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Simple Roots Radio is hosted by Alexa Schirm. A nutritionist by trade, Alexa has rebelled against common misconceptions about nutrition, and has, instead, created a realistic health-style that will allow you to live a healthy, satisfied and more simplistic life. Forget dieting for good as Alexa interviews health experts, lifestyle influencers and every day people on what strategies have worked for them and help you implement a plan that can be achieved for life. It's raw, its funny, its real and unfiltered. It is Simple Roots Radio.
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- 1 weeks ago50 min
#374: How to Increase Intimacy in Marriage
I joke that I've been married to three different men, and yet physically it's the same man. And while it's partially a joke, it's also not. I think any sustained marriage comes with numerous iterations, and I'm learning what a gift that is. My husband pre-kids is different from who he was after. And naturally, he's different now than he was a decade ago. Instead of assuming the man I married is the same man I'm married to, I want to start celebrating all of the changes and iterations of him. And likewise, he to me, because if I've been married to three different men, he's averaged at least ten different wives. In this podcast, we talk about what it looked like for us to fall back in love, how to increase intimacy in marriage, and what we've kept from the Sex Talk podcast series and what we've left behind. Read the full post: https://thelivingwell.com/374 Ready to edit your story? Join the next Freedom Story Workshop: https://thelivingwell.com/freedom-story Also, be sure to subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter. Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join here: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill
- 2 weeks ago52 min
#373: Is Self-Love Biblical? Rethinking Humility as a Christian
Can we talk about a phrase that makes a lot of Christians squirm? Self-love. I'll be honest, for most of my adult life, I thought self-love was worldly. Anytime I entertained the idea of self-love, I felt guilty. I wanted to nourish myself, and yet I thought the holy thing to do was the opposite: push myself aside, keep myself small, and call it humility. Only recently, while reading the Bible through God's perspective, did I start to see things differently. I realized self-love is not only biblical. It's foundational. That opened the door to rethinking what humility means. In my latest podcast conversation, I unpack that with Blake Guichet, host of The Speakeasy podcast and author of Confessions of a Crappy Christian. Blake is one of my all-time favorite people to talk faith with, because she goes straight to the questions most of us are scared to ask out loud. This one hits home. Read the full post: https://thelivingwell.com/373 Ready to edit your story? Join the next Freedom Story Workshop: https://thelivingwell.com/freedom-story Also, be sure to subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter. Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join here: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill
- Oct 12, 202642 min
#372: How Your Words Affect Your Body
Say this out loud: "I can't handle this. I'm so tired. Everything is falling apart." Now notice your body. Did your shoulders creep up? Did your breath get shallow? Now try this one: "This is hard, but I can handle it. I can let this be easy." Feel the difference? We spend so much time talking about what we eat, how we sleep, and how we move. But there's one thing running underneath all of it, every single day, that almost nobody is tracking. Your vocabulary. I call it the missing nutrient, because like food, your words either fill you up or drain you. In this episode, I walk through what the research says about how language and your body's stress response are connected, what God says about the power of our words, and why so many of the things we say over ourselves are labels instead of descriptions. I also share 15 simple swaps to start speaking life over your body, and a five-step way to make them stick without faking positivity or pretending you feel great when you don't. Your words won't override biology, and they won't replace your doctor. But they do shape your stress, and your stress shapes your body. And this is one of the few places in that chain where you get to choose. Grab your coffee, press play, and let's start editing the story you're speaking over your life. Read the full post with all 15 swaps: https://thelivingwell.com/372 Ready to edit your story? Join the next Freedom Story Workshop: https://thelivingwell.com/freedom-story Also, be sure to subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter. Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join here: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill
- Oct 5, 202642 min
#371: How I Stopped Living Out of the Worst Thing That Happened to Me
Roughly ten years ago, I had a massive life crisis. I lost my health while doing everything right. I'm still not sure whether the fall was more about the pain of trying so hard and ending up worse than I started, or the pride of working in a health space I apparently knew nothing about. Of course, there were a lot of things at play. And somewhere in the middle of it, I started to realize I didn't even know who I was. I had been chasing ideas, places, and situations the world told me I needed to be, do, and become, with little regard for who I really was. I did the work, but I expected the fix. I'll be forever grateful for my counseling experience. But the point of therapy didn't really land until my last therapist. Yes, I fired the first three, for reasons you may be familiar with. They weren't giving me what I wanted. Which was a completely new story. I did the work, but I expected the fix. And truthfully, I didn't know they weren't in charge of my fix. I was. I hope that lands as hard for you as it did for me. If we're ever going to be different, live differently, or transform in whatever area we're longing for, the most important thing is self-responsibility. Our healing is ultimately up to us. I see this play out all through the Bible. The people who received healing and miracles sought them out. The woman who pressed through the crowd to touch the hem of Jesus' garment. Blind Bartimaeus, who kept shouting even when people told him to be quiet. The friends who lowered a paralyzed man through a roof. They didn't sit back and wait, and they didn't put it on someone else. They wanted it, they chose it, and they believed it. One of my favorite examples is a woman whose whole story changed in a single conversation at a well. I unpack her in Four Lessons from the Woman at the Well. If you've ever waited on someone else to hand you the fix, today's podcast is for you. I go deeper into what finally shifted for me in that fourth counselor's office, why self-responsibility is the first step in changing your story, and how to stop outsourcing your healing without carrying it all alone. Grab your coffee, press play, and let me show you how to rewrite your story. Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/371 Also, be sure to subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter. Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join here: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill
- Apr 22, 202641 min
#370: One Thing You Can't Forget in the Age of AI
We are living in a time where information has never been more abundant. You can even feel how much more information you're consuming than you were even ten years ago. Nearly everything you need to know is just a click away. And with the rise of AI, that stream of information isn't slowing down. If anything, it's going to speed up. Although controversial, I actually don't think AI is something to be afraid of. In fact, AI brings a multitude of benefits, including time abundance that helps you get out and live. But, like all things, there is always a downside. How you use it and what you use it for will determine the health of AI in your life. One reality that AI highlights is this: Consuming more information won't move your life forward. That's the illusion of information. It leads you to assume that knowing more will transform your life, when it can't. The gap between knowing and living is called the wisdom gap. And as information overload speeds up, the gap is becoming more glaringly obvious. Just because you "know" something doesn't mean you have wisdom. In fact, knowing too much can muddy the waters, leading to confusion and stagnation. It leads to information overload that can quickly turn into information paralysis. In this podcast, I share more on the illusion of knowledge and how to move from knowledge to wisdom, creating the discernment to transform you. Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/370 Join us "After The Show." In the live After the Show, I share more details on how to practically shift toward building structure, plus parts of my own weight loss story that rarely get discussed. To join live After the Show recordings and access replays, subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join me each week in this new season, uncovering common health illusions.
- Apr 16, 202638 min
#369: Why 'Trying Harder' Is Ruining Your Health
It's a frustrating irony. You try harder and tighten your grip. You double down on doing everything "right." And yet somehow, it leaves you feeling further away from the results you want. You might assume the issue is control, but it's actually the illusion of control. The illusion of control is putting your energy and emphasis on things that you can't change while neglecting what you can. It's exactly what we talk about in this podcast episode. Many people spend excessive time pouring energy into things we were never meant to control in the first place. They muddy themselves in the God-space of the world. And when you do that, you end up exhausted, discouraged, and stuck. It's the place where you work really hard but have nothing to show for it. And it's not because you don't have the power and ability to change, but because you're doing it from the wrong space – controlling what you don't have control over while ignoring what you do. But when you shift your focus and place your energy on what is actually within your control, things begin to move and change. That's where progress happens and where freedom exists. And honestly, this is more than just health. It will shift your life. Learning what you can control and letting go of what you can't creates a kind of freedom most of us don't even realize we're missing. Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/369 Join us "After The Show." In the live After the Show, I share more details on how to practically shift toward building structure, plus parts of my own weight loss story that rarely get discussed. To join live After the Show recordings and access replays, subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join me each week in this new season, uncovering common health illusions.
- Mar 30, 202633 min
#368: You're Not Lazy - You're Undercharged
Most people have a massive checklist of to-dos (maybe better said, should-dos) they attribute to health. It might be perfecting your morning routine, restricting carbs, or a number of the other infinite ideas people believe it takes to be well. Of course, action is a necessity to make change. And most of the "health ideas" you've believed have merit and health benefits. You should want to be at a healthy weight. You should fuel your body well. You should move it daily and build strength. The problem isn't what you're doing, it's how you're attempting to do it. If you're attempting to change, or rather, heal from a low-energy state, it rarely works. Not because the action itself is irrelevant, but because you don't have the energy to hold it and use it. Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/368 Join us "After The Show." In the live After the Show, I share more details on how to practically shift toward building structure, plus parts of my own weight loss story that rarely get discussed. To join live After the Show recordings and access replays, subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join me each week in this new season, uncovering common health illusions.
- Mar 18, 202646 min
#367: The Positive Side To Dysregulation
Dysregulation is a popular term, not because it's trendy, but because many people are affected by its consequences. I spent many years of my life living more dysregulated than regulated, almost succumbing to the idea that the dysregulation was my story. But I also found that feeling dysregulated was having a biological effect. It was leading me to gain weight and engage in choices I didn't love. And this out-of-balance state led to a life of constant self-protection. It's not a fun way to live mentally or physically. It wasn't until many years later that I realized my fixation on the dysregulation was part of the reason I could never re-regulate. One, I didn't understand the goal of my body. Two, I had put all of my focus on the dysregulation of life, on the self-protection, so that it became my way of life. But everything changed when I shifted my focus from being a victim of dysregulation to using it. As my mentor always reminds me, "what's on the other side of the coin." On the other side of dysregulation is always regulation. Today, I want to present a new focus on dysregulation. Specifically, the positive side of dysregulation. That doesn't mean complacency with dysregulation, but it's shifting the focus and the story to use it as good. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/367 Join us "After The Show." In the live After the Show, we explore a powerful question: What if you stopped talking about losing weight altogether? I share more details on how to practically shift toward building structure, plus parts of my own weight loss story that rarely get discussed. To join live After the Show recordings and access replays, subscribe to The Weekly Fill Newsletter: https://www.thelivingwell.com/the-weekly-fill Inside the newsletter, you'll receive weekly reflections, practical health frameworks, and invitations to exclusive live conversations. Join me each week in this new season, uncovering common health illusions.
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Simple Roots Radio is hosted by Alexa Schirm. A nutritionist by trade, Alexa has rebelled against common misconceptions about nutrition, and has, instead, created a realistic health-style that will allow you to live a healthy, satisfied and more simplistic life. Forget dieting for good as Alexa interviews health experts, lifestyle influencers and every day people on what strategies have worked for them and help you implement a plan that can be achieved for life. It's raw, its funny, its real and unfiltered. It is Simple Roots Radio.
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