30: Self-Discovery Shenanigans: When Did You Realize You’re a Hot Mess?
Members-Only Episode: The Moment Self-Discovery Hit Us
In this intimate, members-only snippet, Megan and Danna get real about when and how they truly began to know themselves—not just preferences, but the kind of deep self-knowledge that shifts your life trajectory.
✨ Megan shares how her 2018 health coaching journey cracked her open to a new way of understanding her desires and body cues.
✨ Danna walks us through her twin awakenings: first, as a young adult breaking free of childhood labels, and later, as a mother rediscovering her identity beyond the roles of wife and caregiver.
Whether your moment came through a course, a breakdown, a bold leap, or just a quiet realization… self-discovery is never one and done. It's layered, messy, and so, so worth it.
🎧 Now it's your turn. Tell us about a moment you really saw yourself. Drop us a voice note—https://www.swisscastnetwork.ch/show/so-frickin-healthy/voicemail/. Your story might just inspire someone else’s next chapter. 💛
Speaker A
Hello friends, this is Megan and you're listening to the Sew freakinhelpy podcast.
Speaker A
In this member only episode, Donna and I are talking about the moment when we understood self discovery.
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This conversation was part of a longer live show we did in October 22nd and which you can watch on our YouTube channel.
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Enjoy.
Speaker B
Know we've been touching on this topic of self discovery a lot.
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And what does it mean to know yourself better or to listen to your body and that kind of thing?
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And I feel like I was trying to pinpoint when it was that I started to listen to my body and actually think and reflect on myself.
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And I know it sounds stupid because you're like you're living with yourself all the time, you know, whether you like green beans or not.
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Yeah, but that's kind of like skimming the surface of the water.
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Like, what kind of foods do you like?
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What kind of movies do you like?
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What activities do you like?
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This is all self knowledge and self discovery, but this kind of like the surface stuff that comes because you are living in the world.
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Right?
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I like that person, but I don't like doing that activity.
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And that's self knowledge, right?
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That's self discovery.
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But I tried to pinpoint when it was that I really started to think about myself.
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And it had to have been in and around 2018, when I was doing the IIN health coaching certification in that year.
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And they do a lot of activities and exercises in that course as you're becoming a health coach, to also help you understand how these activities work.
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And I think for me it was such a revelation.
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And I say doing that course changed my life because it taught me how to listen to my body and it taught me how to know myself better in a way that I could start to articulate what I wanted out of my life.
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And so was.
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Was the IIN school, like, so amazing?
Speaker B
No, it was the fact that during that time I was doing these exercises and learning about myself and realizing the power that you have also as a coach to help other people cover themselves, to provide those tools to people so that they can have that same oh my gosh moment several times when they start to understand themselves better and go, oh, that's why the last five relationships didn't work.
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Or that's why I don't like this type of job.
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Or that's why I do like this kind of job.
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Or that's why this relationship did work and the other ones didn't.
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I mean, not to focus on negative, you also focus on the positive.
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What things work so for me, I was trying to pinpoint that.
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Do you remember like a specific time where you like really started to know yourself better?
Speaker C
Yeah, I think there were a couple of times in my life where I had these periods of.
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Times of re.
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Self discovering myself, I guess.
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Or the first time was discovering myself.
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The second time was rediscovering who I then was.
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The first time was probably when I moved out of my parents house back to Israel, so they were living in the States.
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I moved away, started went to a kibbutz with a random group of people, went to the army, you know, had my first proper boyfriend.
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And so that time I realized that I was all of a sudden not like tied down to those tags that my parents gave me and those stereotypes that my parents gave me.
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And I felt like I was flourishing because I really did learn, oh, wait, I actually like this and I'm actually doing it that way.
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And I'm actually not bad at this and I'm actually not good at that.
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Right.
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And so that was a huge, huge, huge eye opener for me, I think that whole period of time from that moment.
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So when I was about 17 until I was a good, you know, 27, I think that was a very solid 10 years of my life where I was just trying to figure myself out for myself.
Speaker B
Yeah.
Speaker C
The second time, which was, I think, even, even more awakening.
Speaker C
That's a very hippie dippy word.
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But I'm the hippie, so I'm allowed.
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I had a huge awakening when, after I had my two kids.
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So I did talk about this in the podcast episode of Getting to Know Me, but when I had both boys at a very short amount of time and I was suffering from depression and I was suffering from literally pain from head to toe and overweight and just everything that you can think of, I had this realization very quickly.
Speaker C
The story was I told my husband that I'm going for the week for a long weekend because I just couldn't fathom living another minute in the situation that we lived in.
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I went for a long weekend with a friend.
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He had to replace me with like seven people.
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And for me, that moment of just understanding that I am a very important core that is holding on to this family together and the core of the caregiving of the family.
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And that if I'm not around, this place will fall apart more, most likely, because who has seven people constantly being able to help you?
Speaker C
That's when I started my self discovery, because that's when I said, you know what, I may be a mom and I may be a wife, but who am I and what is important to me and where am I in this world where I'm done?
Speaker C
And that's a mom and a wife, right?
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So I wanted to break free from that title of people relying on me, but rather like, who am I?
Speaker C
So that was definitely, definitely something that started the ball going for me in the functional medicine realm, but also in the self discovery realm, where, yeah, that was just life changing for me for sure.
Speaker A
Thanks for listening to this short but sweet Members Only episode.
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Now it's your chance to tell us about your self discovery moment.
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The link to leave us a voice message is in the show notes.
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We love, love, love, love to get listener feedback.
Speaker B
It gives us so much joy.
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We'll see you next time.
