Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

Today I want to talk to you about why we all need bedtime routines, and not just for our children. 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...

This episode dives into the power of our beliefs.  The beliefs that were created in our subconscious mind prior to the age of 8, can in many cases hold us back from living our best life as adults. Our conscious mind doesn’t’ have access to our subconscious filing cabinets though and so changing our beliefs to better serving beliefs is more than just about thinking “positive thoughts”.&nb...

This week, we've been talking about stress and your sympathetic nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system and how you can't be in both at the same time. So how do you turn on your parasympathetic nervous system in order to be able to digest your meals, and get good sleep, your rest, and digest state?  About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to...

Today I'm talking about the parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and digest state. 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...

Today I'm talking about our sympathetic nervous system and our parasympathetic nervous 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 then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functiona...

In this episode, I discuss the role of your conscious subconscious minds – and how it’s the subconscious that is really the boss and how our childhood programming impacts our adult beliefs, thoughts, feelings, actions, and results!  When we understand this, we can choose to reprogram those beliefs to better serving ones, but first, we must know what we need to override, and I share those...

Today I'm talking about getting the mold out of your home. Don't keep living with mold. Check out the book "The Mold Medic" and take the steps you need to take to get the mold out of your home. 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 mold in our environment. We can get mold spores in our window sills within the house, due to moisture from a lot of rain at this time of year. Mold can be caused by water damage in the house. We breathe that in. We can also have mold in some of our grains and nuts and seeds because of the way that they're stored. These are just some areas to be aware of, not panic over....

Today I want to talk to you about mold. Because we're getting into the fall season, there's mold out in our environment. And sometimes that mold can get into our body, we breathe in the spores all day long. And they can cause health issues. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor c...

Ken Streater is one of those rare people who now choose to live life his way.  It wasn’t always like that though, he got sucked into the corporate world, feeling beaten down and chewed up, feeling stuck, but then realized he could change that.  It took some time, but he figured it out and was able to build an even bigger business, serving more people as a result of finding alig...

Today I want to talk about starting your day with a shake. The reason that it's such a great way to start the day is that you can pack your shake full of good nutrients and vitamins from fruits and vegetables, etc. But then the blender is doing a lot of the work for you and digestion doesn't have to work as hard. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to t...

What counts as hydration? Does your morning cup of coffee count as hydration, does that glass of wine at the end of the day count as hydration? No. What counts is hydration is actually water and it can be flavored with lemon or lime juice. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cu...

I know we are notoriously bad at as human beings is hydrating enough and it can be confusing to know how much is the right amount for me? Well, I have a great formula 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...

In this episode, I dive into a topic near and dear to my heart and mind!! The voices in our head!  How do we respond to them, do we listen to ourselves or talk to ourselves, and which is better?   Understanding the growth mindset and closed mindset work of Carol Dweck is really helpful, as is knowing the 4 questions devised by Dr. Daniel Amen to eliminate the ANTS in...

You might be wondering, why do you even bother with detoxing? Well, here's the thing. I like knowing that I am creating a body that is inhospitable to disease. 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...

That's something that we so often forget, most of us only chew our mouthfuls three to five times, and we could actually be chewing them 20 times or more. 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 l...

Let's face it, we live in a toxic world. And there are so many benefits to helping the body detoxify. 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 fu...

Dr. Tom and I discuss how the way he practices medicine has changed since his med school days, it’s no longer about giving someone a diagnosis with doomsday messaging or relying just on a pill, it is more than that and revolves around the idea of metabolic flexibility.  The ability for the body to cope with stresses and recover, to enjoy relaxation, and then be able to move back into a s...

So last time I showed you a tip on how to discover if your stomach acid levels were low, and if they are, you can increase them or increase the production of stomach acid in several ways. 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&n...

Talking about stomach acid, I have a great test for you that you can do at home to assess your level of stomach acid. 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. M...

We're using antacids to stop the production of stomach acid, but the problem is, is that we actually are in a stress state that is causing heartburn 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 back into balance by helping discove...

Cheryl Prince was guided into nursing but retired in 2013 to focus on a holistic approach to wellness for her clients.  We had a lively discussion around personalized health, the need to take responsibility for your health journey, listening to your body, being an investigator in what is going on when your body talks to you, and advocating for yourself and loved ones!  If you a...

One Minute Health Hack - Three things to focus on to regain your health, or learn the steps to take preventative action. 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...

One Minute Health Hack - Keeping Your Body Clean with Detox 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 testing that he...

One Minute Health Hack - Some truths about toxins. Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz:  https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload 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...