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When Healing Becomes a Checklist: Nutrition, Mindset, and Letting Love In, with Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod
23rd July 2026 • The Mindful Journey • Avik & Sana
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If healing has started to feel like one more thing you are failing at, this conversation is for you. The protocols, the routines, the quiet pressure to do it all correctly.

Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod joins host Sana to explore holistic nutrition, the core beliefs we form about food, and what changes when wholeness is something you remember rather than earn.

About the Guest:

Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod holds a doctorate in holistic nutrition and works through Sedona Solution. She is the author of It Takes More Than Carrot Juice, drawn from decades of counselling work.

Key Takeaways:

  • Exhaustion is information. If your healing practice feels like performance, pause there.
  • Core beliefs about food often form in early childhood and quietly shape eating for decades.
  • Unresolved relationships carry real emotional weight. Forgiveness is inner work, not a shortcut.
  • Bring questions, and an advocate if you need one, to every practitioner appointment.
  • A quiet moment of gratitude before eating is available to everyone, whatever the budget.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://sedonasolution.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellyn-hilliard-mcleod-80b94419

Book: It Takes More Than Carrot Juice (Amazon, Kindle, IngramSpark)

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] What if healing is something you remember, not something you perform (approx.)

[02:30] The noise around healing, and what it hides (approx.)

[06:00] Removing what stands in the way, instead of adding more (approx.)

[11:00] Holistic versus clinical: where the two models part company (approx.)

[15:00] Love as a frequency, not a slogan (approx.)

[19:30] The core beliefs we form about food between ages zero and seven (approx.)

[23:00] Access, privilege, and gratitude at the table (approx.)

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