Life Coach Ada Denison Shares Her Yogada Wellness Story

Our first guest interview! Ada Dennison moved to Tonasket four-and-a-half years ago and Johnna was one of her very first friends (they met at Granger's birthday party that he didn't tell us he was inviting people to). Ada's now a dual-certified health and life coach, and this is her first podcast interview ever—so we're all growing together, and we don't edit, so you know what to expect.

What we discuss:

• The five basic human fears—extinction doesn't mean what you think (hint: it's about making change), and what gets discussed about the four others that Ada walks through with definitions
• The stressed-eating absorption problem—what Ada discovered about eating the same food relaxed versus stressed, the 557 breath thing, and why your body can't do what you think it can when you're rushing
• The phrase that makes Ada's hair raise—what she'd ban forever, the generations of disassociation fruit (or lack thereof), and where the manifestations are showing up now
• The perfectionism conversation—what old Ada desperately needed to hear about worthiness and shame, and the specific words she'd tell herself about being enough
• The overwhelmed client scenario—what happens when someone's central nervous system is all over the place and they can't articulate the thing, and how Ada's five-step process handles that organically through questions
• The "you gotta wanna" music therapy origin—the alternative high school practicum, the kicked-out kids song, and what kept coming back when Ada needed a business name before knowing coaching was coming

This is about understanding what Ada means when she says change happens on three different levels (behavior, beliefs, identity), how the relationship-with-food thing becomes a window into everything else, and what the self-care-as-fufu paradigm costs people. We're walking through the Monday-starters follow-through problem, the rancher-livestock comparison that makes the point, and why Ada focuses on one chunk per day instead of the whole overwhelming picture when clients are struggling mid-week.