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DREAM IT.
DECLARE IT.
DO IT.

This in-person workshop that I'm hosting on Friday, March 6th at the LaQuinta by Westport has the potential to be life-changing. 

Want to know more? Visit my website for all the details - http://DreamDeclareDo.com - or message me and I will get the details to you.

#dream #declare #do #workshop #fyp by @deanna.ley
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8 months ago
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🌟 Your Power Exists In The Space 🌟 WORDS MATTER with Deanna Ley 🌟

When something happens, it’s easy to get pulled into the loop. Stimulus. Response. Stimulus. Response. But there's another way — one that lives in the space between. When you start operating from your ROOTED Self, that space opens up. You begin to feel the difference.

The PEACE GAUGE helps you access it. Your wisdom speaks there. Your power lives there.

🎧 Listen to the full episode:
https://deannaley.com/your-power-exists-in-the-space

🗂 Browse all episodes of WORDS MATTER:
https://DeannaLey.com/WORDSMATTERpodcast

🌳 Learn more about ROOTED:
http://ChooseROOTED.com

❤️🌳❤️

#ROOTEDSelf #PowerInThePause #WordsMatter #WholeSelfHealth #ChooseROOTED taken in St. Louis, Missouri by @deanna.ley
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9 months ago
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🌟 When Her Words Became My Inner Voice 🌟 WORDS MATTER with Deanna Ley 🌟

This was the moment that wrecked me. A moment when one sentence — and the silence that followed — pulled the rug out from under everything I thought I knew about myself.

It was 2011. I didn’t yet have tools like the PEACE GAUGE or the awareness that there’s a space between what happens and how you respond. I didn’t know that I had a choice beyond numbing out. But I do now. And that’s why I’m sharing this with you.

Because that kind of heartbreak doesn’t get the final say. It can shape us, yes. But it doesn’t have to define us. Your ROOTED Self can heal, even from that.

🎧 Listen to the full episode:
https://deannaley.com/i-always-have-a-choice

🗂 Browse all episodes of WORDS MATTER:
https://DeannaLey.com/WORDSMATTERpodcast

🌳 Learn more about ROOTED:
http://ChooseROOTED.com

❤️🌳❤️

#ROOTEDJourney #EmotionalHealing #WordsMatter #TheCatalyticCoach #ChooseROOTED taken in St. Louis, Missouri by @deanna.ley
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9 months ago
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🌟 I Always Have A Choice 🌟 WORDS MATTER with Deanna Ley 🌟

We're kicking off the second episode in this ROOTED series with a quote that sounds simple, but holds the key to your freedom.

“I always have a choice.”

You don’t always have a choice about what happens TO you. You didn’t choose the loss, the diagnosis, the betrayal, or the moment that broke something open. 

But you do have a choice about what happens next. About how you respond. 

And that space between what happened and how you respond? That’s where your power lives. That’s where healing begins.

🎧 Listen to the clip:
https://deannaley.com/i-always-have-a-choice

🗂 Browse all episodes of WORDS MATTER:
https://DeannaLey.com/WORDSMATTERpodcast

🌳 Learn more about ROOTED:
http://ChooseROOTED.com

❤️🌳❤️

#WordsMatter #ROOTED #WholeSelfHealth #TheCatalyticCoach #ChooseROOTED by @deanna.ley
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9 months ago
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All is right side up in my world again. 3 hours to get us 3Ped up for the week, and WOW! Does it feel fantastic! 

Here's what I made:
* 6 pounds total of 3 differently-seasoned containers of cooked-up ground turkey (chili-ready/Mexican, Rotisserie, Italian)
* Rotisserie-Seasoned Chicken Thighs (already chopped and ready to add to the stoup or to salad)
* Broccoli, Potato and Rice stoup
* Ham and Egg Bites
* Mashed potatoes

Already had on hand:
* Shredded Pork Loin
* Veggie Party
* Homemade Peanut Butter
* Cherry Berry Blend (defrosting for the Overnight Oats I'm making tomorrow)
* Tons of fruits, veggies, and salad mix for days

Being 3Ped up - Planned, Prepped, and Prepared - has literally saved my life and my sanity and has been the foundation of my Whole-Self Health for over 4 years. 

Fun Fact - I explain the 3Ps in full detail on Day 13 of my book. (http://ChooseROOTED.com)

While it did take time, energy, and effort, Tomorrow's Me (and Wednesday's Me and especially Friday's Me) is already thanking Today's Me for it.

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Oh, P.S. Grape Waterloo is AMAZING! taken in St. Louis, Missouri by @deanna.ley
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9 months ago
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TODAY IS THE DAY!

For the last 9 days, you've seen glimpses of what my ROOTED guidebook offers. You've read about the PEACE GAUGE, the power of rePLANTing, and what it means to tend to your whole-self - mind, body, and soul. (And there's so much more waiting for you inside the guidebook's pages.)

Now it's time to experience it all. The ROOTED Interactive Course Experience starts TODAY. Join us for 30 days of daily guidance, weekly Zoom calls, and community support.

This isn't another diet. This isn't someone else's program that you'll try to squeeze yourself into.

This is YOUR path - built from your truth, guided by your inner wisdom, supported by Whole-Self Health.

Over ROOTED's 30-day journey, you have the opportunity to create a Purposeful Eating Plan (PEP) that actually fits your life. You'll identify what needs your attention and build quality habits and healthy practices that strengthen and sustain you. You'll learn to recognize dis-eased vines before they take hold. You'll practice using your PEACE GAUGE to make choices that serve you.

You'll become the Tender of your ROOTED Self.
And you'll prove to yourself that you can show up, do hard things, and create something that lasts.

You deserve nourishment without rules.

Growth without perfection.

A life that feels like home.

ROOTED is ready and waiting for you. 

Are you ready to get ROOTED and to step into your healthiest whole-self?

If so, let's go! 

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience here: https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience

🌳 Order the guidebook at:
http://ChooseROOTED.com

I'm ROOTing for you! 

❤️🌳❤️ by @deanna.ley
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10 months ago
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BECOMING THE TENDER

The countdown continues! Only one day left!

You are the Tender of your ROOTED Self.

Just like a gardener tends to their garden - watering what needs water, pruning what's overgrown, clearing weeds before they take over, planting what will thrive - you get to tend to yourself with the same care and attention.

But here's what's hard...

Most of us were never taught how.

We learned how to care for others. 
How to show up for everyone else's needs. 
How to give and serve and sacrifice. 

But we were never given permission to tend to ourselves with that same devotion.

ROOTED changes that.

Over the 30-day journey, you'll learn what it means to become your own best Tender. You'll recognize what needs your attention before it becomes a crisis. You'll nourish what's growing. You'll clear what's no longer serving you. You'll create the conditions that help you thrive instead of just survive.

You can tend to yourself with the same devotion you give to everyone else.

Just like a phone can't function on a drained battery, you can't show up fully for anyone else if you're running on empty.

ROOTED gives you the tools to care for yourself the way you've been caring for everyone else - with presence and consistent follow-through - because you're worth it.

When you become the Tender of your ROOTED Self, you stop waiting for someone else to notice you're struggling. You stop hoping life will get easier before you start taking care of yourself. 

You take responsibility for your own wholeness, and that changes everything.

I'd love to know...
What would change in your life if you gave yourself permission to be your own priority?

Want to get ROOTED?
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com 

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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10 months ago
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MIND, BODY, SOUL

The countdown continues! 

Most conversations about health revolve around diet and exercise. 

But you are more than what you eat and how you move.

You are a whole person. Your mind carries beliefs, thoughts, and patterns that shape every choice you make. Your body holds tension, craves rest, and signals what it needs. Your soul longs for connection, beauty, and joy.

When you only focus on food and movement, you're ignoring two-thirds of who you are. 

And that's why nothing sticks. 

Because you can't heal one part while neglecting the others.

ROOTED brings your MIND, BODY, and SOUL into one conversation.

You'll work through twelve limbs spread across these three branches - four that support your mind, five that support your body, and three that support your soul. These include everything from the boundaries you set and the rest your body craves to the people who encourage you and the joys that delight you.

When even one limb is neglected, the others feel it. 

When each is nourished, everything thrives.

Over the 30-day journey, you'll identify which limbs need your attention most. You'll create practices that strengthen what needs strengthening and sustain what's already working. You'll see how interconnected it all is - when you tend to one area of your life, the others begin to shift as well.

This is Whole-Self Health. 

This is what it means to live ROOTED.

I'd love to know...
What part of your whole-self - your mind, your body, or your soul - would flourish most if you gave it focused attention this week?

Want to get ROOTED? We are getting so close. January 1st is only two days away!
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com 

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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10 months ago
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THE POWER OF rePLANTING

The countdown continues!

You're not starting over. 

You're rePLANTing.

There's a difference, and it matters.

Starting over implies failure. It suggests you lost all your progress and now you're back at square one, defeated and discouraged. 

But that's never actually true.

When you drift off your path - and you will, because you're human - you're not losing everything you've built. Your roots are still there. Your foundation is still solid. 

You simply need to rePLANT yourself back into the healthy soil you chose.

rePLANTing is the skill ROOTED teaches you that changes everything.

Instead of waiting until everything falls apart to "start over," you learn to recognize early when you're drifting. You notice the signals. You name what's pulling you off course. And you make small, intentional adjustments that bring you back to your path before the drift becomes a crisis.

Over the 30-day journey, you'll practice this process again and again. 

You'll learn that returning to your path isn't failure - it's follow-through. It's proof that you're paying attention. It's evidence that you know how to care for yourself even when life gets hard.

Every time you rePLANT yourself, you strengthen your ROOTED Self. 

You prove to yourself that you can come back. That you know the way home. That drifting doesn't define you - how you return does.

This is the shift that makes change last. Not perfection. Not never struggling. But knowing what to do when you do.

I'd love to know...
When was the last time you drifted from your path, and what would it look like to rePLANT yourself today instead of waiting to "start over" someday?

Want to get ROOTED?
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com 

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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10 months ago
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FINDING YOUR PEACE

The countdown continues!

Peace isn't something you find.

It's something you create.

I'm guessing that you're a lot like me, and for most of your life, you've been told that peace comes when you have it all figured out, when you reach a certain weight, when you follow the plan perfectly, or when you finally get to that place where everything feels easy.

But that's not how peace works.

Peace is built, moment by moment, through the choices you make. And ROOTED introduces you to the tool that helps you make those choices.

Your PEACE GAUGE.

Your PEACE GAUGE is your internal compass.
It's the question you ask yourself before making decisions: Does this choice add to or sustain my peace in my mind, body, and soul?

When you learn to check in with your PEACE GAUGE before acting, something shifts.

You stop abandoning yourself for the comfort of others. You stop saying yes when your whole body is screaming no. You stop following plans that steal your joy and call it discipline.

Over the 30-day journey in ROOTED, you'll practice using your PEACE GAUGE in real-time. You'll learn to recognize when you're moving toward peace and when you're moving away from it. 

You'll build the habit of pausing before choosing - asking yourself what truly serves you, and then acting from that place of understanding.

You'll learn to be honest with yourself and build a life that feels like home instead of one you have to battle your way through.

When you live guided by your PEACE GAUGE, you stop chasing peace somewhere in the future and start creating it right now, in the choices you make today.

And that changes everything 

I'd love to know...
What decision are you facing right now, and what does your PEACE GAUGE tell you about it?

Want to get ROOTED?
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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10 months ago
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CLEARING THE VINES

The countdown continues!

Dis-ease is a signal that something needs your attention.

When something feels off - when you're more reactive than usual, more tired, more stuck, more frustrated - your body is trying to tell you something.

Most of us have been taught to push through, ignore the signals, and keep going until we can't anymore.

ROOTED teaches you something different: pay attention early.

In nature, vines wrap around trees slowly. At first, you might hardly notice them. If left unchecked, those vines constrict the tree's growth. They block sunlight. They steal nutrients. They weaken the trunk.

Eventually, they can take the tree down entirely.
The same is true for you.

Dis-ease shows up as small signals first. A little more tension. A little less patience. A little more reliance on sugar or distraction or numbing.

These are vines beginning to take hold.

ROOTED helps you recognize the vines before they become crises. You'll learn to name what's wrapping around you - fear, doubt, shame, overwhelm, resentment. You'll learn how to clear those vines with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to return to your path and keep moving forward.

This is what rePLANTing is all about - knowing how to come back, knowing what to do when life gets hard, and knowing that you have the tools to tend to yourself.

This is how you stay ROOTED when life tries to pull you off course.

I'd love to know...
What vine is wrapping around you right now that you've been ignoring, hoping it will go away on its own?

Want to get ROOTED?
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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TENDING TO YOUR WHOLE-SELF

The countdown continues!

Whole-Self Health isn't just about food.

It's about the boundaries that free you. The rest that restores you. The people who encourage you. The joys that delight you. The mindset that sustains you. The environments that uplift you. And more.

Most conversations about health focus only on what you eat and how you move.

But you - and your health - are more than just those two things.

When you only address food and exercise, you're treating only part of your Whole-Self Health.

ROOTED explores twelve limbs that support your wholeness - divided into three branches: MIND, BODY, and SOUL.

Each limb matters because each one supports your ability to show up fully for your life.

When your boundaries are weak, your peace suffers. When your rest is neglected, your body can't restore itself. When your relationships drain you instead of lift you, your soul feels it. When joy is absent, even "healthy" choices feel empty.

Over the 30-day journey, you'll work through each of these twelve limbs.

You'll identify which ones are thriving and which ones need your attention. You'll create small, sustainable practices that strengthen the limbs calling for your focus. And you'll see how everything connects - how tending to one limb affects all the others.

This is what it means to tend to your ROOTED Self.

Not with perfection. Not with rigid rules.

But with presence, compassion, and follow-through.

You'll learn that health isn't something you achieve and check off a list. It's something you tend to - daily - with care.

I'd love to know...
Which part of your whole-self - mind, body, or soul - has been most neglected, and what would it look like to tend to it today?

Want to get ROOTED?
🌳 Order the guidebook at www.ChooseROOTED.com

🌳 Join the ROOTED Interactive Course Experience that begins on January 1st at https://deannaley.com/b/rootedexperience by @deanna.ley
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