Get Obsessed | Natalie Kakon

AI, Cancer Care, and the Gap Between the Clinical Encounter and the Rest of Your Life In conversation with Ellyn Winters Robinson, founder of Ask Ellyn. Medicine treats the disease. Storytelling treats the person. That sentence, from this conversation with Ellyn Winters Robinson, names something most healthcare systems are not built to hold. The clinical encounter is real, necessary, and often lif...

Heart failure in women can be hard to recognize — Jenny Milne was 23 when her symptoms were initially attributed to a gallbladder problem. Jenny Milne — heart failure survivor and community engagement manager at the HeartLife Foundation — shares what her experience taught her about how heart disease can present in women, especially younger women, and the support and advocacy work she's done si...

Bodyworker Tony Eng on craniosacral therapy visceral and neural manipulation, brain therapy  and the kind of bodywork that listens before it acts. After twenty years of practice, Tony approaches the body as one interconnected system — treating the whole person rather than chasing symptoms, and creating the safety the body needs before any real change can happen. It's for anyone who wants bodyw...

What can a strand of your hair actually tell you about your health? Registered dietitian Sara Korzeniewski explains Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis — HTMA. Searchable terms: HTMA, hair tissue mineral analysis, hair mineral test, mineral ratios, functional testing. This episode is about what HTMA measures, how it differs from a blood test, and why mineral ratios — not single numbers — are where the re...

What if you've been breathing wrong your whole life — and never noticed? Functional breathing coach Elsa Unenge explains how most of us drift into shallow, inefficient breathing, and how to retrain it. Searchable terms: functional breathing, how to breathe properly, breathwork, diaphragmatic breathing, nasal breathing. This episode is about the breath as a tool — how it shapes your energy, your st...

Thank you for being part of this podcast. For your messages, your comments, your questions and for letting me know that what I’m putting into the world is landing. This season has been incredibly special. We heard from doctors, menstrual coaches, movement educators, and so many thoughtful voices shaping this conversation. To every guest who joined m, thank YOU. And to each of you listening, reflec...

Do you ever worry you're not a good enough mother? Clinical psychologist Dr. Tanya Cotler unpacks what secure attachment really is — and why it was never about getting parenting right. Searchable terms: secure attachment, parent-child bond, good enough parenting, motherhood, attachment styles. This episode is about the everyday work of connection: attunement, the small ruptures that happen in ever...

I’m joined by pelvic health physiotherapist  Jennifer Nwankwo , CEO and co-founder of  Nuvo Physio  and co-founder of  Elle Santé , for a grounded, myth-busting conversation on women’s pelvic health across the lifespan. We explore anatomy, breath and pressure mechanics, incontinence, painful sex, hormonal tissue changes, vaginal pH, and the nervous system. Jennifer also shares what she’s building...

What happens when you stop trying to take up less space? Melanie Richards — founder of Happy Tree and creator of the F*CK Skinny movement — shares an honest, personal conversation about body image, diet culture and self-acceptance. Searchable terms: body image, diet culture, eating disorder recovery, anti-diet, self-worth. This episode moves through Melanie's own story, the loss of her sister...

What if everything you were taught about the body left out the part that holds it all together? Author and educator Joanne Avison explains fascia — the connective tissue web running through the entire body. Searchable terms: fascia, connective tissue, what is fascia, myofascial, proprioception. This episode is about a shift in how we see the body: not a machine of separate parts, but a whole, livi...

What if everything you've been told about training your core is wrong? Pilates instructor and MMIA co-founder Paul Thornley explains why the "core" is a myth — and why hardening it can create the injuries it's meant to prevent. Searchable terms: core myth, core training, why fit people get injured, micro-movement, functional movement. This episode is about a different way to unde...

Why do cravings hit harder in the days before your period? In this roundtable, psychiatrist Dr. Sara Cohen Fournier, naturopathic doctor Dr. Michal Waldfogel and nervous system educator Carina Raisman unpack how the cycle shapes the brain's reward system. Searchable terms: cravings before period, dopamine, addiction and the menstrual cycle, luteal phase, serotonin. The conversation goes far be...

Your period has been gone for months — or years — and you're not pregnant. Every test comes back "normal," and no one can tell you why. Period recovery coach Elena Gelibter explains hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA) — covering missing periods, under-eating, overtraining, the post-pill bleed that masks it, and what bloodwork actually shows. It's a conversation about energy, nervous sys...

Your mood swings with your cycle and you've started to wonder if something's wrong with you. Psychiatrist Dr. Sara Cohen Fournier reframes the menstrual cycle as a fifth vital sign — covering PMS vs PMDD, why mood drops before your period, hormones and mental health, and emotional regulation. It's a conversation about hormones, cyclical living, and protecting your mental health through...

You're exhausted, but every doctor says your blood work is "normal."Naturopathic doctor Dr. Michal Waldfogel explains the ferritin gap — covering iron deficiency without anemia, low ferritin, fatigue, B12 and folate, MTHFR, and methylation. It's a conversation about energy, hormones, and learning to read what your body has been telling you all along. This episode is for any woman...

What if your tight pelvic floor was never a strength problem? Yoga therapist Carina Raisman explains why the pelvic floor braces under stress, and how it actually releases. Searchable terms: pelvic floor tension, how to relax your pelvic floor, pelvic floor and breathing, tight pelvic floor, hypertonic pelvic floor. This episode is about the pelvic floor as something to listen to, not fix — and ho...

What if touch is one of the most direct ways to tell your body it's safe? Massage therapist, yoga teacher and author Kiara Armstrong explains how safe, consensual touch calms the nervous system. Searchable terms: safe touch, touch and the nervous system, co-regulation, consensual touch, trauma-informed yoga. This episode is about touch as a biological need — why frequent, consensual contact lo...

Your thyroid test came back "normal" — so why are you still exhausted, foggy, and gaining weight? Functional health coach Kristal Godin breaks down why a standard TSH test can miss Hashimoto's, an autoimmune thyroid condition, and why a full thyroid panel tells a truer story. Searchable terms: Hashimoto's, hypothyroidism, full thyroid panel, chronic fatigue, hormone hierarchy. Th...

Stress isn’t just in your mind — it’s a full-body conversation. In this solo episode, we explore stress as a language: the way tension, breath, fascia, hormones, and the nervous system speak to one another long before your thoughts catch up. You’ll learn: how stress moves through the body why proprioception + interoception shape your emotional clarity how fascia responds to activation and release...

What happens when a pharmacist turns health coach begins teaching healthcare professionals how to care for themselves? In this episode, I sit down with  Julie Doan , pharmacist-turned-health coach and founder of  Replenish RX , to explore the transformation from traditional medicine to holistic, preventive care. Together we unpack: The limitations of medication and the rise of preventative health...

What if your body is always quietly deciding whether you're safe? Yoga therapist Carina Raisman explains how the nervous system works, and how to help it settle. Searchable terms: nervous system regulation, fight or flight, freeze response, fawn response, how to calm your nervous system. This episode is about the autonomic nervous system — the four stress responses, why the body craves predict...

Natalie sits down with coach and speaker Diana Eskander to explore what it really means to live as a woman who receives. Together they trace Diana’s evolution from 1:1 love coaching to leading global group experiences, unpack the energetics of feminine receiving, and get practical about nervous-system nourishment, pleasure practices, and polarity in relationships. Expect honest stories — including...

Some weeks you feel unstoppable. Other weeks you can barely get off the couch — and you've been told that's just you being inconsistent. Menstrual cycle coach Stella Artuso explains the four phases of the cycle as inner seasons — covering the follicular phase, ovulation, the luteal phase, menstruation, and cyclical living. It's a conversation about energy, hormones, and why a woman&#39...