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Obsessed & Anxious About Your Health? Here's My Day 78 Nervous System Rewiring Update!

I've been doing a daily practice to retrain my brain for 78 straight days and counting. 🌟 The results have truly been incredible and humbling. Back in episode 10, "My Nervous System is Making Me Sick & Keeping Me Small" I spoke about this program that I've taken on and made the most important thing I do every day.  In this episode, I go into greater depth about my anxiety around health, food, illness and physical symptoms in my body, as well as some other ways my nervous system was keeping me from peace. 🙈 🙉 🙊 Let's talk about how crucial the nervous system is to ANYTHING we want in our lives - better health, a thriving business, beautiful relationships, nourishing friendships, more money, etc. We can dream up our most perfect and exciting lives in all of these areas, make all the vision boards we want, journal our desired lives every single day, say affirmations until we're blue in the face, but if our nervous system doesn't FEEL SAFE achieving these thing, boom, you're out of luck. 🙀 We've got to change our brains FIRST to have the life we want, no matter what that want is. Listen in to hear all that I'm learning about the nervous system, and how, 78 days in, I'm experiencing a freedom that I had only dreamed about (see what I did there?). ✨     _______________________________ Check out the program I'm doing! RetrainingtheBrain.com [https://retrainingthebrain.com] Share your thoughts & stories with me! Shoot me a DM on Instagram! [https://instagram.com/lizahippler] Join my badass newsletter! [https://lizahippler.ck.page/c64bc511ae] Learn more about me! [https://lizahippler.com]

The Ultimate Guide to Loving Your Body (It's Not What You Think)

I'm guessing you're thinking that I'm going to give you a rundown of the top actions to take, affirmations to make, and other ways to love your shape.    But I'm not.    It's too sticky, and it's not deep enough. We often avoid truly trying to love our bodies anyway because we think: 1. That we won't make the changes we want to make in our bodies if we love them as they are (whoa) 2. That people will make fun of us for loving the parts of us that we "should" be rejecting (whoa)   Basically, we find it easier to REJECT OUR BODIES than to choose to love them in order to FEEL INCLUDED in a culture THAT FUNDAMENTALLY REJECTS US. We do this by hating on ourselves, carving ourselves, denying ourselves nourishment, playing small and shying away from our gifts and our full self-expression.  How effed is that, y'all?   There is so much tied up in our physical presence that it can feel daunting and outright impossible to love our bodies. But what if we looked at it from another standpoint? What if our bodies are the pen and ink that write upon our souls? And what if we gave ourselves over the the spirit and saw our bodies not through the lens of what culture thinks of it, but through the lens of it being the medium with which we indelibly mark upon our sprit? How could this change our view of our bodies and the ways we move through the world? Let's dive into this radical perspective and what it means for YOU. __________________________________ Get on the waitlist for either in-person or virtual Lens of Love [https://lizahippler.com/lensoflove] and see yourself as beautiful, powerful, brave, strong, creative and fully worthy of self-love and expression! Check out Women Who Run with the Wolves [https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/B008GOJMI8/ref=sr_1_5?crid=8321FBT3B8KE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NjHx8PdvXvLCV2DNKrXuReKYPp3CQorN3fzked3YPQ3CMQGNawaa0EYxE39gmLw1hdeOcWaVXaPo2vavFVc2dKwoCjEA3Z7HtleBdjQXLGJdfgKOOSxeWmvjEPsU6_zTdaJywWWXAqXIR0xXWkDKL9XPjpeq-8BctzDR8r--KQngJ79tGRwOIWuryiSgpqSC0WP9ECjh89lXCz3MssoURXgK8OaOUtJG9UWwOU9hdUY.JIqMYFo4_OwOOr0LvZy848qKManLXQajZL9Icr_GrYk&dib_tag=se&keywords=women+who+run+with+the+wolves&qid=1721767813&sprefix=woman+who+run+with+the+wolves%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-5] Let's chat on Instagram! Shoot me a DM! [https://instagram.com/lizahippler]

How I’m Transforming My Day with a Flexible Schedule System! (Great for ADHD, Long Unstructured Days, or When You Just Want an Ease-Filled Way to Schedule Your Days!)

Time blocking. Color coding. AI schedulers. Building in time for distractions. An hourly planner. A monthly planner. A guided planner. YOU NAME IT, if it's a framework for how to create schedules and daily structure, I'VE TRIED IT. And none of it has worked long-term, lots of it falling off within the first couple hours of the day.    I've got a business. I'm working on my faith [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/create-beautifully/id1671886556?i=1000656427501] and rewiring my brain [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/create-beautifully/id1671886556?i=1000659541698]. I've got kids who want breakfast at different times and who sometimes want to hang out for hours and sometimes don't want anything to do with me. I've got a dog and laundry (ugh) and meals and dishes and errands and admin...and it's summertime to boot. Those endless days of non-structure that sound like a great way to relax when you're looking forward to them, but can become a wandering mess of madness when you're in them.   Desperation was creeping in. Throwing it all to the wind and putting trust in the hands of who-knows-what to simply "create the time I needed" to do the things I wanted each day left me feeling like NOTHING got done, having checked off MAYBE one thing on my list and feeling like I hadn't been present for ANYTHING.   And then time-blocking - "Ok, I'll work on marketing from 10-12 and then lunch from 12-1 and then family time from 1-2," even that felt too rigid to my ADHD / Sagittarius / enneagram 7 brain and I'd cast it all aside 30 minutes in in a giant act of rebellion.    So, where was the middle ground? There HAD to be something that works for me, works the way my brain wants to see things and function. Something that has some structure but also feels spacious and flexible. So, I created a master list of things I want to touch on each day and each week, and I sat down with ChatGPT (AI) and I wrote this:   I need help creating a flexible schedule that has some semblance of structure, but also takes into account the fact that it's still summertime and I have my 11 and 14 year old daughters at home and not much of a set schedule. I have a variety of categories that I've laid out of things that I'd like to make time for daily, weekly and monthly. Can you help me create this? What do you need from me so we can collaborate on this? Basically, if I find myself with a random pocket of time (say 1-2 hours), I want to feel like I know exactly what to do to keep all the areas of my life moving.   The result is what I'm calling my Flexi-Schedule System. It's spacious. It's flexible. It has room for all the things. I hope you find some inspiration to customize your own FSS and that it allows you to take so many deep breaths and enjoy being present for everything, knowing you have time. (Also, maybe we need a half-day workshop on this so people can create their own Flexi-Schedule Systems?! Let me know!) ----------------------------------- DM me on Instagram and let me know what you think about the Flexi-Schedule System! [https://instagram.com/lizahippler] Visit my website to learn more about me and perhaps work together! [https://lizahippler.com] And don't forget - I'd love a review! It doesn't take long and it's just the best surprise for me!

What I Share With Those Facing Death of a Loved One | Or, What's Beyond This Physical Plane

There have been a lot of deaths in and among my community in the past two months. I have found myself in the role repeatedly of being part of a community that uplifts, prays, holds space for and even howls into the wind with those who suffer and grieve.    And it's also been a season of needing to find the words. We often say "there are no words," but I tend to feel like that's not good enough for the people we love most. Even if we can't find the right words, we need to find SOMETHING.    This episode contains two of the stories I have been sharing with those walking through unimaginable grief in an effort to offer some peace as well as an expansive view that connects us to things well beyond the failing bodies around us.   These stories don't simply apply to death, but to any time we wish to believe in and surrender to the idea that there is SO MUCH MORE, as shrouded in mystery as it is, and to choose to believe in the mysteries.

My Nervous System is Making Me Sick & Keeping Me Small (How About You?)

In this recent season of my body blowing up and things going haywire, I found my way to a nervous system retraining program after a friend said to me, "I recommend a fight/flight course." She, like all the specialists I was seeing at the time, picked up quickly on my stressful and anxiety-ridden perma-state.    I spent about six weeks inside the course learning about the nervous system, how it can become impaired, and its affect on the body. At that point, I learned about the daily practice and have been doing it for 30-60 minutes every day now for 30 days (goal is 9 months - whoa!) and it's already a game changer.   But the other thing that has opened up for me in going through this process is not just how the nervous system affects physical symptoms, but how it affects our BEHAVIORS - showing up in friendships, partnerships, our passions, purpose and even spirituality. As the days went on and I really began to integrate some of my other knowledge and strengths in this work (visualization, movement, spirituality), I truly started to see the waterfall of negative patterns and cycles all stemming from an initial subconscious belief (offten coupled with a trauma that doubles down on that belief).    So, what I offer you in this episode is a rundown of that waterfall in hopes that, if this is alive in you, you'll feel less alone and less like you're stuck, and hope for the future.   There are 8 Cyclical Phases to this waterfall - I've rudimentarily identified them if only to give some sort of structure to it all:    Fear Forgetting Cry for Help Running in Circles Idealization Looping / Stagnation Body Freeze   Let's discuss what causes the waterfall, the details of each phase and provide some hope that there's more to life than living this day in and day out.   ________________________ DNRS (Dynamic Neural Retraining System) [https://retrainingthebrain.com] - check out the program I'm doing and see if it might work for you. (No affiliation.) Shoot me a message on Instagram! [https://instagram.com/lizahippler] Visit my website and work with me! [https://lizahippler.com]