About Beyond the Pain: Heart and Home Healing After Loss
This podcast offers support and guidance for those grieving profound loss, helping you heal your heart, your home, and make space for hope and joy again. If you're ready to turn your pain into purpose, this show is for you.
Overcoming Depression & Finding New Purpose (through food and fitness) with World Bench Champion & Gym Shark Athlete, Joy Rindfleisch
From a suicidal 16 year old to a thriving 21-year old Bench World Champion, Joy Rindfleisch shares her inspiring story of having to completely start over after a devastating injury and 13 years of hard work and dedication in competitive gymnastics.
Joy started when she was only 3 years old and worked her way up to a level 9 gymnast (almost the highest level you can be), when all the sudden at age 16, a broken ankle took her completely out of her "way ahead career" of being a competitive gymnast. As a young girl with big dreams for herself, she found herself completely broken, depressed, hopeless and on the verge of suicide admitting, "if I can't do gymnastics, what's the point of living?"
Her determination and mindset shift to becoming the best and strongest version of herself took her from her absolute lowest of lows to a super successful powerlifter and Bench World Champion, just two years later.
In this episode, we discuss:
-Joy's struggle with eating disorders after she lost her ability to compete
-The lowest moment of her journey and what eventually made her decide to make a change
-Joy's rediscovering of hope for her future
-The practical daily changes Joy made to restabilize her mental health
-How intuitively eating made the biggest impact on her physical health
-Eliminating processed foods helped her regain some of her mental stability through perspective shift
-Being feminine and strong can coexist in the gym
-Sharing her struggles and story of overcoming anxiety and depression online
I hope this episode shows you that no matter your age, disabilities or life circumstances, that there is ALWAYS hope for a better future and an opportunity to rebuild yourself and to find purpose again.
Find Joy on social media!
Instagram, Tik Tok & Youtube: Joyjoysfitness_
"We look good, we lift good." ;)
2 Dec 2025
Biohacking Your Health with Founder of Functional Medical Institute, Dr. Mark Sherwood
What good is living longer if you're not living BETTER? Are you ready for the ultimate health cheat codes for the best human experience you can get?
Dr. Mark Sherwood, founder of the Functional Medical Institute in Tulsa, OK, joins the show this week and shares with us exactly what it means to "biohack" our health to become the absolute best and healthiest versions of ourselves that we can be - not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. It's not a one size fits all.
During this episode, we discuss:
-The difference between traditional medical doctor's offices and Dr. Mark's medical institute
-Learning on how to not identify as a "sick" person
-How our mental/emotional and physical health are completely tied together
-The definition of "biohacking" and how we can do accomplish it
-Stop blaming genetics
-The physical effects that grief & trauma can have on your physical body: depletes our immune systems which make us more susceptible to bigger health issues
-The impacts of food on our physical AND mental health
-Where to start if you're ready to improve your overall wellness
-Become addicted to giving hope
As hope dealers, Dr. Mark Sherwood and I prat you leave this episode feeling super encouraged and filled with HOPE.
Connect with and follow Dr. Mark:
drmarksherwood.com
Instagram: @dr.marksherwood
Don't forget to download his FREE ebook entitled "Health, Hope & Freedom," available on his website!
25 Nov 2025
Grief Today & the Biggest Life Lessons I've Learned (one year podcast anniversary episode)
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE!
So let's talk about what grief looks like 3 years later (for me) and the biggest/most important life lessons I have learned since losing my daughter to get me where I am today: depression free, medication free, low anxiety and in the best physical and mental health of my life!
Biggest take away? Healing (of ANY kind) is completely possible when we are willing to dig deep, do the hard work and decide we don't want to stay like this forever. Thank you so much for being here and following along my journey!
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Stephanie Dulgarian
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