My guest today is Allie Cass. Allie is a former bodybuilding pro turn functional health and fitness coach who helps stressed out women optimize their metabolism up level their mindset and shift from surviving to thriving. We discuss movement, metabolism, nutrition, stress and mindset to get and stay healthy.

There's also another issue I have found that now we have a flood of information and the information is disconnected and you don't know you're shooting in the dark. Should I drink this juice Should I take that protein shake, should I took a smoothie. So there's nothing behind it which will, unless it's just your personal observation and trial and error, but Ayurveda doesn't have this trial and error, it has a big theory behind it that explains how these things work. So you are not doing random things.

Today we're going to shift our focus on that conversation and move a little deeper into one of those six foundational elements, and that is this idea of nourishment, through nutrition,…some of the things that Paula recommends can really open up a lot of freedom in how we think about food how we think about nourishment and some of the really practical things that we can do to make it easier to eat healthier for more freedom in our day, more free time, more freedom from food dogma.

What you’ll find throughout this podcast are ways to improve overall health and wellbeing in 3 basic categories, physical, mental and emotional, and how those things connect with the health of our nervous system and stress response. That seems like such a simple thing to do. And Maybe it would be if it weren’t for the fact that no one really knows what being healthy really means.

What no one tells you is that unless you’re willing to uncover and shift the shadow patterns that created those habits in the first place it’s nearly impossible to keep those results long term. Our mental, emotional & physical patterns provide the infrastructure for our beliefs and drive our actions. 

Maybe one of the most powerful, deeply entrenched patterns we have are our shadow patterns around food. Changing an eating habit, or any habit permanently is nearly impossible without also addressing the underlying patterns that support it. 

I want to share my Insider's Guide to How the Body Perceives Stress to help you understand how your emotional response and stress response are connected through the body. Because chronic, toxic levels of stress can affect not only our mental and emotional health but our physical health as well.