In today’s episode, I’m talking with Dr. Adrienne Stein, a board-certified naturopathic doctor on a mission to change the narrative around menopause. With over 20 years of experience treating thousands of women in perimenopause and menopause, Dr. Adrienne sheds light on the lack of resources and understanding many women face during this transition. She sees menopause not just as a health condition but as a pivotal opportunity for women to transform their health, step into their power, and embrac...
Jan 10, 2025•53 min•Ep. 52
In today’s episode, I’m talking with Christine Northrup, an LCSW, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and the owner of Take Root Counseling and Coaching, a group practice specializing in highly individualized eating disorder treatment. Christine also runs ED Recovery Coaching, where she helps individuals deepen their recovery journey. Drawing from her own recovery experience, she works through a somatically oriented, attachment-based lens and is an advanced practitioner of Embodied Recovery fo...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 8 min
In today’s episode, I’m talking with Jess Seitz, a trauma-informed pelvic floor occupational therapist and vaginismus recovery coach who helps women around the world break free from the pain and frustration of vaginismus so they can enjoy intimacy without fear. After overcoming vaginismus herself, Jess developed a unique program that’s helped dozens of women turn pain into pleasure. We talk about her personal journey, her trauma-informed approach, and how nervous system regulation plays a key ro...
Dec 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 50
In today’s episode, I got to chat with a colleague who I got to meet in person for the first time recently, which was pretty magical. Lauren Garchow is a psychotherapist, mind-body coach, and chronic pain survivor based in Los Angeles, California. Her chronic pain healing journey revealed the mind’s powerful ability to change and adapt, igniting her passion to support others in their mind-body healing. With over a decade of experience in the social work field, she currently owns a private practi...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 49
Welcome back, dear listener. In today’s episode, I got to chat with someone I’ve admired from afar for a long time, Whitney Rydman. I first came across Whitney some years ago, when I was early in my recovery from migraine and I was binging Nicole Sachs’s podcast, which is called The Cure for Chronic Pain. Whitney was a guest who came on the podcast to talk about her own personal recovery from pelvic pain. She had such an engaging and inspiring voice that I wanted to know more, so I followed her ...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Welcome back, dear listener. In today’s episode, I got to chat about the intersection between nervous system regulation and sex with my wonderful guest Vanessa Blackstone. Vanessa is a therapist, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and she is the Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center as well as a co-author of The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook , which is available for pre-order now and comes out on November 1st, so I definitely recommend you grab a copy. Vanessa ear...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Welcome back, dear listener. In today’s episode, I got to have a very interesting conversation with my colleague Katie LaCelle. We talked about using Internal Family Systems Therapy to recover from insomnia, we talked about detoxing from early childhood survival habits of urgency and overwork, we talked about so many nuances of the mind-body process that I’m almost sure you’ll see yourself in at least some part of our chat. Katie is a somatic IFS practitioner & leadership coach. She is passi...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Welcome back, dear listener. In today's episode, I got to chat with another dear friend and colleague, Petra Schmider. And I'm so excited to have Petra on the podcast to talk about a condition that is getting a lot more attention lately, but that is also surrounded by a lot of confusion and conflicting information. Petra has a deep body of knowledge and understanding about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, or EDS, because she herself was diagnosed with EDS. She's also a mind-body practitioner who has used...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr
Welcome back dear listeners. Today, I have no guest because I’m going to share another talk that I gave recently. Using my voice is something that I’ve discovered I love to do. And something I’m particularly passionate about is breaking down the concepts of chronic pain recovery into very simple language. There are lots of different ways to communicate these concepts, and there are many very eloquent practitioners and researchers out there who use neuroscience terminology, facts and figures from...
Oct 11, 2024•18 min
Welcome back, dear listener. In today’s episode, I got to chat with a dear friend and colleague, Phil de la Haye. Phil is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner and mind-body coach based near Bristol in the UK. He has his own history of chronic pain, so he has a personal interest in this work and a great passion for supporting other people who are in recovery from chronic symptoms. I personally find the IFS framework to be incredibly helpful with chronic symptom recovery and Phil did an a...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Welcome back, dear listener. Today’s episode is a little bit different from what I usually do on this podcast. Because earlier this year, I did something quite a bit outside my comfort zone, and now I want to share it with you. I’ll cut to the chase, the thing I did was I got on stage and told a very intimate and personal story about my own healing. It was an empowering experience, and I know that my story touched people and helped people, as I hope it will do for you too. Now, you might be wond...
Sep 06, 2024•23 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. In this episode, it was so fun to meet a kindred spirit who, like me, used to work in television and is now a mind-body practitioner. And also like me, this guest is a big proponent of self-compassion and self-trust. Rebecca Tolin is a mind-body coach, educator and writer who comes to this field through a 13-year saga with chronic fatigue syndrome. After seeing 50 practitioners, Rebecca finally recovered through the mind-body model. This experience was so profound t...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. I’m so glad to bring you this conversation with my guest Amy Corfeli, about living with endometriosis and using mind-body tools to manage the symptoms of a physical, biological condition. Amy, whose pronouns are she/her, is an endometriosis advocate who was diagnosed with endo at thirty-three, sixteen years after her symptoms began. She’s the host of the podcast In Sixteen Years of Endometriosis , which explores endometriosis with a multidisciplinary focus, includin...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. I’m excited to share with you a raw and unfiltered conversation I had with my friend and colleague Deb Malkin, all about the beautifully messy reality of being a human being who is evolving and growing while also helping others to heal and grow. Deb, whose pronouns are she/they, is a feminist, master certified mind-body pain recovery coach, specializing in using the tools of neuro + bioplasticity and consciously curious hypno-coaching to help people unlearn pain and...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. In this episode, I got to go really deep with my friend and guest Leanne Rose, and we went to some places that you might not be expecting on this podcast. But I think you’ll discover pretty quickly why and how Leanne’s work relates the chronic pain recovery. Leanne is a trained mental health professional and interpersonal therapist who has transitioned into the realm of energetics and source trance channeling. Leanne brings a unique perspective on how energy impacts...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. In this episode, my heart was bursting with joy to have this sweet reunion with a former coaching client! Courtney LaCaria is the farmer and fiber artist behind the company, Form and Function Creative. She lives with her family on an alpaca farm that focuses on regenerative practices and provides the fleece that she spins into yarn and weaves into fiber goodies. Finding inspiration in nature and stories, Courtney's work reflects her love for art as both product and ...
Jul 12, 2024•54 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. In this episode, I’m excited to share with you a conversation I had with my colleague Shaheen Jaffary. Shaheen helps midlife women to be free from neuroplastic chronic pain or other stress-induced, persistent conditions in her capacity as a SIRPA Trained mind body coach and award-winning Holistic Therapist. She supports clients via her online coaching programs as well as through reflexology and other holistic treatments at her treatment center in the city of Leeds, ...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. In this episode I got to reconnect with a colleague I met in Canada in a program where we shared our stories and our work out loud on stage. Kristi McLeod totally blew me away when she did a demo of her work with an audience member. And I knew that I had to have her on this podcast — partly so that you could learn about the work she does, and selfishly, so that I could be her client for a demo, which you’ll hear in this episode. Kristi is a multidisciplinary healer,...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. On this episode, I sat down for a chat with Andrew. Andrew is someone I met through Instagram — it’s funny that how that happens. Once you start sharing your own story, it’s like you become a lighthouse and when other people who see the light you’re shining resonate with your story or with the work you’re doing, they will seek you out. And if you relate to their story too, you can wind up months later feeling like you know this person just from exchanging messages a...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. On this episode, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Harry Macansh, a speaker and wellness coach who recovered from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) after initially being told that this condition was incurable. He now helps others to recover as well. Over more than half a decade, Harry has spent upwards of a quarter of a million dollars in the US & Australia acquiring an arsenal of knowledge and modalities that he now affordably delivers to others, both f...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Welcome back, dear listeners. It was so fun to record this chat with someone who’s both a good friend and a colleague. May Flam is a leadership coach with nearly 10 years of experience helping busy professionals who are parents to curb their resentment and burnout at work and at home. She is based in Hoboken, New Jersey. During our conversation, we talked about May’s chronic pain recovery story and how that journey relates to the work she does as a coach, specifically in helping people learn the...
May 24, 2024•57 min
Welcome back, dear listeners, before we get into today’s episode, I wanted to invite you to a live online workshop that I’m hosting called Journaling for Chronic Pain Relief. Journaling was a hugely important tool in my recovery, and I’m going to teach you how to release emotions, tension and pain from your body through writing in a way that’s gentle and safe and won’t overwhelm your nervous system. I hope that you’ll join me, I would love to see and meet you there. The workshop will take place ...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Welcome back, dear listeners, before we get into today’s episode I wanted to invite you to a live online workshop that I’m hosting called Journaling for Chronic Pain Relief. Journaling was a hugely important tool in my recovery, and I’m going to teach you how to release emotions, tension and pain from your body through writing in a way that’s gentle and safe and won’t overwhelm your nervous system. I hope that you’ll join me, I would love to see and meet you there. The workshop will take place o...
Apr 19, 2024•53 min
In this episode, I tell three raw, personal stories about how the body can react to fear with a wide range of surprising symptoms — and how we can help our body feel safe again so that symptoms can subside. Story #1: How a gut renovation triggered a gut reaction. Story #2: How a bus driver's kindness was all the medicine I needed. Story #3: An allergic reaction to my own anger, and how I moved through it. I hope these stories help you normalize the ways that your body responds to everyday stress...
Apr 12, 2024•33 min
Welcome dear listeners to this solo episode! It's been a while since I did an episode without a guest, and I wanted to chat one on one with YOU today about a topic that's been coming up in a lot of my groups, including my recent Healing with Purpose program, which just wrapped (thank you for all who joined, it was a fantastic group!) This topic is exposure therapy for chronic pain recovery. What I find is that many people on the chronic pain recovery path are familiar with the concept of exposur...
Apr 05, 2024•22 min
Hello dear listener, welcome to today’s episode, in which I was interviewed by my colleague Catherine Courtice about the importance of self-compassion in healing from chronic symptoms. Catherine is a writer, speaker, advocate and educator empowering those facing chronic pain and life-altering diagnoses. Her background in Kinesiology, Education, mobility, therapy, and coaching provides deep insight into the human experience. Having journeyed through chronic pain herself, she brings empathy, insig...
Mar 29, 2024•34 min
Hello dear listener, welcome to today’s episode, in which I got to have a conversation with someone I’ve been a big fan of for quite a while. My guest, Dani Fagan, specializes in the care of the chronic condition/mind-body medicine community, having healed from years of chronic pain and anxiety using these tools herself. She is a coach and teaches yoga, meditation and breath work to the self-healing community. Her approach harnesses the power of the nervous system to help folks recover from chro...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Hello dear listener, welcome to today’s episode, in which I had the pleasure of speaking with my colleague and fellow seeker Daniel Atkins. Daniel holds the title of Doctor of Psychology but is currently practicing as a channeler and intuitive psychologist. He guides individuals and group workshops to understand the lineages and layers of emotion and belief-based trauma they carry from early life, ancestry, and beyond. He combines the foundation of his trauma-focused clinical training with intui...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Hello dear listener, welcome to today’s episode, in which I got to interview one of my all-time heroes in mind-body medicine. My guest, Dr. Howard Schubiner, is an internist and pediatrician, who attained the rank of full Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1999 and is now a Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has authored more than 100 ...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr
Hello dear listener, welcome to today’s episode, in which I had the pleasure of speaking with my friend and colleague Nisha Mody. Nisha is a Relational Healing & Life Coach, Writer, and Speaker. Her mission is to give high-achieving helpers permission to not get everything “right”. Her work explores the intersection of anti-oppression, intergenerational healing, and relating. If you hear Nisha speak or coach with her, she will support you to work with your feelings, claim your agency, and re...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 1 min
