What if 10–15 minutes every morning could transform everything — your relationship with food, your confidence, your creativity, even your connection to your purpose?

In this episode of The Embodied Warrior podcast, Kayla MacDonald shares the one daily ritual that radically changed her life—and how you can use it to collapse timelines, ignite your inner fire, and break free from binge and emotional eating.

It’s not another rigid routine. It’s Dance Alchemy—a soul-led, element-based movement practice that brings your entire being online in the most magical way. Kayla shares how this ritual helped her stay consistent, confident, and grounded through major life transitions—and why it might just be the portal you’ve been searching for.

In this powerful episode, you'll learn:

• 💃 Why Dance Alchemy has become a non-negotiable daily ritual for Kayla
• 🔥 The science of why movement unlocks creativity, confidence, and healing
• 🧠 How this practice activates your whole brain (and calms your overthinking!)
• 🌱 The exact ways it helped her stop binge eating and reconnect with her body
• 🪄 Why creating emotional “states” is a skill—and how to practice them like a pro
• ✨ What happened during Kayla’s 40-day challenge—and how her life transformed

Plus: the truth about upper limits, what really helps with cravings, and why replacing habits works better than trying to “just sit with the urge.”

🎧 Listen now and reclaim your morning magic!

🔗 Links + Resources:

💜 Join The Power Portal (Free 2-Day Masterclass):
https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/powerportal

🎧 Referenced episode – #071: The Most Important Skill You’ll Ever Build
https://embodiedwarrior.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10735901

💫 Dance Alchemy Global on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dancealchemyglobal/

💫 Brooke Jillian Yantzi (Founder of Dance Alchemy):
https://www.instagram.com/brookejillianyantzi/

📲 More podcast episodes + rituals:
https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/podcast

You don’t need more discipline. You don’t need to push harder. And you definitely don’t need to be perfect.

What you do need? A united will—a deep inner alignment between your desires, beliefs, emotions, and actions.

In this vulnerable, fiery comeback episode of The Embodied Warrior, I share:

• Why relying on willpower alone keeps you stuck
• What to do when your inner parts are at war
• My personal pattern of self-sabotage (yep, including Popeyes and Crazy Bread 🙃)
• How to collapse the timeline by leading through the mess—not after it

Plus: a powerful reframe on your cravings, your perfectionism, and your visionary path.

✨ This episode is also your invitation to join me inside The Power Portal, my two-day live experience designed to transmute your biggest food, body, and self-image struggles into embodied sovereignty.

🔥 Let’s move from force to flow, from shame to power, and from scattered energy to unstoppable alignment.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why willpower alone doesn’t create lasting change
• The emotional cost of perfectionism (and how to reparent the part that’s scared)
• How to move from internal war to internal unity
• Two transformational channels: releasing resistance & adding creative power
• Why your cravings are not the enemy—they’re the invitation

Perfect For:

• High-achieving women with big dreams and even bigger inner critics
• Listeners who are tired of the binge-shame-repeat cycle
• Creators and coaches who want to show up more authentically (even in the mess)

Links + Resources:

• 💥 Sign up for The Power Portal: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/powerportal
• 📝 Full transcript & journal prompts: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/podcast
• 🎙️ Patrick’s episode: 012 – How to Set Goals & Achieve Anything

What if your struggle with food was never just about food? In this power-packed episode, Kayla shatters the illusion of a traditional weight loss journey and invites you into something much deeper—a Warrior’s Journey. Through seven soul-stirring signs, she reveals how your drama with food, body, and health might be the sacred battleground where your true identity is fighting to emerge. This is the episode for every woman who knows she’s powerful—except when it comes to food—and is ready to reclaim her fire, her focus, and her fierce feminine force.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• Why your food struggle might actually be a portal to power
• The hidden cost of making food and weight your main character
• How to tell if you’re on a Warrior’s Journey vs. a health journey
• Why cycles of burnout and perfectionism don’t mean you’re broken
• The real reason your inner “crazy” is actually sacred and essential

Referenced in This Episode:

• Kayla’s signature journaling process (free with email signup at EmbodiedWritingWarrior.com)
• Join the waitlist for upcoming offers & deep-dive experiences

In this empowering episode, Kayla sits down with women’s wellness guide and fasting coach Nicki Thompson to explore what it really takes to heal emotional eating and create aligned health from the inside out.

They cover:

• ✨ How fasting helped Nicki regulate her emotions and rebuild trust with food
• 🧠 The role of journaling, subconscious work, and future-self embodiment
• 🍽️ The difference between coping mechanisms and true nourishment
• 💥 Why food freedom isn’t about perfection — it’s about presence
• 🌱 How to meet resistance with love and show up for your future self today

Nicki shares her story with depth, honesty, and practical wisdom. This episode is an invitation to come home to your body, release old patterns, and reclaim your health as sacred.

Connect with Nicki:

• Instagram
• Website: Fasting With Nicki
• Join the waitlist for the next fasting group:
  https://fastingwithnicki.com/fasting-program/
• 2 Week Mindset Reset:
  https://fastingwithnicki.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2-Week-Mindset-Reset-.pdf

More from Kayla:

• Podcast: Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women
• Instagram: @embodiedwritingwarrior
• Website: https://www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com/

You already are your future self—and this episode is your 3-part roadmap to living as her now. In this deeply personal and insight-packed episode, I share how to move beyond mindset and into embodiment. You'll walk away with powerful truths, journal prompts, and aligned actions to activate your next chapter.

We explore:

• Why failing as your future self is better than succeeding as your current one
• The sneaky ways we procrastinate in the name of “healing”
• How to step into the arena of your future self—even when it’s scary

Mentioned in this episode:

• [Episode 170 – You're Not Too Much - You're Just Meant For More. Welcome To Your Embodied Warrior Era]
• [Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy]
• Podcast Show Notes & Journal Prompts

Welcome to Embodied Warrior — a power portal for women who are done with surface-level self-help and ready to reclaim their full-spectrum power.

In this raw and activating rebirth episode, I’m sharing what this new era of the podcast is all about, who it’s for (and who it’s not), and why I’ve returned with a deeper mission than ever before. You’ll hear the real story behind my evolution from personal trainer to embodiment guide—and why this show isn’t just a podcast... it’s a movement.

We’ll dive into the 7 most common roadblocks that the Embodied Warrior faces—and how to begin alchemizing them into fuel for your evolution. Then I’ll introduce the 7 core principles that will guide everything we explore in future episodes.

If you’ve been stuck in burnout, perfectionism, and self-sabotage… if you crave depth, freedom, and spiritual expansion… if you’re ready to live as your future self instead of endlessly “fixing” the current one—this episode is your invitation.

This is the beginning of something big. Let’s rise.

Journal Prompts & Embodied Action Steps:
📓 Available at embodiedwritingwarrior.com

You have nothing to prove and you are not the sum total of your accomplishments and accolades.

This episode is a deep invitation to own your inherent worthiness - without conditions, without the need to accomplish or do more, without pushing or proving.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why detaching self-worth from productivity and accomplishments is some of the most transformative work you can possible do.
• 4 ways to detach yourself worth from productivity.

Important Announcement: This is the final podcast of the show... at least for now. To learn more, tune in to this week's episode.

The Story of The Mexican Fisherman: https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/

128. High Performing, Goal-Oriented Women: This Is The Most Important Shadow Work You Can Possibly Do: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/13147051-128-high-performing-goal-oriented-women-this-is-the-most-important-shadow-work-you-can-possibly-do

Pleasure, presence, and embodiment are gateways, granting us access to our divine feminine energy.

This episode is an invitation for you to step more fully into your feminine power, giving you 8 magical practices to help you do so.

When you have consistent rituals and practices that honour the feminine, you're able to thrive more deeply.

When you thrive more deeply, you feel better, and when you feel better, you almost always perform better as well.

Reclaiming the feminine and bringing it back into balance with the masculine allows you to achieve more while feeling more peaceful, conscious, and aligned.

The Molecule of More: https://www.amazon.com/Molecule-More-Chemical-Creativity_and-Determine/dp/1948836580

Your Zodiac Soul: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Zodiac-Soul-Happiness-Wholeness-ebook/dp/B078LX8CVS/

Sheridan Ruth's Website: https://sheridanruth.com/

Understanding Your Play Styles: https://lindsaybraman.com/adult-play-styles/

162. 5 Keys To Transforming An Unhealthy Relationship With Numbers: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/14587191-162-5-keys-to-transforming-an-unhealthy-relationship-with-numbers-weight-body-size-bank-account-balance-follower-count-etc