Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

We all have stress in our day-to-day lives, however, too many people are living in a state of chronic stress. This negatively impacts your health and longevity and you may not realize that! So today’s episode is focused on teaching you the ways in which chronic stress is negatively impacting your health, so you can choose to balance out your stress. I’ve also provided 10 tools you can us...

I want to actually share with you some books and resources that you can access and use in order to help you beat disease, avoid disease and extend your health span. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “t...

Today's episode is all about postbiotics, which people have been asking about more and more lately wondering if that's something they need to be taking in order to support their gut health. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by...

Today I'm talking about probiotics. These are our good gut bacteria and in today's world, we have so many factors that are actually breaking down the balance between the good and bad bacteria in our guts, such as high stress, poor sleep, food intolerances, and sensitivities, etc, that we need to be preserving and rebalancing our gut. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner he...

Roberta shares her recent experience of a “wake up call”, when diagnosed with 3 health issues at the same time, and the next steps she took in her healing journey, and where she is now at today, as a result.  We also dive into her work, helping people lower their stress levels, and reconnect with themselves, through her yoga, Pilates and meditation offerings. What I love most a...

Today, I want to talk to you about pre, pro, and post-biotics because I've had a request to dive into these three categories for supporting gut health. I am going to start with prebiotics! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by...

Today, I will be giving you some tips on things that you can be doing at home in order to enhance your digestion, and your body's ability to absorb the nutrients from the food that you're eating. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into bala...

This week I am talking about digestion and how to turn it on before you start eating to improve your body's ability to absorb the nutrients from the food that you're eating. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discove...

My guest, Kat Polsinelli shares her story of 8+ years of emotional and verbal abuse, how she fell into that situation, and how she got herself out of it. That wasn’t the end of her healing journey though, she then did the internal work to overcome her PTSD and anxiety and become the incredibly strong woman she is today, her boys are now teens and she is now in a healthy marriage. Kat uses her...

I want to talk to you about digestion because I meet with so many people who are struggling with digestive issues. There are some things that you can do right at home to improve your digestion. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balanc...

Today I want to talk about food sources of vitamin D. We're not getting enough vitamin D from the sun in order for us to get to optimal levels with in what our body needs, and I want to share how else can you get vitamin D. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps br...

I love talking about vitamin D because it is something that 80% of the North American continent is deficient in. Vitamin D is incredibly helpful for brain health, bone health, teeth health or immune health. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body bac...

Vera Thomas is a firecracker of energy and passion as she shares her healing journey from colitis and all that she learned along the way and uses in her life to this day – 50 years later! She shares 5 tools she used to lower her stress, which allowed her body to get into a healing state.    We also then dove into her work with children and families to raise confident, happ...

I want to talk to you about vitamin D, because as we head into our warmer months and spend time in the sun I have been thinking of vitamin D. The fact is, if you're in Canada, and you're not supplementing vitamin D, you are deficient. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures b...

Today, I want to talk about picky eaters, but also kids on the autism spectrum, because the number of kids on that spectrum has been rising exponentially in recent years. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover y...

Today I want to talk about the connection between antibiotic use and the health of our guts. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medic...

In this episode, Michelle shares her knowledge around how important our feet are to maintaining good movement throughout our life, and how our feet can literally talk to all of our joints and communicate with our organs, even our eyes, and how simple steps can literally change your energy level throughout the day, and keep your body functioning and moving well.  Michelle shares many tips...

Today, I want to start off by talking about the foundation of your gut health. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testin...

Today, I want to tell you, that if you don't like your reality, the one that you are creating, you can change it! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa of...

The unconscious mind is filling every single experience that you ever have, in your memory storage without judgment, and in this process, you are creating your own reality every single day. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by...

In this episode, I have 2 Naturopathic Doctors, Dr. Liz and Dr. Toni, share their journeys beyond their Naturopathic skills, into the realm of Quantum Healing, where we heal all 4 bodies, the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical bodies, and how it has changed their lives. Having used Quantum Healing for themselves, they became certified in these modalities and now offer Quantum Healing to th...

How much does your mind have to deal with every single day? It's a crazy amount of input! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine...

Today, I want you to know a key fact, all learning, all behavior, and all change are unconscious. If you're trying to create change in your conscious mind, it is much, much harder. Instead, what you want to do is learn how to do it the easy way in the unconscious mind. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Me...

This week I'm talking about your unconscious mind and introducing you to all that it can do for you! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers function...

Rounding out National Cancer Survivor Month, please join Hayley and me, as Hayley shares her story of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 29, the fear, the emotional turmoil, and what her Oncologist told her vs what she decided to do for herself in her healing journey. This month Hayley celebrates 25 years cancer free and she helps other women going through cancer take baby step...