Follow Your Gut Podcast

When Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart

• Juniper Bennett • Season 5 • Episode 167

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I can’t quite express how happy I am to finally be back here with you!

Everything behind the scenes feels a bit messy right now and honestly, that feels like the most honest way to begin. Because this? This is exactly what season five of The Follow Your Gut Podcast is all about.

Real life. The raw, human, messy middle of being a woman and a mother in constant evolution.

What’s unfolding behind the scenes has reminded me that we are never really in control of the timeline.

Do you know those times when you’ve done everything “right”? Trusted every expert, followed every bit of advice… and somehow, things still feel messy?

Maybe it’s your child’s healing journey. Maybe it’s your business, your body, or your life. You’re doing all the things and yet nothing is unfolding the way you planned.

You start to wonder if you missed something. If God or the universe has somehow forgotten about you. You’ve poured your heart, your time, your hope into the process, and all you want is for things to finally get better.

I know that place.

When my son was finally healed, after years of sleepless nights, endless searching, and relentless fear - I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would never again let the fight to “figure it out” steal my presence from the moments right in front of me.

Because I lost two and a half years of my son’s life to that fight.
Two and a half years of my daughter’s, too.
And I can never get them back.

That grief has become my greatest teacher. It has shown me that control is an illusion - that we can do everything “right” and still be called to surrender. It taught me that our nervous systems don’t find safety in knowing what’s next, they find it in trusting that whatever comes, it’s exactly as it’s meant to be.

So as we step into this new season together, my invitation to you is this: stop waiting to arrive. Stop waiting for the perfect moment when the house is calm, the symptoms are gone, or everything finally feels stable.

Because this is the moment.

Even if your baby is covered in an itchy rash.
Even if your toddler is screaming through another meltdown.
Even if your business is in a full-on rebuild and nothing looks the way you imagined.

This is what this week’s episode is about: The Week Everything Fell Apart: Trusting the Timeline You Can’t Control.

It’s a story about letting go when everything in you wants to fix, about finding alignment when nothing feels stable, and about realizing that sometimes, the mess is the path… the one that leads you exactly where you’re meant to be.

Welcome to season five!

Thanks for listening! I would love to connect with you ♡


Sending love and wellness from my family yours,
xx - Juniper Bennett
Founder of ōNLē ORGANICS

I had a plan.
Season five was supposed to go live on October 7th.
But here I am, sitting down to record this episode on October 13th and I have no idea when you will actually hear this.

Everything behind the scenes feels messy right now, and honestly… that feels like the most honest way to begin. Because this? This is exactly what this season of the podcast is all about. Real life.The raw, human, messy middle of being a woman and a mother in constant evolution. Because what’s unfolding behind the scenes has reminded me of something much deeper than I initially thought this first episode of the season would be - we are never really in control of the timeline.

Before we even get into the chaos of what’s been happening behind the scenes, I want you to go into this episode and this entire season - really feeling the direction we are going. I’m peeling back the layers and allowing myself to be a lot more vulnerable with you, because I know that within every single story and episode, you will find pieces of yourself.

The last episode of Follow Your Gut Podcast aired on August 26th, and the plan was to relaunch season five on October 7th. I have never even taken a week break since starting this podcast. And I decided to go into this new season very intentionally. I wanted to create space - space to rebuild the course that comes free with every Gut Rebalance Kit and our new Symptom Specific Bundles, and space to really reimagine what this podcast is becoming.

During that time, I was also in conversations with two podcast production agencies, both interested in taking on the Follow Your Gut Podcast. The idea was that instead of me gathering episode ideas inspired by conversations with you, outlining the episodes, recording, editing, and then passing the publishing on to my wonderful assistant Apple, a production studio would take it to the next level. They’d guide the creative direction, handle production, and help expand the show’s reach.

It was everything I thought I wanted. The next big, exciting leap. I remember saying in my Instagram stories, “This is it. Season five is going to be incredible. This is where the show grows, where it impacts even more people.” And while I didn’t have a really clear vision of exactly what season five was going to hold, I knew it and I still know it that season five will be the most impactful season yet.

But as those meetings unfolded, something in me started to feel off. I couldn’t name it at first. It just didn’t feel aligned.

I’ve been in this seat before. In the five years of building ōNLē, I’ve been continuously faced with learning how to live and lead in true alignment - with myself, with my family, and with the kind of impact I want to make. One that’s completely separate from societal expectations and norms.

There isn’t a single part of ōNLē that’s been built by following a traditional business model. Every piece of it has been created from intuition and lived experience. And any time I’ve tried to step outside of that - any time I’ve followed the “shoulds” of what business is supposed to look like - I’ve found myself in a mess.

So when it came to these podcast production agencies, sure, on paper, that’s what made the most sense. It’s what any business textbook would tell you to do. But it’s not what makes sense for me.

Because while I know I don’t want to wear every hat, there are still some that I love wearing. And this podcast - this connection with you - is the heartbeat of ōNLē. To hand that off to someone else, to just show up with my voice but not my heart, Isn’t in alignment.

So I messaged both agencies and told them I was going to keep producing the Follow Your Gut Podcast myself. It might not be as polished or professional - but that’s exactly the point.

That’s what this new season is calling for. Less perfection. Less polish. More vulnerability. More truth. Pulling back the curtain and being honest about what’s really happening behind the scenes, not just in healing, but in business, in motherhood, in life.

Because like you, I’m not a one-dimensional woman. And I believe there’s so much expansion waiting for all of us when we stop trying to fit into the box of how it’s supposed to look, and instead honor what actually feels right.

And I know you’ve been here too, in your own way. If not with a podcast or a business, in life, marriage and motherhood. You’ve had those moments where you knew what everyone else said made sense, but something deep inside whispered, “this isn’t right.” Maybe it was a doctor’s recommendation that didn’t sit right, or a parenting decision that went against your intuition, or a season where you kept pushing even though your body was begging you to slow down. We’ve all been there - standing at that crossroads between logic and our inner truth - and it’s in those moments that alignment asks to be chosen, even when it doesn’t make sense on paper.

I’m really proud of the space I created for myself - the space that allowed me to make that decision with confidence instead of fear. Because my mission with this podcast isn’t to chase millions of downloads or make it bigger just for the sake of growth. My mission is to make an impact. To serve the women and families who need this healing the most.

I dodged the mess of this podcast falling completely out of alignment, but as life tends to do, I found myself in a different kind of mess not long after. And honestly, I think that’s the beautiful part of expansion.


Because growth, in any area of our lives, requires learning. Whether it’s in healing, in business, in our relationships, in motherhood, or even in our self-care - expansion always stretches us in ways we couldn’t have prepared for.

So about six months ago, I hit a point with ōNLē where I knew I needed to restructure how I was doing everything. I was fully committed to being all-in in my motherhood when I wasn’t working, and the rhythm my family found worked beautifully. I would go away for two nights every month and create everything for the next month. Four podcast episodes, eight newsletters, four blog posts, and all of my Instagram content, so that when I came home, I could be fully in present with my family.

During those weeks in between, the only work I had was responding to DM’s. But other than that, I was all in with my family, homeschooling and really living the life that I love.

Then in April, I arrived at my work-away and everything was bottlenecked. Every system we had was maxed out. We had grown so much that our email platform couldn’t handle the volume, and our website was slowing to a crawl from the amount of traffic.

On one hand, it was such a beautiful problem to have - it meant we were growing, the mission was expanding, people were healing. But in that moment, I felt completely overwhelmed. Like the very growth that I had dreamed of was keeping me from serving the women and families who had found ōNLē in the way they deserved.

My work-away time wasn’t supposed to be about fixing technical issues. It’s my sacred time to create. To sit in that flow of inspiration and make the kind of content that deeply serves you. But instead, I found myself paralyzed.

I called my husband Ty - who for the past year and a half has been full-time at ōNLē with me - and said, “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know if this is sustainable anymore.” And he said, so simply, “We need to hire someone to manage all the tech.”

Genius. I felt so seen and like a million pounds had been lifted off my shoulders with just the idea. Finally, something I could hand off - something that didn’t require my voice or creative energy. So, we found someone. We hired him. He was lovely and kind, competent, and wonderful to work with. And for a while, it felt like the right decision.

But six months later, so this brings we to the beginning of October, I found myself in a tremendous mess. I had fully surrendered so many responsibilities to him - one of them being the migration of our entire email system.

We were moving from a platform that wasn’t very intuitive to one that integrates beautifully with our website, something that would ultimately allow us to serve you better. I trusted that he had it handled. But about five weeks after going live on the new system, I started getting messages.

DMs from so many of you saying you hadn’t received the free resource you signed up for. Then a few more. And a few more. I wanted to trust that it was just a small glitch - that it would work itself out - so I brushed it off and just manually sent people what they needed.

And then one morning, everything came to a head. A sweet customer sent me a screenshot showing that she’d received fifteen identical emails within two minutes. My heart dropped.

That same morning, Ty had just left on a road trip with our boys. My daughter had a week full of activities. And I had intentionally carved out this rare, sacred week for myself to rebuild the course that comes with every Gut Rebalance Kit and Symptom Specific Bundle. My energy was meant to be creative, not crisis-driven.

But suddenly, I was sitting there staring at the screen, realizing that our 35,000-person email list was either not getting the emails they’d asked for or being completely bombarded.

I’m sharing all of this because it’s such a powerful reminder that even when we make decisions from a place of alignment - even when we hire the right people, go to the right doctor, and act from a place of integrity - things can still fall apart.

But this doesn’t mean it was all wrong. Sometimes the mess is the path. Sometimes we have to walk through it to get to where we’re truly meant to be.

And I know you have been here or are currently here. You have tried everything to heal yourself or your child. You have gone to so many different doctors, met with countless specialists and have tried every elimination diet, supplement and protocol. You’ve done everything and yet nothing has worked so you or your child are still left with symptoms. 

You had to walk that really, really hard road to get to this point,  just like I did with my son. I took him to seventeen different healthcare professionals over the course of two and a half years. Every time, I was broken down a little more. Every time, I was told something different. And it wasn’t until I hit that deepest breaking point that I finally found the clarity and courage to do what actually healed him.

I understand. You’ve done everything, and while it can feel so discouraging, like you’ve wasted so much time or money or been robbed of sacred years of your own life or your child’s childhood - it’s important to pause and recognize that everything that brought you here was preparing you. Every single detour, disappointment, and sleepless night was part of leading you exactly where you’re meant to be.

So when I realized the mess we were in with our new email system, my natural tendency was to jump straight into panic. To fix it. To figure it out myself. The old part of me that lived in survival mode for so many years started to rise up.

But because my son’s healing journey, motherhood in general and growing ōNLē has expanded me so much as a woman, I caught it. I had the wisdom this time to pause. To breathe. To regulate my nervous system before reacting.

I did a tapping meditation and came back to a grounded place. From that space, I felt the strongest clarity - this deep, sacral hell yes - that I wasn’t going to let this mess take over my life. I wasn’t going to panic. I wasn’t going to let it derail my week or the work that truly matters.

I decided right then that I was still going to use that week exactly as I had planned - to completely rebuild the course. I knew that’s where my energy was meant to be.

And with that clarity, it also became very clear that the person who had been managing the tech side of the business wasn’t the right fit for where ōNLē is going. Our growth has been so expansive that we don’t just need a part-time contractor anymore. We need someone whose full-time focus is the systems - the structure that supports everything I am creating.

So I reached out to the incredible website team who had helped me rebuild our site a couple of years ago and asked if they do anything like this. Within an hour, I was on a call with them and it was immediate. That full-body, grounded yes. They spoke the language of our new systems fluently. They understood what we needed before I even finished explaining it.

We now have a dedicated project manager who is full-time with ōNLē, overseeing the entire tech side of the business. And underneath her, she has an entire team that are experts in all of our systems.

Just like I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders when we first hired someone to take over the tech side, this feels like a completely different kind of release. I didn’t realize how much reluctance and quiet fear I had when handing those responsibilities over before. But I see it now because that fear isn’t here anymore. This time, I know with everything in me that this role is filled by the right person.

And that’s exactly what happens for so many of you when you find ōNLē. After months or years of searching, of trying to piece together answers that never quite fit, you finally feel seen. It’s that moment when someone understands your or your child’s symptoms without you even having to explain. That full-body exhale. The relief of knowing this is it. 

So this is actually the reason I don’t know when this episode will go live. I’m not interested in rushing or doing anything halfway. There’s strength in surrendering to the timeline of what’s meant to be. I could easily just publish this episode right now, but that wouldn’t be in alignment with the process that’s deeply intentional and aligned with the impact I am here to make.

The truth is, the email migration had been done so poorly that our new technical team had to completely start over from scratch. It’s a detailed process, one that takes time to make sure every part of our system is rebuilt correctly and can fully support the growth of ōNLē moving forward. 

And that’s the thing about timing, no matter what area of our life, it rarely unfolds the way we think we want it to.

I’ve learned this over and over again. It’s human nature to want things fixed quickly, to get to the other side, to see the results of all the effort we’re pouring in. But healing, just like growth, doesn’t follow our timelines.

And I think that’s how it works for all of us. Whether it’s your child’s healing or your own, there’s no wasted time. Every single experience is shaping you, strengthening your intuition, softening your resistance, and preparing you to hold the fullness of what’s coming next.

You are learning patience. You are building faith. You are strengthening your nervous system to hold what you’ve been asking for.

And when the moment comes - when things finally click into place - you’ll look back and see that none of it was wasted. Every delay, every detour, every false start was leading you home to this exact place.

So my hope for this episode is that it invites you to soften. To release your grip on how you think things should be. To trust that even when it feels like everything is falling apart, it might actually be falling into place.

Because true healing - real, deep, sustainable healing - doesn’t happen on demand. It happens when we stop forcing and we start listening.

And when we do, we find something better than control.
We find balance.  Not the kind you achieve and check off a list, but the kind that lives in the rhythm of trust - the ebb and flow of release and renewal.

That’s what this new season of the Follow Your Gut Podcast is about.
Not perfection.
Not timelines.
Not getting it all “right.”
It’s about moving into alignment. 
It’s about surrender.
It’s about trust.
It’s about allowing your life to unfold exactly as it’s meant to - because it already is.

There’s one more piece I want to leave you with.
When my son was finally healed, after years of sleepless nights, endless searching, and relentless fear - I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would never again let the fight to figure it out steal my presence from the moments right in front of me.

Because I lost two and a half years of my son’s life to that fight.
Two and a half years of my daughter’s, too.
And I can never get them back.

The grief of that became my greatest teacher. It taught me that control is an illusion - that we can do everything “right” and still be called to surrender. It taught me that our nervous systems don’t find safety in knowing what’s next - they find it in trusting that whatever comes, it is exactly what it is supposed to be.

So as we step into this new season together, my invitation to you is to stop waiting to arrive. Stop waiting for the perfect moment when the house is calm, the symptoms are gone, or everything finally feels stable.

Because this is the moment.
Even if your baby is covered in an itchy rash.
Even if your toddler is screaming through another meltdown.
Even if your business is in a full-on rebuild and nothing looks the way you imagined.

This is living! It’s raw, imperfect and holy.

Trust that Rebalancing will heal your or your child’s body in its own perfect timing. All you have to do is keep showing up and trust the process.

My hope is that Season 5 reminds you of that.

That it helps you soften into your process, loosen your grip on control, and trust that you are exactly where you’re meant to be.

Because when we stop fighting the timing of our lives, we finally make space to live them.


Transformation of the week:

This transformation really speaks to all of the ways our bodies heal when we begin healing from the foundation of the body.

Here is what this mama shared… I have updates and I could honestly cry!! The difference in just a few months is amazing! My son also just looks so much healthier. I can't thank you enough!

These were before. His poor skin was so dry, itchy, and bleeding His skin now! no more rashes, or redness or bleeding. Its cleared up beautifully and is so much softer

Something else I noticed.. My son, who is 9, has always been slim, but the last few months when his eczema had flared up the worst, he lost so much weight and looked very malnourished. Since his skin has cleared up he has gained a bit of weight and looks so much healthier.

This is what happens when we address healing at the root by rebalancing. Eczema is never just a skin issue. It’s a reflection of imbalance deep in the gut. When the gut is overrun with bad bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus or parasites, it creates inflammation that the body tries to push out through the skin. And because that same inflammation disrupts nutrient absorption, the body struggles to get the nourishment it needs which is why so many people with eczema also look or feel depleted.

This transformation is such a reminder that the body is always communicating and when we listen and support it at the root, healing happens in ways that ripple through every system. 



Question of the week: 

This week's question is such an important one. This mama said I am 8 weeks pregnant and I am miserable. I feel like I have a fire in my tummy and cannot stop the all day sickness and vomiting almost everything. I was wondering if you recommend your product during these times.

First of all, you aren’t alone in this. It is devastating how many women so unnecessarily experience debilitating pregnancies. When they show up, no matter what life stage we are in. They are exactly that. Symptoms trying so hard to communicate with you that something isn’t right. Sickness in pregnancy is so common that it has been normalized but you don’t have to settle with this. It isn’t normal. It is your body asking you for help. 

When you become pregnant, your body goes through an enormous hormonal and microbial shift. It is normal for everything to change. Your digestion slows, Your liver starts working overtime, and your immune system recalibrates to protect both you and your baby. If you go into pregnancy with an underlying imbalance, which most women do, all of those changes can magnify it. The nausea, the vomiting, the heartburn, that fire in your stomach… it’s your body trying to communicate that it’s overwhelmed. There’s inflammation, sluggish digestion, and a buildup of toxins that your liver and gut are struggling to process.

This isn’t your fault. Most women enter pregnancy imbalanced from years of stress, birth control, processed food, antibiotics, or even just living in our modern toxic, fast paced world. And then pregnancy asks your body to do the most miraculous, demanding thing it will ever do: grow another human. So it’s no wonder it can feel like too much.

Now, when it comes to rebalancing during pregnancy, yes, it is one of the most beautiful gifts you can give your body and your baby. The Ultimate options of the Women’s Gut Rebalance Kit helps gently clear out the harmful bacteria, yeast, and toxins that are driving inflammation, while replenishing the beneficial bacteria that support digestion, hormone balance, and immune strength. When your gut is balanced, your liver can finally keep up, your digestion calms, and that constant fire starts to fade.

And there’s another layer to this. When you heal your gut during pregnancy, you’re also supporting your baby’s microbiome and immune system from the very beginning. Everything you do to restore balance in your body directly impacts the foundation your baby is being built on.

So yes, rebalancing is foundational. It can ease your symptoms, support your digestion, and help you feel more like yourself again, all while giving your baby the healthiest start possible.