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Q&A Episode: Dairy Intolerances, Feminine Alignment, Female Fasting, Nourishment as a Gateway, "Healing Pounds" and Realistic Fat Loss Apr 11, 2024

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I’m excited to dive into the insights and feedback of my podcast audience today! I love the collaborative community that this podcast nurtures, and thank you to all of my listeners who submit write-ins for feedback and questions to dive deeper into discovering your feminine radiance.

One of the topics that came through that piqued my interest and that I thought warranted some discussion was fasting and how it doesn’t really work with female physiology. I could talk for an entire episode on this topic, and I will soon, but today I give the cliff-notes on fasting, how it is significantly different for women, and how it can actually keep us from stepping into our true potential.

Nourishment is a gateway. If your cells are not nourished, you will not be able to progress beyond basic survival. In order to connect to your feminine experience and expand your perspective in life, you have to move beyond a state of survival.

In this episode:
[03:00] Fasting and the impact it has on women’s health.
[09:24] The role of progesterone in our metabolic processes and nutrition.
[10:13] Getting out of the way of your physiology to expand your perception and life experience.
[17:21] Common misconceptions about dairy intolerance.
[21:14] How different people tolerate dairy and how to re-introduce it into your diet if you choose to do so.
[26:58] Misconceptions surrounding “healing pounds.”
[29:14] How restrictive diets can set you up for failure in nourishment and make you more prone to binging unhealthy cravings.
[30:46] Gaining weight in a pro-metabolic approach can correspond with not eating intentionally.
[34:39] Fat is protecting you from your environment.
[36:41] The balance between being too lean and being overweight.
[38:28] Taking personal responsibility for the calories we are consuming.
[40:29] Getting into movement and lymph work and utilizing fat in a sustainable way.
[42:15] The power of eating sensibly and the balance between intake and output.
[48:29] Thanks for tuning into the Fully Nourished Podcast today!

Links and Resources:
Episode 3 - Beyond Pro Metabolic Breaking Down a Restrictive Attitude
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/beyond-pro-metabolic-breaking-down-a-restrictive-attitude/id1697183569?i=1000622499974

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Making Friends with Stress & Creating Real Resilience with Jenna Hamm Apr 04, 2024

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When we explore female physiology and feminine energy, we are always confronted with how stress plays a role in both of these complex systems. We are often told that we must reduce our stress, but there may be more to it than that.

Today, I speak with Jenna Hamm, an integrative trauma therapist who is doing amazing work through Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, and Nervous System Regulation. Her work is unique because she is shifting the perspective from reducing stress to how to become more resilient through our exposure to stress.

A lot of the work we need to do in response to internal and external stressors relies heavily on listening to the messages that our bodies are sending us. Often, when we are faced with symptoms or up-regulated responses to stimuli, it is because we have not addressed an underlying pain within us.

Sometimes these responses to stressors in our environment are our brain’s way of creating safety. The trouble is that we are constantly seeking external saviors and remedies to our problems, and we aren’t taking the time to discover the underlying message our body is trying to tell us.

Jenna is an amazing guest who discusses ways to mobilize stuck stress, get the true rest our bodies need, and become more resilient in the face of stress. I know you’re going to love this episode. Tune in today to dive deeper into these concepts and how they awaken our feminine radiance!

In this episode:

[00:03:18] Jenna shares her story.
00:06:21] Jenna discusses the overuse of cognitive abilities and the prefrontal cortex and how it can lead to more dysregulation in our nervous systems.
[00:11:41] The common misconceptions about the connection between stress and nourishment.
[00:15:14] We have to listen to our bodies to find the pain at the bottom of our symptoms.
[00:18:58] Instead of being victims of stress and seeking an external savior, we must take personal responsibility for facing the root of our stress.
[00:24:09] Our ability to be resilient to stress is similar to a muscle that needs to be exercised.
[00:29:19] Jenna shares some tools and techniques that can be helpful in nervous system regulation for those who have been avoiding stress for so long.
[00:36:17] There is a fine line between introspection, being hyper-attuned to one's internal world, and being less connected to the outside world.
[00:40:17] We often misunderstand the concept of creating a safe environment for ourselves.
[00:43:52] What it truly means to surrender to the body’s response to stress.
[00:55:45] What is fake rest, and how can we get the real rest we need?
[01:00:05] Where can you connect with Jenna and her work?

Connect with Jenna:

Felt Sense Psychotherapy - jennahamm.com/start-here
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/feltsensewpg/?hl=en

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Implosion of the Health & Wellness Industry and Burning Down Toxic Frameworks Mar 28, 2024

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As we constantly strive to find a state of regulation and resonance with our feminine energy, we are often presented with new information that may differ from what we have come to understand. In many circles, this new information could completely destroy the framework we have built, but in this episode, I’m here to encourage you that we can add layers of new information to our current knowledge without completely burning down our current framework.

While there are plenty of frameworks out there that are finally imploding, namely the health and wellness space, this concept is universal across society and the feminine and masculine energies.

As women, we were not meant to thrive in this type of rigidity. However, when we find ourselves in a state of dysregulation, our perceptions are easily distorted as we are doing what we think is best for survival, and we find ourselves trapped in these rigid and dogmatic frameworks.

Instead of focusing on external solutions to our problems, we need to address our internal dysregulation that causes us to latch onto unhealthy or toxic frameworks. As women, our feminine energy is seeking something to be devoted to. We crave a masculine framework to allow us to thrive within.

I’m so excited to share this episode with you today. I know you’ll love it. Tune in now!

In this episode:

[00:46] Welcome to the Fully Nourished Podcast!
[02:53] The toxicity in the health and wellness space and how it causes dysregulation within us.
[07:37] The types of chaos that are present in the health and wellness space currently.
[10:47] We cannot look for an outside source to fix us.
[13:17] The feminine dances within a masculine framework.
[19:26] How feminine clarity presents when you are in energetic equilibrium versus when you are in a state of fight or flight.
[25:16] The creator of the universe wants to be the framework we dance in.
[29:03] Male physiology and female physiology are two representations of material manifestations of our energies.
[33:26] My response to the implosion of the health and wellness space and what it means for women everywhere.
[35:30] We have to be devoted to a framework to truly thrive in our feminine energy.
[38:32] Destruction is a way to restructure us for growth.
[43:05] Thanks for listening today!

Links and Resources:

Episode 5 - Unleash the Rhythm: How to Respect and Optimize Your Unique Physiology - https://www.everand.com/podcast/664531147/Episode-5-Unleash-the-Rhythm-How-to-Respect-and-Optimize-Your-Unique-Physiology

Episode 18 - Heart of Stone: The Calcified Woman - https://www.audible.com/podcast/Heart-of-Stone-The-Calcified-Woman/B0CMSR2KTY?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

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Separating Our Value from Productivity, Looking Beyond Achievement and Creating in a Way That Respects our Feminine Essence with Belinda Marie Mar 21, 2024

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I speak with Belinda Marie in this episode, and we discuss the roots of feminine energy and what it looks like in different situations and in different people. She has so much profound insight to share on the topic of Feminine energy.

A big part of feminine healing and soft living is having the courage to shift in the face of misalignment. Feminine energy is based on the texture behind what we are doing and how it feels to do the actions we are doing, not so much the fruits that those actions reap.

As women in business, we have to be mindful of what we think we “should” be doing, and pay attention to how it feels for us to do certain things. Your value is not tied to your productivity or your ability to follow a certain path to content creation or marketing or success.

This interview and episode are full of so much insight into tapping into our feminine energy and bringing it into our businesses. I know you’re going to love it, and I can’t wait to share it with you! Tune in today!

In this episode:

[00:06:09] Welcome to the show, Belinda! Tell us about your background.
[00:11:03] How Belinda shifted out of a state of misalignment and into a place of independent business in her feminine energy.
[00:13:36] The feelings of fear when transitioning into something different and how Belinda transitioned into her current business.
[00:17:40] Part of being successful in business is being authentic while keeping boundaries in place to remove the pressure of authenticity and complete transparency.
[00:23:29] The ways that traditional business conflicts with feminine energy.
[00:27:52] Bringing the concepts of feminine energy into business.
[00:32:39] How constant self-optimization is in every facet of our world and how it drains our feminine energy by forcing us to constantly move in a linear direction.
[00:33:26] Feminine energy is not a linear process. It varies from person to person.
[00:40:57] Belinda shares the principles of feminine healing.
[00:44:35] As women, we are relational beings, but we need to find a balance where we still care for other people without caring much about what they think about us.
[00:52:05] Belinda explains the differences between the distorted masculine and the wounded feminine.
[00:56:42] The concept of trying to “be” feminine and how it is counterintuitive to feminine energy.
[01:05:00] Thanks for joining us today, Belinda, and thank you for listening to the Fully Nourished Podcast.

Links and Resources:

Episode 5 - Unleash the Rhythm: How to Respect and Optimize Your Unique Physiology

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Soul and Self

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Why Feminine Energy is Difficult to Define, Feminine Rage and What a "Shift in the Female Collective" Really Means Mar 14, 2024

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Welcome to the kickoff episode for Season Two of The Fully Nourished Podcast! There is so much that this season has in store and I’m excited to share it with you. This week we are prefacing season two with an episode that touches back on feminine energy, frames the female collective, and dives into some of the shifts we might be noticing.

The health space has transitioned a lot in the last few years, and I think we are struggling to find direction in the mass of chaos that social media and the internet is feeding us. It has changed the creative process and taken it from a sacred process to creating just to create or creating to be competitive, which goes directly against the feminine energy that drives creativity.

To reclaim the sacredness of the creative process, we have to surrender and trust our bodies, the process, and our feminine energy while also waiting patiently and not forcing it because you can’t force genius. We have great power as females, and we need to accept the responsibility for that power to shift how we leverage that power in our daily lives.

As women, we are finally fed up with how we have tried to get by in life, and we are realizing that there has to be a better way for us to leverage our strengths. There is a collective rage that is brewing as we start to understand where our boundaries have been violated and how we have violated our own boundaries.

We have to let go of the things that are no longer working for us and shift our awareness while accepting personal responsibility for the violation of our boundaries, whether it’s from others or ourselves. We need to understand the impact that our daily activities have on our feminine energy.

Join me today in this episode, where we talk more about feminine energy and the different ways it is perceived in society. I know you’re going to love this conversation as we begin our journey in season two!

In this episode:

[00:46] I’m excited to share what season two has in store for us!

[01:49] The shift in the health space and how it plays into the collective shift.

[04:45] The overuse of social media and the chaos it feeds.

[11:24] Reclaiming the sacredness of the creative process.

[13:54] Understanding our power as females.

[17:32] The collective shift of women and feminine rage.

[24:09] The different groups of people and the types of feminine energy that we are seeing.

[26:33] How the Trad Wife community fits in with feminine energy.

[28:14] How does the messaging from these extreme feminine camps resonate with you?

[30:45] The confusion that stems from a collective shift.

[31:22] There are a few aspects that these camps missed out on while trying to define aspects of the feminine.

[41:12] Thanks for joining me today on The Fully Nourished Podcast!

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The Fully Nourished Podcast is Back Next Week! Mar 07, 2024

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Season One was a deep dive into Female Physiology and its connection with Feminine Energy. I am excited to continue our work in peeling back the layers to find the way back to ourselves in Season Two of the Fully Nourished Podcast. We will continue to honor our hunger for more and nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits to become fully nourished.

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Gut Instinct, My Spiritual Journey Part 2 Nov 16, 2023

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Last week I shared about my spiritual journey and when we left off, I was entrenched in my bitterness and overwhelming disappointment with the church. I had lost all trust in myself as well as in this institution that had been a huge part of my life.

Which leads me to this week and the resources I’d promised to provide for how I dug myself out of that place. First of all, it took a while, but as my body and soul started to heal, I realized that God had never left me.

God did not leave me when I was in the deepest dark night of my soul. He was there holding me and waiting for me to reach back out.

My path to healing was a ton of time spent trying to better understand who God is. My constant companion was the request that He reveal himself to me. For me, that revelation happened as I dug deeper into the words of the Bible and the history surrounding the events that are depicted.

He is. In His own words, He simply is. Which means that He is energy and matter and He is in everything that we see and experience around us. The Bible actually says that quite frequently but it’s more than this great being in the sky lording His will over us.

He is truly within us and is teaching us through our own experience and intuition. Not quite sure what I mean? Listen to hear all about what I learned and why our greatest resource when trying to heal from trauma is to relearn how to listen to our gut.

In this episode:

[00:00:35] Welcome back to part two of my spiritual journey.
[00:03:33] Before anything else, allow yourself space to surrender and find your trust.
[00:05:42] When you’ve been brainwashed you have to relearn how to feel and follow your gut.
[00:10:10] Experiencing life is experiencing God.
[00:12:05] Why I call God, “he”.
[00:18:54] Have you really studied Jesus’s life and understand what it means to follow Him?
[00:22:00] Learn more about the history of Zoroastrianism and the correlation with Christianity.
[00:28:42] Magi were people who were committed to the worship of one God and they bowed down to Jesus as their God and king.
[00:35:54] Then comes Jesus born in the lowest of low positions but meant to be so much more.
[00:38:49] As Jesus grows up you see that he stands out because he’s a boy who survived mass slaughter.
[00:41:40] Leadership of the day is extremely threatened by Jesus and His message.
[00:53:58] Because you live you are a temple for the spirit of the Lord.
[00:57:15] Wherever you’re at in your spiritual journey, you already have the truth within you.
[01:05:07] One last story to leave you with as we close out season one.

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Gut Instinct, My Spiritual Journey Part 1 Nov 14, 2023

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I’m going to shoot it to you straight. I struggled with what I wanted to say for the next couple of episodes. I had this vague idea of a topic and it just felt wrong. So instead of going with it, I went with my gut and posted one of those “True or False” posts on Instagram.

One of you wrote, “True or False: You used to be a Christian and now your beliefs are more New Age” and I think so many people were surprised when I said False.

Throughout this season we’ve touched on my spiritual journey, but I wanted to go a little deeper because my health and my beliefs have truly walked hand in hand. I have never been more sick than when I was wholly focused on the church and I’ve never been more well than when I focused on my faith.

Even when I was at the height of my inner turmoil and felt so bitter, so lost, so confused, and so jaded, I never once felt as if God had left me. He was there and held me through the pain and the turmoil and gave me the space to come back the root of my beliefs and faith.

In this episode:

[00:36] The time change has really messed me up this week. What about you?
[04:01] True or False: You used to be a Christian and now your beliefs are more New Age. Hear the answer.
[06:27] This episode is about trusting your gut and my spiritual journey.
[12:36] I’m taking you back to the beginning and providing more about my history and upbringing.
[19:42] Learn the first red flags I saw as I was growing more involved in this new church.
[23:18] Denying your intuition over time causes true division in your body and brain.
[30:50] Why do we feel like we need to revel in our suffering?
[32:23] I got to a point where I was so shut down, so sick, and I was falling apart.
[33:44] The straw that broke the camel’s back.
[37:11] When I left the church I lost everything about my identity at that time, but it all changed when I gave myself permission to not go to church if I didn’t want to.
[40:48] Even through the time when I was so over church, God was still there holding me.
[42:00] Come back for the next episode to hear more about how I got from despising everything about the church to where I am in my faith now.

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Social Media, Cortisol, FOMO and Focus Nov 09, 2023

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The results are in from the poll on social media! I asked, and you answered, and I'm diving in today to talk about social media and how it shapes the way we view our health.

It will come as no surprise based on our discussions about social media in episodes past, but there is an overwhelming majority of women who feel that they are the farthest they have ever been from their health, even amidst the flood of health and wellness information that inundates social media platforms.

So why is that, and what is causing us to steer even farther away from healthy practices?

Social media can cause major shifts in our physiology, not just in our habits and our behaviors, but it even impacts our hormones and our neurotransmitters. The constant desire for new information and the need for a constant dopamine fix can leave us feeling entertained for a period of time but ultimately unsatisfied and worse than we were before.

The competition and comparison that comes with social media are also of great detriment to our feminine energy. When we are constantly comparing ourselves against an image of someone else, we shift away from viewing others as part of a community, and we can begin to feel flawed if we are not meeting a certain perceived standard.

These practices are not healthy, but there are ways that we can still leverage the power of social media without letting it control us. Tune in today to hear more about the impact that social media is having on our physiology and how we can use it intentionally to better ourselves!

In this episode:

[01:13] The results are in from the poll on social media, and the results may surprise you.
[05:38] The majority of us have gained a fear of missing out from our social media consumption.
[10:05] The need for the dopamine fix in social media consumption.
[12:10] The role of hormones and the behaviors they can drive in our physiology.
[17:01] Seeking constant newness is a result of estrogen dominance.
[19:54] How social media causes shifts in our neurotransmitters.
[21:51] The layer of comparison and competition on social media and how it shifts us away from our feminine energy.
[27:18] The sense of accomplishment from learning via social media content and the illusion of success
[29:21] There is power in lingering on information and researching as opposed to jumping straight to social media for information without context.
[30:51] We have become uncomfortable with being bored.
[34:32] Social media has the power that we give it based on how we use it.
[38:56] Ways to put up healthy barriers around your social media usage.
[43:40] Tapping into a physical community as opposed to the social media community.
[45:55] Thanks for listening to the Fully Nourished Podcast!

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Heart of Stone: The Calcified Woman Nov 07, 2023

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As we near the end of the season, I wanted to touch on the importance of macro minerals in our bodies and what can happen when they fall out of balance. Minerals are key to our cellular functions and are tightly woven into our hormones for regulation. The combination of water, minerals, hormones, and cofactors all work together seamlessly and require a delicate balance to function appropriately.

So what happens when our macro minerals are out of balance? And what impact can stress play on our mineral absorption and mobilization? What is happening in so many women who are in states of chronic stress or burnout is something that is known as the calcium shell.

The calcium shell occurs in our bodies as a defense mechanism, serving to harden our tissues as a way of protecting us. We can feel the effects of this hardening in various places in our physiology, and it can even be seen in our emotions.

Working through calcification is not only about balancing our macro minerals but also working through the mineral patterns that have been imprinted in our emotional patterns. When breaking out of our calcium shells, we may be confronted with emotions and feelings that we were not able to feel and process before.

To appropriately work through your calcium shell, you must ensure that you are nourishing yourself completely on the physiological, emotional, and spiritual levels as you find the appropriate balance within your cells and bring yourself into alignment.

Tune in today to hear more about the best ways to balance your macro minerals and how awareness is the key to working through the calcified women phenomenon!

In this episode:

[01:38] We are talking about the Calcified Woman Phenomenon today.
[03:49] There is an intricate connection between hormones and mineral regulation.
[08:01] The interaction between the water in our bodies with electrolytes and other minerals.
[12:35] How our mineral patterns align with emotional and spiritual patterns.
[16:28] The impact of chronic stress on our mineral regulation.
[21:59] The role of calcification in our bodies and how it presents in our physiology and emotions.
[26:14] Calcification can pull calcium from our hard tissues, causing us to become more brittle.
[30:40] Finding the delicate balance to correct the calcium shell.
[32:34] Feeling the things that we ignored while we had the calcium shell and moving through the patterns as the shell breaks down.
[34:11] Easy ways to make sure you’re getting the appropriate amounts of macro minerals.
[40:16] Avoiding calcium in response to a calcium shell is not the answer.
[44:53] Awareness of our mineral patterns can help us be more aware of calcification.
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