Melissa Deally

Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

Health EN ↓ 924 episodes

As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you c...

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Melissa Deally

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Health

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yourguidedhealthjourney.com

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

E024: Using Food + Supplements instead of medicine to heal 24.07.2021

In this episode, Kathy Ashton shares her story about discovering how the food she was eating was exacerbating her fibromyalgia. Then her husband was diagnosed with MS, and the drugs caused depression and made him feel like crap so he stopped taking them. He’d remembered Kathy’s success in healing herself by changing her diet, and he asked her to go back to school to learn about this, to...

E023: Little Known Vitamin Therapy That Are Highly Effective at Helping People with ADHD / Alzheimer’s / Cancer as well as Anxiety & Depression 17.07.2021

In this episode, I bring you education on how Vitamin Therapy (Orthomolecular Medicine) can be used to improve the quality of life and relieve symptoms of those struggling with ADHD, Alzheimer’s, Cancer, and Anxiety & Depression. This is for educational purposes only, my purpose is to guide you to the fact this research is available and has been available for years, you just need to...

E022: He’s turning 70 next week, AND feels better than he did in his 40s! 10.07.2021

John Wilson is passionate about being proactive in your health and in his business he helps others take proactive action, with supplements that support the body’s health and a medical device that can measure the body's absorption of carotenoid antioxidants. He shares his story from what he thought was a healthy & active lifestyle to realizing how stress and long work hours had c...

E021: Do We Really Need Supplements or Are They Just a Waste of Money? 03.07.2021

In this episode I discuss the state of our food system and soil systems today, leaving our food nutrient deplete and many people malnourished, as a result and therefore we need to supplement. I also discuss the top 4 supplements that I recommend, and why (this is purely for educational purposes only, not a medical recommendation for anyone).  Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz:&nbsp...

E020: Waking up with panic attacks, and a racing heart was just the beginning of her transformation 26.06.2021

Jenny Ryce shares her story of waking up with panic attacks, a racing heart, leading to her finally listening to her body and realizing something was wrong. A doctor made her admit to her stress, which got her out of denial, and finally taking action to create habits that allowed her to heal and shift into a place of true wellness and a life of joy. She isn’t perfect, she still has stress in her l...

E019: Why eating in a stressed state causes weight gain.... 19.06.2021

Today I discuss why eating in a stressed state causes weight gain, and provide a simple trick to turn on your digestive system, even when you are feeling stressed out. I also explain how high cortisol levels are negatively impacting our sleep and then when we don’t sleep well, we are less stress-resilient and again have high cortisol levels, as well as when we don’t sleep well, our brain looks for...

E018: 90-95% of Illnesses/Stress are lifestyle related which means they are preventable! Here is a tool to help you lower your stress levels. 12.06.2021

Dr. Ken Keis offers so much insight in this 1 episode, it could literally change your life.  The world is the most stressed out it has ever been, and people are struggling with chronic health issues as a result of this.  95% of all doctor's visits are related to stress!  In this episode, Ken talks about his Stress indicator Assessment Tool, which gives you clear insight in...

E017: How Stress Impacts Your Body 05.06.2021

Stress –We all encounter it daily to different degrees, but do you know what chronic stress is doing to your health? In this episode, I talk about the types of stress, how stress affects the body, and the 7 stages of burnout. This is the first of 4 episodes on the topic of stress. Join me for all of them to learn about stress itself, and what you can do about managing it better...

E016: "Un-Dieting", Intuition & Uncovering the Food Industry Helped Her Heal from 6 Months on a Weight Loss Plan that Left Her Malnourished 29.05.2021

Olivia shares her powerful story of being 19 and nutrient deplete after trying to follow a strict diet plan to lose her “freshman” 40 pounds. This changed the course of her career as she started to learn about the importance of nutrition in our health! In this episode, Olivia shares from her experience working behind the scenes in the food industry and the real definitions of “proce...

E015: We Have a Health Industry that Doesn’t Care About Our Food and a Food Industry that Doesn’t Care About Our Health 22.05.2021

Changing the way you eat is hard, even when you know it’s good for you! It’s hard to know what foods are healthy for you, even when you do read the labels. In today’s episode I talk about what to put on your plate, the importance of reading food labels and being discerning about the marketing ploys to get you to buy –such as a label of “healthy” on highly pr...

E014: A Difficult Decision has Nurse Turn to Holistic Health to Find True Healing for Herself and Her Infant Son 15.05.2021

In this episode, I invite Mandy Gefle to tell her story, as she moved from being a nurse in a rural setting under high stress, into a state of burnout and then gave birth to her first son and suffered “postpartum depletion” as she calls it.  A tough decision on her healing journey led her away from mainstream medicine, which was all that she knew, and into the world of holistic health, a...

E013: Food – Which Diet is the Right Diet for You? 08.05.2021

We all know we need to eat food for energy – BUT our struggle comes in determines what is the RIGHT way to eat for our body. Just like we eat differently at various stages of our lives, we all need to eat differently from one another, and figuring out the best way to eat for our unique body can be difficult, and is perhaps not a concept you’ve heard about before. Tune into this episode t...

E012: A Typo Led to Her Having Half Her Thyroid Removed...Unnecessarily! 01.05.2021

You might wonder how a typo can lead to having half your thyroid removed unnecessarily….you’ll have to tune in to hear Lisa Wilson’s story, which is almost unbelievable except that it really happened to her. Then we discuss her long recovery, navigating mainstream medicine, and finding her way to Naturopathy and intuitive healing resources in order to really advance her healing. It’s been 7 years,...

E011: How Your Hormones Get Out of Balance 24.04.2021

I’ve struggled with hormone imbalances for much of my life but was fortunate to find functional medicine lab testing about 15 years ago, and as a result, have been able to see where I was out of balance, and then bring them back into balance naturally.  In this episode, you’ll come to understand just how easy it is for our hormones to get out of balance in our modern world, but also...

E010: She Was in So Much Pain Every Month, Until She Learned How To Balance Her Hormones 17.04.2021

Daniela Abedrabbo tells her story from successful corporate sales career, that left her feeling something was missing to being guided into going back to school to become a Registered Counselor, and then building a practice so quickly it resulted in burnout.  With her stress levels so high, she had awful PMS symptoms and menstrual cycles, but didn’t realize the connection. It wasn’t...

E09: Are Your Hormones Out of Whack? 10.04.2021

Do you remember what you were taught about school about your hormones? Probably not, I know I don’t remember much, and yet, as we go through life our hormones are always changing and affecting how we feel. So today, I bring to you an overview of the female hormones, estrogen and progesterone and how they impact our fertility and how we feel, as we move into peri-menopause and menopause. Too m...

E08: Wired at bedtime? Sleep Techniques for Adults and Kids! 03.04.2021

In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth shares how she works with parents and kids and introduces the tools she uses with her own children and clients to help kids calm their nervous system before bedtime, so they aren’t wired and full of energy and not able to sleep. She also shares her own story of going through a time in her life of poor sleep and the impact on her health and joy of life and t...

E07: Have you ever been taught how to optimize your sleep? Part 2 27.03.2021

This is a continuation of episode 5, so if you haven’t listened to that, you’ll want to tune in to it as well. In this episode, I go through steps 2 – 6 in improving your sleep – all simple steps you can apply immediately and reap the rewards over the next 30 days as you train your body and brain into a deeper, more rejuvenating sleep. There is no time like now to get started! Start waking up...

E06: So sleep deprived, she felt she was a bad Mom, bad wife, bad friend, and then the answer came to her…. 20.03.2021

In this episode, Tara Williams shares the story of her 4 th child who didn’t sleep more than 1.5 hours at a time. She was sleep-deprived and feeling like she was a bad Mom, bad wife, and bad friend as a result.  One night she noticed her son calm when she put a heavy blanket on him and in that moment discovered what he truly needed to get him sleeping through the night - and has now...

E05: Have You Ever Been Taught How to Optimize Your Sleep? 13.03.2021

Most of us have never been taught how to optimize our sleep and yet 70 million Americans struggle with sleep. It is assumed that because we know how to sleep as babies, we don’t need to be taught how to sleep. BUT modern life has us struggling with sleep due to the daily habits we have developed that impact our sleep only we don’t realize it. So this month my focus is on sleep and t...

E04: She Was a Ghost of Herself… 01.03.2021

In this episode, the Reverend Cristina Paglinauan shares her story of how until just a few months ago, she was sleep-deprived, struggling with moods, anxiety, depression, and hot flashes from menopause, which had her feeling a ghost of herself.  She shares her story in the desire to reach others who may be feeling the same way, feeling alone, and having lost hope to let them know, there...

E03: Are Your Trashcans Overflowing? 01.03.2021

Are your trashcans overflowing? No, I don't mean the ones you put out on the street, I mean your liver and kidneys.  Very often in today’s world, they are bogged down from too many toxins getting into our bodies, and from high stress, poor sleep, poor nutrition.  This is a major cause of the health issues many people are struggling with today and yet almost no one is talki...

E02: Can My Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Really Be a Blessing? 01.03.2021

Anne Crook, breast cancer thriver, tells her story of being diagnosed with breast cancer, from the shock of this diagnosis, given she has been in the health industry for over 20 years, and though she ate well and lived a “clean life” to the realization that the lump was her body talking to her, sending her a message that she needed to do things differently. Her healing journey has led her to...

E01: I Needed to Know Why….. 01.03.2021

In this pilot episode, I share my story of being let go after 24 years, without a word of thanks, and how that led me down the path of becoming an Integrative Health Practitioner, which I would NEVER have foreseen…and how along the way I have become very passionate about helping people heal, and wanting you to know the truth about our broken medical system and empowering you in your healing journe...

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