The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Susan Cain What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jen Forristal What the umbrella effect is and how it relates to parenting Steps we can take with our kids to help teach a growth mindset and coping skills for learning from challenges Why to make a “sucks but normal” category in life The importance of modeling in parenting How to help teach your kids coping skills What curious empathy is and why she considers it the mos...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Rachel Yehuda What intergenerational trauma is and how it impacts our families Epigenetics - what this means and how it impacts our biology How more than just genes are transmitted to us from our parents and relatives What studies show about trauma being passed on and what happens in mouse models How trauma can cause changes in genes that pass on to future generations W...

Episode Highlights With Danielle LaPorte The inspiration for her work… the question, “What do I want to feel?” Our relationship to feelings and how to learn to get to choose how we want to feel Why you aren’t your feelings (and why this is a great thing) How to move into a space of more awareness and unconditional love with yourself and your children The downside of positive affirmations if they a...

Episode Highlights With Andy Galpin How he got into working with high level athletes all over the world and teaching at a graduate level about these topics Why strength and performance is about much more than aesthetics or fat loss and why it should be a focus for all of us Why on average, the people who die fastest are the weakest and have the least muscle mass The reason strength outweighs even...

Episode Highlights With Shawn His own amazing journey to overcome obstacles How he decides what health information to follow His own personal 80/20 of health Why he takes a results driven approach to health and what this means The reason for the disconnect between our health knowledge and our outcomes Why so much of the stuff we are learning about health goes back to what our ancestors have known...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Nick Bitz What to understand about aging and the multiple theories of what contributes Why aging might be a slowed ability to adapt The three main theories of aging and how understanding them can help you slow it What to look at and test as a baseline to determine aging What the nine hallmarks of aging are: telomeres, DNA mutations, epigenetic changes, senescent cells,...

Episode Highlights With Naomi Whittel How she got into beekeeping at age 12 (like I did) What it was like growing up on a biodynamic farm in Switzerland How early health challenges for her shaped her outlook on health and beauty Our skin absorbs 60% of what we put on it and women put, on average, 500 chemicals on our skin per day Why she is a huge fan of magnesium as well What essential fats are a...

Cynthia Thurlow is back to talk biohacking your hormones and your sleep, especially for women. And we get to go deep on some pretty fun science topics on this one. If you don’t remember her from the first episode, Cynthia is a nurse practitioner and the CEO and founder of Everyday Wellness project. She’s an …

Episode Highlights With Chloe Weber How her own rare tropical disease and her son’s rare genetic disease have given her a unique perspective on life How acupuncture fits into Chinese medicine The difference in the Chinese medicine approach compared to western medicine and why it requires a different level of understanding of the body Why acupuncture works The three different types of herbs in Chin...

Episode Highlights With Patrick McKeown Why he left school at 14 and what he learned by doing this The importance of breath and how many of us are probably doing it wrong How we can use our breathing to influence the mind and stress states Why carbon dioxide drives our breathing patterns The importance of nasal breathing A simple breathing exercise to try to start paying attention to your breath T...

Episode Highlights With Tucker Max How Tucker went from “fratire” and party boy to helping people through trauma Why he credits psychedelics with helping him become a better husband and father What MDMA assisted therapy is and how it helped him and many others How certain substances can be a tool to drastically improve therapy outcomes The clinical trials in PTSD and the dramatic results including...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Robin Emerging research about how gut health is even more important than we thought The things affecting our gut bacteria in a negative way 95% of disease begins in the gut The link between fertility and gut health New advanced testing that looks at vaginal and gut microbiome for fertility that is helping 75%+ of women struggling with infertility to get pregnant Importa...

Episode Highlights With Frank Elaridi How he went from nationally known journalist to what he does now The way trauma stores in the body How to clear trauma on a subconscious level What the emotion code is How emotional release works remotely and what’s going on A live heart clearing example on me What inherited trauma is and how to clear it A study on mice that helps explain generational and inhe...

Episode Highlights with Louie Schwartzberg How gratitude was built in since he was little by his parents who were Holocaust survivors The connection between nature and gratitude How to increase wonder, gratitude, and creativity in your life Simple exercises to increase gratitude in your own life Why beauty is nature's tool for survival How fungi might be the greatest natural solution for climate c...

Episode Highlights With Philipp and Ian What quantum energy is and the science that helps us understand it How they concentrate quantum energy using certain types of plates The energy first vs matter first explanation of life How things like wifi affect these types of energy in the body A roots up approach to understanding energy Ways to improve quantum energy What the Hawkins scale is and how it...

Episode Highlights From Katie Why and how our family created a family culture The importance of having kids be proud of themselves (versus me being proud of them) How my parenting style is unique and based on "first principles parenting" What radical self-sufficiency is and how I don't do anything for my kids that they can do themselves Ways we encourage them to eat healthy and provide nutrient de...

Episode Highlights With Michelle The resistance she runs into as a doctor trying to support natural birth Why doctors and patients often have trouble having a low intervention birth in some settings The reason the c-section rate has risen so drastically in the last few decades Some factors to consider when approaching birth The real data about if low intervention birth is more dangerous Ways women...

Episode Highlights With Sherry Walling How she got into flying trapeze as an adult and the reason why Her personal story around grief and how it led to her work as a psychologist in helping others Tips for navigating the experience of grief with kids and why this is so important Words we can use with our kids to help them process emotions The stages of grief and how understanding them can help you...

Episode Highlights With Todd Kashdan Why he wrote a book on insubordination and all the connotations attached to that word The reason we are seeing a higher percentage than we’ve ever seen of people questioning societal norms What makes people want to cling to the status quo How understanding this affects his parenting style and his relationships Why disagreeing can be extremely beneficial to a gr...

Episode Highlights With Shawn Wells The experience that drastically shifted his own life and helped him find self love Important caveats for women when it comes to supplementation Why most research on supplements is done on young males and what to understand if you aren’t in this group (age, gender or ethnicity) The things women have a greater need for and can benefit from supplementing How much p...

Episode Highlights With Gabby Bernstein How she learned how to ride a unicycle! What inspired her current work and her most recent book Why there is a tendency to minimize trauma or compare it to others How to use things like somatic therapies and IFS to process and release trauma Trauma is the inability to be present What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help Practices to help regul...

Episode Highlights With Nadine Artemis Her fascinating family history and a family member that inspired the James Bond series What the oral microbiome is and the dentinal lymphatic system Why blood sugar might matter more than sugar in the mouth The fascinating way the oral ecosystem works Acid theory of cavities and why this might be wrong How diet and lifestyle affect oral health Ways to keep th...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary How she got into martial arts and Tai Chi Her start in sound therapy when she was just nine years old How sound healing works and how quantum biology is helping us understand it Sound and light therapies to impact the vibrations of the body What brain entrainment is and how sound affects it Why we are wired to receive sound and how different sounds aff...

Episode Highlights With Mimi Bouchard How she got into meditation What separates her superhuman app from other meditations Why her purpose is to help people feel more alive How she didn’t like meditation for a long time The way she overcame an eating disorder and changed her body with visualization and meditation How to use these mental rehearsal meditations to reprogram the mind toward where you...