The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi

You have been calling them a cosmetic issue. Something to cover up, deal with later, or accept as part of aging. But the heaviness, the aching, the swelling that gets worse by the end of the day — those are not aesthetic concerns. They are symptoms of vein disease that gets worse the longer it goes unaddressed. Dr. Tonie Reincke is an interventional radiologist and vein specialist who works specif...

Jesseca Maria was not always the woman who teaches others how to heal from betrayal and build a life that feels aligned. She was the woman living inside the addiction, the heartbreak, the depression that comes from losing yourself so completely you are not sure there is a self left to find. What she built on the other side of all of that — Eco Culture, Magnetic Soul Healing, and The Uncheated Code...

You keep minimizing it. Telling yourself it was not that bad, that other people have been through worse, that you should be over it by now. But trauma is not a measure of the severity of what happened. It is a measure of how your nervous system encoded the experience — and a small moment can create a lasting response just as powerfully as a large one. Michelle Smith is a trauma-informed therapist...

One day everything felt manageable and the next your sleep was disrupted, your mood unpredictable, your energy unreliable, and your body behaving in ways that no one prepared you for. Perimenopause and menopause do not announce themselves clearly — they arrive gradually and then all at once, and most women spend years piecing together what is happening without the information or the care they dese...

You are still meeting every deadline. Still showing up for everyone who needs you. Still holding the whole thing together — and that is exactly why you are going to miss it until it is harder to come back from. High-functioning depression does not announce itself with obvious symptoms. It announces itself with emotional numbness, with the gradual disappearance of things that used to bring you joy,...

Most skin care is about covering, correcting, and compensating. What Cindy Tusa teaches is something completely different — the inside-out approach where your skin improves because your health is improving, not because you are hiding behind more products or procedures. As an integrative esthetician and educator she has spent her career identifying the four root causes that quietly wreck most peopl...

You have built your identity around being a certain kind of parent. A certain kind of partner. A certain kind of professional. And the gap between who you are supposed to be and who you actually are on any given day is exhausting you in ways you cannot fully explain to anyone. That exhaustion is not about effort. It is about attachment — the unhealthy kind that turns roles into rigid identities an...

You have tried the cold plunges. The supplements. The red light. The fasting protocols you read about in three different places that contradicted each other. And you still do not feel the results that were promised. The problem is not the tools — it is the order. Most people layer biohacking interventions on top of a body they do not fully understand yet, creating imbalances they cannot diagnose a...

You have done the work. You are becoming someone more intentional, more self-aware, more aligned with who you actually are. And the relationships that used to feel comfortable have started to feel complicated. The people who loved the old version of you are not always sure what to do with this one. That friction is not a sign you are doing something wrong. It is one of the least talked about costs...

Most weight loss stories end the same way — progress, then a plateau, then slowly back to where you started. Hassan Moaminah lost 155 pounds and kept it off — not through extreme restriction or a perfect program but through a fundamental shift in how he related to his own body. The stress, the cortisol, the all-or-nothing thinking, the self-punishment after every slip — he has been on the inside o...

It is not that he does not care. It is that something shuts down the moment real intimacy is required — the conversation goes surface, the walls go up, and you are left wondering if you did something wrong or if this is just who he is. Willie Handler says it is almost certainly neither. The avoidance, the shutdown, the inability to commit that feels so personal is often rooted in something that ha...

The brain fog. The mood swings that come from nowhere. The sleep that has stopped working. The sense that your body has become unpredictable in ways nobody prepared you for. If you have been quietly wondering whether this is just your new normal, Natalya Borakowski wants you to stop and listen before you accept that story. What feels like falling apart is actually your body in the middle of a sign...

You had a picture of how it was supposed to go. The relationship, the family, the version of motherhood that looked a certain way in your mind. And life handed you something completely different — and now you are standing in the gap between the story you were given and the one you are actually living. Cheri Bergeron works specifically with the grief and resilience that lives inside that gap — the...

You have done the therapy. You understand the childhood wounds. You know your triggers and where they came from. And there is still something underneath all of that — a fear that feels too old to belong to this lifetime, a relationship dynamic that defies explanation, a pattern that keeps returning no matter how much work you do. Inna Segal is a spiritual teacher who works at exactly that deeper l...

Lindsey Strong lost 150 pounds. And then hit a wall that no specialist, no protocol, and no amount of doing everything right could explain or fix. The fatigue, the inflammation, the stubborn symptoms that persisted despite the weight loss — none of it made sense until she discovered that her genes were the missing instruction manual her healthcare had never read. Functional DNA testing and peptide...

You stopped dreaming about the life you wanted somewhere along the way. Not because you gave up — because survival took over. The stress, the pressure, the trauma that required every resource just to keep functioning left very little room for anything that looked like intentional living. Stephen Rue wrote MUST: Becoming the Person You Are Meant to Be specifically for that person — the one who has...

You have been calling it getting older. The joint pain that shows up after sitting too long. The belly bloat that has become your baseline. The cravings that hit hard in the afternoon and the exhaustion that is there before the day even starts. Peggy Moore wants you to stop accepting those as inevitable. Chronic inflammation is quietly driving all of those symptoms — and it does not always show up...

Recovery is not a straight line. Aeon Archer has 14 years of that truth — the cycles, the relapses, the counting of days that becomes its own kind of trap, and the 205 days of current sobriety that represent something different from everything that came before. Not just abstinence but actual healing — of the body, the nervous system, the spiritual life, and the self-worth that addiction dismantles...

You told him to shake it off. To be tough. To not let it bother him. And he did — at least on the outside. What you could not see was what went underground instead. The "man up" message does not make boys stronger. It makes them better at hiding — and the hiding has costs that show up years later in friendships that stay shallow, relationships that break under emotional weight, and a deep disconne...

Every healing practice you have ever tried has required someone else to guide you through it. The meditation app. The therapist. The workshop. And the moment the guidance stops the calm tends to go with it. Phyllis Coletta calls what most people are missing an alpha mind — the trained inner presence that leads with wisdom instead of reactivity, that does not need an app or an expert to return to c...

You recover. You feel good. You go back to doing what you love. And then it happens again. The injury cycle is one of the most frustrating experiences in physical health — and most people never escape it because they treat the injury without understanding the pattern underneath it. Dr. Tonya Juge is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who works specifically with breaking that cycle — not just healing the...

You are not sad exactly. You are not in crisis. You are just... not quite there. Going through the motions, floating through days that blur together, feeling checked out from your own life in a way that is hard to explain to anyone who has not felt it. Dr. Evette Rose calls it the void — and she has spent her career as a holistic counselor and trauma recovery expert working specifically with the w...

The bloating. The fatigue. The anxiety that seems to have no obvious trigger. The spiritual disconnection that sits underneath all of it like a low hum you cannot locate. Nahum Justin Vizakis — known as the Spiritual Bodybuilder — works at the intersection of gut health, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual alignment because he has found that these are not separate systems. They are one conversation...

You are working hard. Making intentional decisions. Trying to think your way into better results. And the subconscious programming installed before you were old enough to question it is quietly running 95 percent of the show anyway. The procrastination, the self-sabotage, the Plan B thinking that undermines your Plan A before you even launch it — none of that is a discipline problem. It is a belie...

Nothing prepares you for the sound of your baby struggling to breathe. RSV moves fast in infants — especially premature babies — and the difference between managing it at home and needing emergency care comes down to knowing exactly which symptoms to watch for and when. Dr. Susan Landers is a neonatologist who has spent her career in the earliest and most vulnerable moments of infant health — and...