🎧 What if your illness wasn’t random—but the result of years of suppressed trauma and survival mode? In this personal and powerful episode, Kathy sits down in person with former client turned friend, Marla Chaffin, who shares her raw journey from a lifetime of feeling unwanted to reclaiming her power, purpose, and health.

Diagnosed with fibromyalgia and lupus after years of emotional trauma, Marla opens up about how ancestral wounds, religious repression, and family rejection manifested into disease—and how the Unlearn the Crap method gave her the reset she needed.

🌿 Topics include invisible illness, trauma-informed healing, women's health, and the power of nutritional and emotional sovereignty.

💎 Explore more at: https://kathybaldwin.me
📚 Check out Kathy’s books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap (available on Amazon and bookstores).

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Let’s talk about the crap we hold in—literally.
This powerful episode with Nikky Golly, a gut health mentor and self-proclaimed poop expert, explores the connection between digestive issues and emotional suppression. Together, Kathy and Nikky unearth the real reasons behind chronic constipation, bloating, and burnout—and it has a lot more to do with your childhood conditioning than your fiber intake.

They dive deep into what it means to trust your gut, release shame around digestion, and finally unlearn the good girl script that keeps women sick, stuck, and spiritually silent.

Connect and learn more with Nikki at her website https://nikkigolly.com/

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📚 Read Kathy’s books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP and How I Unlearned MY Crap (Amazon + bookstores)

• Crap to Unlearn: Nikky challenges the “good girl” programming and reveals how deeply it’s tied to digestive dysfunction, emotional suppression, and burnout.

• Kathy's Reflection: Kathy connects the dots between her own digestive shutdowns and the pressure to keep up appearances. Her body was trying to tell the truth her mouth wouldn’t speak.

• Fascinating Gut Fact: Your gut produces over 90% of the body’s serotonin—meaning poop is emotional. Literally. And constipation is often energetic.

• Relatable Signs: Chronic constipation, gut issues, bloating, shame around bodily functions, “holding it all in” emotionally and physically

• Myths Debunked:

  • “Good girls don’t talk about poop”

  • Digestive issues are just physical

  • You can heal emotionally without addressing the gut

  • Women’s bodies should be quiet, contained, and controlled

• Guest’s Wisdom Nugget: “Your body doesn’t lie. If you’re backed up emotionally, you’re probably backed up physically too.”

From Nikky Golly:

• "I became the poop queen because I stopped being ashamed of what every body does."

• "Success without alignment is just burnout in a prettier outfit—with IBS."

• "Your gut is your second brain, and it’s screaming when your mouth won’t."

• "When I started pooping regularly, I also started telling the truth."

• "We’re emotionally constipated and spiritually starved—and it shows in our digestion."

From Kathy Baldwin:

• "We don’t just unlearn beliefs—we unlearn where we’ve been stuck in the body."

• "Healing my gut was the beginning of reclaiming my voice."

• "I had to stop trying to look like I had it all together while my insides were screaming."

Ever feel like you’re doing all the healing work—but still stuck in the same survival loop? In this powerful episode, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Girisha Andrea Steigler, an embodiment guide and nervous system healer, to unlearn the performative patterns that high-achieving women carry: savior syndrome, overgiving, and the constant pursuit of external validation.

Together they explore the role of fascia, trauma, and stored emotion in shaping our identity—and how somatic healing offers the key to truly “leveling up.” You’ll hear raw stories, scientific insight, and soul-level truths that challenge the myth that success must come from struggle.

🎁 Find Girisha’s work and free offerings on Instagram @girisha.andrea.steigler

📚 Explore Kathy’s books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP and How I Unlearned MY Crap — now on Amazon & bookstores worldwide.

✨ Visit https://kathybaldwin.me to start your own soul-led transformation.

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• Crap to Unlearn: The belief that self-worth must be earned through external achievements and over-functioning. Girisha had to dismantle the survival patterns of “good girl,” “performer,” and “savior” to reclaim her true identity.

• Kathy’s Reflection: Kathy reveals her own entanglement with performance and caregiving identities—how she collapsed after being “too strong for too long.”

• Embodied Healing Wisdom: Girisha explains how trauma is stored in the nervous system and fascia, and how body-based healing—not just mindset—unlocks transformation.

• High-Achiever Burnout Signs: Chronic overgiving, boundary collapse, imposter syndrome, constant productivity pressure, feeling “never enough.”

• Challenged Myths: That healing must be linear, talk therapy is enough, or success equals hustle.

• Practical Reframe: Emotions aren’t problems to fix—they’re messengers. And healing isn’t fixing yourself, it’s remembering who you are underneath the programming.

• Girisha’s Gift: Listeners are invited to explore her embodied work and upcoming somatic offerings via her Instagram and healing sessions.

• 💡 Memorable Quotes:

  Girisha:

  • “The body remembers what the mind forgets. That’s where the truth lives.”

  • “You don’t heal by thinking your way through—it’s in the pause, the breath, the tremble.”

  • “I had to stop performing healing and actually feel it.”

  Kathy:

  • “I didn’t just collapse emotionally—I collapsed energetically. And in that collapse, I heard my soul.”

  • “You can’t level up if you’re still trying to earn your worth with every step.”