In this episode of the Crying in My Cheesecake podcast, Dr. Danielle and Aria vent about the growing trend of cortisol as the “magic fix” for weight loss. They highlight the misleading advice often given by influencers who lack real credentials and are paid to push products like AG1 and “nature’s Ozempic.” Dr. Danielle and Aria break down why quick-fix solutions and supplement fads are just band-aids, masking the real health issues at play. Tune in as they challenge the influencer culture, share personal anecdotes, and offer more grounded, holistic health advice rooted in science—because real change comes from addressing the root causes, not chasing trends.
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Welcome to the crying in my cheesecake podcast, where we are in pursuit of living life abundantly, not held back by our body size or symptoms, nor are we held back by our hurts, habits, or other obstacles in life. Learn the secrets to crush it in your health, wellness, relationships, and spiritual life. I am Danielle.
And I’m Aria. And we are your hosts and practitioners. And in this episode, we are going to go off on a tangent. I can’t wait. Aria, I told Aria, I said, Well, what’s irritating me right now? And then she was like, Well, I just made a post and this is what’s irritating me. It’s it’s the same thing. Imagine that.
Imagine us being on the same page.
I worked out perfectly. Good thing I said that.
Okay, so what is this magical thing, this insane thing that is Making us mad, Aria.
So, know how social media trends come around. Lately, I’ve just been seeing so many posts about women saying, Oh, you know, if you want to lose weight or lose belly fat, lower your cortisol.
Cortisol, cortisol, cortisol. Seems to be a very big buzzword right now. And I think people aren’t really understanding, um, what’s going on. So Let’s talk about that a little bit.
Oh my gosh, can we first talk about these people that are talking about cortisol literally aren’t, don’t even have any credentials, first of all.
And if they do have credentials, I know they’re hidden and or, and or, they are influencers who are being paid to promote products. Yes. For that. Like, and that’s a whole nother, that’s probably another topic, but I have this influencer that
Maybe you remember something
else. Yeah. Go for it.
No. Okay. So kind of like what we were talking about the last episode about, it was very short where we talked about the semi ozempic and stuff.
I keep seeing supplements being promoted as like nature’s ozempic or this mimics what ozempic does. But good for you.
Oh my gosh. And can we just Can we just say all of this are, all of these things are band aids. All of these things are band aids and now there are, I’m not going to put down people that are taking Ozempic for, you know, for what other reasons other than vanity, um, and even vanity, I’m not going to put you down by any means because you clearly must be in a space that you need a little bit of support and you must be in a space that you need a doctor to support you of some sort, not an influencer though.
So let’s make that very clear. If you are under the care of a doctor, holistic doctor, traditional doctor, whatever, that’s between you and your doctor. That is not between you and your influencer. And for crying out loud, I don’t ever want to be called an influencer. Unless I’m influencing you to Jesus, that’s the only thing I want to be called an influencer about.
Because the thing is, is that an influencer is just that. An influencer is being sold, sold something and trying to sell you the perceived value or perceived value. Transformation that you want, and they don’t even look like you, let’s be real, they don’t even live a life like you.
They’re all, they probably aren’t even taking this stuff because they’re just pushing this product so that they can make commissions.
Yes. Like that’s literally their job.
Yep, that’s literally their job is to push a product. Um, and one of the other things I hate is AG1. I realize that we’re getting off topic with cortisol for a minute, but this is a topic of rant for a minute. Um.
That too.
AG1 kills me. It’s, what?
Everyone promotes that, like all the health and wellness gurus or whatever.
Yes, and it’s so frustrating because I’m like, AG1 gives you fast energy, because there’s a lot of vitamins and minerals all at once. However, your body can really only absorb five things at once. I want you to think of when you go to a, um, when you go to a steakhouse. You go to a steakhouse, you are probably served bread because that’s an American, American thing, right?
You’re probably served bread and butter. The butter is to help slow down the, um, the glycemic load on the, yep, on the carbs there. And then when you get a plate, you are then given steak or a protein of some sort, a baked potato or some kind of potato, and then with butter, and then you’re given some kind of a green.
And
Yeah, broccoli or something.
That’s, if you notice, I’ve only said there’s, there’s four or five things right there. Your body, like, I want you to think of when you eat, or when you take a supplement, or you see anybody hawking some kind of product, how many ingredients are in that? Your body cannot really absorb more than five things at once.
And if you are being pumped full of a, first of all, these influencers and whatever have to be able to make a commission off of these products, right? So let’s, let’s go back to AG one. If they need to make a profit off of that, so does the company. There’s also the cost of manufacturing. There’s also the cost of all the employees.
They hike up the price just enough to cover all of that. Okay. But the ingredients are fake. The ingredients are the lowest of quality. Even though they may be organic, it does not have to be high quality. And so you could be getting mold, I’m not saying that AG, I’m not just, I’m not, I’m just saying AG 1 because it’s the most well known name, right?
Yes, um, but what I’m saying is, is that there are so many ingredients in there, you are not absorbing all of that and you’re basically paying for very expensive pee. Or a very expensive store.
I was thinking that, because you’re just, you’re just going to pass most of it because, like you said, it’s just a cocktail of random nutrients.
And you would be much better having some matcha tea, honestly. You would be so much better having some steamed broccoli and butter. You would be much better having a steak. Steak has so many, um, so, uh, red meat has so many vitamins and minerals and, um, omegas in it that we overlook the simple. And I think, again, this is kind of going on that theme of we want fast fixes.
So we’re so busy that we can’t sit down and eat, but yet we will eat. I don’t know. Okay. So Ari, I got to tell you this. So I don’t know about you. So Aria lives in New Jersey and I’m in the Midwest and I’m like literally Midwest stereotype. Okay. And in the Midwest, a lot of people will have breakfast, which is an American style, like an American breakfast, right?
Like, potatoes, eggs, sausage, like that kind of stuff. And in the past, and my, my family of origin still does this, have breakfast at like, you know, seven, eight o’clock in the morning. And then in two hours, they’re ready for lunch. And then, so then they eat. Snacks until they get to lunch because God forbid, we feel hungry, we’re starving.
That’s the thing we say in the Midwest, we’re starving. And I look at my kids when they even try to say that, they quit saying it now, but they used to say they’re starving. They said, you’re an American. You can’t be starving.
Right?
I mean, really something . And then what I realized is that in the Midwest, a lot of us grew up in very, very poor, or a lot of our parents specifically grew up in very, very poor conditions.
and there was food scarcity. And so the fear of hunger and the fear, it incites that scarcity mindset that, oh my gosh, so I must get stick to the ribs food. I must get all that boxed rice and roni. I must have bread and butter. Like I grew up with bread and butter every meal for just in case. And it was, I was taught to feel full.
Like when I say full, I mean bloated, like too much. I was taught to clean my plate. I was taught that food. Yeah. And food is a sign that someone loves you because they had enough money to provide and support you. And so that scarcity mindset, I don’t even know where we were going with this, but that scarcity mindset of not wanting to feel hungry.
And choosing the foods that stick to your ribs and eating all the time. And we wonder why we have, we want weight loss. We wonder why we have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar. Cause we’re never not eating.
Yeah, it’s like these habits are instilling in us, but I can see a lot of parallels with that.
Like, I’m Puerto Rican. I obviously grew up here in America, but my grandparent, my grandma was the same way. Like, you have to eat, eat, eat. Yep. Yep. Feeding you is like your way of loving you, and then she calls you fat.
You would love my grandma. She’s crazy.
Oh gosh, I need to meet her. Maybe
I’ll Yes, she’ll call you fat in Spanish. You know, you gained a little weight, like meanwhile you’re just like shoved rice and beans.
But yeah, if anyone
out there is a Latina, I’m sure you can relate. Yup, I’m sure. Um, and that’s what like, you know, I grew up with a lot of like collard greens. I grew up with a lot of like, um, there were, my grandma taught me how to make dandelion greens because that was what they ate. I mean, I know now, I know now that it’s super healthy.
Um, but I learned all of that. And then I also, I don’t know, it’s just the things that we learn. Whether it’s on purpose or cultural, or if it’s just what our families have gone through in the past, and it still seeps into who we are today and creates that scarcity mindset. So it’s like, no wonder that we women We are women.
With the standards of what a woman should, should be, right, like we have this, this idea that women should be outside of the home and, um, they should be equal to men. And I’m not saying that there isn’t an equality of human nature to us, but we don’t have the hormones to provide and protect, like our, yes.
And we are meant to nurture, like, I would say I am not a nurturer, I’m not, like, my nurturing looks like roughhousing my boys, and snuggling my daughter, and laughing, and joking, and like, I don’t, I would not say I’m a gentle parent, gentle parenting does not, um, go together with me. We are about all the buzzwords today.
Yes, we are about all the buzzwords. But all that to say We wonder why we women are so easily targeted on these ads, and I’m not gonna lie, I am, I am just as vulnerable as everybody out there. Yeah, and I don’t know if you heard Aria say she is too. I don’t know, I keep talking and it keeps picking up over the top of her.
And I don’t, I’m so sorry, Aria. I’m not trying to talk over you.
Okay, let me be louder.
There you go. I’m just really loud. Um, but we are so vulnerable because we have been told what a woman should be and the way she should look, the way she should dress, the way she should conduct herself. And I’m not talking scripturally, I’m talking culturally and socially.
And we want the fastest results. The fastest everything possible because we don’t quote unquote have time except we are in control of our calendars. Nobody else is. We want fast fixes because we don’t think that we’re valuable enough to take time to take care of ourselves. We’re only valuable if we’re working hard, bringing in tons of money, raising kids, like we, we believe that because of what we’ve been taught.
And it creates scarcity. Maybe with food, maybe food’s not your problem. Maybe it’s scarcity of time, scarcity of your value.
And I think that that’s also why when we see these, you know, Ari and I are business owners and things and we understand what marketing lingo, she’s actually a marketing person, um, but like we understand what these hooks are doing. These hooks are grabbing your attention. Like she said, cortisol and belly fat and blah, blah, blah.
Well, it may be true. Yeah, well, maybe
true. They’re using like the underlying problem to hook you. Yes. So, belly fat.
I must have high cortisol. Yes. And you know what, really, a lot of people are flat lined cortisol and that’s a whole different treatment.
Yes. Like, you can’t wake up in the morning and yeah, sluggish.
Yeah. And the thing is, is like, you’re treated different, like cortisol needs to be treated differently depending on what you need, but they’re just giving you a blanket statement. And I’m going to tell you right now, you don’t need to pay for a Dutch test to know if you’re stressed. No. this. Wake up and tell me, are you well rested or not?
Do you feel like the world’s on your shoulders? I think you can, yeah. You know, you don’t need an expert to read a Dutch test for you to tell you that you’re stressed.
No, and I was going to say too, like you said, we fall for this too, like even as a practitioner, like all those kinds of tests and stuff are so interesting to me that I’m like, I want to take that test.
I need to know what all my levels are, but that’s like another layer of stress too, because then you’re worried about that and like the results of that test or, and how you’re going to fix it or whatever. So it’s like, we’re not immune to this, uh, no,
not at all. We are not immune to this, and that’s, I think that’s why it’s irritating, is because we can see it for what it is.
But also it’s irritating because it’s also drawing us in. Yeah.
I
want to take this nature’s ozempic. Yeah, I want to take nature’s ozempic. I want to take this. I want to do that. I want to, like, I want to take care of my cortisol. But really what it what it takes to take care of your cortisol is not sexy.
It’s not exciting.
No, it’s really not. Most of this stuff isn’t. And a lot of it starts with the foundations, right? That we always talk about the foundations of our health, just going back to basics. And, you know, you don’t need a fancy pill. You just need to take the time to work on those things. And a lot of people think that, you know, the pill is going to help them quicker, but Like we were saying before, if your body’s not absorbing it, you’re just peeing or pooping it out and it’s really not doing anything for you anyway because you’re not getting to the root of the problem.
So yeah, and that’s that’s why I don’t recommend the only mineral that I recommend to people is magnesium glycinate glycinate. I say it, but I always say glycinate. Um, that’s the one that I recommend to everybody because we’re all Americans were stressed. We’re stressed. And we’re always, the biggest mineral that is depleted from our body and it’s hard to get from food is magnesium.
And so everybody can take magnesium. I’ll link the one down below. I get it from Amazon. My favorite is Zoo, Z H O U, nutrition. It has, yeah, it’s the least amount of side effects. It feels great. I always have, if people are sensitive to magnesium or something, I’m like, just start with one before bed and work your way up to four.
Um, and you should be sleeping better. It should help with, um, blood sugar, fat, um, fat metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, all of that. Um, which is really what we need. We don’t need to take magnesium oxalate to go poop. If you’re having trouble pooping, it’s not a magnesium problem. It’s a, an upper level issue.
It’s not. It’s not that. So going back to cortisol and going back to why this irritates the crap out of me. It’s because people want to make money off of you saying it’s cortisol. In fact, I actually had a practitioner, two practitioners, Get mad at one of my Instagram lives. I’ll have to post that down in the show notes Because I talked about how it was fun because I was on a tangent like this the other one day And I was mad because people are treating such surface level Issues because they want to give patients relief right away and that’s fine.
Like I understand wanting to give you relief and we want to do that here too, right? But you’re not going to get, you’re going to need to start taking more and more and more of these things in order to bring that cortisol down or to bring it back up to where it needs to go. And quite frankly, cortisol is related to your blood sugar.
Because if you’re stressed, you’re probably running through the drive thru. You’re probably, whether it’s a drive thru of fast food or if it’s a coffee shop, you’re probably taking on more caffeine than you need. You’re probably grabbing the sugary drink, like the, what do you call it? Lattes or whatever.
Or
somethings. Yep. Yeah. You’re probably grabbing the muffin. You’re probably grabbing all of these things. And you know what? You’re not eating enough protein, enough fat, quality fats. Not canola oil, please. No,
that’s, yeah, protein. Like, I think the hardest, not the hardest, but the biggest thing I see is like women not eating a protein.
Yes. And it’s like they’ll, there’ll be, um, this, uh. They’ll have this preconceived notion that protein is a bro thing.
Mm hmm. Except Or to like both or something.
Uh huh. Yes. Yeah. And like, and I see, you know what’s interesting, Aria, is that it’s that women that are older than us, so women that have more years than us, which are getting less and less than me now, um, they need to eat more protein than us.
And many, so I eat probably around 150 to 200 grams of protein a day. Now that’s because if when I’m, that’s because I lift heavy weights and it’s my lifestyle. I’m not saying everybody needs 200 grams of protein. That’s not what I’m saying. But a lot of women older than us need to be eating probably anywhere from 130 to 150 ish or more grams of protein a day.
And we wonder why we have brittle bones as we get older. It’s not because of our estrogen.
Yep. Especially during spring training. Like you definitely. Gotta support your muscle tone.
Yes, and that’s something, can we just announce it here that what you and I are doing in the wilderness of wellness?
Speaking of muscle tone, can we do it? Yeah, do it. So Aria, I think in an episode before this, I talked about Aria getting me into, into Pilates and yep. And getting into Pilates and doing that. Um, so the wilderness of wellness originally started and it had access to workouts. I had a workout app that I, um, created and worked on with, um, other people that would help me with making sure that it, you know, The workouts I would program were appropriate for the type of clientele inside my membership.
Something happened in January, and of course because that’s when my new platform launched, um, something happened in January where I was no longer, like, my contract ended abruptly. Let’s just say that. And that is no longer a thing. And so I have not had workouts inside the wilderness of wellness since December of 2023.
But Ari and I see the collective need of our ladies inside there of needing to get them moving, getting them excited about their bodies again. And there’s something about moving our bodies and feeling confident. There’s something about. Challenging our bodies and that confidence, that surrender. I call my workout space at home in the gym, in my, um, it’s my gym, but it’s in my garage.
I call that my sacred space. Because that’s when I can quiet the world when I’m, when I enter on top of that black mat that’s in there, the black stall mats that are in there, the world can quiet and take a break, the world can go on without me for a few moments. And so mentally it’s a space for me to do that and to listen to God and listen to my body and and worship him through.
Challenging my body and strengthening it. Right. But we are preparing inside the wilderness of wellness, a workout section that will be beginners Pilates. And when we say beginners, we really do mean beginners. Like,
yeah.
Do you want to talk about what that means for Pilates?
Yeah, so, you know, Pilates is basically a very core driven exercise where you’re stabilizing your core muscles, kind of just working the center of the body, it’s very mind body connection.
Um, but we had the idea to do standing workouts because a lot of it is floor based and, you know, You know, some people are not strong enough in their core muscles to do that kind of movement. Even us working together and seeing it, we’re like, yeah, we might need to like, you know, it can be very advanced.
So just kind of really starting it from the beginning, but doing it standing, like there’ll be some standing ab moves because especially if you’re an older woman and you know, you’re new to exercise, you don’t want to overburden your body with something that’s going to hurt you.
Yes. Or even if you are young, Yeah, and even if you’re younger, and you have never worked out before because you have felt body shame because you have felt that Oh, it Pilates is only these thin lean women.
Yeah girlfriends if you’re listening I am NOT thin and nor am I like lean right now, but man, I can do it. I can do it
Killed it with the roll ups apparently, but it’s it is So empowering to challenge the body. We want to make sure that we meet you where you are. We want to make sure that it’s challenging, but it’s not so challenging that you’re discouraged. We want you to feel empowered, right?
You’re like, I can’t do this.
And then you don’t show up again or something like that.
Yep. So we’re offering Pilates, beginning Pilates. And then I’m also offering, I think it’s a six week or eight week programming for women that, um, want to functional fitness. Functional fitness means Um, if you’re going to sit down on the toilet, all of us have to sit on the toilet, right?
If you’re plopping on that toilet, that means that you have lost access to your posterior chain. Posterior chain is just the fancy word for all the muscles on the backside of your body. And by 40, women lose up to 10 percent of their muscle mass, and that from 40 to 50. And it’s usually at 40 years old you start plopping.
You start plopping in chairs. You start plopping down on the couch. You start plopping on the toilet. And then that’s honestly when people start tweaking their back because they’re not using their muscles anymore. They’ve not challenged. They don’t know how they don’t even know how to access them. And so that first, I think it’s like I said, it’s either six or eight weeks.
I can’t remember how long it is. I’ve already written it. Um, but there are six weeks for women just to get Simply learning how to access their body again and do it in a way of worship. And so functional fitness, also functional fitness, walking Pilates also helps manage your blood sugar. It helps me, which manages your cortisol.
But also please note that working out more than four to five times a week. also causes stress response in the body. Every single thing you do, whether it’s good or bad, is a stress response. That’s not what those people are going to tell you about the belly fat, are they? They’re not going to tell you. Oh, sorry, keep
going.
Oh, no, go ahead.
I was going to say, especially like when you see people doing those like HIIT workouts and very intense, like workouts, I had to learn, The hard way that my body could not tolerate that. Like a lot of us, especially those with autoimmunity, think that we need to be doing those to lose weight.
And it’s just making us keep the weight because it’s not, it’s stressing our body too much.
Yes. And so even for me, I love CrossFit. Like it is one of my favorite modalities. Like I feel on fire, like in a good way. Um, but also it works against me. So I have to be very, and even Olympic lifting, you would think Olympic lifting is very slow.
It’s, it really is very slow. It’s very not like you don’t feel cardio ish. It doesn’t feel like that. But that time under tension, that time under load, it is so stressful and my body went nuts. Um, and that was the year that led me into nearly having a stroke. Um, that was that same year. And so, cause I’m like, Oh, Olympic lifting so slow.
It’s not a big deal, but it was, it was, uh, it wreaked havoc on my body. Um, so we will not recommend working out more than five days a week. I will not recommend more than four. Um, and then taking one day completely off, meaning you’re getting 7, 500 steps or less that day, because we are meant to have a Sabbath.
We are meant to honor the way God created the body. And, you know, in Genesis, when he created humans, Their first day that Adam and Eve stepped into was rest, and they got to rest with God. Can you imagine that? Like, they didn’t even have to work. They got to, they got to, like, enjoy his presence. and chill.
There was no responsibility on their shoulders. And so I’m like, I, I struggle Aria. Like, I struggle with Sabbath. I want to do and do and do and do. And I wonder why I got anxiety. And I wonder why I’m having trouble sleeping. And I wonder why I have these tick, tick, ticks of, um, ADHD I’m seeing on social media.
I don’t have ADHD. I mean, I might, but it’s also,
I do too. By their standards. .
Yeah. By their standards. I’m like, by their standards, I’m autistic. I have, um, a DHD, I’ve got, what is the other thing that’s like trending right now? Um, I don’t know. Whatever. Everything. Neuro, neurodivergent. Yeah. Neuro, I’m, I am neurodivergent.
I think we all are because we’re all supposed to be so created so differently and none of us is honoring the innate intelligence of the body. And if we are, we’re not doing it perfectly. So all that to say, I want you to know, I know I’m, I know I’m speaking for Aria here too, but we want you to know you’re not alone.
There is no reason that you have to do this life alone and there’s no reason that you have to have a calendar so chocked full of things. I, you know, one of the biggest pet peeves I have since we’re on this, I’m just gonna go here, is when, oh my gosh, I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, Um, is when a mom of whatever age kids.
at least that are living in their house, okay, like school age kids, okay, talks about how busy their after school activities are.
Yes.
And I’m like, hmm, who did that?
Yeah, I know. Like they have every, every open part of their schedule has to be blocked. Yes. Yep.
Yeah. And then they make it so that they can’t take care of themselves.
And usually when we do that, we’re running from something. We’re hiding from something. We’re afraid of what we might have to see if we slow down.
And then we might have to take action. And God forbid we take action for ourselves,
you know.
And when do you
spend time with your family when you’re doing that? You’re just driving
them places. Yes, you’re driving them places. And then when you think about it, they’re stopping at drive thrus because, you know, there’s no time to cook.
So then you’re teaching, you’re perpetuating that behavior into your kids and those addiction, those food addictions into your kids. And it just makes me wonder, where did we lose ourselves? I, I swear my dad, everybody called him nuts in the 90s. And I can’t believe the 90s was this long ago, by the way. I feel like it was just like 10 years ago.
But like my dad was called nuts in the 90s, but he foretold all of that we’re seeing today. He blamed parents for their kids behaviors. And I was like, at the time, I’m like, no, I’m my own person, blah, blah, blah. But you know what, what really is? I’m a product of my parents, whether I want to believe it or not.
I’m a product of the stories they told me or they told themselves and the secrets that we kept in the family. Everybody has family secrets. You keep your mouth shut about certain things, right? Like you don’t talk about certain things outside of the house. We are all products of that. And if we don’t want, if we want to make changes and we’re like, Oh, I don’t like that about them.
I’m going to talk so bad about them. But if we don’t take a step forward and say, okay, halt. I’m going to make a change, but the problem comes in is that we get so comfortable in the known. We know what it’s like to live the life we’re currently living. It’s comfortable. What’s not comfortable is the unknown of what change can give us.
And so we will never make a change. We will never step into change unless we’re like the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change.
And I think that, well, some of us grew up in great homes and all of that, and I will say, like, my parents were, did, like, they really did do the best they could, and I will say that I was a challenging child, I was a perfectionist, but I was a challenging child as I got older,
but even then, even though my parents won’t talk about certain things, my mom won’t talk about certain things with me, whatever, my dad, They have their, they have their own issues. That’s a reflection of them, not me.
I get to make decisions for my life. Not Big Pharma, not my parents. I don’t have to please anybody else other than God. And pleasing God, that’s enough. That’s, that’s, that’s a lot.
Yeah.
Because it’s that surrender, right? It’s that surrender. My will for His. And his will is that I would respect him, and I would honor him, and I would respect him by respecting his creation, which is other people, which is myself.
Self, yeah. I was gonna say, like, not taking care of yourself is really not respecting yourself. It’s like. It’s like you’re punishing yourself without even realizing it.
And it’s dishonoring of God. The fact that he bled 98. 5 degree blood, and I’ve said this before, I guarantee Jesus was so perfect that his thyroid was excellent.
And that his blood, his blood temperature is, uh, yeah, blood temperature was actually 98. 5. Mine got down to like 97. 2 recently, like in the, in the beginning of the year, and I’m like, finally got that up some. By the way, it’s not anything to brag about. I learned if your blood, if your temperature, body temperature is less than 98.
5, it’s nothing to brag about. It actually is an underactive thyroid thing. Um, but he bled 98. 5 degree blood for us. Why would we not give him honor back and respect back of taking captive what he’s given us? Taking captive of what we allow into our bodies, our minds, our, our eyes, our ears. The things that we’re doing.
Why would we not do that? What story are you telling yourself?
All of this came from talking about tangents. All of this came from talking about cortisol. And we’re talking about this because It really is so much deeper than your cortisol. And if you are someone who is looking to start your nutrition journey, like, you know what? I want to start with my foundations.
I want to start getting control of my food and letting food, my relationship with food, honor and worship, or be an act of worship. I would encourage you to book an appointment with ARIA. I’ll have the links down below in the show notes. I would have, I would encourage you to do that. You’re going to see, um, that there are payment plans on everything that we offer because we want to make sure it’s accessible to you.
But we also only want to work with a certain type of woman. And I’m going to be blatant on that because I don’t want to work. And I know Aria doesn’t want to work with someone that wants a fast fix. We don’t want someone that can’t be honest with themselves or honest with us. We don’t want someone who’s not coachable who we don’t want to work with someone who already knows it all.
Well, if you already know it all, then you should be doing it all.
Yeah.
And Ari and I literally help each other because we know that we know lots of things. Yeah. But we don’t, we cannot be accountable or we can’t do it if there’s no accountability. So I would encourage you if that’s your first step. If you’re like, you know what?
I need to get a hold of my food and let that food honor and nourish my body as best as possible. I would start working with Aria now. Her link is down in the show notes. Go check it out. You can send her an email at, um, aria at wilderness of wellness. com. You can send her an email. I’ll put that down there below as well.
So if you want to just chat with her through email and just see if that’s a good fit for you, do it. I’d love to talk to you. Absolutely. And if you are someone that’s wanting, um, naturopathic support, traditional naturopathic support that goes to the foundations, the cells, starting with the cells, you can come work with me one to one as well.
And that would be more treatment. You’ve already gotten your food underway, or maybe you want to start here and then move on to Aria later. That’s totally fine. But you can start working with me as well and start getting that blood sugar down, getting that blood pressure down, getting that, um, cholesterol in check, getting out, um, getting to the root of why these things are happening to you, honoring both of us, honoring the innate intelligence of the body, because we serve one God.
We serve the God who parted the Red Seas, The Red Sea and the ground beneath it was dry. We serve that God. That same power lives within us. And we, because we understand that, we know that God exists. We have to work with him and work with his design of the body. So this is your invitation. You are welcome to work with us.
Or you know what’s even better? Why don’t you come to Instagram? Why don’t you come to Instagram and give us a follow. You can follow Wilderness of Wellness. You can follow Crying in my cheesecake. I’ll put those down below in the show notes as well, and come talk to us. Come share with us what you’re getting from these episodes, what you’re loving, what you would love to hear more of.
Talk to us. We are accessible to you. We don’t ever want to not be accessible. So with that said. Aria, let’s, um, bid them farewell, and we will see them next week, right? We’ll see you then. Thanks for listening to the Crying In My Cheesecake podcast. I hope it encouraged you to make the next, next best step in your health.
Take a look at the show notes for more information or other links I mentioned in the episode. And if you got to this point, come find us on Instagram at Crying In My Cheesecake or at The Wilderness of Wellness and send us a DM. Tell us that you listened to this episode and what you got out of it.
