Ep. 003: Using Self-Care to Manifest the Life of Your Dreams with Danika Brysha

Today’s episode features Danika Brysha. Danika is a curve model with IMG Models, the Founder & CEO of Model Meal—a Whole 30 compliant meal delivery service, and the Founder of The Brunch Series—a series of events where she inspires women to build the life of their dreams and find authentic happiness. 

A recovered bulimic, binge eater, and food/sugar addict, Danika turned her worst enemy (food) into her most powerful medicine. Danika leveraged her struggles by tuning in and focusing on self-care. Through her commitment to self-care, Danika has created freedom and abundance in all areas of her life and has manifested the life of her dreams. Now she is touring the country sharing what she has learned in her healing journey with other women through The Brunch Series (along with her boyfriend and their 200-pound English mastiff, Kingsley). 

Danika is a beautiful soul with a beautiful story; she is a model of living in her truth and creating her authentic dream life by digging into the hard stuff, putting in the work, and shining a light on her shadows. Enjoy the bright light that is Danika Brysha!

 

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

Danika’s lifelong struggle with food and how she overcame bulimia, binge eating, and food addiction by learning to be vulnerable and lean into her feelings instead of numbing them with food Danika’s journey of personal transformation and growth over the past four years, with wellness and self-care at the core How learning to love and accept herself changed Danika’s lifestyle choices, and ultimately, her life How Danika was turned off by pharmaceuticals and western medicine and became motivated to create a new prescription for healing—her self-care checklist How Danika used her self-care checklist to create the life of her dreams Why it is important to come from love and a gentle space instead of striving for perfection How our thoughts become our reality The importance of tuning in and really feeling all of the feelings that we don’t want to feel instead of numbing ourselves out How social media can be a space to feel less alone All about her eight-month Brunch Series tour Danika’s current interest in minimalism and a nomadic lifestyle The future of The Brunch Series Plus much more…

 

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Mentioned:

Model Meals

Brunch Series

 

Whole30

ISTDP—Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Overeaters Anonymous

Dr. Adi Jaffe and his approach to addiction treatment

The 4-Hour Workweek

NLP—Neurolinguistic Programming

 

Connect with Danika:

Website: www.danikabrysha.com

Instagram: @danikabrysha

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10220911

Twitter: @DanikaBrysha

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danikabrysha/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/danikabarrett

 

 

QUOTES

“Once I started accepting and loving myself, I was able to make lifestyle choices, like how I ate, how I worked out, slept, and took care of myself; that really supported my healing in all aspects.”

 

“Whole 30 cleared my brain in a way that I started being able to do the inner work and paying attention to how I felt.”

 

“We get so used to our normal, that we forget we should feel great.”

 

“My self-care checklist is basically a checklist that I created that, for me, was my prescription for a great life. I used to get really overwhelmed by the idea of creating a good life, but I could get down with the idea of creating a great day.”

 

“The self-care checklist is a free pill, essentially, that you can do every morning. It has helped me more than any prescription med ever has.”

 

“Whatever you use to numb out—it doesn’t matter what you are using—it is all about what are we doing with the feelings that come up that we don’t want to feel?

 

“Feelings are visitors, let them come and go.”

 

“When we don’t stay in our body and we don’t feel our feelings, we make decisions based on what we think we should do instead of on how we feel.”

 

“Change and discomfort… I know that is what breeds growth.”

 

“Going inward and doing the self-work, getting sober, clear, and listening in has been one of the best things I have ever done for myself.”

 

“I learned at a young age how to think of something that doesn’t exist and create it, versus seeing what exists and trying to fit in that box.”

 

LET’S CONNECT

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