Here’s a grounded, emotionally honest podcast episode description that matches the depth and tone of this episode and flows naturally from the previous one.

You listened to the last episode. And something cracked open.

Maybe you cried. Maybe you sat in silence and let it sink in. Maybe you finally understood yourself in a way you never had before.

And then the question came: “Okay… now what?”

In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, Delicia speaks directly to the moment after awareness. The part nobody prepares you for. The space where you see the patterns clearly but realize that seeing them doesn’t automatically make them go away.

This is a conversation about what healing actually looks like in real life. Not the Instagram version. Not the highlight reel. The messy, nonlinear, often uncomfortable middle where real change happens quietly.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why awareness is only the beginning, not the finish line

• How healing culture has turned growth into a performance

• The grief that comes with realizing your coping patterns were survival strategies

• Why feeling worse can actually mean you’re healing

• Five honest signs that healing is happening, even when it doesn’t feel like it

• How healing trauma responses shifts your relationship with food, rest, boundaries, and self-compassion

This episode is for the woman who has done the reading, the journaling, the therapy, and is still asking, “Why am I not past this yet?” It’s for the woman learning that healing is not about becoming unbothered. It’s about becoming present, compassionate, and honest with herself.

A free companion resource, My Healing Is Not Performing: A 7-Day Check-In Journal, is available to support you through this stage of the journey at https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/7a810a79-cd68-47d5-adc4-f4b236bb1fce.

You do not need to be healed to be whole. You are whole right now, in the middle of it.

Keep glowing. Keep flowing. And keep healing from the inside out.

Have you ever said things like, “I’m just a people pleaser.” “I’m an overthinker.” “I’m bad at saying no.” “I’m an emotional eater. That’s just who I am.”

What if none of those are personality traits?

In this powerful episode of Glow & Flow Radio, Delicia gently pulls back the curtain on five behaviors many of us have claimed as part of our identity, and reframes them for what they really are: trauma responses and survival strategies developed to keep us safe.

We explore how experiences like childhood emotional neglect, chaotic homes, toxic relationships, being the strong one, or growing up with conditional love shape the nervous system. These adaptations do not disappear when the danger passes. Instead, they quietly become “who we are.”

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why people-pleasing often comes from fear, not kindness

• How hypervigilance and overthinking are signs of a nervous system stuck in threat mode

• Why emotional eating is a form of self-soothing, not a lack of discipline

• How overworking can be a way to avoid feeling and earn worth

• Why difficulty saying no is rooted in nervous system safety, not selfishness

You’ll also hear how each of these patterns connects to your relationship with food, your body, and rest, and why healing one begins to soften them all.

This episode is not about fixing yourself. It’s about understanding yourself with compassion. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are a survivor who developed incredibly intelligent strategies to get through difficult circumstances.

A free companion guide, “Am I Healing or Performing?”, is available to help you reflect on these patterns and begin healing them gently at https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/707f9e7f-3b12-49a8-bc6a-ffdc59154409.

If this episode hits you in the chest, you’re not alone. Share it with the friend who needs to hear that she is not a problem. She is healing. And so are you.

Until next time, keep glowing, keep flowing, and keep healing from the inside out.

EPISODE 16: When Depression Meets Anxiety: The Exhausting In-Between A Glow & Flow Holistics and Glow & Flow Radio Episode

In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore what it really feels like to live with both depression and anxiety at the same time, and why this combination can be one of the most exhausting mental health experiences.

If you have ever felt too depressed to care but too anxious to rest, too overwhelmed to function but too restless to slow down, this conversation is for you. We talk about the emotional and physical tug of war that happens when these two conditions coexist, and how it can leave you feeling stuck, misunderstood, and constantly pulled in opposite directions.

You will learn:

• What it feels like when depression and anxiety overlap

• How this combination affects your relationship with food

• Why having both is so often misunderstood

• The paralysis-panic loop and how it keeps you stuck

• How to find a middle path between doing too much and doing nothing

• Practical tools for managing days when both are active

• Why treating both conditions together matters

This episode offers gentle insight, practical coping strategies, and a compassionate perspective for anyone living in the in-between space of depression and anxiety.

Because you are not broken, you are not too complicated, and you are not failing. You are navigating two powerful forces at once, and you deserve support that honors the full complexity of your experience.

EPISODE 15: Financial Anxiety & Emotional Eating: Breaking the Cycle A Glow & Flow Holistics + Glow & Flow Radio Episode

In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore a powerful and often overlooked connection: the link between financial anxiety and emotional eating.

Have you ever checked your bank account and immediately felt the urge to eat, even when you were not hungry? Or noticed that paying a bill makes your heart race and suddenly the fridge feels like the safest place to be?

You are not imagining it. Money stress and emotional eating are deeply connected, and in this episode, we unpack exactly why that happens and how to start breaking the cycle with compassion instead of shame.

You will learn:

• Why financial stress activates your nervous system and increases food cravings

• The common pattern of checking your bank account, panicking, eating, and feeling shame

• How your body interprets money stress as a real survival threat

• The hidden financial cost of stress eating

• Practical tools to regulate your nervous system before reaching for food

• Simple financial systems that can reduce daily anxiety

• How to look at your finances without triggering a panic response

This episode offers gentle, practical strategies for both emotional eating and financial wellness, including grounding techniques, somatic tools, mindset shifts, and supportive money habits that help your body feel safer around stress.

If financial anxiety has been driving your eating patterns, this conversation will help you feel seen, understood, and empowered to approach both your money and your body with more care.

Because financial wellness is emotional wellness. And you deserve peace in both.

A Glow & Flow Holistics and Glow & Flow Radio Episode

When you’re depressed, food can feel like the only thing that still works.

In this deeply compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we’re talking about depression eating, not casual emotional eating and not binge eating driven by anxiety, but the kind of eating that shows up when depression has drained your energy, motivation, joy, and hope… and food becomes the only accessible source of comfort.

If you’ve ever eaten because:

• Getting out of bed felt impossible

• Cooking felt overwhelming or unattainable

• Everything felt numb, heavy, or gray

• Food was the only thing that brought even a moment of relief

This episode is for you.

We break down what depression eating actually is, why it happens on a brain and nervous-system level, and how shame—not food—is often what keeps people stuck. You’ll learn how depression impacts dopamine, energy, appetite, and motivation, and why reaching for easy, comforting foods during depressive episodes is not a failure; it’s survival.

In this episode, we explore:

• What makes depression eating different from anxiety or binge eating

• Why food can feel like the only available comfort during depression

• The depression–eating–shame spiral (and how to interrupt it)

• Why “just eat better” advice doesn’t work when you’re depressed

• What gentle nutrition looks like when cooking feels impossible

• Practical, no-shame tools for feeding yourself during depressive episodes

• When and how to seek additional support without judgment

This is a diet-culture-free, trauma-informed conversation that replaces guilt with understanding and pressure with compassion. No meal plans. No food rules. No “fix yourself” energy.

Just honesty, gentleness, and permission to survive.

If food is your only comfort right now, you are not broken. If you’re eating what you can manage, you are not failing. If you’re still here, you’re doing more than enough.

Listen now and remind yourself: Food is not the problem. Shame is not the solution. Self-compassion is the way forward.

Episode 13: Anxiety Eating: When Your Nervous System Won’t Let You Stop A Glow & Flow Holistics and Glow & Flow Radio Episode

Anxiety eating isn’t about willpower; it’s about a nervous system that’s overwhelmed and searching for relief.

In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore what happens when anxiety takes over your body before your mind has a chance to catch up. The kind of eating that feels urgent, frantic, and hard to stop. The kind where food becomes the fastest way to quiet a racing heart, a tight chest, or buzzing thoughts.

You’ll learn how anxiety eating differs from other forms of emotional eating, why anxiety drives cravings for specific comfort foods, and how the anxiety-eating-shame loop keeps you stuck. We unpack how restriction and diet culture actually increase anxiety, making these patterns stronger, not better.

This episode focuses on nervous system regulation, not food control. You’ll be guided through practical, compassionate tools you can use before, during, and after anxiety eating, including grounding techniques, breathwork, movement, and intentional comfort, all without shame or pressure to “fix” yourself.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What anxiety eating really is from a nervous system perspective

• Why anxiety creates urgent cravings and mindless eating

• How shame fuels the anxiety-eating cycle

• The difference between eating from anxiety and eating to calm

• Practical tools to regulate your nervous system with compassion

• When and why additional support may be helpful

This episode is for anyone who has ever asked, “Why can’t I stop?” The answer isn’t failure; it’s survival.

You’re not broken. Your body is trying to protect you. And you deserve more options for feeling safe.

Glow & Flow Radio, where healing replaces shame, and compassion leads the way.

Resource: Instead of Eating, I Can… Your Emotional Eating Alternative Toolkit available at: https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/d929eedd-c697-48f0-89b4-4535263341ad

Episode 12: New Year, New Lies: Why Diet Culture Fails (and What Actually Works) A Glow & Flow Holistics Podcast Episode

Every January, we’re sold the same promise: This will be the year you finally fix your body. And every year, the cycle repeats: hope, restriction, burnout, and shame.

In this powerful and compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, host Dee Dee dismantles the biggest myths of diet culture and explains why diets don’t fail because of a lack of willpower; they fail because they ignore biology, nervous system safety, and lived experience.

We explore how restriction triggers survival responses in the body, why control-based “wellness” keeps us stuck, and how diet culture rebrands itself year after year while delivering the same harm. Then, we shift the conversation toward what actually works: holistic healing rooted in body trust, emotional regulation, nervous system support, and compassion.

This episode introduces the Five Pillars of Holistic Healing and reframes real healing as something quieter, slower, and far more sustainable than any diet transformation. You’ll also be guided through a gentle healing intention meditation to help you start the year grounded in safety, not punishment.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• Why diet culture is designed to fail (and profit from your self-blame)

• What your body is really doing when diets stop “working”

• The difference between control-based transformation and real healing

• How the Five Pillars of Holistic Healing support lasting change

• A guided practice to set intentions rooted in compassion, not weight loss

This episode is for anyone who’s tired of starting over every January and ready to start listening instead.

You don’t need another diet. You need understanding, support, and a body-centered approach that actually works.

Visit GlowAndFlowHolistics.com to explore the Five Pillars and continue your healing journey.

Healing isn’t a resolution; it’s a relationship.

Episode 11: The Emotional Eating Cycle: Understanding Your Triggers with Compassion Pillar: Emotional (Core Focus)

Emotional eating is not a lack of willpower, it’s your body asking for care.

In this deeply compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we gently unpack the emotional eating cycle and explore what’s really happening beneath the urge to eat when you’re stressed, lonely, bored, exhausted, or overwhelmed. Without judgment. Without diet talk. Without pressure to “fix” yourself.

You’ll learn how emotional eating is rooted in nervous system regulation, learned safety, and unmet emotional needs, not personal failure. We walk through the emotional eating cycle step by step, identify common triggers, and reframe coping behaviors through a trauma-informed lens that honors your body’s intelligence instead of shaming it.

This episode offers permission-based alternatives, not rules, and gentle practices that expand your options for comfort while honoring food as one valid tool, not a moral problem. Most importantly, it invites you to replace shame with curiosity, because healing doesn’t happen through control; it happens through understanding.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• What emotional eating actually is (and what it isn’t)

• How stress, trauma, fatigue, boredom, and loneliness drive eating urges

• Why shame fuels the cycle and how compassion weakens it

• A trauma-informed approach to healing your relationship with food

• Gentle, non-restrictive ways to support your nervous system

This episode is for anyone who has ever eaten for comfort and wondered, “What’s wrong with me?” Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you.

Slow down. Breathe. Listen with kindness. Your body has always been trying to take care of you and this episode helps you learn its language.

A Glow & Flow Radio episode Healing without punishment. Understanding without shame.