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#300: The Language of Health: What Does It Mean? May 18, 2023

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The connection between our body, mind, and soul is wildly understudied. Yet understanding the connection and communication between the three is vital in changing your life. Inside all of us is a specific language that directs your outcome.

This doesn't mean your body is speaking a foreign language, but the language of health is what you speak about yourself and how you speak about the world around you. Think of your language as your perception. That perception creates your reality.

Take the language of body fat. If you repeatedly tell yourself, "I'm so fat," that becomes your perception, creating your reality.

It seems crazy, perhaps because we don't want to believe our words have that much control. But they do. What you speak is powerful, creating or reinforcing the story you live. Learning a better language can change your outcome shifting your reality to create health.

Inside this podcast, Registered Dietician and mindset coach Cole Berschback of Total Potential shows us how to build a better language in health through learning how to feel, release past hurts and rewrite your story. We also talk about the importance of posture and family systems in health.

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#299: Shame: The Silent Destroyer of Your Faith May 12, 2023

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Learn how shame affects your identity and how God's love can replace shame with a new story through the powerful example of the woman at the well in John 4. Discover the difference between guilt, sin, and shame and how to confront your deep places to allow God to change your story and shift the way you live.

I grew up in a culture of scary faith. Not only did I constantly question my salvation, but I also lived by checking off the boxes of being a 'good' Christian girl. It felt like an impossible battle that kept me in a place of shame.

I don't want to blame shame for my sin. Biblically, sin came before shame (Genesis 3:1-11). But shame has a way of pushing us further into sin. Because shame, unlike sin, acts on our identity, shifting our belief about who we are.

Instead of sin being what we do, shame makes it who we are. And when it becomes who you are, it becomes part of your life. Like an appendage, you may not like it, but you can't escape it, at least not without changing your identity and your story.

This podcast talks about God's view of shame using the story of the woman at the well in John 4. It's a story that shows God's deep devotion to changing your story, removing your shame, and being filled with his love.

God wants to write a new story through you. To shift your identity and replace the shame with his love. I pray this podcast brings you a better understanding of God's deep and immense love for you and why He sent His only son to rescue you. A gift you cannot earn but only accept.

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#298: How Do You Find Happiness? May 04, 2023

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You've been told wrong. Happiness isn't a place. It's a way of life. Learn how to find happiness in the backward approach to living with joy.

There's a healing benefit to happiness. Research has shown happiness boosts your immune function, heart health, and productivity. It also changes the way people experience pain. The question is, is it happiness that changes your biology or happiness that leads you to engage in healthier activities?

The answer is both.

Happiness seems to be the elusive emotion most people strive for, but few experience it. Unfortunately, finding happiness is more complicated than it should be. One, because our definition of happiness is wrong. Two, because the backward law proves the more you try to be happy, the more unhappy you'll be.

In this podcast, my husband Payton and I dive into happiness and why you should stop trying to find happiness and learn to create it. We also talk about the energetic frequency of emotion and how to use 'glimmers' to create safe patterns inside your brain.

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#297: What Is Homeopathy? Should You Try It? Apr 28, 2023

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What if your body isn't the problem? I know that doesn't fit the health space's stereotypical norm, but the message invigorates me. A message that reminds you that your body is for you. Your body wants to be well, and it has the tools and resources to live well.

More than trying to change your body, the secret to living well is learning how to support your body.

That is exactly the path of homeopathy. Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of medicine that uses diluted forms of natural substances (mostly plants and minerals) to stimulate a healing response in a person. It supports the body, allowing it to do the job it was designed - to heal.

Rather than mask your symptoms or suppress them, the goal is to help your body heal itself by understanding what your symptoms are and what underlying imbalance you are dealing with.

Today on the podcast, I invited expert Jennie Hogland to talk about homeopathy, what it is, and why it might benefit you.

In the words of Jennie, "Our bodies are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. With the gentle nudge of Homeopathy, I have seen hundreds of people come alive and experience their own innate healing power."

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#296: Seven Unpopular Health Opinions I Believe Apr 27, 2023

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Health has been washed down and overcomplicated. It wasn't until I quit health that I realized health for what it is. Learn my unpopular health opinions that changed my health inside.

Five years ago, I quit health. I got into the health space to save the world from its health problems. The problems the health space seemed to be capitalizing on and the same ones that seemed to follow you around like your own shadow. These were the problems I was determined to fix.

I seemed to be making progress, at least in other people's lives, until one day, I lost my health while doing everything right.

In weeks, I had turned into the person I had gotten into the space to fix. The problems were so overwhelming I decided fighting for health wasn't worth it, so I quit.

The problem was I still wanted to be healthy. On some level, I think everyone wants to be healthy even more than they want to be skinny. But getting healthy seemed impossible. A system of cycles that too often led you right back to the same place you started, broken, swollen in problems, and chasing a solution.

But when I quit health, I also set down everything I had believed. In the process, this opened up space for me to see health in a new way. It shifted my perspective on health to experience it in a new way.

Quitting health is what led to my health.

Inside this podcast, I share seven unpopular health opinions I learned from quitting health and why they helped me finally get healthy. To fully soak this podcast in, I encourage you to come with an open mind.

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#295: Is Adrenaline Dominance Your Problem? Apr 19, 2023

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A few years ago, I heard a presentation on adrenaline dominance, and I never forgot it. It was one of those moments that shifted some understanding in me, helping me make sense of what didn't fully make sense.

Adrenaline is a hormone most commonly associated with the body's fight-or-flight response. The adrenaline rush of the body helps you react in dangerous situations. But there is another purpose of adrenaline that is less commonly talked about, to ensure the brain has received enough fuel (sugar).

Many people force a need for adrenaline onto the body through restrictive diets or excess stress, sometimes leading to adrenaline dominance. Adrenaline dominance is a condition that creates problems such as; anxiety, cold hands and feet, IBS, muscle tension, fibromyalgia, over-active bladder, teeth grinding, restless leg syndrome, ADHD, headaches, and incurable disorders like PMDD.

Many of these symptoms can feel overwhelming and even permanent. But when you understand the role of adrenaline in producing these symptoms, you can create a concrete solution to experience healing. Inside today's podcast, I invited leading expert Dr. Michael Platt to talk about adrenaline dominance and the role of progesterone in treating it. Dr. Platt is the founder of Platt Wellness and the author of several books, including Adrenaline Dominance. Make sure you tune in to learn more.

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#294: How To Like Yourself (And Why You Should) Apr 13, 2023

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Should you like yourself? In this honest post, I share how to distinguish between self-like and self-obsessing and why learning to love yourself matters.

There are some, perhaps even Biblical assumptions, that all humans love themselves and potentially a little too much. But I still questioned, does loving yourself mean liking yourself? Or does a dislike for yourself take self-love and turn it into a self-idol?

There's no doubt the world is fascinated with self. We're all concerned with who we are, what we are, and what we're trying to become. We quickly get so wrapped up in ourselves that we put ourselves on a pedestal of judgment or praise. We make life all about ourselves, which might be why you don't like yourself.

Not because self-like is selfish but because our self-worship shines a spotlight on ourselves, leaving plenty of room, time, and energy to judge ourselves. We can't help but see our flaws, which leaves us self-protecting and often self-worshiping. But it's not because we actually like ourselves (or even love ourselves) but the opposite, because we don't.

I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's more true to say that we're a self-worshipping kind of people, not because we like ourselves but because we don't. And if we could embrace true self-like, it would allow us to invest more in others because we already have what we need.

The problem is, this becomes confusing to the naked eye because we're good at masking self-hate in things like self-care and calling it self-love.

Inside this podcast, I invited my husband Payton to come on and discuss how to like yourself and why you might be acting in self-hate more than you realized.

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#293: Therapist Advice: Healing The Mind-Body Connection Apr 06, 2023

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What does it take to get healthy?

I've asked myself this question numerous times, but it wasn't until my health crashed that I realized how my emotions were impacting my health and how my health was impacting my mind. I had to address the two-way street of my mind and body to experience the healing I longed for.

The mindset and health spaces often overlook this intimate connection between your mind and body. But understanding each and how they work together proves the health of your body influences the health of your mind and visa versa. Likewise, what has happened to your body or mind will affect how the other responds.

If you're human, you have dealt with some form of emotional or physical trauma. Trauma shapes your way of life, how your biology runs, and even what you think.

But it doesn't have to stay this way.

If you feel like nothing is okay in your life, let this remind you that it doesn't have to stay that way. In this podcast, I talk with Elise Healzer, a licensed therapist specializing in a holistic approach to assessing whole-person health. Today we talk about healing the mind-body connection through changing mindset loops, healing the mind-body connection, and getting comfortable with uncomfortable things.

We even dive into the question, should you go to therapy?

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#292: On Learning To Heal with Dr. Ed Cohen Mar 30, 2023

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You want to be well, but do you know how to get there? The western world of medicine has confused healing and made it about fixing. But healing has to be the goal. Learning to heal will teach you what medicine doesn't know.

"Do I even want to be well?"

I found myself asking that question after years of treatment that helped me get better, but treatment I had become addicted to. Not by choice, although I don't think anyone becomes addicted on purpose. But I honestly couldn't live without it.

When I first got sick, I didn't bat an eye. I would do whatever and whenever to feel better. I needed help, and lots of it. But after a year of weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) treatments, I started to recognize a pattern. Go to treatment, get patched together, live a day or two before the crumbling began, and I would limp myself back into treatment.

It felt like this had become my new way of life. Until one rainy spring day, as I was driving to another appointment, I started questioning if there was something I was missing. Was this what my life would amount to?

I loved what it had done for me but hated what it had created in me. Deep down, I knew I was missing something. Something that was bound to help me get over my hurdle of dependence and break into health.

It was the answer to my lingering question, did I even want to be well?

In asking this question, I learned healing was a choice more than a treatment. Inside this podcast, Dr. Ed Cohen shares a similar story journeying through learning to heal. If you're struggling to heal, I encourage you to listen to this podcast that dives deeper into what it means to heal.

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#291: Why You Can't Change: The Backward Law and How to Overcome It Mar 23, 2023

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Change is hard but not impossible. The problem isn't what you're doing. It's your perspective behind what you do. Learn why you can't change inside this post!

Change is hard, almost impossible. Especially if you continuously focus on the fact that you struggle to change. I don't know how many times I have made a promise and committed to the fact that I was going to change but didn't.

I was going to stop. I was going to try harder. I was going to wake up to my first alarm I was going to stop eating sugar. I was going to change _ (fill in the blank).

We all make a lot of promises to ourselves, many of which we'll never keep. Instead, we tend to keep doing the things we want to change, feeling frustrated and even guilty that nothing ever changes.

Leaving me to question maybe your thought that you need to change is preventing you from living it.Not because change isn't possible but because how we try to change makes it impossible.

Inside this podcast, I dive into the science of change, the top five reasons you're making change impossible, and how to stop trying to change to create it. It's a prime example of the backward law that states the more you try to change, the less likely you are to experience it. Inside this podcast, you learn why you can't change. Spoiler: you're trying too hard!

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/291

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