Robyn Youkilis, certified wellness coach, joins Katie this week to share the key to her calm during the COVID-19 pandemic. From finding mindful moments to maintaining good digestive health, the "Go with Your Gut" author offers practical methods of self-care that can fit into your life. Robyn also talks setting boundaries with your child, following your intuition, and dodging mom judgement on the playground. Don’t miss Robyn’s guided meditation at the end of the episode for an instant reset!

Crib Notes:

Robyn YouKilis’s website: https://www.robynyoukilis.com

Thin from Within: The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight by Robyn YouKilis: https://yourhealthiestyou.com/thinfromwithinbook/

Go with Your Gut: The Insider's Guide to Banishing the Bloat with 75 Digestion-Friendly Recipes by Robyn Youkilis: https://yourhealthiestyou.com/gowithyourgut/

“Good Gut Rule of Five” blog by Robyn YouKilis: https://experiencelife.com/article/how-to-build-a-gut-friendly-plate/ 

Today on the podcast we welcome Robyn Youkilis — AADP Certified Health Coach, author, internationally renowned speaker, and leading expert in holistic digestive health. Through her coaching practice, Your Healthiest You, and her two books: Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within, she’s helped thousands of clients shed both physical and emotional weight with her straightforward yet supportive coaching style.  Robyn has been featured on national television shows such as The View, The Today Show, E! News, and The Cooking Channel, to name a few. 

Robyn’s holistic approach to health and wellness focuses not only on food, but on all areas of life including stress, sleep, and emotions, and the effect those have on weight and eating habits. On this episode we discuss her personal journey to wellness and how the journey was not linear. We also discuss how she healed after a lifetime of being a "serial dieter” and tips to find confidence in the skin you are in — as well as her own practical eating formulas that she shares in her books and with her clients! Enjoy the episode!

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We’re so excited to welcome world-renowned Health Coach and Chewing Queen, Robyn Youkilis. As a former serial dieter herself, Robyn struggled with binge eating, weight, and poor body image her entire life. One day, she decided enough was enough and enrolled at the Institute for Integrative Health to become a Health Coach. Little did she know that nutrition would become her soul’s calling. There, Robyn channeled her love of food and cooking into food and lifestyle tools that empowered her as well as her future coaching clients to heal from the inside out, starting with the gut. As soon as her clients ate more mindfully and cleaned up their gut health, their psychological, social and spiritual lives also improved. As Robyn poignantly said, “A powerfully functioning gut relates to a powerful gut instinct.”

When we’re in a constant state of anxiety, especially around food, we’re not only holding onto emotions but also gripping our organs tightly, inhibiting them from executing their intended job. One of the ways we can release tension in the body and mind during mealtime is to chew slowly. Oftentimes, we chew three to five times per bite before swallowing, burdening our stomachs and digestive tract; instead, Robyn suggests that we chew until our saliva has had a chance to break down our food.

Robyn also recommends that we explore a gut reset cleanse to give our digestive system a chance to reset and repair, while simultaneously alleviating brain fog. Since 90% of serotonin - the brain’s “happy” hormone – is created in our bellies, it’s no surprise that our gut health directly relates to our psychological wellbeing. When the bacteria in our gut are happy, we’re happy and healthy. It’s as simple as that.

We talk about:

• How Robyn found her soul’s calling as Certified Health Coach and Gut Health Guru
• Why gut health is important
• How gut health affects your intuition
• Benefits of a gut reset cleanse for your body, mind and spirit
• Mindful eating practices we can all include to facilitate easier digestion, improve gut health and feel happier in every aspect of our lives

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Make sure to check out her best selling books Go With Your Gut and Thin From Within 

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How many times have you been told (over and over) to “listen to your body”?! It’s not an easy thing to do – for any of us – when we’ve been disconnected from our own internal messages for so long. Best-selling author and leading expert on gut health, Robyn Youkilis, believes that you can learn to listen to your intuition — and shed emotional and physical weight as a result! Robyn has helped thousands of people break free from the craziness of dieting and make food choices from a place of self-trust.

In this episode, Robyn shares her own journey of using food (and unhealthy habits) as a way to connect with her father and the epiphany that enabled her to change her entire relationship with food and herself. You’ll also learn the “now age” approach to weight loss, what five foods to add to your plate to feel your best, why your gut health is so closely tied to your intuition, what to do when you emotionally eat, and more! You’ll feel inspired to turn down the food noise and tune in to the wisdom of your body instead.

This week’s guest is Robyn Youkilis, a certified health coach, author, speaker, and leading expert in holistic digestive health. Robyn is the founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You, and the author of bestselling books, Go With Your Gut and Thin From Within.

This episode focuses on how to listen to that intuitive food voice we all have and how to quit the serial dieting cycle.

Robyn offers advice for those who are constantly looking outside themselves for a fix as well as those interested in this lifestyle change, explains why the gut matters and how fermented foods play a role in gut health, and breaks down her rule of 5 in building a meal.

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Robyn Youkilis is an AADP Certified Health Coach, author, speaker and leading expert in holistic digestive health. She is the Founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You. For nearly a decade, Robyn has helped clients shed both physical and emotional weight through her straightforward yet supportive coaching style. She is the author of the best selling books, Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within - The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, and has been featured by The View, The Today Show, The Cooking Channel, The Wall Street Journal, Health, Mind Body Green, Well + Good, The Chalkboard Mag and more. Robyn currently lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter, Navy. She enjoys traveling, music festivals and eating dessert at fancy restaurants, one bite at a time.

To learn more about coaching with Robyn and to join the #YourHealthiestYou community, visit www.RobynYoukilis.com.

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You know how every now and then you get lucky and have a conversation with someone who just “gets” you, your journey and how your brain works? Well, today’s guest, Robyn Youkilis checked that box. Growing up in a family that used food as a source of love, comfort and connection, I could completely relate. Don’t get me wrong this is a great thing, however the breaking point for Robyn (and myself) is when we started gaining weight and that warm, fuzzy connection went away and instead turned into a difficult connection.

Once she made this realization, Robyn set out to create a new conversation around food and weight. She didn’t want to view things as “good” or “bad,” rather she wanted to slow things down and figure out what foods would best support her body.

After much trial and error (that still happens on a daily basis), she now teaches others that it’s OK if you don’t have it all figured out – it may even take decades. It’s all about finding a formula that works for your body and adheres to what your intuition is telling you and keeps you in alignment. She also touches on how motherhood impacted her relationship with food and how it led to an impactful shift in her life then and now.

I had such a great time connecting with Robyn during this conversation. If you’re someone who struggles with your relationship with food, this episode is a must listen (and her book, Thin from Within, a must read).

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Question Highlights:

• What is your life philosophy and how did you get to this place?
• What did the process of slowing down look for you?
• How has food become a foundation for everything you’re doing?
• What’s something in your life right now that you’re so excited about that you weren’t able to do before because food/body was taking up so much space in your brain?
• What is lighting you up the most right now?
• What is a question you wish more people would ask you?
• Do you have a secret dream that you envision for your future?

In This Episode We Talk about:

• Robyn’s relationship with food and how it changed at age 13
• The emotional and physical weight of not living in alignment
• Food as an experience
• Robyn’s initial resistance with motherhood and how it was a major foundational shift for her
• How Robyn has learned to slow down, connect with her body and intuition and gut, teach from that place and “calm the eff down”
• How to connect with your body
• Setting intention behind activities to achieve alignment
• Finding your intuitive food voice
• Robyn’s power yogurt parfait and Rule of Five Plate
• The connection between your food/body and success in other areas of your life
• Rockstar Coaching Program
• Robyn’s new book, “Thin from Within”
• Why Robyn wants people to how she “does it all”
• And so much more…

Quotes

“You feel good when you're connected to other people.”

“My body is my home.”

“Let your own story and journey be what you want it to be and know that it’s OK.”

“Go with your gut.”

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Robyn Youkilis is an AADP Certified Health Coach, author, speaker, and leading expert in holistic digestive health. For nearly a decade, Robyn has helped clients shed both physical and emotional weight with her straightforward yet supportive coaching style, Your Healthiest You. She is the author of the best-selling books, Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within - The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, and has been featured by The Cooking Channel, The View, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, Health, Mind Body Green, Well Good, The Chalkboard Mag and more.

Robyn currently lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter. She has been a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) for nearly a decade and enjoys traveling, music festivals and eating dessert at fancy restaurants (one bite at a time, that is!).

Resources:

RobynYoukilis.com

Instagram: @robynyoukilis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robyn.youkilis

Book: Thin from Within

Check out my website at loriharder.com. Follow me on social media @LoriHarder on Instagram and Lori Harder on Facebook.

Robyn Youkilis and I have been connected on Instagram for years. Then, we met IRL to lead a morning event together, and I really understood her depth, vulnerability and wisdom. Robyn has built a successful online marketing business based in empowering women to eat (and live) intuitively, with two best-selling books on the same topics.

See the video excerpt from this recording featuring Robyn Youkilis' morning routine on my YouTube channel. 

• What her day-to-day looks like as an online marketing and wellness entrepreneur, author and a holistic health coach
• Her morning rituals (adaptogenic matcha, meditation, power parfait and meal prep)
• How she created the online marketing empire she has now
• What kind of courses and training she went through before she started creating her own digital products
• How she balances being an entrepreneur, mom and wife
• How she decides which business opportunities to take on
• Finding a supportive community as a mom entrepreneur
• Her manifestation process when it comes to business
• The power of launching things before you think you’re ready
• How she overcame fears and doubts and put herself out
• How she built her team
• On feeling aligned in her career
• What role intuition played in getting her first book deal
• What role social media plays in her business daily
• A different point of view on #sponsored posts
• How she practices self-care
• Intuitive eating tips

• Power Parfait Recipe
• Ziva Meditation
• Woke and Wired podcast episode with Ashley Wood
• The Rockstar Roadmap music video on YouTube
• Instagram accounts Robyn loves: @laylafsaad and @bexlife

Connect with Robyn Youkilis:

• robynyoukilis.com
• @robynyoukilis
• facebook.com/yourhealthiestyou

About Robyn Youkilis:

Robyn Youkilis is an AADP Certified Health Coach, author, speaker and leading expert in holistic digestive health. She is the Founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You. For nearly a decade, Robyn has helped clients shed both physical and emotional weight through her straightforward yet supportive coaching style. She is the author of the best selling books, Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within - The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, and has been featured by The View, The Today Show, The Cooking Channel, The Wall Street Journal, Health, Mind Body Green, Well + Good, The Chalkboard Mag and more.

Robyn currently lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter, Navy. She enjoys traveling, music festivals and eating dessert at fancy restaurants, one bite at a time.

To learn more about coaching with Robyn and to join the #YourHealthiestYou community visit www.RobynYoukilis.com

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