Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

Send us Fan Mail From mood to addition to Alzheimers, Charity Lighten is passionate about how you can impact brain health from improving gut health. But how do you do this? Charity shares how she got started in gut health to her husband's cancer journey to finding products that can help optimize the gut brain connection and mood-brain disorders like anxiety, depression and suicide. PERSONAL R...

Send us Fan Mail Are you stressing out your hormones? Integrative nutritionists Robyn Johnson and Kaely McDevitt join us today to talk hormone triad: adrenal, thyroid, ovarian and how stress plays a role in affecting our hormones early in life through menopause. RESOURCES: www.herhormonesacademy.com for free trainings on female cycles, mood swings and acne and more.  The Biology of Belief by Bruce...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, we interviewed James Ripley, the man who discovered meditation through napping. We take a deep dive into all things meditation - why you should mediate and how to start. James is the founder and creator of the Goodnite Guru. He is certified by the Anna Wise Center as an Awakened Mind Meditation & Brainwave Training Practitioner &amp...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the podcast we have an interview with Glenn Livingston, Ph. D. Glenn is a veteran psychologist with an alternative, controversial approach to eating disorders. It was his own personal journey out of obesity and food prison to a normal, healthy weight and a much more lighthearted relationship with food that sparked this alternative approach to treating eating disorders...

Send us Fan Mail My back! My neck! My feet! My wrists! In this episode, physical therapist Heidi Roberts explains how tweaking your workspace can greatly reduce pain in nearly any part of the body. She reviews Christa's standing workspace and provides simple hacks from everyday items you already own. Take your standing (or sitting) game to the next level with her easy to implement suggestions...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know stats for anxiety in adolescents hover around 30%? When an epidemic is silent or unaddressed, it allows for it to get worse. Licensed counselor Celeste Coffman specializes in anxiety in children and shares the background, causes and what you can do to help an anxious child in your life. She also shares how to find a good counselor and when to get extra help. Resources...

Send us Fan Mail Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE busts 3 myths in prenatal nutrition! Other topics discussed: gestational diabetes, how to have a healthy pregnancy, foods to incorporate and foods to exclude during pregnancy, how to improve your postpartum experience, and so much more! Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE: http://pilatesnutritionist.com/ Real Food For Pregnancy: http://realfoodforpregnancy.com/book/ Asse...

Send us Fan Mail Self-care is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Learn about the benefits of an infrared sauna from the best of the best! Clearlight Saunas Founder, Dr. Raleigh Duncan, has many years of experience as a Doctor of Chiropractic and research into infrared therapy. We take a deep dive into all things sauna related. The benefits are nearly infinite: detoxification, enhanced sports rec...

Send us Fan Mail What if you could easily fix wine headaches? Or you knew you had to take special care with supplements because you don't manufacture nutrients properly on your own? Like B12, Vitamin D and many more. Or maybe you're curious if you have the caffeine sensitivity gene? What can you do with those 23andme or Ancestry.com results? Do you have the MTHFR? We answer all those que...

Send us Fan Mail If you wear glasses, you need to hear this episode! You can prevent your children from being as blind as you! In this episode, Dr. Dawn Wattenhofer explains some common eye diseases, how the prevalence of nearsightedness is going through the roof and what we can do to prevent worsening eyesight. Resources: http://visionsourcespecialists.com/ https://www.christabiegler.com/blog/nut...

Send us Fan Mail In a culture deficient in body positive messages, Lindsay Stenovec, MS, RD, certified eating disorder dietitian and lactation educator shares a different way to deal with our relationship with food. Lindsay dispels the myth of "intuitive eating" and how to feel your best by redefining your foundation of health. She talks about how weight is not an indicator of health and...

Send us Fan Mail What's all the hype about food sensitivity testing? Is it worthless? Useful? Who should do it? Who shouldn't do it? What's the difference between food sensitivities and food allergies? In this Q&A Christa answers all of these questions and more. She also ranks different food sensitivity tests like MRT, ALCAT, and even Pinnertest. Have more questions about food s...

Send us Fan Mail "Hey doc, what can I do about bloating?...how about this nausea?"  In this episode with humble and superfun mad (food) scientist Dustin James, MD we talk about natural remedies for motion sickness, mroning sickness, stomach aches, nausea, and bloating this gastroenterologist created as a solution for his patients. And for you! We discuss how the creation of a "food...

Send us Fan Mail Health isn't always easy. When fitness superstar Chalene Johnson found herself working out hours per day to maintain her infomercial-ready physique and needing complete silence to find focus, she knew something must be wrong. By digging and more digging, Chalene found the unexpected answer and root causes in an unexpected place. Chalene shares her personal journey in this epi...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a MUST listen if you have a microbiome. Wait, that's YOU! Forget everything you thought you knew about probiotics, because there's a new guy in town. The Swiss Army knife of probiotics. The Chuck Norris of beneficial bacteria. The master gardener of the biome. Meet spore biotics....or MegaSpore biotics more specifically. This gut health nerd couldn't...

Send us Fan Mail Host of Smart Passive Income Pat Flynn shares one of the single most important habits he integrated to reduce stress, for free, meditation. In this episode, he speaks about improving productivity, focus, and concentration all by setting up spaces and hacks to facilitate the less stressed life. We discuss how he went from laid-off architect to megaentrepreneur totaling multi six fi...

Send us Fan Mail As a supermarket dietitian, Judith "Judes" Scharman knew there was a lot of noise in the nutrition industry. Clients constantly feeling like they were pulled in opposing directions, Judes set out to distill down the most important nutrition "fixes". In this episode, she shares some of her fixes as well as the science behind them, like why you might still be hun...

Send us Fan Mail Can kicking cold and flu bugs be fun? It is in this episode with integrative dietitian Mary Purdy, she makes evidence based natural solutions for upleveling your immune system something you'll want to listen to again and again. Find out about Mary Purdy's cold and flu concoction and how to beat the bad breath of being sick. Christa and Mary have real talk about the impor...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Romanelli is a wellness innovator and pioneer who fuses ancient healing traditions with modern fashions. He is also the author of the new and noteworthy book, Happy is the New Healthy. He takes traditional practices, like yoga and meditation, and finds creative ways to integrate them into modern life. He believes in training your mind, the power of attention, and how to choos...

Send us Fan Mail Food writer to Food Woes: How overcoming PCOS, Thyroid and Gut health issues changed Kate's Kordsmeier's young life. Kate Kordsmeier was living the dream, hopping from restaurant to restaurant as a food and travel writer when things started to change. Doctors told her that her symptoms were "all in her head," but it wasn't long before Kate had enough. She...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like the world just isn't on your side? Our guest today Dori Martin shares why this is the opposite of how it can be, and shares how she sees little miracles happen in the space of gratitude, presence and personal healing in her practice. In this episode, we discuss how putting out into the world is what comes back to you. Dori shares her unique approach to t...

Send us Fan Mail When Lesly Rae started reacting to everything she ate or smelled and spent more of her week in the ER than not, she saw the reality that many Mast Cell Activation Syndrome clients face. It wasn't until she noticed her issues stabilizing from using the elderberry syrup she made each year that she began digging deeper into "healing" vs treating her condition. Today, L...

Send us Fan Mail Rough night? Are you feeling like a zombie while you wait for your kiddo to get the hint about how many hours to sleep? How do you know if your child’s sleep habits are totally off the wall or within reason? Tara Hess, owner of Tulsa Pediatric Sleep Consulting shares 5 things that are preventing your child from sleeping well at night and answers to questions from the audience (how...

Send us Fan Mail [Disclaimer: This FABULOUS episode is longer, but WORTH the listen!] Elizabeth Durham, owner of Sweet Elizabeth's Organics takes us through the health problems she and her family left behind when she discovered some of the root causes of her symptoms. She also takes us through letting go of the baggage of "stuff" and all the pain we sometimes take on of others, a sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this fascinating interview with Denver-based psychotherapist Marc Azoulay, we learn about how stress experiments are conducted, modern day psychoanalysis, how people can overcome PTSD, nightmares and resentment with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and de-stressing with Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Like any guy who owns a toy company, Marc makes this seriou...