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What Is The Secret To Health & Longevity Nov 17, 2019

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It's not too late for women over 50 to take back control of their strength and cardiovascular health, even if they've never set foot in a gym before. All it takes is a solid morning routine, a bit of knowledge, and some confidence to get started. Tracee Gluhaich is here to talk about women's fitness and the secret to a long, healthy life.

Tracee saw first hand the impact a lack of exercise and being conscious of your health can have on your life, and she's vowed to age strong because of it. She is a personal trainer and yoga teacher, working mainly with women over 50, to help them get their health back.

Tracee says that the most important thing for her is to have a really strong morning routine because this is the foundation of the rest of her day. She aims to get her daily workout in first thing in the morning - it makes her feel good to do this but Tracee also thinks the morning is the best time for women to workout.

For Tracee, she's prioritized weight lifting and yoga over cardio. For years, she pushed herself to do cardio that just wore her out. Her motivation now is to increase her heart rate quickly and then focus on the recovery, as it's in quick recovery that our health improves.

Starting a weight lifting routine, and one that includes a couple of days of heavy lifting a week is the best exercise for women over 50. Even if you've never lifted a dumbbell in your life, Tracee explains how you can start building your strength without even leaving your kitchen. Women need to start exercising and shouldn't be afraid of their body's limitations, because your strength and confidence will increase.

Tracee shares what the secret to health and longevity is. It's a combination of healthy eating, regular, daily exercise, setting good intentions, and facing your days with confidence. She believes that when your life is full of joy and nourishment of the soul, you'll be less inclined to think of food as a comfort or crutch to fill a void.

Do you find yourself turning to food as a way to dampen your feelings? How is your confidence level for going to the gym? Have you ever tried lifting weights?

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Why Your Illness May Actually Be A Histamine Intolerance Nov 10, 2019

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Histamine intolerance can mimic or mask other diseases and illnesses in your body. And histamine is more than just your response to allergies! Dr. Brooke Kalanick is here to talk about what histamine intolerance is and how you can combat it in your own body.

Dr. Brooke is a naturopathic doctor who focuses on women's health, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity, especially when it relates to histamine intolerance. She's the co-author of Hangry and co-host of Better Everyday. She explains in this episode what role histamine has in our bodies, from allergy responses to everyday chemical reactions.

Many women have histamine intolerance and don't have any idea. Dr. Brooke explains what some of the symptoms of histamine intolerance are and how you can spot them. A big one is if you feel like you might have another illness but your blood tests come back normal each time you test for it - histamine could actually be masking those symptoms.

Dr. Brooke shares how she has had many patients who have histamine intolerance but feel like they can eat certain foods okay one day, but on another day they can't tolerate it. It's related to how full your histamine cup already is - if you've been eating a lot of intolerance causing foods already, your cup is already full, so that extra few bites of, for example, avocado could push you over the histamine ledge, and you'll break out in hives or have an allergic reaction.

So what do you do when you have too much histamine in your body? Dr. Brooke says a lot of it comes down to identifying the histamine foods you're eating on a regular basis and cutting those out. She also explains that leftover food can also have an increased level of histamine, especially if it's been sitting longer than a day. This might sound like bad news for batch cookers, but the key is to freeze your leftovers as soon as you can to prevent histamine growth.

Another key aspect of histamine intolerance is related to your stress levels. Elevated stress levels have a drastic impact on how your body stores and tolerates histamine, so keeping your stress under control will help lower your body's reaction.

Have you had blood tests come back totally normal when you think you might have an illness? How do you handle your stress levels? Do you eat a lot of leftovers?

In This Episode:

What role histamine has in our bodies
What the symptoms of histamine intolerance are
Why you might have a reaction to a certain food one day, but other days it's fine to eat
What you should do if you do have too much histamine in your body
Why you shouldn't eat leftovers when you're dealing with too much histamine
Why you should eat, or foods you should swap, when you're reducing your histamine level
How your stress levels impact your inflammation levels

Quotes:

"Can you figure out if you have any causes for your histamine intolerance. To ease your immediate suffering you can decrease your histamine intake." (16:12)

"My advice if you're going to look at this diet and feel really overwhelmed: find a couple of things that work, try to think of food as just fuel, just make sure you're nourishing yourself, and don't overthink it." (27:57)

"It's hard to sometimes acknowledge inflammation because we can't see it. It is stressful. It is your body having an inflammatory reaction so that is going to put the heat on your adrenals and your stress response and that, of course, is going to make us hangry." (30:01)

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How To Know If You Have Heavy Metal Poisoning Nov 03, 2019

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If you've been feeling off but all your tests are coming back fine, it's possible that you have heavy metal poisoning. Heavy metals could be behind many of the diseases and illnesses our bodies have such as digestive issues, weight gain, autoimmune diseases, brain fog, and more. Wendy Myers from Myers Detox explains how you can start to detox from heavy metals to regain control of your health and life.

Wendy was feeling generally unwell through her 30s and was told she had the hormone level of someone in menopause when she was only 37. Instead of immediately going on the HRT her doctor's recommended, Wendy decided to get to the bottom of why she had this issue in the first place. After lots of internet research, and a few out-of-pocket tests, she discovered that she had heavy metal poisoning, which was affecting all her other hormones.

Wendy thought she was doing everything right. She ate a healthy diet, got lots of exercise, and generally lived well. But heavy metal poisoning doesn't care about that. Our society is exposed to so many toxic metals - from our cavity fillings to our wall paints and more.

We talk about what testing you should get done to check for heavy metal poisoning in your body. It's an all-over approach from blood to stool. But what if you can't afford or aren't in a position to do all these tests? Wendy shares what some of the physical symptoms of metal poisoning are - and gives the recommendation to take her heavy metals test.

Wendy believes that we need to go through a detoxification process to rid our bodies of heavy metals. But it's not just about the detox, we need to lead a healthy, organic life to prevent the poison coming back.

Overall, for our health, we really do need to prioritize removing these heavy metals from our bodies, lives, homes, and diets. Wendy does explain who shouldn't go through a detoxification process, as it could actually do more harm to their health, but in general, everyone should be able to detox from heavy metals safely.

Wendy's last piece of advice is to listen to your body. If you're not feeling well and your doctors can't figure out why you need to push harder and start investigating for yourself.

Have you been feeling unwell in ways your doctors can't explain? Do you use commercial cleaning products? Do you have white marks on your fingernails?

In This Episode:

How heavy metals can poison the other hormones in your body
How you can have heavy metals in your system even when you live a healthy lifestyle
What tests you should get done to check for heavy metal poisoning
How do you know if you've got toxic levels of heavy metals
How you can detox your body to start removing heavy metals from your body
What things you can do at home before you work with a professional
Why you need to prioritize removing the metals from your body
Who shouldn't start detoxing to remove heavy metals
Why you really need to listen to your body if you're not feeling well

Quotes:

"Heavy metals can cause almost every imaginable symptom and diagnosis. They can either outright cause it or contribute to it in some way, directly or indirectly." (18:04)

"Detoxification is a lifestyle. We are exposed to so many metals and chemicals that you have to be doing something on a daily basis to be thinking about adding detoxification to your already healthy lifestyle." (27:07)

"If people are trying to do a detox and they just feel terrible, we need to pull back and course correct and do something else. Most people feel great when they detox." (30:07)

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How To Conquer Your Acid Reflux Oct 27, 2019

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Acid reflux and GERD is a chronic stomach issue for many Americans, with growing numbers of people taking Prilosec or other long-term acid reflux medication for 10+ years. This is so unhealthy! Jenn Malecha, a holistic health coach, joins me to talk about why people get GERD and how they can correct their stomach issues.

Jenn is a natural health coach who was diagnosed with skin cancer at the age of 26. This surprise diagnosis had no real external indicators that something was going wrong, but when she started looking at her hormones and internal health, she discovered that she has imbalances that contributed to her skin cancer, and later in life, to Hashimoto's.

What Jenn discovered when she took it upon herself to investigate her health was an overgrowth of H Pylori in her gut. She found the same bacteria in her father-in-law's guts and has helped him come off the Prilosec he'd been on for over 10 years. Now, he only needs to worry about having acid reflux when he eats food that he has sensitivities to.

I'd argue that the unlimited refill culture here in America is contributing to the prevalence of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and acid reflux because our stomachs are designed to produce acid to help digest our food. But if we're dousing these fires with unlimited liquid, we're not going to be digesting our food all that well. This is a similar problem that taking acid-reducing medication like Prilosec causes - reducing your stomach acid below healthy levels.

So actually, you don't have an overproduction of stomach acid, but an underproduction, which causes a whole host of health issues.

What should we do to help our stomach acid production? Slow down while we're eating our food, don't drink too much with your meal, and fast overnight, including water, to give your digestion a chance to rest and reset.

Have you been taking acid-reduction medicine for longer than 6 months? Do you take advantage of unlimited refills? Have you ever had your gut health checked out?

In This Episode:

How you can have internal hormonal imbalances that don't show in your external symptoms
What can an overgrowth of H Pylori cause in your body
How food sensitivities can cause symptoms of acid reflux and GERD
What impact having a large drink with your food is having on your stomach acid production
How taking acid-reducing medication is actually ruining our stomach acid production
Why you should slow down while you're eating your food

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"I recognize that the sun is my friend. I think that you still need to be careful when you go out in the sun because the ozone layer is not as dense as it used to be, so we do need to be careful - but it's important to get sun exposure." (8:49)

"A lot of the traditional medical systems will run a breath test or blood test to look for H Pylori. I've found that there's no such thing as the perfect test. Just because you get a negative on one of those tests doesn't mean that you can rule it out if you're still suffering from acid reflux or GERD." (14:34)

"What you're experiencing today is an accumulation of everything that's happened over your lifetime." (25:20)

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What You Need To Do To Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease Oct 20, 2019

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Women have a greater risk of having Alzheimer's Disease when we get older than men. Alzheimer's starts in the brain, so it's important to protect our brain health from an early age. Dr. Lisa Mosconi joins us to talk about Alzheimer's, brain health, and women's changing bodies through menopause.

Lisa is Italian, living in America, and holds two PhDs in Neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. She's the author of two books, The XX Brain (coming soon) and Brain Food. As a certified Integrative Nutritionist, Lisa promotes eating a Mediterranean diet to have, not just a healthier body, but a healthy brain.

You should start looking after your brain health right away. If you haven't been eating for health, it's time to start. The brain is so important to our bodies and they begin deteriorating almost as soon as we start forgetting things.

Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than men because of our estrogen levels, which is necessary for optimal brain health, begin to decrease when we go through menopause.

Lisa talks about why physicians should use an integrative medical approach to women's health to have maximum impact, prevent overlap, and get a clearer sense of what's going on in your body. Lisa explains what you can start doing right now to help prevent Alzheimer's disease from developing when you get older.

Women who have their ovaries removed are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease earlier in life. Plus, the symptoms typically associated with menopause, such as hot flashes, night sweats, memory fog, and even stress, all start in the brain. Lisa discusses why this happens to our brains and bodies.

Lisa talks about the role of progesterone in our bodies and how important it is for our brain health. Then, lastly, she returns to the concept of what we eat and says the single greatest thing we can do for our health is to eat at least one large salad every day.

Do you eat a salad a day? How do you keep your brain healthy and active? Are you in menopause or perimenopause?

In This Episode:

How a Mediterranean diet can help your brain be healthier
When you should start looking after your brain
What happens to our bodies when our brains start forgetting
Why more women have Alzheimer's Disease than men
How an integrative medical approach can make a more positive impact on your overall body health
What you need to do to help prevent Alzheimer's disease
What happens to your brain's physiology when you go through menopause
What the role of progesterone is in our bodies
Why you should eat at least one salad every day

Quotes:

"Estrogen makes your brain produce energy." (12:24)

"Women develop Alzheimer's earlier and that eventually leads to higher prevalence and death." (16:28)

"20% of women physically don't suffer from menopause, they have no hot flashes, night sweats, nothing. Whereas 80% of women have some brain signs of menopause. Some women only have hot flashes, but most women have a combination of things." (38:49)

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How A Little Sexual CPR Can Boost Your Love Life Oct 06, 2019

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Reclaim the power of your sexual pleasure and start healing your relationship with my program, Sexual CPR. When I was having trouble in my marriage after losing my son before he was born, I wish I knew about the techniques that I know now. Sexual CPR is helping women and men rekindle their marriage and increase their sexual desire.

In the United States, there is so much focus, funding, and research on men's sexual health. Women's sexual health, on the other hand, is sorely lacking in understanding. I've conducted my own research and spoken to experts in both men's and women's sexual health and created Sexual CPR.

Cortisol is our stress hormone. Ane when it's raised in our bodies, our oxytocin, or love, levels decrease. This leaves us feeling unloveable and incapable of giving love. But when our cortisol levers are low, oxytocin has a chance to work the way it's supposed to - letting us feel, give, and receive the love we deserve.

When we learn to reignite our sexual enjoyment, with or without the presence of sexual intimacy, we're giving ourselves permission to feel happy and enjoy our life again. This not only improves our moods but improves our relationship as well.

In order to get here, you need to experience your pleasure. What turns you on? What makes you happy? Spend time exploring these avenues for yourself, so that you can, in turn, help your partner make you happy. Because the number one turn on for men is our pleasure.

In this episode, I'm going through the content of Sexual CPR and sharing all the incredible experts who have joined me to create this one-of-a-kind program. You'll learn how to redefine your orgasm, rekindle your sexual pleasure, and reignite your relationship.

Are you having trouble connecting with your partner? How do you define your sexual pleasure? Do you have difficulty reaching orgasm?

In This Episode:

How men's sexual health is a much more funded and researched area than women's sexual health
What happens when our cortisol levels go down
What happens to our lives when we ignite our sexual enjoyment, even outside of sexual intimacy
Why you need to experience your pleasure, know what turns you on, and know what makes you happy
How having happiness in your relationship and sex life has an overflowing effect on the rest of your life
What you'll learn in Sexual CPR
How you can redefine your orgasm
Why rekindling your sexual pleasure starts with you

Quotes:

"When cortisol goes up, oxytocin, which is our bonding hormone, our hormone of love and connection, goes down. The hormone that gives us the sense and the feeling of love goes down." (7:06)

"Our bodies are intended for pleasure. Taking the time to experience that is critical." (14:00)

"The number one turn on for men is your pleasure. What makes you happy brings him pleasure. Your turn on is his turn on." (15:16)

"Creating happiness on a daily basis gives you the pleasure that fuels you into more pleasurable activities. (18:38)

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How To Treat Cancer Using Integrative Healthcare Sep 29, 2019

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Information is empowerment. The more you know about your hormones and body, the better chances you have with your cancer diagnosis. My guest, Dr. Nasha Winters, is an expert on helping women treat their cancer using integrative healthcare.

At the age of 19, Nasha was diagnosed with a terminal cervical cancer diagnosis. Years of poor medical advice and heavy prescriptions to try to fix her hormonal issues, which started from the tender age of 9, led Nasha to learn how to take control of her own health. Many years later, she's now helping other women get a positive outcome from their own diagnosis.

In this episode, learn how Nasha recreated balance in her body. She did this through a combination of both integrative and standard healthcare, which at the time was an incredibly innovative and new approach to treating cancer.

In Nasha's practice, she insists on taking a series of blood tests that will give her a good overview of her patient's health and nutrients. She recommends any doctor working with cancer patients to keep a regularly view over their health levels in order to make sure that treatment plans are working.

When you are given a cancer diagnosis, Nasha says there are 5 things to do right away. Even though the first step might surprise you, it makes total sense and will help you on your way to handling your condition. She also explains what happens to our bodies when we take artificial hormones and why this might not always be the best treatment course for women with cancer.

We also talk about what types of cancers are hormonally driven and how you can nutritionally support your body over the years. Finally, Nasha shares how she starts and ends her days with intention and how this nurtures her life and why you should, too.

Have you recently been diagnosed with cancer? Do you know how to support your hormones as you age? How often do you get your vital levels tested?

In This Episode:

How you can recreate a balance in your body
Why you should consider both integrative and standard care for your cancer diagnosis
What blood tests will give a good overview of your health levels
What the first step to approaching your cancer diagnosis should be
What happens when you take artificial hormones
How often you should test your vital levels when you have cancer, but also when you're going through menopause
What types of cancers are hormonally driven
How you can start and end your days by nurturing your life

Quotes:

"99% of the patients I work with are coming to me when I'm their last resort. And they're also coming to me when they've already done multiple rounds of standards of care that has, frankly, left them even more broken than they were before." (16:42)

"Human nature pushes us to other things when we're really young. I know this, I did this dance for 10 years, thinking it's done now, go back to the way things were. But you cannot heal from the soil in which you got sick." (42:04)

"Probably 98% of the women who come to my practice had been on birth control pills, had taken IVF, had been on hormones of some form along the way, and that seems to have clogged their hormonal metabolism." (50:31)

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How Fasting Can Help Improve Your Hormones Sep 22, 2019

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Fasting is not only something you do when you're trying to lose weight; it's been proven to help regulate your metabolic system during and after menopause. Plus, it's something that women should be doing throughout their lives in order to maintain healthy bodily functions. Dr. Felice Gersh is with us today to explain how our changing bodies are supported by fasting.

Felice is a board-certified gynecologist who has a holistic, well-rounded approach to women's health. Her integrative insight looks at every aspect of a woman's body to determine the best course for treatment; so everything is working together to bring your health back into alignment.

In today's episode, Felice describes what happens when our bodies go through menopause at a metabolic level. It's not only our estrogen production that changes during this time! And she explains how intermittent fasting can improve your health during these hormonal changes.

In fact, Felice goes on to say that women should be fasting regularly twice a year from their twenties in order to support their metabolic and hormonal health. Her favorite type of fasting diet is a fasting-mimicking one, which almost tricks your body into thinking you're fasting when you're really eating food! Fasting and timed eating can also help you get your circadian rhythm back on track at any time of your life.

Next, Felice gives us her medical opinion on how destructive taking birth control pills is to our body and what happens when we control or take away a woman's natural hormones long-term. She explains why we shouldn't be taking hormone supplements orally, and how, instead, we should be taking them. And then Felice lets us know how important progesterone is to our bodies at all times.

Are you looking for more hormonal support through menopause? Have you ever tried getting your body into ketosis? Do you take the birth control pill?

In This Episode:

What happens to women metabolically when they go through menopause
How the different hormones in our body react to going through menopause
How intermittent fasting can improve your health, especially through menopause
Why you should fast twice a year to help improve your metabolic and hormonal health
What happens to your body when you start on a fasting-mimicking diet
Who can benefit from a fasting-mimicking diet
Why you should avoid taking birth control pills
How timed eating can help you get your circadian rhythm back on track after menopause
Why you shouldn't take estrogen supplements orally
How important progesterone is as our bodies go through menopause
What happens long-term when we take away women's natural hormones

Quotes:

"No matter how hard you exercise or meditate, no matter how many vegetables you eat, eventually every woman, universally, will get into menopause. So we all face this. Every female. We're all in this together. So we want to make those post-menopausal years really wonderful ones." (6:25)

"To get the label of food, it actually has to have nutrition in it! And most of the things we eat have no nutritive value. So if you put things in your mouth that have no nutrition, that's not food! It's like, you might as well lick the street! Do not put anything in your mouth that's not food." (17:44)

"Testosterone levels go down independently. And by age 40, the average woman has only half the testosterone she had at age 20 and boy, that does change everything." (39:11)

"A period is a vital sign of female health. If you have an abnormal period because you have cramping, it's heavy, it's irregular, you have to fix the health of the woman! You don't try to cover it up with birth control pills." (51:54)

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The Best Ways To Handle Back To School Time Sep 15, 2019

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Huge changes, especially emotional ones, have a big impact on your life. Not only from an emotional level, but stress also causes your body and hormones to react in many different ways. That's why it's absolutely vital to take time for yourself during these periods of upheaval, especially when your children go back to school.

When the kids leave for school for the first time, or maybe for the last time, it's a big adjustment for us moms. All of a sudden we're faced with all this free time we've never had before. A lot of moms have a really hard time with this, and that's completely normal, but you can make it easier on yourself.

Using your newfound free time to explore who you are and what brings you passion is so releasing. You can use the time to take up a new hobby, learn a new career, or simply bring new joy into your life on a regular basis.

I'm adamant that a healthy diet can help you feel balanced when the kids go back to school. My Keto-Green lifestyle makes sure you have the nutrients you need to support a healthy body and mind, no matter what you're doing.

It's so important to nourish yourself when you're experiencing big changes! Nourish yourself from the inside out with healthy food and from the outside in with soulful activities that make you feel good. And obviously keeping a positive outlook and imagining the best outcomes does wonders for you!

What do you imagine this year and season will bring you? How do you deal with big changes in your life? Do you follow a healthy diet throughout the year?

In This Episode:

What happens to your hormones when the kids go back to school
How you can use your newfound free time to explore who you are and incorporate joy into your life on a regular basis
How following the Keto-Green lifestyle can help you feel balanced when your children go to school
Why it's important to nourish yourself when you're going through changes in your life
What impact a positive outlook and imaging the best has for your life

Quotes:

"If you are feeling that time, that isolation, that depression, it's extra important to nourish our body, extra important to reset our circadian rhythm." (5:03)

"Fasting makes it easy for me. I get really clear, focusing on getting Keto Green, getting those Ketones firing up my brain, especially when there are challenges around me." (9:06)

"During this time of year, when we're shifting and there's changes taking place, the seasons changing, we are never for lack, that's for sure. I encourage you to nourish yourself, focusing on those things that just bring you joy and pleasure." (11:12)

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Why Love Is Medicine For The Heart & Mind Sep 08, 2019

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How we feel towards our bodies and our loved ones can actually impact the health we have inside. Love is medicine; feeling love increases our oxytocin and helps keep cortisol in check, so our stress levels don't contribute to the heart or other diseases. Razi Berry is a naturopathic doctor who focuses on the way love impacts our health.

When Razi was a teenager, she had a severe eating disorder that was causing her heart to stop working. She knows the exact moment when she started to heal: her mother and brother were surrounding her hospital bed and telling her how much they loved her. It was that love, and love she felt for them, that told her body it was time to heal.

Razi found herself asking the question "where does healing come from?" often after she was healed. And now she believes that as a society, our lack of love and empathy for one another and ourselves are contributing to chronic and incurable diseases.

As a society, we have a disconnection from nature and Razi encourages everyone to spend more time outside. Also, we should strive to become more self-aware and connected with nature, so our bodies will start to reattune and heal from the inside out.

Razi shares a couple of techniques that help you reconnect with your body and feel the love. She explains how a body scan works and why you should do them regularly. Plus, she gives some examples of how power poses and various playful practices can heal the body and soul.

How is your relationship with yourself and your loved ones? Have you ever practiced using body scans? When's the last time you spent time in nature?

In This Episode:

What the hardest moments in your life lead to
How love can heal you
What has happened in our current society that leads to more chronic diseases
How is how we treat nature connected to our health
What happens when we have a disconnection from nature
How can you become more self-aware and connected to nature
What a body scan is and why you should practice them regularly
How play is a healing power for the body and soul

Quotes:

"The naturopathic philosophy is one that says 'the doctor doesn't heal you, healing comes from within.'" (7:55)

"It's not just about love and relationships, but it's about how these resources of love, in yourself and your relationship with nature, your environment, and each other are really the medicine that we need to get back to healing." (10:02)

"If we don't know how to love ourselves, how to listen to ourselves, then that's how we stay stuck in these patterns that take us away from our health." (13:54)

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