An Interactive Guidebook By Deanna Ley
by Deanna Ley
You’ve tried the diets. You followed the rules. When they failed, you carried the blame. Over time, the cycle leaves you tired of starting over and disconnected from yourself.
ROOTED offers a different way.
This 30-day guided experience helps you step out of diet culture and into Whole-Self Health by tending to mind, body, and soul together. Through the five PEP Steps and the rePLANT framework, you’ll build a Purposeful Eating Plan shaped by your values, your life, and your lived wisdom. No rigid rules. No borrowed plans.
Written from lived experience and shaped by years of walking beside women on their healing journeys, ROOTED is a practice you can return to whenever life pulls you off path.
This is an invitation to stop chasing what doesn’t last and start living in a way that feels rooted and sustainable.
Your ROOTED Self is waiting.
Stop chasing diets that fail. Start building a life that lasts.
You've tried every plan. You've followed every rule. And when it didn't work, you blamed yourself. You're exhausted from starting over and done with measuring your worth by what you eat or how you look.
What if health wasn't about perfection? What if it was about healing?
ROOTED: YOUR 30-DAY JOURNEY TOWARD WHOLE-SELF HEALTH offers something different.
Over 30 days, this guided experience walks you through the three branches and twelve limbs of Whole-Self Health — mind, body, and soul — helping you clear the toxic weeds of shame and guilt while planting something real, sustainable, and entirely yours.
You'll learn the 5 PEP STEPS and rePLANT framework to create a Purposeful Eating Plan (PEP) built from your wisdom, your values, and your real life. Not borrowed. Not copied. Yours.
Inside ROOTED, you'll discover how to:
• Stop living by rules that don't fit and start making choices that do
• Rebuild trust with your body and honor what it's been telling you
• Use your PEACE GAUGE to check every decision against what serves you
• rePLANT yourself when life pulls you off-path
• Tend to your whole-self with compassion and consistent practice
• Build high-quality habits that make peace feel possible
• Step into an identity as someone who lives ROOTED
This isn't another diet or lifestyle change. It's a transformation.
You won't count calories. You won't follow meal plans that weren't designed for your life. You won't measure your worth by a number.
Instead, you'll explore what nourishes your mind, body, and soul as one whole. You'll get honest about what's working and what needs to change. You'll celebrate the growth that can't be measured — the kind that actually lasts.
What makes ROOTED different:
It was written by someone who was at rock bottom and had to claw her way out. After decades of putting herself last, fighting against herself, and trying too many diets to count, Deanna Ley said "enough is enough" and rebuilt her health from the inside out and outside in. She has lived this work, learning what it takes to stay ROOTED through every season and storm. Her experience shaped every page, and her years walking beside over a thousand women through transformation challenges, along with input from her CORE4 Community, brought ROOTED to life.
It's a practice, not a program. ROOTED teaches you how to build your own plan — shaped by your real life and designed to grow with you.
It honors the mess. You'll drift off-path. You'll have hard days. ROOTED gives you the tools to rePLANT yourself every time.
Who is ROOTED for?
This guidebook is for anyone who:
• Has tried every diet and felt like a failure
• Wants to heal their relationship with food without obsessing over it
• Is tired of treating their body like a problem
• Craves peace, freedom, and joy today
• Is ready to stop starting over and start living ROOTED
Inside you'll find:
• 30 days of guided content with daily reflections
• Worksheets for all 12 limbs of Whole-Self Health
• The complete 5 PEP STEPS framework
• The rePLANT process to return to your path anytime you drift
• Reflection pages and space to write to your future ROOTED Self
• Downloadable versions of all discovery pages, reflections, and worksheets
This is your invitation.
To stop chasing what doesn't last. To build a life that feels like home. To tend to yourself with the care you've been giving everyone else.
Choose ROOTED. Choose healing. Choose YOU.
Your ROOTED Self is waiting.
“"ROOTED changed me in ways I didn't expect. For years I carried the weight of diet culture, shame, and self‑defeating patterns that kept me stuck. In those 30 days, I learned to see myself differently — not broken, but worthy of care and compassion. It wasn't about rules or restrictions; it was about finding peace with food, my body, and my choices. Six plus months later, I still feel grounded by what I learned. ROOTED gave me back trust in myself, and that has changed everything."”
S.M.
““If you’re tired of the countless efforts to live someone else’s plan, please come home to ROOTED. Rooted is about finding, nurturing, and growing what works for your body, mind, and soul — your whole wonderful self.””
E.W.
““Delight. I delight in knowing that I am ROOTED, because of the time, effort, and compassion that Deanna Ley poured into creating the nourishing program of Rooted. Through seasons, now, I reflect on the ways in which I grow, and find Deanna’s information and motivation to be even more enriching, and a lot less expensive, than even graduate school. Most of all, Deanna and the ROOTED program reminded me that I am worth researching. If you need that reminder, too, ROOTED is for you.””
R.R.
““The ROOTED program has made me dig deeper into the WHY of all I do. It’s not all about the food, but the WHY. It helped me to work out the reasons behind it and to work on reaching my goals.””
S.B.
"Anything is possible. Even the word itself says I'M POSSIBLE." - Audrey Hepburn
Deanna Ley is a creative, a coach, a community builder, an educator, and a life-long learner who excels in building communities where people feel uplifted, supported, and encouraged. With a teaching degree and years of classroom experience, she brings compassion and conviction to everything she creates — from Facebook groups and business networking communities to challenges, workshops, online courses, journals, coloring books, and now, this ROOTED guidebook. Every chapter of her life has shaped the way she teaches, and the heart behind it all remains unchanged: she wants to live, and she wants you to live fully, too. She helps people return to themselves in ways that feel grounded and lasting. As the creator of the CORE4 Community and the host of the WORDS MATTER podcast, Deanna walks beside women through rebuilding and growth. She doesn't offer guidance from a distance. She steps into the mess with people and stays with them as they sort through what comes next. For years, Deanna put herself last. She ran on empty and silenced her needs beneath the weight of everyone else's expectations. Those years taught her what it costs to disconnect from yourself — and what it takes to come back. Her healing didn't follow a straight line, but it taught her how to rebuild trust with her body and create a life that felt like home. That journey became the foundation of everything she teaches today. Her approach is different because it’s been earned and lived. She doesn’t hand you someone else’s plan or program. She helps you build your own, ROOTED in Whole-Self Health as you journey down the path toward healing your mind, body, and soul. She’ll stand with you as you do the courageous, matterful work — moving through discomfort to build a life you are proud of. She’ll walk arm-in-arm with you until you find your WHY and your way, and she’ll celebrate you as you step into your Possible. She wants to be your biggest cheerleader, your confidence booster, your loudest encourager, and the one who that reminds you that YOU CAN. And she needs you to know that all of this is worth it, because YOU are worth it, and that if you don’t believe in yourself yet, she will believe in you enough until you do.