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Today LaTonya Thomas, Founder of Sweet Start Ministries joins the podcast and shares how her traumatic childhood and difficulty in early adulthood had distorted her understanding of love. She attempted several times to start her business and God kept having her walk seasons of difficulty. It seemed as though she would take two steps forward and then one step back. It wasn't until she finally...

Today Melissa Samaki, RN, IBCLC, Certified Postpartum Doula takes the time to come on the podcast and share her own story of depression and anxiety after the births of her four children. She was caught completely unprepared for how much it took to care for a newborn and struggled with depression realizing how different her life had now become. Melissa talks us through her hard moments and how it w...

Today Laura Mullen, NTP comes on the podcast and shares her own nutritional journey that started as a young teen who was unhappy with her appearance. She lost over 40 pounds focusing on  what she was eating and starting to walk 3 miles after school everyday. However, it wasn't until late High School that she began to realize her worth was not tied to her weight and she was lovable for who she...

Today Dr. Abbe Keen comes and talks to us about coping strategies for grief and how Nutritional Response Testing has changed the way she is able to care for her patients. Dr. Keen lost her daughter, Hannah, at 34 weeks gestation. She talks us through the hope she found in her faith and the support of the community that was around her at that time of complete darkness. Dr. Keen was vulnerable telli...

Today Angela Meier, owner of A.I.M. For Health LLC, comes on the podcast and talks about how nutrition impacts so many different areas of our lives and the importance of whole foods. She tells us about her professional dancing career and how it drove her eating disorder that ended up wreaking her bone and digestive health.  It took her many years to recover, but through supplements and focusing on...

Today Gina Birkemeier, licensed counselor/author, comes to discuss her book Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite our story through Faith and Therapy. Gina talks about how she struggled most with leaning into the safe places during her healing journey because when you find your function in dysfunction safety looks dangerous. She explains to us forgiveness versus r...

Today's Angie Harness, a successful residential realtor, comes on the podcast and opens up about trauma experienced in childhood and its impact on her adult life. As a child she disassociated much of her trauma, but started having severe flashbacks as an adult that was holding her back from growing as an individual and in her business. Angie had done therapy before, but was recommended to try...

Today's interview is with Rebecca Nicastro, a strong woman I met through my networking community. I was instantly drawn to her story and knew I had to share about her discovering her strength, overcoming adversity, and relearning who she is as an individual after a painful second divorce. Rebecca encourages us that turning the focus outward and looking for ways to help others when you are hur...

Today's episode is an incredible conversation with author/speaker Marcy Bursac. She grew up knowing that adoption was her path for family planning and after she and her husband met it became clear that adoption from the foster care system was the perfect way to grow their family. She walks us through peoples responses to their decision about not having biological children and also to not adop...

Trigger Warning: Today Julie Sullivan, a Children's Minister with Waypoint Church, comes on the podcast and discusses an extremely difficult, but important topic of miscarriage. She starts by sharing her own journey with the loss of two of her own pregnancies and her healing journey, but goes on to discuss the importance of talking what you have experienced with the people that have earned th...

Today Meredith Ruben Daniels comes on the podcast and explains how important Generational Emotional Mapping (GEM) is for healing not only trauma that is effecting you as an individual, but through energy heals your ancestral DNA as well.  She discusses the importance of our emotions and the role they play in our gene expressions. This technique specifically targets finding our unhealthy emotions a...

Today licensed professional counselor, Taylor Keen, comes on the podcast and has an in depth conversation with us about relationships, communication, perception, and so much more. He breaks down needing to understand your own story and how that influences your reactions and decisions in every conversation, discussion, and argument you have with your significant other. Taylor emphasizes not to go 2...

Today Sherry Ruyle, a successful real estate agent, joins us on the podcast and opens up about an extremely difficult topic in parenting.  She shares about learning the importance of boundaries in motherhood and how we can still be their safe haven for emotions, but don't also have to be their verbal punching bags. As part of her learning about boundaries, Sherry realized that her puzzle piec...

Today Stephanie Korpal, M.Ed., LPC-S comes on and shares so much valuable information about understanding what therapy is, why it is important, and what are signs for when we might need to consider seeking counseling. She talks about the statement "but, its not that bad" is likely a sign your perception is off and that you are already ready for help. Stephanie shares about the importance...

Today Jackie Ginther,  a gold dōTERRA wellness coach joins us on the podcast and walks us through so much great information about oils, healthy living, and so much more. She educates us that oils and healthy living are about taking care of our health proactively instead of reactively. Jackie is a huge proponent that you don't know what you don't know, but once you know its your job to st...

Angela Dexter joins us today on the podcast and gives us such wisdom and insight to her struggles with post-partum anxiety. As a first time mother she loved reading and researching about pregnancy and delivery and felt very prepared when it came to welcome her daughter into the world. However, that is where the her confidence ended and the train wreak started. Angela's daughter had some initi...

The amazing Anna Alt of LSL Finishes comes on the podcast and shares her story of what it was like growing up in the Jehovah Witness Culture. She felt at a young age that she wasn't entirely sure that what she was following was correct, but wasn't ready to rock the boat. She met and married her husband who was also raised Jehovah Witness and continued that path until her kids became scho...

Today April Kaiserlian, LMSW joins us on the podcast and shares with us about her hard journey into motherhood and the realization that her path was not going to look like the traditional path. She opens up, telling us about her early years of motherhood spent in anxiety and anger. But found hope and healing after taking a Mindfulness course. April describes as she completed that course, that she...

Today the podcasts welcomes lifestyle coach Amber Webb. We are grateful for all the encouragement she shared with us. She starts with telling us about her rocky start into motherhood and how she became so depressed she was only be able to lay in bed and play with  her son. Amber realized that is not what she wanted her life to be like and begin reading motivational books and found the strength to...

Dr. Felicity Keough-Bligh joins the podcast today and encourages us to take care of our bodies in all stages of life. Educating us that care during pregnancy is possible in the management of all of the aches and pains that accompany growing a person. We talk through awareness of post partum depression and being proactive on knowing your resources. Dr. Keough tells us about a technique that she fou...

Erin Darling of Mindset Nutrition in Cottleville, Mo joins us today on the podcast and shares so much amazing information about nutrition and mindset. She begins with telling us a little about her own journey of nutrition and wellness starting with being overweight as a child to swinging to the other extreme of obsessive calorie tracking.  Erin talks about having to shift from the short term healt...

Today's interview is with Katie Bynum, vice president of Fearless Women, which is a faith based ministry in the St. Louis area helping women to break free from the bounds of anxiety and depression. Katie got married young and moved away from family as her husband pursued his Doctorate. When the decided to start their family, they still were not close to home. Katie describes her journey with...

Today's Episode is with Nita Dalton, a certified Hypnotherapist, who owns Nita Dalton Hypnosis. This an incredible interview were we are exposed to a technique that honestly didn't know anything about before meeting Nita. She has a voice that brings you to a place of peace and calm before even starting any treatment. Nita, tells us about her own journey from massage therapy, into therape...

Today's Interview is with Andrea Denningmann, owner of Addi and Ains Boutique. Guys, this gal is a doer and a go getter. She believes in always pushing herself to the next level and trying new things. Andrea is not afraid to put in the work and do the research to attempt anything that comes into her mind. She is a busy mom of three and started her career in cooperate fashion, but then felt th...

Today's Interview is with the amazing Jessica White, Owner of Enact Wellness Solutions in St. Charles, Mo. She has a beautiful story of overcoming obesity and finding herself through her health and fitness. As a busy momma of 3 and military wife she has had many obstacles to overcome, but her health became a priority. Jessica talks about how joining group fitness classes became her community...