Habit 96: Make Friends With Your Feelings with Danelle Gallo

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July 1, 2025 • 41 mins

Sometimes it’s easier to track your food than to name your feelings. But what if tuning into your emotions held the key to more energy, consistency, and even health progress with autoimmune disease? In this episode, I’m joined by somatic coach and former nurse Danelle Gal (aka Nurse Nell) for a conversation that brings warmth, wisdom, and practical strategies to the emotional side of habit change.

Together, we unpack how emotions live in the body, why it’s worth learning to feel them on purpose, and how befriending your feelings might just be the missing piece in your autoimmune health journey.

Key Takeaways:

How feeling dismissed in her own health journey led Danelle to do things differently
What somatic work actually looks like—and why it’s not as “woo” as you might think
A different way to think about grief (hint: it’s not just about loss)
Why some emotions are hard to name—and why that’s not a problem
The connection between emotions and habits we don’t always see coming
What changes when you stop trying to get rid of a feeling and start getting curious about it

"What I feel makes sense—for reasons known and unknown."
– Danelle Gal

DO of the DAY
Try a simple 3-step process to make friends with a feeling you’d usually ignore, stuff down, or try to think your way out of. You don’t need to name it perfectly. You don’t need to fix it. Just be with it a little longer than you usually would—and see what it has to say.

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