When Ignoring Your Health Backfires: A Mom’s Gut, Hormones, and Faith Journey
In this inspiring episode, Kristen shares her raw and powerful story of putting her family first—until her own health hit a breaking point. What started as a mission to help her children navigate celiac disease led to the shocking realization that her own gut, hormones, and stress levels were spiraling out of control.
Kristen opens up about battling postpartum anxiety, chronic exhaustion, and unexplainable pain that doctors dismissed—until functional medicine revealed the deeper root causes. She dives into the role of gut health, food sensitivities, and hormone imbalances, and how stepping away from her career and into God’s calling brought lasting healing. If you’ve been silently suffering while holding it all together for your family, this episode is a must-listen.
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Chapters:
0:00 - When God Says It’s Time to Pivot
1:13 - Ignoring Your Health to Care for Your Kids
2:35 - Celiac Diagnosis & Going Gluten-Free as a Family
7:34 - Postpartum Anxiety, Gut Pain & Being Dismissed by Doctors
10:08 - Discovering Leaky Gut and Hormone Chaos
13:32 - How Stress Disrupts Hormones (and Periods)
15:56 - Healing Through Faith, Boundaries, and Rest
18:59 - Saying No to Teaching and Yes to God’s Plan
22:41 - Becoming a Coach & Helping Women Heal
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