🎙 Episode Title: Unwanted
🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season explores different kinds of hunger both literal and metaphorical. From struggles with food to deeper cravings for purpose, fulfillment, and connection, we’re diving into stories that truly nourish the soul.
👣 Guest Introduction:
I’ve got to admit when I first heard that today’s guest, Christi Kelsey, had a connection to Duke University (her husband works at the Duke Cancer Center in Durham, North Carolina), I hesitated.
If you know me, you know where my loyalties lie. Around here, Duke and UNC aren’t just schools they’re archenemies. The rivalry runs deep, and sometimes, honestly, it can cloud how we see people on the “other side.”
But as I sat with it, I realized something: the greatest rivalries often happen much closer to home. Sometimes the fiercest opponent isn’t wearing a different shade of blue it’s the face staring back at us in the mirror.
That’s what this episode is really about.
Christi is a nutrition coach, cancer survivor, and women’s health advocate who knows what it feels like to feel unwanted—by your body, your circumstances, or your reflection. After two cancer diagnoses and years of fighting her body, Christi learned how to stop seeing herself as the enemy and start treating her body as an ally.
Now she helps women over 40 break free from the guilt, restriction, and all-or-nothing mindset that keep them stuck. Her approach isn’t about diets it’s about dignity, strength, and learning to make peace with yourself.
💡 Episode Highlights:
How cancer transformed Christi’s relationship with her body
The connection between rivalry, identity, and self-image
Why guilt and restriction never lead to freedom
How to build sustainable habits that actually last
What it means to nourish yourself instead of punish yourself
How to make peace with your body no jersey required
🔗 Connect with Christi Kelsey:
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