What if emotional eating wasn’t something to fix, but something to understand? In this episode, Lindsey sits down with Scaled Nation founder Athena Perez to unpack the deeper story behind our patterns with food—and why true healing is less about macros and more about safety, softness, and self-awareness. Athena shares her powerful insights on disarming shame, rewriting narratives, and building the kind of support that actually helps.

What you’ll learn in this episode👇🏽

• Why emotional eating is a signal—not a failure

• What looks like dishonesty is often just disconnection

• Why you can’t fix this with a food plan

• The emotional “types” that show up in our relationship with food

• How to support someone healing without control or critique

• Practical tools for building emotional regulation and resilience

• Why healing is quiet, messy, and absolutely worth it

This one isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence.

Links from the episode:

Point One Vision: www.pointonevision.com

Point One’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/pointonevision

Athena’s Website: www.athenamperez.com

Scaled Nation Website: www.scalednation.com

Athena’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/athenamariebt

Scaled Nation Instagram: www.instagram.com/scaled_nation

Hosted by Lindsey Heidel, The Holy Alive Podcast brings you interviews, advice, and education on how to improve your physical life along with your mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences.

Holy Alive is a production of Point One Vision, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that equips, empowers, and educates the fitness industry to exercise biblical living and what it means to be “strong to serve.”

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay

We mix it up today as podcast host Lindsey Heidel does a solo episode. Are you afraid of your own story or so disconnected from your life that you don’t see how God is at work? This question is one we tackle, while also diving into the Full Armor pillar of observation. At the end of the episode, our Full Armor segment walks you through Breath Awareness 101.

What you’ll hear about in this episode 👇🏽

• Your story matters-

• • We are all storytellers- there's never a moment where we aren't actively or passively telling a story to ourselves and others.

  • Big S and Little S Stories

• We need to know who God is and how he defines us

• • To be a storyteller you have to know your Storymaker

  • We need to accept what the Storymaker says about us

• We need to approach and observe our lives with humility and courage

• • Our identity in Christ and that rootedness in whose we are gives us the strength and courage to openly and honestly observe our own lives.

• How we can put observation into practice

• • What is observation

  • When we observe, we do not judge

  • We look at physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, and relational events- past and present

• How we start understanding breath and moving out of dysregulation

Links from the episode:

Point One Vision: www.pointonevision.com

Point One’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pointonevision

Hosted by Lindsey Heidel, The Holy Alive Podcast brings you interviews, advice, and education on how to improve your physical life along with your mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences.

Holy Alive is a production of Point One Vision, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that equips, empowers, and educates the fitness industry to exercise biblical living and what it means to be “strong to serve.”

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay

When the crisis happens, do you know who you will and won’t be?

In this episode of Holy Alive, limb difference mentor and leader Josh Reed shares how he wrestled with these questions after facing the worst situation of his life—a motorcycle accident that claimed his leg. Josh discusses how he decided the kind of man he wanted to be and how he continues to choose, every day, who he will not be in order to thrive in the life ahead of him.

What you’ll hear about in this episode 👇🏽

• How Josh felt God’s presence in the midst of his accident

• The turning point for him as he recovered from his amputation

• His biggest piece of advice for anyone facing a crisis

• How to prepare for the day when the worst occurs

• The importance of relationships and community

• The difference between honesty and vulnerability

Links from the episode:

Point One Vision: www.pointonevision.com

Point One’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pointonevision

Oahu Pentalon: www.oahupentathlon.com

Oahu Pentalon Instagram: www.instagram.com/oahupentathlon/

Hosted by Lindsey Heidel, The Holy Alive Podcast brings you interviews, advice, and education on how to improve your physical life along with your mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences.

Holy Alive is a production of Point One Vision, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that equips, empowers, and educates the fitness industry to exercise biblical living and what it means to be “strong to serve.”

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay