Episode 19: Getting to the Root of Food Sensitivity with Natasha Riley
If you or someone you know has a kiddo with food allergies, this episode is for you. Food is a tough subject, especially when it comes to children. What should they or shouldn’t they eat? How do you talk about and introduce food to create healthy habits? This interview with Natasha Riley, an expert in helping people permanently clear and transcend their food allergies, takes a different approach than modern medicine by getting down to the root cause. What she shares may surprise you.
Show Notes
[02:23] How food affects and interacts with the body on a cellular level.
[13:13] The role that environment plays a role in food sensitivities.
[19:27] When to let your kids experiment on their own vs being their guide.
[20:57] How to: completely eliminate food allergies on a cellular level.
[24:59] How to make your body a pathogen free zone.
Mentions & Resources
Connect with Natasha:
God Embodied – The Unconditional Center
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Episode Transcription
Below you will find a transcript of this entire podcast episode. Enjoy!
Avram Gonzales: Hey friends. Welcome back to the Babies and Business Podcast. I’m here with a guest that I’m so excited to connect with and share with you here today. Her name is Natasha Riley.
I’ve known her now for about six or seven years, maybe a little bit longer than that, which is kind of crazy. She is the owner and founder of God Embodied the Unconditional Center. She’s been a healer. A guide for 17 years, probably her entire life. We’re gonna get into that more on the show today, specializing with and working with families on harmonizing their dynamic.
It’s gonna be a big part of our topic here today. We’re gonna be diving in deep around food sensitivity, allergies, and so much more. Natasha, welcome to the show.
Natasha Riley: Thank you for having me. I’m excited.
Avram Gonzales: Absolutely. We got Natasha in her, in her, uh, you know, in her, her guru post right now. Maybe I can match it, right? Okay. But we’re gonna jump right into it. One of the things that, and one of the reasons I wanted to bring Natasha out today is because of her unique perspective around food sensitivity.
Allergies. Um, she shared things with me years ago that have stuck with me since, and we wanna do a deep dive with her here today and, uh, get to the root of all this gluten-free food sensitivity. Uh, give you a different perspective. As always, our podcast is about entrepreneurial parents, finding their own way.
So we invite you today to pick up what you like, right? Bring it home, try it on for yourself. And, uh, Let’s jump into it. First question for you, Natasha. Okay. I would love to hear your point of view about food and how it affects and interacts with the body. Love to hear your unique perspective.
Natasha Riley: Yeah, so food is neutral, so. It’s really the meaning that you give the food is how it interacts with the body. Okay? So if somebody has, you know, a, a belief about how gluten is going to, um, affect their body, then that is true for them. And so because food is neutral, it’s going to, um, Go into the body and then it’s going to, like, your body is going to have the effect on the food, not the food, having the effect on the body.
And so then your body is going to take the food and whatever you believe, how it’s going to interact with your cells is how it’s going to react with yourselves.
Avram Gonzales: Interesting. So your point of view is what impacts greatly how that food interacts with the rest of your body, is that what you’re saying? Okay. Could you give some examples of that?
Natasha Riley: Y. Yep. Yep. So I’ll give you some personal examples. So my son, when he was born, he had a whole bunch of food sensitivities. Okay. And it wasn’t so much that he had beliefs about the food per se, um, but he, from the time he was born to the time he was seven, he had a whole, like I said, a whole bunch of gut health related stuff. Um, he did not believe that he was safe in the world,
Avram Gonzales: Hmm.
Natasha Riley: period of, um, during labor and delivery. I didn’t believe that I was safe, and so he’s like, well, I must not be safe in the world then, right?
Avram Gonzales: He came in with this belief he picked up from you.
Natasha Riley: Correct because of our unique experience through labor and delivery. Okay. And so through that experience, ’cause life is experiential, right? And then that’s how we form our beliefs. And then, um, so by the time he was seven, like we had to cut out so many foods like by, he could eat chicken, some fruits and some veggies.
That was it. Like we couldn’t even have . Um, bread in our house because he would react so much just to the energy of it, because when you don’t believe that you’re safe, right? Food sensitivities, gut health, all that stuff, it stems from safety. And so because he didn’t believe he was safe in the world, when we don’t believe that we’re safe in any situation, it shuts down our gut.
Puts us into fight, flight, or freeze, right? Because then we’re not supposed to be eating and digesting food because that is getting shut down, right? And so when it gets shut down and we eat, it doesn’t have the capability, it doesn’t have the energy and resources to break down the food. And so, um, as soon as I balanced him for I’m safe in the world. His body accepted that new belief. It took seven minutes and instantaneously he could eat whatever he wanted
Avram Gonzales: Okay. Wow.
Natasha Riley: with zero reactions. Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: Wow. So how did you discover this? Was there something that you picked up from somewhere else? Just an intuitive feeling. I.
Natasha Riley: Yeah, so I’ve always been super intuitive and I’ve always been an entrepreneur and I’ve always had to do things my way. Um, I just knew that if I tried to adopt other people’s ways, like that wasn’t going to work for me. And so why would I think that my child that I birthed and created was going to be any different?
Right? And so actually when a mom is pregnant with the baby, right, you will know that child’s personality. By the experiences that the mom has during pregnancy and labor and delivery. That’s their environment. Right? And so, um, I totally just lost my train of thought. What was the question,
Avram Gonzales: How did you, how did you figure out this was going on? Like was there something that led you here? You’re an intuitive person.
Natasha Riley: Yep. Yeah. And so as soon as he was born, I had heard my intuition say, do not vaccinate him, and it was like my intuition just kicked in in high gear. I. And I knew I could not, not listen to that. And then for seven years, trying all the methods that everybody else was saying, right? Like, you need to take these foods out of the diet.
You need to take all these supplements, you need to go to the chiropractor, you need to, I mean, you name it, I literally did it. I had to exhaust all of my outside options first. And then at some point it was like, then I started learning how to do all the things that were working for him. And um, then at one point I was assisting this amazing chiropractor doing cranial sacral therapy and myofascial winding.
And she had did a demonstration of psych K, which is muscle testing, your subconscious beliefs, and then how to, um, change them. And through that experience I was like, this is what I’ve been missing all along. And then, but also I. Super fascinating, like the fascia in your body, your connective tissue, right?
It’s a big, huge sheet that never breaks from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, and it literally encases everything. But not only does it encase everything, it goes through everything, right? Your fascia is actually where your subconscious is,
Avram Gonzales: Because it’s through
Natasha Riley: every single
Avram Gonzales: like a metaphor. Okay.
Natasha Riley: yes. It’s connecting everything. And so our, when we have a belief that isn’t actually true, okay, like, I’m not safe. That’s not true in like the eyes of God, I would say, right? I’m talking like ultimate truth. Um, it actually will create a pattern in the fascia that twists. So it will literally twist the muscle, twist the organ, twist the put pressure on the veins and the nerves and the energy flow and cutting it off.
Okay? And it’s like, oh, how many beliefs do I have in my body that are actually not true and that are twisting my body up, causing pain? Right. But then of course on top of that
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Natasha Riley: have like emotional trauma that you go through that the emotions get stuck in the body also. Right. And so it was through learning psyche and muscle testing in that degree, and listening to my intuition that just connected the dots.
Avram Gonzales: I just followed it. Used the tools that you had, you’d exhausted everything.
Natasha Riley: Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: I think a lot of parents are feeling like that in, in ways when their kids are struggling with this kind of stuff. Like, what do I do? So you got to some, some level of breaking point led you on this journey of discovery and now you’re helping and
Natasha Riley: Because,
Avram Gonzales: folks.
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Natasha Riley: yeah, a hundred percent. So it was like the breaking point was I would take another food out of his diet that he was reacting to. Then everything would be cool for like a week. And then because we didn’t fix the underlying problem, he would pick another food to react to.
Avram Gonzales: Yeah.
Natasha Riley: Right? And then we’d have to figure out what food was causing, like the skin eczema and all.
And hit. But it wasn’t so much even like the physical symptoms, it was the emotional, like you could not control him for like six weeks.
Avram Gonzales: Hmm.
Natasha Riley: Because his body would react and like he’d be like scaling the walls like so hyper.
Avram Gonzal es: Wow.
Natasha Riley: Um, and his brain just wouldn’t stop. And so, um, so yeah, I’m like, okay, at what point is he not going to be able to eat anything?
That was really the breaking point. And then I’m like, okay, I’ve been doing everything that I should be doing. Right. That has helped to some degree, but it’s not eliminating the actual problem. Right. And it is like, okay, God would not make a body that couldn’t thrive in its environment, that couldn’t eat certain foods, like what is actually creating this problem?
Right? And so I prayed one day and I was like, okay. Very specifically like asking, you know, if I don’t need to take him to these other people, um, then, you know, show me that I don’t need to take them. And exactly how like I wanted it to happen. And um, and then also because I had this deep seated desire to heal him, I’m like, either take this deep seated obsession, desire away. So I can just go on with my life knowing that this is how it’s going to be, or show me the way, and that’s when all the answers came flooding in because God’s like, finally, you got it, and you’re listening.
Avram Gonzales: I love this. So this is a really great example of. Feeling unsafe, literally from point of origin. What are some other environmental things that are happening maybe in the household that can cause children to feel unsafe as well? Like what are some common things that you’re seeing that are correlated to all this?
Natasha Riley: Um, parents fighting, um, not being heard. Not being validated for their emotional experiences. Um, not having a say. I mean, yes, there’s a difference between, you know, I’m the parent, right? And helping to like navigate through life together as a family unit, right? Um, or being the like dictator as a parent, like, this is what I said and this is what it’s going to be. So sit down and shut up. Right. That will immediately, especially from what I have observed, like these kids that are coming in now, it’s like the timeframe, like when you and I were growing up, right? Like that was like the norm. Right of like, I’m the parent, you’re gonna do what I say and whatever else. But I know for myself, like I came into this world being like, okay, like I can make a difference in this world.
Right? And so I chose a family that needed some help love to learn how to love unconditionally and so, and that, that was a shit show. Like it was good, but it was a shit show. Right? It was. It was hard work daily and eventually I just got so worn down fighting the good fight, right? That then I suppressed and shut down until I didn’t, you know, until I had my own kids.
Avram Gonzales: Mm-hmm. . It’s all, it’s so interesting, and I think we talked about this with other guests before, cell phones, screen time, major thing right now, do you think this is causing some disconnection between, um, parents, kids. And
Natasha Riley: It
Avram Gonzales: much is
Natasha Riley: is definitely
Avram Gonzales: involved in making a family feel safe?
presence is everything. I mean, I’m definitely guilty of allowing my kids to have more screen time than I think probably they should. But there’s like that, like
Natasha Riley: thin line of balance, right? Not overtly controlling them and not under, like, just letting them do whatever that they want too. Right. Um, it’s like, Coming to an understanding together, like, oh, how do you feel after you’ve been in front of a screen for X
Avram Gonzales: Right. Helping them
Natasha Riley: Right?
Avram Gonzales: that, feel that tap into that.
Natasha Riley: Yes. Yes. And it, that reminds me of, um, an experience that I had with my eight year old daughter last year.
So she was seven at this time, and she was trying online, right? Like kids are.
To have all the experiences. Right? And so she was trying online and I was like, violet, like I know, I know you’re lying, right? And just like broke into tears, right? Like right away. And I’m like, okay, first of all, look at my face. I’m not mad at you. This is a great healthy learning experience for you.
Right? So automatically bringing her like, um, freeze. ’cause that’s her normal, like stress response down. Look at my face. I’m not mad. Okay. This is normal. Like this is how we learn through experiencing. So, and I. Flipping it back onto her so she can actually talk, right? How does this feel in your body? So she can correlate the feeling.
And I said, okay. This is what feeling. This is what lying feels like in your body. This is what it will feel like every single time you lie. So now she knows what that feels like,
Avram Gonzales: Yeah, you didn’t, you didn’t tell her how to feel or what to feel, or how to interpret it. You asked her some questions and she came to a certain level of awareness that she now gets to cultivate.
Natasha Riley: Yes.
Avram Gonzales: That’s a badass. Yeah.
Natasha Riley: This, this is healthy parenting.
Avram Gonzales: It’s so cool. I think one of the things that you touched on that was such a gift for me growing up was something that my mom did for me. You talked about, well, there’s like this balance between letting your kids just do whatever and then kind of like being their guide. One of the things that that she did for me was she allowed my friends and I to drink in high school.
There was only one rule. Well, two, one. Your parents also need to know that you’re over your drinking. And number two, I get your car keys and you don’t get to leave the house. Otherwise go nuts. By the time that we got to college, none of us were really that interested in getting hammered. We were like the babysitters for all of our friends.
’cause we had gotten all that out of our system. It wasn’t a bad or wrong or um, You know?
Natasha Riley: It was a safe environment, right? For you guys to experience what that would be like right now, if your mom or if you didn’t have a safe experience, right? Then there’s like this adrenaline rush and like sneaking around and lying
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Natasha Riley: whatever else that happens that then that ties into like drinking, right? And yeah, that just is a whole different dynamic
Avram Gonzales: It really is. So I can’t believe how fast time is going right now. I have one question before we get into our rapid fire round and I just wanna hear, ’cause I know people are probably wondering what is going on when you clear people in like seven minutes and then their whole life changes. Um, like what is, can you explain that a little bit and then maybe give us, just for funsies, one of the most extreme before and afters you’ve navigated?
Natasha Riley: Yeah. Yeah. So what is happening there is, there’s many, many different layers to it. It’s very nuanced. So when somebody comes to me when they have a food sensitivities or gut health stuff, right, like maybe they have Celiac, maybe they have Hashimoto’s, maybe they have, you know, whatever the extreme is, um, we get like they’re subconscious for whatever reason.
I think it’s just like the energy that I am, their subconscious literally starts talking to me. It can’t not spill its guts to me, literally. And so, you know, if somebody’s holding back with what trauma that they’ve experienced, um, then like I can’t get to the root. and so honesty has to be in the forefront.
And then also while I’m asking them questions, it’s like things random mem, not so random, but like just memories will just pop up in their head that then, um, I’m like, okay, tell me what’s popping up here. Right? Because that will give us clues into where we need to navigate. And so then I’ll go through a muscle test.
Okay, what does this person need to believe in order to heal their gut completely? A hundred percent. Okay. And then I’ll give them that exact belief. And then they will just repeat it over and over and over again. Now you can say something and not have it hit or land, right? But that only happens when you’re not allowing yourself to actually feel what’s happening in your body, right?
Like so as they’re saying it, they’re actually unwinding the fascia. That’s holding that pattern, and then the emotions and the memories come to the surface. They come to the skin, right? That’s where we feel on the skin. And then as it starts to move out of the skin and go into the energy field to be actually released, then that’s when the tears come.
That’s when the anger comes. That’s when the, whatever the emotion that’s tied into the experience that then locked this into place for them. That’s when that starts to move out. But they have to go through like the releasing, they have to empty it out, right? In order for the new, new truth to land in their body, if
Avram Gonzales: Yeah.
Natasha Riley: Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: Yeah, like you said, many layers, tons of nuance. There are things that are happening in a session that you just abridged that might take two hours, you know, or, or several sessions that you get to the root, clean the tank, put in some new programming kind of right, like the, like the real truth,
Natasha Riley: Yes.
Avram Gonzales: what’s true for them.
And then they can now embody something different.
Natasha Riley: Yes. And, and it’s working on like a frequency level. Okay. That’s the most important like piece to it too, because when you’re working on a frequency level, say you have that trauma stored in your body, that’s a low frequency, right? That’s something that we’re avoiding and whatever you resist persists, right?
And like we’re emanating these frequencies out. Well, if we’re stuck in fear all the time, we’re literally a magnet. So fear is the frequency of 50. So we are going to be a magnet to every frequency that’s at 50, which is every single pathogen.
Avram Gonzales: Right.
Natasha Riley: So if we raise our frequency above fear, then we can actually repel the pathogens.
Avram Gonzales: Right. Yeah. This is, this is getting into some, some mystical stuff that you hear stories about. That’s for real. You know, I’ve, I’ve heard stories about, you know, monks, like literally breathing on railroad, railroad tie spikes, and them just like melting over, it’s this different frequency in this level that they’re, they’re playing at, you know, drinking poison, having no
Natasha Riley: Yeah, I was just gonna say yes because it’s like they believe and they have been trained that that will not harm their body.
Avram Gonzales: It is wild, right?
Natasha Riley: Yeah. Yeah. And then you had to ask me,
Avram Gonzales: Oh, some like an extreme before and after. Yeah.
Natasha Riley: Yes. Yeah. So actually it was funny, I was just thinking about this earlier today. So I had this guy come in, he drove in like three hours and he literally was allergic to nearly everything, like laundry soap, um, candle scents, grass, like.
Almost every food known to man bananas. I’ve, I had never heard of somebody being allergic to bananas before, but, um, so he came in with a list of probably like 50 to a hundred things he left after two hours And then on top of that, he also automatically quit chewing
Avram Gonzales: Uh,
Natasha Riley: as a result to that also because the addictions. Like just we’re out of his body.
Avram Gonzales: wow folks. Can you imagine that how much your world can change just by getting to the root? It’s a fascinating conversation. Love to, to have more of it. I feel like we just started getting into some of the wild shit that I knew I could expect. To, to talk with you about. This is like, it’s like the good old days, Natasha, it’s so good to see you.
Let’s, let’s do, let’s do some rapid fire, you know? Um, yeah. See how, see how quick you can, you can answer these couple questions for you here. What’s your favorite part of being a mom right now?
Natasha Riley: Um, honestly, like the relationship that I have cultivated with my kids, like every single one of them is so unique. I have five kids. And so their personalities and, and they know that they can come to me with absolutely anything and helping them to navigate through what problems are coming up or, you know, maybe they’re having an issue with a friend or my oldest son who’s 25, like he just started his own construction business, like helping him to navigate through that.
So the relationship is the best.
Avram Gonzales: That’s cool. Uh, what advice would you give to a mom who’s feeling pressured to to parent a certain way?
Natasha Riley: um, I would ask her why she feels pressured in the first place and all like to get to the root of that, right? Because everybody has their own thoughts and opinions and beliefs on how you should parent, right? And everybody is going to give you their unsolicited advice, whether you want it or not. , right?
And really to get like confident and maybe do like a deep dive into like what kind of parent do you actually want to be? What kind of relationship do you want to have with your children? And is it coming from like the pendulum swing of like, okay, I was parented this way, so I’m going to do the opposite.
I did that. I. My first child. Right? And then because it’s like the pendulum has to swing, right? If I don’t want it this way, then I’m gonna do it the opposite way, and then it comes into balance. I mean, you can see that in the world right now,
Avram Gonzales: It’s beautiful. I love, I love that answer for so many reasons. Um, what is something that is really challenging that you’re navigating as a parent right now?
Natasha Riley: Challenging would be my 15 year old daughter. Um, she has been having like physical si joint pain for the last probably year. I know why she has it and I like try to like help her to navigate that. Right. She didn’t feel . Because it’s like left side is mom and right side’s dad masculine, feminine. Right. And so like her dad was not supporting her with a lot of different things, but her pain was on her, her left side. And I’m like, that doesn’t make any sense. And then one day it was like, oh, it makes total sense. She feels guilty that she has to like, Weigh all her responsibilities on me and, and that she feels like I’m the only one that is supporting her right now to navigate a 15 year old girl through this.
Like, if, if anybody can do it, I can do it. However, you know, it’s, she has to be ready.
Avram Gonzales: like you mentioned earlier, that willingness has to be there. That’s the beginning of change, right? Well after the awareness part. Um, what is last one for you? What’s something that you recently learned from one of your children that has helped you in your business? I.
Natasha Riley: Oh boy. I don’t, I don’t know if I can think of just like one thing like. Honestly, like what’s coming to mind is like just the willingness to learn from my children. Every single day they teach me something com, like they actually teach me way more than I can teach them. And so like getting outta my own way, letting my ego kind of like take a backseat, right?
Like even though I’m older and I’m wiser, Like they teach me so much more than I could probably ever teach them, but we learned together, right?
Avram Gonzales: I know. I made it hard for you too. Five children. Some are adult children, right? Some are like still still pretty small. Yeah. Didn’t make it easy for you.
Natasha Riley: Well Violet, my youngest is
Avram Gonzales: Which is crazy ’cause when I met you she was like two, which.
Natasha Riley: Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: goodness. Well, Natasha, it’s been,
Natasha Riley: I don’t think I was even pregnant with her when we
Avram Gonzales: that might be true. We’ll have to, we’ll have to inspect the timeline.
Hey, it’s been, it’s been great having you. I know that listeners are probably interested in connecting with you. Are there certain places on social media or via your website or something like that, that, uh, you’d want people to reach out?
Natasha Riley: right. I am revamping my website right now, so that is a no-go. But, um, on Facebook, if you reach out to me there, Natasha, Christina Riley there, and then also on Instagram. And then if you wanna go to my, um, Facebook business page, that’s God embodied, the unconditional center Center.
Avram Gonzales: great. We’ll put that in the show notes for you to connect with Natasha. And then I also know that you recently did, and we touched on this today, a bunch of work around fascia. You did a a five day challenge. Uh, was it the fascia freedom class
Natasha Riley: Fa, yeah. Foster
Avram Gonzales: me a little bit about that and where people can find that.
Natasha Riley: yeah. So that is actually in my free, um, Facebook group just called God Embodied. Um, yeah, that. Was like a five day, but then I threw in a, um, six day free bonus. Like it’s all free in there. Um, but that literally works through like the whole entire body. Learning how to do it on yourself like is so much more therapeutic than somebody else actually doing it on you, because then you know exactly what’s coming up for you in that moment. And how gentle or how fast that you can actually move through it.
Avram Gonzales: Hmm.
Natasha Riley: So,
Avram Gonzales: Powerful.
Natasha Riley: and then on the sixth day, on the sixth day, like I get a little bit woo woo, and we go into the energetics of it and like,
Avram Gonzales: You know, sometimes you gotta break ’em in easy, Natasha, right? It’s like when you, when you, uh, when your dog needs medication, you know, you put it inside of the piece of hot dog, right? So that they’ll actually eat it. They go for the hot dog, but the medicine’s inside, I think this is kind of like that.
Ease ’em in one way.
Natas ha Riley: Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: Discover a whole new you. Thank you for being on the podcaster.
Natasha Riley: it’s like laying, laying the foundation first, right? So they have an understanding of it first. Yeah.
Avram Gonzales: I can’t wait for people to connect with you. We’ll add the group to the show notes as well.
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Natasha just brought it today, and if you loved what she had to share, . Let us know. Might just have to bring her back soon. Thanks again, my friend. Thank you for, uh, listening in, and we’ll catch you on the next one. Bye for now.
