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Stress –We all encounter it daily to different degrees, but do you know what chronic stress is doing to your health? In this episode, I talk about the types of stress, how stress affects the body, and the 7 stages of burnout. This is the first of 4 episodes on the topic of stress. Join me for all of them to learn about stress itself, and what you can do about managing it better in your life, and why that is so important.

Liv shares her powerful story of being 19 and nutrient deplete after trying to follow a strict diet plan to lose her “freshman” 40 pounds. This changed the course of her career as she started to learn about the importance of nutrition in our health! In this episode, Liv shares from her experience working behind the scenes in the food industry and the real definitions of “processed foods”, which may give you an a-ha as it did me. Not all processed foods are BAD, and understanding this is important. Liv also guides us through reading food labels, as well new labelling coming to help us understand EXACTLY how much sugar in in any product with a label. Liv is a wealth of knowledge, around food and holistic health, every listener will take away golden nuggets from this episode!

Changing the way you eat is hard, even when you know it’s good for you! It’s hard to know what foods are healthy for you, even when you do read the labels. In today’s episode, I talk about what to put on your plate, the importance of reading food labels, and being discerning about the marketing ploys to get you to buy such as a label of “healthy” on highly processed foods!. I also talk about meal planning, why it is worth it, and tips to get you started, as this can be the difference between being successful in changing the way you eat and falling off!

In this episode, I invite Mandy Gefle to tell her story, as she moved from being a nurse in a rural setting under high stress, into a state of burnout and then gave birth to her first son and suffered “postpartum depletion” as she calls it. A tough decision on her healing journey led her away from mainstream medicine, which was all that she knew, and into the world of holistic health, and using food to help her body heal and that of her son as well. Ultimately she left her job in mainstream medicine as it no longer aligned with her values to mask symptoms rather than teach people how to truly heal. Mandy shares her road to recovery and how she now helps others get healthy meals on the table without spending all day in the kitchen because food truly is the best form of medicine! Mandy has also offered listeners the opportunity to connect with her to discover the best way she can guide them to providing nutritious meals to your family.

We all know we need to eat food for energy – BUT our struggle comes in determines what is the RIGHT way to eat for our body. Just like we eat differently at various stages of our lives, we all need to eat differently from one another, and figuring out the best way to eat for our unique body can be difficult, and is perhaps not a concept you’ve heard about before. Tune into this episode to learn why we all need to eat differently, and why I encourage you to say away from following one diet plan popularized by media over another and instead find the right way to eat for your unique body in order to thrive and bring your body into balance, at which point it won’t hold onto excess weight.

You might wonder how a typo can lead to having half your thyroid removed unnecessarily….you’ll have to tune in to hear Lisa Wilson’s story, which is almost unbelievable except that it really happened to her. Then we discuss her long recovery, navigating mainstream medicine, and finding her way to Naturopathy and intuitive healing resources in order to really advance her healing. It’s been 7 years, and Lisa is still healing, but has come so far, and is doing much better thankfully. When our body is out of balance it sends us messages to get us to change something, so we can come back into balance, but that is so much harder to do when you’ve had ½ your thyroid surgically removed, and yet, it can still be done with the support of holistic health practitioners.

I’ve struggled with hormone imbalances for much of my life but was fortunate to find functional medicine lab testing about 15 years ago, and as a result, have been able to see where I was out of balance, and then bring them back into balance naturally. In this episode, you’ll come to understand just how easy it is for our hormones to get out of balance in our modern world, but also realize, that you can get the answers to bringing them back into balance naturally and alleviating all the symptoms that are leaving you to feel only half alive! If you’d like to know more about lab testing for your hormones, click here to book a complimentary 30-minute session with me: https://YGHJappointments.as.me/?appointmentType=16156436 To learn more about my May Hormones group program, please visit my website at https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/Rebalancing-female-hormones

Daniela Abedrabbo tells her story from successful corporate sales career, that left her feeling something was missing to being guided into going back to school to become a Registered Counselor, and then building a practice so quickly it resulted in burnout. With her stress levels so high, she had awful PMS symptoms and menstrual cycles but didn’t realize the connection. It wasn’t until we met, and she did her hormone labs that she could see where her hormones were out of balance, and then we were able to guide them back into balance so she could truly heal.

Do you remember what you were taught about school about your hormones? Probably not, I know I don’t remember much, and yet, as we go through life our hormones are always changing and affecting how we feel. So today, I bring to you an overview of the female hormones, estrongen and progesterone and how they impact our fertility and how we feel, as we move into peri-menopause and menopause. Too many women are strugglng today, thinking they just have to “suffer” through, but you dnn’t! We can bring your body back into balance, so that you don’t have to suffer any more. If you’d like to know more about lab testing for your hormones, click here to book at complimentary 30-minute session with me: https://YGHJappointments.as.me/?appointmentType=16156436 To learn more about my May Hormones group program, please visit my website at https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/Rebalancing-female-hormones

In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth shares how she works with parents and kids and introduces the tools she uses with her own children and clients to help kids calm their nervous system before bedtime, so they aren’t wired and full of energy and not able to sleep. She also shares her own story of going through a time in her life of poor sleep and the impact on her health and joy of life and the benefits of then choosing to improve her sleep. “It is worth it”, as she says!

This is a continuation of episode 5, so if you haven’t listened to that, you’ll want to tune in to it as well. In this episode, I go through steps 2 – 6 in improving your sleep – all simple steps you can apply immediately and reap the rewards over the next 30 days as you train your body and brain into a deeper, more rejuvenating sleep. There is no time like now to get started! Start waking up feeling rejuvenated and enjoy your life more as a result.

In this episode, Tara Williams shares the story of her 4th child who didn’t sleep more than 1.5 hours at a time. She was sleep-deprived and feeling like she was a bad Mom, bad wife, and bad friend as a result. One night she noticed her son calm when she put a heavy blanket on him and in that moment discovered what he truly needed to get him sleeping through the night - and has now turned that into a wonderful business, helping many other babies sleep through the night and parents get the sleep they need too! Tune in to learn more!

Most of us have never been taught how to optimize our sleep and yet 70 million Americans struggle with sleep. It is assumed that because we know how to sleep as babies, we don’t need to be taught how to sleep. BUT modern life has us struggling with sleep due to the daily habits we have developed that impact our sleep only we don’t realize it. So this month my focus is on sleep and today’s episode will leave you with some tips on how to train your brain to know when to start producing melatonin to help you get into a deep restorative sleep.

In this episode, the Reverend Cristina Paglinauan shares her story of how until just a few months ago, she was sleep-deprived, struggling with moods, anxiety, depression, and hot flashes from menopause, which had her feeling a ghost of herself. She shares her story in the desire to reach others who may be feeling the same way, feeling alone, and having lost hope to let them know, there are answers, things can get better, much better, and that they are not alone.

E03: Are Your Trashcans Overflowing?