186 Traveling Gluten Free with Elikqitie186 Traveling Gluten Free with Elikqitie
You're Sober! Now What?
Tamar talks with author and podcaster Elikqitie about healing from severe childhood trauma, living with coeliac disease, and building a gluten-free travel life and business. The conversation blends recovery, health, and practical tools for managing fear, food and time in sobriety.
44:48•6 Mar 2022
Gluten-Free, Trauma-Healing and Life on the Road with Elikqitie
Episode Overview
- Unresolved childhood trauma can resurface years later, and professional psychological support may help unpack and stabilise those memories.
- Defence mechanisms that once kept you safe can become heavy "parachutes" in adulthood, so identifying and releasing them is crucial for growth.
- Challenging limiting beliefs and questioning fear-based stories can open up new choices in recovery and business.
- For coeliac disease and other autoimmune issues, repeated "small" dietary cheats may add up to serious inflammation and long-term health problems.
- Simple structures like written plans, consistent content themes and prioritised to-do lists can make side hustles and creative work more manageable.
“"We mentally hijack ourselves to believe that because of this fear we made up in our head, we can't get to the other side when we're totally capable."”
Curious about how others manage their sobriety journey while juggling real-life stuff like food, travel and past trauma? This conversation with content creator and "Traveling Gluten Free" host Elikqitie offers a refreshingly honest mix of grit, humour and practical tips. Tamar chats with Elikqitie about growing up with severe childhood abuse, years of suppressed memories and what happened when those memories came flooding back in adulthood.
Elikqitie talks openly about night terrors, "emotional seizures" and the defence mechanisms that once kept her safe but later held her back. She explains how working with a psychologist and then with energetic practitioner Scott Clover helped her spot old patterns and start removing emotional "parachutes" she no longer needed. The episode also speaks to anyone who’s swapped one obsession for another.
Elikqitie shares how trauma fed into body image struggles, weight issues and autoimmune flare-ups, and how learning to ask, "What am I choosing to believe?" changed her response to fear and self-criticism. Her point that "nothing is on the other side of fear" hits especially hard for people in recovery who feel stuck at the edge of a big decision. Things lighten up as they move into gluten-free living and travel.
Diagnosed with coeliac disease, Elikqitie explains why "cheating" with gluten isn’t harmless and how inflammation quietly builds over time. She walks through elimination diets, angry intestines, and why she treats diet as one thing she can control when PTSD feels unpredictable. There are also plenty of practical nuggets on travelling safely while gluten free, repurposing content as a creator, and managing time as a small business owner without burning out.
If you're sober, health-curious, or just tired of feeling at war with your body, this episode might leave you asking: what belief, habit or fear are you finally ready to drop?
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