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Love Your Diagnosis is a podcast that dives deep into the world of health, wellness, and empowerment. In each episode of Love Your Diagnosis, we'll interview individuals who have successfully managed their diagnosis. These stories will showcase inspiring journeys of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of health in and outside of traditional Western medicine. My goal is to educate, discuss, build a community, support, and raise awareness around alternative approaches to health and empower li ...
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Sharon is a full time academic, part time comedian, terrible cricket player and a fan of big Barossa reds. This all means, she likes thinking, tinkering and drinking. What she doesn’t like is writing bios. Our interview is based around the 23 years it took Sharon to get off Anti depressants. She tried a few times to do it more hastily (over 3 month…
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As a 33 year radio broadcaster, Kim Curry was forced into retirement after a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis at age 50. We discuss his life before, when he was a radio presenter and the crazy things he got up to during that time. During the diagnosis, as in, what the symptoms where that led him to see a doctor and then about the lesions that starte…
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In this episode I talk with the inspirational Kimberly Clark, a Navy veteran who used her biggest obstacles to find opportunities for empowerment and recovery. Kimberly talks about her horrific childhood and military sexual trauma experiences, her battles with addiction, and her road to recovery that made her an inspiration to those going through s…
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Joshua Shea is a pornography addiction expert, certified betrayal trauma coach, therapeutic disclosure specialist and the author of four books about pornography addiction, including I’m Reading This Book About Porn Addiction For a Friend (2022). Since 2018, Joshua has given more interviews about pornography addiction and betrayal trauma than anybod…
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Amy Behimer is a multiple sclerosis warrior, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, leader, pharmacist, and coach. She uses her unique first hand experience, education, and training to help others shift from managing their autoimmune disease to creating autoimmune health using the thing that she credits for helping her LOVE HER DIAGNOSIS. Coaching! …
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Dale Allen-Rowse and I unpack parts of his journey living with generalised Dystonia. We get to know Dale and really get an understanding of what Dystonia is, which is essentially part of the Tourette's family. Below is a little excerpt from Dale: "Do you know what it's like to be a teen and have to run for your life to avoid being put into Conversi…
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Heather Hausenblas, PhD, believes we can have healthy and happy lives through simple wellness habits. She’s a health psychology expert, international award-winning scientist, public speaker, and best-selling author. Her research focuses on how our health habits effect our well-being. Heather has published 7 books and over 100 scientific articles. S…
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is quite a common experience for many people and yet it is very difficult to diagnose as it is a "syndrome" not necessarily a diagnosis. Pete talks to me about his situation and how he went from being unable to be diagnosed for many years to finding out for himself how to manage and work with reducing the crippling fatigue …
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Karese is a Registered Dental Hygienist and Myofunctional Therapist. She founded The Myo Spot, a practice aimed at amplifying oral wellness to whole body wellness. Through tele-therapy she helps clients of all ages overcome tongue ties, TMJ disorders, sleep apnea, grinding, anxiety, and various breathing and orofacial dysfunction. Passionate about …
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Miles is a filmmaker with lifelong epilepsy. He is a board member on two epilepsy foundations and has long fought for the use of cinema to end stigma. His recent epilepsy film Under the Lights played film festivals internationally and started conversations on representation with the public. He is developing and raising money to make the feature fil…
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What a bloody legend Carlson is! Quite late into the diagnostic realm of having epilepsy at age 33 and 5 years later, even though he is still working it all out, he has leapt into the music scene and is now advocating for epilepsy through spoken word, with electronic music in the background. What started as just shouting his frustration into a voic…
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I was pretty excited to speak with Rob aka Adeptus Psychonautica about his life. I came across Rob from his You Tube channels where he reviews, runs commentary, and shares observations on all things relating to the psychedelic community. This world has always interested me but I have only dabbled and been a bit cautious due to having too much fear …
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In this episode of Love your 'epilepsy' Diagnosis I talk with Laurie-Anne about her journey with Epilepsy. Laurie-Anne experiences nocturnal seizures mostly which was a foreign concept to me before we spoke. We discuss the initial diagnosis and then how medications affected her and made her worse. We then discuss how her seizures look now off all t…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Kimberly Spencer about her (self) diagnosis of Bulimia. Kimberly Spencer is an award-winning high-performance, trauma-informed coach and trainer, Amazon best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com, helping visionary leaders transform their self-limiting stories, build t…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Lois Hollis about her journey with curing herself of multiple diagnosis by addressing her trauma caused by shameguilt from her abusive childhood and totally reprogramming her mind about healing herself. Lois Hollis, RN BSN REV, shifts our opinion on one of the most forbidden subjects, shame and gu…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Ginny Dent Brandt about her journey with Stage IV Her2-positive and estrogen-positive breast cancer. After five surgeries, six months of four chemotherapies, three years of chemo by mouth, and one year of immunotherapy infusions, she's thriving. Her diagnosis initially was stage IV Her2-positive a…
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Hollie Bakerboljkovac is a therapist, coach and educator with a background in natural and ancestral health, wellness, sacred space, martial arts and functional movement, conscious living and Women's Mysteries. Her mission is to support people who know there's more to life, to craft the best self-version so far. She is passionate about empowering pe…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Kelly Kessler about her (self)diagnosis of Bulimia Nervosa An eating disorder that can have not only mental health symptoms but also long lasting physical pain for many years even after recovery. The physical side of Bulimia can take it's toll on the body from chronically over exercising , to the …
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Emmanuel Anthony about his journey with Asthma, two popped lungs, a tumour in his kidney and nearly dying eight times. Emmanuel Anthony is a researcher, writer, teacher, Inspirational speaker, Demartini Facilitator and consultant who works 1-on-1 and 1-on-many to assist human beings globally to ov…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Angela Lago about her diagnosis of Hashimoto's Disease. Hashimoto's is a chronic auto immune disorder which for some reason 7x more likely in women than men. Love to know that reason but haven't done enough research yet to find out. Angela was living life under extreme stress and was showing sympt…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Kimberley about her diagnosis of CPTSD. CPTSD is an anxiety condition that has similar effects to PTSD When the underlying trauma is repeated and ongoing, some mental health professionals make a distinction between PTSD and the more intense, complex PTSD (C-PTSD). Due to Kimberley's traumatic chil…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Steve about his diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. After being hospitalised from a major depressive episode and potentially being diagnosed with depression, someone in the hospital realised that it was bipolar that Steve was living with, not depression. That was a life changing experience for him, as …
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Elizabeth Harris about her diagnosis of CRPS. and her son's diagnosis of PANDAS. Elizabeth was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome, experienced hair loss, limb numbness and more. Elizabeth decided to take matters into her own hands, quit her job and dedicated her life to finding the real…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Ron Frye about his diagnosis of Sarcoidosis which is a rare disease that causes inflammation to the area of the body it attacks, which happened to be his lungs. There is no known cure, and his condition is being treated like any ordinary COPD. Ron grew up on the South Side of Chicago, and was rais…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Christine Reed about her diagnosis of POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) Christine shares her personal journey from sedentary office worker to rugged outdoorswoman with POTS in hopes of inspiring others to see something bigger for themselves and that the things that make us different…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Chris Wark about how, after surgery to remove some of his tumours, he cured his cancer with, diet, lifestyle and mindset changes. He is now well known to many cancer patients and has become a very passionate patient advocate today assisting thousands of people to look at the way they address cance…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Amber Wallace about her diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes is so much more than taking insulin, having an epi pen handy and managing your carb intake. I learnt so much listening to Amber's raw analysis of living with Diabetes and you will too. If not managed properly, it really is a matter of …
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Belle H about her diagnosis of Stage 4 Endometriosis. Endometriosis is a common disorder that affects many women and can be joy altering due to the pain that is endured every month. The disorder is from the uterine lining growing outside of the uterus to ovaries, fallopian tubes and even intestine…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Cat Seddon about her diagnosis of Breast Cancer and how she was whipped off to surgery two weeks after diagnosis to remove 8 out of 24 metastasised lymph nodes in her body. After this surgery, Cat was told that she would need to remove one breast definitely, but to be safe recommended removal of b…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Andi Herman about her diagnosis of Obesity and living with a relationship to food that was a tapestry of using it to self soothe, for comfort, but also feeling the effects of shame around it as well. Andi struggled with her body image and relationship to food from a young age and that carried into…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Kate Mckintosh about her diagnosis of treatment resistance depression, anxiety and pmdd (pre menstral dysphoric disorder) which is a really, really bad version of PMS that leaves women with severe feelings of anxiety and depression which happen cycle after cycle and generally become part of a life…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Natalie Holcroft about her diagnosis of AVM - Arterial Venous malformation at age 14 which then led her to develop Epilepsy resulting in five brain surgeries in 20 years FIVE BRAIN SURGERIES in 20 YEARS. Three for the AVM at age 14 and then two related to the epilepsy later on in life. Nat is only…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Geri Henderikse about her diagnosis of ADHD or as it will soon come to be known - Dopamine dysfunction which affects executive decision. I loved everything about this interview as Geri has researched this condition so much to really understand it now and is excited to find ways to make her life fe…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Gael about her diagnosis of Trigeminal/Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia Gael's symptoms began around 2014. On a daily basis, Gael would get severe razor like spasms under the left side of her tongue which would sometimes last for weeks or months and then short periods of no symptoms. At this stage she d…
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In this Episode of Love your Diagnosis, I talk with Audra about her primary diagnosis of Autism and Epilepsy. Audra has a positive outlook on these conditions she has to live with and after trialling a cocktail of medicines over her life and turning down the option of having a VNS inserted into her body, she has found a balance of managing, particu…
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Today Briony discusses how she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and how the options she was given at the time were chemo, radiation and potentially a hysterectomy. We dive deep into steps that Briony took in ridding herself of the cancer by travelling to China and getting a treatment called Photodynamic Therapy which isn't traditionally used for …
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