The Healing Grove Podcast

I want to introduce you to someone who has literally changed my life in the last few years. Moreover, she has helped me to do the same for many of my patients. Her name is Ruth Kriz. Ruth is a nurse practitioner who has identified a group of common genetic variations that help explain why some patients develop chronic infections due to biofilms and others don't. These and several other geneti...

This week I am delighted to introduce you to my friend, Arleen Ehritz. Arleen is a colon hydrotherapy practitioner . If your brain is having a hard time imagining what those three words mean, then you've probably never experienced the many benefits of irrigating your butt with warm, purified, gravity-fed water, so you don't know what you're missing. If that's you, then read on!...

This week I would like you to meet my new friend and colleague, Dr. BenRall. As a chiropractor, Dr. Rall subscribes to the philosophy that our bodies are self-healing...as long as we avoid the obstacles that can get in their way. As an author, lecturer, and host of the 5-star rated podcast, Designed to Heal , he is passionate about empowering listeners with a message of hope and self-efficacy.  An...

This week I want to introduce you to Dr. Alexis Chesney, who I met at the most recent ILADS conference, last October. She was standing next to a stack of her small, pocket-sized books at the Lyme author's table, and I was instantly drawn to both her colorful, well-designed book and her quiet, gentle nature. Within two minutes of speaking with her, I knew I needed to get her on the podcast to...

This week I would like to introduce you to Karen Mayo, an Integrative Nutritionist who is currently working out of the Amen Clinics in New York. She’s the award-winning international best-selling author of Mindful Eating: Thirty Days to A Whole New You . She has also made appearances on the Dr. Oz Show, The Jack Canfield Show, and on the TEDx stage. Karen has made it her life's work to teach...

This week I would like to introduce you to Cassandra Stahl.... Cassandra is a wealth management specialist. Maybe it's my bias about "money people," but I still find it fascinating that someone with the kind of deep knowledge of how money works in the world can also be so incredibly well-rounded. In addition to serving as a Partner and Private Wealth Advisor at Northwestern Mutual&a...

Meghan Tveit, MS 3, is back, this time to tell us all about her rotations in OB/GYN and anesthesia, but if you are not familiar with this very special frequent guest, you can read about her here...   Meghan Tveit is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan ap...

Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, M.D. is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. Dr. Kinderlehrer co-founded The New England Center for Holistic Medicine in Newbury MA, and has taught extensively, including practitioner training courses at The Omega Institute, The Natio...

This week I am very excited for you to meet Dr. Kim Bruno, DC, CCN. I met Kim through Vibrant Wellness, a lab that I use often with my own patients. She has given me a lot of guidance and teaching about Vibrant Wellness testing and how to navigate their many offerings. Dr. Kim Bruno has dedicated her career to working to find root causes of patients’ medical issues as well as promoting a preventio...

This week I am so excited for you to meet my new friend Erika Nolan. I have been following Erika for awhile now on Instagram, and her work is right in alignment with what I do, so this conversation was very special to me. Many of you know that I spent much of my summer in the garden, growing and harvesting lots of produce and herbs, and Erika has inspired me the whole way. I can't wait for yo...

This week I interviewed my dear friend, Maria Heart Song. Maria is a clarity coach, intuitive healer, and Heart Song Alchemist. Music has always been the love of her life, and for more than 20 years she has been creating heart song activations and exploring the healing and creative power of the voice. As she shares in this conversation, Maria has not always been confident enough to share her voice...

Meghan Tveit has returned to check in with us after spending 6 weeks in a psychiatry rotation. This conversation gets a bit tense as Meghan tells about some very extreme cases that she experienced during this rotation. No worries. No names or personal information have been shared, but  I want you to know that Meghan does talk about one case in particular that is more disturbing than others. I am s...

This week’s guest is a dear friend and kindred spirit, Cristina Maria RojasFernandez. Licensed in New York as a Clinical Social Worker, she has been called to  be a bridge between worlds of Western clinical therapy and plant medicine. Her passion is helping humans connect to their authentic selves through traditional indigenous medicine ceremonies, including Ayahuasca. In 2017, I had the good fort...

This week’s guest is Dr. Sarah Myhill, a Western medicine doctor turned Naturopathic physician. Sarah Myhill is not only a physician with a wealth of knowledge about gut health, but she also has a special interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis, and her life’s mission has been to help people  find the reason for their symptoms and arm them with safe and affordable treatments...

This week I am excited for you to meet Coach Scott Fox. Scott Fox is a  former D1 baseball player and he went down hard with Lyme disease, an illness that has changed the way he sees the world...and coaches his athletes.  He  takes a whole-person approach to performance. He is not just looking at increasing speed, strength, and all the usual physical indices of athletic performance: he also has co...

This week I am excited to introduce you to my friend, Sheetal Contractor. Sheetal is a PA-licensed massage therapist, Yoga Alliance certified 500-hr yoga teacher/trainer (E-RYT500), and Wellness Coach. After being a corporate professional for 15 years, in the summer of 2006, she took a leap of faith and left the corporate world to pursue her passion – sharing mind/body wellness through yoga and bo...

Our favorite third-year medical student, Meghan Tveit, has joined us yet again to give us another glimpse into her medical training. This time we caught up right after she finished her general surgery rotation. Meghan is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Megh...

This week I would like you to meet one of my dear friends, Ria Swift. Ria is an energy medicine practitioner and intuitive seer who uses expressive arts, frequency medicine, family & system constellations, biomagnetism, and more. Using an ever-evolving toolbox of modalities, she has been helping folks heal from past trauma and wounds for decades. And having benefited personally from her work o...

This week you get to meet Dr. Roger McFillin. Dr. McFillin is a clinical psychologist, writer, speaker and podcast host, and a friend of mine. He is also an outspoken critic of the psychiatric diagnostic system, prescription drug culture, harmful treatments, misrepresentation of science in healthcare & pop culture beliefs about mental health that undermine resilience & coping...to name a f...

This week I would like you to meet Dr. Jill Crista. Dr. Crista is a pioneering naturopathic doctor, best-selling author, devoted educator, and creative innovator. Her superpower is to make complex medical concepts simple and digestible for the average person, and having been on the other side of her talks and teaching for the past few years, I can personally attest to this superpower. Dr. Jill’s p...

I am over the moon this week to introduce you to a new friend: Anne Van de Water. About a decade ago, I found my way onto Anne Van de Water's mailing list. My sister, Bethany, had been on a retreat of some kind with Anne, and she suggested I follow her newsletter for regular blasts of high-vibe positivity and goofy, heart-centered, down-to-earth advice for spiritual seekers. That all sounded...

This week I would like to introduce you to Dr. Jack Wolfson. Dr. Wolfson is a board-certified cardiologist who uses nutrition, healthy lifestyle and evidence-based supplements to prevent and treat heart disease. Dr. Jack was trained as a conventional cardiologist, but he met Dr. Heather (who he just happened to marry), a DC who changed his paradigm from a sickness to wellness model. After ten year...

This week I am excited to share the second interview I had with Meghan Tveit, our favorite healer-in-training. I caught up with her at the beginning of an overnight call on trauma surgery....in her 86th hour of continuous work.  In our conversation, Meghan reflects deeply on the ups and downs of this beautiful, emotional and rather exhausting journey, and despite the lack of sleep, she is characte...

This week I would like to introduce you to Suzy Griswold. Suzy Griswold is a 13+ year Thyroid Cancer Thriver, and the Founder and President of HealingStrong. Upon her diagnosis, she took a different route than that of her 10 family members who had passed away from cancer previously. Suzy used a combination of the Gerson Protocol and grew closer to her Heavenly Father as part of her natural approac...

This week I would like to introduce you to my dear friend Marisa Cerveris. Being one of the last two dancers to be hand-picked by George Balanchine for The New York City Ballet, Marisa left home at age 14 to follow her dream of becoming a dancer. After a long career with the NYCB, she lived and danced in France and Spain and traveled the world, finally landing on Broadway before settling in the Le...