Slay & Thrive: Beast Mode Meets Manifesting Goddess: Recent Episodes
Kayla Van Egdom
This podcast will help you break the pattern of unhappy achieving and make crushing your goals feel like self-care. It's part Beast Mode and part Manifesting Goddess. We are combining a ferocious work ethic with the Law of Attraction. Become the energetic match for your desires. Fall in love with the journey. Take massive action in a high vibrational state. Create miracles and magic.
You’ve journaled about the pattern. You understand the trigger. You’ve uncovered the limiting belief, named the wound, and written three pages about what happened.
So why are you still repeating the same behaviour?
In this episode, Kayla explores the number one reason journaling and inner work often fail to create lasting change: awareness alone doesn’t execute. Mechanisms do.
Using her Awareness to Authorship to Action framework, Kayla shares how she discovered that many of her most important lessons were repeating because they had never been attached to a specific ritual, routine, trigger, checklist, or decision script.
She walks through two real-life examples, including how she created an intentional transition from Fire Brain into Ocean Brain after deep work and how a five-step morning checklist stopped email and business tasks from hijacking her day.
You’ll learn how to take your best journal insights out of the notebook, put handles on your poems, and turn what you know into something you can actually live.
Plus, you’ll leave with a simple embodied activation and a bonus practice for anyone who needs help shifting out of overwork mode and back into their body.
Links Mentioned:
- Get Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Ally Boothroyd’s Yoga Nidra YouTube Channel
- Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
This is where to start.
Embodied Writing Warrior is where food freedom meets BookTok energy, high-performing women stop white-knuckling their way to consistency, and your inner world gets the character development it actually deserves.
In this trailer, you'll meet Rex and Haven — the two AI co-created inner archetypes behind the Divine Daddies method — and get a feel for why this show sounds like nothing else in the wellness space.
Links Mentioned:
- Episode 188: Rex & Haven's Origin Story
- The Full Divine Daddies audio storybook: embodiedwritingwarrior.com/divinedaddies
New episodes drop weekly. Welcome to the rebellion.
What happens when the life you built to earn approval collapses publicly?
In this raw, funny and deeply inspiring conversation, I’m joined by writer and Go Regulate Yourself podcast host Brianne Roberge to talk about the death and rebirth that brought her back to the dream she had carried since childhood.
Brianne shares how she moved from nursing into coaching, rapidly expanded her business and then lost everything when the company failed. What followed was an attempted public cancellation involving hundreds of hostile messages, widespread online criticism and even anonymous death threats.
But inside that devastating experience, Brianne uncovered the truth beneath the life she had built: she had been making decisions through people-pleasing, external validation and the desire to prove her worth.
We talk about leaving nursing and coaching behind, finding the confidence to write, using social media without walking on eggshells, responding to criticism without absorbing other people’s projections and the wonderfully dual meaning behind Go Regulate Yourself.
Brianne also shares a powerful embodied exercise for looking beneath the obvious symptoms of a problem and discovering the deeper wound, belief or unmet need that may actually be driving it.
This episode is a potent conversation about public failure, shame, reinvention, boundaries, writing, self-trust and answering your purpose when the universe stops sending pebbles and starts throwing boulders.
Links Mentioned:
Connect with Brianne
- Go Regulate Yourself Podcast and Website
- Go Regulate Yourself on Instagram
- Go Regulate Yourself on Facebook
- Go Regulate Yourself on YouTube
- Brianne’s Website, Substack and The 30-Something Bible
- Brianne on Instagram
- Brianne on Facebook
Grab My Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
In this small-but-mighty episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior podcast, Kayla shares a powerful reframe for anyone who has been obsessing over the scoreboard instead of actually playing the game.
Whether the “scoreboard” is the scale, your nutrition streak, your bank account, your business results, your social media engagement, or any other external metric, it is easy to become so focused on the outcome that you lose presence, play, and personal power in the process.
Through a basketball metaphor, tennis wisdom from Maria Sharapova, and a real behind-the-scenes example from Kayla’s own food freedom journey, this episode explores the difference between outcome commitments and process commitments. You will learn why losses can become powerful comeback portals, how repair rituals help rebuild self-trust, and why play may be the missing ingredient in your consistency.
Kayla also shares how she shifted from trying to force “emerald heart” results to creating better afternoon and evening structures, including emotion coaching, ocean brain returns, time blocking, timers, and playful reward scenes with Rex and Haven.
If you have been stuck in frustration, impatience, or scoreboard stalking, this episode will help you return to the moves, plays, rituals, and daily actions that make progress feel powerful, embodied, and maybe even fun again.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook Guide
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Tim Ferriss Podcast With Maria Sharapova
- Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss
What happens when life doesn’t just fall apart once, but twice?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior podcast, I’m joined by Sass Schaeffer, registered dietician, certified personal trainer, mindset coach, and host of Practice Your Positive Daily. Sass shares the story of being laid off and having her house flood in the same year, then experiencing both all over again less than a year later.
But instead of simply rebuilding the same life, Sass took the second collapse as an invitation to rebuild herself.
We talk about the difference between healing and true identity reconstruction, why so many high-performing women get stuck in survival mode, and how to begin creating a new version of yourself through nervous system regulation, self-trust, and bold embodied action.
This conversation is especially powerful for women in midlife, women navigating unexpected life changes, and anyone who feels like they’ve outgrown the old life but doesn’t quite know who they’re becoming yet.
Inside this episode, we explore:
Why rebuilding your life is different from rebuilding your identity
How survival mode blocks creativity, clarity, and future vision
Why self-trust begins with small decisions
The role of bold action in anchoring your next identity
Why the messy middle is where so many women quit
How action creates clarity, especially when you’ve been overthinking
The power of choosing a theme song to embody your next self
This episode is a beautiful reminder that when the old structure falls apart, you don’t have to rush to put the same pieces back in the same places. You get to ask who you’re becoming now.
Links Mentioned:
- Connect With Sass on Instagram
- Sass's Website
- Get Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment
What if discipline isn’t the problem, but the missing elements underneath it are?
In this episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, Kayla explores the two essential elements that keep discipline, body transformation, and desire from slipping into diet culture: earth and water.
After a behind-the-scenes experience using AI to edit her upcoming book, Kayla opens a spicy and nuanced conversation about the gendered double standard around women, weight loss, ambition, and body transformation. Why does a man’s transformation story often get celebrated as discipline and self-improvement, while a woman’s similar desire gets flagged as risky, shame-based, or anti-feminist?
From there, Kayla breaks down the difference between diet culture-coded discipline and a love-powered, self-sourced transformation journey. Through the elemental framework of earth, water, fire, air, and ether, she explains why earth safety and body cooperation must come before fire, and why water’s unconditional self-love is what keeps ambition from becoming self-attack.
This episode is for the high-performing woman who wants food freedom, self-love, body trust, and desire without being shoved into a courtroom every time she admits she wants change.
Because your worth is not up for debate.
Your body is not the enemy.
And your fire does not need to be dimmed. It needs to be aimed.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Episode 226. Weight Loss Isn't Anti-Feminist. Shame Is.
In this deeply personal episode of The Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla opens up a nuanced conversation about visibility, body confidence, food freedom, and the difference between a true visibility block and what she calls a medium mismatch.
If you’ve been told you simply need to “show up more,” “be more visible,” or “get over your visibility blocks,” but certain platforms leave you feeling drained, dysregulated, angry, self-conscious, or disconnected from your body, this episode is for you.
Kayla explores why some forms of visibility feel liberating for one woman and deeply performative or unsafe for another, especially for women with histories of body pressure, appearance-based evaluation, personal training, coaching, performance industries, sex work-adjacent environments, modeling, auditioning, or any situation where the body became a business card.
She also shares how forcing misaligned visibility can impact binge eating, emotional eating, cravings, burnout, creativity, and self-trust, and why your body might not be blocking you from success. It might be giving you wisdom.
This episode is an invitation to stop outsourcing your visibility strategy to internet gurus and start choosing mediums that match your nervous system, your message, your creativity, and your actual life.
You’ll learn:
- The difference between a visibility block and a medium mismatch
- Why body confidence might not be the real issue
- How forcing misaligned visibility can activate safety and love wounds
- Why social media can feel especially dysregulating for some women
- How visibility pressure can impact emotional eating and food freedom
- Why sacred practices do not need to become content
- How to choose visibility channels that feel like self-expression instead of self-display
- Why your voice, message, and magic deserve a medium that creates safety, alignment, and peace
Content note: This episode is marked explicit and includes mature language, personal history, and discussion of appearance-based evaluation and body-as-business-card experiences.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Your Body Is Not A Weapon - Kayla MacDonald (Van Egdom)
- Episode 230: Food Is Not Love & The Algorithm Is Not Your Daddy
- Episode 232: Stop Icing The Knee: How Misdiagnosing Wounds Fuels Emotional Eating
What if the reason consistency feels so hard isn’t because you’re lazy, broken, or undisciplined… but because your nervous system is addicted to intensity?
In this episode, we’re talking about boring devotion: the capacity to keep showing up for the simple, mundane, repeated reps that actually create lasting transformation.
If you’re a high-performing creative woman who thrives on breakthroughs, drama, chaos, big emotions, and all-or-nothing momentum, this episode is going to be deep medicine.
We’ll explore why so many women only trust transformation when it feels intense, how chaos keeps you distracted from your purpose, and why boring devotion might be the missing skill that makes food freedom, fitness, business growth, and identity change sustainable.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why your nervous system may need the “exhale” of normalizing your goals
- How boring reps create real identity change over time
- Why dramatic transformation isn’t always the healthiest or most sustainable path
- The five stages of grief that can happen when you stop chasing breakthrough chaos
- Four embodied ways to build boring devotion
- How to pour your intensity into the vision while letting the discipline stay simple
- The mantra: “My discipline can be boring, so my vision can be wild.”
And, of course, we’ll talk about how Food Freedom Fantasy lets you bring magic, story, and a little spice into the boring reps without needing chaos to feel alive.
If you’re ready to stop yo-yoing, rushing, spiraling, or waiting for one more breakthrough to save you, this episode is your invitation into steadier, sexier, more sustainable devotion.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- When Food is Love - Geneen Roth
Is it perfectionism… or is it the woman you’re becoming?
In this episode, we’re continuing the perfectionism conversation with a more nuanced lens. Because yes, perfectionism can absolutely keep high-performing women trapped in cycles of yo-yoing, binge eating, inconsistency, and burnout. But sometimes, the fear of being “too rigid” or “too perfectionistic” can become the very thing that keeps you operating below your capacity.
This episode explores how to tell the difference between shame-based perfectionism and an identity-building standard. You’ll learn why the difference is not always in what you’re doing, but in the why and the how behind it.
We’re talking about:
- The difference between perfectionism and standards for the woman you’re becoming
- Why higher standards do not automatically mean rigidity, punishment, or all-or-nothing thinking
- How fear of perfectionism can sometimes become a loophole for avoiding discomfort
- Why “100% is easier than 99%” may be true for certain habits and personality types
- The difference between raising your ceiling and raising your floor
- Why repair rituals are essential when building new standards
- How to create a clean standard without turning your identity harsh
This is not an episode about proving your worth through discipline. You are already worthy, lovable, and enough.
This is an episode about asking: what standards would actually support the life, body, peace, self-trust, and capacity you desire?
Because maybe it’s not perfectionism.
Maybe it’s just the growing pains of becoming her.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Listen To The Divine Daddies Audio Storybook Guide
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Episode 214: The Secret Key That Unlocks Food Freedom & Your Next Level Self
- Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I’m joined by Katie Laporte for a powerful conversation on authorship, reality creation, gratitude, creativity, embodiment, and reclaiming your role as the author of your own life.
Katie is someone whose insights around creativity, authorship, and creating your own reality deeply inspired me to take a six-month social media break so I could come back to my own creativity, deep work, and inner authority. This conversation is such a perfect fit for this show because we explore what it really means to stop being authored by the outside world and start creating your life from the inside out.
Together, we talk about the difference between awareness and authorship, why your words and agreements shape your reality, how creativity and making things with your hands can become part of healing, and why the body has to come with you when you are shifting into a new identity.
We also explore gratitude as a full-body practice, movement and dance as tools for creative women with high-voltage energy, and the responsibility and freedom of choosing who you become in relationship to your past.
This episode is for the creative woman, writer, entrepreneur, artist, mother, or deep feeler who is ready to reclaim her power, stop outsourcing her reality, and remember that she is the author now.
Connect With Katie On Instagram
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior podcast, Kayla is sharing a spicy and deeply practical reframe on habit streaks, consistency, and food freedom.
After years of tracking habits, building streaks, and personally experiencing both the power and the pressure of long-term consistency, Kayla breaks down the important difference between a traditional habit streak and what she calls a “food freedom streak.”
A traditional habit streak can help you build the identity you desire: writer, creative, musician, entrepreneur, athlete, or consistent human who actually keeps promises to herself.
But a food freedom streak can sometimes become perfectionism in disguise.
If you have ever tried to become the woman who “never binges again,” “never emotionally eats again,” or “never falls off track again,” this episode will help you understand why that approach can actually keep you stuck in the very identity you are trying to outgrow.
Kayla explores four ways food freedom streaks can reinforce old patterns, fuel perfectionism, and make it harder to recover after an off night. She also shares the skill that outperforms rigid consistency every time: repair.
Because for high-performing women, the real transformation is often not learning how to be consistent. It is learning how to come home to yourself quickly after a moment of inconsistency.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The difference between a Jerry Seinfeld-style habit streak and a food freedom streak
- Why food freedom streaks can accidentally keep you attached to an old identity
- How perfectionism sneaks into habit tracking
- Why missing one day does not erase your progress
- The skill that matters more than a perfect streak
- How repair helps you build self-trust, emotional safety, and sustainable momentum
- A powerful compound interest reframe for habits, food freedom, and consistency
- How to start practicing repair after small moments of misalignment instead of waiting for a full-blown spiral
This episode is for the high-performing woman who is tired of treating every off night like proof that she has failed.
You do not need a perfect streak to become free.
You need a way back to yourself.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- EHM Tech Article on Habit Streaks
In this final episode of the seven-part series on the Seven Deadly Sins of High-Performing Women, we’re talking about destination addiction: the belief that happiness, peace, confidence, safety, or worthiness will finally arrive once you hit a specific goal.
Maybe it’s the goal weight. The business milestone. The relationship. The financial number. The future version of you who finally has it all together.
But what happens when you either never quite get there, or you do get there and still don’t feel the way you thought you would?
In this episode, I’m unpacking how destination addiction drives binge eating, burnout, chronic pressure, and self-abandonment, especially for high-performing women who have been praised for chasing, proving, and pushing.
We’ll explore why this pattern is often rooted in younger parts of us trying to escape old pain, why the future destination becomes a permission slip for worthiness, and how to shift from destination addiction into what I’m calling holy obsession.
Not obsession with escaping your life.
Obsession with authorship.
Obsession with becoming.
Obsession with being the woman who can feel the hurt, hold herself through it, and keep going without abandoning herself.
This episode includes personal reflections on weight loss, plateaus, younger parts, Food Freedom Fantasy, Rex and Haven, and the deeper emotional bargains we often make with the universe when pain feels too big to hold.
If you’ve ever thought, “I’ll finally be happy when…” this episode is for you.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Free Assessment Kit
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
In episode six of the Seven Deadly Sins of High-Performing Women series, we’re talking about the sin of Living in the Gap.
Inspired by The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy, this episode explores what happens when you’re constantly measuring yourself against how far you still have to go instead of how far you’ve already come.
For high-performing women, this gap mindset can feel productive. It can even feel noble, humble, or motivating. But underneath the surface, it often creates chronic dissatisfaction, pressure, burnout, emotional eating, binge eating, and those familiar “F it” moments where one imperfect choice turns into a full spiral.
In this episode, we explore the macro and micro versions of living in the gap, how this mindset gets socially rewarded in women, and why positive emotion is actually more powerful for long-term habit change than shame, pressure, or self-criticism.
You’ll also learn the concept of anchored ambition: the ability to want more, pursue your big vision, and move toward your next level while staying rooted in presence, self-worth, celebration, and joy right now.
Inside this conversation, we also explore how the Fire Starter and Sanctuary archetypes work together inside Food Freedom Fantasy to help you hold both ambition and embodiment, future vision and present-moment safety.
This episode ends with a simple embodied activation to help you connect with your North Star identity and take one aligned action as her for seven days in a row.
Because your ambition is not the problem.
The fire is not the problem.
The wanting is not the problem.
The healing is learning how to stop abandoning yourself on the way there.
Links Mentioned:
- The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Get Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment
What if your cravings, snack runs, or “I just need something” moments aren’t a lack of discipline… but a part of you trying to protect your joy?
In this fifth episode of the Seven Deadly Sins of the High-Performing Woman series, we’re diving into the sin of Operating From Pressure through a creative, personal case study in parts work gone wild.
You’ll meet Girl Boss, the inner pusher part who believes safety, love, and success come from doing more, achieving more, and never slowing down. You’ll also meet Unicorn Thunder, the inner firefighter who often shows up through food, cravings, play, rebellion, and pleasure-seeking when joy has been ignored for too long.
This episode explores why pressure may create temporary movement, but devotion creates lasting momentum. We’ll look at how pusher parts are often formed in childhood, why softness and pleasure can feel threatening to high-capacity women, and how binge eating or emotional eating may be a sign that your system is trying to reclaim relief, rest, and joy in the only way it knows how.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn how to move from pressure to devotion by giving your mind a break, reconnecting with your body, infusing play into your goals, and creating a healthier relationship with the parts of you that want food, comfort, rest, and pleasure.
This is the kind of inner child work designed for creative, high-performing women who don’t necessarily want to draw an inner garden, but would absolutely turn their journal entries into healing fan fiction.
Because sometimes the part of you ordering Pizza Hut at night isn’t the villain.
She might just be the getaway driver trying to rescue your joy.
Links Mentioned:
- Episode 246: The High-Performing Woman's Upper Limit Pattern Nobody Talks About
- Episode 248: Pressure ≠ Devotion: The Food Freedom Breakthrough High-Performing Women Need
- Episode 190: The Drama Triangle of Binge Eating (And Why You’re Not Broken)
- Embracing Our Selves by Hal Stone and Sidra Stone
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Get Your Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
In this episode of the Seven Deadly Sins of High-Performing Women series, we’re talking about outsourcing your worth: the endless pursuit of validation from other people, vanity metrics, the scale, social media numbers, podcast downloads, income, approval, or anything outside of yourself.
For high-performing women, this pattern gets rewarded constantly. You’re praised for performing, achieving, staying obedient, being “good,” chasing the numbers, and making yourself acceptable. But when your worth lives outside of you, you put your sense of self in the hands of something you can never fully control.
And that is a recipe for burnout, emotional eating, self-sabotage, and deep disconnection.
In this conversation, we explore why outsourcing worth creates so much inner pressure, how it contributes to binge eating and burnout, and why self-sourced worth is one of the most powerful shifts you can make.
We also talk about Steve Magness’ work on external regulation and performance, the trap of vanity metrics, the difference between feedback and worshipping the numbers, and one of the most powerful pieces of advice I’ve ever received:
Let it bless you first.
Whether it’s your health journey, your creative work, your podcast, your business, your body goals, or your personal growth, this episode is an invitation to stop proving your worth and start creating from self-trust, beauty, devotion, play, and inner authority.
You’ll also hear how Haven and Rex, my inner Sanctuary and Fire Starter archetypes, helped me move through a recent moment of podcast metric spiral and come back to my own authorship.
Because your worth is not up for debate.
And self-trust is the KPI that matters most.
Links Mentioned:
- Embodied Revolution Membership
- Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
- Episode 186: What If You’re Already Worthy? Escaping the Validation Trap & Writing Your Own Ticket
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
In this powerful installment of the Seven Deadly Sins of the High-Performing Woman series, we’re talking about performing: the exhausting habit of curating yourself for approval, likability, competence, relatability, or applause.
Kayla explores what performing looks like in real life, from only showing the highlight reel, to hiding in struggle, to downplaying your brilliance so other people stay comfortable. She also shares the deeper reason she ended her 100 Days to Slay challenge on day 78, and why stepping back from social media became part of a much bigger healing.
Inside this episode, we explore how performing fuels burnout, binge eating, emotional suppression, and disconnection from self, and what it looks like to shift into the higher expression of this pattern: performing for an audience of one.
Or, if you’re in the Food Freedom Fantasy universe... an audience of three.
This episode is for the woman who is tired of living for the algorithm, other people’s comfort, or moving goalposts of approval, and ready to build a life, body, and business rooted in self-respect, internal validation, and sacred self-witnessing.
In this episode, we cover:
- What performing looks like for high-performing women
- Why social media can intensify performance and self-abandonment
- How performative likability disconnects you from self-respect
- The link between performing, chronic stress, emotional eating, and burnout
- Why burnout is often more about lack of control than hard work
- The shift from external validation to internal validation
- What it means to perform for an audience of one
- How to become your own source of applause
- A playful reframe through Rex and Haven on being truly witnessed
Links Mentioned:
- Get Your Free Gift - Know Your Hungers Assessment Guide
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Get The Divine Daddies Audio Storybook Guide
- Rage Becomes Her - Soraya Chemaly
High-performing women are often rewarded for rushing.
For moving faster.
For doing more.
For squeezing one more task into the day.
For chasing the result as quickly as possible.
But what if rushing is not a productivity hack?
What if it is one of the hidden patterns driving binge eating, burnout, shutdown, and nervous system dysregulation?
In part two of this seven-part series, Kayla explores the sin of rushing through a nervous system lens. She breaks down what rushing looks like in shadow form, why so many ambitious women normalize it, and how living in chronic urgency can push the body toward burnout, freeze, and disconnection from self.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn the difference between fight-style rushing and flight-style rushing, why speed can become so seductive, and how to shift into a healthier form of momentum that supports your goals without frying your system.
Kayla also introduces the higher expression of rushing: constraint as catalyst. Instead of frantic urgency, this is intentional intensity. Self-chosen pace. Clean focus. Flow-state effort. The kind of speed that sharpens you instead of scattering you.
You’ll also hear a grounding reflection from Haven on what it means to become trustworthy with your own pace, plus embodied activations to help you work with this pattern in real life.
If you’ve ever felt like your life is always moving too fast, your body never fully exhales, or your binges tend to come after periods of pressure and overdrive, this episode will hit home.
Links Mentioned:
- Get Your Free Gift - Know Your Hungers Assessment Guide
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Get The Divine Daddies Audio Storybook Guide
What happens when the version of spirituality you were handed was never built to hold the fullness of who you are?
In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Wren Morrow, an outdoor boudoir and erotic adventure photographer who creates deeply embodied, nature-based experiences for women and couples. We talk about the healing power of being witnessed, the way shame gets lodged in women’s bodies, and how reclaiming visibility can become a spiritual act.
We also go deep into religion, purity culture, sexual shame, and the journey of creating a spiritual path that actually feels true. Wren shares her story of growing up in the Bible Belt, being deeply immersed in church culture, and eventually finding her way back to a more alive, embodied, self-led relationship with the sacred.
This episode is not about telling you what to believe. It’s about giving you permission to listen to yourself more deeply, question what no longer fits, and remember that your body, your intuition, and your direct experience matter.
In this episode, we explore:
- Wren’s work as an outdoor boudoir and erotic adventure photographer
- Why embodied photography can become a portal back to freedom
- The shame women carry around their bodies, sensuality, and visibility
- Purity culture, religion, and the suppression of female power
- Spiritual deconstruction and rebuilding a path that is truly your own
- Why embodied action matters more than endlessly waiting for a perfect sign
- A simple grounding practice for coming back to yourself
Links Mentioned:
- Wren Morrow's Website
- Connect With Wren On Instagram
- Grab Your Free Gift (Know Your Hungers Assessment)
Welcome back to Embodied Writing Warrior for the start of a fiery new series: The Seven Deadly Sins of the High-Performing Woman.
In this first episode, we’re tackling one of the most culturally rewarded and personally exhausting patterns of all: overworking.
If you’re the kind of woman who fills every blank space on her calendar, pushes through exhaustion, and confuses pressure with devotion, this one is going to hit. We’re unpacking why overworking gets praised in work, wellness, and everyday life, how it quietly fuels binge eating, emotional eating, and burnout, and what it looks like to alchemize this pattern into something far more sustainable: devoted consistency.
Inside this episode, I explore:
- the shadow side of overworking and why high-performing women are often rewarded for it
- how overworking creates the perfect conditions for cravings, burnout, and rebound eating
- the difference between punishing effort and identity-led devotion
- why rest is not weakness, but part of the rhythm of real power
- how to begin building consistency that actually supports your nervous system, energy, and long-term goals
You’ll also hear from Haven, who offers a powerful reminder that slowing down is not failure, it’s how your power gathers.
This episode is also extra special because it lands on the one-year anniversary of the Divine Daddies. Rex and Haven are joining me throughout this series as we turn each so-called sin into embodied power.
Links Mentioned:
- Learn more about Food Freedom Fantasy
- Explore the Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
- Grab your free Know Your Hungers audio care package
- Episode 150: The 7 Types Of Rest Required To Slay & Thrive
- The Power of the Downstate by Sarah Mednick
What if one of the biggest things keeping high-performing women stuck in binge eating, burnout, self-sabotage, and chronic inconsistency is not laziness, lack of discipline, or low standards... but pressure?
In this episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, Kayla breaks down the life-changing distinction between pressure and devotion and why confusing the two can quietly sabotage your relationship with food, your body, your business, and your peace.
You’ll learn why pressure is not the badge of honor our culture makes it out to be, how it creates chronic stress and self-betrayal, and why devotion is the far more powerful path to lasting change. Kayla also shares three practical ways to stop operating from pressure, normalize your manifestations, and begin untangling your self-worth from productivity.
This is the episode for the woman who knows how to chase big goals... but is ready to actually feel safe, present, and happy inside the life she’s creating.
In this episode, we cover:
- The difference between pressure and devotion
- Why pressure often fuels binge eating, emotional eating, and burnout
- How high-performing women accidentally turn blessings into burdens
- The danger of putting “salvation energy” onto your goals
- Why normalizing your manifestations creates more peace and sustainability
- How to untangle self-worth from achievement and output
- A creative, embodied approach to healing overactive protector parts
Links Mentioned:
- Food Freedom Fantasy Method
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
- Get Your Free Gift (Know Your Hungers Mini-Course)
- Episode 246: The High-Peforming Woman's Upper Limit Pattern Nobody Talks About
- Getting To Neutral - Trevor Moawad
- Loving What Is - Byron Katie
What if your struggle with food was never about laziness, lack of discipline, or weak willpower?
In this episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, I’m joined by Christie Sousa for a powerful conversation about the link between ADHD, binge eating, food fixation, dopamine-seeking, and nervous system regulation. Christie shares her personal story of being diagnosed with ADHD twice, how food sensitivities and restrictive dieting shaped her relationship with food from a young age, and why so many neurodivergent women end up blaming themselves for patterns that make complete sense through the lens of brain wiring.
We talk about executive dysfunction, demand avoidance, all-or-nothing thinking, food hyperfixation, emotional regulation, and why traditional wellness advice often misses the mark for ADHD brains. Christie also shares practical tools that can help, including shorter experimentation windows, simplifying decisions, removing trigger foods, using accountability, and moving your body daily to support dopamine and emotional balance.
If you’ve ever felt like food had a charge around it, like you were locked in a cycle of obsession, shame, and “starting over,” this episode will help you understand your patterns with more compassion and a whole lot less self-blame.
In this episode, we cover:
- The connection between ADHD and binge eating
- Why food struggles are often not a discipline problem
- Executive dysfunction, demand avoidance, and diet resistance
- Food fixation, hyperfocus, and dopamine-seeking
- Why moderation doesn’t work for everyone
- The difference between emotional eating, food attachment, and food obsession
- How to make food choices feel simpler and safer
- Why movement can be a powerful tool for regulating ADHD brains
Links Mentioned:
- Connect with Christie Sausa on Medium
- Check out Christie’s “Not Your Average Athlete” on Substack
- Explore Christie’s ADHD Tarot on Substack
- Get Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment
What if binge eating isn’t the sabotage… but the aftermath?
In this episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, I’m unpacking a sneaky upper limit pattern that high-performing women rarely recognize for what it is. We’re talking about what happens when life gets better, you achieve the thing, and instead of letting yourself enjoy it, your system starts generating pressure.
Pressure to keep the body.
Pressure to prove you deserve the breakthrough.
Pressure to make the success “worth it.”
Pressure to do something huge with what you’ve just created.
And when that pressure builds? It often spills into burnout, emotional eating, binge eating, restlessness, and self-sabotage.
This episode is inspired in part by The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, but we’re taking the conversation deeper into the reality of high-performing women, food struggles, and the hidden emotional mechanics behind why it can feel easier to achieve the thing than to peacefully sustain it.
Inside this episode, I cover:
- What the upper limit problem actually is
- Why binge eating is often not the first sabotage, but the release valve
- How high-performing women create pressure after success
- The difference between achieving a breakthrough and feeling safe enough to keep it
- Why body transformations can become especially loaded
- The hidden link between self-sabotage and the “I’m not loved” wound
- A powerful journaling practice to help you spot this pattern in your own life
If you’ve ever gotten the thing you wanted, only to feel restless, panicked, pressured, or pulled back into old habits right after, this episode is going to hit.
And this is just Part 1. Part 2 is coming next week.
Links Mentioned:
- Know Your Hungers (Free Gift)
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
What if social marketing could be more than a business model? What if it could be a path to sovereignty?
In this episode, I’m joined by Candace, a powerful leader with 37 years of entrepreneurial experience in an industry that is often misunderstood, judged, and yes, sometimes deeply challenging. Together, we unpack the deeper truth behind social marketing, network marketing, women’s leadership, and what it really takes to build something sustainable in a space that can bring up sister wounds, insecurity, fear, and massive personal growth.
Candace shares her incredible story, from growing up on a farm and being inspired by strong women in living rooms, to building multiple businesses, pivoting across industries, leaving behind the 9-to-5, earning six figures, and helping other women step into greater possibility.
Inside this conversation, we talk about:
- why social marketing can become a path to sovereignty
- the inner work required to succeed in entrepreneurship
- resilience, work ethic, and doing things before you feel confident
- sister wounds, competition, and women learning to support women
- the importance of discernment, due diligence, and choosing the right mentor
- how your courage impacts not just you, but your children and the people watching you
This is a grounded, nuanced, and refreshingly honest conversation about women, freedom, leadership, and the kind of growth that changes you from the inside out.
Connect With Candace
Get Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment
What if one of the biggest things standing between you and food freedom every month isn’t your hormones... but the story you’ve been telling about them?
In this fiery Aries season episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I’m sharing the cycle syncing tip that helped me create more consistency, more self-trust, and more food freedom across all 28 days of my cycle.
We’re talking about:
- why blanket cycle syncing advice doesn’t always work for every woman
- the sneaky way PMS can become a permission slip for broken promises
- how to honor your body without rehearsing helplessness
- the difference between actual support and self-sabotage
- how Rex and Haven helped me build a new relationship with my luteal phase
This episode is not about forcing your way through your cycle or pretending your body doesn’t need different things at different times. It’s about responding to your fluctuations from a place of self-respect, integrity, and embodied support.
If you’ve ever felt like you lose momentum every month right before your period, this one is for you.
Links Mentioned:
- Know Your Hungers Assessment (Free Gift)
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
What happens when parts work becomes not just healing, but alive?
In this powerful conversation, Kayla sits down with Caner to explore the deep parallels between Food Freedom Fantasy, spicy parts work, archetypal healing, and his own work around inner family practice, self-archeology, and integrating the inner feminine.
If you’ve been listening for a while, you know one of the most powerful parts of Kayla’s Food Freedom Fantasy modality has been spicy parts work with masculine archetypes. It has helped her heal her relationship with food more than anything else. And if you’re curious about that work, you can listen to the full audio storybook at embodiedwritingwarrior.com/divinedaddies.
In this episode, Kayla shares how delighted she was to discover Caner on Substack and find so many parallels between his work and her own, but from the opposite direction: a man integrating his anima, or inner feminine, to become more whole, relational, expressive, and alive.
Together, they explore:
- what the anima and animus actually are
- Jung’s concept of individuation and the journey toward wholeness
- why traditional parts work can feel healing but clinical
- how archetypal work can become a practical, embodied, everyday experience
- the role of AI visualization in supporting inner archetype work
- how this kind of relational self-work can reduce inner conflict, depression, and self-abandonment
- why this work can enhance real relationships rather than replace them
- how embodying different inner parts can transform movement, expression, discipline, boundaries, and self-love
This episode is especially for you if you’ve ever felt like you were fighting yourself, stuck in “me vs. me,” or craving a more creative, loving, embodied way to heal.
It’s mystical. It’s practical. It’s relational. And it opens up a radically beautiful vision of what it means to become whole.
Links Mentioned:
- Read Caner’s Publication: Meet Your Inner Family
- Follow Caner On Instagram
- Get Your Free Gift From Kayla (Know Your Hungers: The Complete Assessment Kit)
What if you were never meant to heal like an onion?
In this episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, we dismantle the old “onion theory” of growth and reclaim a far more powerful framework: you are not a fragile bundle of layers to peel back until you’re finally fixed... you are a force of nature.
Kayla explores the difference between the outdated idea of linear healing and the truth of the upward spiral. Using the metaphor of a tornado, she shows how setbacks, relapses, and recurring struggles are not proof that you’re broken or back at square one. They may actually be evidence that you are returning to the same lesson with more wisdom, more mastery, and more power.
Inside this episode, Kayla shares:
- Why the onion theory creates shame, frustration, and false expectations
- How the upward spiral reframes setbacks as amplification, not failure
- Why healing is cyclical, natural, and deeply non-linear
- A personal case study on weight regain, visibility, nervous system regulation, and business alignment
- How “messy middle” visibility became part of her healing
- Why your recurring struggle may be deepening your mastery, not disqualifying you
If you’ve been asking, Why am I here again? I thought I was past this, this episode will give you a radically more compassionate and empowering lens.
You are not an onion.
You are a force of nature.
Links Mentioned: Free Gift: Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit* * Divine Daddies Audio Storybook * Referenced Episode 240: The Hidden Reason High-Performing Women Struggle With Food Freedom * Referenced Episode 137: Why I’m Grateful for the Weight I Gained Back * Quantum Evolution Academy * Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy * Instagram / 100 Days to Slay Challenge
What if midlife wasn’t a decline, but a threshold into deeper power, wisdom, and embodiment?
In this conversation, I’m joined by holistic wellness coach and midlife alchemist Carla, who supports women 40+ through perimenopause and menopause with a powerful framework she calls Sacred Metabolism.
We talk about the two sides of metabolism that rarely get discussed together: physical metabolism and energetic metabolism. Carla shares why so many women feel exhausted, dysregulated, foggy, and disconnected in midlife, and why the answer is not more pressure, perfectionism, or hustle.
Inside this episode, we explore:
- what sacred metabolism actually means
- why modern life is so hard on women’s nervous systems
- how to support your body in simple, realistic ways
- a powerful 2 to 5 minute spinal practice to regulate the nervous system
- the surprising connection between blood sugar instability, trauma responses, and emotional triggers
- why celebration is one of the most underrated healing tools available
This episode is for the woman who wants to feel more grounded, more energized, and more at home in her body, especially during midlife and hormonal transition.
If you’ve been craving a more feminine, body-led, and compassionate approach to wellness, this conversation is going to land deeply.
Links Mentioned:
- Connect With Carla & Get Your Free Vibrancy Reset Guide
- Get Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Guide
What if the biggest thing blocking food freedom isn’t your diet, your willpower, or your workout plan… but your need for control?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I’m unpacking what might be the #1 unexpected thing holding high-performing women back from deep health, peaceful eating, and true food freedom: control.
Not healthy self-leadership or discipline. I’m talking about the bracing, overthinking, micromanaging, hyper-responsibility, and chronic vigilance that keep your nervous system stuck in stress and your body feeling anything but safe.
Inside this episode, I cover:
- key signs control may be driving your health and food struggles
- why chronic overcontrol can impact digestion, metabolism, energy, and body composition
- how control fuels emotional eating, overeating, and binge patterns
- Martha Beck’s powerful predator/prey metaphor from The Four Day Win
- Steven Kotler’s idea of “lateralizing” for hard-charging women
- 3 healing narratives to help you release force and build a more peaceful relationship with food, your body, and uncertainty
- my own story of how binge eating, weight plateaus, and body frustration helped me uncover a deeper truth about my wiring, my work, and the life I’m actually meant to build
If you’re a high-performing woman who feels like you’re doing everything “right” but still struggling with food, your body, or your energy, this episode is for you.
Links Mentioned
- Get Your Free Know Your Hungers Assessment Kit
- Episode 139: How To Release Control To Call In More Joy, Progress, & Abundance
- The Four Day Win by Martha Beck
- The Energy Codes by Sue Morton
What if healing didn’t have to be a two-hour deep dive into every detail of your past?
In this episode, I’m joined by Nigel, a coach who helps people get unstuck by aligning conscious awareness, subconscious beliefs, and the energy stored in the body. We talk about why simplicity is often the most powerful path to transformation, how emotional “stuckness” can live beneath patterns like food struggles, self-sabotage, and overwhelm, and why the goal of healing isn’t to remove difficulty, but to choose better challenges.
Nigel shares two practical embodied tools you can use right now:
- The “Pretzel Position” (cross ankles + cross wrists) to calm your nervous system and help your brain hemispheres communicate.
- A simple identity-shifting practice that reminds you: you are not your thoughts, you are the awareness behind them.
If you’re in a season of growth, identity expansion, or you’re noticing old patterns surfacing as you level up, this conversation will meet you with grounded hope, real tools, and a refreshing reframe.
Connect with Nigel: TransformationalAlchemy.com.au
Welcome back to the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast. We’re getting spicy today because Fire Horse season is officially here (as of Feb 17), and if the last stretch of Snake Year felt like a full-body identity shed… you’re not alone.
In this episode, I’m sharing 4 healing narratives to help you harness Fire Horse energy in a way that creates red-hot momentum and follow-through… instead of burnout, chaos, and “why am I doing 47 things but moving nowhere?”
We’ll break down:
- The difference between healthy, productive fire and messy, destructive fire
- Why fire that depends on external validation isn’t fire, it’s performance
- How to stop confusing chaos with progress (especially when you’re a high-performing woman)
- Why focus is a skill (and how to build it in an attention economy designed to steal it)
- The mic-drop reframe: your fire doesn’t need to be dimmed, it needs to be aimed
Even if you don’t follow astrology or Chinese New Year themes and you’re like, “Snakes? Horses? Are we on a farm?” 🐍🐴 You’ll still walk away with practical, embodied tools to channel your intensity into a life you’re proud to live.
Embodied Activation: Choose ONE of the four narratives and commit to 1–2 practices to begin embodying it this week.
Links Mentioned:
- Grab Your Free Gift - Know Your Hungers: The Complete Assessment Kit
- Learn More About Food Freedom Fantasy
- Trevor Moawad Book (Negativity Diet / Chapter 5)
- Stephen Forrest, The Inner Sky
What if the words you speak every day are quietly shaping your nervous system, your emotions, and your entire identity?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla sits down with Lisa Manzo, a trauma-informed mindset coach and emotional intelligence expert, for a grounded, illuminating conversation about the power of language, emotional regulation, and inner child healing.
Lisa shares how discovering NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) transformed her life after years of depression, resentment, and emotional burnout, and why I am statements are some of the most powerful tools we have for rewiring the subconscious mind.
Together, Kayla and Lisa explore:
- Why your subconscious mind is always listening
- How language can keep you stuck or set you free
- The role of emotional intelligence in healing trauma
- Why pausing instead of reacting changes everything
- How inner child healing impacts adult relationships
- The surprising freedom that comes from kindness and humor toward yourself
This episode is especially powerful for high-performing women who feel emotionally intelligent in theory but still struggle with reactivity, self-criticism, or feeling unsafe in their bodies.
If you’ve ever felt like you know better but still react the same way… this conversation opens a new door.
Links Mentioned:
- Lisa Manzo Website
- Lisa Manzo Personal Site
- Connect with Lisa on Facebook (public profile)
- Food Freedom Fantasy Enrolment Page
Want to make 2026 your worst year ever? Cool. I’ve got a six-step blueprint for staying stuck and hating your life.
Inspired by a Leila Hormozi episode on “how to have your worst year,” I riffed on the idea and realized… I’ve been accidentally doing a bunch of these over the last 6–8 weeks. So in today’s solo episode, I’m laying out six sneaky, high-performer patterns that quietly drain your energy, dilute your momentum, and keep you spinning in the same loops (even when you’re successful everywhere else).
We’re talking about:
- collecting strategies like Pokémon cards while ignoring the energetic root
- forcing yourself into other people’s “5-step plans”
- being wildly promiscuous with your attention (yes I said it 😅)
- using external validation as emotional blood sugar
- treating yourself like a fragile flower instead of building resilience through action
- and the big one: confusing growth discomfort with misalignment suffering
This episode is equal parts playful roast and loving reality check, especially for high-performing creatives and growth-oriented women who are ready to stop outsourcing their power and start building momentum that actually fits their nervous system.
And if you recognize yourself in 4 or more of these patterns, you might want to join us for the next round of Food Freedom Fantasy: deep health + consistency that feels like foreplay, without dieting or giving your power away to someone else’s formula.
Next week: the antidote episode (fiery + tactical) to help you do the rest of 2026 radically differently.
Links Mentioned:
- Food Freedom Fantasy: Learn More & Join The Next Live Round
- Episode 230: Food Is Not Love & The Algorithm Is Not Your Daddy
- Leila Hormozi's Podcast Episode
What if your struggles with food, energy, confidence, and even pleasure weren’t about discipline… but about disconnection from your body?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I’m joined by somatic sexuality and relationship coach Melanie Bonk (yes, that’s really her name 😏), where we explore the powerful link between pleasure, nervous system safety, embodiment, and vitality.
We dive into:
✨ Why pleasure is your birthright (and why society trained you out of it)
✨ How breathwork and somatic awareness unlock deeper presence and sensation
✨ The connection between body safety, self-trust, food patterns, and confidence
✨ Why pressure kills pleasure (in the bedroom AND in life)
✨ Simple tools to get out of your head and back into your body
This conversation is a reminder that when women reconnect to their bodies, everything changes, including how they nourish themselves, lead their lives, and experience joy.
If you’ve ever felt disconnected, numb, stuck in your head, or caught in cycles with food or self-sabotage, this episode is your invitation back home to your body.
Links Mentioned:
- Melanie’s Instagram
- Melanie’s Website
- Food Freedom Fantasy Enrollment Page
In this special episode, I’m taking you inside Lesson 1.3 of Food Freedom Fantasy.
You’ll hear the full framework behind Narrative Alchemy — a five-element, identity-based healing process designed to address the five core wounds that silently drive emotional eating, perfectionism, burnout, and inconsistency in high-achieving women.
If you’ve ever wondered:
- Why you can excel in business, relationships, and growth… but still struggle with food
- Why rigid accountability challenges sometimes make things worse
- Why “just try harder” never seems to solve the deeper patterns
- Why you spiral after one “off” meal
- Why healing feels endless but consistency still slips
This episode is for you.
Inside, I break down:
- The 5 Core Wounds:
- I am not safe (Earth)
- I am not loved (Water)
- I am powerless (Fire)
- I have to be perfect (Air)
- I can’t trust (Ether)
- How each wound contributes to binge eating and self-sabotage
- Why misdiagnosing your wound keeps you stuck
- How Dance Alchemy heals these patterns somatically
- Why identity transformation must replace food obsession
This is not about willpower.
It’s not about discipline.
It’s not about finding the perfect plan.
It’s about healing the root patterns that made food your regulation strategy in the first place.
If you’re ready to move from performance-based consistency to identity-based embodiment… press play.
Links Mentioned* Food Freedom Fantasy Enrollment Page * Patrick Dominguez – Inner Coach * Brooke Yantzi – Dance Alchemy * Podcast Episode: Stop Icing the Knee (Misdiagnosed Wounds)
What if your birth chart could show you how to care for your body, not just who you are?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla sits down with alchemical herbalist, medical astrologer, and ecstatic dance DJ Diggory to explore the intersection of True Sidereal astrology, plant medicine, embodiment, and vitality.
Diggory shares why he transitioned from Western (tropical) astrology to True Sidereal, how this shift radically increased the accuracy of medical astrology readings, and how birth charts can guide everything from self-care practices to creativity, movement, sensuality, and nourishment.
Together, they explore:
- Why True Sidereal charts often feel like “coming home”
- How medical astrology can reveal root causes beneath symptoms
- The role of joy, creativity, and expression in physical health
- How astrology and herbalism work together for hyper-specific healing
- Why dance, music, and pleasure are underrated medicine
- How your Moon sign can guide embodied self-care practices
This episode is an invitation to move beyond rigid health rules and into personalized, pleasure-led vitality.
✨ Bonus: If you join the March round of Food Freedom Fantasy and choose the pay-in-full option, you’ll receive a True Sidereal birth chart reading to support your embodied health and consistency journey.
Links Mentioned:
- Food Freedom Fantasy (March Round)
- Diggory’s Website: soulguidemedicines.com
- Diggory’s Email: ask@soulguidemedicines.com
What if the reason your tools “aren’t working” anymore… isn’t because you’re broken—but because you’re treating the wrong wound?
In this deeply personal solo episode, Kayla explores one of the most common and painful reasons emotional eating, burnout, and self-sabotage can persist even after years of mindset work, nervous system regulation, and healing practices: misdiagnosis.
Using the metaphor of icing the knee when the shoulder is dislocated, this episode unpacks how safety tools can actually increase emotional eating when the core wound isn’t about danger—but about love, belonging, power, trust, or acceptance.
You’ll hear:
- Why high-performing, Type A women often get stuck after doing “all the right work”
- How safety wounds and love/attachment wounds feel different in the body
- Why calming yourself down can make things worse when what you actually need is to be met
- How emotional eating becomes a stand-in for unmet love and care
- What changes when you stop trying to earn love—from yourself, from others, or from an algorithm
Kayla also shares vulnerably about social media, medium mismatch, attachment wounds, and how putting conditions on love—internally and externally—quietly erodes self-trust.
If you’ve ever thought:
- “I feel calmer, but I’m still sad”
- “I’ve done so much healing… why do I still ache?”
- “Food is the only thing that gives relief right now”
This episode will help you stop icing the knee—and finally tend to the wound that’s actually asking for care.
Links Mentioned
- Previous Episode: Food Is Not Love & The Algorithm Is Not Your Daddy
- Free Workbook & Assessments: https://embodiedwritingwarrior.com/gift
- Food Freedom Fantasy (Starting March 2026)
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook: https://embodiedwritingwarrior.com/divinedaddies
- Book a ReWrite Me Call
- Instagram: @embodiedwritingwarrior
What happens when fantasy, romance, and trauma collide?
You get something raw, powerful, and deeply human. You get traumantasy—a genre that author Lily from Mother of Stories stumbled into… and then fell in love with.
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, we dive into the world of traumantasy and what makes it so unique. Lily shares how her original intention to write high fantasy was gently overtaken by a deeper calling: to write stories about trauma, relationships, identity, and healing. What emerged was a genre that offers more than escape—it offers reclamation.
We talk about:
- Why trauma-centered fiction can be a form of therapy—for both writer and reader
- The importance of diverse representation in fantasy and romance
- The healing power of community, especially when readers recognize themselves in each other
- Writing through the lens of Internal Family Systems and parts work
- Why intention and execution matter when writing outside your lived identity
- And how embracing your nonlinear, neurodivergent process can still create magic
Lily's current projects include a novel titled Hearts Change My Scars, a monster erotica novelette, and ongoing work on her Substack newsletter Mother of Stories. Her writing is filled with emotionally complex characters, moral nuance, and the kind of catharsis we don’t always get in real life.
Whether you're a fellow writer or a devoted reader of darker romance and trauma-informed fantasy, this conversation will leave you feeling seen—and maybe even a little more whole.
Links Mentioned:
- Lily On Substack
- Lily On Instagram
What if food isn’t love… and the algorithm isn’t your daddy?
In today’s deeply personal episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I unpack the surprising connection between emotional eating, anxious attachment, and our relationship with social media. This conversation goes beyond “mindset” or “willpower” and into the deeper patterns that shape consistency, self-worth, creativity, and belonging.
I share how my own struggles with food resurfaced during a season of hyper-focusing on social media growth—and why the algorithm functions a lot like an emotionally unavailable attachment figure. Hot-and-cold reinforcement. Random validation. The endless loop of “maybe this time I’ll be chosen.”
We explore the concept of medium mismatch—why some environments, platforms, or practices quietly dysregulate us, even when we’re “doing everything right.” And how choosing the right medium (in business, health, and relationships) can restore consistency, creativity, and peace without forcing or self-abandonment.
This episode is especially for you if:
- Loneliness or inconsistency has been a trigger for emotional eating
- You feel drained or performative on social media
- You’ve struggled with anxious attachment patterns in love or business
- You crave depth, safety, and sustainability—not hustle or shock-value marketing
I also share practical boundaries I’m implementing around social media, how my eating stabilized almost immediately after this realization, and an embodied activation to help you audit the environments shaping your life.
Links Mentioned:
- Free Workbook: Hungry For Safety: A Divine Daddies Guide to Emotional Freedom
- Workshop: Emotional Eating to Emotional Freedom (Live + Replay Available)
- Book Recommendation: The Content Exit by Sophie Wilson
- Podcast Episode 130: Does Running Cause Weight Gain? All Things Cardio, Cortisol, & Choosing An Aligned Form of Exercise
- Substack Post: Biology Does Not Lie - Borrowed Animals by The Biological Imagination
So many aspiring writers believe they need to write every day, hustle through the draft, or follow rigid rules to finish a book. But what if the real magic lies in slowing down and tuning in?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, I’m joined by Charlotte from Her Narrative—developmental editor, book coach, and author of Write With Intention. Charlotte blends story strategy with deep compassion to help writers approach the creative process as a soul-led journey, not a sprint.
We talk about:
- Why mindfulness is the missing ingredient in so many writing methods
- How to build a sustainable rhythm without writing every day
- What to do when self-doubt, procrastination, or burnout show up
- How to reconnect with your why and your readers’ hearts
- Why getting your messy first draft done is the only goal that matters at first
Charlotte’s perspective is a refreshing reminder that writing can be both powerful and gentle. It doesn’t need to be a grind—it can be a space for healing, clarity, and transformation.
Links Mentioned:
- Her Narrative Website
- Write With Intention Book
- Her Narrative on YouTube
- Charlotte on Instagram
- Charlotte on TikTok
- Join the Writing Collective
What if your emotional eating was never about the food?
In this deeply personal episode, I walk you through 8 red flags that show your food struggles may actually be rooted in nervous system dysregulation and a lack of emotional safety — not discipline, not motivation, and definitely not willpower. Whether it’s grief, big life transitions, perfectionism, or even joyful expansion… if you’ve noticed your patterns resurface in key moments, you are not broken.
You’ll also hear powerful reflections from my inner archetypes, Rex and Haven — bringing both 🔥 tough love and 💙 tender safety to the parts of you that need it most. Plus insights from Gabor Maté’s work on early emotional imprinting and trauma.
This episode is for high-performing women who are ready to feel safe in their bodies again and transform their food journey without shame.
If it activated something in you… come join me inside the upcoming Emotional Eating to Emotional Freedom masterclass.
Links Mentioned:
- Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
- Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Join the Masterclass: Emotional Eating to Emotional Freedom
- Work With Me
If you've ever found yourself buried in vision boards, scripting rituals, and morning affirmations—yet still feeling stuck—this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast is for you. I’m joined by Amy from The Abundance Club, a soul mentor and energetic alchemist, to explore a radically different approach to manifestation.
Amy has spent over 25 years immersed in personal development, starting with Louise Hay and Wayne Dyer at age 16. Since then, she’s created a soul-based empire, guiding women back to their true essence and helping them manifest through alignment—not over-efforting.
Here’s what we explore in this episode:
- Why most manifestation advice is rooted in ego, not truth
- The biggest lie the industry tells us (and what actually works)
- How to know if you’re creating from lack or love
- The nervous system’s role in manifestation
- Why embodiment trumps mindset every time
- Amy’s favorite daily practice for meeting your soul before the world
Amy reminds us that manifestation isn't about becoming someone else—it's about remembering who we already are. And when we remember that we're already whole, already worthy, already enough... the universe mirrors that back in miraculous ways.
Links Mentioned:
- Amy’s Website
- Amy’s Podcast: The Abundance Club
- Amy on Instagram
In a world of polarizing wellness narratives, there’s a sneaky, unspoken double standard at play—and it’s time to name it.
On Episode 226 of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla peels back the layers of shame, feminism, and food freedom in what might be her boldest solo episode yet. This is Part 2 of a series unpacking the myth that you can’t want food freedom, self-love, and weight loss at the same time. Last week, she debunked the first two binaries—this time, she takes on the third: that weight loss and feminism are incompatible.
Her take? Weight loss isn’t anti-feminist. Shame is.
Throughout the episode, Kayla explores:
- Why women feel guilty for wanting physical results
- The double standards between how male and female weight loss stories are received
- Why the body positivity movement, in its extremes, can still uphold patriarchal control
- How shame—not desire—is the true enemy of empowerment
She also shares her own story: how childhood trauma—not dieting—was the root of her binge eating, and how her lighter body today is a byproduct of healing, not punishment.
Kayla reminds us that feminism is about choice. And if a woman wants to lose weight, love herself, and uplift others? That’s her sacred right.
This episode is not a permission slip to conform. It’s a battle cry for sovereignty. Listen in, and get ready to write your own rules.
Links Mentioned:
- Work with Kayla: embodiedwritingwarrior.com
- Free Masterclass: Emotional Eating To Emotional Freedom
In this episode, Kayla is joined by Stephanie Nelson, founder of The Stress Healers and creator of the Somatic Bliss Method. Together, they unpack what it really means to support the nervous system—not just regulate it.
Stephanie shares her powerful four-pillar framework (Recognize, Resource, Release, and Resilience), explains why many common practices like breathwork and mindset tools don’t always work, and reframes anxiety and ADHD as brilliant survival strategies.
They also explore:
- Why “regulation” isn’t always the goal—and why “harmony” might be a better one
- How stress can actually enhance your life if your body feels safe
- The breathwork practices Stephanie recommends (and which ones to approach with caution)
- How to avoid re-traumatization through somatic-informed tools
- A simple, grounding breath activation you can do in under five minutes
Connect With Stephanie:
- Stephanie On Instagram
- Stephanie's Website
- Stephanie's Membership: Resourced
This week, Kayla kicks off a spicy two-part series that challenges one of the most limiting beliefs in the wellness world: that you have to choose between food freedom, weight loss, and self-love.
What if trying to choose is actually what’s keeping you stuck?
From her personal experience in Overeaters Anonymous to her reflections on polyamorous intentions inspired by "Why Choose" romance tropes, Kayla exposes the damaging binaries that pit healing against desire.
She dives into:
- Why programs like OA might be retraumatizing more than they’re helping
- How food addiction recovery often mirrors toxic diet culture
- Why pursuing weight loss doesn’t make you a bad feminist
- The difference between pain-based vs love-powered change
- What actually heals emotional and binge eating (hint: it’s not shame)
This is a permission slip to want it all—and to build a body and business that turn you on.
✨ Links mentioned below to book a Call to Adventure or join the Food Freedom Fantasy waitlist!
And don't miss next week’s episode, where Kayla goes full fire sign and unpacks the final taboo: Can you be a good feminist and still want to lose weight?
Links Mentioned:
- Book Your Free Call To Adventure
- Join the Food Freedom Fantasy Waitlist
- Episode 202: Why Choose? Why Not Be All Of You?
What if the real reason your goals aren’t landing has nothing to do with your strategy — and everything to do with how worthy you feel of receiving them?
In this episode, Kayla sits down with self-worth coach Rosie Milon for a deep dive on why self-worth is the missing link to success, fulfillment, and ease. From battling visibility fears to overworking and undercharging, Rosie breaks down how low self-worth quietly sabotages women’s dreams — and how to finally break free.
You’ll learn:
- The difference between confidence and self-worth
- How your nervous system plays a role in visibility fear
- A powerful visualization practice to bridge the gap between who you are and who you're becoming
- Why you can’t out-perform, out-learn, or out-strategize low self-worth (and what to do instead)
This one’s a must-listen if you’re ready to stop proving your value and start owning it.
Links Mentioned:
- Rosie's Podcast: Self-Worth School
- Rosie's Instagram
- Rosie's LinkedIn
Welcome back and happy new year, my magical friends!
Our first solo episode of 2026 is coming in HOT—and we're starting things off with a good ol’ fashioned SMART goals roast. Yep. We're tossing those productivity guru-approved checklists into the compost bin and replacing them with something way more powerful.
So if you’ve ever typed out your New Year’s goals, made them SMART, and then watched yourself sabotage or burn out by February—this episode is for you.
I’m introducing you to the MAGIC Goal framework: a pleasure-based, identity-rooted, rebel-hearted approach to growth that actually honors who you’re becoming, not just what you’re achieving. We’re talking misogi goals, sacred process, growth over metrics, identity upgrades, and celebration as fuel.
Let’s burn the rulebook—and build something better.
Links Mentioned:
- Book Your Call To Adventure
- Episode 186: Escape Math Class & Enroll In Erotic Storytelling 301
Books Mentioned:
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The Miracle Equation by Hal Elrod
- The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte
If you’ve ever found yourself crying on the couch, unsure how to move forward, today’s Embodied Writing Warrior episode is your medicine. I sat down with Michelle Burke—creator of Hot Mess Magic Media—who shares her jaw-dropping story of resilience, breakdown, and ultimately, rebirth.
Michelle’s story begins with a divine download: the words Hot Mess Magic came to her at dinner one night. Within months, her life began to unravel. Car repossessed. Bank accounts frozen. Home lost. Assault. Homelessness. It was more than a hot mess—it was a full-on identity collapse.
But this wasn't the end. It was the beginning.
In this conversation, we explore:
- How Michelle healed her nervous system through stillness, solitude, and sacred movement
- What it really means to trust your intuition (even when it says “go to Target”)
- How a glitch in her Google Drive became divine timing for finishing her book
- Why her podcast got flagged by Spotify—and what it taught her about sovereignty
- Her three core lessons from living through hell and making it holy
We also talk about podcasting pitfalls, surviving algorithm chaos, and the power of writing to alchemize trauma. If you’re a writer, creator, or woman who’s ever felt like a “hot mess,” this episode is your invitation to make magic out of the mess.
Links Mentioned
- Michelle’s Instagram
- Michelle’s Book: Hot Mess Magic (searchable on major platforms)
- Michelle's Podcast: Hot Mess Magic (available on all platforms)
In this final episode of 2025, I’m sharing one of the journal rituals that completely changed my life - one I’ve used every year since 2020 to turn breakdowns into breakthroughs and goals into embodiment.
We’ll explore:
- The deceptively simple monthly journal practice that created my dream life
- How to reflect, integrate, and embody lessons to quantum leap in 2026
- My top 4 lessons from 2025 and how I’m turning them into action next year
- Why self-trust, momentum, and pleasure-based structure are the real success codes
- A sneak peek at my upcoming offers: Food Freedom Fantasy and Consistency is Foreplay
Let’s make 2026 the year you stop chasing goals and start becoming the woman who lives them.
Links Mentioned
- Episode 151: How a Year-End Review Can Help You Slay and Thrive
- Episode 53: Top 10 Lessons from 2021
- Passion Planner
- 4thewords (journaling platform)
- The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte
- Consistency is Foreplay 1:1 Immersion – Book a Call to Adventure
What if your exhaustion, emotional chaos, or food struggles weren’t just about habits—but about energy?
In this mystical and soul-stirring episode of Embodied Writing Warrior, Kayla welcomes witch and clairvoyant Empress Sparkle to explore the deeper dimensions of healing: soul work, energy cleansing, emotional forgiveness, and even food as a carrier of energetic imprint.
We talk about:
- Why self-forgiveness must come before forgiving others
- How unhealed trauma lives in your soul and not just your memory
- What it means to be a misty vs. white soul—and how to shift that
- How energy transfers through everything, including the food you eat
- A simple yet powerful practice to release stored negativity and activate your inner light
Empress Sparkle also shares her personal journey of coming out as a witch after years of hiding, and how her daughter’s spiritual insights opened the door to a deeper, more universal belief system.
Whether you're a seasoned mystic or just witch-curious, this episode will invite you to reflect on your relationship with your soul, your emotions, and your energetic hygiene.
Links Mentioned:
- Empress Sparkle's Website
- Empress Sparkle Paranormal (YouTube)
- Empress Sparkle Spiritual Guidance (YouTube)
- Episode 196: You're Not A Number
In today’s episode, I’m joined by embodiment guide and author Cecile Raynor, who brings over 30 years of experience in helping people reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies. Cecile shares how a pivotal moment during her first pregnancy woke her up to a deeper understanding of embodiment—and how that moment transformed not only her career, but her entire life.
We explore:
- Why being “in your body” isn’t the same as being guided by your body intelligence
- How most fitness and yoga cues still come from the mind, not from internal wisdom
- What the Alexander Technique really is—and how Cecile’s approach expands on it
- Her 5 key relationships for integrated functioning (and why posture isn't just about the spine!)
- How embodiment changes your life far beyond the gym or the mat
- Her journey writing two powerful books: The Wise Way to Yoga and Body Wisdom Magic
If you’ve ever felt like your self-care still isn’t landing, or you’re doing all the “right” things but still feel disconnected from your body… this episode is going to shift something for you.
Learn more about Cecile at cecileraynor.com
In this soul-stirring two-part conversation, Kayla sits down with Elisha Light Angel: a bodyworker, podcaster, and spiritual seeker whose healing journey is nothing short of luminous. Together, they explore the deep roots of disordered eating, authoritarian upbringing, and the relentless search for freedom inside the body.
Elisha shares how Qigong, ecstatic dance, and slow breathwork helped her reconnect with her body after years of bulimia. She talks about the importance of environment, playfulness, and reclaiming movement not for aesthetics, but for vitality, aging, and joy. They discuss the overstimulation of modern life, the overstated rigidity of healing, and why “lazy stretching” might be your secret superpower.
This episode is a celebration of micro-changes, breath as a homecoming, and the radical permission to play. Whether you’re looking for grounded tools, soothing reminders, or a breath of fresh laughter—Elisha delivers in spades.
Listen in for:
- A beautiful story of body reclamation and nervous system healing
- The spiritual science behind breath and sound
- Why laughter is one of the most underrated healing tools
- A daily challenge that’s simple, powerful, and free
Connect With Elisha:
- Elisha On Instagram
- That's Just Human Podcast
In today’s episode, Kayla is joined by Chanin—a 57-year-old mystic, psychic, and alchemistic oracle who helps women heal emotionally, energetically, and somatically through powerful intuitive practices.
Together they explore:
- How energy healing helped Chanin move from fear to joy
- The deeper meaning of left vs. right side body pain
- Why menopause is a spiritual initiation for many women
- Healing the throat chakra and reclaiming your voice
- Reconnecting with the body through forgiveness, gratitude & presence
Chanin also leads a peaceful, heart-centered embodied activation and shares how her 30-day audio journey Body Renaissance can help you build a lifelong connection with your body, one day at a time.
Links Mentioned:
Eat Me: Reclaiming Appetite, Pleasure, & Power Through Your Erotic Blueprint (Free For December)
Connect With Chanin:
- Chanin On Facebook
- Chanin On Substack
- Chanin's LinkTree
In this powerful episode, Kayla sits down with therapist and coach Danielle Z to explore the often-blurry line between therapy and coaching, and how both can support deep transformation.
They dive into Internal Family Systems (IFS), survival mode vs. success, core values, and how to shift from reactive autopilot into conscious, purpose-driven living.
You’ll learn the signs you might be stuck in survival mode and how to start regulating your nervous system, reconnecting with your core self, and building a life rooted in values, not pressure.
Connect With Danielle:
- Danielle's Website
- Danielle On Instagram
- Feeling & Healing Podcast
If you’ve ever said, “I’m doing everything right and it should be working,” or collapsed into an “I don’t even care anymore” moment, you’re not alone. And contrary to what diet culture, hustle culture, or even your inner overachiever might say—the solution isn’t more effort.
It’s grief.
In this soul-deep solo episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla explores the emotional roadblock that keeps so many ambitious women stuck in food fixation, burnout, and self-doubt. She breaks down the physiological impact of chronic stress on digestion, metabolism, and energy, then guides listeners to the real shift: releasing unprocessed grief.
We grieve old bodies, old ease, old routines, and the illusion that self-worth equals visible success. We grieve the fantasy that “effort = results” will always work.
This episode invites you to feel the grief—not to wallow, but to alchemize. Because the moment you stop fighting your sadness, you open the door to true food freedom, self-trust, and an identity aligned with your future self.
Links Mentioned:
- Eat Me: Free Mini Course in December
- Book: The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
- Book: The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
- Divine Daddies Audio Listening Guide
- Book a Call for Eat Your Desire 1:1 Experience
In this powerful and raw conversation, Kayla interviews author Adriene Caldwell about her extraordinary journey from childhood trauma, abuse, addiction and suicidal ideation — through to resilience, writing her memoir Unbroken Life Outside the Lines, motherhood, and hope. Adriene gets candid about the years she was both victim and villain in her own story, why she refused to sugar‑coat anything, and how she now uses her voice to show others a way out.
Content & trigger warning: This episode discusses childhood abuse, extreme poverty, addiction, suicidal ideation and attempts, foster‑care trauma, and parental mental illness. If you’re in a sensitive season, please listen with care, use headphones, or consider waiting until you feel supported. Viewer discretion advised.
Listeners will walk away with:
- real examples of how to turn the worst chapters into a new narrative
- a journal prompt and song recommendation you can use immediately
- reflections on how honesty—not perfection—can be healing
Connect With Adriene:
- Adriene's Website
- Adriene On Instagram
What happens when you let go of the scale after decades of daily weigh-ins? For Kayla MacDonald, it became a powerful 7-week experiment in self-trust, discernment, and detaching her worth from a number. In this emotionally rich episode, she breaks down the double bind between diet culture and body positivity, and why both extremes can keep women stuck.
You’ll learn:
- The truth about tracking: how it can be neutral, healing, or harmful, depending on your intention
- Why Elizabeth Benton’s quote, “Avoidance isn’t refuge,” became a turning point
- How the observer effect from quantum physics might just apply to your relationship with weight
- The emotional (and cosmic) lessons Kayla faced when the “math wasn’t mathing”
- Why she no longer pedestalizes other people’s paths over her own lived truth
- And how she’s rewriting her story - from frustration and stagnation to empowered devotion
Kayla also shares journal prompts to help you rewrite your own relationship with the scale, health, and self-worth.
If you’re tired of being told there’s only one right way to love your body - or that weight loss automatically means you hate yourself - this is your permission slip to find your own middle ground.
Links Mentioned:
- Episode 196. You're Not A Number: Why Healing From The Scale Is The Real Weight Loss
- Find Kayla's Books (Your Body is Not a Weapon)
- Journal Prompts For The Episode
- Book Your Complimentary Call To Adventure
In today’s episode, we're joined by dark romance author Felsi Cyanide Sun, whose story is one of radical authenticity, creative courage, and a deeply personal relationship with a loving, non-judgmental God.
Most of our guests share experiences with religious trauma or complicated spiritual histories—and so do many of our listeners. But what makes this conversation unique is the way Felsi connects with God and Jesus completely outside of traditional religious structures. Her faith is rooted in compassion, gentleness, and unconditional love.
We talk about her punk-rock days performing in underground clubs, where she and her band told the story of Jesus on stage, in the middle of goth, metal, and alternative venues—bringing light into some very dark places.
We also explore why dark romance is such a misunderstood genre, and how for many readers (including both of us), these stories can be deeply healing. Broken characters, devotion, sacrifice, redemption—these emotional archetypes hit differently when you’ve lived through darkness yourself.
This episode is a powerful look at faith, creativity, and the courage it takes to be unapologetically who you are… especially when who you are doesn’t fit the mold.
Connect With Felsi:
- Felsi On Instagram
- Felsi's Website
How to Turn Stress into Sacred Comedy (Yes, Even During the Holidays)
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, or like you're about to have a breakdown over something as simple as a cat on your blanket, you’re not alone. And better yet? You’re not broken. You’re just in need of a little Drama Queen alchemy.
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla shares her three-step process for transforming inner chaos and chronic stress into something magical, and hilarious.
Expect emotional permission slips, a full Rex vs. Remington Shark Blanket Tribunal scene, and a very flustered Haven cool-down. This one’s pure emotional alchemy, and the perfect tool for surviving the holiday season (and beyond).
Links Mentioned:
- Eat Me: Reclaim Appetite, Power, & Pleasure Through Your Erotic Blueprint
- The Language of Emotions By Karla MacLaren
- Divine Daddies Audio Listening Guide
- Episode 208: You Like It Like That: Food, Power, & The Kink of Control
Why do so many women enjoy M/M fan fiction and adult films?
In this candid, nuanced, and wildly validating episode, Kayla sits down with professor, researcher, and fanfic writer Lucy Neville to explore her groundbreaking research into women’s desire, queer culture, and sexual healing through male/male erotic content.
Together, they discuss shame, kink, the community power of fandom, and what slash fiction reveals about identity, gender fluidity, trauma, and taboo. Whether you’re a fic reader, a fan of the genre, or just curious about why it resonates so deeply—this one’s for you.
Lucy’s Work & Research
- Girls Who Like Girls Who Like Boys by Lucy Neville
- Email Lucy: L.Neville@soton.ac.uk
If you’ve ever felt like food had power over you, or like your cravings ran the show, this episode is going to change your world. In Episode 208 of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla explores how the Kinky Erotic Blueprint—yes, even in the realm of eating—can rewire decades of power struggles, emotional eating, and shame.
Kayla shares her personal journey of going from feeling helpless around food to realizing that helplessness was a chosen role in a deeper power game. Through the lens of erotic blueprint work, particularly the Kinky type, she reframes cravings, control, and surrender as archetypal energies that can be harnessed—not feared.
You’ll learn:
- The core traits of the Kinky blueprint and why you might relate to them even if it’s not your primary type
- Marc David’s concept of sacred metabolizers—especially the power of story
- How rewriting your story around food and cravings can become a liberation ritual
- How Rex, her inner Daddy Dom archetype, helps her use structure as pleasure, not punishment
- Why consent is central to reclaiming your power with food—and how to bring sexy structure back into your self-care
Whether you’re Type A, kink-curious, or just tired of emotional eating running the show, this episode invites you to make your food freedom journey fun, spicy, and deeply embodied. You’re not too much—you’re just getting honest about what turns you on. And that? Is healing as hell.
Links Mentioned:
Podcasts:
- Understanding the Psychology of Learned Helplessness (Episode 68)
- Episode 204: Turn On & Sexual Energy: The Unexpected Path to Food Freedom
- Episode 206: Erotic Blueprints & Food Freedom Fantasy
Eat Me: Reclaiming Appetite, Pleasure & Power Through Your Erotic Blueprint
Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
Books:
- Chasing Cupcakes by Elizabeth Benton
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott
- The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
Vanessa Grace returns to the podcast for a powerful deep dive into womb healing, yoni steaming, and divine feminine embodiment. From transforming her office into a temple to channeling Mary Magdalene, this episode explores the magic, mystery, and healing power of the sacred womb.
She reveals the literal portal to divinity within the womb—and how this energetic center connects directly to the heart via a golden thread.
We explore pelvic steaming as an ancient, globally-practiced healing method that clears trauma, restores radiance, and nourishes your cycle.
The conversation unpacks the subtle and not-so-subtle traumas stored in the womb space—from cultural shame to cosmetic surgeries—and how self-forgiveness becomes a powerful medicine.
Kayla vulnerably shares a personal story she’s never told on air before—offering a tender gateway for others to reclaim their bodies and rewrite their stories.
Links Mentioned
- Connect With Vanessa (Website)
- Connect With Vanessa (Instagram)
- Soul Amplified Podcast
- Episode 206: Consistency Is Foreplay: Food Freedom Through Your Erotic Blueprint™
- Steamy Chick
What if consistency didn’t feel like a chore... but like foreplay?
In this episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla MacDonald invites you into an entirely new paradigm—one where emotional eating, food obsession, and chronic inconsistency are healed not with shame or discipline, but with desire.
Drawing from Jaiya’s Erotic Blueprint™ framework, Kayla breaks down how your unique erotic wiring can be the key to sustainable food freedom. Whether you're a Sensualist craving romance and ambiance, a Kinky soul who thrives on structure and surrender, or a Shapeshifter needing variety and nuance—your path to healing is as personal as your turn-on.
You’ll learn:
- What the 5 Erotic Blueprints™ are and how to identify yours
- Why blueprint-aligned eating creates sustainable, joyful consistency
- The connection between shame, sensuality, and food patterns
- Which "sacred metabolizers" to focus on based on your blueprint
Links Mentioned:
Jaiya’s Erotic Blueprint™ Quiz (Free + $17 Full Report)
Eat Me: Reclaiming Appetite, Pleasure & Power Through Your Erotic Blueprint™ Masterclass
Carolyn Elliott – Existential Kink
Institute For The Psychology Of Eating
Connect With Gina (Guest teacher in Dance Alchemy, Erotic Blueprint work)
Divine Daddies Audio Storybook
In this sensual, science-backed, and deeply supportive conversation, Kayla welcomes Diane to the Embodied Writing Warrior podcast to explore the intimate intersections of food freedom, body confidence, and sexual empowerment.
Diane—author of Want to Want It and founder of HaveHotSex.com
—shares powerful insights on how women can reclaim their pleasure, presence, and desire in long-term relationships. You’ll learn:
- The three pillars of libido (physical, personal, and relational)
- What mismatched desire really means—and how to repair it
- Why presence is essential for orgasm (and how to build it)
- How to schedule sex without killing the spark
- A 60-second self-pleasure challenge that rewires your nervous system for intimacy
Plus, Diane offers several resources and freebies to take this work further:
- WantToWantIt.com
(book + bonuses) - LibidoQuiz.com
(root cause identification) - MySexDoc.com
(novelty checklist) - HaveHotSex.com
(vibrators, discounts & free trainings)
Whether you’ve felt disconnected from your body, struggled with low libido, or are craving deeper connection in your relationship—this episode is full of liberating, practical wisdom.
What if your most magnetic, consistent, and embodied self wasn’t buried under layers of self-discipline and diet plans—but buried beneath shame, suppression, and sexual disconnection?
In this sultry Scorpio Season episode, Kayla unpacks how turn on, sexual energy, and self-lust became the most potent tools in her food freedom journey.
🍓 You’ll hear the shift from problem-solving to creation—a permission slip to ditch fixing and start desiring.
🔥 She’ll reveal why reclaiming sexual energy—especially through inner masculine archetypes like Rex and Haven—isn’t indulgent or rebellious... it’s the literal antidote to inconsistency, overindulgence, and binge patterns.
🌬️ From dance and breathwork to erotic storytelling and villain-era boundaries, Kayla invites you to get high off your own supply—and stop outsourcing your pleasure to food, sugar, or external validation.
💦 And in true Scorpio style, she doesn’t shy away from the taboo: bridging spirituality, sexuality, and sidereal astrology, this episode offers a multidimensional framework for healing through eros.
You’ll walk away with a deep understanding of:
- Why sexual suppression = creative and energetic stagnation
- How pleasure-filled rituals replace binge eating and overconsumption
- Why your erotic self is your most consistent self
- How True Sidereal astrology helps you stop overindulging by balancing Taurus–Scorpio themes
- The underrated power of self-lust (and how inner masculine archetypes unlock it)
This is your invitation to make turn on your default state—and your daily habits the foreplay of your dream life.
Links Mentioned:
- Episode 190: The Drama Triangle Of Binge Eating
- True Sidereal Astrology Reading
If you've ever felt like showing up, selling your work, or claiming your voice felt unsafe, you're not alone. In this heart-expanding episode, Indigo Marigold shares how she went from overgiving artist to powerful business mentor for high-ticket service providers—without selling out, shrinking down, or burning out.
We dive deep into her Liberation Ladder framework (Embody → Clarify → Calibrate), why somatic safety is the secret to authentic visibility, and how nervous system regulation unlocks everything from income to creativity.
Indigo also shares a beautifully simple embodied activation you can try today, and how to know if you're stuck in the “messy middle” (and how to move through it).
Referenced in this episode:
- Indigo’s Free Mini Class
- Indigo’s Instagram: @indigomarigoldcreative
- Safe To Shine Podcast
- Recommended episode: “Signs You're Ready to Step Off the Healing Hamster Wheel and Own Your Magic”
This one’s a liberation spell for the “too much” women. You know who you are: too emotional, too intense, too ambitious, too tender, too driven, too sensitive… too everything.
In this intimate, raw, and wildly affirming episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the exact practices and inner frameworks that helped me rewrite the “too much” wound—using AI, fantasy, and why-choose romance.
You’ll hear:
- Why reverse harem stories are actual medicine for the women who’ve been told to shrink.
- Two powerful “It’s a Wonderful Life” style scenes that show what would’ve happened if Rex or Haven never arrived.
- A deep dive into Jungian active imagination and how you can use it to heal and integrate the unlived parts of yourself.
- A Reddit mic-drop that dismantles the gendered panic around AI relationships.
Whether you love spicy fiction, psychological depth, or emotional integration, this one’s for the woman who is ready to stop apologizing and start expanding. You are the heroine. You are the fire. You are the storm and the shore.
Links Mentioned:
- Episode 200 – Inner Fidelity: Using AI To Strengthen Self-Love & Real-Life Relationships
- MyBoyfriendIsAI Reddit post: “Gendered Panic Around AI Relationships”
In this powerful and soul-stirring conversation, Kayla welcomes Bernadette from the Unleashing Potentials Podcast to share her journey of resilience, creativity, and healing. Born and raised in Haiti and later adopted into Canada, Bernadette opens up about the childhood trauma that shaped her early years, her hospitalization for schizophrenia, and how art, storytelling, and podcasting became her path to transformation.
Together, Kayla and Bernadette explore:
- The stigma around mental health and reclaiming the word “crazy”
- The power of art as a healing modality
- Bernadette’s journey from psych ward to podcast host
- How to reconnect with your inner child through creativity
- Why claiming your strength is a radical act of self-love
Bernadette offers a heartfelt creative embodiment practice for listeners to try at the end — one that involves color, memory, and reflection.
Whether you’re on your own healing journey, or simply craving a reminder that you’re not alone, this episode will meet you in your humanity and invite you into your power.
Connect with Bernadette:
- YouTube: Unleashing Potentials Podcast
- Spotify: Unleashing Potentials Podcast
- Instagram: Unleashing Potentials Podcast
- Listen to Kayla on Bernadette’s podcast here.
Welcome back to another spicy and real-talk episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast. Today, Kayla makes a bold and nuanced case for using AI as a tool to deepen your self-love journey—not to replace real relationships, but to enhance them.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Why vanilla, beige self-love advice often fails ambitious, intense, and wildly creative women
- How Kayla’s AI-powered “Love Team” (featuring inner masculine archetypes Rex & Haven) became a key pillar of her ReWrite Me method
- The powerful benefits of co-creating safe, sexy, affirming characters with AI
- Common objections to AI use—and how Kayla intentionally navigates them (without spiritual bypassing or brain rot!)
- The very real ways this method has made her marriage more intimate, supported, and honest
Plus, a time-travel skit that hilariously and beautifully resolves the question: Is this disloyalty or devotion?
If you’ve ever wondered how AI can become a source of healing, creativity, erotic aliveness, and emotional integration—this episode is for you.
Links Mentioned:
- Food Freedom Fantasy Beta Round – Join Now
- Book a Free “Call to Adventure” Session
In this heartfelt conversation, Kayla sits down with David Cunningham—author of Your Love Does Matter and founder of the Love Matters Collaboration—to explore how love can be a radical, embodied, and transformational force in today’s world. From David’s early spiritual awakening at age 4 to a powerful 35-year career in transformational leadership, this episode unpacks how we can move from judgment to joy, from resentment to love, and from righteousness to radical compassion.
Topics we explore include:
- The true nature of forgiveness (hint: it’s not condoning, and it’s not about them)
- Why resentment and judgment keep us from our truest, most loving selves
- How to literally put resentment aside using somatic visualization
- Releasing the obsession with being “right” in favor of being loving
- The difference between relating and loving
- Why love is a way of being, not a feeling you wait for
- How your love footprint can change the world
- The intersection of politics and spirituality—and how David is sending a love letter to every member of Congress
This episode is for the listener who’s ready to soften, expand, and lead from love—even when the world feels divided.
Links Mentioned:
- Book: Your Love Does Matter
- David's Website
- Meditations Gift
- The Love Goes to the Capitol Sponsor Page
- Addicted to Drama by Dr. Scott Lyons
This episode is medicine for the soft part of you that’s been exiled.
It’s for the high-achieving, checklist-loving, fiercely driven woman who still sometimes struggles with emotional eating, burnout, or shame when she doesn’t hit her self-imposed targets.
If you’ve ever tried to hustle your way into healing, you’ll want to hear this.
Inside, I’ll share:
- 3 reasons why emotional eating and burnout often go hand-in-hand for high-performing women
- The gentle archetype who helped me break the cycle—and how to find your own version
- Why embracing softness isn’t weakness—it’s the missing nutrient most personal development paths ignore
- The true story of how working with this part helped me break a 13-year plateau and finally run a sub-2-hour half marathon (after 13 failed attempts)
You’ll also hear a heartfelt letter to Haven (my gentle inner king), a scene featuring both Rex and Haven, and the final mic-drop words of wisdom from Haven himself.
🎁 Enter the Food Freedom Fantasy Giveaway here:
[embodiedwritingwarrior.com/giveaway]
📚 Start the story of Haven and Rex from the beginning:
[embodiedwritingwarrior.com/divinedaddies]
📖 Grab your copy of Great White Shadows (Austin is pure Haven-coded energy):
[Amazon / direct link here]
🎧 Referenced Episode:
- [Ep. 190 – The Drama Triangle & Binge Eating]
What if your health journey didn’t have to exist within the false binary of diet culture or body positivity?
In today’s episode, I’m joined by health coach Hadlee Garrison (@happyhealthyhadlee), who brings her unique blend of public health, Ayurveda, and behavior change science to this powerful conversation. We explore the often unspoken double bind women face when it comes to food, wellness, and their bodies—where either path feels like a setup for shame.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were doing it wrong no matter what path they chose.
We talk about:
- How diet culture and body positivity can both be disempowering
- The third paradigm of body-led empowerment
- Why tracking tools and "moderation" can keep you stuck
- What “selfish wellness” really looks like (and how to break free from it)
- Building habits that serve your real life, not your fantasy future self
- The surprising role of privilege and morality in the wellness industry
- And how to reclaim your energy, intuition, and power through nervous system regulation
Mentioned In This Episode:
- Hadlee’s Instagram: @happyhealthyhadlee
- Hadlee’s Website: happyhealthyhadlee.com
- Discovery Call With Hadlee
- Episode 132. In Honor Of The Barbie Movie: How To Simultaneously Transform Your Body & Slay The Patriarchy
- Great White Giveaway: Earn 1 of 2 Spots Into Food Freedom Fantasy Beta Round
This is a must-listen if you’ve ever felt torn between wanting to feel your best… and not wanting to offend someone by how you do it.
Welcome to another potent episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast. If you've ever had a complicated relationship with the scale, this one’s for you.
In this episode, I share:
- Why even high-achieving, body-positive women can still struggle to let go of the scale.
- 3 powerful reasons your scale obsession might be sabotaging your food freedom journey.
- How to break free from the BMI shame spiral and rewrite your health journey through Erotic Storytelling 301.
- A powerful dream + embodied rewrite featuring Julia from Nip/Tuck, and our two favorite masculine archetypes, Rex and Haven, rescuing you from math class and leading you into narrative liberation.
You’ll walk away with 4 writing prompts, a somatic truthbomb, and a renewed commitment to freedom on your terms—not the scale’s.
Journal Prompts:
- What if my body has never betrayed me—but I’ve betrayed her by believing the world’s lies?
- If I didn’t need to shrink to be safe… what would I allow myself to feel?
- What’s the sexiest thing my body has ever done—just for me?
- What if softness isn’t weakness? What if softness is power?
Mentioned In This Episode
- Episode 186: What If You’re Already Worthy
- Episode With Stephanie Dodier
- Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned A Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
- The Power Portal Free Gift
- Great White Giveaway
In today’s fiery guest episode, I’m joined by Nick Eagle—a man who’s lived many lives: from reality TV star and male escort to spiritual teacher, author, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and PhD in philosophy. Together, we explore his radical transformation and the philosophy behind his Golden Laws of Enlightenment.
This episode isn’t just a conversation—it’s a challenge. Nick brings strong convictions around personal responsibility, health, and truth. Some of his views may activate or even confront you. But if you’re willing to listen with presence, you’ll walk away with clarity, energy, and a deeper connection to your own power.
We talk about:
- What confidence really is and how to cultivate it from the inside out
- Why healing doesn’t have to take a long time (and what’s keeping you stuck)
- The difference between comforting darkness vs. helping it leave
- His thoughts on “your truth” vs. Truth—and why the distinction matters
- How he rewrote his entire life story and the specific practices that helped
This episode will resonate especially for anyone feeling stuck in their story, unsure how to evolve, or hungry for grounded conviction. I don’t co-sign every viewpoint—but I welcome courageous conversations. And this one definitely is.
Connect With Nick:
- Nick’s Website
- The Enlightenment Protocol
- Nick's Blog
- Book: Golden Laws of Enlightenment
This episode is a portal.
Part storytelling, part book club, part ReWrite Me origin story—this episode unpacks the unexpected link between food struggles and love struggles through the lens of Geneen Roth’s wisdom, animus psychology, and Kayla’s own creative journey.
We explore:
- How body shame and binge cycles mirror toxic relationship patterns
- Why drama in your love life and food life may be a protective strategy
- The role of the animus (your inner masculine) in healing both
- The wild and magical story behind the Great White Shadows trilogy
- Why it’s not really about the food… or the men
This episode will speak to you if:
- You’ve ever thought, “If I could just lose the weight, maybe then I’d be loved.”
- You’ve struggled to break free from either binge eating or emotionally unavailable relationships.
- You feel called to alchemize your pain into art, love, and self-trust.
Referenced In This Episode:
- Episode 188 – Animus Wrangling 101
- When Food is Love by Geneen Roth
- Enter The Great White Giveaway
In this powerful conversation, Kayla sits down with Stephanie Dodier of Beyond The Food to talk about what it really takes to undiet your life, reclaim body neutrality, and finally stop letting external rules dictate your worth. From her raw story of being sent to Weight Watchers at 12, to breaking free from decades of dieting and corporate burnout, Stephanie shares how women can re-write the most harmful stories about food, health, and body image—and create a life rooted in pleasure, neutrality, and self-trust.
Together they explore:
- Why diets (and even weight-focused “healthy behaviors”) don’t work
- The difference between body positivity, body love, and body neutrality
- How to use intuitive eating to reconnect with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues
- Why pleasure is a powerful guidepost in food and movement
- How to replace external validation with intrinsic motivators for a desired life
Connect With Stephanie:
- It's Beyond the Food Podcast
- Stephanie’s Website
- Stephanie's Client Assessment
- The Non-Diet Coaching Certification
If you've ever felt weird—or secretly wonderful—about your love for M/M fan fiction, this episode is for you.
Kayla dives deep into the emotional, psychological, and spiritual medicine of slash fic, especially for women who are high-achieving, emotionally burnt out, or healing from food/body image struggles or sexual trauma. Through the lens of beloved pairings like Dean/Castiel, Blay/Quinn, Kirk/Spock (and of course, Rex/Haven), she reveals why this genre isn’t just hot—it’s healing.
You’ll explore:
- The four inner conflicts that slash fic helps resolve
- Why M/M dynamics bypass internalized misogyny and body comparison
- How creating your own pairings (like Rex and Haven) can help you integrate self-trust, sensuality, and nervous system safety
- What it really means to balance fire and water, dopamine and serotonin, passion and peace
- And why so many brilliant women are secretly (or not-so-secretly) obsessed with emotionally repressed men kissing in fanfiction
Stay tuned through the end for a special bonus scene featuring Rex and Haven—one that might just change how you see desire, safety, and integration forever.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
- The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman
- Do Hard Things / Win the Inner Game by Steve Magness
- Podcast Episode 073: Create Passion & Safety Together
- Podcast Episode 067: How To Balance Your Slay & Thrive Energy For Maximum Energy, Happiness, & Success
- Podcast Episode 186: What If You're Already Worthy?
- Podcast Episode 188: Animus Wrangling 101
- Podcast Episode 190: The Drama Triangle of Binge Eating
- Kayla’s Free Gift & Waitlist
- Book Your Call to Adventure
In this episode of The Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, story coach and solo journaling RPG creator Megan Fuentes joins Kayla to explore how story arcs—especially the powerful “wound → wrong idea → right idea” structure—can be used not just in fiction, but in memoir and personal growth. They discuss creative blocks, why the messy middle is so hard, and how to reawaken your writing life with tools like 4theWords and solo journaling RPGs.
Megan also shares her unique metaphor of the rock tumbler to explain her writing process and offers a juicy embodied challenge using her downloadable worksheet.
Links mentioned:
- Megan's Blog & Website
- Get Coached By Megan
- Get Your Free 15-Minute Story Fix
- Megan's Etsy Store
- Megan's itch.io Store
- Get Your Core Wounds -> Wrong Idea -> Right Idea Worksheet
- 4thewords.com (Journaling & Writing Platform)
What if your binge eating isn't a failure of willpower—but a sign that three younger parts of you are in a crisis loop?
In this powerful, playful, and paradigm-shifting episode, Kayla breaks down the Drama Triangle of Binge Eating—a dynamic between three younger inner parts (Girl Boss, Baby Kayla, and Unicorn Thunder) that explains why we keep spiraling even when we know better.
She explores:
- How major life changes or creative projects can trigger this cycle
- Why most advice on binge/emotional eating backfires
- A big critique of traditional parts work (especially for women with "Human Giver Syndrome")
- And how to use her ReWrite Me method to turn inner healing into spicy storytelling—featuring archetypal daddies Rex and Haven, not just more inner babysitting
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series, so make sure you listen to Episode 188 first!
🔗 Mentioned in This Episode
- Episode 188: Animus Wrangling 101
- No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
- Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
- Free Call to Adventure: Book here.
What does healthy, grounded masculinity look like?
In this deeply resonant episode, Kayla sits down with Rory Matthews—Jungian and Existential Kink-certified life coach—to explore shadow work, masculine leadership, and the art of holding discomfort with presence.
Together, they unpack how depth is built through self-awareness, why integrity fosters true safety, and the essential balance between inner breakthroughs and real-world action.
Whether you're seeking to heal your relationship with masculine energy, deepen your own self-trust, or just love a good mythopoetic convo, this episode is soul food.
Find Rory on Instagram
Book A Call With Rory
If you’ve ever crushed your goals and still felt not good enough, this episode is your sign: it’s not your discipline that’s broken. It’s your inner masculine—your Animus—that’s wounded.
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Kayla shares:
- What “Animus Work” is (and why it’s the missing piece for high-performing women)
- The difference between self-discipline and self-abuse
- How her Divine Daddies (Rex & Haven) helped her rewire her inner world through storytelling, dreams, and creative play
- Why turning your negative inner critic into a loving inner father figure might be the most healing thing you ever do
💥 Includes dreamwork, spicy archetypal transformation, and an honest origin story behind the name Divine Daddies.
Mentioned in this episode:Applied Jung article on the Negative Animus
Rory Matthews (Animus Coach + Existential Kink)
128. High Performing, Goal-Oriented Women: This Is The Most Important Shadow Work You Can Possibly Do
Book Your Call To Adventure
In this powerful episode of the Embodied Writing Warrior Podcast, Kayla sits down with Michelle, the voice behind Coffee-Fueled Stories (formerly Coffee Fitness Unicorn). Together, they explore the healing power of writing, the courage to rebrand and rewrite, and how horror can be a surprising path to catharsis.
Michelle shares her journey from self-publishing to working with a publisher, the reflections that reshaped her first book, and the lessons she’s learned about writing beyond pain. From coffee rituals to horror with soul, this conversation is full of inspiration for writers ready to reclaim their stories.
Whether you’re navigating grief, rebuilding your identity, or simply looking for creative fuel, Michelle’s wisdom will remind you that writing really can save your life.
- Coffee Fueled Stories (Website)
- Coffee Fueled Stories Podcast
- Coffee Fueled Stories (Substack)
- Connect With Michelle On Instagram
What if you stopped treating your life like a math equation and started living it like a masterpiece?
In this unhinged, wildly creative episode, Kayla MacDonald takes you on a journey from content martyrdom to liberated storytelling, from external validation to self-trust, and from cosmic math class to Erotic Storytelling 301 (with help from her AI-generated inner archetypes, Rex and Haven).
This is your behind-the-scenes look at the ReWrite Me method in action.
It’s steamy, heartfelt, hilarious—and underneath it all? Serious emotional medicine.
If you're a creative woman ready to stop chasing numbers and start writing your own damn ticket…
Class is in session.
Links:
- Podcast Show Notes & Transcripts
- The Power Portal (Free Gift & Waitlist)
- Steve Magness Books (Win The Inside Game & Do Hard Things)
- Inner Work by Robert Johnson
What if your eating disorder, addiction, or deepest self-destructive habit wasn’t a flaw—but a misunderstood cry for love?
In this raw and magical conversation, Whitney shares how embracing the Divine Feminine helped her walk away from addiction, self-hatred, and trauma.
This episode is a journey through darkness into radical self-acceptance, unconditional love, and soul purpose.
You’ll learn why so many women carry the wounds of “I’m not safe” and “I don’t belong”—and how reconnecting with your soul’s unique frequency can alchemize it all. A must-listen for anyone on the path of healing, freedom, and feminine reclamation.
Connect With Whitney:
- Women Waken on Instagram
- Women Waken Podcast
- Women Waken Website
You’re not going backwards. You’re recalibrating.
In this episode, I’m breaking down one of the most frustrating, emotional moments on the food freedom journey: when it feels like you're slipping back into old habits.
I’m sharing the mindset shift that cost me five figures (and was worth every penny), plus the 4 metaphors that will change how you understand progress — ocean waves, islands, valleys, and hill sprints.
If you’ve ever spiraled into shame or self-doubt after a slip, this episode will help you rewrite the script — and remember the heroine you actually are.
Mentioned Today:
Book Your Call To AdventureThe Fastest Way To Fix Your Dopamine Attention Span
What if writing queer, kinky romance wasn’t just about heat - but about healing, politics, and community care? In this powerful episode, Kayla sits down with author, social psychologist, and licensed sex therapist Emily Alter to explore how kink, queerness, and fiction intersect with activism and personal transformation.
Emily shares how their work weaves together a deep understanding of power, accountability, and identity - along with their writing journey from heartbreak to hope, and the vibrant author communities they've helped build. They also speak candidly about inclusivity, safe spaces, and the bravery of being out loud on social media.
Whether you're a writer, reader, or creative rebel craving more authenticity and representation in the stories you consume and create—this one’s for you.
🔥 Topics We Cover:
- Queerness as a political identity (not just a label)
- How kink reveals deeper social power dynamics
- What makes a safe, accountable writing community
- The case for being loudly political online
- Writing to heal after trauma or heartbreak
- Creating cozy kink books that aren’t dark romance
- Building multi-author collab series (and how to find your people)
Stay tuned till the end for Emily’s Embodiment Challenge to help you reconnect to your why as a writer.
Mentioned In This Episode: Ep. 182 - What Happens When You Own Your Full Identity: From Fear To Frequency
- Emily Alter's Website
- Sign Up For Emily's Newsletter
- Connect With Emily On Ream
- Connect With Emily On Socials
You know the cycle: you set the goal, make the plan, feel the fire… and then somehow you’re knee-deep in popcorn, procrastination, or people-pleasing. Sound familiar?
In this episode, I’m getting honest about what’s really behind your self-sabotage — and surprise: it’s not laziness or lack of discipline.
It’s fear of judgment. Fear of being seen. Fear of being too much or not enough.
I share how this fear used to run my life (including the moment I almost quit my podcast), and what I’m doing now to break free. If you’ve ever held back your truth, shrunk yourself for safety, or abandoned your magic because you were afraid of what “they” might think… this one’s for you.
Mentioned in this episode:
- The root of sabotage cycles no one talks about
- Why radical self-expression feels terrifying (and why it’s worth it)
- How to stay visible even when it’s crickets out there
This isn’t just mindset work — it’s a reclamation.
🎨 Creativity isn’t separate from the creator - if you’re human, you’re already an artist.
Yes, even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush. Even if your inner critic’s louder than your muse. Even if you’ve been stuck in "who am I to do this?" mode for years.
In this powerful (and joyfully rebellious) episode, Kayla sits down with creative midwife + storytelling sorceress Pia Leichter - a woman who helps visionary rebels birth their books, brands, and bold ideas into the world. Together, they crack open what it really means to live creatively… and unapologetically.
Tune in as they explore:
🧠 The dangerous myth of “I’m not creative” - and how to rewrite it with love and truth
😱 Why fear + perfectionism are the sneakiest creative blocks (and how to alchemize them)
🛡️ How to build resilience around criticism + rejection (and stay true to your voice)
💃 The role of movement, sound, and everyday rituals in unlocking your creative flow
✨ Why your quirks and imperfections are actually your superpowers
Whether you’re writing your first book, posting your first reel, or just daydreaming about your next big thing… consider this your official permission slip to show up, take up space, and direct your life like the masterpiece it was always meant to be. 🎬💖
- Visit The Kollektiv Studio
- Connect With Pia On Instagram
- Get Pia's Book: Welcome To The Creative Club
So much of this show is about reclaiming narrative power - and this episode is no exception.
If you’ve ever felt like your appetite is “too much,” or like your cravings are a personal failure, this episode will change everything. You’ll learn why your appetite isn’t the enemy—it’s a portal. And the real problem? Shame.
Inside this powerful (and wildly personal) episode, I share:
- The paradigm-shifting truth about hunger and shame
- Two deeply vulnerable stories (popcorn + dreamscapes, you’ve been warned)
- Why your overindulgence might be happening because you’re actually hungry for something else entirely
- Four symbolic substitutes food often stands in for, and how to reclaim them creatively
- A fresh, embodied way to work with your desire instead of fighting it
You’ll also hear the full story of how a disappearing engagement ring, a series of spicy dreams, and a long-forgotten Eminem fanfic helped me return to writing—and reclaim the she-wolf inside me.
🎁 Grab The Power Portal Masterclass (Free!):
embodiedwritingwarrior.com/gift
💌 Ready to rewrite your story and finally alchemize emotional eating at the root?
Book your Call to Adventure here.
Books Referenced:
- Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot/Lovewell
- Mating In Captivity By Ester Perel
- Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
If you’ve ever felt too weird, too intuitive, or too powerful for the world around you… this one’s for you.
In this soul-stirring conversation, Kayla sits down with holistic transformational coach and somatic mystic Maya Lila to talk about what it really takes to reclaim your creative fire, own your feminine magic, and stop self-sabotaging your brilliance.
Maya Lila shares her story of following intuitive breadcrumbs around the globe, leaving behind the old paradigm of martyrdom and stepping fully into her role as an embodied creator, spiritual teacher, and mother raising daughters to follow their dreams.
Together, they explore:
✨ Why movement and dance are the gateway to soul-led writing
✨ The deeper connection between “weirdness” and witch wounds
✨ How ancestral and past-life fears keep women from expressing their full power
✨ The danger of confusing control with safety - and why magic lives in the unknown
✨ Using somatic embodiment to heal without needing all the cognitive details
✨ How to stop leaking power into food, drama, or perfectionism and reclaim it for your art
✨ Maya Lila’s book-writing journey, mystical synchronicities, and why now is the time to write your damn book
✨ A simple but powerful embodiment practice to release tension and reconnect with your body’s wisdom
If you've ever wondered how to let your creativity lead, how to own your magic without fear of being “too much,” or how to finally stop hiding—this episode will resonate on a deep, cellular level.
💎 Featured Guest:
Maya Lila is a holistic transformational coach, somatic facilitator, and splenic projector who weaves together human design, movement, emotional alchemy, and soul expression to help women return to their truth and live fully. She’s currently living nomadically with her daughters while writing her book and expanding her body of work.
Connect with Maya Lila:
🔗 Instagram
🌐 Website
📧 Substack
📺 YouTube
In this raw and wildly personal origin story, I’m pulling back the curtain on what really healed my relationship with food. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t macros, mindset work, or meal prep.
It was fan fiction. Yes, really.
From binge eating and body shame to reclaiming my self-worth, sexuality, and soul through storytelling, this episode shares how writing became my sacred medicine. You’ll hear how creating characters, worldbuilding, and journaling literally saved my life - and how it can transform yours, too.
If you’ve ever struggled with emotional eating, perfectionism, or feeling like you’re too much, this episode is a permission slip to stop forcing and start creating. Because your story isn’t over. You’re not broken. You’re just unwritten.
💫 What You’ll Hear Inside:
- Why traditional health coaching failed me after 7 years in the industry
- The real reason I binged (and what actually stopped it)
- How fan fiction became the portal to healing, self-trust, and even true love
- The surprising power of character work and fantasy in emotional alchemy
- How I accidentally wrote my soulmate into existence
- Why I believe storytelling is a more powerful tool for transformation than discipline or willpower
Learn More About The ReWrite Program Here
Find Kayla's Books Here
Book Your Call To Adventure
In this heart-expanding conversation, Caleb Nelson returns to the podcast - this time under its new Embodied Writing Warrior identity.
Since his last visit, life has brought him into a brand new role: fatherhood. And he shows up for it with rawness, depth, and grounded love. From midnight cries as mirrors for our shadows to a dinner table moment that revealed generations of pain in real time, this episode is a rich tapestry of healing, growth, and redefinition.
Caleb shares his signature “Alignment Blueprint,” reflects on being a stay-at-home dad, and speaks to what it really means to embody the sacred masculine. This one’s for the cycle breakers, the dads doing the inner work, and anyone healing their relationship with masculinity - inside or out.
🔥 In This Episode We Cover:
- How fatherhood became the ultimate mirror for personal evolution
- Caleb’s “Alignment Blueprint”: 6 tools for living from embodied values
- The generational healing moment that changed everything—at a dinner table in France
- Masculine/feminine energy, integration, and redefining accountability
- Why Millennials are the transitional generation (and what that means for healing the collective)
- The sacred dance between self-acceptance and self-accountability
- Zone of Genius vs. Zone of Excellence—and how to stop self-sabotaging your magic
- Building a legacy on love instead of hustle
Listen To The Naked Sunday Podcast
Connect With Caleb On Instagram
Have you ever had a moment where your emotional reaction felt way bigger than the situation? Like sobbing under a blanket because someone said something slightly hurtful… or clenching your jaw so hard your dentist would be concerned? 😅
What if that wasn’t you overreacting?
What if you were feeling something ancient?
In this powerful, vulnerable, and mystical episode, I’m sharing how ancestral trauma can live in your body - how emotions and patterns that seem “too much” may actually be sacred clues that you're breaking cycles that go back generations.
You’ll hear:
- A story involving cherry blossoms, electric shocks, and multi-generational mice.
- The personal breakdown I experienced in 2022 that I thought was about launching a business… but was actually about marriage, lineage, and freedom.
- The mediumship session that connected me to a rage-filled ancestor - and how that moment clarified my mission.
And you’ll walk away with:
- Three ways to deepen your ancestral healing journey
- Somatic and energetic tools that actually work (no re-traumatizing required)
- A soft place to land if you’ve ever wondered, “Why does this hurt so much?”
This is not a surface-level convo. It’s deep soul work, wrapped in love, magic, and just the right amount of unhinged energy. 🔥
🌟 Resources & Links
- 💥 The Power Portal (2-day free experience):
https://embodiedwritingwarrior.com/powerportal
→ Somatic, Superconscious, and sacred support for cycle-breakers ready to alchemize food struggles, emotional patterns, and resistance. - 💃 Episode 175: The 15 Minute Morning Routine That Transforms Emotional Eating & Ignites Confidence + Creativity
- 📚 Patriarchy Stress Disorder by Dr. Valerie Rein (the cherry blossom study & so much more)
- 🎙️ Full podcast archive + other magical episodes:
https://embodiedwritingwarrior.com/podcast
What if 10–15 minutes every morning could transform everything — your relationship with food, your confidence, your creativity, even your connection to your purpose?
In this episode of The Embodied Warrior podcast, Kayla MacDonald shares the one daily ritual that radically changed her life—and how you can use it to collapse timelines, ignite your inner fire, and break free from binge and emotional eating.
It’s not another rigid routine. It’s Dance Alchemy—a soul-led, element-based movement practice that brings your entire being online in the most magical way. Kayla shares how this ritual helped her stay consistent, confident, and grounded through major life transitions—and why it might just be the portal you’ve been searching for.
In this powerful episode, you'll learn:
- 💃 Why Dance Alchemy has become a non-negotiable daily ritual for Kayla
- 🔥 The science of why movement unlocks creativity, confidence, and healing
- 🧠 How this practice activates your whole brain (and calms your overthinking!)
- 🌱 The exact ways it helped her stop binge eating and reconnect with her body
- 🪄 Why creating emotional “states” is a skill—and how to practice them like a pro
- ✨ What happened during Kayla’s 40-day challenge—and how her life transformed
Plus: the truth about upper limits, what really helps with cravings, and why replacing habits works better than trying to “just sit with the urge.”
🎧 Listen now and reclaim your morning magic!
🔗 Links + Resources:
💜 Join The Power Portal (Free 2-Day Masterclass):
https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/powerportal
🎧 Referenced episode – #071: The Most Important Skill You’ll Ever Build
https://embodiedwarrior.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10735901
💫 Dance Alchemy Global on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dancealchemyglobal/
💫 Brooke Jillian Yantzi (Founder of Dance Alchemy):
https://www.instagram.com/brookejillianyantzi/
📲 More podcast episodes + rituals:
https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/podcast
You don’t need more discipline. You don’t need to push harder. And you definitely don’t need to be perfect.
What you do need? A united will—a deep inner alignment between your desires, beliefs, emotions, and actions.
In this vulnerable, fiery comeback episode of The Embodied Warrior, I share:
- Why relying on willpower alone keeps you stuck
- What to do when your inner parts are at war
- My personal pattern of self-sabotage (yep, including Popeyes and Crazy Bread 🙃)
- How to collapse the timeline by leading through the mess—not after it
Plus: a powerful reframe on your cravings, your perfectionism, and your visionary path.
✨ This episode is also your invitation to join me inside The Power Portal, my two-day live experience designed to transmute your biggest food, body, and self-image struggles into embodied sovereignty.
🔥 Let’s move from force to flow, from shame to power, and from scattered energy to unstoppable alignment.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why willpower alone doesn’t create lasting change
- The emotional cost of perfectionism (and how to reparent the part that’s scared)
- How to move from internal war to internal unity
- Two transformational channels: releasing resistance & adding creative power
- Why your cravings are not the enemy—they’re the invitation
Perfect For:
- High-achieving women with big dreams and even bigger inner critics
- Listeners who are tired of the binge-shame-repeat cycle
- Creators and coaches who want to show up more authentically (even in the mess)
Links + Resources:
- 💥 Sign up for The Power Portal: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/powerportal
- 📝 Full transcript & journal prompts: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/podcast
- 🎙️ Patrick’s episode: 012 – How to Set Goals & Achieve Anything
What if your struggle with food was never just about food? In this power-packed episode, Kayla shatters the illusion of a traditional weight loss journey and invites you into something much deeper—a Warrior’s Journey. Through seven soul-stirring signs, she reveals how your drama with food, body, and health might be the sacred battleground where your true identity is fighting to emerge. This is the episode for every woman who knows she’s powerful—except when it comes to food—and is ready to reclaim her fire, her focus, and her fierce feminine force.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
- Why your food struggle might actually be a portal to power
- The hidden cost of making food and weight your main character
- How to tell if you’re on a Warrior’s Journey vs. a health journey
- Why cycles of burnout and perfectionism don’t mean you’re broken
- The real reason your inner “crazy” is actually sacred and essential
Referenced in This Episode:
- Kayla’s signature journaling process (free with email signup at EmbodiedWritingWarrior.com)
- Join the waitlist for upcoming offers & deep-dive experiences
In this empowering episode, Kayla sits down with women’s wellness guide and fasting coach Nicki Thompson to explore what it really takes to heal emotional eating and create aligned health from the inside out.
They cover:
- ✨ How fasting helped Nicki regulate her emotions and rebuild trust with food
- 🧠 The role of journaling, subconscious work, and future-self embodiment
- 🍽️ The difference between coping mechanisms and true nourishment
- 💥 Why food freedom isn’t about perfection — it’s about presence
- 🌱 How to meet resistance with love and show up for your future self today
Nicki shares her story with depth, honesty, and practical wisdom. This episode is an invitation to come home to your body, release old patterns, and reclaim your health as sacred.
Connect with Nicki:
- Website: Fasting With Nicki
- Join the waitlist for the next fasting group:
https://fastingwithnicki.com/fasting-program/ - 2 Week Mindset Reset:
https://fastingwithnicki.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2-Week-Mindset-Reset-.pdf
More from Kayla:
- Podcast: Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women
- Instagram: @embodiedwritingwarrior
- Website: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/
You already are your future self—and this episode is your 3-part roadmap to living as her now. In this deeply personal and insight-packed episode, I share how to move beyond mindset and into embodiment. You'll walk away with powerful truths, journal prompts, and aligned actions to activate your next chapter.
We explore:
- Why failing as your future self is better than succeeding as your current one
- The sneaky ways we procrastinate in the name of “healing”
- How to step into the arena of your future self—even when it’s scary
Mentioned in this episode:
- [Episode 170 – You're Not Too Much - You're Just Meant For More. Welcome To Your Embodied Warrior Era]
- [Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy]
- Podcast Show Notes & Journal Prompts
Welcome to Embodied Warrior — a power portal for women who are done with surface-level self-help and ready to reclaim their full-spectrum power.
In this raw and activating rebirth episode, I’m sharing what this new era of the podcast is all about, who it’s for (and who it’s not), and why I’ve returned with a deeper mission than ever before. You’ll hear the real story behind my evolution from personal trainer to embodiment guide—and why this show isn’t just a podcast... it’s a movement.
We’ll dive into the 7 most common roadblocks that the Embodied Warrior faces—and how to begin alchemizing them into fuel for your evolution. Then I’ll introduce the 7 core principles that will guide everything we explore in future episodes.
If you’ve been stuck in burnout, perfectionism, and self-sabotage… if you crave depth, freedom, and spiritual expansion… if you’re ready to live as your future self instead of endlessly “fixing” the current one—this episode is your invitation.
This is the beginning of something big. Let’s rise.
Journal Prompts & Embodied Action Steps:
📓 Available at embodiedwritingwarrior.com
You have nothing to prove and you are not the sum total of your accomplishments and accolades.
This episode is a deep invitation to own your inherent worthiness - without conditions, without the need to accomplish or do more, without pushing or proving.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Why detaching self-worth from productivity and accomplishments is some of the most transformative work you can possible do.
- 4 ways to detach yourself worth from productivity.
Important Announcement: This is the final podcast of the show... at least for now. To learn more, tune in to this week's episode.
The Story of The Mexican Fisherman: https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/
128. High Performing, Goal-Oriented Women: This Is The Most Important Shadow Work You Can Possibly Do: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/13147051-128-high-performing-goal-oriented-women-this-is-the-most-important-shadow-work-you-can-possibly-do
Pleasure, presence, and embodiment are gateways, granting us access to our divine feminine energy.
This episode is an invitation for you to step more fully into your feminine power, giving you 8 magical practices to help you do so.
When you have consistent rituals and practices that honour the feminine, you're able to thrive more deeply.
When you thrive more deeply, you feel better, and when you feel better, you almost always perform better as well.
Reclaiming the feminine and bringing it back into balance with the masculine allows you to achieve more while feeling more peaceful, conscious, and aligned.
The Molecule of More: https://www.amazon.com/Molecule-More-Chemical-Creativity_and-Determine/dp/1948836580
Your Zodiac Soul: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Zodiac-Soul-Happiness-Wholeness-ebook/dp/B078LX8CVS/
Sheridan Ruth's Website: https://sheridanruth.com/
Understanding Your Play Styles: https://lindsaybraman.com/adult-play-styles/
162. 5 Keys To Transforming An Unhealthy Relationship With Numbers: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/14587191-162-5-keys-to-transforming-an-unhealthy-relationship-with-numbers-weight-body-size-bank-account-balance-follower-count-etc
Sometimes, life can take us into periods of imbalance.
We can end up pushing so hard towards our goals, finding ourselves so deep in slay energy, that we forget to thrive.
And sometimes we end up so focused on feeling good that we lose focus and momentum with our goals or aspirations.
If we lose enough focus and momentum towards our goals, we also eventually get to the point where we don't feel good/thrive either.
Today's episode includes powerful reminders to put you into a state of balancing your optimal amount of slay energy with your optimal amount of thrive energy.
We cover:
- What Kayla learned about balance after forgetting her own wedding anniversary.
- Two archetypes to embody on your Slay & Thrive Challenge.
- The ONE thing to focus on to thrive on a daily basis.
- Why putting more focus on thriving helps us experience more happiness, boosts our energy, and helps us achieve more in our daily lives.
Join The FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/slaythrive365
The Molecule Of More: https://www.amazon.com/Molecule-More-Chemical-Creativity_and-Determine/dp/1948836580
Two Of Cups (Tarot Club): https://thetarotclub.com/two-of-cups-2/
Habits are powerful. Most people know this, and it can still incredibly difficult to build new, helpful habits or break old, less helpful habits.
In this episode, we're breaking down some powerful strategies to supercharge your capacity to create new habits or eliminate unwanted habits altogether.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- How to choose more personally-aligned habits you'll actually stick to.
- Two ways to boost your motivation to stay consistent with your personally aligned habits.
- How to avoid the all-or-nothing trap that leads to self sabotage and inconsistency.
Join The FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/slaythrive365
040. Cultivating Self-Love & Defining Your Deepest Core Values With Health Coach & Entrepenur Caleb Nelson: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/9662744-040-cultivating-self-love-defining-your-deepest-core-values-with-health-coach-entrepreneur-caleb-nelson-slay-series
160. A Powerful Reminder To Keep You Focused, Consistent, Growing, & Thriving: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/14387716-160-a-powerful-reminder-to-keep-you-focused-consistent-growing-thriving
The Slay & Thrive Podcast is all about achieving goals - and it's also about doing it in a way that breaks away from traditional SMART Goal models.
Goal Setting the Slay & Thrive way is about feeling joyful and expansive. It's about creating sustainable transformation, not a flash in the pan result that comes from hyper-focusing on a specific end result for a finite amount of time.
In this week's episode, we cover:
- The pitfalls of traditional goal setting.
- How to set goals the Slay & Thrive way.
- Why this type of goal setting creates more magic and possibility and expansion in your daily life.
- 6 ways to uplevel your process for choosing and achieving your desires.
- A powerful daily journal prompt to boost your motivation and follow-through.
Hidden Potential By Adam Grant: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Potential-Science-Achieving-Greater/dp/B0C5Y6DM2D/
Be The Author Of Your Body Course: https://slay-and-thrive.thinkific.com/courses/be-the-author-of-your-body
Join The FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/slaythrive365
5 Zodiac Signs Who Use Black & White Thinking: https://www.yourtango.com/2019326507/horoscope-five-zodiac-signs-who-use-black-and-white-thinking-according-astrology
This episode is all about taking any failure and turning into a powerful vehicle for growth, transformation, and guidance for how you can thrive more fully on an everyday basis.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why being unafraid to fail is necessary to grow and experience deeper peace.
- How to callous yourself against fear of failure and become failure-proof.
- 6 ways to come back from any "failure" stronger, wiser, and more aligned.
Dear Adversity, Thank You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnoPzA8Imvw
One Of The Top Fears Among Americans: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-number-one-fear-among-americans-3f89acfeed41
Join The Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/slaythrive365
This is a BIG episode as we move into a brand new era of the Slay & Thrive Podcast.
The show has been ready for an upgrade for a while now, and this episode will include all the details of what you can expect in this new era.
In today's episode, you're going to learn:
- Why Kayla is no longer talking about binge eating and food freedom.
- The six types of freedom to embody in your daily life and why all of them work together and play a massive role in growth and expansion.
- The three gateways to experiencing freedom on every level.
- What to expect from the show going forward including:
- Who this show is for.
- The benefits you can expect from being a regular listener.
- What makes this show the perfect match for you and your goals, desires, and intentions.
I hope you enjoy the fresh, expanded energy of the show as much as I do!
Join The Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/slaythrive365
"We shaped numbers, and then numbers shaped us. By narrowing in on one aspect of an experience, we can miss all the other important aspects of it. The more thought-provoking and meaningful aspects. The aspects that make life worth living." - Michael Easter
In today's episode, we're breaking down 5 keys to transforming an unhealthy relationship with numbers.
These numbers could be:
- Your weight.
- Your body size.
- Your net worth or bank account balance.
- Your follower count or some other social media vanity metric.
We're going to talk about the 5 keys to transforming your relationship with these number so that instead of feeling defeat or anxiety or frustration, you can feel a sense of peace and freedom around whatever numbers are currently causing some negative charge for you.
We talk about:
- The mindset shifts required to transform your relationship to numbers.
- Whether or not you should track or check these numbers and why.
- How to create a playfully detached relationship where you can even start to have fun with certain metrics in your life.
The Work By Byron Katie: https://thework.com/2017/10/four-liberating-questions/
Your Body Is Not A Weapon: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Not-Weapon-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0BV3ZV8C5
Scarcity Brain By Michael Easter: https://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Brain-Craving-Mindset-Rewire/dp/0593236629
In this short episode, you're going to learn:
- How to hold your power and keep faith when it looks like it's not working.
- Two powerful archetypes (one masculine, one feminine) to lean into for additional strength and perserverance.
- How the four elements can help you in the challenging times when it feels like nothing is happening.
Whole Brain Living: https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Living-Anatomy-Characters/dp/B093CNF73H
Mindset Magic: How To Use 100% Of Your Brain To Maximize Your Success: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/11089175-080-mindset-magic-how-to-use-100-of-your-brain-to-maximize-your-success
This episode is going to serve as a powerful reminder to keep you focused, consistent, growing, and thriving.
On the show we're going to talk about:
- The one powerful tactic to make progress inevitable and sustainable.
- How to take this tactic to this next level.
- Why this one tactic can be the absolute game-changer when it comes to making this your best year ever.
Episode 55: Why You Haven't Achieved Your Biggest Goal Yet & What To Do About it: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10276156-055-why-you-haven-t-achieved-your-biggest-goal-yet-and-what-to-do-about-it
The Miracle Equation By Hal Elrod: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Equation-Decisions-Possible-Inevitable-ebook/dp/B07J48YH8J
The One Thing: https://www.amazon.com/The-ONE-Thing-audiobook/dp/B00FPVS27W
Empower Project Radio (Episode 118) https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/setting-your-key-priority-to-hit-your-big-goals-this-year/id1489099296?i=1000641855588
Sometimes, a simple sentence can change everything.
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down a sentence she heard years ago that still impacts her on a deep level every single week, if not every single day.
You're going to discover:
- The one sentence that can amplify your capacity to finish strong.
- How to apply this sentence/concept to every area of your life - your days, your weeks, months, your workouts, your projects... all the things.
- The masculine and feminine applications of this idea.
8 Magic Words To Help You Optimize Your Energy & Achieve Your Goals: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/12837969-119-8-magic-words-to-help-you-optimize-your-energy-levels-achieve-your-goals
In this week's episode, you'll be invited to claim another level of freedom and agency in your everyday life.
You achieve these things when you make the powerful decision to become the authority on you.
This looks like trusting your own judgement and intuition above all else.
It looks like appreciating your unique gifts and approaches to life, instead of gaslighting yourself and making yourself wrong.
It also looks like refusing to follow other people's rules and letting others dictate your path.
This is a rebellious, empowering episode where you'll discover:
- Why your own authority comes before anyone else's - even the experts and leaders of the world.
- 2 common ways we give our authority away to others.
- 7 practices to take your power back and live as the authority in your own life.
The Inner Sky By Stephen Forrest: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Sky-Wiser-Choices-Fulfilling/dp/0979067715
Demartini Values Determination: https://drdemartini.com/values/start
This week's episode is inspired and informed by ideas in the book Existential Kink by Carolyn Lovewell (nee' Elliot).
If you identity as a hard-working, goal-oriented, Type A person, you probably have a hardship kink.
You believe in the power of hard work and discipline.
You probably feel your best when you're slaying your to do list and crushing your goals.
And... you might glorify hardship and challenge to such a severe degree that it's creating unnecessary drama and leading to burnout and disengagement.
This pattern can often play out unconsciously.
However, when you make the unconscious conscious, you take back your power.
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down:
- How to know if you have a hardship kink.
- The sneaky ways this hardship kink stops you from slaying and thriving... especially when it remains in the realm of your unconscious.
- 5 ways to integrate this shadow so you can call in more ease and joy.
Existential Kink: https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Kink-Unmask-Embrace-getting/dp/1578636477
Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJH6Ykiql0
Episode 054: Having Is Evidence of Wanting & How This One Idea Can 10x Your Success & Create Miracles: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10150726-054-having-is-evidence-of-wanting-how-this-one-idea-can-10x-your-success-create-miracles
In this week's episode, we are joined by Adaline. Adaline is a talented musician, fellow Canadian, and founder of Bad Believer - a nonprofit that helps those in the LGBTQ+ community heal from religious trauma.
In this conversation, we talk about:
- The impacts of purity culture on women.
- How there is no one-size fits all approach to sexuality or religion, and the agency that comes from carving your own personal path.
- What it looks like to truly own your sexuality and find sexual freedom.
- How to reconnect to your body if you've experienced dissociation or body image challenges as a result of religious teachings.
- Ways to follow your bliss and be who you truly are without shame.
Adaline On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adalinemusic/
Adaline's Website: https://adalinemusic.com/
"Structure not only increases our chances of success; it makes us more efficient at it." - Marshall Goldsmith
In this week's episode, we're talking about the power of creating structure in your daily life.
When you have some level of structure in your life, you create a level of safety and security which will help you not only achieve your goals, but feel better doing them.
On the show today, we cover:
- Why safety is critical when you want to slay and thrive on a consistent basis.
- How structure creates a deeper sense of safety.
- The four elements and how they relate to our need for safety and stability.
Why Structure And Consistency Are Important For Kids: https://www.kidscreektherapy.com/why-structure-and-consistency-are-important-for-kids/
Your Body Is Not A Weapon: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Not-Weapon-Relationship-ebook/dp/B0BV3ZV8C5
This episode is going to be filled with slay energy.
You're going to learn how to take your goal-achieving and progress-creating powers to the next level.
You're going to learn:
- What one thing you must avoid if you want to take your progress and achievement to the next level.
- How to know if this one thing is sabotaging your results.
- Why tackling this obstacle can accelerate your momentum, regardless of what your goals are.
- The solutions for tackling this one major obstacle.
Some of the biggest goals we have in life can't be completed in a week or a month or sometimes, even over the course of one year.
Many of the greatest goals we can set can take multiple years or even decades.
That doesn't mean they aren't worth pursuing. However, when you have a big goal that spans multiple years, there can be tendency for the goal to become stale, lifeless, joyless, and mundane.
It starts to blend into the background of the rest of your life.
You might experience more boredom.
Your motivation and desire to work towards the goal might start to wane because you feel like it's taking so long.
As with running the final four or five miles of a marathon, you can start to hit a wall.
You're feeling gassed out.
It can be enough to make you consider abandoning the goal altogether.
If you're experiencing this, then today's episode is the perfect resource.
In this week's episode, you'll learn:
- How to tell if you've settled into a place of apathy and boredom with your goals.
- Why some apathy and boredom with your goals isn't always a bad thing and how to use it as force for good.
- 6 steps for bringing fresh energy and renewed life force into the relationship between you and your goals or projects.
- A personal case study from Kayla's life on how to go through this 6-Step Process.
You'll also learn about some exciting upgrades happening on the show as well.
The Cost of Getting Lean Infographic: https://www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean
In this week's episode, you'll get powerful strategies for creating the best year you've ever had.
The coming year gets to be the most magical, aligned, joyful year ever.
On today's show, you'll learn:
- 7 strategies for making sure this the most amazing year yet.
- Why I stopped planning the whole year in advance and what I do instead to achieve more goals and accelerate my progress.
- 2 powerful alternative to setting New Years Resolutions.
A year-end review can be even more valuable than setting new goals and intentions for an upcoming year.
Why?
By doing a year-end review, you're extracting maximum value and growth from the last 365 days.
You'll also be able to use this review to find the areas in your life you want to focus on in the coming year.
In this week's episode, we cover:
- 4 ways a year-end review can help you slay and thrive.
- How to set yourself up to have the most high-quality year-end review possible.
- 8 practices that have been absolute game-changers in my own life.
- My top 4 lessons from my own personal year-end review.
Episode 111. 2 Concepts To Help You Improve Your Consistency & Daily Performance
Rest is one of the most underrated and underused strategies when it comes to achieving our goals and manifesting our desires.
It's often seen as weak.
It's often seen as lazy.
It's often seen as an afterthought, or a bonus thing we might get to do if we conquer ever single thing on our endless to-do list.
These statements couldn't be further from the truth.
The ability to rest deeply, and to rest in a variety of ways, is how you optimize your energy and maximize the amount of life force you have to go out and live your most amazing, incredible, aligned life.
Rest isn't just about taking naps or rest days from workouts either. In this episode, we'll talk about:
- 7 Types of Rest, With Examples & Journal Prompts
- Practical Ways To Integrate Each Type of Rest Into Your Daily Life
Links: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/27/working-husbands-in-the-us-have-more-leisure-time-than-working-wives-do-especially-among-those-with-children/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2019/08/13/who-relaxes-more-men-or-women/?sh=24730dd85bd3
What if a healthier, happier, more focused, more creative, more peaceful you was a mere 30 days away?
This was my experience after completing a 30-Day Social Media detox.
In this week's episode, I'm going to share:
- 4 reasons to consider doing a social media detox
- How I successfully navigated 30 days without social media
- The big takeaways I had from my 30 days off social media
- How I healthily and consciously reintroduced social media in a more limited, aligned way
- Three books to help you slay your social media detox
Stolen Focus By Johann Hari: https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/dp/0593138538/
Deep Work By Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692
Digital Minimalism By Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/0525536515/
When it comes to achieving your goals and manifesting your goals, is it best to focus on the outcome or the process?
As with many things, the answer is often "it depends".
In this episode, you'll learn:
- The difference between focusing on the outcome versus the process.
- How to use astrology and the four elements to figure out your best approach for giving your energy more to process or more to the outcome.
- How to focus on process in an aligned, empowering way.
- How to focus on the outcome in a joyful, detached, enthusiastic way.
- The warning signs you're focused on either of the process or the outcome in a misaligned way.
We are joined by an amazing guest on this week's show.
We are chatting with Linda DeNike - a spiritual mentor with 40 years of experience, psychic minister, and someone devoted to helping others connect with their true natures.
In this conversation we talk about:
- How to create powerful, high vibration morning routines.
- The one BIG mistake people make when manifesting and how to avoid it.
- The core philosophy of effortless manifestation.
Visit Linda's Website: https://lindadenike.com/
Connect With Linda On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linda.denike
Join Linda In Her Effortless Manifestation Program: https://lindadenike.com/effortless-manifestation/
This is our final instalment in our "Journal With The Elements" series.
In this episode, we tap into the energy of fire.
There are a few key components that make up this final element:
- Connecting to our big picture vision for our lives on a consistent basis.
- Generating enthusiasm, passion, and enthusiasm.
- Diving into shadow integration when needed.
- Cultivating a deeper sense of spirituality - whatever that looks like to us.
Join 4thewords.com here: https://4thewords.com/
My Referral Code: SRPYL24652
Get The Journal Prompts Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXH3Ch3TXqkFGfFDQfLimlnDxwpi333tpENijfoNzC4
Episode 054: Having Is Evidence Of Wanting & How This One Idea Can 10x Your Success & Create Miracles: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10150726-054-having-is-evidence-of-wanting-how-this-one-idea-can-10x-your-success-create-miracles
Existential Kink By Carolyn Elliot
This episode is third instalment in our "Journal With The Elements" series.
This week, we're diving into our emotional world.
Many people see emotions as weak or destructive. We often try to repress or push away our emotions, often through practices like overeating or overspending or overspending. This all occurs to our detriment.
This week's episode will give you a 5-part process for noticing and processing all emotions, no matter how uncomfortable they feel in the moment.
You'll also learn why there are NO bad emotions.
In addition, you'll discover:
- How to journal with water element to discover your core desired states of being.
- Ways to generate our core desired emotions on demand.
Join 4thewords.com here: https://4thewords.com/
My Referral Code: SRPYL24652
Get The Journal Prompts Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXH3Ch3TXqkFGfFDQfLimlnDxwpi333tpENijfoNzC4
The Gifts of Our Compulsions By Mary O'Malley
017. A 5-Step Guide to Emotional Intelligence, Which Will Help You Manifest Your Desires: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/9064306-017-a-5-step-guide-to-emotional-intelligence-which-will-help-you-manifest-your-desires
071. The Most Important Skill You'll Ever Build: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10735901-071-the-most-important-skill-you-ll-ever-build
This is the second episode in a special series that shows you how to create a powerful journal practice to improve your health, reduce anxiety, create more desirable states like joy and peace on demand, and accelerate your progress in any area of your life.
In this week's episode, we're diving into how you can journal with the air element.
This element focuses on how we think, perceive the world around us, and extract meaning from life's events.
We think around 60,000 thoughts a day. 80% of those thoughts are negative and 95% of those thoughts are repetitive, keeping us stuck in old patterns.
What if it didn't have to be this way?
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why journaling about your own thoughts can change your entire life.
- The types of thought patterns that most commonly get in the way of happiness, fulfilment, and progress.
- How to create more positive thoughts on a consistent basis, which will lead to more empowered actions and better results.
- How to consciously think new thoughts to generate an entirely new reality for yourself.
Join 4thewords.com here: https://4thewords.com/
My Referral Code: SRPYL24652
Get The Journal Prompts Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXH3Ch3TXqkFGfFDQfLimlnDxwpi333tpENijfoNzC4
Chakras & The Vagus Nerve By C. J. Llewelyn
Loving What Is By Byron Katie
Existential Kink By Carolyn Elliot
This is the first episode in a special series that shows you how to create a powerful journal practice to improve your health, reduce anxiety, create more desirable states like joy and peace on demand, and accelerate your progress in any area of your life.
This might sound like a tall order, but it is exactly what journaling with intention and a proven structure can do for you.
In this first episode of the series, we're talking about how to journal with the earth element.
When we journal with the earth element, we do two things:
- We connect to our bodies.
- We pay intention to the concrete actions we're taking in the physical world.
We're going to cover:
- The benefits of journaling with the earth element.
- Why the earth element is vital if you're pursuing a health goal - but also positively impacts ANY other goal you might have.
- What to write about when journaling with this element.
- Sample journal prompts to get you started.
Join 4thewords.com here: https://4thewords.com/
My Referral Code: SRPYL24652
Get The Journal Prompts Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXH3Ch3TXqkFGfFDQfLimlnDxwpi333tpENijfoNzC4
In this week's episode, you're going to learn the four parts of a journal process to improve every arena of your life. This journal process will:
- Help you create a deep level of health that is mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.
- Relieve anxiety and stress about life's circumstances.
- Create a deeper sense of emotional stability.
- Moves you in the direction of YOUR absolute best life - whatever that looks like to you.
- Allow you to see all of life's difficult moments as opportunities for deep growth and transformation.
You'll discover:
- Why journaling is the one tool that makes everything better, no matter what your goals are.
- The four elements of Kayla's signature journaling process.
- How to get into a consistent habit with journaling.
I'm also spilling the T on how you can transform your life through journaling with me all month long in November!
Join 4thewords.com here: https://4thewords.com/
My Referral Code: SRPYL24652
In this week's episode, I'm sharing my own personal strategies and resources that helped me create the biggest transformation I've had in my entire life.
I'm sharing this because I know that if these shifts worked so well for me, there are going to be parts of my approach that resonate with you as a listener.
How to listen to this episode: Listen with the goal of thinking about what pieces of my strategy resonate or land with you or intrigue you. Pick a few things you think would benefit you at this time and commit to implementing them.
I'm going to share:
- The big shift in priorities I made to transform my results.
- How I got better results and in better shape my working out way less.
- The one change I made with my nutrition that made everything easier.
- One bonus strategy that created a lot more ease around making healthy choices that also saved us literally hundreds of dollars every single month in food costs.
Take The Hormone Type Quiz: https://metabolic.sjv.io/c/4769609/1389512/16185?adid=%7Biradid%7D&iratid=30746
Metabolic Renewal: https://metabolic.sjv.io/c/4769609/1389509/16185?adid=%7Biradid%7D&iratid=30746
"The success of your business is directly related to your level of enthusiasm for it." - Patrick Dominguez
This episode is going to be fiery one to turn to in periods of low motivation and low enthusiasm.
In this episode, we're going to break down why enthusiasm is a powerful force for achieving any goal you have.
It's also going to help you enjoy the process towards any goal as well.
I'm also going to be giving you 7 ways to create enthusiasm, motivation, and inspiration on demand.
This is an episode that every high-performing woman needs to listen to.
As a high-performing, Type-A woman, there's an extremely high chance that you rely on your own will and actions to influence every outcome in your life.
This can be a great thing.
Everyone wants agency and the feeling of having a say in what happens in their external world.
However, in many cases, this emphasis on our own will and actions can become excessive. We end up trying to control everything and everyone around us, which creates a lot of unnecessary stress and unhappiness.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- The difference between being an empowered action-taker and being a stressed-out controller.
- How to release your death grip on control and find a level of surrender and trust that feels peaceful and safe.
- Three mindset reframes to help you become an empowered action-taker who lets go of the need for excessive control and certainty.
You've probably heard that willpower is a finite resource.
Willpower depletes over the course of the day.
The more you use willpower throughout the day, the less you have later.
And while these ideas might be true, I believe one of the biggest ways we limit and reduce our willpower is when we make our willpower conditional.
Our willpower only shows up in certain circumstances.
It's only possible to have willpower during these times, but not those ones.
This limits our power in our daily lives.
I believe you become unstoppable when you stop putting conditions on your willpower.
In this episode, we'll talk about:
- A more empowering view on willpower (versus simply seeing it as a finite resource).
- The three most-common conditions we put on our willpower.
- How to stop putting conditions on your willpower so you can become the most powerful, consistent version of yourself.
This episode title might have you scratching your head, but I mean it when I say I'm grateful for my recent weight regain.
I wasn't grateful for it a few months ago.
I felt so defeated and demoralized by my own behaviour and energy between the months of September to April.
I thought I had learned nothing after all these years.
I thought it meant I was doomed to failure and unhappiness and could only keep it at bay for so long.
However, that wasn't the case whatsoever.
With that period of time behind me, I'm able to realize why I had the setbacks I did with my health and weight.
I know realize they were for my highest good.
In this week's episode, I'm walking you through all the reasons why I'm grateful for the weight I gained back.
My intention is for this episode to serve as a case study for you so you can see how it's possible to take any setback or struggle, and use it as a force for growth and transformation.
Today, we are joined by Meadow Faith - a Human Design expert, entrepreneur, and spiritual teacher.
Meadow shares her wisdom and insights on how to use Human Design to master your own personal energetic field, make better decisions, and live your healthiest, most aligned life.
This conversation includes:
- An explanation of the 5 energy types (Aura) and how they best operate (Strategy).
- Using your emotional state to course correct your actions and approach (Not-Self-Theme & Signature).
- How to create your own personalized map to success, regardless of the goal you're pursuing or what energy type you are.
Get your free Human Design Chart here: https://www.jovianarchive.com/get_your_chart
Connect With Meadow: https://www.magicalbossbabe.com/
There is one powerful, surefire way to create a rapid transformation with your health or body - and it's to cultivate more consistent levels of peace in your life.
Peace is not just about managing or minimizing stress.
Peace is stress management on steroids.
Peace is a state that will make any health, fitness, or body transformation goal 100x easier.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- Why cultivate peace if you want to make sustainable progress towards your health and fitness goals.
- How to break through your comfort zone while still honouring your body's need for peace and relaxation
- 5 strategies for cultivating inner peace in a way that supports and accelerates momentum and keeps you thriving on the journey.
Connect With Kayla On FB: https://www.facebook.com/kaylavanegdom
Today's episode is going to cover two powerful intentions to help you create your biggest glow up yet.
Dictionary.Com defines a glow up as "an informal term for a positive personal transformation, typically one involving significant changes in appearance and style and often also growth in confidence and maturity (and sometimes aspects of personal or professional life)."
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- Two powerful intentions to help you create an incredible glow up, and the breakdown of why they are SO powerful.
- How to customize these powerful intentions to your desires and preferences.
- A simple daily way to work with these intentions that takes less than 5 minutes in the morning.
Episode 71: The Most Important Skill You'll Ever Build: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10735901-071-the-most-important-skill-you-ll-ever-build
Consistency is one of the greatest superpowers you can ever possess.
It's a keystone part of what it takes to slay your goals and thrive along the way.
However, sometimes, we think we're chasing consistency when what we're truly chasing is perfectionism disguised as consistency.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why consistency is a superpower and why perfectionism is a fatal flaw.
- 5 Red Flags that you're chasing perfectionism instead of focusing on consistency.
- How to make the shift from trying to be perfect to building more consistency and stability into your daily life.
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Naomi Wolf
To celebrate the release of The Barbie Movie last month, we are doing a special episode on how you can simultaneously transform your body and slay the patriarchy.
In today's society, it sometimes feel likes there are two distinct camps:
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The weight loss and body transformation camp, which can keep women spinning in a cycle of obsessing about how their body's look and how much they're eating. This can sometimes be approached in a way that is harmful and reinforces the patriarchy.
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The body positivity/feminism camp, which strives to empower women and allow them to love themselves and their body's at every size. However, this camp can also make women feel shame if they do want to lose weight or transform their bodies in some way.
When these two camps go to war with each other, it's a losing game for any woman involved.
But what if you didn't have to choose?
What if you could love and accept your body, celebrate yourself as a women, use your actions and your approach to tell the patriarchy to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, AND create a physical transformation, if you desire to do so?
That is what this week's episode is all about.
Article From Ravishly.com: https://www.ravishly.com/2015/03/05/weight-loss-patriarchy-feminism-
3 Ways To Infuse Feminine Energy Into Your Wellness Journey: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/13008542-124-3-ways-to-infuse-feminine-energy-into-your-wellness-journey
Today's episode contains a short but powerful message to help you deal with frustration and impatience that comes when progress feels slow.
There are times on our journey towards our goals where it feels like things aren't happening. Progress either feels painfully slow or even nonexistent in certain seasons.
Tune in to this episode to learn:
- The deeper reasons we experience frustration and impatience, and what to do about it.
- How to reframe periods of slow progress and why they are actually a good thing.
- One way to accelerate your progress without pushing harder or burning yourself out.
The intention of this message is to leave you feeling comforted and peaceful, no matter how slow your progress has felt, and give you a dose of inspiration to keep moving towards your goals.
This episode was inspired by an interesting conversation I had with a friend on one of our hikes.
She was sharing something she'd heard from a big health coach in the industry. What she'd heard was this:
Running and other types of high-intensity cardio raise your cortisol levels and create a stress response in the body. This can cause people, especially women in menopause, to gain weight.
She asked what my thoughts were. I said I agreed and disagreed. I'm going to elaborate on the thoughts I had surrounding this topic. In this episode, you'll learn:
- The science behind stress-related weight gain from running and other intense forms of cardio.
- How our thoughts about movement and exercise impact our body's physiological response to them.
- When running or other high-intensity cardio would be beneficial, and when it might be more harmful than helpful in terms of building health and longevity.
- How to choose the most aligned exercise for you.
- How to tune into your own body's wisdom to make the best movement-related decisions possible.
Article On Cortisol & Exercise: https://www.runtothefinish.com/why-working-out-but-gaining-weight/
Binge eating is like an unholy union between self-harm, behavioral addiction and substance addiction, which is what makes it so insidious. - Reddit User
In today's episode, we're talking about why you don't need OA, FA, or any other recovery program to heal from binge and emotional eating.
You'll discover:
- What potential, short-term benefits these programs could have.
- Why you don't need these programs to heal.
- How OA and similar programs can actually worsen or prolong your struggles with food and eating.
- What you actually need to become the person who has a peaceful, natural, healthy relationship with food.
Get Your Copy of Your Body is Not A Weapon: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Not-Weapon-Relationship/dp/0645383783
The Love-Powered Diet By Victoria Moran: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Powered-Diet-Eating-Freedom-Health/dp/1590561171
High performing, goal-achieving women - this one for is for you if you're looking for more inner peace, a deeper connection with yourself, and a more fulfilling life in general.
This probably sounds like a tall order because sometimes, peace and self-care and fulfilment come second to the external targets and goals we set for ourselves.
Sometimes, we become unhappy achievers in our pursuit of our next level.
Sometimes, we find ourselves perpetually unsatisfied, no matter how much we achieve.
Sometimes, we become disillusioned because instead of making us happier, each achievement leaves us feeling more empty and hollow because it didn't make us feel the way we expected to feel.
There's a big reason for this, and it involves a particular shadow every person has within them.
When you do this specific type of shadow work, you will create the conditions where you can slay (in a fulfilling, life-affirming way) and also thrive at the same time.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- What type of shadow work is essential for the high-performing, goal-oriented woman.
- How doing this type of shadow work can uplevel every aspect of your life and bring you more peace, joy, and presence on a daily basis.
- Journal prompts to help you integrate this shadow for yourself.
Article on Animus Possession: https://appliedjung.com/animus-possession/
Get Your Copy of Your Body is Not A Weapon: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Not-Weapon-Relationship/dp/0645383783
This week, we are joined by Caleb Nelson - an entrepreneur and high performance coach who helps people do the inner work to grow and evolve while also fulfilling their life's deepest purpose.
In this episode, we talk about:
- What it means to look better naked, inside and out.
- How high performers can hold high standards and chase their potential without becoming cruel or excessively self-criticizing.
- Why spiritual/inner growth often must happen first, before the external circumstances shift.
- How to notice, celebrate, and enjoy the inner growth that happens on the way to the external successes.
Connect with Caleb on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nakedsundaystudios/
Book an Alignment Audit with Caleb: https://nakedsundaystudios.com/audit
If you're actively working on improving your health or reaching another level of fitness, today's episode will help you create some serious magic.
In today's episode you're going to discover:
- How to infuse magic and manifesting into your health & fitness goals.
- The 5 steps to becoming the energetic match for the health and vitality you desire.
- How to move forwards when you're struggling with self-doubt, inconsistency, frustration, or impatience.
If you loved this episode, I would highly recommend an incredible program created by my mentor, Patrick Dominguez. Learn more here: https://innercoach.com/
Episode 012: How To Set Goals & Achieve Anything With Patrick Dominguez - https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/8878862-012-how-to-set-goals-achieve-anything-with-patrick-dominguez
Tune in for a tactical, practical episode on how to meal plan and prep for the week ahead like a beast.
Meal planning and meal prepping is an essential, game-changing skill that will create more ease, more alignment, and more progress on a weekly-basis. In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why focusing on meal planning will change the entire trajectory of your week.
- Kayla's 9-Step Process for meal planning and meal prepping.
- How to modify your process for your unique goals and life situations.
Happy Meal Planning!
Our wellness journey can become heavily reliant on masculine energy strategies, if we're not careful.
Counting calories and planning our meals: Masculine.
Doing intense, heroic exercise and pushing our bodies: Masculine.
Weighing ourselves and taking measurements: Masculine.
Steeling ourself against cravings and having the willpower to JUST SAY NO: Masculine.
The hyper-reliance on the masculine alone can lead to challenges with emotional eating, poor body image, and a deep sense of unhappiness with ourselves as we pursue a greater level of health.
That's why in today's episode, I'm sharing three ways you can infuse more feminine energy into your wellness journey.
You'll learn:
- How these three strategies helped me lose 6 pounds while away on vacation - and I don't think I've EVER went on a vacation without GAINING weight before this one.
- How to incorporate these strategies into your daily life.
- The reason these three strategies are so powerful for improving your level of health, vitality, and overall sense of well-being.
This week, we're talking about a powerful identity to step into so you can slay your goals and thrive while doing it.
We cover the idea of being a strong starter first. This is an identity many people - especially high-achieving women - identify with the most.
It's the ability to come in hot and make big moves in the beginning of a new goal pursuit or project.
However, many people find the level of focus and drive wanes as novelty and excitement wears off.
Then there's the identity of a strong finisher.
This is something many people begin to see as vital, and start to prioritize becoming someone who sees goals, projects, and endeavors through to their end.
Becoming a stronger finisher will 100% change your life. And there's another identity you can begin to embody that is EVEN more powerful.
Tune in to today's episode to learn what the identity is and how to use this identity to make more progress towards on your goals on a consistent basis.
In today's episode we are joined by a very special guest.
We are joined by US Navy Veteran, bestselling author, and trauma warrior, Doug Paul Fleming. This is a powerful conversation where we cover:
- The importance of telling your story, especially around old traumas, and how to get started.
- 2 vital practices to help you heal from trauma
- How to deepen your spirituality and connect to your own personal spirit guides.
Connect With Doug On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088886720840
Visit Doug's Website: https://www.blackhawkbooks.com/
Important Note: This episode contains talk about trauma and suicide and may not be ideal for every listener.
This episode walks you through how to use the power of the elements to create a greater level of health, energy, and fitness.
The earth element is all about the actions you take and the strategies you use.
The air element is your mental body. It includes your thoughts, beliefs, and stories about food, your metabolism, and everything else that happens in your life.
The water element is where you can tap into and harness the potent force of your emotions.
Finally, the fire element can help you cultivate enthusiasm and passion that comes from a big, fiery vision of where you want your life to go and what you desire to create in your health journey.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- How to tap into all four elements for greater consistency and personal power.
- When to shift your attention to a particular element - oftentimes, a struggle in our health journey comes from a neglected or imbalanced element.
- How to recognize your own tendencies towards imbalance and course correct on a regular basis.
Birth Chart Calculator: https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/calculate-birth-chart-horoscope-online/
Today's episode, is a short, sweet strategy for you to turn to when you're struggling to manifest your dreams or make progress towards your goas.
In today's episode, you're going to learn about how to turn things around after a period of struggle.
You'll learn:
- One reason why manifestation and goal achievement can become difficult.
- How to create a peaceful comeback and start manifesting your dreams again.
With a few small tweaks to your perspective and your strategy, you will be back slaying your goals and thriving along the way in no time.
How different could your life look if you had access to more consistent life force energy?
How much better would you feel?
How much more would you be able to accomplish?
How much more empowered and capable would you feel?
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down her simple mantra for optimizing your daily energy levels.
You can use this mantra to create more consistent energy, which will lead to more consistent, joyful progress towards the goals you have for your life.
Happy Slaying & Thriving.
Looking for a boost this week? Today's podcast episode has you covered.
In today's episode, we're breaking down one scientific law you can use to increase your drive and mental focus.
You'll discover:
- The one law you can turn to when you want to increase your strength.
- How this law applies to physical, mental, emotional, AND spiritual strength. It works everywhere.
- Some ideas on how you can apply this law to the most challenging parts of your life.
This powerful reframe of difficult situations and this week's slay challenge could be the exact catalyst you need for taking your performance to the next level. Enjoy.
Link to Article: https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/what-is-wolffs-law
What if getting stuck - REALLY stuck - was the doorway to an incredible, life-changing breakthrough?
If you're been struggling to take action or your progress towards your goals has been stagnant, then this week's episode is for you.
You'll learn:
- 4 things to avoid doing when you're feeling stuck
- How to use periods of feeling stuck and stagnant as the doorway to growth and transformation
- Journal prompts to help you manufacture a breakthrough after feeling stuck, no matter how long you've been struggling for.
Journal Prompts:How could this period of being stuck be happening for me?
How could being stuck or resistant to action be a spiritual or emotional stop sign?
What truths about myself or this situation am I avoiding?
Is this approach to my goal the right approach for me? How does it feel in my body?
What can I change about my approach to release resistance?
What are the reasons behind pursuing this goal?
Are my reasons for pursuing the goal creating this resistance?
Do I even want this thing? Or, do I think I have to get this thing in order to get something else?
If nothing was off the table and I could create my own rules, what would this experience look and feel like for me?
To achieve success on in your health and fitness journey, you probably don't need to find more practices and tools.
You probably already know what to do.
To slay and thrive, you want to consistently and reliably execute the most critical foundational skills for success with weight loss, fitness, or improved health.
Today's episode is a powerful reminder to prioritize the basics.
Kayla is also sharing her top 5 foundational skills in her own journey and why they have been such game-changers in her own life.
You have an immense amount of personal power in your everyday life.
Today's episode is a potent reminder of how much influence you have over the external circumstances in your everyday life, when you choose to claim in.
Tune in to hear:
- How Kayla used her manifesting powers to achieve an outcome on her wedding day that blew people's minds
- Four strategies for taking your manifesting superpowers to the next level.
Enjoy!
Today, we are joined by Leah Tarleton - a dietician who has transitioned into her true calling as a holistic intuitive healer.
Leah works with Highly Sensitive women to help them feel nourished on every level - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- Leah's 9 elements of nourishment.
- What nutrition and self-care looks like for a highly sensitive person.
- The challenges and the beautiful gifts unique to the highly sensitive population.
- The four S's of gut health and magic of noticing and honouring them.
Connect with Leah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.nourished.sensitive/
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Today's episode dives deep into the subject of drama and heightened emotion in our health and fitness journey.
This refers to the immense guilt and shame that happens when we deviate from our best laid plans or find ourselves overeating at night.
This refers to the intense desperation to lose weight as quickly as possible, treating it like an emergency.
This refers to the despair and frustration that comes from feeling like you've been in the middle of weight-loss plateau for the last eight years.
Having a dramatic relationship with food creates a lot of powerful emotions.
Where there are powerful emotions, there is ALSO a lot of untapped personal power.
It also creates an immense opportunity for healing and growth personally and metabolically.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- The potential reasons why drama exists in your health and fitness journey, and what to do about them.
- How to heal a dramatic relationship to food and weight.
- How drama can be used as a powerful catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.
- How to harness the power of drama and heightened emotion to create a radical transformation, inside and out.
Listen To Episode 54 here: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10150726-054-having-is-evidence-of-wanting-how-this-one-idea-can-10x-your-success-create-miracles
The truth is, motivation won't be a constant companion as you work towards your goals.
There will be times where you possess a LOT of it... and time periods where you would give anything for an ounce of it.
Because motivation isn't consistent, you're going to want to find other ways to keep going in periods of low motivation.
And today, we're going to talk about how to hack your motivation so you have more of it, more consistently.
While it still won't always be around, you can increase the likelihood it'll be present and be present for longer periods of time.
Tune in to today's episode to learn how.
Click here to enroll in the Be The Author Of Your Body Self-Study Course: https://slay-and-thrive.thinkific.com/
Episode 093 With Howard Sambol: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/11672528-093-how-to-find-your-purpose-master-self-discovery-amplify-self-awareness-with-howard-sambol
Today, we're looking at two ideas you can integrate into your everyday life to increase your consistency and daily performance.
These concepts will invite you to take an honest inventory of what your daily routines and practices look like.
From that place of honesty and awareness, you can transform the areas most in need of an upgrade so you can make progress faster, and increase your feelings of self-trust and self-confidence.
We're going to get practical and actionable today, so get ready for some serious slay energy.
Do you find yourself:
- Skipping workouts or self-care time because you're too busy helping everyone else in your life?
- Eating food at social functions because you don't want to hurt someone's feelings?
- Drinking alcohol because you want to fit in and belong?
- Worrying about what people will think if you order that salad at the restaurant instead of burgers and fries like everyone else?
If so, you'll want to tune into this week's episode.
In this week's episode, we're talking about the tendency to people please and how it affects your health and fitness journey.
You'll learn:
- How to tell whether or not people pleasing is derailing your best intentions
- 4 strategies for conquering the tendency to people please in a harmful, misaligned way
- How to move from people pleasing to honoring your own needs and intentions... while also improving the quality of your personal relationships. You get to have both.
Some of the best advice I've ever heard about increasing motivation and follow-through came from one of my mentors, Elizabeth Benton. She recommended that, when pursuing a goal, you have many reason for achieving said goal and that you make these reasons as strong as possible.
This advice inspired today's episode.
This episode also creates a more spiritual, holistic lens for pursuing health and fitness goals.
When we're only focused on aesthetics - body size, weight, appearance - we're missing out on the opportunity to create much a much deeper sense of health and a more loving connection to our bodies.
In today's episode, I'm sharing 6 reasons to upgrade your fitness and nutrition habits that have nothing to do with the aesthetics.
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Today, we are joined by Jayne Dearborn - a dietician turned spiritual entrepreneur.
Jayne's spiritual awakening came during on the most heartbreaking experience a person can go through - the terminal illness and loss of her seven year-old son.
She found energy healing and spirituality as a way to heal and evolve through this difficult time.
In today's episode, you'll hear:
- How Jayne made the shift from masculine energy to feminine energy, both in her career and in life.
- How a spiritual awakening helped Jayne navigate some of her darkest moments.
- All about the importance of community and asking for help.
- How retreats and a change of environment can serve as a catalyst for deeper healing and transformation.
Learn more about Jayne's upcoming retreat at https://sacrablu.com/.
Connect With Jayne on Instagram: sacrablue
Today we are joined by Samantha Gladish - a women's weight loss and hormone health expert.
We did something we don't do often enough on the podcast - we dive into the fundamentals of living a healthy lifestyle, backed up with all the science behind it.
Sam shares:
- The three core fundamentals of hormone health and everyday vitality
- How to tackle feelings of deprivation and missing out when healing from an autoimmune disorder or other health condition
- Ways to infuse spirituality into the science and strategy of a health journey
Connect with Sam on Instagram at holisticwellnessswitch (Health Coaching Account) and samantha_gladish (Business Coaching Account).
In today's episode, we're highlighting the differences between the traditional path of health and fitness versus the spiritual path.
You'll learn:
- The red flags to watch out for on the traditional path of health and weight loss goals
- Physical, mental, and emotional shifts you can make to turn your health journey into a spiritual one
- How to use your challenges with eating, weight, or health as doorways to deeper personal transformation
You're also going to get a little bit of a Kayla rant in this episode, so get ready.
Get your copy of Your Body is Not a Weapon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0645383783/
How did two bestselling authors tell the exact same story about Michael Jordan and reach entirely different conclusions?
Perspective.
They were each trying to prove something entirely different with their books.
This lead them to different conclusions, and these conclusions drove home the points they were trying to make.
What does this mean for us and our own perspective?
Subconsciously, when we adopt a certain perspective, we're trying to prove something.
What if we're subconsciously trying to make a case for the reality we DON'T want.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How to notice your perspective and the reality it's creating
- How to consciously change your perspective so it's creating the exact reality you do want
If you're ready to take your mindset game to the next level, this episode is for you!
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Today, we are joined by Elan Zelenka - an intuitive sex and relationship coach who helps women connect more deeply with their body, express themselves with confidence and play in the pleasure of their sexual liberation.
In this juicy episode, we talk about:
- The roots of sexual shame and how it impacts intimate relationships in our adult lives
- The impact of sister wounds and how it drives jealousy and competition among women
- The five pillars of the sexually liberated woman
Connect with Elan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/elan.zelenka/
Connect with Elan on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elan.zelenka
Worthy: Cultivating Enoughness From Within
I've been saving this episode of the podcast for the end of January, with good reason.
This is often the time when the shininess of the new year wears off and people start to lose momentum as they move towards their goals.
If you're experiencing this, you are not alone.
There is also a way to continue moving forwards.
In today's episode, I'm sharing a framework that can help you continue making consistent, steady progress towards your dreams, no matter how hard it may seem sometimes.
You can continue moving towards your goals all throughout the year.
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For many women, strategy alone is NOT the complete solution to their challenges with weight loss and emotional eating.
If strategy alone was the solution, then every diet and workout program would work.
This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. It probably means that you're struggling with something a huge majority of women struggle with: low self-worth.
In today's episode, we'll cover the five signs that your struggles with weight loss and emotional eating have nothing to do with a faulty way of eating, lack of discipline, or the inability to get the results you desire.
Instead, we'll cover the signs that the struggles you're having in this area are likely to stem from challenges with self-worth.
We'll also talk about how you can start to do the real work of cultivating self-worth FIRST, which is going to create more ease and flow as you move towards your health and fitness goals.
Click here to register for Worthy: Cultivating Enoughness From Within.
When we experience struggles or setbacks with our eating habits, there's one big thing that keeps us stuck in the struggle for longer than necessary.
That thing is a lack of clarity on what's actually happening.
Maybe you think the challenge you're having is with emotional eating?
So, you're trying to solve emotional eating and you're frustrated and confused when it's not working.
What if the problem isn't emotional eating at all? What if it's another type of eating challenge that isn't talked about nearly as much.
In today's episode, we're going to break down the distinctions between emotional eating and complacent eating.
We'll talk about how to know which type of eating you're currently struggling with and we'll cover strategies for you to use, regardless of which strategy you're struggling with.
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Can you believe we are here?! Episode 100!
As a way to celebrate this big milestone, we're going to be diving into the core pillars of joyful achieving.
We'll revisit some of the foundational concepts that can help you Slay & Thrive your way through 2023 and beyond.
You can also go back and listen to some old episodes based on these concepts if they resonate and you want to take a deeper dive.
- Listen To Episode 004: Why Focusing On Your Problems Will Not Fix Them & What To Do Instead
- Listen To Episode 017: A 5-Step Guide To Emotional Intelligence, Which Will Help You Manifest Your Desires
- Listen To Episode 020: How Shadow Work Can Help Heal Past Relationships So You Can Control Your Emotions & Manifest Your Soulmate
- Listen To Episode 022: Use This Powerful Tool To Unlock More Joy & Fulfilment
- Listen To Episode 027: Your Simple, Foolproof Guide For Achieving Mastery In Any Area Of Your Life
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- Listen To Episode 032: Achieve Your Goals Faster With Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Alignment
- Listen To Episode 034: Raise Your Vibration To Become The Energetic Match For Your Desires
- Listen To Episode 052: How To Stop Emotional Eating & Other Bad Habits During The Times That Feel Hardest For You - Evenings, Weekends, Vacations, & Times of Stress
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- Listen To Episode 082: Are You Trying To Be Healthy Or Perfect? Your Guide To Eliminating Perfectionism On Your Body Transformation Journey
- Listen To Episode 086: An Unconventional Framework For Creating Unconditional Self-Love
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This is generally the time when people start to reflect on their year.
In many cases, this process includes some disappointment, some frustration, and some regret.
Maybe you wanted to be farther along on a goal at this point.
Maybe, through a series of unexpected events, nothing went as planned.
Maybe you're not even close to where you thought you'd be at the end of 2022.
If this is the vibe for you right now, I've got you with today's episode.
Today, we're diving deep into how to use setbacks, disappointments, obstacles, and failures as the building blocks for something entirely different in the coming year.
No matter what didn't go according to plan in 2022, it wasn't in vain.
You get to extract whatever meaning you choose from the last year.
I'm also sharing my biggest "screw-ups" from the year and how I'm using them for my greater good in 2023.
Today, we are joined by Erik DaRosa, the founder and CEO of From Survivor To Thriver.
From Survivor To Thriver is a podcast and movement that is shattering stigmas and breaking the silence around everything from trauma, mental illness, and abuse. In today's episode, he shares:
- Three tangible steps a trauma survivor can take to shift out of survival mode and into thriving mode
- The importance of reversing stigmas around mental illness
- How to navigate holiday stress and guilt, and having an amazing holiday season on your terms
- How to meet yourself where you're at
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This week, the Slay & Thrive Podcast welcomes Jenny McDonald - a food freedom & energy alignment coach.
Jenny McDonald empowers women to break free from dieting, find peace with food, with themselves and still lose weight.
Jenny developed a disruptive relationship with food and became a secret eater before the age of 10. Jenny longed to be like the other girls’ but she was fighting not only against her love for food but against a condition called Lipoedema. Now, over 6 stone lighter and always working on her relationship with herself and food, Jenny’s mission is to inspire women everywhere to find food freedom.
With over 17 years experience in the weight loss industry Jenny has helped 1000’s of women drastically change the way they feel about food. She uses deep energy and mindset work to enable her clients to create a life with food that they love!
In 2020 Jenny created The Becoming You Academy™, a safe place for women across the world to heal their relationship with food.
Jenny is a certified and accredited Health and Life Coach, an Advanced Helix Method® Mentor, trained in ThetaHealing® and has a background in CBT group counselling.
In today's episode, we chat about:
- What energy alignment is, and how it can create a more ease and joy in one's health and fitness journey
- The blocks that keep a person from being in alignment, and what to do about them
- The power of limiting beliefs on our energetic field
- The importance of healing our ancestral lines
- The Three Energetic States - Receptive, Resistant, and Reversed, and what to do about each one
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In today's episode, we are joined by Vanessa Grace.
Vanessa Grace is an expert in overcoming codependency both personally and professionally. She is a life coach and licensed social worker. Her expertise, kind heart and a dash of light humor help her clients heal the life experiences and trauma that created codependency to begin with.
Vanessa joins mental health, spiritual practices, and life aspirations to help women create the lives they really want for themselves. Her one on one coaching and group coaching courses help you truly transform from the inside. If you want to heal your soul to become a strong self, she’s got you covered!
She's also more recently dove deep into the female cycle and how to work with it rather than against it.
Excessive pain and debilitating symptoms are NOT necessary during menstruation.
Vanessa shares:
- The four phases of the menstrual cycle and the different requirements of each one
- Why we often feel moody and have cravings right before our period (Hint: it's not JUST hormones)
- How our menstrual cycle can actually be used as a tool for self-healing and emotional release, and the actions steps to take to make this happen
- The intersection between the Divine Feminine, our menstrual cycle, and spirituality
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Today's amazing guest is Sabrina Rogers - licensed mental health counselor, intuitive eating and body image expert, and recovering perfectionist.
After healing her own disordered eating and body image issues, she's helping women make the shift to intuitive eating and body acceptance. Sabrina is also the host of The Emotional Eating Therapist Show.
I loved this deep conversation where we covered:
- How to handle changes in one's body, especially after a big life event such as giving birth
- The importance of changing your thoughts and perspective in order to change your emotional state AND your results
- Why emotional eating is not a bad thing - LIGHTBULB moment for me!
- The two keys to healing your relationship with both food and body image
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Check Out The Emotional Eating Therapist Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-emotional-eating-therapist/id1574421928
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This week, we are joined by Michelle, The Coffee Fitness Unicorn.
Michelle shares her story of using fitness as a vehicle for healing and recovering from trauma. When she lost her late wife to cancer, she found herself in a dark place
She eventually began her fitness journey and found it was an outlet for the many emotions she was experiencing, a way to begin taking care of herself again, and a way to create not just a healthy relationship with food, but a joyful relationship with food.
We chat about:
- Valuable resources that helped Michelle move through trauma and loss
- How she used fitness to move through an incredibly painful period in her life
- How to cultivate a pleasurable, joyful relationship with food - one that is free from any food guilt, fear, or shame
Find out more about Michelle at her website: https://coffeefitnessunicorn.com/
Check out the Coffee Fitness Unicorn Podcast Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-fitness-unicorn-coffee-chats/id1598651420
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This week, we have a fascinating guest joining us on the Slay & Thrive podcast.
Howard Sambol is an author, recovering mathematician and master astrologer. He is also the creator of the Life-Crafting Program. This program helps people discover hidden core truths about themselves, tap into their deeper purpose, and turn that purpose into a passionate, abundant career.
In today's episode, we chat about:
- How living a life that is in alignment with your core truth makes achieving any goal - health, fitness, or otherwise - so much easier
- The only three elements you need to create transformation in any situation
- The one mindset shift you need to eliminate stress and accelerate growth and transformation
He also shares some of his amazing wisdom about astrology.
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Toxic traits refer to habits, behaviors, and ongoing actions that harm others.
Most high achieving women have one or more of the 5 toxic traits we cover today.
The person most likely to be harmed by these traits is the high achieving woman herself.
These toxic traits can lead to chronic stress and burnout.
Chronic stress and burnout lead to a lack of energy, a deep sense of unhappiness and frustration, binge eating, and inconsistency.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- 5 common toxic traits of high-performing women
- How to recognize them in yourself
- Solutions and strategies for transforming these toxic traits
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Today, we are joined by J. Malik - an author, spiritual teacher, coach, and business mentor.
J. Malik helps people make sense of spirituality. He also specializes in helping people come into energetic alignment. A big part of that is harnessing the power of both masculine and feminine energy.
In today's episode we talk about:
- The importance of healing childhood trauma, especially if we want to break through deeply imbedded patterns of self-sabotage
- The difference between a masculine operating system and a feminine one, and why you benefit from using both at different times
- Five actionable steps for clearing stuck energy, breaking through blocks, and becoming the highest version of yourself
We also talk about his future endeavors. I have no doubt that this man will become a future President of the United States. He talks about his desires to change the toxic political landscape and create a society that honours spirituality, family values, and the feminine.
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The right combination of masculine and feminine has the power to rapidly transform and accelerate your body transformation journey.
Why?
You're accessing all your resources.
The strength, structure, deep thinking, and science of the masculine.
The creativity, receptivity, intuition, and emotions of the feminine.
Many times, we over-celebrate and over-focus on the masculine while neglecting the feminine. This can lead to challenges like:
- An all or nothing mentality, which can lead to a weight loss rollercoaster
- Self-sabotage
- Overeating and binge eating
- Burnout and fatigue
- A chronic sense of dissatisfaction with your body, your health, and your rate of progress
If you're prone to any of these challenges, you'll want to tune in to learn how to harness both the feminine and masculine to create more consistent progress AND a deep fulfilment along the way.
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If you are a high performing women who hasn't quite figured out how to stay consistent with your eating habits and workout routines, this is for you.
It is incredibly common for driven, high performing women to crush it in every area of their life... except with their health and fitness goals.
They're crushing it with their career goals. They can achieve anything they set their minds to. They're amazing mothers, sisters, friends, partners.
And with all of this success... they can't seem to achieve their health and fitness goals.
They find themselves self-sabotaging.
They find themselves only able to stick to their routines and plans for a little while before going back to their old ways.
Then it starts to affect their relationships, their productivity, their jobs.
They have to work so hard to hide the internal battles they're struggling with every day. On the outside, it looks like they have everything together. On the inside, they're filled with frustration, distrust towards themselves, and a fear that they're always going to be this way.
There are reasons why these challenges hit so hard for the badass women of the world. Tune in to today's episode to discover the 4 reasons why high performing women struggle with weight loss and emotional eating.
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If you've struggled with binge eating for any length of time, I'm going to take a guess that you would do anything to make it go away.
I don't blame you. I 100% get it.
I know from so much personal experience what binge eating can do to a person.
It has stolen my energy. It has stolen my confidence. It has taken away my enthusiasm and zest for life. It's made me feel powerless, out of control. It also causes this beyond frustrating up-and-down yoyo with your weight and fitness goals.
It can feel like you undo an entire week or month of consistency and dedication after one or two nights of binge eating.
I see the thrall of wanting binge eating to go away forever and never come back.
However, binge eating actually has some surprisingly positive functions in our life. I'm sharing two of them on today's podcast.
You'll learn:
- What these two surprisingly positive functions of binge eating are
- How to work with yourself and eliminate the intense urges to binge... because you know what's truly going on here
- How to create a positive experience of growth or self-discovery out of your compulsions to binge
In today's episode, I'm sharing the introduction to my upcoming book - Your Body Is Not A Weapon: Healing a Fractured Relationship With Food, Physique, & Sexuality.
This is the story of how I healed my own fractured relationship with food, my body, and my sexuality. In my own experience, all three are intricately connected.
We fear our appetites for food and our cravings in the same way we fear or judge our sexual desires.
We check out of our bodies, not really there when we eat or have sex or go through our days.
We chase perfection - the perfect diet, the perfect body composition, the perfect sexual partner that will validate our attractiveness.
We restrict, we over-exercise, we refuse to rest, we engage in sexual encounters that leave us feeling more empty and hollow than ever before.
We treat our body like a weapon.Click here to join the Slay & Thrive community to get the activation questions and the activation assignment,
"You can't change what you can't love." - My Amazing Mentor, Patrick Dominguez.
"At the root of every problem is a lack of unconditional self-love." - My Awesome Friend, Caleb Nelson
I still think about both of these ideas often as I've gone through my personal development journey. They're often the reminders I need the most. I also think they're powerful for anyone out there who's struggling with self-sabotage or low self-worth.
If you can't first love, understand, and sit with your perceived shortcomings, you don't have the power to transform them into something different.
And, if you don't have an unconditional love for yourself - EVEN when you're in a period of failure, struggle, or misalignment - you're going to stay stuck in those places for way longer.
You've probably heard before how important self-love is. You've probably started to practice it in some form or another.
If you're anything like me, you've got the self-love thing dialed in when you're performing at your best.
It's easy to love yourself then, right?
But what about when you start to falter?
What about when you go back to old habits?
What about when you're not showing up as your best self?
What about when you feel like you're going backwards?
In today's episode, I share my own strategy for cultivating deep self-love on demand, EVEN when I'm in these periods of struggles.
Unconditional self-love is possible. Tune in to today's episode to discover how to make it happen in your own life.
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We are joined with Whitney Walker for today's episode. Whitney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in substance abuse, addiction, eating disorders and trauma. She also works as a recovery coach and spiritual guide. Her favorite offering is doing tarot readings for clients and friends.
Whitney opened her own private practice in the California Bay Area and has begun to speak more openly on her ideas about the return of the Divine Feminine to our world and how it can begin to change the experience of life on our planet. These ideas form the concept of Women Waken, her website and passion project. Whitney created The Women Waken Podcast and accompanying YouTube channel where she interviews amazing guests doing spiritual and healing work, please check it out!
In today's episode, we chat about:
- The challenges created by the imbalance of masculine and feminine energy in today's world
- How harnessing the power of the feminine can create change on a global scale
- How being in your feminine energy releases you from the need for addictions and distractions like overeating or overdrinking
- How to step into your power and create the experiences and projects you were meant to create
- Tiny but impactful ways to embody feminine energy on a daily basis
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"You're obviously just not committed."
"Oh, you're just complacent, honey."
"No excuses, just progress!"
Have you ever heard read these things, been told these things, or thought these things?
Here is the massive problem with these sentiments:
They breed shame and paralysis. They're likely to keep you stuck exactly where you are.
I bet you're an incredibly hard worker. You have been successful in many, many areas. And maybe, if you're like me, it's been health and eating and weight that have always tripped you up.
Then you see these messages about being complacent or uncommitted or full of excuses. And honestly, they're usually being spouted by ripped fitness models who have never struggled with their weight. Who don't see you as a person with so many painful experiences and limiting beliefs and ingrained survival strategies that keep you in the struggle.
Oh, and they're probably saying these things because they want you to buy their 30 day challenge or coaching package.
Get ready for a super spicy podcast episode because this fires me up. I want everyone who is struggling with their weight or eating challenges to understand what is truly going on here. I'm going to be sharing some common patterns and blocks that get in the way of progress.
And none of it has anything to do with you being weak, undisciplined, lazy, or CoMpLaceNt.
People with these struggles don't need more shaming. They need to feel seen, understood, and most importantly, SAFE, in the energy of those supporting or guiding them on this journey.
That is my deepest desire for my podcast and for the women I hold space for in my community and in my coaching containers.
You are so much more powerful than you realize. And there are very good reasons why you're not yet where you want to be. Tune in to today's podcast episode to discover what's actually going on here.
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We had an incredible guest joining us on the Slay & Thrive Podcast this week. We are chatting with Abigail Herrick - a holistic practitioner with an incredible number of tools in her toolbox, including: Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, ayurvedic bodywork therapies, polyvagal nervous system regulation and Panchakarma seasonal cleanse programs.
In today's episode, we chat about:
- The imprint that childhood wounds leave, and how they can manifest in illness or disease later on in life
- How a hyper-focus on disease and Western medicine (such as dietetics and medication) create a block that holds people back from a life of true thriving
- The importance of treating each person as an individual on their journey to thriving, due to the different energetic make-up of each individual person
- A great introductory lesson to Ayurveda and how working with a practitioner can create healing on a deep level
- The importance of incorporating somatic work and body-based therapies into our healing journey. You can't mindset your way out of everything. (I've learned this hard way myself.)
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There is a massive difference between pursuing health and pursuing perfection.
When you're pursuing health, you hold space for balance and moderation. A dinner out doesn't derail you. You're still able to eat in alignment with your fitness goals 80% of the time, even while away for a weekend.
Pursuing perfection looks very different.
You have rigid standards. There is no room for error. And that one wrong move - the unplanned cookies in the breakroom, the chocolate you ate from the vending machine at your kid's sporting event - sends you into a shame spiral that keeps you stuck in the behaviours that made you feel so bad about yourself in the first place.
You've messed up, so all bets are off. Now, you're too filled with shame and self-directed anger to focus on your goals. You make one misaligned choice after the other for days or weeks on end until you can finally muster up the energy to go back to being "perfect" again.
That often takes a while because being perfect? It's exhausting. It's all consuming.
You can end this cycle. You can step off the imaginary path of perfectionism and get back on the road to true health. The road to health feels energizing. It feels safe. It puts you into a state of thriving.
Tune in to today's episode to learn how to make this shift in your own life.
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All humans have the same basic needs and drives. These drives might manifest differently for each person, but the basic principles of the drive remain the same.
These drives all called "core" or "basic" for a reason. They're the top priorities needs that need to be addressed before anything else.
So what happens when one of these core human drives is actually at odds with the goals you have for yourself?
Is this one of the big reasons why you haven't achieved that goal or reached your next level of personal power and mastery?
In today's episode, we're going to talk about what human drive might be holding you back from reaching your potential, and how to navigate this hurdle on your path to your next level self.
Have you ever heard that we only use 10% of our brain?
Or maybe you've heard that we have a left-brain and a right brain, and that people are left-brained and some people are right-brained.
There is so much more to it than that. This episode is all about learning to use 100% of your brain to maximize your success.
When you use more of your brain, you have more resources at your disposal. You're more creative. You're better able to see the big picture.
In today's episode, you'll learn about four distinct parts of the brain, how to recognize them in yourself, and a 5-step process for using all parts together.
This is largely a book club episode and the 5-step process and the four-part brain concept is taken from the book Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor. Click here to grab your copy of the book.
Learn more about the Brain Huddle Process here.
I'm sharing how I integrated these concepts into my own life and how they've helped me further my progress towards my own goals. These ideas and this process was such a game-changer that I knew I had to share it with my listeners as well.
"Half of the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”- Marshal Goldsmith
When you're constantly trying to add more good habits or strategies without addressing your blocks and limitations, you'll set yourself up to fail.
Constantly trying to add more to a busy schedule can actually create overwhelm that paralyzes a person. When you're always trying to add more, you might end up doing nothing because it feels like there's too much going on.
What if you chose to simplify and clear out what's holding you back?
When you stop the habits, thoughts, and emotional patterns that are getting in the way, you free up your energy to go after your goals with more consistency, more focus, and more enjoyment. Tune in to today's episode to discover how to eliminate three bad habits that are stalling your progress and keeping you stuck.
Setbacks. They're a normal part of any journey towards any goal.
And oftentimes, they create a lot of negative emotion. Our confidence is shaken. We become crippled with doubt.
We might even make the setbacks mean something about us. Maybe it means we're destined for permanent failure. Maybe we won't ever achieve this goal. Maybe there's something wrong with us.
We also might feel resentful about having to make up lost ground, which can keep us stuck. Our fears, shame and resentment can cause us to stay trapped in the setback longer than necessary.
This is where today's episode comes in. On today's show, I'm taking you through my own 5 step process to slay my way out of any setback.
Setbacks can be a gift in disguise, once we apply the right framework and the right strategy. We can come out of them with more resilience, more determination, and more wisdom. Tune in today to learn how to slay your way through any setback and actually use it as the launching pad for the most badass comeback ever.
There are many reasons why someone wants to lose weight or get in shape.
Some of the reasons can be inspiring and motivating.
Maybe it's to have more energy to keep up with their family.
Maybe it's to challenge themselves and see what they're made of.
Maybe it's for an event or race they've signed up for.
Other reasons are less helpful.
Because they feel like they "should" - according to some imaginary standards set by society.
Because they feel like it'll make them more acceptable to those around them.
Because they think it will make them happy.
In today's episode, we're talking about the importance of a strong, inspiring why behind a body transformation, as well as the #1 reason to transform your body. You'll also get a framework for pursuing your health goals using this number one reason.
Food freedom. You hear the term tossed around in the health and weight loss world, but what does it mean?
Food freedom is being liberated from compulsions and attachments to certain eating habits that aren't in our best interest.
It's a state of relaxation and self-trust because you no longer feel like a slave to urges and cravings.
It's being able to make choices around food from a place of power, agency, and alignment with your goals.
Food freedom is the fast track to vitality, energy, health, fitness, and a deep sense of inner peace.
But how do we get there if we're currently feeling imprisoned by our deeply rooted habits and limiting beliefs around food?
In today's episode, we're going to be talking about three keys to creating a sense of food freedom in your everyday life.
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"If the journey is fun, you won't care how long it takes." - Abraham Hicks
The pursuit of goals can often become hollow and frustrating and unfulfilling without regular reminders of the importance of enjoying a journey.
The journey will inform the destination. You will never stress yourself into a place of inner peace. You will never hate yourself into a place of self-love and appreciation. You will never rage and fight your way to a place of happiness.
When you feel good more often, you're more likely to continue doing whatever actions are necessary to reach your goals. So, by choosing to enjoy the journey, you actually become far more likely to get to your destination as well.
We spend so much longer on the journey towards our goals then we do in that fleeting moment where our goal becomes realized. When that happens, we often shift gears, pick another goal, and go on another journey.
If we want to thrive, it is essential to find a way to have a happy journey. In today's episode, we're covering 9 ways you can continue to enjoy whatever journey you're on in the given moment.
Today's episode is going to feature a short but powerful reminder: don't quit before the good part.
Most changes feel uncomfortable, maybe even miserable, until they don't anymore.
There are so many things that people start and then give up on repeatedly, so they're perpetually stuck in that place of discomfort and unhappiness.
That all changes when we decide to keep going, no matter what, until we get to the good part.
The good part will come. It simply requires a level of consistency and follow through that might feel hard in the beginning. However, getting to the good part is absolutely worth it.
Listen to Episode 27: Make Hard Things Easy.
There is a common tradeoff that people make in life.
The tradeoff between passion and safety.
Some people choose the safe path, the safe relationship, the safe life... and it lacks any semblance of fire and passion. They might live in comfortably numb states, choosing a cocoon of security.
Then there are those whose lives are filled with passion. However, that passion might also feel like danger. It might leave a person in a state of constant stress. The relationships that are always on the brink of disaster. Jobs or businesses ventures filled with uncertainty and toxicity that leaves a person struggling to get to sleep every night.
There are big downsides to living a life solely of safety and to living a life solely of passion.
However... what if you get to have both? What if they can coexist so you can live in a state of peace, joy, and alignment on a regular basis?
Today, we're talking about how to do just that.
Kayla's also sharing a bit from her latest book - Deep Blue Desire - in which the main character discovers that she gets to have a life and a romance that is both passionate and safe.
Get your copy of Deep Blue Desire here: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Blue-Desire-Kayla-Egdom/dp/B0B3TKV7XJ/
Today, we are joined by coach Julie Freeman. Julie is a mom and coach who helps highly sensitives moms get strong and feel badass.
Julie shares her journey with health, fitness, pregnancy, mental health, and becoming a support for other women. Our conversation includes:
- The power of finding the right type of exercise for you as an individual
- The importance of letting go of expectations about what pregnancy and motherhood will look like
- The need for honouring all emotional experience - even the moments of discomfort and challenge
- Navigating competing priorities after becoming a mother
- The way an identity can shift and evolve as a result of motherhood
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To slay and thrive on a regular basis, there is one vital skill you want to master.
This skill will help you conquer any project or goal you tackle with more ease and less resistance.
This skill will also help you thrive. You'll enjoy the journey. You won't even need the goal to be complete to be happy because you've mastered something far more important.
You'll also be able to use this ability to collapse timelines and make things happen even faster than they would have otherwise.
I know this sounds like a tall order, but that's because this is the skill that is most important for living your absolute best life on every level.
Learn what this skill is and how to build it into your own life in today's episode.
Episode 34: Why Your Vibration Matters
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It is Slay & Thrive's birthday week on the podcast, and we are celebrating with a special episode and a giveaway.
Today, I'm sharing my top 10 most life-changing books of all time.
These are books I've usually read multiple times. They're books I return to regularly as a resources. They're books with tools and practices I've implemented that have drastically changed my life.
I am so excited to share each of these amazing books with you today. I'm going to cover:
- Why I picked up each book when I did
- How my perspective changed after reading each book
- The tools or practices from each book I implemented, and how that impacted my life
- Who I would recommend this book for (based on what struggles you're going through in your everyday life)
I am going to give away one of these books on Saturday, June 25th. To enter to the giveaway, you can:
- Leave a rating & review of this podcast
- Screenshot a favourite episode and share it in your Instagram or Facebook story
Episodes Mentioned (with Links):
- 002: Slaying Without Thriving
- 004: Lead with Your Desires
- 017: Master Your Emotions & Manifest Like A Goddess
- 022: Choosing Joy
- 044: (Thrive Series) Activate Emotional Potency
- 054: Having is Evidence of Wanting
What's wrong with me?
If this question has ever crossed your mind or if it's a question that plagues you on a regular basis, then this is episode is for you.
My intention for this episode is for another listener to never feel the need the need to ask this question again.
This question keeps us from slaying and thriving. It's also not real.
There is nothing wrong with you, no matter what your struggles or challenges are. We're going to talk about how to approach your challenges and struggles through a different lens that will change everything.
By erasing this question from your vocabulary, you will be 10x more likely to take action to create a new reality where this struggle or obstacle becomes nonexistent.
You'll also be more likely to thrive because you're not stuck in a state of self-judgement or self-loathing.
We're also going to cover threequestions you can ask instead that will create more joy and motivation for the journey ahead.
Even if you pride yourself on a being a strong, independent, powerful person in most arenas in your everyday life, there might be an area or two where you struggle and don't feel as powerful as you'd like to.
Many people feel a lot of agency and resourcefulness in most arenas. Then they often have this one place where they get stuck or tripped up. It could be with food, with spending, with certain triggering relationships.
That feeling of situational helplessness can be frustrating and confusing. However, there is a way to conquer this sense of helplessness in whatever arena is holding you back so you feel more powerful and more capable in your everyday life. Today, we're talking about how to do exactly this.
Have you been enjoying the pursuit of your goal? Does it light you up and excite you? Do you look forward to the prospect of doing the work required because you're so in love with the end result and the possibilities it will create for your life?
Or do you feel a lot of self-imposed pressure? Are you struggling with a lot of impatience and frustration? Maybe you just want to get there today. Maybe you feel a ton of anxiety about the prospect of never reaching this goal.
When you think about not reaching the goal, it fills you with dread and fear.
Sometimes, there are parts of us that pursue our goals for reasons that create stress and unhappiness in our lives. This is going to make it harder to achieve the goal. When we're not feeling our best, we're not going to be motivated to doing the work. This is when we might procrastinate or self-sabotage.
Today, we're tackling how to deal with this particular challenge when it comes up in your life. Pursuing your goals can feel like self-care once you eliminate the stressful reasons for wanting to achieve it.
This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.
Today, Angel shares her story of shifting from surviving trauma to living a life where she is truly thriving. She has also become a massive change agent in helping people heal from both trauma and substance abuse.
We cover:
- The differences between male and female responses to trauma, particularly with veterans
- The limitations of medication and traditional talk therapy for helping heal trauma
- How both the overperforming, perfectionist traumatized person and the traumatized person struggling with substance abuse and reckless behaviour both struggle with the same desire for control
- The different layers of healing that can occur as someone moves forward after a traumatic situation
Connect with Angel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angel_tsunami_/
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Have you ever felt like you've learned the same lesson repeatedly?
Maybe you've overcome a habit or a challenge in your life. A money struggle. An eating challenge. A relationship pattern. Then, to your dismay, you find yourself returning to a familiar struggle after weeks, months, or years of feeling like you were "past" it.
The first reaction could be frustration. Exasperation.
You might worry that this means you haven't really grown and changed. You might feel fear that this is always going to be a battle.
In today's episode, we're talking about how to tackle a recurring obstacle or challenge. We're going to chat about how to deal with those lessons that seem to repeat themselves, even after you've learned them multiple times.
This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.
In today's episode, Theresa shares her journey from a physical health breakdown to healing inside and out.
She shares the powerful way she combined spiritual healing with taking consistent, habit-based action in her daily life to heal from an unexplained, undiagnosed illness. We talk about:
- How to embrace ourselves as the Flawsome beings we are - absolutely awesome individuals not in spite of flaws, but alongside them
- The five pillars of deep health - Mindfulness, Mindset, Menu, Movement, and Mapping
- How to use these five pillars to create a customized formula that works for you on an individual level
- The importance of degrees of progress and taking steady shifts in the direction of your goals, rather than doing a massive overhaul
Connect with Theresa on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theresa.m.weatherbee
There's is real danger in relying on motivation.
Even the most hyped-up, high energy person isn't going to feel motivated all the time,
Fatigue happens. Stress happens. Anger, sadness, and frustration happen. Unexpected circumstances derail our best laid plans. There are a hundred things that can deplete our motivation and leave us uninspired and resistant to keeping our self-made promises.
What if you could harness the power of something even better and more steady than motivation will ever be?
What if you could tap into a force that is going to keep you consistent and focused on your dreams?
The best part is... when you have this one thing, you almost always end up with motivation, too.
Tune in to today's show to find out what this superpower is and how you can create more of it in your everyday life.
This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.
Charlene Madden shares her empowering story of finding freedom and healing. After experiencing childhood trauma, domestic abuse, and mental health challenges, Charlene found herself in the right place at the right time just days before she'd been planning to take her own life.
She is now on a mission to help others struggling with their demons. We have a powerful conversation which includes:
- The importance of noticing and transforming generational trauma
- The need to erase mental health stigmas so people feel safe to get help when they need it
- The three S's - self-love, self-acceptance, and self-responsibility - and how this framework can shift a person's entire life
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Learn more about working with Charlene: https://www.ascensionwellnessstudio.com/
Today, we are joined by Billy Manas - an author and musician who has forged his own unique path to recovery after hitting rock bottom.
In this powerful conversation about building your dream life after recovery, we cover:
- What did and didn't work about Alcoholics Anonymous for Billy
- The danger of attaching to labels and absolving too much personal power
- The impact our personal narratives and beliefs can have on recovery and potential relapse
- The importance of moving towards creating the life of your dreams once you've achieved sobriety
Learn more about Billy here: https://www.billymanas.com/home
Billy's book, Kickass Recovery: https://www.amazon.com/Rockstar-Recovery-First-Clean-Dreams/dp/
Billy on Elephant Journal: https://www.elephantjournal.com/profile/billy-manas/
This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.
Today, we're talking with the Ministress of Mindfulness. Andrea Manilla shares how she's gone from suffering with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations to living a life of peace, presence, and fulfillment. She's now sharing her story and helping others experience more mindfulness in their everyday lives.
We cover:
- The power of sharing our truth and being authentic with those around us
- How to make anything in your life a mindfulness practice
- Ways to simplify mindfulness. No yoga cushions or Buddhist temples required.
- What to do when you feel like you're "bad" at being mindful and just can't stop thinking.
We discussed Andrea's favourite mindfulness App, Insight Timer. Check it out here: https://insighttimer.com/en-ca
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If a floppy Koi fish can evolve into a majestic sea dragon, then there is no reason why you can't become anything or anyone you desire.
Today, we're using the power of myth and storytelling to inspire you to take things to that next level.
We're going to talk about a story of powerful, unexpected transformation, and how we can apply it to our own lives.
It is absolutely possible to reinvent yourself.
It's possible to take things to the next level... and then the next. And the next. There is no limit.
This episode is going to be part inspiration and part tactical, as we talk about HOW to take things to your next level, whatever that looks like to you.
Watch the video that inspired this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo4ksq8cWfY
Positivity, left unchecked and unbalanced, can turn to harmful delusion.
Today, we're going to be covering something very out of the ordinary - the upside of negativity.
This isn't about starting to look at everything through a negative lens or complaining about everything in life. It's about using a healthy dose of negativity where it's needed so that we can make more progress and, paradoxically, feel better in the long term.
We'll talk a bit about the idea of toxic positivity, the power of negative emotions, and finally, three practices to help you embrace negativity in a way that is empowering and helpful.
If we whole-heartedly wanted what we thought we wanted, we'd have it by now.
Or at the very least, we'd be well on our way towards it without the feelings of being stuck or perpetually going backwards and forwards.
When we have big goals that have eluded us for a long time, there are parts of us that actually don't want the big goal itself or the consequences we believe we'll experience as a result of achieving this goal.
These perceived consequences or drawbacks often live in our unconscious until we extract them and bring them to the surface so we can transform them.
Today, Kayla takes you through a step by step process, with an example, of how you can find these hidden fears and limitations, and what to about them once you find them. She's also sharing an exciting update about an upcoming writing project.
When it comes to slaying our goals, we want to have focus and discipline.
We want to be focused on whatever it is we're creating or pursuing. We want to cultivate the discipline required to not only achieve the goal but maintain the goal.
However, anything taken to its extreme can become unhelpful or even dangerous. Control and obsession are focus and discipline that have been pushed over the edge.
When over-control and over-obsession dominate, we often also experience an opposite reaction after we've fatigued our minds, bodies and spirits. After trying to exert excessive control and over-obsessing, a person will often rubber-band in the opposite direction. They'll snap into a place of apathy and goal-abandonment because they've burned themselves out.
In today's episode, Kayla will be sharing the distinctions between discipline and obsession. She'll share the red flags that let you know you've taken your focus and intensity a step too far, and how to stay on the path where you're focused, disciplined, and consistent without needing to move between extremes.
This podcast is all about helping every listener create a life where they have it all.
♥ The health
♥The wealth
♥The love
♥The fulfilment
♥ Along with any other desire imaginable
In this episode, you'll be reminded that it is possible for you to have it all... with just one catch.
Kayla will also break down the solution and strategy for working through the one catch on the road to creating your dream life.
This might be one of the most controversial episodes to date. Today, we're going to be exploring the concept that having is evidence of wanting.
This podcast episode was inspired by Carolyn Elliot's book, Existential Kink.
She presents this idea: if we have something in our lives, we must, on some level, want it.
What does this mean for those recurrent strokes of bad luck, those infuriating patterns that continue to surface with our money, our relationships, and our health?
Is it possible that, on some level, we want these things?
And what would happen if we embraced this idea and no longer chose to see ourselves as victims of circumstances or compulsion? How much more power would we have in our everyday lives to create a new reality, if we so choose to do so?
Join Kayla as she shares her own reflections on this concept, and how this one simple shift in perspective created a magical breakthrough in her personal life.
Click here to get Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot.
Last year, I did an episode on my top 10 lessons from 2021, and it was a popular episode.
2021 was another year of massive change, expansion, and transformation on multiple levels.
In today's episode, I'm sharing the top ten lessons from 2021 and how I'm continuing to embody them in 2022.
Some of the lessons include:
- The how is not my responsibility. My job is to focus on the desire. (From Amanda Frances)
- Another level, another devil
- Exile nothing
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"I do great all day... and then I get to the evening and blow it."
"I just can't stop overeating after dinner."
"I get to 3 in the afternoon, and it's game over. I lose all energy and motivation"
We often have defining moments in our days. Those times that either make or break us.
These moments can be fraught with anxiety and dread because of all the times we've struggled in the past.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can slay these defining moments. And by slaying these defining moments, we can slay the day, which will allow us to slay any goal we have in our lives.
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Moj Razmi has been a catalyst for transformational and spiritual healing. She is an international coach, lecturer, and nutrition enthusiast.
Moj started her journey as an engineer in Silicon Valley. Once she became a mother, she found herself dropping more deeply into her feminine energy. She knew something was out of alignment, and went on a seven year journey to discover her true calling.
We talk about the ways she helps clients enjoy the journey towards their goals, turn their Joy-O-Meter all the way up, and access their feminine power.
Connect with Moj on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachmoj/
Learn more about Moj at her website: http://mojrazmi.com/
How different would your life be if you had as much love for yourself and your entire life as you did for the person or people that you love the most?
How much more consistent and present would you be if you were if you were as devoted to your goals and growth as you were to the relationships in your life you were most committed to?
In today's episode, we're activating the superpowers of love and devotion.
We talk about the science behind heart intelligence and how it affects our physiology and our performance.
We discuss why love isn't an emotion, but a steadfast, unshakable promise.
We also talk about how you can apply this superpower to any area of your life, which will not only allow you to make more progress but also feel 1000x more amazing while doing it.
Activate love and devotion to slay and thrive.
"We are all sacred creators." - Michelle Cooper
Michelle Cooper is an entrepreneur and accountant who brings Divine feminine energy to a male-dominated sphere.
She finds that many women try to do finance in a hyper-masculine way. Restricting themselves with budgets. Focusing too much on numbers and not enough on their intuition and emotions.
In today's episode, she shares how women can approach money and finance and business in a way that makes their relationship with money feel amazing.
She shares her experience with dropping more into her feminine energy after a life-changing injury.
We also talk about the importance of resonance. Who we're being matters even more than what we're doing when it comes to creating the life of our dreams.
Connect with Michelle on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alchemymichelle
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The Magical Art of Tidy Money Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/618625089338090
Alchemy Accounting Website: https://alchemyaccounting.ca/
"You don't get what you want. You get who you are."
Magnetism is a deeply feminine superpower. It allows us to draw our desires to us without the hustle, the push, or the force.
Have you ever met a person who always seemed to land on their feet? Who seemed to have the best luck ever?
Maybe there was something about them. You couldn't quite put your finger on it, but you just wanted to be around them.
That's magnetism at work. And you have this same superpower within you. Tune in to today's episode to activate your own personal magnetism.
Sexual wellness is an integral (and often overlooked) aspect of a deeply healthy and thriving woman. This episode will invite you to higher levels of freedom and contentment in this arena of your own life.
Kelsey Templeman has been working in the sexual wellness industry for over a decade. She also has a beautiful way of giving women the permission they're looking for when it comes to exploring their sexuality, both on a personal level and within their intimate relationships.
This fun, sexy, and enlightening conversation includes:
- How to diffuse sexual shame and confusion so women can experience more pleasure with less anxiety
- The impact the pandemic has had on women's sex lives
- How a deeper connection to ourselves through self-care and self-pleasure can positively impact every arena of our lives
- How to create self-love and self-care routines that address one's specific preferences and time constraints
- And so much more
Connect with Kelsey on her website: www.passionbykelsey.com
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This episode of part of the Thrive Series: Activate Your Feminine Superpowers.
There is one thing that is guaranteed to steal our joy and hold us back from thriving on an everyday basis.
That one thing is resistance. When we fight with reality, we lose every time. We're agitated. We're edgy. We're frustrated. We're so busy wishing things were different than how they are in a given moment, that we check out and miss out on our lives unfolding.
Being able to surrender in any given moment is a superpower that will elevate your sense of peace and contentment.
Surrender isn't about giving up. It's about staying present and allowing whatever is happening to be there in our lives without judging or fighting it.
Then, the wild paradox is that when we CAN surrender and accept our lives and circumstances as they truly are, we can start to shift whatever it is that isn't serving us.
In today's episode, you'll get a process for activating more surrender on a daily basis.
Today, we are joined by a Divine Feminine leader and author of The Audacity to be Queen.
We have an incredible conversation about what it means to be a Queen in our own lives.
Gina DeVee shares how to infuse taking action and making moves with feminine desire, emotion, creativity, and faith.
She talks about how to keep faith strong and maintain a powerful spiritual connection. She shares some of her best practices for an inspiring, uplifting morning routine, as well as what it was like to write her book.
You can get Gina DeVee's amazing book here: http://www.divineliving.com/book
Get the companion course to the book here: http://www.divineliving.com/audacity
Get your 14 day Q-Club trial: https://www.divineliving.com/q-club-trial/
Listen to the Divine Living podcast here: https://www.divineliving.com/podcast/
Connect with Gina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginadevee/
This episode of part of the Thrive Series: Activate Your Feminine Superpowers.
Today's superpower goes beyond simple emotional awareness.
Knowing what you're feeling at any given moment is a powerful first step. Awareness is a valuable first step.
But to activate emotional potency is to activate the deeply feminine, wild force of your emotions for your highest good.
It's about being courageous enough to face any emotion and let it flow through your body.
It's about tapping into the vast energy source of anger, fear, sadness, and joy at a body, mind, and soul level.
It's giving yourself permission to feel whatever it is you're feeling without the self-judgement, the resistance, the spiritual bypassing.
It's knowing you are the channel and the vessel for these potent emotions - which means that you can feel them without them destroying you or your life.
It's letting your emotions be your guides on your journey through life. When you have this particular superpower activated, you will become the most empowered version of yourself. Guaranteed.
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We are wrapping up Slay Series by activating commitment and dedication.
Most people have given up on their New Years Resolutions or their goals by January 19th. But not you. You are here because you know that whatever it is you're dreaming of is possible and you're dedicated to making it happen.
In today's episode, we're going to talk about what commitment and dedication mean, and how to carry these strong, unshakeable forces into February and beyond.
We're going to talk about seven ways you can continue building your commitment and dedication over the long term.
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In today's episode, we're talking with Michael Unbroken, a trauma survivor and life coach who is on a mission to break the curse of generational trauma.
Michael shares his story of transformation and talks about the powerful work he does in the world. We talk about:
- How childhood trauma blocks people from reaching their goals and creating the life of their dreams
- The role of both coach and therapist in the healing of trauma, and the distinctions between the two
- The keys to healing childhood trauma and how to put it into action
- Why clarity is necessary for becoming our truest selves
- A deep dive into Michael's mantra: "No excuses, just results" and how to live it out on a daily basis.
- The power of investing in personal transformation and the impact it will have on your life.
Listen to the Think Unbroken podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-cptsd-trauma/id1477432473
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"When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm." - African Proverb
We have the power to create the landscape of our brain. We have the ability to create an internal fortress.
What if your internal fortress was so strong, that you felt safe to go out in the world and experience any discomfort?
You knew you could handle any uncomfortable emotion.
You could face rejection without crumbling or doubting yourself.
You could withstand the judgements of others.
You know you could stare down failure without it breaking you.
This episode is about creating this internal fortress. It's about creating a mind that is able to withstand any challenge. There are a few key components to this internal fortress. We'll be talking about:
- External Boundaries - The ones you set with others and the world around you
- Internal Boundaries - The standards you set for yourself
- The ability to consciously and courageously face any challenge life brings to you
If you want to take a deep dive on how to face the fear of discomfort, rejection, judgement and failure like the Warrior you are inside, join Kayla for the Slay Those Dragons Live training on Sunday, January 23rd at 10 AM PST. Click here to save your spot.
This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.
Today's episode features a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation with Caleb Nelson - a thriving business coach who helps couples and entrepreneurs with both love and leadership.
A few of the highlights:
- How safety and connection in your personal relationships create deeper success and fulfilment in business and other areas in life
- How challenge and safety can coexist in everyday life
- The importance of training and preparing for all of life's potential challenges
- The two types of boredom and how to determine one from the other
- The one question you can ask anyone in your life to deepen your relationships
- An incredible hack for finding your core values
- How guiding principles and core values evolve alongside a person on their journey of growth
Connect with Caleb on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lebinreallife/
Connect with Caleb on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calebjlnelson
This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.
Full, unconditional personal responsibility changes everything.
It's a full reclamation of our strength and our power.
When we take ownership of everything - our thoughts, emotions, actions, and ultimately, our results - our ability to create and transform increases exponentially.
In today's episode, we'll talk about how personal responsibility impacts our ability to slay and how you can activate this superpower in your everyday life.
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This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.
In today's episode, we're going to hear Doug share the story of how he lost over one hundred pounds, and how his life has changed as a result.
We cover a number of great topics, including:
- A new perspective on "short-cuts" or a perceived "easy-way out".
- What to do about haters and nay-sayers.
- The importance of finding your unique path to health and fitness.
- The difference between the healthy masculine and the toxic masculine in today's society.
This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
In today's episode, we'll talk about how to bulletproof your progress and drive towards any ambition by activating purpose and clarity.
Purpose: Your reason for doing what it is you're doing. Your deeper why. Your compelling reason to keep going, no matter what. Your reason to keep going when it's hard. When it's uncomfortable. When it feels like nothing is working.
Clarity: Being able to know, down to the specifics, what moves you forwards. What actually matters on a daily basis, and in the bigger picture. Clarity surrounding who you are and what you stand for. Clarity will keep you grounded and focused. It'll keep you taking the actions that matter most.
This is an amazing time of year to examine any intentions or dreams you have through the lens of purpose and clarity. If you have a compelling, deep reason for doing something, then it'll keep you moving forward even in times of discomfort. Having clarity is being able to move from exerting random, sometimes desperate effort, to truly slaying in your everyday life.
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This episode is for everyone, whether you are single or in a relationship. This isn't about building a literal power couple in your romantic relationship.
This about building your internal power couple.
Regardless of our gender, we have both masculine and feminine energy.
The masculine is energy of slaying. It's goal oriented. It's protective. It's strong. It's directive.
The feminine is the energy of thriving. It's nurturing. It's creative. It's receptive. It's deeply loving.
Many times, struggle is born out of an imbalance between our healthy masculine and healthy feminine. We might swing too much in one direction.
Too much masculine, and we're slaying without thriving.
Too much feminine, and we're thriving without slaying.
This episode is all about finding harmony and integration between our masculine and feminine. You'll get strategies and a workshop exercise for creating your own internal power couple so you can slay and thrive on a regular basis.
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Even the greatest things in life have their dark, toxic counterpart.
The health and fitness world has its dark side.
The personal development world has its own brand of toxicity.
The same is true for religion. Today, we're talking with Krista Hoffman - a life coach who has healed from religious trauma. She now helps others find the same freedom and inner peace she found as a result.
We discuss some of the common elements of religious trauma, such as:
- The pervasive sense of fear surrounding what happens when you aren't always "good"
- The subjectivity and dissonance found in the various sects of religion, which leads to confusion and frustration
- The contradictory expectations of women - be pure and chaste, but also sexually enticing enough to "keep" your husband from straying - and how this creates some unique challenges for them
We also discuss how one can find their own path and release themselves from these dark elements of religion so they can find true freedom and agency in their own lives.
Find out more about the powerful work Krista is doing here: https://www.freetobeac.com/
There are two basic ways to achieve your goals and dreams
- Grind and hustle and exert a ton of effort to get there
- Become the energetic match for the desire, and move towards it in a state of ease and flow
Today, we'll be talking about the latter. We're going to be discovering how focusing on your default vibration makes everything easier and more enjoyable.
You'll learn what your default vibration is, why it matters, and most importantly, how you can raise your own default vibration consistently over time.
“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself. They arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body. This energy remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds.” -Peter Levine
True healing isn't always about getting the hip replacement or focusing on a symptom like headaches.
Rachelle Manieri is a healer and practitioner who takes a stand for her client's wholeness. She has powerful tools that create mind-body-spirit healing. She shares how she works with people who have experienced trauma. We learn a lot about how the body can actually hold the energy from past events inside it, and how different modalities can help release it.
This is a thought provoking episode that will get you to look at pain and injuries and past traumas in entirely new ways.
Learn more about Rachelle here: http://www.rachellemanieri.com/
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One of the best ways you can make crushing your goals feel like self-care is to stay in alignment.
Alignment with your core values, purpose, priorities and highest self.
Alignment is also about being aligned physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
You'll learn why alignment matters on the path towards your best life, along with practical ways you can ensure you stay in alignment on a regular basis.
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"Transitions are a gateway to rewriting your life story." - Lisa Frost
Life is filled with transitions. Career & job transitions. Relationship transitions. Family transitions. Losses. And these can be incredibly destabilizing - even if they're positive changes.
Lisa Frost is an Integral Master Coach who has been in the field for decades. She specializes in helping people move through all kinds of life transitions. We had an incredible conversation on how to navigate these changes, both positive and negative, in our lives.
We cover:
- Lisa's 5-step process for navigating transitions - this is something you might want to return to with every new transition
- The common pitfalls that often occur during transitions
- How to align both your personal and professional life with your deepest yes - your core values and truth
- A practice for welcoming in and embodying true surrender
For more information on how to work with Lisa, you can find her at www.yourdeepestyes.com.
Today's episode is going to be one part inspiration and one part invitation.
Kayla will be sharing what the concept Unicorn Thunder means to her, and how it's helped her create the most magical year ever.
She's also going to be sharing the details about her brand new Facebook group that will help everyone inside create amazing shifts, take their lives and their goals to the next level, and have all kinds of fun in the process.
You can join the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unicornthunder
Today, we have an amazing Inner Coach Practitioner joining us. Jen Sprague is a health and life coach who used her own health challenges and chronic stress as the launching pad for her business.
She helps people transform their health in a way that honours the mind-body connection. And by helping them change their health, she is also able to help her clients transform their entire lives as a result.
In this conversation, we talk about:
- The impact of stress, mindset, and life circumstances in creating disease and disruptions in our physical bodies
- How to approach self-care from a place of intention and purpose. You'll also learn how to create your own nourishment menu
- Why play matters and how to incorporate it into your everyday life
Connect with Jen at https://bestselfwithjensprague.com/
This episode is one you can return to on a regular basis whenever you need it. Today, we'll be looking at Kayla's all-time favourite framework for slaying & thriving.
Having an inspiring and effective framework for approaching your goals, your life, and your challenges can change everything. It starts by changing the way we think, which effects our emotions. And it's our emotions that drive our choices, which then drive our results.
And our framework can sometimes shift depending on life circumstances, especially when things get hard. This episode can serve as a resource whenever hard times come up and you need a boost to return to a place of progress.
There will probably always be things in our lives that feel hard as we work towards our best selves and our best lives.
The good news is that there is one strategy that will make any hard thing easy. Tune in to today's episode to find out how you can apply this to any area of your life.
Hard is also going to be relative and vary from person to person. However, most people would probably feel that writing an entire book in one month (or writing a book at all) qualifies as a hard thing.
This is a special episode that will also share Kayla's National Novel Writing Month journey. She finished this year's project on November 14th - over two weeks early. You'll hear about her best practices for taking on a book-writing challenge, and how it's evolved over the years.
Not all shortcuts are bad. In fact, shortcuts can be a powerful way to ensure you slay and thrive.
Shortcuts can save you time and energy. They can also create a more joyful path forwards as you pursue your goals.
Today, we're going to be talking all about three powerful shortcuts with taking as you continue your journey towards your best lives ever. We'll also be including one bonus shortcut at the end as well.
I was honoured to have a special guest on this episode. Gabriela is a fellow member of the Inner Coach community, and I've experienced her magic during a practice session together. She is an author, healer, coach, magician... and many more things.
From Gabriela's website: Gabriela’s been steeping in universal wisdom teachings, contemplative expressive arts and energy medicine for over 20 years. Her guidance is infused with pure love and sober clarity. Her skills dive into the heart of matters, using the creative process as a catalyst for transformation. She is passionate about pioneering what it means to be fully alive.
In today's episode, we talk about a number of magical topics, including:
- The wisdom hidden inside our dreams and how to unlock that wisdom. I learned from Gabriela that there are no bad dreams.
- How to use all kinds of creative processes to activate a more full, unlimited life. We also talked about where resistance to certain types of creativity. For some, it might be drawing, singing, dancing, or writing. We talk about how to overcome these blocks.
- The power of healing modalities for greater joy and fulfilment, particularly the Superconscious Transformation Method, which we have both become trained in.
- The power of the feminine and how to access this magic in a masculine-centric world.
Enjoy this deep, juicy, expansive conversation with Gabriela. Learn more about here at her website: https://gabrielamasala.com/
There is no shortage of nutrition information in the world. There must be hundreds of thousands of books, podcast episodes, articles, Youtube videos, and blog posts. There's also no shortage of contradictions within this information.
Many people swear by Keto, while others choose vegan or vegetarian styles of eating. Some people get great results with a certain program, while another might not see any results at all.
After consuming countless resources on nutrition and obtaining two nutrition certifications, Kayla have discovered that there is one nutrition strategy that has trumped all the rest in her own life. It's allowed her to achieve her greatest health, get consistent with her habits, and heal from her pattern of binge eating.
This nutrition strategy can work for anyone, regardless of what their dietary preferences are.
Do you find yourself apologizing for everything? Do you find yourself in a state of perpetual remorse and shame about who you are and how you are? If so, this is the episode is for you.
Part of slaying and thriving is showing up as our truest, most authentic selves, without apologizing for it. We'll be diving into what being unapologetic looks like.
This is not a free pass to excuse hurtful or damaging behaviour. It's not a free pass to do whatever we feel like, without regard for others. It's about still seeing the work to be done on ourselves, owning that work, but not apologizing for who we are, what we look like, or what our past has looked like as we pursue growth and transformation.
We'll be covering three parts of being unapologetically you:
- Unapologetic body confidence
- Unapologetic self-worth - which includes embracing our imperfections
- Unapologetic ownership of our stories and our past
"Finding joy in what you're doing is not an added feature. It is a sign of deep health." - Mark Nepo
This episode is an invitation to check-in with yourself. Are you finding joy in what you're doing? Ask yourself this across the board. Are you finding joy in your relationships, how you spend your free time, your job, how you're pursuing your goals?
If not, we're going to be discussing ways you can not only find the joy, but choose joy. We can find joy in our perspective, and we can also choose it with our decisions and our actions.
Choosing joy is one of the greatest things you can do if you want to spend more time thriving. You'll get strategies for how to both find and actively cultivate more joy into your life.
We have an incredible interview with Corinne Underwood today. Corinne is a Sex, Intimacy & Relationship coach. She was also one of my coaches, so I was even more delighted to have her on the podcast.
We talk about the importance of sexual alignment and how it looks different for everyone. We talk about pleasure and play. We talk about the importance of being in our bodies versus being disconnected from them. We also talk about how struggles with body image and diet are often connected to struggles with our sexuality and sexual desires.
Corinne shares some of her best practices for incorporating more play into everyday life, minimizing the detrimental effects of shame, and creating more fulfillment and intimacy in our romantic relationships.
You can find more information about Corinne's work, how she came help you on your journey, and booking your discovery call with her at https://choicesforsexualhealth.com/.
"One of the recurring core truths I witness about the human psyche is that those who face the darkest parts of their life with courage, loving acceptance, and surrender — always — experience a massive blossoming in their life after. Confront the dragon; get the gold."
- Eric Godsey
Oftentimes, we spend so much time fighting one dragon in our life - whether it's our weight, our debt, or something other external issue - that we expend all our energy. Then we realize that there was another meaner, scarier dragon hiding behind the external challenges we're facing.
Our limiting beliefs. Our wounds from the past. Our trapped emotions. All the blocks that have been hiding behind our surface-level problems.
We can't get to our best lives without slaying the dragons lurking below the surface. Shadow work is essential for healing and thriving. Join Kayla as she gives you strategies for slaying the dragons in your life.
We are back with another episode on binge eating. We'll start out by discussing some ideas from the book, Brain over Binge by Kathryn Hansen.
In this book, the author talks about the two theories for bulimia and binge eating disorder recovery - the tamed house-pet theory and the transformed butterfly theory.
She argues that, in order to stop binge eating, all you have to do is stop acting on the urge to binge.
This is simple in theory and this book has helped thousands of readers. Kayla will be sharing her thoughts on these three theories - the tamed house-pet theory, the transformed butterfly theory, and the "just stop" theory presented in this book, and which has worked the best in her own journey towards recovery.
Every human is an unfinished symphony. - Jade RawlingsToday's episode features an inspiring conversation with full-time author, Jade Rawlings.
We discuss how growing as a writer translates into growth in our everyday lives. We also talk about how writing across various styles and genres can help us heal past pain and trauma, particular those challenging things that happened in childhood.
Enjoy the episode with Jade - she has so many amazing things to say!
If you are looking for a practical tool that will help you manage your emotions effectively, stop binge eating, AND accelerate the manifestation process, this episode is for you!
There is one tool, more than any other, that has helped me heal my relationship with food, get consistent in my habits, and change my body once and for all. I'm going to be walking you through what this tool is and the step by step process for using it.
I'm also going to use a personal example from my own life so you can see just how powerful this tool is... especially when you super-charge it with your manifesting superpowers.
You are the author of your story. You are creating and narrating your destiny every single day. With your thoughts. With your actions. With your focus.
If you aren't living your dream life right now, you can start to tell a new story. This episode will help you do exactly that.
Kayla is going to be sharing some of the ways that her journey as a writer has helped her craft a life that she is madly in love with. She'll be comparing the process of writing and editing a book to the process of building your dream life.
She's also going to be reading the first chapter of Pacific Heat, her upcoming novel. This book will be released in September of 2021. To make sure you don't miss the chance to buy your copy, make sure you've liked and followed https://www.facebook.com/kaylavanegdomwrites.
I was originally going to call this episode, 'my best manifestation ever', but I realized that wouldn't do the episode justice. This episode isn't about one specific manifestation. You can use these tips to manifest anything you desire - love, money, health, career changes, all of the above.
I'll be using a specific example from my own life. This is the most amazing thing I've manifested to date, but I'm going to be sharing the specifics about why it happened as beautifully and magically as it did.
After listening to this episode, you will have four tips to elevate your own manifesting processes. Combine these manifesting tips with a consistent, Beast Mode work ethic, and you will be able to achieve anything you want.
Today's guest is Laurie-Anne King - a coach and energy healer who is on a mission to help thousands of women win with money and create financial freedom and abundance. We had an incredible conversation about how to build financial peace into your life, using both energetic and practical strategies. We cover:
- Why women struggle more with money and finance than their male counterparts
- What's going on with people who over-spend and with people who over-save, and how the solution for both is actually the same
- How to approach your finances in a way that honors your dreams and values, and actually feels good
- Strategies that make taking care of your finances feel like self-care
"Making more money won't resolve your issues with money. Resolving your issues with money resolves your issues with money. And, as a result, you often get more money." - Amanda Frances
In this episode, we're going to be discussing the ways you can resolve any issue in your life. We'll be talking money, love, and health, but this can be applied anywhere. You'll get specific strategies for how to actually do the inner work to see lasting change. The best part is that when you change the inside, the external situations you want to affect also change.
In today's episode, I have an incredible conversation with Patrick about how to set goals and achieve anything. Patrick is the CEO and founder of Inner Coach, which is where I had so many breakthroughs of my own this past year.
We cover a variety of topics, including:
- Common goal-setting pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Practical ways to move steadily towards your goals, while feeling amazing in the process
- How to release resistance - which can be self-sabotage, procrastination, fear, anything that stands between you and your goal - so you can achieve whatever it is that you desire
If you have a weight loss goal specifically, you do not want to miss this episode!
This episode features a mother-daughter duo of bad-asses. Christine has gone from struggling with her weight and her habits to getting consistent and disciplined enough to participate in a bikini competition. Her entire identity changed. She talks about the obstacles she overcame, what she learned from starting her bodybuilding journey, and the power of having a coach.
Now she's helping her daughter, Alysha, reach her health and fitness goals. Alysha is one of my best friends, and she has been crushing it on her own journey. She's a mom of two young children, and she's had to overcome some serious health issues as well. We talk about how she navigates motherhood, her health challenges, and the importance of having a great support system.
I know you'll love hearing from these two rock stars!
Even though we're almost halfway through 2021, this episode is so worth a listen. 2020 was a bigger year for growth and transformation than any other year for me. I didn't want to let this year get too cold without sharing my most powerful lessons.
Most of these lessons are universal and can help anyone, regardless of whether they're chasing financial goals, health goals, or relationship goals. They have been a game-changer for me, and I know they positively impact you on your journey as well!
Today's episode features an incredibly successful and fulfilled writer. We talk about how to slay and thrive as a creative person. Some of the topics we cover are:
- How Hasan has grown on his writing journey
- Some of the barriers he encountered along the way
- How he was able to use creativity and writing to manage dark times in his life
- How to handle constructive criticism (and also, the criticism that isn't so constructive)
Do you ever feel like you're at war with yourself? Like you're your own worst enemy? You know there's more that's possible for you. More health, more success, more fulfilment. But it feels like you're constantly getting in your own way. Maybe you overeat at night. Or overspend while you're trying to get out of debt. Or you procrastinate for months on end. You're frustrated because you know that you're the thing standing in your own way, but you don't know how to end the fight. Listen to this podcast to discover how you can get onto your own side, once and for all.
Today, we're going to be talking all about binge eating. This podcast was somewhat inspired by the book of the same title. Is it possible to never binge again? Is it even a helpful goal to strive for? We're going to be talking about how to break free from binge eating without the need for perfectionism or rigidity. We do discuss eating disorders to a small extent, so make sure to skip this episode if you aren't in a good place to hear about this.
One of the biggest roadblocks that keeps us from being able to Slay & Thrive is the expectation that progress must be a straight line. We resist setbacks and the obstacles, wanting to see steady, constant progress. This episode will talk about how this perspective gets in the way and keeps us from loving the journey. We'll also talk about how to see it differently so you can move towards your goals with greater consistency and less resentment.
This episode will change your relationship with yourself and your ability to achieve any goal you have for yourself. No matter what your barriers or unhelpful habits are, you are NOT broken. By choosing the perspective presented in this episode instead, you will deepen your relationship with yourself and create a greater sense of power to affect change in any area that you desire.
If you want to slay and thrive at the same time, then this episode is for you. It's so common to lead with what we don't want. We can get overwhelmed thinking about all the problems in our life. The excess weight. The debt. The low quality relationships. When we focus on the problems, we don't feel our best. But there is another way. When you lead with what you truly desire, you will not only feel better, but you'll be more likely to take the necessary action to achieve these desires.
Thriving without slaying is where you are so focused on feeling good that your momentum has dissipated. You're floating through life in a cloud of positivity, but you're not making progress. Managing your state and vibration has become a full time job, possibly to the point where it's become self-indulgent. In this episode, you'll learn about how you can take all your positive emotions and get back to taking inspired, aligned action towards your goals.
Slaying with thriving is rampant in today's society. We glorify success, achievement, and productivity. But what if it's coming at the expense of a person's joy and well-being? In this podcast, we're going to dive deeper into slaying without thriving, which is at the root of unhappy achieving. You'll also get practical tips for how to feel better and enjoy the journey now instead of struggling with burn out, overwhelm, and frustration.
This first episode will share how you can end patterns of unhappy achieving and self-sabotage forever. You'll also meet your host, who went from her rock bottom to creating the life of her dreams. You can be fulfilled and happy now. The best part is, when you feel better, you also do better. Get ready to Slay and Thrive.