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I would love for you to just be able to spend time with family and loved ones. And just be in gratitude for all that you have for all of the loved ones you have around 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 dis...

I just want to remind you of the power of taking a break to breathe. You always have your breath with you it is completely free. If you slow down long enough, just for five minutes to breathe, it has an amazing calming effect on your 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 cur...

Today, I want to talk to you about the power of a love bra or a love cake. We all have those holiday gatherings, generally with family because we can't choose our family and we can choose our friends that we are obligated to go to. And there may be people there that trigger us. And how do we cope with that? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the roo...

Do you love yourself? Have you ever stopped to consider that?  In this episode, I dive into self-love, and self-worth and steps to develop both.   The way we show love to ourselves can show up in many ways, from the nutritious food we put into our body, to the boundaries we set around our self-care time, and the people we hang out with that lift us up!  There are...

Another thing that causes stress on our body over the holiday season, is the fact that we tend to be drinking more alcohol than usual again because there are so many social events. 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 hel...

One of the stresses on our bodies during the holiday season is food. That could be because you have food intolerances, and you're eating out a lot and you're not in control of your food intake because it's being made by other people. Maybe it's just the sheer volume of food because there are tons of baking tons of invitations, et cetera, et cetera. So how do you better manage the intake of food ov...

Today, I want to talk about your calendar. For this time of year its about controlling your calendar instead of having your calendar control 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...

Whitney Kobrin, Love Coach, saw a need in our world today – the need to first help women adjust their beliefs and expectations about themselves and their love life before they could have a successful lasting relationship. It was just about matchmaking, but about helping women become the person they were always meant to be.   We also dive into the expectations vs reality of Valentine...

Back for episode three of managing your stress through the holiday season, and my message today is to do a little bit at a time. 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 th...

Today, I want to talk to you about surviving the mall during the holiday season. If you're like me, it's not really an enjoyable place to be. But there are definitely things we can do to make it easier on ourselves. 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...

The holiday season can be a very stressful time for everyone. And so over the next couple of weeks, I'm just going to be talking about ways that we can be lowering our stress level through the holiday season. 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 b...

In this episode, I explore the energies of our emotions, the lightness of the emotions, love, joy & peace, vs the heaviness of emotions such as fear, anger, guilt, and shame, and how to move from those heavier emotions into the lighter emotion of love, even when it feels hard!    I also touch on the 5 Love Languages, from Gary Chapman’s work, so that you can better understa...

Today I'm talking again about boosting your immune system. Did you know that you actually have the power to strengthen your immune system or weaken it inadvertently? 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...

Back for another edition of health hack and continuing the theme of the immune system. And you might be wondering, Where is my immune system? 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 the...

This week, I want to talk to you about your immune system. Did you know that your immune system is like a muscle, and the things that you are doing every single day are either weakening it or strengthening 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...

Julie Jones of “Get Shit Done” joins me today to discuss slowing down in order to get more done!  If you would like to stop being in “reaction” mode and start to feel in control of your day and how you spend your time and actually celebrate how much you are getting done, then tune into this episode to hear all of Julie’s tips in setting yourself up for success in 2022!  It...

So to round out the week of talking about poop, I hope you're getting comfortable with this now, the reality, is that ongoing, regular constipation and or diarrhea are not normal. 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 help...

Today we're talking about the color of your poop because that is really important as well 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 med...

This week, I'm going to talk to you about poop. And I know that's not something we generally talk about in society, and we think of it as gross. But the reality is, is it's important to understand for your health and that of your family members. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses...

In this episode I explain why the old saying “Ask And Ye Shall Receive” doesn’t work, it turns out that It is only part of the original saying and a key part of the statement is missing, and that is the part that will lead you to success in receiving all of your desires.   So don’t give up, tune in to learn the missing piece and how the Be – Do -Get formula is far more effective tha...

This week I'm focusing on the power of natural health, lab testing, and getting to the root cause of an issue 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 o...

Today I want to talk about my daughter's experience and I am forever grateful to her grade two teacher. 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...

Today I want to talk to you about the power of natural health and understanding your symptoms are getting to the root cause 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 tox...

Jaci Finneman is a natural giver, fixer, and doer.  Doing everything for everyone else, thinking she was helping until she learned she wasn’t.   And in a moment of feeling slapped in the face, (twice), she opted to look at herself instead of being angry at the messengers.   When she did that, she also slowed down enough to notice the signs, and that changed...

Today I'm talking about stimulating your vagus nerve. You see if your vagus nerve has a high vagal tone, it can easily help you drop out of your chronic stress state into your rest and digest state. Whereas if your vagal tone is low, then it's a lot harder for you to be able to make that shift. But there are many ways that you can stimulate your, your vagus nerve in order to increase your vagal to...