Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

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# 265 High-stress teaching to private practice RDN and using love languages with Maria Terry, MS, RD Nov 09, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Maria Terry. In this episode, we discuss her transition from teaching to private practice RDN & also how she uses the five love languages to support her clients.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

What are the five love languages
The benefits of applying love languages to your life & self-care

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

How to use your own love language to love yourself
How to use your own love language to help you decompress
Where to start when integrating the five love language concept into your life

ABOUT GUEST:

Maria Terry is a registered dietitian in New Orleans, LA. She is a former English teacher + school admin/instructional coach. She loved teaching, but the education field was a pressure cooker. After 5 years, she took a summer off, changed careers + never looked back.

She grew up bullied by my pediatrician + gym teachers for my weight. She learned my weight doesn't define me. She became an unexpectedly okay CrossFitter, runner, + hiker. If given the chance, yes, she would benchpress my bullies now 💪🏼

She used to buy into A LOT of diet BS. You name it, she has tried it. Her goal is to help you break through the all-or-nothing approach to nutrition + figure out what works for YOU.

WHERE TO FIND :

Instagram: @vitamin_ri
Email: hello@mariaterry.com
Website : https://links.mariaterrynutrition.com/

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#264 Empowered Weight Loss with Lucia Hawley Nov 02, 2022

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This week on the Less Stress Life Podcast, I am joined by Lucia Hawley. In this episode, we discuss diet culture, empowered weight loss, and how to end compulsive eating and yoyo dieting with loving, libratory principles.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

The root cause of weight loss resistance
Why dieting is a stress response and how women can end the cycle permanently
What “self-talk,” is and how can we reframe the way we think about what we want
Why do restrictive diets appeal to so many people

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

How self-trust is the solution to permanent weight loss for women
How to listen to your body for permanent weight loss
How can you reframe your mindset around setting and reaching your goals for maximum success

ABOUT GUEST:
Lucia Hawley is a weight loss coach living in Portland, Oregon. She helps women ages 30-75 lose 10 or more pounds and end compulsive overeating and yo-yo dieting with loving, liberatory principles in her Lean + Liberated program. She hosts the Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Podcast, with over 220 episodes of free coaching and client success stories.
And just so you can get an even better feel for what Lucia is all about, here are the top three most listened-to episodes of the Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Podcast:

1. Loving Yourself Down The Scale

2. Your Thoughts Are Your Roots

3. Body Weight Set Point

WHERE TO FIND LUCIA HAWLEY:
Website: www.luciahawley.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/luciahawley_
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lucia.hawley

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#262 Sharing my journey as an integrative dietitian nutritionist in private practice Oct 24, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by our team's dietetic intern Annie Romanowski. We are switching things up, and she is interviewing me about my journey as an integrative dietitian nutritionist in private practice.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

How I got started as a dietitian & how I got interested in nutrition
How I got into integrative nutrition & started my private practice
How I stay up to date on the latest nutrition science & research
How I maintain work-life balance
How your practice evolves and my future goals
How to maintain a less stressed life as a dietetic intern

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#263 Lymph Love with Leah Levitan Oct 24, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Leah Levitan. We dive into all things related to the lymphatic system, including signs and symptoms of lymph stagnation, how to facilitate lymph drainage, and the importantance of minerals for lymph drainage.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Lymph nodes versus Lymph symptoms
Definition of Lymph drainage
What makes lymph stagnant
Symptoms and signs of lymph stagnation
The importance of minerals for lymph drainage

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Where to start with lymph drainage
How to continue to move the lymph if you are injured or bedridden

ABOUT GUEST:

Leah is a licensed massage therapist, Vodder Method certified lymphatic drainage specialist, massage therapist instructor, and online educator.

In her Austin clinic, she assists and supports women as they navigate their unique healing journeys. She approaches the body with brain-based myofascial bodywork and Manual Lymphatic Drainage to harness the healing power of the lymphatic system. that has proven to be a valuable missing miss to their migraine, autoimmune, chronic fatigue, EDS, hormone imbalance, and endometriosis symptoms.

She is the founder of Lymph Love Club, which started out in 2020, with some silly videos that contained tips and tricks for her clients to help them keep up the lymph work at home. The response was overwhelming and it turns out that chronic folks who've slipped through the cracks of traditional medicine also needed this information and were ready to learn about, rebuild trust, and take ownership of their body's innate healing capabilities.

With all the healing journeys she's witnessed firsthand, she started to build out her first online course (Intro To Lymph Flow) and has become a women's health + self-love advocate in the process. Through her own self-healing journey of transitioning off of birth control and reversing her dense breast tissue with MLD, she's helped raise awareness about breast and reproductive health to help others gain autonomy in their healing.

WHERE TO FIND :

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#261 Workout without burn out for active women with with AI, Hashimotos and hypermobility with Dr. Emily Kiberd Oct 19, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Emily Kiberd. In this conversation, we discuss how women can work out without burnout.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Why to focus on feeding the muscle living with Hashimotos
Clinical observation of hypermobility in women with autoimmune conditions, what this looks like, and how does this present?
What is progressive overload & the importance of proper form for working out

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

How to work out smarter, not harder
Mistakes you’re making in your workout and what to do instead
How to focus on feeding the muscle tissue living with Hashimotos
Why your body composition is not changing, but you are working out

ABOUT GUEST:
Dr. Emily Kiberd is a chiropractor with a practice in NYC and Boulder, Colorado, and a mama to Elvis and Brooklyn. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto's in 2016 and put herself into remission with changes in diet, lifestyle changes identifying root causes, and changing how she was exercising. She now helps women do the same with her online program Thyroid Strong, helping women learn how to work out without burnout. She's been featured in Vogue, Elle, Women's Health, Fortune Magazine, and Vice for her expertise in posture, ergonomics, and Hashimoto's background.

WHERE TO FIND :
5 strategies to lose weight with Hashimoto's
www.dremilykiberd.com/weight
www.dremilykiberd.com
IG: @dremilykiberd
Free FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thyroidstrong
Twitter @dremilykiberd

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#260 Relationships with money and tenets of financial intimacy with Hannah Koenig Oct 12, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Hannah Koenig. This episode discusses relationships with money and tenets of financial literacy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

The tenets of financial literacy - emotional, intellectual, experiential intimacy
Cultivating financial intimacy & vision for wealth
Reasons behind the gender wealth gap

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Tangible and practical systems for financial literacy
Different budget systems
Different debt pay-down options
Getting started with investing

ABOUT GUEST:
This multiple six-figure entrepreneur and Forbes Coaches Council member grew up on food stamps, below the poverty line. As a kid the only thing she understood about money was that her family didn't have it. Her fear of finances carried on into her twenties, where she faced eviction, mountains of debt, and the consequences of every financial mistake a person can make. After becoming an entrepreneur, she realized that earning more was only a fraction of the equation. It was then that she committed to fully transforming her relationship with money. In a few short years, Hannah went from a negative net worth to becoming an investor, owning multiple properties, and building tangible wealth. Her own journey of financial liberation catalyzed the work she does today.
Hannah helps entrepreneurial leaders build wealth and become well-resourced by cultivating financial stability, sovereignty, and sustainability. Her commitment to closing the wealth gap inspired her to found The LeadWell Summit in 2021, an annual global wealth event. It's free to all participants and will be hosted again on October 17th - 21st.

The LeadWell Summit is a self-funded, grassroots platform for real, practical, and transformative discussions about building tangible wealth with world-renowned authors, speakers, and educators. The summit will touch upon necessary and often inaccessible topics that are essential to building wealth including Financial Feminism, First Generation Wealth, Trauma & Shame Around Money, Emotional Spending, Debt, Investing, Financial Intimacy, Credit, Budgeting, Wealth Embodiment, Crypto, and NF

WHERE TO FIND :
IG - @iamhannahkoenig
Well Summit: https://leadwellsummit.com/
CampsiteBio: https://campsite.bio/iamhannahkoenig
Website: https://hannah-koenig.com/

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#259 Lower Cost Health Insurance Alternatives with Christa Biegler, RD Oct 07, 2022

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Welcome to the Less Stressed Life, where we help women and families overcome fatigue, food sensitivities and inflammation the goal here is really to help you heal yourself.

Right now is the last time 1:1 coaching applications will be open for the rest of the year. If you need another set of eyes on your case or you're ready to get rid of some common but not normal symptoms, book a time for a case review session at christabiegler.com/fss if you want to move in the right direction by Christmas

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On this episode:

Ethical concerns about contributing to health insurance from working in high dollar healthcare
Insurance doesn’t cover my services
Cost difference
Cost sharing model of "health insurance" alternatives
You are responsible for paying a certain monthly share amount similar to how you would pay a monthly insurance premium
- The amount paid per month is determined based on household size, age, where you live, annual unshared amount, and the program plan

Covered these Health Sharing Organizations:

Christian Healthcare
Samaritan Ministries
KNEW Health
Medi-Share
Altrua Health
Liberty Healthshare
United Refuah Healthshare

This episode is sponsored by RUPA Health, my favorite lab concierge service that brings over 25 different functional medicine labs to one dashboard and saves me loads of time with it’s amazing interface and saves my clients money by being a low cost blood lab facilitating option. If you're a health practitioner, get a free account at https://www.rupahealth.com and let them know I sent you!

#258 Endometriosis, PMDD and Fibroids with Suzanne Fenske, MD of TārāMD Oct 04, 2022

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INTRO:
This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Suzanne Fenske, MD of TārāMD. We talk about the conditions that can arise from hormonal imbalances, like Endometriosis, PMDD, and Fibroids.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Endometriosis, symptoms, diagnosis, and management
What endometriosis looks like in perimenopause
PMDD, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments
Different types of fibroids, why & who gets fibroids, and common symptoms

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Supplements, HRT, and Lifestyle recommendations for hormonal estrogen imbalances

ABOUT GUEST:
Dr. Fenske is a native of the New York area board cert in ob and gynecology. and cert NA MenoPause society provider.
Dr. Fenske felt that her robust academic education did not provide her patients with the comprehensive, whole-person care she felt they deserved. At this point, she applied and was accepted to the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine fellowship with a scholarship and became board-certified in Integrative medicine. She then took a deeper dive into root cause analysis and trained in functional medicine with the Institute of Functional Medicine.

With this unique combination of training, she started TārāMD with a focus on treating complex conditions such as hormonal imbalances, polycystic ovarian syndrome, perimenopause, menopause, chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, fibroids, recurrent infections, sexual dysfunction as well as optimizing women’s health and wellbeing during their annual examinations.
Dr. Fenske has been invited to speak at national conferences and contributed to many magazines, news articles, and peer-reviewed studies. In addition, she consistently strives for growth, offering both her patients and colleagues her expertise and readiness to help solve the most complex challenges facing women’s health today.

“Live life to the fullest: use your talents and skills to create a difference, laugh every day, love with all your heart, and surround yourself with like-minded and spirited people.”- Suzanne Fenske

WHERE TO FIND :
Website: www.taramd.com
Instagram: @taramd4women
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#257 Midlife hormones : See Ya later Ovulator with Esther Blum, MS, RD, CNS Sep 28, 2022

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INTRO:
This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Esther Blum, MS, RD, CNS. In this episode, we discuss all things related to midlife hormones.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Hormone baselines & Meno - Mythbusting
The symptoms of perimenopause and menopause
The benefits of hormone replacement therapy
Why do some doctors dismiss HRT in favor of The Pill or an IUD
The importance of pelvic floor therapy for maintaining vaginal health

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

How to determine the best types of hormone replacement therapy?
Where to start first when treating perimenopause and menopause?
What is the dreaded “menopot” and how can women lose it?
Organic water-based lube - recommendations
Supplements & sustainable food recommendations to support midlife hormones

ABOUT GUEST:
Esther is the bestselling author of Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat, Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous, Secrets of Gorgeous, and The Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous Project. She currently maintains a busy virtual practice where she helps women balance hormones, lose stubborn body fat, and treat the root cause of health struggles.

Esther was voted Best Nutritionist by Manhattan Magazine. She has appeared on Dr. Oz, the Today Show, A Healthy You with Carol Alt, the ISAAC show, ABC-TV, FOX- 5’s Good Day NY, and Fox News Live. Esther is an in-demand authority frequently quoted in E!Online, In Touch, Time Magazine, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, In Style, Bazaar, Self, Fitness, Marie Claire, and Cosmo.

Esther received a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Nutrition from Simmons College in Boston and is a graduate of New York University, where she received her Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition. Esther is credentialed as a registered dietitian, a certified dietitian-nutritionist and a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), the certification from the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS). She is also a member of the American Dietetic Association, Dietitians in Functional Medicine, Nutritionists in Complementary Care, and the Connecticut Dietetic Association.
Esther is a 4-time bestselling author whose new book SEE YA LATER, OVULATOR: Mastering Menopause with Nutrition, Hormones, and Self-Advocacy hits shelves on October 6, 2022.

WHERE TO FIND :
https://www.facebook.com/LivingGorgeous
https://www.instagram.com/gorgeousesther/
https://www.youtube.com/user/estherblum
www.estherblum.com

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Sharing & reviewing this podcast is the BEST way to help us succeed with our mission to help integrate the best of East & West empower you to raise the bar on your health story. Just go to https://reviewthispodcast.com/lessstressedlife
SPONSORS:
A special thanks to our VIP sponsor RUPA Health, our lab concierge service that helps our clients get standard bloodwork 2/3 off retail direct to consumer lab test pricing. Let them know I sent you when you sign up for your free practitioner account.

#256 What if you don't think you're stressed and why don't we take good advice? with Britt Lefkoe Sep 20, 2022

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In this episode we discussed:

Logical (prefrontal cortex) vs emotional (amygdala) part of the brain and theta state of childhood.
Why we know what to do but we don't do it.
What if we don't feel stressed but we have symptoms that we have it?
- Yelling/urgency or rushing, difficulty relaxing
- People pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
- Procrastination and inability to focus
How our brain affects our health.
What to do if you're a parent and want to set your kids up for success.

Britt Lefkoe is a business and personal development coach, who specializes in coaching individuals who are looking to push through glass ceilings, uplevel in their business, and create more joy and authenticity in their lives. For over 20 years, Britt has been expanding upon the groundbreaking work of her father, Morty Lefkoe, whose belief-based, neuroscientific approach to business and personal development has been instrumental in the growth of individuals and organizations around the world.

Britt's work is focused on identifying and shifting the underlying beliefs, thoughts, and feelings that are typically buried underneath layers of achieving, accomplishments, and pushing through. Her highly customized methodology helps clients identify blind spots and create unwavering confidence, to accelerate growth without undiagnosed problems holding them back.

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