Align Your Mind

If you're a woman and you've ever struggled with your health, cycle, mood, mind, allergies and stress, this conversation is for you. Dr. Paria Vaziri is a Naturopathic Doctor located in San Diego with a focus in women's health & wellness. We had an incredible conversation all about: - hormone health - gut health - mental health - the struggle with hormonal birth control - anxiety, mould toxicity a...

Feeling overwhelmed? Stressed? Strung out? Destabilized? Here's a couple deep breaths + some grounding affirmations from my heart to yours. You are infinitely guided, loved and supported. It is safe to be you. You are exactly where you need to be on the path to where you're going. Always in your corner, Marie Check these out: 30 Day Flow Journal (click the drop down for a big birthday month discou...

Do you practice rituals? Of course you do. You may just not recognize them by that name. Rituals are the daily practices we engage in for ourselves to find comfort and healing. It can look like any mindfulness practice. And oh, is it ever made sweeter when you've got a beautiful candle, a deck of cards or an aura spray to enhance your experience! "I just want to make pretty shit and put it out int...

It's easy to forget just how far you've come. But the craziest thing is, more often than not, we are living lives that we only once dreamed of. Today's quick chat is my response to a lovely woman on IG who told me I was "so much more committed" than she is. It felt important to record my thoughts on this one. Did it help? DM me on Instagram about it: https://www.instagram.com/mariebarkerwellness/...

Every once in awhile, an email will come across my inbox that makes me stop and then makes me smile in deep appreciation. The way Judy Machado connected with me was just like that. I opened my email inbox to find the most genuine, thoughtful, loving message from this total stranger about how impactful my podcast is and how beautiful my mission of empowering women is. I was immediately drawn to thi...

"If you have a pulse, you have a parasite." Today's conversation is allllll about the GUT. Something we all have, and something most of us struggle with. If you've ever dealt with IBS, bloating, cramping, headaches, teeth grinding, moodiness, constipation, loose stools, acne, food poisoning, etc. THIS IS FOR YOU. Rachel Kalmar (@liviawellness) and I connected on the 'gram and became INSTANT bffs,...

100 episodes?! Holy fricken chicken noodle soup! THAT is a cool milestone! I am so honoured that you're here with me on this journey. And to celebrate 100 podcast conversations, I recorded a special chat for you about a really spiritual moment I experienced last weekend. It started with a major snowfall we got in my city. And ended with me laying on my back in the dark in the park, covered in snow...

Have you ever turned to baking, making or painting as a form of stress relief and relaxation? There's a lot of fascinating science behind art therapy, and today's conversation dives into this topic in real time with my new friend, and local ceramacist, photographer, artist and lover of good vibes, Jocelyn De Moissac. We have a very real, everyday woman chat about what art as therapy means for us a...

If you struggle with sleep, don't get enough sleep, can't stay asleep, or don't prioritize sleep, this conversation is for you. Sleep is THE most underrated tool for feeling better. And yet, so many of us struggle to get asleep and stay asleep. It also doesn't have to be such an impossible thing to master. This is coming from a once-been-really-shitty-sleeper and now sleeps-8-hrs-a-night-easily-er...

Warning: this is not professional or polished. If this is your first episode of Live On Purpose, please for the love of all things good, listen to some of the other conversations after this one. You're getting post-acupuncture appointment Marie in this one and she is feeling some kinda way. Need a laugh? Enjoy my thoughts on eastern and western medicine. xo Marie   *FREE* MORNING GRATITUDE MEDITAT...

Kelsey Low isn't a stranger to the Live On Purpose Podcast. We had an EPIC conversation (Episode 56. You Are Your Home) October of 2020, and today, Kelsey is back for a collaborative conversation on all things JOURNALLING + NEW YEAR INTENTION SETTING. Woo! We drop ALL of our best practices when it comes to journalling in this convo, so prepare to write down your favourite questions and then implem...

If you are a human on earth, you have experienced trauma. Your birth into this world was a trauma. And every moment after that where you felt too overwhelmed to process, can be pinpointed as a trauma.  It doesn't have to be these big, one off events. Trauma encompasses much more than that. Today's guest, my lovely friend, Kirby Criddle, has been treating clients for 15 years in an energy work and...

Put your hand up if you're stressed out... We have become human DOINGS, on 24/7, tuned in to our devices more than we're tuned into ourselves and our state of being shows. Because of this, we're not breathing or slowing down to pause and our bodies are recalibrating to function in a stressed out state, which is causing dis-ease in the body. We often seek out meditation because we have too many tho...

At a certain point in my life, after dealing with sickness after sickness, I started to question the medical system's ability to help me heal and instead turned to Nature and listening to my body's needs instead. It changed everything. Today's beautiful guest, Krysta Francoeur, the founder and CEO of Wild Remedies, had a very similar experience. It was through spending years of her life sick and e...

There is an overwhelming amount of information available on how to achieve the results you want. The common narrative seems to be "work harder, train more, eat less, push, grind, punish, sleep when you're dead" in order to get the results you want. Marie, a women's wellness coach with a focus on mindfulness, cyclical living and feeling good, is here to debunk that and teach you how to get your bes...

"I wanted to change the food we ate." is the sentiment that brought today's guest, my dear friend Carla Jans, to the work she's doing now with medicinal mushrooms and herbs. She blends her background in Nutritional Science (specifically holistic culinary nutrition) with plant medicine, incorporating herbal remedies into daily life in fun and creative ways, and inspiring others (like you and I) alo...

Every November, a slew of Black Friday and Cyber Monday emails and advertisements take over my inbox and social media feeds. And over the last couple of years, as I've become a more intentional, aware person, I've noticed the immediate instinct to "go buy now!" that comes up when I see these ads. It's not that the ads are bad by any means, most of them are really great opportunities to save money...

I have always been drawn to quotes. There's just something so powerful about a simple string of words. And sometimes - especially if we're going through a hard season - they can remind us of who we really are and the simple truths of life. Which we may have forgotten temporarily. I've been collecting, writing + appreciating quotes since I knew how to read. Today's episode is a fun one where I read...

Do you have deep chats with your spouse over coffee? Brandon and I were chatting about the new "Meta" name Facebook recently revealed and it led to a full blown conversation about the difference between creating and consuming. The person who gets to bake cakes all day has a completely different experience than the person who eats cakes all day long. One allows you to express yourself. The other ca...

I ride roller-coasters all the time without visiting amusement parks... Yeah, I'm talking about my emotions. In any given day, I can go from HAPPY JOY JOY to WTF WORLD to *heavy crying*. And the last few months, it's felt a little more challenging to get to my usual "Marie Joy" if I'm being totally honest. But I think that's the most important thing, that we be honest and also normalize being a hu...

There's a lot of pissed-off-ness going on in the world right now. The storm is raging inside many people's hearts. But anger gets a bad rep. Sometimes life doesn't go the way we thought it would and we get upset when that happens. Sometimes, unjust things happen and we feel outraged at the experience. Sometimes we make choices that we didn't feel were really a choice (even though they were) that c...

Sometimes life hands you lemons and you find yourself feeling low. This is especially true when you don't feel well physically. "When you don't feel well, life feels hard." Recently, I had a pretty big "dip" and then eventually, found myself on the other side of it. "Without going down, you wouldn't also know what it feels like to go up." Tune in to listen to my experience and let me know on socia...

Today is a special day. Not only is it podcast release day, but today's conversation features one of my best friends in the entire world, Michelle Catherine Rose. This sweet soul and I connected a year ago to date, but it feels as if we've known each other for decades. Michelle is a well-being counsellor, yoga and meditation teacher, CEO of SyNK yxe, a dedicated dog mama, avid adventurer and one o...

Every once in awhile, an extra special woman enters my awareness and I make a point to connect. This started like that. I had seen Amy's name float across my Instagram, and when I felt the little intuitive nudge that I know (and trust) all too well, I reached out and started a conversation. "I just have this feeling, want to be friends?" Or something like that lol. We connected over my intuitive h...

The simplest things in life are often overlooked, simply because we think effectiveness = complication. But what I've found, and I know today's guest Meghan Sandve would agree, is that the power can be found in the simple truths of the present moment. One of those powerful things is the breath. This is single-handedly our most underutilized tool for creating the energy and emotions we wish to have...