Embodied Writing Warrior: Food Freedom, Creativity & Spiritual Reclamation
For the spicy fanfic storyteller, myth-maker, and too-much soul who’s done playing small.
Welcome to the storytelling temple where your body becomes the sacred pen, your healing becomes the plot twist, and your words shape whole new worlds.
This is for the creatives and misfits who feel more seen by spicy romance novels than self-help books.
For the writers, feelers, shapeshifters, and spiritual rebels who’ve always processed life through stories - and are finally ready to write their own.
In this space, your "too much" becomes your initiation.
Your creativity becomes your compass.
And your inner world becomes the map to your most powerful, embodied self.
Here, we don’t “fix” you.
We mythologize you.
We reclaim every shadow and archetype - through the written word, through
movement, through wild emotional truth.
✨ This isn’t just self-development.
It’s sacred storytelling.
It’s fanfic meets frequency work.
It’s personal growth… in eyeliner and plot armor.
You’ll hear episodes on:
🌀 Archetypal Alchemy & Sacred Rage
💃 Dance Rituals & Embodied Identity Work
✍️ Writing Prompts That Rewire Your Subconscious
🔥 Fanfic as Inner Child Healing
🧠 Parts Work & Emotional Repatterning
🧘♀️ Shadow Work + Somatics
❤️🔥 Divine Masculine Archetypes (Rex & Haven are coming…)
Each episode ends with a writing ritual, journal prompt, or embodiment activation to move this work out of your head and into your body.
I’m Kayla MacDonald - writer, mystic, subconscious reprogramming guide, and the bonkers-enough-to-make-this-modality-exist creatrix behind the Divine Daddies Storytelling method.
I’ve alchemized everything from deep childhood wounds to disordered eating to crippling self-doubt using spicy inner storytelling.
Now, I help magical beings turn their healing into heroic plotlines.
Because you’re not just building habits.
You’re building a mythology.
🖋️ Want to join the rebellion?
Tap into your power at www.embodiedwritingwarrior.com
Embodied Writing Warrior: Food Freedom, Creativity & Spiritual Reclamation
130. Does Running Cause Weight Gain? All Things Cardio, Cortisol, & Choosing An Aligned Form of Exercise
This episode was inspired by an interesting conversation I had with a friend on one of our hikes.
She was sharing something she'd heard from a big health coach in the industry. What she'd heard was this:
Running and other types of high-intensity cardio raise your cortisol levels and create a stress response in the body. This can cause people, especially women in menopause, to gain weight.
She asked what my thoughts were. I said I agreed and disagreed. I'm going to elaborate on the thoughts I had surrounding this topic. In this episode, you'll learn:
- The science behind stress-related weight gain from running and other intense forms of cardio.
- How our thoughts about movement and exercise impact our body's physiological response to them.
- When running or other high-intensity cardio would be beneficial, and when it might be more harmful than helpful in terms of building health and longevity.
- How to choose the most aligned exercise for you.
- How to tune into your own body's wisdom to make the best movement-related decisions possible.
Article On Cortisol & Exercise: https://www.runtothefinish.com/why-working-out-but-gaining-weight/