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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...

Today I want to talk about Omegas-our essential fatty acids and they're essential because again, the body doesn't make them. 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 t...

This episode continues the theme of “Play” and incorporating fun movement into your life. I share with you how I do that in my life, as well as why doing so is beneficial for your health, and the list I share is not exhaustive, there are other reasons too, but these are some that I wanted to share, in the hopes that it motivates and inspires you to start moving your body more every single day...

Now everyone knows vitamin C boosts your immune system, but did you realize that it's also a very powerful antioxidant for your body, it's also antiviral antibacterial, is an antihistamine, which means it can help fight off a response to some kind of allergy. The reality is, is that our vitamin C is really deficient in our soils today. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner...

If you live in the northern part of the US or anywhere in Canada, and you're not supplementing, you are deficient, because we simply do not get enough hours of sunlight onto our bare naked skin for enough hours of the day and enough days of the year. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither...

For the next two to three weeks I'm going to be talking about the power of vitamins and helping our bodies heal. Before I get into that, I just wanted to produce this episode to let you know that this information is for educational purposes only. You are all in a different state of health, I don't know what your health is, and I don't know what prescription medications you might be on. Therefore I...

This is such a fun episode because Janet Omstead loves to play, she lives and breathes it! It’s all about your mindset! Most people don’t enjoy “workouts” because it sounds like work! However, when you instead choose to “play” in whatever way brings you fun and in bite-size pieces throughout your day, you are boosting both your physical and mental health exponentially. Janet has written...

Today I'm talking about factors that you can focus on to help boost your metabolism to make it easier for you to be able to lose weight. But the thing is, is it's never just one thing, it does take a whole-body approach. 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...

If you're someone who's struggling to lose weight, it may be partially because you have a slow metabolism. How do you know if you have a slow metabolism? Listen in to the Health Hack to find out. 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 int...

This week, I'm going to be talking about metabolism. What is it? Do you have a slow metabolism? And if so what you can be doing about that. 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...