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🎧 Episode 8: Beyond the Bowl — How Flexibility, Flavor & Feeling Your Way Through Food Can Reset Your Brain
Host: Dr. Stacey Denise
Guest: Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin
Duration: ~85 minutes
Listen on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audible, iHeart Radio
✨ Episode Summary:
What if the way you build a salad could help rebuild your nervous system?
In this soulful and science-woven episode, Dr. Stacey Denise sits down with clinical nutritionist and That Salad Lady founder Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin to explore what nourishment really means in midlife—especially for women navigating brain fog, shutdown cycles, emotional fatigue, and sensory overwhelm.
Together, they move beyond diets, detoxes, and default wellness rules into a rhythm-based, symptom-informed approach to eating—one rooted in clarity, flexibility, and truth.
Dr. Franklin shares the origin story behind her Build Your Bowl framework and how her new book (The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook) is helping women across the country stop numbing with food and start feeding their energy, intuition, and emotional regulation with care.
💡 Inside This Episode:
- Why clean eating isn’t always clear or calming
- The link between food sensitivities, stress, and shutdown
- Flexitarian nourishment for neurodivergent and midlife women
- Rituals to soften food guilt and reclaim intuitive structure
- A live “Build Your Bowl” reflection for mood and energy
- Our signature Nourish or Numb? segment with surprising food truths
📘 Mentioned in This Episode:
- The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook by Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin
- Dr. Franklin’s website: ThatSaladLady.com
- Follow her on Instagram: @that.salad.lady
🧠 For Listeners Navigating:
- Emotional dysregulation and eating cycles
- Burnout, brain fog, and “wired-but-tired” patterns
- Menopause, ADHD, or sensory processing challenges
- Identity loss around food, body, or energy
📣 Share Your Story:
What’s one food ritual that nourishes you—or one you’re ready to release?
Message us or tag @drstaceydenise to continue the conversation. You are never alone in this journey.
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