Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

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...

Send us Fan Mail Kylie Ota tried to ignore the signs of her extreme exhaustion after years of shift work, but her husband insisted she get some help after repeated “falling asleep in the chair” episodes. Today, Kylie shares her story about dealing with the stressors that caused burn out, how long it took her to rebound and how she lost 15 lbs in the process. Resources mentioned in this episode:  ...

Send us Fan Mail When Jade Simmons started trying to impress the crowd at her classical music performances, she never knew the impact she could make by uncovering how she was meant to serve others. Jade brings us through the journey of finding out her purpose isn't the "thing you do" but more so the "thing you give other people". She discusses the concept of 360 degree gro...

Send us Fan Mail Ayla Withee is a registered dietitian nutritionist, nationally recognized expert in fertility nutrition and owner of Boston Functional Nutrition. Today she drops some knowledge bombs about both women and men’s health and fertility, and literally how stress can rob our hormones of their fertility magic. She’ll talk about reproductive hormones, how to NOT optimize your body for chil...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your spouse begins to seem more like a roommate? Or your relationship starts to feel strained? Relationship therapist Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin and his wife Rivka review their 5 step action plan for a happy, healthy marriage and answer listener questions. Plus we touch on kitchen ninja tips for changing your life with fresh apple juice and other uses for tis seasonal...

Send us Fan Mail Have you self-sabotaged your own success? If so, could it have been avoided? Motivational health coach Meredith Kelly Conroy walks us through her own story with hitting the “upper limit,” from former party girl to corporate ladder climber to girl boss. She also covers the self-doubt that creeps in when hitting big goals and how she helps her own clients and colleagues through blow...

Send us Fan Mail Miller Daurey AKA Mack Holiday has been involved in the entertainment industry since he was 16 years old. Only now, decades later, has his life's purpose become clear to him: helping people to arrive at a place in their lives, as he has, to share their greatest secret. That thing that makes you most vulnerable. Most uncomfortable. That's why you're here to serve. He...

Send us Fan Mail Answering listener questions today including about who needs supplements, what brands to buy and how to tell if your supplement is worth a hoot or just expensive urine.    Bottom line: When we know better, we do better.    Also taking on kitchen ninja tips for beets.    Links mentioned in this episode: Submit your questions for another Q&A episode to hello@lessstressedlife.com...

Send us Fan Mail Military mom & lead dietitian nutritionist for Chalene Johnson’s international nutrition program Ashley Sweeney gets personal as she talks about keeping her cool moving her family almost every year since marriage. She addresses eating on the road, tips for making changes easier, following her own career dreams amidst multiple moves and becoming mommy, and how she mitigates str...

Send us Fan Mail Searching for superpower? Mindset master and life coach, 'Super' Jen Migkos shares part of the process she takes clients through to help them live in their purpose, on purpose. She specializes in helping moms (or anyone feeling dragged through life) to rediscover their identity to get what they want, improve productivity, reduce mind clutter, and achieve goals faster.  F...

Send us Fan Mail Happiness Scientist Jessica McKinley's morning rituals were turned upside down by the birth of her son, Cal. But who says daily domination has to begin at dawn? Jess explains happiness experiments and the acronym she uses to hack her "miracle day" and ensure that each day is productive, new and exciting. Assess your Adrenals, Detox or Get my Guide christabiegler.com...

Send us Fan Mail This episode really embodies 3Rs for me: real, raw and relatable. Today you'll meet a registered nurse that works with worker's compensation cases for a living and ironically awoke one day with a debilitating back injury--2 herniated discs that left her unable to function. She talks about crawling across the floor to help her children, voraciously seeing doctors and seek...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Less Stressed Life, where it's all about making this YOUR time to feel freakin' awesome about your life, health and happiness. Today, learn about the inspiration origin of the Less Stressed Life and how we all have underlying inflammation that needs quelling You'll learn a little about the host, Christa Biegler, an integrative registered dietitian nut...