forcing and pushing our way through things is our nervous system's way of attempting to create

certainty. That's what your mind always wants. What's predictable, what is certain, and what it can

control. And this is one of the ways we can feel almost like addicted to stress in the body

without constant stress or constant urgency or forcing

or pushing or pressure, it can feel like something's wrong. So we keep recalibrating back to the

comfort zone. This is kind of what the nervous system does. Welcome to the functional nutrition

podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things a little

differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience

as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive

functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body.

This is where science meets self-trust.

Your body already knows how to heal and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for

new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never

know whose life you might change. Hello there, my friends. I recently wrote myself a permission slip to take some

pressure off myself. And I've been doing this kind of a lot lately because I am in the process of

shifting some long-held patterns that no longer feel like they are serving this current phase of my

life and certainly not where I want

to head. And in order to do that, I have found that I actually have to permit myself to do that.

So today, this podcast is going to be in authenticity and honesty share. I shared with you guys a couple of weeks ago that I promised

myself to write and create what was on my heart, not just what strategy tells me I must do.

And I know that we all learn through storytelling. So I believe that sharing my own stories,

sharing my own experience, by doing that, it really

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