Wellness While Walking

Three coaches discuss three health books that can change your life! Join our book chat to learn new ideas that change your health and wellness trajectory! My colleagues, Sarah Danforth and Sudha Gopal, and I will discuss The Four Agreements, Lost Connections, and This is Your Brain on Food, and some next steps we've taken based on the books! LET'S TALK THE WALK! ***NEW*** Facebook Group for Our Co...

In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet which will help us determine our holiday values while keeping our self-care front and center during December, or any other busy time in your life! See the show notes for information on getting the  compa...

In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet which will help us determine our holiday values while keeping our self-care front and center during December, or any other busy time in your life! See the show notes for information on getting the  compa...

In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet which will help us determine our holiday values while keeping our self-care front and center during December, or any other busy time in your life! See the show notes for information on getting the  compa...

In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet which will help us determine our holiday values while keeping our self-care front and center during December, or any other busy time in your life! See the show notes for information on getting the compan...

In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet which will help us determine our holiday values while keeping our self-care front and center during December, or any other busy time in your life! See the show notes for information on getting the worksh...

What exactly is burnout, and how do we know if we're suffering or at risk of experiencing it?  Today's episode will give us the answers to those questions, and will be instructive for all of us. Cait Donovan will discuss signs and symptoms of burnout, and my guess is that you're feeling some of them. An episode of Cait's podcast, FRIED: the burnout podcast is on tap, and it's a powerful taste of t...

When Karli Amonite couldn't get the food she needed to heal from a chronic illness, she and her husband dug in, and started farming to have more control over what they – and their community – ate. Even if we're unable to do the same, it's incredibly useful to know what can change a food from being healthy to less so (SPOILER ALERT: it could be the soy, corn, grains, GMOs…) Join us for the informat...

Kitchen tips and tricks abound in the second part of our chat with Michelle Tam, co-founder of Nom Nom Paleo, who brings us seemingly endless delicious and easy-to-follow recipes, 3 killer cookbooks, delicious spice blends, and more! She'll coach us on our kitchen mindset as well! And then I'll let you know how and why I got on the Paleo bandwagon, where I stand now and an update on the friend I d...

Nom Nom Paleo's Michelle Tam is in the house -- and specifically the kitchen -- today! Her infectious warmth, humor and dose of real-life perspective helps us on the path to cooking simple, healthy meals bursting with flavor! Wouldn't you love to treat yourself and your family to a dinner of Won Ton Meatballs or Sheet Pan Salmon Teriyaki or Cracklin' Chicken on a weeknight? Michelle is our guide t...

Long or short walks? Brisk or slow? Count steps or not? Will walking help me lose weight? How can I be motivated to walk? These are questions that come up for us about our walks, and Dr. Marie Murphy from Northern Ireland and Scotland, who studies walking and is an expert at getting the population to be more active, is the perfect expert to answer these questions and more! She brings research AND...

Documentary films can be powerfully persuasive, and our guest today helps us understand why, and then gives us a roadmap for how to watch films in the genre. Jason Osder -- filmmaker and professor of documentary at The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs -- will be our guide today, as we learn some behind-the-scenes conventions filmmakers use, and how to navigate docu...

((BREAKING! Get 10% off the Fit Feet Program*!)) Let's talk footwear, pain while walking and what to do about it, and our feet as key to our ability to balance and stay injury-free! We sit at the feet of Dr. Courtney Conley of Gait Happens, learning wisdom that can help us achieve a life of health and vitality via small steps!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness Wh...

Good health starts with our feet! Today, we'll delve into feet, toes, ankles and everything they're connected to (which is every other part of our bodies!) with Dr. Courtney Conley of Gait Happens! This pivotal conversation gives us the next steps to take that will keep us on a happy and fulfilling path of walking and moving well through life! Plenty of fixes for what ails us, and how to head off...

Does obesity drive disease, or vice versa? We talk TOFI (Thin On The Outside/Fat On The Inside), BMI, sugar in pediatric cancer clinics, salt being potentially wrongly maligned, keto and vegan diets, calories and more! Our teacher is Dr. Robert Lustig – your socks will be rocked!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking...

Our bodies (and also our minds) were meant to be challenged, and sometimes, in our comfortable society, the challenges aren't there. It's okay: we can orchestrate a few challenges fairly easily to get all the advantages of our systems being taxed as designed -- advantages which include enhanced health, feeling great, slowing aging and building our resilience! Also, stay for the shout-outs and more...

Yep, we dig into why (and how often) my wearable technology is telling me to stretch my legs, and what I plan to do about it. And then we talk about wellness and tech a bit more, as tech companies come under fire for their negative impact on our wellbeing. Finally, a nudge to be aware, lest we fall into the same pattern over and over.   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wel...

Maybe forming a group to help support you on your health journey is outside your comfort zone. But maybe it's worth considering doing it nonetheless! Today, you'll hear how once such wellness community – which happens to be at a workplace in a small town – makes a difference in its participants' lives. And we'll also talk about good venues for other possible groups and what kinds of things they mi...

Our levels of hunger and satiety are controlled in part by hormones, as are many of our bodies' systems. What can we do -- in our daily lives – to ensure our hormones are balanced, so that our bodies work their best and we enjoy optimal health? Dr. Leslie Meyers, ND is back to help us navigate our daily lives in a way to keep the trains moving smoothly! And we'll delve into what the power of compo...

Insulin, cortisol, ghrelin, leptin, estrogen – these are some of the hormones that keep the trains running on schedule. Many things can interrupt those processes, though. We chat with Dr. Leslie Meyers about small steps we can take to manage our stress and energy levels, sleep cycles, metabolism and more, and how to know if we need help getting things in check. Dr. Meyers rocks at explaining our p...

We do a deep dive into a new approach to thinking about dinner, since  the change in seasons can up-end our routines. Between eating out/getting take out and cooking from a recipe, there lies a sweet spot for many, and we'll talk about this undervalued approach today. We also get a loving nudge from poet Mary Oliver: can we use her challenge to help us consider our lives and where we're headed? We...

Just 2 minutes of walking could have an impact on our health! We'll dive into some new research that highlighted the potential power of these 2-5 minute mini-walks, and talk about what that could look like for us. And we'll continue our conversation with Jonathon Stalls about longer, slow walks and his cross-country, intentionally slow walk – and what he discovered along the way.   LET'S TALK THE...

Walking for fitness and health is finally receiving its proper glory, after being under-recognized for far too long. No other physical activity offers as much opportunity for us to experience being human as walking can. Jonathon Stalls brings to light – in our conversation and in his new book – how walking (not too fast!) can be a conduit to connecting, growing, loving, exploring, celebrating, hea...

Weight loss isn't a typical topic here on Wellness While Walking. Perhaps you've heard the advice to "eat less, move more," in order to shed unwanted pounds. Even if that worked for all (hint: it doesn't), not having laid the proper foundation first dooms it from the start. Let's dive in a bit today, to find out what other ingredients are key if we're hoping to lose the still-present Quarantine 15...

Sometimes, what's old is new again, and that's true with a type of movement we might want to reconsider! Join me and my guest, Hampton Liu, as he offers a comprehensive workout in his trademark warm, encouraging, funny manner!   LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show not...