Thad Frye is a delightful and kind person who work in private practice with adults working through grief and loss, past traumas, major life transitions, anxiety, depression, self esteem issues and sports traumas and creative performance enhancement. In our conversation here we explore: How and why Thad started working with Brainspotting What is Brainspotting and how it works The relationship between Brainspotting and the body What Brainspotting can treat How Brainspotting is different from EMDR ...
Nov 04, 2020•47 min•Ep. 20
We learn : Why Scott and Amanda chose to get into farming. “ If you're gonna work hard at anything in life, this is work worth doing. ” - Brian The story of how the 63rd st. Farm and CSA came into being. We talk about permaculture: what it is and why it’s valuable for farming. Why they chose to be a CSA (Community Support Agriculture). “I don't really want to put a price tag on what this tomato costs because that's really tough. There's a price that we see in the grocery store, and then there's ...
Jul 28, 2020•49 min•Ep. 19
In this episode we talk with Sara Brody, a doula, a reproductive health coach, and an evolving student of spiritual midwifery and founder of Moon-Lodge a platform for reproductive education and coaching. Sara attended Birthingway College of Midwifery, where she gained much knowledge of the reproductive sciences, while also mastering important clinical skills and the ways of nonviolent communication. She’s traveled to Ina May Gaskin’s, ‘The Farm’ where she was able to learn how to trust the beaut...
Feb 25, 2020
In this honest conversation, Noah and Hannah Kinderlehrer talk about the path to embodied wholeness and how to cultivate the qualities necessary to stay the course. They explore the myth of “happily ever after” and how we, in our actual lives, can find ways to muster the strength to continuously face into the unfolding landscapes (and whatever mucky bogs we may have to traverse alongside the floral meadows). Who is Hannah? Hannah Kinderlehrer believes with all her heart that we are all whole as ...
Jan 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 17
Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource® Educational Programs, Surfing The Creative® International Rites Of Passage Programs, and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of young people through rites of passage, mentoring, and community support based in Boulder, CO. She creates movement based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the jou...
Nov 08, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this conversation we explore: -How and Why Lopa started Rasa….(with a newborn?!) - How Lopa defines Emotional Resilience . - The difference between resilience and bypassing. - How Lopa stays committed to Integrity. - Connection between mental health and physical health. - Adaptogens: What they are and how the affect the nervous system. - How Rasa was formulated as a balancing herbal formula - Lopa’s relationship to Earth and our responsibilities to take care of her. “I never feel more myself ...
Sep 10, 2019•43 min•Ep. 15
“I define health as happiness, I think that they ride in tandem. And for me, happiness and health is being embodied. I'm really living in my body if I'm really here and present. That's when I find health and happiness.” In this episode we explore Sara’s personal healing journey and how she discovered and fell in love with Ayurvedic medicine. “I was terrified of my own voice, and was wading in these deep waters of trying to find myself and terrified of who I was who I am. And My voice is such a h...
Jul 26, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Summary: - Katie explains in depth what trauma is and how it impacts the brain, and why and how trauma causes us to see the world as a threat. - We talk about how and why trauma “disorients us from health.” - We explore the parallels of the Eastern and Western models of trauma. - Katie explains what EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is and how it helps with the process of healing trauma. - We look at how trauma can cause us to shut off parts of ourselves and make our lives mo...
Apr 05, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Tracy Shulsinger is a Holistic Nurse Practitioner and Shamanic Healer practicing at The Healing Collective in Boulder, CO. After exploring how and why Tracy came to practice medicine, we dive into what Functional Medicine, the evolution of traditional Western medicine, is. Then we pivot and explore her practices as a Shamanic Healer and discuss how Western medicine and Shamanic healing can coexist and even work together. THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT OUR INFINITE POTENTIAL FOR WELLNESS - LEARNING HOW TO...
Feb 20, 2019•58 min
In this interview with Reuvain Bacal , a transformational coach who helps highly motivated men and couples, we explore what it means to live from who we truly are. Reuvain helps people become more aware of how their showing up and what habitual patterns may be holding them back. He also facilitates the practice of letting go these conditioned behaviors and embracing the authentic self. I've worked with him personally and I believe this is an inspiring conversation full of rich moments that can h...
Sep 27, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this heartwarming conversation I talk to Avani Dilger, founder of Natural Highs , about the work she's doing to cultivate health in our community and throughout the world.We discuss: Why Avani dedicated her life to understanding drug use and addiction and to helping treat and prevent it. She wanted to know: "Why do beautiful people end on a path that can hurt them?” What is the internal thing that drives people to do destructive things?” How Avani's experiences with altered states through dan...
Apr 17, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode we talk about: How and Why Jo co-created the Conscious Cleanse (hint: it involves a radical turn of events due to a major car accident). In the inspiring story of how Jo was able to challenge the medical paradigm to overcome a diagnosis of long-term disability and the role that yoga and nutritional therapy played in her recover. “You can Heal” Why diets didn’t work for Jo and what she learned from trying one after the next and why weight loss was not the primary answer to her rec...
Mar 17, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Welcome to the Heartseed Health Podcast (http://www.heartseedhealth.com/podcast). Together we’re learning to cultivate health as we talk to incredible health-inspiring people about projects, programs, and events. The beautiful and inspiring story of: -> What the Grief Support Network is and why Wendy created it? -> The importance of culture and how people relate to people who are grieving in the healing process. -> The Role of mindfulness in experiencing and moving through grief. -> ...
Jan 30, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Find everything at: http://www.heartseedhealth.com/podcast In this episode we talk about meditation and mindfulness and how they cultivate our awareness and capacity to get the most out of life. We talk with Ben Gaibel, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Louiseville, CO, who works at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, CO Learn about Ben Gaibel's personal journey in becoming a social worker and therapist. Why moving towards life’s challenges a...
Jan 19, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We discuss: -Why it's important to be able to both "take the driver seat or the passenger seat" in bed and how a couple can explore both roles. -How boundaries are essential for healthy vulnerability. -How to identify your "intimacy threshold" and grow beyond it and why it's important to have access to multiple types of intimacy. -How Daniel is modeling manhood, fatherhood, and intimacy for his two sons. -The role intention plays in creating intimacy. We finish the interview with some great prac...
Aug 10, 2017•21 min
We all seek connection with those around us because it’s an innate human need. There are many ways we connect. We have casual conversations with our friends and small talk with strangers and acquaintances. Typically, we seek a deeper more intimate connection with our loved ones, and yet sometimes it’s surprisingly difficult to get there. Despite years of living together, deep love, and an everlasting commitment, it can still be difficult to talk about certain needs and desires. This is all the m...
Jul 31, 2017•35 min
Astrid and Leela are two special woman who have co-created The Red Earth Herbal Gathering - a safe and sacred space to grow community centered around honoring the feminine and the divine. This two day transformative event happening August 19-20 on Pachamama Farm will be offering powerful workshops about plant-medicine and womanhood. The programs include a Rite of passage for girls becoming woman which will be facilitated by Lorene Wapotich - Founder and Executive Director of Feet on the Earth Pr...
Jul 26, 2017•26 min
This is a great interview with Dakota Hindman, a doula and ceremonialist. It was a lot of fun to connect with Dakota. I enjoyed hearing her thoughts on supporting families while they birth and appreciated the inclusion of ceremony and sanctity in the transformative process. We discussed some of the cultural shifts we’d like to see occur and how the current culture impacts the experience for a lot of people.
Jun 19, 2017•50 min
Hi Everyone and welcome to the Heartseed Health Podcast. In this episode we’re exploring the midwifery model of birth. We’ll be talking with 2 midwives from the Community Roots Midwife Collective in Longmont, Colorado. All of us (as far as I know) were birthed onto this planet by our mothers one way or another (thanks Mom!). It is a powerful and sacred event the can carry a lot of significance for the family. There are many different ways of approaching birth, and as a culture, here in the US, w...
May 26, 2017•44 min
We are excited to announce the Heartseed Health Podcast! This podcast is part of an endeavor to promote more connectivity and awareness throughout our community about beautiful health-inspiring events, people, projects, and organizations. You can think of it as a local holistic health focused radio show. It is a mixture of interviews and “resource episodes” that include guided meditations and educational information on different topics. Here we have an interview with Rachael about her journey to...
May 12, 2017•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
