Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have my dear friend Jen Fugo on for a friendly debate on the integrative process. We talk about what research says versus what we have experienced in our practices. Jen and I also talk about how our practices have evolved. I think the biggest takeaway here is, whether you are a client or a practitioner, there are multiple ways of doin...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have on Dr. Jaban Moore who is a Doctor of Chiropractic working virtually with clients through functional medicine to assist them in overcoming chronic health conditions. On this episode, we talk about all the different toxic burdens, lab testing, and immune resilience. All this can be overwhelming but I LOVE that Jaban reminds us tha...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have on the delightful Dr. Lizzie Kieffer who is a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in women’s health, specifically pregnancy, postpartum, and fertility wellness. Lizzie gives us her backstory to finding Mercier Therapy and how it influenced her in big ways, both professionally and personally. We talk about how she uses breathw...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I welcome back Dr. Emily Gutierrez who is the chief scientific medical liaison and formulator for Neuro Nutrients and has over a decade of clinical experience managing patients in her busy practice with Neuronutrition Associates. In this episode, Emily shares her heartfelt story of breast implant illness and why she made the decision to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Erik Korem who is a  sports scientist with a passion for solving the data-to-action gap that exists in the wearable technology. In this episode, Erik tells us about his incredible accomplishments of helping athletes improve their performance with biometric data from wearable technology. His passion is helping you figu...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have on Dr. Michael Robinson who is a naturopathic doctor specializing in naturopathic oncology. Michael shares how utilizing personalized cancer care from a naturopathic oncologist can drastically improve quality of life and treatment outcomes while going through a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Cancer treatment doesn't have to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Julie Morin. I found Julie on Instagram and her story is so inspiring and jaw-dropping. Julie shares how her body went into muscle paralysis after taking antibiotics three different times. The third time, she went from being a healthy 25-year-old, to being a disabled woman in a wheelchair for the next four years. Julie fi...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have Juli Kramer who is certified qigong, meditation, and TCM beauty secrets instructor. In this episode, Juli shares her beautiful journey of finding and learning about Chinese medicine. We talk about what Chinese face reading is and what you can learn from it. For context, I met Juli when I had my own face reading done.  If you do a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, Christa does an overview of nutritional and hormonal considerations for optimizing fertility and then takes live Q&A from listeners/audience members to try to troubleshoot individual cases.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: The 3 hormone systems to optimize for an easier pregnancy Nutrition support that for fertility optimization Considerations for m...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I welcome author, speaker, executive coach and leadership consultant Howard Prager.  This is such a feel-good episode. Howard tells us why it's important to make someone's day and easy, simple ways it can be done. We also talk about how stress can be a side effect of how you treat the people in your life. A recent study conduc...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have repeat guest, Dena Norton, who is a registered dietitian with with over 15 years of experience in both the traditional medical system and the holistic health sphere. On this episode we talk about all things perimenopause. Attention to all women in their 40's (and late 30's), it is NOT too early to be perimenopausal. Den...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I interview the delightful Dr. Izabella Wentz, who is a compassionate, innovative, solution-focused, integrative pharmacist dedicated to finding the root causes of chronic health conditions. On this episode, Dr. Wentz shares that adrenal dysfunction is essentially what happens when your body gets overwhelmed by stress and/or inflammatio...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, we have the macros queen and four time return guest, Emily Field, a registered dietician who teaches a mindful macros approach. Emily is here to share how she uses a personality typing tool called The Four Tendencies in her practice.  Developed by Gretchen Rubin, The Four Tendencies is how someone responds to inner and outer expectation...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have my dear friend, Kari Natwick, who's a registered dietician nutritionist and an integrative and functional nutrition certified practitioner. On this episode, Kari talks about the mind-body connection for chronic gut issues. We talk about how most people have unrealized stress, how to realize it and simple but effective exerci...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am excited to be joined by bestselling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional health expert,  Dr. Mindy Pelz. In this episode, we dig into how fasting isn't as simple as it sounds, time restrictive versus calorie restrictive fasting, and affects of fasting on your hormones. Dr. Mindy also talks about her new book, Fast...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Megan Abernathy. I found Megan on Instagram and felt like her content was a breath of fresh air when people have concerns about body composition and the nuances around it.  We talk about periodized nutrition which includes the concept of reverse dieting and the psychological and physiological side of this and why it'...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Jesse Coomer. Always a teacher, Jesse shares how life changing breathwork can be and breaks down easy and fun breathing techniques for adults and kids. He wants to share that our breathing is a language that we can use to speak to ourselves in a way that no other method allows.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Types of breathwork Consciou...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by nutritionist, personal trainer and podcaster, Katy Saltsman, who is such an inspiration. In this episode, we discuss how moving your body and nutrition are important for health, but often overlooked is mental and emotional health. Looking at all of these together can help make lasting changes. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Distractions...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Jolene Brighten, who also appeared in episode #112, Post Birth Control Syndrome . Dr. Brighten is back to talk about burning hormonal topics including night sweats, low progesterone and testosterone, hair loss and lots about libido.  We also fielded questions from my teenage daughter, asking about advice for teens tra...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by the delightful Elizabeth Yarnell. In this episode, we discuss Elizabeth's diagnosis of MS, getting parasites in Asia, and the transition of learning how to cook whole foods after growing up on gummy bears and soda and her departure from journalism into naturopathy.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Food sensitivities Parasite infectio...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Chelsea Haines. I met Chelsea at my friend Kaely's event, Restore and Reconnect, in Austin this past fall. Chelsea's just one of those people who is a ray of sunshine when you meet her. In this episode, we discuss the subconscious mind’s role in physiological healing. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Subconscious programming Neur...

Send us Fan Mail On our next thyroid episode this week, I am joined by Dr. David Brownstein.  I would say one of my favorite things about him is that he is a storyteller. He uses a lot of case studies in his books, which I love. He tells us his personal story, then we dig into iodine and it's relationship to the thyroid. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Iodine & the thyroid Iodine deficiency epidemic Iodin...

Send us Fan Mail Our first episode this week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Eric Balcavage.  It’s a GOOD week on the podcast if you are interested in thyroid.  In this episode, we discuss all the things about thyroid physiology. Plus some rapid fire questions at the end from our audience.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Allopathic vs functional medicine approaches Vitamin D relationship to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Dawn Huebner. In this episode, we discuss helping children face their fears, phobias and anxiety. Bonus, this can work for adults too.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Cognitive behavior therapy triangle Exposure based approaches Amygdala vs. prefrontal cortex How to retrain the brain Dr. Dawn tells us about her new book series, Dr. D...

Send us Fan Mail After practicing nutrition for 13 years, it's time to share some of the things I've learned to help you shortcut your own success in either private practice or with your health goals. In this behind the scenes episode, I get into the frameworks, approaches and timelines I use when guiding clients to overcome root causes of inflammation, rebalance hormones, and optimize g...