Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

Send us Fan Mail This week I have Jason Campbell, who I met at the Jeff Bland/Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute/Microbiome Labs tag team event in September. I found him simply interesting on all levels–from his brilliant piano skills (you can find him on Spotify as “Zen Piano”) to how he makes meditation or breathwork accessible to anyone.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: What does the emotional mastery me...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Jessica Peatross.   Dr. Jess Peatross on the podcast. Jess is an outspoken medical doctor online that talks all about stealth infections with grace.   People seem very interested in parasites. There was a time one of my parasite-themed podcasts had the most downloads for the year. I find them to be more annoying than inte...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stress Life Podcast, I am joined by Megan Barnett. I know we think we already know every we need to know about fiber but I PROMISE Megan Barnett makes it even more interesting.  Honestly, every health professional should listen to this if they’ve never had a nuanced lesson on different fibers and their use. And every human that poops should listen if they wan...

Send us Fan Mail  This week on the Less Stressed Life Podcast I had my super sassy, sarcastic friend Michelle Shapiro on to chat about anxiety, bridging the divisive gap between different spectrums of nutrition and long standing gut issues.  We cover doing things in excess (which seems mildly fitting for this season :), hypervigilance, and changing brain chemistry.  If you’ve ever had body or food...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Jillian Greaves. In this episode, we discuss circadian rhythm & chronobiology. KEY TAKEAWAYS: How circadian rhthym impacts our overall hormone production Melatonin creation, release, and disruption from light variables Melatonin's implication on pre-DM ranges and RMR  GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON: Supporting your...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Less Stressed Life Podcast is a recording of a LIVE community call I recently hosted all about gut & stool testing.  I want to do these calls monthly to be helpful, get to know your needs, and answer questions for you. My next community call will be on Dec 20, 2022, at 11 AM MT/1 PM ET for 30 min, and we’ll be talking about testing for stress hormones. You can...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Emily Gutierrez. I am so excited to have Dr. Emily Gutierrez back this week to share her brilliance and fill a huge gap with neuropediatric nutrition. Last week she wowed me with her knowledge of PANDAS, and this week we are talking about autism. I ask lots of hard questions, and she fires back without batting an eye. I a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Less Stressed Life, Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Emily Gutierrez. In this episode, we discuss PANS/PANDAS in kids. KEY TAKEAWAYS: What are PANS/PANDAS, what are the hallmark symptoms, & how to treat it What's part of the treatment pie in PANDAS GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON: Testing recommendations for PANS/PANDAS How can your PCP rule out strep? What supplemen...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Baraba Huson. We discuss money mindset and wealth well-being.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Financial success is not just a practical process; it's a healing journey What an underearner is & why more women are underearners  The three levels of financial development GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON: How to rewire your brain for financi...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Debi Sibler. In this episode, we discuss betrayal and learning to trust again. KEY TAKEAWAYS: What is post-betrayal syndrome & how to know if you have it How betrayal is a different type of trauma & what counts as betrayal The stages of  post-betrayal syndrome & how to heal from it GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIP...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Maria Terry. In this episode, we discuss her transition from teaching to private practice RDN & also how she uses the five love languages to support her clients.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: What are the five love languages The benefits of applying love languages to your life & self-care GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON: How to us...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Less Stress Life Podcast, I am joined by Lucia Hawley. In this episode, we discuss diet culture, empowered weight loss, and how to end compulsive eating and yoyo dieting with loving, libratory principles. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The root cause of weight loss resistance Why dieting is a stress response and how women can end the cycle permanently What “self-talk,” is and how...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by our team's dietetic intern Annie Romanowski.  We are switching things up, and she is interviewing me about my journey as an integrative dietitian nutritionist in private practice. KEY TAKEAWAYS: How I got started as a dietitian & how I got interested in nutrition How I got into integrative nutrition & started...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Leah Levitan. We dive into all things related to the lymphatic system, including signs and symptoms of lymph stagnation, how to facilitate lymph drainage, and the importantance of minerals for lymph drainage. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Lymph nodes versus Lymph symptoms Definition of Lymph drainage What makes lymph stagnant Symptoms a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Emily Kiberd. In this conversation, we discuss how women can work out without burnout. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Why to focus on feeding the muscle living with Hashimotos  Clinical observation of hypermobility in women with autoimmune conditions, what this looks like, and how does this present? What is progressive overload &...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Hannah Koenig. This episode discusses relationships with money and tenets of financial literacy. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The tenets of  financial literacy - emotional, intellectual, experiential intimacy Cultivating financial intimacy & vision for wealth Reasons behind the gender wealth gap GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON: Tangib...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Less Stressed Life, where we help women and families overcome fatigue, food sensitivities and inflammation the goal here is really to help you heal yourself.  Right now is the last time 1:1 coaching applications will be open for the rest of the year. If you need another set of eyes on your case or you're ready to get rid of some common but not normal symptoms,...

Send us Fan Mail INTRO:   This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Suzanne Fenske, MD of TārāMD. We talk about the conditions that can arise from hormonal imbalances, like Endometriosis, PMDD, and Fibroids. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Endometriosis, symptoms, diagnosis, and management What endometriosis looks like in perimenopause PMDD, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments Different types of ...

Send us Fan Mail INTRO:  This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Esther Blum, MS, RD, CNS. In this episode, we discuss all things related to midlife hormones.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Hormone baselines & Meno - Mythbusting The symptoms of perimenopause and menopause The benefits of hormone replacement therapy Why do some doctors dismiss HRT in favor of The Pill or an IUD The importa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discussed:  Logical (prefrontal cortex) vs emotional (amygdala) part of the brain and theta state of childhood.  Why we know what to do but we don't do it.  What if we don't feel stressed but we have symptoms that we have it?  Yelling/urgency or rushing, difficulty relaxing  People pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries Procrastination and inabilit...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Less Stressed Life, where we help women and families overcome fatigue, food sensitivities and inflammation the goal here is really to help you heal yourself.  If this you find this show or episode helpful, repay the favor and share it with a friend or leave me a review on the purple pod app if that's where you listen. Leave us a review: https://reviewthispodcas...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Less Stressed Life, where we help women and families overcome fatigue, food sensitivities and inflammation the goal here is really to help you heal yourself.  If this you find this show or episode helpful, repay the favor and share it with a friend or leave me a review on the purple pod app if that's where you listen. Leave us a review: https://reviewthispodcas...

Send us Fan Mail I'm taking you on a girls trip with me this week to MN, where I got together with 5 colleagues for a get away, decompress, end of summer business trip. Business is our lives so we were talking about the things behind the scenes, especially since some of us were newer acquaintances and I forced us to come to the table and spill the tea on what we've learned about being on...

Send us Fan Mail I'm taking you on a girls trip with me this week to MN, where I got together with 5 colleagues for a get away, decompress, end of summer business trip. Business is our lives so we were talking about the things behind the scenes, especially since some of us were newer acquaintances and I forced us to come to the table and spill the tea on what we've learned about being on...

Send us Fan Mail INTRO:  This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast; I am joined by  Functional Dietitian and Women’s Health Specialist Jillian Greaves MPH, RD. We discuss the different types of PCOS, food recommendations, and testing. KEY TAKEAWAYS: PCOS Myths Types of PCOS  Adrenal PCOS Symptoms  The difference between hypothalamic amenorrhea & PCOS Eating to heal your PCOS GUEST SHARED HEL...