have that much control. But they do. What you speak is powerful, creating or reinforcing the story you live. Learning a better language can change your outcome shifting your reality to create health.

Inside this podcast, Registered Dietician and mindset coach Cole Berschback of Total Potential shows us how to build a better language in health through learning how to feel, release past hurts and rewrite your story. We also talk about the importance of posture and family systems in health.

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Learn how shame affects your identity and how God's love can replace shame with a new story through the powerful example of the woman at the well in John 4. Discover the difference between guilt, sin, and shame and how to confront your deep places to allow God to change your story and shift the way you live.

I grew up in a culture of scary faith. Not only did I constantly question my salvation, but I also lived by checking off the boxes of being a 'good' Christian girl. It felt like an impossible battle that kept me in a place of shame.

I don't want to blame shame for my sin. Biblically, sin came before shame (Genesis 3:1-11). But shame has a way of pushing us further into sin. Because shame, unlike sin, acts on our identity, shifting our belief about who we are.

Instead of sin being what we do, shame makes it who we are. And when it becomes who you are, it becomes part of your life. Like an appendage, you may not like it, but you can't escape it, at least not without changing your identity and your story.

This podcast talks about God's view of shame using the story of the woman at the well in John 4. It's a story that shows God's deep devotion to changing your story, removing your shame, and being filled with his love.

God wants to write a new story through you. To shift your identity and replace the shame with his love. I pray this podcast brings you a better understanding of God's deep and immense love for you and why He sent His only son to rescue you. A gift you cannot earn but only accept.

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You've been told wrong. Happiness isn't a place. It's a way of life. Learn how to find happiness in the backward approach to living with joy.

There's a healing benefit to happiness. Research has shown happiness boosts your immune function, heart health, and productivity. It also changes the way people experience pain. The question is, is it happiness that changes your biology or happiness that leads you to engage in healthier activities?

The answer is both.

Happiness seems to be the elusive emotion most people strive for, but few experience it. Unfortunately, finding happiness is more complicated than it should be. One, because our definition of happiness is wrong. Two, because the backward law proves the more you try to be happy, the more unhappy you'll be.

In this podcast, my husband Payton and I dive into happiness and why you should stop trying to find happiness and learn to create it. We also talk about the energetic frequency of emotion and how to use 'glimmers' to create safe patterns inside your brain.

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What if your body isn't the problem? I know that doesn't fit the health space's stereotypical norm, but the message invigorates me. A message that reminds you that your body is for you. Your body wants to be well, and it has the tools and resources to live well.

More than trying to change your body, the secret to living well is learning how to support your body.

That is exactly the path of homeopathy. Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of medicine that uses diluted forms of natural substances (mostly plants and minerals) to stimulate a healing response in a person. It supports the body, allowing it to do the job it was designed - to heal.

Rather than mask your symptoms or suppress them, the goal is to help your body heal itself by understanding what your symptoms are and what underlying imbalance you are dealing with.

Today on the podcast, I invited expert Jennie Hogland to talk about homeopathy, what it is, and why it might benefit you.

In the words of Jennie, "Our bodies are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. With the gentle nudge of Homeopathy, I have seen hundreds of people come alive and experience their own innate healing power."

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Health has been washed down and overcomplicated. It wasn't until I quit health that I realized health for what it is. Learn my unpopular health opinions that changed my health inside.

Five years ago, I quit health. I got into the health space to save the world from its health problems. The problems the health space seemed to be capitalizing on and the same ones that seemed to follow you around like your own shadow. These were the problems I was determined to fix.

I seemed to be making progress, at least in other people's lives, until one day, I lost my health while doing everything right.

In weeks, I had turned into the person I had gotten into the space to fix. The problems were so overwhelming I decided fighting for health wasn't worth it, so I quit.

The problem was I still wanted to be healthy. On some level, I think everyone wants to be healthy even more than they want to be skinny. But getting healthy seemed impossible. A system of cycles that too often led you right back to the same place you started, broken, swollen in problems, and chasing a solution.

But when I quit health, I also set down everything I had believed. In the process, this opened up space for me to see health in a new way. It shifted my perspective on health to experience it in a new way.

Quitting health is what led to my health.

Inside this podcast, I share seven unpopular health opinions I learned from quitting health and why they helped me finally get healthy. To fully soak this podcast in, I encourage you to come with an open mind.

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A few years ago, I heard a presentation on adrenaline dominance, and I never forgot it. It was one of those moments that shifted some understanding in me, helping me make sense of what didn't fully make sense.

Adrenaline is a hormone most commonly associated with the body's fight-or-flight response. The adrenaline rush of the body helps you react in dangerous situations. But there is another purpose of adrenaline that is less commonly talked about, to ensure the brain has received enough fuel (sugar).

Many people force a need for adrenaline onto the body through restrictive diets or excess stress, sometimes leading to adrenaline dominance. Adrenaline dominance is a condition that creates problems such as; anxiety, cold hands and feet, IBS, muscle tension, fibromyalgia, over-active bladder, teeth grinding, restless leg syndrome, ADHD, headaches, and incurable disorders like PMDD.

Many of these symptoms can feel overwhelming and even permanent. But when you understand the role of adrenaline in producing these symptoms, you can create a concrete solution to experience healing. Inside today's podcast, I invited leading expert Dr. Michael Platt to talk about adrenaline dominance and the role of progesterone in treating it. Dr. Platt is the founder of Platt Wellness and the author of several books, including Adrenaline Dominance. Make sure you tune in to learn more.

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Should you like yourself? In this honest post, I share how to distinguish between self-like and self-obsessing and why learning to love yourself matters.

There are some, perhaps even Biblical assumptions, that all humans love themselves and potentially a little too much. But I still questioned, does loving yourself mean liking yourself? Or does a dislike for yourself take self-love and turn it into a self-idol?

There's no doubt the world is fascinated with self. We're all concerned with who we are, what we are, and what we're trying to become. We quickly get so wrapped up in ourselves that we put ourselves on a pedestal of judgment or praise. We make life all about ourselves, which might be why you don't like yourself.

Not because self-like is selfish but because our self-worship shines a spotlight on ourselves, leaving plenty of room, time, and energy to judge ourselves. We can't help but see our flaws, which leaves us self-protecting and often self-worshiping. But it's not because we actually like ourselves (or even love ourselves) but the opposite, because we don't.

I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's more true to say that we're a self-worshipping kind of people, not because we like ourselves but because we don't. And if we could embrace true self-like, it would allow us to invest more in others because we already have what we need.

The problem is, this becomes confusing to the naked eye because we're good at masking self-hate in things like self-care and calling it self-love.

Inside this podcast, I invited my husband Payton to come on and discuss how to like yourself and why you might be acting in self-hate more than you realized.

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