How the New Age Hijacked Holistic Health — and How Christians Can Take It Back

How the New Age Hijacked Holistic Health — and How Christians Can Take It Back

Author: Edifi Podcast Network September 30, 2025 Duration: 44:45

In this episode of Ex-Psychic Saved, Jenn welcomes registered nurse and board-certified functional medicine practitioner Melissa Schreibfeder, founder of the Christian Functional Medicine Academy. Together they take a deep dive into what holistic health truly is — and what it isn’t.

They expose how New Age practices like Reiki, yoga, mindfulness meditation, “energy work,” and even outright witchcraft have infiltrated healthcare, wellness programs, and churches under innocent-sounding labels like “holistic” and “integrative.” Melissa explains the biblical roots of holistic care, the importance of treating the whole person (mind, body, and spirit), and how Christians can pursue natural health without opening demonic doors.

You’ll hear:

  • The difference between biblical holistic care and counterfeit New Age practices
  • How functional medicine can honor God’s design for healing
  • Real examples of deception in the wellness world
  • Why prayer, nutrition, and Scripture-based care lead to better outcomes
  • The dangers of blending Christianity with occult-leaning “healing” methods
  • How Melissa created a Christian training program for practitioners to serve without compromise

This episode is eye-opening, encouraging, and equips believers to pursue health with discernment — without falling into spiritual traps.


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Ex-Psychic Saved: Exposing Divination, New Age, and the Occult is a conversation grounded in a profound personal history. For twenty-five years, Jennifer Nizza was not just a participant but a teacher within the world of the occult, operating as a psychic medium and instructing others in practices like tarot, mediumship, and the law of attraction. That experience, which included a period of what she identifies as demonic oppression, gives her a unique lens. Her perspective was fundamentally altered when she left that life behind through a Christian conversion. This podcast is built on that dual reality: an insider's detailed understanding of New Age and occult systems, examined through the framework of her subsequent faith. Each episode delves into specific topics-from past life regression to automatic writing-not as theoretical concepts, but as practices she once lived and taught. The discussions aim to dissect their mechanisms and spiritual implications, offering clarity and warning from a place of firsthand knowledge. It’s a resource for anyone seeking to understand the allure and the risks of these spiritual alternatives, or for those who feel entangled by them. The Edifi Podcast Network presents these frank conversations, which move beyond surface-level criticism to a nuanced, often gritty, exploration of a hidden world. Listeners will find a blend of personal testimony, doctrinal insight, and practical discernment, all directed toward exposing what she believes are the spiritual dangers lurking within popular mystical trends. The tone is direct and compassionate, born from a journey out of what she describes as bondage and into a different kind of freedom.
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