Move Your Body Differently: Recent Episodes
Shaela Daugherty
Stewardship can seem like a catch-all when it comes to time management, our bodies, etc. Today you will hear how I break down this skill of stewardship, what it truly means, and how it's a gift we can use in our health journeys.
We talk about:
- How stewardship is the skill and ability to choose better
- Stewardship doesn't have to be this scary thing - it's in fact something that gives us more freedom and allows us to think clearly and make choices that let us live in the present moment with the Lord and our families
- Galatians 6:9-10
- 3 Habits to help integrate the skill of choosing better and stewarding our bodies well:
- Action 1: Establish criteria for better
- Habit of asking yourself: "How can I make this choice a little bit better right now?"
- Action 2: Add in more good
- Habit: Add more higher quality proteins
- Habit: Choosing higher quality vegetables
- Habit: Choosing higher quality carbs
- Habit: Choosing higher quality fats
- Habit: Have a grocery budget
- Habit: Don't go to the grocery store hungry
- Habit 3: Eat less processed foods
- Habit: Make healthy substitutions
- Habit: Think of your health and fitness as a continuum
- Habit: Notice your own behavior patterns
- Action 1: Establish criteria for better
Resources from the episode:
- Free 7 Day Trial of the SD Fit Well App
- How to Commit Well with a Busy Lifestyle - with Kingdom Lifestyle Coach Jenn
- Clarity & Strategy Package
- Why Consistency & Simplicity Matter in Your Health Journey - Podcast Episode
- Coaching Sessions to Help You Implement and Ask Questions in Your Health & Fitness Journey
- Brittany Bauer - My Rev Nutrition
- Kristin Williams - Wonderfully Made Nutrition Counseling
- Britany Braswell - Brittany Braswell, RD
- Live Coaching Call with Angie Tyner
Join the FREE 7 day trial of the SD Fit Well App & get The Really Crazy Busy Woman's Guide to Success in Your Health: Join here
We have Jenn, the Kingdom Lifestyle Coach back on the podcast today talking about a vey much needed and deep topic of what it looks like to commit well in an overcommitted and stressed out culture. This episode is SO life-giving. Really take a good listen to this, and save it so you can refer back to it when you need encouragement on your busy journey.
On this episode she works through:
- What it means to be curious with your mindset and fleshing out what time management looks like
- How most women are living from a place of lack or scarcity mindset - which is an enemy tactic
- BIG TAKEAWAY STATEMENT: "The enemy is always working to make us want what we already have"
- The reality that we actually DO have enough time in a day
- How commitment and "I don't have enough time" run hand in hand
- What to do when you make great plans, but your follow through isn't consistent
- How you may accidentally be training your brain that you aren't trustworthy (it's a thing ya'll!)
- When our brains feel we are untrustworthy how that can lead to the scarcity mindset which leaves us in this cycle of "not having enough time"
- What it means to be Holy Spirit led
- How to get out of the chaotic cycle of your brain believing you don't steward your time well
- Examples of what starting small may mean for someone
- How to reframe things in our brain
- A christian perspective of the phrase "I can't pour from an empty cup"
- How overwhelm feels so real and how decision fatigue has a lot to do with that
- Asking yourself: what has God called me to big picture AND in this season? What are my personal God Given priorities? What is my pace?
- "Do less, but do it with excellence"
- What is happening with our kids when we raise them always the go and raising them to compete with our level of busyness and giving our home it's rightful place in raising our children and not overcommitting
- Living from a place of already accepted, loved, approved and with abundance
Resources talked about in the podcast:
- Facebook: Jenn Louise
- Instagram: @jennlouise35
- email: hello@jennlouisecoaching.com
- website: jennlouisecoaching.cohere.live jennlouisecoaching.com
In today's episode we have Kingdom Lifestyle Coach, Jennifer Louise, on to get to know her. As a former nurse, she left her surgical nursing career because instead of seeing patients get better, she kept seeing them get sicker and sicker and she knew there had to be another way.
So with her nursing background and life coaching education, she is know a Kingdom Lifestyle Coach who coaches mostly women through a gospel lens.
In today's episode we hear:
- a little more of her story, how she is a single-mom, homeschool mom, and garden enthusiast
- a refreshing look at the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of us and what that means for us as christian women
- How she promotes health with her son
- how our exercise and eating healthy is more an expression of Christ's love for US, not necessarily our love for Him. While we move and eat out of a place of love for Him, it's more because of His love first
- what it means to break generational cycles in your total body wellness
- the number one reason women are coming to her: to steward their time better
- how perspective and outlook of hardships and tough times really make a difference in your Kingdom living
- why God shines brightest in our darkest of moments
Resources talked about in the podcast:
- Facebook: Jenn Louise
- Instagram: @jennlouise35
- email: hello@jennlouisecoaching.com
- website: jennlouisecoaching.cohere.live jennlouisecoaching.com
Part 6 of HOLY Health Habits we get into the spiritual discipline of worship and how that relates to the skill of regulating our eating!
Sounds interesting right?! Here's the highlights + the 2 habits and actions that I share at the end of the episode, in this episode we discuss:
- What does it mean to worship God?
- The variety of ways worship can look in an individuals life
- What the skill of self-regulation is, and how that's one of the skills we use for the spiritual discipline of worship
- How self-regulation plays a role in our eating behaviors
- That scripture doesn't call us to purposefully neglect our bodies
- More often than not, any neglect towards are body, isn't necessarily purposeful, it's a lack of habits, skills and prioritizing time
- How what you do with your body now will either pay off later or you will pay the price for later
Habits & Actions:
- Listening to your body:
- Practice hunger cures
- Practice fullness cues
- Amplify feedback – drink a glass of cold water and notice the sensations
- Normalize and routinize eating habits (like worship):
- have scheduled eating times
- plan meals/stock up on convenient items
- "berardis law" if you can see it, you will eventually eat it - keep those foods out of sight or whatever is preventing you from having normal eating behaviors
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
- Shaela's Instagram: @sdfitwell
- Your Body Is Limited & That's Not A Bad Thing Episode
- Why You Need Fitness the Most in a Busy or Tough Season Episode
- Brittany Bauer Guest Episode
How does the spiritual discipline of prayer relate to your health journey? In today's episode we unpack what this spiritual discipline is and the skill it takes to build this discipline into our every day life: the skill of Awareness.
Being aware of the Holy Spirit, being in communication with the Father and being dedicated to know Him and have this relationship. This skill is easily the foundation for our next skill and health habit we need for life-long health - the skill and habits of awareness of our bodies. I break down simple habits and actions that will help you become more aware of your body over the course of time. Remind yourself - it's not a 1 and done thing. This is something that has to be practiced, but this skill will translate into ALL areas of your life, outside of your health and fitness journey.
Here are the habits and actions I suggested in the podcast:
- Eat Slowly & Mindfully
- do something in between bites
- be the last person to eat – so pace yourself with the slowest eater
- Eat to satisfied:
- Stop eating once you are no longer hungry – but not overly full
- Pause every few minutes to see how satisfied you are
- Know why you are eating:
- Before you eat, ask yourself “Why am I eating?” am I eating because I am truly hungry? Bored? Stressed? Etc
- Be ok with whatever you decide to do with that information
- Enjoy eating:
- Eat and savor a small portion of a food that you love – no restrictions
- Ask yourself- what works with the way I eat? What foods and types of meals do you look forward too
Here are the links suggested in the podcast:
The SD Fit Well App - FREE 7 day trial
Interview with Brittany Bauer and Intuitive Eating
We get really practical in today's episode as we dive into:
- The foundational spiritual discipline of Bible reading & a quick explanation as to why and how to do this more often
- the hardest and yet MOST foundational skill needed for your health and fitness journey that most women actually don't stay consistent on
- how no body gets fit and health on accident and why you need a plan
- as women how we typically have an incredible skill for planning, prioritizing and preparing, and yet we often don't use that skill for our health and our fitness journey
- specific habits & actions we can use to help us build this necessary skill the 4 habits are:
- Make time & plan ahead
- spend 5 minutes every Sunday evening looking through potential obstacles for the week and how you can overcome them
- schedule and create reminders for appointments with yourself
- plan your meals
- prep your meals
- Take a 5 minute action
- plan the days you will workout and put them in your calendar don’t miss this with yourself!
- Worship the Lord and pray for 5 minutes each morning or after your workout – build it into your workout routine
- Create & use systems
- create morning/nighttime routine
- create a breakfast/lunch rotating menu
- Create the space
- declutter stressful places
- make helpful items easily visible for use
- discuss goals with family or friends
- Make time & plan ahead
Resources mentioned:
- SD Fit Well App Promo: use code PROMO40 - to get 40% off your first 2 months, this ends August 4!
- H.E.A.R Method
- Meal Planning Episode
- Praying Through Your Workouts
- Why Rhythms are Key to Your Health & Fitness Journey Episode
- Monthly Breakfast Menu
- A Personal Trainers Morning Routine
JOIN THE SD FIT WELL APP TODAY WITH THIS PROMO CODE: Use PROMO40 for 40% off first 2 months We get to welcome Kristin Williams back on the podcast today and talk all things BODY IMAGE! If you haven't listened to her intro episode, head to the link here and take a listen here before diving into this one.
In today's questions Kristin answers these questions for us:
- How does our view of ourselves, through the lens of the gospel, affect and treat the way we view our body (we loaded the heavy ones first!!)?
- How often are you finding in your practice that women are finding their worth in food or fitness instead of in God?
- What does it mean that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?
- What is the difference between shame and conviction with exercise and healthy eating?
- How can placing our worth or identity in food or fitness become a form of idolatry and what is idolatry?
- If there is an idol over body image or fitness & health what could be some next steps?
- What does it mean to place God's truth over my feelings or opinion in this situation?
And we talk about:
- Moving our bodies out of goodness, not out of punishment
- At one point focusing on the scale, weight, body physique has become an idol in our lives
- If your health was taken away today, how would you handle it?
- Becoming aware of body image thoughts, and then getting the tools to wrestle well in the journey of body image
- What happens when you think to highly of yourself or too "lowly" of yourself - and how either place can turn the focus off Christ and keep it on ourselves (even if we are trying to avoid it)
- What the reality is for those believers who think they don't need to care for their body this side of heaven because their body "doesn't go" to heaven one day
- Taking out of context "my body is a temple"
- Being exhausted as a mom, determining when rest is God-honoring, and when it's not
- Random chat about mom anger
- Being scared to move forward or having some sort of apathy toward your body
- Steps to take: praying for the Lord to lead and direct you what is from culture or what is from the Creator, intuitive eating
- How your feelings are valid, but aren't always reliable
- What it means to wrestle well with these idols and negative body image thoughts
- You don't have to have it all figured out to model it to someone else
Here are the links we mentioned in the podcast today:
Kristin's handle is @wonderfullymadenutrition
Facebook: Wonderfully Made Nutrition Counseling
Website is https://www.wonderfullymadenutritioncounseling.com
Unworthy Weight Book: Amazon
In His Image Body Image Conference: Register Here
In today's episode we have the privilege of chatting with my friend Kristin Williams, a Registered Dietician and Eating Disorder Specialist that really also specializes in body image through a Gospel lens. In this introductory episode we chat about:
- What healthy means to her now, verses when you was in her teens
- What brought her to become a Christian Dietician
- How her and her husband speak about food and bodies with their kids
- What it means to have the information about health and fitness drop from your head to your heart
- Asking the questions: what's the posture of your heart toward health and fitness?
- The pressures for Kristin & myself being in the health industry and having the desire to "look the part" in our current culture
- What it means to be a non-diet dietician
- How dieting can actually in turn cause weight gain, overeating, and a further disconnection from ones body
- What "making peace with food" actually means
- My personal struggles I had with food and disordered eating in the beginning of my fitness journey
- How when you make peace with food, you actually end up eating less and potentially losing weight because you lose the "last supper" mentality with food
and so much more! You are going to love this conversation with Kristin and love Kristin!!
Here are the links we mentioned in the podcast today:
Join the App: Get a FREE 7 Day Trial
Kristin's handle is @wonderfullymadenutrition
Facebook: Wonderfully Made Nutrition Counseling
Website is https://www.wonderfullymadenutritioncounseling.com
Unworthy Weight Book: Amazon
In His Image Body Image Conference: Register Here
Welcome back to episode 3 of the Holy Health Habits Series. Today we really dig into how you can enjoy your health and fitness journey and be thankful and gracious for it, instead of working out because you "have to" or "need to." Turning your wellness journey into an opportunity of gaining something, rather than a temporary stent of pain where you are losing something (like weight or inches, etc). Here is the ground we cover in this episode:
- We recap the first 2 episodes
- How the Exodus & the Israelites relate to our wellness journey today
- Science behind why some people are more consistent in their workouts than others (study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029223000997)
- Why negative self-talk either in your mind or out loud is only going to damage your long-term health journey
- How to focus on GAINING your health in Christ, rather than LOSING what's weighing you down
- Armoring up in your health journey because Satan will come to steal, kill and destroy
Here are all the links I talked about in this episode:
- Free 7 Day Trial of the SD Fit Well App - Click Here
- HOLY Health Habits Part 1 - How your Spiritual Disciplines are the Foundation for Your Health Habits
- HOLY Health Habits Part 2 - Knowing WHY you are doing what you are doing
- God is Good and So Is Your Body
- How to Grow In Christ In Your Wellness Journey
- Your Body Is Limited - And that's not a bad thing
- Slaying Shame in Christ
Today's episode is JAM packed with wisdom and knowledge from Allison Jordan, who has spent MANY years in the health industry and she is sharing all about how there can be so many underlying issues in our body even when our doctors tell us everything "looks normal."
Around 46 Minutes in we do talk about a bacteria that can be transferred through marital circumstances - it isn't graphic, but if you are listening with kids, you may want to pause that part and listen without them.
In this episode we discuss:
- Allison’s story of what had her turn to functional medicine
- What to do if you feel like something wrong but your doctor says your lab work looks normal and you seem healthy and they suggest just attacking the symptoms
- Standard lab testing v functional lab testing
- Figuring out if you trust your doctor and when it might be time to switch
- Surprising facts about iron levels
- What it means to find a Sherlock Holmes for your health
- What stealth infections are
- How to accept your body where it is, but also seek the help you feel your body needs
- 3 steps for deeper health
- Why you need to research your doctors
- What it means to have a multi-layer plan instead of just attacking one symptom at a time
- Questions to ask even to it functional medicine doctor or DO
- What roadblocks you might have even though you THINK are covering your bases
- What leaky gut is, and how that might create temporary food sensitivity’s
- The most common bacteria you may be struggling with
and. so. much. more
I cannot wait to hear your takeaways from this episode! Here are all the links mentioned in today's episode:
- Testimonial from my Client Abby: 13// Drop Sugar Cravings, Lose Weight, and Get Glowing Skin [Client Testimonial – Abby Herman]
- Episodes related to functional lab testing:
- 72// Why Your Iron and Vitamin D Are Still Low – Even After Taking Supplements
- Ep. 3// Why Probiotics Aren’t Healing Your Gut
- 116// Why Going Gluten Free Hasn’t Healed Your Gas and Bloating
- 66// 6 Reasons Your Doctor is Reading Your Blood Labs Wrong + How You Can Do It Better
- 68// 10 Markers on Your Bloodwork Linked to Acid Reflux
Plus links to connect with Allison:
- Better Belly Podcast: https://betterbellytherapies.com/podcast
- Follow on Instagram: Https://instagram.com/betterbellytherapies
- Join Our Free Facebook Group! Https://betterbellytherapies.com/facebook
- Website: https://betterbellytherapies.com
- FREE Natural Constipation Relief Guide: https://betterbellytherapies.com/constipation
- FREE Total Liver Support Protocol: Https://betterbellytherapies.com/liver
- Work with Me 1:1 - Join the Foundations Program
- Join Allison's Course + Group Coaching Program - The Better Belly Blueprint
We have guest expert, Allison Jordan, founder of Better Belly Therapies, sharing her story of health with us along with how she creates a healthy lifestyle for her family. In this episode we talk about:
- What led her to a healthier lifestyle in 2015 when she suddenly had all these health issues and the doctors weren’t giving her answers for her pain
- Her 3 categories she uses to think of health & fitness for herself and her family, the third one will surprise you!
- Proverbs 14:1 - and how this verse helps her view her health and fitness from a biblical perspective
- How Your health takes TIME - it’s like building a house
- How neglect is another form of tearing down our own homes (our bodies)
- What functional lab testing, craniosacrial therapy & visceral manipulation is
- How to find people in your area to take care of your body
- How the earth is fallen and our bodies don’t work the way they should
- And what it's like to have an identity shift and discover your health from deep within when you say YES to the journey
Here are all the links mentioned in this podcast:
Website: betterbellytherapies.com
Find a Therapist near you: betterbellytherapies.com/find
Testimonial from my Client Abby: 13// Drop Sugar Cravings, Lose Weight, and Get Glowing Skin [Client Testimonial – Abby Herman]
Better Belly Podcast: https://betterbellytherapies.com/podcast
Follow on Instagram: Https://instagram.com/betterbellytherapies
Join her Free Facebook Group! Https://betterbellytherapies.com/facebook
FREE Natural Constipation Relief Guide: https://betterbellytherapies.com/constipation
FREE Total Liver Support Protocol: Https://betterbellytherapies.com/liver
Work with Allison 1:1 - Join the Foundations Program
Join Allison's Course + Group Coaching Program - The Better Belly Blueprint
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Today's episode is part 2 in the introduction to the HOLY Health Habits series. We are going to talk about:
- How fixating on an outcome for your physical health is probably the way to ruin your health
- How an identity based goal and vision will help us find freedom in the journey
- How the fight in our health and fitness journey lies in our identity, rather than outcome
- Getting practical and answering 6 questions to help guide us into seeing who we believe God is calling us to be as we grow
Here are the 6 questions below for you to think over and pray over, write them down and then send me a picture in the SD Fit Well App or send me a message on Instagram @sdfitwell
- Imagine yourself 10 years from now - looking back on your life what will have mattered that you spent your time on? 2. What won’t have mattered that you spent your time on? 3. In 10 years, what are you doing, how do you feel and what type of healthy person are you? 4. What brings you the most joy and fires you up - currently? 5. Currently - if you were to have the perfect day, where you feel most energized and amazing and life - giving, what are you doing, how are you moving, and what are you eating? 6. What if your health was taken away? What if you achieved all your goals? How would you feel either way? Join the SD Fit Well App Today Here - and join a community of believers who are all focusing on who the Lord is calling us to be instead of an immediate physical outcome. Follow me on instagram @sdfitwell and let me know your thoughts on this new series!