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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:

The Pitfalls of Modern Technology, Nature Deficit Disorder & A Better Computer with Anjan Katta Jan 13, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Anjan Katta

His own experience with the pitfalls of modern technology
The downside of so much blue light at all times of day and night
What the designer of LCD screens thought they would be used, and what he would have done differently if he had known we’d be using them this much
Light is a master signaling mechanism for hormone and circadian health
What are the most harmful negative impacts of modern technology
Evolutionary mismatch with modern technology
The comparison of the evolutionary mismatch with sugar
What flicker rate is, and why it's important to understand
The real deal with blue light and how this confuses our nervous system
Light is the master switch for so many aspects of hormones and health
The evidence that a lot of ADHD is a circadian dysfunction and how light comes into play
What screen apnea is, and why it's an emerging term
Nature deficit disorder
How screens affect even our breath rate and thus our nervous system
The circadian-aligned computer he created that is blue-light-free, flicker-free, and usable in the sunshine

Resources We Mention

Healing Perception: Developing Primal Trust, Personal Responsibility and Healing with Dr. Cathleen King Jan 07, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Cathleen King

What happens when we get to a place where our set operating mode is that things are chronically unsafe
How the immune system comes into play here
Perception is key for retraining the body
How to shift mindset and take personal responsibility
What happens when we are stuck in story or mind theory
When the mind is engaged with a story, the limbic system stays overactive and the body’s ability to process goes way down
How to cultivate a conscious awareness of when your mind is stuck in story
Learn to be with the feelings, the sensations, and the emotions and create a boundary around what the mind is doing
How to stop waiting for external factors to come save us
How to step into choosing to be responsible for the meaning that I’m making
Sitting with the core belief that something is wrong with me and needs to be fixed, and how to let this go
Where the idea of primal trust came from and how she learned to create trust in life itself
Being with what comes up, even if we don’t like it
Resolving the territorial conflicts inside and releasing blame (and how this ties to digestive health)
Choosing to live our values and what we love and how this can shift mitochondrial
A strong correlation between chronic Lyme and family conflicts
Acknowledging how illness is actually serving us and learning to cultivate those things without the illness
Asking, “For what purpose is this happening”
Reframing to develop the most perfect mother-child relationship with your own body

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Cell Danger Response and the Link to Chronic Disease with Dr. Cathleen King Jan 06, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Cathleen King

Her journey with mysterious symptoms and what finally helped her heal
What the cell danger response is, and why we have to understand this
Her realization and paradigm shift to find the common denominator behind her health problems
How she slowly “walked herself out of hell” and healed
The body is infinitely capable of healing
It is figuring out what is blocking, what is keeping the body from healing
What happens if the signal that the threat hasn’t passed is sent to the body
The programming to break to be able to send a safety signal to the body
How to learn to coexist with your diagnosis and lab tests in order to turn off cell danger response
Creating the hypothesis that the body can heal itself and discard the information that has made you distrust your body
Your belief system is your biggest ally in healing
How to build nervous system resiliency without having a disproportionate response to triggers
How to use certain breathing practices to encourage the parasympathetic nervous system: box breath or 4-7-8 breathing
You have to believe that it is safe to feel safe
What vagus nerve training is
Limbic and nervous system retraining to climb out of cell danger response
Brain retraining as a way to target the limbic system and amygdala to heal

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Morning Walk: My Thoughts on Fasting & What I Do (Solo Katie Episode) Jan 01, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Katie

The reasons I started to do a yearly water fast
My own experiences with fasting
What I think about fasting in general, for women, and what I do
My longest fasts and what this one will likely be
The mental and inner work of a fast and the real reason I do it
Gratitude journaling when I feel the desire for food and separating desire/pleasure from joy/gratitude
It is not for everyone, but it's helpful for me
Ketosis and autophagy as beneficial states

Resources Mentioned

Beam Minerals - Use code wellnessmama for a discount
Activated Salt
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Awareness by Anthony De Mello
Power vs Force by Dr. David R. Hawkins

The Liver & Gallbladder Connection to Hashimotos with Divya Gupta Dec 17, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Divya Gupta

Her own story of having her gallbladder removal linked to her thyroid
What’s going on biologically with the liver and gallbladder connection to thyroid issues
Nothing in the body works in isolation, and what symptoms can tell us
The thyroid and liver have a very symbiotic relationship
Three main organs to look at to help support the thyroid: liver, adrenals, and gut
How to support these three organs to support your thyroid
The real story with cortisol and why it isn’t the issue, but we do need to understand it
Ways we can support our liver naturally
The liver isn’t just a detox organ but does hundreds of thousands of other things
How your liver is involved in hormone creation
If you are hypothyroid, you are also more likely to get non-alcoholic fatty liver
T3 to T4 conversion also happens in the liver
Her four pillars to improve health universally are nutrition, exercise, mental health, and sleep
The big offenders to remove from a dietary perspective

Resources We Mention

Divya Gupta - Website
Health Discovery Call with Divya Gupta
Divya Gupta - Instagram

Breaking the Family Health Code: How to Rewrite Your Genetic Story with Divya Gupta Dec 16, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Divya Gupta

Her own incredible story and how she broke the cycle
When she started to notice something was wrong with her health and how she started to change the story
Differences between growing up in India and moving to the US
Genes only impact 10% of outcomes, and much more is in our ability to change
A doctor can never know your body as well as you can
You hire a doctor and have the power to fire them if they aren’t helping you

Resources We Mention

Divya Gupta - website
Health Discovery Session with Divya Gupta
Divya Gupta - Instagram

Warning Signs: Collagen Deficiency as We Age and What to Do About It With Everbella Dec 11, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Everbella

Why collagen declines with age and why just taking it alone won’t fix it
Her dramatic story with collagen, biotin, hair loss
Does collagen really work? What it might mean when it isn’t working
Warning signs you're low in collagen
Not all collagens are created equal
Collagen affects so much more than just the skin and face, it goes much deeper than that
How collagen is used in connective tissue and joints
The six warning signs that we are low on collagen
The body’s ability to create new collagen begins to decline at 25
Factors that deplete collagen levels even more quickly
Your skin is 70-80% collagen, and if you don’t have enough collagen, your body will pull skin collagen for primary functions in the body, so lots of wrinkles can relate to collagen deficiency
How collagen is related to leaky gut
Collagen is the key nutrient responsible for keeping hair strong and smooth, and without enough collagen, it will become dry and brittle
60% of cartilage in joints is made up of collagen
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, and a lot is needed for recovery from injury or activity
How to help your body get enough collagen with diet and lifestyle
Ways to restore collagen levels in the body
Nutrition strategies related to collagen — vitamin C is vital for collagen synthesis
Most collagen is too big to be absorbed by your body
Why collagen needs “packages” to work effectively
The reason most collagen is being destroyed by stomach acid

Resources We Mention

Everbella Collagen - Use code wellnessmama40 for a discount

Reducing Inflammation and Addressing Autoimmunity With Heather Gray Dec 10, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Heather Gray

Her experience with many chronic issues and how this led to the work she does now
If you don’t recognize an ingredient on a label, neither does your body
Your lifestyle of convenience is part of what is killing you
How coffee enemas can be helpful and why to consider them, even if they sound scary
Sleep and supplements and how these things changed everything for her
The things she has people rule out before they start working together
Ways to support sleep in order to recover
Importance of outdoor light first thing in the morning for healing
The core things (that are free) that we can all do to improve health before we supplement or try expensive therapies
The inner piece of making time for downtime

Resources We Mention

Heather Gray - Free Guide

How to Detox Safely (& What to Avoid) With Heather Gray Dec 09, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Heather Gray

How she entered the detox world after being sick as a child
Understanding the downsides of detoxing incorrectly
The nuance to any healing protocol and why there is no one size fits all
How to support your detox pathways and things to avoid that can hurt them
“My self-care feels like a part-time job, but it is better than being full-time sick”
The three main detox pathways: sweat, pee, and poop, and how to support them
Addition through subtraction and how to remove things that are keeping the body from thriving
How the liver is vital for detox and how to support it
What a Herx reaction is, and why/how to avoid them

Resources We Mention

Heather Gray - Free Guide
Renegade Health Boss - Website

The Four Ts of Trauma Healing & IFS with Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Anderson Dec 04, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Frank Anderson

What IFS is and how it differs from other types of therapies
His personal trauma history that started at age 6
Why he isn’t a fan of differentiating “big T” and “little t” trauma
Why don’t we need to forgive in order to heal and why he calls it the F-word
How early childhood experiences with our caregivers can have a strong, lasting impact, even if they aren’t big moments of trauma or abuse
Many therapies push forgiveness too early — he recommends healing and then forgiveness
Neglect is the silent wound that can be hardest to notice and heal
Release the energy and the pain first and then decide about forgiveness
When it is ok to choose not to forgive
His own shocking experience with forgiveness and his dad
Forgiveness is setting a prisoner free and realizing the prisoner is yourself
It is hard to forgive yourself if you are holding resentment toward another person
The four “Ts” of trauma healing: Thank, Trust, Transform, Takeback
Releasing trauma vs. managing trauma
How to take back your power after you release trauma
Our choice: repeat the pattern, repress it, or heal from it
When we experience trauma, we experience the feeling of being the victim but also absorb the energy of the perpetrator, and when we have kids, both can show up, so when we feel hurt, we can perpetrate in the way we were perpetrated upon
When you have an intense reaction, it is about you and not about your kid
Every time we lose it, our kids lose a safe parent

Resources We Mention

Dr. Frank Anderson - website
To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation by Dr. Frank Anderson
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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