Bodily Sovereignty: Reclaim Your Intuition for Optimum Health (Episode 25)
- Lisa Schoenthal
- Jul 9, 2025
- 4 min read
Hey love—
If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and wondered, “Why do I feel so off… even when I’m doing all the ‘right’ things?”— this one’s for you.
Because your body? It isn’t broken.It’s brilliant. Powerful. Intuitive.And it’s time to remember that.
🔥 The Core Message
Your sickness is their salary. Your healing is a threat.
Big Pharma, corporate food systems, insurance giants, and the medical-industrial complex are not in the business of your freedom. They're in the business of lifetime customers. And somewhere along the way, we've been conditioned to believe that the problem is us.
But what if the truth is…You were never the problem.You were the target.
🧠 The Great Misdirection
We’ve been sold this idea that health comes in a bottle, a protocol, a white coat, a lab test.
The problem?That message was never designed to empower you.
The pandemic didn’t just expose a virus—it exposed the split between obedience and sovereignty. It showed us how quickly fear can be weaponized, how easily we’re encouraged to distrust our instincts, and how fast we’re herded into systems that disconnect us from our inner knowing.
Mic drop: You were never meant to be numb. You were meant to feel—and that’s where your power lives.
🌱 Return to Nature = Return to Self
Let’s talk about what actually heals:
Movement, not punishment
Sunlight on your skin
Gut health = emotional health
Clean food. Clean air. Deep breaths.
Community and connection
Time in silence. Time in nature.
Your gut is your second brain. Your cravings are communication. Your fatigue is a boundary. When we return to nature—we return to self.
Mic drop: What if you didn’t need a protocol? What if you just needed to listen?
🧼 You’ve Been Marketed Into Self-Hate
Let’s get real: the beauty, pharma, and even some parts of the wellness industry are not here to help you love yourself.
They thrive on your insecurity.
Skincare. Weight loss. Anti-aging. Detox teas. Emotional suppression in a capsule.
Mic drop: Confidence doesn’t sell products. Insecurity does.
Your skin is your largest organ. Your gut is your emotional compass. Your body is a miracle, not a problem. But toxins are in our cosmetics, food, water, and cleaning products. And marketing tells us to ignore the symptoms and buy more crap to cover it up.
You’re not hard to fix—you’ve just been sold toxic lies.
💊 Who’s Profiting from Your Pain?
Let’s pause here and look at the systems:
Food companies that fill your plate with sugar and seed oils…
Pharma giants that create pills to treat the side effects of those choices…
Insurance systems that won’t cover real healing but will fund lifelong prescriptions…
Mic Drop: You are not hard to heal. You’re just living in a system that never wanted you whole.
🧠 Mental Health: Real vs Manufactured
Anxiety and depression are real. So is chronic disconnection—from purpose, nature, breath, stillness, movement, joy.
But we’ve been trained to medicate instead of feel.
And worse, we’re now marketing identity confusion to children under the banner of inclusion. We don’t ask what they’re disconnected from—we just label them and hand them scripts.
Mic Drop: Your emotions aren’t dysfunction—they’re direction.
⚡ The 5 Lies They Sell You About Your Body
Your pain is just aging.
Your emotions are chemical imbalances.
You need meds for every symptom.
Your body needs outside approval to be valid.
Health = thin, quiet, controlled.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. And hell no.Your body has been speaking truth the whole time. It’s time you listened.
🧘♀️ The Path Forward
Bodily sovereignty is your birthright.It's not about becoming something new—it's about remembering who you were before the world told you not to trust yourself.
Here’s where you start:
Move your body with love.
Eat food that’s alive.
Detox your home, your media, your calendar.
Ground. Breathe. Tune in.
Speak your truth—even if it shakes.
Ask better questions.
Listen to your gut.
Mic Drop: Your body isn’t a war zone—it’s your superpower.
💭 Journal Prompts
Where have I outsourced my health, body image, or choices to someone else’s system or story?
What are 3 things I know feel good in my body that I’ve been ignoring?
What would change if I treated my body like a wise guide instead of a project to fix?
Where do I feel the most disconnected—and what would reconnection look like?
💬 Affirmations
I trust the wisdom of my body.
I detox from everything that dims my truth.
My health, healing, and wholeness are sacred and sovereign.
I am not a project—I am a powerful, intuitive being.
🔮 Coming Next Week…
We’re slowing it down with a powerful grounding and body check-in episode to help you reconnect to your body with love, presence, and peace. I’ll be traveling, so it’s the perfect time to guide you back into your own rhythm.
💌 Let’s Stay Connected
Want more?✨ Grab your free Journal for Transformation & Self Discovery🌺 Check out the retreat happening this October — La Vida Sagrada🌎 Join the community at www.lisaschoenthal.com for all the things
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With love from,Lis
