218. Grief is a Guide: Regulation First, Everything Else Second with Cheyenne Hawks

About this episode

In this episode, Mechelle and Cheyenne Hawks discuss the deep connections between grief, healing, and wellness coaching.

What starts as a conversation about meal plans quickly becomes something much deeper — a story about grief, betrayal, the wisdom stored in the body, and what it actually means to heal from the ground up. In this episode, Mechelle sits down with Cheyenne Hawks, a gifted wellness coach who built her practice from handwritten macro spreadsheets and a yoga mat in Laguna Beach into a full coaching business rooted in the belief that food is never just about food. They talk about growing up in the era of Slim-Fast and calorie obsession, the client whose 100-pound transformation revealed everything about where the real work lives, and the business partnership that ended without a conversation — and why that loss, as painful as it was, sent her back to herself. Together, they explore what nervous system regulation actually feels like in the body, why we can't do deep healing from a dysregulated place, and how grief — layered and relentless — can either close us down or crack us wide open. This one is tender, honest, and full of the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from living it. Connect with Cheyenne https://heartofwellness.com/ https://www.instagram.com/cheyennehawks_/ Learn more…

People in this episode

Host: Mechelle

Guest: Cheyenne Hawks

Topics covered

• grief
• wellness coaching
• nervous system regulation
• healing
• food and body relationship

Keywords

• grief
• wellness
• nervous system
• healing
• food
• transformation
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heart of Wellness, Instagram

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