Guest Ep: Kalisha
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[00:00:00] I remember I was at a conference and I kept saying, I have endometriosis, and a prophet came to me and she was like, stop claiming it. Change your language. Mm-hmm. You don't have endometriosis. You were diagnosed with it. She prayed over my body. From that moment, I started to tell myself in the mirror, I'm healed. I'm whole, I'm loved. I was diagnosed with this, but this disease doesn't have me.
Y'all. We are in for a special treat today. I am joined this week by Kisha Price, who is a faith-based nutrition and hormone coach who guides women in honoring their bodies the way God designed. Literally love this. She is so perfect for our, your Daily Bread audience. She's a certified integrative nutrition health coach, and she has, she has an amazing testimony.
, She overcame chronic symptoms of stage four endometriosis, and she blends biblical principles with holistic wellness to help women find food freedom in their [00:01:00] health, restore balance, . And live with renewed energy and joy, and she is such a joy to listen to.
Y'all are gonna love all of her truth bombs. Definitely take out a pen and paper, take notes. The Lord has just deposited so much wisdom into her life, so I can't wait for y'all. To learn from her. We just have a great discussion and the anchor scripture for our discussion is one Corinthians 10 31.
Whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for the glory of God. Father God, thank you so much for this day. Lord, I just pray a special blessing over every single listener. I pray that as we go into this episode, Lord, that you give every listener ears to hear and. Soft hearts to be able to receive all the truths that are here.
I pray that this renews the mind of every single listener and gets them back on the path everlasting, the path that you have for them, Lord, and I pray that now people will operate after listening to this episode [00:02:00] from a place of belovedness in a place of knowing that they are loved and accepted and approved by you.
God, and I pray that everything that they do for their health now moving forward becomes an act of worship, giving you all the glory and all the honor, Lord, and I just pray that everything that is said in this episode is not what we want to say, but it is what you want to say through us.
It's the Holy Spirit. Do what only you can do. Have your way. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Welcome to Your Daily Bread podcast. I'm your host, Abbie Stasior, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. My prayer is that these bite-sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food and improve body image, as well as help you grow closer to God. Now, I can't personally heal you, but each week I'll be directing you to the one that can, and that is Jesus. As a disclaimer, I'm not a pastor, but a sister in Christ providing you with some food for thought for you to bring to the Lord and into your quiet time [00:03:00] as your daily bread. Let's dig in.
Hey, Kisha, how's it going? It's good. It's good. How are you? I'm doing great. I am so excited that you are joining us on the podcast. I have been eagerly waiting for this episode. Me too. I'm such a big fan. I love it. Aw, I appreciate you. Yay. Well, tell us a little bit about yourself and really how you got to be in this line of work, doing things for the kingdom as you are so powerfully.
Yes. So I wasn't always a health nut or a health girly. , It was a diagnosis that led me here, but I was always the girl that had the really painful periods. I would have to go home on my first day of period, or I couldn't come to school 'cause pain was so bad and I never knew what this was. I just thought it was normal until I got older and I was going to the emergency room every month for my period because my pain just kept getting worse and.
Of course I was gaslit by doctors and it was like, oh, it's in [00:04:00] your head, or Oh, it must be an ulcer, or all types of things. And they would just give me like pain meds and then send me on home. And it got to the point where I couldn't walk and I had to get an emergency scan and then they saw a grapefruit size cys.
And I finally heard the word endometriosis and I was reading the symptoms and I was like, okay, maybe this is what I have. So when they had to cut me open, I was like, well, can you check for that when you're in there? Because at this day and age you would think they have a better way for testing for this without having to do surgery.
But I didn't wanna be cut on, but because I had to go into these emergency surgery for my cyst, sure enough, when I came out of surgery, I was diagnosed with stage four endometriosis. Wow. So that led me to a deep dive of learning everything I could. I was grateful at the same time. It was kind of like that balance of like, oh, why me?
But thankful for like having language for my pain. Yeah. So yeah, I did that deep dive and I [00:05:00] became obsessed with learning all about women's health and I end up going through a nutrition certification course so I can start helping other women as well. So through all nutrition and lifestyle today, I'm pain free.
Thank the Lord. Amen. And being healed from that, I was like, there's no way I can keep my mouth closed about this. So it kind of catapult me into this line of work. But I definitely didn't see myself here from the beginning. 'cause I'm a fashion girl. I was in New York living the life. Yeah. Building my brand and being helped, took over and I had to shift gears.
Wow. Because stress and, and the busyness of life, we don't realize how that impacts our physical. Oh, a hundred percent. I used to live in Manhattan too when I was getting my Master's and it was very difficult to heal my hormones, my gut health because the city is so overstimulating. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, there's a lot going on.
So praise God for your healing and I'm so sorry that you were gaslit by so many doctors, but I know so many listeners will really resonate with [00:06:00] that and are currently. At that stage where they're expressing all these symptoms and things that are wrong, and it just, it's, it really breaks my heart that we have to advocate so much repeatedly mm-hmm.
To be seen and, to not just be told, oh, that's all in your head. Right. Yeah. That was the hardest thing for me, feeling like no one believed me. Yeah. I'm like, this is real. I feel this. It's not in my head. Like I wouldn't be slumped over in here every month. If this was all in my head, you know, so I am grateful now for social media.
It's kinda like a love hate, but I do love that it's created this platform of knowledge for women to better understand themselves and how we met. Amen. Amen. So now you're doing things for the kingdom, you're doing things for the glory of God. And that's really the scripture that we wanna dive into today, which I am super excited about.
And I definitely wanna know how you mitigated your risk or, what stopped you from [00:07:00] falling into die culture because I feel people getting a diagnosis like that starting to dive into all of this research and things that you can do to optimize your health and biohack yourself.
And as you're gaining more and more knowledge, it can be very easy for diet culture tendencies to skirt their way in there. And then you end up with a lot of fear and crippling anxiety and just almost a gluttony of knowledge and. Not doing things for the glory of God too. So I guess I would just be curious if you ever felt yourself like leaning that way, where more knowledge was leading to fear and how did you keep doing things for the glory of God?
Yes, I definitely went through it all. Like it was not glamorous when I first started. I went through a deep dive of wanting to throw away everything in my refrigerator, everything in my kitchen. 'cause it was talking about like estrogen dominance and all the toxins in our products. And then I was so overwhelmed and frustrated when I heard how gluten was affecting [00:08:00] my body, and I was like, I'm a foodie.
I love food. What do you mean I have to give up gluten? I remember sitting in the parking lot in my husband's work and I was just crying. He was like, what do you want to eat? And I was like, I don't even know what's gluten free. And I went through this spiral, but it was so hard for me to give up and it really brought to my attention of what my idols were
like when I was holding on so tight to not wanting to give up food, not wanting to change my lifestyle, not wanting to be the friend that, oh, sorry, I can't eat this, or I can't go there, or I can't drink with you guys like I used to, like, I didn't wanna be isolated but , it really brought all those things to my attention, like I said, where I was struggling and sitting down my religion and sitting down my beliefs for my comfort.
I use food for comfort. I would be in pain. I'm like, okay, well I wanna go eat something that makes me feel good, or I'm gonna go, you know, to a bar and numb that pain, whatever I did to try to escape my body. But I [00:09:00] was angry and it really took me releasing those big emotions to God. I remember I was at a conference and I kept saying, I have endometriosis, or I have this da da da, and a prophet came to me and she was like, stop claiming it. Hmm. Change your language. Mm-hmm. You don't have endometriosis. You were diagnosed with it.
She prayed over my body. From that moment, I started to tell myself in the mirror, I'm healed. I'm whole, I'm loved. I was diagnosed with this, but this disease doesn't have me. Mm-hmm. And that was the biggest change for me because I felt like it was punishment. But once I realized that I've been ignoring all my bodily cues, I've been living life levita, loca, like there was no tomorrow.
Yeah. You know? So those were the repercussions. Not saying that endometriosis was my fault, it wasn't my fault. But I wasn't helping myself either. And that diagnosis awakened you really opened your eyes, lifted the veil, so that you could actually see, ooh, here are the things that are [00:10:00] in my control that I'm, I'm doing that are not stewarding my body well.
100%. And I was journaling this morning and I haven't wrote a poem in so long, but it was brought to my attention that it was called If, and it was like, if it wasn't for endometriosis, I wouldn't know God the way that I do today. And it just continues on through this journey of thanking God for that wake up call.
'cause everything's not Satan. Everything's not the devil. Every storm is not, your destruction. Some things are called for your attention. It definitely woke me up and changed my lifestyle 100%., And the fact that I'm here with no pain today. I have to give him the glory. I have to, you have to.
Wow. This is like an incredible testimony too. I'm taking so many notes, healed. I'm whole, I'm loved, and even I would just encourage listeners to journal on that if I didn't have blank. Whatever it is, and maybe you don't have a diagnosis, but maybe it's financial struggles or, yeah. If I didn't have a heartbreak or I didn't just go through this breakup, if I didn't [00:11:00] have to do loans or whatever, but like, yeah.
Mm-hmm. But I think that that just increases our dependency on God. Yeah. And realizes our need for a savior, our need for a healer, our our need for a provider. 100% because we can try to run the opposite way from him, but he would still bring us back. Like we can't outrun his presence. No, we definitely cannot be as pursuing us all the days of our life.
All the days. Yeah. So I'm just so grateful that he used that as an instrument to bring me back closer to him. Yeah. And now you're really doing things for the glory of God. You're stewarding your body now for the glory of God. Yes. I wouldn't be here without the glory of God, like I was in a low place where I couldn't get the pain to stop, and I was starting to question my existence.
Mm-hmm. Like I went through the suicidal ideation and all of that and wanting, not wanting to be a burden to my family or my husband. I don't wanna get emotional, but God brought me out of that. Wow. It was the darkness that I'm able to stand here in the light today. [00:12:00] Amen. That's beautiful. And I, I really resonate with your story on not wanting to be a burden or not wanting to be that person in your friend group too.
That's like, oh, I always have to, you know, order the different thing or, oh, we have to go to like these restaurants, or we can't go to these restaurants because, oh, like I was definitely that person too. When I was struggling with my gut health issues. I mean, for about a year, all I could eat and tolerate was.
White rice, boiled chicken, and sometimes green beans. And that's when I was living in New York City and it was incredibly isolating it. It really was, but what I'm really hearing you say is there is a difference between being set apart by God and making choices for your body, that, that honor your body versus isolation. Yes, yes. I had to change my mindset of like, why me?
But like, why not me? Like if he's calling me to him, I can't look like the world. Right? Like I can't be out here bar hopping. I can't be out [00:13:00] here living recklessly. Mm-hmm. But then on Sundays, wanna throw my hands up, , we can't compartmentalize our walk with him. Oh, I'm gonna take him here with me on Sunday, but then on Saturday I'm gonna see, I'm gonna sit him over here, spit my Bible to the side.
Mm-hmm. Like I had to, I learned to walk with him in every area of my life, especially with food. I had a lot of food anxiety, scared to eat anything. 'cause I didn't know what would trigger my stomach to hurt or bloat. Yeah, yeah. So it was very limiting in the beginning, trying to figure that all out. But once I realized like, oh, I can take God with me to the grocery store, I can take God with me to the restaurant and he'll leave me.
Mm-hmm. Or he will let my bo, my body already has this innate wisdom to let me know, is this okay? And as long as I'm eating things closer to God's design, I'm fine. Is when we start eating those manmade things where we started to have a lot of problems. You know, the food industry here in America is not, , really helping us.
But yeah, I just had to come to terms that [00:14:00] this walk is not gonna look like who I thought I was gonna be. I had to let that, I had to grieve that. Oh, kha. Yeah. Like I'm, I'm called, I'm set apart and it's not gonna look like. The girl from college. Mm-hmm. And even when that, you know, person pointed out at the conference like you are not your diagnosis, that even is a grieving of like that old version of you trying to Yes.
To now. Yes. Personality was diagnosed with that, but I'm not that right. Because even when I was healed, and it's crazy how the enemy will use our minds against us, I was like, who am I without it? Mm-hmm. Wow. 'cause you get used to people caring about you, checking in on you, but then you're healed and you're like, now what?
You know? Mm-hmm. So I had to let go of that because I started to like really walk in this of like, this has me, this is who I am, this is how my life will always be. But I had to remember what if my words actually came true? Every word that [00:15:00] came outta my mouth. Like why would I say my life is always gonna be like this?
I think we would think differently. We would start to think more, you know, about the things we're saying. Mm-hmm. And I really had to renew my mind and be like, I wasn't born with this. God didn't give me this. This is not my identity. But it was starting to become that my diagnosis was starting to become my identity and I had to realize that I'm still a daughter.
Even if things don't look great, even if I am in pain, he still loves me. He's still there. 'cause I didn't lose my mind totally. 'cause I could have. Mm-hmm. That's what showed me his great. I'm like, God's presence is here with me. Mm. Yeah, I love that. I love that you're just bringing him along with you, like the Lord will show me because it's so easy to get swept up by all the other voices out there and the conflicting health information.
It's a lot to sift through and some of it is really convincing, and it can seem wise, but that doesn't mean that it's God's best for you. How did you start to discern, or I guess maybe did you have to discern like the gluten for example, did you have to discern what was actually. [00:16:00] As giving you a reaction or something that was an allergy versus what was something.
In diet culture or food rule that you saw online. 'cause normally like PCOS, and maybe it's for endometriosis too, they, you know, they say, oh, you know, go gluten and dairy free and that will solve all of your problems. Well that does not solve everyone's problems and all things. No. Yeah, no. Find yourself having to tease out with the Lord, okay, this really is something that is not beneficial for my body.
It keeps giving me a reaction. And maybe something that you've been able to work back in, you're like, Ooh, I actually was restricting that. , Because it was what I thought was. Going to heal me or were going to benefit me, or what somebody told me. But it was actually a diet culture, food rule that skirted in there.
Yeah. When I got diagnosed, my sister ended up, buying me a book and I read this book and I literally walked by this book, like it was the Bible and whatever she ate, I ate and whatever she did, I did. When I cut out gluten, I gave it like three to six months. That that's what she recommended.
And by that fourth month, I realized I was taking less and [00:17:00] less ibuprofen and I was telling my husband, mom, I think this may be working, you know, so there's no way I'm going back. Let me keep going. So by the sixth month I was like, I didn't need any pain pills this month. Wow. Yeah. So with the gluten thing, I haven't looked back.
It's been almost four years now. And, and when I do go out to eat and I'm at a restaurant where they're not that familiar and they sneak it in there, I have a flare up. Wow. Yeah. It, it triggers 100%. So I know by that process of elimination, gluten is one of my triggers. There are some things like dairy. I still haven't been delivered from that.
I love some dairy girl. Yeah. But that doesn't give me issues like gluten does like it. Okay. Yeah. So it's not as big of a trigger. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it was process of elimination. I did. I always recommend my clients. I'm like, please don't go about this the way I did. Like I went cold Turkey throwing away everything at [00:18:00] one time to where I made myself more depressed.
Mm. So I always suggest starting with one thing so you can actually pinpoint what that one thing is. 'cause if you eliminate everything, you don't know what the thing is true. Right? Yeah. But if you, one thing, you're really able to pinpoint, okay, things don't resolve. Okay, then we've gotta try something else.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to cut out dairy entirely, but you can partner with the Holy Spirit to discern, okay, Lord, like can I have this ice cream? Can I have this yogurt or this other dairy product? Yeah. I'm sure there's times where he invites you into that and other times where, where he doesn't.
But you can be spirit led in that, which is nice. You don't have to fully restrict. I'm just more mindful of how I source my dairy and how I source my proteins. Um, but yeah, life is to be enjoyed. I went about it the strict way to where I was, feel like I was losing my joy. So like when you said discerning the spirit and you know the whole spirit, Lee, you there And he does, and I do have my ice cream and I do enjoy eating food and I have fun making new recipes in my kitchen too.
So I just, I just kind of am moving in a different [00:19:00] light now versus when I was like in panic. That fight or flight, like I wanna be healed so fast to where I'm just making more chronic stress in my body. So now it's more of a rhythm and a ease. And a flow. Yeah. That sounds like Jesus. That sounds like you're doing right.
That's so good. Yeah. And it just goes to show that there's more to food than it being fuel, because food does have the opportunity to build community and it's, and it's fellowship. Mm-hmm. And it can lead to joy and that you can give God glory. In, in all of that and you can give a thanks and recognition even while you are eating the ice cream.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. I heard someone say like, if you're gonna cry about and stress over what you're eating, you might as well eat what you want and be happy as the emotion of happiness will have a better response on yourself. Then just eat. If you're gonna be in chronic stress and depressed like, but you'll learn.
God changed my taste buds 'cause there are a lot of things that I did not use to eat. [00:20:00] And I will eat a whole bowl of it today as far as like fruits and vegetables and olives, specifically, like I love olives now, but before you couldn't get me to eat olives. So yeah, this whole journey, gosh, just changed my taste in all facets of life.
Friends, family , where I go, where I spend my time, certain things just don't feel the same. Mm. That's beautiful. And I do hear that from clients too. Clients that maybe haven't had fruit but have been relying on, artificial sweeteners or other things
and then finally they taste fruit again and they really eat it slow and they savor and they're like, I just never. I didn't realize how sweet fruit is and how delicious strawberries are when they really are eating that mindfully and they're attuned to that and they have that more often. , when you were stuck in that food fear and having anxiety around meals, especially when you weren't sure how you were gonna react to it, what techniques were the most helpful for you to get [00:21:00] rid of that fear of food and anxiety?
My first thought was relinquishing control. I was trying to control the reaction or control the food, the atmosphere, and once I was like, God, is this what you would have for me? Or praying over my meals differently versus just saying, thank you for the soup. You know, like, thank you for your, the things that you put on this earth for me to have.
Thank you for plants. Thank you for fruit. Like I wasn't appreciating food. I was just using food. For comfort instead of going to God. Mm-hmm. So I think when I started to pray, when I would struggle, it made me a prayer warrior. 'cause I struggle with food so much, but I really used prayer. I don't know, as cliche as it sounds, I use prayer when I struggle and God showed me the way, like he used those symptoms in my body as messengers and it guided me. So often [00:22:00] we are not even attuned to what our body's trying to tell us. I think a lot of people in society are. So they put more trust in these external things.
, Maybe their macros or their weight . These external numbers where they're not attuned with their body and they have a lack of trust with their body. And if we actually did trust our body and we know that we can trust our body because God designed us that way and we know that God doesn't always just whisper things to us that we need to do.
We don't always hear his voice directly. He can do that. But if we really trust and know that our body does give us wisdom. I just, I think that that will help us build trust back with our body if we know that God can speak to us through our body. And I just think, I just don't think people know that. No.
'cause I think a lot of people leave God out of the health and fitness world. Mm-hmm. I think once we take self out of it and we see it as worship and honoring our body as a gift. Then we would move differently. Mm-hmm. It would be out of [00:23:00] gratitude versus out of, I have to, or I should do this, or I had cake yesterday, so I should go to the gym.
Mm-hmm. So we're connecting movement to punishment, and that's gonna always be paralyzing if we're connecting it to a negative. But once we connect our bodies to the creator, and I'm doing this out of honor to the one who created me, you would choose your food differently. You would choose everything differently.
When we do all things to God's glory. Mm, because you're doing it from a place of assurance like I am God's beloved. I'm of beloved daughter. He created my body so intentionally my body is made good and I want to steward this well out of worship so that you're operating differently from that, not operating for that approval, right?
Striving. Right. And I think if we think about a gift, like, or if we're borrowing something, like we're borrowing our friend's car, for instance, sometimes we'll try to take it to the car wash, get it cleaned up, put some gas in there and give it back to them better than what we [00:24:00] got it. But if we just think of our bodies that same way, his dwelling place like a gift to us, that we wanna return back to him better than what he gave it to us.
I think all of our decisions will be changed for the better. Yeah. And we're doing it for him, not for ourselves. Yes. That was a big thing. It was. I had to take myself out of a lot of situations. It was a lot of, I, I, I versus shifting it over to others. Even me posting online is uncomfortable, but I'm thinking about whose life is attached to my Yes.
Hmm. Wow. I always have to be reminding myself of that too. 'cause it can be really, you know, easy to, to not post in the days like, oh, I don't, I don't feel like it mm-hmm. Thing to say. Or like, oh, I'm not wearing any makeup today, or My hair doesn't look good. And, um, but we're still called to show up anyway because whose life is gonna be like, the fruit is not for us, it's for other people to eat.
So if we're not even posting in, we're not even doing the [00:25:00] thing, then people don't have food to eat. And, oh, it just makes me think of in, luke nine, when Jesus is feeding the 5,000, the disciples go up to him and they're like, Jesus, everyone's been here all day. Everyone's starting to get a little hungry.
Should we send them back to town? You know, take a little break, go get something to eat, and then we can maybe come back in and reconvene. And Jesus says, no, you feed them. And so if we're not feeding the sheep that the Lord has sent us through our audience and our sphere of influence, like if we're not feeding them, then they're going back out to the world to get fed.
They're getting fed somewhere. Yeah. But Jesus wants us to feed them. And then obviously they get, , the five loaves, two fish. Jesus,, does so much with that. So the little boy gave Jesus what he had. Always give Jesus what you have. Yes. He will multiply that and he will, provide exceedingly and abundantly and take it further. And I just think that can be so applicable to people, in their health journeys. When you are doing things for the glory of God, you do show up [00:26:00] differently and you're like, Lord, I don't have the energy to work out for an hour today, but I still wanna honor my body today by moving, let me walk around or even pace for 10 minutes.
I think we overcomplicate what health and fitness looks like. Something super as simple as a walk. Like that's why I make commitments that even on my low energy days, I can pull through a walk is nothing. Mm-hmm. You know, if you're, if you have able limbs and body, you should be grateful. Like that's another place of gratitude that you can walk, that you do have arms to lift weights.
Even if I don't feel it, I'm like, I'm still gonna go outside for sun. So take some deep breaths. Are there any other things that you do on, , those low energy days? Yeah, I'm a, I'm definitely a walker.
I walk all the time and I try to stretch, I hydration. I'll step out on my balcony for fresh air. Even the vitamin D and just the wind on my face is reviving.
There you go. Yeah. I for, yeah, we forget that we're actually getting vitamins in, we are intaking [00:27:00] vitamins when we are outside. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We're being fed. I love that. I love that. Now, is there anything else that comes up, like if a client were to say to you, , I want to. Live a one Corinthians 10 31 life.
I want whatever I do, whether I eat or drink, I do it all for the glory of God. How would you instruct them to start to do that by really bringing God into your health and wellness area of life? I think the enemy knows from the beginning of Genesis, he used food to trick us. From ease. So I think he knows our weaknesses. I'm almost sure of it. So when we try to use willpower to do a thing that we need warfare tools for is where we fall short. We try to willpower ourselves into choosing the right foods, getting up to workout, but you can't fight that physical thing when it's spiritual. I've never had that revelation before, but that's so true. We're like, okay, we're [00:28:00] having a problem. Like we're emotionally eating chips. Diet culture tells you to just remove the chips, stop buying the chips. But God would tell you, okay, this is probably a deeper spiritual.
There's something that you need to process emotionally. Yes, and rebuke that whatever is going on, rebuke any distractions, get rid of that temptation, submit to God, and the enemy will flee from you and process with God, whatever's going on emotionally. Yes. I like going to the root of why am I choosing, when am I choosing the chips?
Mm-hmm. Did something happen in my life? Do I feel lonely? Am I angry? Getting to the root of the emotion and taking the food outta the equation. Yes, the food is there, but it's the root we wanna get to, otherwise we're gonna keep struggling. Maybe it's, it is chips this week and tomorrow it's cake, but that root is still there.
Something else. Oh. I always encourage clients to go back, to be, to take notes, to have that body awareness, emotional awareness of like, when am I choosing certain foods? , It's not about willpower, it's about warfare. Oh my gosh. This [00:29:00] even just that is so good. Wow. Yeah., We gotta have the right tools to fight.
Like you're bringing the wrong thing to the table. . I just got this vision of like, have you ever tried to punch a ghost? Like you can't. No, you can't. You have to go into the spirit realm to fight that. The sort of spirit. Yep. That's our offensive weapon. Yes. And his word.
And we just need to be. More biblically literate. We need God's word sealed on our hearts, written on our hearts. And so we have these verses ready to go so when those food thoughts come up, you have a verse that's already ready to go to combat that and rebuke that. Yes, yes. Like rejecting those lies and replacing it with the truth. Yes, exactly. Especially like you said, bringing up eve in the garden, the enemy knows that we are susceptible, especially when it comes to food, so we, we definitely need those on the fly ready to go.
Is there anything else tips you would give someone if they really wanted to start eating or drinking? For the glory of God?
We haven't talked about rest. Oh yeah. We [00:30:00] need more of that. One of the big things people say? They're like, , if I allow myself to rest, I feel like I'm giving up on myself because I've been trying, trying, trying to do things for my health.
So it's like, oh, do I just not care about my health anymore if I'm just resting? Resting is active. Your body as well. . Jesus always demonstrated this, like he would go preach. He's like, all right guys, I need to go over here to myself to solitude. I need to talk to my father. I need to rest.
Like, why do we think we're better than what Jesus showed us? Right. Exactly. Like Sabbath is so important. Mm-hmm. That could, I feel like almost be a pride thing as well. Like do we that we don't need rest. Right. Right. More childhood trauma of performance. Like you, you're, you're uncomfortable with being idle, like of being still, you don't know what to do with those feelings or you don't want the feelings to come up so you keep busy.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I think as a child, that's how you got approval, [00:31:00] and maybe parents or other family members demonstrated love, so we actually need the Lord to heal that where, you know, oh no, you're already loved. You were already loved in the womb. You hadn't done anything yet. Mm-hmm. And that helps also with your cognitive, your decision making.
Sometimes you just need a nap, like, go lay down. \ Sleep is where we heal. So I would also encourage people to make sure that they're sleeping. And really resting, like cutting off your mind.
Even if you need to play soaking music. I love soaking music. It's like my daily routine at the beginning of my day and like at the end of my night I'm ending at his feet and resting my mind and my body and giving over whatever may happen that day. In that day. 'cause tomorrow is a new day, right? And leaving it there.
Yeah. That's so good. Now is soaking music different than just instrumental worship? Yes. It's more sound like frequency, not, but not frequency. You know what I'm saying? Because that could be a whole nother topic of another [00:32:00] day, but it's just melodic sounds. It's not necessarily an instrumental of a song that a, that's a record.
If that makes sense. Yeah. I don't think I've ever tried that, so I'm very, oh my gosh, we have to send it to you. Yeah, we could put that in the show notes, y'all. Yes. Different volume album. Called like soaking in his presence.
And then like each song has like cleansing forgiveness and versus like four 17 f like the frequencies, which I don't know, I'm still working through that, what that could be. Mm-hmm. But soaking sound is William Augusto and I listen to, he has so many albums and it's just soft music. I can read to it and I'm not distracted.
I can work to it and I'm not distracted. 'cause jazz sometimes is a little too busy for my mind. So it's just, yeah, it's just very soft. Okay. Yeah. Even instrumental worship. I can't work to that because then I start singing, you know? Goodness. Exactly. Me too. Because I love music so much, so I'm like, this works.
'cause I don't know the songs. It's just soft. Sounds kind of like a spa, but biblically [00:33:00] rooted. Hmm. Okay. All right. I gotta do some digging into this. That sounds really awesome. Yeah. Yeah. To bookend your day with that too. And that helps with like, if you have a, a consistent routine that you do in the morning and the evening, especially if they engage your senses, , that starts to anchor your routines.
That's wired in your brain when your body tastes your tea or smells a candle that you always light or hears that music. Yeah. And you associate that with winding down and your evening routine, your body will start to wind down faster.
That will help you get into a restful state a lot faster. Yes, yes. That visceral experience is so important, especially being like a busy bee like me. It, it forces me to slow down and be present. Because otherwise my mind's gonna be running. And I feel like another way to live that, like first Corinthians 10 31 life, would be to continue using your testimony.
Telling your testimony, because you're giving God glory in all of this too. So I just wanna encourage everyone that's listening, like whatever the [00:34:00] Lord is doing in your life or has already done in your life, talking about that gives him glory you're gonna be able to help somebody else that maybe is struggling with something that you used to struggle with by talking about your testimony so Kalisha, it's just so inspiring to hear your story and I know that so many listeners will be able to see themselves in that and, , you're giving God glory just by talking about it.
Praise God. Thank you so much. Yeah, I owe it all to him. I'm so glad that I woke up and decided to partner with him to see healing because this has been the most satisfying work I've ever done in my life. When I started out, I was trying to do too much at one time. It's okay to just add one more vegetable into a meal. Mm-hmm. And maybe that's just one meal. That's better than you were yesterday.
That's the only goal. That's the only person we should be comparing ourselves to who we were yesterday. Maybe have one more glass of water than you had yesterday. Mm-hmm. That, that's all. Just start [00:35:00] small and those habits will start to stack and you'll start to see when you start to see the results, that's motivation to keep going.
That was the biggest thing for me when I wasn't in pain, less and less each month. It encouraged me to wanna keep choosing foods that God designed.. That's good. Yeah. And I love that you were rooting your results in your pain and not your weight or your body size. Yeah. That 'cause that becomes more self edifying.
Like it's more self versus worship, right? Like, oh, unless you're worshiping yourself. Like we don't realize that we make it so about what I look like, will I look good in a bikini? Like none of that matters. We're trying to be fit for our call. Yes. Not fit for. People to look at us yes, you wanna feel good in your body.
I'm not saying don't worry about what you look like. Yes, you wanna look good and feel good, but you wanna feel good. So when God calls you, you can get up and go. Amen. Amen. Oh my gosh. So many truth bombs. Now, where can people [00:36:00] find you?
What are you promoting right now? You can find me on Instagram, , Facebook. At Kisha Price [email protected]. I also have one-on-one coaching and I just released my steward like a girl five day challenge, which I'm so excited about it. It'll walk you through. Being angry at God to loving your body before we even get into the food because we have to surrender and let go of those things for you to even want to steward what God gave you.
'cause right now you may not even like your body. So it walks you through that God trust and body trust and self-trust, and then how to walk that out in your lifestyle as well. So I'm so excited about that 'cause it's definitely a resource I needed at the beginning. Thank you so much for your time, your wisdom today. Oh my gosh. I can't wait to listen back to this episode myself 'cause there are so many truth bombs. I took so many notes, so I know that, that this will be fruitful for our audience as well. So thank you so much, Kalisha.
Thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure.
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