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#251: How To Do A Health Reset Mar 25, 2022

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Do you feel the urge to do something different, clean things up, and feel energized? If you're feeling sluggish, a quick health reset even for one day can rebalance your body creating space for you to feel well. Let me show you how to do it.

Most of us get to this place, feeling heavy after winter and wanting to toss stuff to lighten the load. It's where 'spring cleaning' got its name, and just like our homes, our body's natural tendency is to do the same.

But it's not just a mental desire. It's a biological one.

Your body undergoes a massive biological change, shifting nearly one-quarter of its DNA to prime for the warmer months of summer. This means what your body needs are going to change as well. During this transition, you'll probably notice a craving for a health reset, which I define as nothing more than creating space for your body to heal by opening up energy flow.

Energy is the most vital life force in the body. I like to think of it as a nutrient. I know we rarely talk about it like we do other nutrients such as vitamin D or C, but it's vital to our health. Without enough energy, your body shifts its biological response to store, hoard, and conserve energy rather than open up to use it. Everything in your body works based on energy flow and is the focus of a productive health reset.

Inside this podcast, I dive into how to create a health reset by understanding why you need it. We also talk about building an anti-fragile life on health that is unshakable to life—allowing you to live healthy no matter where life takes you.

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#250: What is Metabolic Eating? Every Detail You Need Mar 15, 2022

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What is the metabolic diet? Is it right for you? Like most things, it depends on what your body needs. But more than a diet, the pro-metabolic eating lifestyle is designed to support metabolic health, the topic of this post.

If you haven't heard of metabolic eating, which some call pro-metabolic eating, you will soon. It stands out against the traditional diets as a means of working with your body rather than working to change your body, a subtle but powerful difference.

The traditional model of health supports the idea that if you micromanage what you consume and how you live, your body will change in direct relation to what you do. This idea has led people to cut calories and eliminate entire macronutrients from their diets, hoping to see results that correspond.

But the new model is founded on how your body responds—shifting the focus of health from external things to how your body responds.

The pro metabolic eating plan focuses on nourishing your body based on what it needs. It is an approach that works with your metabolism, knowing how to support it moving your body from surviving to thriving.

Inside this podcast, I interview metabolic eating expert Fallon Danae to hear her story of losing her health and using the pro metabolic plan to regain health and what that looks like inside our lives.

#249: Is Intermittent Fasting Healthy? Here's a Better Option Mar 02, 2022

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Is intermittent fasting healthy? Or is it another sexy health term that puts health inside a new box? Inside this podcast, I interview Dr. Michael Breus, America's Sleep Doctor to learn more about circadian living – using sleep to energize you to live.

There are a lot of healthy things the health space has taken to the extreme and made unhealthy. In some cases, I think that's what has been done with intermittent fasting. We're quick to hear it might help you lose weight so we go all in, taking the twelve-hour fast and pushing it to eight hours. If it speeds up results, why not?

But is it speeding up results? Or is it giving you quick but fleeting results?

Remember, health is not about pushing your body to the extremes. This leads to burnout and exhaustion. The answer to health has always been and will always be about energy flow. Creating a personalized tool that allows you to feel how your body is responding. How you feel, energetically not necessarily emotionally, is the easiest way to track your health.

Everything we do is working towards energizing the body or draining it. Not to say we can't do both, but the key is to find a balance. It's always about creating and sustaining a healthy flow of energy. That's the importance of sleep, of the food that we eat and even when we eat it. Everything we encounter in life is interacting with our energy. It's the key thread running through the whole of who you are.

Inside this podcast, we talk with Dr. Michael Breus, America's Sleep Doctor on energy. How to use energy to change not only how you feel but how you feel leads to a change in how you look. It's the outcomes we've all been longing for but created through energy flow.

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#248: Sexual Wellness Routine: Why You Need One Feb 22, 2022

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Let's talk about sexual wellness. I'm not just talking about sex, although that does matter to your health but the full spectrum including the pelvic floor, genital health, hormones, and even connection. Learn why you need a sexual wellness routine and how it can help your entire life.

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#247: 5 Ways to Use Your Nervous System To Get Healthy Feb 10, 2022

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Nervous system regulation is a fancy way of packaging up a lot of annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. In my own life, it looked more like digestive issues that led to nighttime bloating, making others question if I was four months pregnant. When really, it was just the bloating.

It also came out in an overreaction to harsh lighting (a.k.a. sunlight), an intense sense of smell that led to dull yet constant headaches, and a systemic inflammatory reaction that made me feel like a walking zombie.

I tried to link symptoms to food sensitivities, poor sleep patterns caused by toddlers, and the dreaded hormone problems. But these are just surface issues that are easy to blame. In a way, it was tangible, quantifiable data that made sense of my issues without dealing with the root problem.

The real problem was my dysregulated nervous system. A system responsible for communicating bodily action, like how to digest food and what hormones to release. A system responsible for connecting your brain to your biology -- your psychology to your physiology.

Your nervous system is in direct communication with your brain and biology, including your enzymes, neurotransmitters, hormones, and subsequently your cells based on what it's experiencing in and around you.

Learning how to nourish your nervous system is a game-changer in your health. You can't get healthy without it.

Inside this podcast, I interview Jessica Maguire, an expert in Nervous System Regulation. We discuss why your nervous system is important, how it's creating your health and how to use your nervous system to get healthy.

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#246: Skeptic's Guide To Meditation with Ariel Garten, Founder of Muse Feb 03, 2022

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It's fair to say I've generally been a skeptic of meditation. Getting my mind to a state of nothingness has felt more like a chore than an act of self-care. Trying to perform a task I'm not even sure I'm capable of all while spending time doing it. It seemed like a lose-lose situation until I learned what meditation is supposed to be.

When I was able to get outside my stereotypical idea of what meditation was and see it for what it was intended to be – I started to develop more interest in it. Surprisingly, I learn that I was already practicing meditation. I just didn't call it that.

I know how critical creating mind-space is to my current self and future self. But it started by setting down my preconceived ideas about what meditation is and learn what it means. That's what I hope we can all do today. To set aside what we think we know about meditation and learn what it really means.

Unlike common thought, the goal is not "nothingness." It's an act of shifting what you think—choosing instead to fill the mind with truth.

Understanding this gives meditation more substance. It makes it practical, igniting a desire within you to experience the benefits. Today on the podcast (and the third episode inside the latest series – 8 life-transforming health tips you need), I am interviewing the queen of meditation and founder of the Muse Meditation Devise, Ariel Muse.

Inside this podcast, you will learn common misconceptions about meditation, how to get started and why retraining the brain is the secret to health. This is your guide to meditation.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/246

#245: Why Can't I Do What I Know I Need To Do? Jan 27, 2022

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You know you should get healthy, you even want it, but you fail to do it. The truth is, you're not even lazy. Like most people, you're struggling to pinpoint why you can't do what you know you should – like saving money or getting in your devotional. This post has the answers you've been looking for to answer the nagging question, why can't I do what I know I need to do?

The answer is, you're human.

I know that doesn't help you and it's certainly not intended to be an excuse. But it's the truth. It's human nature to reject change, even good change, because change is scary. At least to your body and your mind. It's the pattern of survival, to stay stuck doing the things that have kept you alive even if they're not the best for you.

Things that your body has grown used to and created around. But also because some of these actions induce a reward, at least temporarily. In either case, it makes change appear harder than it is, leaving you running for the temporary fix.

It's why we run to the candy stash mid-afternoon when we're feeling a bit tired and overwhelmed.

Or why you feel like you deserve that midnight ice-cream binge.

It's why you reset your alarm, allowing you to sleep in rather than wake up and move.

On some level, your body is exhausted, and the best place to get a boost, even temporarily, is from an immediate reward. But it doesn't have to stay this way. You can do the things you know you should, the things you want to, but it has to be done with a different twist.

Inside this podcast, I interviewed a behavior change specialist, Dr. Heather McKee. Dr. Mckee's work focuses on habit formation to help people make lasting change using research-driven methods to find freedom and joy in their healthy habits.

She answers your nagging question, why can't I do what I know I need to do? And it's one to listen to.

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#244: How Would You Define Health? Jan 19, 2022

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What does it take to get healthy? Not quick weight loss. But actual lasting health? If you're wondering this question, this brand new podcast series is exactly what you need. Eight life-changing health tips you need to know, starting with the question, how would you define health?

I hate cliche.

There is nothing more cliche than telling you I know eight life-changing health tips. While I don't want to be one more health expert promoting blanket statements, I do think these eight tips that you personalize could answer a lot of the questions you've been looking for. Shifting the narrative from looking outside your body for answers and seeing your body is the answer.

Not to give you a spoiler alert, that statement could change the entire scope of your health. Your body is the answer.

It's always been the answer. We've just missed it in the process of hating our bodies. We've missed it because it feels so contradictory to find the answer in the thing you desperately want to change.

But you have to trust me on this one. Your body is the answer. It is the only way. It happens to also be why so few people have found it. Health will never be found in external solutions. It's always and forever how your body responds to what you do – making your body the answer.

Inside this podcast, we kick off this series by redefining health. Twisting your original beliefs into true beliefs creates a solid foundation to produce the change you've been longing for. Listen to the podcast to see a new beginning in the first of eight foundational health tips you need.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/244

#243: Upgrade Your Wellness Routine This Year With This Tip Jan 06, 2022

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Are you looking to take your health to a new level? Or maybe you're just looking to gain a sliver of health. Wherever you are starting from, this simple practice will upgrade your wellness routine this year to help you live out of health.

What if things could be different? What if things could be better?

A new year is here, and while there is nothing strikingly different about December versus January, it certainly feels different. The possibility of a new chapter a fresh start is invigorating and helps you think outside the norm.

This year, I want to do that. To help you think outside the box and get away from the "traditional" health ideas to return to your roots. Helping you invest in something that works for you by seeing yourself inside the equation.

The boxed approach to health and life hasn't worked. At least not long-term. While I think it's human nature to desire better, even strive for it, I don't want you to spend another year looking for better while living outside yourself. The best is when you open up to who you were created to be, not an idea someone told you to be.

This year my dream is to help you live out of the real you, not create a new you. Because the world needs the real you, the passions and desires contained within the soul of who you are.

This year, it's time to break up with the diet plans, the resolutions, the hard and fast goals, and start to live. I'm not talking about 'keeping up with the Jones' kind of living, but living as in learning, growing, adventuring, and unearthing the real you.

We don't have time not to. And once you taste it, you'll never go back. Inside this podcast, I share my health revelation that changed everything, and I want to share it with you. If you're interested in your own health revival, check out this podcast.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/243

#242: Learn How To Use The Power of the Conscious Mind with Leonard Perlmutter Dec 30, 2021

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Your conscious mind is more powerful than you've been told. Learn how to use your conscious mind to create the change you desire with guest Leonard Perlmutter.

Learn more: https://thelivingwell.com/242

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