Why Your Brain Fights Weight Loss and How to Finally Feel Safe Changing Your Body
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Release Date: 01/09/2026
Self-Sabotage is a Lie: The Hidden Duality Keeping You Stuck | Dr. John Demartini
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Is self-sabotage the result of rejecting one side of your own duality? Josh Trent welcomes Dr. John Demartini to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 803, to dismantle the myth of self sabotage, reveal how duality governs perception and destiny, unpack why pride and shame distort authenticity, explore the hidden order behind chaos and so called evil, and show how integrating opposites through the right questions unlocks gratitude, fulfillment, and true self mastery. 🚨 Experience Red Light Therapy at Home Unlike the traditional methods, near-infrared light works with your body’s biology...
info_outline
Your Identity Updated But Your Body Didn't (Don't Fight This)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
You hit the goal. You changed your life. So why do you still feel behind? If you've ever upgraded your relationships, your career, your health, or your finances and STILL felt like something invisible is pulling you backwards, you're not broken. You're experiencing something called identity lag. In this video, Josh Trent breaks down exactly why your brain fights your own growth, why your body still feels unsafe even when your life looks amazing on paper, and the real reason high achievers secretly suffer in silence after their biggest wins. Grab the free 10-Day Self-Liberation Blueprint:...
info_outline
Josh Trent: How to Overcome Any Addiction + Limiting Belief (The Way Forward Podcast)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
What if everything you believe about money, love, worthiness, and safety was installed in you before you ever had a say in the matter? Josh Trent, host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast and identity transformation architect, sits down with Alec Zeck for one of the most raw and real conversations he's ever had. Josh opens up about hitting rock bottom in 2014... $80,000 in debt, freshly fired, putting his mom in a mental home, and stuffing everything he owned into a duffel bag. That moment became the launchpad for over a decade of deep inner work. Josh also gets honest about his journey through...
info_outline
Why the Man in Your Life is Afraid to Open Up to You (Connor Beaton)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Are men taught to be strong at the cost of being whole, and is that inner fracture driving disconnection, addiction, and despair? Josh Trent welcomes Connor Beaton to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 801, to break down the myth of modern masculinity, why suppression masquerades as strength, how porn, stress, and emotional avoidance become coping mechanisms, why men need initiation and mentorship to move from numbness to mastery, how shadow work and confrontation build real confidence, and why emotional leadership is the foundation of healthy relationships and fatherhood. 🚨...
info_outline
I Promise THIS Japanese Wisdom Will Improve Your Life Forever
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
If you have been feeling lost, like you are doing everything “right” but still cannot feel where your life is going, you are not broken. You are overloaded with noise and under supported with your own truth. In this episode, I walk you through a simple Japanese framework for finding your life purpose (Ikigai) in a way that is grounded, practical, and real-life friendly. No quitting your job on a whim. No blowing up your marriage. No pretending you are moving to Bali to become a crypto bro or a sound healer. We also talk about the sneaky way self-sabotage shows up right when you are about...
info_outline
Sheleana Aiyana | Toxic Love: How Your Hormones Keep You Addicted To Bad Partners
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Why do we lose ourselves in love, repeat painful relationship patterns, and mistake intensity for intimacy instead of becoming whole within ourselves first? Josh Trent welcomes Sheleana Aiyana to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 800, to explore why self-abandonment drives relationship chaos, how attachment wounds and the mother wound shape romantic bonds, what becoming the one truly means, how grief and motherhood catalyze deep healing, and why divine union begins with reclaiming self-trust, presence, and inner wholeness before partnership. About The Guest is the best-selling...
info_outline
Spiritual Freedom: The Secret To Reclaiming Your Soul From Chaos (Tah Whitty)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Are you living from victim consciousness without realizing that you're struggling and sabotaging intimacy because of it? Josh Trent welcomes Tah Witty, Master Intimacy Coach, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 798, to unpack how victim identity wires victim physiology, why lies carried in the body accelerate aging and fuel drama, how the victim villain hero triangle shows up in relationships, healing, and leadership, what the Condor Approach reveals about seeing life from a higher vantage point, and why radical honesty, patience, and refusing to rescue others are the real gateways to...
info_outline
THIS Hidden Habit Quietly Makes You Self-Sabotage (Heal It)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
If you have ever noticed that right when you start doing better, life gets louder inside your mind, you are not failing. You are likely experiencing an extinction burst, the predictable spike that shows up right before a breakthrough. Josh Trent breaks down why cravings, anxiety, procrastination, self-sabotage, and relapse urges often intensify right when you are finally building momentum. You will learn how to recognize the pattern, calm the neural system, and move through the wave without bullying yourself or forcing willpower. In This Episode, Josh Trent Uncovers: [00:00] Why it gets...
info_outline
Ex-Tech Mogul: The Spiritual Cost Of Screens (Mind Control)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
Is modern technology draining your body and spirit by hijacking your attention and circadian rhythm? Josh Trent welcomes , EMF expert, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 796, to reveal how EMFs and artificial light disrupt circadian rhythm, mitochondria, and melatonin, why modern screens keep us locked in fight or flight, how nature and light function as biological nutrition, what his concussion taught him about neuro sensitivity and human awareness, and why creating technology aligned with nature may be essential for the future of human health, creativity, and consciousness. Daylight...
info_outline
Stop Counter Manifesting: Life Can’t Change When You’re Full of Friction (Daniel Raphael)
Wellness + Wisdom with Josh Trent
How can you consciously shift timelines by changing the frequency you embody? Josh Trent welcomes Transformational and Manifestation Guide, , to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 795, to explore how beliefs act as subconscious agreements, why manifesting is a side effect of alignment not force, how dreamporting and timeline shifting work through intuition and coherence, why trauma can dissolve faster than we think when identity loosens, and how ancient teachings, Christ consciousness, and embodied awareness reveal the blueprint for liberation already within you. 33% off the DREAMPORTING...
info_outlineWhy does the brain associate weight loss with dying, and what happens when you stop fighting your body and flip the brain instead?
Josh Trent welcomes Weight Loss Expert, David Zappasodi, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 792, to reveal why weight gain is often a survival strategy, how subconscious identity and polarity drive compulsive eating, why willpower and restrictive diets fail, what a true Brain Flip does to dissolve fear, mourning, and self sabotage around weight loss, and how allowing transformation instead of forcing change creates sustainable freedom in the body and mind.
🚨 Experience Red Light Therapy at Home
Unlike the traditional methods, near-infrared light works with your body’s biology to create radiant heat from the inside out. By using near-infrared’s shorter wavelengths in a way that mimics natural sunlight, the light penetrates deeply to raise your core temperature faster. Save 10% on your SaunaSpace red light sauna with code JOSH10
⚡️ Instant Energy without Caffeine
Be alert, not overstimulated. Paraxanthine powers a wakefulness you'll actually enjoy. Upgrade your attention span with ingredients that enhance concentration and get a dopamine boost with paraxanthine and powerful nootropics. Save 25% off UPDATE with code JOSH25
In This Episode, David Zappasodi Uncovers:
[01:15] Consciousness Brain Flip
- Why losing weight can feel like dying.
- How experiencing a heavy body makes people feel alive.
- What a brain flip does to us.
- How an inner conflict is created.
Resources:
- David Zappasodi
- 072 Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind With David Zappasodi
- 229 Brain Flip Weight Loss: David Zappasodi
- 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
- 779 Dan Go: Weight Loss Is a Spiritual Process Disguised as Fitness
[06:50] Weight Gain As a Survival Mechanism
- Why people associate being overweight with being safe.
- How many people who have gone through a traumatic event gain weight.
- Why children's brains register that they should look like everyone else.
Resources:
[09:40] What Story Do You Attach to Food?
- How the subconscious can override the conscious mind.
- Why the stories around the experience of food shape our identity.
- How the sensation of eating food only impacts us if we attach a certain story to the sensation.
[13:30] How Polarity Shapes Your Identity
- Why addiction is a non-conscious pattern of one-sidedness.
- How polarities form our identity.
- What creates a connection between junk food and enjoyment.
[15:20] Face The Darkness
- Why we need to be able to see the consequences of poor eating habits in order to create a change.
- How David upgraded his coaching system to help people lose weight.
- Why the more deeply we face the dark, the more we can open up to the light.
- How he uses pain to help people open up to weight loss.
[19:00] Can You Believe Your Own Mind?
- Why the brain flips are much easier than shifting identity.
- How we're addicted to believing our own mind.
- Why the closer we get to a transformation, the more the mind tries to keep us where we are.
[22:20] Willpower Won't Fix Your Problems
- Why willpower and discipline fail.
- How willpower and discipline don't address the root cause of our compulsions.
- What creates a physical compulsion such as overeating.
- Why we don't have to know where the compulsion originated in the past.
Resources:
[28:35] The Cause of the Jojo Effect
- Why healing the physical component of addiction can't be done through talk therapy.
- The reason why people regain weight after losing it.
- How weight loss doesn't equal progress.
- Why sustainable weight loss is not forced and difficult.
[31:50] Restrictive Diets Don't Work
- Why Ozempic is not a sustainable weight loss solution.
- How restrictive diets create eating disorders.
- Why starvation leads to more fat storage.
[34:45] Reprogram Your Brain
- Why time doesn't affect our physical programming.
- How David helped a woman who drank 12 cans of soda every day for 30 years.
- Why we stay attached to our identity after we've removed the physical drive.
[38:25] Your Mind Wants to Keep You Stuck
- How our identity becomes addicted to struggle.
- Why the subconscious mind prioritizes struggle over actualizing the goal.
- How many people are scared of finding a real solution that works.
[42:15] The Fear of Losing Weight
- How fear teaches us an aspect of our struggle that we haven't looked at yet.
- Why people mourn weight loss.
- How we hold onto the extra weight.
- Why pain moves through families until someone has the courage to face it.
- How children copy the behaviors that we're hiding.
- Why our eating habits influence our children's eating habits.
[50:35] Forcing Change VS Allowing Transformation
- Why focusing on weight loss keeps people stuck.
- How we can lose weight without focusing on weight loss.
- The difference between forcing change and allowing transformation.
- How we can make transformation happen naturally.
- Why weight loss is not the same as weight repression.
[56:05] The Solution to Losing Weight Is Easy
- What led David to offer his online program for free.
- Why the solution is easier than we think.
- How the mind thinks complex challenges are solved by complex solutions.
Resources:
"To the brain, losing weight feels like dying because being heavy has become associated with living. On a daily basis, heavier people are experiencing the physical sensations of heaviness, when they're getting out of bed, when they're getting into the tub, when they're putting shoes on, etc.. At the exact same time, they're experiencing the physical sensations of being alive because they are alive. And when being heavy becomes equated with life, then being light becomes equated with death. " — David Zappasodi
Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts
All Resources From This Episode
- 072 Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind With David Zappasodi
- 229 Brain Flip Weight Loss: David Zappasodi
- 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
- David Zappasodi
- 779 Dan Go: Weight Loss Is a Spiritual Process Disguised as Fitness
- 183 Dr. Kyra Bobinet | Living A Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons In Brain Science
- 492 Robb Wolf | Mental Health Sovereignty: How To Make Your Mind Wise + Strong Amidst Chaos
- Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind by David Zappasodi
Josh's Trusted Products | Up To 40% Off
Biohacking
- 👉 Timeline Nutrition - Now 30% off with JOSH
- ❤️ WAVwatch - Now 15% off with JOSH100
- MANNA Vitality - Save 20% with code JOSH20
- HigherDOSE - 15% off with the code WELLNESSANDWISDOM
- PLUNGE - $150 off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE
- SaunaSpace - 10% off with discount code JOSH10
- Ultrahuman Ring Air - 10% off with code JOSH
- Neuronic - 20% off with code WISDOM
Wellness Test Kits
- Tiny Health Gut Tests - $20 off with discount code JOSH20
- VIVOO Health Tests - Save 30% off with code JOSH
- SiPhox Health Blood Test - Save 15% off with code JOSH
Nutrition + Gut Health
- Organifi - 20% off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE
- Paleovalley - 15% off with the link only
- EQUIP Foods - 20% off with the code WELLNESS20
- Just Thrive - 20% off with the code JOSH
- Kreatures of Habit - Save 20% with WISDOM20
- Little Saints | Non-Alcoholic, Plant-Based Cocktails - 20% off with JOSH
Supplements
- Adapt Naturals - 20% off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE
- MitoZen - 10% off with the code WELLNESSFORCE
- Activation Products - 20% off with the code JOSH20
- BiOptimizers - 10% off with discount code JOSH10
- Fatty15 Essential Fatty Acids Supplement - Get 15% off with code JOSH15
Sleep
- Elemind Headband - Save 5% with code JOSH
- BiOptimizers Sleep Breakthrough - 10% off with JOSH10
- Zyppah Anti-Snoring Mouthpiece - 20% off with the code JOSH
- MitoZen Super SandMan Ultra™ (Melatonin Liposomal)+ | 10% off with WELLNESSFORCE
- Luminette Light Therapy Glasses - 15% off with JOSH15
- Cured Nutrition CBN Night Oil - 20% off with JOSH
Natural Energy
- MTE - Save 20% with JOSH
- TruKava - Save 20% with code JOSH20
- Drink Update - Save 25% with discount code JOSH25
- EONS Mushroom Coffee - 20% off with the discount code JOSH20
- EnergyBITS - 20% off with the code WELLNESSFORCE
- BUBS Naturals - Save 20% with JOSH20
Fitness + Physical Health
- Detox Dudes Online Courses - Up to $500 off with discount code JOSH
- Kineon - 10% off with discount code JOSH10
- Create Wellness Creatine Gummies - 20% off with discount code JOSH
- BioPro+ by BioProtein Technology - Save $30 OFF WITH CODE JOSH
- Drink LMNT - Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack, with any purchase
Healthy Home
- SunHome Saunas - Save $200 with JOSH200
- JASPR Air Purifier - Save 10% with code WELLNESS
- Zyppah Anti-Snoring Mouthpiece - 20% off with the code JOSH
- Holy Hydrogen - $100 off with discount code JOSH
- SimplyO3 - 10% off with discount code JOSH10
- LEELA Quantum Upgrade + Frequency Bundles - Get 15 days free with code JOSH15
- TrulyFree Toxic- Free Cleaning Products - Get 40% off + Freebies with code WELLNESSFORCE
Mental Health + Stress Release
- NOOTOPIA - 10% off with the discount code JOSH10
- CalmiGo - $30 off the device with discount code JOSH30
- QUALIA - 15% off with WELLNESSFORCE
- Apothékary - 15% off on orders over $75 with JOSHTRENT
Personal Care
- The Wellness Company's Emergency Health Kits + More - Save 10% with code JOSH
- Farrow Life - Save 20% with JOSH
- 🙌 Intelligence of Nature - NOW 35% off Skin Support with the code JOSH35
- Young Goose - Save 10% with code JOSH10
Mindfulness + Meditation
- BREATHE - 33% off with the code PODCAST33
- Neuvana - 15% off with the code WELLNESSFORCE
- Essential Oil Wizardry - 10% off with the code WELLNESSFORCE
- Four Visions - Save 15% with code JOSH15
- Lotuswei - 10% off with JOSH
Clothing
About David Zappasodi
David Zappasodi is a weight loss expert and creator of the Brain Flip Method, a mindset-based approach that helps people lose weight by changing the way their brain relates to food, cravings, and self-control.
Rather than relying on rigid diets or willpower, David teaches clients how to rewire the subconscious patterns that drive overeating, emotional eating, and self-sabotage. The Brain Flip Method focuses on identity level change, helping people feel calm around food, trust their body again, and lose weight in a way that is sustainable and stress-free.
With a direct, practical teaching style, David is known for helping people break lifelong weight loss cycles by flipping the mental switch that makes healthy choices feel natural instead of forced.