I was recently on a call with a Fiercely Empowered Mama who was in a perfect storm. Her body was depleted. Her hormones were a mess. Her sleep was wrecked. And she had landed in an overwhelming histamine flare.

In the middle of pouring all of it out to me, she said something I'd heard before from a hundred women.

"I just cannot wait to get back to MYSELF."

And I get it.

But when she said it out loud, I felt immediate DISSONANCE.

Like what she had said was not the truth.

This episode is what I said to her next. And today, I'm giving it to you.

Press play for:

• The one sentence I keep hearing from women in their hardest seasons, and why it might be the very thing keeping them stuck.
• The lie about healing that most of us have absorbed without realizing it.
• What your symptoms are actually trying to say to you.
• The frame I think about all the time that completely changes how healing FEELS.
• The teaching about WHO you surround yourself with that I had to deliver very carefully so you would not hear what I was not saying.
• The story from my own home that taught me what conviction actually looks like in practice.
• Five declarations and a heart-tapping practice to set the frequency of your every morning.

Plus, I give you three things to focus on this week.

If you're sitting in the thick of healing and wondering when your life will go back to "normal," this episode is for you.

If you've been carrying conviction for everyone in your home and you're running on empty, this episode is especially for you.

If you're ready to stop trying to GET BACK to where you were and start feeling something far more powerful, this is your invitation.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

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The Fiercely Awakening Podcast is officially in the TOP 2 PERCENT of all podcasts worldwide.

This happened because of YOU.

To keep the momentum going, here is the ask:

1. Leave a 5-star review wherever you're listening.
2. Screenshot your review.
3. Send it to me on Instagram or Facebook.

Every screenshot you send equals an entry into our monthly giveaway.

✨🎉 One lucky woman will win a bag of DIRTbath™ or FEMfusion. Every. Single. Month.

Already left a review? Share this episode to your stories and tag me. That counts as an entry too. You get an entry to win for as many times as you share!

Your reviews and your shares are how this message reaches the women it was meant to reach.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

The FEM 2027 Waitlist FEM is the room I built for exactly this. A community of women healing in real time. Mentors who have watched the body do what conventional medicine said was impossible. A room where conviction is the air you breathe. → Save your place here.

The Body Talk Program The program I mention in this episode. Body Talk comes complete with the Body Talk Manual. → Get lifetime access here. Use code PODCAST for $47 off through June 30.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

Connect with Dr. Tonya

You can find me here on Instagram and here on Facebook.

And be sure to visit my website. You'll find even more resources that I'd love to share with you.

This is the episode where I take you behind the curtain.

At 24, my body said NO. At 29, I found my purpose. By 30, I had a baby who would teach me more about my work than any book ever could.

In part 2 of our conversation on the power of a wake-up call, I take you inside some of my most defining wake-up calls, plus a few I have rarely shared publicly. Each one shaped a different room of who I am today. Each one carries a different lesson.

We go deeper with:

• The four phases of transformation every wake-up call requires you to walk.
• The most powerful shift available to a human being, and where most women get stuck.
• The phase of healing almost nobody is teaching about.
• Three of my most defining wake-up calls and what each one birthed in me.
• Why you cannot wake another person up, and the ultimate portal of change for yourself AND everyone around you.
• Plus a four-part assignment to carry into your week.

If you've woken up and you're not sure what to do next, this episode is for you.

If you've been losing sleep over someone else's wake-up call, this episode is especially for you.

If you're ready to stop carrying your story alone and finally let it become medicine to share with other women, this is your invitation.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Big News + Monthly Giveaway

The Fiercely Awakening Podcast is officially in the TOP 2 PERCENT of all podcasts worldwide.

This happened because of YOU.

To keep the momentum going, here is the ask:

1. Leave a 5-star review wherever you're listening.
2. Screenshot your review.
3. Send it to me on Instagram or Facebook.

Every screenshot you send equals an entry into our monthly giveaway.

✨🎉 One lucky woman will win a bag of DIRTbath™ or FEMfusion. Every. Single. Month.

Already left a review? Share this episode to your stories and tag me. That counts as an entry too. You get an entry to win as many times as you share!

Your reviews and your shares are how this message reaches the women it was meant to reach.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

The FEM 2027 Waitlist FEM is the container I built for exactly this. The heavy health seasons. The wake-up calls. The in-between. The everything after. If you've been craving a room full of women who get it, who have your back, and who will walk you through to the other side, get on the waitlist. → Save your place here.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

Connect with Dr. Tonya

You can find me here on Instagram and here on Facebook.

And be sure to visit my website. You'll find even more resources that I'd love to share with you.

I have watched too many women hit a wake-up call without anyone ever giving them the language for what was actually unfolding. The season that finally asked more of them than they could push through. The moment that made it clear something had to change.

We are taught that hard things are punishment.

We are taught that the storm means something is wrong with us.

We are taught to push past, survive, get back to "normal" as fast as possible.

What if all of that is wrong?

What if your wake-up call is the most loving invitation you will ever receive?

In this episode, I give you the framework that moves me through every hard season. The same one that has helped hundreds of women understand theirs.

Listen in for:

• The single worldview that determines whether your hard season lands as a punishment or an invitation.
• The framework for how wake-up calls actually arrive in your life (and how to catch yours sooner).
• Three truths to anchor yourself to when you cannot find solid ground.
• The naturopathic tools and remedies I lean on when I'm in a storm.
• Why your body has been writing you the most honest letter you will ever receive.

Plus, I'll give you a question to sit with this week that will change how you understand every hard season you've ever lived through.

If you're sitting with something hard right now. If you've been carrying a wake-up call you do not have the language for yet. If life has been asking more of you than feels fair...

This episode is especially for you.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

The FEM 2027 Waitlist FEM is the container I built for exactly this. The heavy health seasons. The wake-up calls. The in-between. The everything after. If you've been craving a space full of women who get it, who have your back, and who will walk you through to the other side, get on the waitlist. → Save your place right here!

Mt. Capra Clean Minerals + Collagen (Hot Cocoa flavor) Throughout this episode, I'm sipping on a delish cup of Mt. Capra Clean Minerals + Collagen in Hot Cocoa. What I love about this is, not only does it taste amazing, it also delivers that beautiful potassium punch. Potassium sensitizes your cells to thyroid hormone, which is a fancy way of saying it helps your thyroid actually do its job. Enjoy it with some raw milk and a scoop of gelatin for extra protein. → Shop here. Use code: DRTONYA for 10% off.

Perfect Supplements Gelatin The gelatin I add to my hot cocoa for extra protein. → Shop here. Use code: DRTONYA for 10% off.

The Tonsil Guide (New!) The free resource I wish every mama had who’s been told her kid's tonsils are enlarged. → Get my free Tonsil Guide here.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

Connect with Dr. Tonya

You can find me here on Instagram and here on Facebook.

And be sure to visit my website. You'll find even more resources that I'd love to share with you.

Two and a half years into a strength training journey.

Seven weeks into my current, intentional, fat loss phase.

And sharing every lesson I learned the hard way.

In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of what actually changed my body. The mistakes I made in year one. The shift that happened in year two. The recovery lesson that changed everything. My current cut. And the truth about how long meaningful transformation really takes.

Listen in to hear:

• Why recovery IS the build (and the lesson I had to learn the hard way).
• The identity shift that determines whether healthy habits actually stick.
• The moment the lights came on when I started eating more.
• An unpopular opinion about the scale.
• How to tell if your fat loss efforts are working with your body or against it.
• What two and a half years of consistent strength training has taught me about patience, progress and metabolism.

And perhaps the biggest lesson of all...

Real change is not built in weeks.

It is built in months.

In years.

In showing up over and over again when the results are not yet obvious.

It takes time.

And it is so worth it.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

The FEM 2027 Waitlist The mentorship where we go deeper into metabolism, hormones, muscle building, fat loss and learning how to feel GOOD in your body. → Save you place right here!

The Sacred Mornings Guide (Free) My exact morning flow, the four non-negotiables, and nine declarations to borrow for tomorrow. → Get my free Sacred Mornings Guide here.

The Tonsil Guide (New!) The free resource I wish every mama had who’s been told her kid's tonsils are enlarged. → Get my free Tonsil Guide here.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

For twenty years, carbs have been the most demonized macronutrient in the wellness world. We've been told to cut them, count them, restrict them, time them, avoid them after 6 p.m., only eat them post-workout, only eat the "right" ones, never eat them alone.

And what has it gotten us, mama?

Tanked thyroids. Disrupted cycles. Hair falling out. Anxiety crawling up the back of our skulls. Sleep that will not hold. Cold hands. Cold feet. And a generation of women who do not understand the most basic clinical truth about how their bodies actually run.

Today, we are taking the narrative back.

Inside this episode, I share with you:

• Why thyroid function is deeply influenced by adequate carbohydrate intake.
• The truth about why so many "healthy fat" women are quietly gaining weight
• Why your protein goal cannot do its work without fiber.
• The thirty to forty grams of carbs before you train that will change how your body responds.
• The post-meal practice that GLP-1s are imitating (and that your body does for FREE).

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

The FEM 2027 Waitlist The mentorship where we go deeper into metabolism, hormones, fat loss and feeling GOOD in our bodies. → Save you place right here!

The Sacred Mornings Guide (Free) My exact morning flow, the four non-negotiables, and nine declarations to borrow for tomorrow. → Get my free Sacred Mornings Guide here.

The Tonsil Guide (New!) The free resource I wish every mama had who’s been told her kid's tonsils are enlarged. → Get my free Tonsil Guide here.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

This episode is for the mama who's been quietly carrying the weight of impending doom while still showing up for breakfast and pickup line and bedtime.

You feel it in so many ways. Having dinner with the friend who will not stop catastrophizing. Reading the article that lands in your inbox. Seeing a headline at the grocery store checkout. The PTSD that's still living in your body from Covid.

Listen in as I walk you through the exact framework I run every piece of scary news through. The way I personally move from spiral to soft. From frozen to rooted. From overwhelmed to powerful.

This is not avoidance.

This is sovereignty.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why your nervous system was never designed to handle this many crises at once.
• The difference between fear-based preparedness and grounded preparedness, and why the energy matters more than the action.
• The five-step framework I run every piece of doom news through.
• The journal practice that moves you from not knowing to knowing in five minutes.
• The "billboard clear" prayer I run every nudge through before I act.
• Why every generation has had their bunker, and what that means for you.
• The thymus tap and daily declaration I cannot recommend strongly enough right now.

Change your energy. Change your filter. Change your LIFE.

The best is yet to come.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Resources From Today’s Episode

The Sacred Mornings Guide (Free) My exact morning flow, the four non-negotiables, and nine declarations to borrow for tomorrow. → Get my free Sacred Mornings Guide here.

The Tonsil Guide (New!) The free resource I wish every mama had who’s been told her kid's tonsils are enlarged. → Get my free Tonsil Guide here.

FEMfusion (Mineral Elixir) The herbal infusion I’ve been drinking for 13 years. The simplest way to mineralize and hydrate from the inside. A ritual gentle enough for pregnancy, kids and even your most skeptical relative. → Feel the difference with FEMfusion here.

DIRTbath™ (Mineral Soak) The terrain-level bath my family relies on, with humic and fulvic binders that pull toxins out through the skin and restore minerals that modern living silently drains. → Get your bag of DIRTbath™ here.

You are the main character of your own life. The through-line. The driver. The dreamer. The one without whom none of this happens.

In this episode, I walk you through exactly how to claim that energy, starting tomorrow.

This is not about doing more. It's about leading more intentionally.

YOU go first.

Listen in to hear:

• Why kept promises are how confidence is actually built.
• The two-year project I almost carried alone, and the ask that changed everything in 30 seconds.
• "You are the gas. You are the brake. You are the driver."
• The energy exchange most women skip (and why it quietly ruins relationships).
• The science of anticipation, and why a dream board may be the most powerful intentionality practice you can start this week.
• Why your calendar needs a HORIZON, not more obligations.

And so much more.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Tired of rushed, reactive mornings? This is for you.

Mamas are LOVING the free Sacred Mornings Guide to my personal morning routine, and the message I keep hearing back from them is this:

They thought their mornings had to look like mine to count. They do not.

A sacred morning isn't a timeframe. It's a sequence.

And that sequence can happen in any amount of time you have.

Five minutes or ninety, the intention behind the sequence is what matters. The length does not.

Wake into the woman you're becoming, starting tomorrow morning. → Grab the free guide here and see what I mean.

A Simple Soak for Terrain-Level Healing 🛁

In a world where detox and mineral needs have never been greater, your bath time has the power to be so much more than fun and relaxing.

I made DIRTbath™ for our kids and us mamas, a terrain-level tool for letting toxins out and minerals in.

Bind what doesn't belong and restore what your body is missing in one simple soak. → Grab a bag at tonyaholcomb.com/dirtbath.

This week, I did something that I tell you NOT to do.

I broke my own rule, on purpose, just to see what would happen.

I skipped my morning anchors. No first intentional thought. No charged water. No affirmation. No declaration.

I still went outside. I still ate breakfast. But I let my brain run wild. Just to see what would happen.

What unfolded was a perfectly ordinary day where my body took me on a walk to somewhere I didn't recognize. Then a moment stopped me cold.

And that moment is exactly why this episode contains the most important Q&A I've ever recorded.

Listen in as I walk you through my experiment, the brain science behind why skipping your morning anchors hijacks your nervous system for the entire day, and what it taught me about how the body responds whether you mean it to or not.

From there, I answer the questions you sent in after the first part of this conversation, Episode 131: 1% Better Mornings – A Walkthrough of My Routine + Why Habit Stacking Actually Works.

• "I literally have ZERO morning routine. Where do I even start?"
• "My baby still wakes me up two or three times a night. I am a zombie. What do morning anchors look like for me?"
• "Do I REALLY need all the equipment?"
• "Where does coffee fit in your morning?"
• "I am out the door by 6:45 a.m. What is the bare minimum?"
• "I have tried morning routines a hundred times and always quit by week three. What's different about this?"
• "My toddler wakes up before me. I cannot get a moment to myself."
• "You said you don't have your phone on until you start your day. Can you talk more about this?"
• "Can I do this in the evening instead? Mornings are not my thing."
• "Which declaration should I start with?"
• "How long before I see a real difference?"
• "You said you don't wash your face in the morning. Why is that?"

If you've been wondering whether your LIFE can really change from a morning routine, these are the episodes to listen to.

You are Fiercely Awakening.

Stack Your Morning: Tools + Links From Today’s Episode

The Sacred Mornings Guide is your free map to everything in today's episode, my exact morning flow, the four non-negotiables and 9 declarations to borrow for tomorrow morning. → Get yours here for free.

The FEM-spired Mother's Day Gift Guide is a beautiful way to peruse hand-picked tools, rituals and remedies designed to pour back into the mama who pours into everyone all year long. → Get your free gift guide here.

DIRTbath™ is the detox bath I made for our kids and us mamas. Toxins out, minerals in. → Grab a bag at tonyaholcomb.com/dirtbath.

▶ Be sure to catch part one of this conversation first in Episode 131: 1% Better Mornings: A Walkthrough of My Routine + Why Habit Stacking Actually Works → Listen here.