35: Safe, Sound, and Restored with Cristal DuBois, CHP, PRCFMP 🌈

🤗 What if healing doesn’t require more striving - but more safety?

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Cristal DuBois, Christian Health Practitioner (CHP) and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (PRCFMP), and one of the health coaches in my practice, Nurture Functional Medicine. While Cristal has previously joined the podcast to discuss biochemical mental health and financial stewardship, today’s conversation is different.

This episode focuses on the support side of healing - the nervous system, emotional regulation, and what it actually looks like to feel safe enough for healing to take root.

Together, we discuss why coaching is such a vital part of functional medicine care, how nervous system dysregulation can keep patients stuck even when labs are improving, and how gentle, relational support can change the trajectory of healing entirely.

• In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Why healing often stalls when the nervous system is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze

  • How coaching helps patients receive care - not just understand it

  • Why mood struggles are a nervous system issue, not a willpower one

  • What nervous-system-supportive coaching actually looks like in real life

  • How faith, hope, and feeling heard regulate the body at a deep level

  • What you can expect from coaching at Nurture Functional Medicine

  • An overview of the Safe & Sound Protocol and Rest & Restore Protocol, and how listening therapy supports regulation, sleep, mood, digestion, and stress resilience

  • Why steady, simple rhythms matter more than “doing more” when it comes to healing

💛 RESOURCES & LINKS

• Podcast - Creating Your Mental Wellness Blueprint

• Nervous System Podcast

• Learn more about ⁠Nurture Functional Medicine⁠

• 🤍 Interested in the Safe, Sound & Restored Program? Current Nurture patients can upgrade to this high-touch 12-week program at a discounted rate—message Carly or Cristal in your patient portal to learn more.

• Follow NFM (⁠@nurturefunctionalmedicine⁠) and Carly on Instagram (⁠@carlybaylesswellness⁠)

🙋‍♀️ WANT HELP?

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