One Step at a Time: Tina's First Session
Tina shows up to session one lighter than her health history call — her wrist and concussion have healed, and she's cautiously excited to finally be starting. She also admits a quiet fear: that she'll overshare, a habit she trained herself out of after people once told her it was too much. Danna waves that off immediately. No eggshells here. Give her everything.
So Danna starts where her gut told her to: sleep. Not because it's the flashiest symptom on Tina's list, but because bad sleep touches everything else — stress, eating, mood, all of it. Tina traces the thread back to her student years, when exam anxiety kept her brain too wired to rest, and she eventually started over-exercising just to knock herself out. Pregnancy brought real insomnia, and motherhood cemented it — even now, with her daughter sleeping in her own room down the hall, one small sound sends Tina into a spiral of "is she okay?" that can take an hour to climb out of. She's tried calming sounds, breathing apps, warm lighting — genuine tools, genuinely used — but by the time she's finally winding down, she's often too drained to give her husband the connection he's asking for, and the guilt of that adds one more thing keeping her awake.
Danna shares her own history here: years of rough sleep that only shifted once a functional medicine doctor found her amino acids, tryptophan especially, were rock-bottom. She sends Tina toward the same kind of testing, plus a referral for a doctor who can dig into the migraines, which may be pointing to histamine intolerance — something Tina hadn't connected to her skin flare-ups until this exact conversation.
Rather than a rigid tracking system, Danna asks for something looser: photos of meals sent whenever, no pressure, no report due. Tina immediately worries that being watched will change what she eats — order the fries or not? Danna tells her either answer is fine, and reframes the whole thing as a low-stakes experiment rather than a test to pass.
They close with two simple goals: book the doctor, and start the food-and-symptom photos. Tina leaves saying it feels doable — one thing at a time, starting with the thing hitting her daily life hardest. Danna's parting tip: get the clock out of the bedroom. She did the same years ago, for exactly the same reason.
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Chapters:
00:00 Starting the Journey
10:17 Sleep Fixes and Testing Plan
19:53 Coffee Cravings And Sleep
20:50 Food Diary For Histamine
32:01 Bonus Sleep Tools Wrapup
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