Hey, You're Gonna Be OK
Hey, hey, I'm Elizabeth Mae, and my functional health practice helps people heal when they’ve exhausted traditional options. I was once stuck, with no one who could figure my health challenges out, but now my team helps you resolve symptoms and restores your health by identifying the root cause. I love talking to people and helping health seekers bridge the gap between fear of an alternative healing model and your end goal of returning to the health you once had! Join me as we explore first-hand stories of healing chronic illness from a root cause approach. Through compassion, empathy, and a whole-system approach, this podcast will empower you to unlock your body's capacity for healing.
Hey, You're Gonna Be OK
When Love Hurts Your Health: Healing from Toxic Relationships, Reclaiming Your Power and Health
Toxic relationships don’t just break hearts and stretch our souls - they break down the body. They deplete nutrients, activate autoimmunity and ignite chronic infections like Epstein Barr and Shingles.
In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Kristina, coach, speaker, and author of Rise Up and Thrive: How to Break Cycles of Toxic and Traumatic Relationships to Create Healthy Love. Together they explore how emotional trauma and relational stress manifest physically - from anxiety and insomnia to autoimmune symptoms and hormonal imbalance - and how true healing starts when we rewire the brain for safety and self-worth, and get the body to a safe environment.
Kristina shares her personal journey through toxic relationships, the emotional and biological cost of staying in survival mode, and how her R.I.S.E. framework (Recognize, Information Gathering, Self-Discovery, Embodiment) helps women transform pain into power.
If you’ve ever wondered why your body feels stuck in fight-or-flight — even after the relationship ends - or you know your health has never been the same since that toxic relationship - this conversation offers hope, perspective, and the first steps toward emotional and physical freedom.
Mentioned in this episode:
- What defines a toxic relationship (and how it differs from abuse)
- How trauma rewires the brain and body
- Why even strong, successful women can find themselves in toxic dynamics
- The R.I.S.E. Method for reclaiming your health and healing
- Tools to re-regulate your nervous system and restore emotional safety
Connect with Kristina:
Rise Up and Thrive (available wherever books are sold - https://amzn.to/4p3GL7M )
Rise Up Thriving Course Library
https://riseupthriving.samcart.com/courses/directory
Surviving the Season Guide (please use promo code FIRST100 for a free download)
https://riseupthriving.mysamcart.com/checkout/surviving-the-season
Learn more at Rise with Kristina
Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/risewithkristina
Listen to her Podcast, Rise Up Thriving https://www.instagram.com/riseupthriving/
www.tiktok.com/thekristinahudson
Email: hello@riseupthriving
Work with Kristina: https://riseupthriving.mysamcart.com/work-with-me/
Instagram: @heyheyelizabethmae
Website: www.heyheymae.com