Does trying to get your family or friends to eat healthier make you crazy because they don’t listen? Join the club, friend.

You might think it’s all liver and kale chips at my house, but you couldn’t be further from the truth.

The TRUTH is that my kids don’t want to eat vegetables any more than yours do.

The TRUTH is that I’m struggling with the loss of control as my kids become teenagers and make their own choices (and not good ones 😫)

The TRUTH is that sometimes I worry I’m leading my kids toward a dysfunctional relationship with food by being “that” mom - and a nutritionist one at that!

I’m laying it all out there in this week’s podcast and talking about the two best things to focus on when it comes to influencing your family’s health.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

1. Hormones

2. Gut Bacteria

3. Sleep

4. Stress

5. Breath

Calorie counting has been the primary recommendation for weight management for many years, but if it was as simple as calories in / calories out, there wouldn’t be such an obesity epidemic. There are other factors to take into account, such as the way insulin blocks calories from “getting out,” or the way stress can lead to increased belly fat.

Calorie counting can be helpful, but it’s not everything. There’s so much more to consider and we’re talking about it in this week’s podcast!

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

Walking is often overlooked and under-appreciated as effective exercise but it's one of the most impactful forms of fitness and one of the primary ways our ancestors stayed healthy.

As a society we sit way too much and it’s putting us at a significantly increased risk for illness and disease. In fact, sitting has been called “the new smoking” but, as we are unlikely to get warning labels on chairs, we’d better be our own advocates and remind ourselves to get up and move often.

Make 10,000 daily steps your minimum baseline and not your top-end goal. The more steps you take, the more strength you build, the more you fortify your Holy Temple to do the Kingdom work you are called to do. Our highest health goal is to be an excellent vessel for the Holy Spirit. Walk with Christ and bring more people back to HIm.

Listen to this week’s podcast for more of God’s Word and straight talk on Functional Fitness.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

We may think of night as the time our body shuts down but, in fact, it is the time when our body comes alive to do some of its most important work. While we’re sleeping our bodies detoxify, repair and reset but if we don’t get a minimum of seven hours at night - we miss out on these critical processes. Over time, this causes health problems and weight gain. You can eat the cleanest food and exercise every day, but you’ll keep spinning your wheels if you don’t honor your body’s sleep requirement.

In this week’s podcast we’re talking about how God designed our body with the need for sleep and alignment with circadian rhythm.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

The most efficient breathing rhythm is 5.5 second inhales followed by 5.5 second exhales through your nose. Overbreathing or breathing through your mouth causes major metabolic and overall health problems.

Breathing too much and too fast are the breaths of stress and fear. And you know God didn’t give us the spirit of fear! On top of that, chronic mouthbreathing leads to poor focus and mood, weight gain, periodontal disease, sleep apnea and many more health issues. We are meant to breathe through our noses. After all - God DID breathe life into man through the nostrils.

Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how breathing efficiently is one of the foundational pillars of good health and metabolism.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

God made ruminant animals like cattle, goats, sheep, deer and elk with special digestive systems that break down and detoxify plant matter into vitamins, minerals, amino and fatty acids made available to us through their meat. We reap the benefit of plant nutrition by way of the animal as the intermediary. It is the beautiful and efficient design of our Creator. The Maker of our bodies made the perfect food for our bodies. God is the Master Nutritionist and there’s no better dietary advice to follow than His!

Listen into this week’s podcast to hear more about the meat God said to eat and how much animal-based protein we should be targeting each day.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

I can vouch for the common side benefit of reduced (to nil) sugar cravings on a Carnivore Diet. I have never in my life thought about sweets LESS than I did when I was doing this. Even though I did the less restrictive Carnivorish version that includes fruit, honey and dates, I didn’t abuse those allowances and ate them more for the sake of variety than for the sweet taste. It’s like all the meat switched off the craving center of my brain!

In this week’s podcast I’m talking about this and the other results of my 6 week Carnivorish experiment including what my blood test showed, how the scale shifted and what I would have done differently from the start.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

Biblical people weren’t eating ginormous salads or plates of broccoli.

In fact, you don’t see a lot of vegetable eating in the Bible at all because that’s not necessarily what was available to them. They were limited to plant foods that were native and seasonal to their region, things like leeks, onion, garlic, fruit, herbs and spices.

In a time when we have access to all plant foods all the time, we’ve lost touch with the idea of seasonal eating and limited food variety. Do we really need tons of different plant species to stay healthy? Or is it better to get less variety but more seasonality when it comes to our plant foods?

Tune into this week’s podcast as we talk about how our bodies are designed to work in sync with the cyclical offerings of nature.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

Genesis 1:4 tells us that God created the sun and the moon as markers of time. We know that He created our bodies to work according to these daily and seasonal cycles of light and darkness which is called our circadian rhythm. That includes things like getting regular sun exposure, eating more carbs in the summer and fasting longer in the winter.

We are in our best health when aligned in our circadian rhythm and the sunlight is the biggest contributor to this balance. Listen to this week’s podcast to learn all about solar syncing and how God made our bodies to use sunshine as a healing therapy.

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨