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**The Wellness Mama Podcast**

The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com

Latest Episodes:

PANDAS/PANS: Understanding and Thriving Through Childhood Neuroimmune Disorders With Dr. Jaban Moore Jul 29, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Jaban

What PANS and PANDAS are, and what the key differences are
The different causes of the same neuropsychiatric symptoms and figuring out the underlying issue
There are adult versions of these conditions as well
Early warning signs of PANS and PANDAS to watch for in children and the autism connection
Autoimmune encephalitis symptoms in kids and why this can be so dramatic
Why this can be a very fast onset and can be triggered by illness
75% of adults in the US have some form of chronic symptom
Kids have a less developed blood-brain barrier and can experience these symptoms more strongly
What recovery from PANS and PANDAS looks like, and what factors to address
Why not take an extreme treatment approach that overwhelms the body
What his roadmaps for healing look like and the order he follows to best support the body
Supplements that are specifically helpful with things like PANS and PANDAS
When medications are helpful and what else to do alongside them
When you remove the reasons the body is stressed, it's no longer stressed
The top diet and lifestyle supportive steps to let the body heal he most commonly uses and why he doesn’t do long term restriction

Resources Mentioned

Dr. Jaban’s website, his Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook

Mold: The Hidden Threat & How to Detox Safely With Dr. Jaban Moore Jul 28, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Jaban

Why mold exposure is so common and yet still so unknown
Mold is everywhere, but it's the amount and type of mold that matters in a home environment
Common mold symptoms that many people miss and specific symptoms in kids
The tests he runs to see if a person has mold exposure and home tests he uses
Sodium and potassium levels as indicators of chronic stress or mold exposure
Urine mycotoxin test for mold levels
Genes that make someone more susceptible to mold damage
The most common ways to support drainage pathways and support the body in healing
Supplements he recommends to help support drainage protocols
Limbic, somatic, and vagal nerve activities can help the body heal
How he addresses the nervous system and “does physical therapy on the brain” to get the body ready to detox
Where to start for dealing with mold, chronic infections, autoimmunity, and more

Resources Mentioned

Dr. Jaban's website, his Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook
ERMI mold test for the home

What If It All Goes Right? How to Embrace Unexpected Change and Come Back Stronger With Angela Gargano Jul 23, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Angela

Her incredible story from starting as a biochemist to being on American Ninja Warrior
The dramatic and shocking moment that happened to her on national TV
How she learned to shift from everything that was wrong to openness to “What if it all goes right?”
The journey back for her and learning to release parts of her identity that were tied to her competitions
Putting a deadline on the tough emotions
What the RIGHT method is and how it can be so helpful
“If you’re not living your life by design, you are living your life by default”
How pull-ups are a metaphor for life and overcoming challenges
It’s never too late to get stronger
Mindset first and taking that first delusional action and baby step

Resources Mentioned

Midlife is a Superpower: Thriving Through Perimenopause With Dr. Aimee Duffy Jul 22, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Aimee

Why perimenopause is a misunderstood phase of life and common vs normal
Commonly overlooked symptoms of perimenopause that are helpful to understand
How to look at midlife changes as an opportunity rather than a challenge
Core mindset shifts that can make a massive difference
Listening to symptoms as messengers of your body working hard to protect you
Estrogenic things in our environment and how they impact our health in midlife
Mood based symptoms to pay attention to as indicators of hormone shifts
The cortisol and progesterone connection
Her suggestions for midlife lab testing and what to test for
Why she encourages saliva testing and addressing adrenal health as well
How MTHFR genes come into play in understanding this phase of life
Most impactful diet, lifestyle, and other factors to focus on in midlife

Resources Mentioned

Carolina Integrative Medicine - Website
Normal Doesn't Have Side Effects - Book
Dr. Aimee on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram

Normal Doesn’t Have Side Effects: Holistic Women’s Health With Dr. Aimee Duffy Jul 21, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Aimee

The pivotal moment in her career that led her to blend conventional and holistic medicine
Normal doesn’t have side effects and what this actually means
How normal lab ranges are calculated and why they aren’t as straightforward as you think
Thyroid and thyroid testing: what to know and what results mean
The actual ideal TSH range, what to look for, and what ideal lab results should be
Her approach to natural thyroid balancing
My own lab results that show that my Hashimoto's is entirely gone
Importance of selenium and iodine
How gut health and inflammation come into play in thyroid and autoimmunity
Her gut healing and detox phase for liver support
The effect of hormones on thyroid issues and why these spike in pregnancy and menopause
The connection between adrenal dysfunction and thyroid health
Understanding high cortisol and what else we need to look at
Vitamin D and sunshine - understanding optimal ranges and why 50-70+ is ideal
How to support your liver and therefore support your hormones + How to know if it needs support

Resources Mentioned

Carolina Integrative Medicine - Website
Normal Doesn't Have Side Effects - Book
Dr. Aimee on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram

Manifesting Abundance: Unlocking Your Potential With Emily Fletcher Jul 16, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Emily

Manifesting: consciously creating a life you love
Why we're manifesting all the time, whether we're conscious of it or not
Mindfulness: handling stress in the now, meditation: handling stress in the past, manifesting: handling the future
Simplest manifestation formula: feel good, place the order; place the order, feel good
Visualize, alchemize, magnetize
The same muscle that lets you feel the intensity of your pain lets you feel the intensity of your bliss
Our bodies will never let us manifest something that doesn’t feel safe… like we can’t manifest more money than what feels safe
Often conflicted relationships with pleasure and how this connects to manifesting
The definition of alchemy- the magical process of transforming one thing into another and how this can apply to emotions
Why the nervous system needs safety to access pleasure and manifestation
What would you love? (and why this question is so hard to answer sometimes)
One powerful and profound tool to try today
When you pray or visualize, don’t put your fears inside of your prayers
Name it as if it's already done - “I am so grateful now that…”

Resources Mentioned

Ziva Online and Ziva Magic
Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? - Emily's podcast
Stress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher

Stress Less, Live More: Meditation for Moms with Emily Fletcher of Ziva Jul 14, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Emily

Her unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work today
How she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditation
What makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleep
Investing just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazing
The mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily
Ziva is based on something 6,000 years old that means “big results based on action barely taken,” and how this helps us reach a fourth state of consciousness
How meditation can be less about focus and concentration and more about carving out space to be unfocused and avoid focus fatigue that's especially easy for moms
This method helps de-excite the nervous system and create more coherence
When you give the body true rest, it knows how to heal itself and sleep is not the only form of rest we have
If we only have sleep as our method of rest, the body has to use sleep to process
The sleep, immune, fertility, and productivity connections
We meditate to get better at life, not to get better at meditation
Some tactical tips for making meditation a habit and how to incorporate this as a mom

Resources Mentioned

Her Instagram
Ziva Online and Ziva Magic
Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? - Emily's podcast
Stress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher

Don’t Believe Everything You Think With Joseph Nguyen Jul 09, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Joseph

His amazing story that led to his bestselling book and how great books often come from the author's great pain
Thoughts vs thinking and why this is important
The core questions he asked himself were: Who am I? Why am I here? Why do I have so many negative thoughts?
Learning to question the root of negative thoughts and ask if they're true
How to separate yourself from the thoughts you have
Thoughts don’t control us, beliefs do, so thoughts don’t affect us unless we believe them to be true
Thoughts are neutral observations, thinking is judgment about thoughts
The real root of suffering and how to shift it- is this true? Is this useful?
Suffering is resistance to reality
What is more important… being right or being at peace?
The idea of letting go and surrendering is present in so many traditions around the world
Attachments as the roots of suffering and ways to practice letting go throughout the day in small ways
We are not our thoughts… we are the space between. We are the canvas and not the paint
Our attention is the architect of our reality
We live in a perception of reality, not reality ourselves, and where we put our attention shapes our perception
How would I be if I knew everything would work out? And then operate from there
How to get your body and your emotions on your side in this journey- they're there to remind us to come back to the present moment
Fear becomes gratitude, anxiety becomes fuel to show you what is important
Everything is a reminder and emotions can be guideposts
We acquire knowledge through information but wisdom can only be obtained through lived experience
Fear is not in the way… it is the way to the life that you want
A thought experiment: look back in your life at your best decisions and see how many were rooted in logic and analysis and how many were rooted in a sense of knowing
Intuition is still, calm, never rushed or urgent
The cost of making other people happy is your own happiness
What other people think of you is a reflection of them, not of you
His 5 step PAUSE process for negative emotions
When you are fully present, the byproduct is peace

Resources Mentioned

Don't Believe Everything You Think - book
Joseph's website and Instagram
Awareness by Anthony De Mello
Letting Go, the Pathway of Surrender by David Hawkins

Menopause and CVD: How to Reduce Risk with Jessica Brown Jul 08, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Jessica

Why does cardiovascular disease risk rise in menopause to match the rate of men?
What happens to hormones and the heart when a woman goes through menopause?
45% of women have some marker of cardiovascular disease
How the loss of estrogen in menopause is the tipping point
1 in 3 women will die of cardiovascular disease which is more than all cancers combined
What to monitor and look out for starting in our 20s
50% of people in the US have high blood pressure and this is a marker of metabolic disease
How insulin comes into play and why this marker is so important
What metabolic markers to start tracking to know your risk
How visceral fat comes into play and why this is important
What causes visceral fat to accumulate in the body
Her take on microdosing GLP-1 medication and if you lose lean muscle

Resources Mentioned

The Loving Diet - website
Jessica's Instagram

How Self-Compassion and Reparenting Are The Actual Tools of Healing and Transformation With Jessica Brown Jul 07, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Jessica

She was a surprise twin and she and her sister could communicate in their own language before they could even talk
What reparenting is and how we have the ability to give ourselves what we might not have gotten
ACE scores and what we know about how highly traumatized people suffer from diseases at much higher rates
The difference in how women and men respond to stressful events. Women don’t respond with fight or flight, but men do
How do women respond to trauma? Usually tend and befriend
What self-parenting is - it's the feeling of safety you get when your best friend hugs you and tells you it is going to be ok, or the feeling you get when all of your needs are met
The things from childhood that can leave a lasting imprint and can help by being reparented
Why we can seek partners, situations, and jobs that reinforce childhood patterns until we resolve them
Questions to ask to begin to go within and skills to build to begin reparenting
Looking at how you judge yourself is one of the best ways to avoid passing on this judgement to our kids

Resources Mentioned

The Loving Diet - website
Jessica's Instagram

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