Living Life Beyond the Couch Podcast

One of the best things you can do when you are doing mindset work is to pay attention to your sabotaging thoughts. And when you start paying attention to them, you begin to realize how many of them you actually allow into your mind. Use the seven questions that I provided to work through those thoughts and change them. If you’re ready to get back to your best health, reach out me. My Lean6 Transfo...

I invite you to try the Telling the Truth About Your Life exercise from Lauren Handel Zander's book, "Maybe It's You" She says "There is not a more fascinating, mind-blowing process to set yourself free than to own your own lies. There really are conditions for cleaning up your life. And the more lies on your list that you can and are willing to clear up, the freer you will be." "What we know to b...

What's your dieting history? Are you someone who has always been on a diet? If you could do the opposite of dieting, what would that look like? There are many things you can do to become healthy, rather than being on a diet. Let me help show you what's possible. Let me help you overcome your emotional eating and learn to live your life with food. Reach out to me at Jacalyn@im2health.com or check o...

Your eating story is a personal narrative history, or the roots of your current relationship with food. It contains 3 core components: bio-individuality, social influence & cultural influence. How do you think each of these components affect your eating story? Emotional eating for many is a habit. The first key to changing any habit is self-awareness. Use the questions in this episode to bring...

Don't wait years to handle a weight issue and find out one day that you have no other choice but to deal with it because of a more aggressive and debilitating health issue. That doesn't have to be you. Learn about my Lean6 Transformation Program where I will help you to get on the path to your best health. I'll coach you on why you may be stuck and we'll work through the root cause or your life-lo...

My new mantra for 2025 is “Less is More.” That means less stress, less shiny new objects, less filling my brain with new information – not that I will stop learning because I love to learn, but my goal is to be more conscious of what I am learning and choose only what is going to help me grow with the goals that I have planned for 2025. So, what your intentions or goals for 2025? I’d love for you...

I’m always looking for ways to improve my life and my health and what Martha Beck had to say about beliefs in her book, "In the Way of Integrity" and how "our false beliefs can cause suffering and self-sabotage" was so fascinating to me. I just have to share it with you. The issue is that these beliefs can be so deep seated that we don’t even realize they are there until we do the work of figuring...

I've been reading Martha Beck's book, "In the Way of Integrity." She says that "to be in integrity is to be one thing, whole and undivided, and that the cure for unhappiness is being in integrity with yourself and your life." She also says that "the problem isn’t how hard you’re working. It’s that you’re working on things that aren’t right for you. Your goals and motivations aren’t harmonizing wit...

Today is my birthday! This podcast episode is about some of the most important lessons that I have learned in my 50+ years around the sun. For me, the bravest thing that I have done in my life is to take a step back and allow myself to breathe. Allow myself to not be the “be all, do all” and finally ask for help when I needed it most. The bravest thing that I have done is to take care of me! What...

In this podcast episode, learn the four questions you need to ask yourself to understand why you might struggle with weight. I would encourage you to spend some time answering these questions for yourself. You might be surprised what you'll find. Each of us have the answers inside of us about how to begin changing our behaviors and living a life without struggle. And it's okay to ask for help too....

What is the life that you have always wanted? Are you living it? Why? Or, Why not? Do you feel like you’re too busy or too overwhelmed to live the life you have always wanted to live? Maybe you’re just exhausted and you don’t feel like you have time to even think about what that life looks like. You can live the life that you've always wanted. You just have to spend more time on the things that yo...

I get it – sometimes you need a little help losing weight. Sometimes you want to try something that someone else said worked for them and you want to try it too. You’ve lost the weight and now you’re ready to move to maintenance and you don’t want to take shots for the rest of your life… If you’re still struggling with weight loss, or even weight maintenance, I can help. Sometimes it’s more than j...

Are you someone who eats emotionally? Someone who uses food to cope with life may feel shame, hopelessness, guilt, stress, anxiety, or inadequacy. I know that I have felt all of these things. Do any of them ring true for you? You can change your relationship with food. Find out how in this episode of Living Life Beyond the Couch Podcast. Also, check out the "Get Your Mindset Right to Get Your Food...

The adage is true that you become like the 5 people that you spend the most time with. You are affected by the 5 places you spend the most time in, and what you spend your time on and focus on the most – these are the things that grow in your life. I would encourage you to spend some time reflecting on these things: The five people you spend the most time with The five environments that you hang o...

Research results show that having lots of visceral fat (that’s fat around the organs) is associated with vascular brain injury and reduced cognitive function. That means that excess fat provides chronic inflammation, which disrupts healthy brain function. But, here’s the good news – You can eat to beat fat, and the right foods can help you do that. It is true that food really is medicine. It’s exc...

June is Alzheimer's & Brain Health Awareness month. In this episode of Living Life Beyond the Couch Podcast, we are exploring potential root causes and some things you can do today to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Making sure your body has all the vitamins & minerals that it needs is key. You also want to be aware of any toxic metal that is accumulating.  A Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis...

Did you know that anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and other bothersome symptoms can be related to past trauma? You might think that being exposed to trauma would cause symptoms to develop immediately. But that isn't always the case. In fact, for some people, mental health symptoms may develop: • weeks or months following a traumatic event or • years later when triggered by new trauma Y...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In this episode we’ll talk about PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Studies show that trauma leaves an imprint on the brain? Amen Clinics has conducted several brain SPECT imaging studies on trauma survivors, and the results reveal a common pattern in people with emotional trauma and PTSD. In the Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Grief course, Dr....

I’m a root cause person. I’m always trying to figure out what the root cause is to every situation that I come across. Education is key. For instance, looking at the six common toxic heavy metals and understanding how these might accumulate in your body can save you from a plethora of chronic symptoms & diseases. I guess what I am trying to say is that it matters. It matters about the food we...

We spend a lot of time – wasting time. We mostly spend time on things that don’t serve us, like worrying about things that we can’t control, buffering with things like food, alcohol and Netflix to escape the life that we don’t necessarily love. We also spend time people pleasing by saying yes to everyone and everything, rather than saying No and using that time to focus on improving our own lives....

Many times we think that we are “stuck” in some way, that we don’t have a choice in how we live our lives, that we are just destined for whatever life throws our way. Many of us don’t realize how untrue that is. In this episode of Living Life Beyond the Couch, I am giving you the exact steps that you can take to create what is possible in your life. Here's a hint: It all starts with the thoughts i...

I’ve been on a quest lately to clean out the old and bring in the new in my life. I’ve started with dropping some things that no longer serve me. So, what are you going to work on for the month of March? What are the old things that you are going to drop that are no longer serving you? What are the new things that you want to bring into your life? If you need help with incorporating more self-care...

Did you know that the relationship that you have with yourself is the thoughts that you have about yourself? Tonya Leigh, a master certified life coach says that "the world always mirrors back to you what you believe to be true about yourself." So, what do you believe to be true about yourself? By having that belief, do you see the results in your life? It’s time that you take care of you! Taking...

Did you know that you get to decide about your life? It took me a long time to realize that was the case. I went through life thinking that others get to decide for me. Others like my parents, my teachers, my friends, my boss, the government. Nope, as an adult you get to decide. My question to you is…what are you trying to escape from? What are you procrastinating on and what can you implement in...

I’ve recently been following Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School because my ultimate goal is to become a Life Coach to help others live an amazing life. I know that is a big task, but I believe that it is absolutely possible. What I’ve learned so far is that it seems simple to live an amazing life. . While living an amazing life may seem simple to me, I know that it takes a lot of hard work....