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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:

Secrets to Intimacy and Connection: 13 Pathways to Freedom With Rori Montali Jun 04, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Rori

Her own transformative journey with trauma and healing
How intimacy extends far beyond romantic relationships and some ways to help address it
Why she disconnected after childhood trauma and how she learned to reconnect
What the 13 pathways of intimacy are and how she learned them
Wounds around intimacy related to competition among women
The most common thing that comes up for women in her program

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Desire for Intimacy
Relax Sauna - Use code Rori100

How to Listen to Our Subconscious to Maximize Success With Rori Montali Jun 03, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Rori

What craniosacral therapy is and how she got into it
What somatic emotional release is
The power of tuning into the subconscious mind and how to begin to tune into it
Connection of breath and the subconscious mind
The four areas of the subconscious that she helps people work on
One simple way to tap into your intuition daily

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Desire for Intimacy

How to Regulate Your Nervous System to Manage Anxiety, Overwhelm and Burnout With Michelle Grosser May 30, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Michelle Grosser

Three lifestyle factors that help support nervous system health
How to incorporate moments of stillness every day and how just 10 minutes a day can help
Movement as a healthy lifestyle factor for nervous system health
The importance of ten minutes of play a day (and different forms of play/redefining that term)
What language our nervous system speaks and how to communicate effectively with it
Simple somatic techniques you can do at home for free to regulate your nervous system
What a physiological breath is and how you can do it in seconds
Practical things that can help when you do hit burnout or overwhelm or anxiety (or all of those!)
Shifting from judgment to curiosity to help with burnout

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Michelle Grosser - website

Calm Mom: Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System & How to Regulate With Michelle Grosser May 29, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Michelle Grosser

Regulated vs dysregulated nervous system states
Why a regulated nervous system doesn’t mean we are calm all the time
Sources of nervous system stress in our modern lifestyles
The different nervous system responses to stress and how they look different in different people
Acute steps you can try to regulate the nervous system in the moment
Ways to respond and address different types of nervous system responses
Our bodies are constantly communicating with us, and how to listen
How tension in the body can indicate a bracing response from being stuck in a stress response
Tips for helping kids regulate their nervous systems at various ages
We share a nervous system with our kids until they are about 7 years old so co-regulation can help a lot
When not to soothe kids out of a big emotion

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Understanding Air Quality and Mold Testing In Your Home With Ryan Blaser May 28, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Ryan Blaser

Why indoor air can be more contaminated than outdoor air
The most common problems with indoor air quality
How to test the air quality in your home
CO2 levels in the home and what to do about it
What to know about mold in the home and how to test for it
Why mold is the biggest unknown health problem we are dealing with
70% of homes have a mold problem they don’t know about it
What to know about chemicals and water contaminants
Reasons to have air filters in your home even if you don’t have mold or a big issue
How keeping the home really clean is helpful for avoiding big problems like mold

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EMFs and Lighting: How to Optimize Your Home With Ryan Blaser of Test My Home May 27, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Ryan Blaser

The most common EMF problems we encounter in our home environments
Our bodies run on electrical signals, so things like EMFs can affect our bodies
Technology isn’t going anywhere, but how to minimize any damage from it
How the wiring in your home can create EMFs you don’t know about
More reasons that spending time in nature is so beneficial
Why nature is the gold standard for lighting and how to take advantage of this
What flicker rate is, and how this impacts the body
Ways to set up lighting in your home and on your phone to minimize artificial lighting
How to use digital timers to manage the lighting in your home
Why he’d rather see his kid smoke a cigarette than wear Airpods
Proximity matters and why even a little distance from EMFs can be helpful
The real deal about grounding/earthing and grounding products
EMF is actually three separate things: electrical fields, magnetic fields, and frequencies
Native vs non-native EMFs
Key takeaways and starting points for improving these things

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800th Episode: 8 Unconventional Habits That Improved My Life (Solo Episode) May 22, 2024

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Episode Highlights

Why I make an effort to get more sun exposure, not less
The many benefits of light beyond just vitamin D exposure
How light improves our cells and is a huge health hack
The reason I consume a LOT of salt water and feel great when I do
The one natural ingredient I treat like the dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding treats Windex and use for everything

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Top Integrative Tips and Remedies for Healthy Kids With Dr. Elisa Song May 21, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Elisa Song

The state of children's health today, and why we are seeing some type of problem
Alarming data about the rise of autoimmune disorders in children
Why teenagers are at the highest risk and the most rapidly rising segment of the population for autoimmunity
What to know about antibiotic use
The time and place for antibiotics and what to do if kids need them
When antibiotics can be avoided and what to try instead
Antibiotics are the single biggest disrupter of the gut microbiome
Some experts think that antibiotic resistance will be a leading cause of death by 2050
As much as 70% of antibiotic prescriptions may be unnecessary
Ways to recover from antibiotic use
Six questions to ask if your child is prescribed an antibiotic
Tips for beating ear infections in kids without antibiotics
What to do when your child runs a fever and debunking some fever myths
Tips that work for cold and flu in kids including a well-studied herbal remedy

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The Key to Building Resilience in Kids From the Inside Out With Dr. Elisa Song May 20, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Elisa Song

How she got into integrative pediatrics and holistic wellness for kids
What whole child resilience is and how we can nurture it in our kids
The foundation of resilience in children
What cellular resilience is and how to increase it
Why illnesses spike in the winter
The number one thing we can do to uplevel resilience in kids
How the gut microbiome is the key to lifelong wellness
Psychological stress can affect the gut, and gut health can affect psychological health
How neurotransmitters are made in the gut
Ways to improve vagus nerve health in kids
One easy tip to get into parasympathetic for kids

Resources We Mention

Healthy Kids, Happy Kids: An Integrative Pediatrician's Guide to Whole Child Resilience by Elisa Song, MD
Everyday Holistic Pediatric - courses
Just Thrive probiotics

Why to Ditch All the Artificial Fragrances & Where They Are Hiding With Mira Dessy May 16, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Mira Dessy

The problem with fragrances and why she calls the cleaning product aisle "the aisle of death"
How chemicals and fragrances affect the body and why it matters
Why fragrance-free isn’t always a better alternative
Fragrances can have a lot of harmful compounds involved and they aren’t required to list them
The easiest and most important first things to swap out in your house
Why dryer sheets are terrible offenders for home air
The biggest offenders in personal care products
We can reset our olfactory senses when we avoid artificial fragrances
Why laundry is often the worst offender

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