Ep 183: Your Nervous System Is the Missing Piece with Lizzie Merritt
2/27/26 | 53:01 | Episode 183
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If you’ve ever thought “I know what to do… so why can’t I just do it?”, this episode will change everything.
In this conversation, Lia is joined by certified life coach and author Lizzie Merritt, who brings a brain-based, nervous-system-informed perspective to weight loss, body confidence, and food struggles. Together, they unpack why willpower keeps failing, why diets create more stress instead of results, and why the problem was never a lack of discipline.
You’ll learn how your nervous system is designed to protect you, why food often becomes a source of safety, and how fear-based approaches shut down real change. Lizzie introduces her Light Method, a curiosity-driven framework that replaces shame with learning, safety, and sustainable progress.
This episode is for anyone who’s tired of starting over, tired of blaming themselves, and ready to work with their brain instead of against it. If weight loss has felt exhausting, confusing, or emotionally loaded, this conversation offers a powerful reframe — and a much gentler way forward.
Because real change doesn’t happen through control. It happens at the speed of safety.
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