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Send us Fan Mail Join Karen Penfold for a somatic, body based meditation for grief. David Kessler, an expert on grief states, "Enter your moments with compassion for yourself, allow space for your feelings and let yourself experience your feelings without struggling to resist or edit them." This meditation is an invitation to embody this message with a trauma informed somatic meditation,...

Send us Fan Mail Join Susan Whitaker in this guided meditation for planting seeds of light. This is a continuation of her last meditation, " Finding your Inner Garden ", but it can also be enjoyed on it's own. There are certain things that are essential to living a healthy, happy, meaningful life. Susan believes that yoga is one of them and had dedicated her life to sharing it with...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Wellness Within Founder Patti Brown, MS LMFT is joined by honored guest, Cynthia Li, MD .  Dr. Li's health challenges with an autoimmune thyroid condition and chronic fatigue changed her life and her practice of medicine. In this in-depth conversation about healing, she shares her experience of how Zhineng (Wisdom Healing) Qigong contributed to her radical rem...

Send us Fan Mail Listen as Karen Penfold leads a somatic meditation to aid you to a restful sleep.   Karen is an inspiring 11-year, two-time breast cancer survivor who was introduced to yoga while recovering from treatments, surgeries, and a broken pelvis.  Karen shares, “I could tell my body was healing and getting stronger, but something else was happening.  I was healing from the severe anxiety...

Send us Fan Mail Join Susan Whitaker as she leads a guided imagery meditation that invites you to find your inner garden. There are certain things that are essential to living a healthy, happy, meaningful life. Susan believes that yoga is one of them and had dedicated her life to sharing it with others. She has taught and practiced yoga for over 45 years. Susan specializes in adapting basic yoga p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nancy Birang BS, NC joins us to speak about the scientifically-proven healing properties of Herbs and Spices.  Nancy is a Board-Certified Nutrition Consultant and founder and owner of Four Seasons Nutrition , an integrative nutrition consulting service for individuals, families and groups. She has been providing integrative nutrition consultation services since th...

Send us Fan Mail Join Anika Mahavni as she leads a 15-minute guided meditation to help with harnessing your emotions.  Use this meditation to get to know your emotions more intimately and come back to it when you're feeling out of center. Anika is a second-year medical student at Saint Louis University who is passionate about mental health. She began the practice of meditation 2 years ago and...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays can be a time of great joy and celebration,  but for some, it can also be a time of grief. Wellness Within Founder Patti Brown, MS LMFT discusses giving ourselves the permission to grieve honestly. She debunks the concept that grief should be contained within a certain period of time, and discusses how navigating grief is deeper than trying to contain it to a prescrip...

Send us Fan Mail Join Susan Whitaker in a guided meditation for inviting gifts that arise from quieting the mind. There are certain things that are essential to living a healthy, happy, meaningful life. Susan believes that yoga is one of them and had dedicated her life to sharing it with others. She has taught and practiced yoga for over 45 years. Susan specializes in adapting basic yoga poses to...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that the American Cancer Society estimated that there were going to be 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed in the year 2021? There is growing evidence around less-publicized chemical exposures that have been linked to certain cancers such as breast cancer. So what are these chemical exposures that we encounter every day, and what can we do to reduce our exposure? L...

Send us Fan Mail Listen as Karen leads a meditation to help you to pay kind attention to your body and journey through a practice of self-compassion.   Karen is an inspiring 11-year, two-time breast cancer survivor who was introduced to yoga while recovering from treatments, surgeries, and a broken pelvis.  Karen shares, “I could tell my body was healing and getting stronger, but something else wa...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy this relaxing meditation for opening your heart to gratitude. Distinguish what you think you should be grateful for and that of which is more genuine inside of you, to learn what you are really most grateful for. Wellness Within is the realization of a dream for Patti. After 20 years in private practice as a psychotherapist, she decided to honor the tugging at her heart and...

Send us Fan Mail Join Susan Whitaker as she leads a guided meditation that invites you to listen to your inner voice. There are certain things that are essential to living a healthy, happy, meaningful life. Susan believes that yoga is one of them and had dedicated her life to sharing it with others. She has taught and practiced yoga for over 45 years. Susan specializes in adapting basic yoga poses...

Send us Fan Mail Participants in our monthly Compose YOURSELF! Music Therapy classes are frequently invited to join in songwriting experiences with our music therapist, Celeste Keith MT-BC. No previous music experience is needed to participate in these classes. Celeste uses a variety of safe and collaborative approaches to lead group members in crafting songs that give voice to their collective co...

Send us Fan Mail Join Karen Penfold as she leads a somatic meditation for pain relief.  This meditation will calm the nervous system which will help release tension, receive rest, and find relief.  Karen is an inspiring 11-year, two-time breast cancer survivor who was introduced to yoga while recovering from treatments, surgeries, and a broken pelvis.  Karen shares, “I could tell my body was heali...

Send us Fan Mail This chakra is represented by a thousand-petaled lotus made of light, right above the crown of the head. Here is where we connect with that which is greater than ourselves, drawing it into our physical bodies through noticing the constant movement within. All of the chakras are represented here, from the root to the crown. We will ponder how to bring this divine inspiration into o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wellness Within's Patti Brown MS LMFT,  Elizabeth Klein, and Stevie Hannickel have an open, honest, and encouraging discussion about the need for rest during difficult times. This episode speaks to the elephant in the room and addresses how productivity can be tied to identity, how to recognize when we are depressed or unmotivated, how to ask for help or make...

Send us Fan Mail Wellness Within Founder, Patti Brown reads two powerful poems that were recently created by clients who participated in the Poetry in Our Everyday Lives workshop series led by Annie Mascorro, MFA. We thank Aileen Florentz &  Donna Gilreath for sharing their powerful words. The music in today's episode is provided by Elizabeth Proett, MA, CMP from Music Partners in Healthc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wellness Within welcomes a special guest, Constanza Roeder who is a cancer survivor and is the founder and CEO of Hearts Need Art: Creative Support for Patients and Caregivers, a nonprofit in San Antonio, TX. Their mission is to create moments of joy, self-expression, and connection with those facing life-altering health challenges through arts engagement, advocac...

Send us Fan Mail Join Anika Mahavni as she leads a 15-minute guided meditation that includes breathing and visualization techniques to deepen self-love and relaxation. This podcast is sponsored in part by Consolidated Communications and Merchants Bank of Commerce. This podcast is offered freely to ensure everyone has access to these practices and conversations offered by Wellness Within Cancer Sup...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is welcomed by our guest and Breast Cancer Survivor, Nicole Eldredge as she shares her powerful message about early detection and her experience of being diagnosed at the age of 45, right as the pandemic started to develop. Nicole provides her unique perspective as having worked for many years in the Sutter Oncology department prior to her diagnosis. She now serves as...

Send us Fan Mail In this meditation, we focus on light and how we can see the light in people and objects more clearly with our third eye, or Ajna. This light reflects the inner vibration of all beings and all things. This is our place of intuition and imagination. We will learn how to imagine others generating their own light for healing instead of sending light to them. This podcast is sponsored...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Wellness Within Founder Patti Brown, MS LMFT is joined by honored guest, Anne Katz, PhD, RN, FAAN to discuss Cancer and Sexuality.  Dr. Katz addresses the need for oncologists to break the silence on the topic of sexuality with their patients, how survivors and their partners can navigate vulnerable conversations about sexuality, and also how to find body acceptanc...

Send us Fan Mail Patti Brown leads a guided imagery mediation of a walk amongst the trees. This meditation invites you to focus on the change in seasons, including the seasons of your life.  Wellness Within is the realization of a dream for Patti. After 20 years in private practice as a psychotherapist, she decided to honor the tugging at her heart and open a grassroots organization to serve a com...

Send us Fan Mail Join our guest Jeannette Northern and Wellness Within Founder Patti Brown in a conversation about the ancient practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a nature-based healing system that is grounded in the body's innate ability to bring balance and harmony to itself. Jin Shin Jyutsu, like acupressure or acupuncture, activates and opens blocked pathways of energy in the...