Follow Your Gut
Dive into my best tips for sustainable weight loss, vibrant health, and unstoppable body confidence.
Episode 114: How We Heal from Trauma (With or Without a Therapist)
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The last 2 weeks we've talked about how trauma affects the brain (giving you an external locus of control, reduced impulse control, and impaired memory) and how trauma affects the body (reduced metabolism, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, just to name a few).
And after hearing all that, you may be feeling a bit hopeless, wondering if your past trauma is going to define and limit the possibilities for your future.
It isn't. Not if you're willing to do the work.
Now before you click away thinking 'the...
Episode 113: How Trauma Affects the Body (Hint: Yes It Can Influence Your Weight)
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My narcissistic relationship triggered my autoimmune disease.
Yes there were certainly other factors at play: diet, genetics, birth control.
But for years I couldn't speak my mind for fear of retribution. For years I was on high alert, unsure what would set him off. For years I felt like I was crazy, having every word twisted and turned against me.
My body's defenses were chronically waging war against the ever-present emotional threat and eventually turned on me, attacking my own thyroid...
Episode 112: How Trauma Affects Your Brain (Willpower May Not Be Your Problem After All)
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For years I've said that the negative emotions and experiences we don't process and release get stored in the body. Sometimes as fat, sometimes as illness, sometimes as injury.
It always sounded 'woo woo' when it came out of my mouth, but finally I've discovered a book that scientifically backs up this intuition.
'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel Van Der KolK, MD, is one of the most comprehensive books I've ever read on trauma, how it affects the brain and body, and how to heal...
Episode 111: Life Changing Journal Prompts to Get Out of Your Own Way
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What's my #1 tool for getting out of my own way when trying to achieve big goals?
Journaling. I know it’s cheesy, and self-helpy, and therapisty to say, but it FREAKING WORKS.
More often than not what holds us back is the autopilot thoughts and habits that play on repeat day after day.
The magic of journaling is it forces us to take a step back, to question those limiting beliefs and actions, to get an outside perspective on our own lives, and to more clearly see the way OUT.
But I know journaling can be...
Episode 106: Stuck in the All-or-Nothing Mindset Around Food? This Episode is for You!
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Does any of this describe you...
- Feeling like the day is ruined after eating a cookie.
- Repenting for overeating with cleanses, starving yourself, or doing crazy workouts.
- Not starting a diet because you’re waiting for when you can be 100%.
- Filling up on treats before a diet starts and you know you’ll have to stop.
- Eating all the bad food in your house to get rid of the temptation.
- Restricting for long periods of time followed by binging.
If you answered yes, you my friend, are a diet...
Episode 105: Starting a Weight Loss Journey With My S.T.R.O.N.G Method
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As the pandemic winds down, you may be feeling like you're starting at square one with your health and fitness journey.
With excess stress, closed gyms, no consistent routine, the pantry 5 steps away at all times, and no one seeing us from the chest down, a lot of us struggled not to put weight on and say bye-bye to healthy habits.
So let's break it down, start from the beginning, and take it one step at a time using my S.T.R.O.N.G Method:
Start Your Journey with Clarity.
So few people take the time to...
Episode 104: 5 Hard Facts You Need to Know About Weight Loss
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Have you ever gone on a weight loss journey and had a freak out moment because...
The scale went up even though you were doing everything right.
Or you self-sabotaged and ate a whole pizza after you were so good all week.
Or you felt your motivation drop and couldn't figure out how to get it back.
The reason we freak out is because we feel these things are not supposed to happen and it leaves us feeling totally out of...
Episode 103: Keto. Is. Dangerous.
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KETO. IS. DANGEROUS.
Ok, after a doctor recommended my client be on a ‘keto lifestyle’ for no good reason I had to create this episode and VENT!!!
Understand, I would take no issue with keto if it wasn’t actively dangerous.
I have known multiple people who had life-threatening complications happen because of being on keto.
NO DIET SHOULD EVER COME WITH THE THREAT OF LIFE-ENDING CONSEQUENCES!
The cliff notes?
Keto makes your body highly acidic which is the perfect environment for pathogens to...
Episode 102: Overeating: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
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Do you ever feel out of control around food? You know you should watch your portions and eat mindfully, but you can't help it. One spoonful after another, long after your body is satisfied, you continue to shovel.
Maybe it starts with your dinner. Then you want something crunchy and salty so you mow through a bag of chips. But then you need something sweet to balance it out so you plow through a sleeve of Oreos. And before you know it, you're flopped on the couch, groaning in discomfort with your jeans...
We Made It To 100!!! A Look Back At Our Most Popular Episodes!!
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I am so excited to announce, today we celebrate our 100th episode of the Life Unleashed Podcast!!
When I first started this podcast with my girl Gio, I had no expectations, no idea how long it would last, no idea if anyone would listen.
I really just wanted a way to get more information and inspiration out to more people and I wanted to do it in a way where we could have deeper, more impactful conversations than an Instagram post.
Now, 100 episodes and over 10,000 downloads later, I've...
