261: 3 Simple Ways to Heal Naturally & Gain Optimal Health So You Can Fully Live Your God-Given Dreams

How can you gain optimal health so you can live in the fullness of life you were meant to have as a follower of Yeshua? That's what we're talking about today. Hey sister, welcome to the Power On Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Sheridan and I need to resell Christ. Followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food. We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers to traditional routes. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods and it's not hard. You just need the way. That's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started. Hey there, friend, we are so excited about all that this year holds, and especially this episode. As members of God's kingdom, we do not have to live in the miserable ways of the world. We can choose to live in freedom, but to live in the joy and fullness that we were created to have in life. We've got to leave the old ways behind and then align our lives in as many ways as possible with His. Now, I don't know about you, but diets have never brought joy or fullness to our lives. Those just aren't two words we associate with going on a diet. Have you ever thought about that, jared? Has that ever been something that you thought about Diet and fullness.

No, enjoy happiness. You don't usually think of those two words. Well, no, not joy either. But diet and fullness, you don't think of those being together. Nor diet or joy.

No, yeah, that's a good point diet and fullness in so many ways. Like right, you never think about being full and being on a diet at the same time, but I was thinking about just a complete life, one that you absolutely love. Now, at times you might hear me or Jared call this way of living a diet, but by that we just mean a way of eating. Listen, the way we do whole food plant bases is about as far away from dieting as you can get. So the question is how do you gain the freedom that you are meant to have this year? How do you leave your health struggles behind you and finally start feeling so good that you can start fully living this amazing life you've been given? The first step is to refuse to go on another miserable diet. It just won't work. Counting calories, keeping up with points, stepping on the scale for crying out loud and weighing yourself every day why?

Unless you have a specific health reason, I would just say don't do it.

Toss it out, depriving yourself, feeling hangry while other people are filling themselves up and enjoying their meals. It's time for out with the old way Now. Please don't come to whole food, plant based living and treat it like another diet, applying these same restrictive ways of living, or you'll be setting yourself up for failure. So those miserable dieting methods have got to go. That's step number one. And then what? Well, I'm gonna ask you, what did Sheridan and I always say when there's out with something old, what do you have to do? You've got to replace those old ways. You can't just stop doing one thing and not replace it with something that's for your best if you want to thrive in life.

Especially in this area, because if you're out with the old, then you're not really left with anything to eat. Yeah, so it's got to be, especially if some of those old ways were, at least you feel, like you're your favorite ways. There's a ways that you know. You think they taste good. I say think because until you've tried plant-based you just don't know.

You don't know what you're missing.

But you're left with a whole. There's really not much you can eat if you're getting rid of the old so it only makes sense to bring in the new.

It does, and so step two is making it your goal to find your new favorite whole food plant-based meals. Now, if you know that the old meals you say you love are sabotaging you, do you really love them? I want you to think about that for a minute. I love that food or I love this food. Do you really love it? Do you love how it makes you feel? Do you love the health that you have now as a result of those choices?

Excellent question.

Those meals that you say are quote good, are they really good? We've got to start thinking about the words we're using. Oh, this meat-top cheese-filled Oli dish is so good. I want to challenge you to think about the words you're using to describe what you're putting in your mouth. If that very meal you're telling yourself and others is good and that's the same food that's keeping you stuck, is it really good?

That's an excellent point, because we've thought about this. But on the flip side, where we may say something is a catastrophe when it's really an inconvenience. So the words we use shape the way we think, right, so hadn't really thought about it from this angle, where we say, oh, that's good. So in your mind it's reinforcing that this may be something healthy, something good for me, when we might like how it tastes Right, at least in the moment. But is it really a good food for us? Is it nourishing our bodies? Is it optimizing our health?

And then if it's not good and if you choose to keep eating it, you won't be empowering your body to enable you to live your best life. So if those foods that I often freely state are good, aren't really good for me, the next question is what is good? Because we only have one life to live and we want to live it to our fullest potential. That's our calling. So we've got to be using the right words here, true words, and then actually filling our lives with truly good fuel, and I believe the real key here is finding the ways to make these good, whole plant foods taste pleasing to you, because if you enjoy eating them, you are going to love how you live, feel great and find yourself living this year like you haven't been able to live in a very long time. This is how you gain the freedom to fully live, and we want that for you. Jared and I are so here for this. So step number one is right now Refuse to keep saying those foods are good for you that aren't good, and refuse to go on another miserable diet that you dread or, just straight up, don't enjoy, because it makes you feel like you're leaving what is quote good behind. Thank you Instead start learning today how to take the truly good food, the real whole plant foods in their entire package that God created them in, and create meals with them that you really, really enjoy. And here's the bonus step. I want you to write them down as you discover them. Keep a running list of these new Whole Food Plant-Based Favorite Meals. If you take action on what we've told you today, you are going to start gaining some serious momentum and, before you know it, gaining massive results too. But if you're thinking, listen, I don't even know where to start finding such meals to make, I need recipes that actually taste good. I've tried Whole Food Plant-Based before and it just didn't taste good. Go and grab the Power On Plants Cookbook at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook. It contains over 50 tried and true recipes in it to help you get started in finding some new favorite desserts and delicious drinks and some main meals and breakfast options and some mouth-watering sauces too. I intentionally created this cookbook to set you up for big wins, and it doesn't just have main meals in it, because you need to know how to become a sauce boss. You need to know how to get drinks if you love drinks or maybe you're a person who loves desserts. You need some new sweet treats, some snacks, some different things in the different categories. So I've given you some of each to help you get started. That's at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook. But what if you need community Because you tried Plant-Based before? So many of you have so many people inside Power On Plants Society are like Anita Jared. I've tried this so many times and it's never stuck before and now. It's working. It's sticking. I'm getting results. I just can't figure out how much. These are the things you need to do. First, find your new favorites. If you don't know where to start, get the cookbook. Second, get in community. Podcast Insiders' experience is our free Podcast Listeners' community. This is the perfect place for you, even if you're brand-new to Plant-Based living. Inside Pi, you're going to gain ideas and inspiration from other podcast listeners who are on the same journey to becoming their best so they can fully live all that God has planned for them in this amazing life. Plus, inside Pi, you are going to be able to search every single podcast episode we have ever released from the past and on into the future as we release those. They are all searchable for you inside Podcast Insider's experience. Now let that sink in for a minute. If you need something about breakfast or blueberries or whatever it is, this search function that we built into this community is going to allow you to search every word. Jared and I have ever spoken on every single podcast we've ever released. Think about that for a minute.

So this isn't just the title. Imagine that you've got your little AI or something that's scrubbing through all the transcripts of every single podcast, but then, when you click on that word, it takes you to the exact moment of the audio file and then plays it for you.

Oh yeah, it's not like it just pulls up the episode and then you have to search through it and find that word. It pulls up the exact moments or moment when we said the word so you can click right to it. This is a game changer. This is how you start getting what is truly good and beautiful into your life so you can create the life that you were born to live. We are excited to meet you and get to know you more inside of Pi. Go right now and join and grab the Power On Plants Cookbook as well. These are going to set you up for success. Power On Plants Cookbook is at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook. Join us inside Pi at poweronplantscom forward slash P I E, because we all love Pi, so that is a great place for you to go. Visit us at poweronplantscom forward slash Pi P I E and we will see you there. Until next time, sunshine, watch your words. Don't say something's good when it's not. Please don't go on another miserable diet this year. Let's start creating the lifestyle that is going to help you thrive. Get more of the whole plant foods that God has made for you in their whole form. Find out simple ways to start getting those onto your plate. Get your new favorite. Start keeping a running list and gaining momentum. Get inside Pi for your ideas and the inspiration that you need and where every podcast episode is searchable for you. This is going to be the start of some amazing years for you, sunshine. Let's make these your best years ever. We look forward to seeing you again next time on Power On Plants. Have a great week, thank you.