The Healing Grove Podcast

This week I would like to introduce you to Anita Johnston, Ph. D., CEDS.   Anita is a psychologist, storyteller, certified eating disorders specialist, and author, and she has been working in the field of women’s issues, eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years. She is also the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an online platform similar to The Healing Grove that offer...

Our guest this week is Danielle Pilarinos. You might remember Danielle from a previous episode where she talked about Biomagnetism. It aired on April 17, 2023. So many people found that conversation helpful, so I asked Danielle to come back and share more of her Biomagnetism wisdom with us. This time she demonstrated some of her favorite protocols for dealing with trauma to the body, headaches and...

This week I am excited to introduce you to my dear friend, Rob Aptaker. Rob is one of those humans who always inspires me to be a better human myself. His gentle manner, sincere interest, and unwavering listening always compel me to more presence and humility. You might be surprised to learn that Rob's own healing journey began as a struggle with rage, a starving ego, and an inability to find...

This week I would like to introduce you to Ari Whitten. Ari Whitten is a best-selling author and the creator of the Energy Blueprint system. A chronic fatigue and energy-optimization specialist with a world-wide following, Ari hosts the Energy Blueprint Podcast, bringing together leading experts in the field of fatigue and energy enhancement for the education of all. Many of my favorite holistic h...

Linda Hartman is a Certified Biofield Tuning Practitioner, who offers remote Biofield Tuning healing sessions by phone anywhere in the world! Biofield Tuning uses sound waves produced from tuning fork vibrations to relieve emotional and physical stress.  Through vibration and frequency, Biofield Tuning works with your body’s electrical system to resolve distortion in your electromagnetic field, le...

This week I would like you to meet my friend, Susan Wells. Susan Wells, MA, is a writer and coach. The connective tissue in her professional life has been personal and collective health. Focused now on inner works, she uses depth writing and imagery to access the unconscious mind for transformative change. She holds degrees in literature and anthropology from Columbia University and Middlebury Col...

This week I am excited to introduce you to my sweet and inspiring friend, Sophie Wisbrun. I met Sophie in 2018, at a conference for heart-centered business owners and visionaries. At the time, Sophie was consulting CEOs looking to build sustainability into their businesses. Her mission was, put simply, to save the planet...one powerful corporation at a time, by empowering leaders to employ what sh...

This week I am excited to share the first of what I hope will be many more interviews with a very special person who is also a doctor-in-training. 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 appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and th...

Helen Bucher's path has been a varied one, starting out as a nurse, then going to selling organic food, organic cosmetics, and ultimately becoming a Naturopathic Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach. As a Swiss Rejuvenation Specialist, Helen focuses on the "tender slender" woman, who faces very specific health challenges with her fine boned and highly sensitive body, as well as her mind and sp...

Summer MacCool is a conduit for universal consciousness, in service to the world and to your extraordinary life.  Having moved through very dark times in her younger years, Summer was not even sure she wanted to live. It took a deeply loving relationship with a medicine man for Summer to finally embrace her worth and understand that we are all, at our core, LOVE. Now, transforming the formless int...

Karen Atkins is a Brooklyn-born New Yorker turned Northern California girl. She spends her days practicing tai chi and qigong, writing and recording music, producing vitality lifestyle videos, creating educational alternative health programs, and taking walks in the foothills of Mt “Tam” as often as she can. But she wasn’t always the picture of health. In her early 20s, she felt so awful she could...

This week I am so excited to share a conversation that I had with Dr. Bill Rawls back in November of 2022. In this compelling conversation, you will learn about the role the microbiome and pathogens can play in chronic illness. Bill Rawls MD, author of Unlocking Lyme: Myths,Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease and the Cellular Wellness Solution, is a 4th-generation physician wh...

This week I can't wait for you to meet my friend, Anja Korber. After playing in various European orchestras for several years, Anja Körber realized that the competitive and stressful life of a flautist was not for her. As a result, she changed direction, graduated as a primary school teacher in Germany and subsequently obtained the South African teaching diploma for High Schools. The core que...

This week's episode is with Chloe Weber, a dear friend who explores with me the reasons for using Chinese medicine to deal not only with acute crises, but ones that lie beneath the surface, waiting to emerge. You're going to love what she has to say about the tools she uses to help not only her patients but also her sweet son, Remy, who has a neurological issue that causes seizures. Her...

This week I would like you to meet my friend, Katie Rampen. Katie is a a two-time breast cancer survivor and Breast Cancer Recovery Advocate dedicated to creating a thriving world through healthier living, one person at a time.  Katie is also a mother of two children, and when Katie was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she knew it was time to spring into action to reclaim her health and her lif...

This week I invite you to a fascinating conversation with my friend, Karen De Wilde. Karen is a musician, change maker and transformational guide who works from both the head and the heart. Several years ago, while stuck in a job that was sapping her energy, Karen was led on a search for her own destiny and life path, and ultimately discovered the wisdom of the Mayan Calendar. She now uses this to...

This week I invite you to a powerful conversation with my friend, Jayka Duncan. Jayka was diagnosed with breast cancer in December, 2018. Not just breast cancer, actually; recurrent breast cancer. In a bold departure from her previous wrangling with a disease that affects one in eight women, this time she decided to follow her intuition, which guided her to an alternative approach. Despite some cl...

This week I would like to introduce you to my dear friend, Maria Heart Song. Maria Heart Song is a song catcher, a sound healer, a soulful speaker, a yoga teacher and a Heart Connection coach. She is also the founder of Heart Song – a business empowering visionary women in creating lives that make their hearts sing, so that they can shine their light, embody their gifts and be the change they want...

This week I would like to introduce you to my friend, Thom Harrison.  Many of us simply need a guide to help us know, love, and trust our own inner mentor. Thom is one of those guides. As a "life purpose guide," Thom works with earth-loving humans hindered by uncertainty, fears, or distraction, guiding them out of their own way and into the fulfilling, purposeful lives that call them. I...

This week we hear from Stephanie Hastings, a friend of mine who has survived more than her fair share of tragedy. You are going to be in awe of what this woman endured...and even more amazed at how she recovered!  Stephanie was a young mother and business owner when a freak accident  left her partially blind. The story of how she literally willed herself into action and eventual healing is not to...

This week I would like you to meet my friend, Danielle Pilarinos. Danielle Pilarinos was a 26-year-old ultrasound tech when she came down with a mysterious and debilitating illness that baffled her doctors. After two hospitalizations with idiopathic rhabdomyolysis (that's doctor-speak for wide-spread breakdown of her muscles with no identifiable cause), she was told there was nothing else tha...

This week I am excited to introduce you to the effervescent speaker, Deborah Weed. Deborah Weed is a creative whirlwind, coach, author, and motivational speaker. She is the founder of the Self-Worth Initiative, whose mission is to foster self-worth so that women will be true to themselves by being authentic, energized and joyous. Deborah's raison d'etre came out of a personal crisis. Whi...

This week I want you to meet my friend, the artist Peig Abbott.  Looking at her now, you'd never imagine that for a period of time Peig was bedridden with a fatigue so debilitating that just getting to the bathroom was considered enough for one day. Now she wields giant blow-torches and wrangles impossibly beautiful forms from stone, wood, and steel!?! I'm not going to say too much more...

This week you get to meet my friend, Stasha Washburn. Stasha is many things. Dancer. Chef. Sword fighter. Speaker. Author. Skateboarder. And more. She is a football-loving, tai chi-practicing, all-around rock star of a human, and a self-proclaimed digital nomad who will go anywhere as long as there’s a tea kettle and WiFi. I know. In 2019 I spent a year working closely with her as my business coac...

This week I want you to meet Jeannine Goode-Allen, who has spent the greater part of her life in an ever-deepening relationship with her own peep--the 12th century mystic, St. Hildegard of Bingen. I didn't know about Jeannine's special connection to St. Hildegard until a delightful conversation we had on the beautiful island of Kauai in 2019. I'd heard St. Hildegard's name drop...