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Today I'm talking about the hormones that are in your food, because our livestock are and chickens are very often fed estrogens, in order to again, fatten them up more quickly because the farmers are getting paid based on the weight. That is a very efficient way for farmers to fatten up their livestock. But then what is that doing to us? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitione...

This is episode one 100, and this week, I am continuing the theme of what's in your food. Today I'm going to be talking about antibiotics. Because did you know that the greatest use of antibiotics on the planet is actually antibiotic use in livestock and poultry, not only to prevent illness and infection but also to fatten them up faster because farmers are getting paid by the weight of the usable...

This episode is the start of a new theme – ideal partnerships and how they are as relevant in optimizing your health as they are in any other aspect of your life. I share with you the benefits of engaging in partnerships with multiple practitioners, but also in looking at your physical health, mental health, and mindset in partnership rather than in isolation, because we are all interconnecte...

I've been talking about GMO foods, and one sure way that you can avoid buying GMO foods is to choose organic. You might have heard previously that the nutritional content or value of organic foods versus non-organic foods is exactly the same. But that is not actually the case, although it's what many companies that are marketing the foods want you to believe. The truth of the matter is, is that th...

I am talking about GMO foods, just to give you a heads up of what to look out for and things you may not be aware of. I want to let you know today the top genetically modified crops. 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...

I've been asked to do some health hacks on GMO foods, and for the next two weeks, I'm just going to be breaking that down in these sessions. GMO foods are genetically modified foods. Why did that even start? Well, the idea behind it was a great idea. If we could get crops to be more drought-resistant to be able to produce higher yields, then we could help feed all the people on the planet. However...

In this episode, Laura Michelle Powers and I talk about her experience seeing ghosts as a child and thinking she was crazy and trying to block it, and then finally opening up to this as a gift after hitting rock bottom. She had no job, was broke, leaving a toxic relationship, and had health issues all at once! This drove her to dig deeper into her clairvoyant abilities and trust her intu...

As I round out the week talking about the benefits of meal planning, and meal prepping., and now if you're going to go to all of that work to have your ready-made meals, what are you going to store it in, and then how are you going to store it so that the meals aren't going bad. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issue...

I am continuing the week and the theme of making it easy to eat healthily. In my last edition, I talked about meal planning, and now I'm talking about meal prepping. When we take the time to be more efficient in our meal prepping, it's saving us time, it's reducing our stress, etc, etc. So here are some tips that you can start implementing right away. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Heal...

I have been asked to do a series on making it easier to eat healthily. And so this week, I'm going to be talking about the benefits of meal planning and prepping meals in advance, because when we have meals that are ready-made, we are much less likely to choose unhealthy options because we have healthy options already available to us. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner h...

As I continue this theme of intuition, I dive more deeply into mind-body health and bring you additional healing modalities can be used to release stuck emotions, stuck energy, and stuck beliefs in order to release the baggage we’ve been carrying around for years (often unknowingly). This work will often take us back to our early childhood, younger than 6 years old, to change our brain and the bel...

As I round out the week talking about language, I want to ask you what type of listener are you? Because the way we listen, and the way we speak to each other impact our ability to be good communicators. 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...

This week I am talking about language and how the words that we use matter. You might think what does that have to do with your health. But of course, our health is our physical health, our mental health, and our emotional health. And the words we use, impact all of that. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.&nbsp...

This week, I want to talk about language and the way we talk to ourselves. I've just recently done some additional training where we really dove into this, and it's probably something you may be aware of, but you might not be aware of the power of language and how it can impact our health as well. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of...

In this episode, Cheryl and I dive into her transformation from the corporate world to sickness to regaining her health, through finding her joy within and the tools she has developed over the years, that she now shares with her clients as she helps them learn to tap into their intuition to find the answers to achieve their desires and dreams within. If you are feeling like you aren’t fully a...

I'm talking about detoxing this week, and the fact that we live in a world that makes it really important for us to be helping our bodies detox. So my question for you is, how would you like to feel every day? And what does that look like compared to how you actually feel every day? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health i...

Why do we need to detox? The reality is, unfortunately, we live in a toxic world with over 144,000 manmade chemicals introduced since World War Two. What happens is that the human body was never designed to have to deal with the deluge of toxins we're living under today. Unfortunately, we are now in a place where we can no longer avoid them. But we can make a choice to look after our greatest asse...

Today I want to talk to you about the movie dark waters. A client brought it to my attention and said after watching it, that she understood why I was so passionate about helping people detox, and for those of you that have been following me for a while, you know how passionate I am about that. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of th...

This month, the theme of my podcast is intuition and in this episode I share my experiences with my own intuition, from being afraid of it, to learn to use it and embrace it. Our intuition is our guide – in decision making, in keeping us safe, in our health, when we know how to use it.  I am no expert but am sharing my personal stories today and I will have two experts come onto the...

I want to talk to you today about a few more natural remedies for dealing with seasonal allergies. Rather than taking the over counter medications, which tends to keep it in, let's get it out of your body so that your body can continue to heal. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither diagn...

This week I'm talking about seasonal allergies, and I want to introduce you to quercetin, if you haven't heard of it before, it is a flavonoids. In fact, it's one of the most abundant flavonoids in our diet, and it acts as an antioxidant in our body. It can really help with lowering the effect of seasonal allergies for people. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping p...

This week, I'm talking about seasonal allergies because it is starting to be that time of year, depending where you live in the world, and that you may be starting to experience spring and pollen in the air and snow melting and the leaves from the ground that are still under that snow and the fall there, and all of that can trigger seasonal allergies for people. About the Host: Melissa is an Integ...

In this last episode of my “play” theme, Deb King of “The Wisdom Playground” and I discuss ditching your B.C. (Before Covid) ways of doing things and instead choosing to step into doing this differently, designing the life you want to live, a life that includes more play, more fun, more ease! Deb shares her journey to becoming what she dubs a “Happiness Ambassador” and “Human Enthusiast”...

Today I want to talk about our B vitamins. This is a whole family of vitamins, and these are vitamins that the body tends to burn through in a state of stress. 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 “...

Today I'm going to be talking about magnesium as I continue my series on vitamins. Magnesium is a another mineral that the body needs and is highly deficient in our soils, so we need to be supplementing. 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...