This episode is your lift-off!

We’re talking about the difference between soft work — the learning, listening, and consuming that prepares you for growth — and action work — the real-life doing that creates change.

Then I introduce you to a powerful part of you: your DOER.

Your DOER is the steady, capable part of you that moves, progresses, and creates results. She already exists. She just needs support in this area of your life.

We’ll talk about the Six Pillars of DOER Support, why love is the base of lasting weight loss, and how we begin building a foundation that actually works — especially when motivation fades.

Most importantly, we introduce a foundational concept: your Personal Weight Identity.

Your Weight Identity is the belief system and lens through which you see yourself regarding your weight. It influences your habits, your thoughts, your emotions, and your daily choices — often without you realizing it.

If you’ve ever wondered why you “know what to do” but still feel stuck, this episode will begin to answer that question.

In this episode, we cover:

• Soft work vs. action work
 • Becoming your DOER
 • The Six Pillars of DOER Support
 • Why love must come first
 • What a Weight Identity is
 • How distorted beliefs (“the bugs”) keep you stuck

This, my darling, is where we start rebuilding from the inside out.

In this very first episode, I’m opening the door and inviting you into something special and deeply personal.

For years, weight loss has been my private battle — one I carried quietly while still showing up everywhere in life. In “Hello, Darling,” I share how I feel about you, why I created Lifted You, and what it means to build lasting change from the inside out.

This isn’t just a weight loss podcast, it’s an opportunity for friendship, to lift shame and become the kind of woman who finally lives differently.

 
In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why I know I already love the women I’m here to serve
 • The story behind the name “darling”
 • What you can expect each week
 • How we’ll close the gap between knowing and doing
 • How you’ll feel loved here

We’ll talk about clearing our mental glitches, healing your relationship with food, building consistency, and discovering the powerful parts of you that may have been buried under years of struggle.You are not behind.

You are not behind.
You are capable.
And you do not have to do this alone.

Welcome to Lifted You Weight Loss.
I’m so glad you’re here.

Before we move deeper into strategy and structure, I wanted to offer you something practical. Something you can carry with you this week.

Five words.

I first heard them during an online course I was taking. When I tried them for myself, something shifted instantly — in my body, in my thoughts, and in the way I approached my weight loss.

For years, I didn’t think I was especially unkind to myself. But when it came to weight, frustration and quiet shame were closer to the surface than I realized.

These five words changed that.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The hidden role of self-talk in weight loss
 • How shame quietly keeps us stuck
 • Why unconditional love must come first
 • What happens when you stop fighting yourself
 • A small shift that can create real internal lightness

This is all about responding differently — with unconditional love.

If you’ve ever stepped on the scale and felt heavy in more ways than one…
 If you’ve ever broken your word to yourself and felt that wave of disappointment…
 If you’ve ever wondered why progress feels harder than it should…

Listen to this one.

You may find something you didn’t know you were missing.

In this episode we begin constructing the base that will support your progress for life.

You’ll learn how to recognize your DOER in real moments—and see how to more intentionally step into her.

Then, We Introduce Your Weight Loss Foundation: five essential layers that stabilize your identity and make lasting change possible.

At the base of it all is the first and most important layer: Love.

The unconditional kind that strengthens your identity and creates the environment required for real growth.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to recognize your DOER in action
• What your Weight Loss Foundation is and why it matters
• That you already have the life materials needed for your foundation
• What each layer is and how it will help your weight loss 

In this episode we begin building the second layer of your foundation: Clarity.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your weight loss, unsure why progress feels so difficult, this episode will help you understand why.

It isn’t your ability that’s broken.
 It’s your lens that’s distorted.

Over time, experiences, habits, and beliefs have quietly shaped how you see yourself. That distorted perception creates a fog that makes lasting weight loss feel impossible — even when it isn’t.

Clarity is what lifts that fog.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your weight identity has become distorted
 • How false beliefs quietly shape your progress
 • Why clarity is essential for lasting weight loss
 • How your DOER depends on clear vision to move forward
 • How to begin seeing yourself and your future accurately

When clarity enters, everything shifts.

You begin to see what’s true.
 You begin to see what’s possible.
 And your DOER can finally move forward with confidence.

This is where lasting change begins.

In this deeply personal episode, I open the door to the experiences that shaped my long and complicated relationship with weight — the years of trying and feeling stuck.

But this isn’t a heavy episode.

It’s the episode where I explain why I can now share everything.

Because something changed.

Here, I introduce The Essence of You — the steady, clear part of you that is completely separate from any weight struggle you’ve ever had. 

Understanding this changes everything.

Sustainable weight loss only becomes possible when you know — and feel — that your weight has nothing to do with you.

Clarity makes change feel possible.

And that is when everything begins to shift.

This week, you’ll feel it for yourself.

In this episode, I guide you into feeling The Essence of You — the steady, quiet Light inside you that exists completely separate from your weight, your past experiences, and any distorted identity you may have carried.

Through story, imagery, and a powerful guided exercise, you’ll learn how to connect with this presence inside you — the part of you that is clear, capable, and untouched by struggle.

When you remember and connect with your Essence, clarity settles in, and a path forward opens up.

So many of us approach weight loss as if we’re starting from scratch — as if we need to become someone new in order to succeed. But when we step back and look honestly at our lives, the evidence tells a different story.

You have already endured difficult seasons. You have already shown resilience, courage, perseverance, and growth. The same part of you that got you through those moments is the part of you that will move you forward now.

I call that part of you your Doer — the expression of your Essence in action.

In this episode, I help you recognize the strength that is already present in your life. 

We’ll look at the places where your Doer already moves naturally and the places where she has grown stronger through experience. When you see the evidence clearly, you realize you’re not beginning this journey empty-handed.

Everything you need to move forward is already within you.

In this episode, I’m teaching you the simple, powerful framework that moves you through any situation: 

I’ll walk you through how to:
 • step out of old patterns and stop getting pulled into the past
 • connect with yourself in the middle of real-life moments
 • create plans your brain actually wants to follow
 • move forward—even when discomfort shows up

It’s about creating movement.

Because when your Essence sees clearly, your mind creates a plan, and your Doer moves—that’s when real change begins.

And that is where lasting weight loss happens.

I introduce Layer Three of your weight loss foundation: Practical Wisdom—the bridge between knowing and doing.

This is where everything starts to come together and your DOER takes over.

 Now we’re learning how to use what you know in real life.

I’ll teach you the Four Skillsets that make weight loss work:

Thinking Clearly
Seeing Clearly
Responding Intentionally
Moving Forward

And I’ll show you how to apply them using your foolproof plan: Connect, Check, and Go.

This simple framework becomes your way to move through any moment—

You’ll begin building practical tools and skills that become part of how you think, choose, and live.

This is where weight loss begins to feel different.

In this episode, we go deeper into the first two essentials: thinking clearly and seeing clearly—and what’s been getting in your way this whole time.

I walk you through how to find the obstructions in your mind—the thoughts, patterns, and past experiences that have been quietly shaping your behavior without you even realizing it.

We’ll use a simple, powerful process:

So you can finally separate yourself from what’s been holding you back.

Because here’s the truth:

These things are not you.

They are just rocks in your path—and they can be removed.

Even the deepest struggles… even the most painful experiences…
can be seen clearly, processed, and moved out of the way.

This is where the weight starts to lift—not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

And when that happens, your DOER can finally move forward.

Next week, we’ll take this even further—learning how to respond intentionally and take real steps of change.

Your foolproof plan—Connect, Check, and Go.
The four essential skillsets that make weight loss work.
And the understanding that what’s been holding you back… are just simple obstructions in your path that you can move aside.

So today, we bring it all together.

Because the question isn’t just what to do…
it’s how to actually do it—in a real moment, when it feels hard.

In this episode, I show you exactly where change happens:

In the moment you DECIDE....and MOVE

I’ll walk you through what that looks like in real life, how to make a decision that feels appealing and possible, and how to step into your Doer with clarity and confidence.

You’ll learn how to:

Take control of a moment instead of reacting to it  Bring your “why” into your immediate awareness, expect yourself to follow through, and take one small, powerful step forward.   

In this episode, your brain will click.

And by the end, you won’t just understand the process…

You’ll know how to use it.

And if you pull one lesson—if you believe one thing from what I’ve been telling you—believe this:

You have everything you need within you to become who you want to become. You just need to access, organize, and apply it to your weight loss.

I did not believe this about myself for a very long time.
But I believe it now.

And in this episode, I’m going to show you why.

Because what kept me stuck was the thoughts I had been thinking for so long, that I never stopped to question them.

So today we're going to find a bug and zap it!

These bugs sound like truth.  Like identity. Like "This is just how I am." But they are not!

One of the most common?
“I can’t stop eating even when I’m full.”

I’m going to slow that thought down and look at it clearly with you— to finally see it.

Because once we see it, we can change it. 
And using our Four Essential Skill Sets of Weight Loss, that's exactly what we're going to do here together!

Over the past few weeks, we’ve built something powerful together: a set of skills—tools you can reach for in any moment to help you think clearly, see clearly, choose intentionally, and keep moving forward.

Because weight loss is about using what you already know—on purpose.

In this episode, I walk you back through the four essential skill sets that create real, lasting change:

 Thinking Clearly  Seeing Clearly  Responding Intentionally  Moving Forward 

Inside each one, you’ll revisit the tools (and meet a few new ones) that help you interrupt patterns, understand your body, navigate urges, and take consistent action—even when it’s uncomfortable.

So in any moment, you can ask:
What do I need right now…
And which tool will help me move forward?

This is your ever growing toolkit.
And it’s always available to you.

For a long time, I didn’t realize how disconnected I was from my own body and how much that was affecting my life. 

In this episode I share a moment that made it very clear that my body had been trying to tell me something for a long time... and I hadn't been listening. 

I'm far from perfect, but I do so much better now. I see my body more as a partner I want to listen to- a relationship I want to nourish. 

We're starting to build the process of becoming a natural eater who is naturally thin.  And that starts by acknowledging, respecting and listening to our body's natural systems. 

In this episode, we’ll look at what body connection means, what a disconnection looks like in real life, and what it looks like to begin building a relationship with your body.

In layer 4 you'll learn to hear your body clearly and start to recognize the signals you’ve been missing. You'll begin to respond on purpose instead of reacting out of habit.  

Even if you've ignored certain body signals your whole life, you can start listening today!

Today, we take it a step further.

In this episode, I’m introducing what it really means to become a natural eater—not as a set of rules or behaviors, but as an IDENTITY.

Becoming a natural eater isn’t about what you eat.

It’s about WHO YOU ARE when you eat.

We’ll define exactly what a natural eater is, why this identity matters so much for lasting weight loss, and how you begin building it in a way that actually works.

I’ll walk you through what it looks like to become a natural eater in your mind, your body, and your heart—and how aligning those three parts of you changes everything.

Because when your thinking is clear, your body is heard, and your identity is aligned…your choices become simpler, your actions become more consistent…and your weight starts to take care of itself.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, out of control around food, or like you “know what to do” but aren’t doing it…

this episode will help you understand why—and show you a new way forward.

Because lasting weight loss begins with the way you see yourself.

I share a simple moment from early motherhood that instantly changed my perspective forever—and how the same kind of paradigm shift must happen in weight loss if we want real, lasting change.

We talk about:

 shifting your weight identity
transcending old thought patterns
the “avocado pit” metaphor for limiting beliefs  
why food situations are choices, not problems,
and how clarity changes the way your DOER moves. 

If you’ve spent years believing:
“I just struggle with weight”
 or
“This is just who I am around food,” this episode will help you begin stepping out of that old identity and into a new one.

Because becoming a natural eater in your mind is really about becoming clear.

Clear about who you are.
Clear about who you want to become.
And clear enough to move forward differently.

Next week, we’ll move from your mind into your body as we explore hunger, fullness, and what it means to become a natural eater in your body.

Many of us never actually learned how to listen to our bodies around food.

We learned to eat for comfort.
For celebration.
For distraction.
For coping.

We learned to override fullness, ignore hunger, and disconnect from the signals our bodies were trying to give us all along.

And over time, that disconnect became normal.

In this episode, I share personal stories about my own relationship with food, the weight identity I developed growing up, and how clarity helped me finally understand what was really happening beneath my eating habits.

Then we dive deeply into the hunger scale: a tool for awareness, body connection, and intentional choice.

We’ll talk about:

physical hunger vs. emotional urges
fullness and satisfaction
overeating and body disconnection  
reconnecting with your body’s natural systems;
and how to begin hearing your body clearly again. 

Becoming a natural eater in your body is about learning to recognize your body’s signals…and respond to them on purpose.

Next week, we’ll move into the heart as we explore what it means to become a natural eater in your heart—where identity, emotion, and self-support come together.

Lasting weight loss is also about what you believe about yourself.

Today, we zoom out and look at the entire purpose behind everything we’ve been building together, because all of it has been leading here.

Becoming a natural eater in your heart means you begin living from the identity of someone who truly believes she can maintain her natural weight.

It means your choices become identity-based.
Your consistency becomes identity-based.
And your self-care becomes real, compassionate, and intentional.
In this episode, we talk about:

Identity-based change,  non-negotiable self-care,  uplifting self-talk and loving responsibility and  emotional needs 

Next week, we’ll begin moving into emotional intelligence and emotional movement as we continue learning how to meet our needs intentionally and move through life with more clarity and connection.

What if the cravings, overeating, self-sabotage, starts and stops, and feeling stuck are actually trying to tell you something important?

In this episode, we begin the fifth and final layer of the Lifted You Weight Loss Foundation: Emotional Intelligence.

Drawing from the work of emotional intelligence pioneers Peter Salovey, John Mayer, and Daniel Goleman, you'll learn how emotions contain valuable information and how unmet emotional needs can quietly influence your thoughts, habits, eating behaviors, and weight loss progress.

Together, we'll explore a new way of looking at your weight struggle—as a messenger pointing toward deeper needs that may have gone unseen for far too long.

You'll discover why emotional intelligence is essential to lasting weight loss, how unmet emotional needs can create a personal fog that keeps you feeling stuck, and how learning to understand and respond to those needs can help you reconnect with yourself, strengthen your Doer, deepen Body Connection, rebuild your weight loss identity, and become a natural eater in your mind, body, and heart.

Oftentimes the struggle isn't the problem...

It's the message.

In this episode, we're taking a closer look at emotions—what they are, why they exist, and why they may be one of the most misunderstood and underutilized tools in your weight loss journey.

You'll learn the true role emotions play in creating movement and change, why ignoring them often keeps us stuck, and how understanding them can help you move forward with greater clarity, compassion, and intention.

I'll also introduce Kimmie Jackson's Three Universal Emotional Needs and explain how unmet emotional needs can quietly influence our choices, habits, and relationship with food.

By the end of this episode, you'll have a new understanding of your emotions—not as problems to solve or feelings to avoid, but as valuable messengers designed to help guide your life.

Your emotions are not working against you. 

In fact, they may be one of the greatest tools you have.

In this episode, we continue building the Emotional Intelligence layer of your weight loss foundation by exploring the concept of your emotional thermostat.

Just as a thermostat alerts us when something needs attention, our emotions provide valuable information about what may be happening beneath the surface. 

Instead of reacting automatically to difficult emotions with food, self-criticism, avoidance, or giving up, we can learn to get curious about what those emotions are trying to tell us.

Using Kimmie Jackson's Universal Human Needs, you'll learn how to identify the need behind an emotion, gain greater clarity, and respond in ways that help you move forward on your weight loss path.

You'll also learn a simple three-step process—Name It to Tame It, Zoom In to Decode, and Connect, Check and Go—to help you recognize and fulfill your needs while continuing to make progress.

The emotion is the signal.

The need is the message.

And your response is where growth happens.

In this episode, I'm sharing a collection of simple phrases and "power words" that can create immediate shifts in perspective whenever you might need one.  

They are reminders and personal anchors-- Small moments of clarity that help you reconnect with what you already know.

Throughout Season 1, we've built a foundation of love, clarity, practical wisdom, body connection, and emotional intelligence. 

These power words help bring those tools to life in real moments when you need them most.

Whether you're facing a difficult choice, a challenging emotion, a setback, or simply a hard day, these phrases can help you pause, see more clearly, and take your next step forward.

Sometimes a few simple words can change everything.

Season 1 was all about building your foundation. Together, we built a foundation rooted in love, clarity, practical wisdom, body connection, and emotional intelligence.

Now it's time to put that foundation to work.

You've built your foundation. Now it's time to walk your path.

In this first episode of Season 2, I share the personal strategy I'm using to lose my last 15–20 pounds and explain exactly how I'm applying the Six Pillars of Doer Support, along with the tools we've built together throughout Season 1.

More importantly, I'll invite you to begin building your own appealing and possible plan. Your weight loss journey doesn't have to look like mine—it should be built around your life, your goals, and your next right steps.

The foundation has been laid.

Now let's start moving forward together.

In this episode, I’m sharing simple physical and mental shifts that can create a surprisingly meaningful impact over time. You do not need to overhaul your whole life. You may just need one small change that feels appealing, possible, and worth doing to take care of yourself.

In this episode, we're going deeper into the crucial concept of finding your why. Not just why you want to lose the weight, but why you want to become the woman you can see in your mind's eye. 

Your why is personal, and only you can find it. You must know what it is and revisit it often. Because when a distraction feels essential in the moment, remembering why you're becoming her can help propel you forward.

In this episode, we uncover one of the most important mindset shifts of your weight-loss journey. Together, we'll revisit the truth of your Essence—the real you whose worth, value, and identity are constant—and discover why lasting transformation isn't about becoming someone new. It's about living in greater alignment with who you already are.

If you've ever felt like you needed to become your future self, this episode will remind you that she isn't waiting for you at your goal weight. She's already here, and every loving choice you make simply uncovers more of who you've always been.

In this episode, we're taking an honest, hopeful look at the role sugar plays in our lives and why it can feel so incredibly difficult to resist. We'll explore how excess sugar quietly affects far more than our weight, why our desire for it can become so intense, and how changing our relationship with sugar begins by changing ourselves.

You'll also re-learn two simple but powerful tools you can use in the very moment a craving strikes—tools that can help you pause, decrease desire, and make choices that are aligned with the woman you're becoming. This isn't about shame, restriction, or perfection. It's about taming the beast, one intentional choice at a time.

In this episode, we challenge one of the most common beliefs in weight loss and explore a much more hopeful perspective. 

Together, we'll uncover how the way you see yourself—your personal lens and the stories you've built from past experiences—can quietly shape your choices and keep you feeling like you’re in your own way.

This episode will help you see through your self- doubt and take one intentional step at a time, allowing your daily choices to align with who you've been all along.

And what if your weight-loss history isn't evidence that you can't do this... but evidence that you've learned more than you realize?

In this episode, we'll talk about recognizing your patterns, questioning the stories you tell yourself, learning your "tells," and using your past experiences as wisdom instead of shame. 

Most importantly, we'll learn how to recognize the subtle ways you're already becoming more aligned with the woman you are inside. 

So how do you know when you’re truly stuck in the middle? Where are you stuck? And what are your emotions trying to tell you about why you’re there and how to move through it?

This episode invites you to pause, get honest about where you are, listen to what your emotions are telling you, and discover what it might take to move through the middle and into your ultimate goal space.