For 59 years, I thought I was making my own choices — what to wear, what to eat, when to rest, how to give, how to spend my time. But a few weeks ago, my body revealed the truth: I wasn’t choosing.
My dysregulated nervous system was.

In this episode, I share the most vulnerable story I’ve ever told — a four-day nervous system reset that completely transformed:

• my glucose stability
• my hunger and satiety signals
• my ability to rest without guilt
• my emotional resilience
• my relationship with my partner
• my sense of safety in daily life
• my lifelong fear of homelessness
• and the way people respond to me socially

This wasn’t a mindset shift.
It wasn’t a spiritual insight.
It was a physiological unwinding of nearly six decades of survival mode.

I talk about how religious control wires your body for fear, performance, exhaustion, and bodily override — and how that hidden wiring shapes every decision you make until your nervous system finally feels safe.

If you’ve ever wondered:

“Why do I do this when I know better?”
“Why am I still exhausted?”
“Why can’t I rest without guilt?”
“Why does my body react like this?”

— this is the episode that will help it all make sense.

And if you’ve been carrying survival patterns from high-control religion, trauma, perfectionism, or chronic stress… I want you to know there is nothing wrong with you. Your body has simply been trying to keep you alive.

This is the freedom that comes when your body finally says, “You’re safe.”

At the end, I share how this breakthrough is shaping my upcoming 12-week Inner Light Longevity Reset — a high-touch program for women ready to restore nervous system safety, stabilize their metabolic health, and reclaim spiritual ease after religious conditioning.

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