Glow & Flow Radio helps you cultivate calm, confidence, and clarity through mindfulness, self-care, and science-backed wellness practices.
Welcome to Glow & Flow Radio!
Glow & Flow Radio: Holistic Healing for Women on the Real Journey Because emotional eating isn't just about food... It's about everything. Glow & Flow Radio is for plus-size women who are done pretending they have it all together. It is hosted by Delicia, who has walked the path of emotional eating followed by difficulty maintaining a healthy weight for her body and learned that sustainable healing requires addressing all of you: emotional wounds, physical vitality, mental resilience, spiritual connection, and financial peace. This podcast meets you exactly where you are on the messy, non-linear journey of healing with honest conversations about trauma, emotional eating, and what it takes to build wellness that honors your whole self. Each episode addresses at least one of the following: Emotional healing - The trauma and pain driving your patterns Physical wellness - Body-respectful practices at any size Mental strength - Self-compassion over self-criticism Spiritual alignment - Reconnecting with your authentic self Financial peace - Reducing stress that triggers eating No toxic positivity. No quick fixes. No guru pretending it's easy. Just practical, compassionate guidance from someone in the arena with you. 🎧 Real healing for real women. Because you deserve to address all of you, not just your body.
Healing Is Not Performing: What to Do After the Awareness Hits
You listened to the last episode.
And something cracked open.
Maybe you cried.
Maybe you sat in silence and let it sink in.
Maybe you finally understood yourself in a way you never had before.
And then the question came:
“Okay… now what?”
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, Delicia speaks directly to the moment after awareness. The part nobody prepares you for. The space where you see the patterns clearly, but realize that seeing them doesn’t automatically make them go away.
This is a conversation about what healing actually looks like in real life. Not the Instagram version. Not the highlight reel. The messy, nonlinear, often uncomfortable middle where real change happens quietly.
In this episode, we explore:
Why awareness is only the beginning, not the finish line
How healing culture has turned growth into a performance
The grief that comes with realizing your coping patterns were survival strategies
Why feeling worse can actually mean you’re healing
Five honest signs that healing is happening, even when it doesn’t feel like it
How healing trauma responses shifts your relationship with food, rest, boundaries, and self-compassion
This episode is for the woman who has done the reading, the journaling, the therapy, and is still asking, “Why am I not past this yet?” It’s for the woman learning that healing is not about becoming unbothered. It’s about becoming present, compassionate, and honest with herself.
A free companion resource, My Healing Is Not Performing: A 7-Day Check-In Journal, is available to support you through this stage of the journey at https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/7a810a79-cd68-47d5-adc4-f4b236bb1fce.
You do not need to be healed to be whole.
You are whole right now, in the middle of it.
Keep glowing. Keep flowing. And keep healing from the inside out.
Episode 17: Trauma Responses You Think Are Personality Traits
Have you ever said things like,
“I’m just a people pleaser.”
“I’m an overthinker.”
“I’m bad at saying no.”
“I’m an emotional eater. That’s just who I am.”
What if none of those are personality traits?
In this powerful episode of Glow & Flow Radio, Delicia gently pulls back the curtain on five behaviors many of us have claimed as part of our identity, and reframes them for what they really are: trauma responses and survival strategies developed to keep us safe.
We explore how experiences like childhood emotional neglect, chaotic homes, toxic relationships, being the strong one, or growing up with conditional love shape the nervous system. These adaptations do not disappear when the danger passes. Instead, they quietly become “who we are.”
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why people-pleasing often comes from fear, not kindness
How hypervigilance and overthinking are signs of a nervous system stuck in threat mode
Why emotional eating is a form of self-soothing, not a lack of discipline
How overworking can be a way to avoid feeling and earn worth
Why difficulty saying no is rooted in nervous system safety, not selfishness
You’ll also hear how each of these patterns connects to your relationship with food, your body, and rest, and why healing one begins to soften them all.
This episode is not about fixing yourself. It’s about understanding yourself with compassion. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are a survivor who developed incredibly intelligent strategies to get through difficult circumstances.
A free companion guide, “Am I Healing or Performing?”, is available to help you reflect on these patterns and begin healing them gently at https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/707f9e7f-3b12-49a8-bc6a-ffdc59154409.
If this episode hits you in the chest, you’re not alone. Share it with the friend who needs to hear that she is not a problem. She is healing. And so are you.
Until next time, keep glowing, keep flowing, and keep healing from the inside out.
When Depression Meets Anxiety: The Exhausting In-Between
EPISODE 16: When Depression Meets Anxiety: The Exhausting In-Between
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In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore what it really feels like to live with both depression and anxiety at the same time, and why this combination can be one of the most exhausting mental health experiences.
If you have ever felt too depressed to care but too anxious to rest, too overwhelmed to function but too restless to slow down, this conversation is for you. We talk about the emotional and physical tug of war that happens when these two conditions coexist, and how it can leave you feeling stuck, misunderstood, and constantly pulled in opposite directions.
You will learn:
What it feels like when depression and anxiety overlap
How this combination affects your relationship with food
Why having both is so often misunderstood
The paralysis-panic loop and how it keeps you stuck
How to find a middle path between doing too much and doing nothing
Practical tools for managing days when both are active
Why treating both conditions together matters
This episode offers gentle insight, practical coping strategies, and a compassionate perspective for anyone living in the in-between space of depression and anxiety.
Because you are not broken, you are not too complicated, and you are not failing. You are navigating two powerful forces at once, and you deserve support that honors the full complexity of your experience.
Financial Anxiety & Emotional Eating: Breaking the Cycle
EPISODE 15: Financial Anxiety & Emotional Eating: Breaking the Cycle
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In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore a powerful and often overlooked connection: the link between financial anxiety and emotional eating.
Have you ever checked your bank account and immediately felt the urge to eat, even when you were not hungry? Or noticed that paying a bill makes your heart race and suddenly the fridge feels like the safest place to be?
You are not imagining it. Money stress and emotional eating are deeply connected, and in this episode, we unpack exactly why that happens and how to start breaking the cycle with compassion instead of shame.
You will learn:
Why financial stress activates your nervous system and increases food cravings
The common pattern of checking your bank account, panicking, eating, and feeling shame
How your body interprets money stress as a real survival threat
The hidden financial cost of stress eating
Practical tools to regulate your nervous system before reaching for food
Simple financial systems that can reduce daily anxiety
How to look at your finances without triggering a panic response
This episode offers gentle, practical strategies for both emotional eating and financial wellness, including grounding techniques, somatic tools, mindset shifts, and supportive money habits that help your body feel safer around stress.
If financial anxiety has been driving your eating patterns, this conversation will help you feel seen, understood, and empowered to approach both your money and your body with more care.
Because financial wellness is emotional wellness.
And you deserve peace in both.
EPISODE 14: Depression Eating: When Food Becomes Your Only Comfort
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When you’re depressed, food can feel like the only thing that still works.
In this deeply compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we’re talking about depression eating, not casual emotional eating and not binge eating driven by anxiety, but the kind of eating that shows up when depression has drained your energy, motivation, joy, and hope… and food becomes the only accessible source of comfort.
If you’ve ever eaten because:
Getting out of bed felt impossible
Cooking felt overwhelming or unattainable
Everything felt numb, heavy, or gray
Food was the only thing that brought even a moment of relief
This episode is for you.
We break down what depression eating actually is, why it happens on a brain and nervous-system level, and how shame—not food—is often what keeps people stuck. You’ll learn how depression impacts dopamine, energy, appetite, and motivation, and why reaching for easy, comforting foods during depressive episodes is not a failure; it’s survival.
In this episode, we explore:
What makes depression eating different from anxiety or binge eating
Why food can feel like the only available comfort during depression
The depression–eating–shame spiral (and how to interrupt it)
Why “just eat better” advice doesn’t work when you’re depressed
What gentle nutrition looks like when cooking feels impossible
Practical, no-shame tools for feeding yourself during depressive episodes
When and how to seek additional support without judgment
This is a diet-culture-free, trauma-informed conversation that replaces guilt with understanding and pressure with compassion. No meal plans. No food rules. No “fix yourself” energy.
Just honesty, gentleness, and permission to survive.
If food is your only comfort right now, you are not broken.
If you’re eating what you can manage, you are not failing.
If you’re still here, you’re doing more than enough.
Listen now and remind yourself:
Food is not the problem.
Shame is not the solution.
Self-compassion is the way forward.
Episode 13: Anxiety Eating: When Your Nervous System Won’t Let You Stop
A Glow & Flow Holistics and Glow & Flow Radio Episode
Anxiety eating isn’t about willpower; it’s about a nervous system that’s overwhelmed and searching for relief.
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore what happens when anxiety takes over your body before your mind has a chance to catch up. The kind of eating that feels urgent, frantic, and hard to stop. The kind where food becomes the fastest way to quiet a racing heart, a tight chest, or buzzing thoughts.
You’ll learn how anxiety eating differs from other forms of emotional eating, why anxiety drives cravings for specific comfort foods, and how the anxiety-eating-shame loop keeps you stuck. We unpack how restriction and diet culture actually increase anxiety, making these patterns stronger, not better.
This episode focuses on nervous system regulation, not food control. You’ll be guided through practical, compassionate tools you can use before, during, and after anxiety eating, including grounding techniques, breathwork, movement, and intentional comfort, all without shame or pressure to “fix” yourself.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What anxiety eating really is from a nervous system perspective
Why anxiety creates urgent cravings and mindless eating
How shame fuels the anxiety-eating cycle
The difference between eating from anxiety and eating to calm
Practical tools to regulate your nervous system with compassion
When and why additional support may be helpful
This episode is for anyone who has ever asked, “Why can’t I stop?”
The answer isn’t failure; it’s survival.
You’re not broken.
Your body is trying to protect you.
And you deserve more options for feeling safe.
Glow & Flow Radio, where healing replaces shame, and compassion leads the way.
Episode 12: New Year, New Lies: Why Diet Culture Fails (and What Actually Works)
A Glow & Flow Holistics Podcast Episode
Every January, we’re sold the same promise: This will be the year you finally fix your body.
And every year, the cycle repeats: hope, restriction, burnout, and shame.
In this powerful and compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, host Dee Dee dismantles the biggest myths of diet culture and explains why diets don’t fail because of a lack of willpower; they fail because they ignore biology, nervous system safety, and lived experience.
We explore how restriction triggers survival responses in the body, why control-based “wellness” keeps us stuck, and how diet culture rebrands itself year after year while delivering the same harm. Then, we shift the conversation toward what actually works: holistic healing rooted in body trust, emotional regulation, nervous system support, and compassion.
This episode introduces the Five Pillars of Holistic Healing and reframes real healing as something quieter, slower, and far more sustainable than any diet transformation. You’ll also be guided through a gentle healing intention meditation to help you start the year grounded in safety, not punishment.
In this episode, you’ll explore:
Why diet culture is designed to fail (and profit from your self-blame)
What your body is really doing when diets stop “working”
The difference between control-based transformation and real healing
How the Five Pillars of Holistic Healing support lasting change
A guided practice to set intentions rooted in compassion, not weight loss
This episode is for anyone who’s tired of starting over every January and ready to start listening instead.
You don’t need another diet.
You need understanding, support, and a body-centered approach that actually works.
Visit GlowAndFlowHolistics.com to explore the Five Pillars and continue your healing journey.
Healing isn’t a resolution; it’s a relationship.
Episode 11: The Emotional Eating Cycle: Understanding Your Triggers with Compassion
Pillar: Emotional (Core Focus)
Emotional eating is not a lack of willpower; it’s your body asking for care.
In this deeply compassionate episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we gently unpack the emotional eating cycle and explore what’s really happening beneath the urge to eat when you’re stressed, lonely, bored, exhausted, or overwhelmed. Without judgment. Without diet talk. Without pressure to “fix” yourself.
You’ll learn how emotional eating is rooted in nervous system regulation, learned safety, and unmet emotional needs, not personal failure. We walk through the emotional eating cycle step by step, identify common triggers, and reframe coping behaviors through a trauma-informed lens that honors your body’s intelligence instead of shaming it.
This episode offers permission-based alternatives, not rules, and gentle practices that expand your options for comfort while honoring food as one valid tool, not a moral problem. Most importantly, it invites you to replace shame with curiosity, because healing doesn’t happen through control; it happens through understanding.
In this episode, you’ll explore:
What emotional eating actually is (and what it isn’t)
How stress, trauma, fatigue, boredom, and loneliness drive eating urges
Why shame fuels the cycle and how compassion weakens it
A trauma-informed approach to healing your relationship with food
Gentle, non-restrictive ways to support your nervous system
This episode is for anyone who has ever eaten for comfort and wondered, “What’s wrong with me?”
Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you.
Slow down. Breathe. Listen with kindness.
Your body has always been trying to take care of you, and this episode helps you learn its language.
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Healing without punishment. Understanding without shame.
Rethinking Rest: Why Productivity Culture Keeps Us Stuck
What if rest isn’t something you have to earn?
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we gently dismantle productivity culture and the belief that your worth is tied to how much you do, produce, or endure. This conversation is especially for women who have been conditioned to push through exhaustion, silence their bodies, and place everyone else’s needs ahead of their own.
We explore how chronic stress keeps the body locked in survival mode, what that does to your nervous system, sleep, cravings, and emotional eating patterns—and why rest is not laziness but a biological necessity. Through a trauma-informed lens, this episode reframes rest as a form of resistance, self-care, and long-term sustainability.
You’ll learn:
How productivity culture disconnects us from our bodies
What chronic stress does to mental and physical health
Why emotional eating is often a signal of unmet rest, not a lack of discipline
How permission-based rest supports nervous system regulation
Gentle ways to rest without guilt, perfection, or pressure
This is not an episode about doing more.
It’s an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and remember that you are allowed to rest before burnout forces you to.
No hustle.
No shame.
Just compassion, clarity, and space to breathe.
If this episode resonates, share it with a woman who needs permission to rest, too.
Spiritual Grounding Practices: Finding Your Center When Life Feels Chaotic
Spiritual Grounding Practices: Finding Your Center When Life Feels Chaotic
When life feels loud, overwhelming, and emotionally heavy, grounding can help you reconnect with your inner self.
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, Delicia creates a calm, judgment-free space for women who feel overstimulated, anxious, emotionally drained, or done with everything. With honesty and compassion, she shares simple spiritual grounding practices designed to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom, calm your nervous system, and find peace—even when life feels chaotic.
This episode gently explores why grounding matters, especially for those navigating anxiety, depression, emotional eating, or chronic overthinking. Delicia explains how grounding pulls you out of mental spirals and back into your body, allowing you to respond with intention instead of reacting on autopilot. You’ll learn how calming your breath, slowing your heart rate, and reconnecting with your body can soften emotional overwhelm and support clearer decision-making.
Inside this episode, you’ll discover:
simple breathwork to signal safety to your nervous system
grounding techniques you can use anywhere—no tools or experience required
journaling prompts to release what isn’t yours to carry
quick reset rituals for emotionally heavy days
gentle body check-ins to reconnect with yourself
This episode is not about perfection or escaping life; it’s about remembering your power in the middle of it. If you’ve been craving calm, clarity, and spiritual grounding that feels realistic and accessible, this conversation is for you.
May you glow gently, flow bravely, and always find your way back to center.
Finding Your Five Minutes of Peace
Finding Your Five Minutes of Peace
Do you ever feel like your mind is constantly racing... or that you simply don’t have time to slow down?
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, host Delicia invites you to rethink mindfulness in a way that actually fits real life. Finding Your Five Minutes of Peace explores how calm, clarity, and emotional balance don’t require long meditation sessions or complicated practices, just a few intentional moments of awareness woven into your day.
Delicia breaks down what mindfulness really is (and what it isn’t), sharing her personal journey from chronic mental overstimulation to discovering mindfulness as the pause between reacting and responding. You’ll also learn the science behind why even five minutes a day can lower stress, support emotional regulation, and positively change the brain over time
This episode includes:
a short, accessible guided mindfulness exercise you can use anytime
five simple mindfulness practices that fit into busy schedules
practical ways to calm the nervous system during everyday tasks
encouragement for releasing the “I’m too busy” mindset
gentle guidance on starting small and building sustainable habits
This conversation isn’t about escaping life; it’s about being fully present within it. If you’ve been craving more peace, focus, and grounding without adding another item to your to-do list, this episode is for you.
As always, stay glowing, keep flowing, and remember... peace is always one breath away.
The Truth About Money, Stress, and Your Body
When was the last time you checked your bank account and immediately reached for food?
If you've ever found yourself at the fridge at night—not from hunger, but from financial stress—you already know the connection between money anxiety and emotional eating.
Here's what most people don't talk about: When your nervous system feels financially unsafe, your body desperately searches for relief. The shame afterward? That's not helping anyone heal.
It's time for a different approach to financial wellness—one that honors your whole self: mind, body, bank account, and everything in between.
What You'll Learn
The Mind-Body-Money Connection - Why financial stress triggers emotional eating (it's biology, not weakness)
Releasing Money Shame - A simple mantra that shifts you from shame to clarity
Financial Clarity as Self-Care - How certainty reduces anxiety and softens emotional eating triggers
Self-Care Budgeting - The difference between punishing budgets and alignment-based spending
Wellness on Any Budget - Practical strategies for $0, $10, or $50/month
The 5-Minute Money Check-In Ritual - A weekly practice that transforms your relationship with money
Your Financial Flow Workbook
This episode pairs with the Financial Flow Workbook: Holistic Tools for Resilience—a comprehensive guide with trackers, reflection prompts, meal planners, income worksheets, and stress-relief practices.
5 Pillars of Holistic Financial Resilience:
- Reframe Your Relationship with Money
- Shop Smarter, Eat Healthier
- Build Multiple Streams of Income
- Manage Stress and Anxiety Naturally
- Lean on Community
Download the Financial Flow Workbook.
This Episode Is For You If...
✓ You've stress-eaten after checking your bank account
✓ You carry guilt or shame around money
✓ You're tired of financial advice that ignores emotional reality
✓ You want practical tools, not motivational platitudes
✓ You're ready to thrive, not just survive
What Makes This Different
Most financial wellness content focuses only on numbers. At Glow & Flow Holistics, we understand that your relationship with money is inseparable from your relationship with your body, emotions, and sense of safety.
This trauma-informed approach recognizes that financial stress IS emotional stress, shame blocks healing, and small intentional changes create lasting shifts.
You don't need to have it all figured out. Just take the next small step.
Optimize Your Financial Well-being
The Financial Flow Workbook transforms financial anxiety into clarity with 5 pillars of holistic tools: money mindset shifts, smart shopping strategies, income-building worksheets, stress-relief practices, and community connection—everything you need to thrive financially without triggering emotional eating. Order between now and December 24, 2025 and get a FREE Holiday Gift Planner!
Episode 6: The Body Trust Journey—Healing Your Relationship with Food & Movement
So many women are walking around feeling like their bodies are projects to fix instead of homes to live in. This episode of Glow & Flow Radio invites you to lay that burden down and begin something gentler… something truer.
In The Body Trust Journey, we explore how to rebuild trust with your body after years of dieting, shame, survival mode, or using food and movement as coping tools. This conversation goes far beyond “willpower” and dives into the real root of struggle: trauma, nervous system overload, emotional hunger, and the stories we absorbed about our worth.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why your body is not the problem — and never was
- How trauma shapes the way we eat, move, and respond to stress
- The myth of willpower and why discipline can’t heal what compassion must
- How to tell the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger
- The foundations of intuitive eating (minus the rules and rigidity)
- What gentle movement looks like when it comes from kindness, not punishment
- Small, doable steps to begin rebuilding trust with your body this week
If you’re tired of fighting yourself—tired of starting over, tired of shame, tired of feeling disconnected—this episode offers a breath of relief and a path back to peace.
You deserve a relationship with your body that feels safe, steady, and compassionate. Press play, exhale, and let’s walk this healing journey together.
Episode 5: The Transformative Power of Gratitude: How Thankfulness Rewires Your Mind and Life
Gratitude isn’t just good manners—it’s good science.
In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore how the simple act of practicing gratitude can literally reshape your brain, uplift your mood, and bring more peace into your daily life.
You’ll learn:
The neuroscience behind gratitude and how it strengthens positive pathways
How to practice gratitude authentically, not as a checklist, but as a mindset
Ways to weave thankfulness into your mornings, evenings, and everyday routines
The ripple effect of gratitude on relationships, creativity, and emotional resilience
Discover how consistent gratitude can lower stress, improve sleep, and increase overall happiness, all by training your brain to focus on what’s good.
Because gratitude doesn’t just change your outlook—it transforms your life.
Episode 4: The Digital Detox: Reclaiming Your Time, Energy, and Peace
Feeling mentally cluttered, distracted, or drained?
This episode of Glow & Flow Radio is your invitation to step back, breathe deeply, and restore your peace with a gentle digital detox.
In today’s world, our devices keep us connected, but they also keep our minds overstimulated. Between constant notifications, endless scrolling, and the pressure to stay “always on,” our nervous systems rarely get the rest they need.
A digital detox isn’t about tossing your phone or logging off forever. It’s about redefining your relationship with technology so that it serves your well-being, not the other way around.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What a digital detox really is (and what it isn’t)
The science of overstimulation and dopamine loops
How screen time impacts mood, sleep, focus, and creativity
Simple, sustainable steps to start your own detox without guilt or pressure
We’ll also explore the emotional side of digital wellness: how mindful moderation helps you feel more present, creative, and centered in your daily life.
Glow Tip: Every time you choose presence over distraction, you reclaim a piece of your peace.
Episode 3: The Truth About Self-Care—Beyond Bubble Baths
We’ve all heard that self-care means spa days and scented candles, but what if real self-care goes much deeper? In this episode, we uncover the truth about self-care: why it’s not indulgence, but maintenance and restoration.
You’ll learn:
• What self-care really means (and what it isn’t)
• The science behind why your body and mind crave rest
• The four dimensions of holistic self-care—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual
• How to redefine rest and release guilt around slowing down
• Quick five-minute reset practices that actually work
Key Takeaway:
Self-care isn’t selfish... it’s sacred. It’s not about escape; it’s about returning to yourself.
Episode 2: The Nighttime Ritual Reset: Preparing for Calm, Focus, and Renewal
Your best mornings begin the night before. Discover how simple nighttime rituals can calm your mind, restore your body, and prepare you for a peaceful, focused tomorrow. Learn how rest becomes the foundation for balance, energy, and emotional renewal.
Episode 1: The Science of Morning Rituals—How to Start Your Day Without Stress
Your mornings shape your mindset. Learn the science behind morning rituals—and how small, mindful changes can transform stress into calm. Discover easy habits, from light exposure to gratitude, that set the tone for a peaceful, productive day.
Be sure to grab your copy of the companion Morning Rituals for Peace & Gratitude Workbook—your step-by-step guide to building a routine that restores balance and focus.
