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EP #1098: Health vs. Thin Privilege: A Self-Care Perspective Jun 21, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Dr. Karla who talks about thin privilege, the body positive movement, diet culture and more. Dr. Karla Lester is a community pediatrician, life and weight coach, is board certified in obesity medicine and Founder of IME Community for Teens where self-love is your superpower to achieve your weight and life goals and make your mark in the world! If you live in Lincoln, you most likely know
Dr. Karla as the founder of Teach a Kid to Fish, a local non-profit with a vision of creating community solutions for children’s health. Dr. Karla, ActivistMD coaches parents and teens to cancel diet culture and be body positive in a body negative world.She is the author of a children’s book, “the magical everywhere”, which you may find on her website imecommunity.com under IME Books.

EP #1097: SUMMER SHORTS - Five Tips for a Tasty BBQ for Delicious Self-Care Jun 16, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Michelle Dudash, RDN who shares tips for making your next BBQ the healthiest and tasty as it can be! This is one of the SUMMER SHORTS SERIES: 10-11 minute interviews with quick tips to immediately put into action! Award-winning registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), Cordon Bleu-certified chef, and author Michelle Dudash creates top-selling and reliable solutions for busy women as they strive to feed themselves and their families nourishing meals while the clock is ticking. Michelle is the author of three books, including the new Clean Eating Kitchen: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Cookbook: Quick and Easy High Protein, Low-Sugar, Healthy-Fat Recipes for Lifelong Health (Fair Winds Press, June 2021), the top-selling Clean Eating for Busy Families, revised & expanded, and is founder of her newest endeavor Dash Dinners Meal Spice Kits.Clean. Fresh. Fast. It is Michelle’s mission to make these three principles a part of your everyday food choices. Teaching millions of families how food and health can deliciously co-exist has been Michelle’s mission for over 18 years – one meal at a time. From clean eating BBQ fixes, revealing which foods keep you cool in the heat (while not melting in your bag) and snack packs that save your day, Michelle is the expert in empowering you how to approach food with a nutritionist’s perspective whether you’re in the kitchen or on the road.

EP #1096: Reclaim Your Sleep During Perimenopause & Menopause for Ultimate Self-Care Jun 14, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Andrea Donsky, her part time co-host on Health Power as well as the creator of www.naturallysavvy.com and www.wearemorphus.com to help YOU reclaim your sleep during perimenopause and menopause. She also talks about her upcoming The Menopause Shift Summit: Discover The Secrets to Feeling Great, Taking Control, and Thriving Through Menopause.Did you know that you will feel symptoms of menopause before you stop your menstrual period?
Did you know that your symptoms - like hot flashes - aren’t, in fact, random?
Did you know that menopause is a PROCESS, not a one-time hormonal event…one that can take years of symptoms, struggles, and stress over what’s happening to your body?
Menopause mostly deserves the bad reputation it has. But it doesn’t HAVE to be that way.
The first step is understanding what’s happening to your body - and then you can discover how your symptoms and the changes you’re experiencing can be managed.
So you can keep living withOUT suffering!
That’s why I asked my friend Ann Marie McQueen to join me in hosting the B-I-G-G-E-S-T event focused solely on menopause.
It’s called:
The Menopause Shift Summit: Discover The Secrets to Feeling Great, Taking Control, and Thriving Through MenopauseJune 21st - 23rd, 2022
The best part? You’re invited - and we have a complimentary ticket for you!
All you have to do is head to https://wearemorphus.com/summit and register for your no-charge seat.
You’ll have access to over FORTY experts, from different disciplines…and they’re all talking about how you can feel better and take back control of what’s happening in your body right now.
A small sample of what you’ll discover:

The Simple Eating Plan To Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Lower Your Blood Glucose
Don’t Despair: There Are Answers For Your New Sexual Health Needs
The Salt Fix: Why The Low-Salt Recommendation is a Myth
Avoid Menopause?! Slow Down Aging with the Kaufman Protocol
Bioidentical to Body Identical: HRT 2.0
Use Food to Crush Sugar Cravings Now & Powerfully Heal Your Body
Why You Should STOP Blaming Aging for Your Slowing Metabolism
The 3 Types of Toxins To Avoid in Perimenopause and Beyond
The Invisible Factor Making Perimenopause Worse
Your Buff Muff: Expert Advice for Vaginal Health in Menopause
How to Survive Menopause AND Keep Your Job
Pee In Your Pants? Fix Bladder Problems With Your Sex Life

…and this is just the beginning!

EP #1095: Menopause Supportfor Ultimate Self-Care Jun 09, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Andrea Donsky, her part time co-host on Health Power as well as the creator of www.naturallysavvy.com and www.wearemorphus.com to offer you menopause support and to talk about her upcoming The Menopause Shift Summit: Discover The Secrets to Feeling Great, Taking Control, and Thriving Through Menopause.Did you know that you will feel symptoms of menopause before you stop your menstrual period?
Did you know that your symptoms - like hot flashes - aren’t, in fact, random?
Did you know that menopause is a PROCESS, not a one-time hormonal event…one that can take years of symptoms, struggles, and stress over what’s happening to your body?
Menopause mostly deserves the bad reputation it has. But it doesn’t HAVE to be that way.
The first step is understanding what’s happening to your body - and then you can discover how your symptoms and the changes you’re experiencing can be managed.
So you can keep living withOUT suffering!
That’s why I asked my friend Ann Marie McQueen to join me in hosting the B-I-G-G-E-S-T event focused solely on menopause.
It’s called:
The Menopause Shift Summit: Discover The Secrets to Feeling Great, Taking Control, and Thriving Through MenopauseJune 21st - 23rd, 2022
The best part? You’re invited - and we have a complimentary ticket for you!
All you have to do is head to https://wearemorphus.com/summit and register for your no-charge seat.
You’ll have access to over FORTY experts, from different disciplines…and they’re all talking about how you can feel better and take back control of what’s happening in your body right now.
A small sample of what you’ll discover:

The Simple Eating Plan To Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Lower Your Blood Glucose
Don’t Despair: There Are Answers For Your New Sexual Health Needs
The Salt Fix: Why The Low-Salt Recommendation is a Myth
Avoid Menopause?! Slow Down Aging with the Kaufman Protocol
Bioidentical to Body Identical: HRT 2.0
Use Food to Crush Sugar Cravings Now & Powerfully Heal Your Body
Why You Should STOP Blaming Aging for Your Slowing Metabolism
The 3 Types of Toxins To Avoid in Perimenopause and Beyond
The Invisible Factor Making Perimenopause Worse
Your Buff Muff: Expert Advice for Vaginal Health in Menopause
How to Survive Menopause AND Keep Your Job
Pee In Your Pants? Fix Bladder Problems With Your Sex Life

…and this is just the beginning!

EP #1094: How Gardening is Wonderful Self-Care Jun 07, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Marcus Bridgewater, aka Garden Marcus who talks about his book, How to Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture YourselfMarcus Bridgewater, widely known as Garden Marcus, is an author, plant enthusiast, and CEO & Founder of Choice Forward. He began gardening when he bought his first house nearly seven years ago. After killing nine of his original 16 plants, he found himself determined to learn how to care for all living things. He now has around 500 plants at his Texas home. He developed his internet presence by connecting his observations in his garden to greater life lessons, and has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times. When he is not in his garden, he is leading presentations, workshops, and seminars with Choice Forward. His first book, “How to Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself,” (HarperOne, 2022) debuts May 24th.
Book Description:
In this transformative guide, TikTok’s most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater—aka Garden Marcus—offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul.Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his soothing TikTok videos that relate botany to humanity. A gardener “who shares tips about caring for one’s plants and oneself” (New York Times) and “is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the pandemic-induced chaos happening in the world” (Vogue), his soothing observations on plants and life have made him a social media star. In caring for over 600 plants, Marcus has gained invaluable wisdom. Life inside us yearns to grow; like plants, humans maximize their potential when presented with the right conditions. Through care and attention, he reminds us, we can successfully cultivate growth. Centered on a trinity of wellbeing—Mental Health, Physical Fitness, and Spiritual Awareness, How to Grow weaves together insights from the garden with stories from Marcus’s life to help you foster personal development. With lessons rooted in his experiences gardening—from how a replanted flourishing sweet potato vine is a reminder that all living things benefit from a change of scene, to how to embrace patience to foster growth—this inspiring guide helps you do “the dirty work” (pun intended) to discover kindness, patience, and positivity within. “We cannot make anything grow,” he advises. “But we can foster an environment where it may grow.”How to Grow isn’t a gardening book. It is a self-help book that draws inspiration from the garden. Original, timely, and filled with nurturing wisdom, it takes perennial knowledge from plants to teach us about ourselves and opens our eyes to what we are capable of achieving.

EP #1093: Trauma:The Invisible Epidemic—How Trauma Works & How We Can Heal From It (Hint: Self-Care) Jun 02, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Paul Conti, MD who talks about his book, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It.Paul Conti, MD, is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry training at Stanford and at Harvard, where he was appointed chief resident. He then served on the medical faculty at Harvard before moving to Portland, Oregon, and founding a clinic. Dr. Conti serves patients and clients throughout the United States and internationally, including the executive leadership of large corporations. He specializes in complex assessment and problem-solving, as well as both health and performance optimization. For more info, https://www.pacificpremiergroup.comBook description:
A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma
Imagine, if you will, a disease―one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice, one that transfers easily between parent and child, one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis.
In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper and more urgent view of trauma. Not only does Dr. Conti explain how trauma affects the body and mind, he also demonstrates that trauma is transmissible among close family and friends, as well as across generations and within vast demographic groups.
With all this in mind, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic proposes a course of treatment for the seemingly untreatable. Here, Dr. Conti traces a step-by-step series of concrete changes that we can make both as individuals and as a society to alleviate trauma’s effects and prevent further traumatization in the future.
You will discover:
• The different post-trauma syndromes, how they are classified, and their common symptoms
• An examination of how for-profit health care systems can inhibit diagnosis and treatment of trauma
• How social crises and political turmoil encourage the spread of group trauma
• Methods for confronting and managing your fears as they arise in the moment
• How trauma disrupts mental processes such as memory, emotional regulation, and logical decision-making
• The argument for a renewed humanist social commitment to mental health and wellness
It’s only when we understand how a disease spreads and is sustained that we are able to create its ultimate cure. With Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti reveals that what we once considered a lifelong, unbeatable mental illness is both treatable and preventable.

EP #1092: Radical Intimacy for Ultimate Self-Care May 31, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Zoë Kors who talks about her book, Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve .
Here is the book description:
A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.“With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.”—Zoë Kors
Part practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. She addresses the essential truth that is almost universally missed in discussions of sex and intimacy: We can meet each other only to the extent that we can meet ourselves. Kors guides the reader on a five‑part journey through nine areas of opportunity for deepening intimacy with themselves, their partner, and their world, inviting them to embrace emotional, physical, and energetic self‑mastery, which is required to skillfully relate with others. At the conclusion of each part, there are a collection of experiential exercises which support the reader in embodying the concepts they’ve just read. Voice-driven, accessible, and with the right amount of tough love, Radical Intimacy takes the mystery out of human connection. From academia and science to mysticism and self-development, Kors delivers a rich and varied understanding of human sexuality and intimacy through the lens of the body, brain, heart, spirit, and culture.

EP #1091: BMI is BS plus Eating Disorders, Diet Culture, Fat Shaming, Self-Love & Self-Care May 26, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Bethany Netsova who shares why the BMI is BS, the dangers of diet culture, fat phobia in the society at large and in the medical establishment, bullying both as a kid and as a fat woman trying to workout at numerous gyms, and her incredible TikTok page.
In Bethany's own words:
I never intended to become a fat positive creator on TikTok, but through my own journey to radical self love and acceptance I realized I could love and supports others in similar bodies and journeys. Growing up fat, I never felt like I was allowed to love myself. It wasn’t until I had a kid of my own that I realized if I wanted them to feel comfortable in their own skin and love themselves regardless of what the world tells them, they needed to see that in action and it had to start with me. My TikTok videos features stories from my past of growing up fat, experiences at the gym, and current issues that I still experience as a fat person. My hope is that others can see themselves in my stories and know they aren’t alone, while educating those who haven’t experienced fat phobia and show them what it’s like to be a fat person living in today’s society. TikTok name: blnetzer

EP #1090: The Magic of Aloe Vera Both Inside & Out for Self-Care May 24, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Dr. Michael Haley, a chiropractor and health coach. He emphasizes a healthy lifestyle, a nutrient-dense diet as a means to achieve optimal well-being and is passionate about promoting the benefits of pure, raw Aloe vera for various health conditions and optimizing gut health. Dr. Haley talks with Lisa about aloe’s potential use in a variety of health and wellness needs. Aloe may have applications for Crohn’s, IBD, GERD, diabetes, immune system disorders, eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, vaginal yeast and much more. Aloe also shows promise for helping shingles, acne, and other ailments. Many use it for their pets…including aloe for horse health! Dr. Haley’s health principles are based on science and tradition. Dr. Haley owns and operates Stockton Aloe 1, makers and distributors of 100% pure raw aloe vera gel health drink and aloe vera personal care products. He also maintains his private practice as owner and physician at Agape Chiropractic in Pompano Beach, Florida. He is an expert on phytonutrition and superfoods. He graduated from the University of Tampa and went on to Life College of Chiropractic where he earned his Doctorate in 1995. He is known by his colleagues as "Organic Mike" for his teachings in the area of organic chemistry and nutrition.

EP #1089: Relationship Self-Care: Managing Anxiety, OCD, and Depression May 19, 2022

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Lisa is joined by Allison Raskin, comedian, host of the popular "Just Between Us" podcast, mental health advocate, and New York Times bestselling author - knows the challenges of navigating romantic relationships with mental health issues firsthand. She was diagnosed with OCD at 4 years old and also lives with general anxiety disorder. Allison joins Lisa to talk about her book, OVERTHINKING ABOUT YOU: NAVIGATING ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WHEN YOU HAVE ANXIETY, OCD, AND/OR DEPRESSION.There are countless books on dating and many books on how to cope with mental illness. But, shockingly, there are very few books that explores the complex intersection of romance and mental health. With radical vulnerability, humor, and compassion, the new book: Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression - gives readers the tools to better understand themselves and what they want in a partner. It's a road map for what to do with this information - all while living with mental health issues.
The book is for everyone - whether you have a doctor's diagnosis or just find yourself overthinking about you!
Raskin seamlessly weaves her own mental health and dating journey with a wealth of advice from clinical psychologists, a psychiatrist, relationship experts, and real-life couples. The result? A useful, laugh-out-loud blend of memoir and self-help that gives readers tangible tips on navigating dating and romance while supporting their own mental health.
Featuring lessons learned from Raskin’s own love life and interviews with top health experts, Raskin’s nonfiction debut - [Workman Publishing; on sale May 3, 2022; $16.95] - explores the complex intersection of romance and mental health. The hope is that, similar to Raskin, readers will walk away from this book feeling less alone in the struggle and better prepared to tackle dating and relationships with more confidence and less worry.
Chapters cover everything from sharing mental health histories with partners, to side effects of medication, to online dating, and much more. Each chapter conveniently ends with a bulleted list of key takeaways.

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