35. The Lie Your Body Is Believing Right Now

What if the biggest thing standing between you and healing isn't another missing supplement, protocol, or test?

What if it's a story you've been believing for years?

In this episode, we're talking about the Lie-Agreement-Body Cycle, and how what you think/believe can keep your body stuck in patterns of stress, inflammation, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and chronic symptoms.

We'll talk about how lies like "I'm broken," "Nothing works for me," or "This is just how I am" quietly become agreements—and how those agreements send signals to your body that keep it operating from threat instead of safety.

You'll learn how beliefs impact your nervous system, why chronic stress responses can become your body's default setting, and the first step to breaking an agreement that may have been shaping your health for years.

In short, you don't need to fight harder. You need to stop agreeing with what was never true.

Similar Episodes to Listen To:

Episode 34 — Adrenal Fatigue, Anxiety, Bloating & Exhaustion: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You 

The meaning behind these common symptoms and how your body has been trying to communicate with you.

Episode 14 — The War in Your Mind
The foundation for understanding thought patterns, strongholds, and the battle for your mind.

The content shared on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your health routine, supplements, or treatments.

Transcript

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Welcome to the Wellness Well, the place where faith and biblical wisdom meet God's design for healing and where Jesus Himself is waiting to meet you exactly where you are. I'm Heidi, a certified integrative health practitioner. And like the woman at the well in John 4, I believe our healing journey is so much more than fixing symptoms. It's about being restored to the person God always created you to be. This is our sacred space for honest, no-fluff conversations about what our body is really trying to tell us. Root cause healing that goes deeper than quick fixes and breaking generational cycles that have kept us stuck for way too long. So take a deep breath, say a little prayer, and meet me at the well. There is a lie about your body that you've been living inside of for so long. It doesn't even feel like a lie anymore. It feels like truth. It sounds like I am broken. This is just how I am. My body doesn't work right. I've tried everything and nothing works for me. Other people can heal, not me. So before we move on to anything else today, that is not your voice. That is not God's voice. That is certainly not the truth. That is a lie, a very old lie. One your body has been living inside of and paying for for a very long time. And today we're naming it. And once we see it, we can stop agreeing with it. And that changes everything. Hey, welcome back. I'm Heidi, and this is the Wellness Well Unmasked. If you were with me last week in episode 34, we talked about why your body is not your enemy. It's a messenger. Every symptom a signal. Today is the natural next question. If my body has been trying to reach me, what has been keeping me from hearing it? The answer, at least in part, is a lie you came into agreement with, and a body that has been living inside of that agreement and paying for it ever since. Today I'm giving you the framework that I'm going to be coming back to again and again in this series: the lie, the agreement, and the body. And once you see this, you'll recognize it everywhere, including in your own story. And for those who walked through series two with me, we covered the war in the mind back in episode 14 and episode 15. And today we go somewhere that we didn't go back in those episodes. We take it into the body itself, what the lie does physically. So stay with me. This is a different layer. So I want to start today with two verses from the same chapter in John. Same conversation Jesus is having. That's everything today is about. So I want to tell you a little story about the lie that lived inside of my body most of my life and what it cost me. Not just emotionally, but physically. I heard it as an explanation. When I was sick as a kid, constantly, repeatedly, I learned a narrative about myself that I was fragile, that my body was unpredictable, that I needed to manage it, control it, work around it, push past it. And as I got older and the symptoms got louder, the lie got louder too. I tried everything. And it didn't work. And the lie had a field day with that. See, you can't be fixed. This is just how you are. I came into agreement with that, not consciously and not all at once, but slowly over years of trying and not seeing results. I started to believe it. And when I believed it, even partially, even quietly, something happened in my body. My nervous system registered a threat because that's what at its core it identifies as a lie in your body. That is what it does. It activates your stress response just as surely as if something dangerous is standing in the room. My body started running on cortisol, inflammatory markers climbed. My HPA axis, the stress response system, got stuck in a pattern it couldn't get out of. I was not just emotionally affected by the lie. My body was biochemically living inside of it. Lies don't just hurt your feelings, they live in the body, and the body pays the price. The enemy, he is not creative. He's been using the same lies since the garden. For women struggling with their health, they tend to cluster around a few things. Tell me if any of these maybe sound familiar. You are broken and cannot be fixed. Your body is working against you. This is just how you are accepted. God is not healing you because something is wrong with your faith. Other people can get well, not you. He doesn't need to scream these, you guys. He whispers them in the voice of a doctor who dismissed you, in the silence of another failed protocol, in the comparison to a woman who seems to have it all together in the 3 a.m. moment when your body is doing the thing it always does that you are so tired of. He speaks the language of discouragement. And he's been at it for a long time. The agreement is not always traumatic. It's rarely a moment where you think, I'm gonna believe this lie about myself right now. No, the agreement looks like you stop telling people how you really feel because they don't understand. You stop trying the next thing because why bother? You preface everything with my body just doesn't respond to dot dot dot. You accept a diagnosis as an identity. You quietly stop believing your body can change. That's a dangerous one. The moment you agree with a lie, even partially, even quietly, your body gets the memo. This is the part that's missing from almost every spiritual warfare conversation. We talk about what we believe, what we think, what we say, but we don't talk about what those beliefs are doing in the body. And they are doing something. Here's the physiology, as simply as I can say it. Your brain does not distinguish between a physical threat and a perceived threat. When you believe you are broken, when that narrative runs in the background of your days, your nervous system registers danger. Something is wrong. We are not safe. And in response, it does what it was designed to do. It activates your HPA axis, your hypothalamic pituitary adrenal response system. It releases cortisol, it diverts resources away from digestion, repair, reproduction, and immune function. All the long-term maintenance work, it's redirecting them and it's sending them, it redirects them towards immediate survival. The body was never designed to run that program indefinitely. But when the agreement has been in place for years, that is exactly what happens. Chronic cortisol elevation, chronic inflammation, hormonal dysregulation, gut disruption, immune dysfunction, thyroid suppression, sleep disruption, all of this. Not because your body is broken, because it's been running a chronic stress response to a lie it was told and never corrected. Your body is not the problem, love. Your body is responding exactly as it was designed to respond to what it believes is true. Change what it believes, change what it's responding to. Here's the good news, and I mean this. This is actually good news, not just a nice sentiment. The warfare is already won. Jesus settled it. The enemy has no power. He only has the power of a lie that has been agreed with, and an agreement can be broken. You do not need to fight harder, sis. You do not need to rebuke louder. You need to stop agreeing. And you stop agreeing by knowing what's actually true, not positive thinking, not choosing to feel better about yourself, truth, specific, scriptural, identity-rooted truth about who you are and what your body was made to do. If you walk through series two, we built replacement scripts in episode 15. The practice of taking a lie captive and speaking truth directly over it. That practice is built on this foundation. Today is the why behind the what. Because here's what happens when you break the agreement. Your nervous system gets a different signal. Not danger, but safety, not threat, but peace. And a body that feels safe can finally do what it has always been capable of doing. The healer has been here the whole time. He's just waiting for the lie to stop drowning out his voice. So we have one soul practice today. The most important first step in breaking any agreement. Name the lie. Name the lie. Not fight it, not rebuke it dramatically, not fix it immediately, just name it. Get it out of the place where it operates invisibly and put it somewhere that you can look at it. Because a lie loses some of its power the moment it gets named. It can't keep running in the background when it's been brought into the light. I'm going to ask you three questions. Sit with each one, please. Question number one What is the lie about your body that you have been living inside of the longest? Not one you intellectually disagree with, but one that feels like truth. Write it down in its actual words. When did you first come into agreement with it? Was there a moment, a season, a person, an experience? And where do you feel this in your body right now? Sit quietly for 30 seconds and just notice tension, heaviness, tightness, numbness. Your body has been living inside of this agreement. Let it show you where. Don't push past question three. Your body has been waiting to be heard on this. Give it 30 seconds of honest attention. You cannot break an agreement you have not identified. And you just identified it. That is the beginning of your freedom. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, for the woman who just wrote down a lie that she's been living inside of for years, maybe decades. I want to pray for the courage that that took. Naming something that that you've built your reality around is not easy. Meet her right there. Let her feel the weight of that lie lifting. Even slightly in this moment. Remind her that the enemy's only weapon is a mouth. That you are the truth teller. She doesn't need to swing a sword. That comes later. She just needs to stop agreeing with him, the deceiver. For the woman who has been told by doctors, by family, by years of struggle that she cannot get well, I speak to that agreement right now. That is not truth. That is a lie from the pit of hell that found an agreement. An agreement can be broken. And bodies can heal when they're no longer running a threat response to a narrative that was never true. For the woman hearing this language for the first time and not quite sure what to do with it, it's okay. Just be willing to question the story you've been telling yourself about your body. Start there. He'll meet you there. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Friend, I want to hear your story truly. I want to hear the lie that you've been carrying, the one that shaped how you see your body, and maybe even how you see yourself. DM me, send a voice note, a telegram, mail me a letter. I don't care how it gets to me. I just genuinely want to hear it. And share this with a woman in your life who needs the reminder that she is not broken and her body is not her enemy. Come back next week for episode 36. We're going somewhere a little unexpected. We're talking about GLP1 medications. Yep. The Ozempic, the Wagobi, all of it. And I promise you, it is not the hot take you've heard before. I'm going to share something that I've never said publicly about what I was so wrong about. The warfare is already won. You don't need to fight harder. You need to stop agreeing. True wellness begins at the well. Thanks for joining me today. The information shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Please consult your trusted healthcare provider before making any changes to your health routine, supplements, or treatments. And as you go, remember what we are building here is different. Not self-improvement, not striving, but a biblically grounded, spirit led approach to wellness. Thanks for meeting me at the well today. May what you received here pour into your week, your home, and your healing.