Returning to the show is friend-of-the-program and clinical nutritionist, Melinda Staehling.

Melinda recently joined me in Episode 220: Developing Self-Trust and Leadership through Human Design and Intuitive Eating.

(She was also a guest in Episode 041: How to Start A Meditation Practice and Episode 046: Gray-Area Drinking and Sobriety).

In this episode, we continue our conversation on trusting our intuition and stepping into a self-leadership role in our healing journeys.

Melinda shares her 17+ year struggle with migraine and how her approach to treating them has evolved over the years.

She shares:

• Why migraine is a women’s health issue

• Why and how she takes an integrative approach

• Why only focusing on the physical aspects of pain is an incomplete conversation

• How she’s chosen to reframe her relationship with pain and the tools that have helped her do so

As a follow-up to Episodes 211 and 226, in this episode, I give an update on my recent health issues and the approach I’ve taken to address them.

You’ll hear me share:

• What’s a Functional Nutrition Assessment? (and how it’s a valuable tool in your healthcare)

• How to apply a functional approach to Human Design?

• How do I marry Functional Nutrition and Human Design in my healing journey?

I also share why opening up and taking you behind the scenes is part of my work in coming into alignment with my Human Design.

Over the past year, I’ve received questions and comments regarding "making a big pivot" from health coaching to Human Design so in this episode I discuss why it's not a pivot, but rather an expansion, by sharing my perspectives on:

• Taking a “functional” approach

• Stress as the root cause of all root causes

• Peeling back the layers to uncover the root causes of stress, using work-related stress as an example

• How talking about “health” without including body, mind, and emotional health is an incomplete conversation

• Human Design vs other personality frameworks

In my observations (and from first-hand experience), Projectors, more than any of the other Human Design Types struggle with their Strategy of “Waiting for the Invitation.”

In this episode, I share:

• A recap of what “Waiting for the Invitation” means

• What are invitations and how to recognize them

• If invitations can be created

• Observations from my experiments with invitations and what made it all “click” for me

In this episode, I answer a listener's question on when to follow your Human Design Strategy versus when not to.

You’ll hear me share:

• What does Strategy mean in Human Design

• What are the Strategies for each Human Design Type

• When to follow it (examples included!)

By nature, Projectors are intuitive, resourceful, and also, multi-faceted - there are many layers to us. We’re complex people, and with that complexity comes versatility.

In fact, did you know that Projectors are the most versatile of all the Human Design Types?

Expanding on Episode 222 on what’s great about Projectors, in this episode we discuss:

• The three different categories of Projectors

• The five different kinds of Projectors

• A breakdown of the Human Design body graph chart that determines each kind of Projector

There were so many questions submitted for Episode 217: Projectors Rapid Fire Q&A that we simply couldn’t answer them all.

So in this episode, I’m answering one of the unanswered questions: “How can I like being a Projector when it sucks to have a penetrating aura?”

You’ll hear me share:

• A recap of what the Projector Aura is

• The challenges that aura can present (why it might feel like “it sucks”)

• Tips to work through those challenges

The episode is the first of many more episodes answering those unanswered Projector questions.

“Is it common to feel disappointed or not resonate with your Human Design?”

This was one of the questions that we didn’t get to answer in Episode 217: Projectors Rapid Fire Q&A.

So in this episode, I share:

• Why one might feel this way

• My initial reaction upon learning what my Human Design is

• Questions to ask yourself if your Human Design doesn’t resonate with you

Joining me in Episode 220 is Melinda Staehling. Melinda joined me way back in Episodes 041 on meditation and 046 on gray-area drinking. Since then, in true Manifesting Generator form, she’s made a complete career change going from a career in the restaurant industry to now as a Clinical Nutritionist and NASM personal trainer.

My curiosity was piqued when Melinda recently started a book club on Intuitive Eating. I’ve always been fascinated with Intuitive Eating because I didn’t know how to trust my intuition enough to practice it. I didn’t have the self-confidence to trust myself and my decision-making.

In this episode you'll hear us discuss:

• What is Intuitive Eating

• As a clinical nutritionist, why she advocates it

• Intuition x Intuitive Eating

• The relationship between intuition and Human Design

• How we can develop self-trust and step into a self-leadership role through Intuitive Eating and Human Design