What if feeling disconnected, exhausted, or “off” is not a sign that you are broken — but a message inviting you to reconnect with yourself?

In this deeply meaningful episode of Up Your Total Glow, I am joined by Dr. Fred Moss — psychiatrist, author, and someone who has spent more than 36 years exploring the human experience of emotional and psychological suffering.

After supporting over 30,000 people, Fred has developed a unique perspective that challenges traditional ideas around diagnosis and encourages a return to something deeply human: connection, expression, authenticity, and finding your true voice.

Together, we explore why so many people can appear successful, capable, and “fine” on the outside while privately feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unlike themselves.

We discuss:

✨ The hidden experience of functioning while feeling emotionally disconnected
 ✨ Why labels and diagnoses may not always capture the full human experience
 ✨ What happens when we suppress our emotions and authentic expression
 ✨ How the body communicates when something is out of alignment
 ✨ Why creativity and self-expression are essential for wellbeing
 ✨ What true healing looks like beyond simply managing symptoms

This conversation is an invitation to look inward, listen more deeply, and reconnect with the wisdom that has always been within you.

Because wellbeing is not just about looking healthy or functioning in everyday life.

It is about feeling connected to who you truly are.

Connect with Dr. Fred Moss:
 http://welcometohumanity.net/

Explore your unique Ayurvedic mind-body constitution:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

Or if you feel called to reconnect more deeply with your body, energy, and vitality:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

Thank you for being here and for being part of the Up Your Total Glow community.

Remember:
 You are love.
 You are light.
 You are already whole.

Much love,
 Ruth

Your body may be carrying stories you've never given yourself permission to say out loud.

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, Ruth explores the powerful connection between our beliefs, emotions, nervous system, and physical wellbeing. Discover how deeply held beliefs like "I have to hold everything together," "I'm not enough," or "love has to be earned" can influence the way we experience stress, digestion, self-care, and our relationship with ourselves.

Through an Ayurvedic lens, Ruth shares how the body is not broken or working against us — it is constantly communicating, inviting us to listen with more compassion, awareness, and curiosity.

This episode is for anyone who feels exhausted from pushing, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or carrying too much for too long.

✨ Free Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Book a Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

Sometimes the most stressful part of a meal isn't the food—it's the story we're telling ourselves about the food.

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, Ruth Kudzi explores the hidden impact of food guilt, health anxiety, and the subtle fear that can drive even our healthiest habits. Discover how guilt affects digestion, why Ayurveda views emotional state as part of nourishment, and how to build a healthier relationship with food, exercise, and your body.

✨ Free Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Book a Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

What if some of the healthiest things you're doing are the very things keeping you stuck?

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, Ruth shares 5 Ayurvedic truths about healthy eating that challenge conventional wellness advice. Discover why healthy food isn't always healthy for you, why digestion matters more than nutrients, why overeating isn't always about lack of willpower, and the surprising reason your body may still feel off despite your best efforts.

A practical, eye-opening episode for anyone who wants to understand their body more deeply and build a healthier relationship with food.

✨ Take the free Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Book a Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

What if your symptoms aren't your body's way of failing you—but its way of trying to reach you?

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, I explore the Ayurvedic understanding of symptoms as communication, share my personal journey following a brain aneurysm at age 15, and invite you to see your body's signals through a lens of curiosity rather than fear.

If you've ever wondered whether your fatigue, digestive issues, anxiety, or recurring symptoms might be asking something of you, this episode is for you.

✨ Take the free Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Book a Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

If you’re exhausted by conflicting wellness advice and constantly wondering what’s actually “healthy” anymore — this episode is your permission to come back to your own body.

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, we explore why true wellness is not about blindly following trends, protocols, or expert opinions — it’s about learning to trust your body’s own signals again.

Through personal stories, Ayurvedic wisdom, and nervous system insight, we talk about:

·       Why something healthy for one person can dysregulate another

·       The hidden cost of overriding your body’s signals

·       Coffee, cold plunges, supplements, and wellness trends through an Ayurvedic lens

·       The difference between fear-based wellness and genuine nourishment

·       How to reconnect with your body’s natural wisdom and self-trust

Plus, reflective coaching questions, a grounding body connection practice, and a powerful affirmation to help you tune back into yourself.

✨ Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

If you feel trapped in an endless cycle of supplements, wellness routines, optimisation, and trying to “fix” yourself — this episode is the reminder your nervous system may have been needing.

In this deeply grounding episode of Up Your Total Glow, we explore why true healing isn’t about endlessly adding more protocols, powders, or practices — it’s about rebuilding trust with your body.

Through the lens of nervous system healing, Ayurveda, and emotional wellbeing, we talk about:

•  Why stillness can feel uncomfortable 
•  The hidden fear driving wellness obsession and over-optimisation 
•  The difference between nourishment and control 
•  Why your body’s signals matter more than external noise 
•  How to reconnect with yourself gently and sustainably 

Plus, a calming body connection practice, reflective coaching questions, and a powerful affirmation to help you shift from fear into trust.

✨ Vitality Imbalance Quiz:
 https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/

✨ Vitality Reconnection Session:
 https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session

If your body resists rest, healing, slowing down, or even receiving support — this episode will help you understand why.

In this episode of Up Your Total Glow, we explore the deeper reason the nervous system says “no” — not because you’re broken or sabotaging yourself, but because your body learned that staying guarded felt safer than softening.

We talk about:

·       Why healing can feel uncomfortable

·       Nervous system protection patterns

·       Burnout, overgiving, and emotional shutdown

·       How the body learns safety

·       Gentle ways to begin shifting resistance

Plus, a calming body connection practice, reflective coaching questions, and a powerful affirmation to help you reconnect with your body with compassion instead of force.

✨ Take the free Vitality Imbalance Quiz: https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/ 
✨ Learn more about Vitality Reconnection Sessions:  https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session 

If emotional eating has ever left you feeling ashamed, out of control, or disconnected from your body — this episode will change the way you see it forever.

In this deeply compassionate episode of Up Your Total Glow, we explore the real root of emotional eating through the lens of Ayurveda, nervous system regulation, and emotional nourishment.

This conversation is not about willpower, discipline, or “fixing” yourself. It’s about understanding why the body reaches for food in moments of stress, loneliness, overwhelm, exhaustion, or emotional depletion — and learning how to respond with awareness instead of shame.

You’ll discover:

• Why emotional eating is often a form of communication, not failure
• The hidden cycle that keeps overeating and restriction locked together
• How Ayurvedic imbalances (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha) influence cravings and eating patterns
• Why the body seeks comfort foods during stress and emotional depletion
• Gentle ways to regulate emotional eating without harsh control
• How nervous system support, grounding, and nourishment reduce food compulsion naturally
• Powerful coaching questions to help you understand your own patterns
• A calming guided body connection practice and affirmation

This episode is for any woman who has ever:

• Eaten past fullness and felt guilt afterward
• Turned to food for comfort, relief, grounding, or escape
• Felt trapped in cycles of restriction and overeating
• Wanted a softer, more healing approach to food and body connection

You are not broken. Your body is communicating.

And when you learn to understand what it’s truly asking for, everything begins to change.

✨ Take the free Vitality Imbalance Quiz: https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/
  ✨ Learn more about Vitality Reconnection Sessions: https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session 

If this episode resonated with you, please follow, share, and leave a review — it helps more women find this work and begin healing their relationship with food and themselves.

What if the reason your body feels depleted has nothing to do with what you're eating, how much you're sleeping, or how hard you're trying — and everything to do with your capacity to receive?

In this episode, Ruth explores one of the most overlooked foundations of glowing health: the ability to let nourishment actually in. Not just food, but rest, kindness, help, warmth, and support — the things that restore us when we allow them to land.

If you've ever deflected a compliment before it could reach you, lain down to rest while your mind kept running, or given generously to everyone around you while quietly running on empty yourself, this episode will name something you may have never heard framed this way before.

In this episode:

• Why receiving is one of the most courageous acts available to us — and why it can feel genuinely unsafe
• The 5 ways an inability to receive shows up in your body and your daily life
• The Ayurvedic understanding of why closed channels block vitality, no matter how well you eat
• A guided body connection moment to begin opening to receive again
• Powerful coaching questions to carry into your week
• An affirmation to anchor the shift

 Links mentioned:

• Free Vitality Imbalance Quiz: https://www.ithriveforhealth.com/ayurvedic-dosha-quiz/ 
• Book a Vitality Reconnection Session: https://tidycal.com/ithrive/vitality-reconnection-session