In this episode, Joan shares her powerful, deeply human journey of reclaiming her health, mindset, and relationship with food after decades of reflux, bloating, fatigue, emotional eating, and long-term gut dysfunction. This is not a diet or weight-loss story, but a root-cause healing conversation that explores how gut dysbiosis, slow motility, and SIBO shaped Joan's symptoms, cravings, mood, and self-talk—and how addressing the gut-brain axis led to lasting change. Through slow, supported, whole-food healing (not restriction), Joan lost over 11 kilos, resolved long-standing digestive issues, rewired emotional eating patterns formed in childhood, and describes the process as an awakening rather than a treatment. The episode highlights why symptoms are messages, not failures, how food acts as medicine, and why healing is possible at any age when the body is given the right conditions.