Why You Can Eat 'Perfectly' and Still Feel Like S**t in Your Body

You're eating clean, hitting the gym, and doing everything right... so why does your body still feel inflamed, sluggish, and off?

 In this episode, Shanon breaks down the four reasons food alone isn't enough: chronic stress, overriding your body's cues, unresolved emotional patterns, and a dysregulated nervous system.

Shanon shares her own experience of doing everything "right" as a dietitian and still feeling puffy, breaking out, and gaining weight.. and the moment she realized the missing piece had nothing to do with nutrition.

If you're tired of fighting your body and ready to look beyond the plate, this episode is your starting point.

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Hello, hello, Fire fam. Welcome back to another episode of the Fuel the Fire podcast with your host, Shannon Safi. So today's episode: Why can you eat perfectly and still feel like poop in your body? Um, I'm like a 12-year-old and still feel weird about cursing, especially in public forums. Um, my mother did not let us curse when we were kids at home. And even now, if I were to use profane language in front of my mother, she would be very unhappy and scold me still. So we're still gonna dive into it. And this is something that's so real that so many of us think about, especially when we are in that mode of doing everything right and we are really sticking to our guns, doing the things we know we're supposed to do or we've been told we're supposed to do, and have learned are the right things to practice around nutrition and our eating habits and movement. But somehow, some way, our body is revolting against us. So, of course, before I dive into it, I'm just gonna give you a little life update on what's been new in my world and what's been going on in the past week. Now that I'm recording these every week, it's almost like I have do I have less things to talk about? Probably not. So many things happen in the course of a week, and it just be really hard to remember sometimes. But over this weekend, oh my gosh, I had such a full weekend. My sister was home. She graduated. She's officially gotten her PhD from Lehigh University, which is amazing. She's so inspirational to me. She is six years younger than me, but definitely probably like slightly a little more mature than I am, some would say, or at least from her perspective. But you know, that's the little sister, big sister vibe, I think. I feel like it is like that in other dynamics. If you do have a sister, maybe you can relate. But it's really cool. She studied psychology, which is really amazing, and we get to share that. I always think about how coincidental it is that my siblings and I all kind of studied something similar or are on similar paths. Even though we're all kind of different, we have our own unique perspective and take on how we support people. But all of us are in some type of service field, I guess you could say, in regards to health. So my brother studied public health at Johns Hopkins University. My siblings are major smarty pants. Now that I'm like saying that out loud, I'm like, dang, yo. Yeah, my siblings are smart. So my brother does public health work in the state of Maryland, and my sister is a psychologist, right? So she works with people. So mostly right now, I mean, she loves working in the college setting and supporting college students with their mental health. But who knows where she will go next now that she is officially educated and graduated. I'm excited for her and her journey. But that's been really exciting. Her being home, she had to do a year in Texas. So it's been really great to have some extra time to spend with her because that is my sister and I love her dearly. And there's just like a unique connection that you have with your siblings. So it's nice to be able to be in that, especially because she's been living in Texas. I don't get that all the time. That was um, yeah, what I did for most of the days of the weekend hang out with her, celebrate her, go to her graduation, throw a little party. Sunday, I was at a bridal shower, which is really nice. I was indeed taking notes for my own bridal shower. Um, it was my technically my dad's cousin's daughter. Um, but I think just I just think of her as my cousin as well. And so it was really fun to celebrate her again, see lots of family. And it's it's been really nice. Part of that is kind of making me think more about because I've been like around my family a lot for various reasons, because of celebrations that are happening. We have a few weddings going on in the family this year, and just more reasons to celebrate, I guess. And so through conversations, and now that I'm kind of like an adult, you know, as silly as that sounds, it's like your relationship with your aunts and uncles are different when you're younger. And as I'm getting older and just becoming more established and rooted in this area and with my own life, the conversations are kind of shifting. And we're talking about things that I just never really knew about my family. I feel like I'm learning a lot of new things and making more connections, especially now because I have a different perspective on life than maybe I did 10 years ago. I'm starting to draw more connections because part of like what really interests me are the family dynamics and how we carry things on and inherit things from our family that aren't necessarily like objects, right? I think we develop a lot of patterns and even like mental, physical health things that can be common in families. So that always makes me wonder kind of like where the root of some of my experiences have come from and some of the shared experiences that I'm noticing now. And it's it's a lot of little things. Like maybe a month or so ago when I was at my other cousin's bridal shower, I learned that a few other people in my family experience vertigo. And I thought I was the only one. I didn't really realize that there were other people in my family experiencing this, and it made me kind of wonder you know, that's really interesting. Like, why are they also experiencing that? Is there something shared here that would cause us all to? And if you've talked to me before, I I do truly believe, and I think it's been proven to some degree in research studies, don't ask me about them, but I've heard that they are. I'll have to do more digging to get specific studies. But just on a personal belief level, and just how some of my extended family that's like in Syria has perceived things too. There's like a spiritual reason that we experience these physical things. And so, for example, when I would tell my one aunt who's lived in Syria most of her life, she did live with us for a period of time before she passed away. Um, but she lived most of her life in Syria. And so I always think that's interesting. A lot of more traditional cultural practices or parts of the Eastern world also believe this. When I would say something like, I have a headache, she'd be like, Oh, are you thinking too much? Rather than like, are you hydrated? Are you this? Are you that? Her first thought is like, oh, you know, is there too much thought going on? Do you need to be a little bit more present in your body and stop worrying about things? Which I really love that perspective because I feel like it's true. Like I just feel like that's the truth. And if we thought more that way in Western culture, I think we would have less of these physical and even autoimmune issues. I do feel that stress is highly connected to it. But when we say stress, not everyone identifies with that word because stress isn't exactly like I feel like stress is just a cover-all, catch-all word for a mixed emotional experience that we could be having. So when your doctor says, like, are you stressed? a lot of people say no, even though they are experiencing what I would say just like some type of emotional dysregulation. A lot of times we're not even aware fully of our emotions. And that plays a huge role and factor into our health, which I love this because it is the accidental perfect transition in today's topic as to why you can eat perfectly and still feel like poop in your body. Okay. So this is something that I've also personally experienced where I feel like I'm really well hydrated, I am going to the gym consistently, I am eating well. I mean, sleep is something that I've personally still been really trying to work on because it's not my strongest, but I am looking into acupuncture to support this. But anyway, for the most part, half decent sleep, mostly decent sleep, could be improved. But anyway, my point being is a lot of these things can be checked off and you're still not feeling good in your body, right? So I will throw this back to a few years ago because this is when it became really, really loud in my life. So I was really consistent with going to the gym. I think I went like five days a week at this point. I had slowed down from that competition version mode of me. So I was just kind of like regularly taking what I would call like CrossFit type classes, so cross-training type classes. So they were like one-hour sessions five days a week. I ate really well. I was eating, I was very like focused on what I was eating. I don't remember at that point. I think I had stopped tracking, but I was relatively consistent. I was eating within the same structure and I was very aware of like what I was taking in. I was very well hydrated. And at that time, because I was in like the get up early mode, I think I fell asleep much more quickly. Wasn't super excited to wake up in the morning, though, to be honest. And that's how I knew probably that was like another sign that something was off balance. So at this time, I was really on top of my game with everything, but starting to notice that my body was just resisting things. Like I felt poofy, I felt inflamed. Um, I don't know if I necessarily felt bloating exactly, but I just kind of felt like, I don't know, like I just felt like I was carrying extra water, extra fluid, like I felt swollen for lack of a better way to say it. And I just felt like my skin was revolting against me as well. I was struggling with acne. And it's I was just like, dang, you know, I I've always been really, really consistent and I've adjusted my eating to match my output. And I'm like, you know, again, like I'm a dietitian. So I'm like, of course I know these things and I know what I should be doing, and I'm doing them. But like, why do I still feel horrible in my body and I don't feel confident and I'm not liking the way that I'm looking, and I'm even noticing that I'm gaining weight, and it was really frustrating me because, you know, as much as I am someone that advocates for loving yourself in the moment, I think naturally we have times where we're finding difficulty doing that. Like I was having a really tough time fully accepting myself for how I was and how things were at that period of time. And I needed change. I wanted change because I was like, this is unfair. I am doing everything that I'm supposed to be doing and not feeling good. Like this is baloney. And so this is really where it was just like that pivotal point when I realized something had to shift. And if I couldn't possibly change anything from a health perspective any more than I already have, that had to mean that it was something else that I was not taking into consideration. And I I do believe that if you do not listen to God's nudges along the way, He has no choice, the universe has no choice but to make it really loud so that you have to pay attention to what is going on. So everything, of course, came to a head, and that's when I knew that there was more that I had to look at at that point in time. So from there, that's when I started looking into alternative methods. I started wondering and really getting or like shifting the way I was doing meditation. So what I started doing was doing body scans, and I've been kind of like recently getting back into this practice because I haven't been doing it as much. So essentially, like I'll lay down and just go through body part by body part. I'll start from the top of my head and just check in with like how am I feeling? When I would do this, and even as I'm doing it now, I'm like closing my eyes and walking myself through it. Like I can I feel things that I I wasn't noticing before. Before I would tapped into this, like literally right now, you can even do it yourself. Of course, if you're in a safe space not driving, if you are driving, you could still kind of notice your body like without closing your eyes. But when I would lay down to meditate, starting from the top of my head, scanning down and just thinking, like, okay, how is the top of my skull feeling? And then I kind of would notice this pressure. And I'm like, okay, how do my eyes feel? I actually feel a little bit of pressure in my eyes. Hmm, how about the back of my head? I actually feel a bit of tension there. How about my jaw? Oh my gosh, my jaw. There was tightness in there, and I'd have to really think about releasing it. And I would almost do it twice. I'd be like, okay, now relax that tension in my head. Okay, now relax a little bit deeper. Okay, now relax the lip muscles around my lips. Relax them a little deeper. And I would go through every single body part, front and back, giving them its own unique attention and calling into my body and asking it to relax. And this made me realize how disconnected from my body I could have been this whole time without really realizing it. It made me a lot more aware of what I was holding on to and what really needed to relax and the discomfort that I had so much like normalized. And I've said this before, like as an athlete, as someone that's really ambitious, it was something that it was like this is a gift that I have to be able to like ignore my body and my emotions so that I can push further, accomplish things. Like at that time, you know, I could sit with clients and be really understanding and caring towards them and what their experiences were. But I like low-key was really mean to myself. You know, like I had such a different expectation or pressure, an internal monologue that made me disconnect and dissociate from my physical experience so that I could achieve more, do more, and push harder and further. Once I realized doing that wasn't actually really serving me and getting me to feel the way I wanted to feel in life, that's when I really continued to make that shift and start to recognize that actually, like, what would life look like if I paid more attention to my internal emotional world? What if I paid more attention to what the signals were that my body was sending me? What if I actually acknowledged the tiredness, the desire to slow down, the desire for softness, gentleness instead of pushing through, being in that masculine energy and fighting my way to the top? I really became interested. Um, actually, it was like a coach that I worked with, Celine DeCosta. The reason I started working with that coach was because she was talking about this journey about moving from like a place of like hyper-masculine energy into this like soft feminine energy, which I really struggled with. Like I was raised to be this like strong, independent woman. And I wanted to continue to be that, but I was exhausted. Like it was really hard for me to accept help and slow down, but at the same time, I craved it and desired it. Like I wanted to be like rescued from being in this, but it took a lot of practice to recognize in which way I was being like just going too far into those hyper-masculine traits of forcing, of pushing, of fighting, of being too much in my brain. I wanted to enter into those softer feminine qualities of being relaxed, receiving more, being in the flow with life, sharing or experiencing more of that yin energy versus that yang energy. Okay. And so if you are someone that is currently experiencing that feeling of like you're checking all the boxes, you know, you go to the doctor, things look fine, um, or there's just like inflammation markers and things that are out of range that don't really make sense, like liver enzymes or something random like that. These can absolutely be signs that we're holding on to things and emotions that we need to address. So the four reasons why food alone isn't enough. The first one is chronic stress. So cortisol disrupts our digestion and can alter fat storage. We can be more likely to store things our fat under, I'm sorry, store things as fat when we are under chronic stress. And again, starting to expand how we perceive what stress actually means. Okay, so when I say stress, again, think of that as like any disruptive emotion, any uncomfortable emotion, anything that builds discomfort in the body, in the mind, in the soul, when we tap into it. It's important that we start to allow ourselves to experience these emotions despite the discomfort that comes up with them. Just because the emotion creates discomfort does not mean it's one that we are not intended to feel. We inevitably will experience the broad range of emotions as humans. And to me, my personal philosophy is that we are supposed to experience these different emotions. We are meant to and intended to experience that broad range. And so for every opposite, you know, for lack of a better term, like negative emotion or uncomfortable emotion, we limit ourselves for what the opposite positive emotional experience of that is. So if I don't want to feel sadness, I actually limit my ability to feel joy and happiness. If I don't want to feel pain, I actually limit my ability to experience pleasure. Okay, and so a beautiful book. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna forget the name of it, but it's by Brene Brown and it's all about the experience of emotions in the body. And this really shifted my perspective around emotions. It made me realize that there are a lot of emotions that dance really close together that we associate one is positive and one is negative. So, for example, anxiety and excitement are really similar physical experiences in the body. Once you start to make connections to that, you can actually transmute that energy really effectively. So when you actually allow yourself to feel the peak of an emotion, it really only lasts 60 to 90 seconds. That wallowing that we associate with these negative emotions is actually more of the repression of allowing ourselves to hit that peak of that emotional experience. So do with that information what you may. Like that is really good to think about. If you just let yourself feel it, you let yourself process it the way that specific emotion is meant to be processed, you can then release it. It's really when we try to process an emotion the incorrect way, you know. For example, if you're angry but you treat it as a sad experience, it doesn't release it. So for example, like anger, I might need to, you know, like jog really hard, punch a pillow, you know, do a high-intensity activity for a moment, scream, yell, that is releasing anger. But if I pout, if I try to cry, that's actually not processing the anger. I'm treating it like it's sadness. That doesn't work. Right. So you have to remedy the emotion with the correct form of processing. So number two, overriding body cues. This is something that we so often do, we don't even know that we're doing it because we are using our mind as the decision maker when it comes to the choices that we have in front of us. So we say, like, choose the chicken rice and broccoli over this hamburger, or, you know, better yet, pizza. Like, say you're at work and someone has pizza and you're like, nope, I'm gonna choose a chicken rice and broccoli. That is me just overriding that decision with my mind, right? Like, I probably could very much look at that pizza and be like, that looks delicious, but I won't do it because I've told myself mentally this is what I need. When in reality, we're ignoring the possibility that maybe the pizza could be a good idea. Maybe we're actually craving that for a reason. Maybe we're not having enough dairy, therefore not enough calcium. And that pizza is really appealing because we're actually lacking elements or not allowing ourselves to have elements of that food that's being presented. So that's good to keep in mind. Or another one, better yet, like so, so commonly, we will just override our need for relaxation. This is something that I talked to with my mother and something that I've reflected back to my parents. I see that in them, and therefore it's something that I've easily taken on myself and really had to like rewire and relearn. They both push past the feeling of tiredness because they want to achieve. And it's hard for them to relax because what I've noticed when I've reflected on this, I'd feel so much guilt for taking rest. It's like I would try to rest, but then I would have so much anxiety and feeling guilt and shame for like being what I was feeling as like lazy, when in reality, it was just needing to be able to learn how to relax. So I took that anxiety and discomfort as like the impulse that I had to get up and take action on it and do something, that I couldn't just give myself permission to soften and relax and lay down. So I actually had to really learn how to regulate this, which is actually point number four, which I'll dive into a little bit. But you have to actually then create safety in the body to learn how to relax. But a lot of us don't recognize that and take that as an internal push that I have to go do something. Otherwise, that anxiety will still be there. That anxiety is there because it's unfamiliar, not because it's not the right thing to do, but it's a different course of action that your body has to adapt to. Okay, we have to override those internal experiences, or I shouldn't say override them because I want you to pay attention to them. I want you to actually feel into them the opposite. So I misspoke. So feel into that experience. And then the override element, what I meant to say that towards is telling your logic brain, like, no, that doesn't mean that anxiety means go do the uh the opposite and like take action and do things. I'm still allowed to relax. I just have to create safety in the body to allow myself to do that. So number three is around emotional patterns that are still running. This, I mean, all of these kind of blend in together. This one kind of going back to the pizza versus brown rice chicken broccoli example. If my relationship with food is not free, I'm that is just a mirror to reflection that I have emotional patterns running in the background that are impacting my decisions when those should not be the drivers. If this is something that you struggle with, for example, like, you know, say you had no other options, like you went to your son's baseball game or you're out somewhere and you have no other options of food, you're feeling hungry, you didn't plan for it, and like there's a concession stand. And they have like hot dogs and pretzels. This actually very specifically happened to me. So it was at my sister's graduation, and there was like, I was hungry, I was trying to make breakfast, I cut my hand on attempting to remove the seed from an avocado, very dangerous activity. I'm gonna need to figure out a safer way so that I don't do that again. But anyway, point of the story. Did not have enough food prepared for myself at that time. But I always say, if you're hungry, eat. And if I ignore my hunger now, I just get like horrible acid reflux. So I know that is not the solution. Absolutely not. My body like rejects me ignoring my hunger now. So my fiance got up and got us some um, like a soft pretzel and a hot dog, which under normal circumstances, I like, you know, I do love a soft pretzel. Hot dogs, you know, I don't know. They don't always do it for me. But in this case, I was just like, whatever, you know, I'm gonna just enjoy it. It's right here. This doesn't happen all the time. And I ate it without thinking. They're 100%, 1 million percent, 1000% would have been a version of me that would have never allowed myself to do that. I would have been like, hot dog is not enough. Protein, and now I'm gonna couple that with a pretzel, which is 100% carb and probably fat, I guess. So how could I just allow myself to eat that that's like not balanced, that's not within the structure of what I want to be eating? And it would have thrown me for a loop. I would have maybe ate it, but like felt absolutely horrible and guilty and shameful that I chose it. Or I would have tried to just like push it off and wait. But no, I don't, I just don't do that anymore. It doesn't cross my mind, which is like so beautiful, and I'm so thankful to be on this side of that. But if you find yourself in that situation, that is exactly why I created the food freedom reset. The food freedom reset is to help you kind of get past those experiences around food. It's to create freedom. And the reason a lot of people reject the mindset of pursuing food freedom because that they think that means that they're gonna start eating foods that are are not great for their body, that are not gonna make them feel good, that are going to make them not look good. But that is not what food freedom is. Food freedom is actually helping strengthen your ability to have psychological flexibility around the experience of eating so that it can be something that gets to be pleasurable or at least neutral. When you are so focused on eating nutritious foods, it can actually create a source of stress. So it's really common. Many of my clients will come in with feeling like, oh, these foods are good for me, these foods are bad for me. And there are a lot of emotions tied if we're in a situation where we do eat those things that are like quote unquote not good for us. So, like if we eat a processed food, people can tend to spiral and feel a lot of guilt and shame and feel not good about that, where it can even lead to binging or overeating it because we know, like, okay, I can't eat this the next day. So I'm just gonna eat as much as possible and indulge as much as possible now. When you experience food freedom, you can have that food, feel zero shame and feel zero impulse to overeat because you know it's not something that you have to avoid or limit or remove. You completely lose that charge and that polarity around those foods so that you can just be free to make the choices that feel good, that come from a place of getting to have fun in the scenario and the setting that you're in, to actually experience pleasure from eating that food, to not feel out of control around it, to not feel any sort of guilt or shame or like you're doing something bad for yourself. Those feelings can sometimes create discomfort and pain in the body. So when we start to look at a food, like this is another really good example of things that I hear from clients where they're like, okay, well, if I eat the Doritos, I physically feel sick. Well, that can actually happen as a psychosomatic response because I've said that if I've convinced myself that Doritos make me sick, my body will feel sick when I have them. And there can be scenarios where you actually can shift that, where if I remove that belief that Doritos make me sick, I can actually eat them and not feel sick. There are certain foods, yes, that when you remove them, your body adjusts. Like dairy is a common one. Like if I don't have dairy for a long time, your body doesn't produce as much lactase enzyme to digest the dairy. Yes, you can rebuild that lactase enzyme and actually um allow your body to digest it better. But that is one case where truly, like, yeah, your body does change, but it can change back to adapt to taking that dairy in again. But something like Doritos, you know, it's not likely that your body is truly going to revolt against it. It oftentimes is psychosomatic. You've just convinced yourself that you don't feel good eating it. And therefore, you actually experience that response. But when you release that thought, when you heal that pattern, you actually can enjoy it without the pain. Okay, that's a really interesting one. So again, check out the show notes. If you are really interested in the food freedom reset, it's literally only$27. You get so much information in there. Honestly, like it's kind of crazy. I put so much into this$27 offer, it should be worth a lot more. So, this is a really great opportunity for you to go in and snag that because I also offer lots of practices to help you sort of relax during the eating experience, to help you shift your mindset. And you can add on my cookbook, which I'm personally obsessed with, which I run into people all the time, actually, um, that also have this cookbook that tell me how much they love it. So, not just coming for me, other people really enjoy it because it takes a lot of comfort foods, foods that we often associate as being like not good for us. And I've turned them into something that is healthy and balanced. And you still get to experience foods like pasta, pizza, tacos. I have it all in there in a way, in a balanced approach, so that you have the protein, carbs, fats that you need for a meal. So check it out. It's a great, um, great purchase, great buy. Um, and so yeah, so I tapped already into four with dysregulation around the nervous system. So I'm not gonna go too much back into depth around that because I did a lot with point two talking about overriding the body cues. But just remember, your nervous system needs to be regulated. And that can be such a confusing, vague thing to hear. Um, but these are where we start to build somatic awareness around our internal experiences, learning the language of the body. Helping our nervous system can look like breath work, emotional freedom technique, floating, meditation. Um, and meditation can look so many different ways. Last week I had a client session where we really got into what meditation can actually look like. And he talked about his journey from, you know, initially thinking that meditation meant he had to just like lay there and close his eyes and think about nothing. When that's not exactly what meditation is. That isn't meditation. Meditation could look like you doing a repetitive activity. That can be you going on a walk in nature, you could be knitting, you could be cutting your grass, you could be in the garden pulling weeds. Anything that allows you to start to get into a place where your nervous system is relaxed and you can start to detach the emotions tied to different thoughts and look and perceive things from a neutral standpoint. That is what I would consider an optimal form of meditation for you. Okay, so just allowing yourself to be present, to be in this very moment and to be free from emotions tied to thoughts. That is the goal with meditation. Okay, so doing that is really going to help recenter you in your nervous system and take your body out of fight or flight mode. If you're constantly in fight or flight mode, your body tends to store things as body fat more. So that's why you can feel really hard. You can be eating the same foods, but without a regulated nervous system, you're more apt to store body fat and find it really difficult to feel shifts in your body. You need to be able to tap into that rest and digest mode for your body to do what it's supposed to do. That comes from stopping the need to always control or to be in control of everything and to really start learning how to be in the flow with life. This is what unlocks what food can't. Food is not the only answer. Okay, and if you are ready to go deeper and you have absolutely no idea where to start because it is an intimidating journey. There's so many things out there, there's a lot of noise on the internet. I've created my signature program, Body and Soul Freedom. It is about learning how to build full body confidence, to understand how to move through this process, to recognize what's important to you, to learn what's actually going to free your soul. And that's going to allow you to experience more freedom and confidence in your body. I'm going to teach you how to regulate your nervous system. I'm going to show you what it takes to actually have body confidence under any circumstance, whether you're on your period, whether you are going through menopause, it doesn't matter. These solutions are in body and soul freedom for you to have that full body experience, mind, body, soul, and to allow yourself to get into that next stage. You've experienced a lot of success, and I want you to be able to keep and hold on to the achievements that you have created, the amazing, powerful things in your life that you've always desired, that you've likely achieved, and to take it to the next level, to actually work in the love and appreciation, the happiness, the satisfaction, the fulfillment that you are craving internally. So if this is something that you're interested in, again, the link are the link's gonna be in the show notes. And check it out. I highly encourage it. If you're not certain, if you want to chat a little bit more, send me a message and it would be my pleasure to jump on a free call to talk a little bit more about it and see where you're at and which program's the right fit. Food Freedom Reset is a really good start if you're curious about body and soul freedom. Body and soul freedom is just gonna take it to that next level. You're gonna get one-on-one sessions with me, you're gonna get opportunities for group coaching, you're gonna get those somatic practices that really allow you to be fully embodied in this next level version of yourself. So just remember that more restriction is not the answer. More often than not, don't be afraid to eat. If you're feeling afraid to eat, or if you're always erring on the side of under-eating and just never really fully feeling satisfied with the foods that you are consuming, you're craving change, but you don't know how to get there. Just remember, take it one meal at a time, one moment at a time. Start dropping the distractions, start checking in with your body. It's time for you to come home to yourself. There's something going on internally, and you need to be able to start to give yourself permission to explore that. Even if fear comes up, even if discomfort comes up, you are doing the right thing. Don't let those uncomfortable emotions derail you from the path that you're meant to be on. Change is always going to feel uncomfortable. And the more you practice being comfortable with the act of getting uncomfortable, you're going to move through it. These difficult emotions are safe to feel. They need to move through you. You can't avoid them. And if you continue to try to avoid them, they can manifest in ailments, in aches, in pains, in autoimmune flare-ups. But you have the ability to prevent these things or remedy them if they do come up by looking beyond the surface. I'll send you a fun little free virtual gift. If you send a screenshot of you leaving a review, I will happily send something your way. So I love you guys and can't wait till next week. Bye.