New Leaf Holistic Health with Julie Six

10/18/2026

Maybe you’ve had this experience. Your go in for your annual visit and your labs show your fasting glucose is a little high. Your A1c is creeping up.

Or maybe you just know your blood sugar feels off because you’re dealing with crashes, cravings, shakiness, irritability, or energy that seems to rise and fall all day long.

So naturally, you start wondering:
- Should I cut carbs?
- Do I need berberine?
- Am I pre-diabetic?
- What am I doing wrong?

This is where I like to slow the conversation down a little. Because yes, blood sugar matters, your A1c matters, making changes to better support your body matters.

But YOU also matter! The whole person is so often missing from the blood sugar conversation.

- Her sleep.
- Her stress.
- Her cortisol.
- Her hormones.
- Her digestion.
- Her caffeine habits.
- Her meals and meal timing
- Her movement.
- Her muscle mass.
- Her history and body story.
- Her total allostatic load.

Sometimes well-meaning women try so hard to “eat for blood sugar” without first understanding there is a bigger picture.

🔸 They cut carbs while under-eating.
🔸 They take supplements because they saw them on Instagram.
🔸 They blame themselves for the crash… when the body may actually be responding to poor sleep, chronic stress, not enough food earlier in the day, hormone shifts, or deeper digestive stress.

That's why I don’t think of blood sugar as a food-only problem. I want to understand the pattern.

What is happening on the rest of her blood work?
What is happening in her real life?
What symptoms are loudest?
And what foundations are already in place?

Sometimes that means we start with the basics and first help the body feel safer and more stable.

And when it's appropriate one of my favorite tools is often a CGM as a way to gather more information. I want to know what her body actually responding to, what are the patterns, what helps.

That’s the kind of real-time data that inspires habit change! 🎯

Blood sugar matters. I know, I struggled with it for years. But understanding the woman living inside the blood sugar story matters even more! That's something an app can't help with. 💚

10/16/2026

🍂 ☕️🥐 Can I say something that may be a little unexpected coming from me?

Not every cozy fall thing needs to become a health assignment.

- The pumpkin bread.
- The cinnamon spice latte.
- A big bowl of chili.
- The apple crisp.
- The dinner out with friends.

Sometimes food gets to be food.
Sometimes pleasure gets to be pleasure.

And actually, part of building a healthier relationship with your body is learning when to use information... and when to simply enjoy your life. 🧡

Of course body wisdom still matters.

You may know that certain foods don’t sit well with you.
You may feel better when you eat a real meal before the c***r and donut.
You may decide you’d rather have one thing you really enjoy than eat everything just because it’s there.

That’s not restriction.
That’s knowing yourself.

There’s a big difference between making choices from fear and making them from self-awareness. 🎯

Before that choice, it may be helpful to pause and ask:
🔸 Is this inflammatory for me?
🔸 Will it spike my blood sugar?
🔸 How can I get enough protein first?
🔸 Can I fit in a walk afterward?
These quick questions can be a filter and an equalizer for occasional indulgences.

This fall, maybe the goal is to stay more connected to yourself while you find a few things to enjoy and discover what helps you leave that experience still feeling like you’re on your own side?

10/14/2026

Breast Cancer Awareness Month always brings an important conversation back to the surface.

- Awareness matters.
- Screening matters.
- Paying attention to your body matters.

But I also think many women are hungry for a broader conversation than awareness alone.

Not one based in fear. Not one that suggests you can control everything.
And not one that reduces breast health to a single test, a single food, or a single “cause.”

A more whole-person conversation might sound like this:
🔸 How are you nourishing your body every day?
🔸 What roles might genetics and epigenetics be playing?
🔸 Do you support the pathways your body uses to process and eliminate what it no longer needs?
🔸 How much stress, grief, depletion, inflammation, or overload has your body been carrying?
🔸 And how are you lessening stress and caring for your emotional wellbeing along the way?

This is one of the reasons I care so much about Systems Before Symptoms. Because the body is never just one part. Everything is connected.

Even in something as serious and layered as breast health, I want women to know there is value in stepping back and asking how to support the whole environment their body is functioning within. 🎯

That doesn’t replace appropriate medical care.
It doesn’t replace screening.
And it doesn’t promise certainty.
But it does invite a deeper kind of support.

🌻🌻 This month, perhaps awareness can mean becoming more conscious of the ways you can support your body with nourishment, detoxification, emotional wellbeing, and thoughtful whole-person care?

10/12/2026

I know you know this feeling.
That sense that everything feels like too much.

The email.
The appointment.
The mess in the kitchen.
Someone asking one more question when your brain already feels full. 😩

Things you used to handle without much thought suddenly feel like they require energy you just don’t have. And sometimes, cortisol is part of that picture.

Cortisol is one of the hormones your body uses to help you respond to stress. It rises when demand increases and is meant to settle again when the demand passes.

But what happens when the demand doesn’t really pass?
Your body keeps adapting. And over time, you may notice:
🔸 Your margin gets smaller.
🔸 Things feel harder.
🔸 You become more reactive.
🔸 Decisions take more energy.
🔸 Sleep is less restorative.
🔸 You’re tired, but your system still feels “on.”

Not because you suddenly forgot how to handle life. But because your capacity is being used faster than it’s being restored. And then the loop tightens.

You feel overwhelmed → your stress response ramps up → recovery gets harder → the next demand feels even bigger.

This is one reason I keep coming back to Systems Before Symptoms.

If we only look at cortisol or the feeling of overwhelm, we miss the bigger question: What has been asking so much of your system that ordinary life no longer feels ordinary?!

That’s where the question becomes more useful.
Maybe your body needs steadier nourishment.
- Better sleep.
- More recovery built into the day.
- Gentle movement.
- Less stimulation.
- Breathing that actually helps your system come down.
- More connection.
- More space between demands.
Not everything at once. Just enough, consistently, to start changing the environment your body has been responding to.

🌿 The takeaway?
Feeling easily overwhelmed isn’t always a personality problem or a lack of resilience. Sometimes it’s a sign that your stress-response system has been carrying too much for too long. And when we support the system—not just push harder against the symptom—capacity can begin to return. 💚

10/10/2026

#5 affected me for years.

I had no motivation. No zest for life. No libido Something was off with my hormones - I knew it.

My cycles were a torrent of pain and symptoms that I survived with 'round the clock ibuprofen. I’d get nauseous and not want to eat… then later I’d be starving and eat too much at night. That disrupted my sleep. Then I’d wake up tired, depleted, and dread starting the next day.

I was stuck in a vicious cycle.

What I didn’t understand yet was how much of it was connected.

Hormone therapy did eventually bring me some relief, and I’m grateful. But what I didn’t do was step back and ask:

What kind of environment was I creating in my body with my daily choices?

Because my body wasn’t experiencing each symptom in a vacuum.

Sleep affected my appetite, which impacted my eating patterns, which were affecting my energy and blood sugar.

My stress load was influencing digestion, recovery, and how resilient I felt.
And the more depleted I became, the less capacity I seemed to have for the ordinary demands of life.

This is the part I wish I had understood sooner: my body was responding to the total load it was carrying. When that load stays high for long enough, symptoms get louder.

Poor sleep, erratic nourishment, pain, stress, and hormonal shifts can feed right back into the same loop. That’s why simply quieting the loudest symptom usually doesn’t change the conditions that helped create the pattern in the first place.

I have learned to ask a different question:
What is keeping this system under strain?
And then I begin supporting the areas that are already asking for attention. And then we watch what changes.

That’s what I mean by Systems Before Symptoms. 🌿

We don’t ignore the symptom.
We use it as information.
We stabilize what we can.
We give the body time to respond.
And we keep moving from there.

🎯 Because the goal isn’t only to make the symptom quieter. It’s to help create a healthier environment in which the body has more capacity to function, recover, and respond.

That shift eventually changed how I understood my own body.
And it’s a big part of how I work with women now. 💚

10/08/2026

10/05/2026

Do you know that feeling when a lab result suddenly becomes the headline?

"Your cholesterol and LDL are too high." And just like that, the conversation can start to narrow and you begin to feel very small.

A number.
A risk.
A diet.
A diagnosis.
Maybe a medication.
Maybe more testing.

Meanwhile, you’re sitting there thinking…

But why now?
What changed in one year?
Is this connected to anything else I’ve been noticing?
And is there anything I can actually do for myself from here?

👆 That’s usually the part I get really interested in.

Not because the cholesterol number doesn’t matter. But, sister, because you are more than the number! 💖

Maybe you’re also in your 50s or 40s and sleeping poorly, stress has been mounting. Maybe peri-menopause is changing your body in ways you didn’t expect. Maybe you’ve lost muscle, lived through a brutal year, or have a family history of heart disease or diabetes that you never thought would touch you.

Or maybe nothing feels dramatic enough to explain the change.

But all these together? There may be a story there. And that’s where I want to get curious with you.

It's not about, “What can we blame?”

But more about..

🔸 What has shifted?
🔸 What is this happening alongside?
🔸 Where is the body losing capacity?
🔸 What can we begin supporting now?
🔸 And what does your body tell us as we do?

That’s the kind of conversation I want women to know is possible. One where your lab work is taken seriously and so is the rest of your life.

The number is part of the story. It's never meant to be the whole story. 🎯

10/03/2026

Yes — and I think the caption is where we can let **Julie enter the room.** The carousel explains the idea; the caption can sound more like the conversation that made you realize why the idea matters.

Here’s what I’d use:

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I can't tell you how many times a woman has sat across from me and started listing what feels like a collection of completely separate problems.

*"My sleep is terrible."*
*"I hardly feel hungry until later in the day."*
*"My digestion isn't what it used to be."*
*"I've gained weight and nothing seems to work anymore."*
*"I'm tired—but somehow still wired."*

And usually, she's tried to address them separately too.

Something for sleep.
A new way of eating.
Maybe a supplement for her gut.
More exercise because of the weight gain.
More coffee because she's exhausted. 😉

Meanwhile, **she's still the one living inside all of it.**

That's the part I don't want us to lose.

Because sometimes what looks like a growing list of problems begins to make more sense when we stop separating everything and start getting curious about the **whole environment her body has been adapting to.**

What has the last year looked like?

Is she eating enough to support what she's asking of herself?

Is she sleeping—but not really recovering?

Has stress been part of her life for so long that she doesn't even call it stress anymore?

What about digestion? Blood sugar? Hormonal changes? Pain? Movement? Nutrient needs?

And perhaps most importantly:

**What happens when we begin supporting some of those things?**

Because we don't have to have every answer to begin.

We can make a thoughtful change and see how her body responds. We can build on what's helping. We can notice what isn't changing. And if pieces of the story still don't make sense, we can investigate further.

There's movement in that.

There's also something I think many women desperately need after years of feeling like they're collecting diagnoses, symptoms, diets, supplements and advice:

**There can be a way to make sense of the whole story.**

That's what I mean when I say **Systems Before Symptoms.**

And throughout October, I'm going to show you more of what that looks like—and why it has become such an important part of how I work with women. 🌿

**Maybe your body hasn't been giving you a list of unrelated problems.
Maybe it's been giving you clues.**

09/30/2026

If you've been following along, we’ve spent September talking about appetite, cravings, food noise, nighttime eating, stress, sleep, and the ways our bodies can become either VERY LOUD… or strangely quiet.

And underneath all of it, I keep coming back to one question:

🎯 What has your body been trying to solve?

Because sometimes the symptom that gets our attention is only the surface.

✨ Weight gain or lack of hunger may not be only about food.
✨ Cravings may not be only about discipline.
✨ Fatigue may not be only about sleep.
✨ Bloating may not be only about what you ate.
✨ And not feeling yourself isn't something you can explain away with age, genetics, or hormones alone.

There are usually more variables in the picture. Things like:
🟢 sleep
🟢 stress load
🟢 blood sugar
🟢 nourishment
🟢 digestion
🟢 hormones
🟢 movement and muscle
🟢 nutrient status
🟢 daily rhythms
🟢 medical history and life circumstances

And that’s where we’re going in October.

SYSTEMS BEFORE SYMPTOMS

I want to help you start looking at the whole map.
What is influencing what?
What can we support first?
What changes when we do?
And what still doesn’t make sense?

I think of this as "Health Systems Mapping" — not guessing, not chasing one symptom at a time, but looking at the bigger picture with curiosity, compassion, and clinical reasoning.

It’s also the thinking behind my "Root to Restore Method", which prioritizes how the body likes to be understood like this:

Stabilize → Observe → Interpret → Look Deeper

Support the foundations first.
Watch what responds and what doesn't.
Identify the patterns.
Then look deeper when the signal is more clear.

Because I don't believe a health plan should become one more stressor. It should help you feel more supported, more informed, and more connected to what your body is actually asking for.

October is going to explore more about understanding the systems behind the symptoms. 💚

📩 And if this is the kind of conversation you’ve been needing, stay close — and make sure you’re on my newsletter list, because that’s where we’ll go deeper.

09/27/2026

Sometimes a woman tells me, “I don't even feel that stressed anymore.”

And I because I've been there, I believe her. ❤️‍🩹

Because when stress has been present long enough, it stops feeling like stress and simply feelings like this is "normal life".

The caregiving. The interrupted sleep. The digestive symptoms. The joint pain. The low-grade inflammation. The caffeine keeping everything managable. The grazing that could be technically “healthy” but is not quite enough. The rushed dinners. The lack of connection. The hormone shifts.

None of these seem dramatic on their own. But the body keeps the score of the TOTAL LOAD, including the parts that you would rather forget or deny.

And when the demands keep coming while nourishment and recovery get put on the back burner, your system has to adapt.

That is when appetite can get confusing. Under-fueling makes hunger and cravings louder at first, then the hunger just goes quiet. No morning appetite.

So the woman initially blames herself for wanting food more often, thinking about it too much, or feeling out of control at night and then is relieved to wake up without hunger, be able to grab her coffee, and go.

This is a signal is pointing in two directions at once:

👉 “I need nourishment.” and

☝️ “I've been carrying too much for too long.”

It's a sign the total body load (allostatic load) is too much. And this is why I have stopped running functional testing when the body is in chaos.

Testing is incredibly valuable, especially when symptoms have persisted or the pattern still doesn't make sense. It uncovered hidden stressors, but we first need to deal with the stressors on the surface.

My sequence is:

Stabilize → Observe → Interpret → Investigate when needed.

I support the obvious gaps first, reduce unnecessary strain, and watch what changes. Then, if there are still unresolved symptoms, testing can help us look more closely at deeper layers.

This way, working on your health doesn't become one more stress your body has to survive. Instead, it is a process built around support first.

That is when the body finally feels safe enough for us to hear what it has been trying to say all along. 💚