The 5 Stages of Healing: From Hyper-Vigilance to Trusting Your Body | Ep 407
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Transcending chronic symptoms, reclaiming your vitality, and no longer making your health your whole personality? That’s exactly what this episode is about. Erin is breaking down the five stages of healing, and the EXACT patterns her clients go through before they feel free in their bodies.
Erin gets into the nocebo effect, health hyper-vigilance, the medicine spiral, and the kind of inner work that will move you into a new identity. She also connects the dots between how your brain processes labels, how fear and focus can reinforce symptoms, and why so many people stay stuck in loops even when they’re doing “all the right things.”
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In this episode:
- Erin’s favorite stage of healing (Stage 4) and why the real work happens there
- Our cultural obsession with labels, and why getting a diagnosis can feel like “sweet relief”
- How the medicine spiral creates deeper healing every time you move through it
- The identity shift that allows you to stop constantly monitoring your body and finally feel free in it
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Episode 258: Using Manifestation to Heal Your Body
Episode 404: From Symptom Obsession to Freedom In Your Body
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends, before we get into today's show, I've got a big announcement for you. If you've been on the wait list for Manifest Your Health, our brand new app in membership, check your email because you've got something waiting for you. As of today, we are officially open for business. The app is up and running and you can join Manifest Your Health. We're offering a limited time founders rate for only |
| 0:21.7 | $49 a month. So snag that while you can. Head to the link in our show notes to sign up, |
| 0:27.7 | and I cannot wait to see you inside the app. Hey guys, if you've been following me for a while or you've |
| 0:33.3 | been listening to the podcast, you probably already know that when it comes to your health, |
| 0:36.3 | there's more to the story than what you've been told. A lot of you guys are really smart. You've tried things, |
| 0:41.5 | you've run labs, you've worked with practitioners, and you're still sitting here like, |
| 0:45.3 | why doesn't my body feel better yet? That's actually the exact person we work with inside our |
| 0:50.6 | one-to-one care. You are not doing anything wrong. It's just that no one has really put the |
| 0:55.5 | full picture together for you. Inside our one-to-one functional care method, we look at everything together. |
| 1:02.1 | Your gut, your hormones, your nutrient status, your nervous system, your history. We don't see them |
| 1:07.4 | as separate issues, but as one connected story because it is. And then we help you |
| 1:12.4 | actually work through that with real support, ongoing guidance, adjustments, and helping you |
| 1:17.5 | understand what your body is doing and why. Our goal isn't to just help you feel a little bit better |
| 1:23.1 | for a few months. It's to actually create something that lasts. We don't go for 90% better. We keep it |
| 1:29.3 | 100. So if you're dealing with chronic symptoms, gut issues, hormone imbalances, autoimmunity, |
| 1:35.0 | and you feel like you've tried everything, I really do get it. And at the same time, |
| 1:39.5 | I'll say this. When we work with someone like you, it's very rare that we don't find what's missing, |
| 1:45.5 | because that's what we do. We're a team of highly skilled practitioners working on complex |
| 1:49.8 | cases every single day. You're not doing this alone. You have ongoing support, messaging access |
| 1:55.6 | to your practitioner, monthly appointments where we're looking at your progress, your labs, |
| 1:59.7 | what's working, and what's not, in actually adjusting those things in real time so we can find what works for your body. |
| 2:06.9 | You can apply to work with us through the link in the show notes, and our team will take a look |
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