Wellness While Walking

Your body's 'terrain' can help determine whether disease takes hold, and it's shaped by inflammation, insulin sensitivity, and microbiome balance. Functional medicine physician Dr. Elizabeth Boham reveals exactly how to optimize this internal environment.  Discover why "crucial cruciferous" vegetables, colorful plant foods, and some other simple lifestyle shifts create a terrain where your immune...

What if the cravings, dietary plans, and willpower you blamed for past failures weren't actually the problem? This episode reveals four essential preparation steps that successful people complete   before  changing a single bite—whether they're aiming to lose weight, manage inflammation, stabilize their blood sugar, or simply pursue better health— this is the groundwork that separates lasting chan...

Got big health-related dreams or goals for the year ahead? Perhaps you're crafting resolutions or goals as we speak. Unless you're a health resolution success pro, perhaps this is the year we consider a new path – one that trades in judgment and all-or-nothing thinking for taking a step back before taking that compassionate and doable step forward! Jump in here with me!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join...

Join our healthy friendship circle and transform chaotic mornings with one powerful permission slip! You'll also discover the carb timing shift that eliminated all-day hunger and brain fog, a breathing technique that taps directly into your parasympathetic nervous system in minutes, and the power of a single breath! Laura, Alyce and I dish about all our tips and tricks with you! LET'S TALK THE WAL...

What do health-minded women actually do to stay healthy? (Spoiler: quick, simple and messy habits lie ahead!) Three friends who prioritize wellness spill the truth about their movement routines, strength training, and connection practices: why one runs while 2 walk, how they build real strength in short sessions, the $2 purchase that improved sleep, and why "eat and run" dinners solved an introver...

Learn how to thrive during the busiest season of the year with simple 5-10 minute wins that actually work! This episode offers a complete game plan, including stress-reduction techniques, boundary scripts, mindset shifts, and daily strategies that keep your health on track through December and beyond— so you can end the year feeling energized, proud, and ready for what's next! Happy holidays! (And...

My client couldn't lose weight despite doing everything right—until she fixed her sleep. In this episode, Kelly Reznikoff walks you through exactly how to implement CBT-i, from your first sleep assessment to the game-changing techniques that help people say "I have my life back." You'll learn the practical steps to break free from insomnia, including relaxation tools, how to handle sleep meds, and...

This research-backed approach to improving sleep is just what you need to regain your energy to thrive. Kick insomnia to the curb and up-level every aspect of your life, all in a few weeks!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Walking to Wellness Together Facebook GROUP Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on T...

Your brain is doing something extraordinary every time you walk—something that makes navigating midlife challenges exponentially easier. This little-known neurological process explains why walking feels like it does more than just physical exercise. The connection to your biggest daily struggles is impossible to ignore.   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness Whi...

Stop blaming yourself for lacking willpower  when it comes to healthy eating—the real issue is missing support systems. Health coach Amanda Clark shares her practical approach to food prep that doesn't require matching containers or three-hour Sunday sessions. Learn how tiny systems like washing grapes immediately or having a designated salad bowl can make healthy choices effortless, plus discover...

"At age 75, we fall off a cliff," Dr. Peter Attia warned on 60 Minutes last week—and his solution is training like a professional athlete for your "Centenarian Decathlon," the 10 things you want to do at age 100.   But his approach calls for full-body MRIs, experimental drugs, and hours of daily training that most midlife women juggling full lives often can't swing.   Today's episode reveals a mor...

Movement is medicine for all of us, but its power is crystalized by its impact on the progression of the neurodegenerative Parkinson's Disease. In this conversation, fitness instructor Ashlee Grieb and Kathleen Featherston—who lives with Parkinson's—reveal how consistent group exercise doesn't just build physical strength, it actively slows disease progression, supports brain health, and creates l...

12% of Americans now report zero close friends, and that number is on the rise. An 85-year Harvard study on human happiness reveals something shocking about what actually predicts our health and longevity, and in 2023, the Surgeon General took the unprecedented step of declaring one aspect of modern life as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And it's what drove me to learn to play canasta – li...

Blood sugar chaos, relentless cravings, and afternoon crashes—what if it's not your willpower, but your biology? In this episode, we explore how blood sugar dysregulation and gut dysbiosis create a vicious cycle that literally steals our ability to choose nourishing foods, and why this has become a metabolic crisis since 2020. Learn four simple, science-backed tweaks that can break the cycle and g...

Celebrating 300 episodes with a game-changing update! If you've been chasing 10,000 steps or wondering why your walking routine isn't delivering the results you hoped for, this episode will change everything. What you'll discover: Why 7,000 steps might be your new sweet spot (and the research that proves it) The 15-minute walking tweak that reduces mortality risk by 20% Why being an "active couch...

Have you ever swept a health concern under the rug? Well, this health coach (aka, human) did! I'm changing my ways – see how in this more personal episode!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Walking to Wellness Together Facebook GROUP Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Threads Wellness While Walking on T...

Hunger, cravings, emotional eating —discover how to distinguish between physical hunger and the urge to eat for comfort or pleasure. In this episode, we unravel the signals your body can send if we're paying attention, and we'll explore practical strategies for responding to them. Tune in to reclaim control and find balance in your relationship with food! Don't worry – we can fuel ourselves and st...

Walking transformed anxiety into vitality for 69-year-old entrepreneur Ande Lyons, who discovered from a book-on-cassette that 35 minutes daily helped manage her symptoms and eventually led to her current six-mile routine despite facing osteoporosis. Ande argues that movement is a privilege rather than a chore, and that community connections matter more than almost anything else for healthy aging,...

Transform your health this fall! Feeling that September urge to get your life together? That energy is real, but so are the convenience culture, workplace demands, and distractions working against your wellness goals. Today we're turning that autumn reset feeling into your game plan for "walking against traffic" toward lasting health! LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun!...

IWT or Interval Walking Training (or Japanese 3x3 walking) is something that's taking the fitness world by storm, and with good reason! It provides a framework for getting the most out of interval training while walking, one of our most essential, enjoyable and beneficial modes of movement. Many have praised it for its heart health benefits, for weight management, and for improved moods. Today, we...

Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of what we eat?!? Also, how do you react when you take health-affirming steps? Do you diminish their power or do you celebrate and elevate them? Regardless, we'll talk about how to tweak our small steps min...

When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I'm taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar one! We'll also talk about why chewing is so important to our cognitive health, and how we can keep our indoor air clean and why we should care to!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivati...

Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we'll examine those "sad diets," and you'll discover actionable, mindset-based strategies to make real, lasting changes to what you eat—without the pitfalls or misery. Ready to turn dietary changes into personal empowerment instead of glo...

Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger belly fat storage, and hijack brain chemistry – all for zero calories! Today, we expose diet soda myths and share proven strategies to break sweetened beverage addiction, including gradual reduction and a...

Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We'll also introduce a powerful framework to help you stay consistent with what you'll do daily, weekly, monthly—and what you'll   never  do again. We're moving forward on our health journeys in a big way today!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking...