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ROOTED IS HERE!
Your 30-Day Journey Toward Whole-Self Health Starts Now!
What if you could step out of the cycle of diets that leave you drained and still searching for answers?
What if you could move through your day guided by what actually matters to you, instead of the shame and pressure that come with rules you never asked for?
What if your health didn't have to feel like a fight?
These questions sit at the heart of ROOTED.
Diet programs teach you to ignore your own signals and rely on someone else's blueprint. They pull you away from yourself and leave you carrying frustration that was never yours to begin with. ROOTED interrupts that pattern. It gives you space to understand what's happening inside you and why certain moments tip you in directions you didn't intend to go.
ROOTED is a 30-day interactive guidebook built on Whole-Self Health. This is a work-in book - it becomes what it's meant to be through your participation. You'll write, reflect, and build as you go. It brings your mind, body, and soul into one conversation so you can see how your inner world shapes the course of your day. As you move through it, you'll start to recognize old beliefs and the influence they still hold - even when you're working toward something different.
Each day includes teaching, journaling, and grounded work that connects to the life you're living right now. Through the PEP process, you build your own Personalized Eating Program - one created from your lived experience, not the demands of a diet industry that didn't know your story. You create routines and choices that make sense for your day and your season without abandoning yourself.
ROOTED is not a diet. It's a way of life built on understanding yourself with more compassion and making choices that support who you're becoming.
Who ROOTED Is For
ROOTED is for anyone who wants a healthier relationship with themselves and a calmer way to move through daily life. It's for those who are tired of starting over and ready to build something that fits who they are becoming. If you want a path that works with your real life instead of against it, ROOTED is your answer.
ORDER ROOTED HERE!
Books.By is the closest thing to shopping local when it comes to books. Ordering here is a more direct purchase and allows me to keep more of the return from ROOTED. If you like knowing your purchase supports independent work in a tangible way, this option reflects that choice.
ROOTED is also available on Amazon for those who are most familiar with ordering there. Existing accounts or gift cards can make this feel like the natural choice, though it isn’t the only option. The book itself is the same, regardless of where you choose to purchase.
Want to walk through ROOTED with support?
Join us for the ROOTED Interactive Experience! We start January 1st!
The ROOTED Interactive Course Experience begins January 1st! Join a guided 30-day journey where you'll work through the guidebook day by day with daily guidance, weekly live Zoom calls, and a supportive community by your side.
Trees thrive in community - and so will your ROOTED Self.
Learn more about the Interactive Course Experience HERE.
How ROOTED is Changing Lives
“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.
"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.
“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.
“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.
A Note From ROOTED's Author, Deanna Ley
ROOTED didn't start as a book idea. It came from a pattern I kept noticing after working with over a thousand women across three and a half years.
What I came to understand is that those who transition from doing someone else's plan or program to developing the self-trust to create and follow their own are able to leave the diet culture behind and fully step into peace, freedom, and joy.
That's what ROOTED is built to help you do.
(You can read the full story of how ROOTED came to be HERE.)
Friends, this guidebook holds what I've seen work - not in theory, but a dedicated path developed for a journey worth having.
If you choose to order this book, you're saying yes to yourself in a new way. I'm honored to walk beside you as you do.