Pretty Well Podcast

None of us would choose adversity.

But sometimes the hardest seasons introduce us to a version of ourselves we never would've met otherwise.

The blessing isn't always found in the middle of it.
It's who you became because of it.

🎧Full conversation with Amy Kurtz on The Pretty Well Podcast.

Mic drop from my conversation with Amy Kurtz this week "Jay Shetty says it's as important to schedule downtime as it is go time.".

We've become incredibly skilled at over-riding our own needs. It's time to start paying attention to the signals your body is giving you whether it's to rest, play, slow down, or connect.

🎧Share and Listen to the full episode of The Pretty Well Podcast. Link in bio.

What's one thing your body has been trying to tell you lately? 👇

Have you ever noticed how living in chronic overdrive teaches us to ignore ourselves?

Ignore the fatigue.
Ignore the stress.
Ignore the overwhelm.
Ignore what your body is trying to tell you.

After a while it becomes so normal, we don't even realize we're missing the signals.

One of the biggest takeaways from my conversation with Amy Kurtz this week is that rebuilding trust with yourself doesn't happen all at once.

It starts with one small decision in your favor.

And if you've gotta go...

For the love of all things holy, go p*e.

Full episode on the Pretty Well Podcast.

Sometimes the reason we can't sit still isn't that we're doing meditation wrong. It's that we've spent years staying busy, productive, distracted, and moving forward because slowing down means feeling things we'd rather not feel.

If you've ever said:
"I can't meditate."
"I can't shut my brain off."
"I've tried it, and it doesn't work for me."
This conversation might change the way you think about that.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation with Amy Kurtz on this week's Pretty Well Podcast.

💾 Save this if you've ever struggled to sit still.

💌 Send this to your friend who swears she can't meditate.

"Real health is being able to eat a chicken finger without losing five days to it."
I can't stop thinking about this line from this week's episode when I sat down with Dr. Oscar Coetzee from Designs For Health.

He's a clinical nutritionist, doctor of holistic nutrition, has 25 years of microbiome research, and this conversation blew my mind.

If you have food sensitivities and you're living on 10 "safe" foods. That isn't health. That's survival.

Dr. Oscar and I am unpack exactly how to start giving your gut exactly what it needs, including the Keystone anaerobic probiotic strains that nearly every traditional probiotic on the market completely misses.

🎧Episode 214 – Pretty Well Podcast. Link in bio.
💌 Send this to your friend who's been told her labs are "normal" but has been avoiding foods for way too long. She needs to hear this today.

There's one small habit I've started doing at night that has changed my mornings more than any 5 AM routine or personal growth morning ever did. I learned it from Chase Hughes.

He calls it "Gifting your future self."

Before bed: he cleans the kitchen, preps the coffee, and sets out his clothes. So when he wakes up in the morning, he thinks– look how past me already took care of present me.

At the end of winter, he tucks $100 into the pocket of his winter coat. So next fall when he reaches in for the first cold day walk… Surprise.

Here is why this hits so deep for us in midlife. Most of us have spent decades taking care of everyone better than ourselves. Our nervous systems don't trust that we will take care of us… because we haven't.

Every tiny gift you leave your future self is a deposit in the bank account of self trust. This is the thing that actually changes your life. Not the perfect routine, but the identity and proof that you have your own back.

🎧This week's Pretty Well Podcast – Why most morning routines fail and the one shift that finally works.

📌 Episode 212. Link in bio.

💌 Send this to the friend who does everything for everyone else. Today, gift her future self one tiny surprise.