We can’t rely on punishing popular health practices to offer us the gentle healing we need. Dr. Stephanie Zgraggen is a chiropractor and a nutritionist who focuses on the clinical nutrition side of her practice and helps women heal naturally. Many women suffer from a variety of health issues and can’t get the help they need from standardized healthcare practices or commercialized products. Extreme dieting, intense training, fasting, and pills can be more detrimental to the body than helpful, but...
Apr 26, 2023•41 min
There is a lot of confusion out there about how much protein you need in a day. That is why I really enjoyed this conversation with Beth Lipton. Beth is a food and wellness writer and shares her tips on why it is important to have meat-centric meals. Eating is all about self-care and giving the body what it needs, so the most important eating habit we can practice is listening to our body. Our body requires a lot of energy to keep up with all of life’s demands, and the older we get, the more we ...
Apr 19, 2023•44 min
Take care of yourself to ensure you have the mindset needed to serve others. Liz Johnson is the owner and Care Planning Consultant for Seniors at Always Best Care Bergen & Passaic. She shares critical healthcare information and resources for seniors. When family members become ill, guilt and heavy emotional burdens can make handling the situation problematic. The key is to practice self-care during these challenging times so we can show up as our best selves and take on the responsibility of...
Apr 12, 2023•38 min
The key to balancing work and life is to take more time for self-care. Beth Ramer is a career counselor and professional coach who helps women balance the alignment of work and life by prioritizing their well-being. The unfortunate truth is that the concept of work/life balance is often an illusion because being a high achiever can push us into a state of trying to constantly manage unrealistic schedules. Being in a chronic state of hyper-mode and dealing with persistent stress will compound ove...
Apr 05, 2023•36 min
The healthcare system needs to view obesity through a more compassionate lens. Dr. Beverly Tchang is an endocrinologist who works with a medical team to help support patients seeking obesity management in a holistic and individualized way. Weight issues have historically been viewed by society and medicine as a problem that is centered on lifestyle and reflect an individual’s poor choices. Modern medical research proves that the inability to lose weight is a multifaceted issue linked to hormonal...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min
It’s time to stop putting our ambitions on the back burner and find our true passions. Samrah Kazmi is an entrepreneur, trend hunter, and startup advisor in the fintech industry and shares her thoughts on staying true to yourself and your passions in your professional life. It’s so easy for us to lose our true nature in the working world, and we often lose focus while climbing the corporate ladder instead of pursuing who we really want to be. The key to building the confidence to chase our dream...
Mar 22, 2023•36 min
Menopause can be challenging for many women, but there are ways to make it easier. Bette Vargas is a certified holistic health coach and the creator of Crazy, Sexy Menopause, and she helps post-menopausal women improve their well-being and live more gracefully and vibrantly. First and foremost, regular exercise and healthy eating are essential for alleviating menopausal symptoms. Your body constantly gives you feedback on what activities and foods are helpful and harmful, so listening to your bo...
Mar 15, 2023•37 min
If you are waxing and waning with your motivation, there is a strong reason for that. While it is perfectly normal to have drops in motivation during your health journey, we need to ask ourselves why we feel this way. There is a lesson in our negative mindsets, and if we stop blaming ourselves and become curious about why we think the way we do, we can learn to shift and control our thoughts. It may not be easy, but you can break habitual negativity with even the smallest of changes. Take the ti...
Mar 10, 2023•19 min
We need to stop denying reality and start practicing acceptance. Stop putting everything else in your life ahead of yourself and take responsibility for your health because you can’t look after your loved ones or enjoy your hobbies as much if you are unhealthy and stressed. If you are practicing self-care but thinking negatively about yourself in the process, you will never realize all the benefits of your actions because negativity puts our bodies in a state of stress, and we do not perform pro...
Feb 02, 2023•34 min
👩 Mindie is getting her master's in marriage & family counseling and is doing research on burnout syndrome: everybody needs recovery time so we don't become a depleted nation. 02:25 🤳 Make your body a leaner, meaner machine by taking time to unwind: the phone is often the main work-home interference. 10:24 🥱 Sleep compromises are not good, but we all have them sometimes. 13:52 🌸 Lead with empathy but know the difference between a mistake and a misstep: don't hover over your employees but...
Jan 31, 2023•34 min
🧠 Trauma is stored in the body: our brain is built on our experiences and relationships. 03:23 ✅ When the vagus nerve is toned, we are in a safe and connected physiological state. 06:50 👪 Why creating a strong vagal tone is important: how trauma gets stored in us. 09:58 🤗 It takes a lot of energy to self-regulate but zero energy to be naturally regulated with a trusted loved one. 15:02 💞 Our nervous system is attenuated when we are playful with people we trust: all people are trying to move ...
Jan 30, 2023•46 min
Women need to have their voices heard in the medical care system. Yvette Sims is a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s health and talks about the decline of femininity in the healthcare system. One of the biggest problems of the modern healthcare system is the shift towards prioritizing the business model of making money over focusing on patients’ needs. This change incentivizes doctors to see the maximum number of patients and offers extremely limited time for the individual, which re...
Jan 27, 2023•34 min
✅ We have inner dialogues around our goals all the time: you can be in the exact same situation as someone else but feel completely different. 00:22 👉 The only person who can make a change is you - not medication, diet change, or exercise, but being proactive: it's all about perspective, and you have control to change it - get to the root story first and build up on that. 02:40 💙 One of the most pervasive and damaging stories we tell ourselves is that we are not enough: change internal dialog ...
Jan 26, 2023•19 min
✅ You want to be fabulously successful and have great relationships and you can have it!: our worth is not tied to how we look. 00:26 💯 Establish what's important to you so you can have it all: don't listen to people who didn't do it themselves - success is an internal job. 02:32 💛 Relax to tune yourself like a beautiful Orchestra: you don't need to be perfect, it is all within your reach. 04:24 🎯 Your creative genius is within you: when your nervous system is calm, everything works better. 0...
Jan 23, 2023•9 min
🧬 Bioidentical hormones exactly match human DNA hormones: synthetic estrogen can be harmful, but that's not the whole story. 02:44 🤦♀️ Some women get a hysterectomy and nobody tells them anything about their hormones. 05:59 ❗ When some hormones start to dip: lower progesterone causes your body to want to hold on to fat like a survival mechanism. 07:45 ✅ If your mom is getting forgetful, check her estrogen-circulating estrogen that keeps the amygdala active. 10:21 📋 Reasons to go to an anti-a...
Jan 20, 2023•40 min
💡 Linda used her weight loss issue as an excuse not to love herself: discovering a connection with inner narratives/self-talk. 02:57 🧒 It's a fool's errand to be searching for worthiness externally or in your physical appearance: it all goes back to our childhood history. 09:20 🎓 Linda explored her inner child over several years of cognitive work and reiki: becoming a master of mental health counseling in her 60s. 10:22 🧠 From a young age, our brain is recording everything and creates neural...
Jan 19, 2023•39 min
🤱 It's easier to connect with nature than with our own body: observe how we're taught unconsciously to disconnect, to look outward. 00:32 🥰 To have a deep sustainable level of health, you need to befriend your body: our body is a source of everything we need. 03:58 ⛪ We source everything from within ourselves - we can read the Bible, but we connect with God inwardly, and creativity comes from within you: body, mind, and soul are all one - if you hurt your body, you hurt your whole self. 06:01 ...
Jan 18, 2023•23 min
👩⚕️ Why Dr. Renu, an endocrinologist, chose to be an obesity medicine physician. 03:25 ❗ Obesity is not an intrinsic characteristic: we don't say somebody is cancer, yet, we say somebody is obese - it's not a personality flaw! 10:51 ✅ The weight problem is multifactorial - it has genetic, biological, psychological, lifestyle, and environmental components. 14:07 👉 "If I had $1 for every time someone told me to eat less and move more..." - it's not people's fault that they’re dealing with obesi...
Jan 17, 2023•45 min
🤗 It's important how we approach infertility mentally and physically: this shouldn't be an isolating journey - the more you talk, the less isolated you feel. 03:19 🎯 Challenge your core beliefs that there's something wrong with you or you're not enough. 09:05 💭 Helpful and nonhelpful core beliefs come from a compilation of everything in our lives, and we're usually unaware of them: it takes a lot of work to be aware and pick them apart. 11:17 ❤️ Mantras help manage uncertainties and discomfor...
Jan 16, 2023•35 min
😮 Robin had a stroke even though she led a healthy life. 02:03 💤 Sleep is a time of healing. 06:28 💔 Living with a stroke and all risks: it's hard having speech problems and emotionally overwhelming moments. 08:15 💙 Robin couldn't teach in a physical classroom anymore: adopt a positive view and don't forget to recover emotionally, not just physically. 16:21 ✅ Be kind because you don't know what someone else is going through. 19:52 ⏳ Go for the experience, not the fear: we don't know how much...
Jan 13, 2023•44 min
✅ We can have it all. 00:29 👉 The upper limit problem explains how we sabotage ourselves: it's not about perfection, it’s about things going well and doing better. 02:38 ❗ When something is recurring in your life, there's a reason - a beautiful lesson. 04:53 ✌️ Flip the script, and ask yourself the right questions: two questions to focus on. 06:51 ☑️ We move everything for our priorities. 08:53 💪 Make it happen with a very strong WHY: know you deserve this. 10:20 🎯 You can have it all: but yo...
Jan 11, 2023•24 min
❤️ Allowing yourself to feel seen - you have permission to just be: Karen's three words for living authentically in 2023. 02:39 🌬️ Allow yourself to not feel good: we can breathe our way into shit! 05:19 💪 Freedom is rewriting the information we put in our brains - we have a choice. 10:32 🧘♀️ Life is stressful, but you have to choose yourself first: disappointments can be yummy & meditation starts with me. 15:46 🥰 The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you - love ...
Jan 10, 2023•40 min
📢 Getting more comfortable communicating: Madeline was terrified of public speaking, which negatively affected her well-being. 02:02 💪 Overworking is not a way to prove yourself: "I'm going to speak up, even if it makes other people uncomfortable" = revealing rather than concealing. 05:11 🫦 Anticipation is worse than doing the work: communication is just a series of experiments. 08:24 ✅ The three big things to focus on in communication: communication is not a series of skills, it’s a mindset ...
Jan 09, 2023•34 min
❗ You are worthy of everything you desire: let's not confuse deserving love and taking from others. 00:20 🥰 Endogenously love yourself - value yourself, don't just go to the spa: we are looking for exogenous support because of guilt and shame. 02:57 💙 Source your love & safety from yourself: you can't source somebody else's love, but you can relax into appreciating yourself. 05:43 💆♀️ Will power is a limited resource: when you source your own needs, you take some downtime and you move an...
Jan 05, 2023•24 min
🇩🇪 German New Medicine is a native cultural tradition: people with the same traumas have the same diseases. 02:23 🤧 All living beings have this circadian rhythm: we have the sick phase that comes after the conflict-active phase and then we have a scaring phase. 09:52 🏥 We have an entire system of medicine based on fear: use the aliphatic system smartly. 13:15 🦠 Few biological laws - all diseases begin with a conflict shock; there are 2 phases of every disease. 15:07 ❓ Are emotions a part of...
Jan 04, 2023•38 min
👩⚕️ From cardiology to lifestyle medicine: healthy lifestyle changes can prevent 85% of chronic diseases. 02:50 🔥 Before covid, 50% of healthcare workers had burnout: the upcoming potential shortage of physicians is in the hundreds of 1000s. 08:37 💀 Beware Karoshi syndrome - death by overworking and the societal effects of burnout. 13:14 💲 Physicians are employees of the for-profit system. 17:15 🤹 Physicians are stuck between healing models & business models. 21:30 ❤️ About Svetlana's ...
Jan 03, 2023•46 min
❌ Dieting feels restrictive to us, it's against our nature. 00:36 😮💨 Negative judgment about bad food leads to a bad relationship with food - we start obsessing. 02:40 ✅ The drama around food often comes from our beliefs: it's not serving you if it's not making you happy. 06:30 🏋️♀️ Exercise, sleep & meditation help the relationship with food: it may take a year or two. 08:58 🔆 Rather than feeling black & white about food, come at it with ease. 10:48 👮♀️ Write down the first thou...
Jan 02, 2023•23 min
🙈 Counting calories, carbs & fats is shame-based.. 02:49 ❗ Secrecy + Hard on yourself + Analysis + Must be something wrong with me + Emergency = SHAME 04:58 👩 Women feel guilt 80% more than men: don't fight against the system, just step out! 06:39 3️⃣ Shame, lack, and isolation are the 3 main barriers for women: diets are the antithesis of what works. 08:27 👭 There are a vast variety of beautiful female body types. 11:29 🥰 The transition from the masculine to the feminine: let's apprecia...
Dec 30, 2022•45 min
🍾 Release self-sabotage & reclaim vitality - be in the process of celebration, not self-degradation. 01:36 6️⃣ Work on the 6 areas & have a badass, kickass life: Kate's meaning shifted when she lost her child. 04:38 🥰 Women have a very disrupted cultural view of men & competitive vibe between each other - let's embrace our inner hottie. 11:53 ✅ Get over the shame - we have the power to choose: confidence comes from action - you are worthy. 17:29 🤗 Be perfectly honest about why you...
Dec 29, 2022•36 min
⏳ The quality and quantity of eggs decline with the years. 02:22 🤰 In your early 30s, eggs are mature & best to freeze (20 eggs!). 07:13 👩⚕️ You can test your ovarian reserve: female doctors are particularly vulnerable to fertility issues. 12:13 🏃♀️ In your 40s it's easier to get pregnant with frozen eggs from your 30s: don't make choices because circumstances force you, keep your options open & plan ahead: it's useful for professional athletes as well. 16:49 🧠 Healthy body = healt...
Dec 28, 2022•36 min
