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
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I am here to talk about cold water immersion and the ways it changed my life. I get vulnerable and dish on the deep stuff, and all the ways I am working through personal growth. I believe every day is a practice, and I share my experiences and thoughts on how to add natural healing modalities to life, a little bit at a time. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adrienne68/support
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In a world where everyone is hiding behind their successes, Vikram dives in deep with his guests on the challenges they have faced and overcome.This is not your standard podcast that talks about how rich his guests are, this is a podcast that goes deep into how each person overcame their struggles and challenges. You will hear how his guests overcame the traumas they faced to become successful in a world that tries to pretend like everything is perfect.Be Real is a real show by your host Vik ...
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How Deliberate Cold Exposure Healed My Autoimmune Conditions With Adrienne Jezick
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Episode Highlights With Adrienne Her story of autoimmune recovery and how it led her to learning about cold exposure Why she was taking over 20 prescriptions daily and how she recovered The reason cold exposure is the one healing modality she would choose Drastic effects she noticed when she started doing ice baths Why ice baths can be so helpful a…
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Bioidentical Hormone Replacement & Navigating Menopause After Breast Cancer With Dr. Jenn Simmons
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer How she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the research The real data on hormones…
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A New Method of Breast Cancer Screening & Prevention with Dr. Jenn Simmons
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons The downfall of imaging as breast cancer prevention is that this is really just early diagnosis and not prevention Far beyond cancer, there are a lot of benign changes in the breast that can cause stress for people Why screening doesn’t improve outcomes as much as we once thought No matter how many women we …
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Why Biohackers Are Wrong, Slowing Aging, & Decoding DNA With Kash Khan
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Episode Highlights With Kash Khan The problem with biohacking and why he doesn’t like that word either Why I personally prefer bio-love or bio-alignment and working with my body Most bankruptcies are due to healthcare cost The real story of aging and how inflammation is connected Everyone needs to focus on reducing inflammation The foundational thi…
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The Gaslighting in Female Healthcare & Finding Your Own Answers With Kash Khan
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Episode Highlights With Kash Khan Why medical gaslighting is a real problem in medicine The real reason women and men aren’t medically the same and why this is empowering Looking at what biology is broken and genetics vs the symptoms to get real answers Functional genomics vs genetics and how to understand your genes in a way that benefits you Why …
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Deep Dive on Air Quality & How Free to Improve Yours Immediately With Mike Feldstein
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Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein of Jaspr The reason indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air How poor air quality can cause inflammation Humans breathe about one credit card worth of microplastics per week, and what this does to the body 100% of all homes tested positive for microplastics in air How we can get oxidative stress and ac…
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You Are What You Breathe: The Biggest Unknown Health Factor with Mike Feldstein
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Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein We breathe so much more than we drink or eat, so air quality can be much more important than even food quality We breathe 11,000-15,000 liters of air per day Air is one of our most essential health factors, and we can only go minutes without air Why Mike carries a CO2 monitor, and when CO2 levels can affect pe…
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Light, Mitochondria, DNA: Sunshine is the Only Way With Dr. Courtney Hunt
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt We evolved under the light of the sun to take code/energy from the sun Light is a symphony of information for our bodies How light can help us reverse age It is all coded into our bodies; how to send your body the right signals How sunrise and sunset are natural sources of red light When you get enough red …
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Light, Mitochondria, DNA: Sunshine is the Only Way With Dr. Courtney Hunt
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt Her own story of recovery from Hashimoto's She was trained as an OB/GYN and her path to what she does now You are not your diagnosis The importance of seeing yourself well What autophagy is and how it can be such a valuable tool How to encourage autophagy and self-cleaning in the body When you enter ketosis…
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Knowing Our Kids More Deeply and Connected Parenting With Barbara Ditlow
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Episode Highlights With Barbara The power of listening, especially with our children How understanding human design can drastically change how we parent The way a child's design can affect how they learn and the school environment they need How our kid's type can affect how they eat and why we might call it picky eating The only thing that heals is…
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Understanding Your Human Design & Knowing Yourself Better With Barbara Ditlow
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Episode Highlights With Barbara Her incredible background and journey and what led to her work The wisdom she found in not needing to be or have power over other people Her friendship with Ra and Eckhart Tolle What human design is and how it can help us understand our gifts How human design is unique and what the different types are in human design…
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The Real Reason for Obesity & Self Love for Better Health with Justin Nault
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Episode Highlights With Justin The real root cause of obesity and why it isn’t what you think Why diet can be so frustrating and why so many of us are recovering dieters The average woman tries 126 diets in the course of their lifetime Obesity often stems from unmet emotional and psychological needs The antidote to this problem How we inherit progr…
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Conscious Parenting for Busy Parents of Teenagers In the Age of Distraction with Paola Telfer
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Episode Highlights With Paola Telfer Navigating parenting in an increasingly technological world How to maximize the benefits of technology for kids and minimize the addictive potential A relationship-focused approach to parenting around technology Some practical tips for managing technology in the home The most important part of managing a relatio…
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Brain Training at Home and How to Optimize Brain States with Sens.ai
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Episode Highlights With Sens.ai Her story that led to her creating at-home brain training that actually works How a brain injury and PTSD impacted her life and how she reversed it What is brain training and how it can be so impactful This is basically neurotechnology-assisted meditation What the different brain waves and brain states are and how to…
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The Inflammation Equation: Decoding the Path to Optimal Well-Being With Dr. Tom O’Bryan
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Tom O'Bryan The inflammation equation and all the variables we face in the modern world Bottom-line principles that affect inflammatory status 14 of the 15 largest killers are chronic inflammatory conditions Why inflammation is the trigger that pulls on the chain to break the weakest link The most common environmental to…
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Importance of Returning to Natural Human Environments (Other Than Nutrition) With Dr. Anthony Gustin
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Anthony Gustin What he learned from his stay with a hunter-gatherer tribe and how it changed his life Huge takeaways he had from witnessing a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and how this actually shifted his viewpoint away from just the physical aspects of health toward human wholeness His experience with mold exposure, detox,…
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Why Regenerative Agriculture Is So Important With Dr. Anthony Gustin
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Episode Highlights with Dr. Anthony Gustin The problems with the current food supply chain How complex the meat supply chain is What regenerative agriculture is and why it is so important for the planet, especially now The point we are fast approaching that will be a big problem for our food supply and the planet Regenerative agriculture is a way t…
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Seven Essential Health Elements With Ryan Lazarus
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Ryan Lazarus Pillars of health: Move, Rest, Nourish, Learn, Connect, Challenge, Spark The details on nutrition: the EAT plan Salt should not be demonized and what we need to know about salt consumption How 3-5 grams of salt a day can be really helpful Practical tips for getting enough high-quality sleep: routine, environ…
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The Lazarus Method: How to Create Your Own Health Playbook & Gamify Healthy Habits
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Episode Highlights With Ryan Lazarus The life-altering event that drastically changed the course of his life and led to the work he does now An indoor soccer injury that led to severe health problems for him including type 1 diabetes What he learned in his own recovery and how this led to him helping people His epiphany that led to incredible resul…
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Being the “Weird Parent” In a World of Sugar, Vegetable Oils, and EMFs With Dr. Cameron Chesnut
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Episode Highlights With Cameron Chesnut The things he does differently in parenting that make him a “weird” parent too Tinfoil hat topics for him with his kids and family Things he avoids with his kids: vegetable oils, sugar, EMFs Why he almost completely avoids sugar with his kids How insulin response as children can affect insulin sensitivity as …
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Peak Performance in Daily Life: A Surgeon Who Trains Like a Professional Athlete With Dr. Cameron Chesnut
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Cameron Chesnut What sets him apart as a surgeon How he trains like an athlete to show up best in surgery Recovery protocols that set him apart from other surgeons How he makes sure he can show up for peak performance every time he enters the operating room Inflammatory states optimized - what to do His routine for getti…
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10-Year Anniversary Episode: Then vs. Now & What I’d Tell Myself 10 Years Ago
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Episode Highlights What life looked like 10 years ago! What has changed on the Wellness Mama business side How my mindset has changed over this past decade Physical health vs mental/emotional health - or both? How I lacked a work-life balance back then What I wish I knew 10 years ago: light, protein, sleep, inner work The real 80/20 is light, sleep…
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Secrets to Intimacy and Connection: 13 Pathways to Freedom With Rori Montali
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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 compe…
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How to Listen to Our Subconscious to Maximize Success With Rori Montali
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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 …
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How to Regulate Your Nervous System to Manage Anxiety, Overwhelm and Burnout With Michelle Grosser
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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 te…
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Calm Mom: Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System & How to Regulate With Michelle Grosser
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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 t…
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Understanding Air Quality and Mold Testing In Your Home With Ryan Blaser
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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…
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EMFs and Lighting: How to Optimize Your Home With Ryan Blaser of Test My Home
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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 tim…
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800th Episode: 8 Unconventional Habits That Improved My Life (Solo Episode)
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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 us…
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Top Integrative Tips and Remedies for Healthy Kids With Dr. Elisa Song
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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…
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The Key to Building Resilience in Kids From the Inside Out With Dr. Elisa Song
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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 res…
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Why to Ditch All the Artificial Fragrances & Where They Are Hiding With Mira Dessy
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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 easies…
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Building a Preparedness Pantry Without Relying on Junk Food with Mira Dessy
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Episode Highlights With Mira Why preparedness is a growing trend How financial concerns are leading to more interest in having preparedness pantries The problem with most long-term food storage — highly processed foods Why access to clean water is so important with stored foods How much food and water do we need to store ahead A reason to have a re…
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The Adaptability of Our Bodies and Minds: We Have More Control than We Think with Dr. Olivia Lesslar
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar The science of the mind-body connection and why it matters so much Ways foreign things enter the body and why understanding this is important What guardian sites are and how to support them How to get the mind, body, and emotions in alignment It is only within a parasympathetic state that the body will hea…
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Understanding the Science of Mind-Body Connection With Dr. Olivia Lesslar
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar What psychoneuroimmunology is and how understanding it can help improve our health How everything relates to everything and why understanding this is important What polyvagal therapy is and how addressing nervous system health is beneficial The dorsal vagal response of fawn and how this affects the nervous…
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Life Skills for Kids and Independence vs Protection with Katie Kimball
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Episode Highlights With Katie Kimball Why life skills are still important (and maybe more so) in today's world How life skills foster confidence and relate to mental health The reason for the rise in anxiety and depression in kids Chore wars and balancing responsibility and life skills with kids doing too much work Require the work, not the results…
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How to Create More Sanity and Calm With Dane Maxwell
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Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell Ways to create more space and sanity, especially as a mom Sanity is available right now if you can figure out what your mind is doing or needing How to figure out what your mind is doing and say yes to it Why women are often not told things that are in alignment with the complexity of who we are The unconscious …
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How to Write a Children’s Book for Your Own Children To Help Them Avoid Pitfalls You Experienced with Dane Maxwell
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Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell How his journey led him to write a children’s book for his daughter His journey from high-achieving entrepreneur to singer How Hatha yoga helped him process energy in his body after trauma The therapies that helped him resolve past trauma How he's working to avoid passing on negative patterns to his daughter Wha…
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Root Cause Approach to Cold and Flu & Why Many OTC Medications Are Unhealthy With Nazlie Latefi
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Episode Highlights With Nazlie Lafefi Why most OTC medications are outdated and were created before we understood inflammation and its role The reason many products don’t address root causes and aren’t helpful in the long-term Surprising ways that many OTC medications work How to address the root cause of colds and flu at the inflammatory level The…
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How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle Why not to train to get better and what to do instead How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time Why h…
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Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal musc…
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Plant-Based Minerals: What They Are & How They Work with The Mineral Geek Caroline Alan
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Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan What plant-based minerals are and how they are much different than other forms of minerals How we can get minerals from decomposed plants The molecules inside humate: humic and fulvic Minerals fuel the cells via mitochondria in the cells Fulvic is an intracellular molecule that removes toxins from the cell and …
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Mythbusting Minerals – Understanding Minerals Starts in the Cells with Caroline Alan
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Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan Why modern humans are experiencing so many mineral deficiencies The reason modern humans can’t get enough minerals from food How minerals impact mitochondria and why this is so important Your body makes amino acids but minerals must be ingested We are often operating at 40% of the mineral levels we actually nee…
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How to Become More Resilient and Release Unconscious Programs with Dr. Olga Stevko
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What resilience is and why it is important Common traits of people who are resilient What kinds of things can lower our resilience How the language we use toward ourselves and our children can impact us drastically A way to become the observer in a situation to shift focus and become more resilient Ways to cu…
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How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence to Improve Your Life With Dr. Olga Stevko
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What emotional intelligence is and how it affects all areas of life We need to be able to feel to have emotional intelligence What happens when people feel too little or too much Problems that can arise if someone has very high emotional intelligence Ways to improve emotional intelligence How unconscious prog…
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How Your Nervous System Can Help Create the Life You Want With Veronica Rottman
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Episode Highlights With Veronica How we can befriend our bodies and nervous systems to help create the life we want The pitfalls that women especially can fall into when it comes to nervous system health How this relates to reproductive health, especially for women Deeper nervous system healing that goes beyond just affirmations and talking How to …
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Somatic and Autonomic Nervous System Healing with Veronica Rottman
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Episode Highlights With Veronica What somatic healing is The way this ties into nervous system healing Somatics is a broad term that includes all things that mean healing through the body Modalities that are included in somatic healing What somatic experiencing is How we can use the body to help resolve trauma and promote mental wellness What polyv…
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How to Take Care of Your Skin During Menopause and As You Age with Dr. Mina
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina How hormone changes affect the skin Why the skin changes at menopause and what to do about it The reason menopause isn’t a bigger part of the conversation Why acne can happen again in menopause The reason hair loss happens sometimes during menopause What to know about different skincare procedures Procedures that ca…
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Simplify Your Skincare Routine for Better Results with Harvard Dermatologist Dr. Mina
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina What a minimalist skincare routine is and why keeping it simple can be best Skincare is self-care but it doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive The basics of a skincare routine that works and what you don’t need Products that can help you age gracefully without any extreme procedures Over-the-counter products tha…
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Emotions and Their Impact on the Vagus Nerve with Diane Ducarme
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Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body The things that get i…
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