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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:

Patrick McKeown on How to Breathe Better to Improve Focus, Sleep and Health Sep 29, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Patrick McKeown

Why he left school at 14 and what he learned by doing this
The importance of breath and how many of us are probably doing it wrong
How we can use our breathing to influence the mind and stress states
Why carbon dioxide drives our breathing patterns
The importance of nasal breathing
A simple breathing exercise to try to start paying attention to your breath
The importance of nasal breathing even during exercise
Can mouth taping at night (or even during exercise) improve breathing
Why oxygen uptake is actually higher with nasal breathing compared to mouth breathing
A reason to consider taping your mouth at night
How taping the mouth at night can benefit kids sleep
The connection between nose or mouth breathing and facial shape and oral health
Breathing exercises for mental health

Resources We Mention

Oxygen Advantage Website
Online Breathing Course for Anxiety
Online Breathing Course for Women (Use code WellnessMama50 for 50% off through 2022)
The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter by Patrick McKeown
Close Your Mouth: Buteyko Clinic Handbook for Perfect Health by Patrick McKeown
Anxiety Free: Stop Worrying and Quieten Your Mind - Featuring the Buteyko Breathing Method and Mindfulness by Patrick McKeown
The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Patrick McKeown
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Tucker Max on the Most Significant Finding for Processing Emotions, Trauma and PTSD Sep 26, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Tucker Max

How Tucker went from “fratire” and party boy to helping people through trauma
Why he credits psychedelics with helping him become a better husband and father
What MDMA assisted therapy is and how it helped him and many others
How certain substances can be a tool to drastically improve therapy outcomes
The clinical trials in PTSD and the dramatic results including an 80% total cure rate
Why this might be the most significant finding in psychology
The stigma around drugs and how/why these things were originally banned
What integration is and why it is so important with this type of therapy
Why guides are important and how to find a good one
The reason this works specifically on trauma so well
Ketamine, a legal option, that is used specifically for pain and suicidal thoughts
The differences between different types of psychedelics and how they work differently in the brain and body
Important cautions and preparation

Resources We Mention

The Beginner's Guide to Psychedelic Medicine by Tucker Max
Tucker's Psychedelic Medicine Q&A
Tucker Max website
A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy by Dr. Dan Engle
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Dr. Nicole LePera
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

Dr Robin Rose on the Gut Microbiome Link to Fertility with Staggering Results Sep 22, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Robin

Emerging research about how gut health is even more important than we thought
The things affecting our gut bacteria in a negative way
95% of disease begins in the gut
The link between fertility and gut health
New advanced testing that looks at vaginal and gut microbiome for fertility that is helping 75%+ of women struggling with infertility to get pregnant
Important findings that they’re learning from this new testing that can help everyone, even those not trying to conceive
The dramatic health benefits of gratitude

Resources We Mention

Terrain Health - Dr. Robin Rose
The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles by Terry Wahls M.D.
Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds by Kelly A. Turner PhD

Frank Elaridi on the Power of Emotions and Hidden Trauma (And How to Clear Them) Sep 19, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Frank Elaridi

How he went from nationally known journalist to what he does now
The way trauma stores in the body
How to clear trauma on a subconscious level
What the emotion code is
How emotional release works remotely and what’s going on
A live heart clearing example on me
What inherited trauma is and how to clear it
A study on mice that helps explain generational and inherited trauma
How movement and meditation help process emotions
Meditation and tapping for kids to help them process emotions
How with trauma, the body feels and responds to the memory as if it was happening in real time and how clearing the emotions allows the memory to remain without the negative physical response
His conference in September (I will be there)
How to work with Frank
Why the body knows what to do and how to learn from it
The reason pain is a good thing

Resources We Mention

Frank Elaridi - website
Frank Elaridi - Instagram
Frank Elaridi - Youtube
Plant Medicine Playlist
Blind People Seeing Without Eyes - Youtube
Modern Nirvana Summit - September 2022 (I'll be there)
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, MD, Ph.D
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins, MD, Ph.D
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
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A Course in Miracles and the Workbook by Helen Schucman

Louie Schwartzberg on Gratitude, Fantastic Fungi and Childlike Wonder Sep 15, 2022

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Episode Highlights with Louie Schwartzberg

How gratitude was built in since he was little by his parents who were Holocaust survivors
The connection between nature and gratitude
How to increase wonder, gratitude, and creativity in your life
Simple exercises to increase gratitude in your own life
Why beauty is nature's tool for survival
How fungi might be the greatest natural solution for climate change
Amazing lessons he learned while filming fantastic fungi

Resources We Mention

Improving Health With Quantum Energy As the Basis for Biological Systems Sep 12, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Philipp and Ian

What quantum energy is and the science that helps us understand it
How they concentrate quantum energy using certain types of plates
The energy first vs matter first explanation of life
How things like wifi affect these types of energy in the body
A roots up approach to understanding energy
Ways to improve quantum energy
What the Hawkins scale is and how it relates to quantum energy
What the quantum bloc is and how to use it
Blocking vs harmonizing EMFs
How this technology can work at a distance and how to get the most benefit
What quantum entanglement is and how they use it to improve health at a distance
The science of why love and gratitude make such a big difference

Resources We Mention

14-day free trial for QUANTUM UPGRADE - Use code Katie14
Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.D
Telegram Group invite

My First Principles Parenting Approach and What Works for Me Sep 08, 2022

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Episode Highlights From Katie

Why and how our family created a family culture
The importance of having kids be proud of themselves (versus me being proud of them)
How my parenting style is unique and based on "first principles parenting"
What radical self-sufficiency is and how I don't do anything for my kids that they can do themselves
Ways we encourage them to eat healthy and provide nutrient dense meals for our kids, but we allow them to make their own food choices
Why I have very few rules and rarely use the word "No"
The verbal contract we have with our kids on having their own phone and/or car
The tools we give our kids to help them process, understand and feel their emotions
Why I highly encourage my kids to ask and answer questions and to always ask better questions
Why I never used "Because I said so" as an answer to my toddlers
Our family traditions and what we do now
How we value experiences instead of gifts
What Unstitute is and how I developed the school curriculum for our kids
How 10-20 minutes of one-on-one time with each child can make a difference
What I want my kids to remember about me and their childhood

Resources Mentioned

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Positive Parenting Solutions
Ben Greenfield Podcast

Michelle Aristizabal on Natural Birth and Choosing Your Birthing Experience Sep 05, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Michelle

The resistance she runs into as a doctor trying to support natural birth
Why doctors and patients often have trouble having a low intervention birth in some settings
The reason the c-section rate has risen so drastically in the last few decades
Some factors to consider when approaching birth
The real data about if low intervention birth is more dangerous
Ways women can advocate for themselves in labor
Interventions you actually have a choice about in labor and can refuse
The factors women can do to increase their chances of a natural birth
Stats on the real safety of home birth vs hospital birth and why home birth isn’t as safe in the US as it can be in other places

Resources We Mention

Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan by Michelle Aristizabal
Facebook page - Wombkeepers Scottsdale
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block

Sherry Walling on How to Use Movement to Ease Pain and Grief Sep 01, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Sherry Walling

How she got into flying trapeze as an adult and the reason why
Her personal story around grief and how it led to her work as a psychologist in helping others
Tips for navigating the experience of grief with kids and why this is so important
Words we can use with our kids to help them process emotions
The stages of grief and how understanding them can help your experience of them
Ways to use movement to ease grief and pain
What somatic trained therapists are and how they can help
How we can move our feelings through our body using movement
Different types of movement to try to process grief
Ways to encourage kids to talk (at different ages) and how to support them through it
One of the biggest factors in someone not becoming significantly depressed from grief
Strategies to protect the mental wellness of your family
One of the biggest threats to mental well being for kids especially and how to mitigate it
Her encouragement to dance every day!

Resources We Mention

Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss by Sherry Walling, PhD
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison

Todd Kashdan on The Art of Insubordination: How (and Why) to Dissent and Defy Effectively Aug 29, 2022

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Episode Highlights With Todd Kashdan

Why he wrote a book on insubordination and all the connotations attached to that word
The reason we are seeing a higher percentage than we’ve ever seen of people questioning societal norms
What makes people want to cling to the status quo
How understanding this affects his parenting style and his relationships
Why disagreeing can be extremely beneficial to a group and why it can be the most caring thing to do
What minority influence is and why it is important to understand
Strategies we can use to have more effective groups, friendships and work environments
Stories of dissenters who have changed history
Ways to nurture our kids curiosity
Why play is a virtue and how curiosity and play are the antidote to many of our current problems
How to increase resilience and well being
His strategy for microtransitions that can help overwhelm

Resources We Mention