Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

“The more you do healing around and understanding your trauma and you know when your triggers present and what they look like for you; then, you can manage them without as much disruption.”

In this week’s episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast, our guest Lisa Kuzman, BA, LISW, Leadership Coach shares about the common but not so talked about experience of trauma. As a women’s leadership coach, Lisa is on a mission to make learning about trauma “fun” and inviting while still respecting the complexity and reverence it deserves. She’ll help bring awareness to what trauma exactly is, what’s happening in our brains when being triggered by our past, naming and claiming our experiences + more! If you’re a healthcare professional, you won’t want to miss this one as Lisa also dives into how trauma can present itself in working with clients. Learn to not trigger your clients but instead be a safe and empowering resource.

Lisa shared some helpful tips on:

What happens in our brain with a trauma response
Fear vs anxiety
Red flags: 70% people have experienced trauma and every person experiences the event differently
Moving out of generalized social work into life coaching then leadership coaching

Mentioned in this episode:

www.lisakuzman.com for leadership coaching, trauma basics, and advanced course

Lisa Kuzman BA, LISW, Leadership Coach is a clinical social worker turned leadership coach for women of influence who's making trauma-sensitive education just as exciting as the 6-figure launch because nothing's sexier than safe! She's on a mission to make learning about this topic fun and inviting while still respecting the complexity and reverence it deserves. She draws from her 15 years of mental health experience as a social worker and personal trauma survivorship to teach, normalize ongoing supervision and offer continuing education for coaches!

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#183 Be a Mom, Not a Food Cop with Katja Rowell, MD, author of Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating Jun 03, 2021

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On this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast, Katja Rowell, MD, author of Helping your child with extreme picky eating, joins me to tackle the topic of how to establish a healthy feeding relationship between parents, children, and food. Dr. Rowell shares her expertise on being a mom, not a food cop. She talks about how neutralization around foods is in and bribery is out, the one-bite rule, and whether our kiddos will be forever obsessed with sweets.

Mentioned in this episode:

Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Revised and Updated Edition Book by Ellyn Satter
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating Book by Katja Rowell, MD
Love Me, Feed Me: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Ending the Worry About Weight, Picky Eating, Power Struggles, and More Book by Katja Rowell, MD

Katja Rowell, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Michigan medical school and served as a family physician in urban, rural, and university student health settings. During her time in practice, she was struck by the prevalence of disordered eating and feeding, and related health problems. Rowell believes establishing a healthy feeding relationship– in essence– HOW children are fed is the missing piece in addressing disordered eating and weight dysregulation.

Described as “academic, but warm and down-to-earth,” Dr. Rowell teaches the importance of a healthy feeding relationship to health care providers, family therapists and childcare staff and consults with corporate clients, nutrition education and public health providers. She has appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Betty Crocker Blog, Parents Magazine, Kare 11 TV, Brain Child Magazine, The Utne Reader, Twin Cities Live and Mommy MD Guides, among others. Her writing has appeared in LiveWell Digest, Huffingtonpost Parenting blogs, New Moon Girls Magazine, and Adoptive Families Magazine.

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#182 Mastering your Minerals with Amanda Montalvo RD, FDN-P May 26, 2021

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https://www.hormonehealingrd.com/

If you’ve ever been stressed, drink caffeine, had gut issues, wanted more energy, been depressed or felt like your hormones were out of balance, you’ll want to hear what my friend Amanda the @hormonehealongrd has to say about minerals today!

We talk about Amanda’s experience with a PCOS diagnosis and increase of symptoms that came to a head 6 years after her copper IUD was placed. We talk about what symptoms appear when minerals are compromised and dive into each macromineral: sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium.

We talk about thyroid issues, athletic performance, nervous system, foods rich in minerals and how to test for mineral issues.

Amanda Montalvo is a women’s health dietitian that helps women get to the root cause of hormone imbalances and have healthy menstrual cycles. Amanda started off her education in nutrition with the traditional route, but after dealing with her own health problems after getting off hormonal birth control she quickly realized the value of functional medicine. After healing her acne, balancing her hormones, and learning the value of her menstrual cycle, Amanda found her purpose—to help women create a body in balance and not settle for anything less.

This episode is sponsored by 88 Acres. I love stocking my pantry with the delicious, thoughtfully crafted seed bars & seed butters from 88 Acres that also just also happen to be free of common food allergens in their commitment to high quality ingredient sourcing. To get a discount on your order and a list of my favorite 88 Acres products, head over to seeds.88acres.com/lessstressed (BLUEBERRY LEMON IS BACK! YUM!). AND if you’re a health practitioner, don’t forget to join the 88 Acres Nutrition Collaborative.

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https://www.instagram.com/hormonehealingrd

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#181 MUST LISTEN: Breathwork for Sleep, Stress, with Campbell Will, PT May 19, 2021

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Joining us in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast is Campbell Will, who has combined his passion for breathwork with knowledge of anatomy and physiology to teach people how to optimize their respiration as a tool for improved health and well-being.

Campbell shares his expertise on:

The many amazing benefits of breathwork
Functional vs therapeutic breathwork and how to get started
Manipulating brain biochemistry
Breathing with panic attacks and anxiety

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Mentioned in this episode:

Breathing Re-Education and Phenotypes of Sleep Apnea: A Review. J Clin Med. 2021 Jan 26;10(3):471. PMID: 33530621 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33530621/
Effects of Chronic Hyperventilation
https://respirasbreathing.com/documents/breathing/Hyperventilation%20and%20the%20body.pdf

Use the code LESSSTRESS to get a 20% discount on Campbell Will's 5-week online Fundamentals Course!

Campbell Will has combined his passion for breathwork with knowledge of anatomy and physiology and has developed an education system to teach people how to optimize their respiration, and how to use it as a tool for improved health and well-being. His journey has been one of passionate curiosity, exploring the wide range of breathwork practices and the underpinnings of human optimization. He teaches not only the principles of breath but also the foundations of health and performance.

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#180 How To Sleep Better with Jeff Kahn of Rise Science May 12, 2021

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Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.risesci.nyx&hl=en_US&gl=US

So how do you REALLY get better sleep?

Joining us in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast is Jeff Kahn, Co-Founder & CEO at Rise Science sharing his expertise on getting the benefits of sleep, which not only impact our health but our performance and energy production.

Jeff shares his expertise on:

The impact of sleep debt
The connection between ATP production (energy) and circadian rhythm
Calculating your sleep
Brain manipulation of sleep

Learn more at: https://www.risescience.com/

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Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rise-track-sleep-circadian/id1453884781

Mentioned in this episode:

The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorder by Charles M. Morin and Colin A. Espie
Rise App
http://www.drowsinessisredalert.com/

Jeff and his Rise Science co-founder were the first to publish research on technology-enabled sleep behavior modification over a decade ago, and have recently completed the largest known study on sleep and real-world job performance across the NFL and sales teams.

Jeff's research and work have been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal, and on ESPN, NBC, CBS, and Fox Sports. Jeff holds a B.S. in Health Systems Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Design & Innovation from Northwestern University.

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#179 How To Stick To “Goals” with Gamification with William Moore May 04, 2021

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Joining us in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast is Will Moore, serial entrepreneur, speaker, life coach, and happiness expert who shares his passion for and expertise on creating beneficial habits and finding true happiness.

Will share's his expertise on:

How to create addicting "success habits"
Using gamification and fun to make habits easier to stick to
How beliefs and balance help you to achieve your life goals

Mentioned in this episode:

Will Moore is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, life coach, and happiness expert. After exiting his delivery startup for $323 mil in 2019, he’s made it his mission to help others become an entrepreneur of the most important business they’ll ever run, THEIR LIFE.

To do this, Will has thrown out the book on traditional self-improvement, creating instead a unique system that combines the latest in science and technology with habits and universal principles to gamify the process of harnessing momentum.

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#178 Environmental Mold & Mycotoxins: Types, Testing & Treatment with Environmental Toxins Nerd Lara Adler Apr 28, 2021

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Joining us again in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast is environmental toxins nerd Lara Adler. This week, we are discussing types, testing & treatment with mold, mycotoxins, and spores.

Lara shares her expertise on:

Misconceptions about molds and how to deal with it
Symptoms of mold exposure
Home testing

Mentioned in this episode:

Mycophenolic acid
MYCOTOXIN: provoking urine
Marcon Test

Lara Adler is an Environmental Toxins Expert & Educator and a Certified Holistic Health Coach who teaches health coaches, nutritionists, and other holistic health practitioners how to eliminate the #1 thing holding their clients back from the results they are seeking – the unaddressed link between chemicals and chronic health problems.

She trains practitioners to become experts in everyday toxic exposures so they can improve client outcomes without spending hundreds of hours researching on their own. Combining environmental health education and business consulting, she’s helped thousands of health professionals in over 25 countries around the world elevate their skillset, get better results for their clients, and become sought-out leaders in the growing environmental health & detoxification field.

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#177 Seed Cycling for Hormone Health with Christa Biegler, RD Apr 27, 2021

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Have you ever heard the hype about seed cycling for healthy periods and hormone health? In this episode I dive into who might benefit from seed cycling, the primary nutrients involved and easy ways you can vary the seeds in your life to get all the benefits.

Mentioned in this episode: PMID: 19337250 and PMID: 25829567

Thanks to 88 Acres for sponsoring this episode.
So how do you make something like seed cycling, which is essentially diversifying your mineral and fatty acid intake for improving hormone health, easy to do every day? This is one of the many reasons I recommend and use 88 Acres, a woman owned company founded by Nicole Ledoux that grew up on an 88 acre farm outside of Boston. 88 Acres makes makes seed butters, bars, seed’nola and salad dressings from whole food ingredients and a commitment to ingredient sourcing. Sunflower, watermelon, pumpkin and flax seeds make up the backbone of their products and by throwing one of their delish double choc or triple berry bars into your bag and eating roasted pumpkin seed butter by the spoonful for an afternoon snack, now you’re seed cycling.

Not only that, 88 Acres is a small team that cares about its customers and community. Instead of relying on a larger manufacturer like most food companies to prepare and package their recipes, 88 Acres maintains full quality control in their allergen free facility so they can ensure zero product waste and create jobs in their community. I love the little extras they add into their boxes and I know you’ll love them too. To check out their variety packs to support your seed cycling and my favorite 88 Acres products with a discount, head over to seeds.88acres.com/lessstressed. If you’re a health practitioner, don’t forget to join the 88 Acres Nutrition Collaborative.

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#176 Stop Teaching “good food/bad food” To Kids By Using STEAM with Arielle “Dani” Lebovitz from Kid Food Explorers Apr 21, 2021

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Struggling to feed your picky eaters?

Joining us on this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast is Arielle “Dani” Lebovitz, Dietitian, author, and founder of Kid Food Explorers, who is sharing her story and passion to help picky eaters become confident food explorers.

Dani shares her expertise on:

The 1 food rule that helps picky eaters
How to create food neutrality and confidence using STEAM
Tips on food exploration and when to start
Getting started with simple, fun food exploration

A special thank you to our sponsor 88 Acres. To get a discount on your order and a list of my favorite 88 Acres products head to https://seeds.88acres.com/lessstressed

Mentioned in this episode:

http://experiencedeliciousnow.com/freebies-form/

Arielle "Dani" Lebovitz, MS, RDN, CSSD, CDE is a mom and registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in hands-on experience-based education for children and their families. She is the children's book author of "Where Do Bananas Come From? A Book of Fruits" and "Where Does Broccoli Come From? A Book of Vegetables," a colorful encyclopedia-type guidebook series that invites taste buds on adventures in discovery of new foods. Dani holds a master's degree in Health Communications as well as specialty certifications in diabetes education and sports nutrition. As a military spouse and self-proclaimed foodie, she loves to travel with her husband, three daughters, and two poodles, exploring food markets in search of unique tastes and textures.

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