The Healing Grove Podcast

In this week's episode, we meet Bobbi Vogel. Bobbi is a Medical Intuitive, Clairvoyant Healer, and Spirit Coach with a mission to connect humanity to faith, healing, life and purpose. Her clients have been diagnosed with everything from chronic pain and autoimmune diseases to cancer, and many have experienced profound healing and a new lease on life as they’ve worked with her to heal the emot...

In this week's episode you will meet Thomas Droge, LAc, an acupuncturist, Qi healer, and dear friend who shares--among other things--a simple practice for getting clear on the next, best step. The next, best step for what, you ask? Answer: the next best step for anything that is making you feel overwhelmed. If you've been feeling a little overwhelmed, listen to this talk. And be sure to...

Mira Rubin was only 15 when she experienced a life-changing epiphany, the impact of which can still bring her to tears....and does, in this powerful episode. Mira is a transformational coach, a visionary, an author, and host to multiple podcasts including Sustainability Now, The Core Connection, and The Broader Edge which she co-hosts. She is also the originator of the Core Connection process, a u...

This week I want to introduce you to my long-time friend and mentor, Dr. Will Miller. Will was the Chair of Family Medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital when I trained there as a resident. Indeed, he was one of the main reasons I chose that site for my residency. His intentionally crafted, relationship-based curriculum and cohort of hand-picked faculty called to me more strongly than any other in the...

In 2020, I had the honor of hosting a conversation with one of my heroes, Chris Wark. Here is more about Chris... After surgery at age 26 to remove a golf-ball sized tumor and a grim diagnosis of stage IIIc colon cancer, Chris opted out of the recommended chemotherapy and radiation and instead used a well-researched, holistic approach to achieve full healing. He has been vibrantly well, and cancer...

Dr. Christine Schaffner is a board certified Naturopathic physician who graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about practicing medicine and creating healing spaces. As the founder of Immanence Health, a holistic health clinic in Seattle, she seeks to improve access, outcomes, and speed of recovery for patients struggling with chronic illness wherever they may b...

This week I want to introduce you to my dear friend, Allison Lee. A thriving survivor of childhood abuse, postpartum depression, and a mass shooting, Allison explores the role of the "systems and structures" that we can create for ourselves in order to build resiliency, before or after life's challenges. The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this coll...

This week we meet Hope Hendricks, a long-time friend and deeply spiritual woman who shares her thoughts on intention, chakras, positivity, and the power of the mind. During this talk you will learn: ~ where our energy centers are, ~ common signs and symptoms that these centers are closed, or "stuck," ~ and some simple tools for opening them to get your energy moving again. To learn more...

Hannes Viljoen was a young father when the unimaginable struck. His beautiful firstborn suffered a stroke that left one side of her body completely paralyzed. As he and his wife Jana were grappling to make sense of this, their second son was born with Down Syndrome and such an extreme lack of muscular tone that he was functionally blind and unable to suckle. Just as they were beginning to find the...

On this episode, I am excited to introduce you to my friend, Monifa Harris. Monifa is a trained operatic singer who is passionate about helping others understand the connection between their voice, their breath, and manifesting the changes they seek in their lives. In her work as a vocal coach, Monifa teaches clients how to use their breath to release creativity in every area of their lives so the...

In this episode, we explore the fine and often lost art of setting healthy boundaries. Dr. Barbara Kleeb is a singer, songwriter, photographer, and all-around rock star who also happens to be an Obstetrician/Gynecologist. Over the past few years, she has dedicated all her free time to creating novel ways to teach people how to say "NO"--authentically, respectfully, and effectively. This...

Anita Kopacz calls herself a "pleasure alchemist," because her passion is helping people reclaim their innate ability to experience and enjoy pleasure after trauma. She is also an award-winning writer of two books, Finding Your Way and the recently published Shallow Waters . She received her Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley, her MA in Spiritual Psychology from...

In this episode, we have another simple, natural, and potentially life-changing tool to explore: uncut flower essences. When I first bumped into Dr. Brent Davis, DC, at a conference for Bioregulatory Medicine a few years back, I knew I had encountered a unique and important human. He was in the middle of describing to another conference attendee how the use of uncut flower essences can simply--alm...

In this episode, we return to the subject of trauma, and in particular, how trauma can get stored in the body...for years. My dear friend Lori Haring is a physical therapist, a pelvic floor specialist, and the mother of five. She has advanced training in visceral and neural mobilization, as well as craniosacral and myofascial release. In this touching account, Lori details the story of how she los...

Matthew and Carol Newell are the Founders and Directors of The Family Hope Center, an organization near and dear to my heart. When I made the tough decision in 2014 to put my dreams for a community wellness center on hold to work as their medical director, it was because it was clear that they were doing something truly unique, and uniquely effective, in the world of brain health and recovery. I j...

Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD, is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University and the award-winning author of Paths to Peace and Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma. After her own healing journey from complex trauma resulting from undiagnosed Lyme disease, she created Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, now...

Dr. Heather L. Cardin is a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, an expert in healing the gut, and so much more! Besides being a passionate practitioner, she is a mother of four young men and is active in her community, church, school, and in athletics. She received her Doctorate of Chiropractic from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City in 1997 and is currently practicing in Overland Park, Kans...

Craig and Maria Emmerich have been teaching people how to use the ketogenic diet to improve their health for over 15 years. Craig graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and brings his left-brainy passion for research and systems thinking to his study of the human body, nutrition, and physiology. He is the co-author of the best selling book “Keto” and the newly-released “The Carnivore Co...

Zen Honeycutt, founder and CEO of Moms Across America, never set out to be the leader of a national movement raising awareness about toxins in our food supply. She was a mom...and then two of her three kids got sick. One developed food allergies so severe they almost lost him one Thanksgiving when he inadvertently ingested a pecan that was hidden in the stuffing. Another went from a happy, healthy...

This week we continue to map the terrain, but from a slightly different angle and with an eye towards what we might need to cultivate--both inner and outer--in order to be optimally well. This week's talk by my colleague Dr. Sunjya Schweig addresses systems of care designed to boost the engagement of the most important person on your healing team: you.   I have personally been following Dr. S...

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior researcher at MIT who has spent the past decade focusing on the biological effects of the pervasive herbicide glyphosate, also known as RoundUpTM. In this sobering talk, we hear about just how prevalent this herbicide is in our world today, and begin to scratch the surface of the myriad of harmful effects it has in the body. As with last week’s talk, there may be s...

Scott Forsgren was in his 20s when he was struck down with a mysterious medical illness that ultimately turned out to be a combination of Lyme, multiple co-infections, mold, and a host of other issues that sadly are all too common in our toxic world. Forty-five doctors later, he finally had a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Scott eventually regained his vitality, but wow! What a journey.   Ever si...

Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson is a psychology professor with a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For sixteen years, she struggled with her relationship with food. She dieted again and again, binged on cookie dough, was clinically depressed, and even turned to illicit drugs for a period of time. In her darkest hours, she would lie in the fetal position and literally pray for her weight issue to be r...

When I decided to release all the Healing Grove talks as a podcast, I had no idea what it would entail. So I did what anyone would do: I looked around at who I knew doing podcasts well, and started asking questions. My friend Nicole DeBoom, who swam with me at Yale and is one of my all around favorite humans ever, has released not one, not two, but THREE podcasts in the past few years, so I asked...