Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

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#244 I think I like you with Clara Artschwager, having a relationship without losing yourself, reading the room, seeking permission Jul 13, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Clara Artschwager we dive into all things relationships like having a relationship without losing yourself and how relationships affect how we present in the world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

"Your mess becomes your message."
Reading the room & the effects of being an empath
Common denominators in things around relationships
How relationships with people and emotions keep us stuck
Neural pathways in how we exhibit things in our behavior
Relationships are about perfecting you.

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Rewiring experiences & seeing the way in which we hold patterns
Attracting healthy love
Using writing for your self-healing work.

ABOUT GUEST:
I’m a dating and relationships coach and a writer. I often say I’m like the dating coach for folks that would never hire a dating or relationships coach, largely because I don’t actually believe marriage or relationships are the be-all-end-all. Are we wired for connection? Absolutely. But do I feel that comes in a variety of forms? Indeed.

I wanted a relationship, to be sure. But I also wanted a way of seeking it that didn’t feel me with anxiety and dread (or the notion that I had to treat dating like a job). And once in a relationship, I wanted a partnership that didn’t rob me of my own life.

I found most dating and relationships rhetoric— from five-step plans to Get the Guy to Instagram tropes on how to love myself (and now!)—to fall flat. Really flat. I wanted a more nuanced conversation around love and partnership. Why did I want it but also, in a way, fear it? What made it so uniquely hard for me? And so on and so forth. Women, and yes, some men, who jive with that conversation, are the ones who thrive in my programs and work.

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#243 Recognizing and addressing burnout in healthcare, depression, and a leave of absence with pediatric oncologist Tammie Chang, MD Jul 07, 2022

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https://www.tammiechangmd.com/

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Tammie Chang. In our discussion, we talk about recognizing and addressing burnout in healthcare, depression, and leave of absence.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

What contributes to health care provider burnout and burnout in general
How patients can show up to get better care from their providers
Signs and symptoms of burnout
AMA toolkit for organizational joy: how to create well-being programs.

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

How to thrive as a health care provider
What you can do to treat and prevent burnout
How to be an advocate for your own health
Tools available to the healthcare system to create well-being programs to prevent burnout in the workspace

ABOUT GUEST:

Tammie Chang, M.D., is a board-certified physician in pediatric hematology/oncology and author of the book, Boundaries as a Woman Physician: The Key to Loving Your Life and Career in Medicine (February 3, 2021.)and coauthor of How to Thrive as a Woman Physician.

Boundaries as a Woman Physician focuses on the understanding that to heal and serve others, one must first focus on having a healthy body, spirit and mind. Tammie highlights the importance of good self-care habits and boundaries in a physician’s life to avoid burnout, stress and exhaustion. She shares her own debilitating burnout story and that of three other physicians, acknowledging her struggles and the ways she broke the barrier of shame many physicians have when it comes to mental health and self-care

Tammie earned her bachelor’s and medical degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. She completed her residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts and completed her fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

WHERE TO FIND :
Tammie's personal burnout story can be found on HBR Ascend: https://hbr.org/2022/03/my-burnout-nearly-cost-me-everything-now-i-help-other-physicians-overcome-it

As well as her new book, which is #1 on Amazon in 15 health categories: https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Women-Physicians-Career-Medicine-ebook/dp/B09R7VY1QF
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammiechangmd/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammie-chang-md-254821195/

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#242 The root of happiness, freezing your eggs, escaping life through partying to alignment, relationship and leading retreats in Costa Rica with Emily Pereira Jun 27, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Emily Pereira. In this conversation, we dive into topics like the root of happiness, freezing your eggs, escaping life through partying to alignment, relationships, and leading retreats in Costa Rica.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Finding the gift in heartbreak & hard emotions
The power of the beginner's mind
Freezing eggs as a form of liberation, the after-effects, and resetting her body
Life shrinks or expands in relation to permission you give yourself.

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Activating and recconnection to your creative self
Learning to trust yourself & follow your intuition
Find the gift and lesson in every situation

ABOUT GUEST:

Emily Pereira is an International retreat leader, yoga teacher, and women’s coach — coined by her clients as the “Relationship Whisperer”. After 13 years of intensive and extensive spiritual training and exploration, she has amassed a treasure trove of astonishing wisdom + powerful practices. She’s used these to heal her own love story and transform her life. Over the years, she’s had the honor of helping hundreds of women ignite their intimate, heart-thumping, passionate, I got-your-back-no-matter-what love, and build the family and lifestyle of their dreams.

Emily traded her “perfect” lifestyle in LA for one in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica. Through her exotic journey, she found the true light within herself and the true meaning of love. It took Emily periods of despair, utter confusion, and soul searching to now reach over five million people worldwide to help them reinvent their own love lives. Emily has become a symbol of hope, love, and discovery for women all over the world

WHERE TO FIND :

Instagram: http://instagram.com/emilybegins
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bethebeginner/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/bethebeginner
Website: emilypereira.com

WHERE TO FIND CHRISTA:

https://www.christabiegler.com/

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#241 Decades of dieting, overcoming fear of food, responding to triggers, misinformation and disordered eating with Mindy Gorman-Plutzer Jun 18, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Mindy Gorman-Plutzer. We discuss dieting, overcoming fear of food, responding to triggers, misinformation, and disordered eating.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Root causes of eating disorder
What health issues come along with an eating disorder
The true definition of recovery and why conventional eating disorder recovery Protocols Often Fail

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Resources and supplements for eating disorder recovery
Signs of an eating disorder

ABOUT GUEST:

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer is a certified functional nutritionist, lifestyle practitioner and eating psychology coach with over 25 years of experience. Mindy is passionate about helping others recover from eating disorders and create a healthier lifestyle. Mindy’s approach to eating disorders tackles the root cause of the issue, and emphasizes that how and why you eat is just as important as what you eat. Through her integrative approach, she also looks at the impact disordered eating has on one’s daily life, digestion and hormones.

Her life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science called the Freedom Promise. She has established a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders. In addition, Mindy is the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.

WHERE TO FIND :

Website: https://thefreedompromise.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFreedomPromise/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreedompromise/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreedomPromise
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindy-gorman-plutzer-02642818/

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#240 Ask Christa: what do you do if you still have "gut issues" after "trying everything" and thoughts on IF and improving energy in hypothyroidism + conventional GI approaches to functional GI and failed functional GI approaches. Jun 17, 2022

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I'm hosting a LIVE Ask Christa call for RDs & licensed health professionals (MDs, PA, NP, DC, PT, etc) in July. Space is limited to 20 seats & anything is on the table except legal questions. Learn more and register here (fast!) www.askchrista.com
Heather sent this sweet message to my guest Bea after episode #229 aired with her live mashup breathwork and thetahealing : I had the MOST profound experience through your work on the podcast The Less Stressed Life.
>> Listen to the episode and do the 15 min breathwork session at the end to feel all the feels! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4uHAR0s3vjG9cgM1Fj9Obp?si=scLX7n6ARd6hU4kR6kT9YA Episode #229
Frankie asked: What can I do for more energy and weight loss with hypothyroidism? I considered intermittent fasting but not sure what that would look like.
*I will mention that I work with a lot of subclinical (undiagnosed) thyroid issues but if you have a known diagnosis and have been on the medication train a while, another amazing resource is also ChewsFoodWisely (my friend Nicole Fennell, MS, RD runs this practice and she is a doll).
Melissa asked: If one were to want a consult with you ? How would I go about that and does insurance ever cover ? …. I grew up going to - what I would call a healer … had major gut issues in college and he told me some certain foods to avoid and changed everything - I still avoid them - but within the last year I’ve developed a rash on both shins … some on my scalp … and no medicine is curing it … I have a strong inclining it could be gut related .. food allergy- something ….. and just kind of wondering some next possible steps I could take.
*I answered all these and more and made sure to address the role of conventional GI vs functional GI and then what to do in failed functional GI work!

#239 Following “yes” signs, leading retreats, immune healing from nature, Qigong, energy exchange, being a giver, and the 8 tenets of wellness with retreat leader Jessica Van Antwerp Jun 15, 2022

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INTRO:

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by retreat leader Jessica Van Antwerp. In this episode we discuss following “yes” signs, leading retreats, immune healing from nature, Qigong, energy exchange, being a giver, and the 8 tenets of wellness

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Benefits of retreats & immune healing from nature
8 tenets of wellness
What is Qigong

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Following "yes signs"
How to protect your energy
How to reset if you are not able go on a retreat

ABOUT GUEST:

Jessica Van Antwerp is the owner and CEO of Integral Travel. Jessica provides wellness retreats and education to teach people how to unlock their bodies' natural healing capacity while connecting with others and the planet. Jessica uses these retreats to express the power of transformational travel and its regenerative potential. With the influence that our online world has on connecting others around the globe to better ourselves, Jessica is a leader in this as she is changing the lives of others who join her journey through physical, psychological and spiritual activities.

Jessica draws on over a decade of experience in the health and wellness industry. She aspires to help people find inner peace. Having dealt with anxiety, low self-esteem, weight and body-image issues, she knows just how difficult it can be to overcome these things and find self-love. She’s spent over a decade in the healing arts, doing massage and Shiatsu, teaching yoga and qigong and through the lens of Chinese Medicine, learning the ways that we can reconnect with Nature to rebalance our bodies, minds and spirits.

WHERE TO FIND :

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/integraltravel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/integral_travel/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx_CBXknkvCGfwRQQ_UtkvA
Website: www.integraltravel.com

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#238 RAW: What to do if you have symptoms of low and high cortisol AKA feeling like you have adrenal fatigue or HPA axis dysfunction with Christa Biegler, RD Jun 10, 2022

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Warning: This is a raw/unedited recording of my discussing the below outline on an IG live due to many many comments on an IG post on my account about high vs low cortisol. You can view that original post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd9ZOx5huGj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
>> Ask Christa live session for health professionals in July: www.askchrista.com (LIMITED to 20 seats)
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Couple years ago ran an "adrenal resilience reset" and here are some of the principles I discussed in that program:
Normal cortisol curve
- Programmed by circadian rhythm: eating, sunlight, etc
Where cortisol comes from and other hormones produced by the adrenals and their roles.
- 76% of health professionals show signs of burnout
Gas pedal/gas tank: resilience
- CV-resilience issues and mitochondrial degradation
What to do: stop killing cells
- 3 pronged approach from PHYSIOLOGY standpoint :
  - Minerals
  - Mitochondrial support
  - Custom adrenal support (might look like adaptogenic mushrooms, ashwaganda, valerian root, magnolia, lemon balm, magnesium, glandulars, licorice, etc. I mention L-theanine and GABA as favorites for anxiety as well and calming support). This will depend if high OR low and what you tolerate.
    - I also talk about why people DON'T tolerate things and answer off the cuff questions about headaches, etc,
- NON-negotiables for lifestyle:
  - Sleep 7-10 hours
  - Limbic system work/neural pathway retraining
  - Gut/mold/etc issues
  - Eat enough regularly at reg intervals every 4ish hours PFC
  - LIFESTYLE: what is stresing you out? talking fast? appt to appt?
  - Exercise changes
  - Night shift

Get on the waitlist to work with me: https://www.christabiegler.com/fss

#237 Holistic Nutrition for cancer during and after treatment and future prevention with functional nutritionist Dionne Detraz, RD Jun 08, 2022

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INTRO:

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dionne Detraz. In this episode, we talk about holistic nutrition for cancer during and after treatments and future prevention with functional medicine.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Conventional vs functional complements to cancer care
7 systems to assess for cancer care
Success stories

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Top 2 Organic whole-food-based formulas
Treatment pie for cancer nutrition
How to optimize recovery & reduce the chance of reoccurrence of cancer

ABOUT GUEST:

Dionne Detraz, is an Integrative and Functional Dietitian and Cancer Nutrition Expert. She is also the founder of Ground & Root Cancer Nutrition, an online dietetics practice specializing in functional nutrition for cancer survivors. ("Ground & Root Cancer Nutrition")

They empower people moving through a cancer journey with the tools and strategies to optimize their treatment, enhance recovery, and reduce risk for recurrence.

Over the last 13 years, She's worked in conventional oncology departments, infusion clinics, integrative medicine clinics, and, for the last 6 years in private practice. She's seen firsthand what hundreds of cancer patients and their families are experiencing throughout this journey—including her own dad's experience as he faced cancer twice.

Her primary goal is to help as many cancer patients as possible optimize their initial recovery while also helping them uncover potential root causes so they can take steps to significantly reduce their chance of recurrence.

WHERE TO FIND :

https://groundandroot.com
Instagram & Facebook @groundandrootnutrition

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#236 Listener Q&A increased appetite, keratosis pilaris, and endocrine disruptors related to AI with Christa Biegler, RD Jun 02, 2022

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