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Chinese Medicine For Your Gut Microbiome Apr 29, 2024

You know we need a healthy gut microbiome in order to digest and absorb nutrients from our food – without pain, gas, bloating, diarrhea or constipation. It also plays a role in autoimmune disease, hormone balance, our level of energy overall, heart disease, kidney disease, brain fog, bone health -- the list goes on. With Chinese herbal medicine, we can encourage the body to release its own digestive enzymes and bile while supporting the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and intestines.

On today’s episode you'll learn:

What besides food affects the gut microbiome
How the gut interconnects with other body systems
Chinese herbs that help with gas, bloating, and fat loss
A simple practice you can employ to help you digest and absorb better right away

Dr. Andrew Miles, DOM grew up with a Taiwanese stepfather immersed in Chinese culture, martial arts, and medicine. He studied Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada at the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and later studied advanced diagnostics and integrated medicine at the Chengdu University of TCM in Sichuan, China. He lived in China for years learning more about Chinese medicine in laboratories and learning from China’s top specialists. He is the host of the Botanical Biohacking podcast and works with an expert panel to source sustainably wildcrafted herbs for dampness. He has consulted for pharmaceutical companies, practiced medicine and taught martial arts in China, and has been recognized by the Taiwanese and Chinese governments for promotion and preservation of traditional Chinese culture.Through his Chinese herb company, Botanical Biohacking, he supplies some of the best herbal medicine on the planet to Chinese herbal medicine practitioners, including my clinic.

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Episode 177: Microbiome Biohacking with Dr. Andrew Miles

Episode 227: TCM Nutrition tips for a Healthy Digestive Microbiome with Dr. Darlene Easton, DACM

Episode 236: Care and Feeding of Your Microbiome with Dr. Chris Damman

The Weirdest People In The World by Joseph Henrich

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Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno

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Lessons From 20 Years in Practice Oct 25, 2023

In September 2023, my Chinese Medical practice turned 20 years old. This episode started off as a retrospective on lessons learned in these two decades as a self-employed Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, and coach. While it starts with the role of a clinician and the nature of healing, it explores issues that parents, givers, and people who care about what they do may well relate to, like:

If you'll never know it all, when is enough enough?
How healing happens -- and who is responsible
The work that happens before showing up for work
Detaching the ego from outcomes, even when you care
How you can be a healer even without a medical practice

Thank you for downloading and listening to the show, and being part of my journey of helping people live healthier, happier, more authentic lives.

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The Hormone Balance Pyramid Feb 22, 2023

Moving from overwhelm to a more healthy life is often about small steps. One such step can be embracing the philosophy of seeing how so many things can be connected. Approaching symptoms we're experiencing through the lens of the mind-body connection can help us do things like calm down our nervous system and reduce stress while still doing everything we need to do in our lives.

Ali Damron, a colleague in the Chinese Medicine field, joins this conversation to dig into this philosophy of connectedness, particularly with regard to hormone balancing. When we attune to the part our hormones play in our health, it's another great tool in treating both the roots and branches of issues we may be dealing with.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What kinds of problems Ali helps people with through hormone balancing
How she begins unraveling symptoms and stress with clients
Ali’s own journey with burnout and how that informs her work today
The structure of the hormone balance pyramid -- and what to focus on first

Ali is a wife, mom to 2 little boys, an acupuncturist and hormone expert. Over the last twelve years, she’s helped hundreds of women overcome hormonal balancing, weight loss, pregnancy, and postpartum, and menopausal symptoms.

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The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Maté

Nicole Sachs, LCSW

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When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical For Health by Anahad O’Connor

Care and Feeding of Your Microbiome Jan 25, 2023

Taking steps in the direction of better health is a multi-faceted process. Not only do we have to take care of ourselves, but we also have to take care of the trillions of microbes that call our bodies home. Rooted in the Earth element of Chinese Medicine, the ecosystem of our bodies is integral to our health in a variety of different ways from our ability to produce energy to feeling grounded and centered.

Dr. Chris Damman joins us in this conversation to geek out on where the science of the microbiome verifies aspects of Chinese Medicine.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What the microbiome is and why it’s so important
How things like temperature and timing of food can affect our health
The four Fs of food and which areas are often missed
Why resistant starch is an important facet of our nutritional intake

Dr. Damman earned his BA/MA from Wesleyan University, MD from Columbia University, and is a board-certified, actively practicing gastroenterologist. With a background at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he led the gut health, microbiome and functional food initiative, Dr. Damman focused on the role of diet and microbiome-targeted therapies. Dr.Damman specialized in treating gastrointestinal, metabolic, and neurologic disease throughout his five-year tenure at the foundation.

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Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status

Acupuncture for the Treatment of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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Questions from the Treatment Room, Answered Oct 05, 2022

This season of the podcast has focused a lot on demystifying different aspects of Chinese Medicine. From acupressure to qi gong, we've spoken with experts to dig into the details of how these practices can help us move toward better health.

In this conversation, we're exploring some of the most common questions from patients in the clinic in an asynchronous q+a session. These questions cover a broad range from the concrete, tactical side to the more theoretical side to help gain a deeper understanding for how the practice of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine works.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The difference between acupuncture needles and hypodermic needles
How long it takes to get results from acupuncture
What Chinese herbs have to do with acupuncture
The process and benefits of using patterns in diagnosis

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The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels, say study authors

Acupuncture for Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Blots on a Field? A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease

Efficacy of omega-3 PUFAs in depression: A meta-analysis

Curcumin in Depression: Potential Mechanisms of Action and Current Evidence—A Narrative Review

Episode 14: Healthy Skin & Chinese Medicine with Alexa Gilmore, L.Ac.

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Self-healing with Acupressure: There’s an App for That Sep 07, 2022

A consistent theme in this show is empowering you to embody self-respect through daily actions; to take small steps in the direction of better. The body is always seeking balance and homeostasis through its own intelligence and there are usually actions we can take to help support that process. One such way is using points on the body to take care of yourself through acupressure.

Katie Pedrick, L.Ac. joins us for this conversation to unpack some of the self-care possibilities that come from putting your own hands on your body. As another proponent of empowering you to support your body's natural intelligence, Katie co-founded the Moxa Acupressure app as a way to further put the process into your hands.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Katie's journey to Chinese Medicine after starting out studying western medicine
What led her to creating the Moxa app to expand access for patients
How acupressure can be applied for a noticeable effect on our health
The method for providing personalization in the app and why that’s important
An example of how to access a point with acupressure

Katie Pedrick is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist with a thriving practice in Boston (VIBE Wellness), as well as the cofounder of the Moxa Acupressure app. She began her career in cancer and pharmaceutical research with a masters in biotechnology from Harvard University, then turned her attention to Eastern medicine, earning her doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine from the Pacific College of Health Sciences. She is passionate about combining modern western science with ancient eastern wisdom, and is on a mission to empower others to reach their most vibrant health through accessible wellness.

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Immunity, Digestion, Focus and Relaxation Practices Aug 10, 2022

Whether dealing with a COVID infection or just moving through life, a lot of us may be hitting energetic walls these days. In times like this, employing methods rooted in Chinese Medicine, like qi gong, can be very powerful in taking care of ourselves.

Dr. Juli Kramer has practiced and studied qi gong intensely for years and she joins us in this conversation to discuss building strength through the gentle movements of qi gong. In addition to the value of using both yin and yang practices in our wellness efforts, she shares how clearing stagnation in different parts of the body helps to avoid injury and disease.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How qi gong fits into the Chinese Medicine framework in the era of COVID-19
Dr. Juli’s journey from being an endurance athlete to practicing and promoting qi gong
Why the gentleness of qi gong can be transformative compared to the yang addiction of western sensibilities
How qi gong can help to strengthen our internal organs as well as other parts of our bodies
Walking through practices to help with winding down for sleep

Dr. Juli Kramer is a certified qi gong, meditation, and TCM beauty secrets instructor. She holds a diploma in Chinese Medicine Nutritional Therapy and multiple certificates in Chinese medicine. Juli also has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Counseling Psychology.

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Episode 129: Cultivating Energy with Qigong

Episode 37: Playing With the Life Force

Qigong for Beginners YouTube playlist

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Why Acupuncture is the Best for Musculoskeletal Pain Apr 20, 2022

What do you do when your back hurts, or when your neck and shoulders get tight and sore? Acupuncture is a potent medicine for joint pain, muscle pain, and nerve pain that provides an immediate relaxing, anti-inflammatory effect in a way that other healing modalities can’t. A growing body of research shows that acupuncture is a potent medicine for joint pain, muscle pain, low back pain, neck pain, osteoarthritis of the knee, as well as chronic conditions like fibromyalgia. But people often try it only after drugs, physical therapy, chiropractic, massage and aren’t yielding optimal results.

In this episode, Licensed Acupuncturist and host Brodie Welch and Dr. Anthony Lombardi unpack why acupuncture should be your go-to treatment modality available for muscle and/or joint pain due to its ability to neuromodulate, returning the neuromuscular system to homeostasis: improving range of motion, strength, while reducing inflammation.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How Dr. Lombardi’s journey to acupuncture began in chiropractic school
What advantages he sees in acupuncture compared to chiropractic therapies
What motor points are and how they overlap with acupuncture points
Why a series of treatments is typically necessary for lasting change

Dr. Anthony Lombardi is a 2002 graduate of the New York Chiropractic College and McMaster Contemporary Medical Acupuncture program in Hamilton, Ontario, and has been practicing acupuncture for 19 years. Upon graduation, he founded Hamilton Back Clinic and since then has become a private consultant to athletes in the NFL, CFL, and NHL. Over the past 19 years Anthony has given over 100,000 acupuncture treatments. In addition to practicing, Dr. Lombardi was also an instructor in the Contemporary Medical Acupuncture Program at McMaster University from 2004 to 2013. He developed his EXSTORE® system, which he currently teaches along with motor points and electro-acupuncture, to physicians and practitioners the world over.

He regularly writes and contributes articles on motor points in the Canadian Chiropractic and Chiropractic Economics magazines. Dr. Lombardi’s library continues to grow, with some 60 webinars available on a variety of MSK and pain conditions, as well as patient practice management topics. He holds live courses throughout the U.S. and Canada, and has a mentorship/education community on dranthonylombardi.locals.com.

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Dr. Lombardi’s Webinars

EXSTORE Certification

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Move Your Stuck Qi with Breathwork Feb 25, 2022

Chances are, if you're checking out this episode, you're looking for tools and techniques to help tune into yourself and be a better self-healer. You're probably also aware that the things we do every day can make a massive difference in how we feel as opposed to only finding healing in a bottle.

In this conversation, Amy Kuretsky, L.Ac. joins us to examine the deceptively simple, yet powerful technique of breathwork. As a broad term, breathwork is about simply bringing some intention to how you are using or manipulating your breath to reach specific outcomes such as regulating energy, clearing trauma, and reprograming old beliefs.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What some of the differences are between types of breathwork
Who often benefits the most from the type of breathwork Amy practices
The benefits she found for herself through her practice
How breathwork can help to unpack trauma
A short example of the breathwork Amy works with

Amy Kuretsky (she/her) is a breathwork facilitator and business coach working on Dakota and Anishinaabe ancestral land. Her work is focused on helping successful businesses tap into their intuition and do business differently so that they can fall back in love with their work.

She uses the breath as a tool for healing and business building and has led online and in-person breathwork groups all over the world. This past year, she organized with a group of other breathwork facilitators for more anti-oppression and trauma informed training as part of the Breathwork for the People collective.

Along with her coaching business, she also has a background in acupuncture and Chinese medicine and co-owns Constellation Acupuncture and Healing Arts, a healing space in NE Minneapolis.

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Stanislav Grof

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof & Christina Grof

Breath by James Nestor

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Deep Listening, Gifts of Winter, Overcoming low motivation Feb 02, 2022

Winter is cold, dark, slow time of year, and since we’re a part of nature, it’s easy for us to feel the same way: sluggish and more inclined to hibernate than to get things done.

This most yin of seasons is necessary to balance the yang of life, and we ignore its gifts at our peril. In this episode, we examine how we can embrace the yin nature of winter, along with:

The connection between slowness, empathy, and connection
What winter is about according to Chinese Medicine
How qi gong can make you a better listener
Why doing less is seasonally appropriate
How to overcome winter’s inertia to keep moving forward

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Register for Brodie’s 1-hr Intro to Qi Gong: Embodied Meditation for Your Nervous System (Feb. 9, 2022) https://inaura.com/events/qigong-basics/ Brodie’s on-demand qi gong class

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The Shiny & Dark Sides of Habit Change: A Personal Story Nov 30, 2021

What would you really like to make time for on a regular basis, that somehow keeps getting pushed to the back burner? Whether it's writing a book, starting a meditation practice, or dropping a few pounds, developing a consistent routine is often the key to realizing your goal.

And developing a new routine -- or stopping an old behavior -- is hard. And it's about more than just willpower.

It takes time, energy, strategy, planning, and support.

It takes examining the emotional triggers, and being able to see what hidden subconscious forces might be holding us back.

In this episode, Brodie shares not only share a personal win, but also some of the healing that it took to make it happen. You'll hear which tried-and-true techniques helped her succeed, and an old story she was forced to examine and break up with. May it inspire you to Do the Thing!

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What helped with keeping a daily exercise commitment for over 13 months
Why it’s important to get well acquainted with the forces of resistance
How defining what enough is can help us stay balanced

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Episode 120: How to Change Habits with James Clear

Episode 167: Brain Science and Behavior Change with Dr. Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH

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Regaining Self-Trust: Advice from a Former Cult Member Oct 20, 2021

From time to time, every one of us makes mistakes and bad decisions. Once we recognize what happened, it can often be hard to regain our self-trust.

Kelly Thiel joins us for this conversation to share her own experience of losing self-trust and how she's been able to work on rebuilding it. Her story inspires us to let go of resentment and anger to move forward; to move on from perfectionism and mistakes to find trust in ourselves once again.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How discernment relates to self-trust in Chinese Medicine
What some of the conditions were that led Kelly to the NXIVM cult
The difference in the feelings of evolution versus things that are actually dangerous to us
Why the answers we seek always come from inside ourselves
How she defines enlightenment for herself now

Kelly Thiel is an accomplished voice actress, author, speaker, consultant, and spiritual seeker. She practices yoga, does Pilates, and and has worked with spiritual healers around the world on her personal journey towards enlightenment.

She is also a former member of an abhorrently abusive cult called “NXIVM”, which has been the subject of multiple documentaries on HBO, STARZ, and A+E

Kelly has survived and reckoned with her trauma such that she now helps others conquer theirs.

Kelly is set to release her much anticipated second book in 2021. This candid telling is an inspiring call to action, that champions readers to be their own guru, take ownership, action, and take back control, on their way to becoming “Unapologetically Glorious”.

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The Frank Report - NXIVM Archives

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (2020)

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TCM Nutrition tips for a Healthy Digestive Microbiome Oct 06, 2021

Our digestive microbiome supports every other system in our bodies. Since we can't use what we can't digest and what we can't digest can cause problems, we can see cascading effects through our bodies if something's not right.

Here to unpack how the digestive system works and its central role in the body is Dr. Darlene Easton. She brings us some practical insights to help us understand our digestive functions and shift our understanding of our place in the world as living ecosystems.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why Dr. Easton thinks everyone should be obsessed with digestion
What she would like people to do differently to improve their microbiome and digestive health
How we can use Chinese Medicine to address common issues like acid reflux, instead of over-the-counter medications
Why bile is so important to our bodies

Dr. Easton earned her MSAOM (1998), MSACN (2011) and DACM (2020). She is an NCCAOM diplomate and board certified CNS. Dr. Easton has earned 2 post-graduate certifications from Guangzhou TCM Hospital and 9 certificates from Zhejiang University Hospital. With 20 years in higher education, she’s taught all aspects of TCM including dietary therapy and nutrition. She was an associate professor at NY College of Health Professions (1999-2003) and NYCC’s Finger Lakes School of AOM (2003-2019). Dr. Easton is now in private practice offering health and nutritional consulting while she continues to teach online to professionals around the world.

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TCM Hub

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Dr. Easton’s Online Course

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Freeing Your Vagus Nerve: Self-Care Tutorial Aug 18, 2021

Given the stress and restriction of the last year, a lot of us might be carrying around some neck pain or unproductive posture. In the spirit of allowing ourselves to do less than we're humanly capable of, this conversation will address how we can work to reverse these issues with very gentle movements. Movements that invite us to be curious about the sensations we feel rather than trying to force our bodies to move in a certain way.

To help guide us, Kieran Schumaker joins us for this episode to share their unique approach to bodywork. If you're into optimizing the functioning of your autonomic nervous system or the blood flow to your brain, you won't want to miss what Kieran brings to this conversation.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How Kier started connecting different sets of knowledge they were studying through structural integration
What neurovascular release is and how it’s different from structural integration
Some background on where the vagus nerve is and what it does in the body
A tutorial on a couple self-care strategies for working with the vagus nerve

Kieran Schumaker has been helping people with discomfort and pain discover greater agility and ease of movement while cultivating curiosity and an appreciation for our amazing bodies, for 23 years. A Board Certified Structural Integrator since 2005, Kier has been developing their unique approach to working more specifically with nerves and arteries over the last eleven years.

In addition to working with clients, Kier had been mentoring and teaching other practitioners until the COVID crisis shut down their practice and put an end to in-person classes. In response, Kier started adapting their Neurovascular Release techniques so that they could work with clients over Zoom, and soon after began teaching other practitioners how to lead their clients through self-treatment sessions.

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Psycho Emotional Pain and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels by Dr. Yvonne Farrell

From Surviving to Thriving - A Chinese Medicine Take Jul 28, 2021

It's been a tough year. As we slowly begin to emerge from, hopefully, the worst of the pandemic, we're also entering the full on yang-mode of summer. In the spirit of self-compassion on the heels of such a trying time, what would it look like to give yourself the gift of doing less? How can we lean into play and joy instead of the temptation of sending all of our energy and attention outwards this season?

These questions are tough to untangle as we try to move from a mode of surviving to one of thriving.

Dr. Yvonne Farrell, DAOM, L.Ac., joins us in this conversation to share her wisdom regarding how we can find the balance between these two phases. She provides insight into how we can attempt to harvest useful things from the pandemic experience in order to pursue meaning and purpose in life.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Navigating the tension between going with the flow of the summer season and doing what's important to stay balanced
How Dr. Farrell uses gratitude as a tool for getting us through
Why acupuncture can be a crucial tool for self-examination in times of survival
Why grounding and stability are necessary for lasting, effective change
How she guides patients through the three levels of qi

Dr. Farrell has been practicing and teaching Chinese Medicine and Channel Theory since 1996. Her focus is on empowerment of students and patients so that they will embody the spiritual aspects of Chinese Medicine and make them their own. She believes that self-cultivation, self-knowledge and critical thinking are essential in developing capacity as a practitioner of Chinese Medicine.

Yvonne is the author of two books: Psycho Emotional Pain and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels and her latest, Acupuncture for Surviving Adversitypublished by Singing Dragon.

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Acupuncture for Surviving Adversity by Dr. Yvonne Farrell

Breath by James Nestor

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The Tao of Healthy Eating by Bob Flaws

Dampness & Digestion Master Class Jun 23, 2021

Almost everyone that comes through the clinic is dealing with some combination of two things: stress and dampness. This episode is a masterclass, or at least a lengthy public service announcement, on dampness since some of the most common questions that come up are regarding what it is and how to address it.

If you're dealing with tiredness, lethargy, poor digestion, brain fog, congestion, or are struggling with weight loss, understanding more about dampness can change your life. In this episode, you'll hear some guidelines for things to include in your life, but the ultimate focus should always lie on subtracting the dampening effects in the first place.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Some things to look for on the tongue, as well as other signs, that can indicate dampness
Why dampness usually comes from dietary indiscretions
How Phlegm relates to dampness
What causes of dampness can occur that don’t come from food

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Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine by Ellen Goldsmith and Maya Klein

Episode 223: Moving Through Trauma with Chinese Medicine with Ellen Goldsmith

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Moving Through Trauma with Chinese Medicine Apr 21, 2021

As the world slowly begins to emerge from the worst of the COVID era, there is a lot of collective trauma that we'll be working through for years. While any healing takes time, there are ways to move through trauma in accordance with the principles of Chinese Medicine that invite more ease into the process.

Bringing with her some practical tips for processing grief, being soft with ourselves, and aligning with the season of spring, Ellen Goldsmith joins this conversation to elaborate on ways that Chinese Medicine can support us as we heal from trauma.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What aspects of Chinese Medicine Ellen identifies as helping to work through difficult times
What we can learn by learning from and aligning with the patterns of nature
The advice she has for those of us having difficulty being with what is
Why resilience and flexibility are so crucial

Ellen Goldsmith is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist with over two decades of experience helping people solve their complex health challenges. Her integrative, body- centered and intuitive approach is grounded in years of study and experience in helping people from all walks of life. She is the author of Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: + 175 Recipes for Optimal Health. She teaches and speaks frequently to professionals and the public as well as consulting for companies and organizations. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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David Kessler

Sighing Until You Yawn

Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine by Ellen Goldsmith

Episode 104: Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine with Ellen Goldsmith

Episode 006: Energetics of Food with Ellen Goldsmith

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PCOS SOS by Dr. Felice Gersh, M.D.

Why Your Heart and Brain Like Estrogen Mar 24, 2021

Maintaining a healthy alignment with our bodies so often comes back to keeping things balanced and our hormones are no different.

Dr. Felice Gersh is dedicated to helping women navigate life in an optimal way, particularly when it comes to the roles hormones play in aging. She joins this conversation to discuss her philosophy on how women can approach supporting their hormonal systems in a variety of ways.

When dealing with hormone imbalances, Dr. Gersh doesn't aim for "natural," but rather an alignment with the body's systems that optimizes physiology.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why we need to pay attention to the effects of hormones on women’s health
The other roles sex hormones play in the body aside from reproduction
How estrogen metabolites interact with and support the heart
Why she reframes bio-identical hormones as human identical
What the role of testosterone is in women’s bodies

Felice Gersh, M.D. is an award-winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a comprehensive women’s healthcare practice. She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor and now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Felice is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and has published several articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. She has also appeared in several films and documentary series, including The Real Skinny on Fat with Montel Williams and Fasting with Valter Longo, Ph.D.

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Momentum, Inertia, and Self-Kindness: Lessons from Winter Mar 03, 2021

Chinese Medicine teaches us that winter is a time of quiet and stillness, a time for reflecting and conserving scarce resources.

As we reflect on how we navigate the world, it's also a good time to get radically honest with ourselves about what we're holding space for in our lives. With the podcast entering a new, slower period of creation, it can be helpful to examine and take a break from things that we're keeping in motion just for the sake of motion. We can look inward and honor what our body and mind are telling us - to say no to things that are unnecessary so we can leave space open for the things that are.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What the new era of the podcast will focus on
An overview of how seasons and timing are reflected in Chinese Medicine
Why breaks are so important and yin engenders yang
One way to test if tiredness is truly fatigue or just stagnating energy

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Episode 220: Q+A - 5 Elements for Personal Growth & Getting Out of the Way

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Unusual Tale of Acupuncture, Racism, and African American History in the USA by Dr. Tenisha Dandridge

Q+A - 5 Elements for Personal Growth & Getting out of the Way Feb 10, 2021

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine have been used for centuries to treat a variety of ailments in the population.

In this episode, we'll explore how that treatment made it's way into the American mainstream as well as answering some listener questions about the practice. We'll take a look at how the 5 elements interact with different individuals and we'll examine what it means to get out of the way.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How the Black Panthers and acupuncture intersected in the early 1970s
Why generalizing about the elements can be complicated
Commonalities in how Chinese Medicine practitioners can work with people
Ideas for getting out of the way to allow healing to happen

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Mutulu Shakur: On The History Of Acupuncture & COINTELPRO

Lincoln Detox Center: The People’s Drug Program

Radical Health: A Threat to a Nation - Mia Donovan on her new film ‘Dope Is Death’

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Episode 189: The Evidence for Acupuncture with Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman

The Science of Energy Medicine Feb 03, 2021

Having recently explored the biomedical aspects of acupuncture on the show, this conversation takes an interesting counterpoint to examine how this modality also walks in the world of energy medicine. In addition to the more physical facets of healing, the power of your body's own intelligence and consciousness plays a very significant role in the process.

Dr. Jill Blakeway works with patients to ground in their physical bodies and connect to their energy field as a means to holistic healing. Her insights guide us into an exploration of ways that we can prompt our bodies to self-healing abilities.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How acupuncture fits into the energy medicine picture
Why a lot of chronic diseases she sees result from miscommunication
What role the placebo effect can play in acupuncture
Why removing the sense of separate self is crucial to helping patients heal
An example of a practice to help cultivate a connection with your own energy field

Jill Blakeway is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM), a licensed and board-certified acupuncturist (LAc), and clinical herbalist practicing energy healing for over 20 years. Jill founded the Yinova Center in NYC in 1999 and acts as Clinic Director. Blakeway is the co-author of Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility, the author of Sex Again: Recharging your Libido and recently published her third book Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing. Jill was the first acupuncturist to ever give a TEDTalk, at TEDGlobal in 2012.

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Episode 203: How Acupuncture Works - The Science Behind the Healing with Mark Whalen

Episode 206: Chronic Pain, Migraines, Brain Injuries - Acupuncture & Functional Neurology with Dr. Ayla Wolf

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Episode 58: How to Heal Your Pain Now with Dr. Joe Tatta

Breaking Free from Chronic Pain Jan 27, 2021

Suffering from chronic pain is not a sign of brokenness, it's part of the human experience. If you're interested in exploring the idea of chronic pain and what we can do about it, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.

Dr. Joe Tatta provides a more contextual approach to chronic pain and explains how mindfulness can aid in the healing process. By learning to relate to our body and mind differently, we can reconnect with resiliency and begin to heal.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How the brain contributes to chronic pain
Different ways to begin retraining the brain to forget pain
What acceptance and commitment therapy is and how it can help with pain
Examples of experiential exercises from Dr. Tatta’s book, Radical Relief
Why trying to fight negative thoughts can make them more persistent

Dr. Joe Tatta is a global leader in integrative pain care and an advocate for the safe and effective treatment of chronic pain. He is the Founder of the Integrative Pain Science Institute, a cutting-edge health company reinventing pain care through evidence-based treatment, research, and professional development. For 25 years he has supported people living with pain and helped practitioners deliver more effective pain management. His research and career achievements include scalable practice models centered on lifestyle medicine, health behavior change, and digital therapeutics. He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer. Dr. Tatta is the author of two bestselling books Radical Relief and Heal Your Pain Now and host of The Healing Pain Podcast.

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Radical Relief by Dr. Joe Tatta

Heal Your Pain Now by Dr. Joe Tatta

Episode 203: How Acupuncture Works - The Science Behind the Healing with Mark Whalen

Episode 206: Chronic Pain, Migraines, Brain Injuries - Acupuncture & Functional Neurology with Dr. Ayla Wolf

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The Invisible Corset by Lauren Geertsen

Taking Off the Invisible Corset of Beauty Culture Jan 20, 2021

In our journey of learning to embody self-respect, it's always important to include respecting our bodies. After centuries of propaganda from the beauty industry and other societal mechanisms, the internalized oppression against women's bodies has shifted over time, but is as virulent as ever today.

Lauren Geertsen views it as a generational responsibility to end female body hate. As a body connection coach and the author of The Invisible Corset, Lauren shares what she's learned to help us find the innate intelligence of our bodies that can lead us towards wellness and joy.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why she wrote The Invisible Corset
The societal manipulations that Lauren identifies as the five strings of the corset
What advice she has for starting to break down some of this programming
An example of a practice to explore in order to be more in partnership with your body

Lauren Geertsen is a Body Connection Coach who helps women heal their relationship with food and body image. In her previous work as a nutrition consultant, Lauren realized the underlying problem for her clients was distrust of their bodies, which results from wearing the invisible corset. Her website, empoweredsustenance.com, has supported over 40 million readers with holistic recipes and resources.

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Episode 130: Trusting Your Body with Lauren Geertsen

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Keeping Your Inner Adult in the Driver's Seat Jan 06, 2021

A lot of us that are working toward personal growth and evolution are always looking for ways to avoid getting triggered and getting reactive. If you're curious about why it is that, despite your efforts to grow, you're not moving through the world like the most highly evolved version of yourself, this episode is definitely for you.

Michelle Chalfant has designed a manual for life that blends simple psychology and grounded spirituality: The Adult Chair. Despite growing physically, we often don't grow emotionally and spiritually in equal measure so Michelle is here to share advice on how to open our eyes and move to the Adult Chair.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What the Adult Chair is and how it relates to the other chairs Michelle references
Why we need to recognize when we’re being triggered and own that as our reality
How to take 90 seconds to start processing emotions
Michelle’s advice for busting up the negative stories that we attach to our emotions

Michelle Chalfant is a therapist, holistic life coach, author, podcaster, motivational speaker and developer of The Adult Chair Model, a transformational model of self-realization that helps people across the globe discover who they are, become unstuck, improve their relationships and develop self-love.

Michelle hosts The Adult Chair podcast, where simple psychology meets grounded spirituality and where she gives people the tools and techniques needed to find their power and transform their lives.

With over 25 years of experience in all areas of self-healing, you can learn more about Michelle and her offerings by visiting TheAdultChair.com.

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Teletherapy Toolkit by Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

Body-Centered Mental Health for Kids Dec 30, 2020

As we're coming to the close of a particularly difficult year, we're all probably feeling pretty stressed. For kids who have been thrust into online school, an uncertain world, and an equally uncertain future, the stress can be even more pronounced.

If you're a parent, or really anyone, navigating stress, distress, and anxiety, you'll definitely want to listen in to this conversation with Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge.

Roseann primarily works with helping kids connect to body sensations to find ways to reduce stress and build stress tolerance, but her advice could really help any of us. Approaching sensations through somatic therapies, Roseann provides lots of insight and examples of how we can ground ourselves to get comfortable in our bodies.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What makes the breath is such an important tool
Why she believes in a bottom-up approach to mental health, starting in the body
What kinds of of body signals Roseann encourages people to focus on
How she works with introducing breathwork to people who may be resistant at first

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health, and media expert who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”.

Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions: ADHD, anxiety, mood, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies. She is the author of the first ever book on teletherapy activities for child and adolescent therapists, “Teletherapy Toolkit™” and It’s Gonna be OK!™ book and The Get Unstuck Program™, which are resources for parents to reverse their child’s symptoms. She is often featured on dozens of media outlets: Fox, CBS, NBC, FORBES, PARENTS, and New York Times.

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Dr. Peter Levine - Somatic Experiencing

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Embodiment as Conscious Path Dec 23, 2020

What does it mean to be embodied?

To start cultivating embodiment, we can often begin by bringing more focus to what it's like to inhabit our body rather than just where we are. The body does a lot more than just act as a vehicle to move the brain around from place to place.

Brooke Thomas uses a variety of methods and media to help others onto the path of embodiment. As she joins this conversation, she brings lots of excellent insight into that process to help us start connecting to our genuine lived experience.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What embodiment means to Brooke
What the three dimensions of experience are
How she starts to help people learn to check in with their bodies
Why ease is hallmark of discernment
Walking through a sensory practice that Brooke uses to help people start shifting their being

Brooke Thomas works in a variety of ways to teach about how to cultivate a relationship with our bodies, and therefore with our being, and how that can have a profound positive impact on an individual and collective level. At its core, her work is a lived inquiry about what it means to shift out of a mental/conceptual lens and into an embodied/experiential lens. This shift truly changes everything about how we meet ourselves and the world.

She is a Realization Process teacher who works with clients one-on-one as an embodied coach, and does group work within the online embodied practice community, Liberated Being. She was a Rolfer in private practice for 20 years prior to this work. She has run two podcasts, Liberated Being (formerly known as Liberated Body), and Bliss + Grit, which she co-created with her friend Vanessa Scotto.

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Practical Qi Gong Dec 16, 2020

As we continue to investigate ways we can use our bodies to affect our minds, we're taking a deeper look at qi gong and how we can use the practice to change how our energy is flowing. An energy exercise that blends intention, breath, and the shape of our bodies, qi gong is a powerful tool to help realign both the physical and energetic systems.

Febrice Piché is here to teach us more about qi gong in a really grounded, down to earth way that's easily accessible. With the wide ranging benefits these practices have, Fabrice believes they can ultimately help us develop the ability to be fully human.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How Fabrice explains gasotransmitters and their functions
What the difference is between medical qi gong and qi gong in general
Why most qi gong practices can be helpful for almost everyone
Some of Fabrice’s tips to enhance a breathing practice
What benefits we can get from focusing on our breath and how we breathe

Fabrice discovered Qigong and Chinese Medicine in 1997 at the National Institute of Chinese Medicine in Montreal (Canada).

In 2009, he began specializing in Medical Qigong with the International Institute of Medical Qigong, in Palm Desert, California.

In 2011, he had the privilege to study with Professor Lin Housheng, Director of the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute and creator of the Taiji Qigong Shibashi system.

A pioneer in teaching Qigong online, specializing in Medical Qigong and its use in Chinese Medicine therapy, Fabrice is passionate about linking cutting edge science and ancient healing arts.

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Episode 129: Cultivating Energy with Qigong with Lee Holden

US Health Qigong Association

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Healing Trauma by Letting Sensation Speak Dec 09, 2020

The answers we get about trauma often depend on the questions we ask.

If you're feeling stuck in your healing process, sometimes the best way forward is to trust that the body has its own story to share. Trying to force an understanding of what's going on can miss the clarity of embodying those sensations.

By bringing together mindfulness with somatic therapies, Andrew Hahn works to tap into the body's deep wisdom. Drawing on lots of things being practiced in different spheres, Andrew shares his approach to helping people heal rather than trying to cure their ailments.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How eclectic education and psy experiences formed the roots of his methodology
What he views as the relationship between healing and sensation
Tips for tuning into and embodying our sensations
An example of how Andrew helps people understand what their symptoms are telling them

Andrew Hahn, Psy.d, received his doctorate in 1985 and became a licensed clinical psychologist in 1987.

Early in his career, he was on The Graduate faculties of Leslie and Northeastern University and training director in a large Counseling Center.

He is founder of the Life Centered Therapy Training Institute. LCT is a mindbody, energetic, psycho-spiritual, archetypal, narrative, postmodern systems, mindfulness framework for healing trauma and supporting evolving.

He has lectured and lead trainings internationally in LCT and the Enneagram.

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Episode 210: Tapping on the Body to Shift Your Mind and Emotions

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Healing with Your Heart Dec 02, 2020

If you've been looking for a different approach to cultivating emotional wellness and wellbeing, you will definitely want to catch this conversation.

With influence on essentially every system in the body, the heart is the conductor of our inner orchestra. The heart is also capable of healing on a deep, programming level.

Carine Camara identifies the heart and its energy as the most powerful force in the body. By using heart centered healing along with a blend of other paradigms, she helps people access their love and joy to fill themselves up so they can then fill up others.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What drew Carine to work with the energy of the heart
The mechanisms of using heart energy to create healing
A short guided meditation to help us connect with our hearts
Why this practice is particularly powerful for empaths and highly sensitive people
What she recommends people do to start cultivating a deeper connection to their heart

Carine Camara is an intuitive guide, acupuncturist, energy medicine practitioner, and the Host of the Infinite Love Podcast. Her mission is to help people heal. Carine’s offerings/services are a unique blend of intuitive and energetic healing, practical science, and care. She has devoted her life to the study of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. For the last 20 years, she has immersed myself in the healing sciences. Carine began by studying plant based nutrition, to heal her own physical issues, and later obtained her Masters in Chinese Medicine.

Her practice and knowledge continued to expand, as she trained in Energy Medicine, and works closely with spiritual coaches, teachers and more. For those who are suffering from chronic illness, highly sensitive and/or looking for support in their lives, Carine has a wealth of knowledge to guide you back to wellness. She has an online practice and a holistic clinic located in Lafayette - where she serves the San Francisco Bay Area community.

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Tapping on the Body to Shift Your Mind and Emotions Nov 25, 2020

Our responses to stress can often be habituated in ways we may not like. With practice, however, it's possible to hack our limiting beliefs and subconscious patterns in a way that allows us to show up with more presence and kindness to ourselves and those around us.

Stacy Claxton is an expert in helping people use their body as a bridge to the mind, with Emotional Freedom Techniques, to get to the root causes of emotional and physical suffering. By taking our own fingertips to our own bodies, we can use this form of psychological acupuncture to bring about ease, flow, and natural healing.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why telling the body that it’s safe is so powerful
What conditions and traumas EFT is often effective in treating
How timing plays into the effectiveness of EFT
Stacy walks us through an example of how tapping works

Stacy Claxton is a transformational coach and integrative health practitioner who helps stuck people find freedom and flow. She guides growth seekers, heart-centered healers, and embodied leaders through their biggest blocks to discover their boundless inner power, adding that critical piece: body-centered tools to resolve trauma and rewire the nervous system for lasting change.

Her practice blends ancient and modern modalities, including Ayurveda, yoga, breathwork, meditation, somatic work, prenatal and postpartum care, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and more.

An educator and entrepreneur, Stacy combines private client work with writing, speaking, facilitating small groups, and leading live transformational events.

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Is Addiction a Disease? Nov 18, 2020

In a time when a lot of us are dealing with strong, difficult emotions, it can be easy to slip into bad patterns to try and cope and these patterns can spiral to harmful levels and addiction. On top of that, some of the most popular addiction treatments often end up reinforcing the idea that someone's identity is "addict" which only serves to feed the pattern.

Michelle Dunbar has a different way of looking at addiction. Through the framework she helped to develop, Michelle and her team empower people struggling with addiction to change the trajectory of their lives rather than giving the power to substances and bad habits.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What addiction means in the context of Michelle’s work
How her own experiences and those of other family members led her toward the framework she developed
The three distinct components of The Freedom Model
Why she says the opposite of addiction is diversification
What has surprised her along her career of helping people with addiction

Michelle Dunbar is the co-author of The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap and The Freedom Model for the Family. She is also Executive Director of Baldwin Research Institute, Inc., and The Saint Jude Retreats, not-for-profit research organizations with the mission to change the way people with substance use problems are helped worldwide. Michelle has been helping people move beyond addiction for over 30 years.

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Reactivity and Anger: Dialing it Down Nov 11, 2020

In challenging times, taking the time to make sure we take care of ourselves can be especially difficult. As the changes brought on by COVID continue to affect us, we're all coping with more stress which can lead to increased anger and irritability. Given these constraints, how can we work to ensure we're meeting our own needs in order to keep our relationships peaceful and harmonious?

Melissa Wolak provides some excellent, practical advice for naming, claiming, and processing our anger so we can move on more productively. Anger is often a habitual reaction and Melissa shares ways to approach finding and changing our reaction habits when facing stress and uncertainty.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What the difference is between reacting and responding
How we can stay resilient and flexible in our window of tolerance
Why affect labeling is important to reducing reactivity
What the different types of anger are and how they often show up
How we can get more in touch with the existence or presence of anger

Melissa Wolak mentors and leads women to reclaim their energy, time and wellbeing with powerful mindset shifts, deepening their mind-body connection and establishing sustainable lifestyle practices. As a mindset and empowerment coach, she is a fierce advocate for creating more fulfillment, freedom and self-compassion. The foundation of her movement and unique system connects science and soul. She incorporates her 23 years of experience in the healthcare and neurotrauma fields as a holistic Speech-Language Cognitive therapist, education with a Bachelors and Masters in Communication Science Disorders and her development of tools to conquer stress and burnout by incorporating neuroscience, mindfulness and assertive communication strategies.

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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

Finding Power in Hormonal Transitions Nov 04, 2020

The hormonal shifts women experience later in life, namely perimenopause and menopause, aren't talked about very often. This lack of education and awareness can lead to women feeling out of control and confused when their bodies start changing, sliding away from things they used to be able to count on.

Dr. Amy Zahm has helped many women navigate these shifts in identity and she brings a lot of useful wisdom to this conversation around the benefits that Chinese Medicine can have for women going through menopause and perimenopause. Rather than a medicalized condition that needs treating, she encourages us to view these reorganizations as part. of the natural, beautiful progression of yin and yang in the body.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why play is so crucial and some ideas for getting started
What perimenopause is and what the signs of it are
The Chinese Medicine perspective on how different times in life are for different purposes
Why finding ways to slow down is often so critical in responding to signals from our bodies
How even taking a 60 second breathing break can help you start downregulating the nervous system

Dr. Amy Zahm is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine who has been practicing in rural NE Oregon for sixteen years. Amy specializes in women's health, mental and emotional health, chronic illness and pain management. She has a particular love for using the principles of Chinese Medicine to help women of all ages navigate the transitional periods of their lives with more ease and grace than our society generally allows. In addition to serving Wallowa county, she will soon be expanding her practice to include telehealth. Look for Ground and Sky: Chinese and Functional Medicine for Women’s Health at groundandskyhealth.com. Staying connected In addition to attending acupuncture school at SWAC in Albuquerque at the same time, she and I shared a massage therapy space back in the day.

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Lillian Bridges - Lotus Institute

Institute for Traditional Medicine

Heaving Bosoms Podcast

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Episode 65: Brain Training and Your 6th Sense with Dr. Titus Chiu

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Chronic Pain, Migraines, Brain Injuries: Acupuncture & Functional Neurology Oct 28, 2020

If you suffer from chronic pain, migraines, ongoing concussion symptoms, or really anything related to neurology, you'll definitely want to check out this conversation with Dr. Ayla Wolf.

Dr. Wolf blends the paradigms of functional neurology, Chinese Medicine, and acupuncture to bring a unique healing perspective to her patients. By looking at people in real time, rather than just a snapshot of their conditions, she's able to analyze and apply differential diagnoses to treat the whole, connected system of the brain and body.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What functional neurology is and how it looks in a Chinese Medicine setting
Why things can get missed when looking at patients in specialized silos
How the dynamic nature of the nervous system can affect neurological exams
What the research says on the cumulative effects of acupuncture treatments
Some insight into how herbs can interact with the immune system of the brain

Dr. Ayla Wolf is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine specializing in neurological disorders, concussions and traumatic brain injuries. She is a faculty member of the Carrick Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, and teaches doctoral program courses in neurology as an adjunct faculty of the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is an international speaker and educator on functional neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurological exam techniques, and neuro-rehabilitation utilizing acupuncture and Chinese medicine. She also teaches advanced courses on the management of patients with concussions and TBI.

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Carrick Institute

Huangdi Neijing

Free Resources for Practitioners

Courses for Acupuncturists

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Chloe’s Interview with Dave Asprey on Bulletproof Radio

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Chinese Herbal Medicine, Neurology, and the Gut-Brain axis Oct 21, 2020

Seeing herbs in action is a powerful reminder of why we can find roots of herbal medicine in basically every culture. Through a couple different ventures, Chloe Weber has done lots of great work to make Chinese Medicine and herbs accessible to more people, particularly in underserved communities.

Chloe has dedicated her life to blending her passions for public health and Chinese Medicine and she joins us to share her knowledge on herbs, the benefits they bring to public health, and so much more.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why she compares the anatomy of herbal formulas to a symphony
The important role digestion plays in overall health
How the gut-brain axis affects numerous systems throughout the body
What led her into building herbal formulas with CBD

Chloe developed an interest in public health and medicine after being diagnosed with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in high school. As one of the first cases diagnosed in Costa Rica, Chloe was drawn to study Ecology and Evolutionary biology at CU Boulder where she began to understand how diseases evolve along with us and the deep connection between humans and our environment.

Eventually, Chloe was drawn to Chinese medicine as a way to address public health issues. She graduated with a Masters of Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder and spent time studying at Heilongjiang University Hospital in Harbin, China. After graduating, Chloe co-founded a non-profit sliding-scale walk-in Chinese herb clinic called Urban Herbs. Running her clinic Chloe was able to dive into her study of herbs and found great joy in community outreach. When her son Remy was diagnosed with a rare and debilitating genetic disorder (STXBP1) she decided to combine the power of Chinese Herbs with high quality full spectrum hemp and co-founded Radical Roots.

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AHC #175: Stress & Sleep - geeking out on Chinese herbs, cannabis with Stacey Donelson, L.Ac.

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Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Stage 1: The Immune System by Chris Volesky

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Treating Fibromyalgia Naturally Oct 14, 2020

Fibromyalgia is an incredibly complex syndrome that involves multiple, intertwined systems in the body. The collection of symptoms and expressions of fibromyalgia can often confound the conventional, allopathic medicine approach, leaving patients frustrated and disheartened.

In order to unravel that complexity, Chris Volesky has created a protocol to treat fibromyalgia that builds on itself rather than trying to treat individual symptoms and systems of the body separately. Chris shares some of the basis of his approach and how the body can begin to heal itself once we remove some of the obstacles in the way.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The 8 presentation patterns he identified through treating hundreds of fibromyalgia patients
What his treatment approach is like and why a lot of it is oddly simple
One piece of common advice that helps almost all of his fibromyalgia patients
Walking through a one minute practice that Chris recommends to everyone

Chris Volesky holds a masters in acupuncture and herbal medicine from Northwestern Health Sciences University and co-authored a fibromyalgia treatment protocol for Carolinas Healthcare System where he and his co-workers treated 100's of patients suffering with fibromyalgia. In addition to educating dozens of medical doctors on the proper treatment of chronic pain, he’s worked in one of the busiest clinics in the US treating thousands of people suffering from fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, and fatigue. He’s taught this fibromyalgia protocol to numerous doctors throughout the world and it’s being used in US, Canada, Mexica, UK, China, Germany, Amsterdam, Australia. He is also the co-founder of fibrosolution.com.

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Episode 189: The Evidence for Acupuncture with Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman

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How Acupuncture Works: The Science Behind the Healing Oct 07, 2020

If you're curious about trying acupuncture or know someone who may benefit from it, it can be helpful to understand some of the background science for how acupuncture works. At a high level, Mark Whalen describes it as working with patients' own internal mechanisms to heal the body.

Since our bodies are always seeking homeostasis, sometimes they just need a stimulus, like acupuncture, to draw the attention of the central nervous system to the affected areas. Mark guides us through how he views this process through a mesh of both classic and current ways of thinking about healing.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

His path of desperation with nerve pain that led him to acupuncture
Why treatment doesn’t always involve dealing directly with pain areas
How he explains acupuncture when a patient asks how it works
What is happening, mechanically, when an acupuncture needle enters the body
How effects of acupuncture can relate to the default mode network of the brain

Mark Whalen is the owner and acupuncturist at Five Points Acupuncture & Wellness. He first became interested in acupuncture while he was a patient. Facing an unwanted surgery for a nerve entrapment, Mark turned to acupuncture and not only did it resolve his issue, it changed his life.

Mark went on to graduate from the New England School of Acupuncture in 2005 with a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is certified in Acupuncture by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine and in Herbal Medicine by the NCCAOM.

Mark believes in integrating the traditional Chinese Medical model with modern Allopathic Medicine to get the best results for his patients.

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Jen’s Sacred Breath Community

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Breath: Unlocking Your Dormant Superpower Sep 30, 2020

Whether you're feeling tight and stressed, listless and exhausted, or generally just not at your best, one of the most immediate levers we can pull to start feeling better is breathing. The effects of breathwork are so extensive that essentially all systems of the body benefit from improving how we breathe.

Since our breath affects every aspect of our being, Jen Broyles shares why using it optimally is so powerful and so accessible.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How her own personal health journey led her to breathwork
What effects breathwork can have from both scientific and spiritual perspectives
The changes in her thinking that she attributes to using breathing practices over time
What some of the science is behind breath retention and intermittent hypoxia
A short example of what SOMA breathing is like

Jen Broyles is a Holistic Health Coach, SOMA Breathwork Instructor, Essential Oils Coach, and founder of the Sacred Breath Community who helps individuals restore and optimize their health by calming the nervous system and addressing the root cause of their symptoms. After years of battling with digestive issues, anxiety, hormone imbalances, and the trails of conventional medicine herself, Jen made the decision to return to school to study integrative nutrition followed by training in essential oils and breathwork. She believes that nourishing the mind, body, and soul starts with healing foods, self-love, and most importantly proper breathing.

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Breath by James Nestor

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Ali's Truce with Food Program

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Eating Triggers Sep 23, 2020

As we're taking a brief pause from the regular podcasting schedule, Ali Shapiro gave us permission to rebroadcast this interview on eating triggers and what it means to embody self-respect.

Originally aired on Ali's podcast, Insatiable, this conversation delves deep into the relationship between self-care and self-respect. As a systems thinker and someone interested in blending paradigms, Ali engages with how societal factors play into our ability to take care of ourselves and live healthy lives in contemporary society.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Defining what it means to embody self-respect
What can trigger us to stop our self-care
How willpower and habits are different

Ali is the founder of Truce with Food®, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and rebel with a serious cause. She’s academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture, and body positivity movements all have their own flavor of crazy. She created her Truce with Food method while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her Masters in Organizational Dynamics, which is like getting an MBA in the change process, where she drew from her decade plus of working with real life clients and her own personal healing journey from having cancer as a teenager.

Links:

Eating Triggers: Embody Self-Respect with Brodie Welch - Insatiable Season 5, Episode 7

Episode Transcript

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Burnout to Breakthrough by Eileen McDargh

From Burnout to Breakthrough Aug 26, 2020

Operating with a sustainable level of energy is not exactly a practice that's encouraged in our culture. Particularly in times of intense, prolonged stress, finding ways to feel nourished by what we're creating in the world and avoiding burnout are vital aspects to our health and happiness.

Eileen McDargh joins us to help define what burnout is, who it affects, and how we can work on cultivating resilience in order to move from feeling burnt out to breaking through. As she says, crafting together the life of our work and the work of our life is done through small steps, the same way we would cultivate a garden.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Reflecting on 200 episodes and the true costs of what we say yes to
Why she disagrees with the WHO's classification of burnout as an occupational hazard
How energy management fits into resilience
What the personal prompts are that can help us break out of burnout
Eileen’s tips for avoiding burnout while working from home

Eileen McDargh has been called a hope merchant although she says she has been put on earth for comic relief.

She’s an internationally recognized keynote speaker, master facilitator, and award-winning author with expertise in resiliency and leadership. Her articles have appeared in countless publications and two of her seven books have been awarded national recognition. Her latest book, Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters, launches in August 2020.

In 2020 Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, also ranked her 5th of the World’s Top 30 COMMUNICATION Gurus following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

She’s a runner, a weight lifter, and a lover of all things DARK chocolate.

Links:

Reach out with an audio message or any other feedback on the show!

Burnout by Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberger

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Twitter

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The Spark in the Machine by Dr. Daniel Keown

Addressing Insomnia with Chinese Medicine Aug 19, 2020

In a yang addicted society, particularly in the COVID era, falling asleep and staying asleep can be a serious challenge. Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all solution to better sleep, but if we start to treat our symptoms as places to get curious, we can begin to recognize some of the patterns that will lead us in the right direction.

Dr. Damiana Corca joins this conversation to discuss some whole body approaches to getting better sleep. She encourages us to balance our yin and yang activity because in order to achieve, we have to rest.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How she starts dialing into what insomnia looks like for individual patients
What her philosophy is on splitting the day evenly between yin and yang
The role of melatonin and her thoughts on using supplements
What she’s seen as the most common types of insomnia
Why it’s beneficial to identify signs of problems as they build, even before symptoms appear

Dr. Damiana Corca is a sleep & wellness specialist helping people sleep better by using principles from functional medicine and Chinese medicine. Her practice is devoted to helping individuals heal from chronic sleep issues, and just as important, teaching how to prevent insomnia from developing in the first place. Her book on insomnia, to be published in winter of 2020, looks at the 5 insomniac types and a functional approach to healing insomnia.

Links:

Dr. Hamid Montakab

Is Napping Good For You? By Dr. Damiana Corca

More information on sleep apnea

Free step-by-step guide to better sleep!

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Check out the Basics of Chinese Medicine Course

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Inner Ocean Center for Healing

The Five Elements in Psycho-Emotional Health Aug 12, 2020

Understanding our traits and tendencies through a framework like the Five Elements can allow us to step beyond allopathic identifiers and change the framing. Doing so often helps us to steer ourselves in the direction of health rather than disease by connecting with what we're specifically experiencing.

Mindi K. Counts shares a ton of great insights for how we can start to get in touch with and nurture our health by applying the Five Elements to both our physical and emotional wellbeing.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How she found her way to this profession
Her approach for helping people understand their own stories
A brief overview of the mental and emotional aspects to the Five Element framework
Why it’s important to look at both the virtues and weaknesses of the elements

Mindi K. Counts, MA, LAc., is an integrative medical practitioner and Five-Element acupuncturist. Co-founder of the Inner Ocean Center for Healing, Mindi is a keynote speaker, retreat leader and teacher. She is the author of Everyday Chinese Medicine and a contributing author to the Trauma Toolkit and Singing Our Heart’s Song.

She is the founder of the international nonprofit Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, providing holistic healthcare and education through volunteer service missions to underserved populations around the world and in the U.S. She has been featured in several publications including Dr. Oz’s The Good Life magazine for her work in Indian slum communities, Burmese refugee clinics and earthquake-ravaged areas of Nepal.

Mindi is a graduate of Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychology program and holds a Master’s degree in Classical Five Element Acupuncture from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She lives with her family and rescued pit bulls in the foothills of Colorado.

Links:

Inner Ocean Empowerment Project

Everyday Chinese Medicine by Mindi K. Counts

Connect with Mindi:

Check out the Basics of Chinese Medicine Course

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Better Living Through Lab Tests Jul 29, 2020

Do you suspect that you could have more energy or feel better than you currently do? Viewing our bodies as interconnected ecosystems, it follows that these feelings and symptoms are often indicative of different kinds of stressors and upstream problems that are difficult to identify.

Reed Davis agrees and he brings a fascinating perspective to this conversation where we can blend the holistic paradigms of Chinese Medicine and Function Diagnostic Nutrition. In doing so, we start to peel back layers of hidden stressors on our systems to get closer to root issues that lead to effects like fatigue.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why he views the concept of adrenal fatigue as outdated
What Reed has identified as the three major categories of stressors
The most common problems he sees that can benefit from functional lab tests
How we can work to treat root causes without always explicitly identifying them

Reed Davis, Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course. Reed served as the Health Director and Case Manager at a Wellness Center in So. California for over 10 years and now teaches the FDN Course with over 2500 trainees or graduates in 50 countries.

Today, Reed is known as one of the most successful and experienced clinicians in the world, having provided functional lab assessments to over 10,000 clients. Reed is also a Clinical Advisor for BioHealth Laboratories and lives in the US, teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his graduates build robust private practices.

Links:

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Her Brilliant Health Radio #47: What is Radical Self Care? with Brodie Welch, L.Ac.

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The Science of Slim: Why Diet and Exercise Aren't Enough Jul 22, 2020

As we age, our bodies can send us messages about what's happening and what we need to do in the form of symptoms. With the proper investment of time and energy along with guidance from someone knowledgeable in the field, we can bring drastic transformation to our lives.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston, M.D. is one such guide helping people along this path. If you're interested in learning about how to adapt your diet and lifestyle as you age in order to function optimally, and especially if you're a woman in the menopause or perimenopause years, you definitely want to hear what Dr. Dunston shares in this conversation.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why it’s important to distinguish between “optimal” and “normal” with things like thyroid levels
What else is part of the weight loss picture besides eating less and exercising more
How Dr. Dunston recommends we begin an approach to detoxing
What micronutrient insufficiency is and its effect on us
Dr. Dunston’s go-to first steps for helping with weight loss in the perimenopause or menopause years

Leading by example, OBGYN Dr. Kyrin Dunston lost a life-changing 100 lbs. and healed herself from chronic disease by addressing the root causes of her overweight and dysfunctional condition. This personal transformation in turn caused a professional one and she left OBGYN practice in 2011 to pursue helping women heal with this revolutionary type of natural medicine after being trained in Anti-Aging, Metabolic and Functional Medicine.

As the host of Her Brilliant Health Secrets youtube series Dr. Dunston educates and inspires women to take control of their bodies and their lives and to thrive in menopause, not just survive.

Links:

Dr. Dale Bredesen

Free Gift! Diet Deceptive Dozen and Lean Fifteen Reports free download

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Bonus Offer! Get $5 off any breathwork class with code “healthy” at checkout!

Reach out to Brodie

Breathwork, Beats, and Cold Water Jul 15, 2020

There are any number of reasons that you may be experiencing heaviness right now. Fortunately, there are methods available to all of us for altering our physiology through the breath, blasts of cold, and sound that can help to alleviate those feelings.

Josh Solar has been tinkering with different aspects of his biology in order to affect the mind and consciousness for years. What he's learned, from breathwork to binaural beats, can help us to transform the heaviness we're experiencing, the same way it's helped him.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What benefits he finds in his habit for putting his body in uncomfortable states
How a period of heaviness in Josh’s life started him on his healing path
What some of the common effects are during breathwork sessions
The role binaural beats have played in the development of Josh’s practice
Josh’s advice for incorporating cold showers into your routine

Josh Solar is an explorer of all things human. He’s a devoted husband & father, a breathwork teacher, reiki master, ambient music maker & lover of all things that bring him to a state of wonder.

Links:

Wim Hof

David Elliott

Dr. Belisa Vranich

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Episode 150: Depression and Yang Addiction

Breathing Bundle

Lyme Disease with Chinese Herbal Medicine Jul 08, 2020

One of the greatest strengths inherent to Chinese Medicine is the focus on getting specific to the individual and the symptoms they're expressing, rather than only focusing on the predetermined diagnosis and treatment.

Brehan Crawford brings this lens to treating chronic conditions like Lyme Disease. Through Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, Brehan helps patients not only support their immune system with the specific changes they need, but learn to maintain it as they would other functions of the body, like strength or flexibility.

On the other side of these difficult journeys through Lyme or other complicated illnesses, there is often a great evolution for both the patients and their communities.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why Lyme disease is so controversial
What can often constitute an effective Lyme diagnosis and treatment plan
Why current tests for Lyme can sometimes be unreliable
Brehan’s case for how Chinese Medicine may be more effective for Lyme than allopathic medicine
The role medical Qigong plays in helping patients stay in remission

Brehan Crawford has spent the last decade specializing in the treatment of Lyme disease and its associated conditions. He practices in Oregon with patients from around the globe and teaches other practitioners how to address this growing epidemic.

Links:

Morgellons Disease

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Blog

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12 Treasures Q Gong course

Healing from Trauma Jul 01, 2020

Trauma is unfortunately an all too common reality. This leads to unknowingly connecting everyday triggers to life threatening feelings which can have drastic effects on our well-being and the trajectory of our lives.

Liz Mullinar is committed to the vision that everyone deserves a good life and to heal from their trauma. To that end, she helps people find meaningful, permanent healing and trains others to be able to help as well.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

A challenge for you to stop making excuses
How neuroscience defines trauma
Why moments of trauma are never truly remembered
The importance of accessing and releasing the emotions associated with trauma
What she sees as the biggest barrier to healing from traumas in childhood

Liz Mullinar is a globally renowned trauma recovery expert and trauma survivor. Over 20 years ago, Liz pioneered Australia's first trauma recovery program - Heal For Life - a peer support approach that empowers survivors of childhood trauma to recognize and heal painful emotional triggers, transforming painful memories into meaningful, permanent healing.

Links:

Heal For Life by Liz Mullinar

Liz’s TEDx Talk - Treating the core problem of childhood trauma

Free gift! Download Chapter 2 of Liz’s book here

Connect With Liz Mullinar:

Heal For Life Foundation

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Personality Isn’t Permanent by Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Reach out to Brodie

Personality Isn't Permanent Jun 24, 2020

With so many personality assessments and indicators out there, it can be easy to fall into a rigid idea of what traits you feel you have to embody. Dr. Benjamin Hardy is here to discuss why you aren't just who you are, though. He encourages us to see ourselves as being far more dynamic than a Myers-Briggs or Enneagram type might make you feel.

By viewing our purpose and goals as ongoing shapers of our personality, we can influence who we are and what we're heading towards.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How his work evolved from examining willpower to personality
Why our original natures are not fixed
What effect our life context can have on how we view ourselves
How approaching challenges with a purpose in mind can make them development opportunities
The advice he has for those getting stuck in fixed definitions of themselves

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist, successful entrepreneur and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work. His blog is read by millions of people monthly and featured on Forbes, Fortune, and CNBC. He’s also a regular contributor to Inc., Psychology Today, and Medium.

His new book, Personality Isn’t Permanent, provides science-based strategies for reframing past memories, becoming the scribe of your identity narrative, upgrading your subconscious, and redesigning your environment.

Links:

Joe Polish

Dr. Gabor Maté

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Daniel Gilbert

Viktor Frankl

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Explore the Future Self Meditation

Neurodharma: Skillful Means for Happiness Jun 10, 2020

Given the frenetic pace of life we deal with today, it's useful to mine the wisdom traditions for ways to slow down and embody feelings like contentment and inner peace.

Dr. Rick Hanson is dedicated to connecting western psychology, the contemplative traditions of the world, and the latest brain science to craft accessible ways for everyone to cultivate lasting qualities of mind and heart to carry with us. In this conversation, he discusses some of his findings as well as 7 ways of being that he's identified that can help us to make durable, positive changes in our brain.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How the brain and mind shape each other
Why he wrote his latest book as a pragmatic approach to enlightenment
An example of a practice Rick recommends for helping to drop self-criticism
The power of brief practices that are developed over time

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author with a keen interest in the brain and meditation.

His books have been published in 29 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and 150,000 subscribers receive his free Just One Thing newsletter every week. But perhaps most importantly, he’s been meditating since 1974.

His latest book, Neurodharma shares seven practices for embodying them ourselves in daily life to handle stress, heal old pain, feel at ease with others, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness.

Links:

Neurodharma by Dr. Rick Hanson

Free gift! 3 Meditations and Chapter 1 of Neurodharma

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Episode 161: Anxiety & The Inner Critic - A Kinder Approach

Pause for Racial Justice #saytheirnames #podcastblackout Jun 03, 2020

At a time when racism's effects on the US are on display, as they've been with the most recent slayings of unarmed Black men and women, it can be difficult to distill our feelings into words, but speaking out imperfectly is important and better than staying silent.

Thousands lives have ended too early due to issues of institutionalized racism. In an effort to catalyze both reflection and action, this episode will hopefully serve as a way to remember those we've lost and offer anti-racist resources and action ideas.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why we need to eradicate the toxin of racism from our society the same way work to remove toxins from our bodies
The yin and yang aspects to the work of dismantling institutionalized racism
How we can seek to align our qi with our values of equality, justice, and love.

Links:

Code Switch - NPR
Anti-racism resources for white people
This Historical Twitter thread
So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (get the audiobook or kindle, it seems to be sold out)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

The Evidence for Acupuncture May 27, 2020

There's a lot of fascinating research being done that continues to bridge the gap between Chinese Medicine and the conventional western medical approach. Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman joins this conversation to discuss what she's been seeing in the research of Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.

Using her expertise across multiple medical disciplines, Dr. Koppelman shares with us how drawing on a variety of approaches gives us the flexibility to meet people where they are in their health journey.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How we can try to chart a heathy, sustainable path forward through the COVID-19 pandemic
What she’s excited about in the world of acupuncture research right now
Why she finds the research around ATP and adenosine so interesting
How different philosophies of science can affect the interpretation of data
The importance of having more than one map or model for how things work

Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman is passionate about helping people to optimize their health and improving access to safe and effective medical care through advocacy and education.

She came to integrative healthcare after overcoming several chronic illnesses using integrative approaches, which conventional medicine was unable to help her treat. She earned an MSc in Acupuncture in 2012 from the Northern College in the UK and a second MSc in Nutrition and Functional Medicine in 2015 from the University of Western States. She also has a diploma in hypnotherapy, which she enjoys weaving into her treatments.

She sees patients both online and at her practice in Rhode Island, Harbor Integrative Health, and is the Executive Director of Evidence Based Acupuncture.

Links:

Episode 177: Microbiome Biohacking with Dr. Andrew Miles

Dr. Jeffrey Bland

Connect With Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman:

Harbor Integrative Health

Evidence Based Acupuncture

EBA Facebook

Harbor Integrative Health Facebook

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Medical Intuition May 13, 2020

What happens when we stop trying to actively find the solutions for health problems and instead stop to listen to the information coming to us?

Megan Caper uses a whole other way of getting information about the body outside of the typical method of relying solely on thinking. To begin addressing the underlying iceberg of symptoms and patterns in her patients' lives, Megan's approach is to get out of the mode of thinking and into the mode of receiving in order to tap into other unconscious forms of knowing.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How Megan’s holistic lens views us as one system made of three different, but intertwined, components
Why she felt like a piece was missing when she was studying pre-med and how that started her journey into intuitive medicine
What it looks like to train the intuition and why she thinks everyone is intuitive
Where the best use of medical intuition lies in dealing with health problems
Her process for working with clients even though she’s not physically with them

Megan Caper is a medical intuitive, author, and speaker who has helped hundreds of clients who are frustrated with the lack of diagnosis or limited treatment options offered to them by traditional medicine. Megan uses her psychic abilities and medical training to look inside the physical, emotional, and energetic body, find the root cause of the illness, and set clients on the road to true healing. She can be found connecting the dots between science, spirituality, and compassion at www.megancaper.com

Links:

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Reprogram Your Weight by Erika Flint

Hypnosis: Reprogramming Your Subconscious Apr 29, 2020

We typically know the things we need to do to take better care of ourselves, so why is it so difficult to make healthy choices and prioritize those healthy habits?

Erika Flint shares why the awareness usually isn't enough and that we need to take a look under the hood at what's driving our behavior from a subconscious level. Through her expertise as a hypnotist, she helps people to change their inner operating system in order to tackle limiting beliefs and regain control of their lives.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How her search for fulfillment in her career guided her to hypnosis
What an imprint is and why it’s important to our subconscious
Why there is so much power in just realizing we have choices in how we respond
Background on how she works with clients and what kind of results they can see
Some useful brain hacks Erika has found in her research and experience

Erika Flint is an award-winning hypnotist, three time best-selling author, speaker on hypnosis and the self-actualized mind, and a co-host of the popular podcast series Hypnosis, Etc. She is the founder of Cascade Hypnosis Center for Training & Services in Bellingham, Washington.

Links:

Hypnosis, Etc. Podcast

Lighter by Erika Flint

Can You Be a Hypnotist? by Erika Flint

Connect With Erika:

Cascade Hypnosis Center

Cascade Hypnosis Training

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Heal Your Hunger by Tricia Nelson

Ending Emotional Eating / Self-Quarantine Edition Apr 22, 2020

In this time of social distancing and isolation, one of our natural tendencies is to eat as a way of coping with stress and anxiety. Tricia Nelson is an expert in this connection between eating and emotions and she cautions against trying to use food to feed our soul hunger.

Tricia offers some great insight and practical advice into ways to slow down and reevaluate what underlying feelings might be nudging us towards attempting to cover up our emotions by eating. Her wisdom can help us all navigate this time of uncertainty with more efficiency and without constantly running to the kitchen.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The experiences in her life that led to the birth of Heal Your Hunger
Why she describes emotional eating as a spectrum
Some specific ideas for ways to change our state when we feel a food craving
How to differentiate overeating from giving your body what it requires

Tricia Nelson lost fifty pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. Tricia has spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of the addictive personality. Tricia is an Emotional Eating Expert and author of the #1 bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger, 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. She also certifies health coaches so they can get better results, referrals and revenue by helping their clients overcome emotional eating. Tricia is the host of the popular podcast, The Heal Your Hunger Show and is a highly regarded speaker. Tricia has been featured on NBC, CBS, KTLA, FOX and Discovery Health.

Links:

Free resource for avoiding emotional eating while stuck at home!

Apply for a breakthrough coaching session with Tricia

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Dr. Kristin Neff - Mindful Self-Compassion

Cultivating Confidence and Authenticity 90 seconds at a time Apr 15, 2020

A lack of confidence can be a huge roadblock in many aspects of our lives, but fortunately we can cultivate this in ourselves. Dr. Joan Rosenberg joins us to share how looking inward at how we approach life can be a pathway to deepening our sense of confidence.

Dr. Rosenberg provides a framework for moving through that which is unpleasant in order to achieve congruence with our bodies and feelings. Happiness, in her definition, is inner peace.

Just as a heads up, some of the links that follow are affiliate links for upcoming programs.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How she defines confidence and where it comes from
What the three components of her formula for dealing with unpleasant feelings are
Why it’s so important to stay present with unpleasant feelings rather than ignoring them
Tips for staying present and riding the waves of your feelings
Why harsh self-criticism can be so detrimental

Best-selling author, consultant, and master clinician, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development. Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the documentaries “I Am”, “The Miracle Mindset”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “The Hidden Epidemic”. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, and ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS and OWN networks, as well as appearances and radio interviews in all of the major metropolitan markets. A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, and resilience; how to achieve emotional, conversational and relationship mastery; how to integrate neuroscience and psychotherapy; and suicide prevention. An Air Force veteran, she is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA. Her latest book, 90 Seconds to a Life you Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity, was released February 2019.

Links:

Confident Women Rising

Dr. Jill Taylor

Dr. Rosenberg’s TEDx Talk on Emotional Mastery

Dr. Rosenberg’s TEDx Talk on Grief

Episode 115: Self-Discipline and Kindness with Courtney Townley

Free gift from Dr. Rosenberg!

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90 Second To A Life You Love by Dr. Joan Rosenberg

Podcast

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Melissa’s free lifestyle downloads

PMS, PCOS, and Pain: Your Period Doesn't Have to Suck Apr 08, 2020

Despite the significant percentage of women affected by polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, it often goes undiagnosed or diagnosed incorrectly. If you're a women concerned about irregular periods, problems with ovulation, or other symptoms, this episode could be particularly relevant.

Melissa Lee joins this conversation to examine different pieces of the PCOS puzzle. Rather than finding medications that mask the symptoms, Melissa advocates for changing how you're living to address the issues head on.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why there’s so much difficulty around recognizing and diagnosing PCOS
How Melissa’s journey with PCOS organically transitioned her into her current niche
The role that good fats play in her diet now
What advice she has around weight loss for women who suspect they may have PCOS

Melissa Lee is a women's health coach specializing in PCOS and weight loss. She focuses on sustainable lifestyle changes and helps her clients feel comfortable in their clothes again.

Links:

Ep. 140: Beyond the Pill with Dr. Jolene Brighten

Ep 98: Low Tox Living with Alexx Stuart

Ep 152: DIY Detox with Bridgit Danner

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Dr. Subotich’s Qi Gong videos

Chinese Herbs and Qi Gong for a time of plague Apr 01, 2020

When we're trying to stay healthy, it's crucial to remember there are multiple ways of looking at our health and multiple paths to creating balance in our own ecosystems. During this COVID-19 pandemic, how can we approach restoring our balance through a combination of Chinese Medicine and western medicine?

Dr. Sandra Subotich dives deep into some ways that we can work to stay happy and healthy in these stressful times. She goes into detail on some of her herbal approaches as well as some practices we can all use to help stay well.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What her experience has been like working with COVID-19 patients
Some of her steps for getting a sense of what herbs someone needs
Why Chinese Medicine is uniquely positioned to help in the current crisis
Walking through some immune-boosting and anxiety-relieving breathing exercise

Dr. Sandra Subotich is a doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine. She started her studies in Chinese Medicine at World Medicine Institute Tai Hsuan, a small Daoist school in Honolulu, HI, where she was trained in TCM as well as ancient Daoist practices. She then completed her masters and her doctorate at Five Branches University in Santa Cruz, CA. Sandra also studied in various parts of China, spending time at many hospitals as well as training in the temples and countryside with various Daoist Priests. Sandra has been in practice for nearly a decade and has spent that entire time in integrative settings, working closely with MDs, DOs, Chiropractors, functional medicine doctors, and massage therapists. She is passionate about bridging the gap between eastern and western medicine and finding common ground while working to address each person’s well being. Her specialities include chronic pain, autoimmune and gastrointestinal disorders as well as psycho-spiritual issues including anxiety, depression and trauma.

Links:

Whole Health Chicago

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Autoimmune Diet and Lifestyle Help with Dr. Terry Wahls Mar 25, 2020

Incorporating a therapeutic diet and lifestyle is a central tenet of a lot of different approaches to health. It's always fascinating to see where these paradigms collide and reinforce one another, so hearing about the amazing results Dr. Terry Wahls has seen is truly inspirational.

If you've been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or really any autoimmune disease, Dr. Wahls' research is a great window into how focusing on the way we nourish ourselves can improve our cellular health, give us more energy, and reduce pain.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What opportunities we can take advantage of during the disruption from COVID-19
How her understanding of disease and health transformed through her own journey
Why we have such a hard time changing and her advice to break through it
The positive effects her protocol can have even as a preventative measure
Some background on what her protocol is and why she set it up that way

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, Learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team and pick up copies of her research papers or a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet.

Links:

Episode 127: Reversing Autoimmune Disease with Dr. Terry Wahls

Dr. Loren Cordain

Institute for Functional Medicine

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Holistic Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty

Staying strong through COVID-19 Mar 18, 2020

As we’re grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, conditions are changing super fast so it’s crucial we find ways to stay strong, resilient, and connected with one another. With the safety of our communities at stake, the responsibility to flatten the curve and be there for each other without physically being there for each other is on all of us.

If you’re feeling stressed or scared, you are certainly not alone. You’re invited into this episode to explore ways of staying grounded and healthy.

On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why social distancing is such an important practice right now
How exponential growth plays into the pandemic
The benefits to keeping your own nervous system balanced
What changes we could see in society following this period of uncertainty
A quick guided meditation

Links:

Social Distance Game

The Sober Math Everyone Must Understand about the Pandemic by Jason Scott Warner

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Fertility and Intimacy: A Chinese Medicine perspective Mar 04, 2020

Fertility problems are often a lonely and stressful experience, but Denise Wiesner joins this conversation to share why that doesn't have to be the case.

Denise is a fellow acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine expert that focuses on helping people find balance in their bodies. From menstrual disorders to menopause, Denise helps women to relieve the anxiety around their bodies and regain the sensuality in relationships.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What took her down the road of wanting to write her book
The mindset shifts Denise invites women into when working with them on fertility
Why acupuncture can offer an important, holistic benefit to people struggling with conception
Where she starts with people who are stressed about fertility

Denise Wiesner, LAc, FABORM, is the author of Conceiving with Love: A Whole-Body Approach to Creating Intimacy, Reigniting Passion, and Increasing Fertility. The founder of the Natural Healing and Acupuncture Clinic in West Los Angeles, Wiesner is an internationally recognized traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, specializing in the Whole Systems Chinese medicine approach to women’s health, sexuality, and fertility.

Links:

Natural Healing & Acupuncture Clinic

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Fight or flight May Be In Our Bones

Protecting Your Bones Feb 26, 2020

Ensuring that our bones stay strong throughout our health span means not waiting until retirement to think about it. Bone health expert Margie Bissinger shares how we can take care of our bones pro-actively, beyond just exercise.

In a really interesting congruency with Chinese Medicine, Margie's research and experience illustrates just how interwoven our bone health is with all kinds of other parts of our lives, even as far as our happiness. Taking care of our bones early on in our life can help us to align with being powerful and feel like the victor rather than the victim as we work with other aspects of our health.

Just as a heads up, some of the links that follow are affiliate links for Margie's programs.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why increasingly sedentary lifestyles are driving an epidemic of osteoporosis
How digestive problems can affect bone density
The silver lining Margie identifies in an osteoporosis diagnosis
What effects stress can have on your bones
The drastic results she’s seen from teaching patients about happiness

Margie Bissinger is a physical therapist and integrative health coach. She has worked with clients in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis for over 20 years. She is the author of Osteoporosis: An Exercise Guide. Margie is the creator of Move Today, a statewide exercise program in NJ and Happy Bones, Happy Life™ online program for people to prevent and treat osteoporosis and osteopenia. Margie helps people achieve optimal bone health through whole foods, exercise, mind-body relaxation techniques, and happiness training. Margie is a member of the NJ Interagency Council on Osteoporosis. Margie is also a certified happiness trainer.

Links:

Dr. Jonathan Wright

Happy Bones, Happy Life - Ep 16 with Brodie Welch

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Happy Bones, Happy Life™

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Fitness over 50 Feb 19, 2020

Contrary to the prevailing way of thinking, aging does not have to be about deterioration. Debra Atkinson joins this conversation to help us embrace the importance of our mindset and shift it to help us feel as young as we think.

Debra is all about helping women be happy, healthy, independent, and vital so this episode will definitely resonate if you're a woman over 40 that's focused on staying active and in shape in the second half of your life.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The crucial difference between “normal” effects of aging from “common” effects
What some of the areas are where the science and knowledge has advanced or changed in the past several years
Why strength training is so important for everyone
How some of our exercise habits can actually contribute to hormone imbalances
What it means to find hormone balancing activities

Debra Atkinson is an American life coach and fitness expert, transformational speaker, author and web television host. She is the owner of Voice for Fitness, Flipping 50, and Flipping 50 TV. Debra Atkinson has over three decades experience as a successful fitness entrepreneur, university lecturer in kinesiology, and international fitness presenter. Her mission is to raise the quality of service in the fitness industry and raise your expectations for aging so you can reach your greatest potential at every stage of life. She presents to leading fitness industry associations including IDEA, NSCA, Can-Fit-Pro, ICAA and Athletic Business and contributes to many of their periodicals. She is a frequent contributor for Huffington Post, ShareCare, Prime Women, LivingBetter50, and Easy Health Options and others. She's been consulted for articles in USA Today and Prevention Magazine regarding women's health through the exercise-hormone connection. She is the creator of the web-based Flipping 50 TV show, the Flipping 50 podcast and leads dynamic workshops and coaches private clients live and online teaching women how to love the body they live in and build confidence for every aspect of life with a flipping fit foundation. "No matter what the question is, the answer is exercise."

Links:

Flipping 50 Podcast interview with Brodie Welch

Flipping 50 Podcast interview with Dr. Ellen Langer

Mind-set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect by Dr. Alia Crum and Dr. Ellen Langer

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Microbiome Biohacking Feb 05, 2020

It's always interesting to dive deeper into the places where modern research starts to overlap with the teachings of Chinese Medicine and Dr. Andrew Miles joins this conversation to do just that. With potent information on the functions of the micobiome and molecular mimicry, Dr. Miles shares his insights into the body as a teeming, ever-changing sea of energy.

Drawing from the perspective he gained from living and studying Chinese Medicine in China after having already studied it for several years in Canada, Dr. Miles enlightens us with ways to improve the communication within our bodies.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Getting specific with how we talk about Qi and gasotransmitters
The importance of learning to observe, without controlling, the breath
How our understanding of excess dampness and its effects has evolved recently
What herbs he’s seen commonly used in other cultures that could benefit us
Why foot soaks have become a focus in his practice

Dr. Andrew Miles, DOM grew up with a Taiwanese stepfather immersed in Chinese culture, martial arts, and medicine. He studied Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada at the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and later studied advanced diagnostics and integrated medicine at the Chengdu University of TCM in Sichuan, China. He lived in China for years learning more about Chinese medicine in laboratories and learning from China’s top specialists. He is the host of the Botanical Biohacking podcast and works with an expert panel to source sustainably wildcrafted herbs for dampness. He has consulted for pharmaceutical companies, practiced medicine and taught martial arts in China, and has been recognized by the Taiwanese and Chinese governments for promotion and preservation of traditional Chinese culture.

Links:

Wim Hof Breathing Method

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Body Mapping to Calm the Nervous System Jan 22, 2020

Our bodies are smart. We can get bogged down in focusing on different cues for how we think our body should be moving or feeling, but Alicia Fajardo encourages us to ease back on those expectations and trust in the wisdom of our bodies.

If you're interested in learning more about how your body works as an interconnected whole, this conversation on how we think about the substance and space of who we are will really resonate. By paying attention to how different parts of our body relate to each other in space, we can start to unpack and adjust the effects of things like pain and stress on our bodies.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The evolution of her holistic biomechanics from an injury
Background on the 19 different senses she’s identified in humans
How she defines holistic biomechanics and how she uses it to help clients
What effect updating brain maps can have
Why we should give our unconscious brain more credit

Alicia Fajardo has been teaching in the movement field for 31 years and has a BS exercise science and sports study. In addition to being certified in a lot of different movement forms, she developed The Fajardo Method of Holistic Biomechanics to teach movement education and motor re-patterning in conjunction with nervous system awareness. Today, she teaches out of the Transformations Studio in Portland, Oregon.

Links:

The Ghee Spot - Ep. 48 Interview With Alicia Fajardo

Molecules of Emotion by Candace B. Pert

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Learn about the 12 Treasures Qi Gong Course

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Stress & sleep: geeking out on Chinese herbs, cannabis Jan 15, 2020

For both men and women, it's tough to slow down. The effects of not slowing down can end up seeping into our lives in aspects like stress and trouble sleeping which can put us in a fog. When we're in that fog and it seems like the windshield is covered with bugs, it's difficult to find balance and what Stacey Donelson calls our true north.

Stacey acts as a helper and a historian through her Good Life Acupuncture and Wellness Center and Good Life Botanicals practices to help lift that fog and clear the windshield. She shares some really valuable, actionable advice as well as some details on our endocannabinoid system and how it relates to acupuncture.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Some of the patterns that are often expressed in people with stress and sleep trouble
The overlap she’s seen in approaches to sleep between Western and Chinese Medicine
What phlegm is in Chinese Medicine and how it can be mistaken for Yin deficiency
Why our need to rebuild our sense of community is so strong these days
How she got started incorporating CBD into her herb formulas

Stacey Donelson is a licensed Acupuncturist and Clinical herbalist who has been nationally board certified since 2011. She received her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College of Boulder in 2011 and is currently a doctoral candidate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, CA.

She is the creator and founder of Good Life Botanicals which creates unique topicals using wild crafted/organic Chinese herbs with whole plant hemp extract. She and her husband live in Longmont, Colorado with their two children where they own and run their own Chinese medicine clinic, Good Life Acupuncture & Wellness Center, as well as Good Life Botanicals. She has a passion for gardening, horseback riding, reading and spending time with her family traveling the world

Links:

Botanical Biohacking

Connect With Stacey:

Good Life Botanicals

Good Life Acupuncture & Wellness Center

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Imperfect Allyship Jan 08, 2020

Privilege has a lot of layers. Each of us, particularly in dominant groups, often benefit from several different layers, which makes the work of unpacking our privilege incredibly important as a step towards helping to bring other voices to the table through allyship.

Erica Courdae shares her wisdom on imperfect allyship as a way to get moving with this emotional work, because perfectionism tends to lead to inaction and that doesn’t help anyone. In order to be healthy, we need to be connected to healthy communities and by working to help everyone be seen and heard, we can improve our communities for everyone in them.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What imperfect allyship is and why it’s important
How improving your allyship is no different than any other skill
Why microaggressions, that are sometimes less overt, are no less hurtful and damaging
Tips for bringing your whole self to holiday gatherings and maintaining your wellbeing

Erica Courdae is an entrepreneur, coach, and consultant. She is dedicated to expanding how multicultural professionals, managers, lawyers, coaches, and creative small business owners interact with the world. Through powerful conversations meant to create dialogue and connection, Erica seamlessly challenges them to perceive their reality through a different lens. Topics including diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion make for the awareness that she uses to create mind shifts for impact. In life and in business. Erica believes talking about important and necessary topics in a safe space creates change and helps people feel comfortable, open, honest, and forward-focused.

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Peaceful Power Podcast #195: Brodie Welch on Slowing Down In a Busy World

Permission to Slow Down Jan 01, 2020

In the spirit of a new year and taking a step back to replenish ourselves, this episode is a special rebroadcast of a conversation from Andrea Claassen's podcast with a focus on stress and better stress management. A big thanks to Andrea for allowing us to rebroadcast this one.

If you're looking to adjust some of your habits or make an effort to slow down in the new year, there are some very useful insights into doing just that.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The strengths of Chinese Medicine as an engaged, holistic process of healing
Why self-care is a feminist issue
How society’s yang addiction is counter-productive
The importance of investigating the reasons behind habits
How Chinese Medicine can serve as a path for people to evolve

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The Institute for Functional Medicine

Stopping Panic Attacks Dec 18, 2019

We often talk about things like anxiety and perfectionism and when these issues are carried out to an extreme, they can sometimes lead to panic attacks. Whatever else may be going on, the root of it, as Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum identifies, is that we're scaring ourselves.

With her analogy of seeing snakes when we're really looking at a garden hose, Dr. Scheinbaum advocates patience and realistic thinking to allow our bodies to begin relaxing after trying to protect us. Our bodies react to perceived threats, which can lead to panic episodes. They also know how to relax. Our best course of action is to be patient and find ways to encourage our bodies to calm.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How panic attacks differ from just feeling anxious
What some of the steps are in the process of learning to deal with panic episodes
The different ways Functional Medicine approaches panic attacks
What technique she recommends for people who may struggle with meditation
The benefits Dr. Scheinbaum sees in group medical visits

Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum has spent nearly five decades making healthcare and education more holistic and innovative. With a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Dr. Sandi specialized in positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mind-body medicine, and served as a teacher and the director of a clinic for Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD). She is a pioneer in her fields, having implemented programs such as the use of neurofeedback with patients and becoming the first-ever psychologist to earn certification through The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). She is the founder of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy in Chicago.

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The Functional Medicine Coaching Academy

Twitter

Youtube

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7-Day Clean Eating Detox - an Ayurvedic and Functional Medicine approach Dec 04, 2019

Living in today's industrialized society, we're exposed to environmental toxins that can overload our systems. Combine that with the junk in processed foods and it becomes more important than ever to do the occasional dietary reset. Dr. Alejandro Junger was forced to learn this lesson himself and has been endeavoring to help others do the same ever since.

While moving in the direction of living healthily requires effort, Dr. Junger has created programs that are an accessible on-ramp to help people take better care of themselves. Combining principles of functional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, his system goes further into helping find ways to reset and detoxify our bodies.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How growing up in Uruguay and then moving to New York informed Dr. Junger's path
The general mechanics of how toxic materials can build up in the body and how the body detoxifies
Why our bodies can’t deal with the overload of toxins on their own
Ways to support the pathways for detoxifying in our bodies

Alejandro Junger, M.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of Clean, Clean Gut, Clean Eats, and most recently, Clean7. He completed his training in internal medicine at New York University Downtown Hospital and his fellowship in cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital. After his medical training, he studied eastern medicine in India.Now, in Clean7, he aims to make health transformations more accessible and easier to implement, especially for all whose fast-paced lifestyles means putting their health on the back burner.

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Articles by Dr. Junger

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Episode 47: Sleep Science with Dr. Michael Breus

Mindfulness for Sleep Nov 20, 2019

In a busy world that seems to demand more and more of our attention everyday, falling asleep can often be a challenge. If you find yourself in this wired-tired state, Catherine Polan Orzech offers some great insight into how we can practice mindfulness throughout our day in order to get better sleep.

By building a compassionate interest in ourselves, we can begin to treat ourselves with more friendliness and avoid creating additional layers of suffering for ourselves in the times when sleep just isn't happening. That shift towards non-judgment, stemming from a mindfulness practice, goes a long way towards setting ourselves up to feel better and sleep better.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

A quick energy integrity inquiry practice

How Catherine got onto this track of mindfulness based help for insomnia
The feedback loop of sleeping better and meditating better
What she learned in the process of writing her book that surprised her
How she defines mindfulness and why we all have the capacity do it

Catherine Polan Orzech is the author of "Mindfulness for Insomnia." She is on faculty at OHSU Center for Women's Health and is an expert in mindfulness based interventions. Catherine has been involved in the field of mind/body healing for over 20 years. She offers mindfulness and compassion-based individual, couple and family therapy in her private practice setting. She specializes in working with ways to alleviate anxiety, depression, the struggles felt in difficult relationships, chronic and serious illness, loss and grief.

Links:

Episode 42: Taming Your Inner Critic with Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT

Dr. Bill Moorcroft

Jon Katbat-Zinn

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Catherine’s Book

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Eating for Anxiety Nov 06, 2019

Anxiety has surpassed depression as the number one mental illness in the US. Could our food and missing amino acids be part of the reason why?

Trudy Scott is an expert in the food-mood connection and she shares some different ways to look at how the things that we put in our mouths affect our physical and mental health. If we can look at our symptoms of anxiety as an opportunity to be in a respectful dialogue with our bodies, we can begin to hone in on the different sources of anxiety, such as low serotonin or low GABA.

On today’s episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How Trudy's own anxiety led her down this path
Why a vegetarian diet was detrimental for her
What the differences between low serotonin and low GABA anxiety are
The connection between neurotransmitter deficiencies and gut health
The social anxiety disorder known as pyroluria

Links:

Pyroluria

Professor Felice Jacka

Dr. Navaz Habib

Connect With Trudy:

Anxiety Nutrition Institute

The Anti-Anxiety Food Solution by Trudy Scott

Register for The Anti-Anxiety Summit 5

Download Trudy’s Free Guide on Anxiety

The Anxiety Summit 5 Order Page

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Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde

Yin and Yang of Power Oct 30, 2019

Power is a complicated structure. With dimensions relating to both the yin and yang, those different aspects of power ultimately support and amplify each other. If we want to feel more powerful and reinforce that feeling for those around us, it starts with self-care.

As Audre Lorde put it, self-care can be a political act that expresses our own power outwardly. It also enables us to nurture our relationships. How we take care of ourselves is at the root of our power of presence and the energy that we show up with in the world to help amplify the power of others.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why presumptions of capability can shape feelings of power
The feedback loop between how we take care of ourselves and how we feel
How aligning outward actions with inward values strengthens both
The importance of your environment in amplifying your power

Links:

She Podcasts LIVE

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic

Merk Nepo

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Episode 105: NeuroMeditation with Dr. Jeff Tarrant

Brain Science and Behavior Change Oct 16, 2019

Creating and maintaining healthy habits is often the biggest lever that we can pull to affect our health and happiness, but it can be an incredibly difficult process to change our behavior and create those lasting habits. Through her medical training and research, Dr. Kyra Bobinet has begun helping people to close the gap between the brain and behavior through behavioral neuroscience design. She shares her wisdom about how staying in effort can lead us to turn our healthy habits into automation.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Dr. Bobinet’s journey into becoming a behavior designer as she followed her curiosity
How to move our good intentions into being habits
The two big things people get wrong when building new habits
Why she says that no one changes alone
What she found in her research about what makes change stick

Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH, is a behavior neuroscience designer specializing in behavior change. As CEO/founder of engagedIN, Dr. Bobinet designs large-scale health and wellness products that impact hundreds of millions globally. She has an MD from UCSF School of Medicine, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and is consulting faculty at Stanford School of Medicine. Recipient of the 2015 Harvard TH Chan Innovator Award and designer of a patented clinical algorithm, her team is currently developing a habit engine AI for their Fortune 10 customer.

Links:

Jaak Panksepp

Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet

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engagedIN

Fresh Tri

Change Training Center

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Rejecting "There's Nothing You Can Do" Oct 02, 2019

Certain changes in our lives can often make us feel so exhausted and overwhelmed because it feels like there isn't anything we can do about the situation.

When Priya Massand was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and told there was nothing she could do except take the medication, it put an incredible strain on her. What turned her mindset around was the discovery that there were lifestyle and habit changes she could make that ended up delivering results. Even though there was a lot of work involved in taking this massive action to change her movement practices, the way she ate, and other big parts of her life, it was a relief to her to be able to reject the idea that there was nothing she could do about the condition of her body and life.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis became a catalyst for change in her life
The challenges associated with diagnosing MS
What changes Priya has discovered to be helpful in living with MS
How being in MS support groups differed from being in the Level Up community
The effects that enhancing her self-compassion has had on her life

Priya Massand is a holistic health coach and has been working in nutrition and public health for 12 years. Her journey has taken her from an unhealthy lifestyle for most of her young life to an eventual place of understanding the concepts of health consciousness and self-care. Her years living in West Africa sparked an interest in health education, and her own health transformation led to pursuit of a graduate degree in Public Health at Hunter College. Her later battle with Multiple Sclerosis drove her to dig deeper into the realm of holistic health, and she pursued studies with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She now runs Shafi Wellness, a health and wellness business, through which she strives to support others, especially women with auto-immune disorders, on their path to healing.

Links:

Dr. Terry Wahls

Episode 127: Reversing Autoimmune Disease with Dr. Terry Wahls

Minding Your Mitochondria

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Gratitude & Self-Compassion: Skills for a Sweeter Life Sep 18, 2019

How do we find gratitude when we're in really tough situations? How do we soften ourselves and show compassion to both our body and mind when we're in the middle of a shame spiral? Gratitude and self-compassion are both things we hear a lot about and our guest for this interview shares with us ways to deepen our sense of both, in part by starting to treat them as linked ideas that we can cultivate and build on.

Patty Hlava, Ph.D. encourages us to start where we are and embody our gratitude as a way to heal and transform ourselves, instead of just treating it like a rote part of the routine. In our conversation, we explore some of the relationship dynamics between our mind, body, the divine, and other humans that can help to start externalizing our struggles and working through them with a deeper sense of what it means to be compassionate and grateful.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How gratitude is something that we can cultivate
Ways to deepen your gratitude practice through visualization and turning it into actions
Why the most profound feelings of gratitude often come in the most difficult times
What links gratitude and self-compassion
Tips for finding self-compassion to escape a shame spiral

Patty Hlava, Ph.D., is a director of identity evolution and highest capacity intuitive specializing in Ayurveda, yoga, and psychology. With over 15 years of clinical experience in the health and wellness field as a licensed psychotherapist, certified coach, meditation instructor, and registered yoga teacher, Patty is an expert in guiding her clients toward sustainable habit changes for mind, body, and spirit. She has been involved in research and teaching on the subject of gratitude since 2006. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and Journal of Humanistic Psychology, as well as in several books.

Links:

Byron Katie

Connect with Patty:

Gratitude body scan meditation on the Insight Timer app (free)

Patty's books

Gratitude audio course on the Insight Timer app (free with paid subscription to the app)

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Chinese Medicine and Consciousness Sep 04, 2019

A significant part of treating patients through Chinese Medicine is communicating the aspects of healing that are beyond just the physical. Practitioners can start to do this by embodying the personal cultivation and intentionality necessary to find true healing as an example for their patients.

Lonny Jarrett has been active in the Chinese Medicine field since 1980 and in this conversation, he discusses integral medicine and the importance of bringing patients' consciousness into their healing process in order to help them find healing that is beyond what they feel themselves.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why intention is the foundation of integral medicine
The importance of Chinese Medicine practitioners embodying their practice
How the development of states and stages interact in the framework of integral medicine
Why true healing transcends the self
How Lonny often spends his first visit with a patient and gets them on his side of the lens

Lonny Jarrett has been practicing Chinese Medicine in Stockbridge, Massachusetts since 1986. He is a founding board member of the Ac. Soc. Of Mass. and a Fellow of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Lonny is the author of Nourishing Destiny: The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine and The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine. He holds a master’s degree in neurobiology and a fourth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He was recently featured in the text, The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by bestselling author Stephen Cope. Lonny hosts NourishingDestiny.com, an online community for 3000 practitioners of Chinese medicine worldwide. His teaching schedule is at: www.chinesemedicine.courses and his texts are available from Spirit Path Press.

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Free gift: Articles by Lonny

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Learn more about Qi Gong with Brodie's 12 Treasures Qi Gong Course

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Rising from the Ashes of Burnout Jun 26, 2019

Being successful does not necessarily bring happiness. For my guest Dr. Andrea Pennington, it did the exact opposite: it burned her out, and stifled her spark to the point of deep depression, and cut her off from herself in profound ways. Thankfully, she found her way back.

When I stumbled across this fellow Chinese Medicine and qi gong practitioner's work, and learned we shared a passion for blending paradigms, biohacking and evangelizing self-love, I immediately reached out to get this multi-passionate powerhouse on the show. We talk about:

falling into the "success trap:" how getting everything she wanted made her miserable
how a profound spiritual experience rescued her from a deep depression
why self-awareness is a pre-requisite for self-love
the connection between happiness and authentic self-expression
how qi gong helped her connect to self-love
how identifying as consciousness itself fosters self-compassion

Dr. Andrea Pennington is an integrative physician, acupuncturist, meditation teacher and #1 international bestselling author of several books on resilience, mindfulness and self-love. Dr. Andrea’s extensive study of medical nutrition, positive psychology and longevity biohacking led her to create a holistic media platform, In8Vitality, blending ancient wisdom and modern science for enhanced vitality and life mastery. As Co-founder of the #RealSelfLove Movement Andrea speaks globally to reduce the stigma of mental illness and to support people on their journey to authentic living Andrea is also a highly acclaimed TEDx speaker. Dr. Andrea has shared her candid insights on resilience on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr. Oz Show, CNN, the Today Show, LUXE-TV, Thrive Global and HuffingtonPost and as a news anchor for Discovery Health Channel.

Get Dr. Andrea Pennington's new book, "I Love You, Me."

Connect with Dr. Andrea Pennington: http://www.andreapennington.com/

Learn more about Qi Gong: https://brodiewelch.com/meet-qi-gong-yogas-less-popular-cousin/

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Pelvic Pain Solutions for Women Jun 19, 2019

Pelvic Pain Solutions for Women

with Dr. Jessica Drummond

Is it normal to have pain with your menstrual cycle? Or pain with sex? These types of pain are very common, normalized in our cultural conversations (if they're talked about at all). But they are certainly not required, nor should we just accept them as part of what it means to have a female body. Join me to break the silence, dispel myths, address common causes and treatment options for pelvic pain with Dr. Jessica Drummond. You'll hear about:

endometriosis, vulvodynia and what we can do about them
how the awareness of trauma might actually be doing women a disservice when it comes to a pelvic pain diagnosis
how Chinese Medicine can help
building a holistic-minded treatment team for pelvic pain

Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC Founder and CEO of the Integrative Women’s Health Institute is passionate about caring for and empowering women who struggle with women’s and pelvic health conditions. She is equally passionate about educating and supporting clinicians in confidently and safely using integrative tools to transform women’s and pelvic healthcare.

Two decades of experience in women’s and pelvic health as a physical therapist and functional nutritionist, plus owning a private women’s health clinical nutrition and coaching practice, gives her a unique perspective on the integrative, conservative options for pelvic pain management, hormone balance, preconception and fertility support, postpartum recovery, and chronic pain and fatigue management in active and athletic women. She regularly lectures on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, female athletes, and functional and integrative nutrition for rehabilitation, nutrition, wellness, fitness, and medical professionals.

Find Dr. Jessica Drummond at: https://integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com/

Find Dr. Jessica Drummond's book at: Nutrition for Relieving Pelvic Pain: Fueling the Patient/Practit ioner Healing Partnership

Dr. Drummond's Free Video challenge: https://integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com/opt/4-challenges-to-relieve-pelvic-pain/

Other resources mentioned in this episode: By Amy Stein

Heal Pelvic Pain: The Proven Stretching, Strengthening, and Nutrition Program for Relieving Pain, Incontinence,& I.B.S, and Other Symptoms Without Surgery

Books by Tami Lynn Kent: Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body

Mothering from Your Center: Tapping Your Body's Natural Energy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

Wild Creative: Igniting Your Passion and Potential in Work, Home, and Life

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Decompressing Time Jun 12, 2019

Decompressing Time

with Brodie Welch, L.Ac., M.S.O.M.

How often do you feel “pressed for time?” Feeling “time-crunched” is an all-too common source of stress, as our world has never moved faster. This solo episode is about getting right with time. You’ll learn:

Why being in integrity with your energy and your time is essential for optimal health
the Liver’s role in allowing us to flow through life and what happens when Liver Qi stagnates
A practical way to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be

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Meditation, Mindfulness and Manifesting Jun 05, 2019

Meditation, Mindfulness and Manifesting

Emily Fletcher

So, sure, you've tried meditation. But, maybe you haven't been able to achieve the magical "daily practice" that so many successful people seem to be invested in? Why not? Enter Ziva Meditation: a technique for the the modern day that encompasses meditation, mindfulness & manifesting, designed to unlock your full potential. Today we talk to Emily Fletcher about:

why we should bother investing our precious time sitting with our eyes closed every day
whether you really can learn to meditate online
what's different about this style of meditation

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance.

The New York Times, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC News have all featured Emily’s work. She’s been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 15,000 students around the world and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard Business School and Barclays Bank. Ziva graduates include Oscar, Grammy, Tony & Emmy award winners, NBA players, Navy SEALs, Fortune 500 CEOs, busy parents and social entrepreneurs.

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Ziva Meditation: https://zivameditation.com/

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DIY Detox May 29, 2019

DIY Detox

with Bridgit Danner, L.Ac., F.D.N.P.

No matter how well you eat, how much you exercise, toxins are everywhere. How do you limit your exposure to toxins? What toxins might already be affecting your health? Detox is not just about a green juice anymore! Today we discuss:

why detox, how often, how to
how to you have been exposed to heavy metals
what benefits a regular detox can have on the body
the benefits of sauna for detoxing your body

Bridgit Danner has been a licensed acupuncturist since 2004 and certified Functional Diagnostic practitioner since 2015. She gave over 12,000 treatments in her years working as an acupuncturist & led a staff of 10 at her practice.

While busy running an integrative wellness center, Bridgit developed an environmental illness due to toxic mold in her home. Already experienced in hormone management and nutrition, she became acutely aware of the powerful impact of the environment on her health.

Find Bridgit Danner at: https://www.bridgitdanner.com/

The DIY Detox Summit: https://diydetoxsummit.com/

Your link to the registration GIFT page: https://diydetoxsummit.com/reg-gift/

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MELT Your Fascia -- and Your Pain May 22, 2019

MELT Your Fascia -- and your pain

with Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT

We're used to thinking of ourselves as a bunch of parts: muscles, bones, joints, nerves, organs. That which surrounds each and every part and holds it all together is the fascinating system of fascia. In today's deep-dive with fascia expert Sue Hitzmann, you'll learn:

the role of fascia in relation to pain relief and healing
the relationship between chronic pain and past trauma
what you need to know about neurostrength
the 4 R's of the MELT Method

Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT, is the creator of the MELT Method®, a simple self-treatment technique that helps people get out, and stay out of chronic pain. A nationally recognized educator, manual therapist, exercise physiologist, and founding member of the Fascia Research Society, Sue is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method, which has been translated into eight languages and helped over 200,000 people lead a healthy, pain-free life.

Her new book, MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

Find Sue at: https://www.meltmethod.com/about/sue-hitzmann

MELT Methode Introduction on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watchMELT

MELT on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/meltmethod/

Find MELT University at: https://www.meltmethod.com

"MELT PERFORMANCE: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life " & "The Melt Method" can both be purchased at: https://www.amazon.com/Sue -Hitzmann

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Depression and Yang Addiction May 15, 2019

Depression and Yang Addiction

with Brodie Welch, L.Ac.

Calling all high-achievers, we who hold ourselves to high standards and push ourselves -- at times beyond our limits. You're in good company. Our culture values doing way more than just being: we celebrate yang and undervalue yin. This sets us up for burnout and even depression, even if you're doing all the "right things." Join me today to explore:

When is enough, enough?
The scourge of yang addiction
How to honor your yin -- and why it's critical to do so
A challenge

Resources in this episode -

"Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms": https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Label-Women-Leadership-Success/dp/0062655701

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Super Wellness Simplified May 08, 2019

Super Wellness Simplified

with Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan

In Chinese Medicine, health isn't just the absence of disease: it's about living into who we really are. There's really no separation between body and mind and spirit, and each must be considered and respected in order to optimize our well-being. Today we discuss:

tips on creating living Super Well
why diet and exercise alone can't do it
the importance of working with our thoughts
why living life more simply creates wellness

Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan is a Holistic Chinese Medicine Doctor, author, speaker, and coach who has devoted her life to unlocking the secrets of our human potential. She shares a refreshingly new approach to Wellness that integrates Science, Medicine, and Spirituality.

Find Dr. Edith at: http://www.superwellness.com/

"SuperWellness: Become Your Own Best Healer; The Revolutionary Way for Creating True Vibrant Health" can be purchased at: https://www.amazon.com/SuperWellness-Revolutionary-Formula-Creating-Vibrant-ebook/

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31-Day Food Revolution May 01, 2019

31-Day Food Revolution

with Ocean Robbins

Eating "healthy" shouldn't be difficult, expensive, or confusing -- but it really can feel that way. Ocean Robbins brings his lifetime of expertise on healthy eating, healthy food production and other life hacks to the show. Today we discuss:

what the industrialized food industry is hiding from you
how to understand that food addiction is real
the power your food choices have on you, your community and your planet
how eating healthy can save health care costs
simple shifts in the direction of better

Ocean Robbins is the CEO and co-founder of the 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network — one of the largest communities of healthy eating advocates on the planet. He has held hundreds of live seminars and events that have touched millions of lives from 190 nations.

Ocean is founder and was director of the nonprofit YES!, which has led transformational events for 650,000 leaders in 65 nations. He’s a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award, and numerous other honors. Ocean has served as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and on the boards of Friends Of The Earth, Creating Our Future, Tipping Point Network, Turning Tide Coalition, and many other organizations.

Food Revolution Summit Affiliate Link: https://www.foodrevolutionsummit.org/

"31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World" can be purchased at: 31-Day Food Revolution

Other resources mentioned in this episode -

"A diet for a New America" can be purchased at: A Diet for a New America

2019 list of Dirty Dozen & Clean 15 Foods: Dirty 12 Clean 15

Reach Ocean Robbins at: https://www.oceanrobbins.com/

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Deep Core Messages From Your Psoas Apr 24, 2019

Deep Core Messages From Your Psoas

with Liz Koch

The psoas is at the core of your body, and is a primary messenger of your well being. Understanding the power of this mysterious, watery shape-shifting tissue known as the psoas can be the key to not only health, but happiness. Today we talk about:

what you need to know about your psoas
what it can tell you about yourself, and what it might need from you
the psycho-emotional-somatic dimensions of the psoas from a Chinese Medicine perspective

Liz Koch is back for her second appearance on A Healthy Curiosity to further discuss the role the psoas plays as the primary messenger of your body's healing needs.

Liz has more than 43 years experience working with the psoas. As an international speaker and author, she is recognized in the fitness and wellness movement as an expert on the "core muscle" of the human body.

Find more information on Liz Koch at: w ww.coreawarenes s.com

Connect with Liz for access to class 1 of her Remote Psoas Course at: https://coreawareness.com/contact/

Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Excercise and Dance: Core Awareness

The Psoas Book: The Psoas Book

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Ways We Self-Minimize Apr 16, 2019

Ways We Self-Minimize

with Brodie Welch, L.Ac.

Do you move through the world in a powerful way? Or do you subtly give others permission to dismiss you? As women, we're socialized to soften -- or even apologize for-- our presence, our words, our opinions. If we're doing that, we're not embodying self-respect. Listen in to learn:

Words and phrases you may be using that dampen your power -- and what to say instead
The most important word to eliminate from your self-talk to help you feel capable
The connection between the season of spring, the liver/ gallbladder and the courage to speak your truth

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Deconstructing Pain Apr 10, 2019

Deconstructing Pain

with Dr. Kevin Cuccaro

Dealing with pain can be frustrating and, well...painful. If you don't suffer from a persistent pain, you know someone who does. Just the words "chronic pain" bring fears of a loss in quality of life. But do we really know about pain? Dr. Kevin Cuccaro and I discuss how to 'deconstruct' pain and effectively address it. Today we talk about:

how pain is constructed -- and how we might deconstruct it
the real purpose of pain
the "pain triangle"
why pain persists even if the "problem" is fixed

Dr. Kevin Cuccaro, D. O. is a physician, consultant and expert on pain. As a specialist in chronic pain, he is changing how society understands and treats the physical and emotional sides to pain. Dr. Cuccaro has a private practice in Philomath, OR and currently serves on the Oregon Pain Management Commission as well as the Oregon Health Authority Health Evidence Review Committee’s Chronic Pain Task Force.

Find more about The Pain Class at: www.ThePainClass.com

Find Dr. Kevin Cuccaro at: https://kevincuccaro.com/

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Your 3-Word Rebellion Apr 03, 2019

Your 3-Word Rebellion

with Michelle Mazur, Ph.D

Words have power, maybe today more than ever. The capacity to live, spread and lead with a personal message has the potential to create change on an unbelievable scale via social media alone.

Communication rebel Michelle Mazur explains how your own "3-Word Rebellion" can help you find your one of a kind message that encapsulates the change you want in the world. Learn how to incorporate your message into business and/or for personal change. Today we talk about:

how to find your personal message
the first steps to discovering your 3-word rebellion
how the 3-word rebellion helps your creative expression
using your message for change

Michelle Mazer is a public speaking coach, message strategist, creator of the 3-Word Rebellion and founder of Communication Rebel®. With the core belief that communication can change the world, Michelle helps business owners, private sector and public speakers rebel against the status quo, by using one compelling message at a time.

Find more information on Dr. Michelle Mazur, Ph.D. and the 3-Word Rebellion at: https://drmichellemazur.com/

Find "3 Word Rebellion: Create a One of a Kind Message that Grows Your Business into a Movement" at: https://www.amazon.com/Word-Rebellion-One-Kind-Business/dp/0578421119

Also referenced on this show -

"Start with the Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action", by Simon Sinek at: https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone

Jennie Nash, Book Coach can be found at: https://jennienash.com/

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Mindfulness for Kids, Community and Planet Mar 27, 2019

Mindfulness for Kids, Community and Planet

with Liz Rutledge

Mindfulness isn't just for adults anymore! Children experience their fair share of stress and anxiety too. It makes complete sense that kids could/should learn how create a mindful practice of their own. Today's guest, Liz Rutledge has spent years teaching mindfulness to school age kids and shares the benefits she has seen it have. It's not just a concept, mindfulness is becoming more and more about self, family, community, and ultimately the mindful sustainability of our planet. Today we talk about:

mindlessness vs mindfulness
what age are kids most receptive to learning mindfulness
how mindful daily choices can have an impact for everyone
the ripple effects mindfulness can create

Liz has been practicing mindfulness for many years and in the last ten years has been teaching mindfulness to students in Denver area schools. She is currently earning her Mindful School certification and is also a blogger, passionate about environment, and founder of SustainableThree.

Learn more about Liz Rutledge at: http://www .sustainablethree.com/

Find Liz on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/SustainableThree/

Find Liz on Instagram at: Sust ainableThreeInstagram

Find Liz on Pinterest: SustainableThreePinterest

Denver East High School PTSA Angel Talks: AngelTalks

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Forgiveness: Liver's Spring Cleaning Mar 20, 2019

Forgiveness: Liver's Spring Cleaning

with Brodie Welch, L.Ac.

Ah spring! A time of new growth, spring cleaning, and, from a Chinese Medicine standpoint, the Liver and Gall Bladder's time to shine. Liver and Gallbladder resonate with the emotions of anger, frustration, and resentment.Chinese Medicine practitioner and holistic self-care strategist Brodie Welch shares:

what the season of spring means from a psycho-emotional perspective
how anger, resentment & depression affect the body
a personal story about her "scapedog" and what she's doing in her own life to transform self-righteous resentment into ease and acceptance

Where could you let go of resentment and find forgiveness? Please email your responses, along with thoughts for future solo shows to brodie@brodiewelch.com

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CBD Demystified Mar 13, 2019

CBD Demystified

with Dr. Rachna Patel

There's a lot of buzz about cannabis these days, specifically CBD: the component that doesn't get you high. It's being lauded for helping all sorts of ailments from chronic pain to rheumatoid arthritis to psoriasis and anxiety. Is it as great as it seems? With the use and legalization of marijuana in some states & the ever changing laws of those states, it is hard to know if you can even use CBD, let alone determine if it is really useful for your condition. Back for her second interview for A Healthy Curiosity, CBD expert Dr. Patel helps to destigmatize & demystify CBD. This episode includes:

how to navigate the overall legalities of CBD usage in your state
what CBD is and where it comes from
what to look for in a CBD product
what conditions benefit most from CBD
answers to listener questions

Dr. Rachna Patel comes from a background in Emergency Medicine. Through her interest in helping patients alleviate pain, Dr. Patel ventured into the field of Medical Cannabis in 2012. In order to offer people care they would not otherwise get, She opened her own practice in 2014. Dr. Patel's knowledge in the fields of Medical Cannabis & CBD's, have defined her as an expert in her specialty.

Find more information about Dr, Rachna Patel at: https://www.DrRachnaPatel.com/

Find Dr. Patels' book "The CBD Oil Solution: Treat Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Insomnia, and More-without the High" using this link: Purchase Book on Amazon

Find Dr. Patel on YouTube using this link: Dr. Patel on YouTube

Find Dr. Patel on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorRachnaPatel/

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Beyond The Pill Mar 06, 2019

Beyond the Pill

with Dr. Jolene Brighten

Hormonal birth control pills can mean freedom from unwanted pregnancy, but this freedom often comes at the cost. These days, hormonal based birth control pills are commonly prescribed for symptoms from painful periods to acne, often before a woman gets a chance to understand her own cycles, without much discussion of possible side effects, alternative treatments, and other non-hormonal methods for preventing unwanted pregnancies. Dr. Jolene Brighten spent years working with woman identifying Post-Birth Control Syndrome, and then learning how to help women heal from the use of hormonal birth control. On today's episode we discuss:

controlling vs. listening to our natural cycles
the side effects every woman considering or taking The Pill should know
how our symptoms are signals from the body and why masking them might not be a great idea

Dr. Jolene Brighten is Functional Naturopathic Medical Doctor and nutritional biochemist with a focus in women's endocrine health. She is recognized as a leading expert in Post-Birth Control Syndrome and the long term side effects associated with hormonal contraceptives. Dr. Brighten is also the author of, "Beyond the Pill: A 30-Day Program to Balance Your Hormones, Reclaim Your Body, and Reverse the Dangerous Side Effects of the Birth Control Pill." She is a speaker and a women's health advocate.

Learn more about Dr. Jolene Brighten at: https://drbrighten.com/pbcsdiet/

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Poop: Why You Should Give a Crap Feb 27, 2019

Poop: Why You Should Give a Crap

With Dr. Marisol Teijeiro

Do you poop consistently? Are you a "hyper wiper"? Do you struggle with bloating or constipation? Dr. Marisol Teijeiro, a world leader renowned for her passion for cleansing and gut health joins Brodie to discuss this usually undiscussed topic. Dr. Marisol is an expert on the subject not only because she has the degree on the wall but more so because she's experienced feeling shitty and figured out how to get healthy. On today's episode we go over:

what our poop can tell us about our health
why we should give a shit every day
the color, size and shape we want our poop to be

Crowned Queen of Thrones, Dr. Marisol Teijeiro has trained and educated health care practitioners and has helped thousands of patients for over 15 years. She directs and practices at Sanas Health Practice in Canada, has spearheaded PuraSanas health supplements and invented the Queen of the Thrones Organic Castor Oil Pack™ and line of products. The launch of her first books, OH, SHIT!, her educational conferences and programs, heralds her championing you to become your legend.

Dr. Marisol Teijeiro's Website: https://drmarisol.com

Note: any claims made in this podcast have not been evaluated by the FDA and should not be construed as medical advice.

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Healing Anxiety Feb 20, 2019

Healing Anxiety

with Stephanie Dalfonzo

Have stress, anxiety, and struggling with sleep become your new normal? If yes, you’re so not alone. It’s easy to feel powerless around these issues. Happily, there are simple, concrete practices that can help. Stephanie Dalfonzo has developed 35 daily skills & techniques that can help women find & put their happiness first, and she shares several in today’s episode. We get into:

why self care is where all care begins
how adverse childhood experiences may surface many years later
what true gratitude has to do with inner health and happiness
how making small daily changes, can orient you to appreciation

Stephanie Dalfonzo is an Anxiety Expert, Speaker, Author and Clinical Hypnotist. Stephanie started her professional life as celebrity DJ Stevie Knox in the 80's & 90's. It was during this time she began to experience anxiety so badly she started to suffer from insomnia as well. After a brief success with prescription medication, Stephanie began to explore and educate herself on the treatment of chronic stress & anxiety. Leading her to becoming an expert in her field and the author of, "Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom; How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety."

Stephanie Dalfonzo's Website: https://stephaniedalfonzo.com/

"Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom" available here: https://stephaniedalfonzo.com/goodbye-anxiety-book/

Adverse Childhood Experience Study: Adverse Childhood Experience Study Information

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Mastering Menopause the Keto-Green Way Feb 13, 2019

Mastering Menopause the Keto-Green Way

with Dr. Anna Cabeca

Menopause can be a wild ride: brain fog, weight gain, mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats — the list goes on. Dr. Anna Cabeca has personally “recovered” from transitioning through menopause twice and shares her keto-green approach to hormonal balance.

On today’s episode we talk about…

how hormones are re-organizing menopause
how our food choices can impact
which keto-green foods are important to women’s health
how ketones help reduce brain fog caused by menopause

Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally acclaimed menopause and sexual health expert, global speaker and a pioneer in women’s health. She is triple board certified in Gynecology and Obstetric Integrative Medicine, and Anti-Aging Restorative Medicine.

Dr. Anna Cabeca’s website – www.drannacabeca.com

Dr. Cabeca’s book, “The Hormone Fix: Burn Fat Naturally, Boost Energy, Sleep Better , and Stop Hot Flashes, the Keto-Green way”, can be found at – www.amazon.com

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How to Heal from Burnout by Partnering with Your Body Feb 06, 2019

Have you ever been "burned out?" Would you know it if you were? In a world that moves at hyper speed, it is easy to overlook the simplest answer to what might have become our greatest health concerns. Michelle Pfennighaus describes how chronic stress might be the cause of a cluster of symptoms, and how small changes in lifestyle and diet can drastically change your health and happiness.

On today's episode we talk about...

what the most common causes of burnout for women is today
how being stuck in a stress response can result in a multitude of symptoms
what IBS has to do with burnout
how small changes in diet can have an immediate effect on your health
why changing your perception of who you have to be, can result in happiness
why stress may not be so obvious
what you can do about stress
how you can avoid the state of chronic stress

Michelle Pfennighaus is a Health Coach and trained in Functional Medicine. She has spent ten years helping women heal from chronic stress. Michelle has been featured on several networks as an expert in her field of focus. She was also spotlighted in the documentary "Lemonade", a look into her time recovering from a high pressure and stress job as a professional in the world of big money advertising.

Michelle Pfennighaus website - https://findyourbalancehealth.com

Watch for - "She's Got Power" website and podcast from Michelle Pfennighaus, coming soon

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Rocking Perimenopause Jan 30, 2019

As we hit our late 30s, it’s not unusual to are faced with new hormonal symptoms like hot flashes and mood changes. Cathy Margolin, L.Ac., explains how changes in diet and lifestyle can help you “Rock Your Menopause.”

On today’s episode we talk about…

what’s going on with your hormones & what you are doing to cause it
how herbal medicine can help
what the best hormone friendly foods are for dealing with symptoms of peri-menopause & menopause
surprising and easy lifestyle changes you can make to ease symptoms
the role water, and the source of water has in your estrogen levels
how to honor your Yin as you transition to a new season in life

Cathy Margolin is a Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist and Nationally Certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine. Cathy has more than 30 years of experience in complimentary and alternative medicine. She is the founder of Pacific Herbs and the author of “Stop Your Bitching; A Step by Step Guide to Balance Hormones & End PMS & Menstrual Cramps …naturally.”

Cathy’s passion for health and herbal medicine has led her to develop the “Rock Your Menopause 21 Day Challenge*” A series of short videos that help achieve hormonal balance, in a natural way.

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Happiness Skills with Nataly Kogan Jan 23, 2019

Happiness Skills with Nataly Kogan with Nataly Kogan

Genuine emotional wellbeing doesn't come from making everything in our lives perfect and never feeling any difficult emotions. It comes from allowing ourselves to feel all that we feel, to accept ourselves and the world as it is.

Happiness isn't a state of being or a simple feeling -- and it doesn't come from the outside. It's a skill we can all practice and improve, no matter our starting point. On today's episode, we talk about:

achievement doesn't lead to happiness
accepting that happiness is inconsistent
5 core happiness skills
The emotional immune system

Nataly Kogan is one of the leading global experts in optimizing your emotional health so you can thrive at work and in life.

After a successful career as a venture capital investor and tech executive at companies like McKinsey and Microsoft, Nataly founded Happier with the mission to help people and organizations unleash their greatest potential by cultivating science-backed Happier Skills. Since then, more than a million people have used the Happier mobile app and participated in Happier @ Work programs and online courses. Nataly is a sought-out keynote speaker and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book, HAPPIER NOW, was just released in May of 2018.

Connect with Nataly Kogan:

Learn more about Nataly, her books and other services at https://www.happier.com// where you can find a range of tools to grow your happiness skills.

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Healing When It Seems Impossible Jan 16, 2019

Healing When It Seems Impossible with Dr. Shiroko Sokitch When we feel bad, sick, or unwell, we often ask "why me?" Dr. Shiroko breaks down that question with her personal experiences and seven keys to healing. On today's episode, we talk about

the difference between healing and curing
the first key of beginning to heal
the "triangle of wellness" and how it affects our overall health.

Shiroko Sokitch, MD, is the founder and owner of Heart to Heart Medical Center in Santa Rosa, California. Dr. Shiroko is an expert at using many modalities to bring the body to balance and wholeness. She brings hope and healing to difficult health conditions by blending Chinese and Western medicine with a deep spiritual and emotional healing approach.

Trained in general surgery, and working as an Emergency room Doctor for 10 years while attending acupuncture school, gave Dr. Shiroko a broad range of medical experience. Her new book – Healing When It Seems Impossible: 7 Keys to Defy the Odds is about her unique and comprehensive healing approach.

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Learn more about the Heart to Heart Medical Center at http://hearttoheartmedicalcenter.com/ where you can also download a free workbook to accompany her book.

Find Dr. Shiroko's new book, Healing When It Seems Impossible: 7 Keys to Defy the Odds on Amazon.

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Timing Is Everything Jan 09, 2019

What if it's not what we eat, but when? This episode explores

the part of your brain that regulates hunger, hormones, and sleep;
how our organs tell what time it is;
yet another reason to eat breakfast.

The wisdom behind living in sync with nature comes from ancient traditions—Ayurveda and Chinese medicine are just two of these—and modern science is just now catching up. We also dig into the Dr. Satchin Panda's new book Circadian Code.

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Overcoming Overwhelm Jan 02, 2019

The feeling of overwhelm can be crippling. Even when we want to take better care of ourselves, self-care can become that item on the to-do list that we never get to. On today's episode, we talk about

the stories we tell ourselves about who we are
identity evolution and agency
self-care as a gradual process

Dr. Samantha Brody is a licensed naturopathic physician and acupuncturist in Portland Oregon. She also runs a virtual arm of her business doing coaching and consulting with clients across the globe. Dr Samantha writes for a variety of publications and has been quoted in media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, and Shape. She is the author of Overcoming Overwhelm: Dismantle Your Stress from the Inside Out (Sounds True, January 2019).

Find Dr. Samantha Brody on https://drsamantha.com/ or on social media @drsamanthand. And if you're in Portland, Oregon, meet her in person at Powells’S City of Books for her book signing on 1/18/19 at 7:30pm.

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Values Exercise from Overcoming Overwhelm Sample Chapter from Overcoming Overwhelm

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Trusting Your Body with Lauren Geertsen Dec 26, 2018

What would happen if you loved and trusted your body? On today's episode, you'll learn about:

a practice that helps you listen to your body
the source of shame and how to cut off its power
how to deepen your intuition

Lauren Geertsen is a nutritionist and author. Her wellness website, Empowered Sustenance, has supported over 40 million people on their healing journey.

Lauren helps women connect to their body’s wisdom so they can heal themselves. Her 4-week How To Trust Your Body program shares tools and techniques so you can access your intuition and make better decisions in your health, relationships and work.

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Cultivating Energy with Qigong Dec 19, 2018

Episode 129: Cultivating Energy with QiGong with Lee Holden Effortless power... sounds too good to be true, right? Well, a QiGong practice, one of the five branches of Chinese medicine, harnesses the natural energy of the body to increase power and decrease pain and stress. On today's episode, you'll learn about:

the three keys to experience flow-state
an easy movement to feel your own qi
why this ancient practice is deeply radical
how this energy moves determines the quality of our life

Lee Holden first discovered the healing power of QiGong and tai chi after experiencing injuries that nearly sidelined his Varsity Soccer career at the University of California, Berkeley. Impressed at how these ancient practices healed his body and allowed him to return to playing, he made their study a priority. Today, he is an internationally known instructor in meditation, tai chi, and Qi Gong, as well as a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and author (7 Minutes of Magic, Penguin 2007). His popular library of Qi Gong DVDs have made him a regular fixture on American Public Television and over 105 PBS stations throughout the U.S.and Canada. Lee's unique QiGong programs have been seen in over 50 million households.

Lee’s expertise and down-to-earth teaching style have made him a popular speaker and workshop facilitator. He’s worked with world-famous healer Deepak Chopra as well as Mantak Chia, a widely revered QiGong expert. Holden is also a stress management consultant to top Silicon Valley corporations like Apple, 3Com and Cisco, and has been the on-set wellness consultant for several Hollywood film productions.

Lee is a graduate of U.C., Berkeley, with a BA in Psychology. Lee , a "Doctor of Chinese Medicine," is a graduate of Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, a leading acupuncture college in the U.S.

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Achieving Your Health Goals Dec 12, 2018

Episode 128: Achieving Your Health Goals 4 Key Factors Today, Brodie Welch digs into what we actually need to do if we want to meet our goals. In this episode, Brodie explains four of the main obstacles to greater health:

hyper-focusing on one thing we want to fix instead of the bigger picture
setting a big goal without creating a plan for how to get there
trying to go-it-alone and reach goals without support from others
telling ourselves we cannot afford investing in our own health

Brodie Welch—Chinese Medicine expert, holistic life coach and A Healthy Curiosity host—also talks about the amazing results her most recent Level Up group experienced by investing in their health in 2018. Above all, she says, we need to adjust our mindset. We need to believe we are worth the effort.

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Reversing Autoimmune Disease Dec 05, 2018

Reversing Autoimmune Disease

with Dr. Terry Wahls

Autoimmune diseases are on the rise, but Dr. Terry Wahls recovered from near paralysis by changing her diet. On today’s episode, learn about:

what minerals protect our cells from autoimmune diseases
how to preserve brain health with diet and lifestyle
the importance of social connection and a sense of purpose to our health

Through her research and personal experience with progressive MS, Dr. Terry Wahls found that modifying the paleo diet and emphasizing dark, leafy greens, grassfed or wildcaught meat, deeply pigmented plants (beets, carrots, berries), and healthy fats supports health on a cellular level. Today, she explains the science behind cellular nutrition and why it's more difficult now than ever to eat a healthy diet.

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions. Listen to Dr. Wahls’ amazing story and discover what foods hold the keys to slowing neurologic decline and aging, reducing mental health symptoms, and improving our kids’ performance in school. You can learn more about her work from her website, www.terrywahls.com, and download her Wahls Diet Cheat Sheet here.

Dr. Terry Wahls also hosts the Wahls Protocol Seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success. Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD), on Instagram @drterrywahls, and on Twitter at @TerryWahls. Learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team via this email: MSDietStudy@healthcare.uiowa.edu.

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Hot Sex in Long-Term Relationships Nov 28, 2018

Episode 126: Hot Sex in Long-Term Relationships with Susan Bratton

One of the biggest challenges of a long-term relationship, is keeping the sexual flame alive. On today's episode you'll learn about:

How to set up an erotic playdate with your partner
What leads to a clitoral erection
Ways to have orgasms post-menopause

Susan Bratton, also known as "Trusted Hot Sex Advisor To Millions" and the "Dear Abby of Sex," joins us today to talk about rejuvenating your sex life in a long-term relationship. According to Susan, sex can actually improve as we age. "You can have better orgasms at 90 than you're having now," she says. In this conversation, she describes her tool the "Soulmate Embrace" and how it stimulates desire. She also offers a step-by-step communication process that helps women explain their sexual needs to their partners.

Susan Bratton is the CEO of a digital publishing company specializing in books, audios and videos showing three things: 1) passionate lovemaking techniques, 2) bedroom communication skills, and 3) sexual health and vitality products and protocols.

Find Susan's free sexual edutainment at betterlover.com and get her newest #1 hit technique for lovers, "The Soulmate Embrace,” as her gift for you.

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Finding Your Feminine Fire with Amanda Testa Nov 21, 2018

Wondering how to prioritize your own pleasure and re-discover your libido? On today's episode, you'll learn about:

simple tantric practices
deepening connection and intimacy in 15 minutes
using sexual energy to heal from trauma

Amanda Testa is a Sex, Love and Relationship Expert and founder of Find Your Feminine Fire. Her methods bridge ancient tantric tools combined with the latest in neuroscience to help high performing women ditch unworthiness and embody confidence, radiance, and vitality in all areas of their lives.

Amanda believes that we should all be able to enjoy our lives and not just get through each day. Many women feel like there's just no time for sex at the end of the day, but Amanda is here to help us discover how prioritizing our personal pleasure leads to deeper relationships and a more radiant sense of self-worth.

This podcast is one of a two-part series about pleasure, sexuality, and intimacy. Interested? Join us next week to talk about stoking the sexual flame in your relationships.

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Intermittent Fasting for Women Nov 14, 2018

Looking to lose weight without changing your diet? On today’s episode, you’ll learn about:

Why the WHEN of eating is as important as what you’re eating
Intermittent and long-term fasting
The benefits (and potential risks) of fasting for women

Dr. Stephanie Estima is a big-hearted, energetic, and compassionate healer dedicated to changing lives through evidence-based health strategies like nutrition, fitness, and mindset. She studied Neuroscience and Psychology and received her Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Toronto. She then went on to complete her Doctor of Chiropractic degree at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College.  

Dr. Stephanie has a special interest in brain optimization, longevity, and weight loss. She is a female biohacker, a former figure competitor, and is interested in the application of the ketogenic diet, fasting, and fitness in females. She also runs an online program called KetoClean, a plant-based approach to Keto.

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Hormonal & Sexual Health for Women with Dr. Anna Cabeca Nov 07, 2018

Hormonal & Sexual Health for Women with Dr. Anna Cabeca

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

How hormones affect your mind and body
Environmental and dietary influencers of hormones
Lifestyle changes for hormone balance
Dispelling dietary misconceptions

Dr. Cabeca frequently lectures nationally and internationally regarding restorative health and women’s health issues.

She is a board certified Gynecologist and Obstetrician, as well as board certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, an expert in Functional Medicine, and an expert in women’s health.

She specializes in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and natural alternatives, successful menopause and age management medicine.

She is a consultant and trainer for other physicians in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Functional Medicine Principles.

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Real Food Revolution with Congressman Tim Ryan Nov 01, 2018

Real Food Revolution with Congressman Tim Ryan

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Reforming the food and farm industries
Incentivizing healthy food production using subsidies
Negative impacts of our current system

Tim Ryan is a tireless advocate for working families in Ohio’s 13th District. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, he is currently serving in his eighth term. Tim’s primary focus is on improving the economy and quality-of-life in Ohio. He works closely with local officials and community leaders to enhance economic competitiveness and help attract high-quality, high-paying jobs. Tim is a dynamic leader known for challenging both parties to rebuild the middle class. He is a champion of efforts to make college more affordable, revitalize America’s cities and improve the health and well-being of American families and children. Tim’s vision for a stronger economy and his work on these and other issues has garnered national attention. He is the author of A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit and The Real Food Revolution: Healthy Eating, Green Groceries, and the Return of the American Family Farm. Congressman Ryan is a member of the House Appropriations Committee that controls the expenditure of funds by the federal government. Tim serves as co-chairman of the Congressional Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery Caucus and is a member of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic. Through these partnerships, Tim has introduced, cosponsored, and championed bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid crisis. Ryan serves as co-chairman of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus and is a leading voice fighting to strengthen America’s manufacturing base and reform U.S. trade policies. The Caucus examines and promotes policies to help American manufacturers find trained, educated workers, to lead the world in developing new industrial technologies, to operate on a level playing field with foreign competitors, and to obtain the capital they need to thrive. Ryan is the leading advocate in the House to impose sanctions on unfair currency manipulation by foreign countries. Before his election to Congress, Ryan served in the Ohio State Senate, as President of the Trumbull County Young Democrats and as Chairman of the Earning by Learning program in Warren, Ohio. He began his career in politics as a Congressional aide in 1995. Ryan has a law degree from the University Of New Hampshire School Of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center). He studied abroad as part of the Dickinson School of Law’s International Law Program. He received a BA in Political Science from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Born July 16, 1973 in Niles, Ohio, Tim Ryan currently resides in Howland with his wife Andrea and three children.

Links from today's episode:

H.R. 2627, Salad Bars in Schools Expansion Act - (Language from Congressman Ryan’s bill was included in FY18 Agriculture Appropriations bill that passed as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill)
https://thehabit.net/Salad Bars to Schools - (Partnership between United Fresh Start Foundation, Whole Foods Market, Chef Ann Foundation, and the National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance)
Food & Farm Act - (Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s Alternative Farm Bill & Related Resources)

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Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First with Carly Banks Oct 24, 2018

Put Your Oxygen Mask on First with Carly Banks

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Becoming a successful role model
The trickle-down benefits of prioritizing your own wellbeing
Self-care for kids
Establishing the new norm
Developing your emotional intelligence

In learning the foundational teachings of Ayurvedic wellness, along with the science behind the power of routine, and the unbelievable level at which our habits - good and bad - dictate our reality, Carly Banks has created routines and daily practices that fill her cup, thereby filling up her kids. The habits she’s picked up along her journey, and translated into the new normal for her whole family, have yielded HUGE results, in so many ways, in a SUPER SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. Her purpose at www.thehabit.net has become sharing what she’s learned with every woman she can reach, because every mom deserves to feel this good.

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How to Change Habits with James Clear Oct 17, 2018

How to Change Habits with James Clear

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

The connection between identity, beliefs, and habits
Identity-based vs outcome based habits
4 laws of behavior change
The cumulative progress of small actions
Reframing your worldview

Whatever you’re wanting to get better at, today’s episode is going to help you do it better and more efficiently.

I’m thrilled to have James Clear with me to talk about the tool we use to solve the problems of life with as little effort and energy as possible. That tool, of course, is habits.

This is a subject that I became intensely focused on several years ago when I realized that it wasn’t enough to teach my clients how to do things like meditate, breathe, and nourish themselves with whole foods; I needed to teach them how to form good habits, hence my evolution from being a practitioner to coaching people on how to actually implement the core competencies of self-care. James Clear is author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. His website, jamesclear.com, receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands (including me) subscribe to his popular email newsletter. He is also a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB.

Through his online course, The Habits Academy, Clear has taught more than 10,000 leaders, managers, coaches, and teachers.

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Healing the Psyche with Chinese Herbs: Podcast with Justin Ehrlich Oct 10, 2018

Healing the Psyche with Chinese Herbs with Justin Ehrlich

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Chinese medicine on a physical and spiritual level
How herbs channel energy and open our perspective
Herbs for personal cultivation
Cleansing wounds and resolving trauma
Which herbal strategy is right for you?

Drawn to many of the mystical practices that originated in ancient China for most of my life, Justin has been a California state licensed acupuncturist since 2002 and a student of the Jade Purity branch of Daoism since 2001.

After many years of questioning the nature of reality, and using these practices to work through his own struggles, heal old wounds, and find a deeper connection to the Divine, he's personally seen just how powerful and transformative this path can be.

Justin has studied a multitude of practices, including medicines, meditation, philosophy, mindfulness-based practices, and religion. He implements these practically as a coach and Chinese medicine practitioner.

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www.justinehrlich.com

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Food Sanity with Dr. David Friedman Oct 03, 2018

Food Sanity with Dr. David Friedman

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Separating food fact from fiction
Diet is a way of living, not a short-term solution
How the change in culture has affected national health
Where is best to source your food
Don't count calories, make your calories count!

Has all the contradicting information about what we should and shouldn’t eat left you confused? Lifetime television’s morning show health expert and syndicated radio host, Dr. David Friedman (as seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, E!, Discovery Health, FOX, FitTV, The Food Network, Discovery Channel and more) has spent the past 15 years interviewing hundreds of health advocates, scientists, doctors and New York Times bestselling authors.

His goal has always been to share cutting-edge information that helps his audience reach optimal health. Unfortunately, each guest would contradict Dr. Friedman's previous expert, creating more confusion than clarity. From proponents of a vegan, paleo, or Mediterranean diet to advocates of gluten-free and low carb eating, the opinions are as different as night and day. After becoming frustrated with so much biased (often paid for) and conflicting research, Dr. Friedman created a common science meets common sense approach that puts an end to all the culinary conundrum.

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Yoga of Money with Grace Edison Sep 26, 2018

Yoga of Money with Grace Edison

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

What is the link between health and wealth?
Pitfalls of sacrificing wellbeing for money
Grace's top financial skills and habits
Practicing self-compassion and investing in health
Holistic financial wellness

Grace strives for balance in her work life and family so that there is room for being a kick-ass mom and community leader in the classes and courses she teaches in person and online. Her main focus currently is creating a solid space for her course members and clients to establish a better personal and working relationship with Money, from a Holistic-Wellness based approach.

Working with clients for 10 years as a Financial Advisor gave her the professional foundation to see what was working and what wasn't and that there were gaps in that modality when used exclusively. Equally the opportunity as a yoga teacher and coach allowed her to work with clients on their mindset or manifestation skills proved to also have major gaps. So it is through her course The Yoga of Money that she married the two and voila, a full spectrum money wellness program was born!

Connect with Grace Edison:

www.graceedison.com

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https://www.graceandgrit.com/

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Forgotten Medicines with Nick Polizzi Sep 19, 2018

Forgotten Medicines with Nick Polizzi

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Exploring beyond modern medicine
The ancient wisdom of indigenous cultures
Getting comfortable with growth
Impossible healing made reality

Nick Polizzi has spent his career directing and producing feature-length documentaries that explore the power of traditional medicine. His quest for ancient cures has taken him around the world into remote cultures that still practice these fast disappearing methods. Nick's current role as founder of The Sacred Science stems from a calling to honor, preserve, and protect the knowledge and rituals of the indigenous peoples of the world.

Connect with Nick Polizzi:

www.thesacredscience.com

The Sacred Science Book

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Forgotten Medicines with Nick Polizzi Sep 19, 2018

Episode 116: Forgotten Medicines with Nick Polizzi

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Exploring beyond modern medicine
The ancient wisdom of indigenous cultures
Getting comfortable with growth
Impossible healing made reality

Nick Polizzi has spent his career directing and producing feature-length documentaries that explore the power of traditional medicine. His quest for ancient cures has taken him around the world into remote cultures that still practice these fast disappearing methods. Nick's current role as founder of The Sacred Science stems from a calling to honor, preserve, and protect the knowledge and rituals of the indigenous peoples of the world.

Connect with Nick Polizzi:

www.thesacredscience.com

The Sacred Science Book

Work with Brodie: http://brodiewelch.com/level-up

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Self-Discipline and Kindness with Courtney Townley Sep 12, 2018

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

How to fall in love with discipline
The difference between discipline and rigidity
How we can use action to generate motivation
Why women self-sabotage by trying to go backward rather than forwards
Creating the discipline required to evolve
Self-kindness vs self-sacrifice

Today Brodie is with Courtney Townley, who's been working in the fitness and wellness industries for over 20 years. She is fully certified as a STOTT PILATES® instructor, National Strength and Conditioning personal trainer (NSCA-CPT), and Precision Nutrition Level 2 Coach. She is also a very proud student of the Ido Portal Method. Courtney is passionate about a multi-dimensional approach to health and fitness and uses habit-based coaching principals to help women tap into their prime at any age. She currently works with women all over the world to build healthier lives with more ease through her online health coaching business, Grace & Grit. Courtney also hosts the top-rated podcast on iTunes, Grace & Grit, which is dedicated to helping expand the definition of what it means to be a healthy woman.

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Bending Time with Dana Skoglund Sep 05, 2018

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you’ll learn about:

Ways to integrate self-care into your routine so it’s more likely to happen
Svasta: Being seated in yourself - the optimal state of body and mind
Why taking time for yourself actually opens up time and increases your efficiency
Shape-shifting for state-shifting

Today Brodie is with Dana Skoglund, one of Brodie’s Yoga Health Coaching colleagues. Dana is a certified Yoga Health Coach, yoga teacher and a mother of 2 rambunctious young boys. She has been studying and teaching yoga since 2000. Eventually, Dana’s desire to take her health and wellbeing into her own hands led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing the daily routine of Ayurveda and noticing the profound impact it had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013, after receiving her Yoga Health Coaching Certification. She aims to inspire others about the importance of healthy habits in crafting the life of their dreams.

Connect with Dana Skoglund:

https://www.danaskoglund.com/

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How We Eat is How We Live: Unapologetic Feminist Self-Care with Ali Shapiro Aug 29, 2018

When I first heard of today’s guest, Ali Shapiro, I thought I found a kindred spirit. Ali is the founder of Truce with Food, a keynote speaker, host of top-ranked podcast Insatiable. Like me, she is a holistic nutritionist and an integrated health coach.

Today we will discuss what women struggle with, like body image, our relationship with food, ourselves, and self-worth.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Ali’s Three Comfort Eating Styles
How can we use this self-awareness to inform our choices around food
Why are we turning to food for comfort

Connect with Ali Shapiro:

https://alishapiro.com/

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Habit Change Technology with Maneesh Sethi Aug 22, 2018

Lately, I’ve really focused on helping people step into the people they are becoming next, by aligning their good intentions with their actions. I want to help them change their daily habits for self-care. The research I’ve done led me to today’s guest, Maneesh Sethi, the founder of Pavloc. I even started using one myself to help break those “bad habits.”

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What is Pavloc
The steps that led him to Pavloc
The behaviors it has helped Brodie and Maneesh stop

Connect with Maneesh Sethi :

https://pavlok.com/

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The Paleo-Vedic Approach with Dr. Akil Palanisamy Aug 15, 2018

When we think of the paleo diet, we think meat and more meat. Today’s guest has a different approach. Dr. Akil Palanisamy practices integrative medicine and Ayurveda. He wrote the book The Paleovedic Diet, A Complete Program to Burn Fat, Fight Disease, and Reverse Disease.

The Paleovedic Diet offers a comprehensive roadmap to optimal health combining the most effective aspects of the Paleo diet with Ayurveda, the time-tested traditional medical system of India, and the latest scientific research.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What is Ayurveda
Misconceptions about carbs
Palanisamy’s favorite nutrient dense foods
The rise of auto immune diseases

Connect with Dr. Akil Palanisamy :

http://doctorakil.com/

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Becoming a SuperAger with Elise Collins Aug 08, 2018

Today we are talking about healthy aging with Elise Collins. She also does yoga health coaching, helping people to change habits to ensure they thrive. She has written several books, the latest is, “Super Ager.”

We’re going to discuss super agers and how we can look and feel younger, and even work on a better memory.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What is a super ager
Common traits of a super ager
Our “purpose” and how it can present itself

Connect with Elise Collins:

http://elisemariecollins.com/

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Energy, Aging, and Mitochondria Aug 01, 2018

Want more energy and help to feel young, who doesn’t? I’m very excited to speak to my guest today, Warren Cargal. He is a fellow acupuncturist with over 10 years in Chinese medicine in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, and internal medicine.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What are mitochondria
Small changes that can make a big difference
Best supplements to see a difference in how you feel

Connect with Warren L. Cargal:

https://www.acuatlanta.net/

http://www.themitobook.com/

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Cooking for Hormone Balance Jul 25, 2018

My guest today is Magdalena Wszelaki. After being diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and later hashimotos disease she decided to make some major life changes, even with her career. She uses current research to explain the essential role that food plays in keeping hormones in harmony using flavorful recipes. Magdalena is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Coach and she wrote Cooking for Hormone Balance. Today she helps us understand how dietary changes can help when dealing with hormone imbalances.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Where do we start when dealing with hormone imbalance
The importance of gut health
It is not just what you eat, but everything you put in or on your body
Magdalena’s top picks to add to your diet now

Connect with Magdalena Wszelaki:

https://hormonesbalance.com

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Your Skin as a Magic Mirror Jul 18, 2018

I had to pleasure of speaking with Dr. Trevor Cates, she is the author of the bestselling book Clean Skin from Within. She became known, as “The Spa Dr.” after working in world-renowned spas and was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California.

Skin is our magic mirror. If something is going on with your skin, you need to find the underlying problem. Dr. Cates will help us narrow that problem down.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What do we need to look for when it comes to skin issues
Where your breakouts occur can be a clue
Suspect foods
Simple skin routine

Connect with Dr. Trevor Cates:

https://thespadr.com

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Beauty and the (Micro)Biomes with Nadine Artemis Jul 11, 2018

Many people take the time and to ensure they are eating healthy but they still use perfumes or products that are filled with chemicals. Today’s guest is going to explain why this is harmful and offers great alternatives.

Nadine Artemis is the author of Renegade Beauty: Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance and Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Three steps to heal you skin and body
What should we be avoiding
Benefits of oil pulling

Connect with Nadine Artemis:

https://www.livinglibations.com

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NeuroMeditation with Dr. Jeff Tarrant Jul 04, 2018

We hear a lot about meditation or mindfulness lately, many assume the two are interchangeable. Today’s guest, Dr. Jeff Tarrant, will help us learn what the difference actually is.

Dr. Tarrant is a is a licensed psychologist in Oregon, Colorado and Missouri. He is board certified in neurofeedback and a Global Neurotherapy Initiative (GNI) Instructor. He is the author of the book, Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain and is actively engaged in several research projects examining the way the brain responds to different interventions as well as exploring the minds of persons with extraordinary abilities. This research continues to lead to further understandings about the mind/body connection.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Meditation – am I doing it right?
Different styles of meditation
Defining mindfulness

Connect with Jeff Tarrant:

http://drjefftarrant.com/

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Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine with Ellen Goldsmith Jun 27, 2018

Ellen Goldsmith is a recognized educator, health advocate, and practitioner in the field of Chinese medicine, holistic and integrative health care. She returns today as a past and most popular guest on A Healthy Curiosity and we are delighted to speak with her.

Ellen has a new book called, “Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: 175 Recipes for Optimal Health,” and she’s here today to talk about the book and how the food we eat really impacts our bodies and our overall health. We dive into the energetics of food and nutritional healing with Chinese Medicine, but in a way that feels simple and doable no matter where you are on your health journey.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The value of understanding food as medicine from a Chinese medicine point of view
Simplifying and demystifying food as medicine
Identifying food as your front line of defense, while still enjoying the experience of eating
Navigating various food types and understanding how they might affect your body
The effect of processed food consumption and how small changes in diet can have huge effects on your health
Connecting to the energy of the food you eat and how it makes you feel

Connect with Ellen Goldsmith:

www.pearlnaturalhealth.com

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Feng Shui with Amanda Gates Jun 20, 2018

On today’s episode, we’re discussing what many say is the sixth branch of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is about finding the Yin Yang balance in our bodies, but every day we are also exchanging energy with our environments. What type of energy are the people and our surroundings giving off?

Our guest today is Amanda Gates. She is a professionally trained Interior Designer, Feng Shui Practitioner, podcaster and award-winning blogger. She has seamlessly married interior design and Feng Shui for almost 20 years to help clients achieve spaces that feel as beautiful as they look.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What is Fung Shui
Top five disruptors
How to access your environment

Connect with Amanda Gates :

https://gatesinteriordesign.com

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Intuitive Eating with Mary Hyatt Jun 13, 2018

Today’s beauty standards can make anyone feel self-conscious. We see them staring back at us daily, standing in line at the grocery store, logging into social media, everywhere.

My guest today is Mary Hyatt, Creator of Babe Redefined. She is helping women learn how to love themselves, their bodies, and quiet that inner bully, the one we’ve all struggled with. Mary helps people love their bodies and get out of the cycle of emotional eating. She shares how intuitive eating helps us make peace with ourselves and our relationship with food. It is not another diet, there are no rules, it is learning to trust yourself and your body.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

How can we be kinder to ourselves
Intuitive eating
Mirror work
HALT

Connect with Mary Hyatt: www.maryhyatt.com

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You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

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Focus and Productivity with Ellen Goodwin Jun 13, 2018

One of the foundational principles I teach is how implementing simple healthy habits can allow you to be more present and productive in all areas in your life. It was an honor to have today’s guest, Ellen Goodwin, on the show to contribute her perspective, experiences, and tips on habits, productivity, and accountability.

Ellen Goodwin is a productivity expert, speaker, and coach who works with entrepreneurs to build stronger habits and to harness the power of accountability so that their businesses will thrive and grow. Today he shares with us her journey of procrastination and how it led her to her true passion and greater joy in her life. We talk about understanding how the brain works and various ways we have found to set boundaries and implement habits in our lives, and how you can do the same.

Focus and Productivity with Ellen Goodwin Jun 06, 2018

One of the foundational principles I teach is how implementing simple healthy habits can allow you to be more present and productive in all areas in your life. It was an honor to have today’s guest, Ellen Goodwin, on the show to contribute her perspective, experiences, and tips on habits, productivity, and accountability.

Ellen Goodwin is a productivity expert, speaker, and coach who works with entrepreneurs to build stronger habits and to harness the power of accountability so that their businesses will thrive and grow. Today she shares with us her journey of overcoming procrastination and how it led her to her true passion and greater joy in her life. We talk about understanding how the brain works and various ways we have found to set boundaries and implement habits in our lives, and how you can do the same.

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The 4 different kinds of procrastination and how to overcome them
Simple steps to greater productivity in your life
Understanding the brain and learning to interrupt self-sabotaging patterns
Setting yourself up for success through focus, fun, and taking imperfect action
The difference between motion and action and why it matters to you

Connect with Ellen Goodwin:

On her Website: www.ellengoodwin.com
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/EllenGoodwincom

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Brodie's Origin Story - Episode 100 May 30, 2018

Today’s episode is a bit of a twist and an unusual approach, in comparison to past episodes of the podcast. If you’ve listened to the podcast before, you’ll know that my episodes are based on interviews and visits that I conduct with other health experts, practitioners, and coaches. On today’s episode, the tables are being turned, and I am being interviewed by a listener of the podcast.

My guest today is Audrey Burke – she is a newer, but loyal listener of A Healthy Curiosity, and has found herself with a deep desire to help people. She is interested in pursuing a career in wellness, but isn’t quite sure which direction to go. Audrey has a unique background, with a degree in biomedical engineering and a work history including corporate work, working on farms and for non-profits, and living in Italy as an ex-pat. She is passionate about yoga, but has found herself fascinated by Ayurveda, acupuncture, and massage school, among other things.

Audrey takes the lead with questions as I share my career and wellness journey – a journey that has been anything but linear, but has led me to the beautiful combination of skills, techniques, and practices I love sharing with my clients today.

“The beautiful thing about being in the health field or the wellness field is that every ounce of work you do on yourself, is going to benefit the other people in your life. Your own personal lessons become the things you are skillful at sharing with your patients.” – Brodie Welch

Raising Your Frequency and Removing Unconscious Blocks with Shanna Ekedal May 24, 2018

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on her podcast and I’m so excited to have Shanna Ekedal with us today. Shanna is a frequency alchemist and personal coach dedicated to helping people have the body and life they want. She’s a trailblazer in mind-body spirit wellness and host of Soul Frequency Podcast. She’s been where many of us have been before, a little lost and focused on finding perfection. That was until she had a profound experience that forced her to wake up and change her life and now she helps others do the same.

Today she helps decipher whether it’s our intuition or fear telling us to do something. Also, how do we make small changes towards a new life. We often take on the energy of those around us, Shanna will help us focus on getting back to who we are and putting focus on where it needs to be.

“You need the love around you. Find that support system that is going to love you and guide you through the process because that is everything it gives you the courage to make the steps that you want to make. “

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What is an Intuitive
The Power of Emotion Energy
Energetic Blockages

Connect with Shanna Ekedal:

https://thesoulfrequency.com

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Low Tox Living with Alexx Stuart May 16, 2018

One of our favorite guests on A Healthy Curiosity is back with us on today’s episode. Alexx Stuart is an educator and change agent who founded Low Tox Life in 2010 after seeing the lack of transparency in our food system, personal care and cleaning products. She joins me today to talk about creating healthier homes and families, living a life with fewer toxins, and the environmental impacts of the products and foods we use.

Join in and learn with me as Alexx explains some useful and practical information to help us bring our lives into greater alignment with our values and goals, from both a personal and a planetary perspective. As we talk about navigating healthy living and becoming more conscious of what we bring into our lives, we also acknowledge that there are ways to change and adopt new habits without feeling like a failure and while still allowing yourself to enjoy your life and relationships.

“It’s not about striving for some sort of perfection… it is about striving to become more and more conscious of the choices that we make and how they affect us and the planet we live on. We cannot feel guilty about what we didn’t know yesterday. Instead, feel excited about what you’re going to change from today.” - Alexx Stuart

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Looking deeper at what we are exposed to and how they impact our health
Everyday products to avoid and potentially harmful ingredients to be aware of
How the packaging and ingredients of our food and home products can impact our health
Simple ways to support your children and create greater health awareness in your home and family life

Connect with Alexx Stuart:

www.lowtoxlife.com

Pre-order your copy of Alexx’s new book, “Low Tox Life.”

www.lowtoxlife.com/pre-order-low-tox-life-the-book

Genetics, Epigenetics, and MTHFR with Dr. Kendra Becker-Musante May 10, 2018

Today we’re talking about toxicity, resilience, and how to find greater health in a toxic world. We dive into some basic information about the MTHFR gene – what it is and what we should know about it, as well as genetic mutation, and what we can do about it. My guest is Dr. Kendra Becker-Musante.

Dr. Becker-Musante is an Integrative Physician, who has practiced in Connecticut for over a decade. She specializes in treatment for the “4 A’s,” Asthma, Autism, Allergies, and Eczema. She has a passion for exploring environmental toxins in our lives and treatment for the 4 A’s, among other effects and challenges resulting from toxicity and other environmental and genetic factors. She is the author of “A Delicious Way to Heal the Gut” and is planning for a second book to be published in early 2018.

“Learn how to heal your body from the inside, and begin your journey of healing and resilience, starting with your cells. Learn how food can be your medicine or your poison and that your genes do not define you, but certainly help guide the way of your healing.” – Dr. Kendra Becker-Musante

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

The ins and outs of genetic diversity, MTHFR, and cellular resiliency
Autism, Asthma, Eczema, and Allergies – what do they have in common and what they’re telling you about the toxins in your body
Identifying toxins and threats to your wellness, and simple tips to living cleaner and healthier
Creating and maintaining a constant reregulation of healing in our bodies

Learn more about Dr. Kendra Becker-Musante at www.drkendrabecker.com.

Integrative Cancer Care with Kirstin Nussgruber Apr 25, 2018

Today we’re discussing one of the scariest diagnoses out there – one that has the potential to shut us down or become a true turning point in life: cancer. This is a topic that hits home personally for me as I have worked with a number of people who are dealing with cancer in both early and late stages. It’s something that can instill fear and paralysis in people. My guest is Kirstin Nussgruber who is a cancer survivor herself. She shares her powerful survival story and her unique insight into transforming our relationship with cancer.

Kirstin is an empathetic cancer mentor, speaker and educator who is passionate about helping people get out of cancer overwhelm by teaching them how to reclaim their lives. A two-time cancer survivor herself, she learned first hand the importance of an integrative approach to one’s health to facilitate true healing. She offers individualized mentoring, can be hired for inspirational speaking engagements and offers interactive virtual programs such as the Beyond Cancer Program™. She is also the bestselling author of “Confessions of a Cancer Conqueror – My 5 Step Process to Transform Your Relationship with Cancer.”

“It’s important to be open to sharing emotions. We don’t need to shield our kids from emotions. We need to be able to show them emotions, talk to them about those emotions and let them have them as well without us judging them.” – Kirstin Nussgruber

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Kirstin’s inspiring survival story.
First steps in dealing with the news that you have been diagnosed with cancer.
The benefits of allowing emotion to play its role.
Allowing our loved ones, including children to deal with their emotions.
How to avoid the blame game and regret.
How can we understand the spiritual message that our physical pain is sending us?
Dealing with the disconnect that can happen between our mental/spiritual limits and our physical limits.
Changing our vision of what is “healthy.”
What can people do with their diet to facilitate detoxification and perhaps cancer prevention?
The effects of inviting fear to the table when it comes to dealing with cancer.

Connect with Kirstin: www.kirstinscancercare.com

Sign up for her newsletter and find out more about her book: “Confessions of a Cancer Conqueror”

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

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The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

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Healthy, Tasty Food Made Easy with Rachael Pontillo Apr 18, 2018

My guest for today’s podcast is Rachael Pontillo, a health coach, esthetician and best-selling author. We talk about the connection between what we eat and how that impacts our skin. We also discuss strategies for getting out of a “food rut” and how to implement healthy eating in an easier way.

Rachael is the bestselling author of the book Love Your Skin, Love Yourself, and co-author of The Sauce Code. She’s an AADP and IAHC Board Certified International Health Coach, licensed aesthetician; and natural skincare formulator and educator. She’s the president and co-founder of the Nutritional Aesthetics™ Alliance, the creator of the popular skincare and healthy lifestyle blog, Holistically Haute™, as well as the much-loved online course, Create Your Skincare. She’s an avid herbalist, self-professed skincare ingredient junkie, and lifelong learner.

“When you make a healthy lifestyle transition, it can seem very daunting at first. It may feel like it’s going to take forever before you see changes. That’s not true! Once I got started, it only took about a month before I not only felt much better, but felt like a superhero with much more energy than I had ever had before.” – Rachael Pontillo

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What does being a health coach have to do with skincare?
The important role a health diet plays in having healthy skin.
What is the “Skin Trigger Trifeta?”
Once you have removed some of the trigger foods in your diet, what is the next step to having clear skin?
What it was like for Rachel to write a book with her husband who is a chef.
How preparing sauces in advance can be beneficial for those with busy lifestyles.
The benefits of looking at a home kitchen as a professional kitchen.
What foods we should avoid buying on sale.

Connect with Rachael Pontillo: www.rachaelpontillo.com

Books by Rachael: https://rachaelpontillo.com/books/

Love Your Skin, Love Yourself

The Sauce Code

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

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The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

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Beating Chronic Fatigue with Dr. Evan Hirsch Apr 11, 2018

Today we’re discussing energy – not in the Chinese Medicine sense of the word, but how to find more of it. The lack of energy is something that comes up often with many of the people I work with and it’s something we have all felt at one time or another. My guest Evan Hirsch will shed some light on the difference between feeling tired and chronic fatigue and how we can fix it in our own personal way.

Dr. Evan, as he is affectionately known, is the best selling author of Fix Your Fatigue: The 4 step process to resolving chronic fatigue, achieving abundant energy and reclaiming your life! He is one of the nation’s leaders on finding the root causes of chronic fatigue and resolving them. Dr. Evan suffered with chronic fatigue himself for 5 years before he achieved resolution using the Fix Your Fatigue Program that he developed at the Hirsch Center for Integrative Medicine in Olympia, Washington. He has helped hundreds of people resolve their chronic fatigue and is on a mission to help 100,000 more through his blog, online courses, books, 1-on-1 consults and the training of providers.

“It is so important for people to step into their own power. For them to realize how important self-care is and that they deserve it. You don’t get better until you prioritize yourself.” – Dr. Evan Hirsch

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why are we so tired?
15 different causes or “usual suspects” of fatigue.
What things we can do to avoid overloading ourselves with toxins that can overburden us and cause fatigue.
Is there a commonly overlooked cause of fatigue?
A test you can do on your own for infection.
Why exercising can become a vicious cycle for fatigue and how to avoid that cycle.
How much of the fatigue we feel relates to mold that we don’t realize exists in our homes and places of work.
What is the difference between fatigue and chronic fatigue?
Is there something more specific that we should all know about when it comes to chronic fatigue?

Connect with Evan Hirsch: www.fixyourfatigue.org

Self Testing for Infection: www.dnaconnexions.org

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program.

The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

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Biofield Healing for Addictions with Deborah Wayne Apr 04, 2018

In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of chronic pain, specifically how and why it affects some more than others. We also explore the biofield and its significance in all kinds of different mind and body issues. We’ll also talk about why it is that our good intentions don’t always match up with our daily actions.

My guest today is Deborah Wayne, who is the founder of The Pain Free Living Program, an internationally-known energy healer and pain-release expert whose specialty is helping people rapidly remove the hidden causes for Pain, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Binge-Eating, Addictions, and more. She is the #1 Bestselling Author of “Why Do I Still Hurt?" and has earned degrees and certifications in Psychology, Hypnotherapy and Chemical Dependency Counseling. Deborah has 30 years teaching Meditation, is a nationally recognized Fine Artist, a former professional Modern Dancer, a Certified Yoga Instructor, and Director of the Biofield Healing Institute™.

“I have found that in every situation where there is some kind of pain or problematic issue, there is always an emotional, mental or psychological component to it. Always. They are not separate” – Deborah Wayne

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why is it that some people have to live with chronic pain and others don’t?
Is there always an underlying emotional or psychological issue that relates to chronic physical pain?
What do we know about the science of the biofield? Is it measurable? Is it just a matter of belief?
How can people get in touch with what’s happening in the biofield? How can we work with it?
Can anyone work with the biofield?
How does working with the biofield help us bridge the gap between what we’re doing now and what we’d like to be doing?
A good first step for those of us who are ready to start working more closely with our emotions.

Connect with Deborah Wayne: www.biofieldhealinginstitute.com

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program.

The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

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Biohacking, Sleep Hacking, and Self-Quantification Mar 28, 2018

We discuss some fascinating topics in today’s podcast, including biohacking and how it allows us to take control over physiology in ways that we don’t normally think of. We also talk about the importance of sleep. My guest Arvin Khamseh shares his thoughts on why sleep is so crucial to a healthy and a happy life. He also sheds some light on some sleep hacking techniques that can have a big impact on getting a good night’s sleep.

Arvin Khamseh is an Oxford-trained geek and graduate of the National Organization of Development of Exceptional Talents. He is a contributor to publications such as Thrive Global, American Student Dental Association (ASDA) and Medium and Better Humans. Arvin’s expert advice has been featured in the top named Inc. Magazine podcast: Conscious Millionaire and he has spoken on stage at one of the largest health and fitness retreats on the east coast. After extensive lab research, self-experimentation and personal mentoring, he was able to add 215 lbs. to his deadlift, help his mother easily lose over 30 lbs. and has reversed two dental cavities.

“It is possible to maximize our sleep quality. The challenge is remembering what it was like to get a good night’s sleep. Most of us forget or get used to bad sleep patterns and never take the steps to correct them” – Arvin Khamseh

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What exactly is biohacking?
The types of biohacking information we should pay attention to and is most relevant.
Why gut biome/bacteria and genetic tests might be the 2 most important self-screening tests we can do.
How to biohack the intangibles – like stress.
Tips for sleep hacking – why would we even want to do that?
Reasons why some people can’t get a good night’s sleep and strategies to overcome that obstacle.
Is taking Melatonin for sleep a good idea?
A special resource for those that are interested in learning more about sleep hacking.

Connect with Arvin Khamseh: www.arvinkhamseh.com

Arvin’s Sleep Hack Course: www.hackmybiology.com

Measuring Heart Rate Variability: www.myithlete.com

Gut Bacteria Testing: www.ubiome.com

Measuring Sleep Quality: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) www.sleep.pitt.edu/research/instruments.html

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Communications-Step-Step-Harnessing/dp/1401952135

Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program.

The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

Priming Our Brains to Evolve with Mary Shores Mar 21, 2018

Today we’ll be discussing the neuroscience of personal development with my guest Mary Shores. Regular listeners of A Healthy Curiosity will know that I have a passion for neuroscience, especially when it comes to how it relates to our potential of who we can become. Mary shares her insight on specific techniques and methods that can help facilitate our personal development as well as moments from her own journey that helped her become who she is today.

Mary Shores is the international bestselling author of Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. As an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, Mary Shores teaches individuals and businesses to fearlessly create their own realities by using scientific methods and practical personal development.

“Gratitude is the basis and foundation of every spiritual or religious practice that I’ve ever seen. When it comes to the neuroscience of gratitude, the benefit comes when we are actively looking in our environment for something to be grateful for” – Mary Shores

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

What practices can help us hack our personal development through what we know about neuroscience.
The benefits of long-term gratitude journaling.
One daily task that can generate new, fresh ideas.
How to prevent our subconscious from sabotaging our successes.
Becoming who you really are – letting go of the identity that we were told we were supposed to have in favor of who we were meant to be.
Invoking fictional characters to represent dimensions of who we want to be.
How we talk to ourselves and the importance of the words that we use.
How we can focus on putting our energy into what we are creating and what we want to show up as.

Connect with Mary Shores:

www.maryshores.com

Here’s the link to Mary’s book on Amazon:

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program.

The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

Share Your Healthy Curiosity

Thank you for joining me on today’s episode of A Healthy Curiosity, the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in today’s busy world with healthcare strategies through Chinese medicine. If you enjoyed today’s episode, please head over to iTunes and subscribe to the show. Share your favorite episodes with your friends on social media to help us spread the word and help more people achieve optimal health throughout their busy lives.

Psychology of Eating with Amy Krasner Mar 14, 2018

In today’s episode, we discuss the connection between mindset and health, specifically when it comes to healthy eating and weight loss. My guest is Amy Krasner who supports women who are struggling with low energy, digestive issues and difficulty losing weight. I met Amy at a workshop where the focus was on deep self-reflection on what parts of our own stories can actually be a service to others. She shares what led her to where she is now as well as understanding how to nourish our own bodies and developing a practice of positive self-talk.

As a Holistic Nutritionist and a Natural Chef, Amy has helped hundreds of women to improve their health by understanding how to nourish their bodies. In addition to nutrition consulting, Amy supports women to create a healthier relationship with food through Eating Psychology and Intuitive Eating methodologies. She uses a unique approach of 80% mindset and 20% nutrition to help women overcome physical and emotional blocks that have held them back from success with other diet and exercise approaches.

“I see so many women who feel that they are alone in their struggle to lose or maintain weight. I want to remind them that this is a much bigger collective issue…that working with others can not only give them the support they need, but also gives them the opportunity to provide support to others.” –

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Tuning into and paying attention to how you as an individual react to food.
How we can avoid demonizing certain foods.
What’s important about mindset when it comes to eating?
The connection between behavior and our food choices.
Tips for those of us who may struggle with mindful eating.
How to move away from negative self-talk especially when it comes to food.
How can women develop a better sense of body image in the face of an ever-prevalent cultural messaging that seems to set a standard?
Listening to our intuition when it comes to overcoming cravings – especially when it comes to food that may not be so good for us…like sugar.

Connect with Amy Krasner:

www.nourishedbalance.com

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.

http://www.yourlongevityblueprint.com

Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program.

The next round of Level Up Your Life begins May 8, 2018.

Share Your Healthy Curiosity

Thank you for joining me on today’s episode of A Healthy Curiosity, the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in today’s busy world with healthcare strategies through Chinese medicine. If you enjoyed today’s episode, pleasehead over to iTunes and subscribe to the show. Share your favorite episodes with your friends on social media to help us spread the word and help more people achieve optimal health throughout their busy lives.

A Blueprint for Complete Health with Stephanie Gray Mar 07, 2018

My guest for today’s episode is very passionate about taking the many different pieces of our health and putting them together in one complete blueprint for wellness. She makes the comparison of our overall health as a house – just like it wouldn’t be a good idea to leave one room of our house cluttered, unclean or disorganized, so it is with our health. We should be taking the time to pay attention to all aspects of our health.

Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, has been working as a nurse practitioner since 2009. She completed her doctorate focusing on estrogen metabolism from the University of Iowa in 2011. Additionally, she has a Masters in Metabolic Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida’s Medical School. Her expertise lies within integrative, anti-aging, and functional medicine. She is arguably one of the Midwest's’ most credentialed female healthcare providers combining many certifications and trainings.

“It’s important that people know that they don’t have to go it alone when it comes to health. There are so many resources and practitioners available – they just have to get out there and find them.” – Stephanie Gray

On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

Why gut health is usually the starting point when it comes to addressing symptoms.
What tests should we all know about for SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth)?
Is gluten sensitivity just a fad?
The important steps we can take to achieve hormone balance and minimize our risk.
Benefits of DIM supplements and when we might use it.
Why estrogen related cancers are on the rise and what we can do to avoid exposure.
What is most important to know about liver detoxing?
How can we responsibly take care of our blood vessels and our heart?
Why is cholesterol important? Why do we need it?
Causes of inflammation in our blood vessels.

Connect with Stephanie Gray:

Free Self-Assessment Questionnaires:

http://www.yourlongevityblueprint.com/ylb-bonus/

You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just click here to download. Print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.