If you’re over 40 and struggling with weight gain, cravings, or exhaustion, you may be blaming yourself when your body is actually responding to stress that has been stuck in overdrive.

I’ll explain how hormonal changes can intensify stress reactions, why cortisol can spike during the holiday season, and share five simple daily changes that can help calm your nervous system.

I’ll also connect the science with faith, because peace isn’t passive—it’s physiological. Together, we’ll look at how to break the cycle of overwhelm and support your emotional, spiritual, and metabolic health with grace and intention.

HOST: Dr. Kris Sargent

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In this episode, I’m breaking down the connection between blood sugar, hormones, and metabolism, and why some of the “healthy eating” advice we’ve been taught may be keeping us stuck.

In this episode of Spark Faith, I sit down with Jo Hosen from Ortho Molecular Products for an honest, grace-filled conversation about GLP-1s, rapid weight loss, and some of the consequences that can be overlooked when we focus only on the number on the scale.

This is not a fear-based conversation, and it’s not medical advice. It’s about informed stewardship of the body God designed.

We talk about why muscle matters so much for metabolism, how rapid weight loss can contribute to muscle loss, and why losing weight without protecting muscle may create long-term metabolic challenges—especially for women over 40.

We also explore what we still don’t know about long-term GLP-1 use, including questions around mood, nutrient status, metabolic rate, and changes in body composition.

I share my muscle-first, faith-anchored approach to sustainable weight loss, including the importance of protein, resistance training, metabolic health, and personalization rather than chasing the latest quick fix.

We also discuss appetite-modulating, non-starvation support options and why the quality, absorption, and clinical relevance of professional-grade supplements matter when we’re trying to support the body well.

If you’re navigating weight changes in midlife, feeling pressured by what you’re seeing on social media, or simply wondering whether GLP-1s are right for you, I want this conversation to help you move from fear to wisdom.

You don’t have to fight your body into submission. You can learn to understand it, support it, and steward it well.

Let’s choose wisdom over pressure, stewardship over shame, and sustainable health over quick fixes.

In the premiere of Spark Faith, Dr. Kris Sargent opens her heart about a deeply personal season that changed everything. After losing her mother in early 2024, Kris found herself emotionally and spiritually drained. Instead of rushing back into work and “getting back on the horse,” she heard God say one word: wait.

What felt like an unwanted pause became sacred preparation. Through that quiet season, God began to remind her — and now all of us — that He never wastes our pain. He repurposes every experience, every tear, every waiting season for our growth, His glory, and the good of others.

In this first episode, you’ll discover: ✨ Why it’s okay to be honest with God — even angry with Him — and still pray through the pain. ✨ What Romans 8:26–28 really means in context (hint: God is already working with your pain, not around it). ✨ How the Holy Spirit intercedes when we have no words left to pray. ✨ Why our waiting seasons are often God’s preparation seasons. ✨ How God uses our stories to bring comfort, hope, and healing to others.

Dr. Kris also shares why a Functional Medicine doctor is talking about God — and how her decades of experience helping women heal physically led her to realize that the heart and the body can’t be separated. Lab tests can’t heal grief, and supplements can’t restore a weary soul. Only God can.

Spark Faith is where faith and functional medicine meet — helping women heal their bodies, renew their minds, and rediscover God’s presence in every part of their journey.

Scriptures mentioned: Romans 8:18, 26–28 · 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 · Genesis 50:20 · Psalm 34:18

If you’ve been in a waiting season or wrestling with unanswered prayers, this episode will remind you that your story isn’t over — it’s being rewritten by the One who makes all things new.

🎧 Tune in now and be encouraged. Because your pain is not pointless — and God doesn’t waste a thing.

Renewed Health. Rooted in Truth. Restored by Grace.

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Dr Kim tells her journey from being mad at God to seeing miracles in her own life. She recounts her unprecedented healing from Lyme, sugar addiction, understanding her own triggers of addiction, and the one thing she would rather eat spiders than ever do…She spans the discomfort of GAP of the journey from where you are to where you want to be. And how God shows up in the most unlikely ways in your life. She was told she would be in a wheelchair the rest of her life, and God changed everything. She is as passionate about nutrition and all natural medicine as she is about her faith. ENJOY Y'ALL!Dr Kris Website: https://www.drkimgrom.com She is also on FB and IG

You will be inspired by:

1. His Spiritual Journey
2. His Ability to Respond vs React
3. His Victim to Hero Process

Get his FREE VICTIM TO HERO HANDBOOK on his website Hour of Champions

Join his Facebook group: Hour of Champions

Kristy Dotson is amazing....From Engineer to Senior Food Ingredient Buyer to Wellness Consultant, Kristy Dotson exposes the truth about FDA approved ingredients, pharmaceuticals and how our medical system really isn’t about keeping us healthy.

We dove into:

Looking for a new perspective on purpose and meaning? How to REFRAME any circumstance FOR you

Some GUILT is Good…

What happens when you ignore the “spirit” part of yourself?

What is an Existential Vacuum?

Ever feel like…???

• Something is missing in your life?
• What you feel like on the inside and the face you show the world are very different?
• Anxiety and/or Depression just don’t go away despite your best efforts?
• When you get really honest with yourself, shame and guilt run your life?
• You don’t seem to be able to find the meaning and purpose for your life?

I totally have felt all those things in the past and struggle with a couple a little to this day. Wait until you listen to this interview! Dr Dan will give you a completely new perspective…

You can find Dr Dan at https://danielafranz.com

And his podcast is called The Meaning Project, everywhere podcasts are found

Unfortunately our age can also cause a decrease in several components in our skin such as collagen, elastin, squalene,

1. What does your skin do anyway???

We tend to focus on the visible signs of aging, but what does our skin do for us? And what changes with age in terms of functional that will not only lead to aging but also susceptibility of skin diseases/

FUNCTIONS: The functions of the skin include:

• Protection against microorganisms, dehydration, ultraviolet light, and mechanical damage; the skin is the first physical barrier that the human body has against the external environment.
• Sensation of pain, temperature, touch, and deep pressure starts with the skin.
• Mobility: The skin allows smooth movement of the body.
• Endocrine activity: The skin initiates the biochemical processes involved in Vitamin D production, which is essential for calcium absorption and normal bone metabolism.
• Exocrine activity: This occurs by the release of water, urea, and ammonia. Skin secretes products like sebum, sweat, and pheromones and exerts important immunologic functions by secreting bioactive substances such as cytokines.
• Immunity development against pathogens.
• Regulation of Temperature. Skin participates in thermal regulation by conserving or releasing heat and helps maintain the body’s water and homeostatic balance.[1][2] HOW IS IT PUT TOGETHER Anatomy
• The epidermis, the outermost layer of skin, provides a waterproof barrier and contributes to skin tone.
• The dermis, found beneath the epidermis, contains connective tissue, hair follicles, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and sweat glands.
• The deeper subcutaneous tissue (hypodermis) is made of fat and connective tissue like elastic fibers, collagen.

Although sirloin and round cuts have only slightly higher amounts of saturated fat than chicken does…Beef has been vilified for a long time.

It’s been associated with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol , high blood pressure and heart disease. But is the association true or are there other factors at play??

Fast track to diabetes, PCOS, Hormone disruption and fatigue. Yes the lowly, and unassuming oatmeal can take credit for all of the above. Before you get all excited and offended because you LOVE your oatmeal, this is going to apply to only about 75% of yall.

Yep - most of you…

Magnesium:

• Migraines
• High Blood pressure
• poor sleep quality
• Fatigue
• Muscle spasms
• Eye twitches
• Palpitations
• Irritability
• Loss of appetite

Iron

• Extreme fatigue
• Weakness
• Pale skin
• Chest pain, fast heartbeat or shortness of breath
• Headache, dizziness or lightheadedness
• Cold hands and feet
• Inflammation or soreness of your tongue
• Brittle nails

Zinc

• hair loss
• brittle nails
• diarrhea
• poor immune system
• Irritability
• loss of appetite
• low testosterone
• eye problems
• weight loss
• poor wound healing
• lack of taste and smell

What’s holding you back? Time? Money? Kids? Friends? Confidence? Poor Self Esteem?

I believe that our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health are the cornerstones to living the BIGGEST life God has planned for us.

Our fear, shame, regret, guilt of the past may be the exact things that strengthen you for the journey of your dreams…AND

Fear, Shame, Guilt, Self loathing, belong on the cross

all belong on the cross

Our inside and outside need TO GO TOGETHER!

Shift Your PerSPECtive

Find one spec that you CAN do and start there

You CAN do that thing!

I’m so frustrated - I’m doing everything right, exercise and eating “right”

Hormones - Stress/cortisol/progesterone/estrogen

Food influences hormones

Exercise influences hormones

The Big O influences hormones

#75hard

Why did I do it?

Because as an entrepreneur I need to hold myself to the higher standard I expect of any of my clients. I would be a hypocrite if I asked someone to give up cheat meals or alcohol if I wasn’t willing to do it for myself.

I wanted to see how much stronger I could get, and if I could lose a few inches and a couple pounds

Menopause is so often used as the excuse for not really wanting to do the work.I wanted you to know I’m willing to do the work right there beside you.

Taking my coaching biz to the next level of speaking…where God has wanted me for so many years

God wanted more from me and now I realize I’m just at the beginning! I have so much more love to give!

Consistency

Clarity

Pain before pleasure

Self imposed expectations

Weight/Fat loss Post Menopause

Muscle definition can happen

It’s not too late for anything, ever!

135 Hours of exercise (108 minutes per day avg)

75 days of clean eating

No alcohol

1 gallon of water daily

Over 750 pages read

58 years young

I can be strong and feminine

My kids are impressed( not that it matters, still! )

I can do more than I thought

Got my first speaking gig

Had a record month(July) for this year in biz

Overcame my fear of rejection( mostly)

mood and concentration

Confusion

B-12 anemia - different from iron - LABS

Loss of appetite

Numbness and tingling

PMS

Energy production issues —> fatigue

Detoxification

Irritable

Heart palpitations

Depression/Anxiety

Alzheimers/memory issues

Heart disease - homocysteine

Reasons: medications, stress, alcohol, ultra processed foods

MEDS that contribute to B-Complex deficiencies:

Aspirin

Tagamet Zantac Nexium TUMS

Diabetic drugs metformin

Blood pressure lowering drugs

Birth Control Pills

NSAIDS

Steroids

City gates—open wide! Ancient doors—stand back! For the glorious King shall soon pass your way.Psalm 24:7

The number of things that tried to keep me from getting this done today was astounding?

How do you react?

Do you use the circumstance as justification for your poor choices? Food or otherwise?

OR

Do you take care of yourself and do what you promised yourself you would do?

When you take it in and slow down and pray and then respond Your life changes…right before your eyes - you can do HARD things…

I get it - I used to default that way too!

In today's episode I am talking all things BATCH COOKING. What is it and why you need to try this technique to eat healthy more often and save time!

Best foods for Gut Health

No Processed foods

Adequate protein

Adequate fiber

Anti-Inflmmatory diet

Food Sensitivities and Gut Healing

Why 90 days? What about the antibodies?

GUT HEALTH MASTERCLASS INFO:

https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147604220 REFRAME:

Get Unstuck and off the Plateau

Stuck: Fight - DROP CALORIESStart random diets but don’t stay on one long enough to see a differenceStart to make your own decisions without prayer Flee - QUIT Freeze - WE STOP DOING THE THINGS THAT WERE WORKING frustrated - Grind and force, feels like everything is a lot of work Anxious Believing all the lies of

REFRAME: Holding Pattern: YOUR BODY has to catch up to the changes you’re making Check your heading - are you ACTUALLY doing everything you’re supposed to be doing - Taking responsibility for the extra glass of wine or chips that slipped in Taking the necessary steps to get where you want to get, consistent action - the two primary predictors of predictor of healthy habit accountability and keeping track- , eyes focused on Jesus, doing the actual work

AUGUST 4 GUT HEALTH MASTERCLASS INFO: https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147604220

Both have advantages and lean into REAL food vs processed foods - one has fewer restrictions than the other.

Fastest way to heal your gut, control diabetes, lose weight, and decrease inflammation

Why: Religious reasons

Type 2 diabetes - Jason Fung

Personal reasons- prayer and fasting

Intermittent Fasting - What is your goal? Wt loss/Clearer head/Neurological?/ Blood sugar

Not for me,

Great for some people

Not for everyone,

In my experience

Here are the Nutrition Label Hacks you don't want to miss...

Create effortless meals and snacks for ENERGY all day

1. Get your mindset right. Remember you can only change you. You only have control over the things you think, the way you feel, what you say, and what you do. You cannot control other people, how they believe, think or respond.

2. Figure out your “why” - I dig into this deeply, and have an exercise that will take you to your “why”. One little secret, it will touch you emotionally. If you don’t get emotional about your “why”, you haven’t found it.

3. Get support

4. Create a plan

SUMMER HOLIDAY WEEKEND FOOD TIPS

Remember the reason for the season and focus on fellowship, family and friends. IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE FOOD!

Holidays such as Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, or any picnic holiday can cause breakdowns in our otherwise healthy eating plan. It's extremely important to be very aware that picnics can pack thousands of calories that we would not normally indulge in. So, what should you do?

1. Don't skip meals or "save" calories for the picnic. THAT SETS YOU UP TO OVEREAT LATER!
2. If you're a guest, offer to bring a healthy appetizer and side dish. That way you can GUARANTEE ta choice for you
3. Watch your portions and choose NOT to have the desert!! Instead, maybe bring a box of sugar free popsicles or fudgesicles to share.
4. Keep your EXERCISE routine the day of the picnic. Try adding short brisk walks twice that day with available family members or the partygoers. Plan activities to stay moving such as croquet, bike riding or cornhole instead of just sitting around and talking.
5. If you are throwing the party, have lots of vegetables available, instead of chips. Prepare lower-fat dips using Greek yogurt instead of mayo or sour cream and offer low sodium salsa.
6. Communicate! Explain to your guests in advance your DETERMINATION to make this a healthier holiday celebration and ask them to keep this in mind when preparing any dish they may be bringing.
7. Say NO to the high-calorie beverages such as sodas, juices, smoothies and blended coffee drinks. There are nearly 150 calories in one 12-ounce can of soda or juice. Smoothies and coffee drinks are often 250-500 calories, excluding whipped cream.
8. ALCOHOL is full of calories and carbs. It can also cause you to let down your defenses and overeat or make poor food choices.
9. Have a small meal BEFORE going to the picnic so you don't arrive starving... always plan ahead.
10. At the picnic choose PICK PROTEIN FIRST. It’s the most filling thing you can eat. Choose healthy foods and stay away from the high-carb items like chips, breads, potato & pasta salad and corn, and remember to eat slowly, which will help you eat less and feel full and satisfied. HAVE YOUR BURGER WITHOUT THE ROLL!
11. If the holiday party is at your house, SEND THE LEFTOVERS HOME with your guests, especially the desserts!!
12. During holiday weekends, make your goal to MAINTAIN your weight and not to gain any!

AGAIN: BE POSITIVE! Don’t let your weight and cravings take control of you. Remember the reason for the season and focus on fellowship, family, friends and not on food. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE FOOD!

Have a Happy and Healthy Fourth of July and SUMMER!!!!

• Women are shamed on both sides. The unwed woman who keeps her baby is judged just as harshly as the one who didn’t. There is pain and shame on both sides. More fear and hate directed to either side doesn’t change that, and feeds the shame. Neither woman feels supported or loved, as all humans deserve, particularly in such a difficult, emotional and deeply personal situation.
• I’ve kept my story basically secret for 41 years. I was terrified. I was told a baby would ruin my life. The shame of being a teen mom, was too much. At 17 years old, I couldn’t see any other option. I’ve done hundreds of hours of counseling, coaching and prayer. I have grieved all of it.
• I’ve asked for forgiveness. That baby is in the arms of Jesus and all of my sin is pinned to the Cross of Christ. Because He loves and forgives me in spite of all my failings. I no longer carry the shame and pain of an abortion. His love and mercy are great. And His Grace is endless. For all who seek it.
• I was ultimately blessed with two amazing children that have done nothing but make my life full. I could not be more grateful.
• Find love and compassion for both sides. Get curious. Have coffee. Ask the questions. Get to know the other person as a human. Learn their story and leave the judgement at home.
• All sides need support. The frightened mom, the baby, the families and the guy involved.
• Banning abortion doesn’t stop it from happening any more than Prohibition stopped alcohol consumption.
• Thank you Jim Dowell for representing both sides of this issue so beautifully. You gave me the courage to tell all...I have shared Jim Dowell's song Called Little Hearts everywhere I can...

This happens about a month or two, a day or two, or even an hour or two into any program, and is one of the reasons people self sabotage - they just want some specific food...

1. Start to love your body because God loves you and you honor and respect him - changes everything

2. To the emotional eater - You can learn to stop it in the act. When would you want to stop a robbery? Before it happens or at the worst - in the middle of it before they do the damage. As an emotional eater - take back your control. Thoughts precede emotions - walk away from the pantry and the fridge as soon as you realize you are eating emotionally - WALK AWAY!

3. As you go, throw away whatever item you were eating…

4. Not there yet - wrap your head around this. would want their body to be less than QUALITY!!?? Your car burns gas and uses oil - nothing emotional about that Our body burns carbs/fats and proteins and uses carbs fats and proteins to repair itself. The quality of the three will determine the quality of your body. It’s easier to chose healthy when you think about it this way. You would want your body to be less than QUALITY!!??

5. Need to have a DTR talk with Food. You CAN take control of this…

Good bugs vs Bad bugs?

Vitamin/Nutrient Deficiency?

Maybe you're avoiding a relationship change that needs to happen or maybe youre ignoring a health issue

SO lets go down the road that you have decided NOT to change anything…Let’s start with the rule that you can only change yourself.

1. So, if you’re avoiding a change in a relationship, you won’t be able to change the other person.

2. If this is a health issue, like weight, type 2 diabetes, a gut issue, inflammation, autoimmune, - That’s on you…

3. Your mental health is also on you. You can keep blaming everyone around you, and you continue to respond in the same old way -That’s fine 4. Let me ask you a couple questions: if you don’t change….

• Where will those issues be in 6 months?
• Will the relationship be better or worse or gone entirely?
• What about that nagging health issue?
• If you don’t do anything about for the next year, 5 years from now, 10 years from now…what will happen?
• Do you think you'll be able to reverse it in 10 years if it's difficult now?
• If you don’t change, what changes?

Ultraprocessed foods that don’t look anything like the original form of food. Think sausage vs a piece of protein; or bread vs whole grain quinoa or rice; or ultra processed fat vs clean extra virgin olive oil; veggies vs no veggies whatsoever…

Most nuggets of anything, fried, stuffed, breaded,

These kinds of foods - mostly carbs very little protein or anything else - the worst - actually suck nutrients out of your body as your body has to work extra hard to detox them , and these foods feed your inflammation, so your body is busy making inflammatory chemistry instead of healing you.

Complex

Grains

Legumes

Squash

Root veggies - potatoes, carrots, rutabagas, turnips parsnips, sweet potatoes

Less Complex/ Lower Carb

The rest...broccoli cauliflower,

So, Which is harder? *Keeping the promise or living with in your current pain?

*What do you want your life to look like? *WHAT DO YOU think GOD wants your life to look like?

*Is NOT keeping promises to yourself interfering in your relationships?

*Are those around you starting to not trust what you say you're going to do for yourself because you always flake on yourself?

What needs to change? Where is the pain? Weight loss, ending a relationship, staying in a relationship,

There is a technical term for this - delayed gratification…we should all be learning to delay gratification. This is a skill developed between the ages of 8 and 13. So, you may be running programs about delaying gratification that you were taught or caught from your parents during that age. I talked extensively about this in another podcast.

1. What is your main health goal. For many it’s weight loss. However, if you’ve been sick for a while that might not happen. Your body has to heal first. It’s in survival mode and isn’t going to release any weight until it’s sure it’s healthy

2. Most clients try substitution first; GF doesn’t equal carb free

3. Best way is to substitute veggies. Lettuce wraps for sandwiches and burgers; fall squash, sweet potatoes, Yukon gold potatoes vs pasta; spaghetti squash, hearts of palm noodles zucchini noodles for pasta.

4. The basic diet…

1. The Process… then the Solution

Resentment: Pool of emotions that have never really been looked at; manifests as Negative self talk; anger/anxiety/depression/gut: constipation/diarrhea/IBS; You’ve convinced yourself of all your negative thoughts

Resistance: The gap between what is in reality and what we think it should be or what we expect it to be: Defend your position, Feel disconnected, lack intimacy, holding people at arms length; our immune system can start to turn on ourselves as we hold in the toxic emotions

Revenge: You no longer can identify your dreams, you feel flat, your health has probably spiraled to a low point

1. Honest Self Responsible Communication - we have to own our own behavior - whatever it is - from overeating, to being the victim
2. Acceptance - must give up being right
3. Self Forgiveness

It’s like having a cloud over your head though right? What does it feel like when you let yourself down? - I’d love to know how it makes you feel...

Proverbs 25:13-14Reliable friends who do what they say are like cool drinks in sweltering heat—refreshing! Like billowing clouds that bring no rain is the person who talks big but never produces.

If you’re unsure what your typical excuses or what may also be described as a well designed lie to yourself….

**Ask your self a different question….

***What is consistently more important than keeping your word to yourself?

****Who else do you think this is affecting in your life?

I can tell you - all those excuses - were affecting my parenting. Your kids do what you do - not what you say - they will also learn to self sabotage and not keep their word to themselves. So much more...

The short answer is: it depends…

1. Do you have celiac disease? This is an autoimmune reaction to gluten that causes long term digestive issues and prevents your body from being able to absorb the nutrients it needs Gold standard is biopsy; blood tests are not totally accurate. Interestingly the associated disorders include low thyroid - Hashimoto’s - AI thyroid; malabsorption, B-12 and iron deficiency
2. Gluten sensitivity? This is a blood test for the antibodies to the gluten - this is different than an allergy - IBS, brain fog, headaches, neurological symptoms, tremors, vertigo, anxiety, depression, fatigue, muscle and joint pain
3. Any other Auto-Immune disorder or symptoms of AI? Positive ANA - and maybe other AI?
4. Do you have leaky gut?? Check out my last two Wednesday podcasts to learn more...

🧐How did you end up with a Leaky Gut and a Leaky Brain in the first place?? There are about 10 basic factors that lead to a Leaky Gut. Of course, there are many more but this covers the main ones.

Here are the links I promised, just copy and paste:

I'm here to serve you...and we will have FUN! Let's keep you out of the overwhelm, and create a personal path to get you healthy! Here's a link to schedule a convenient time for us to chat. https://drkrissargent.as.me/SPARKCall

Gut Healing Protocol: Specific supplement protocol designed to start healing MOST people's Leaky Gut. https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-jump-start-gut-healing-protocol

Replay of Cultivating a Mind for God: 3 Foundations for Mental Health https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147590135

I’m going to continue on this path of mental/soul/gut health. I believe that when we get these three parts on the right path, we can really start to transform all the parts our life for God. And my guess is, if you're really honest, and like I was - you rarely flake on your friends - you rarely let them down. However, you let yourself down regularly and then beat yourself up for it!

So, as important as it is to get help when you need it. There’s also a time to do the work, and start getting real with yourself.

Biblical - Galatians 6: 2-5 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load.

*I believe that our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health are the cornerstones to living the BIGGEST life God has planned for us.

*I believe that we are to get and stay healthy FOR God, not out of guilt and shame but love and gratitude.

*If we persevere and stay uncomfortable, I believe our world will change when we step into THAT GIANT God-sized life.

You can all do a little better everyday, with everything.

*You can be more kind to ourselves FIRST.

*You can learn that your validation, self confidence and self worth is from God, not things you do, or your job, or anything else in this world. *God put you here for a purpose, ON purpose and knows everything - the good, the bad, and the messy about you!

*AND He LOVES YOU! Psalm 139:14-16 Jeremiah 29:11

Bad News: If you have one, you probably have the other.

Good News: I offer a free 1 hour consultation to get your questions answered, and give you a Personalized Health Map of the steps you need to take to start healing. Besides you Personalized Plan - you will also receive my Mini-eBook to teach you how to shift from Self Sabotage to Self Worth. My signature process to understand your self worth.

Below you will find a link to my Mental Health and Gut Healing Jumpstart Supplement protocols I discussed.

Just copy and paste the link, put in your email and choose a password.

Gut Healing: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-jump-start-gut-healing-protocol

Mental Health: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-basic-mental-health-protocol

Free One Hour consultation: Copy and paste the link, pick your time zone and choose a convenient time. Besides you Personalized Plan - you will also receive my Mini-eBook to teach you how to shift from Self Sabotage to Self Worth. My signature process to understand your self worth.

https://drkrissargent.as.me/SPARKCall

Means complete wholeness and wellness - not just peace - inner peace

800 days of hard

KA shared traumatic reality

Body keeps score

NS has taken a hit

Empathy is low

We need a team: Not the time to go it alone!

Jeremiah 29 tells the exiles to find shalom…to the exiles, they were sent to Babylon for 70 years - we all may feel like exiles in our own hometown. He told them to settle down in a home, plant gardens, and eat the food they produce

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 14 I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”

Empathy is low

People we normally count on don’t have the bandwidth. We need a team: Not the time to go it alone! Researchers and professionals tell us we need 4-7 people on our mental health team. Inner circle friends, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, social worker, therapist, counselor, pastor/priest, spiritual director, Life Coach.

1. Radical Grace: For yourself and others - perspective, slow down to see that
2. Radical Boundaries - you have to slow down to say no so you can make margin in your life for what will heal your soul
3. Radical Rest - you have to slow down to get good SLEEP, yes, and naps,
4. Radical Adventure - you have to slow down to stay in the moment of play

I was reminded yesterday and this morning, I must have a strategy to fill my soul and 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻) 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲.

4 things:

1. Dive into Bible study and other positive mindset reading.

2. Move my body!! Run, walk, listen to uplifting music, praise and worship or country are my choices.

3. Garden 4. Bake. But only if Cooper is in the house to eat all the extra calories.

*^𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂?

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However…

How about you? Did you stick to your plan and totally nail it this weekend? Or did you slide down the slippery weekend slope? This is where I see so many clients really self sabotage. They do great during the week. But…then Friday and one glass of wine and by Saturday night all bets are off and they’re totally off plan!! Only to be frustrated on Monday because they gained the three pounds they lost the week before.

And then I remember WHY I only do it periodically:

1. Physically, I feel gross today!! Mild headache, kinda bloated, a little sluggish and less productive

2. Mentally and emotionally, my anxiety is higher, the sugar highs and lows leave my blood sugar unstable

3. I’m craving again - I don’t like any of those feelings.

Now I could really beat myself up - which happens to a lot of you and the slippery slope gets longer - and this certainly used to be my pattern until I figured it out. (Learn HOW I figured it out on my upcoming Masterclass - link for info below) ALL that reminds me of my ultimate WHY!

Because I grasp God’s enormous live for me - as best as humanly possible, I know I love myself, so I can love on you… I know I deserve to feel good everyday. You don’t have to be the victim of your own choices and live in that shame. I know that when I make the healthy choices, I feel topnotch I can do more for God and my family. God gave me His best, He deserves my best.

Masterclass INFO LINK: https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147590135

Did you know that Omega 6 Bad fats are the building blocks of many INFLAMMATORY substances in you body?

The connection between the brain, your gut and inflammation are staggering!

Listen in to learn:

• what foods to eat to increase Omega 3 good fats
• How to avoid the bad fats.
• More about supplementation
• Types of good fats to add to your diet
• and more...

Below you will find links for the two protocols I mentioned, along with information link to sign up for my MasterClass on May 21 at 10-11am CT.

Just copy, paste and create your account... FOR Omega 3's click here Brain Health: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-basic-mental-health-protocol

Gut Health: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-jump-start-gut-healing-protocol

Masterclass Information: https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147590135

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Below you will find links for the two protocols I mentioned, along with information link to sign up for my MasterClass on May 21 at 10-11am CT. Just copy, paste and create your account...

Brain Health: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-basic-mental-health-protocol

Gut Health: https://us.fullscript.com/protocols/drkrissargent-jump-start-gut-healing-protocol

Masterclass Information: https://dr-kris-sargent.mykajabi.com/pl/2147590135

Click: More Info About my upcoming Masterclass: Cultivating a Mind For God

Cultivating a Mind For God: Three Foundations for Mental Health

• The Gut:Brain:Immune Connection
• Values: Understand where your Self Worth really comes from.
• Ditch the Self Hate and Shame Model for the Self Love Model.
• Weed out Negative Spinning Thoughts and Emotions.
• Better Results: Crush Self Sabotaging Behaviors.
• How to FEED YOUR GUT for a healthier Mind and Body to follow God's plan.

I address the differences and a short answer about gluten!!

1. Your gut produces more neurotransmitters, like serotonin, than the brain.
2. The bacteria in your gut can play a role in your moods, happy and depression, calm and anxious.
3. The food you eat can change those bacteria in as little as 3 days, for better or worse.
4. Your thoughts can influence your gut function. Diarrhea/Constipation/IBS
5. 70% of your immune system is in your gut. Stress influences gut:brain:immun

1. Don't Miss all the fun!! This is episode 16!! NO WORRIES If you're a little behind - SUBSCRIBE, Hit The Bell for Notifications on YouTube, Show me a little LOVE on Apple Podcasts... 2. SAVE THE DATE: Masterclass Cultivating Your Mind For God May 21 10am CT! 3. And PLEASE! If you're struggling with your mental health, reach out to me, JUST REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, or a friend. You don't have to do this alone.

From energy, moods to diabetes, toxicity and poor brain health. We need protein!!

Also, Since He made us each unique, we each need a unique solution to our health issues.

This is where I excel as your Health Coach, with 30 years of Functional Medicine experience. I can customize your diet and supplements. See Wednesday's episode.

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Are You Sick Yet? Are you sure?

If my labs are “normal” why do I feel bad? Fatigued? Hormonal?Anxious? Depressed? Stressed? Inflamed?

And how do I know what supplements to take?

How do you measure health?

There is another way entirely!

LABS! Ah, your doctor said your labs were “fine”.

But does that mean your healthy? Are you sure?

Today I talk about how your labs can tell you more than you think.

Are you looking at Optimal as a standard of health or just average, mediocre?

How far away from Optimal health are you?

Your Labs are the basis for your personalized supplement plan when you see me as a client.

No more supplement guesswork…

Reach out to me and get started today! But first Like, Subscribe, give me a little Apple love and review.

By Resistance - not the Star Wars kind, but the Satan kind. Steven Pressfield in his book the Art of War says Resistance may be defined as…just listen to get his definition. So how might those Resistance behavior patterns surface?

Most commonly they surface as

1. Hunger

2. Feeling Deprived

3. I don’t feel like eating healthy

4. “I deserve a treat”

Let’s walk through each of these to come up with a new strategy

1. Are you actually hungry OR is there something going else going on? Did you know that 40% of the time, your may just be thirsty?? Not actually hungry...SO let’s try water, LaCroix, something without sugar!

2. Feeling deprived and I deserve a treat may have a common cause. Ask yourself: Is this need to make a poor choice in reaction to something else going on? Do you deserve the treat OR do you deserve to live a longer healthier life for God

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How can we be our best for God when the Holy Spirit is eating JUNK?

It’s easy and it can increase your energy and decrease your brain fog quickly!

Taking care of the Temple requires more than a healthy mindset! Let's start with FOOD!! It's Friday! Food is Fun!

Healthy choices ARE DOABLE! It Doesn't HAVE to be HARD!

In todays episode I give you the first step to start a new way to look at food. 80% of our health outcome is related to the food we eat! It's all in the statistics - 70% of Americans are overweight and obese. Half are diabetic. And SORRY, Christians are more at risk than the rest of the population.

How can we be our best for God when the Holy Spirit is eating JUNK? This is all about our food choices.

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1. Jesus is the only one who EVER gets to be perfect, so He expects you to be messy!

2. Jesus knew how to handle distractions. He did what He had to do in the face of a lot of opposition. So, you CAN too!

3. Listen to all the way to the end for a great new skill to handle guilt, shame and actually, all the challenges, no, opportunities your life brings.

Reach out if you want more insight or have questions.

Check out my first 2-3 podcasts for all of my own challenges. You're not alone.

So that you can take care of the temple, free from self sabotage behaviors, and free of guilt and shame.

What if it all hinges on Love and Gratitude?

What does this have to do with taking care of the Temple again?

Why do I need to take care of the Temple anyway?

What’s Health got to do with it?

What’s Love got to do with it?

On the outside, no one knew, I looked happy and positive. I don’t live like that any longer, and you don’t have to either. I am whole again I’m the same on the inside and the outside.

Are you more likely to…

1. Be a people pleaser
2. Have Anxiety
3. Be Depressed?
4. Self sabotage?
5. Be Inauthentic/Incongruent?

You don’t have to live like that any more! Jesus offers you a perfect place to leave all the negativity. Check out my podcast to start the journey!

Thoughts precede emotions, emotions in motion lead to behaviors. But, where do the thoughts start? Where do they come from?

Your thoughts originate from your value systems and programs. Your values and programs were instilled from other humans in your life - your mothers, fathers, teachers and preachers. In addition to the humans in your world, how and where you grew up, the messages you were told, the events - negative and positive, ultimately influence your thoughts, now.

Interestingly: 95% of your values are instilled before you’re 18!!!

0-4 years old - 50%

5-8 years old - 30%

9-18 years old - 15% =====> 95%

Before the age of 10-12 years old, your brain is really a sponge. You don’t really have the framework necessary to make rational thoughts out of the information you're taking in. You create stories to make the information make sense. Many of these stories no longer serve you as an adult, and are the root of self sabotaging behaviors, guilt and shame.

The good news is - You don’t have to live with what was programmed. You can change your programming. I’m going to go into this on the next few podcasts! So, please, LIKE and SUBSCRIBE! And I’ll have a BONUS episode with some skills I learned to help unravel the unhelpful programs that lead to self sabotage, guilt and shame.

What thoughts do you have that precede the emotions?

DO you feel...not good enough, not enough?

Do you compare yourself to others?

Are you sad, disappointed, angry?

DO you have fear and/or anxiety ruling your life?

Any of these can trigger emotions that can lead to self sabotaging behaviors.

Then what??? Subscribe and Like - you'll be the first to know!

Mr Sinatra was certainly fine with doing it his way - “he sings that he “took the blows” Are firmly planted in Frank Sinatra-land, “I’m doing it MY way’. Are you taking the blows? That’s completely fine. No judgement. However, before you scroll on, 2 questions:

1. If you're being honest, how is
   1. Your energy level?
   2. Your mental/emotional/spiritual health?
   3. Your weight management?
   4. Your ability to cope with life’s ups and downs?
2. Again, honest, how’s it going on your own?

Okay, let’s assume you figured out that MAYBE your way isn’t working so well. Which of these is/are your biggest challenge(s)?

1. Not staying motivated.
2. Feeling deprived after a couple days.
3. Feeling like you “deserve”….
4. Feeling hungry all the time.
5. Don’t really have a plan.
6. Get overwhelmed with trying to make changes.

I'd love to hear about your challenges! Find me on Facebook! Join my FREE Facebook group and get access toall of my ebooks, food plans and more!

I don’t know about you, but when someone “commands“ me to do anything it gets my hackles up, gets my knickers in a knot, and causes Resistance to rise up and stand strong. I get so prideful. And haughty in spirit.

And how does this serve me? I get to be right! I get to live exactly the way I want to! I get to make the choices I want to make!

Yep, sounds like a 4 year old!

And I got to feel empty and incongruent with how I was showing up in my life. Optimistic on the outside, dying on the inside.

SPOILER ALERT: Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs tells us exactly what’s going to happen. Yet, we’re usually surprised when life starts to unravel.

My life certainly unravelled. Not just my health at certain times, also my relationships, finances, and my faith.

Yes, it’s a longer story. You can find it on my earlier podcasts and the links to the Global Leadership Summit (Part 1 and Part 2) story about my journey. Beware, it’s ugly! It was ugly for a long time. I’ve been running from God for over 15 years.

However, the fall and destruction followed. Maybe God is causing part of your destruction, to get your attention. Maybe that health scare was for your benefit. Maybe your summer clothes that don’t fit are a warning. God uses circumstances we understand to communicate His message, loud and clear.

God slowly stripped me of all my external validation. All the “things” I had created and accumulated that defined “who I was” were slowly dismantled. Until, HE was the only “thing” I could see and the only thing left for me to grab.

Resistance cannot live in the presence of Jesus. I was humbled. I got to the place where I had no choice but to look at the price Jesus paid for me. I was reminded that I get to have a relationship with the God who kept chasing after me. And the benefits of that life over the me, me, me and more of me. When I was “all about me”, so was He! He was after the me He created, not the one I created.

Ultimately, I was overcome by gratitude. It’s so much easier to follow from a place of gratitude and love, than that of duty, obligation, fear or shame.

It’s a journey understanding God’s unconditional love for me, my value and self esteem. I’ll be walking you through all of that in upcoming podcasts…However, how are you going to respond to His relentless pursuit of YOU?

You can keep slogging through life or you can create a new one? How are you going to respond? Is your current response serving you? Are you going to keep running? Or are you going to allow God into your heart and life in a new way. Romans 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. God loves you!

Do you believe your health is holding you back from living the life God created for you?

Or your health is in such a place you're not even sure you have the clarity to discern what God wants for you?

I have definitely been there at 185 pounds, carrying baby weight and Cooper was 4 or 5 years old already! I was still eating for two!

Maybe you’ve tried so many times before to get healthy. And, now you feel frustrated, angry, and full of guilt and shame.

Then, one day it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was reading in 1 Corinthians that our bodies are the temple for the Holy Spirit! WOW!

My temple needed a radical renovation!

Do you feel like your temple needs renovating or at least an update? Or are you so frustrated and full of guilt and shame about your health journey, you’ve given up?

I’ve learned a new way! You don’t have to do this with guilt and shame. Remember 2 things:

1. Health is a journey

2. God has you exactly where He wants you and he loves you Psalm 48:9 Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love. YES!~ In YOUR temple! He loves you!

What happens to you when you're going to do a new thing?

Is 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

FIRST

Welcome - Quick update before I move on - 2 yes’s Yes, I moved to a new state; Yes, I still have a virtual practice. www.DrKrisSargent.com

What happens to you when you are going to try a new thing? Most of you don’t really like change. You like it while it’s exciting and new, yet, when the new wears off, it gets discarded and you're on to the next thing. But, what if the new thing is BIG, like a career move? Or location change? Or relationship status change? What do you do?

3 different responses that I’ve seen

You hit it head on. You're a bull in the china closet, leaping before you look, only assessing the consequences down the road. Maybe you go on your “gut feeling or intuition”, maybe you know the voice of the Holy Spirit so well, you Just Do It.

OR maybe

You freak out, get anxious and procrastinate? You may not know this, most procrastination is usually the result of Resistance, per Steven Pressfield in the War of Art, feigning as perfectionism and insecurity.

OR

Do you hide, lack honesty and vulnerability? This is me. I go underground, avoidance behavior. I attempt to hide from God - 😂 This of course is just another form of Resistance. Afraid of what other think, I hide.

Psalm 139 tells us that we cannot hide from God. He knows not only everything about us, including all our insecurities and doubts, He formed us exactly the way we are for His purposes. And this is where I landed a few days ago. Smack dad in the middle of one of my favorite Psalms.

So, I’m leaping, taking the big step. Every time I try something new, I’m reminded of the scene in Indiana jones where he must cross a chasm that has no bridge. He figures out by the clues he’s given, he must take a step first, then the stepping stone appears. Our action must come first

This podcast is the first of my new format. Shorter, to the point. I will include everything from what to eat and drink to how to move, sleep, think feel and have faith. So you’ll want to stay in touch and subscribe to learn more about my BIG, SCARY project.

I’d love to hear about your forms of resistance. Will you just stay stuck and justify your position OR will you take the leap into the exciting adventure God has planned for you?

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Annette Licitra is passionate about FOOD! Not just any food, but making food look and taste amazing without it being difficult. She specializes in helping busy professionals restore their energy, alleviate digestive distress, and simplify nutrition with easy & nourishing recipes so that they can keep powering through on their journeys.

I'm passionate about providing encouragement, support, and education to others as they invest in their health so that their bodies can shine for them!

If you're not sure where or how to get started, we'll work together to outline a road map of your individual health goals and create actions according to your specific needs.

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