The Autoimmune Hour

Life is meant to be enjoyed not endured is the motto of our guest Whitney Gordon-Mead. Whitney has overcome fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and burnout… Now, she’s dedicated her life to helping others avoid and recover from burnout, reclaim their passion and create the life they desire, because as she says ‘life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured!’ She will share with ways to transform our daily r...

When your doctor prescribes medication, they say something like, “It will be ready at the pharmacy, your insurance will cover it, and the pharmacist will help you understand the dosing.” Great! Yet, what about the behavioral-change prescriptions (advice) you are given, such as exercise more, eat better, and reduce stress?  Too often, the doctor gives you behavioral-change ‘prescriptions’ and says,...

Self-sabotage and negative self-talk can erode self-confidence, self-esteem, and your health. In this week’s episode, Roberta Mittman, founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York, will show us how to escape self-sabotaging behavior, how to change our internal negative messages and tips for healthy eating during this season of indulgence. She also shares how to reduce stress, focus on w...

In this episode, we welcome, Elizabeth Kipp. Elizabeth is a best-selling author, yoga-informed addiction recovery coach, stress and chronic pain management specialist, Ancestral Clearing Practitioner, Bilateral EFT/Tapping Practitioner, and Kundalini Yoga teacher. She overcame chronic pain and addiction caused by childhood abuse and chronic health issues by acknowledging trauma and using spiritual...

Questions? Questions, you say? I learned long ago that the smarter (and maybe older) you get you never stop having questions. And, you know you are getting smarter when you start asking better, more profound questions about more important matters - like your life. Dr. Ganz Ferrance, the author of ‘The Me Factor© - Your Systematic Guide to Getting What the HELL You Want’ will share with us those po...

In this week’s episode, we are talking ‘all things vagus nerve’ and why our guest Melanie Weller, affectionally dubbed the body whisperer by her clients, says we are making healing way too hard. Melanie is the world’s leading expert in treating the vagus nerve as a pinched nerve, and she will share with us how we accidentally lock into our body past traumas plus • Why chronic pain is locked in our...

It’s all around us, runny noses, coughing, sneezing, oh my…! It makes you want to run and hide this time of year... No need, as our guest, Dr. Jenny Tufenkian, ND, shares with us great tips and tricks for staying healthy during this time of year, even with an autoimmune. Having cured herself of CFS, Dr. Jenny has been practicing and teaching functional medicine for over two decades. In this episod...

BAck by popular demand, Sharon Sayler welcomes Sarah Peyton sharing her Alarmed Aloneness wisodm. Alarmed aloneness is that state that’s not ‘fight-or-flight’ and yet not contentment or social engagement… Alarmed aloneness is the place in which we get an elevated heart rate and increased cortisol because somebody (or something) who is important to us has disappeared. When Sarah Peyton, shared her...

In this episode, host Sharon Sayler welcomes Caroline Aylward, the creator of ‘Get A Helmet,’ a company focused on heart-centered storytelling through video + audio. Caroline’s journey through body image issues, anxiety, and depression have taught this resilient thriver essential life lessons that she is now sharing with us, and in a film, she is producing and directing on womxn’s body image chall...

Celebrating our 250th episode! Today, we explore how we create our narratives and assign meaning to them help determine our current and future well-being. Join me, host Sharon Sayler and fellow 'word-nerd' Stephen Hobbs as we examine how we co-create the stories we tell our selves and how they often foretell our future. Stephen Hobbs, co-founder of the International Mentoring Community is committe...

While most of living with a chronic condition isn’t funny, sometimes I just have to laugh at the absurdity of it all — from the embarrassment of my a** hanging out the back of a hospital gown to my body sometimes having a mind of its own... Recently, I’ve been working on finding my funny bone and enjoying the well-being benefits of laughter with the award-winning stand-up comedian and comedy-coach...

Is it a daily battle with feeling like your mind is full of glitches and error messages? Often with autoimmune, it can feel like not just our body is out of control, your mind and emotions are too. In this episode, Dr. Don Wood from InspiredPerformanceInstitute.com shares some of the effects of trauma on the human brain and ways to restore optimal brain function in the aftermath of trauma. His met...

An encore presentation of 'One Warrior’s Success Story Battling Fibromyalgia' in honor of Invisible Disabilities Week. Invisible Disabilities Week is to remind us we never know what someone is going through... We will explore what it’s like dealing with hard to diagnosis conditions like Fibromyalgia and how to be a strong advocate for your well-being with Fibromyalgia patient advocate, patient-rig...

Ever thought about re-parenting yourself due to your ‘de-formative years?’ as our guest Dr. Jamie Turndorf, calls childhood. In this raw, real, and slightly blunt chat, Dr. Jamie shares her personal story of spiritual reconnection with her beloved deceased husband, internationally renowned former Jesuit priest Emile Jean Pin. Dr. Turndorf has created a groundbreaking grief therapy method that comb...

Master Yoga/Meditation/Mindfulness instructor, Keith Engelhardt has committed decades to helping people reverse the impact of stress in their lives. In this episode, he shares that, according to recent research, prolonged stress and life-traumas have a strong correlation in exacerbating autoimmune symptoms. We can implement the simple techniques and tips he shares, and see a noticeable change in o...

The Autoimmune Hour welcomes back Dr. Dorothy Martin-Neville to share her insights on Fibromyalgia and the dilemma of a set of 'kitchen-sink symptoms.' Yup, that's what I'm calling it. That's what happens all too often when the doctor doesn't know what else to label your symptoms... they take an easy route and do an 'everything and the kitchen-sink' label of Fibromyalgia, doing a disservice to rea...

The week's guest, Hannah Aylward is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, private chef, gut health expert, and the founder of HAN. In this episode Hannah shares how she cuts through the overwhelming healthy eating noise and teaches us how to eat for gut health, plus • How to give up dieting, • Discover ways to tap into your intuition, • How to take your health into your own hands. More about Hannah A...

We welcome Shari Alyse, author of the best-selling book, 'Love Yourself Happy' and co-founder of The Wellness Universe. From her lifetime of learning to love herself fully after childhood sexual abuse and other traumas Shari shares with us how to challenge a negative 'headspace-story' plus: • How to overcome your inner critic • Why it’s important to be okay with what comes up • How to learn to ask...

We welcome Dr. Linda Lancaster, author of Harmonic Healing: Restore Your Vital Force for Lifelong Wellness. Drawing on her 40 years as a naturopathic and homeopathic practitioner, she shares with us how the interplay of ‘invisible forces’ such as heavy metals, chemicals, radiation, and opportunistic parasites can cause dis-ease leading to many of the health struggles we experience today, plus • Wa...

This week’s guest Yvonne Heath, a registered nurse since 1988, became disheartened by our society’s reluctance to talk about grief. Working within many areas of healthcare including emergency, intensive care, chemotherapy and hospice, Yvonne has seen how not ‘talking about ‘it,’ causes excessive suffering in life and at the end of life. She took a leap of faith, left her nursing career and now sha...

I’ve been a fan of Dan Millman, author of 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior' plus sixteen other books for decades. Recently, I had the opportunity to experience Dan's 'Peaceful Warrior Way' in a live-workshop and knew I had to bring his wisdom to you. Dan was 20 years old, and a world-class gymnast, when he shattered his right leg in a motorcycle accident. His healing became a spiritual awakening as he...

A 1984 study by Beckman and Frankel found that only 23% of patients were able to finish their initial concerns when meeting with their physician before an interruption. The average time to interruption was 18 seconds. A more recent study found the time has dropped to only 12 seconds... No wonder many of you in our @UnderstandingAutoimmune community report you ‘wish I could be heard.’ That’s why I...

An encore presentation with guest Daniel Gutierrez on mindfulness. Millions around the world practice mindfulness, the act of paying attention in a non-judgmental way and the well-documented benefits include stress reduction, and feeling happier and calmer; but how do we work mindfulness and meditation into our busy daily life? In this insightful interview, Daniel Gutierrez, author of five books,...

Lana Nelson, the creator of 'The Food Codes,' Speaker, Author, Intuitive Nutritionist, and Wellness Educator, shares her ‘Thriver’ story of going from daily pain to living pain-free, plus how she discovered 'The Food Codes.' Lana now teaches thousands of people every year how to optimize your nutrition and overcome dis-ease with food. As a Certified Emotion and Body Code consultant, Lana has devel...

Indra Singh, creator of the international flower elixir brand ‘Silent Moon Imaginarium’ shares her story of how she discovered ‘you are your guru.’ As a young woman, Indra found herself in the hospital with a life-threating diagnosis of anorexia. Indra recovered from anorexia and the health issues that come with dramatic weight loss to become a true thriver. After discovering yoga and the “power o...