The Healthy Connections Podcast | Health Tips for Busy Moms with Chronic Illness, Becoming Unstuck While Living with MS, Simple Fitness and Nutrition

I was talking to the woman a few years back and we ended our interaction amicably, but something didn’t set right with how it ended...this is how I took control of that situation and told her to stop.  Be sure to share this episode with someone you think needs to hear it.  Support the show 🔆 Hormone Safe Products : https://northstarcoaching.hughandgrace.com/ Use code hello10 for $10 off your firs...

TIP TUESDAY: In today's bite sized episode I will give you a hand (or two) full of tips to help you along your fitness journey. I would love to hear what you want tips on, so DM me over on IG at @melissa.hadley.fitwithMS! For now though, I hope you enjoy these tips and I hope you take one or a few with you beyond these 10 minutes!  Support the show 🔆 Hormone Safe Products : https://northstar...

Being that March is MS Awareness Month, I wanted to talk to you about my top 10 holistic ways to fight a chronic illness.  I hope you find today's episode helpful! Support the show 🔆 Hormone Safe Products : https://northstarcoaching.hughandgrace.com/ Use code hello10 for $10 off your first order! 🔆 Your Free 6 Step Guide to Gua Sha : https://candid-breeze-204.myflodesk.com/guasha 🔆 1-on-1...

Julia is a Certified Hypno Birthing Educator, birth doula, and photographer based out of Boston, MA. She finds that she is most herself when she is surrounded by joy. She is passionate about capturing these moments of joy that will last for years to come. As a child birth educator and doula, she creates spaces of empowerment and peace for women as they enter into a new phase of life through the bi...

I’ve been hearing a lot lately that women are feeling like they are stuck in a rut. Maybe that’s you, maybe that’s someone you know and love and I’m here to tell you that it is normal to sometimes feel like you’re in a rut ESPECIALLY in the winter months.  Today, I’m going to give you my top tips to get UNSTUCK and how you can use this season of LENT to do that. I have found that even those who do...

It's my birthday today, so in staying on topic, I'm bring you some tips on how you can still enjoy life's celebrations WITHOUT the guilt ! I am also reviewing the Captain Freeman Inn in Brewster, MA! LIMIT but don’t eliminate your indulgences.  Get active Healthy foods Don't skip breakfast WATER! Cut back on alcohol.  Experiences over gifts.  Practice your gratitude each day an...

What an informative episode this is! I had the pleasure of interviewing Jamie Santagate, RN and owner of IVein about the mobile IV vitamin infusion business she has started. I have received an infusion from Jamie myself and when I posted about it on social media, I received a number of messages asking me about it, so here are all the answers you could possibly want and then some ;) As someone with...

Happy Wednesday to you!! Today is the first day of February and that means it is HEART HEALTH month! Heart health holds a special place in my heart (pun intended). My grandpa passed at age 52 from a heart attack and I have to be careful of my heart health and now that I’m over 40...it’s that much more important. Did you know one woman in the United States dies from heart disease every minute. The...

Hi Friend! Today I want to talk to you about my Top 10 tips to get your preteen or teen engaged in…wait for it…exercise and the benefits that come with that! NOW WAIT!! Before you shut me off or skip to a different episode, just hear me out. This will be worth the effort.  I hear from moms all the time at how difficult it is for them as their kids enter the teen years or as they are walking throug...

Happy day to you!! In today’s episode I get a little raw but super real about my coaching journey with Beachbody (BODi)! This opportunity has been such a blessing to my family and I and I 100% believe that God brought me the opportunity when I needed it most; just a couple years after my MS diagnosis and just over a year after having our first son. I hope you enjoy this special episode and find th...

Today, I am bringing to you an interview with the lovely, Lauren Ricks! Lauren comes from a coaching background and had personally felt burned out. She is now the host of the Becoming Aligned Podcast and gives us some interesting tips on aligning your daily tasks with...wait for it...your menstrual cycle ladies!! We also had a fantastic conversation about network marketing and how to avoid getting...

Hey hey my friend!! Today, I want to talk to you about my Top 10 tips for women who have been diagnosed with a chronic condition! It is sad, but it seems that every time I turn around or turn on my IG or FB that someone else is being diagnosed with something and as someone who has lived with MS for almost 14 years now, I want to shed some light on the fact that while it is devastating in many ways...

PROMISES ; would we ever break them with a friend, child, spouse, family member? Today I’m share the nitty gritty of my promises to myself in 2023 and maybe you will pick up on some and add them to YOUR promises! I hope you’re inspired today and I’m thrilled you’re here!  Support the show 🔆 Hormone Safe Products : https://northstarcoaching.hughandgrace.com/ Use code hello10 for $10 off your first...

First, REMEMBER this! Give yourself GRACE if you didn't reach your goals this year. GRACE upon grace and move forward; don't look behind you.  This time of year is a time of reflection and I reflect a lot on the year this time of year.  What did we do as a family?  What did we want to do, but not get around to doing? What were my health goals this year? How did I do? What worked and what...

I figured it would be fun to head into the holiday with a little 'game' of sorts, so I invited a special guest; our 12 year old son Nicholas, to come on and answer some This or That questions. It is always fun to take some time and ask these kinds of questions because you each end up learning a little about each other that you may not have known.  Take these holiday and winter themed que...

I so enjoyed this episode! Marielle and I chatted about all the things today; migraines, anxiety, gut health, bowel movements...you name it, we chatted about it. Bigger than the issues though, we talked about functional medicine and its place in the healing process . Getting to the root cause of the issues at hand versus slapping bandaids on everything is the mission for Marielle and her business....

Today’s topic is me dropping some serious tough love in a healthy communicative way because this is the healthy connections podcast, so hold on because I am about to lay it down in a kind manner of course :)  There seems to be this belief that you have to GIVE UP unhealthy food forever and ever amen in order to have health. OR even when a doctor is going to put you on medication for high cholester...

A woman prayed over my coffee!  I felt so connected with that woman in that one conversation over a coffee and felt a part of her community in that moment. TELL THE PRAYER. I was stunned…like whoa I’m not in Massachusetts anymore! I felt like she right there without knowing it, secured my reasoning for wanting connection over coffee to be a part of my podcast and business. I also felt like my whol...

Today, I’m going to give you my tips for making it through this holiday without having any “guilt” AT ALL and without arguing at the dinner table about all the things that people argue about these days. The goal is to help you leave this episode armed and ready for your thanksgiving day so that you can walk out happy! First things first here is a healthier ish twist on the sweet potato casserole!...

If you have that tenacity and that fire in you, despite what life may throw your way, you can still succeed in what you do! Dealing with MS is a full time job, but when you take care of your body, it's easier to deal with and it's WORTH working on. I had the great opportunity to sit down and chat with a friend about how she handles her job as a realtor and her Multiple Sclerosis.  She is...

Today is going to be fabulous!! In today's Her Story episode, I’m so blessed to have had the opportunity to talk with Marissa Raider who is a Certified life and business coach! Our conversation was so fun! A former teacher to CEO, Marissa is a farm wife, mom and business owner. She has 3 young girls with her husband, Trent. When she's not coaching women to build their dream lives, she&ap...

Today, I wanted to chat a bit about getting ready to tackle those holidays! I’m going to make this a 2 part series, where today I talk about Halloween and Thanksgiving and in a few weeks, I talk about Thanksgiving again and Christmas. I will talk to you all about that candy from Halloween and making preparations to go into Thanksgiving with your best foot forward. Here is the link for ideas of wha...

I know that those teen years were (or are) hard. I also know that I have been able to pull things out of my teen years that I appreciate. The hard times, the great times, and the in between times all had something within them to lead me into the woman I am today and I know you have something from your years too. In this episode I will read you a day from my guided journal that I wrote a few years...

In this episode I sit down with our son Nicholas again for a 1st quarter 'review' on homeschooling.  We chat about how he's liking it, the curriculum and how each subject is going, and what he'd change. I hope you enjoy! To hear the original Homeschooling episode, go to episode 5 and to hear the episode we first interviewed Nicholas, go to episode 13. 🔆Lets Connect: https://ww...

I threw it out there on social to ask me random questions and you delivered! I love these questions, so thank you for them! I hope my answers make you laugh because that's the goal; laughter is a sign of happiness! And, as mentioned in this episode, today is the last day to grab the Crockpot Mini Course : https://melissahadley.podia.com/free-class-3-simple-healthy-crockpot-meals-to-fight-infl...