Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs

Send us Fan Mail Heat can feel like comfort, but I see it as something more useful than that: a hands-on tool for pain relief, mobility, recovery, and nervous system support. I walk through thermotherapy in plain language, starting with the basics of why warmth helps tight muscles relax, why stiff joints often move better once you warm up, and how improved circulation can deliver oxygen and nutrie...

Send us Fan Mail The condolences pour in, the flowers fill the room, and then the funeral ends. What happens when the hardest part of grief shows up weeks later, when everyone else has gone back to normal? We sit down with Kelly Edmondson, a trauma ICU and ER nurse turned grief counselor, whose life changed when her 28-year-old son Darius died suddenly from an epilepsy-related seizure. Kelly share...

Send us Fan Mail You can feel it when someone stops telling their story to get sympathy and starts telling it to get free. That’s where Juan is right now, and our conversation goes straight into the real mechanics of healing from childhood trauma. We talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), what it means to carry a high ACE score, and why silence doesn’t erase pain it just hands it the stee...

Send us Fan Mail Trauma doesn’t just live in the past. It can live in your nervous system, showing up as anxiety, addiction patterns, sleeplessness, shutdown, or that moment when you feel your brain go offline and you don’t know why. We sit down with Steve Sapourn, founder of Neuros Journey, to unpack trauma-informed neuroscience in a way that’s practical, human, and surprisingly hopeful: what if...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of people look “fine” on the outside while they are quietly falling apart on the inside. We talk with Jeremy Stalneker, a Marine Corps infantry veteran and the leader of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, about what happens after combat stress, career transition, and life trauma collide with identity loss. When someone starts thinking, “If I’m not in the military anymore, who am I?...

Send us Fan Mail When you’re sick and every appointment creates a new theory, hope can feel like a luxury. I sit down with Allie Chandler, founder of Upsell Health, to trace the long road from a life-changing Lyme disease crash to a near-full recovery, and what that journey taught her about modern healthcare, functional medicine, and real patient advocacy. We get into why Lyme is often called the...

Send us Fan Mail Something is off in modern health: more specialists, more tests, more “answers” and yet so many people still feel stuck, inflamed, anxious, and exhausted. We sit down with Brandon Yager to explore a different map of healing, one that treats the nervous system, beliefs, and unresolved emotional shock as central factors in physical symptoms. Brandon shares how early personal develop...

Send us Fan Mail One moment can split your life into “before” and “after” and you still have to wake up the next day and decide who you’re going to be. Earl Thompson joins me to share the deeply personal story of losing his wife to acute myeloid leukemia, the years of remission and relapse, and what it really takes to grieve without getting trapped in an identity built around tragedy. From there,...

Send us Fan Mail “Trust the science” is easy to say until you are staring at a scan that can’t truly rule cancer out. We sit down again with Dr. Robert Hoffman to talk about what medical evidence can prove, what it can only suggest, and why patients get trapped between uncertainty and aggressive standard-of-care treatment. Along the way, we share real stakes: recurrence fear, metastasis language t...

Send us Fan Mail Walking into a prison for the first time changes your body before it changes your mind. Gates, rules, metal detectors, and then something you don’t expect: a room full of people trying to practice honesty, calm, and respect. I’m joined by Megan McDrew, founder of Empathy in Action at the Transformative Justice Center, to explain how her volunteer-based prison program brings civili...

Send us Fan Mail A secret can feel like armor, especially when you learned early that telling the truth might cost you love, respect, or safety. We get honest about how childhood trauma turns into a vow of silence, how that vow shapes identity and “manhood,” and why the toughest thing many of us will ever do is let ourselves be seen. We walk through Juan’s “Letters To The Young Me,” a raw set of l...

Send us Fan Mail A hard truth sits at the center of cancer care: remission isn’t the finish line. We open up about the maintenance mindset—how to manage cancer for the long haul—through a rare blend of lab insight, clinical pragmatism, and real-world patient experience. With Dr. Robert Hoffman, we unpack the “Hoffman effect,” the addiction of many tumors to methionine, and why that metabolic weakn...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to stand up for your family when the system feels stacked against you? We sit down with Paula Yost—both a seasoned attorney and a licensed mental health clinician—to unpack the real skills of advocacy through stories that move from foster care to the NICU and back to the courtroom. Paula’s journey, from first‑generation college grad to mother of four, grounds a c...

Send us Fan Mail What if we measured justice by how well it heals? We sit down with Juan to unpack a rare, unfiltered look at growth behind the wall—how being seen and heard can jumpstart dignity, how trauma-informed practices rewire the brain, and why labels fail to capture a living, changing human. Juan describes the painful split between the authentic self and the survival self, the years spent...

Send us Fan Mail What if feeling truly safe was the first step to feeling truly better? We sit down with licensed psychotherapist Scott Stolarick to explore how trauma ripples through the body, why listening can be more powerful than lecturing, and how the right pace turns resistance into real change. From mapping family systems with genograms to giving adolescents the mic, Scott shows how a nonth...

Send us Fan Mail What if reversing type 2 diabetes could start with your next meal and a five-minute walk? We welcome Dr. Jonar, a dual board certified physician in internal and lifestyle medicine, who left hospital medicine after seeing the cycle of late-stage complications—heart attacks, amputations, kidney failure—and chose to go upstream. His message is both practical and hopeful: target insul...

Send us Fan Mail One diagnosis can shape a decade—and the wrong one can steal it. We sit down with author Benton Savage to unpack how a bipolar label masked what was really driving his life: severe OCD and schizophrenia. His account is unsparing and deeply human, from an impulsive proposal and a terrifying break‑in to a dehydrated trek after deciding to “run home” across the country. Benton’s stor...

Send us Fan Mail The headlines make rescheduling sound like progress, but what if shifting cannabis to Schedule III quietly shuts dispensaries and makes patients criminals again? We dig into the science and the policy with guest Jason Grenninger, a certified surgical technologist and plant researcher, to show why descheduling is the only move that protects access, advances research, and respects h...

Send us Fan Mail A single phone call at Gate B13 changed everything for Glenn Sturm—and then he changed the playbook for how to live with cancer. Glenn’s rare T cell lymphoma set off a 17-year run of oral and IV chemo, 55 surgeries, and a minefield of side effects. Yet what emerges is not a story about disease; it’s a masterclass in agency, teamwork, and purpose. Glenn breaks down the mindset that...

Send us Fan Mail A diagnosis can take your breath away. For Chisholm, it literally did—fluid in his lung, a kidney tumor, metastasis, and a “terminal” label delivered inside a prison where information moves slowly and empathy moves slower. What emerges is not a tragedy, but a fierce blueprint for agency: prayer in the dark, a smile that refuses to dim, and the daily work of aligning belief with ac...

Send us Fan Mail What if disease isn’t a life sentence but a set of missing pieces you can replace? We sit down with Zuzu—holistic health educator, author, and speaker—to trace how she ended seizures in her early 20s by shifting neurotransmitter nutrition, then later reversed scoliosis with myofascial therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic care. Her journey becomes a practical roadmap: when you gi...

Send us Fan Mail What if the clearest path to a stronger heart starts far from the cardiology lab? We sit down with Dr. Melanie Icard, a naturopathic physician and mind-body expert, to unravel a terrain-based blueprint that helps patients stabilize blood sugar, calm inflammation, repair the gut, and improve oxygen delivery so arteries can finally relax. Instead of chasing cholesterol and blood pre...

Send us Fan Mail What if your hardest moments are actually training you for the life you want? We sit down with Cain Velasquez to unpack how breathwork, meditation, and carefully held plant medicine experiences can turn hair-trigger reactions into grounded, loving choices you trust. Cain describes his heart-opening work with ayahuasca and a profound 5-MaO-DMT near-death experience that revealed a...

Send us Fan Mail What if the fastest way to level up your career, relationships, and energy is to treat your body like your most valuable asset? We sit down with Ari Rastigar—entrepreneur, author of The Gift of Failure, and committed biohacker—to map a clear, no‑nonsense path from burnout to durable health. Ari’s story starts with a bloodwork wake‑up call and evolves into a system that’s simple en...

Send us Fan Mail A rough childhood doesn’t just fade; it leaves tracks in the body and mind that can guide every choice we make. We sit down with Juan, who speaks candidly from inside prison about ACEs—Adverse Childhood Experiences—and how early abuse, neglect, and instability hardwire a constant state of threat. Together we unpack the brain’s threat circuit: the brainstem scanning for danger, the...