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From Abuse to Binge Eating to Healing: A Nervous System Recovery Story
Description
In this episode, I sit down with Jacie Gregory — known online as Lady Carnivory — a nervous system regulation coach, co-founder of the CIRS Group podcast and community, and author of 30 Day Carnivore Boot Camp. Jacie started carnivore in January 2020 mostly to disprove a friend, and within nine months her OCD — which years of exposure therapy and medication hadn't resolved — was in remission. She hasn't had an obsessive thought since.
Here's what we cover in the episode:
How Jacie went from trying to disprove a coworker's keto diet to discovering carnivore in late 2019, and the nine-month timeline to OCD remission
Her high school disordered eating history — restricting food as the only control she had during an abusive living situation — and how eating more, not less, helped her recover
What CIRS is, why "carnivore harder" backfired into histamine reactions to beef, and how she's since incorporated the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) to support gut healing
What nervous system regulation actually means (flexibility between states, not permanent calm) and her go-to tool for exiting fight-or-flight — slowing her movements to 30%, even in a room full of people
Daily practices: morning gratitude since January 2022, Morning Pages from The Artist's Way, daily fascia work, and electrolytes
Her one bikini bodybuilding competition in 2021, the social pressure toward extreme leanness in the carnivore community at the time, and how that culture has shifted since
Her book, 30 Day Carnivore Boot Camp, and why she included her own experience of carnivore eventually stopping working for her
How she supports people today through the CIRS Group community/podcast and a 12-week nervous system regulation cohort at Built to Regulate
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Timestamps:
00:00 — intro
02:00 — Personal story
02:12 — Discovering keto, then carnivore
03:32 — OCD remission at nine months
03:58 — Mold exposure & CIRS diagnosis
04:49 — Limbic retraining & entry into nervous system work
05:31 — What nervous system regulation actually means
07:10 — Getting back in touch with your body (nervous system mapping)
08:37 — The "slow it to 30%" regulation trick
12:07 — Timeline: weeks, not months, to notice change
12:35 — Morning gratitude practice
14:40 — Reframing the questions you ask your brain
15:31 — Carnivore, CIRS, and hyper-metabolism
17:38 — What the AIP (Autoimmune Protocol) diet is
20:33 — Disordered eating history & recovery
22:15 — Bikini competition & carnivore community pressure
23:55 — Daily tools: physiological baseline as foundation
24:51 — Fascia work & acupuncture
26:06 — Movement, electrolytes, vibration plate
28:47 — Gratitude & Morning Pages practice
29:43 — Identifying as a creator
30:19 — Her book, 30 Day Carnivore Boot Camp
32:23 — How she supports people: CIRS Group & nervous system cohort
34:17 — Closing wisdom: physiological needs first
35:26 — Where to find her
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