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A year ago, Elisabeth McKay made a decision she never thought she’d make.After years of managing lupus symptoms, inflammation, migraines, hormonal dysfunction, and unexplained weight gain through diet, exercise, and lifestyle interventions, her body stopped responding to everything that had worked before.In this episode of Decoded, Elisabeth shares her full one-year peptide update, including what happened after microdosing tirzepatide, coming off of it completely, and eventually returning after autoimmune symptoms and inflammation resurfaced.FYI -This is not a weight-loss story.This is a conversation about chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease, hormones, stress, recovery, and what happens when your body finally starts responding again.In this episode, Elisabeth discusses:• Her history with lupus and autoimmune symptoms• The role stress played in inflammation and weight gain• Why traditional fitness approaches stopped working• Her experience microdosing tirzepatide for a full year• What happened when she stopped taking it• Protein, electrolytes, and nutrition considerations• Other peptides she has explored• Sauna, red light therapy, vibration plates, and recovery protocols• How she feels at 41 compared to 35If you've been curious about peptides, tirzepatide, inflammation, autoimmune recovery, or microdosing protocols, this episode provides a transparent look at one person's long-term experience.RESOURCES🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/🔗 Grab a Copy of Your Brain is a Filthy Liar:https://www.amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284🔗 My Peptide Supplier:https://elliemd.com/bizziegold🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend:https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1(Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping)

Jealousy is one of the most socially normalized forms of self-destruction.People romanticize it. Joke about it. Build identities around it. But jealousy has very little to do with the other person.It’s about what your nervous system believes their existence means about you.In this episode of Decoded, Elisabeth McKay breaks down the psychology of jealousy, comparison, insecurity, emotional scarcity, and the destructive behavioral loops that emerge when worth becomes tied to external validation.This episode explores:Why jealousy is rooted in perceived scarcityHow childhood environments condition comparison and insecurityWhy attention, validation, and approval become addictiveThe connection between jealousy, gossip, resentment, and controlHow confirmation bias destroys relationshipsWhy jealousy creates emotional dysregulation and distorted perceptionThe link between jealousy, victimhood, and self-sabotageHow parents accidentally reinforce jealousy patterns in childrenWhy admiration often precedes resentmentThe behavioral patterns required to rewire jealousyElisabeth also breaks down how jealousy quietly corrodes relationships, friendships, parenting, discernment, and self-respect—while trapping people inside obsessive emotional comparison loops they often mistake for truth.This is not about shaming jealousy. It’s about understanding the mechanism so you can stop feeding it. Because jealousy doesn’t destroy the person you envy first. It destroys you.RESOURCES🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend: https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1 (Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping)

What happens when an entire society is pushed into chaos—and then handed a “solution”?In this archived live lecture from 2022, Elisabeth breaks down the psychology of systems, collective trauma, media priming, propaganda, social conditioning, and how destabilization creates compliance.This episode examines:How systems use fear and chaos to reorganize powerWhy collective trauma lowers critical thinkingThe psychology behind media priming and propagandaHow language reshapes public perceptionWhy emotional pain makes populations easier to controlThe pendulum swing between oppression and overcorrectionHow systems normalize deviance over timeWhy rebuilding requires awareness of manipulation patternsThe difference between operating within a system vs becoming part of itElisabeth also explores the deeper psychological mechanisms behind social contagion, identity manipulation, institutional dependency, and why many people unknowingly organize their lives around manufactured problems.This is not a conversation about politics. It’s a conversation about systems, perception, and behavioral conditioning.If you’ve felt the world shifting over the last several years but couldn’t fully articulate what felt “off,” this episode connects the dots between trauma, influence, and collective behavior.Watch carefully. The systems people comply with are often built long before they recognize they’re inside them.Resources🔗 Renew your Mind: https://elisabethmckay.com/renew-your-mind🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend: https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1 (Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping)

The Bible never tells you to feel differently. It tells you to think differently—and practice it until it becomes natural.In this episode of Decoded, Bizzie Gold breaks down what Scripture actually says about the human mind and why modern neuroscience is only now catching up. What psychology calls neuroplasticity, the Bible has always called renewal. This conversation dismantles the myth that faith and neuroscience are in opposition and exposes why most people never experience real, lasting mental transformation—despite wanting it.This episode explores patterned thinking, self-deception, habit formation, repentance as behavioral change, and why renewal requires discipline, interruption, and repetition—not inspiration alone. From Romans 12 to modern brain science, this is a functional explanation of how the mind is trained, distorted, and rebuilt.Bizzie's Renew Your Mind 20-Part Lecture Series is now available for enrollment: CLICK HEREResource Links🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/🔗 Grab a Copy of Your Brain is a Filthy Liar: https://www.amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1🔗 My Peptide Supplier: https://elliemd.com/bizziegold🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend: https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1 (Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping)

For decades, mental health treatment has followed the same loop: diagnose, prescribe, manage symptoms, repeat. But outcomes haven’t improved—and in many cases, they’ve worsened.In this episode of Decoded, Bizzie Gold sits down with Dr. Dave Rabin, board-certified psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and co-founder of Apollo Neuro, to confront why the system is failing and what actually heals trauma.Dr. Rabin breaks down what he witnessed firsthand while treating severe PTSD: why “gold-standard” medications often stabilize but don’t resolve trauma, how unresolved fear lives in the body, and why safety—not insight—is the real prerequisite for healing. The conversation moves through psychedelic-assisted therapy, vagus nerve modulation, spirituality, belief, and the conditions under which mental illness is not just manageable—but reversible.This episode challenges the chemical-imbalance narrative, exposes the risks of poorly screened psychedelic use, and explains how nervous-system regulation changes everything—from sleep and panic to long-term recovery. Watch closely. This is not a coping conversation. Links for Apollo Neuro & Dr. Dave RabinTo get ApolloNeuro $99 OFF use this link: https://apolloneuro.com/BGHEALWant to start with the Apollo Neuro app? It turns your phone into a device: https://gmm.one/ce806e05-a01a-491b-88aa-e242b74821d3To follow along with Dr. Dave Rabin's work: https://www.drdave.io/Links for Bizzie Gold & Brain Pattern Mapping🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/🔗 Grab a Copy of Your Brain is a Filthy Liar: https://www.amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1🔗 My Peptide Supplier: https://elliemd.com/bizziegold🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend: https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1 (Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping)

We’re living in a validation economy—where attention is measurable, approval is public, and absence feels loud. In that system, power stops being informational and starts being personal. That’s where fixation begins.This episode continues last week’s conversation on power + projection, and takes it one layer deeper: how people accidentally turn leaders, mentors, communities, and “access” into idols—and why it almost always ends the same way: admiration → entitlement → rupture → villain.We break down the neuroscience behind why social platforms (and modern business culture) amplify childhood wounds through intermittent reinforcement, and how that reward schedule trains your nervous system to scan, chase, and attach. Then we unpack the psychological mechanics that drive the spiral:Salience assignment (one person becomes “outsized” in your mind)Relief coupling (their attention lowers your tension; their absence spikes it)Meaning inflation (neutral signals become threatening)You’ll also learn what I call idolatry without consent—when your expectations were never agreed to, but your nervous system acts like a contract exists anyway. That’s when disappointment hardens into moral certainty, and the idol becomes the abuser overnight.I’m also giving you:5 signs you’re slipping into fixationELI questions to expose the blind spot before it costs you relationships, identity, or credibility (click HERE to download the PDF)5 ways leaders can buffer damage early (roles, expectations, boundaries, and direct correction)If you’re chasing proximity, visibility, or approval to feel safe—this episode will confront you. If you’ve been on the receiving end of someone else’s fixation—this episode will protect you.Because eventually, idolatry requires a villain. So stop building pedestals you’ll later want to burn down.Want to find out your Brain Pattern Type? Go to www.predictivemind.ioWant to learn more about Rapid Emotional Repatternig with Break Method? Go to www.breakmethod.comMy Peptide Supplier: www.elliemd.com/bizziegoldMy favorite sauna click HERE and use code: BGHEAL for $200 OFF and free shipping

Menopause isn’t the downfall we've been led to believe. It’s actually a woman's brain’s remodel opportunity.In this episode, Bizzie talks with Dr. Mindy Pelz, New York Times bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl, Eat Like a Girl, and Age Like a Girl, about what really happens to the female brain after 40. PenguinRandomhouse.com+1They break down how declining estrogen rewires your brain, why people-pleasing suddenly stops feeling “sticky,” what’s behind the spike in divorces initiated by women after 40, and how to treat midlife as a biologically-timed chance to restore who you were always meant to be.If you’re between 40–55 (or love someone who is), this conversation will change how you see mood swings, boundary shifts, and the story you’ve been told about aging.In this episode, we cover:The “Midlife Brain Remodel” and why menopause is actually a brain and identity reset, not just a hormonal crashHow estrogen shaped your relational, people-pleasing brain in puberty – and what changes when it declines after 40Why the brain becomes less interested in pleasing everyone and more wired for clarity, boundaries, and leadershipThe role of culture and parenting styles in creating self-sacrificing women vs self-centered, highly boundaried womenHow this rewirement pulls both extremes back toward centerThe oxytocin shift in midlife and what that means for attachment, connection, and codependencyWhy 70–90% of divorces after 40–50 are initiated by women, and how to use this phase to renegotiate, not just burn it all down Sunday Paper PLUSThe dark side: increased suicide risk for women 45–55 and the massive neurotransmitter changes happening under the surface Dr. Mindy PelzMidlife as a restoration window: returning to your original design before conditioning, religion, culture, and family wiringHow Dr. Mindy personally rewired her relationship to rest, work, and even surfing – and what that looked like in real timeHow Age Like a Girl reframes menopause as your chance to come home to yourself and step into your most honest, powerful season yet PenguinRandomhouse.com+1Age Like a Girl (preorder / order): via major retailers and independent bookstores Dr. Mindy PelzThe Resetter Podcast Decoded PodcastBreak Method & Brain Pattern Mapping🔗 Connect with me (Bizzie Gold )Instagram: @bizziegold