Find Your Why: The Foundation of Healing
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Sharissa Bradley discusses the importance of finding your 'why' as a foundational aspect of the healing journey.
In this episode of the Tea Time Podcast, Sharissa Bradley continues the Journey Back to Health series with Chapter Five: Find Your Why . Sharissa shares why this chapter may be the most foundational part of the entire healing journey. While habit formation, elimination diets, detox, and lifestyle shifts all matter, none of them sustain without a deeply rooted reason for change. Drawing from her personal experience growing up with a chronically ill mother and later becoming a sick mom herself, Sharissa explains how her "why" became anchored in not wanting her children to experience the same absence she felt. She reflects on navigating autoimmune disease, adrenal fatigue, brain fog, inflammation, and years of extreme dietary changes — including two years without coffee, caffeine, sugar, dairy, or chocolate. This episode moves into practical action steps from the book, including writing out what your healthiest self would be able to do, rebuilding physical goals, reclaiming activities that were lost to illness, and building a support team that can help you stay anchored when things feel hard. Sharissa also vulnerably shares that her own healing journey feels like it has backslid…
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