Root Awakening™: A Health Podcast

Nick & Amy Mckinlay, owners of @ultimateintimacyapp tell us about how we can best prepare ourselves for marriage, and how they completely turned their marriage around to be stronger and deeper in intimacy. In this episode we talk about: Working God into a marriage, building intimacy in marriage, fixing marital problems, having a healthy sex life within a marriage, a man's needs in a relati...

Nicole Cooper joins us in this episode! Nicole is a wife, homeschool mom, and sourdough cottage micro baker! She's built her baking business out of her home in Northern Michigan, and sells all sorts of sourdough baked goods at Hidden Creek Farm in Muskegon, Mi. She also teaches sourdough baking classes and has a gorgeous instagram where she showcases her baked goods and her picturesque cozy life....

In this premier episode, after a 1 year hiatus, Emily talks about what has happened in the last year and why she stopped the podcast for a year: She talks about: ♡ Why she took down a significant amount of content off YouTube & Instagram ♡ A relationship she got into this year ♡ Finding Jesus & getting baptized ♡ Getting obsessed with certain parts of the bible ♡ How her change in spiritua...

Theresa Piela joins us on our 84th episode to talk about the connection between mindset, physical health, and early life trauma. Theresa is an EFT Practitioner who specializes in Early Life Trauma and Chronic Illness. She was bed-ridden at one point because of severe food intolerances and health issues, and now has worked her way up to food freedom! One of the most interesting parts of her health...

Mattalynn Ogden joins us on this episode to update us on her healing journey and explains why she's focusing less on diet and more on the nervous system. Mattalynn is currently practicing DRNS (dynamic neural retraining system) to heal trauma & her nervous system. She learned that the nervous system governs all physical body functions including the gut, and she's noticed that she has w...

After so many years I've finally created my perfect diet, which is really not a diet at all. I can now eat whatever I want without negative impact to my health, and no longer experience chronic yeast infections. I tell you how I got to this place and what strategies I used along the way. In this episode I discuss: Candida overgrowth, vaginal yeast infections, diet, eating disorder recovery, disord...

Brynn and I talk about: Trying the vegan diet, carnivore diet, the GAPS diet, how to listen to your intuition, what signs to follow to know if a diet is working for you or not, gaslighting in the diet world, what intuitive eating is, if a diet is causing detox or not, detox and die-off, how mindset relates to diet, food sensitivity, and food reactions, how viewing certain foods as bad could affect...

I interview Adam Ambrus, owner and manager of Healthfully Farm located in western New York, which is based around sustainable/Primal farming principles and serve the Primal community with the best quality foods on the planet. Adam and I talk about: what primal farming practices are, how Adam got to the place where he could buy land and start a farm, how Adam is transitioning his animals to practic...

Kristen, Christopher, Kelty (8yo) , Coen (7yo), & Coast (5yo) join me this week to talk about transitioning to the primal diet as a family! Kristen shares her experience with Breast Implant Illness and how that was a gateway into the health and diet world for her as well as a reason for starting their family homestead. We talk about how her husband also decided to start the raw primal diet by...

In this in-person episode, Alex and Em talk about: How Alex went from packaging design to being a stay at home mom to adding on her interior design business, Alex’s family ties to artistry and furniture and fashion, Emily’s future traveling podcast, how Alex built a business out of her passion for interior design, how she started a brick and mortar business, how her husband encouraged her to start...

Captain Peter Frank & his cat River have been canoeing the 10,000 islands of Florida and are now headed up the east coast. Peter & Em discuss in this episode: riding a unicycle across the u.s. to raise money for the beacon house, traumatic brain injury and how that changed his perspective on life, learning how to walk again, Ed Pratt unicycling across the entire planet, getting inspired by...

Aileen Batista Bohn, a multilingual coaching psychotherapist, joins me on this episode to discuss: how she transitioned from working for the UN and being a fitness instructor to now being a licensed therapist, being multilingual, being in therapy for 25-30 years straight, getting divorced, where coaching and therapy intersect, being Mormon and living in New York City, learning how to adjust to soc...

On this episode Zara and I talk about: westen medicine, repeat patients in the pharmaceutical world, the complications with chemo & radiation, managing the symptoms instead of curing the root cause of health issues & disease, detox symptoms, why uncomfortable symptoms can sometimes mean healing, why Zara doesn’t like to eat outside the primal diet, lifestyle priorities and how to weigh the...

On this inspiring episode interview the owners of my favorite jewelry store, Dime & Regal. Courtney Jones & Samantha McIntosh talk with me about: finding solutions during hardship, how they bounced back after their storefront was damaged in a fire, business mindset, their business solutions during the pandemic, how their business grew during the pandemic, how they started their business wi...

Today's guest is Theresa Piela and we have a cutting-edge conversation about how Theresa built her self up from crippling health, how she used EFT (emotional freedom technique) Tapping to physically heal and gain Physical Health, Food Freedom, Healing Through Brain Rewiring, The Subconscious Mind, Changing Your Mindset, Staying Present In The Journey, Health Isn't All About Food, the power of chan...

This episode we're talking with Victor Manuel, the creator of The Tarzan Movement. Victor is a Tarzan Coach, who teaches his community members how to climb trees, crawl like primates, imitate gorillas and chimps in order to connect with a primal sense and intuition. Victor and I talk in this episode about: climbing trees, connecting with primal senses, community, unmet childhood needs, if time is...

Micah is a Somatic Practitioner, Breathworker and a traditional Naturopath who has dedicated the last 20 years of his life to his own healing and transformation as well as the community he serves in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Micah is a co-founder of The Vitalist Institute as well as a co-founder of The Vitalist School of Psychospiritual Transformation. He is deeply passionate about supporting men in...

Joe Faunce joins us on this episode to talk about how Cannabis can cure cancer. This is research that he has been doing with his own clients, and it's looking like he will soon be working with the NIH to get some more official research in the books on the positive effects of cannabis on cancer. The first time in the history of western medicine that the NIH is moving forward to conduct studies to s...

Today’s guest is Mindset Mentor Jen Mckelvie. Jen is a mindset mentor here to help you dive into the thoughts you think - so you can think differently, resulting in a life that lights you up. It is her belief that when we teach ourselves to pause, question, adjust and act, we make all the difference in what our life looks like. She practices a form of work that she calls ‘cognitive dissonance’. Al...

Divya Alter is an Ayurvedic chef, educator author and founder of the food brand Divya's. She owns a popular restaurant in NYC called Divya's Kitchen and was a former monk! In this episode, Divya tells us what her relationship is to Ayurveda, what it was like to live in india and receive healthcare there, what it was like to live in an Ashram as a monk, what kind of food gets cooked in an Ashram, w...

》Have you heard of the GAPS diet? 》Do you know how GAPS is structured? 》Did you know that reversing fibromyalgia and IBS is possible? 》Do you know what die off or a healing crisis is? Mattalynn Ogden is a future GAPS coach and the owner and operator of Homesteading Heartland, a blog and tallow skincare shop. Mattalynn reversed fibromyalgia and severe IBS through the GAPS program and animal bas...

》Are you a gardener? 》Do you want to be a gardener? 》Are you interested in sourcing food locally and seasonally? 》Are you curious about how nature's cycles tie into soil health, the seasons, our bodies, and spirituality? Megan Gilger joins me on the 50th Episode of Root Awakening: A Health Podcast. Megan is a teacher, business owner, and 3rd Generation Gardener who has a mission to help everyo...

》Do you like your current job? 》If you could choose exactly how you'd want to make a living, what would you be doing? 》What do you think your life's path is in life? Do you know your next step to get closer to your purpose? 》Do you feel connected with a higher power right now? Cassie Winters, floral designer, owner and operator of Cass and Jean Flower Co., joins me on this episode of Root Awak...

》Have you ever eaten raw meat? 》Would you ever try it? 》Do you know what Gnosticism is? 》Do you think that humans are truly meant to live much more simplistically than we do? Wes Rowe from the natural human diet on Instagram and youtube eats a lot of raw meat - raw chicken, raw turkey, raw eyeballs, raw butter, raw organ meats. I interview him on this episode to find out why, and to inquire ab...

In today's episode of Root Awakening™: A Health Podcast, we are talking food, addiction, & emotional safety with Danea Mather, a yoga teacher at Kula Yoga Studio in Grand Rapids Michigan. 》Do you think food and spirituality are interconnected? 》Have you ever been manipulated into eating a specific diet? 》Do you think it’s possible to have a healthy relationship with someone who is strugglin...