Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...