Ep. 02 - Dana James, The Archetype Diet
EXPANDED Podcast by To Be Magnetic™
2018/08/10
Ep. 02 - Dana James, The Archetype Diet
Ep. 02 - Dana James, The Archetype Diet
EXPANDED Podcast by To Be Magnetic™
2018/08/10
In this episode, Lacy Phillips speaks with Dana James, a certified nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner who left a career in finance to help women transform their lives. Dana shares her personal journey of overcoming deep-seated fears and heartbreak, and introduces her unique archetype system designed to help women understand their relationship with food, self-worth, and love.
Dana James traces her drive to a childhood humiliation by a teacher, which created a fear of being wrong and a Wonder Woman archetype that avoids emotional vulnerability. She discusses how this pattern hindered her relationships and led to a painful divorce from a bipolar husband. Dana explains that healing requires rewriting painful childhood stories and focusing on core values when manifesting a partner. She outlines four female archetypes—Wonder Woman, Nurturer, Femme Fatale, and Ethereal—each with distinct sources of self-worth and hormonal responses that affect body fat storage. The goal is to integrate positive traits from all archetypes to become a 'muse.' Dana shares a client success story of a woman who got a $235,000 raise and met her dream partner within six weeks. She concludes by explaining Eric Kandel's research on reprogramming fear with safety, which is the foundation of her book 'The Archetype Diet,' a comprehensive program combining archetype identification, dietary guidelines, and mind work for lasting change.
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A teacher mocked her accent, causing deep fear of being wrong.
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She reinterpreted the memory to see the teacher as supportive.
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Forgiveness is the key to healing and reconnection.
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The goal is to integrate positive traits from all archetypes.
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Fear can be reprogrammed with safety.