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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:

How to Improve Sleep by Addressing Unconscious Programs with Dr. Olga Stevko Oct 08, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko

She is an identical twin and was born on February 29th so her birthday only comes every four years!
Her twin sister is also a medical doctor
The common patterns people experience when they have sleep issues
How quickly addressing unconscious programs can resolve even chronic and deep issues
Specific things we can do to improve sleep
What the Instant Sleep Technique is, and how to do it

Resources We Mention

Dr. Olga Stevko - Website

How to Improve Your Voice by Addressing Unconscious Programs with Dr. Olga Stevko Oct 07, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko

Why having a strong and pleasant-sounding voice is so important
My own story of working on my voice with Dr. Olga
How genetic and generational events can impact us, even biologically, and how she addresses these
The way she uses quality of voice to help determine what her clients are struggling with
What unconscious drawings are and how she uses this in her therapeutic approach
The unexpected places where unconscious programs can affect our lives

Resources We Mention

Dr. Olga Stevko - Website

Research Every Parent Should Know with Dr. Martin Makary Oct 03, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Marty Makary

What we need to know about allergens and our kids
Why we are seeing an epidemic of allergies in kids that isn’t happening in other parts of the world
Where the misinformation about peanut allergies came from
The basic concept of immune tolerance that experts ignored and why early exposure can be helpful
What we need to know about responsible antibiotic use in our kids
Adopting a more informed and balanced understanding of health for our kids' sake
Research-backed best practices around childbirth when possible
How skin-to-skin contact with mom immediately after birth can even improve the brain of the baby
What to know about nutrition and the things we accept about raising kids that are worth questioning
The data about screen usage and added sugar in kids and when these become safer for kids' brains

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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary, MD
Marty Makary, MD - Website
Ready Set Food

Blind Spots: Why Humans Resist New Ideas with Dr. Martin Makary Oct 02, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Marty Makary

Why humans resist new ideas so strongly
What dogma is and the psychology behind it
The reason our minds are so happy and comfortable with one belief and why we resist new ideas
What impeccable objectivity is and how to cultivate it
The founder's effect and how what we hear first can be so impactful
Red flags of unquestioned authority and how to recognize them
Blind spots related to hormone replacement therapy and our food pyramid
Myths related to the dangers of hormone replacement and what the data actually says
Places biases and blind spots show up in nutrition and health and what the evidence actually says
What really causes heart disease and our blind spots related to health and nutrition
His take on seed oils and what he found in his investigative journalism around this topic
What linoleic acid is and what you need to know about it
Fascinating data about antibiotic use, especially early in life

Resources We Mention

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Dr. Marty Makary
Marty Makary, MD - His Website

Raising Emotionally Secure and Happy Children with Eli Harwood Oct 01, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Eli Harwood

How to tell if your relationship with your child is secure or insecure
Ways to strengthen the attachment with your child
Attachment is like a dance and how this is helpful to understand
A strong attachment with parent/child only depends on us being responsive and “getting it right” 30-50% of the time
This is not a perfection game… it's about showing up enough so our kids know we are there for them and leaders in repair when we don’t show up perfectly
The things every kid needs to hear from their parents
Does your child have a feeling or a message from you that they feel that their presence is delightful
The importance of making sure our kids hear and feel things along the lines of: I love having you near me, I got you, your pain is not a burden to me, I believe in you, you got this, and I’m sorry
Ways to help our children feel safe opening up even about the hard things and big feelings at various ages
What attachment transfer is and why it matters
Specific advice for navigating the teen years
The distinction between your feelings matter and they don’t always dictate the situation

Resources We Mention

Eli Harwood - Website
Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Attachment Nerd) by Eli Harwood

The Science of Attachment Theory & Why it Matters With Eli Harwood Sep 30, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Eli Harwood

How she had a body part eaten by a bear!
What attachment theory is when it comes to parenting
How the quality of our caregiving relationships in childhood affect our development
What attachment figures are and why this matters
Attachment is the study of close relationships
What the indicators of healthy attachment are and how to understand these relational patterns
How to help your child be securely attached to you
Babies are born with a relatively developed limbic system but not a fully developed prefrontal cortex and why this matters because babies co-regulate with caregivers
How early childhood relational patterns can show up in adult relationships
The four attachment patterns that can develop and how they develop
How to become aware of your own relational and attachment style
The most powerful thing we can do to improve our attachment patterns

Resources We Mention

Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Attachment Nerd) by Eli Harwood
Eli Harwood - Website

Pursuing Positive Emotions and Avoiding Negative Ones Can Hinder Growth With Mastin Kipp Sep 24, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Mastin Kipp

A reason to move away from categorizing emotions as good or bad
Every emotional response we have makes sense from a safety perspective
Why he doesn’t believe in self-sabotage, and why self-protection is different
How shifting understanding of emotions can change our experience drastically
We have to recognize and shift childhood conditioning around the nervous system to achieve the life that we want
Personal development is going to create inner conflict, and inner conflict is a sign of growth
The presence of inner conflict indicates a desire
He looks at goal-setting as a therapeutic process
How to not let the most traumatized parts of us be in the driver's seat
When we're younger, there can be negative consequences to being our authentic self
Your inner critic is how you parent yourself, and this voice can be a good indicator of how we feel about ourselves
Why to ask “when was that true” in doing parts work
No emotion is an enemy, and emotions are biochemistry
There are 7 emotional pathways in our bodies
If you have a fear of an emotion, you are afraid of yourself
That which cannot be expressed to the mother cannot be expressed to the self
Children are a place to contribute unconditional love but not extract it
The greatest burden a child bears is the unlived life of the parent

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Reclaim Your Nervous System: A Guide to Positive Change, Mental Wellness, and Post-Traumatic Growth by Mastin Kipp
Mastin Kipp - Instagram

How to Reclaim Your Nervous System With Mastin Kipp Sep 23, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Mastin Kipp

Why the nervous system is so important and impacts so many areas of health
How to set the nervous system up for success
Understanding how young children are co-regulated to our nervous systems
Different nervous system states have different metabolic demands on the body
How our metabolic energy can be diverted into stress hormones
What vagal tone is, and why this matters
Fight or flight is a very metabolic expensive state to be in, and this can affect many areas of health
Safety is the precursor to healing the nervous system
Regulating the nervous system needs resources: safe relationships, glucose, and oxygen
Why breathwork can be so impactful… the biology makes sense
Calm and regulated are not the same thing

Resources We Mention

Reclaim Your Nervous System: A Guide to Positive Change, Mental Wellness, and Post-Traumatic Growth by Mastin Kipp
Mastin Kipp - Website
Mastin Kipp - Instagram

Childhood Illness & Recovery from a Mother’s Perspective With Marsha and Lauren Vaknine Sep 18, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Lauren and Marsha

The very early diagnosis that Lauren received and the amazing journey that unfolded
How a mother’s intuition was so important in the early days of diagnosis
The amazing spiritual experiences that unfolded for them
How she trusted her intuition and said no to steroids
The journey to healing
How they navigated the teenage years and rebellion

Resources We Mention

Lauren Vaknine - Website
Lauren Vaknine - Instagram
Lauren Vaknine - TED Talk
RISE Program

Cycle Syncing with the Seasons and the Magnificent Menstrual Cycle With Susan Fox Sep 17, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Susan Fox

What it means to cycle sync with the seasons
Things we may not know about the menstrual cycle and what we can learn from our cycles
What are the seasons related to our cycles, and how to sync with them
How to nourish yourself through different parts of our cycles
The importance of light and of getting more in alignment with natural light cycles
If you track your cycle, what changes can tell you and what to pay attention to

Resources We Mention