Everyone does it. You react to food, your kids, work, stress- you name it, there is an impulsive reaction to be found. However, living in this state can cause a ton of shame, guilt and frustration. 

The answer is in moving from that to a responsive and intuitive energy. It's about allowing space for uncomfortable feelings and understanding what your needs are. It's about slowing your roll and seeing what is really going on for you. 

In this episode, we discuss how to move from reactive to responsive so you can live more intuitively and peacefully. 

Julie Allen has been in remission from her eating disorder for nearly 10 years. In that time, she started her own clothing business, Mary Rose NW Boutique with an online shop and brick and mortar. She also founded the Mary Rose Foundation which supports eating disorder recovery. She is also in the process of wiring a memoir/self-help book!

Julie shares her story and how practicing self-compassion literally saved her life. 

Failing is all about how you fall short. It's based on your inability to complete a task or feel successful. But how is that serving you?? SPOILER ALERT: It's not!!!  In this episode, we take a deep look at how the very definition of failure is based on unrealistic expectations and how you can avoid setting yourself up for it. 

We find that by looking for the lessons in moments where we feel shameful and vulnerable, that we can find empowerment and confidence. 

No one told me that when I had the perfect body that I would be unhappy, obsessed, terrified or insecure. No one told me that it would demand a ton of my time, mental and emotional energy and happiness. No one told me about the strain it would put on my relationships. I want to share how losing and maintaining weight loss was the hardest thing I have ever done and how giving up the ideal for self-acceptance and body love has been the most freeing thing I have ever done! 

This episode is a little bit vulnerable.  I am sharing my hearts desires and longings with you. Please proceed with compassion and patience as I practice what I preach. 

Dr. Kristine Newman is an incredible wealth of information, application and inspiration. After a rock climbing accident left her severely injured, she decided to leave her private practice and pursue online health and wellness coaching.  In this episode, we talk about how stress affects the HPA Axis, adrenals and cortisol production and what doable action steps you can take to bring your body back to rest and digest harmony. You can find Dr. Newman on Facebook in The Health Circle. 

Do you ever feel like you just need to find the motivation to make the changes you want to? Are you frustrated and confused as to why you can't seem to make changes that last? In this episode, we discuss how desires need to be selfish in order to align with what you think you want. We also discuss how hidden feelings of unworthiness and undeserving keep you stuck in the crazy cycle of trying to make changes for the wrong reasons. 

We hear all the time that we should be confident, but what does that even mean? How do we get confidence? Is it a static state or more fluid than that? Why is it so darn hard to get and keep ahold of? Why do I have it in some areas and not others? 

This episode will help you uncover what it is that keeps you stuck from fully embracing, learning and practicing confidence. 

One of the biggest AHA moments I have had lately has been the realization that I often strive for perfection and that striving keeps me stuck. In this episode, I talk about how finding freedom from the impossible (and 100% unrealistic) undefinable standard of perfection is the prize to be won, not the weapon to be wielded. 

Join me as we break through this limiting belief that you are not enough and that all you need to do is try harder.