Abounding & Alive

Liz Rodriguez is a transformation coach who helps former athletes in their 40s break free from all-or-nothing patterns and rebuild strength, energy, and confidence. After years of chasing performance and perfection, a major back surgery became the turning point in her own fitness journey — and her identity. Now, she combines mindset coaching with smart, sustainable training, nutrition, and recover...

Today's guest is the perfect example of inspiration, resilience and breaking down stigmas. For her whole life, Michelle Steiner was told that she was never going to succeed. College was out of the question. She wasn't going to do well in life. The teachers, learning support workers, college professors and even a psychologist [who were all supposedly preparing her for her future] chose to t...

My guest today has such a heart for helping the less fortunate. Although everyone I have on my show is helping others in some capacity, this guest lives and breathes charity and serving! Kira Mulindwa is a missionary in Uganda. Her organization, Love Made A Way Ministries, built a school that teaches over 500 children, after she noticed that it was insanely expensive for kids to get an education....

Celeste and I are back for part 2 of our conversation. As a woman who went through [what was essentially] an existential crisis and had a major life upheaval, Celeste now takes her wisdom and experience to help other women work through these same struggles. As females, we are taught from a young age how we are to act and what is expected of us. But what if success looks different to you? What if y...

My guest this week is Celeste Case-Ruchala, who had an epiphany moments after (and maybe even moments before) her wedding. Had she ever really felt seen? This led her on a self-discovery journey, leading her to move away and start over. She is now an author, coach and podcast host, where she helps women explore self-trust, authenticity and what it means to stop dimming their light. Her work is roo...

Tami Lysher is a breast cancer thriver, and a lifelong trauma survivor. With a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education, she has spent over 35 years supporting women and children impacted by trauma, by blending education, movement, and nervous system work. Movement has always been her anchor. She has taught fitness classes for over 40 years and holds certifications in yoga, Pilates, and is a c...

Sierra Kennedy is a marketing coach with a background in public relations from Alberta, Canada. Over the past couple of years, she started craving inspiration and a connection with other ambitious young people. There had to be a space where people could learn more about money, holistic health, personal growth, and success, but on this quest for self development, she realized that there was void fo...

In episode 2, I chat with Kyle Miller again, but more in depth about what it is a narcissistic abuse recovery coach does. Narcissism and gaslighting are terms loosely thrown around these days but are they the correct terminology to use? Kyle explains the definitions and sheds light on these misnomers. Our episode gets vulnerable as both of us share past experiences where we felt like we were being...

Welcome to Abounding & Alive! This podcast has evolved from Two Girls With(out) Cancer into a solo project, with me, Becky! My first episode features Kyle Miller. Kyle helps survivors of narcissistic abuse to reclaim their independence, manage their minds, and fully heal. Through deeply intuitive, personalized coaching, Kyle creates a safe, judgment-free space where clients can process their t...

Week 4 of our summer series, where we are digging up our favorite episodes and re-airing them. Just because a person gets cancer, it doesn't mean that their life stops. Being a parent is exhausting as it is, and having an illness on top of it is so mentally and physically draining. And then there's dating. As if being a single mom in your 30's wasn't hard enough! We get raw and can...

Welcome back to our summer series, which allows us to take a much needed break with our families. On this episode, we talk about doctors and the God complex after Ashley received some angering news about her prognosis. Why do we believe that our doctor is our savior? After all, they are just humans...fallible humans. Doctors do amazing things, yes, but they are not God. They do not know the future...

Week 2 as we continue our summer series, where we get to take the summer off of recording, and you get to listen to old episodes. On this particular day, Ashley came over sick as a dog. She thought she was dying, but Becky wondered if she was actually have a healing crisis, aka, a herxheimer reaction. Herxheimer...it's so much more than a funny word. It can make you feel sicker than ever! Your doc...

Welcome to our summer series, where we get to take a few weeks off, and some of our favorite past videos are highlighted. In this episode, we are chatting about how great bare feet are!. Grounding, also known as earthing, is a popular [but under-studied] technique for healing your body. It is as simple as touching bare skin to the earth, and it comes with many benefits. It may seem too simple or l...

Join us as we give a quick update on health and life plans. For live and dried cell analysis, check out Becky's website:https://www.aboundinghealth.ca/or on Facebook and Instagram @aboundinghealthIf you're interested in Ashley's silver protocol, here's the link:http://avinihealth.com/ashleylacosse9249She's currently taking Nano Silver and Cell Defender As always, feel free to r...

This week we interview Michelle, a dedicated Bio-kineticist with over 18 years of experience in women’s health, movement rehabilitation, and pelvic floor therapy. She holds three degrees- a BSc in Sports Science, a BSc Honours, and an MPhil in Biokinetics—and is certified in pilates, yoga, hydrotherapy, and massage. She is the founder of Human. Kinetic. Studio., where she empowers women to move, h...

Our guest, Lesley Moffat, is a music educator, author, and speaker who uses her personal health journey as a catalyst for change. Not only did she complete overhaul her own life, but she uses her platform to help other educators around the world. To the outside eye, Lesley looked like a successful band director, running a high-achieving music program. But behind closed doors, she was falling apart...

On this episode of TGWC, we meet Liz Rodriguez, a college track star, coach and all around wonderful woman. Liz is a transformation coach who helps former athletes in their 40's break free from all-or-nothing patterns, and to rebuild their strength, energy and confidence through a method she has coined her Strength & Longevity Method. She spent years chasing performance and perfection. Whe...

I am back for part 2 with Sarah Marie Thiessen. If you have not listened to part 1, go and get to know Sarah better on episode 15! Sarah is a local photographer and videographer who was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer at 27 years old. The breast cancer is gone, but she continues to deal with the ROS-1 mutation and was told this could be a lifelong cancer. Through her holistic mindset an...

On today's episode, we talk to Sarah Marie Thiessen, a young entrepreneur, go-getter and all around hustler. Her passion for travel has brought her around the world, until her health brought her back home. Sarah is a destination wedding photographer, filmmaker, and founder of Wild Love Media—but her wildest adventure wasn’t on a mountaintop or at a dream elopement in the forest. In February 20...

Meet Chantal McKenzie, engineer turned entrepreneur. She owns That Yoga Place and Phoenix Physical Therapy and Wellness in Spruce Grove, Alberta. Yoga is so inclusive - meaning it doesn't matter what you look like, how active or fit you are, or what is going on for you outside of the studio...everyone is welcome and everyone can do yoga! The studio doesn't just offer yoga, though! It is mo...

We are excited to introduce the listeners to Alex Shulman this week. He is a Functional Patterns practitioner and founder of Strong Sapien Systems. He helps people resolve chronic pain, restore energy, and move freely again—without relying on short-term fixes. For years, he had his own battles with chronic pain, fatigue, and inflammation, which led him to develop the ReGen coaching program. Here,...

Stephen Roehrig joins us this week to discuss the importance of safe water and protecting ourselves from electro magnetic frequencies (EMF's). He believes we need to awaken the teacher inside of ourselves so that all of our experiences can reorient us to live more skillfully in this world. In 2014, Stephen and wife, Jacinta founded Safe Water Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, where they became dist...

If you feel unwell and can't quite get to the bottom of it, the issue might be mold or CIRS. This weeks guest is a board certified functional health coach, and the owner of Health Coaching by Heather, LLC and Navigating Mold and CIRS, LLC. After a 28 year battle with her own illness, she discovered she had Lyme disease and mold toxicity. Now that she is coming to the end of her health battle,...

Danielle Vallas is our special guest this week. She is a mental health counselor with 15 years experience specializing in eating disorders, a private clinician, an author, a graduate school professor, the president of a wellness consulting company, providing training and personal development to teams, schools and corporations, the owner of a wellness clothing company, and a trauma-informed yoga in...

Dallas is a 16 Hour Coach, emotional baggage handler, author, and speaker.. His experience comes from failing, a lot. He spent 50 years holding onto childhood trauma that led to a few "lucky events" that would break most of us...cancer, addiction, suicidal thoughts, and the loss of his marriage, family, business and home. After going through what he calls the “Year of Life Collapse”, he...