Functional Moms Podcast

SO many American teens play competitive club and travel sports, but nutrition and mental health aren't often discussed. This episode is for you if: You have a middle school, high school or college athlete and you're curious how nutrition can affect your child's physical health and performance You'd like tips on how to support your child mentally before high level competitions, as w...

Guest Kristina Methakul, otherwise known as The Wellness Architect, is a functional medicine certified health coach and shares how functional parenting can help us as moms. This episode is for you: If you're tired of being fueled on ALL the wrong things like coffee, adrenaline and inconsistent meals, but constantly feel too overwhelmed to do anything about it If you feel mentally overloaded an...

Kim Del Castillo, board certified holistic health practitioner and founder of Lux Healthstyle, shares how many of our health issues could be coming from our gut. This episode is for you if: you've struggled with vague symptoms like headaches, brain fog, joint pain, skin rashes and fatigue If you’ve ever struggled with gut issues like bloating, constipation or diarrhea In her practice Kim offer...

As moms we often put ourselves on the back burner to help everyone else – our kids, our partner, our aging parents. We often think of self-care as a luxury like getting a massage or manicure.  But what if we treated self-care as we would an important doctor’s appointment? We don’t take it off the calendar unless it’s an absolute emergency!  Guest Honey Bronson, a registered nurse, functional medic...

This episode is for you: If you have a child with ADHD and are looking for solutions beyond medication to help them thrive Kristin talks with Dr. Scott Shannon, Founding Board Member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He is also founder of the Wholeness Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, a mental health center mixing conventional and ho...

Raquel interviews Dr. Achina Stein, an Amazon international bestselling author of “What If It’s NOT Depression?: Your Guide to Finding Answers and Solutions.”  This episode is for you: If you’ve been diagnosed or treated for depression, but feel like there could be something else going on It’s also for you if you’re taking medication for depression and it’s not working or you’re having problems wi...

Guest Jessica Pierce, a reCODE 2.0 (Bredesen) and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, shares how her life changed in 2017 when her mother was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment while caring for her parents, who were in the terminal stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She soon discovered that she and her mother carry an increased genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s. This episode is for...

Yoga and meditation expert Cheryl Wilson shares her personal journey from struggling with anxiety and overwhelm while working an unfulfilling job to discovering yoga and meditation as a way of healing herself. She became a yoga and meditation teacher to help others and shares how even moms who've struggled with mindfulness can incorporate it with a few minutes per day. It's not the duratio...

Two-thirds or 67 percent of calories consumed by children and adolescents in 2018 came from ultra-processed foods, a jump from 61 percent in 1999, according to a 2021 Journal of the American Medical Association study. Guest Teya Helene, a young mom of 2 children, shares her struggles of feeding her family healthy when it seems as if sugar and processed food is everywhere you go. Raquel, Kristin &a...

Raquel and Kristin discuss FIVE ways an "ALL OR NOTHING" mindset sabotages our lives. As moms, we often think we don't have enough time for the things we want to have time for like working out, home cooking and quality time with friends and family! But what if we drop the ALL OR NOTHING mindset and realize all our efforts count? We might not need as much time as we think. This episod...

In this second episode, Raquel shares how as a fitness professional training hundreds of women, she felt like something was missing for her clients. In Raquel's attempt to empower women in her custom Fit Mom Camp, she realized these women were on the "hamster wheel" of fitness. After getting great results and transforming their bodies, they'd end up right back where they started....

In this first episode, Kristin shares her personal journey of how functional medicine changed her life and saved her family's health. She talks about how functional medicine: Healed her daughter from chronic sickness and ear infections Fixed her own gut issues that had her keeled over in pain Helped manage her son's behavioral issues and ADHD This episode is for you if you've been curi...

Are you aging well as a middle aged mom? Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by all things wellness? —losing weight, gaining muscle, reducing stress, finding time to exercise, getting sound sleep, feeding yourself and your family healthy meals –  it goes on and on.  Meanwhile, what do we REALLY want?? To look great, to feel great AND BE our best. YET let’s face it, there’s almost too much hea...