Guest: Bria Gadd — The Period Whisperer

Are you eating healthy, exercising regularly, and doing everything you've been told to do, yet STILL gaining weight, struggling with sleep, or feeling exhausted?

What if the problem isn't your hormones alone—or that you're not trying hard enough?

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Bria Gadd, The Period Whisperer, to explore the connection between perimenopause, cortisol, chronic stress, metabolism, and what Bria calls HEALTH DEBT.

Bria shares her personal journey from fitness professional to perimenopause expert after experiencing unexplained weight gain, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and hormonal changes—even while maintaining her healthy habits.

Together, JJ and Bria discuss why simply eating less and exercising more may not be the answer, and why understanding your body's energy demands, nervous system, and capacity for recovery is essential.

• What is Health Debt? Why your body's energy demands may exceed its available resources and how Bria uses this concept to explain frustrating midlife symptoms.
• Perimenopause vs. Chronic Stress: Why not every symptom should automatically be blamed on declining estrogen.
• Cortisol and Weight Gain: How chronic stress may influence sleep, metabolism, recovery, and body composition.
• Why Your Workouts Aren't Working: How pushing harder without adequate recovery can leave you feeling worse.
• The Nervous System Connection: Why moving out of fight-or-flight and making space for rest, pleasure, and joy matters.
• Hormones and Sexual Health: The relationship between stress, safety, arousal, libido, and overall well-being.
• How to Start Rebuilding Your Health: Simple foundations involving sleep, nutrition, movement, stress reduction, and recovery.

The takeaway: Your body may not need you to work HARDER. It may need you to understand what it's asking for and support it differently.

Take Bria's FREE Health Debt Quiz:

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Discover where you may be experiencing health debt and explore your next steps.

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Your health isn't just about what you eat or how much you exercise. It's also about how you manage stress, support your nervous system, and create the conditions for your body to recover.

Listen now and discover why your healthy habits may not be delivering the results you expect!

With Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt

Why do couples keep having the same arguments, even when they love each other? What if the real reason you're fighting has very little to do with what's happening today—and everything to do with wounds from your childhood?

In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes welcomes Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy and bestselling authors of Getting the Love You Want, to explore childhood core wounds, unconscious relationship patterns, and the emotional triggers that keep couples repeating the same conflicts.

Harville and Helen share their personal stories, the origins of Imago Therapy, and how their own relationship struggles helped shape a revolutionary approach to communication and healing. Harville also reveals a newer insight about the difference between managing relationship power struggles and moving beyond them into real love.

JJ shares how discovering the Imago Core Wound Exercise nearly a decade ago became the foundation for her Core Wound Map® and Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program—helping people uncover the subconscious beliefs and survival strategies influencing their relationships, health, happiness, and sense of self.

• Why childhood wounds show up as emotional triggers in adult relationships.
• How unmet childhood needs influence who we choose as partners and why we fight.
• The fascinating origins of Imago Relationship Therapy.
• Why understanding your past isn't always enough to change your patterns.
• How listening, mirroring, validation, and empathy can transform communication.
• The difference between managing conflict and experiencing real love.
• How identifying your core wounds can help you change repeating emotional and relationship patterns.

The biggest takeaway? The argument you're having today may be connected to a wound you experienced decades ago. Real emotional healing isn't simply understanding why you react—it's learning to respond differently.

As JJ says, "Healing is when you are different in the same situation."

1. Core Wound Map® Founders Experience

Join JJ's exclusive six-week Founders Experience beginning November 1 and help shape the Core Wound Map while discovering the hidden patterns influencing your life.

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2. Pre-Order JJ's New Core Wound Book

Be part of the book's pre-launch campaign, explore exclusive bonuses, and support bringing this transformative work to a wider audience.

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3. Three-Month Private One-on-One Coaching

Work personally with JJ to identify your core wounds, understand your emotional patterns, and develop a personalized roadmap for lasting change.

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4. Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027 Program

Ready for a deeper transformation? Apply for JJ's nine-month Rewire program and learn to change the subconscious patterns driving your emotional reactions, relationships, and self-sabotage.

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What if the biggest thing keeping you in your relationship isn't love—but fear?

Deciding whether to stay in a marriage or end a relationship can be one of the most emotionally challenging decisions you'll ever make. Fear of hurting someone, being alone, making the wrong choice, or facing the unknown can keep you from moving forward—even when you know something needs to change.

In this episode of Spirit, Purpose & Energy, JJ Flizanes welcomes back Meagan Sardana, a recent graduate of her nine-month Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program, for a deeply personal conversation about divorce, childhood wounds, emotional healing, and reclaiming your power.

After years of contemplating the end of her marriage, Meagan shares how understanding her Core Wound Map helped her recognize the fears and avoidance patterns influencing her decisions. With new tools, support, and a different perspective, she found the courage to have difficult conversations, establish boundaries, and begin transitioning out of her marriage.

But this conversation isn't about encouraging anyone to get divorced.

It's about learning to make decisions from clarity and self-worth rather than fear and old emotional wounds.

• How childhood wounds influence your marriage, relationships, and decisions.
• Why fear of confrontation, rejection, or abandonment can keep you from making changes.
• How Meagan used the Couple's Dialogue tool to navigate a difficult conversation with her husband.
• Why ending a relationship doesn't automatically end the emotional patterns that shaped it.
• How to recognize avoidance, suppression, and other survival patterns.
• Why understanding your Core Wound Map can help you establish boundaries and reclaim your personal power.
• The difference between talking about change and actually living differently.

Whether you're contemplating divorce, navigating a relationship transition, or simply tired of repeating the same emotional patterns, this conversation offers a new perspective on what it means to heal.

Because healing isn't necessarily about changing your circumstances. It's about becoming different in the same situation.

Core Wound Map Book & Founders Experience

Discover the unconscious emotional patterns influencing your life. Learn about JJ's upcoming book and the six-week Core Wound Map Founders Experience beginning November 1, 2026.

https://www.jjflizanes.com/map

Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027

Applications are now open for JJ's immersive nine-month program, designed to help you move beyond awareness and practice lasting change.

https://www.jjflizanes.com/apply

5 Levels to Restore Health — November 6–8, 2026

Join JJ and special guest Dr. William Davis in Redondo Beach for a transformational weekend exploring healing on five levels: physical, emotional, mental, relational and environmental, and spiritual.

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Remember: You don't transform your life by understanding it differently. You transform it by LIVING differently.