Untamed & Unfiltered Wellness

I've come to hate email. Not because email is inherently bad, but because my inbox has become one giant to-do list, and honestly, I'm over it. In this episode, I'm talking about email overwhelm, the ridiculous number of inboxes I've somehow created for myself, and why opening email can feel more like an obligation than communication. Somewhere along the way, we went from sendin...

What is your relationship with your body? Your mind? Your environment? Your time? We spend a lot of time talking about what we should do for our health, but rarely stop to consider how we relate to the things that shape our everyday experience. In this episode, we take a more philosophical look at holistic wellness and explore the relationships we have with ourselves and the world around us. How w...

Boundaries have a reputation problem. The word gets heard as wall, rejection, conflict, when it might be one of the most loving things a person can offer, to themselves and to everyone around them.  Few people embodied that better than Dolly Parton, who could hold a line with as much warmth as she held a room. She held true to her self worth and was not afraid to say "No." This episode r...

Apple Watch. Oura Ring. Whoop. If you're wearing one, you already know how easy it is to start living by the number instead of using it as information.  In this episode I'm breaking down the real difference between medical wearables like continuous glucose monitors and cardiac monitors, which have a clear purpose, and voluntary wearables that can quietly turn into a source of anxiety ins...

Growing up, a thank you note wasn't optional. Every birthday, every Christmas, every gift, you sat at the table until it was written. As an adult, that ritual quietly disappeared, replaced by a quick text, until a handwritten note in the mailbox stopped me in my tracks and made me ask why. In this episode, we dig into why we let go of small rituals like this one, what it reveals about the tas...

I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole about Florida landscaping and came out the other side having learned about something called therapeutic horticulture.  Turns out getting your hands in the dirt is backed by an entire field of research, used with veterans, stroke survivors and people in psychiatric care.  In this episode I break down what therapeutic horticulture actually is, why it works and why n...

The 3 A.M. wake-up may happen in the middle of the night, but the first step to fixing it starts before you ever get into bed. In this episode, we get into why most of us are not actually winding down at night. We are answering emails, watching TV, scrolling our phones and handling one more thing, then expecting our bodies to shut off because we finally climbed into bed. You will learn why your ne...

If you slept a full night and still woke up feeling like you have a hangover you didn't earn, then this episode is for you. In this episode we get into why waking up groggy has less to do with how many hours you slept and more to do with where you were in your sleep cycle when the alarm went off.  You'll learn what's actually happening while you sleep, what your ultradian rhythm is...

There's a version of you that used to be up at 4:45 a.m. for a 5:30 gym class, no problem. And there's a version of you now where that same early hour feels like a personal attack.  In this episode I talk about chronotype, the real, largely genetic reason some of us are wired for mornings and some of us aren't, and why that changes across your life, especially after menopause.  I&ap...

You're sitting in the drive-through, ordering the drink that has to get you through the next three hours. You've tried melatonin, sleep aids, maybe a prescription and you're still exhausted.  In this episode I answer the question so many women are asking: can holistic wellness actually improve your energy naturally?  I'll tell you why exhaustion is a rhythm problem, not a willp...

Ep 60: How Late Is Too Late for Caffeine? We know caffeine wakes us up, but do you know what it's doing to your sleep later that night? This episode is about why timing matters with caffeine, that five-hour half-life, how it works the same way whether it's coffee or an energy drink and how your body's sleep signal are affected. If you love coffee, tea, refreshers or anything with ca...

EP59: Can Holistic Wellness Help With Stress and Anxiety? Can holistic wellness actually help with stress and anxiety? The short answer is yes, but probably not in the way you're expecting. This week's episode drops on the June 29th full moon and if you've been feeling more anxious than usual, more emotionally activated, less able to settle there's a reason for that.  In this e...

Episode 58: The Internet Is Not Your Wellness Plan Ever find yourself 47 tabs deep into health research, more confused than when you started and doing absolutely nothing as a result? You’re stuck in exactly the place the internet was designed to leave you. In this episode, I’m sharing a real story about someone I love who got hit with scary news and immediately turned to Google for answers. What h...

Episode 57: Three Reasons You Wake Up Exhausted That Have Nothing To Do With Sleep You're sleeping but you're not resting. You're waking up exhausted and you can't figure out why.  In this episode I'm sharing something personal, I had a string of terrible sleep and when I looked back at what was actually going on, it wasn't one thing. Three different nights, three com...

Episode 56: Eating Doesn’t Have to Be This Complicated Eating has become way more complicated than it needs to be. Calories, macros, tracking apps, food rules, restriction, meal plans and somewhere along the way, we turned eating into a complicated formula. Our bodies don't just respond to what we eat, it also responds to when we eat too. In this episode, we’re talking about chrono-nutrition,...

Episode 55: Intermittent Fasting After 40: What You Need to Know Intermittent fasting became one of the biggest wellness trends on the internet, but is it actually healthy for everyone? In this episode we break down the difference between intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating and why that distinction matters far more than most influencers want you to believe. This conversation dives into...

Episode 54:  Why Silence Feels Uncomfortable Now Ever notice how the second things finally get quiet at night… your brain suddenly gets louder? In this episode, we talk about why so many people struggle to mentally shut down at night and how constant stimulation, scrolling, noise, notifications and nonstop input are affecting our ability to truly rest. This conversation explores: why silence feels...

Episode 53: You can understand your stress intellectually and still feel completely overwhelmed physically. In this episode, we’re talking about EFT tapping, what it is, why people use it and why body-based tools are becoming more important in a world where most of us are overstimulated, overbooked, emotionally overloaded, and constantly “on.” This is not the weird internet version of tapping. We’...

Episode 52:  Why Your Brain Was Never Meant for This Much Noise  Constant noise has become normal. TVs in the background, nonstop notifications, podcasts during every quiet moment, scrolling before bed, multitasking through meals and conversations. But what is all of this constant stimulation actually doing to our nervous system? In this episode, we explore overstimulation, sensory overload, cogni...

Episode 51: Mental Clutter | Why You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It If you’ve ever sat down to do something simple and ended up doing nothing, this episode is for you. We’re not calling this procrastination anymore. What you’re dealing with is mental clutter. Just like your computer with too many open tabs, you're brain has too much input and a nervous system that’s completely maxed out....

Episode 50 is here! I reflect on what 49 episodes have revealed about stress, sleep, movement, lifestyle choices and what it really means to live well in modern life. Plus: the unofficial Episode 50 awards and what’s next for the podcast.  Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to Get to the Root , the companion newsletter where we go even deeper. Click HERE to sign up! Website: https://oliviabellco.com I hop...

Technology promised more freedom, more efficiency and more time. So why do so many people feel distracted, overstimulated and disconnected from their own lives? In the final episode of the Living Well series, we explore whether technology is truly helping us live better or simply making it easier to stay on autopilot. This episode ties together the lessons from the previous five episodes and shows...

We’ve built a life where almost everything is easier and yet, we’re more stressed, overwhelmed, and disconnected than ever. In this episode, I’m breaking down what actually happened. It’s not that stress disappeared...it changed. We traded short-term, physical stress, the kind that builds strength, for constant mental and emotional stress that never fully resolves. And at the same time, we removed...

How long could you go without leaving your house? A day? A few days? Longer? In this episode, we’re digging into what modern life has quietly removed from our daily experience. Not just movement, but connection, presence and the need to physically engage with the world around us. This is a conversation about how a life built around convenience, screens and efficiency is reshaping how we feel, how...

Most people don’t ignore their health on purpose, they’re just busy living on autopilot. Eating in the car. Multitasking through meals. Pushing through exhaustion. And when something finally feels off, we go looking for a quick fix. But what if the real issue isn’t a lack of solutions…it’s that we’ve stopped paying attention to our own bodies? In this episode, we’re breaking down how modern health...