The Out of the Cave Podcast

In this episode, Lisa continues the conversation on integrating intuition and structure, showing how intuitive eating and intuitive movement only work when the masculine energy is healed enough to create safety. She explains how rigid food fears block intuitive guidance, and how aligned structure allows intuition to come online. Lisa expands this into emotional accountability, exploring the differ...

In this episode, Lisa deepens the conversation on intuitive eating, self‑compassion, and the integration of masculine and feminine energies. She shares real‑time examples of intuitive eating and intuitive movement—moments when her body communicates clearly through sensation, emotion, and inner knowing. She explains how fear, food rules, and diet culture block access to intuition, and how safety, n...

In this episode, Lisa explores intuitive living as a full‑body, full‑soul practice, using a real‑time story from her morning to show what it looks like to honor creative energy over rigid plans. She explains that listening to your body goes far beyond hunger and fullness—it’s about listening to the soul that lives inside the body, and telling the truth about how you feel. Through examples of dieti...

In this episode, Lisa deepens the exploration of fierce self‑compassion by showing how disciplined action, loving boundaries, and spiritual alignment rebuild self‑trust from the inside out. She expands on Bob’s “take it seriously, hold it gently” framework, weaving it into a larger conversation about reparenting yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Lisa reframes the body as a home an...

In this episode, Lisa expands the intentional‑weight‑loss conversation by clarifying the three levels of change, the non‑linear nature of emotional eating recovery, and the difference between ego‑syntonic truth and ego‑dystonic conditioning. She explores how safety, self‑trust, and the “life jacket before the swim lesson” metaphor shape readiness for weight‑loss goals, and she deepens the “body as...

In this episode, Lisa invites listeners into a deeply human moment—moving from tension and anger into release, clarity, and embodied spaciousness after reaching out for connection and letting herself feel what needed to be felt. From there, she expands the conversation into self‑parenting, emotional safety, and the real work of intentional change, weaving in reflections from her friend “Bob,” insi...

In this episode, Lisa explores a framework for safe and sustainable weight loss through the lens of "reparenting" oneself, creativity, and spirituality. The core argument is that intentional weight loss must be approached as a creative and loving act, which requires a strong internal foundation. Schlosberg uses the analogy of an inner parent and child, arguing that structure and discipli...

In this episode, Lisa continues her deep dive into intentional weight loss through a trauma‑informed, mind‑body‑spirit lens. Building on previous discussions about Maslow’s hierarchy and conscious decision‑making, she explores what it truly means to approach weight loss from love, presence, and self‑leadership rather than fear, shame, or diet‑culture conditioning. Lisa reflects on a recent convers...

In this episode, Lisa talks about how safety, conscious input, and mind‑body awareness set the foundation for intentional weight loss. She shares new updates from “Bob,” whose real‑time shifts show how tools like safety visualization and breath awareness create real change. Lisa explains why movement only becomes therapeutic when your mindset and your body are working together, and she reframes st...

In this episode, Lisa shares community updates—including her upcoming Omega retreat, new Patreon offerings, and a free trauma‑informed restorative yoga class—before diving into the mind‑body foundations that make intentional weight loss safe and sustainable. She reflects on validating research about trauma‑informed weightlifting, explores how conscious input reshapes our relationship with discomfo...

In this solo episode, Lisa invites listeners into a deeper exploration of how we relate to discomfort—whether it shows up as sweat, strain, self‑judgment, or the instinct to contract under stress. Through stories from the gym and trauma‑informed insights on titration, conscious input, and nervous‑system safety, she shows how movement becomes a living laboratory for practicing presence, nuance, and...

In this solo episode, Lisa dives into what it really means to create personal peace and pursue intentional weight loss from the inside out. From there, she unpacks the concept of fluid identity, reminding listeners that preferences around food, movement, and lifestyle are meant to evolve and shouldn’t define who we believe ourselves to be. The heart of the episode centers on High Involvement, Low...

In this solo episode, Lisa discusses the future of her Patreon community, which will feature more personal, vulnerable content about her journey and the podcast creation process. She reflects on past body image struggles and explores non-attachment, using examples to illustrate focusing on oneself rather than judging others. Lisa introduces the athlete's mindset which is defined by focus, discipli...

In this solo episode, Lisa explores authenticity and safety while sharing her personal story as part of the podcast, addresses privilege and fragmented consciousness with concrete examples, and offers mindfulness, breathing, visualization, and mind-muscle practices for workouts and daily life. She reflects on social capital tied to weight loss, how to care selectively about others’ opinions using...

In this solo episode, Lisa weaves together ideas from recent episodes around the internalized male gaze, social identity, privilege and oppression, and the “animal brain” to explore why we feel so self‑conscious and how to feel safer in our bodies. She explains why this inner work is essential for intentional weight loss. Drawing on personal stories from the gym, yoga class, and a crowded airport,...

In this solo episode, Lisa reflects on the complex relationship between identity, body image, and authenticity as she reads her essay about developing humor and personality as a survival strategy. Lisa explores how weight loss, shifting social responses, and global awakening experiences sparked an identity crisis that expanded into a deeper understanding of privilege, oppression, and the social co...

In this solo episode, Lisa takes a deeper, more personal look at the internalized male gaze, embodied safety, and what intentional weight loss can mean through a trauma‑informed lens. She starts with a gentle check‑in about having too much coffee and uses that moment to explore the feelings she pushed aside and how choosing connection helped her regulate instead of leaning on old coping habits. Fr...

In this chapter, Lisa explores how body image, trauma, and the internalized outsider gaze pull us out of our bodies and into self‑objectification. She unpacks how fat phobia, the male gaze, and chronic shallow breathing keep the nervous system in fight‑or‑flight, blocking sustainable change. Drawing on somatic research and her own history of dissociation as protection, Lisa shows why healing begin...

In this episode, Lisa opens with the reminder that real, sustainable change begins not in urgency, panic, or the frantic rush to “fix” your body, but in the quiet, embodied willingness to be exactly where you are. She invites listeners to step out of the urgency of weight‑loss pressure and into the felt safety that makes transformation possible—safety in your breath, in your body, and in the prese...

In this week’s episode, Lisa reflects on her creative process — openly naming her impatience while choosing messy action over perfectionism — and shares the three question framework she uses for personal transformation. She explores why meaningful change requires a slower, more mindful pace to protect the nervous system from chronic fight-or-flight, and how balancing external guidance with persona...

In this solo episode, Lisa reflects on reaching episode ten of the solo series and the shift from self-doubt to claiming the podcast as her art — a space of joyful, honest self-expression rather than performance. She shares a compassionate, staged approach to behavior change that begins with non-judgmental awareness and an intentional “marination” phase before navigating the other stages, emphasiz...

In this solo series episode, Lisa invites listeners to rethink change beyond “fixing what’s wrong,” and into a more humane, nervous-system–smart way of becoming. She critiques pathology-first mental health models, centers a trauma-informed, strengths-based lens, and names the difference between compassionate, intentional change and fear-driven extremes. Moving through the six stages of change, Lis...

In this solo episode, Lisa takes a step back and asks a different question about “disorders”—especially eating disorders—not as something broken or pathological, but as ways the nervous system learned to survive. Lisa's discussion centers on healing through safety, trust, and behavior-first change—embodying new patterns until the nervous system habituates—through tender and fierce self-compass...

In this episode, Lisa explores how addiction and compulsion extend far beyond substances to include any behavior that offers short-term relief at the cost of long-term freedom. Drawing on Gabor Maté’s framework and her own lived experience, she unpacks how dieting, restriction, productivity, and people-pleasing can quietly become addictive coping strategies that create an illusion of safety and co...

In this episode of her solo series, Lisa examines addiction dynamics in food and eating, integrating neurobiology, trauma, and behavioral psychology with personal narrative. She distinguishes substance vs. behavior addictions and reframes the “food addiction” debate as a semantic distraction, emphasizing why behaviors become compulsive. The discussion links binge eating and self-harm through posit...