The Healing Grove Podcast

This week I would like you to meet Tania Elfersy. Tania is a transformative coach and award-winning author, specializing in midlife women's health. Tania has spent years researching what causes and what can relieve symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause. She became free of her own physical and emotional symptoms, naturally and simply, through insight alone. Tania set up The Wise...

This week I would like to introduce you to Dr. Sabine Hazan. Dr. Hazan is a physician, author, world-renowned speaker, and gut microbiome expert. As the first woman accepted into the University of Florida as a Clinical Gastroenterology Fellow, Dr. Sabine Hazan is a pioneer in the medical field. She has published articles in numerous prestigious medical journals, and is the Series Editor on the mic...

This week I would like you to meet Heather Gray, a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist and Bioenergetic Practitioner specializing in supporting clients with chronic and complex illnesses such as Lyme disease, mold toxicity and autoimmune diseases. With over 32 years of personal experience, she understands the struggles of living with these conditions and is dedicated to helping others fin...

This week, Kerri Rivera is back to continue the conversation about chlorine dioxide, recovering kids from autism, and so much more. I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for complex...

Kerri Rivera is a homeopath, a mother of a brain-injured child, and a maelstrom of controversy. She is also one of my personal heroes. I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for comp...

This week I would like to introduce you to Anni Powell. Anni Powell is a registered nurse, lifetime musician, CranioSacral therapist, and nature lover. She has practiced as an RN since 2011 with a background in cardiac intensive care, progressive step down care, family medicine, and currently serves as a hospice nurse, certified CranioSacral therapist, and music performer. She began studying CST i...

Over the past week I have shared some of what happened to my brain in 2022, during or shortly after an elective surgery on my neck. As I was crafting those emails, I was thinking about how we've never had a guest on the Podcast who'd recovered their brain after such an injury. Given my close work with brain-injured kids and Lymies with brain fog, it dawned on me that hey, we need one!  ...

This week I am excited to introduce you to my new friend, Dr. Amy Offutt. Dr. Offutt is an extensively trained Integrative Medicine physician who treats patients with complex health issues using a wide array of individualized strategies for healing. She cherishes her relationships with her patients and approaches her care, viewing each patient as a whole person. Her goal is to partner with patient...

This week I want you to meet one of my favorite people on the planet, Dr. Kristann Heinz. Dr. Heinz is a medical doctor (MD) board-certified with the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American Board of Integrative-Holistic Medicine and the American Board of Physician Specialties in Integrative Medicine. She is also a registered dietician (RD), a physician acupuncturist and a certified pract...

I am absolutely delighted to have you meet this week's guest, Dr. Heather Sandison. Dr. Heather Sandison is a distinguished naturopathic doctor who has devoted her career to providing compassionate care and innovative solutions to those affected by dementia. Renowned for her pioneering work, Dr. Sandison has integrated groundbreaking, holistic, and multimodal interventions, seamlessly creatin...

This week I am delighted for you to meet my new friend, Kat Romett. Kat Romett is a Licensed Reflexology Practitioner, musician, & mother of 2 boys. She and her family currently reside in Montgomery County, PA. Through her journey with parenting a child with special needs, Kat has learned the importance of self care & holistic health. She sees the benefits reflexology has in creating peace...

This week I am delighted for you to meet one of my mentors, Dr. Neil Nathan.    Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for over 50 years, and has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management and is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomate of ISEAI. He is also the author of several books, including Healing is Possible:...

This week I am super excited to introduce you to my new friend, Caroline Alan. Caroline Alan is the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals, but like many of my guests on the podcast, she came to her current focus on health and wellness through a debilitating mystery illness that shook her on all limbs of her tree.  Coming from a career in the corporate world, Caroline found herself struggling physica...

This week I would like to introduce you to Stephen Davis. For years Stephen Davis tried everything to find help for his daughter and her two children. Huge amounts of time and money did little to bring results. So he began his own search, which ultimately led him to frequencies, the topic of our episode today. As an innovator and entrepreneur, he started his journey with science. He discovered the...

This week I am excited to share the seventh interview I had with Meghan Tveit, who is now a fourth year medical student (MS4). In this conversation she tells us about her family medicine rotation, her last rotation as a third year student. She also gives us a glimpse into what her fourth year will look like. It has been awhile since we have heard from Meghan, so in case you need a reminder of who...

This week's talk is with Chloe Weber, a dear friend who I met several years ago in my work as the Medical Director of the Family Hope Center. Our meeting was not coincidental. Chloe's son, Remy, suffers from an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes seizures, and she had sought us out to explore unconventional options to heal her child's brain. Remy, like so many of the kids I...

Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years. Dr. Klinghardt is a physician of incredible brilliance, scientific rigor, compassion, and intuition: a rare combination in today's doctors. His annual seminars, which I attended regularly before the pandemic, brought together the most cutting-edge...

This week I brought in my longtime friend fellow Yale Swammer, Nicole DeBoom. You may remember Nicole because she interviewed me for the trailer of the Healing Grove Podcast way back when. Well, she is back to interview me again because, at the time of this conversation, I was about to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim through the Greek Cyclades islands with some swim buddies from...

Over the past several years, a number of programs for retraining the limbic portion of the brain have popped up. I've leaned into a few of them, including the Gupta Program, DNRS with Annie Hopper, and my friend, Liz Stanley's MMFT. All of these are great programs, and have helped countless people regain their health using tools that fall under the category of "limbic retraining.&qu...

This week I want to introduce you to my friend, Lisa Markovits. Lisa is a singer, musician, and activist, who has made it her life's mission to help women who have suffered through trauma and unhealthy relationships to journey back to self-love through art and self-expression. She is doing that through her company Own It Baby! and her newly launched course From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Sheph...

This week I want you to meet my friend, Dr. Emily Kostelnik, the Vestibular Psychologist. Vestibular disorders are very debilitating and I see them all too often in my practice. I found Emily on Instagram several months ago and realized very quickly that I needed to have her come talk to my audience. If you are suffering from chronic dizziness or balance issues, my hope is that you will be encoura...

This week I want you to meet my friend and colleague, Beth Shirley. Beth is a pharmacist and certified clinical nutritionist who has been a pioneer in the field of Integrative Pharmacy. Through her work in this field, she has developed an in-depth knowledge of the use of nitric oxide. It turns out that this molecule is quite beneficial to everyone’s health and in this talk Beth gives us a full run...

This week I am thrilled to introduce you to my new friend, Irma Jennings. Irma is a Holistic Bone Coach, but I like to think of her as a "bone whisperer," because she really understands the deepest desires of our skeletal scaffold. Moreover, she is really, really expert at explaining things in ways that are simple, clear, and medically accurate.   With over 13 years of specialized experi...

This week I am excited to share the sixth interview I had with Meghan Tveit, MS3. In contrast to previous episodes, some of which involved Meg looking like she would rather have been horizontal, this time we caught up with her during a 4 week elective rotation, as she studies for her Step 2 Medical Exam. In our conversation, Meghan reflected back on her 8-week rotation in internal medicine, and al...

In honor of celebrating the release of our 75th episode of the Healing Grove Podcast, I have a very special guest to introduce to you: Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD.   Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years.   If you've been in my circle for any length of time, or read my e-book, then yo...