Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

When was the last time you allowed yourself to play? In this episode, I dive into the benefits of play, how as adults we take life too seriously and we have these societal “norms” we all follow, that indicate we shouldn’t play like we did when we were kids….but why not? It’s good for the health of our body, mind, and spirit, which is a win-win-win.  As I dive into the theme of...

Rounding out the week talking about stress, and stress can very often be the cause of some of our bad habits, in that stress starts to negatively impact our sleep. 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 yo...

Today I want to talk about how stress is inversely impacting productivity. Very often we get into a state of stress when we are trying to get a lot of things done, and yet, the more stressed we get, the less productive we become. 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...

Today I want to talk to you about stress because I have an upcoming free workshop on stress the silent killer happening soon. I also want to talk about one of the biggest triggers of stress in our world, especially right now, and that is the news. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither di...

In this episode, Lisa Brewer, Doctor of Metaphysics & Divinity, CEO for Heart of Inspiration, shares her brilliance in stepping out of our 3D world, and stepping into a world of energies, that we can’t see, feel, taste, touch smell, but allow us to be in flow by surrendering into our purpose, letting go of control and in doing so finding more joy and happiness in our daily lives. She shar...

Rounding out this week talking about nutrition, food sensitivities, and understanding the right way to eat for your body for optimal health. We've been talking so far about food sensitivities, and I want to ask you Do you know what is happening in your body when you continue to eat foods that you have a sensitivity to? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people ge...

This week I'm diving into nutrition and the fact that the way that you need to fuel your body for optimal function is unique. Did you know that 4% of the population has what we call a true food allergy, and there's another 90% of the population that suffer from food sensitivities? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health iss...

This week I'm focusing on nutrition and the importance of understanding the right way to eat for your unique body. 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. Mel...

Not 1, but 2 near-death experiences, floating above her body one time and the second time floating with angels, and feeling completely at peace at that moment, have led DeeAnne Riendeau into the work she does today, supporting people’s spiritual journeys, reading their Akashic Records and more.  DeeAnne is nothing short of inspirational in terms of her life’s journey.  Learn mo...

This week I'm talking about cravings and today I'm talking about cravings caused by our emotions. 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 funct...

I continue the week talking about cravings, I want to let you know that your brain can be your best friend when it stops you from jumping out in front of a boss or stepping out in front of a boss, or your worst enemy when it is keeping you in your comfort zone. What happens is, that our habits have us in a place of our comfort zone, including the way we eat. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrati...

This week I'm talking about cravings. We've all had cravings, and sometimes we try to beat those cravings with just sheer willpower. I want to talk to you about why we get cravings in the first place. 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...

This episode is part II of episode 60, so if you haven’t listened to episode 60, please go back and do that first, and then listen to episode 61 as well, to be inspired by Tonya Joyce and her story of “From Wheels to  Heels”.  Once back here at episode 62, you’ll hear 10 more sources of inspiration and how they have inspired me in my life, and hope that at least one of them res...

Today I'm talking about five heavy metals that block our thyroid, thyroid performance, and its ability to function. They are cadmium, aluminum, arsenic, mercury, and lead. 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 dis...

Today I want to talk about five reasons that the thyroid can become imbalanced. 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...

This week I'm going to be talking about the thyroid, because I'm seeing more and more women coming to me with thyroid issues. This is not uncommon as one in eight women will develop thyroid disease in their life. 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 y...

Tonya Joyce refused to believe her doctor’s when they said she’d never walk again, she’d never talk without a stutter, never recover from a second horrific car crash.  She didn’t take on that diagnosis, she instead chose to prove them wrong.  She shifted her mindset and looked for others who had done just that, to prove to herself that she could too and to act as her inspiratio...

One of the problems with Omega sixes is they have linoleic acid in them, and that is a huge health concern for people today. In fact, if we go back to just as recently as 1959 9.1% of our calorie intake was linoleic acid, but when we get to 2008, it was already up to 21.5%. This is just far too much of this putting our ratios way out of balance. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Pra...

I'm talking about the importance of the ratio between our omega threes and our omega sixes. These are essential fatty acids that the body cannot make, and we do have to get them through our food, but we need to have them in the right ratio. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither diagnoses...

This week, I want to talk to you about omega threes, Omega sixes, and enroll inflammation plays in our 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...

The theme this month is inspiration and I’m bringing you the stories of 3 amazing guests but wasn’t sure what I’d do for my solo episodes! And then I was inspired to look up the definition of inspiration and then sources of inspiration and that then inspired me to share with you a list of 20 sources of inspiration and how they have impacted me in my life and I hope they will resonate with you.&nbs...

in my last session, I explained how gluten breaks down and one of the amino acids it breaks down into is called glutamate, and that it's an excitatory neurotransmitter. But it also wipes out or lowers your natural anti-anxiety neurotransmitters. So it's a double whammy! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. &...

One of the things that I want you to know is that one of the main proteins in gluten is gladden, which I talked about in my last session. When this is broken down, it breaks down into two amino acids, Prolene, and glutamine. 30 to 35% of the protein in wheat is glutamic acid, which can break down into something called glutamate, another amino acid, and glutamic acid has to be removed from the body...

This week I'm talking about gluten. This a spin-off of last week's episodes when I was talking about gut health because gluten is highly inflammatory, and it is one of the known triggers of leaky gut. 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...

Tim shares his own powerful story of his “wake-up call”, when he found himself needing emergency surgery in a 3rd world country, and how his health doesn’t only impact his life, but those of his loved ones too. He was your average overweight 37-year-old with gut issues and symptoms he’d been ignoring. Then friends started dying around him, and another friend with cancer chose to live. To...