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The Jill Cruz Podcast106. “How much protein do I need?”There is a lot of confusion out there about how much protein you need in a day. That is why I really enjoyed this conversation with Beth Lipton. Beth is a food and wellness writer and shares her tips on why it is important to have meat-centric meals. Eating is all about self-care and giving the body what it needs, so the most important eating habit we can practice is listening to our body. Our body requires a lot of energy to keep up with all of life’s demands, and the older we get, the...2023-04-1943 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast99. How Do You Accept But Not Give Up?We need to stop denying reality and start practicing acceptance. Stop putting everything else in your life ahead of yourself and take responsibility for your health because you can’t look after your loved ones or enjoy your hobbies as much if you are unhealthy and stressed. If you are practicing self-care but thinking negatively about yourself in the process, you will never realize all the benefits of your actions because negativity puts our bodies in a state of stress, and we do not perform properly in this state. To truly prioritize your health, you mu...2023-02-0233 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast98. Mindie Barnett - Balancing Burnout And Teamwork👩 Mindie is getting her master's in marriage & family counseling and is doing research on burnout syndrome: everybody needs recovery time so we don't become a depleted nation. 02:25🤳 Make your body a leaner, meaner machine by taking time to unwind: the phone is often the main work-home interference. 10:24🥱 Sleep compromises are not good, but we all have them sometimes. 13:52🌸 Lead with empathy but know the difference between a mistake and a misstep: don't hover over your employees but have a check-in. 15:58🏇 If you're pulling the reins too hard you're going to cause damage - be gentle with your emplo...2023-01-3133 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast97. Shannon Black: Trauma Lives In The Body. Luckily, We Can Change The Template🧠 Trauma is stored in the body: our brain is built on our experiences and relationships. 03:23✅ When the vagus nerve is toned, we are in a safe and connected physiological state. 06:50👪 Why creating a strong vagal tone is important: how trauma gets stored in us. 09:58🤗 It takes a lot of energy to self-regulate but zero energy to be naturally regulated with a trusted loved one. 15:02💞 Our nervous system is attenuated when we are playful with people we trust: all people are trying to move towards safety or connection. 19:15🍔 Being in a state of fight or flight causes us...2023-01-3045 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast96. Yvette Sims - Women's Health, Stress, & HormonesWomen need to have their voices heard in the medical care system. Yvette Sims is a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s health and talks about the decline of femininity in the healthcare system. One of the biggest problems of the modern healthcare system is the shift towards prioritizing the business model of making money over focusing on patients’ needs. This change incentivizes doctors to see the maximum number of patients and offers extremely limited time for the individual, which results in women not feeling heard during their visits. There are so many complex hormon...2023-01-2734 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast95. Time To Start Telling A Story That Serves You✅ We have inner dialogues around our goals all the time: you can be in the exact same situation as someone else but feel completely different. 00:22👉 The only person who can make a change is you - not medication, diet change, or exercise, but being proactive: it's all about perspective, and you have control to change it - get to the root story first and build up on that. 02:40💙 One of the most pervasive and damaging stories we tell ourselves is that we are not enough: change internal dialog and tell yourself what's believable. 05:55🤗 You are worthy of it and d...2023-01-2619 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast94. How To Be Fabulously Successful - And It’s Not What You Think!✅ You want to be fabulously successful and have great relationships and you can have it!: our worth is not tied to how we look. 00:26💯 Establish what's important to you so you can have it all: don't listen to people who didn't do it themselves - success is an internal job. 02:32💛 Relax to tune yourself like a beautiful Orchestra: you don't need to be perfect, it is all within your reach. 04:24🎯 Your creative genius is within you: when your nervous system is calm, everything works better. 07:09Links🍀 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss...2023-01-2308 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast93. Dr. Bonnie Gasquet - Overly stressed? Mood unbalanced!? - Get your hormones checked!🧬 Bioidentical hormones exactly match human DNA hormones: synthetic estrogen can be harmful, but that's not the whole story. 02:44🤦♀️ Some women get a hysterectomy and nobody tells them anything about their hormones. 05:59❗ When some hormones start to dip: lower progesterone causes your body to want to hold on to fat like a survival mechanism. 07:45✅ If your mom is getting forgetful, check her estrogen-circulating estrogen that keeps the amygdala active. 10:21📋 Reasons to go to an anti-aging doctor: the tests that Dr. G does. 13:07🎯 There's no age limit for receiving bioidentical hormones: women need adequate hormonal therapy after a hysterectomy...2023-01-2040 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast92. Linda Clarkson, MS LPC - Help Your Brain Create Healthy Neural Pathways💡 Linda used her weight loss issue as an excuse not to love herself: discovering a connection with inner narratives/self-talk. 02:57🧒 It's a fool's errand to be searching for worthiness externally or in your physical appearance: it all goes back to our childhood history. 09:20🎓 Linda explored her inner child over several years of cognitive work and reiki: becoming a master of mental health counseling in her 60s. 10:22🧠 From a young age, our brain is recording everything and creates neural pathways that become patterned and automatic: that's why we bring our childhood history into our adult lives. 13:15🥳 Neuroplasticity...2023-01-1939 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast91. How and Why To Befriend Your Body🤱 It's easier to connect with nature than with our own body: observe how we're taught unconsciously to disconnect, to look outward. 00:32🥰 To have a deep sustainable level of health, you need to befriend your body: our body is a source of everything we need. 03:58⛪ We source everything from within ourselves - we can read the Bible, but we connect with God inwardly, and creativity comes from within you: body, mind, and soul are all one - if you hurt your body, you hurt your whole self. 06:01✅ The only reason you wouldn’t want to be your best is if y...2023-01-1823 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast90. Dr. Renu Mansukhani - Obesity as a Medical Condition👩⚕️ Why Dr. Renu, an endocrinologist, chose to be an obesity medicine physician. 03:25❗ Obesity is not an intrinsic characteristic: we don't say somebody is cancer, yet, we say somebody is obese - it's not a personality flaw! 10:51✅ The weight problem is multifactorial - it has genetic, biological, psychological, lifestyle, and environmental components. 14:07👉 "If I had $1 for every time someone told me to eat less and move more..." - it's not people's fault that they’re dealing with obesity. 19:57🎯 Dr. Renu's medical history form is 15 pages long - it's essential to listen and know what to focus on. 23:16✔️ Somet...2023-01-1745 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast89. The Mental & Emotional Journey of Fertility Issues🤗 It's important how we approach infertility mentally and physically: this shouldn't be an isolating journey - the more you talk, the less isolated you feel. 03:19🎯 Challenge your core beliefs that there's something wrong with you or you're not enough. 09:05💭 Helpful and nonhelpful core beliefs come from a compilation of everything in our lives, and we're usually unaware of them: it takes a lot of work to be aware and pick them apart. 11:17❤️ Mantras help manage uncertainties and discomfort: everything is an opportunity - shift towards learning and gratitude. 16:32✅ Find mantras that resonate with you: it’s hard for the mi...2023-01-1634 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast88. Robin Wilson - All You Have Is Now, Use It Wisely!😮 Robin had a stroke even though she led a healthy life. 02:03💤 Sleep is a time of healing. 06:28💔 Living with a stroke and all risks: it's hard having speech problems and emotionally overwhelming moments. 08:15💙 Robin couldn't teach in a physical classroom anymore: adopt a positive view and don't forget to recover emotionally, not just physically. 16:21✅ Be kind because you don't know what someone else is going through. 19:52⏳ Go for the experience, not the fear: we don't know how much time we have. 21:40⏱️ The ongoing discovery of an entrepreneur is how to be more efficient and effective with t...2023-01-1344 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast87. Are You Humming in All Areas of Your Life?✅ We can have it all. 00:29👉 The upper limit problem explains how we sabotage ourselves: it's not about perfection, it’s about things going well and doing better. 02:38❗ When something is recurring in your life, there's a reason - a beautiful lesson. 04:53✌️ Flip the script, and ask yourself the right questions: two questions to focus on. 06:51☑️ We move everything for our priorities. 08:53💪 Make it happen with a very strong WHY: know you deserve this. 10:20🎯 You can have it all: but you set the bar for yourself. 12:25🪞 Am I improving?: be realistic, so when you get that evidence, you...2023-01-1123 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast86. Karen Taylor Bass - Give Yourself Permission To Be You❤️ Allowing yourself to feel seen - you have permission to just be: Karen's three words for living authentically in 2023. 02:39🌬️ Allow yourself to not feel good: we can breathe our way into shit! 05:19💪 Freedom is rewriting the information we put in our brains - we have a choice. 10:32🧘♀️ Life is stressful, but you have to choose yourself first: disappointments can be yummy & meditation starts with me. 15:46🥰 The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you - love the skin that you're in: take the time to work through your stuff. 19:01👩🎤 We deserve to be healthy and have i...2023-01-1040 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast85. Madeline Schwarz - Communication Builds Confidence📢 Getting more comfortable communicating: Madeline was terrified of public speaking, which negatively affected her well-being. 02:02💪 Overworking is not a way to prove yourself: "I'm going to speak up, even if it makes other people uncomfortable" = revealing rather than concealing. 05:11🫦 Anticipation is worse than doing the work: communication is just a series of experiments. 08:24✅ The three big things to focus on in communication: communication is not a series of skills, it’s a mindset - change how you think about yourself. 10:20🛋️ Shame, guilt, and regret hold people back in communication: mindset is like rearranging your furniture. 14:03💯 Being nervous...2023-01-0933 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast84. Source Your Own Love, You Are Worth It!❗ You are worthy of everything you desire: let's not confuse deserving love and taking from others. 00:20🥰 Endogenously love yourself - value yourself, don't just go to the spa: we are looking for exogenous support because of guilt and shame. 02:57💙 Source your love & safety from yourself: you can't source somebody else's love, but you can relax into appreciating yourself. 05:43💆♀️ Will power is a limited resource: when you source your own needs, you take some downtime and you move and eat better. 08:30💭 You are at peace if you appreciate yourself - you need this to be able to commit: create ene...2023-01-0523 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast83. Andi Locke Mears - Germanic Healing Knowledge🇩🇪 German New Medicine is a native cultural tradition: people with the same traumas have the same diseases. 02:23🤧 All living beings have this circadian rhythm: we have the sick phase that comes after the conflict-active phase and then we have a scaring phase. 09:52🏥 We have an entire system of medicine based on fear: use the aliphatic system smartly. 13:15🦠 Few biological laws - all diseases begin with a conflict shock; there are 2 phases of every disease. 15:07❓ Are emotions a part of healing or a track? 18:50💡 Practice fear management instead of pain management: downgrading fear & making a connection to the ca...2023-01-0437 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast81. Why Dieting Makes Us Miserable & What You Can Do Instead❌ Dieting feels restrictive to us, it's against our nature. 00:36😮💨 Negative judgment about bad food leads to a bad relationship with food - we start obsessing. 02:40✅ The drama around food often comes from our beliefs: it's not serving you if it's not making you happy. 06:30🏋️♀️ Exercise, sleep & meditation help the relationship with food: it may take a year or two. 08:58🔆 Rather than feeling black & white about food, come at it with ease. 10:48👮♀️ Write down the first thought you have about diet & food: believing that it's hard doesn't serve you - be your own thought police. 13:30🥰 I can do this with ease, and n...2023-01-0223 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast80. Robin Maynard Dobbs - A Feminine Approach To Weight Loss & Health🙈 Counting calories, carbs & fats is shame-based.. 02:49❗ Secrecy + Hard on yourself + Analysis + Must be something wrong with me + Emergency = SHAME 04:58👩 Women feel guilt 80% more than men: don't fight against the system, just step out! 06:393️⃣ Shame, lack, and isolation are the 3 main barriers for women: diets are the antithesis of what works. 08:27👭 There are a vast variety of beautiful female body types. 11:29🥰 The transition from the masculine to the feminine: let's appreciate fertility. 13:11🖼️ Your body is not the problem, it’s your disconnection from the life force: Robin's paintings celebrate women. 20:19🥬 Plant food is a gift from the earth: liste...2022-12-3045 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast79. Kate McKay - Claim Your Best Self🍾 Release self-sabotage & reclaim vitality - be in the process of celebration, not self-degradation. 01:366️⃣ Work on the 6 areas & have a badass, kickass life: Kate's meaning shifted when she lost her child. 04:38🥰 Women have a very disrupted cultural view of men & competitive vibe between each other - let's embrace our inner hottie. 11:53✅ Get over the shame - we have the power to choose: confidence comes from action - you are worthy. 17:29🤗 Be perfectly honest about why you resist: have the tenacity, grit & grace to choose the light. 21:11🏋️♀️ Kate had acute ADHD & lifting weights helped her - it helps with your muscles...2022-12-2936 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast78. Dr. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa - Exploring Choices & Freedom With Fertility Preservation⏳ The quality and quantity of eggs decline with the years. 02:22🤰 In your early 30s, eggs are mature & best to freeze (20 eggs!). 07:13👩⚕️ You can test your ovarian reserve: female doctors are particularly vulnerable to fertility issues. 12:13🏃♀️ In your 40s it's easier to get pregnant with frozen eggs from your 30s: don't make choices because circumstances force you, keep your options open & plan ahead: it's useful for professional athletes as well. 16:49🧠 Healthy body = healthy eggs: healthy eggs & healthy brain require the same lifestyle. 20:29🥗 Weight loss is very integral to success in fertility treatment: team effort & wholesome effort is important. 23:132022-12-2835 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast77. Tami Murphy - The Dishonest Marketing Around Holistic Approach🟡 Holistic means using alternative, natural methods that can be easily obtained to improve health. 02:22💊 Tami had severe digestive issues, and medications made it worse, but dietary change helped her. 07:09🐟 Plant-based, vegetarianism, pesco-vegetarianism, or loose veganism: pay attention to what's on your plate. 08:45🥕 Make food that's not just nutritious, but tastes great: eat your chocolate: try something different like a carrot hotdog. 13:31🥗 Tami's salad: Jill's ingredients for the ultimate salad. 16:45🍲 Big ‘ol salad night: don’t forget soups, especially in the winter. 19:34🥬 Mixed salad greens and juices are great: the meal planning & having cooked food in the fridge. 21:37...2022-12-2736 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast76. Is Food Your Only Indulgence?🥧 Food makes us feel good. 00:18❔ Is food your main indulgence, or do you provide yourself with satisfaction & pleasure from other sources? 01:43👠 It's not about what you eat but your relationship with food: how to feel indulgent & expansive in your life. 04:13🍗 Go back to the basics - eat whole foods & protein: we go for food when we lack satiety in other areas. 06:00👍 Empowered health for women is about taking a holistic perspective in life & realizing you can choose something different. 08:25✌️ There are 2 main things we can control - our thoughts & actions. 10:00🧠 Your body doesn't like losing weight ra...2022-12-2623 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast75. Matha Figaro - Delicious Cakes That Have Extra Benefits🍰 Helping people feel better by making butter cakes infused with cannabis. 01:31🚬 Cannabis butter cakes and why Matha started making them: Jill uses CBD and edibles recreationally. 03:48🧘♀️ Matha uses privately sourced organic flour: weed & yoga helped Matha deal with three herniated discs. 05:51🏞️ Natural substance vs. opioids and steroids. 09:21❗ Be super careful when using delta 8. 12:24💥 Entrepreneurship is hard as hell but self-care and learning to say no make it easier. 14:12👠 There's nothing on this planet as powerful as a girl's power. 16:05🗳️ Support for local business is an outward manifestation of our values that can positively affect the world. 18:2...2022-12-2330 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast74. Christina Veselak - Feeding the Recovering Brain✅ Integrating mental health nutrition into psychotherapy can bring quicker recovery results. 02:46🍗 When our blood sugar drops adrenaline kicks in: when did you last eat protein? 04:24🐟 Protein helps people with chronic relapse: premenstrual women should eat 20g of protein every 3 hours. 06:07🥨 People switch addictions in the early phases of recovery: Jill ate ice cream every night & later replaced it with pretzels. 09:29🧠 When we can’t seem to shift negative behavior or thinking patterns, we should look at the brain: give your brain nutrients, not drugs. 11:49🐎 Animal proteins contain vitamin B12, biotin, zinc & amino acids: what are other sources o...2022-12-2237 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast73. Heather Keyworth Conley - Bring Your Full Self to Work (living with ADHD)🔔 Imposter syndrome: ADHD presents itself differently in girls and can go undiagnosed. 02:18💭 What could happen if mental health wasn't taboo? 08:54🤗 Diversity, equity, and inclusion - helping people bring their full selves: Heather focuses on racial equity. 11:56🤯 Hard time focusing, forgetting, excessive attention to detail, and time management problems are signs of ADHD: Heather developed coping strategies. 15:12💼 Heather had depression and felt she was not good enough even though she had an amazing career: imagine what we could do if mental health was prioritized. 18:50✅ Prioritize your to-do list by focusing on removing barriers from tasks - get that dopami...2022-12-2134 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast72. Shivi Goyal: Breathe Your Way to a Second Life🧍♀️ The prolonged effects of not taking care of our mental and physical health severely impact our life: a healthy body & a healthy mind are a healthy human being. 02:45🌬️ A breath regulates the body from top to bottom: the body & mind sync using yoga and meditation. 04:44🌌 Law of balance - using the breath to connect your vibrations with the vibrations of the universe. 07:15🥰 We feel more love when connected with greater power: when you understand yourself, you take better care of yourself - mental happiness helps physical happiness. 10:30✅ Shivi's trigger to start her journey was a divorce and taking car...2022-12-2026 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast71. Edna White - Higher Health & Happiness is an Inside Job🤝 Even people with great jobs need help to find their purpose: desperation puts people where they are. 02:06📼 If there's an unconscious replay in your head to work hard to have money - don't play the old tape: Edna's Vogue modeling experience. 07:18🥰 Be mindful of internal stories about your physical body. 11:30👍 Start from ground zero every time you sabotage yourself. 14:02👩👧 Reparent yourself: acknowledge the sort of things that you didn't get as an adult and give it back to yourself as a child. 15:35👧 We have tantrums as kids: know who you are & what you want. 17:39🎯 When living outsi...2022-12-1941 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast70. Maria Gavriel - Battling Burnout for Women in Businesses🔥 Women have different responsibilities and carry more in their personal life: burnout is an official disease that kills 1000s of people a year. 02:17⚠️ Perfectionism led Maria to burnout, marriage problems, and Hashimotos: compensating is a crutch we use when everything is falling apart. 04:13👩👦👦 Maria felt triggered, fatigued, and depleted, which led to a lack of presence with her kids. 08:08✅ Why people that come out of corporate don't have organizational skills for business and how to fix it? 10:36🤹♀️ Maria had trust and communication issues delegating work and home activities: are you asking for help or complaining? 15:11🌼 Work on your inner game an...2022-12-1627 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast69. When Food is Your Reward🤝 We've been trained to receive transactionally: kids receive actively and purely. 00:50🍨 When Jill had a baby, her unconscious receiving was eating ice cream: nourish yourself first. 03:29💞 Jill's work is nourishing and transactional simultaneously: we go into relationships with certain expectations. 05:52🥄 Struggling with food often comes from giving all day long and then using eating as a way to receive something for ourselves. 09:57💆♀️ We need to stop filling the void with food. 12:20👩❤️👩 Women are specially trained to be transactional: receive the f*cking compliment. 14:20✨ Make a list of what you want to receive: don't lose the magic chasing perfection. 16...2022-12-1525 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast68. Rachel Bents - FUNctional fitness🌸 Health & wellness should be fun and enjoyable: faith, family, and fun are Rachel's 3 values. 02:06🤸♀️ Build up from super small habits: do nothing and stay in the same place or have fun, take the risk and see what happens. 04:52😞 Women between 40 & 60 often feel incapable of working out on their own. 09:41✨ It's FUN when it's playful, has some flow, and creates a connection. 11:07👟 It helps to pair up with someone who's on the same level or has more experience: we identify with our habits and mantras (decisions). 14:25🆕 Put up motivational stickers and change them once in a while: fun is a choic...2022-12-1432 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast67. Alex Van Tol - What's Love Got To Do With Health?❤️ Self-love is at the root of all our healing: inner work is a bit of a faith game, invisible and mood dependent. 03:14💐 Focusing context vs. content: even flowers grow more fully surrounded by the context of love. 07:11🤸♀️ Acceptance is where change can happen: our bodies are a very underused source of wisdom and knowledge in our society. 10:39🥰 Speak words of love to yourself: draw the cosmic energy towards yourself 13:31👧 A disordered eating pattern can be connected to having felt deprived of love as a little person. 16:17💆♀️ How to logically say you are enough and 100% worthy of unconditional self-lo...2022-12-1331 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast66. The Tsunami of Negativity🍧 We're surrounded by a culture that undermines our success: As women, in our 20s we learn that our value in society is based on how we look. 00:26🤷♀️ Acknowledge and be aware of what's happening: it's inevitable. 03:00👍 Don't see yourself as a victim: commit to taking action. 04:15🥰 Give yourself the grace you would give to your loved ones: it's all part of the process. 07:09💃 Stop the "I have to be perfect" idea & feel expanded and free. 09:08🤗 Make the feeling bigger: letting go is crucial for moving forward and improving life. 11:50Links:🌸 Natural Weight Loss and Wel...2022-12-1213 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast65. Dr. Shaniece Criss - The 5 Layers of a Healthy Society5️⃣ The five layers of public health: how to make the healthy choice an easy choice. 02:20🤝 It's important to recognize individual power and partnership: townships & communities organize great events that are good for health & socializing. 06:164️⃣ Nutrition, physical activity, social support, and staying mentally stimulated are important for health and longevity: boredom can get you into “trouble.”. 09:19📱 Dr. Shaniece studies societal impacts on health & creates and shares fun health tips on Instagram. 11:43💙 You are not alone, there are people who care: “blue spaces” are good for overall well-being. 12:45🏙️ Public health is connected with developing cities: more financially mixed cities can l...2022-12-0933 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast64. Here is What to Eat✅ We just need guidance: start with the basics. 01:25❗ Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes. 04:43🥬 Put away all the fancy diets and eat whole foods. 05:47🛒 If you shop in the periphery of the supermarket, you'll see whole foods. 07:49❌ If it is in a box or a bag and has a long list of ingredients, it's highly processed, so stay away from it. 09:46🥗 40 Plant food challenge - 40 different whole foods each week: eat healthily and be ahead of most people on crazy diets. 12:18🧀 Minimize ultra-processed dairy and stick to the more artisanal types of cheese. 13:32🥒 Get your prob...2022-12-0822 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast63. Bianca Grant: Fight Autoimmune Disease by Listening to Your Body😴 Bianca started napping on work breaks and had jerks: after a car wreck, she lost all control of her body. 02:27📚 Nobody knew the root of the problem: Bianca researched on her own. 08:20👩⚕️ Getting a sarcoidosis diagnosis and fighting different symptoms: Bianca sometimes still has symptoms. 11:01🌿 Herbal regimen, avoiding the sun, and managing symptoms of autoimmune disease. 15:06 🌸 Autoimmune diseases can be combated by lifestyle change: Jill cured her Hashimoto's. 17:35 💼 Bianca’s new career. 19:54 🤗 Listen to your body: advocate for yourself. 21:13🏥 Advocacy in the medical system: If you don't do it, no one will do it for you. 22:30Links:2022-12-0728 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast62. Allyson McQuinn - Curing All Layers of Illnesses❤️ 'Heil' means whole art and science + 'kunst' is healing and curing: Allyson's son’s autism was successfully treated. 01:33🎯 What’s the difference between a Heilkunst doctor and a regular one?: you gotta do things in order, or you won't get the “full monty” of the resolution you expect. 06:31👩⚕️ Homeopathy and allopathy systems: Heilkunst treatment. 11:20💊 Antibiotic means against life: be careful with those.17:11🧬 Jill's daughter's experience with Lyme: an emotional aspect of every illness. 20:33🤰 Natural birth is a different way of birthing: we did it for centuries. 23:27❌ Birth is not illness: C-sections can create problems for future generations. 27...2022-12-0135 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast61. Louisa Hext - Forgiveness as a Self-Care Exercise🎁 Can forgiveness help us have a better time during the holidays? 02:49💭 Does reframing lead to forgiveness? 04:07🍗 It takes a deep muscle for forgiveness: food is a way of “stuffing feelings”: we have to face temporary pain. 05:22💸 Louisa had to forgive her mother for paying her to lose weight. 09:25🤗 Forgiveness is a journey without a destination: allow yourself to falter, reframe and make mistakes. 11:48❤️ “To forgive is not just to be altruistic - it's the best form of self-interest”: acting out the emotion leads to an inability to relinquish a grievance. 15:17🥰 You have to give something up to let go: t...2022-11-3032 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast60. What Does Grief Have to Do With Food😔 Changing our diet can cause emotions of loss. 00:15🚬 Dieting can be like quitting smoking. 01:27🏄♀️ Urge surfing - ride the wave of the urge. 03:49🥺 We need to allow ourselves to grieve the loss of the food we can’t eat anymore. 06:20🤗 Grief acts in strange ways, so find someone who understands. 09:36✅ Give your grief the honor and attention it deserves. 11:43🥰 Getting over the hump. 13:56Links:🌟 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com 🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss 🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com 💜 Join our Love Challen...2022-11-2914 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast59. Control Cravings with This One Rule🦸🏼♀️There is no need to be a Superwoman. 00:56👀 Learn what you are lacking. 01:50▶️ Start with the physical body. 04:27😇 Turn your attention towards your emotions. 07:21🧠 Stimulate your intellect. 09:36🌸 Connect to your soul. 10:29🤩 Start the journey today. 11:34✌️ Take inspired actions. 13:38Links 🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com ✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss 🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com 💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://work-with-your-nature.mn.co/share/_CJNqcWFHNDILXx6?utm_source=manual 2022-11-2816 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast58. Anusha Batra - Processing Emotions with Creative Writing✍️ Process a story out of everything that happens in life: writing down your emotions is a good way to process them. 02:31💻 Blog as a go-to place for when you feel overwhelmed and need to process emotions. 04:17🇮🇳 Parents in India are very protective but they've learned to embrace Anusha’s blog writing. 05:23🥰 When Anusha found her love of writing. 07:08⏩ There is still some stigma attached to getting therapy in India but thankfully they are moving away from it. 08:36😇 Writing helps when overwhelmed by a lot of emotions and it can definitely help improve writing. 10:10✌️ Anusha’s team creates marke...2022-11-2532 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast57. Alison Haase: Love Your Self Through Consistency and Support💉 Alison lost her little brother to an overdose a year ago: she is sober for 19 years because of her consistency and habits. 02:14✅ When life happens, keeping consistency is incredible. 06:42👣 Sometimes it's necessary to borrow someone else's experience to have hope: go step by step. 08:44📏 Perfectionists' demands on ourselves are insidious. 11:00🥳 We need cheerleaders, mirrors, and confidence. 14:01🤝 It's scary to develop relationships, but it's worse not to: be aware when you flee forward. 15:48📖 ‘The Addict In Aisle 7’ - Alison's book about fighting with bulimia, drugs, and alcohol. 19:10🏇 Alison's experience with professional sports and perfectionism: changing rel...2022-11-2432 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast56. Anne Asher - A Holistic Approach to Pain ❤️ Non-violent communication is giving from the heart, but let the jackal out first. 03:08 🧒 The jackal is like a wounded child expressing itself. 08:24 🤸 If we don't use our physical and emotional abilities, they decrease and affect each other. 10:44 🧍♀️ Posture is not just about sitting straight, but rather it is awareness of oneself. Anne helps people creatively, along with science. 13:38 👌 We need a mindset shift. People don't always need surgery to cure their pain and we should see a doctor only 20% of the time. 15:37 🥇 The body has certain limitations, but some people are pushing their limits. 18:40 🥘 The placebo effect and ex...2022-11-2343 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast55. Natalia Naila - Antiaging and Health Improvement With the Help of Biohacking👩🔬 Biohacking is testing the whole body to get to know it: you can do it even at home. 02:06🧪 Everyone should do a huge lab comprehensive test every three years: therapy is individual. 05:24🌹 It's not a medical treatment, but improving overall health and antiaging: body state affects life drastically. 07:51😊 It takes 6-12 months to heal the gut and eliminate toxins as much as possible: there's no right diet for everyone. 13:26🚶♀️ Natalia is interested in meditation, visualization, and energy work: walking and gratefulness help her be in feminine energy and lower stress. 16:01💡 There's a lot in personalizing it for yourself...2022-11-2225 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast54. This is What Really Causes Belly Fat🧠 Belly fat is not what you eat, how you exercise, or your hormones, all of those things are downstream effects of your nervous system state. 01:00💯 Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems affect adrenaline and creativity. 03:00🌷 The more you can be in a state of ease and flow, the easier it's going to be to stay healthy. 05:00🏃 Our nervous system responds well to a burst of stress: chronic stress affects decision-making and health practices. 05:44💆 Prolonged stress can cause adrenaline resistance and other health problems: a calm brain helps cultivate good decisions and creativity. 11:57🏋 Habits and practice can ensure good re...2022-11-2122 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast53. Anita Kopacz - Zero F’s Given🦠 Anita's experience with long Covid - intense attacks and food problems. 02:22🇲🇽 Anita’s healing experience in Mexico: healing ceremonies. 06:25🥰 Surround yourself with people who believe in you, especially when you do not believe in yourself. 09:55😰 Jill's and Anita's intense experiences with covid. 11:51👠 Jill's book recommendation: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly. 15:06🏥 If there are any latent diseases in the body, COVID can wake them up. 17:48📕 Anita's book Shallow Waters has historic elements we need to know about: a love letter for black women. 21:07🗺️ Black history and culture are falsely demonized: Anita’s book helps us to realize it. 21:4...2022-11-1840 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast52. Wonder With Me For a Moment🎯 There's a root cause of unhappiness with ourselves. 00:40🌺 We are worthy and beautiful, but our culture taught us differently. 02:42🤗 Not knowing we're safe causes fear: but maybe we actually “know” that we are safe and our souls create fear to remind us? Can we welcome the fear? 04:38📋 Pay attention to how much you feel fear in a day: create a little mantra for yourself. 11:10🤔 Do your own exploration. 13:15Links:🎯 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com 🌸 Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss 🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com ...2022-11-1715 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast51. Michele Yasuda - Living in Alignment❔ What integrity and essence mean to Michele: being in our wholeness. 03:16🧒 Michele’s “Jersey Girl” persona. 04:28🎭 Relationship between persona and the essence through example. 06:19👼 When the rude persona comes out vs. the overly nice persona. 09:38🌸 To live with integrity, you have to know yourself. 11:09🤷 How do I know what is the essence, true self, and persona? 12:39🔁 If I'm not present at the moment, I'm out of sync. 15:03😌 Moving in my essence pace gives me a sense of ease. 18:21🌌 “I live in a friendly universe”: welcome to the easy world! 21:49🧠 Sitting in silence is incredible for our brains...2022-11-1648 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast50. Breanne Ward - The Burden We Carry Through Generational Trauma🩸 Breanne's experience with iron deficiency and anemia. 02:05👌 Getting therapy: when Breanne's motivation increased a ton. 07:40🔋 Nutritional deficiency affects your mood and energy levels. 08:20⏸️ We have to navigate our stop and reset buttons - get to know ourselves. 09:59🧘 The difference in work and life when balancing mind-body-spirit. 12:50🙇 Higher power orchestrates things we don't have to. 13:35⚖️ What I can control and what is out of my control: don't put the weight of the world on your shoulders. 16:30🥌 Emotional laundry sorting. 17:52🧬 Inheriting trauma: what is family epigenetics? 19:00👵 Grandma - the silent strongest woman. 23:39🧠 Stress affects our brains and eati...2022-11-1536 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast49. Positive at All Costs: Why This Doesn't Work👧 The ways we are raised 00:41💐 Facing reality leads to a better life. Why is that? 02:02🍔 What does it mean to face reality? Overeating example. 03:19❌ Making yourself wrong only leads to bad behavior. 05:00✍️ Journaling helps. 05:22🫥 There's going to be short-term discomfort. 06:00?🌙 Stay up late - detailed example about facing reality. 07:00💡 What happens long-term when facing reality? You can see new opportunities. 08:55💤 There is an opportunity in facing the reality of late sleep. 09:44🪤 Denying will catch up with you. 11:51✨ Facing the truth will manifest positive reality 12:24❤️ You're not wrong, you want to be happy and care for your bo...2022-11-1414 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast48. Emotions: Good or Bad, We Can't Deny Them🧘♀️ Allow your emotions to flow even though you were taught the opposite. 00:40😊 Core emotions: anger, sadness, fear, happiness, and sexual feelings. 02:17🤸♀️ Emotions are physical sensations. They are connected with our physical reactions. 03:40👧 Relearn the process of embracing emotions. 04:18👩⚕️ Choose someone to help you explore your emotions: the process starts with awareness. 04:50🛑 Unaware emotions can block progress: we need to go into them. 05:35🗒️ Rant on paper when you get an urge to suppress emotions. 06:45🤷♀️ There's a reason for laziness. 08:15🌟 Don't blame yourself, go into problem-solving mode. 08:40✍️ Your body is giving you the signals: take notes of what is going on in your body. ...2022-11-1112 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast47. Romy Carlson - Building Connection and Empowering Each Other for Success🤹♀️ How does Romy manage everything? 01:49✋ Why boundaries are important. 02:20👩🎓 Worries about having college-aged kids: everything has its good and bad sides. 05:00🔢 Discipline and self-respect through daily prioritization helped Romy use her 24 hours the best way possible. 08:20😇 Her parents were amazing role models: let's build each other up, let's make it easier to be more successful. 12:08👩⚕️ Puritanism approach in our society: being humble is great, but it hurts our mental and physical health. 14:48✅ Get out of your comfort zone and really connect with other women: stop comparing and competing. 19:53💆♀️ Self-care is important to be able to lift people up. 22:00🤗 One of...2022-11-1044 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast46. How You Can Be Happier by Leaning in to Your Emotions🌊 Emotions are not bad - they’re just feelings. 00:35🤷♀️ How do we deal with fear, anger, and sadness? 03:18👉 We want to avoid feelings but they persist. 04:42👊 What to do when something hits you - this trick really works. 05:08🗣️ Public speaking nervousness Jill has and how she deals with it. 05:58🌅 Monday morning dread wave that comes for Jill. 08:08🤗 Savor all your emotions: emotion is a signal. 09:51💥 Attention in combination with happiness and fear. 11:48🛑 We are suppressing even happy emotions: the thought that comes to destroy your joy. 12:58☺️ Sweetness in feeling emotions: build on emotions. 13:51💪 A greater...2022-11-0918 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast45. Kelli Wingo - The Superpower of Ownership🤸♀️ A body is a living, breathing miracle – a cadaver is proof. 01:46💡 Kelli is interested in and inspired by the human body. 03:19🚘 We take better care of our cars than our bodies. 4:58✨ Everyone has a mind, body, and spirit, but the combination of these three makes us unique. 06:05🎆 If you don't understand the unique makeup of your mind, body, and spirit, there's a place in the universe that is missing you. 07:40📋 How to harness uniqueness: superpower audit. 09:05🚫 One of the rules: don’t take compliments away from yourself! 10:46🎯 Have an ownership mindset in your personal and professional li...2022-11-0832 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast44. What Are You ACTUALLY Committed To?🛺 Annoying slow drivers and our consciousness. 00:30🥇 Desire to be good enough as a source of self-sabotaging. 03:06🤔 The best question to ask when irritated: What is my unconscious belief about myself? 05:56📋 Recognizing personal behavior patterns. 06:36 ⭕ A vicious cycle: women believe they are not enough. 07:38❔ If we can’t fix the problem, we should check unconscious beliefs that drive us in the opposite direction. 11:00🤷 How do I know what my unconscious commitments are about my health? 13:13👍 We can’t control everything, and that is OK. 14:57✅ What are the actions to take? 16:05⚠️ Don`t get into a zone you’re not comfortable wit...2022-11-0721 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast43. Marcia Roberts Mikels - The Lasting Physical Effects of Trauma🤰 Marcia left her husband after an assault: a sad event that affected her health. 02:55😢 The miscarriages, gaining weight, elevated blood pressure: massive blood loss and emergency D&C. 05:43😮 Marcia’s huge fibroids were treated with a new procedure: a uterine embolization cuts the blood supply to fibroids. 08:34⚠️ Victims of domestic violence in some states have to ‘dig’ to find a social worker while in other states, they come in immediately with the police. 12:04🛣️ The recovery process for a single mom of five: the waiting list for counseling was huge and dealing with the system and schooling. 12:55⚡ Hu...2022-11-0439 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast42. Punam Saxena - Teach Your Children to Advocate For Themselves in Schools📗 Parent Power book: A parent’s guide for children from 0 -18: from social media to self-care to empty nesting. 03:12📱 How to set parameters around social media for your children. 06:25⚠️ Difference between parent involvement and parent engagement in schools: parents are the advocates of their kids at school. 12:23🦺 Children are people carrying so much on their shoulders: they need a safety net to fail.18:00✅ From six through twelve is when your child needs you the most for healthy lifestyle support. 21:23👩💼 How do we stay engaged when our kids are in school and in college? Advocating for yourself. 23:34▶️...2022-11-0340 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast41. Kelly Moore and the Importance of Exploring and Expressing Your Emotions🥰 In Kelly’s hardest times, a social worker at school stepped in to help: I want to be like her. 01:55🩹 Processing the trauma with a professional: a wound can't heal if we just stick a bandaid on it. 02:57🌸 Jill realized the importance of not letting emotions be hidden and locked down. 03:48⚠️ There’s no such thing as a “bad emotion”. 05:30😤 Understand where that anger is coming from: see what is below the tip of the iceberg. 07:03🤔 The trauma we don’t recognize: it doesn’t have to be the stereotypical trauma to be a traumatic experience. 09:31...2022-11-0225 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast40. Mary I. O’Connor, M.D & Kanwal L. Haq, M.S. - How To Become Better Self Advocates📕 Book Taking Care of You is a powerful tool women can use to be more empowered in their health. 02:00👙 Stop talking just about the ‘bikini medicine’: the book focuses on different clinical conditions because those impact women differently than men. 03:44💊 Be well prepared when going to clinicians: a lot of drugs are pulled from the market because they are not working for or designed for women. 08:44⚠️ There is no woman who should feel helpless: be in charge of your body and change your healthcare professionals if needed. 14:02👩🦰 Women are assertive for others’ health but not so much for themselves: ‘Ti...2022-11-0148 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast39. What You NEED to Know About Hormones🥰 Sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone: from age 35 women's bodies produce less progesterone and that causes some issues. 00:29🌟 Transfer your life at ‘50 and ‘60: get a bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. 03:16🦥 Low sex drive, can’t build muscles, low motivation: the answer is testosterone. 03:51💪 When insulin is elevated in the blood, fat burning is turned off: there is a solution. 05:35😩 When our brain feels stressed it elevates the cortisol and blood sugar too: go for complex carbs. 07:23😋 Leptin is a hunger hormone: balancing it out with these few tips. 08:36😇 Take your action from the co...2022-10-3112 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast38. Li'Ana Michelle - Dealing with Personal Trauma by Helping Others👗 Li’Ana is a Miss Voluptuous Pageant finalist: I can do this, I am worthy. I am of value. 02:00🤩 Being a part of an effective change for people in her community: behavioral health and wellness for the whole community. 05:44🤗 Everyone goes through traumatic experiences differently: don't shame but give grace to others. 08:05👧🏽 Li’Ana’s trauma: don't wear the shame on your shoulders. 11:07⚠️ Traumatic experience offsets your behaviors: if we don't understand the trauma, then we don't understand the response. 15:28🔎 There are so many reasons why people repeat self-sabotage behaviors: eating our feelings and causing ourselves illnesses h...2022-10-2854 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast37. Jane Baudelaire - Medical Gaslighting🙋 Being an advocate for yourself in the medical world: battles and gaslighting experience. 02:39🌟 Jane advocating for herself in the medical system started when she was 16: when you are asking questions for a reason. 03:39🤕 We fractured the healthcare system: healthcare is a money-making business, and it is hard to navigate that. 06:13🤰 Your birth plan is a joke for nurses in birthing units. 09:41❗ How the system works and how to work the system: some meds are not good to use. 11:51🤩 Caught off guard in the hospital office: What if we could have a patient -advocate be available to pati...2022-10-2742 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast36. Conflict as a Positive Tool for Deeper Connections in Relationships😇 No relationship is free of conflict: conflict is what leads us to intimacy. 02:31🤓 Relationships without conflict: re-learning how to actually disagree and engage with each other. 03:51💣 What is conflict? A mismatch can set off fireworks. 04:48🌟 “There is no relationship without a voice and no voice without a relationship.” 07:14❗ Undoing the patriarchy one couple at a time: patriarchy doesn't help men very much either. 09:19💚 There are fewer cardiovascular issues among happy couples: we are social beings. 12:236️⃣ The 6 elements of doing conflict well are self-esteem, boundaries, accountability, vulnerability, empathy, and connection or repair. 13:22🤩 Conflict creates the opportunity for g...2022-10-2625 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast35. Haylee Breitinger - End Mental Health Stigma Now🌟 It should be natural to seek out mental health counseling. 00:30🧠 Mental health has been stigmatized: a lot of things are going on in our world, and we can't take it on all by ourselves. 02:20😷 Trauma from the pandemic: everyone purchased home gyms, but no one thought about mental health. 04:10🤓 You don’t have to have depression or anxiety to recognize that you need help. 07:45🙌 The benefits of working with an expert in mental health or any other field. 10:09🏋️♀️ Kaylee’s story: body dysmorphia, an eating disorder, and excessive exercising. 12:53 ❓ What is body dysmorphia? Viewing any component of your bod...2022-10-2539 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast34. The Self-Love Context is the BEST✨ Jill is a Big Leap coach: She’s been certified by the Hendricks Institute. 00:10🤦♀️ Differentiating between content and context: The diet industry has created an entire context in which we have been trained to operate. 01:00❤️ Jill suggests an entirely different context we can operate: when content becomes looser and more flexible. 03:17😰 I gotta get it right, what is proper: the fear about will my tribe accept me if I look like this? 04:12🥰 Let's all lift ourselves up and move over to a better context, a better paradigm, a better world: unconditional self-love. 08:28⏫ Intuitive Eating is this whole industry th...2022-10-2416 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast33. Fabienne Jacquet - Embracing Feminine Energy for Innovation🎆 Anyone can be an innovator: it means creating something new that creates value. 02:51👩🍼 Being an innovator as a housewife and a stay-home-mom. 06:19🤔 We tend to overcomplicate things: innovation is coming from your emotions, from your guts, and it’s serving the world. 06:55🧠 Feminine and masculine energy in the innovation process: the secret is in the balance of two energies and intuition that comes from within. 08:35⚖️ We're all on the spectrum between masculine and feminine: why being centered is good. 14:17🤓 What are some traits that are more feminine or masculine? Our brains can rewire and change. 17:23✅ Importa...2022-10-2140 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast32. Michela Parisi - Is Trauma Unconsciously Affecting Your Day-to-Day Life?🙋♀️ Michela is a therapist who is incorporating Neurofeedback into her counseling sessions: primarily helping women who’ve experienced trauma. 02:08🤷♀️ What does it mean to “experience trauma”? Minimizing the way that we feel leads to all sorts of diagnoses. 04:14👉 Weight loss is a byproduct of improved health: trauma might affect human behavior without us knowing it. 06:35🔁 When patterns of behavior are still recurring in the weight loss process: somewhere deep underneath, trauma might provoke this. 09:28🧐 We're not looking at external factors that probably impacted our inner dialogue: do we really hate our legs or did someone tell us to do that? 11:26🤩 The...2022-10-2040 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast31. Lauren Hooper - Choreographing Life✨ Getting back to herself and self-care: being a mom of two small kids and navigating so many things. 02:18👩🏽🎤 Lauren is a performer in musicals, film, and TV: building back the strength and stamina to be able to do the things she loves. 03:47🧘🏽♀️ Anatomy associated with singing benefits from yoga and running. After pregnancy, she needs to work daily on her abs just to be able to sing and perform. 06:05🤰🏽 Diastasis recti and postpartum recovery: you don’t have to lose weight, but you have to re-knit abs together. 09:37😍 Settling and grounding for mental health: meditation, connecting with family, tracking her...2022-10-1942 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast30. Heather Zoccali - Finding Beauty in the Trauma of Life🧜♀️ Rainbow-colored scales are kind of her armor: Heather is not taking someone else's trauma. 02:37👧 Caregiving and forgiveness as two pillars of her life: Heather was a caregiver from the age of nine. 03:17🛌 Being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and POTS at 30: life completely changed for her. 04:51🥊 Having a chronic condition is an ongoing fight: accepting your new normal and giving yourself time to grieve. 07:44 🤗 The importance of self-compassion and forgiveness: treat ourselves just like you would a friend. 09:28🌟 Life is beautifully brutal: all the good that came out of the traumatic events in Heather’s life. 10:48✨ Really knowi...2022-10-1822 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast29. How Do You Love Yourself And Still Make Change?🤷♀️ How do I reconcile the concept of radical acceptance with the idea that I need to lose weight or fix something in my body? 00:10⚠️ Nothing good comes from a black-and-white way of thinking. 01:28🥅 The goal is not to practice self-love all day every day but to be aware we want to practice it more. 03:18🧚♀️ It is a challenging journey, not a fairy tale with a final destination. 04:45🎯 If you approach weight loss with this new perspective, that’s the opposite of giving up. 05:54🌟 How do you reconcile the idea of loving yourself with the idea that you are flawed: squishy...2022-10-1710 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast28. Nicole Bazaco - Getting Away From the Vicious Cycle of Self-judgment and Falling Into Curiousness😫 Nicole struggled with anxiety, disordered eating, and relationship issues: judgmental voice vs. curiosity. 01:51 🧁 We want to comfort ourselves to escape other feelings: when food becomes a problem. 05:48🧘♀️ Internal Family Systems by Dr. Richard Schwartz: meditation helped Nicole to pay more attention to the reasons behind her behaviors. 06:59☮️ We need judgment, but sometimes it crosses the line and turns into shame: feeling peaceful when judgmental feelings are quieting down. 08:57🎯 Running away from feeling the negative feelings has to stop: catching yourself on time. 12:25🌸 Be a little tender towards yourself: delicate balance that we have to strive for. 16:35💎 Bein...2022-10-1421 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast27. Cait Donovan - Understanding the Link Between Resentment, Burnout, and Your Boundaries2️⃣ Two things Cait thinks can change peoples’ lives: resentment and boundaries. 03:05🤯 Underneath resentment is a feeling of unfairness; either because you're over-giving or because you're under-recognized. 06:23⚠️ Resentment is a powerful tool: The most important question you need to learn to ask yourself. 07:00🎯 Sometimes, we are resentful because somebody is crossing our boundaries: internal and external boundaries people don’t talk about. 09:13✍️ #1 Find out what all of the unspoken expectations are: start a resentment journal. 11:02🚪 Nobody talks about boundaries as being something that allows you to invite in 13:59🧠 The integration and segmentation continuum: what's happening there? 18:05👉...2022-10-1335 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast26. Lyndsey Martin - Power of Cannabis in Healing PTSD, Insomnia, and Anxiety👍 Lyndsey is getting her master's in nutrition and working in the cannabis industry. 02:15😮💨 Missouri is a state in which using cannabis is allowed for medical purposes, but it might be legalized for recreational use as well. 02:47🤯 Cannabis is dangerous, but alcohol is ok? 03:11🤕 A big stigma around cannabis is unfair: the plant helps huge numbers of people with various mental and medical issues. 04:45👠 Successful cannabis companies are being run by women: Lindsey held a panel to connect women in her industry. 07:50😇 Spiritual perspective of marijuana: she is a special plant. 11:21😩 Lyndsey’s issues with insomnia escalated: CBD...2022-10-1236 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast25. Kathleen Curtis Wolf - Purpose, Strength, and Values as a Foundation for Good Health and Career Life👉 You need to be prepared for what is next: Kathleen watched her mom struggle. 01:48👩💼 Kathleen left corporate and wanted to do more: serving and helping others because she was prepared and had a choice. 05:01🙅 “If we lack confidence, we're not standing up for ourselves.” 06:56😇 Jill is a Big Leap coach: identifying your genius. 08:43🧭 Defining your purpose: it will become your compass and guardrails for decision-making. 09:48🤓 Bringing passion and emotion to the work: purpose, strength, and value. 13:05🌟 Personal trainers are not cheap but worth it: willing to invest in things that are important to you. 13:50🎯 If you don’t h...2022-10-1123 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast24. Trapped by Your Desire?🤷♀️ Having a deep desire to lose weight but results are not looking good enough? 00:26😩 When we constantly question ourselves and look to find our blocking factors: what does it mean to be trapped by our own desire? 02:03🚧 Thinking only about the outcome creates an obstacle. 03:38🤔 Can I free myself of this attachment to the outcome? 04:36🌟 When the delicate balance comes: letting go of the attachment while still caring for your body. 07:06👀 Focus on the process rather than the outcome. 08:39🎯 You can’t control the outcome, but you can control your actions and habits.10:02😇 Slipping back but still...2022-10-1114 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast23. Finding More Sustainability on Your Health and Weight Loss Journey🥬 Issues with weight loss and yo-yo dieting: Maureen wanted something more sustainable. 02:12😩 Health comes first: She would climb the stairs and be out of breath. 04:52👀 Series of small habits: paying attention to the reactions of her body to certain foods and drinks was the beginning. 06:01⚠️ The important thing is to really be ready to change, so be gentle to yourself and ask yourself some important questions. 07:31🥳 Why do we need to pause and appreciate ourselves and our efforts? 10:24🤩 Maureen’s short-term goals vs. long-term goals in losing weight and getting her health back. 13:13😇 You feeling better is muc...2022-10-0728 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast22. Betsy Salkind - Using Humor to Facilitate Healing 🤣 Betsy feels the absolute necessity to laugh throughout her life and health journey. 01:29 🧠 Comedy can teach us to shift towards new perspectives in very serious situations and soften the sympathetic nervous system. 04:11 😉 Finding the place of joy and release: there is no prescription for humor. 06:47 😁 Our mirror neurons will do one part for you: try watching kids, animals, and comedies. 07:49 🤩 Relief opens our minds to new possibilities and to new ideas. 08:56 🍀 Making a behavioral change is easy if you're enjoying it: tapping into creativity and finding what works for each person. 09:49 👍 Jill and Betsy both love an irreveren...2022-10-0616 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast21. Aundrea Leven - Benefits Of Childlike Wellness For Any Age🤸♀️ We as adults need to be more like kids and have a little bit more fun eating.01:14▶️ Seeing 7000 people a month as a clinic nutritionist: it was time for something more fun and efficient for families. 02:19🧠 How nutrition affects teenagers’ mindset, feelings, and positive thinking. 05:10😇 When healthy eating becomes a normal, habitual thing for kids. 06:31🥣 Bridging issues and creating a balance between eating fast and healthy. 08:36🗝️ Planning is the key and getting family involved in the experience is important. 11:17🥦 Tip on how to incorporate broccoli into a toddler’s diet with a smile. 12:35😍 Empowering children is someth...2022-10-0535 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast20. Monisha Kapur - Keeping the Promise to Myself for Myself🦸♀️ Monisha is a supermom: her pivotal moment in life is right now. 01:24👩👧 Gut health affects her mental and physical health: Monisha put her own needs aside due to issues her daughter had. 02:44🥘 Food allergies in the family: Monisha doesn't like cooking. 04:51😟 Jill’s daughter was sick for 10 months: having a child with health issues means constantly worrying. 06:11🙅♀️ Realizing when enough is enough. 07:21🧘♀️ Slowing down and keeping your promises to yourself: enjoying yoga. 09:01✌️ Letting go of that guilt about not doing the things that you're “supposed” to do. 10:38✨ Associating exercising with things she doesn't like: Moshina found her thing. 11:38📝 Moni...2022-10-0425 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast19. The Difference Between Healthy Responsibility and Blame😓 We often get into the mindset of blame on our journeys of losing weight and regaining health. 00:10👆 When we blame someone, it’s coming from a place of fear, not love. 02:20▶️ Start the practice of taking healthy responsibility: tips and steps on how to do it. 04:25😇 Emotions are like water and we can’t always control them: Take responsibility for things you can control. 06:19Links🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com2022-10-0311 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast18. Elizabeth Sandler - The Positive Impact on Health When You Live with Purpose👠 Having a huge international corporate career: fatigue and not having control of her life. 01:58 👩💼 Living a movie of her life vs living a life: having it all but not having it all. 04:38🔇 When you stop the noise of the outside world, you have a voice inside. 06:20✨ Starting to nurture her body and epiphany about her new work path. 08:01👺 When cortisol is ‘eating’ your body and you are not aware of trauma: young bodies mask the issues. 09:552️⃣ Two groups of women: one keeps going and another group realizes something is happening. 11:49😇 Finding yourself an excuse for what you're really lo...2022-09-3019 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast17. Linda Greene - Enjoying Traveling and Foods for Healthy Aging🤗 Seeing her mom’s issues pushed Linda to do everything to look, feel, and be healthy as possible. 01:17🧘♀️ Working with Jill, having a personal trainer, doing Pongo: 03:31😇 Structural issues and pain: knowing that her whole future depends on being mobile and healthy. 04:46🍝 A life-long love affair with food: Linda loves interesting food, and she gets to try it all out during her travels. 06:43🥐 Keeping the weight loss during cruising is hard: implementing intermittent fasting when she is home. 08:47😋 Food pictures Linda shares: strategy of eating delicious food but in smaller portions. 10:58🧆 The session about flavors taught Linda so...2022-09-2922 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast16. Dr. Sandra Lewis - Overcoming Burnout😟 Sandra’s worst burnout episode: when your body says ‘Enough’. 01:49🤯 Being in the Get It Done mode: pushing the anxiety back. 03:52😩 Eating well and doing yoga but her self-care was just a checklist. 06:22👩🏽🦱 Feeling like you are alone, and there is no one to help: commitment one problem solver takes on her shoulders. 08:45🤕 Sandra learned how to survive from her childhood: survival while ignoring the pain. 12:04🤷🏽♀️ Social patterns: “Women have this sense that we are the ones who are responsible for other people's well being”. 13:06⚠️ Adrenaline rushing all the time dampens creativity. 15:17🎯 Getting back in touch with her own purpose: Sandra as...2022-09-2824 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast15. Elisse Barnes - The Importance of Prioritizing Yourself While Caregiving🤔 Figuring out how to take care of herself while being a caregiver. 01:41😍 Taking advantage of time windows and focusing on her weight: Elisses’s strongest motivations. 02:57💃🏽 Elisse is a night exerciser: making adjustments and scheduling her time to make room for movement that makes her happy. 05:12⚠️ About some of the excuses we have: Just start! 07:13😩 Falling off the wagon: when caregiving supersedes goals you set for yourself. 08:46✍🏽 Power of writing things into a diary: stripping away the excuses and accepting reality. 09:27😇 Controlling her calorie intake with food delivery service. 10:32😟 When Elisse is not prioritizing herself, she st...2022-09-2720 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast14. How to Build Your Motivation for Healthy Habits🧮 Motivation is a big issue: low willpower equals low motivation - the quick calculation that's occurring in our brains. 02:12🧠 Experiencing the consequences of eating certain things: the ‘fight’ between lower and higher brain. 04:13😇 Your prefrontal cortex - conscious mind determines your actions: convince it that healthy food is important for you. 06:32⏩ Get your compelling reason but with a quick return: examples of positive and negative feedback loops you can use. 08:19🤓 The combination of different tools: consistent commitment and strong reasons are building motivation. 09:43⚠️ Don’t always rely on willpower: set up the environment for success and remove barrie...2022-09-2615 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast13. Eileen - Redefining Health as We Age - What Energizes You?😇 Starting to think about aging in our 40s: different perspectives about aging. 02:13🥳 Celebrating 75th birthday and feeling comfortable about it: having simple goals comes with years. 02:51🥰 Supporting health with diet, movement, experiences, and communicating: the power of community and friendships. 04:19🎯 Different perspectives on life, food, and an increased capacity for appreciation: having time to feel everything on more deeper level. 06:31👩💻 Working and not having time for so many things: I want to be retired now and appreciate life more - now. 08:13🤩 Perfect life recipe: “I don't do anything that does not make me happy unless it's absolutely nec...2022-09-2321 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast12. Kim Leonard - Words About Healing from a Three-Time Cancer Survivor🤯 When the doctor said to Kim she will be in bed for the rest of her life: “I don’t accept that!” 01:56🛌 We don’t know the answer: chemo brain, pain, fatigue, and living as a bedridden mom. 03:50🤒 Health issues Kim’s children had: the healing power of foods. 05:00 🚰 Changes in her diet: becoming a gut health specialist and realizing the importance of hydration. 07:20😲 Taking 35-45 medications and experiencing many side effects. 09:30🍫 Kim’s biggest thing is eating too much chocolate: sugar imbalance, digestive issues, and gut health. 10:39⚠️ The biochemistry of the body: not feeling well is a sign, don’t i...2022-09-2221 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast11. Krista Sande-Kerback - Simple Practices for Self Care👠 Krista and Jill met through global professional women's network. 01:38🧘♀️ As a senior product marketing manager with a very active life Krista starts her day with meditation, gratitude practice, walking, and few more rituals. 02:59✅ Self-care as a group of small, easy practices that brings you joy: different and applicable concept. 05:00🌺 Getting inspiration from her community and curiosity: showing up the best way she can. 07:20🎯 Respecting your body where it’s at and not beating yourself up over imperfection. 08:38👉 People are programmed what they're led to see: replace overwhelming thoughts with this. 09:52😇 Taking responsibility is empowering: Jill’s diet modifi...2022-09-2122 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast10. Angelica Rodriguez - Taking Baby Steps Towards More Movement and Better Health🚶♀️ Challenges of moving her body and negative relationship with comfort foods. 01:36👣 Physical therapy and moving her body gradually: Angelica’s multiple injuries and overcoming pain. 05:26⚡ Judging in the gym mindset: nobody is looking at you, you are judging yourself. 07:51🚦 I want to feel good in my body: honoring the body when it sends you signals. 08:48🗣️ Little insidious voices we have inside that take the main stage so fast in our life. 11:39🧠 Thoughts are also habitual as are our outside activities: the process should be gradual because brains don’t like big changes. 15:46🎯 Try what feeds you and try to see wh...2022-09-2124 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast09. Start Telling a Different Story Today😲 Stories in our heads are not always our stories and many of them are disempowering. 00:42😰 Jill’s story she is telling herself: feeling guilt and blame. 01:58 🥅 The purpose is to learn, grow, and love yourself no matter what. 03:02🤷♀️ I love myself, but I have to look a certain way: the story that is not necessarily yours. 03:35🛑 We were taught that our value is based on our looks: a biological imperative done wrong. 04:47👆 The tribalistic definition of beauty mixed with survival: we only want to be included. 06:32👧 Struggling with body image since a very young age: inner saboteur is s...2022-09-1916 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast08. Tami Parker - Getting Smoothly Through Perimenopause🤩 Tammi’s favorite theme besides food is perimenopause: people are eager to learn more. 01:21🤓 Difference between perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. 02:03🤯 Tammi’s experience and symptoms: Why do nutritionists learn so little about this? 05:09🎢 Women experience so many biological changes: buckle up for perimenopause - puberty 2.0. 09:03😲 I have to go through puberty again?! 10:25🌸 Steps to make this period easy: stress reduction, eat a diet specifically for you. 11:30⚡ Pathways of hormones are important: Dutch test, cortisol test, and knowing your symptoms. 15:02🙃 Having a sense of humor helps so much: you are on a transition to your next phase of amazing...2022-09-1621 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast07. Betsy - Fighting Against Your Old Programming Through Inner Work🤗 Counseling and inner work as primary methods of regaining health. 01:54🤓 Losing 30 pounds without doing anything! 02:31🤯 Mom would take Betsy to Weight Watcher meetings: recording her weight from the age of eight. 06:39😤 Hatred within mother-daughter relationships. 11:17✨ Betsy’s epiphany about her body image. 14:38👉 Reframing of the old programming: "You look so horrible". 16:11🤦♀️ We are approaching obesity from a medical and health perspective absolutely wrong. 17:39👆 Losing 100 pounds and still feeling terrible - fundamental changes are not in pounds. 19:34👩👧 People in our country are so focused on appearance: don’t pass on those scripts to your children. 22:32🛑 Fashion imag...2022-09-1545 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast06. Donna McPherson - Reshaping Your Health Trajectory🤗 Don’t take your health for granted: your body is supposed to function a certain way. 01:28😢 Donna’s mom passed away at 48, her sister at 49, and she lost three brothers due to cardiac issues. 02:00🚶🏽♀️ Donna decided to stay on the ‘light side of food’ and change her life path: we have to move. 03:40💃🏽 When exercise doesn't feel like exercise: sports, fun, and finding what works for you. 04:50🍛 Caribbean people eat heavy food but also walk a lot. 06:38🥥 American food is very processed: food tradition in Guyana. 08:03 ✨ Donna’s choices in dieting and shopping. 09:58💎 Family history is not Donna’s only mot...2022-09-1417 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast05. Cheryl Whitelaw - Building an Identity About Yourself🤩 Cheryl’s new normal: Personal acts of self-care become her awareness choices, choices that matter. 01:25😇 ‘Should’ culture and restrictive dieting were never Cheryl’s motivators: finding her personal drivers. 03:32🎯 Living life with more presence: somatic intelligence, being responsible, and choosing things that make us feel good. 05:57🌟 We recreate ourselves all the time: the power in choosing for ourselves. 08:50🙁 Being an invulnerable authority figure in your own life and your own self is not possible: the shame and blame we attach to ourselves. 12:00🧠 Fake it before you make it: how neuroplasticity really works in reaching our goals. 13:05👉 Retr...2022-09-1321 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast04. Jill’s Thoughts - The Power in Acceptance and Feeling Your Feelings🤒 Jill’s morning fatigue after COVID infection: acceptance is an important step. 00:30‼️ Feeling our feelings is scary but essential: the perfect eater and the perfect workout guru don’t exist - it is fake. 01:42🧘♀️ Jill feels blessed about her ‘default’ state in life: what is real life about? 03:35🤕 When your body's not doing what you think it should is frustrating. 05:55✨ Feelings are a Flow concept: let yourself feel the emotions - ALL feelings, and don’t deny them. 07:17🎢 Life goes up and down: no one is perfect even if we are fed with a movie-version of health. 08:08🧠...2022-09-1211 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast03. Committing to Being Healthier Instead of Thinner🧠 Carla’s mind shifted toward the new ultimate goal - being healthier. 01:43🙃 Falling off the wagon while having only weight loss in mind becomes too much to bear. 02:41🎯 It is easier to build good habits with more attainable goals. 04:19🤔 Procrastination and internal blockages in caring for your health: they'll always be a reason why you can't do it now. 06:02🤗 The pursuit of health and building habits is easier when you are kind to yourself. 08:38‼️ Putting yourself first before other people and obligations: Carla’s internal battle. 11:23🛌 Jill built her sleeping habits: honoring the body and giving it love an...2022-09-0924 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast02. Patty Blakesly - Changing the Beliefs and Language Around Food and Your Body🥋 Health is in our control: a massive change of mindset happened to Patty when she become a karate practitioner. 01:29⛽ Food as a source of comfort vs food as fuel for your body: appreciation of food and conscious eating. 04:01🧠 3 elements that influence your state of mind: language, physiology, and belief. 07:21💎 We are influencing our body through our mindset: change your beliefs. 09:09👀 Awareness first: look at your beliefs and find what is opposite. 10:46⚖️ A dichotomous way of thinking promotes binging and overeating. 11:34😟 Over the years, people start feeling guilt and shame around food. 12:22🤓 Inner coaching: motivation plu...2022-09-0819 min
The Jill Cruz Podcast01. Rev. Dr. Deb Walters - The Habit of Prioritizing Others Over Self🗃️ We tend to compartmentalize our life but all is interconnected. 🤷♀️ When she felt sad, Deb was not eating: neglected her body too much.🛑 Eating disorders run in Deb’s family, but she realized it is time to respect her body. 03:27😒 In our society, women are blamed for having an eating disorder. 05:43🤰 Not gaining enough weight in pregnancy: Deb understood her body is her temple, but she still needs to pay attention to all the details on a daily basis. 06:56🌹 The punishing vs. tenderness way of thinking.11:33🤹♀️ Over-functioning as a way of life: being a good girl that holds all the plates...2022-09-0733 min
Course Lab: Lessons from Successful Online Course CreatorsNatural Weight Loss to Achieve Sustainable Results (ft. Jill Cruz)Episode summary: Is it really possible to create a hugely successful course in a highly saturated niche? Turns out, it IS possible, and Jill Cruz is living proof of it. As a weight loss coach and Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist, Jill is in one of the most saturated niches around, and yet she’s managed to create an extremely popular high-ticket course that helps people to improve their nutrition, lose weight, and boost their overall well-being. In this episode, Course Lab hosts Danny Iny and Abe Crystal take a closer look at her course “Work With Your Natur...2021-07-3029 min