Have you felt the volume turn up on health trends lately? From high-protein everything to supplements, medications, and the latest "must-do" routines… it can feel like the noise is everywhere.
And while none of it is inherently bad, it can quietly pull our focus away from what actually matters most.
This week on Nourished to Bloom, we press pause together and take an honest, grace-filled look at what we're really prioritizing in our health—mind, body, and soul.
Because at the end of the day, we're not just bodies to optimize… we are temples of the Holy Spirit, created for something far greater.
So the question becomes:
What are we really working for?
Earthly things that fade… or heavenly things that endure?
Here's what we explore in this episode:
🌱 The rise in "must-have" health trends—and how they subtly shift our focus without us even realizing it
📖 A powerful reflection from John 6:27 and what it means to work for "food that endures for eternal life"
🧠 Why it's so easy to become disciplined with our bodies… while unintentionally neglecting our souls
⚖️ The reminder that physical health matters—but it's about order, not either/or
✨ How to gently step out of the noise and re-center your health in what truly lasts
A gentle challenge for this week… a mini-examen:
🙏 Are we spending more time meal planning than in Scripture? 💪 Are our minutes of exercise greater than our time in prayer? 💭 Are we more focused on what we avoid eating than what we allow into our minds and hearts?
This isn't about shame—it's about awareness. A simple, honest invitation to pause, get curious, and allow God to lovingly reorder our priorities.
The truth is this: No supplement, routine, or "perfect" plan can replace a well-nourished soul.
When we seek first what truly lasts, everything else begins to fall into its rightful place—bringing a sense of peace, freedom, and alignment that no quick fix can offer.
If this episode spoke to you, share it with a friend who might need this gentle reminder 🤍
And if you're feeling called to go deeper in integrating your faith and your health, reach out—I'd love to walk alongside you. 📩 kara@karatrochta.com
You were made to bloom—from the inside out 🌸
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Not that this is anything new, but there's a lot of noise in the health
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space right now. The new trends, the new products, new
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promises about what our body quote unquote needs.
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And while none of that is inherently bad, it
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can be quietly pulling your focus in a direction that you didn't even
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realize. Because what if the biggest thing impacting your health right
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now isn't your protein intake, the supplements you're taking, or your
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workout routine? But what if it's really what you're
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focusing on, where your time and your energy
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is being spent? That's what we're going to explore
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today. We're going to take a minute and press pause, take
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an honest look at our priorities and really work on recentering our
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health, mind, body and soul on what Truly
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lasts Welcome to the Nourish to Bloom
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podcast where your faith Meet yout Health. I'm your host,
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Kara Trachta, a registered dietitian and certified Catholic coach, and
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I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your body, your
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spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them both. In
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a world filled with noise and confusion about food,
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health and body image, this podcast offers truth and healing from
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a Christ centered perspective. Together, we'll untangle the deep
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roots of diet culture and discover what it means to truly
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care for ourselves through joyful nourishment of mind,
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body and soul. We're here to dive into the transformative power of
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intuitive eating coupled with the rich teachings of our Christian faith.
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With every episode, I'll be cheering you on, offering insights,
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inspiration and practical tools to help you heal your
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relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your body
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as a temple of the Holy Spirit with confidence and
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courage that can all only be found in Christ. Join
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me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness, one
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that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation, the
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teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to fulfill.
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You were made to bloom, to come into
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full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit for the Lord with
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your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body, feed your soul,
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and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're in the right place. And
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I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to Nourish to
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Bloom, where every day is a sacred invitation to
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thrive. Hey there. Welcome back to
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the Nourish to Bloom podcast, y'. All. This is where your faith
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meets your health and where we focus and
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prioritize on learning how to care for our whole
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selves, mind, body and soul. That is the
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foundation of what we do here. And I think this
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episode really gets back to the heart of that. Because lately
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I don't know about you, but it seems like my inbox,
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the limited time that I'm on my social media feed, it's all just
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starting to feel very, very loud again. There's
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this new wave, this next wave of
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resurfacing quick fixes and must have products
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or hearing all about high protein everything, creatine,
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this supplement, that supplement, GLP1 medications.
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And it's like it's everywhere. Like there's not an escape or a
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reprieve for this noise that is bombarding,
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bombarding our lives, honestly. And if I'm being
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honest, I have found myself somewhere in the middle of it
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all. Part of me is curious to learn a little bit more
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about some certain supplements, certain things that maybe might
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fill in some nutritional gaps that I have address, maybe some symptoms
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that I'm feeling. Part of me is very cautious. Like
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these red flags are coming up because I spent so much time
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chasing quick fixes for a lot of my life in the past.
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And so there's that cautious, that healthy cautiousness of like
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sometimes if something feels too good to be true, it's going to be too good
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to be true. And I don't want to go back down that path. And
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maybe you are feeling this too. I feel like especially Since
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I turned 40 this year, it's like now I'm hearing words all
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about perimenopause, being thrown around like it's this exclusive club
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that we all have suddenly been invited to and really want to be
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a part of. While there may actually be no reason for me
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to be focused on perimenopause at this point in my life, but
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overall I've just noticed paying a little bit
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closer attention, doing a little bit more diligence in looking at some of
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these things, looking a little bit deeper and asking more questions.
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And I just want you to know, and I want to say this
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clearly, that you've heard me say this numerous
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times on the podcast, that there's nothing wrong with wanting to care for your body.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting to optimize your physical well being.
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But what I have found in the middle of
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all this noise is that gentle but firm reminder
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that helps keep me grounded and rooted as
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I get curious, as I explore or ask
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questions. And it's we cannot forget what is
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foundational because when we let this noise
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become the obsession, when we let this noise dictate and
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rule our thoughts, our behaviors, our actions.
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All day long, we lose what is
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foundational to us. We cannot forget who
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lives within us, that we are not just physical beings
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trying to manage symptoms or improve metrics of an
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earthly body, but we have to remember that
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we are temples of the Holy Spirit,
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that our bodies are this beautiful
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dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, and that we are created in the
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image of God, and that ultimately we
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are made for eternal life. That is the end goal.
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And our health, our true, lasting, meaningful health,
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has to be rooted there first. And I came back to
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this gentle reminder. I've told y' all before
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that when these things come up for me, the Lord,
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he provides in his word, right? He opens the Scriptures up
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to where we can better understand, to hear more clearly, his
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voice in the midst of the chaos that we live in.
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And I was reminded of this in Scripture while reading
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John, chapter 6, verses 23 through 29. And
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in this verse, Jesus says, do not work for food that perishes,
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but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son
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of Man will give you. And it just made
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me pause and it just. I just sat there for a minute
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because it was, if I'm honest, it really made me
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think and ask, like, what am I actually working for? Am
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I focused on earthly things instead of heavenly things?
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Am I striving for something that's not lasting and giving
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time and energy and money into something that will
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fade? That is a trend? Or am I really
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focused on that foundation of doing the
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things that I need to do, the work that I need to do
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to ensure eternal life, right? To prepare my
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soul for that? And so it just made me ask, you know, what am I
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actually working for? And so I want to gently offer that same
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question for you today. Not as a way to judge
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yourself for things that you've done or do, not as
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a sense of pressure that you need to change everything, but
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just as an invitation. I want you to think of this as like
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a little mini examine, if you will, and just ask
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yourself, what kind of quote, unquote food are you working for right
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now? Are you prioritizing your spiritual well
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being, your relationship with the Lord, your
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prayer life, going to Mass, participating in the sacraments,
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your time in Scripture? Or are you
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primarily focused on your physical health, the things
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that at the end of the day, maybe only
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have an earthly impact? And again, y', all, it's a reminder. This
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isn't an either or, but it is about
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order. It's about priority so as you do
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this little examine, maybe ask yourself some honest
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questions. I did, and it was pretty eye opening. Do
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I spend more time meal planning than I do? In scripture,
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it seems like meal planning is that thing that just never goes away.
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And, you know, it's the time to plan the
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meals, try to figure out what we're going to have, balance it with a
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schedule, create the grocery list, either place the online
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order and do the curbside, or go in and grocery shopping.
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Right. But am I giving that much dedication to
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reading God's word? Do I spend more time
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exercising than I do in prayer? Think
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about the number of exercise minutes that add up and are
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they greater than the amount of time that you spend in prayer?
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I noticed something that came up for me this week was I was sick all
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of last week. I went to the doctor, I had bronchitis. I actually
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think I might have had walking pneumonia. But there's this. I woke up this
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morning and it was like this pressure of like, okay, I gotta get back to
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the gym. I didn't do anything last week. And it was just that, wait
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a minute. Let's focus, let's
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reorient and order things here. I've been sick. It's
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okay to not do these things when you've been sick. I'm taking
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care of my physical well being
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and not trying to fall into the trap of this
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earthly pressure that I feel. Right. But it's
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just interesting when you ask yourself these questions, to really kind of
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calculate and add up the time that you spend focused
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on your physical health versus the time that you spend on your spiritual well
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being. Maybe it's a question of, am I
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more focused on ingredients to avoid than
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on what I am allowing to enter into my mind and my heart?
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Right. Am I so concerned about not having this ingredient,
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this ingredient, this ingredient, but yet allow
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nonsense and noise to be filtered into my mind
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and my heart without taking a second look at that and
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understanding how that is going to impact my well being.
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Because the truth is that most of us have become
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incredibly disciplined in caring for our bodies, but
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it's unintentionally left us neglecting our souls. And over
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time, that creates kind of an imbalance that no
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supplement, no protocol, no perfect routine can fix.
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So this week, I just want to invite you into something simple, something that I'm
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doing myself, just pausing and getting curious.
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Not critical, but curious. If you notice that things feel
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a little out of order, bring that to the Lord. Because
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there's so much grace there and there's no shame in
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Recognizing if you've been a little off track with prioritizing your
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spiritual well being. And when you recognize it, y', all, that's
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just awareness. And that is a beautiful gift from the Lord because
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it gives you that opportunity to gently reorient, to come
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back to what matters most. To remember that your
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worth is not found in your body, your habits, your routines,
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or your results. But your worth is found in
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Christ and from that place, from a well
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nourished soul. We can care for our bodies in a way that
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is peaceful and grounded and aligned. Not
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a place of reactiveness to, you know,
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things that we're hearing outside of ourselves. Not a place of fearfulness
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and not driven by the next quick fix,
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but really something that is rooted, that is steady and
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stable and that is freeing. So that's
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my challenge for you this week, and I'll be doing it too. Just take a
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few minutes for this mini examine and ask the Lord to show you where your
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focus has been and then ask him to reorder your
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priorities. Because when we seek first the things that last,
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everything else begins to fall into its rightful place.
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That when we let the heavenly things
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constantly interrupt the earthly things, that we find that
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order, we find that peace without having to strive,
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without having to be obsessive. And
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so, you know, if this episode spoke to you, I'd love for you to share
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it with a friend who might need this reminder too. It was a reminder I
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didn't even know I needed myself. And so I thank you
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for being here with me today. And as always, if you're feeling called to go
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deeper in this work and really work on integrating your faith with your
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health, I'd love to walk alongside you. You can reach out,
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simply send me an email karaharatrochtha.com and
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we'll start that conversation and set up some time to have real
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meaningful conversation about what it looks like to integrate your faith with
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your health on an individual basis and help you
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build something that's rooted, that's nourishing and helps
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you keep blooming. Remember, beauty held is the seed, beauty shared is
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the flower. It is your time to bloom. I pray that you have a beautiful
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and blessed week and I'll see you right back here next week. Take soon.
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Take care. Bye.