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#310: How You Heal: Five Simple Ways To Change Your Health Sep 14, 2023

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Getting healthy requires hasn't been easy. But are you overcomplicating what should be simple? Here are five truths to change your health.

I've spent some time pondering how many things in life I overcomplicate. The conclusion came to nearly everything. In the past, I have complexified my health routine, how it should look to spend time with God, and overthought nearly every hard conversation I've ever had.

I spend so much time in confusion that I suffocated any new idea or thought that might pull me out. It wasn't until I realized confusion was the fuel keeping me stuck that I stopped letting confusion be an answer. I stopped letting it be the final say.

Health happens to be considered one of the most confusing topics of today. But I'm arguing it shouldn't be. Confusion is only holding you back from living out health. But doing that means breaking down what you thought about health, redefining it, and choosing to live it even when you don't fully understand it.

Health is an action.

Inside this podcast, I break down the five critical tools of healing and how to use them to change your health.

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#309: How You Heal: 5 Radical Truths About Forgiveness Sep 06, 2023

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Forgiveness is hard. It's messy, overwhelming, and scary. And it often feels better left alone. Yet, it is one of the most powerful healing modalities we have.

Forgiveness is considered one of our most significant forms of freedom. Learning to embrace forgiveness as a way of life changes the entire outcome of your story. I know firsthand the power of forgiveness. I also know how difficult it is to forgive. At least until you learn what true forgiveness is, outside of what you've been told.

There's more to the story of forgiveness. I don't want the overwhelming artificial beliefs to prevent it from being the powerful tool of healing that it is.

Inside the podcast, I dive into the biological response to a lack of forgiveness and what forgiveness can do for your health. I also break down what forgiveness is, what it is not, and how to make forgiveness a way of life to experience more life.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/309

#308: How You Heal: Eat Healing Foods Aug 30, 2023

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Healing requires you to consume more healing foods. Foods that make you feel light and alive. Learn the difference between negative energy foods and positive energy foods designed to help you heal.

Food isn't just food. It can be, but it's also so much more than that. Yet, at the same time, it's nothing like what we have understood it to be.

Common thought leaves you believing food can change how you look and even how you feel.

In a roundabout way, it can. But your body ultimately determines the outcome you experience.

Meaning the power of food is what your body makes of it. Your health is determined by what your body chooses to do with what you provide. You can't change your body. That is up to your body. But you can influence what your body does by learning how to support the body based on what it needs.

Food can not change you, but it can support you.

Healing requires the support provided by food through the nourishment it contains. Healing and healing food is not a metric of energy but the nutrients the food contains.

Inside this podcast, I dive into the power of healing foods, what they are, and how to pattern your diet to support health and healing. I also share common "health foods" you should avoid.

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#307: How You Heal: Emotional Mastery Aug 14, 2023

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It feels ironic I am writing a post on emotional mastery. If I'm honest, I still have more moments than I'd like to admit where my emotions get the best of me. But, I do realize, like all things in health, perfection doesn't exist.

Emotional mastery is not about never feeling but acknowledging how you feel and controlling your feelings so they don't control you. It's here your entire biology shifts from stress to health by learning how to manage your emotions.

YOUR FEELINGS RUN YOUR BIOLOGY.

Understanding your feelings run your biology makes a lot of sense if we look at diet history or even health history. Perhaps it even makes sense of what hasn't made sense. No matter how many 'right' things you do, if you're working from a negative emotional state, doing things doesn't have the same impact. Because the negative emotional state has more hold over your biology than simply trying to eat better, making it nearly impossible to change when you feel terrible about yourself.

Of course, food matters, and it can change the way you feel. It's why we eat emotionally. A pint of ice cream can ease the pain. Food can change how you feel. If it didn't, you wouldn't come back to it.

The problem isn't emotional eating. It's exchanging your power, giving it to food rather than holding the power to choose food based on how you want to feel. It's using food to dictate how you feel rather than understanding the power you hold to change how you feel.

Emotions hold a massive amount of power.

The key to a healthier life is working for the long-term good, not the temporary feeling. Working to achieve a place where you do it when you feel like it and even when you don't because you know, in the end, it is good.

Emotion is the power driving the outcome of what you do.

Inside this podcast, we dive into the emotional component of biology and how to create emotional mastery. I teach you the art of re-parenting yourself, sitting in hard feelings, and creating confidence even when you don't like where you are.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/307

#306: How You Heal: The Human Energy Field Aug 03, 2023

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One of the leading problems in the health space, really in life, is how we segment everything into specific parts or systems. We separate our work life from our home life and health from our spiritual life. Even within the body, you have endless systems you work to fix. This separation of the parts of your life is preventing you from healing.

Healing requires you to understand no matter how unique each is, they are all connected. In the process, we overcomplicate health by segmenting it into parts rather than seeing the theme running through the whole.

That theme is energy.

When I was sick, I just wanted to feel better. I wanted to feel light, vibrant, and healthy. I wanted to feel energized. But instead of keeping it simple, by supporting my energy, I dove deep into the complexities. I had a hormonal problem and several diseases. All of which felt overwhelming and all-consuming, leaving me unable to see the whole picture and the rest of me.

I didn't see that my emotional baggage was weighing me down, both figuratively and literally, changing how my body responded. And I certainly didn't understand how my thoughts created my need to keep body fat around.

I failed to understand that while my mind, body, and soul may be different, they are all connected. And it's this connection that changes the outcome.

Meaning it's not just about how you eat or what you do to change your body. But it's understanding how those changes are equally affecting your mind and soul but even more how your whole is interacting and relating to others, your environment, and the world around you.

They may be separate, but they're connected. Healing isn't just personal, it's communal, and the connecting link is energy and healing your energy field.

Inside the podcast, we talk about this intimate connection within the energy movement of your mind, body, and soul and how that radiates out of you to create your energy field.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/306

#305: How You Heal: Healthy Ego + Self-Love Jul 20, 2023

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Love heals. Specifically self-love. But it requires a healthy ego that works to connect your mind, body, and soul. Learn how to heal your ego inside this post.

I got into the health space wanting desperately to fix people, believing if I could fix them, I could fix myself.

I didn't call it that at the time. Honestly, my heart hurt over how much time people invested into the health space that seemed to take more than it gave back. Growing up, I watched countless women I know give everything, even losing themselves to something that made them more miserable than when they started.

They chased a place people told them would make them happy. Yet, few arrived. It was a vicious cycle of self-hate that I desperately wanted to break, for them, but also for me.

It wasn't until years later that I realized the hard way no one in the history of the world has ever hated themselves healthy.

Hate and healing do not go together.

They're antagonists. Yet the only thing we know about getting healthy has been a form of self-escape related to self-hate. But this isn't the way. It can't be.

In this podcast, I tell you why self-hate and disassociation prevent you from healing. I also share the survival mechanism of your ego that turns self-hate into self-inflammation, masking self-hate in artificial forms of self-love but in ways that leave people sick, lonely, overwhelmed, and even hopeless. Instead, the answer is love, and yes, even self-love.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/305

#304: How You Heal: Regulating Your Nervous System Jul 12, 2023

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I've long lived looking for something that would 'fix' me. A resource that would make all of my problems disappear. Some call it the easy button. Others are looking for the pill or the quick fix. No matter what it was, we'd all agree it needed to create healing without the pain and potential for failure.

I used to think it was the work people (including myself) tried to escape by seeking the easy solution. But after walking through my healing journey, I know it's not the work I'm afraid of. It's the potential of the work not working out. It's the fear that nothing will change.

Most people are willing to do crazy things and hard things. In some cases, it seems like they would do almost anything if it would guarantee results. It's not the work people are trying to escape. It's the fear no amount of work will create healing.

But healing is possible, not for the minority but everybody. The key is understanding how you heal so your work is done in the right direction. Far too many people invest their efforts into an external approach when all healing happens internally.

All healing happens the same way: creating safety in your nervous system to produce balance that opens up energy flow, allowing you to thrive.

Inside this podcast, I teach you how to create safety in your nervous system by understanding the polyvagal theory. I also give you practical tools based on the scale of affect regulation to help you know where you stand from regulated to dysregulated and how to regain balance.

The key to health is not perfection. It's not arriving at a destination. It's knowing and surrendering to the understanding that life will pull you out of balance. You will become dysregulated. Health is knowing how to regulate yourself to create safety and open up your energy flow no matter what is happening around you.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/304

#303: How To Heal: Shifting Your Perspective on Health Jul 03, 2023

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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.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/303

#302: Unlocking the Secret to Lasting Health: The Importance of Safety Jun 15, 2023

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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.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/302

#301: Five Ways To Guarantee Health Success May 31, 2023

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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.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/301

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