Spirit, Purpose & Energy for Personal Growth, Emotional Healing & Manifestation

Perimenopause, Weight Gain & Cortisol: Why Your Healthy Habits Aren't WorkingGuest: Bria Gadd — The Period WhispererAre you eating healthy, exercising regularly, and doing everything you've been told to do, yet STILL gaining weight, struggling with sleep, or feeling exhausted?What if the problem isn't your hormones alone—or that you're not trying hard enough?In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Bria Gadd, The Period Whisperer, to explore the connection between perimenopause, cortisol, chronic stress, metabolism, and what Bria calls HEALTH DEBT.Bria shares her personal journey from fitness professional to perimenopause expert after experiencing unexplained weight gain, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and hormonal changes—even while maintaining her healthy habits.Together, JJ and Bria discuss why simply eating less and exercising more may not be the answer, and why understanding your body's energy demands, nervous system, and capacity for recovery is essential.In This Episode, You'll Discover:What is Health Debt? Why your body's energy demands may exceed its available resources and how Bria uses this concept to explain frustrating midlife symptoms.Perimenopause vs. Chronic Stress: Why not every symptom should automatically be blamed on declining estrogen.Cortisol and Weight Gain: How chronic stress may influence sleep, metabolism, recovery, and body composition.Why Your Workouts Aren't Working: How pushing harder without adequate recovery can leave you feeling worse.The Nervous System Connection: Why moving out of fight-or-flight and making space for rest, pleasure, and joy matters.Hormones and Sexual Health: The relationship between stress, safety, arousal, libido, and overall well-being.How to Start Rebuilding Your Health: Simple foundations involving sleep, nutrition, movement, stress reduction, and recovery.The takeaway: Your body may not need you to work HARDER. It may need you to understand what it's asking for and support it differently.Resources & LinksTake Bria's FREE Health Debt Quiz:https://www.jjflizanes.com/healthdebtDiscover where you may be experiencing health debt and explore your next steps.Connect with Bria Gadd — The Period Whisperer:https://www.briatheperiodwhisperer.comListen to The Period Whisperer Podcast:https://www.briatheperiodwhisperer.com/the-period-whisperer-podcastExplore More with JJ Flizanes:https://www.jjflizanes.comYour health isn't just about what you eat or how much you exercise. It's also about how you manage stress, support your nervous system, and create the conditions for your body to recover.Listen now and discover why your healthy habits may not be delivering the results you expect!

Why Couples Fight: Childhood Wounds, Triggers & Emotional HealingWith Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly HuntWhy do couples keep having the same arguments, even when they love each other? What if the real reason you're fighting has very little to do with what's happening today—and everything to do with wounds from your childhood?In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes welcomes Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy and bestselling authors of Getting the Love You Want, to explore childhood core wounds, unconscious relationship patterns, and the emotional triggers that keep couples repeating the same conflicts.Harville and Helen share their personal stories, the origins of Imago Therapy, and how their own relationship struggles helped shape a revolutionary approach to communication and healing. Harville also reveals a newer insight about the difference between managing relationship power struggles and moving beyond them into real love.JJ shares how discovering the Imago Core Wound Exercise nearly a decade ago became the foundation for her Core Wound Map® and Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program—helping people uncover the subconscious beliefs and survival strategies influencing their relationships, health, happiness, and sense of self.In This Episode, You'll Discover:Why childhood wounds show up as emotional triggers in adult relationships.How unmet childhood needs influence who we choose as partners and why we fight.The fascinating origins of Imago Relationship Therapy.Why understanding your past isn't always enough to change your patterns.How listening, mirroring, validation, and empathy can transform communication.The difference between managing conflict and experiencing real love.How identifying your core wounds can help you change repeating emotional and relationship patterns.The biggest takeaway? The argument you're having today may be connected to a wound you experienced decades ago. Real emotional healing isn't simply understanding why you react—it's learning to respond differently.As JJ says, "Healing is when you are different in the same situation."Ready to Discover and Rewire Your Core Wounds?1. Core Wound Map® Founders ExperienceJoin JJ's exclusive six-week Founders Experience beginning November 1 and help shape the Core Wound Map while discovering the hidden patterns influencing your life.https://jjflizanes.com/map2. Pre-Order JJ's New Core Wound BookBe part of the book's pre-launch campaign, explore exclusive bonuses, and support bringing this transformative work to a wider audience.Book pre-launch URL: [Insert correct URL]3. Three-Month Private One-on-One CoachingWork personally with JJ to identify your core wounds, understand your emotional patterns, and develop a personalized roadmap for lasting change.Private coaching URL: [Insert correct URL]4. Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027 ProgramReady for a deeper transformation? Apply for JJ's nine-month Rewire program and learn to change the subconscious patterns driving your emotional reactions, relationships, and self-sabotage.https://jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJ: https://jjflizanes.com

Should You Stay or Leave? How to Stop Letting Fear Decide Your RelationshipWhat if the biggest thing keeping you in your relationship isn't love—but fear?Deciding whether to stay in a marriage or end a relationship can be one of the most emotionally challenging decisions you'll ever make. Fear of hurting someone, being alone, making the wrong choice, or facing the unknown can keep you from moving forward—even when you know something needs to change.In this episode of Spirit, Purpose & Energy, JJ Flizanes welcomes back Meagan Sardana, a recent graduate of her nine-month Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program, for a deeply personal conversation about divorce, childhood wounds, emotional healing, and reclaiming your power.After years of contemplating the end of her marriage, Meagan shares how understanding her Core Wound Map helped her recognize the fears and avoidance patterns influencing her decisions. With new tools, support, and a different perspective, she found the courage to have difficult conversations, establish boundaries, and begin transitioning out of her marriage.But this conversation isn't about encouraging anyone to get divorced.It's about learning to make decisions from clarity and self-worth rather than fear and old emotional wounds.In This Episode, You'll Discover:How childhood wounds influence your marriage, relationships, and decisions.Why fear of confrontation, rejection, or abandonment can keep you from making changes.How Meagan used the Couple's Dialogue tool to navigate a difficult conversation with her husband.Why ending a relationship doesn't automatically end the emotional patterns that shaped it.How to recognize avoidance, suppression, and other survival patterns.Why understanding your Core Wound Map can help you establish boundaries and reclaim your personal power.The difference between talking about change and actually living differently.Whether you're contemplating divorce, navigating a relationship transition, or simply tired of repeating the same emotional patterns, this conversation offers a new perspective on what it means to heal.Because healing isn't necessarily about changing your circumstances. It's about becoming different in the same situation.Resources & OpportunitiesCore Wound Map Book & Founders ExperienceDiscover the unconscious emotional patterns influencing your life. Learn about JJ's upcoming book and the six-week Core Wound Map Founders Experience beginning November 1, 2026.https://www.jjflizanes.com/mapRewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027Applications are now open for JJ's immersive nine-month program, designed to help you move beyond awareness and practice lasting change.https://www.jjflizanes.com/apply5 Levels to Restore Health — November 6–8, 2026Join JJ and special guest Dr. William Davis in Redondo Beach for a transformational weekend exploring healing on five levels: physical, emotional, mental, relational and environmental, and spiritual.https://www.jjflizanes.com/restoreConnect with JJ FlizanesWebsite: https://www.jjflizanes.comRemember: You don't transform your life by understanding it differently. You transform it by LIVING differently.

What happens when you stop simply understanding your emotional triggers and start changing the patterns behind them?In this week's episode, I'm joined by six women who have just completed my nine-month Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program. And instead of me telling you what this work can do, you're going to hear directly from the women who experienced it.Each woman came into this journey with her own history, emotional patterns, relationships, and reasons for wanting change. Nine months later, they're sharing what shifted, what surprised them, and how they're responding differently to situations that once triggered them.Because understanding why you feel the way you do is one thing. Actually becoming different in the same situation is something else entirely.In This Episode, We Explore:Why identifying your childhood wounds is only the beginning of emotional healingHow unconscious emotional patterns influence relationships, confidence, self-worth, and everyday reactionsWhat happens when you move beyond collecting information and begin practicing new emotional responsesHow six women experienced changes in their relationships, boundaries, communication, and self-trustWhy rewiring core wound patterns requires repetition, awareness, support, and real-life applicationThe difference between managing your emotional triggers and changing how you respond to themWhy healing isn't about becoming perfect—it's about creating more freedom, peace, love, joy, and possibilityThese women share personal experiences of becoming more confident, speaking up, navigating difficult conversations, recognizing their emotional reactions, and allowing themselves to show up differently in their lives.Healing is when you are different in the same situation.And this conversation gives you a glimpse of what that can actually look like.Ready to Explore Your Own Core Wounds?1. Pre-Order Your Core Wound MapMy new book, Your Core Wound Map, is now available through its pre-launch campaign, with special courses, experiences, and bonuses.Explore the campaign and reserve your copy:https://www.jjflizanes.com/map2. Join the Core Wound Map Founders Experience — Starts November 1, 2026I'm inviting a small group of people who are new to this work to experience the Core Wound Map process with me over six weeks. This is an opportunity to identify your core wounds, understand your emotional patterns, and contribute to the evolution of the process.Only 12 spaces remain.Learn more and reserve your place:https://www.jjflizanes.com/map3. Apply for Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027If you're ready to go beyond identifying your wounds and commit to the deeper work of changing your emotional responses, applications for the next nine-month Rewire program are available.Apply for the 2027 Rewire program:https://jjflizanes.com/apply You don't have to spend the rest of your life responding to the world through the wounds of your past.Your history may explain your patterns, but it doesn't have to determine your future.

What if you’ve done years of personal growth, therapy, healing, and self-development—and you’re still getting triggered by the same things?In this week’s episode, I’m doing something a little different. I’m handing the microphone over to my dear friend, Empowerment Strategist, and host of the Open Heart Healing Podcast, Vesta Hurlbutt, to interview ME about the work that has become such a huge part of my life: the Core Wound Map.Vesta has been part of this journey almost from the beginning. She has experienced the Core Wound work herself, trained in the process, and watched it evolve over the years—so she was the perfect person to ask me the question:Why now? Why is it finally time for this book?The truth is, I thought I was writing a book. What I realized along the way was that I was actually creating a process—one that could help people identify the core wounds underneath their triggers, recognize the patterns those wounds created, and begin changing the way they respond.Because identifying your wounds is only the beginning.In this conversation, we talk about:How the Core Wound Map evolved from my own experience with Imago work into the process I use todayWhy understanding your patterns can change the way you look at your triggers, relationships, and pastThe difference between identifying a core wound and actually rewiring the patternWhy you can intellectually understand where your reactions come from and still continue having themWhy our relationships can become powerful opportunities for healing old woundsThe role of support, stretching, and practice in creating new responsesWhy this book has taken me years to complete—and why I finally know it’s readyLearning to trust your intuition even when other people don’t understand the timingWhy I’m especially interested in helping people who have already done a LOT of work on themselves and are wondering, “Why am I still getting triggered?”YOUR CORE WOUND MAP — PRE-LAUNCHYour Core Wound Map: Why You’re Still Getting Triggered After All the Work You’ve Done—and What Will Finally Change It is officially in pre-launch.And this isn’t simply about pre-ordering a book.During the pre-launch, there are opportunities to go deeper, experience the Core Wound Map process, access special bonuses, and even help me test and refine some of the newest pieces of the work before the final book is published.If you’ve been doing the work but know there’s another layer you haven’t uncovered yet, I created this for you.Learn more and join the pre-launch here:https://www.jjflizanes.com/mapABOUT VESTA HURLBUTTVesta is the host of the Open Heart Healing Podcast, where she explores emotional healing, nutrition, menopause, personal growth, and the everyday trigger moments that can become opportunities to understand and heal ourselves more deeply.Search for Open Heart Healing Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.And remember:Healing is when you are different in the same situation.