Rebellious Wellness Lifestyle

For those of you who don’t know me, I do woo. I love all things mystical and spiritual, including Vedic astrology, and do my best to follow my inner guidance. Sometimes I find I need a bit of guidance from other sources. Like Prema Gurreri, this week’s guest. I discovered Vedic astrology about ten years ago. I’d been having my chart read Western astrology style, for years. Good stuff and eerily ac...

In the olden days, people dropped acid, took shrooms, indulged in psychedelics, and tripped the light fantastic. In other words, they got high. Sometimes it went well and sometimes, well, let’s just say some people were never the same. And there are plenty of people who still just want to get high for the sake of the buzz. A whole new generation of drug users is getting high with plants to expand...

Approximately 50 million Americans have autoimmune disease, according to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. More than 80 different conditions—including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, Graves’ disease, and Hashimoto’s disease—fall under this umbrella, and some have similar symptoms. While these diseases are generally viewed as separate cond...

Adam was a burned out, pre-diabetic, asthmatic, heavily medicated 20-something when he decided he’d had enough. Started to developed a simple 6-step breathing technique for emotional control. A lucky encounter with a climbing wall started him on his return to health. Despite having a panic attack on the first climb, Adam went back again and again. And he learned a specific kind of breathing techni...

Dr. Selma Rashid, speaks frankly about what life without hormone restoration is like and why she’s passionate about educating women about BHRT. “And that’s what most women want. They’re not looking for, you know, physical beauty. They’re looking for dignity. They don’t want to be in a nursing home calling the bell for somebody to take them to the bathroom.” I’m totally in agreement with her, you?

Dr. William Levine, DDS, a board-certified Periodontist specializing in oral diseases and implantology with over 35 years of experience in the dental field and creator of PeriActive oral Rinse ( www.getperiactive.com ) , will not only make you rethink dentistry but also understand its impact on whole body wellness. That may sound like the lead into a boring conversation but my time with Dr. Levine...

Lynne Bowman is living proof that you can cook, eat, sleep, laugh, and walk your way out of type 2 diabetes, along with other chronic ailments. And, as befits “a snarky grandma”, she has strong opinions about the food industry and we should and shouldn’t be eating. Don’t worry, she’s not going to beat the drum for any particular diet though she tends towards plant-based meals except when she crave...

Debbie Weiss , the Hungover Widow, is a successful writer who embarked on her publishing journey after her husband of 32 years passed away from cancer. Living alone for the first time at age 50, she found solace in writing.

Glenn Livingston is the creator of the Never Binge Again method to permanently end binge eating. He is also a veteran psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm whose clients included several Fortune 500 food giants.

Dr. Stephan Neff, anesthesiologist, bestselling author, speaker, and podcast host, is passionate about demystifying mental health problems, including alcoholism, and helping the people around him live a life so full of joy that yesterday is jealous of today. For him this means a life free from alcoholism as well as the other “aholisms” we can find ourselves trapped in. Like workaholism or sexaholi...

After 20+ years of asking, seeking, exploring, studying, experimenting, Yogi Aaron can confidently say, he’s found many answers, but more important than that, he discovered a simple and effective technique to alleviate pain! He says it’s easy to incorporate in any yoga practice or any movement activity to ensure we continue to live pain-free into our third age.

What’s missing in your life? Deep level stuff like love, connection, self-worth? Tracy McCubbin believes that we over shop, over save, and over anti-age ourselves because something is missing and we try to fill it. For the sandwich generation — that’s us, right — we have places galore to find clutter. The obvious, our parents homes as they downsize or even pass away. Not so obvious is empty nest s...

Dr. Jeff Fisher has been a chiropractor for 30 years. He knows a thing or two about the spine and how best to care for it and the whole person. After enduring 3 neck surgeries and the pain that did not get relieved from the operations, he’s invented a device to alleviate neck and lower back pain. The promise of the device — as proven by lots of satisfied customers — is, “Long-term relief from neck...

Fashion icon. TV personality. Book author. Cancer survivor. Septuagenarian. My guest, Diane Gilman, also known as the “Queen of Jeans,” is all of those things and now, for her third act, she is bringing women together to support one another to make their third act, their best one yet. Diane knew, from the time she was 5, that she wanted to be in fashion. She wanted to sew and go to school for it b...

Dr. Susan Brown is a medical anthropologist, a New York State Certified Nutritionist, who pioneered the natural approach to bone health for over 30 years . She was the first to prove that using only natural methods, nearly every woman can build strong bones for life . Incorporating her research and the latest science, her six-point natural program has helped tens of thousands of women take control...

What kind of exercise should we — and shouldn’t we — be doing after we enter our 5th decade? Alicia Jones, founder of Alicia Jones Healthy Living has the answers and 15 years of experience transforming the health and lives of women over 50 through fitness and weight loss strategies. All backed up with lots of credentials in many different fitness modalities and kinesiology. One reason I’m hosting...

Dr. Doug Lucas, owner of Optimal Human Health, is a whole body, true health care practitioner. “My passion is to help people get back the Stamina they lost, the Ambition they once had, the Vitality they are missing in their lives, the Energy to perform at their highest level and the Desire to live their best life.” Former osteopathic surgeon, he realized he was only fixing the tail end of a proble...

Don’t know about you but the word stroke conjures images of older people, the elderly. My guest, speech pathologist and coach, Tsgoyna Tanzman, set me straight on that. “The truth is two times as many women die of stroke when compared to breast cancer each year. Again, women take the lead at 60% versus 40% of men.” And we have a greater chance of long term disability! Not because we have stronger...

This shortie is a prayer for anyone who happens upon it. That when you think of the new year ahead you come from a place of self-love, not the self-judgement that resolutions offer. No matter what you might want to see be different, leave the mean girl thoughts out of planning it. A “new you for the new year” has a certain ring to it but you don’t need to new yourself. You have talents and strengt...

Are you the “wait and see, hope it doesn’t blow up” kind of person? Or does this sound more like you, “It’s time to make a big change, I’m blowing it all up and here for the ride?” Monica Ricci did the latter. In the space of four months, Monica left her marriage, sold their two homes, a business, and the illusion of a secure future. She had two choices: fall apart or forge ahead. Even though it w...

What’s it like to talk to dead people? How about knowing with certainty that you can receive messages for people looking for direction or help with an area of their lives? Karen Romine, is a psychic and medium but her roots were conservative, traditional. “Even when I was younger, I heard voices or I knew things that I really wasn’t supposed to know.” And she had many careers before deciding to ge...

Dr. J Ann Dunn was my guest a couple of weeks ago. As often happens, once we ended the interview, questions I hadn’t asked popped into my mind. Questions on cancer, mental health, (Which is why she started her company My Happy Genes ) addiction and more. I asked J if she’d come back again to answer them and asked people on my list to join us live or ask their questions ahead of time by email.

People ask what it means to be rebellious about wellness, health, and aging. This shortie will answer that in part. Boiler plate medicine is one-size-fits-all diagnosing and prescribing and it makes me nuts. True, some aspects of being a woman or a man line up, like stress is bad for us and junk food in abundance causes inflammation and a host of other ills. Most every other aspect of health must...

Hearing loss impacts 430 million people worldwide, including 48 million in the US. You may be one of them or know someone in this category. My guests today are Gael Hannan and Shari Eberts. They both have hearing loss and advocate for others. They co-authored the book Hear and Beyond, Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss . Their book offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered...

According to my guest, Kathy White, Yoga not just another physical activity like Pilates or going to the gym. And it’s not just for the flexible, young, and fit among us. If you’ve tried traditional yoga practices like hatha, hot, or vinyasa but felt the poses were too strenuous or complex, stay with us. Kathy calls her unique blend of yoga styles, a joint renewal system and her goal is to help wo...