What happens when every test comes back normal and you still don't feel well?

In this episode of The Core of It, Taylor sits down with Janine Alonzo, Heilpraktikerin, functional medicine practitioner, herbalist and founder of Loom Health Berlin, for a deeply technical and unexpectedly personal conversation about reading the body as a whole system.

Janine walks through the blood markers she thinks should be standard, what a complete thyroid picture looks like beyond TSH, how chronic stress interacts with reproductive hormones, and what leaky gut actually describes. Then she runs a full consultation on Taylor, on the record.

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Educational, not medical advice.

What happens when you've tried every product and still don't feel radiant? In this episode of The Core of It, Taylor sits down with Cecília Foga, trauma informed holistic health coach, sound practitioner, and creator of the GLOW Protocol, for an honest conversation about what it actually means to glow, and why the answer has almost nothing to do with your skincare routine.

Cecília spent seven years as a project manager in Budapest before chronic illness forced her to ask a harder question: what's the root cause? A sound healing session in Rishikesh cracked something open. Through studying nutrition, compassionate inquiry with Gabor Maté, sound facilitation, and her own journey through burnout, ballet, and an eating disorder, she built a practice around a single idea: outer radiance comes from inner alignment.

This conversation explores what holistic health actually looks like in practice, and why the nervous system, the lymphatic system, and the way you talk to yourself in the mirror may matter more than anything you put on your skin.

Topics explored in this episode:

• the gut-skin connection and foods that support your glow from the inside out
• your lymphatic system has no pump — and what that means for puffiness and dull skin
• how chronic stress and tension in the jaw and shoulders show up on your face
• sound healing and the parasympathetic nervous system // high vibrational foods & frequencies
• trauma-informed coaching and compassionate inquiry
• cultivating self-love as a daily practice

Learn more about TERRA Collective at https://www.terra-collective.co

And about Cecília at https://www.terra-collective.co/practitioners/cecilia-foga

What happens when your body tells you something your doctors won't? In this special edition of The Core of It, Taylor sits down with Lisa Thaens, experience designer, founder, and creative, for a rare and vulnerable conversation about living with a multiple sclerosis diagnosis without conventional medication. Filmed on the Pacific coast of Colombia, this episode is as much about the courage to slow down as it is about the courage to listen inward.

Eight years ago, Lisa was told her condition was irreversible and that she'd need lifelong pharmaceutical treatment. Instead, she chose to listen to her intuition. Through silent meditation, creative realignment, and learning to read her body's subtle signals, Lisa has gone nearly seven years without a relapse.

This conversation explores what it means to take a radically personal approach to a chronic diagnosis, and the courage it takes to trust your own intuition when every expert is pointing the other way.

Please note: this episode reflects a personal lived experience and is not medical advice. Everyone's path is unique.

Topics explored in this episode:

• receiving a life-changing diagnosis and navigating the medical system

• why Lisa stopped conventional MS medication and what she did instead

• the mind-body connection in autoimmune disease• how stress and inner resistance can manifest physically

• meditation & its role in aligning mind & body

• building a daily ritual practice that's sustainable, not restrictive

• trusting your intuition over external authority

Learn more about TERRA Collective at https://www.terra-collective.co

In this first episode of The Core of It, Taylor sits down with Marcela Miceli, a hypnotherapist and energy healer, to explore the role of subconscious reprogramming in overcoming limiting behaviors and patterns.

Marcela shares her own journey into this work, guides Taylor through a live hypnotherapy and energy healing session, and reflects on intuition and conscious manifestation. Together, they unpack what hypnotherapy actually is, how it works, and how working with the subconscious can help rewrite deeply rooted patterns.

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Edited by Roberto Ándres

Music credit: Aleksi Perälä

TERRA Website by Siba Alkhiami