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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 Adamo Method and The Science of Love With Dr. Molly Maloof Mar 04, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Molly Maloof

What Adamo is and why she started it
Adamo means to fall in love in Latin
Why does love matter to longevity
Loneliness is worse for you than smoking, drinking, or sedentary behavior
The problem of declining sexual connection especially in long-term relationships
The signal of loneliness is similar in the brain to a pain signal
Women are oxytocin dominant, men are vasopressin dominant
The magic of being feminine and the incredible capacity of women for sexual creative energy and capacity
Your brain can shut down your libido and override your body but this can be rewired
How to connect to the feminine and step out of the masculine

Resources We Mention

Adamo Method
Instagram - Dr. Molly Maloof

Why Veterinary Care Is So Expensive and Hard to Find with Dr. Ruth Roberts Feb 29, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Ruth Roberts

Why veterinary care has gotten so expensive and hard to find lately
How Covid changed access to veterinary medicine for many people
How to find good pet care in today’s world
Ways to support your pets hormonally, especially after they are spayed and neutered
How to find a good vet and how to ask good questions to keep your pets healthy
Where to find and how to become a holistic pet health coach

Resources We Mention

Dr. Ruth Roberts - Website
Holistic Pet Health Coach Program

Real Food for Pets & How This Can Reverse Health Problems With Dr. Ruth Roberts Feb 28, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Ruth Roberts

What does real food for pets look like
Home cooking for pets and why to consider it
What pets need: proteins, vegetables, slow carbs, healthy fats
Demystifying what pets need and how to feed them optimally
The only foods to absolutely avoid for dogs and cats
Nasty ingredients included in most pet food
Incredible results pets have had from changing diet
Supplements for pets
Why our pets are exposed to more toxins than we are in our same environment

Resources We Mention

Dr. Ruth Roberts - Website (use code wellnessmama for a discount)
Holistic Pet Health Coach Program

The Neck is the Bottleneck to Healing With Jodi Cohen Feb 27, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Jodi Cohen

Why the vagus nerve is such a key to healing and nervous system health
How pathogens in the mouth contribute to lymph and vagus nerve issues
Where to focus on the neck and clavicle as a natural facelift
There are more lymph nodes in the neck than anywhere in the body
Why we might not actually be relaxed or in parasympathetic while we are sleeping
Ways to help get the body into parasympathetic
The opposite of I don’t feel safe is “I have choices”
How we can help our kids develop good nervous system health and habits
The “how we eat” is often more important than what we eat and why digesting in parasympathetic is important

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Why Topically Applied Remedies Are So Effective & Lymphatic Health With Jodi Cohen Feb 26, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Jodi Cohen

Why topical remedies can be so effective
How topically applied remedies enter the body and can be helpful even if you have digestive or other issues
Topical remedies bypass the liver
Ways to support topical remedies and get them through the skin
Essential oils are so concentrated, and often less is more
How to open up lymphatic points and help your body get the congestion out
We drain 75% of our lymph on the left side
Fascia wraps around the lymph, and how fascia is involved in lymph congestion

Resources We Mention

Vibrant Blue Oils

How to Stop Feeling Triggered by Your Kids Behavior with Liber8 Feb 22, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Raj

How to start identifying the cause of the triggers when we're triggered by our kids
Ways to help kids not learn that their emotions are bad or create patterns of shutting down emotions
Learning to create space between a trigger and a reaction to have more choice in our reactions
What the core childhood wounds are, and where they often come from
Many subconscious beliefs are formed before age seven, and what to understand about this in parenting
Ways to create nervous system safety in your home
Studies about adverse childhood experiences and how things like emotional neglect can lead to nervous system dysregulation
How to get to know your inner child and understand your core needs and wounds
Common triggers and themes among parents
Feelings of rejection as a parent can trigger a deeper core wound

Resources We Mention

Liber8 - Use the code wellnessmama

The Greatest Biohack is Feeling Your Feelings (& How to Do it) with Raj Jana Feb 21, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Raj Jana

What led him to do the work he does now after running successful companies
How he learned he didn’t really know how to love himself
What happened when he tried hypnotherapy, and what it led to
The nervous system is like the soil of the body from where everything else grows
Understanding nervous system health and how to improve it
How to learn to develop a healthy relationship with your emotions
What emotional triggers are and how to turn them into treasures
How to use emotional lab reports to find the tools that will work best for you
Tools for regulating the nervous system
How to build a healthy relationship with your emotions and your thoughts
What parts work is and how to use it

Resources We Mention

Liber8
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins, MD

How to Get Rid of Puffy Weight at Middle Age with Dr. Sam Shay Feb 20, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Sam Shay

What puffy weight is, and why it's different
Puffy weight is weight that rapidly comes on and off and isn’t just fat or water weight
The muffin test to know if this is affecting you
Have you ever eaten a small amount of something and gained a disproportionate amount of weight… here’s why
How inflammatory chemicals in foods can lead to drastic weight fluctuations
Dilution is the solution to the pollution, so rapid puffy weight is a signal of an inflammation response
The exercise test for exercise-induced obesity
Why some people actually gain fat from exercise based on specific genes
Symptoms and inflammation are both gifts and how to learn from them!
All inflammation is not bad, but how to keep inflammatory responses in the right range
How to help your liver detox estrogen more effectively
Your body is always trying to help you, and there might just be a mismatch between the environment you are in and the genetics you have
What genetic salt intolerance is, and how to know if you have it
Vitamin D may control up to 5% of the human genome and is super important

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Comedy as a Path to Healing With Dr. Sam Shay Feb 19, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Sam Shay

How he got into stand-up comedy as a functional medicine practitioner (who supports people on the spectrum using functional medicine)
His definition of functional medicine: the best of Western medicine diagnostics with the best of natural medicine methods
How he got into comedy through tragedy
Art is the receipt for pain
Stand-up comedy is the way to itemize that receipt in public
At the root of almost every trauma is separation, and comedy and laughter help with healing
Laughter is medicine
How he’s using comedy to help those with Asperger's
One is truly healed when he or she can help another person heal
Comedy is egoic destructive and why this is a good thing
How to learn stand-up comedy if you are interested (and why it is worth considering)

Resources We Mention

Dr. Sam Shay - Website
Stand Up Comedy: A Primer

Picky Eating: Root Causes and What Parents Can Do About It With Katie Kimball Feb 14, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Katie

Why picky eating is on the rise societally
Kids are feeling extra stress today, and that can contribute to picky eating
Eating uses all of our senses at once, so if any are overwhelmed for our kids, that can lead to eating issues
The importance of reducing stress at the table
Gratitude or prayer can actually help us get into parasympathetic mode before eating
The three Ls: laugh, learn, love
A benefit of using family-style serving and letting kids plate their own food
A phrase to implement: “You don’t have to eat that”
Another phrase: "Learning to eat"
The importance of respecting and nurturing kids' agency in eating and food choices
Her picky eating challenge, where 85% of parents feel less stress in the kitchen after this short challenge

Resources We Mention