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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...

Have you ever wished that you could push a button to get a better night's sleep, boost your energy, have more mental focus, or simply feel happier? Well, now you can! That’s right this cutting-edge technology is here now and Scott Donnell is the man behind bringing it to market at really affordable pricing. The sky is the limit with this as when you improve your sleep, you feel happ...

In this episode I dive into the problem with our sick care medical system today –appointment times that are too short for a doctor to truly diagnose you fully and a pharmaceutical industry hungry for profits, pushing drugs as the only option for healing –and yet they don’t heal in many cases, they simply mask one symptom, which drives another symptom, and they encoura...

In this episode, Tania Zimmerman touches on the power of holistic healing modalities, as well as the power of our own thoughts to impact our life. Tania turned her own life around from being unhappy in where she was at, to realizing she had control, she could make the choices that would bring more joy and happiness into her life and this is exactly what she has done. Once she realiz...

Karie Cassell, Registered Dietician, and Life Coach dive into emotional eating, and the fact it takes more than just knowing you shouldn’t do something to change habits. We discuss the diet industry and whether the diet is a good word or a bad word, and what Karie has come to discover it really means. We also discuss portion distortion, particularly in relation to sugar, as it’s in...

This is a continuation of episode #34. In that episode, I discussed the first 2 reasons why it can be so hard to kick the sugar habit and in this episode, I discuss the 3rd reason, as well as what happens when insulin is being produced to balance blood sugar and how when we have too much sugar in our blood for the insulin to store properly, it just stores it as fat, and at the same...

Jenni Currier has had a lifelong struggle with sugar, calling it her “cocaine” as it is very addictive to her, but in recent years she has learned how to Kick Sugar out of her life, and tools to help her do this. She’s also learned it’s a journey, and sometimes she falls off, but she catches herself much more quickly now and gets back on track. She is sharing this knowledge wit...

Sugar is in everything! We know that, and yet it can be so hard to avoid it. In this episode, I discuss how sugar is sneaking into our diet as well as 2 reasons why our body is demanding sugar. When you understand this you can make better choices! You’ll also learn how eating sugar feeds your cancer cells, and why starting your day with a cup of fruit juice or bowl of Cheerios isn’t...

Blair Kaplan Venables is a friend, client, colleague, social media marketer and the Founder of the I Am Resilient project. In this episode she bares her soul, as she talks about her life growing up with a father with an addiction problem, and how she came to learn the power of forgiveness and was then able to turn around her relationship with her father and now create a legacy...

Two little words that were likely in the first 5 words we learned have so much power....but many of us use them backward and say Yes to others instead of Yes to ourselves, and this can cause more stress in our lives, but when we learn to use these words properly we can lower our stress, and find time for self-care, and get into a positive cycle of looking after you FIRST! Compliment...

Annabelle Merriman is a Life Expansion Expert, and so much more! She’s a homeopath, that helped people heal, but also knew there was more...she’s a breast cancer survivor and thriver but didn’t want to be just that, she knew there was more...and so she has gone on her own journey of discovery to evolve into the practitioner she is today, working with couples to help them g...

It wasn’t until I went back to school that I learned the importance of self-care, and created a mantra around it for myself so that I could create the mindset shift needed, that it’s not selfish at all! In this episode, I share some ideas around self-care, that I hope will trigger a mindset shift in you, so that you make this a priority, and don’t think of it as a luxury! Self-care...

Sharleen Lawrence’s journey into Health & Wellness is not the typical story of first healing herself, but when she found Acupuncture, she knew she had found her home! In this episode, Sharleen shares her story, why acupuncture is so effective at improving digestion, and how she was guided into creating a new modality altogether –hypnopuncture! Sharleen is located in Souther...

In today’s stressed-out world, millions of people are struggling with digestive issues –which sucks as we have to eat, and yet having pain and discomfort, as a result, isn’t any fun. In this episode, I dive into how our digestive system is supposed to work, and what happens when things go wrong, and what you can do about it. You can’t just ignore the symptoms, or mask them with...

Kathy White shares her story and her knowledge around how yoga can improve digestion in this episode. With so many people struggling with gut health issues and digestive issues, there are some great easy steps you can take that will lower the stress on your digestive system to help your body better digest your food so you get the benefit of it. After all, we aren’t really what we ea...

We eat food for energy, but what happens if we aren’t absorbing what we eat? Then we don’t have the energy levels we want, and even in first-world countries, we can suffer from malnutrition. Understanding how to optimize our digestive system is key in ensuring we can actually properly absorb our food. In this episode, I teach you how to optimize your digestive system, as well as an at-ho...

July has 5 Saturdays and so this episode is an extra special episode standing alone on the important topic of mold. My guest expert Michael Rubino is a heart-centered contractor, who is passionate about helping remediate mold out of people’s homes and fixing the source of the problem so it doesn’t come back. You might not think you have mold, but in this episode, he shares 3 signs t...